A Rosemount man is accused of sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl by making her wear diapers and urinate on herself while he took pictures and video, which he posted online. Richard Michael Marquardt, 35, was charged in Dakota County District Court with multiple felonies, including five counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct and one count of possession of pornography involving minors, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday.

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Brothers, Ages 1 and 3, Stabbed to Death in Home Invasion

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. — Police have arrested a man accused in a gruesome family home invasion that left two young brothers dead. Antonio Cardenas Rico, 28, was arrested by Gwinnett County police early this morning and charged with two counts of murder. He’s accused of stabbing Edward Garcia, 1 and Bradley Garcia, 3 to death.

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BANNING — Three 13-year-old boys have been arrested in the Inland Empire, after police say they admitted to raping a girl in a park playground as she was walking home from school. Police say it happened Monday evening at Roosevelt Williams park in the city of Banning. The attack occurred just blocks from Nicolet Middle School, where the 13-year-old victim and her attackers are all students.

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When You Grow Up In a Dysfunctional Family

When you grow up in a dysfunctional family, you experience trauma and pain from your parents’ actions, words, and attitudes. Because of this trauma you experienced, you grew up changed, different from other children, missing important parts of necessary parenting that prepare you for adulthood, missing parts of your childhood when you were forced into unnatural roles within your family. For some of you, it has led you to attempt to flee the pain of your past by alcohol or drug use. Others of you feel inexplicably compelled to repeat the abuses that were done to you on your own children or with your own spouse. Others of you have felt inner anxiety or rage, and don’t know why you feel as you do.

You were innocent, and your life was changed dramatically by forces in your family you had no control over, and now you are an adult survivor of that trauma. This article will discuss what these families are like, what is the impact of growing up in these families, and what you can do to begin the process of healing.

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Man convicted of sex crimes sends cards to child victims

COVINGTON, TN – The Action News 5 Investigators are on the case of a man convicted of sex crimes against children, who just won’t stop contacting those children. He does it through the mailbox. “Happy birthday, I hope you have a wonderful day and following year.  I cannot believe my little tot-tot is already a teenager.  You might be tired of me writing this but I can’t get over how fast you are growing up,” read Donna Turner with the Tipton County Sheriff’s Department. Turner was reading from birthday and Christmas cards sent from by sex offender from jail to his young victims.

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OLYMPIA – Spokane City Councilwoman Nancy McLaughlin was among victims of child sexual abuse urging the Legislature on Wednesday to drop the statute of limitations that they say shields pedophiles from justice. “It took me years to be able to call what happened to me between age 10 and 18 rape,” said McLaughlin , who told members of the House Public Safety Committee about years of sexual abuse by her father. “You shouldn’t lose the ability to bring about justice just because some years have elapsed.”

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PITTSFIELD, Mass.- A Berkshire County Superior Court jury has found former Roman Catholic priest Gary Mercure guilty of raping two boys. According to a news release sent to 22News from the Berkshire District Attorney’s office, the jury deliberated about two hours over a two day period before returning the verdict against 62 year old Mercure.

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AFRICA–Boys as young as 13 are still being used as soldiers by the Chadian national army and armed groups on the border with Sudan, Amnesty International said in a report. “It is tragic that thousands of children are denied their childhood and are manipulated by adults into fighting their wars,” the 55-page report quoted Erwin van der Borght, the rights group’s Africa director, as saying.

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LAS VEGAS — A Nevada jury has found a 67-year-old Las Vegas special education teacher guilty of abusing autistic children in her class. Mamie Hubbard-Washington could face up to 30 years in state prison following her conviction Wednesday on five felony child abuse and neglect charges. Clark County District Court Judge Abbi Silver set sentencing for June 16.

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New Jersey — A Florham Park CPA is facing more charges of luring and attempted endangering of a child after being arrested for second time after an online sex sting. Stephen V. Bubniak, 56, had been sexually chatting with officers posing as a 14-year-old girl online. He wanted to meet for sex. The same officers chatted with him again, this time as a 13-year-old girl, who he tried to hook up with as well.

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Porter Ranch, CA— A youth counselor at Shepherd of the Hills Church in Porter Ranch has been arrested after allegedly having a six month sexual relationship with a 15-year-old female parishioner. Marcelino Tinajero, 33, has been charged with 30 felony counts of sex crimes against a minor. He had volunteered with the church for almost a year and a half.

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