PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Investigators have asked journalists for footage of interviews with people who reported seeing a missing 7-year-old Portland boy after the time his stepmother says she left him at school.
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Do you remember being 13 years old? Picture your 13-year-old self and imagine someone older and seemingly much cooler taking an interest in you. It’s initially great. Then imagine it all goes terribly wrong. He becomes abusive and forces you to have sex with older men so he can make money. Terrified and repeatedly raped by “customers,” you reach a police officer one day. What happens next might surprise you. The handcuffs come out, and you are arrested for prostitution.
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Many adults face the difficult task of healing from physical, emotional, spiritual, or sexual abuse suffered in childhood. This is often made more difficult by isolation and feelings of shame and self-blame. Survivors may feel they must protect or shield those who abused, particularly if the perpetrators were family members.
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DALLAS, N.C. — A 7-year-old girl is the only survivor of a murder-suicide that left four family members dead, including her pregnant mother.
Gaston County Police Capt. Joe Ramey says the father, Austen Blake Minter, shot the woman and kids in the kitchen of their home sometime between midnight Thursday and 1 p.m. Friday.
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A girl who was kidnapped when she was a toddler has been discovered alive and well nearly seven years later.
In a case that will give hope to the parents of Madeleine McCann, the victim was found hundreds of miles away from her hometown in California.
A sex offender arrested in County Cavan two weeks ago after going missing in Lancashire has been jailed for four months in the Irish Republic. William Paden, 56, was sentenced at Cavan District Court for breaching the Republic’s sex offenders legislation.
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ROSEBURG, Ore. — A teenage boy charged with the rape and murder of a 5-year-old girl told police he suffocated the child after she woke up while he was sexually abusing her, according to a court document.
Dustin Wallace, 16, told investigators that Sahara Dwight, who was asleep, jerked away when he started touching her early Friday, according to a probable cause affidavit filed by Roseburg police Detective Daniel Knott and released this week.
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Free-range parenting guru Lenore Skenazy recently wrote about a new rule at her kids’ camp: If a counselor wants to hug a camper, the counselor has to bend down to the kid’s level so the child’s face isn’t anywhere near the counselor’s “groin.”
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EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – An East Providence woman is facing attempted murder and child abuse charges, after police say she almost choked her four-year-old daughter to death.
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A sexual abuse prevention and response training program will be offered from 9 a.m. to noon July 31 at YWCA Lincoln.
Conducted by facilitators from Lincoln’s Child Advocacy Center, “Stewards of Children” teaches adults how to prevent, recognize and react to child abuse.
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The parents of a 5-month-old boy were charged Wednesday with felony child abuse after an emergency room doctor said the infant suffered multiple fractures, burns and bruises.
Jeremy Taylor, 28, and Marie Youmans, 27, appeared briefly Wednesday before East Fork Justice Jim EnEarl to hear the charges against them.
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MINDEN – Three Minden residents have been charged in the December death of a 4-year-old boy.
Katie Payne, 19, Sharon Turnell, 36, and Charles Turnell, 37, all of Minden, were arrested Thursday and charged with felony aiding and abetting child abuse resulting in death in the Dec. 22, 2009, death of Landon Payne, said Kearney County Attorney Dave Wondra.
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