The NSPCC has ‘revealed’ that hundreds of children contact the ChildLine helpline every year to report that they have been sexually abused by women. It made the announcement after it was announced that an online pedophile ring involved four women, although it was headed up by a man (not an excuse though, is it?). The police said that it was “unusual” for women to be involved in sexual abuse – adding that “we expect to see men involved in child abuse” – and while it is true that the vast majority of abuse is carried out by men this case presents a much-needed opportunity to shine a light on the extremely taboo subject of abuse by women.

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Many moons ago, when I was an intern in Boston, I was assigned to do a history and physical on a teenager. She had been hospitalized multiple times for recurrent kidney infections that had spread to her blood stream and nobody could figure out why, so the kidneys were removed as they were chronically infected, and now she was dialysis dependent. She also continued to have mysterious outbreaks of bacteria in her bloodstream. The puzzle had been solved by an astute physician, who found a syringe filled with cloudy fluid that contained the bacteria that she had been infected with in her room. It turned out that the patient’s mother, with the patient’s knowledge, had been injecting her with the bacteria. This was my introduction to Munchausen’s syndrome.

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LOVINGTON, N.M. – A 27-year-old man has pleaded guilty to a count of child abuse resulting in death as a jury was being selected for his trial in Lovington in southeastern New Mexico. Christopher Elliott entered a plea agreement with prosecutors Tuesday in the death last May of 21-month-old Braxtin Kuykendall. He also pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of child abuse.

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MAN STABBED 12-YEAR OLD GIRL AT MCDONALD’S–John Robert Murphy III is charged with injury to a child with serious bodily injury, a Felony 1offense. A Felony 1 offense carries a stiffer penalty than attempted murder or aggravated assault. This is not his first run-in with the law. Originally from Houston, Murphy has two previous charges out of Harris County, car burglary and resisting arrest. No emotion is visible in 23 year-old John Murphy’s face as he saunters toward a College Station Police car. “It makes you feel a little uneasy,” said Macey Lough, a College Station resident.

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A British couple who allegedly abused their son and daughter online while others watched have been arrested after police smashed an international paedophile ring. The pair, who have not been named, were running an ‘open naturist’ website for parents who also abused their children, according to police. They were tracked down as part of Task Force Argos, an operation led by detectives in Queensland, Australia, according to the Herald Sun newspaper.

A central Minnesota man sexually assaulted three children in his home dozens of times, photographing and video-recording some of the acts during parts of three years, according to charges filed Monday. James S. Whitcomb, 48, of Zimmerman, was charged in Sherburne County District Court with first-, second-, third- and fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct. He is jailed in lieu of $50,000 bail with conditions.

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A Nevada man already facing child pornography charges was accused this week of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy. James McCurdy, 49, of 85 Lincoln Way, No. 1, Nevada, is in Story County Jail awaiting charges of sexual exploitation of a minor after authorities found images of minors engaged in sex acts on his computer’s hard drive. The investigation into McCurdy, who lived with one adult son and three juveniles, all adopted, began in February 2010 when Ames Police were contacted by Ames High School staff regarding a male student who said he had been sexually abused.

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Two men are in jail on charges that they’d sexually abused children inside a Jacksonville church. Authorities said a whistle-blower’s tip helped lead to victims who described years of torment. Paul Keith Groover, 56, and Darrell Vincent Moore, 45, were arrainged on a host of sexual battery charges Monday. Each is a member and employee of Greater Refuge Temple in the Northside.

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SeaTac man told police he just had a ‘big heart’ and wanted to help child prostitutes

A SeaTac pimp accused of keeping several teen girls as “slaves” while forcing them to sell sex has been charged with pimping children. Prosecutors say Ronnie 28-year-old Leon Tramble, Jr. treated the girls as “slaves” while making thousands of dollars a week by exploiting them on Seattle-area streets. Tramble is alleged to have personally sexually abused girls as young as 14 at his SeaTac home while taking the girls around the Northwest.

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MADISON CO. –Two local man are facing sexual abuse charges for allegedly abusing young children. Robert Reynolds, 36, of Lot 18, Pine Woods Trailer Park in Bouckville is accused of sodomizing an 11-year-old boy and having sexual contact with a 10-year-old girl. That’s not all. State police say Reynolds also forcibly touched a 14-year-old boy while living at the Pine Woods Trailer Park in the fall of 2002 and spring of 2003.

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DOVER, Del.- Dover police are looking for a suspect accused of raping a 10-year-old girl. Police say that on the evening of Friday, Jan. 7, 24-year-old Reginald D. Waters, who is an acquaintance of the victim’s mother, was alone with the child at a home on the unit block of Forest Creek Drive. According to investigators, Waters tried to force the victim to touch his genitals. Police say that when the victim refused to touch him, Waters began to fondle the child and perform oral sex on her. Investigators say Waters then attempted to penetrate the child but was unsuccessful.

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SALEM, Ore. –  An attorney for the Boy Scouts of America told the Oregon Supreme Court on Tuesday that 20 years worth of so-called “perversion files” should be kept secret despite a trial judge’s order to open them. Robert Aldisert said in oral arguments that a Multnomah County judge abused his discretion when he ruled to open the files.

BUCKHANNON — The Upshur County grand jury indicted Thomas Clayton Summers, 21, on Monday. Summers’ case was one of 26 indictments handed down by the grand jury during its January term. Summers was indicted on one count each of breaking and entering and grand larceny, both felonies and one count of destruction of property. The indictment said Summers smashed a window and entered Hot Stuff and Cool Things on North Spring St. in Buckhannon on Dec. 7, and stole several botanical potpourris valued at more than $1,000.

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