WAREHAM – Police say a convicted sex offender who got out of prison 18 months ago after serving a 12-year sentence for child rape has been charged with trying to abduct a woman. Lance Porter is scheduled to be arraigned Monday on charges including kidnapping, assault and battery and attempted rape.
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PROVO, UT — A real estate auction is coming to the Provo Library this weekend, but you’re not likely to find anything listed as “spacious” or “roomy” — unless you’re Barbie and Ken, that is. It’s the 12th annual Dollhouse Festival, a yearly benefit to raise funds for child abuse prevention and therapy through the Utah County Children’s Justice Center. The weekend event will feature the usual dollhouse auctions, toy boutique, charity dinner and Mad Hatter Tea Party.
When: Thursday through Saturday
Where: Historic Provo Library, 500 N. University Ave., Provo, UTAH
What: Boutique, Friday from 10 a.m.-9 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; charity dinner and auction, Thursday from 6-9 p.m.; tea party, Saturday from 2-4 p.m.
Cost: Free admission, except for the dinner ($100) and tea party ($10)
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http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/article_817b2083-5364-549f-9118-d2ebcee72677.html
WEBSITE: http://dollhousefest.com/
Eight-week-old Saul Castillo, wrapped in a blanket and wearing a green and white hat, died when his tiny 14-gram heart stopped beating, his emaciated body little more than skin wrapped around sunken eyes and protruding bones.
He had starved to death.
His father, charged in his part in the neglect that led to Saul’s 2004 death, absconded and has not been found.
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7219161.html
The Choking Game is a misunderstood activity causing death and suffering for thousands of families worldwide. It often begins with high-achieving teens choking each other as a way to get high without the risk of getting caught with drugs or alcohol. It ends with thousands of kids dying or suffering permanent brain damage each year.
It’s not a game at all—just an act of suffocating on purpose.
Adolescents cut off the flow of blood to the brain, in exchange for a few seconds of feeling lightheaded. Some strangle themselves with a belt, a rope or their bare hands; others push on their chest or hyperventilate. When they release the pressure, blood that was blocked up floods the brain all at once. This sets off a warm and fuzzy feeling, which is just the brain dying, thousands of cells at a time.
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Indiana continues to increase the number of children it is taking away from families — a fact that bucks the national trend and concerns both state child welfare officials and national experts.
The new federal statistics revealing that trend are especially disturbing because they suggest that either the state’s Department of Child Services is not doing enough to keep families together or that Indiana has a disproportionately high rate of bad parents. Whatever the explanation, it doesn’t bode well for Hoosier children.
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NORTH WALES, Pa. – Every now and then I see a picture of a guy attached to a crime story and I immediately think “pedophile.” That includes this story sent to us by our good friends over at Kindertrauma regarding a former vice principle who has been accused of striking up a rather inappropriate relationship with a 14-year-old boy. I would’ve bet my gaudy McMansion that 37-year-old Charles Hurst spent a lot of time in the boy’s underwear department at Target purely from this pic of him sporting a creepy smile from underneath his Justin Bieber haircut.
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New Iberia, LA – Police say a 1-year-old boy is in critical but stable condition at the LSU Burn Center after suffering severe burns to nearly 60% of his body – burns believed to have been caused intentionally. Though authorities won’t get into specifics, citing the pending investigation, Lieutenant Ryan Turner from the Iberia Sheriff’s Department had this to say: “We’re pretty sure that the baby was scalded by hot water, and detectives have reason to believe that the incident was intentional.”
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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/09/27/police-we-believe-the-intent-was-to-severely-injure-the-baby/
SIMI VALLEY, CA — A Simi Valley woman is under arrest on suspicion of abusing her 3-year-old girl niece, who authorities found with multiple injuries, including burns to her feet. Sarah Hilton, 29, faces one count of felony child abuse and one count of felony corporal injury to a child. On September 21, Simi Valley Police and Ventura County Children and Family Services launched a joint investigation into the alleged abuse of Hilton’s 3-year-old niece. Hilton is the girl’s legal guardian.
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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-simi-valley-child-abuse,0,710953.story
UPDATE!!!!
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-encinitas-sex-assault,0,5288145.story
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ENCINITAS — Police in San Diego County have released composite sketches of two of three men accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a girl while she was walking home from school. The incident happened Friday around 4:10 p.m. in the 800 block of Melba Road in Encinitas. The 15-year-old girl told authorities she was walking home from San Dieguito High School, when three men in a white, four-door sedan forced her into their car.
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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-encinitas-sex-assault,0,5288145.s
A Scottsdale man who held his 3-week-old baby girl’s jaw shut to keep her from crying pleaded guilty Friday to aggravated assault and child abuse charges, authorities said. A Maricopa County Superior Court judge is scheduled to sentence Zachary Wilson, 21, on Oct. 25. Scottsdale police arrested Wilson and Jones in April after Jones and her mother took the baby to the emergency room with a swollen head.
Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn emergency room staff discovered a fracture running from the side to the top and also to the back of the head, according to court documents. The child was transferred on April 10 to Phoenix Children’s Hospital where they found the child had nine healing rib fractures and a healing fractured wrist.
Police in North Carolina have charged former Manassas teacher Kevin Ricks with sexually molesting a young boy there more than 30 years ago in a case that stems from evidence that Ricks has abused numerous boys while working as a camp counselor, teacher and foreign exchange host since the late 1970s.
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A 48-year-old Minneapolis man who used wireless Internet connections in area coffee shops to share images and videos of children engaged in explicit sexual conduct pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of distributing child pornography.
Ivan W. Tencate admitted to distributing 314 images and 94 videos of child pornography. He was arrested by FBI agents at a downtown Minneapolis Dunn Bros coffee shop after they traced his Internet activity to that location.
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A Marshall man could face hundreds of felony charges after a young woman claimed he abused her for a number of years, officials say.
John Wayne Hensley, 44, of 185 Hensley Drive, was arrested Monday by Madison County deputies and charged with three felony counts of taking indecent liberties with a minor, jail records show. A detective said the initial complaint could theoretically lead to hundreds of charges if the district attorney chooses to pursue them. Madison County Sheriff Buddy Harwood said his department began investigating the case after the Department of Social Services reported that a 17-year-old girl said she was being sexually abused since she was in fourth or fifth grade. “She said she couldn’t stand it anymore,” Harwood said. “She said he had been touching her inappropriately for several years.”
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http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100922/SENTINEL/309220054
A 37-year-old man took the witness stand Thursday to deny charges that he had sexually abused his own son.
The boy, now 8, testified a day earlier in Baltimore County Circuit Court that his father had sought certain acts as “punishment” when the boy misbehaved. Prosecutors say the abuse took place between August 2008 and June 2009, and led to an indictment against the suspect after the boy told his mother about the allegations. The man was charged with sexual abuse of a minor, assault and two sexual-offense counts.
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-father-abuse-case-20100923,0,3307872.story
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