WHITTIER, CA– A registered sex offender has been sentenced to nearly 700 years in prison for molesting an 11-year-old relative over a two year period. Michael Benjamin Burch, 66, was convicted on Dec. 21 of three counts each of forcible rape, oral copulation of a person under 14 and lewd act upon a child. On Tuesday, a judge imposed the maximum sentence of 675 years to life in state prison.

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MICHIGAN–A $1-million bond was set today for a stepmother accused of killing her 2-year-old stepdaughter in New Haven. Renee Marie King, 28, was ordered held in the Macomb County Jail after a hearing, which was to be a preliminary exam, in 42-2 District Court in New Baltimore. The preliminary exam was rescheduled for Feb. 7. King was being held without bond before today, according to the court.

Ten-week-old Lyon D. Campos died from multiple blunt force injuries in October and the cause of death was homicide, the Boulder County Coroner’s Office said today in closing its investigation into the Lafayette child’s death. The boy’s father, 21-year-old Joaquin Campos, is facing charges of child abuse resulting in the death, harassment and domestic violence. He is free on $500,000 bond and is scheduled for arraignment on March 18.

What has prompted me to write this piece is the current increasing rate at which the media is reporting cases of pedophilia on a daily basis. Like armed robbery, the situation seems to be out of control. The flood of reports could almost make you think that everyone who sexually abuses a child is mad. Teachers, carpenters, masons, drivers, farmers, truck-pushers, men of God and even chiefs are, on a daily basis, reported to have defiled or abused a child across the country. Of course, many of such dangerous monsters are sex maniacs but it is also true that some of them are sane and deliberately abuse these kids out of lust.

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http://news.myjoyonline.com/features/201101/59899.asp

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – A former Fort Campbell soldier was scheduled to start trial Monday, but it was postponed. Investigators said he is responsible for the death of a 23-month-old boy. Doctors said Keegan Andrew Metz had head injuries, bruises all over his body and there was evidence he had been raped. Starner claimed the child fell down in the bathtub. Police said the boy’s mother left Keegan alone with Starner when she went to the store. When she got home the child was in bed unresponsive. The mom called 911, and he was taken by EMS to Gateway Hospital. Keegan was then flown by helicopter to Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

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http://www.newschannel5.com/story/13893368/fort-campbell-soldier-accused-of-child-abuse

Lansing, MI Dentist Accused Of Sexual Abuse

For many children and even some adults, going to the dentist is not a trip they like to take. But for one young patient, police say his visits were a nightmare. “This child was put in an unreasonable situation,” said Detective Elizabeth Reust. “His parents took him to the dentist and he got abused there so it’s particularly bothersome.”

Detective Reust and Detective Vicky Nevins of the Lansing Police Department have been investigating this case for the past six weeks or so. 64-year-old Dr. Wendell Alan Racette was arraigned on Monday morning on eight counts of criminal sexual conduct. A 20 year old man came forward just last month saying Dr. Racette molested him starting when he was just five years old.

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http://www.wilx.com/news/headlines/Lansing_Dentist_Accused_Of_Sexual_Abuse_114519149.html

TROY — Miami County prosecutors vowed Monday to fight to ensure Jason Durig, sentenced to 15 years to life for the abuse and murder of his 8-month-old son, “never sees the light of day” beyond prison walls. Durig, 29, of Troy pleaded guilty in December to felony murder and child endangering in the July death of his son, Caleb. The child’s grandparents, an aunt and an uncle called Durig “a monster with no heart” in a written statement read during Durig’s sentencing in county Common Pleas Court. Durig looked down at the defense table while the statement was read by a victim’s advocate.

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http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/crime/father-gets-15-years-to-life-in-bitten-babys-death-1063011.html

MCCRACKEN COUNTY, KY – Police are looking for a woman accused of child abuse of her 55-day-old infant. Melissa M. Kobielaski is wanted after her child was taken to the Western Baptist Hospital on September 15, 2010 with a spiral fracture to the right arm, according to the McCracken County Sheriff’s Department. A grand jury returned indictment warrants for the child’s father and mother on December 3, 2010.

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http://www.kfvs12.com/Global/story.asp?S=13898585

A man charged in the death of his 5-month-old daughter was previously convicted of homicide by child abuse, according to court records.The Greenville County Sheriff’s Office charged 42-year-old Daron Duane Davis, of Greer, with homicide by child abuse after the baby died on Sunday.The arrest warrant said that Davis caused injuries to his daughter by using blunt force to her head. He was arrested on Monday.

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http://www.wyff4.com/r/26598692/detail.html

SAULT STE. MARIE, Ontario — Police are accusing a northern Ontario man of murdering his baby boy last summer. Emergency officials were called to a home in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., in the early afternoon of Aug. 14, 2010, where a baby was reportedly in distress. Paramedics found the child unresponsive. Liam Thomas Allan Oben, 17 days old, died later that day in hospital. The Sault Ste. Marie Police Service launched a criminal investigation after a post-mortem examination found the baby died of blunt impact head injuries.

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http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2011/01/23/16999306.html

Single moms, boyfriends and dead kids:

This newspaper is never lacking for stomach-turning, gut-churning, heartbreaking crime stories. But none flips my outrage switch faster than a report about some mother’s boyfriend abusing and killing her kid. Whom do you judge more harshly, the monster who tortures and batters a small child, or the mom who stupidly left her little one in the care of some cretin she just met? As a parent, I really don’t know. It’s never more than a few months until the next horror story is reported — in Southern Nevada or anywhere else.

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http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/single-moms-boyfriends-and-dead-kids-114443749.html?ref=749