Along with the joys of parenthood also come stress, frustration and feelings of being overwhelmed when things don’t go as planned. But child advocates want parents to know they are not alone.

“Throughout every community, there are a lot of people who are available to help,” said Connie Skillingstad, executive director of Prevent Child Abuse Minnesota. “If you are feeling like you are losing it, it’s time to look for resources.”

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http://www.savagepacer.com/news/police/child-abuse-prevention-special-report-frustrated-parents-have-place-turn-109

A survey has found that only 34 per cent of respondents would contact child protection authorities or the police if they knew a child was being harmed.

Fairfax says the survey by the National Association for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect found only 34 per cent of 22,000 respondents would call police if a child disclosed sexual abuse.

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http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/only-34-would-report-child-abuse-20100905-14vj1.html

SANTA ANA — A notorious convicted child molester, who became the public face of Megan’s Law in the 1990s, is making another bid for freedom.

Sid Landau, 70, has filed a petition for another trial. It would be the fourth such trial for Landau in two years.

A judge will decide this month whether to grant the petition.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/local/ktla-sid-landau-seeks-release,0,5898618.story

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept. 1 (UPI) — A Kentucky woman has been charged with sexually abusing seven children while babysitting them between 2001 and 2009, court records indicate.

Tiffany Taylor, 27, was formally charged last year with rape, sodomy and sexual abuse, The Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal reported. Details of the charges were released during a court hearing Tuesday.

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http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/09/01/Babysitter-charged-with-molesting-children/UPI-72111283381632/

MADISON TOWNSHIP, Ohio – A Madison Township father is facing multiple charges after authorities said he cut his children off from the rest of the world and abused them.

According to the Lake County court clerk, 47-year-old Jeffrey A. York was indicted Friday of two counts of rape, five counts of gross sexual imposition, six counts of endangering children, one count of aggravated menacing and five counts of domestic violence.

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http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/police-father-raped-abused-family

SANTA ANA – A notorious child molester’s latest bid for freedom from a state mental hospital was taken under submission by a judge Friday, who said he’d decide within a month whether his petition warrants another jury trial.

Sid Landau, who was hounded from one Orange County home to another in the late 1990s by protesters shortly after the enactment of Megan’s Law, is seeking release through a fourth civil commitment trial in two years.

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http://www.ocregister.com/news/landau-265024-state-trial.html

ORANGE COUNTY — Orange County sheriff deputies say a 170-page manual is circulating around Central Florida. It shows people, step-by-step, how to molest children. It also includes where to find potential victims.

“I’ve never seen anything like it. It was pretty amazing when I first saw it just because how detailed it was,” said Detective Philip Graves with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office (full interview) .

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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/crime/central-fla-deputies-investigate-source-of-how-to-895437.html

Will Receive Three-Year Prison Sentence; Must Register as Sex Offender

A Mountain Drive man pleaded no contest to crimes Friday morning that will put him in state prison for over two-and-a-half years and require him to register as a sex offender for the remainder of his life.

Instead of going through a preliminary hearing on Wednesday — where details of the allegations Jeffrey Johnson faced would begin to emerge — Johnson pleaded no contest on Friday to two counts of unlawful genital penetration with a foreign object of a child under the age of 14.

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http://www.independent.com/news/2010/mar/12/johnson-pleads-no-contest/

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – More than two dozen children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are among the hundreds of victims of a recent wave of rapes in the nation’s conflict-torn east, the United Nations said on Friday.

All but one of the 28 confirmed child victims were girls, and one of the cases involved attempted rape, the office of U.N. special representative for children and armed conflict Radhika Coomaraswamy said in a statement.

The United Nations defines a minor as a child under 18 years old. The statement said the child victims were between the ages of 12 and 17.

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http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCATRE6824I120100903

Three individuals charged with child rape and other crimes in Nashville could face charges in Rutherford County after the case is adjudicated there.

Clarence Valentine, 45, and Paula Valentine, 44, along with the mother of the 13-year-old female victim, were recently arrested in Enterprise, Ga., after Rutherford County Detective Mickey McCullough received information that suspects of a child rape investigation might be there and notified the U.S. Marshal’s Service.

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http://www.tennessean.com/article/D4/20100903/NEWS01/9030321/3+charged+with+child+rape