TAMPA, FL — The 16-month-old boy who police said was abused by his father died from his injuries Saturday morning. Ronderique Anderson was not expected to survive. Had his family kept him alive with a respiratory machine at St. Joseph’s Hospital, he would have remained in a vegetative state, authorities said earlier this week. Ronderique’s father, 23-year-old Dwayne Poole, is now charged with first-degree murder, police said.

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THE career of a senior fire officer and school governor is in tatters after he was unmasked as a pervert with a “disturbing” interest in child pornography. Gary Mason’s collection of sick pictures was unearthed when police searched his home in Hartlepool during an unconnected investigation. Officers found a total of 1,861 images on his computers, and he was suspended from his roles at a secondary school and Cleveland Fire Brigade.

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http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/local/hartlepool/8835513.Ex_fire_officer_had_pictures_of_child_abuse/

Kansas Child Abuse Survivors Share Their Rescue Story Next Week on “Oprah”

SHAWNEE, KANSAS (February 4, 2011) Kellie and Kathie Henderson first spoke of surviving years of sexual abuse by several family members in The Wichita Eagle’s series, “Promise Not to Tell.” Now their story and that of family and professionals who vowed to rescue them will find a national stage on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” Tuesday, Feb. 8.

Viewers will hear the disturbing story of the girls’ sexual abuse starting at ages 3 and 4. The show features the many heroes who helped end the abuse: the girls themselves, for disclosing their abuse and ending the secrecy; their neighbors, for believing the girls and taking action; and the response team, law enforcement, social workers and others who protected the girls and hold their offenders accountable.

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http://pressreleases.kcstar.com/?q=node/50649

A 29-year-old man has been charged with multiple counts of rape, molestation and child abuse of a minor who was in his custody last year, according to Superior Court of Guam documents. Carl John Taitingfong has been charged with two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct as a first-degree felony; two counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct as a first-degree felony; and two counts of child abuse as a third-degree felony, according to a magistrate complaint.

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http://www.guampdn.com/article/20110206/NEWS01/102060331

MINDEN — The stepfather of an 11-month-old girl has been charged with felony child abuse or neglect causing substantial bodily harm, accused of swinging her against a crib and fracturing her skull. Acting East Fork Justice Richard Glasson read the charge against Stephen Joseph Tribon, 27, on Friday. Tribon, jailed on $25,000 bail, is to appear for another hearing Wednesday. He told Glasson he was unemployed.

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http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20110205/NEWS/110209743/1070&ParentProfile=1058

A Bristol woman — allegedly intoxicated since Friday and acting “out of her head” — was arrested Tuesday on charges of child abuse and neglect, following her 13-year-old daughter’s call to 911. An arrest report from the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office says the woman was also responsible for the welfare of four additional children, one being a special needs child. The report did not specify if theses juveniles, ages 4, 7, 11 and 13, were related to the woman.

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http://www.timesnews.net/article.php?id=9029551

ST. GEORGE — A Ridgeville woman charged with homicide by child abuse remained in jail Friday, while her boyfriend, who faces the same charge, was released. Circuit Judge Diane S. Goodstein denied bond today for 19-year-old Amber Lynn Bracci of Ridgeville, who has been in the Dorchester County Detention Center since Jan. 14, when she was arrested in the Jan. 8 death of her 16-month-old son, Rowan Bracci.

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http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/feb/04/amber-bracci-remains-jail-charges-homicide-child-a/

LONG BEACH — A former state mental hospital director accused of molesting his foster son for at least 10 years has been found guilty. Jurors found 63-year-old Claude Foulk guilty of 31 of 35 counts of sex crimes in Superior Court in Long Beach. Foulk, the former executive director of Napa State Hospita, was charged with 35 counts including lewd and lascivious acts on a child.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-hospital-director-molest-guilty,0,5410163.story

WHITTIER– A registered sex offender has been arrested for violating parole, after he walked into a school in Whittier and offered to read to children. John Davis, 56, was taken into custody Wednesday at his home after a 3 month investigation. Last November, authorities say the former Army major, showed up at Los Altos Elementary School and volunteered to read to the school children at a “Heroes Day” event on Veteran’s Day.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-sex-offender-reads-kids,0,186665.story

Drugged, raped, and pregnant? Too bad. Republicans are pushing to limit rape and incest cases eligible for government abortion funding.

Rape is only really rape if it involves force? So says the new House Republican majority as it now moves to change abortion law. For years, federal laws restricting the use of government funds to pay for abortions have included exemptions for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest. (Another exemption covers pregnancies that could endanger the life of the woman.) But the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” a bill with 173 mostly Republican co-sponsors that House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has dubbed a top priority in the new Congress, contains a provision that would rewrite the rules to limit drastically the definition of rape and incest in these cases.

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http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/01/republican-plan-redefine-rape-abortion

PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION TO OPPOSE the Republicans plan to “redefine rape” thus making only “certain” rapes count as rape. Rape is rape–PERIOD.

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New information has come to light on a four year old New Iberia girl who died last week.  We have now confirmed that the toddler suffered severe burns to both legs. Two people Vanessa Edmond and Jamal Charles are arrested in the case.  The affidavit states that the burns were on both legs from the front of the child’s knees all the way down to her feet.

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http://www.klfy.com/Global/story.asp?S=13922311

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.– A 22-year-old woman who pleaded guilty to shaking her baby to death for crying while she was playing a game on Facebook is going to prison for a long time. Alexandra V. Tobias was sentenced to 50 years in prison Tuesday afternoon — the maximum penalty on the second-degree murder charge.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-farmville-baby-killed,0,1098388.story

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A judge has sentenced Walter Earl Taylor for the 1983 rape of a then 3-year-old girl.  The victim, who is now 31, told Judge Karen Miller, “I don’t trust nobody.” She also said, “Justice has been served. He is caught and now I can move on.” Taylor, who is 41, faced up to life in prison. He was about 14 at the time of the crime.

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http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/region_c_palm_beach_county/west_palm_beach/man-sentenced-for-rape-of-3-year-old-