About 20 members of Bikers Against Child Abuse were at the preliminary hearing of Dennis Miller, 45, bound over on seven felonies Friday. BACA goes to child abuse cases to support victims.

A juvenile testified Friday that Miller, of Muskogee, threatened to snap her neck and put a specific type of bullet into her head if she did not comply with his order. She said he also chased her and her sister down an alley shortly after he was called to the police station for questioning in various child abuse or sex crimes. It caused the children in the case to have to hide and call for police protection.

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Using the situation that led to the recent firing of Hooker Principal Andrew Cimmino as one example, the offices of the state attorney general and child advocate issued a report Thursday suggesting child abuse allegations are often mishandled by school employees.

The report, the result of a two-year investigation, also cites cases in Westport, New Haven and Southington. It recommends a series of changes to the Connecticut General Statutes that would make the state Department of Education, local school districts and the Department of Children and Families work more closely to ensure teachers know their responsibilities as mandatory reporters of suspected abuse and require school officials to check the abuse and neglect registry before a teacher is hired.

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http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Study-Child-abuse-reports-often-mishandled-570351.php

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) – A Las Cruces man has been arrested in a child abuse case involving his girlfriend’s young son.

Police say 25-year-old Jason Narvaez was taken into custody Friday. He’s been charged with one first-degree felony count of intentional child abuse resulting in great bodily harm. He’s being held in the Dona Ana County Detention Center on $25,000 bond.

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Twenty-one women who say their reports of rape or sexual abuse were dismissed by Baltimore police have reached out to a hot line established this week to ensure that officials are handling complaints properly.

More than half of them asked authorities to reopen their criminal case and pursue possible leads. All their reports will be forwarded to auditors seeking to find out why Baltimore police lead the nation in the percentage of possible sex crimes that detectives conclude are false or baseless.

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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-rape-report-hotline-20100701,0,497945.story

INDIANAPOLIS – After they had finished playing at the park near their apartment building Wednesday evening, 10-year-old twin sisters headed home. As they took a common shortcut through one of the buildings hallways, they were approached by a man who asked if they wanted to go to L.A. and offered them money. When the pair declined the man’s offerings, they say he picked them both up and tried to drag them inside a storage closet. The man gave up after one of the girls kicked him in the nuts and the other bit him in the face.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/07/09/police-looking-for-man-who-got-beat-by-twin-girls-he-tried-to-abduct/

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(Newser) – Children’s book author K.P. Bath was sentenced to 6 years in federal prison yesterday after pleading guilty to two counts of possessing child pornography. Investigators discovered a huge cache of disturbing images and videos in Bath’s Portland, Ore., home, many of which “graphically depicted the sexual abuse of very young children,” according to the US attorney’s office. That included sadomasochism, bestiality, and rape.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – U.S. Marshals arrested a man who was wanted for raping a child.

Walter Slicer, 47, was wanted by U.S. Marshals and Springfield Police for outstanding warrants on one count of rape of a child and one count of sodomy.

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http://www.wwlp.com/dpp/news/local/hampden/springfield-man-arrested-for-child-rape

If it takes an entire village to raise a child, it also takes an entire village to prevent child abuse.

That is a lesson we might take from the brief and tragic life of Prhaze Galvan, a 3-year-old Kimball Township child who died Jan. 15 after months of cruel and systematic abuse.

A St. Clair County, MI jury needed only 2 hours Wednesday to convict the child’s father and stepmother of torture, first-degree child abuse and felony murder.

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http://www.thetimesherald.com/article/20100709/OPINION01/7090321

OGLE COUNTY (WREX) – An Oregon father gets probation and jail time after pleading guilty to child abuse.

Thomas Miatke, 22, will spend 180 days in jail and will be on probation for four years. He’s also not allowed to see his child.

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http://www.wrex.com/Global/story.asp?S=12781839

THE Church of England has paid damages to a woman who claims she was forcibly drugged and sexually abused whilst in the care of a church-run children’s home.

Teresa Cooper, who now lives near Chelmsford in Essex, has spent the last 18 years trying to expose the sexual and physical abuse that her and other girls suffered at Kendall House children’s home in Pelham Road, Gravesend, throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

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http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/8263903.GRAVESEND__Church_pays_out_over_alleged_child_abuse/

A chaplain with Bishop McGuiness High School turned himself in today on charges that he sexually abused a 14-year-old boy more than three decades ago at a Catholic church in Albemarle. Father Joseph Kelleher, 82, of 1525 Wood St. is charged with one count of indecent liberties with a child. He was released on a $5,000 bond and his first court date is scheduled for Aug. 9, according to Albemarle Police Chief Ronnie Michael.

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http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2010/jul/08/priest-turns-himself-charges-he-molested-boy-33-ye/

Berkeley County, SC – The Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office has charged a man and his girlfriend with homicide by child abuse in the death of a toddler whose body was found encased in concrete in a trash bin. This comes after investigators were led to the bin in Bowman Wednesday, after interviewing Williams and Trotman about the disappearance of 2-year-old, Rodricus Williams.

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http://www.wciv.com/news/stories/0710/753483.html