South Charleston Man Charged in Baby’s Death

South Charleston Police have charged a man in connection with the death of an 18-month old baby girl. Twenty-one year old Larry Hayes Junior is jailed on charges of child abuse resulting in death.  Police say the young Rebecca McDaniel was in his care when she was seriously injured last week.   The child’s mother is Hayes’ live-in girlfriend.  She was at work at the time the child was injured.

Police say the incident happened last Thursday.  According to a criminal complaint the mother, Meredith Bush said Hayes called her at work to say something was wrong with the child.  When he arrived with the baby, it wasn’t breathing.   The baby was taken to CAMC Women’s and Children’s hospital where it lived on a ventilator with no brain activity until she died Sunday.

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A 41-year-old Sheboygan man has been sentenced to two years in prison for a June incident in which he choked his girlfriend and injured their 3-year-old daughter while trying to yank her away. Solomon Byrd Sr., of 2225-A N. 15th St., was sentenced Monday by Judge L. Edward Stengel to the prison term and four years extended supervision, matching the joint recommendation made by the prosecution and defense as part of a plea agreement, according to court records released Wednesday. Byrd was convicted of felony child abuse recklessly causing harm and strangulation and suffocation.

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http://www.sheboyganpress.com/article/20101006/SHE0101/101006027/1973/SHE04/Man-gets-prison-for-child-abuse–strangulation

The AMBER Alert Program, named for 9-year-old Amber Hagerman, is a voluntary partnership between law-enforcement agencies, broadcasters, and transportation agencies to activate an urgent bulletin in the most serious child-abduction cases. Broadcasters use the Emergency Alert System (EAS) to air a description of the abducted child and suspected abductor. The goal of an AMBER Alert is to instantly galvanize the entire community to assist in the search for and safe recovery of the child.

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http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PageServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=4319

Investigations by Child Protective Services (CPS) agencies following suspected episodes of child abuse were seldom followed by improvements in household risk factors for future abuse — casting doubt on the agencies’ effectiveness, researchers said.

Among 595 households followed in a longitudinal study of risk factors for child abuse, those subjected to CPS investigations showed few major differences afterward in abuse risks that existed before the inspection, compared with households that had not been assessed, according to Kristine A. Campbell, MD, MSc, of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, and colleagues.

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http://www.medpagetoday.com/Pediatrics/DomesticViolence/22557

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. – Here’s another update on a story we featured last year — a horrific case of child abuse that stuck with me for awhile. Back in April of ’09, 34-year-old Angelo Mendoza, allegedly high on PCP, attacked his 4-year-old son and chewed out one of his eyeballs. The other one he mutilated. When Wheelchair bound, he made his way to a neighbor’s home and crawled into the back yard, stripped naked and began hacking off his own leg with a pickax while yelling incoherently. Ramon Rodriguez wrestled the ax away from him and then went to check on the man’s son. He found him laying on the ground with bites to his hands and both eyes swollen shut. “My daddy ate my eyes out,” the little boy told him.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/10/06/man-who-ate-out-his-sons-eyeball-pleads-not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity/

LAWRENCE, Kansas – Back in June, police began investigating a couple after two sisters ages 8 and 10, told their parents that a family friend, 32-year-old Donald L. Brown, had been raping them repeatedly over the last two years. He would eventually be charged with rape of a child under 14 years of age, three counts of aggravated criminal sodomy of a child under 14 years of age and two counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/10/06/woman-aware-her-husband-was-raping-two-young-sisters-convicted-of-sex-crimes/

Anyone with information please call investigators at (951) 270-5673

NORCO ( KTLA) — A 6-year-old Norco boy who was struck by a hit-and-run minivan driver is speaking out about the ordeal. Boston Granda was riding a motorized scooter when he was struck by a female driving a brown minivan at Garden Grove Avenue and Huerta Way around 4:30 p.m. Monday, according to authorities. Deputies say the driver sped from the scene.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-norco-scooter-hit-and-run,0,1915936.story

NEWARK — A 20-year-old man was sentenced to a year in prison after he admitted to sexually abusing a young boy over several years. Joshua S. George, of Pataskala, pleaded guilty to four counts of gross sexual imposition, a third-degree felony, at a hearing Thursday. George initially was charged in Licking County Juvenile Court because he was between 13 and 17 years old when the crimes occurred. The victim was between 2 and 6 years old.

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http://www.newarkadvocate.com/article/201010010655/NEWS01/10010307

ALBANY, GA (WALB) –The District Attorney warns parents that sexual predators are using children’s cell phones to prey on them. 20-year old Kenneth Brown is charged with two counts of computer pornography. On July 7th a father found three naked photos of Brown in his daughter’s cell phone and text messages asking for sex.

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http://www.wtvm.com/global/story.asp?s=13248336

MERIDIAN —     Eight Lauderdale County deputies and investigators sat around a living room with walls that were lined with photos of young children, family portraits and school pictures. They were in this home because a man suspected of being a sexual predator was on his way there to meet a teenaged boy.

At about 8:50 p.m. Saturday, deputies arrested John Weatherford III, 29, of Meridian. On the ground next to Weatherford’s open car door and where he was sitting handcuffed was a paper bag containing a hamburger and a soft drink he had bought for the teenager. Three LCSD deputies stood over him, one armed with an assault rifle, while an investigator read him his rights.

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http://meridianstar.com/local/x231068226/Man-arrested-for-child-exploitation

UNIONTOWN, Pa. – A western Pennsylvania woman accused of conspiring with her boyfriend to drug her 13-year-old daughter so he could try to impregnate her has pleaded guilty in a deal with prosecutors.

The 34-year-old Uniontown woman was slated for trial Monday in Fayette County Court of Common Pleas. But she pleaded guilty to criminal conspiracy, endangering the welfare of children, corruption of minors and unauthorized administration of intoxicants.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101006/ap_on_re_us/us_daughter_pregnancy_plot_1

PAULDING COUNTY, Ga. — A Paulding County man was sentenced to life plus 20 years after being convicted on child molestation charges.Officials said Tommy Lee Strozier, 53, was found guilty on Sept. 27 for rape, sexual battery, aggravated sodomy, two counts of aggravated child molestation and other charges involving a young girl.

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http://www.wsbtv.com/news/25272062/detail.html?taf=atl

A 46-year-old Selbyville man was charged with raping a teenage boy after giving him alcohol, state police said. Andrew F. Hill of the 36000 block of Mallard Drive was arrested after two people — a 33-year-old Selbyville man and a woman whose age is not known — went to visit him about 7 p.m. Sept. 23, said police Cpl. Jeffrey Hale.

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http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201010030345/NEWS01/10030338

WHERE’S THE JUSTICE?

A Carlisle-area man who pleaded guilty to raping four girls and a boy was sentenced to 5 to 10 years in state prison in Cumberland County Court on Tuesday.  Christopher M. Macedo victimized the children from February 2000 to February 2006, up to when he was 16, according to court records. Macedo is now 21.

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http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2010/10/man_gets_5_to_10_years_in_stat.html