Missouri–A Holts Summit man has been charged with one count of first-degree child molestation and one count of first-degree statutory sodomy after admitting to police that he performed sex acts on a 6-year-old girl.
Anthony Ryan Basnett, 26, was apprehended after the victim’s mother contacted police and told them of the incidents.
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A 4-year-old Portsmouth girl who was dropped off at school six hours later than she should have been was on her school bus the entire time.
Police have arrested the girl’s bus driver, 56-year-old Joan Pierce. She is charged with child abuse and neglect.
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http://www.wtkr.com/news/wtkr-pt-link-driver,0,4398855.story
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Sarasota, Florida – Sarasota Sheriff’s detectives have arrested a 24-year-old man, charging him with child abuse for getting drunk and sleeping on top of his newborn son.
Investigators say Jonathon Ponder’s 4-month-old son has permanent brain, liver and kidney damage.
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http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=133361&catid=250
MADISON, Wis. — A Town of Madison woman who pleaded no contest to 22 felony child abuse charges was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison and 10 years of extended supervision.
Minerva Lopez, 34, was accused along with her husband, Porfino Olivas-Lopez, of beating, choking and kicking a 14-year-old girl.
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SALT LAKE COUNTY — A Taylorsville man who chaperoned a school field trip now faces a child abuse charge. Prosecutors allege the 39-year-old man got too rough while trying to keep control of students on the bus.
The Salt Lake Tribune reports the man accompanied a class from Arcadia Elementary School on an April 21.
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Police have arrested the 22-year-old live-in boyfriend of a woman whose 7-year-old daughter contracted a sexually transmitted disease, charging him with second-degree rape.
The suspect, a West Baltimore man who is not being identified to protect the privacy of the victim, was arrested Tuesday after giving an account of the incident to detectives in the Police Department’s child abuse unit. The girl was taken to University of Maryland Medical Center on May 11 and was found to have gonorrhea.
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COVINGTON – A 23-year-old man accused of getting his 2-year-old stepdaughter drunk already has been convicted of abusing the child in another state, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Raymond Jackson was arrested May 22 after his wife came home from work to find the toddler passed out at the couple’s Crescent Springs apartment.
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Over a few months last year, three-year-old Charles “Mike Mike” Bradley was beaten, shaken and punched so hard that he flew through the air in what a longtime Anne Arundel County prosecutor said was the worst case of fatal child abuse she has prosecuted in 24 years.
Andre Clay Russell Jr., 29, of Severn, admitted Wednesday that he inflicted the fatal abuse last summer to the son of his former girlfriend. Russell pleaded guilty before Judge Paul A. Hackner to child abuse resulting in death and child abuse. Assistant State’s Attorney Kathleen Rogers said she intends to seek the maximum sentence, 55 years, for Russell. No sentencing date has been scheduled.
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As the popularity of the Internet increases daily, so does the number of children who are being solicited by online predators.
The recent case of the 11-year old St. Tammany Parish girl who was abducted and taken to Mississippi is another tragic case of an innocent child being manipulated and eventually assaulted by an online predator.
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http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20100523/OPINION03/5230327
Criminals living behind bars for downloading and viewing child pornography are facing more than prison time as a novel — and judicially vexing — series of lawsuits has spread across the country and into Greenville.
Federal prosecutors from coast to coast are receiving requests from victims who a decade since their abuse are seeking millions of dollars in restitution from those who have been convicted of child porn charges but weren’t directly involved in the abuse.
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FORTY ALLEGATIONS of child abuse have been made against foster carers living in two local health office areas in Dublin.
In three of the cases the carers had not undergone Garda vetting, which is mandatory under national guidelines.
The Health Service Executive (HSE) told Minister for Children Barry Andrews about the abuse cases in March following an audit of its foster care services, which revealed serious deficiencies in a system catering for 90 per cent of the 5,500 children in State care.
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http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0531/1224271504345.html
Cuyahoga County Prosecutors are calling it the worst case of child abuse they have ever seen.
Investigators say Andreia Huffman and her husband, Jason Dunikowski, from Slavic Township, abused their nine children inside their home and left an 8-year-old boy hog-tied underneath a table at night. The boy was not allowed to attend school and suffered numerous broken noses after having his face smashed into the wall.
The torturous acts finally came to an end when the boy’s brother called Cleveland’s Child Abuse Hotline.
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New York Times:
The ordeal of Afghanistan’s child brides illustrates an uncomfortable truth. What in most countries would be considered a criminal offense is in many parts of Afghanistan a cultural norm, one which the government has been either unable or unwilling to challenge effectively.
A police officer who headed a child abuse investigation unit is facing a string of child sex offence charges, it has emerged.
Detective Inspector Glen Boulton of West Midlands Police is accused of six sex offences involving two girls aged under 16.
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