Mission:
The mission of the U. S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program is to collect new, unwrapped toys during October, November and December each year, and distribute those toys as Christmas gifts to needy children in the community in which the campaign is conducted.

Goal:
The primary goal of Toys for Tots is to deliver, through a new toy at Christmas, a message of hope to less fortunate youngsters that will assist them in becoming responsible, productive, patriotic citizens.

Objectives:
The objectives of Toys for Tots are to help less fortunate children throughout the United States experience the joy of Christmas; to play an active role in the development of one of our nation’s most valuable resources – our children; to unite all members of local communities in a common cause for three months each year during the annual toy collection and distribution campaign; and to contribute to better communities in the future.

Activities:
The principal Toys for Tots activity which takes place each year is the collection and distribution of toys in the communities in which a Marine Corps Reserve Unit is located.  In communities without a Reserve Unit, the campaign can be conducted by a Marine Corps League Detachment or group of men and women, generally veteran Marines, authorized by Marine Toys for Tots Foundation to conduct a local Toys for Tots campaign.  Local Toys for Tots Campaign Coordinators conduct an array of activities throughout the year, which include golf tournaments, foot races, bicycle races and other voluntary events designed to increase interest in Toys for Tots, and concurrently generate toys and monetary donations.

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http://www.toysfortots.org

Former Sequim pastor Steven Welty was found guilty of six counts of child rape, six counts of child molestation and six counts of incest by Clallam County Superior Court judge Brooke Taylor today, Oct. 6.  Welty waived his right to a jury trial Monday morning.

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http://www.sequimgazette.com/news/article.exm/2010-10-06_breaking_news__welty__former_sequim_pastor__found_guilty

PLATTSMOUTH, Neb. — A Nebraska City school bus driver is facing misdemeanor child abuse charges.In August, Thomas Mead, 71, dropped off Seth Foreman, 6, at the U.S. Post Office in Union, more than 15 miles from his home, according to investigators. Foreman had gotten on the wrong bus.

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Police released the identities of the woman and her twin teens found dead inside their home on Monday. Renee Ogden, 38, and her two children, Chase and Olivia, both 13, were found murdered inside their home by Tommy Ogden when he returned home from work on Monday. Police have released a specific cause of death but did state that there was “obvious trauma to the bodies.”

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/10/06/mother-two-teens-found-murdered-in-colorado-home/

Springfield, MO – Police and paramedics were called to Tatianna Light’s home Tuesday afternoon after receiving a 911 call in which she reported her 2-month-old son, Kaiden, was not breathing. Tatianna told officers she had placed the baby on his back on her bed and went to do laundry. When she returned about ten minutes later, Kaiden had rolled onto his stomach and had blood in his nose, so she called 911. EMT’s were unable to resuscitate the baby and he was pronounced dead at the hospital.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/10/07/woman-confesses-to-smothering-her-infant-son-with-pillows/

Raped and Burned Alive: Steven Hayes Convicted

Jurors will now decide if Hayes should be executed or face life in prison

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (KTLA) — A paroled burglar was convicted Tuesday of murdering a woman and her two daughters during a night of terror in which the mother was strangled and the girls tied to their beds, one doused in gasoline, before the house was set on fire. Steven Hayes, 47, could be sentenced to death.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-petit-hayes-trial,0,6193998.story

COLORADO SPRINGS, Co. — Police are trying to determine if a Craigslist post threatening a baby’s life is real or a hoax. The posting shows a graphic photo of a newborn accompanied by a threat to leave the baby to die in a trash can. “Desperate baby will die if someone doesn’t pick it up,” the headline read.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-craigslist-baby,0,1629414.story

S. STRABANE, Pa. — A South Strabane man police accused of beating his infant son to brain damage will go to trial. Keith Long, 25, waived his right to a preliminary hearing Wednesday. Investigators said Long’s 5-month-old son suffered permanent brain damage after he was severely abused. Long is charged with aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of his son.

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http://www.wpxi.com/news/25304875/detail.html?taf=burg

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A former YMCA employee charged with sexually abusing four children had a request for the judge after being on the run for 19 years. Michael Bond‘s attorney asked the judge to reduce his bond and to dismiss the case altogether. Bond fled the country in 1991 shortly after a grand jury indicted him for sexually abusing four boys, all under age 12, while he was a counselor and swim coach at the YMCA Southwest in Louisville.

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http://www.wlky.com/r/25290513/detail.html

The head of New York’s children’s services agency says it’s still unclear whether child protective workers made enough visits to the home of a four-year-old Brooklyn girl before she was found dead last month — apparently abused and massively undernourished. Marchella Pierce was found dead in her Beford-Stuyvesant home on Sept. 2. Prosecutors allege Marchella was beaten. Police said she appeared severely underweight and may have been tied to a bed. She was born with lung problems.

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http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/City-Should-Have-Done-More-to-Help–104353999.html

TACOMA, Wash. — A 4 1/2-month-old baby who was fighting for life at Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in Tacoma after being assaulted has died, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News has learned.The baby’s 21-year-old father was arrested Tuesday morning, accused of assaulting the baby. Now that the baby has died, however, those charges could be amended to manslaughter. Police said the father, Michael Vanderveur, was caring for the child Last weekend when he called 911 at 8:15 a.m. on Sunday to report his baby boy, Ti-Ryn Emery, was not breathing.

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http://www.kirotv.com/news/25287633/detail.html?taf=sea

A Rogue River man confessed his sins to his pastor before turning himself over to authorities and pleading guilty to sexually abusing a foster child living in his group home. The confession by David Richard Cosby, 60, who pleaded guilty in Jackson County Circuit Court to two counts of first-degree sex abuse, prompted police to seek out other foster children he cared for, to see if they also may have been abused.

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http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101006/NEWS/10060322&emailAFriend=1