Police: Woman Abused 2-Yr-Old Son & 4-Yr-Old Daughter

INDIANAPOLIS — A woman was arrested Wednesday evening on two felony battery charges after she abused her children in a fit of rage, police said.

Officers said that Alisha Foster, 21, was arguing with the father of the children, Dustin Dodd, 21, over the phone when she became very upset, grabbed two kitchen knives and attacked her 2-year-old son, leaving him with contusions on his head and face and choke marks on his neck.

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An Elgin man is scheduled to appear in court Thursday on charges he sexually abused three children younger than 13, authorities said.

Jose L. Jaramillo, 58, of the 300 block of North Jackson Street, faces seven counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse and one count each of child exploitation and predatory criminal sexual assault.

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BREAKING NEWS– The body found partially submerged in an irrigation ditch has just been identified as missing 12-year-old girl Kayleah Wilson.

The body of 12-year-old Kayleah Wilson, who vanished as she headed to a friend’s birthday party, is found in a flooded irrigation ditch just a mile from home.

Nancy Grace investigates, 8 & 10 p.m. ET on HLN.

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Carlos Moreira says he saw a blond girl sitting in the back of a truck, wearing pajamas.

LISBON, Portugal — A new witness has come forward saying he saw Madeleine McCann only hours after she disappeared in 2007.

Carlos Moreira, 65, told detectives that on the morning of May 4, 2007, he saw a blond girl sitting in the back of a truck, wearing pajamas similar to those worn by Madeleine the night she vanished.

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A teenage girl in Garland, fearing she would be harmed, waited nearly five months to accuse a teaching assistant of raping her in January, according to a court document.

Dennis Connor, 27, of Garland, was being held Wednesday at Dallas County jail, with bail set at $25,000, jail records showed. He is charged with aggravated sexual assault of child.

SPRINGFIELD – Police arrested a 23-year-old city man Tuesday night in connection with the rape of a 15-year-old girl in the city’s Forest Park neighborhood, police said.

Freddi Garcia of 14 Winnipeg St. was charged with a single count of rape of a child said, Sgt. John M. Delaney, aide to Police Commissioner William J. Fitchet.

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WOBURN – A gymnastics coach has been convicted in the rape of one of his former students.

Steven Infante, of New Milford, Conn., was found guilty of rape of a child Wednesday by a jury in Middlesex Superior Court. Infante was scheduled to be sentenced late Wednesday.

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Children severely injured or sexually molested, the helpless victims of child abuse and neglect – the cases still haunt Alex Gardner, the Lane County district attorney. He calls child abuse the biggest local crime problem in Lane County (Eugene, OR).

“I’d say it’s right at the top of our list of concerns,” he said. “Children are our most precious resource and harm done to them early on is harm that tends to be reflected through their lives.”

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Niles, Michigan
Mark Owen Baldwin and Michelle Baldwin, parent’s of a 9 year old daughter with Cerebral Palsy and possibly Autism, were arraigned today in a Grand Rapids, Michigan Federal court on child exploitation charges. Mark Baldwin also faces state charges of criminal sexual conduct.

A federal grand jury indicted both of the Baldwin’s just over a week ago. Mark Baldwin faces a federal charge of possession of images of a minor child; each of the Baldwin’s face three federal charges of sexual exploitation of a child.

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A woman accused of severely bruising a 1-year-old boy last year was arrested this week on child abuse charges.

Jessica Orlando, 23, told authorities she was washing her car July 4 at her boyfriend’s house in Holiday when the baby soiled his diaper, so she used a garden hose to clean off the boy — which is what caused his injuries, according to a Pasco County Sheriff’s Office report.

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The administration of President Barack Obama has taken sides with the Vatican over sexual child abuse lawsuits, saying the Holy See is immune from prosecution in the US.

The stance comes after the country’s largest court of appeals, the nine Supreme Court Justices, asked the White House to declare its position over a case brought by a victim of alleged priestly pedophilia in the US state of Oregon.

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CENTREVILLE — The parents convicted of torture and child abuse in the death of their 16-year-old daughter in a fire while she was chained to her bed have requested state-paid attorneys to appeal their convictions.

Court documents filed in St. Joseph County Circuit Court show Anthony and Marsha Springer have made separate requests for appointment of attorneys to appeal their April 16 convictions for torture and child abuse.

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http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2010/05/springers_request_attorneys_at.html

EASTON, Md.- Easton police have arrested a 60-year-old man accused of sexually abusing a child.

Police say an investigation revealed that Stephen C. Carr Sr. of Bowie, Md., allegedly abused a child under the age of 14.

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http://www.wboc.com/Global/story.asp?S=12546484

EUGENE, Ore. — Growing up in Ohio, Lewis Luchs and his three younger siblings slept on a single mattress on the floor. “We were so cold, and our mother wasn’t there, that we built a fire of newspapers on the floor,” he said. “During the night, I could feel the paws of rats running across the top of the blankets, and once in a while, whiskers on my face.”

Just as bleak were two years he spent in an Ohio orphanage after being abandoned by his biological parents.

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