A Tavares couple is out of jail on bond after police said the two abused the 6-year-old son they adopted about a year ago. Mikelann Renwick, 47, and Steven Renwick, 55, face charges of child neglect and aggravated child abuse.

Mikelann Renwick took the boy to Florida Hospital Waterman on Wednesday because he was vomiting. Hospital staffers observed that the boy had several injuries to his head, legs and torso, according to an arrest affidavit filed in the case.

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MARIETTA, Georgia — Police in Georgia have arrested a couple after finding their two children were obese and living in filthy conditions. James and Anne Cardona are facing felony animal child cruelty charges.

The couple’s five-year-old daughter weighed 158 pounds, was covered in bug bites and had matted hair and rotten teeth. She could barely walk. Their four-year-old girl weighed nearly 90 pounds, was wearing a soiled diaper and drinking from a bottle.

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Anderson Cheffen

Wyandotte County District Attorney Jerome Gorman upgraded the charges against Anderson Cheffen on Tuesday to first-degree murder in the death of a 10-month-old child.

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DENVER — A Denver jury found a man guilty of whipping a 15-year-old boy and forcing him to drink soapy bleach water as punishment.John Allen, 36, was convicted Thursday of felony child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury and misdemeanor child abuse, Denver district attorney spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough said.

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GREENSBURG, Ind. – Another story about a mother starving her disabled son, but this one ended tragically. Police have charged Courtney Gail Tressler, 26, with reckless homicide and neglect of a dependent in connection to the death of her 4-year-old son, Payton.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/08/20/mother-charged-with-starving-her-special-needs-son-to-death/

Police Search for Grave Robbers Who Stole Remains of 9-year old Girl

LANCASTER, Pa. — Police are asking for the public’s help in locating the body of a 9-year-old girl and the grave robbers who stole her remains.

The body of Paula Ream, who died in August 1962 from cerebral palsy, was buried in the Babyland section of the Riverview Cemetery in Lancaster, Pa.

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LUDINGTON— Fueled by alcohol and drugs in the early morning of April 28, James Vernon Belanger raped his former girlfriend’s 7-year-old daughter, then suffocated her with a pillow before fatally stabbing himself in the chest, Mason County authorities said Wednesday.

Those were just some of the grisly details released Wednesday by Mason County Prosecutor Paul R. Spaniola during a press conference about the death of Lakeview Elementary School first-grader Chloey Ann Stoudt. Police said she died at the hands of Belanger, 39, inside the home of her mother, 30-year-old Kelly Jo Stoudt, at 1082 Pineway.

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WOODLAWN, MD. — Two teenagers have now been charged as adults in the alleged gang rape of a 12-year-old girl at a roller rink in Baltimore County.

Prosecutors say 17-year-old Kadeem Santiful and 15-year-old Tracey Hawkins, both of Baltimore, face charges including first-degree rape in the attack Saturday at Skateworks in Woodlawn.

A Harper man was handed 34 stacked life sentences in a Kerr County courtroom Thursday after prosecutors said he repeatedly raped a child, recorded the molestations and, in a separate case, shot a neighbor’s miniature horse.

Christopher Michael Donihoo, 36, would have to serve more than 1,000 years before he could be eligible for parole for the aggravated sexual assault of a child charges.

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A Harlingen man is behind bars after he allegedly raped a 15-year-old girl.

Harlingen police arrested 27-year-old Jesus Gonzalez on a sexual assault of a child charge Tuesday night.

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FREDERICK – A 13-year-old boy has been placed in a state juvenile dentention center after his grandmother allegedly caught him raping his seven-year-old cousin this past week.

The boy who is from Manitou, may have assaulted the girl who is from Tipton, two other times in recent weeks, stated Tillman County Sheriff Bobby Whittington.

An 11-year-old girl was raped early Thursday by a guest in her family’s southeast Atlanta home, police said.

Police officers were called to the home on Harper Road, off Browns Mill Road, about 3:45 a.m., Officer Curtis Davenport told the AJC.

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Children at Greatest Risk of Abduction When Going to and from School or School-Related Activities

Actor Tim Kang from CBS’ ‘The Mentalist’ Heads Campaign to Help Parents Keep Their Children Safe

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — As parents prepare for the start of a new school year, teaching children how to be safe needs to be at the top of their list of things to do.  An analysis by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) of attempted abductions during the past five years found that children are at most risk when going to and from school or school-related activities.  NCMEC is partnering with actor Tim Kang, of the hit CBS show The Mentalist, to launch a new campaign to help educate parents about what they should be telling their children to keep them safe.

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