SAN FRANCISCO — Two years to the day after it was shot, surveillance video of an emaciated teenager begging for help inside a Tracy gym is now being seen by the public after prosecutors released it this week. The video – recorded Dec. 1, 2008 – shows then-16-year-old Kyle Ramirez wearing only boxer shorts and a shackle across his ankle as he enters the gym to ask for help. He then disappears briefly before he’s covered by a towel and led away from the desk area by a staff member.

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McLEAN, Va. — A grandmother threw her 2½-year-old granddaughter several stories to her death from a walkway at a shopping mall after a family outing, police said Tuesday. Carmela Dela Rosa, 50, of Fairfax was arrested and charged Tuesday with murder, said prosecutor Ian Rodway, the chief deputy Commonwealth’s attorney. The child, Angelyn Ogdoc, died in a hospital after plunging to the pavement Monday night. She fell from a walkway linking the mall’s third floor to the parking garage’s sixth floor at Tysons Corner Center in Fairfax, a Washington suburb in Virginia.

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Father of 3 Missing Michigan Boys Arrested

The boys were last seen one day before their father tried to kill himself

MORENCI, Mich. — The father of three young brothers who have been missing since Thanksgiving was charged with their kidnapping on Tuesday, hours after police said it’s unlikely the boys will be found alive. John Skelton, 39, was arrested by FBI agents after his release from a medical facility in Lucas County, Ohio, where he had been being treated since attempting to hang himself on Friday. Skelton was charged in Lenawee County, Mich., across the state border, with three counts of parental kidnapping, Morenci Police Chief Larry Weeks said during a brief news conference.

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New `Underwear Rule’ to stop child sexual abuse

The Council of Europe has launched a new Underwear Rule campaign to help combat sexual violence against children and improve international cooperation on prosecuting offenders. The Underwear Rule, aimed at teaching children aged four to seven about their rights to set limits and speak out against abuse, is being promoted through a TV spot, a children’s book, poster campaigns and a website. The spot features a green cartoon child who gives permission to a large, brightly-coloured hand to pat him on the head and tickle him, but reacts angrily when the hand asks if it can touch him inside his underwear.

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Study links joblessness to child abuse increase

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) – Statistics in South Carolina seem to support research showing parallels between rising unemployment and child abuse. The Greenville News reported Monday that Boston University researchers examining 18 years of data found that for every 1 percent increase in unemployment, child mistreatment reports one year later increased by at least .5 per 1,000 children. South Carolina’s Department of Social Services investigated nearly 19,000 cases over the last fiscal year, an increase of almost 7 percent. The number of proven cases rose nearly 3 percent to nearly 7,000.

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Rosemont, IL — Here’s a horrific case of child abuse that’ll knock your ass right out of the holiday spirit. A 33-year-old man is in jail on $200,000 bond after being charged with submerging his 17-month-old stepson’s face in scalding water, causing second-degree burns. After doing a bit of heroin and getting into an argument with his wife, police say Santiago R. Minjarez got aggravated at his stepson’s crying after the boy’s mother left the house. He admitted to holding the kid upside down by his legs, one of them still in a cast from a previous injury, and placing his head in the hot water running from a bathtub faucet.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/11/29/man-charged-with-submerging-baby-upside-down-into-scalding-water/

Family speaks exclusively to KTLA, says Amanda Cooper had terminal disease.

HAWTHORNE ( KTLA) — The family of a 10 year old girl who died Saturday under mysterious circumstances spoke out Sunday to KTLA. Amanda Cooper’s aunt says the little girl was diagnosed with a terminal disease and had only a short time to live. The aunt, who wished to remain anonymous, said the family was stunned by allegations that Amanda may have been sexually abused. “If there’s anything, we want to know. That’s why we want to be left alone because we want the police to do their job. Of course we’re worried about that. Just the thought of it sickens me,” the aunt told KTLA.

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A teenage girl was being held on bail Saturday after pleading not guilty to charges stemming from her boyfriend’s son’s death on Staten Island. Cynthia Dubois, 18, was charged with reckless assault of a child and child endangerment, after police say she shook 15-month-old Josiah Taylor and did not get him immediate medical help. Bail was set at $100,000. The suspect’s mother said Dubois was babysitting the child.

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Police: Missing Boys’ Dad Lied About Woman

Boys, Ages 9, 7, 5 Still Missing

MORENCI, Mich. — Police in Michigan said Monday they were questioning the validity of a father’s account of what happened to his three young sons. Police in Morenci, about 75 miles southwest of Detroit, are looking for 5-year-old Tanner, 7-year-old Alexander and 9-year-old Andrew Skelton. The boys were last seen the day before their father, John Skelton, tried to commit suicide. During a press conference, Police Chief Larry Weeks said John Skelton told them he gave the boys to a woman he met online and had been having an online relationship with. Skelton told police he asked the woman, Joann Taylor, to take the boys to their mother. But Weeks said investigators have failed to establish the reported relationship between John Skelton and Taylor, locate Taylor or find the van Taylor was reportedly driving.

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http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/25931135/detail.html

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The images of beautiful Jenni-Lyn Watson are difficult to look at too closely in light of recent discoveries The 20-year-old ballerina took off from college and headed to her parents’ home in Liverpool, New York, for the Thanksgiving holiday last week. But instead of enjoying time with friends and family and feasting on turkey, she was reported missing shortly after she arrived home. Today police found what they believe is her body, dumped “like garbage” in the woods.

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http://thestir.cafemom.com/in_the_news/113028/jenni_lyn_watson_murder_every

MAGNOLIA, Del.- Delaware State Police say a suspect wanted for the murder of a 10-year-old Magnolia boy turned himself in early Sunday morning. Just after midnight, 18-year-old Obadiah D. Miller turned himself in to DSP Troop 3 and charged with first-degree murder and related weapons charges. He is being held without bail at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center. According to police, Miller allegedly shot and killed Lionel Butler on Nascar Lane at around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. Neighbors described Lionel as a typical, happy child.

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http://www.wboc.com/Global/story.asp?S=13576755

THIS is the face of child sex predator David Totton, who is now behind bars after being jailed for a string of horrific attacks on young girls. Gutless Totton, 49, tried to take the coward’s way out in an attempted suicide pact with wife Heather on the day of their first court appearance. But the unemployed 49-year-old, of Bensham, Gateshead, is now starting an 18-year jail term after being locked up for two counts of rape and three indecent assaults, all on girls.

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http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/news/north-east-news/2010/11/28/child-sex-predator-david-totton-jailed-79310-27729046/