Brevard Community College (Florida) has suspended the director of a Palm Bay-based student resource center less than a day after he was arrested in connection to child sex-abuse charges.

Man charged with 300 counts of molestation of girls under 12

Melbourne Beach police arrested James Charles Wright-Roberts, 63, (former Michigan teacher/resident) Monday evening, accusing him of more than 300 counts of sexual battery and showing pornography to two girls younger than 12 years old. He has worked since 2005 at BCC’s Palm Bay Learning Lab, a resource center that provides extra assistance to college students, school officials confirmed. BCC had not had any complaints with Roberts during the time, according to a statement from the college.

“However, in consideration of the serious nature of the charges for which he was arrested and pursuant to our duties as a learning institution under the Florida Statutes, we have suspended Mr. Roberts without pay until further notice,” BCC director of marketing and media relations Kate Junco wrote in the statement. “During his suspension, the College will be exploring whether further action, including termination, is appropriate consistent with our obligations under Florida law.”

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http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20101221/NEWS01/12210321/1006/Melbourne+Beach+man+faces+300+sex+charges

ORANGE COUNTY, FL – The man who was chased out of a Florida Walmart by the mother of the child he flashed is a registered sex offender who has spent time in prison for…can you guess? If you guessed child related sex crimes then you would be correct. Shocker, right? At around 3 p.m. Sunday, a tall man with a ponytail opened his trench coat and exposed himself to a young girl at an Ocoee Walmart and took off  after the child’s mother tried to stop him. Using descriptions given by witnesses as well as surveillance footage, police have nabbed 43-year-old David Huffman, a transient, and charged him with lewd and lascivious exhibition to a child under 16.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/12/21/shocker-suspected-walmart-flasher-is-a-homeless-sex-offender/

DREAMCATCHERS REPORT: JP Morgan CHASE (Grant Report). Dreamcatchers for Abused Children was awarded $20,000 in September, 2010— This is an update as to “how” we have applied the funds to-date.

Sex offender Stephen Wilson has been jailed for nine years after raping and abusing a girl. Speaking via video link, the victim told Grimsby Crown Court that her sickening ordeal had been “horrible” and says it has ruined her life. Wilson, 52, of Saltergate, Grimsby, denied rape, indecent assault and two offences of gross indecency with a child but was convicted by a jury on majority verdicts after a trial. During the trial, the court heard that Wilson took advantage of the girl on several occasions, starting when she was only eight years old. Geraldine Kelly, prosecuting, said the information came to light after she confided in a health professional, by writing a letter outlining what she had been subjected to some years before, and stating how the experience had ruined her life.

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http://www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk/news/Rapist-preyed-year-old-repugnant-man/article-3022979-detail/article.html

A man accused of raping three young children is now behind bars in Perry County.  The criminal complaint says that the defendant not only raped girls as young as 3 and 4, but also photographed himself doing it.  That’s what police reportedly found on his computer.  Mark Permenter, 32, of Camp Hill, faces numerous charges, including the rape of a child.  Through an ongoing investigation, police seized his computer and said they found disturbing images of Permenter having sex with very young children.  Police aren’t sure exactly how long this has been going on, but said it could have been happening for a long time.   After being interviewed by police, Permenter apparently admitted to many of the terrible details in the criminal complaint.  He is currently in the Perry County Prison on $150,000 cash bond.  He is due in court on Jan. 12.

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http://www.whptv.com/news/local/story/UPDATE-Man-charged-with-rape-assault-of-3-children/pH63-kEtAU64yjOK8-IAlw.cspx

Baby Gabriel’s Mom Says She Suffocated Son

CDC: Majority of U.S. adults had troubled childhoods

Almost 60% of American adults say they had difficult childhoods featuring abusive or troubled family members or parents who were absent due to separation or divorce, federal health officials report. In fact, nearly 9% said that while growing up they underwent five or more “adverse childhood experiences” ranging from verbal, physical or sexual abuse to family dysfunction such as domestic violence, drug or alcohol abuse, or the absence of a parent, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

“Adverse childhood experiences are common,” said study coauthor Valerie J. Edwards, team lead for the Adverse Childhood Experiences Team at CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. “We need to do a lot more to protect children and help families,” she said. About a quarter of the more than 26,000 adults surveyed reported experiencing verbal abuse as children, nearly 15% had been physical abused, and more than 12% — more than one in 10 — had been sexually abused as a child.

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http://www.app.com/article/20101220/LIFE11/101220039/CDC-Majority-of-U-S-adults-had-troubled-childhoods

LAPEER, MI — A vigil was held Sunday to raise awareness about child abuse and to celebrate the life of 2-year-old Lily Furneaux-Wolfenbarger, who was killed in November. “Lily would want us to celebrate the two-and-a-half-years that we had her,” grandmother Lynette Furneaux said. The child’s stepmother, 26-year-old Renee King, has been charged with murder, sexual assault and child abuse. Investigators accuse King, who remains behind bars, of raping her stepdaughter and killing her with a blow to the head. King says she is innocent. A delay in forensic testing forced her pretrial hearing to be pushed back to Jan. 24. “She was so beautiful …. just her smile lit up the world and she loved to sing and dance and loved Jesus,” Lauren said.

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http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=news/local&id=7852822

Study: Child abuse rate twice as high in Israel than in U.S.

For every 1,000 children, 18 in Israel were abused – some 45,600 children in real terms.

More than 45, 000 children in Israel have been the victims of abuse over the past 12 months, the head of the Israel National Council for the Child, Dr. Yitzhak Kadmon, said Monday. Speaking a conference tackling the issue of infanticide, held at the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, Kadmon said that initial studies showed the rate of children suffering abuse over the past 12 months was twice as high in Israel than in the United States. For every 1,000 children, 18 in Israel had said that they had been abused (45,600 children in real terms), as opposed to 10.1 children per thousand in the U.S.

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http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/study-child-abuse-rate-twice-as-high-in-israel-than-in-u-s-1.331630

Macon, GA — According to Macon police, 19-year-old Vonn Gibbons Jr. shot and killed a young boy his mother was babysitting for over the weekend before turning the gun on himself. Gibbons reportedly died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest shortly after shooting 7-year-old Jalen Griffin in the head. Gibbons’ mother, Cheryl Cole, told police she was asleep when the shots were fired early Saturday morning, and claims she had no idea her son owned a gun. Still in the early stages of the investigation, police say they are searching for a motive behind the bizarre murder-suicide.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/12/20/vonn-gibbons-jr-19-shoots-and-kills-7-year-old-self/

CLEVELAND, OH — A mother has been arrested and charged with child endangering and domestic violence after being accused of abusing her three step-children. Three siblings, ages 12, 12 and 10, informed their principal at Marion C. Seltzer that when they get home from school their step-mother, 46-year-old Renee Lester, locked them up in the attic, the basement or a bedroom until the next day. The basement they were locked in had one couch the children shared without any blankets or lights. They were beaten if they used the toilet in the next room, told they had to hold it. The attic had nothing for the kids to sleep on, nor any blankets, but did have light from a street light outside.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/12/20/police-mom-locked-three-stepchildren-in-attic-basement/

Police are now looking for the baby’s mother.

PHOENIX — A baby girl from Arizona has been found dead inside a donation box that was shipped to a warehouse in Texas, and Phoenix authorities said Friday it will be extremely difficult to find out who placed the girl there. The child was discovered at a warehouse in McAllen, Texas, on Thursday as workers sorted through clothing shipped from metropolitan Phoenix. Investigators are waiting to hear from officials in Texas who are conducting an autopsy to determine whether the baby was born alive or stillborn, Phoenix police spokesman Sgt. Steve Martos said.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-dead-baby-box-texas,0,3315009.story

Fla officials arrest pedophilia how-to book author

ST. PETERSBURG, FL– Florida officials filed an obscenity charge Monday against the author of a self-published how-to guide for pedophiles that was yanked from Amazon.com last month after it generated online outrage.
Polk County sheriff’s deputies arrested Philip Ray Greaves II at his home in Pueblo, Colo., and charged him with violating Florida’s obscenity law. Polk Sheriff Grady Judd said his office was able to arrest Greaves on Florida charges because Greaves sold and mailed his book, “The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover’s Code of Conduct,” directly to undercover Polk deputies. Judd says Greaves even signed the book. “He very proudly sold us his personal copy,” Judd told the Associated Press. “I was outraged by the content. It was clearly a manifesto on how to sexually batter children … You just can’t believe how absolutely disgusting it was.”

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http://www.kmov.com/news/national/Fla-officials-arrest-pedophilia-how-to-book-author-112188639.html