MADISON (WKOW) — More than 100 police officers from around the state will take a “100 mile” motorcycle ride this weekend to support the Safe Harbor Child Advocacy Center.

Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney and Executive Director of Safe Harbor, Brenda Nelson, to talk about this weekend’s event, which draws police officers from throughout Wisconsin and parts of the Upper Peninsula. Each participant will raise at least $25 to go to Safe Harbor Child Advocacy Center.

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http://www.wkowtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13012381

Johnson County Sheriff’s deputies found a malnourished 6-year-old boy in an attic Tuesday night, hours after his 26-year-old mother, Rachel L. Perez, was arrested.

A relative was worried about the boy, so deputies did a welfare check at a De Soto home in the 8200 block of Center Drive Tuesday evening around 5. The boy’s mother claimed he wasn’t home, and deputies arrested her on an outstanding warrant.

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http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2010/08/6-year-old_boy_found_in_attic_de_soto.php

Denver, CO – Police are asking for the public’s help in the search for a sex offender who has failed to register. Judging by dude’s mugshot, the task shouldn’t be too difficult. Jacob Medina was convicted of sexual assault on a child back in ’06 and is considered a sexually violent predator.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/08/18/have-you-seen-this-tard/

Scottsdale, AZ – A woman called 911 Monday morning to report that she’d seen “an elderly man” in her neighborhood molesting a young girl. “Um i just saw an elderly man in my neighborhood that I’m not familiar with,” she told the dispatcher. The dispatcher asked the woman to describe what she had seen. “He had her up in a tree… it was very shocking… I tried to follow, he clearly saw me, I don’t think he was sure whether I clearly saw what he was doing, I definitely did.” The caller went on to say the man had the little girl up in a tree and she was naked from the waist down.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/08/19/man-accused-of-molesting-young-daughter-in-public/

CLAREMONT, N.H. — A 2-year-old girl was brought to the hospital by her father, Jason Longley, 22, because he thought she was having seizures. Medical staff called police after they found the girl was bleeding in her eyes and brain, suffering from a severe skin infection on her face, and had bruising patterns her father explained as being self-inflicted.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/08/19/couple-charged-after-police-say-toddler-coached-on-video-to-hit-herself/

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — James Auchincloss — who as a boy carried the wedding train of his half sister Jackie up the aisle as she married John F. Kennedy — was jailed Wednesday after admitting to possessing child pornography.

Auchincloss, 63, pleaded guilty to two felony counts of encouraging child sex abuse, the charge generally brought against people possessing child pornography, for having computer images of naked boys.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/sns-ap-us-jackies-half-brother,0,5519261.story

10 Children Found in Shed

5 Had Been Reported Missing by Families

LORAIN, Ohio -Authorities have arrested a Lorain man after police find five children reported missing by their families in a shed in the man’s backyard. According to officials with the Lorain Police Department, Kenneth Freeman, 39, was arrested at his home around 2:00 a.m. Tuesday morning.

Police say when they arrived at Freeman’s home they found at least 10 children hiding inside the shed. Authorities say the children ranged in age from 12-17, and at least five had been reported missing by their families.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/wjw-news-lorain-arrest-kids-in-shed,0,5104126.story

A mother told aviation police she slapped her crying 13-month-old daughter on a flight between Dallas and Albuquerque because the child kicked her, authorities said.

The explanation came after Southwest Airlines flight attendant Beverly McCurley reported taking the child from the mother during Monday’s flight after seeing the child slapped on the face and hearing passengers complain.

The incident has sparked an online debate about when onlookers should intervene in child discipline.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/08/18/national/main6784762.shtml

DALLAS – A trial began Tuesday in the case of Franzwa Miller, who allegedly beat his baby to death and kept her in a closet for most of her short life.

Mesquite police arrested the 24-year-old in June 2009 after paramedics responded to a call at his Mesquite home. They took 4-month-old Leah Miller to a hospital, where doctors determined she suffered blunt force trauma to her head and ribs.

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http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/081810-Trial-in-Beaten-Baby-Kept-in-Closet

(CNN) — In about the same time that it takes to light a match, tie a shoelace or hail a taxi, 6-year-old Morgan Nick vanished from her mother’s sight.

Morgan was catching fireflies with other children in a baseball field parking lot in Alma, Arkansas, as a Little League game was winding down on the evening of June 9, 1995.

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http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/08/18/grace.coldcase.morgan.nick/index.html?iref=NS1

How Rare Are Female Child Killers?

The recent confession of a 29-year-old mother to suffocating her two toddlers is not as rare as many might think.

Murder charges are being brought against a woman who admitted she suffocated two of her children. The two boys, ages one and two, were found in a car submerged in a river in South Carolina on Monday, Orangeburg County Sheriff Larry Williams said in a news conference Tuesday.

Shaquan Duley, 29, told police she smothered her toddler sons at a motel by placing her hands over their mouths. Williams said the children were dead before Duley put them in their car seats and drove them to the river.

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http://news.discovery.com/human/mother-killer-murder-child.html

Minutes before her violent death, seven-year-old Nadine Jantjies was playing on a field with the man who has now been convicted of her murder.

Manfred Swartz, 34, told the Western Cape High Court yesterday that he and Nadine had eaten chips, talked and laughed together before he killed her.

He said she ran off to play, and he called her back – then put his hands around her neck and strangled her.

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http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=vn20100818124045594C642192

A pastor from Welkom has been arrested for allegedly raping a13-year-old girl that he was supposed to help, police say.

Warrant Officer Malebo Khosana said Thabong police received a complaint that a 13-year-old girl had been raped in the suburb of Thubelitsha. Khosana said that according to the investigation the girl had been bunking school and was being “naughty”.

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http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/article609209.ece/Pastor-facing-rape-charge