A new study on child abuse — the first to look at the differences in head trauma perpetrated by men and women — may shed some light on this type of abuse, but raises even more questions about how many cases go undetected. The study looked at 48 cases of abusive head trauma in children brought to a Long Island hospital between 1998 and 2008. In 34 of those cases, perpetrators were identified. Seventeen were male and the other 17 female.

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A newborn was cared for in a hospital Saturday night after witnesses said the mother threw the baby in the snow. The baby was only wearing a T-shirt and was wrapped in a blanket. The mother, 21-year-old Ashley Couch, is accused of throwing her infant in a snow bank near Chicago Avenue and 18th Street Saturday morning.

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http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2011/03/05/police-baby-found-in-snow-bank/

A Clayton, Missouri hotel guest molested a 9-year-old girl after obtaining a room key to a room that was not his. Police said around 4 a.m. on Sunday the suspect entered the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Clayton, Missouri in an intoxicated condition.  He had been staying with a registered guest.  He approached the front desk and told the clerk he was staying in a specific room, but did not have his room key.

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Police in Louisiana have arrested a 26-year-old man on charges that he molested a 7-year-old girl on multiple occasions. After being taken into custody, Daniel Paz, of Metairie, then admitted to investigators that he had in fact molested the girl in three separate incidents and even told them that the child came onto him and was the aggressor in all of this.

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The 10-year-old girl was found dead in plastic bag.

MIAMI, Fl. — The adoptive mother of a Florida girl found dead in a plastic bag in her husband’s truck has been charged with first-degree murder, police said Saturday. Carmen Barahona also faces seven counts of aggravated child abuse and seven counts of child neglect, the Miami-Dade Police Department said in a press release.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-mother-kills-adopted-daughter,0,5458372.story

TACOMA, Wash. — A convicted sex offender is suing the mother of a child he had inappropriate contact with because he says she wrote negative things about him on her blog. Patrick Rojas, 26, plead guilty in 2007 to a gross misdemeanor for contact with a minor for immoral purposes. But Danielle Schneider says that charge didn’t come close to describing what Rojas did to her 11-year-old child. Schneider decided to blog about it and warn others.

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