TITUSVILLE, FL — A Florida man sentenced to 315 years for child molesting has been set free after less than two decades.

52-year-old Thomas Spioch was convicted in 1997 of molesting a 14-year-old boy and trying to hire a hit-man to kill seven witnesses at his trial.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-thomas-spioch,0,6960755.story

Weatherford, OK – If you click over to Gabrielle Silcott’s Facebook profile, you will see that she references her ‘great bf’ a couple of times. Judging by the day her relationship status changed, she and Jason Ferguson have been together for nearly three weeks now – plenty of time for the ‘great bf’ to torture and hospitalize her 22-month-old daughter. And Gabrielle reportedly stood by and did nothing while her daughter was being beaten senseless.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/07/27/gabrielle-silcott-has-a-great-boyfriend/

Spokane, WA – Police began looking into Pamela Ortega’s online shenanigans back in April after a tipster in Europe contacted the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and said the woman offered her young daughter to him for sex. It gets worse. Ortega is accused of molesting her own two children, an 8-year-old girl and a 6-year-old boy, and a neighbor’s 2-week-old infant, and broadcasting it live via web cam.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/07/27/woman-molests-children-broadcasts-abuse-live-on-the-net/

Report: Child neglect, abuse on the rise – Latest DSS figures show 30 percent jump

SHELBY — Within one year, confirmed cases of child abuse and neglect jumped 30 percent in Cleveland County, according to figures recently released by the Department of Social Services. For fiscal year 2009, there were more than 360 substantiated cases, the majority being neglect-related issues.

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http://www.shelbystar.com/news/shelby-48468-latest-abuse.html

BIRMINGHAM, AL (WBRC) – An Indiana woman has been arrested in Birmingham in connection with the death of her two-month-old daughter.

The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department, in a statement Monday to FOX6 News, said Whitney Wilson, 23, of Avon, Ind., had been charged with child abuse. Investigators said the charges were filed after deputies were called to Children’s Hospital in Birmingham Sunday by hospital staff. They found Wilson’s two-month-old baby, Cadence Davidson, on life support. Doctors told them the child had a skull fracture, a fractured femur and healing rib fractures.  The child was taken off of life support Monday morning and died.

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http://www.myfoxal.com/Global/story.asp?S=12871074

(CBS) Spanking certainly smarts – but could it cause a heart attack?

That’s what a provocative new study from Canada seems to suggest. It linked childhood physical abuse with a significantly higher risk for heart disease in adulthood.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20011496-10391704.html

EDINBURG, Texas — A jury has found a south Texas man guilty of capital murder for beheading his common-law wife’s three children in 2003.

The Hidalgo County jury deliberated for about three hours Monday before returning its verdict.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-texas-beheaded-children,0,1235257.story

Cleveland, OH – Not much on this one, but according to police, witnesses called 911 late Sunday night after seeing someone abandon a 4-year-old boy at the intersection of Cedar Avenue and East 28th. Officers arrived on scene and transported the child to family services. After talking with the kid awhile, police were led to his home, which, by the way, was nearly 8 miles away from the location where he had been found.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/07/26/abandoned-child-leads-police-to-mothers-body/

GREENSBURG, LA (WAFB) – A 47-year-old man already arrested in connection with two separate molestation charges has been accused of molesting another young child.

According to the St. Helena Parish Sheriff’s Office, another warrant was issued for Marshall Sinclair’s arrest. Detectives said the most recent accusations could also lead to child cruelty charges……

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http://exposereport.com/enews/index.php/sex-offender-news/90-three-time-molester

MOBILE, Ala. — A mentor in a program that works with Strickland Youth Center to help troubled teens was arrested Friday and charged with raping a young girl, prosecutors said.

Sherman Fitzgerald Tate, 33, was being held in Mobile County Metro Jail on charges of second-degree rape and second-degree sodomy.

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http://blog.al.com/live/2010/07/full_report_youth_mentor_arres.html

RIVERSIDE — California Youth Authority’s oldest inmate, 38 year-old Donald Schmidt, is set to be released from custody 23 year after being convicted in the rape and murder of a 3-year old girl.

Schmidt, who sodomized a 3-year-old girl and drowned her in her own bathtub, was set to be paroled in Riverside County.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-donald-schmidt,0,2375555.story

Everyone can take steps for prevention. Check out our prevention tip sheets to find what you can do. Learn about steps you can take for whether it’s keeping your family safe, finding a safe school or camp for your kids, safety on the internet and more.

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ATLANTA–A report by federal monitors says foster children in Fulton and DeKalb counties are being abused and neglected at the highest rate in four years. The report found that 25 of just over 21-hundred children were abused or neglected.

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http://www.gpb.org/news/2010/07/23/urban-foster-child-abuse-spikes