MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A trio of juveniles have been charged with raping a 23-month-old child in Tennessee. Memphis police spokeswoman Karen Rudolph says the trio was arrested at about 10:30 p.m. Monday after calling police to report a robbery.

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http://www.wreg.com/news/sns-ap-tn–juvenile-rapecharges,0,661379.story

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http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/dpp/news/local/081710-three-children-charged-with-rape-of-a-toddler

Wellington, Aug 18 NZPA – A specialist police team set up to fight the online exploitation of children has rescued six children from sex abuse since it was set up last year.

The team had also safeguarded 25 children from potential sex abuse and identified another two victims from seized images, Police Minister Judith Collins said in response to questions in Parliament today.

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http://www.voxy.co.nz/politics/online-child-sex-abuse-squad-rescues-six-victims/5/59304

HARRISBURG, Pa., Aug. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The nonprofit Pennsylvania Family Support Alliance (PFSA), the top organization in Pennsylvania for training “mandated reporters” to recognize and report child abuse and neglect, provided training to 7,540 individuals during its recently ended 2009-2010 program year.

“We train more mandated reporters by far than any other agency in the Commonwealth, and we’re constantly striving to expand the audience for our training because the mission is so vital,” said PFSA Executive Director Angela M. Liddle.

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http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pa-family-support-alliance-trained-more-than-7500-mandated-reporters-to-recognize-and-report-child-abuse-in-2009-2010-100883214.html

Army Reports:

Rapes Up 236%

Child and Spousal Abuse Up 177%

Last week, I noted that a recent US Army report on suicide includes an interesting fact: Since 2004, the number of soldiers going AWOL, deserting, and “missing movement” — that is failing to deploy when they’re supposed to — has gone up a shocking 234 percent.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-glantz/army-rapes-up-236-child-a_b_683748.html

BALTIMORE — A former school police officer was sentenced Monday to five years behind bars for sexually abusing a child.Reginald Watson, 36, was convicted in June of sexual assault of a 16-year-old student at the Masonville Cove Community Academy last year.

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http://www.wbaltv.com/r/24648504/detail.html

PUNTA GORDA: A Port Charlotte man was arrested by Punta Gorda Police and charged with child abuse for allegedly hitting his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter.

Punta Gorda Police officers were called to Charlotte Regional Medical Center after a 3-year-old girl was brought to the emergency room with deep bruises to her forehead and cheek.

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http://www.nbc-2.com/Global/story.asp?S=12992694

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — A man who has been trying for decades to take back his guilty plea in a notorious child molestation case won a huge moral victory Monday when a federal appeals court encouraged prosecutors to reopen their investigation.

Although the judges on the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals denied Jesse Friedman’s request to withdraw his plea, saying there was no legal basis to allow that, the panel criticized interrogation techniques by investigators in the 1988 case and actions by prosecutors and the trial judge.

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LONDON — Police said Wednesday they were investigating allegations of child abuse made by two former pupils at one of Britain’s most prestigious Roman Catholic schools.

London’s Metropolitan Police said two men in their forties had made allegations against teachers and staff at St Benedict’s School in Ealing, west London, which is attached to a Benedictine monastery.

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On August 13, the St. Mary’s County Bureau of Criminal Investigations was notified of a critically injured 7 month old female, from Mechanicsville.

The child had been transported from a local area medical facility to the Children’s National Hospital Center with an unknown life threatening condition.

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http://www.thebaynet.com/news/index.cfm/fa/viewstory/story_ID/19231

Mobile, AL – Steve Giardini used to have a title attached to his name – it was Mobile County Assistant District Attorney. Giardini specialized in the prosecution of sex crimes against children. That title was trashed the second an FBI agent knocked on his door in April of ’09, search warrant in hand. Giardini resigned less than 24 hours later. According to authorities, Giardini is accused of soliciting a 15-year-old girl over the internet to have sex.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/08/18/former-prosecutor-indicted-on-child-porn-enticement-charges/

The baby was flushed, sweating and crying

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (WDTN) – A Springfield mother was taken to jail after police rescued her 3-month-old baby from inside a hot car. Police said this was the child’s second trip to the emergency room in 24 hours.

Reports show the child was first taken to the hospital after falling onto concrete pavement when her mother dropped her car seat carrier. The child suffered cuts on her face from the fall.

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http://www.wdtn.com/dpp/news/local/springfield/Baby-found-in-hot-car-Mother-charged

ORANGEBURG, S.C. — The bodies of two children have been recovered from a car submerged in a South Carolina river and their mother has been arrested.

Orangeburg County Sheriff Larry Williams said the children were recovered from the North Edisto River after the car was found near a boat landing Monday.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-children-submerged-car,0,6629887.story

Craigslist sting: Men with Skittles, condoms accused of child-sex attempts

Fifteen men from Orlando, Lake Mary, Maitland, Orange City, St. Cloud, Kissimmee and elsewhere in Florida were accused of trying to have sex with girls.

When they saw ads on Craigslist looking for “guidance’ for their daughters, men from around the state responded with offers of help. And after exchanging emails, instant messages and telephone calls with people they thought were the moms and dads of the young girls, and in some cases the children themselves, they flocked to Polk County.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/os-orlando-area-sex-sting-craigslist-20100816,0,2777857.story

Thanks largely to a ‘don’t accept sweets’ advertising campaign, mums and dads would be left with nagging fears that one day their child could be snatched after innocently talking to a stranger in the street.

Nowadays strangers don’t need sweets. At the click of a button they can make contact with children in their own bedrooms and even through their mobile phones.

Although the internet is an invaluable communication tool, the sad fact is that it is exposing millions of children across the world to danger from online predators.

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http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/Tackling-the-dangers-of-online.6476747.jp