A 68-year-old man sexually abused three young children after enticing them with offers of bicycles and the chance to dress up, West Australian police allege.
Police say the man, from Banksia Grove in Perth’s north, may have abused other children and they want to hear from parents in the suburb who have concerns.
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OGDEN — A woman police found passed out on a lawn with her infant children in tow remains at large.
Crystal Suzanne Latham was 27 when she was arrested the night of Nov. 20, 2007, in the front yard of a Washington Terrace home.
Residents had called police to report her passed out drunk on their property with her two small children poorly dressed and crying, according to police. Weber County Sheriff’s deputies found Latham on the lawn, her 2-week-old daughter in a car seat lying on its side and her 2-year-old son in his pajamas with no shoes, according to the allegations. The temperature at the time, just before 11 p.m., was 29 degrees, but the children had not yet suffered injury. Latham remains charged with two counts of class A misdemeanor child abuse neglect and one count of class C misdemeanor public intoxication. She skipped her Feb. 27, 2008, trial in 2nd District Court in Ogden, with no new entries in her court file since then beyond reissuing a warrant for her arrest.
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http://www.standard.net/topics/crime/2010/05/17/woman-still-large-abuse-charges
A Duluth man who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 4-year-old cited his own abuse as a child in asking Monday for less than the guideline sentence of 12 years in prison.
William Ray Prohaska, 37, pleaded guilty in St. Louis County District Court in January to first-degree criminal sexual conduct. He was accused of engaging in sexual penetration with a 4-year-old girl in 2008.
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Irish watchdog agency reports nearly 200 claims of church-related abuse
DUBLIN – A new report from a church-funded body set up to improve child protection procedures and policies reported nearly 200 new allegations of church-related child abuse in a year.
Ian Elliott, chief executive officer of the National Board for the Safeguarding of Children in the Catholic Church, said publication of two prominent reports on church abuse might have increased the number of victims coming forward to complain of abuse and that the number of allegations may well be down by the end of this reporting year in March 2011.
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http://www.catholicreview.org/subpages/storyworldnew-new.aspx?action=8157
A Memphis man has been charged with beating a child to death using a basketball sneaker.
According to an affidavit, Calvin Jones told police he was babysitting the 2-year-old girl when she defecated on herself.
Jones says he used “a basketball shoe” and the back of his hand to hit her several times.
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http://www.wreg.com/news/wreg-child-killed-with-sneaker,0,6861978.story
LOGANSPORT, Ind. (WISH) – Logansport police tell 24-Hour News 8 they’ve arrested a 22-year-old Logansport man for the brutal attack of a four-year-old girl .
Officers say William R. Wilson, II, faces three counts of child molestation (class A felonies) and one count of criminal confinement (a B felony). He’s currently in the Cass County Jail on a $500,000 bond.
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http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/crime/logansport-police-to-make-announcement-in-child-rape-case
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Today, depression is one of the leading disorders facing adults, teens, and children, and while an increasing number of people seek help, an even larger contingency of the population suffer in silence. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has stated that everyone will at some point in their lifetime be affected by depression, either through experiencing it themselves, or through a close friend. Recovering from depression is a long and treacherous rode, often requiring the treatment of underlying causes of depression as opppossed to merely a chemical imbalance.
Of course, the first step to recoving from depression is recognizing that you have a problem. The following list of articles and statistics are designed to help you learn more about what depression is, the symptoms of depression, how to seek help, and how to begin to recover.
SOURCE: http://www.guidetohealthcareschools.com/tips-and-tools/depression
DETROIT — An attorney for the family of a 7-year-old girl slain during a weekend raid at their Detroit home says video footage contradicts the police department’s version of events.
Geoffrey Fieger said Monday that footage shot by the A&E crime-reality show “The First 48” shows that police fired into the home at least once after lobbing a flash grenade through a window.
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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-detroit-girl-shot-police,0,2610406.story
A Knoxville obstetrics nurse faces drunken-driving charges and unemployment after her child called 911 to report that he and his mother were in a car that was stuck on a set of railroad tracks.
Mary Beth Koeller, 45, was arrested at 3:15 a.m. Feb. 7 after attending a birthday party in Marion County. Koeller allegedly had left the party and was in her car, along with her 9-year-old son, when she made a turn onto what she thought was an alley.
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Bradley County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a 9-1-1 call of a domestic disturbance Sunday evening in the 2500 block of Rodney Way.
Before they arrived on the scene, a neighbor who made the initial call reported a woman was outside the residence holding an infant by one leg upside down.
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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ruled Monday that federal officials can indefinitely hold inmates considered “sexually dangerous” after their prison terms are complete.
The high court in a 7-2 judgment reversed a lower court decision that said Congress overstepped its authority in allowing indefinite detentions of considered “sexually dangerous.”
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100517/ap_on_go_su_co/us_supreme_court_sex_offender_law
Police are urging teenagers to remove their profile pictures and personal details from Facebook after a man was charged with the murder of a young Sydney woman last week.
It is alleged that Nona Belomesoff, 18, believed she was going to work with an animal welfare organisation when she left her home last Wednesday to meet two men she befriended on Facebook.
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There can be unique challenges when a child is sexually abused by another family member, especially a member within the close or immediate family. Since more than half of all victims of sexual abuse are abused by a parent or relative this is a real issue that families may face. This can be difficult for both the victim of the abuse as well the child’s non-offending caregivers. Here are some challenges that both victims and caregivers may struggle with when sexual abuse has occurred within the family.
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http://www.journalstandard.com/news/x289818774/Parenting-Tips-When-abuse-happens-in-the-family
A 51-year-old Toledo man was arrested May 7 as part of an ongoing Internet sting after he agreed to meet and pay someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl for sex, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office and Prosecutor Michael Golden.
Kenneth Goodwin, the Winlock postmaster, was booked in the Lewis County Jail on three counts of patronizing prostitution after his arrest in Winlock. He posted bail and was released
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