Boston, MA – A Boston preschool teacher hit the crack jackpot on Monday after one of her young charges complained that her toddler-sized Nike Air Jordans were too tight. Bending down to remove and adjust the tiny pink tennie, the teacher was rather shocked to find 17 individually wrapped bags of crack inside a larger plastic bag. Teachers later told police the 3-year-old child believed her mother had placed the “candy” in her shoe. “Where’s my shoe?” the child reportedly asked teachers. “Mommy’s going to be mad at me.”

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/11/17/teachers-find-crack-in-tots-tennies/

School Letter: Dear Parent, Your Child is Obese

CINCINNATI, OH (FOX19) – A man is charged with child endangerment after police say he threw his child at a woman during a fight. Eric Davis, 40, was arrested on Saturday after the incident in the 500 block of Wade Street. Police said Davis was arguing with a woman when he grabbed the couple’s 6-month-old child and threw the child at her. The child was not seriously injured.

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SANTA ANA – A 12-year-old boy dabbed at his eyes with tissue Tuesday as he testified about seeing his younger brother hit, starved, left home alone and forced to sleep on the floor. Gabriel Morales propped his head on his hand and told a jury about how he saw a man he called his “Dad” hitting younger brother Brandon Morales “every day” on his chest, legs, back and head during the spring of 2008.  The man he pointed out as “Dad” is Alberto Solis Guzman, 29, his mother’s live-in boyfriend who is on trial for murder in the May 30, 2008 death of Brandon Morales, who was 4 when he died of massive head injuries. Deputy District Attorney Larry Yellin contends that Guzman and Gabriela Mariana Morales, the boys’ mother, are equally responsible for killing Brandon, the youngest of three children.

Man swipes hundreds of bikini clad teen pics from Facebook, reposts on his profile

NOVI, Mich. (WXYZ) – Pictures of hundreds of scantily clad teenaged girls have been posted to a Facebook account without the girls’ permission and now those teens and their parents are outraged and feeling powerless. The photos were posted to an account with a username “Salem Issa.” Apparently the user took the teens’ pictures simply copying and pasting the photos directly from the girls’ own Facebook profiles. All told there are more than two hundred photos of girls in bathing suits and bikinis posted in Salem Issa’s account.

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http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/oakland_county/man-posts-pictures-of-scantily-clad-teen-girls-without-their-permission

Infant critical, father,18, charged

PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WPRI) – While his baby son recovers in the Intensive Care Unit, a Pawtucket father Tuesday faced a judge in Providence District Court. DeAnthony Allen, 18, has been arraigned on second degree child abuse charges in connection with the Nov. 13 beating of his 4-month-old son. Last year, the mother, Stephanie Marks got a restraining order against Allen, but, said she trusted him enough to allow him to watch their two kids over the weekend. Marks tells Eyewitness News that Allen called her on Sunday and said that something was wrong. He told her that the baby, Johnnel, had fallen off the bed or that he had possibly rolled over the boy while sleeping with him.

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http://www.wpri.com/dpp/news/local_news/blackstone/dad-accused-of-abusing-baby-son

Hernando, FL — Police say 39-year-old Cassidy McWaters showed up at the Hernando County Jail on Monday and told deputies he has been molesting an 11-year-old girl since she was 6. He admitted to authorities that he began rubbing the girl’s genitals five years ago and that he had done it frequently over the years, usually over her clothing as she slept. That act of depravity eventually led to digital penetration.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/11/16/cassidy-mcwaters-tells-police-hes-been-molesting-child-for-years/

Phenix City, AL – A 5-year-old boy walked out into his backyard Monday afternoon and was subsequently mauled to death by as many as 12 dogs. I know I have a reputation of hating the pit bull breed because I seem to only post stories dealing with pits, but hey, when local news outlets start reporting on Labradors and cocker spaniels killing people, it is what it is. But in this case, the dogs that killed Cason Bryant were mixed-breed and none were pit bulls.  He was at home with a babysitter when he walked out into his fenced yard where his family owned one dog.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/11/16/pack-of-dogs-maul-boy-to-death-in-his-yard/

MOUNT VERNON, Ohio — A man accused of keeping a 13-year-old girl bound and gagged in his basement spent six years in a Colorado prison for setting a fire to cover up a burglary and had been released from parole only a month ago. The teenager’s mother and brother, along with a friend of her mother’s, remained missing Tuesday after authorities searched a lake and park near the suspect’s home. Authorities offered little hope that they would be found alive but planned to continue their search. Matthew J. Hoffman has been held at the Knox County jail since his Sunday arrest on a kidnapping charge.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-missing-ohio-family,0,2796544.story

HARTFORD, Conn. — A driver who’s serving a manslaughter sentence for striking and killing a 14-year-old boy is suing the victim’s parents, blaming them for their son’s death because they allowed him to ride his bike in the street without a helmet. Matthew Kenney’s parents, Stephen and Joanne, sued 48-year-old driver David Weaving shortly after he was sentenced last year to 10 years in prison, accusing him in Waterbury Superior Court of negligence and seeking more than $15,000 in damages. Weaving, who has a history of drunken driving convictions, responded months later with a handwritten countersuit accusing the Kenneys of “contributory negligence.”

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-killer-sues-victims-family,0,4868592.story

STOCKTON, Calif. — New charges have been filed against a former school bus driver accused of molesting an 8-year-old special-needs girl. Richard Evans initially was charged for one alleged incident on Nov. 3, but prosecutors added more charges Monday after learning about a second. Deputy District Attorney Kristine Reed announced three further charges against Evans for allegedly molesting the special needs student on another previous occasion. He was charged with two more counts of sexual assault of a child under 10, and another charge of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-bus-driver-molest-lodi,0,6316012.story

BARRIE, Ont. — Elaine Campione’s face suddenly contorted into a grimace and her body shook violently as she stood in the prisoner’s box and the jury announced a guilty verdict Monday. The jury found Campione guilty of two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her daughters, Serena, 3 and Sophia, 1, whom she drowned in the bathtub on Oct. 2, 2006. The jurors deliberated more than six days. Three female jurors silently wiped tears from their eyes. The woman they had just convicted began wailing, then crumpled over in the prisoner’s box.

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http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2010/11/15/16149031.html

DNA tests reveal mother of babies whose remains were found in old trunk.

Los Angeles authorities now know the two infants belonged to nurse Janet M. Barrie. But the identity of the children’s father and why their bodies were kept for decades in a steamer trunk are mysteries.

After months of detective work, police have solved one of the mysteries surrounding the mummified remains of two babies discovered in the basement of a Westlake apartment building. DNA tests prove that the dead infants, who were found in a steamer trunk wrapped in newspaper from the 1930s, were the children of the trunk’s owner, Janet M. Barrie.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-basement-babies-20101116,0,7126198.story