Terre Haute, IN – Tonya Smith, 37, was arrested and charged with child neglect after police learned she had left her three children alone in a garbage strewn home while she went and played at an amusement park nearly 100 miles away. On July 2nd, a neighbor informed a police officer that three young children had been left unsupervised at a nearby home. The officer made contact with two of the kids, ages 12 and 7, and they told him their mother had taken off at about 6:00 that morning and went to Holiday World. The kids were reportedly dirty and stinky – their heads covered in lice.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/07/22/mom-leaves-kids-alone-in-filthy-home-goes-to-amusement-park/

CHALMETTE, La. – After 22-year-old Tiffany Tommaseo dropped off her 2-year-old daughter at daycare, workers immediately noticed something wasn’t right. The girl was very lethargic and looked like she was in dire need of medical assistance. They contacted her mother and informed her that she needed to come attend to her daughter, but she told them she could not pick her up. So the little girl’s grandmother did and rushed her to the hospital.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/07/22/mother-charged-after-daughter-ingests-her-narcotics/

Drug Ecstacy Tested As Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatment

The test results are being called promising.

MOUNT PLEASANT, SC — The drug Ecstasy or MDMA is being tested as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.
The small study, which appears in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, included 20 people with PTSD stemming from traumas such as sexual assault and combat stress.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-ecstacy-post-traumatic-stress-disorder,0,3162430.story

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Police are searching for a family of five who disappeared, leaving behind the body of a 3-year-old girl and her 4-year-old brother.

A relative discovered the boy and his dead sister alone in the home Sunday morning.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-bakersfield-abandoned-children,0,2316091.story

Mother Stabs 10-year old Daughter, Kills Herself

CONCORD, Calif — Police say a 38-year old woman stabbed her only child in chest before killing herself in an attempted murder suicide.

The 10-year old girl told police that she had been asleep when her mother attacked her with a kitchen knife.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-mother-stabbed-daughter,0,5869949.story

When a nightmare awoke 12-year-old Melissa Knight, she went to her father for comfort. Instead of consoling his daughter, he raped her – then threw her a dirty T-shirt to clean up with.

That first assault echoed through the next seven years of Knight’s life, as the person who was supposed to protect her instead repeatedly ravished her body and her trust.

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http://www.theworldlink.com/news/local/article_81c5b418-916f-11df-af12-001cc4c002e0.html

When Heather Smith was 3 years old, her father stabbed her mother. Her mother survived and her father got 10 years for assault.

Heather did poorly in school. She had trouble learning. She also had a rebellious streak. When she was 15, she got picked up by a 29-year-old man. He took her to his house in Granite City. He and two friends gave her whiskey and then raped her. Shortly thereafter, she dropped out of school.

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http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/columns/bill-mcclellan/article_826b8ef3-e0ce-5648-8e93-e3e62b92649c.html?sms_ss=email

WINNIPEG — The parents of a 15-year-old Winnipeg girl say she hanged herself after she believed she was gang-raped.

Pauline Berens died on May 30 after she hanged herself in the garage of her family’s Winnipeg home. Exactly one week before, family members say, Berens and two girlfriends, aged 13 and 14, were sexually assaulted by three older teen boys after they passed out at a party. The girls awoke naked.

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http://www.canada.com/news/Teen+killed+herself+over+assault+Father/3294291/story.html

DUNMORE – A 29-year-old Dunmore man is accused of raping a 14-year-old boy and is a suspect in the sexual assaults of at least five other boys and girls as young as 7.

Charges against Shane Connor of 98 Willow St. in those cases could be filed by the end of the week, Dunmore police Capt. William Springer said.

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http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/police-dunmore-man-raped-14-year-old-boy-suspected-of-assaults-on-other-kids-1.896087

8 Years After Her Death, Baby Brianna Still Remembered

LAS CRUCES, N.M. — It’s been almost eight years since baby Brianna Lopez was brutally abused and killed by her own family. The first investigator at the scene was Lindell Wright of the Dona Ana County Sheriff’s office.“When I arrived at the hospital, I expected child abuse, but nothing to the extent of what I saw that day,” said Wright.What Wright saw was lifeless 6-month-old Brianna Lopez bruised from head to toe, bite marks all over her body, bleeding to her brain and sexual trauma.

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http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/24303644/detail.html

The former pastor of a Fairfax County church pleaded guilty Monday morning to molesting two boys who were under his supervision in the 1990s, and Fairfax prosecutors agreed to a deal in which the man would spend no time in jail.

But Fairfax Circuit Court Judge Randy I. Bellows said he may not accept the deal, in which case the defendant, Tommy R. Shelton Jr., could withdraw his plea and take the case to another judge.

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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/crime-scene/fairfax/minister-pleads-guilty-to-mole.html

“FINALLY now I feel safe.”

These were the words of 84-year-old Roland Smith’s rape victim after he was jailed for eight years – more than 40 years after committing his monstrous crimes. He was found guilty by a jury of twice raping the child in 1970, when she was 12 or 13-years-old. Smith had denied the charges, claiming she consented – which is an old defence in law because of the date of the offences, but no longer applies to new offences.

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http://www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk/news/Child-rape-victim-offers-hope-finding-courage-report-sex-fiend/article-2428612-detail/article.html

According to KSDK, a Saint Charles man was arrested over the weekend for allegedly abusing his daughter, Micha Harris, 10-months. Early Friday morning, the victim was rushed to the emergency room at Children’s Hospital in Saint Louis. The baby was pronounced dead on Saturday afternoon.

The accused, James Harris, 24, was charged by the Saint Charles Sheriff’s department, for Child Abuse and assault. There is a likelihood that the charge of assault will be upgraded to Murder or at the very least Manslaughter.

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http://www.examiner.com/x-58054-St-Louis-Offender-Awareness-Examiner~y2010m7d19-Child-Abuse-incident-leads-to-Babys-death

A 22-year-old South Side woman was charged Monday with murder in connection with the death of her 21-month-old son, who died Sunday after being battered.

Doulesha Wyatt, of the 100 block of East 49th Street, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Jaymeon Wyatt, according to police. She will appear in bond court on Tuesday.

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http://www.suntimes.com/news/24-7/2511654,mom-charged-murder-son-071910.article