WESTBURY, N.Y. — Police say a man accused of repeatedly stabbing an 8-year-old boy at a New York restaurant had been hunting for a child to kill for weeks. Says Nassau County Police Sgt. Vincent Garcia: “His intent was to kill a child.” Evan Sachs of Merrick is due back in court Wednesday to face attempted murder charges. Police say Sachs crept up behind a child playing a video game Friday at a Dave and Buster’s restaurant on Long Island and plunged the 4-inch blade of a hunting knife into his back five times. The victim is expected to survive.

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The fate of a registered sex offender accused of murdering a child he had abused is expected to be decided by a Suwannee County jury this week. Ronald Edward Kramer Jr., 28, of Live Oak, was indicted last year in the death of Olivia Rescigno. The baby girl was 18 months old when she was found dead in her crib in her Suwannee County home on March 14, 2008. Her face and legs were bruised and a bite wound was found on her thigh, according to an autopsy report.

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A Huntsville man was taken to Limestone County Jail after being charged with sexually abusing a 3-year-old girl while he was babysitting her, said Capt. Floyd Johnson of Athens Police Department. Nathan Vincen Vossler, 34, of 2606 Rita Lane, was charged late Friday night with sexual abuse of a child under 12. Local agencies cooperated on the investigation. Athens Police Investigator Katrina Flanagan and Lt. Trevor Harris worked with the Limestone County Department of Human Resources and began an investigation Thursday afternoon after receiving a complaint from the girl’s mother, Johnson said.

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MENTOR, Ohio — An Ohio woman has been charged with child abuse after her child has been tested positive for lead poisoning for the second time. Erin Hendrix, 28, has pleaded not guilty to allegedly poisoning her own child. Over 2 years ago, Hendrix’s child was five months old and was suffering from lead poisoning. Now the child is 3 years old, and is suffering from lead poisoning again.

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“If this pace continues, there is a possibility we could have an estimated 600 children in the custody of Clermont County Children’s Protective Services (CPS) by the end of the year,” said CPS Foster Care Supervisor Erica Boller. “In the first three months of this year we had twice as many cases as we had in the first six months of last year!” Boller said that tensions linked to the tightening economy and the proliferation of heroin and other drugs can be linked to many of the cases. “Just about every week, we are called about another child born to a heroin-addicted mother,” added CPS Intake Department Supervisor Susan Grabowski. “This is a situation that is impacting counties and cities across the country.”

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Gabriel Brian Solis, 29, and Elsa Solis, 30, who were legal guardians of the child, were booked into Oklahoma County jail Friday and later released on bail, jail records show. They have not been formally charged. A doctor at The Children’s Hospital at OU Medical Center called police about 11:05 p.m. Thursday and said the 1-year-old boy, whose name was not released, was taken to the hospital by paramedics after vomiting and having a five-minute seizure, according to a police report released today.

Orlando, FL – Authorities have reason to believe 13-year-old Michel Pollard has been trying to kill select members of her adoptive family for more than a year. The teen’s adoptive mother, 50-year-old Janet Ticono, made the accusations against the teen back in August, after her health deteriorated and doctors discovered traces of arsenic in her blood. Investigators say Pollard, who was adopted from Mexico about 8 years ago, recently confessed to adding a few extra “ingredients” to her mother’s food – ingredients that include bug spray, rat poison, hand soap and dog shit. Pollard reportedly told police she sprayed bug spray on her mother’s food, sometimes mixing it with dog shit, and admitted to putting hand soap in her drinking water.

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Columbus, OH – Dominic Holt-Reid, 27, was jailed Wednesday after he allegedly pulled a gun on his pregnant girlfriend and forced her to drive to an abortion clinic, threatening to shoot her if she didn’t. The woman, 26-year-old Yolanda Burgess, told police she and Holt-Reid had just dropped their 4-year-old son off at nursery school and were heading to the clinic for an appointment when she decided she didn’t want to go through with the procedure. The change of heart apparently displeased the man. Burgess said Holt-Reid reached into the glove-box and pulled out a .45 and told her that she was going to make that appointment or he was going to shoot and cause her to miscarry.

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FULLERTON (KTLA) — A 14-year-old boy is in critical condition after he was shot in front of an elementary school in Fullerton, police said. The shooting happened just after 8 p.m. Saturday at Topaz Elementary School. The boy was standing with three or four friends when a car drove by, when a man approached then and began yelling gang slogans, police said.

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Amber Alert Issued

Police dogs detect the smell of human remains on cars at missing NC girl’s house

HICKORY, N.C.— Police dogs detected the smell of human remains on two cars at the home of a missing 10-year-old girl who has bone cancer and a prosthetic leg, a search warrant said Monday. The document filed in a Hickory court didn’t indicate that police found any remains in their Sunday search. The warrant said the dogs detected the smell on a sedan and SUV belonging to the father and stepmother of Zahra Clare Baker. Earlier Monday, the police chief cast doubt on the couple’s accounts. They told police they discovered she was missing on Saturday and that one of them had seen her sleeping in her room hours earlier.

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(WESTBURY, N.Y.) — An eight-year-old boy is recovering after being stabbed in the back at a Long Island restaurant.
Police are investigating what caused Evan Sachs, 23, to stab the boy Friday night at a Dave & Buster’s restaurant and arcade in Nassau County, New York. “There was no connection whatsoever to this boy,” Detective Lt. Kevin Smith tells ABC News. “There was no contact between him and the boy, either prior or on this night. They don’t live anywhere significantly close to each other.”

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WNC numbers show kids in danger, or vigilance.

Children in Western North Carolina may be in more dangerous situations than their counterparts in other parts of the state, according to a new report. WNC counties have higher rates of child abuse and neglect reports and have a higher rate of children in foster care, according to a report from the N.C. Center for Afterschool Programs.

The 16 westernmost counties all ranked 50th or lower in keeping down the number of children in foster care per 1,000 children. All but McDowell ranked 50th or lower for rates of child abuse and neglect reports. Only three other counties had higher rates of abuse and neglect reports than Haywood County. Only eight others had higher rates of children in foster care.

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INGLEWOOD — A 21-year old man has been arrested in the death of a 2-year-old girl. Paramedics were called to the home in the 10600 block of Cimarron Street just after 11 p.m. on Wednesday. They found the child, Erica Johnson, in full cardiac arrest. She was taken to Centinela Hospital Medical Center where she was later pronounced dead.

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