Sharon Broadhead, whose three children and a friend died in a mobile home fire in Pahrump last week, was arrested Saturday on man­slaughter and child abuse charges, the Nye County Sheriff’s Office announced. Broadhead, 29, was booked on $35,000 bail. She faces four counts of manslaughter and three counts of child abuse by neglect causing death, and is expected to make an initial court appearance Monday.

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BROCKTON, Mass. – Someone digging through a dumpster made a gruesome discovery Sunday night when they found the dead body of a young woman inside it. Police arrived after the person called 911 anonymously to report their find  and found the body of 25-year-old Maria Avelina Palaguachi-Cela inside the dumpster. Tragically, after doing a little more digging inside the trash bin, they also found the body of her 2-year-old son, Brian Palaguachi.

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Lynn Haven, FL —- A. Crawford Mosley High School band director, Jamie Birdwell, 37, has been charged with four counts of exhibiting obscene material to a child. The hands-on (cos he can’t keep his hands off) band director has long been pestering male students for nude photos, especially close ups, and having them strip. Birdwell told his victims that they were like “sons” to him.

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COMPTON– A 22-year-old gang member was convicted Monday in the 2009 murder of a star Narbonne High School football player. Arlon Watson, of Compton, was found guilty of first-degree murder 18-year-old Dannie Farber Jr., as well as other gun and gang charges, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office. Watson was arrested Jan. 27 on outstanding warrants by Los Angeles County sheriff’s homicide detectives. He was later charged in the May 24, 2009 killing of Farber.

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GEORGIA–The state’s child welfare agency is investigating the deaths of four children within three weeks who had prior contact with the agency, officials said Friday. The children died in separate instances, and the police are investigating several of the deaths. None of the children were in the care or custody of the state Division of Family and Children Services at the time of their deaths, spokesman Lisa Marie Shekell said. DFCS officials are investigating the degree of contact that the children had with the agency, which handles cases of child abuse and neglect.

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Alsea School District Superintendent Jon St. Germaine and teacher Stacy Knudson pleaded no contest Friday to charges that they failed to report child abuse. Both entered into diversion contracts, which would allow the charges to be dismissed after a successful completion of a four-month program. The diversion program requires each to perform 30 hours of community service, pay $150 in fees and write a letter to the Benton County District Attorney’s Office demonstrating that they understand their roles as mandatory reporters and the importance of reporting abuse.

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Child abuse in its various forms affects every community. In the past 10 days, we’ve watched the unfolding story of a one-time Wynola resident who was convicted of molesting three young girls. This week, Oprah Winfrey ran the story of twin sisters molested by their father and brothers for years in their own home in Kansas.

How can you know when your children might be at risk—from a loved one, a stranger, a friend, or someone esteemed in the community because of the position held? How do you go about talking to your children? What do you do if you learn that questionable or illegal activity has occurred? And how do you help your children recover? … How do you recover yourself?

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http://ramona.patch.com/articles/how-to-protect-your-child-from-molestation

Iowa’s 51,960-name child abuse registry could get an overhaul in the wake of complaints that the list damages reputations and job prospects for the accused before they’ve had a fair hearing. “There are too many innocent people on that registry list,” said Rep. Bruce Hunter, D-Des Moines. “This isn’t about letting people guilty of child abuse off the hook. Those people shouldn’t be anywhere around children.”

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http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20110212/NEWS10/102120336/1039/LIFE/?odyssey=nav|head

South Carolina–A 31-year-old EMT worker has been charged with solicitation of a minor and dissemination of obscene material to a minor after police accused him of soliciting sex online from someone whom he believed to an underage child. Corey Damon Crocker, of Pendleton, reportedly sent both graphic pictures and engaged in sexually explicit conversations as well with an undercover officer in Greenville who had been posing as the minor online.

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Aloha, OR —- A cheer/gymnastics coach has been arrested and charged with possessing child porn after an investigation revealed he had been downloading graphic material from the internet. Jeremy Brandon Waldridge, 32, is also the owner of Top Notch, which offers classes for childrens’ cheerleading, trampoline and tumbling, to sleepovers, field trips and parent’s night out.

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“The serial killer has the same personality characteristics as the sex offender against children”
-Dr. Mace Knapp, Nevada State Prison Psychologist.
• “There are 400,000 registered sex offenders in the United States, and an estimated 80 to 100,000 of them are missing. They’re supposed to be registered, but we don’t know where they are and we don’t know where they’re living.
– Ernie Allen, President of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Childrento co-anchor Hannah Storm on The Early Show

• The most serious and chronic offenders often show signs of antisocial behavior as early as the preschool years.
– (American Psychiatric Association, 1994) (was in Juvenile Justice Bulletin: Nov 1998 OJJDP: U.S. Department of Justice)

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CHARLOTTE COUNTY: A Charlotte County couple faces child abuse charges after their twin 4-month-old girls were taken to the hospital with broken bones. The father and mother of the infants, Timothy Waters, 25, and Tabitha Walker, 25, were charged with Aggravated Child Abuse and Child Neglect for Medical Care.

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http://www.abc-7.com/Global/story.asp?S=14012776

An Ohio toddler who stumbled upon a CD depicting child abuse led authorities to bust a man for sex crimes that happened seven years earlier, and two-thousand miles away, in California. Police in New Philadelphia, Ohio say the disc showed another child being molested by a Canton man, Jeffrey Roderick, perhaps in 2004, and led to his arrest and confession.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20031435-504083.html