Police: Body Identified As Driver’s Daughter

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A body found in the back of a pest control truck on the side of Interstate 95 is the daughter of the driver who was found unconscious outside the vehicle, according to a police report.Jorge Barahona, 53, of Miami, was charged with child abuse Wednesday. He remains hospitalized at Columbia Hospital and is scheduled to have his first court appearance on Thursday.

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A 28-year-old married Pennsylvania man has been arrested by police on rape and assault charges involving a young girl. Corie Rex Hilliard, of West Salisbury, allegedly confessed to investigators that he repeatedly molested the victim over the past year because he was curious to see how she would react.

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SACRAMENTO — A couple filed a lawsuit this week against a Sacramento hospital and a handful of employees after their 2-year old daughter lost part of all four of her limbs due to a bacterial infection. Malyia’s parents brought her to Methodist Hospital in November when she had a persistent fever, skin discoloration and weakness. Ryan Jeffers and Leah Vang watched as their little girl became sicker and sicker as they waited for 5 hours in the emergency room.

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CHESTER, Pa. — A young mother is facing child endangerment charges after a photograph showing a child bound to a chair with duct tape was found in the internet. The photo shows child wearing only a diaper, its arms and legs affixed to the chair and its mouth covered by silver tape. 21-year-old Caira Ferguson admits she is the woman in the photo and that the child is hers, but denies posting the picture online. The image, given to WPVI-TV in Philadelphia, PA by the Chester Township Police Department, had a previously created credit to the website mediatakeout.com.

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Got An Angry Kid? Parenting Spike, A Seriously Difficult Child is the result of 20 years of experience training parents to manage seriously out-of-control children. It is a case study of a typically oppositional boy. It shows parents, through the quot;P.A.C.T.” program, “Parenting Angry Children and Teens” that there is abundant reason for hope. If parents follow directions closely, they will probably be rewarded with a much calmer household. P.A.C.T.’s approach is novel: it trains the parent instead of the child, regardless of the child’s psychiatric diagnosis. Most parents assume the child should be the target of intervention.

But that often fails. What is the alternative when that happens? Train the Parents instead. Most parents, after finishing the program, wished they had done it years ago. Parents are often startled by how well they can manage an oppositional child. They could not be more surprised by how much a child is willing to give up his resistance to parents when they sharply change their approach. Got An Angry Kid? offers a sensible step-by-step program emphasizing tolerance, patience and acceptance. Parents who are worried about their angry and difficult child’s future should pay close attention to Got An Angry Kid.

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Anyone suspected that a child is being abused should report it to their state child abuse hotline or call the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline (1-800-4-A-CHILD). Visiting a state’s child abuse website will also help you learn about mandatory child abuse reporting laws that you may be subject to. Also remember that if you think that a child is in immediate danger from child abuse or neglect, then you should call 911.

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A man labelled the “German Fritzl” has admitted fathering seven of his stepdaughter’s children but denied repeatedly raping her and two of his other children over more than 20 years. The man, a 48-year-old known simply as Detlef S because of Germany‘s strict privacy laws, is standing trial at a court in Koblenz charged with 350 crimes of sexual abuse dating from autumn 1987 up to summer last year.

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A Reno man has been arrested and charged with battering and strangling his girlfriend’s four-year-old child. On Feb. 11, Reno Police Department patrol officers were called to an area hospital for a four-year-old child that had injuries that were consistent with Child Abuse. Sex Crimes/Child Abuse Unit detectives also responded and determined that the child’s mother’s boyfriend, Clayton Whittaker, 21, had battered and strangled the child.

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Macomb County tackles its child abuse ‘epidemic’

Rash of horrific deadly crimes against young kids spurs action from prosecutor

Mount Clemens, MI— Two 4-year-olds killed by their grandmothers — one drowned in a bathtub, another strangled. A 3-year-old boy stabbed to death in a brutal attack by his mother’s fiance. A 2-year-old girl sexually assaulted and murdered by her stepmother. Authorities allege the disturbing scenarios are reality in Macomb County and among at least 10 abusive crimes involving children ages 6 and younger in less than two years.

While overall cases of abuse and neglect in Macomb County aren’t going up, Prosecutor Eric Smith said the county is experiencing a spike in the severity of its child abuse cases and child deaths nearly tripled in 2010. The annual average of up to two child deaths per year jumped to five.

A search of a missing schoolgirl’s laptop sparked a major child abuse operation that has netted 240 online predators to date. Arrests have been made in 15 different countries after what began as a simple missing person’s inquiry. Police investigating the 13-year-old’s disappearance found she received 76 sexual emails from men over the course of just one month. She was traced within hours but her laptop held the key to tracking down hundreds of offenders.

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One in four people in the UK, aged between 18 and 24, claims to have experienced severe violence, sexual abuse or neglect as a child, says the children’s charity the NSPCC. The study also says a million secondary school pupils have faced “severe maltreatment” during childhood. Children in poorer households and those in homes with separated parents are significantly more likely to face violence and abuse, says the charity.

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Tokyo, Japan— She is a precocious little girl, in pigtails and rainbow rimmed glasses, all spark and determination. The 11- year-old attacks origami with the mission to build a flying bird. Creating an object of beauty contrasts with the ugliness this child has suffered at the hands of her own parents. The director of Nonohana-No-ie orphanage nods at us, signaling this girl is one of the of abused children who reside at this protective facility. Seventy percent of the children here, between the ages of 2 and 18, are victims of abuse and neglect so severe the police removed them from their parents’ custody.

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