EUGENE, Ore. –Police accuse Chad Gerald Schacht, who teaches at a Springfield middle school and coaches at a Eugene high school, of sexually abusing a 15-year-old student . Schacht, 40, is a teacher at Agnes Stewert Middle School. But it was his activities as a cross country coach at Sheldon High which sparked an investigation by the Violent Crimes Unit of the Eugene Police Department. Staffers at Sheldon received information about the alleged abuse, and reported it to police.

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A HAWARDEN man has admitted making and distributing indecent images of children. Defendant Robert Timothy Kelly, 23, of Braeside Avenue, faced a total of 21 charges when he appeared at Mold Crown Court on Friday. He admitted 13 charges of making images by downloading them off the internet. Kelly also admitted one charge of possessing 14,225 still images of child sex abuse and 81 videos; possessing an item of extreme porn involving sex acts between a person and a horse and five charges of distributing images.

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Cases of rape of girls under 10 years of age rise from 118 in ’08 to 131 last year in state

Rape against minors, particularly girls below 10 years of age, is on the rise. Activists working on the issue of child abuse feel that in 80 per cent of cases, trusted and people in power are the ones responsible for abusing the small girls in their custody. They feel that only stringent punishment will reduce these growing instances. The report is published by the state Criminal Investigation Department (CID) about crime trends in the state. It shows that in 2008, 118 rape cases were reported wherein the victims were below 10 years of age. Last year, the number of such cases went up to 131.

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http://www.mid-day.com/news/2010/nov/011110-News-Pune-Rape-victims-10-years-girl.htm

A MAN from Ramsgate who fled justice after committing a string of vile sex crimes against young girls has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Ian Duncan McLeod-McLean, 48, fled the country after he was charged by police but on October 29 he sentenced to 12 years in prison at Maidstone Crown Court. McLeod-McLean, previously of Monkton Street, was due to stand trial in May 2008, but went to Sierra Leone, where he slept rough for two years as an illegal immigrant. Police finally caught him after he contracted a serious bout of malaria and was hospitalised. When it was discovered he was an illegal immigrant and wanted by UK police, authorities sprang into action and he was deported back to the UK where he was arrested upon arrival at London Heathrow. McLeod-McLean had admitted 20 counts of sexual abuse at an earlier hearing on September 30.

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“Find Help” Application by SafetyWeb.com Provides Teens with Instant Help

DENVER, Nov. 1, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Increasing concerns about teenagers’ safety on popular social networking sites like Facebook have prompted SafetyWeb.com, the leading Web-based Internet monitoring software for parents, to introduce the new “Find Help” application on Facebook: http://apps.facebook.com/findhelp/. It’s the first online help tool of its kind that enables teens using Facebook to quickly report any violation to Facebook officials, while also connecting to the leading safety and crisis support organizations related to cyberbullying, child exploitation, suicide and depression, child abuse, runaways, drug abuse, hate issues, alcohol abuse, and LGBTQ issues.

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A pervert going through a sex change says he downloaded 14,000 child abuse images to find out what it is like to grow up as a girl. Graham Newley has legally changed his name to Gillian Rebecca and lived as a woman since 2000. His lawyer said the 52-year-old “had got to the point of pre-operative assessment for full transgender surgery to change her from a male to a female”. Newley was arrested after more than 14,000 images were found on a laptop at his home in Darnley Road, Strood, last October.

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http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/news/2010/november/1/sex-change_pervert.aspx

Coroner astounded at number of abuse reports

The coroner in the Kahui inquest has expressed amazement about the number of suspected child abuse cases reported to Child, Youth and Family. “This coroner was astounded to read that in the last year there were 110,000 notifications. That’s unbelievable, isn’t it?” Garry Evans asked Children’s Commissioner John Angus yesterday. Dr Angus said reports of child abuse to Child, Youth and Family had risen rapidly in the past few years, because of greater public awareness and a shift in police practice, reflecting a new understanding of harm done to children in cases of abuse.

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http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/4296756/Coroner-astounded-at-number-of-abuse-reports

Witnesses say the driver never even slowed down.

LOS ANGELES ( KTLA) — Police are looking for the hit and run driver who struck a 3-year-old girl while she was trick or treating in Los Angeles. The unidentified child was hospitalized in stable but critical condition. She was struck at the corner of 77th Street and Stanford Avenue in the Florence-Graham area of Los Angeles about 6:45 p.m. Sunday. The toddler was following a 5-year-old girl across the street when she was hit by a red Toyota. Her mother was also struck in the hand, but was not seriously hurt. Witnesses said the driver never even slowed down.

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LOS ANGELES ( KTLA) — A 5-year-old boy is in grave condition after he was shot while sitting in the backyard of a South Los Angeles home with family members. The shooting was reported around 2 p.m. Sunday in the 1000 block of E. 84th Street, according to LAPD homicide detectives. The boy and two family members were sitting in the yard when two suspects walked along the alley behind the home and opened fire. The boy was said to have been struck in the back of the head. He was fighting for his life at a local hospital. His identity was not released.

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SALT LAKE CITY | Eight years after he’s accused of slicing through a kitchen window screen with a knife and whisking away a young girl in the middle of the night, the man charged in the abduction of Elizabeth Smart is headed to trial in federal court.  Jury selection in the trial of Brian David Mitchell is scheduled to begin Monday in Salt Lake City’s U.S. District Court. After years of delays driven by questions about Mitchell’s mental health and a jump from state to federal court, the trial of the one-time itinerant street preacher should finally bring Smart’s saga to a close. Hers is a tale of loss, a family’s fears and an improbable recovery that has long riveted the nation.

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http://www.theledger.com/article/20101031/NEWS/10315082/1410?Title=Trial-to-Begin-8-Years-After-Elizabeth-Smart-Kidnapping

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A Buffalo man who police say faked his own death after getting his girlfriend’s 11-year-old daughter pregnant has pleaded guilty to first-degree rape. The Buffalo News reports that 34-year-old Edtition Thompson is expected to receive a sentence of 17 to 20 years in prison after pleading to the reduced charge last week. If he’d been convicted at trial of predatory child molestation he would have faced a mandatory life sentence.

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ELLENSBURG — A 51-year-old Cle Elum pastor has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to raping and molesting a boy multiple times over six years. Kittitas County prosecutors said Friday that James Watkins’ sentence was at the top of the range for his conviction on three counts of child rape and one count of child molestation. Deputy Prosecutor Paul Sander says Watkins was arrested and charged in July after the victim came forward out of concern that Watkins was grooming another victim.

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A 21-year-old Oak Harbor man is accused of raping and molesting a young girl while he was babysitting her, court documents allege.  Casey Eskildsen pleaded not guilty in Island County Superior Court Oct. 25 to rape of a child in the first degree and child molestation in the first degree. Detective Laura Price with the Island County Sheriff’s Office investigated the case after an 11-year-old girl told her parents that Eskildsen had raped and molested her on a regular basis over a year’s time when she was 8 or 9 years old, Price wrote in her report. She said Eskildsen babysat her and her brothers.

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