LEWISTON – A Lewiston firefighter was arrested Thursday and charged with raping a young girl over a period of years in the 1990s.

Donald Lagrange, 54, of 22 Baril St., was charged by Auburn police with three counts of gross sexual assault. He was taken to the Androscoggin County Jail but was released on bail Thursday night.

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http://www.sunjournal.com/city/story/907346

Four teenage boys have been charged after a mobile phone camera was allegedly used to film the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl in Western Australia.

Police say the assault took place at a house on Friday, August 27.

A 16-year-old boy has been charged with two counts of sexual penetration of a child aged between 13 and 16 years.

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http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/teenagers-film-rape-of-girl-police-say-20100910-154mp.html

“Friends” David Schwimmer turns dark with child predator movie

David Schwimmer made his name as a hapless romantic in the hit TV comedy series “Friends”, but takes on a much darker topic in his second stint behind the camera with the movie “Trust.”

A heart-rending drama about how online predators groom child victims and the impact it has on a family, “Trust” was inspired by Schwimmer’s work with rape victims.

“Trust”, which is being shown at the Toronto International Film Festival, stars Clive Owen and Catherine Keener as parents who live out a nightmare when their teenage daughter is sexually assaulted by a man who gained her trust in an online chat relationship.

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http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6895LT20100910

Two-year-old struck in groin: Stepmom charged with felony child abuse

Newport News mom arrested at her Ivy Avenue home

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http://www.dailypress.com/news/newport-news/dp-newport-news-child-abuse-0910,0,3720896.story

Layton, UT – Kenneth Warhola arrived home from work Wednesday evening to an eerily quiet house. He set off to find his wife and two children and soon realized the three were barricaded in his son’s bedroom. He called out to his wife and demanded she open the door. She told him to give her 10 minutes before entering the room. When Kenneth finally forced his way into the room, he found the children, 7-year-old Jean and 8-year-old James, lying on the bed, covered by a blanket. Sun Cha Warhola asked her husband not to look at the children, but he felt his son’s face and found it cold to the touch. Both had been strangled to death.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/09/10/sun-cha-warhola-charged-with-murder-in-deaths-of-her-two-children/

LONG BEACH ? –A Long Beach teenager was sentenced Friday to more than 200 years in state prison for the gang-related murder of a 16 year-old-boy. Jason Trejo, 16, was sentenced to a term of 212 years to life in prison.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-jason-trejio-sentenced,0,7744035.story

The alleged victim was involved in the church’s youth group.

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police have arrested a 44-year-old church pastor accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl.

Leonel Pelayo, of Carson, was taken into custody around 1 p.m. Thursday.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-church-pastor-sex-assault,0,5778032.story

INDIANAPOLIS — A new report reveals child abuse and neglect are on the rise in Indiana but that the agency charged with protecting Hoosier children is not fully staffed.The Department of Child Services released its annual report at the State Budget Committee meeting on Thursday.

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http://www.theindychannel.com/news/24946513/detail.html

Governor Schwarzenegger Signs “Chelsea’s Law”

Chelsea’s Law calls for mandatory life sentences without parole for violent sex crimes against children.

SAN DIEGO — Convicted child molesters in California now face life in prison after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed “Chelsea’s Law” Thursday.

The Governor was joined by Chelsea’s parents, Brent and Kelly King, as he signed the new law during a ceremony in Balboa Park.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-chelseas-law-passes,0,2417115.story

Sandy, Utah–Richard Chad Randall, 41, of Sandy, Utah is accused of raping a 4 year old girl in a Deseret Industries store yesterday, Tuesday, September 7, 2010. Randall, a registered sex offender is said to have lured the child from the toy section of the small, family oriented store and taken her to the men’s bathroom.

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http://law.rightpundits.com/?p=2229

DUBAI–She was sold by her own father, kept in captivity in the UAE and forced to work as a prostitute for several months – all before she had turned 15.

Now being cared for at a shelter in Dubai, the Arab girl – whose name, exact age and nationality are being withheld to protect her identity – is one of the most shocking examples of human trafficking to come to light in the Emirates.

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http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100909/NATIONAL/709089884/1040

Secrecy About Abuse Deaths Stirs a Storm

The department that investigates child abuse for Los Angeles County is under attack for allegedly hiding information about children who died under its watch – highlighting a perpetual and sensitive issue for public child protection agencies around the country.

As some of those agencies have found over the years, withholding information about the death of a child sometimes fuels its own controversy.

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http://www.youthtoday.org/publication/article.cfm?article_id=4284