BAY CITY, MI — A Bay City man charged with sexually assaulting a 2-year-old girl has decided not to take his chances with a jury, opting to accept a plea deal instead.  Tuesday, James L. Wujek, 21, appeared before Bay County Circuit Judge Joseph K. Sheeran and pleaded guilty to first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a person younger than 13. In exchange, prosecutors agreed to dismiss a second count of the same charge and a single count of first-degree child abuse, court records show. The charge carries a sentence of seven to 15 years imprisonment. Court records indicate prosecutors are requesting Wujek receive the maximum term of incarceration.

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An Eau Claire couple waited almost six hours before calling 911 after their 5-month-old daughter allegedly had been thrown against a wall and shaken violently by her father. Even though both parents knew the child had been injured Tuesday night in the 11 o’clock hour and could tell something was wrong with her, they didn’t call 911 until 4:50 a.m. Wednesday. The father, Tyreece J. Triplett, 19, 3143 Runway Ave., is in Eau Claire County Jail on felony charges of first-degree reckless homicide, child abuse and three misdemeanor charges. His bond was set at $500,000 cash during a Friday appearance in front of a county judge. The homicide charge alone has a maximum penalty of 60 years in prison and the child abuse charge carries up to 40 years of prison time, if Triplett is found guilty.

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Previously children who were abused had to be taken to Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh where a state police trooper who was a trained forensic interviewer would interview them. Now Pennsylvania State Police Cpl. Ed Thomas and Trooper Joseph Drzal in Somerset have had the specialized training. “It shortens the time and the travel distance for the child victims,” Thomas said. Sgt. James Shaw said that at times the child’s parent is the person who committed the abuse. “The investigators try to make it less traumatic for the child,” Shaw said. Earlier this year the district attorney’s office adopted a standard child abuse investigation protocol as the result of a collaborative approach involving Somerset County Children and Youth Services, the Pennsylvania State Police, the Somerset County Police Chiefs Association and the district attorney’s office.

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An Indonesian maid was charged in court on Thursday with 19 counts of ill-treating her employer’s infant daughter. 25 year-old Desi Kurnia allegedly committed the offences at a flat in the east between 30th November and 4th December last year. She is accused mainly of slapping and throwing the year-old child onto the mattress, causing her pain.

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Grants Pass, OR — Abraham Fager, 31, is being held at the Josephine County Jail on $50,000 bail after allegedly assaulting his two young nephews with the rotating brushes of a vacuum cleaner. Police say Fager, who lives in the home with the boys’ family, was caring for the children Wednesday night while their parents were out of the home. At some point in the evening, Fager reportedly decided to vacuum the children, ages 2 and 18-months, and both children were left with friction burns to their back, shoulders and rear ends.

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A 20-year-old Fort Wayne woman faces a charge of felony neglect of a dependent after allegedly leaving two children – one with significant health problems – alone in a locked house for several hours in June, while she was missing for nearly a week. According to a probable-cause affidavit and online court records, Erin Knight, of the 3000 block of McCormick Avenue, allegedly called her father around June 24 and told him she “has had enough,” that she was having suicidal and homicidal thoughts, and that she was leaving the children locked in a house. The affidavit states that one of the children, who was 8 months old at the time, was born prematurely and requires continuous care because of liver problems, congenital heart defects, chronic lung disease and brain scarring from oxygen deficiency at birth.

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MORENCI, MI (WTOL) – Law Enforcement officers in Michigan are looking for three boys reported missing Friday.  Five-year-old Tanner Lucas Skelton, seven-year-old Alexander William Skelton, and nine-year-old Andrew Ryan Skelton have been missing since late Thursday night or early Friday morning from 112 East Congress Street in Morenci, Michigan.  The boys’ father says he turned the children over to a woman named Joann Taylor who may be driving a white or silver minivan.  After turning the children over to this woman, the father tried to take his own life.  He is now in the hospital under observation.  The boys are described as follows:

Tanner Lucas Skelton:

White Male, Brown Hair & Blue Eyes

Age: 5

Height: 3’6″

Weight: 40lbs

Alexander William Skelton:

White Male, Brown Hair & Brown Eyes

Age: 7

Height: 3’9″

Weight: 45lbs

Andrew Ryan Skelton:

White Male, Brown Hair & Brown Eyes

Age: 9

Height:  4’1″

Weight: 57lbs

The father believes Joann Taylor is married to Mark Taylor who the boys’ father believes is a pastor either in the Hillsdale or Jackson, Michigan areas.  Anyone with information about the whereabouts of these  three boys is asked to call the Morenci Police Department at 517-458-7104 or the Lenawee County Central Dispatch at 517-263-0524.  Stay with WTOL 11 for more on this breaking news story.

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A Watauga man was arrested on accusations that he sexually abused a child, Washington County Sheriff Ed Graybeal said Monday in a news release. Wallace David Reed, 61, 1811 Shane Lane, was charged with four counts of rape of a child, aggravated sexual battery and incest.

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A toddler has been hospitalized with what appeared to be bleach burns to his face after a Wednesday incident now under investigation by Minneapolis police. Lt. Greg Reinhardt, who heads the department’s child abuse unit, said that the 20-month-old had been left with a relative in the 3400 block of Girard Avenue N., and that investigators will seek to determine whether the injuries were an accident or a result of criminal neglect.

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Eau Claire- Two teens have been charged in the death of their infant daughter, after authorities found the girl unconscious in an Eau Claire apartment Wednesday morning. 19-year-old Tyreece Triplett is facing charges of first degree reckless homicide and felony child abuse. The infant’s mother, 18-year-old Molly Campbell, has been charged with child neglect. According to the criminal complaint Campbell had left the infant with Triplett Tuesday night around 11 o’clock. Triplett said the baby began crying after Campbell left and he “freaked out”. Triplett admitted to officers that he shook the baby and threw her against a wall. He explained that the baby then fell into the crib, and that he shook the crib violently. When Campbell returned to the apartment, Triplett told her the baby had fallen off the couch.

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An Angus couple accused of child abuse offenses at a Jersey care home have been found guilty.

Anthony Jordan, 62, and his wife Morag were found guilty of eight counts of abusing children each. Judge Sir Christopher Pitchers delivered the verdict on Friday. Mr Jordon of Brechin Road, Kirriemuir, was found guilty of abusing children at the Haut de la Garenne children’s home on the island between 1981 and 1984. His wife Morag, originally from Dundee, was employed at the house between 1970 and 1984. She was also found guilty of eight counts of common assault during her work there, including shoving soap into their mouths and pushed the face of one into a puddle of urine. The charges relate to offenses committed against 11 children aged between one and 17.

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A Dakota County man could spend the rest of his life in prison for killing his 17-month-old stepson. A judge sentenced 24-year-old Tylar Hokanson Thursday after a jury found him guilty on two murder charges. Prosecutors say Hokanson shook his stepson at least 15 times at a rural Northfield home in June 2009, causing internal bleeding. Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom says 17-month-old Nicholas Miller was being squeezed so hard, a bone broke in his back.

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