Child abuse sites fueled by Australians

Australians participated in child abuse which fueled an international network of websites selling pay-per-view video and still images of sickening child porn, authorities say. A coalition of detectives from seven countries and Interpol has shut down 230 websites, first set up in the US and then run from eastern Europe. The first phase of the investigation, begun by US authorities in 2006, identified 30,000 customers in 132 countries accessing the degrading pictures and videos. Authorities, having already caught many of those alleged to have run the sites, now expect to begin arresting customers, having secured their credit card and other personal details. Australian Federal Police (AFP) assistant commissioner Neil Gaughan says it’s clear some of the abuse featured on the websites originated in Australia.

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http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/child-abuse-sites-fuelled-by-australians-20101201-18fy8.html

Girl tells jury the couple verbally, physically abused her

CORPUS CHRISTI — The 10-year-old daughter of a Corpus Christi man accused of forcing her to take a scalding hot shower testified on Wednesday that she also endured slaps to the face, kicks and belt whippings from her father and his girlfriend. The girl’s father, Palanco Tatman, 30, and Crystal Robinson, 27, each face seven felony counts of injury to a child. The girl was brought to Driscoll Children’s Hospital on June 15 and was flown that same day to a Galveston hospital for treatment of burns on more than 20 percent of her body.

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MISSOULA, Mont. — A 35-year-old Helena man who counseled sexually abused children has been sentenced to 17½ years in a child pornography case. Alejandro Arturo Scholz was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy in Missoula after previously pleading guilty to sexual exploitation of children, receipt of child pornography and possession of child pornography.

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A Morris man who brutally beat his former best friend’s 2-year-old son to death after starting an affair with the man’s wife was sentenced to 52 years in prison Wednesday. Gilbert Knowles, 36, described by a prosecutor as a high school dropout and drug user who worked occasionally and survived on borrowed money, must serve the entire sentence. In August, he was convicted of first-degree murder in the 2007 beating death of Devin Owens, who was found wedged between his bed and a wall above two pools of blood. Authorities have repeatedly described it as one of the worst cases of child abuse they’ve seen.

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Jacksonville, FL –– Justin Satterfield, 25, and Brandy Purvis, 24, are being held without bond this morning, both having been charged with child abuse, after a nasty little incident at a Super 8 Motel early Wednesday morning. Authorities say the two were fighting that morning when one of them went for an AK-47 that had been concealed under a mattress. That led to more arguing as the two began rasslin’ over the weapon. At some point during the tug-o-war, the gun went off, injuring the couple’s 7-month-old baby boy.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/12/02/infant-shot-with-ak-47-parents-arrested/

Teens are seen eating, snorting and smoking nutmeg to get high

A popular kitchen spice is gaining popularity with teenagers, but not for cooking. Many kids are apparently using ground nutmeg to get high. Homemade videos on YouTube show teens consuming large amounts of the spice by eating it, snorting it and even smoking it. The spice is typically used in desserts and drinks like eggnog. An oil in the nutmeg apparently creates hallucinations. Authorities say the side-effects of using nutmeg to get high, like upset stomach and vomiting, will often act as a deterrent from using it again.

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DEVELOPING STORY Mobile police are looking for two children who were reported missing after a man in Kentucky told police they were dead.

MOBILE, Alabama – Mobile police are looking for two children who were reported missing after a man in Louisville, Kentucky told police the kids were dead. Natalie Deblase, 5, and Jonathan Deblase, 3, were last seen in Mobile more than four months ago, but police have not been able to account for their whereabouts since then. The children were listed as residents at the Peach Place Extended Stay Inn on Jeff Hamilton Road in West Mobile along with John Deblase, 27, and Heather Leavell-Keaton, 22. The family moved out of the apartment on July 23 and left a forwarding address in Rome, Georgia. Management at the apartment complex remember seeing the little girl, but tell News Five they do not remember ever seeing the boy.

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http://www.wkrg.com/alabama/article/two-children-missing-feared-dead/1202988/Dec-01-2010_5-17-pm/

Court orders search warrants released

NEWTON –In court documents that were unsealed Tuesday, it was revealed that Zahra Clare Baker was likely dismembered in the bathtub of the Baker house in Hickory. Zahra’s stepmother, Elisa Baker, has been assigned prominent defense attorney Lisa Dubs. The Oct. 27 search warrant states Elisa gave information to police through Dubs relating to the investigation. This includes that “the body of Zahra Baker was dismembered. That blood, body fluids and pieces of bone may be located in the drain trap of the bathtub.”

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The two St. Paul moms often traded off baby-sitting each other’s children. But the favor turned tragic for a 4-year-old girl who told her mother the other woman’s boyfriend had raped her. Fahid Nazir, 29, of Columbia Heights was charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct in the Sept. 14 incident. Based on a criminal complaint filed Monday and made public Tuesday in Ramsey County District Court, the child’s mother notified police after the girl returned to her own apartment, where her mother had been making lunch.

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Hickory, NC – Just when you think the Zahra Baker story couldn’t possibly get any worse than it already is, I just read over at CNN that the little girl may have been raped prior to her death. Search warrants obtained by the Hickory, North Carolina, police were released on Tuesday and the details they contain are absolutely horrifying. In them, a tipster told police that Zahra had been at a North Carolina home with two men who both raped Zahra. One of the men was an acquaintance of Zahra’s stepmother, Elise Baker. The men supposedly said they did not kill Zahra, but may have hit her in the head and that she had blood on her private area and legs.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/12/01/zahra-baker-may-have-been-raped-before-her-death-dismemberment/

SAN FERNANDO ( KTLA) — A teacher at Hillcrest Christian school in Granada Hills accused of having sex with a student appeared in court Monday on a 20-count criminal complaint. Mark Stephen Hubbard, 51, is charged with 16 counts of oral copulation of a person under 18, three counts of unlawful sexual intercourse and one count of sodomy of a person under 18. Hubbard appeared for arraignment at San Fernando Superior Court, but his arraignment was postponed until Dec. 13. His bail has been set at $1 million.

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