LIVINGSTON PARISH, LA – Livingston Parish Deputies say a father admitted he beat and abused his daughter. The 11 year old girl told deputies she say in handcuffs chained to a desk for hours. She says she ate, slept, and at times used the bathroom while tied to the desk.

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http://www.ksla.com/global/story.asp?s=13203838

How Many Children Die Each Year From Abuse or Neglect?

The National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) reported an estimated 1,760 child fatalities in 2007. This translates to a rate of 2.35 children per 100,000 children in the general population. NCANDS defines “child fatality” as the death of a child caused by an injury resulting from abuse or neglect, or where abuse or neglect was a contributing factor.

With the exception of FFY 2005, the number and rate of fatalities have been increasing over the past 5 years. The national estimate is influenced by which States report data. For 2007, several States reported increased fatalities compared to FFY 2006, which resulted in a higher national estimate. To some degree, this can be attributed to improved data collection and reporting, but all the causes of the increase are not specifically identifiable.

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http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/factsheets/fatality.cfm

What is PTSD? Although traumatic events have long been known to cause psychological problems, the disorder itself was first formally characterized in the early 1980s. Even now it is the subject of controversy, with many psychiatrists and clinical psychologists saying a diagnosis of PTSD is meaningless (see articles in recent editions of the British Medical Journal). Personally I do not subscribe to this view, rather I believe the problem is one of inaccurate diagnosis.

Generally speaking PTSD is identified by the following three symptoms: 1) re-experiencing traumatic events (ie, obsessive recollections, flashbacks, nightmares); 2) avoidant symptoms (fear of being with people); and 3) signs of hyperarousal (easily startled, irritable). Traumatized people often suffer from a combination of PTSD, depression and other anxiety disorders. Often the victims of PTSD are mis-diagnosed. For example, some patients will present more severe symptoms of hyperarousal with severe depression. The re-experiencing of events is often mis-diagnosed as “obsessiveness” within a depressive disorder. Hyperarousal symptoms may be mis-diagnosed as insomnia and anxiety within a major depressive episode. Other PTSD victims are mis-diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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http://www.upliftprogram.com/article_ptsd.html

Daughter of Macomb man charged with child abuse dies

The six year old daughter of Majd Mohammed Al-Shara, already locked up on a second degree child abuse charge, died of burn injuries received over last weekend.

Al-Shara and his daughter Aliaa had been next to a fire pit when the 40 year old defendant dumped an accelerant, which police think was gasoline, onto the fire. The vapors exploded and the girl, only two feet from the fire, was burned over 90% of her body. Al-Shara received only minor burns.

Aliaa died yesterday at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan in Detroit.

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http://www.examiner.com/crime-in-detroit/update-daughter-of-macomb-man-charged-with-child-abuse-dies

Parents have been warned that their children are not safe from paedophiles even in their own bedrooms as Britain’s worst internet child sex abuser was jailed.

A retired priest received a 10-year suspended sentence today after entering an Alford plea to one count of child abuse in Frederick County Circuit Court. Visiting Montgomery County Circuit Judge Richard E. Jordan additionally sentenced Thomas Roy Bevan to 18 months of home detention and five years of probation. Additionally, Jordan ordered Bevan to undergo a mental health evaluation and receive treatment.

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http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/displayBreaking.htm?StoryID=110339

A Gilbert man, initially charged with first-degree murder in the death of a 13-month-old girl, pleaded guilty to lesser charges in a Maricopa County Superior Court this morning. David Arnold Reed III, 23, copped to manslaughter and child abuse in the 2009 beating death of Cheree Goard, the daughter of his girlfriend. Reed stood trial for the murder charge last month but the jury came back deadlocked. Another trial was scheduled for this month but Reid took the plea deal.

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http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2010/09/gilbert_man_pleads_guilty_to_m.php

Bakersfield, CA – Aimee Archer called 911 Tuesday night and told a dispatcher her 4-year-old child had been the victim of a hit-and-run. When officers arrived on scene, Archer reportedly told them her child, angry because she wasn’t getting fast food that night, bolted out of the car and ran into the street where she was hit by a car. “I ran into the middle of the street and I got my baby and I put her into the car,” Archer said in an interview with KGET.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/09/23/police-say-aimee-archer-ran-over-her-kid-lied-about-it/

Logan, UT – In October 2009, after a fight with her husband, Reggie Ann Peck attempted to kill her two young daughters by slipping the antidepressant drug Trazadone into their bottles. Fortunately, the girls didn’t ingest enough of the drug to suffer any ill effects. Reggie was arrested and charged with surreptitious administering of certain substance, assault, and domestic violence in the presence of a child. (The assault and DV charges stem from the fight with the husband). In January, Reggie entered a plea in abeyance through a mental health court – if she complied with terms of her probation, the charges would be dismissed.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/09/24/reggie-ann-peck-tried-to-kill-her-kids-again/

VANCOUVER, B.C — Two men have been arrested for their involvement in a brutal gang rape of a 16-year-old girl who was photographed and posted on Facebook and YouTube, Royal Canadian police.

The 16-year old girl was drugged with a date rape drug, possibly GHB, and sexually assaulted by five to seven men, according to RCMP Supt. Dave Walsh. It happened in a field outside a “another Night in Bangkok” rave last weekend east of Vancouver.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-facebook-rave-gang-rape,0,7872743.story

ATLANTA — A fourth young male member of Bishop Eddie Long’s megachurch says the prominent pastor coerced him into a sexual relationship. Attorney B.J. Bernstein says she is filing a lawsuit Friday on behalf of a member of New Birth Charlotte. New Birth Charlotte is a satellite church run by Long in Charlotte, N.C. The man met Long in May 2005.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-georgia-bishop-eddie-long,0,7373816.story

PLACERVILLE, Calif. — A judge has suspended criminal proceedings against the man accused of kidnapping and raping Jaycee Dugard over concerns about his mental state. El Dorado County Superior Court Judge Douglas Phimister made the decision Friday after a short pretrial hearing for Phillip Garrido. Phimister said he had concerns about Garrido’s mental competency to stand trial on 29 counts of kidnapping, rape and false imprisonment in the 1991 disappearance of Dugard.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-jaycee-dugard-trial,0,1766333.story

Under Georgia law, the sitter can’t be prosecuted as an adult.

SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — An 11-year-old baby sitter is being held on warrants charging her with felony murder and child cruelty in the death of a 2-year-old girl. Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard is trying to determine how to proceed in the case against the baby sitter in the death of Zyda White.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-baby-sitter-baby-zyda-death,0,2497735.story