DEXTER, Minn.- Two young boys are in protective custody after police say their parents were chaining them to their beds. 33-year-old Brian Miller and his wife 26-year-old Charity Miller, of Dexter, MN were arrested last week. Both parents are facing multiple charges of false imprisonment, child neglect, and abuse. They were released on bail Monday. Child services first learned about a possible abuse case from the younger of the two boys who is a student at Southland School in Adams, MN.

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MIAMI- A South Florida man has been denied bond after he faced a judge Thursday for allegedly killing his girlfriend’s 4-year-old child. Calvin Lewis, 20, faces charges of felony murder and aggravated child abuse. According to police, Lewis confessed to rough housing with the child at a home on April 24. The incident took place at around 10 p.m. at 62nd Street and Northwest Third Avenue. The Miami Police department arrived on scene to find Brianna Johnson unresponsive.

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Grandmother Fatally Shot by Police After Aiming Gun At Daughter, Kids

WATTS  — A woman allegedly aiming a loaded gun at her daughter and grandchildren was fatally shot by police Wednesday night. Police received reports around 7:15 p.m. of a woman threatening to shoot family members outside a residence on the 10000 block of Anzack Avenue.

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Police Arrest Mom/Boyfriend

Authorities in Homosassa, Florida, have accused a mother and her boyfriend of horrific acts of child abuse against the woman’s 5-year-old son. Crystal Jean Ciampa, 26, along with her boyfriend, Joshua Louis Heater, 26, have been charged on multiple counts of child abuse, child neglect and tampering with a witness, according to the St. Petersburg Times.

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An Eden man was charged with child abuse after a 5-month-old infant was admitted to Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem with head injuries. Brian Walter Pulliam, 38, of 1206 Second St. was charged Tuesday with intentional child abuse inflicting serious bodily injury. According to a news release from the Eden Police Department, investigators were called to the hospital after receiving a request from the Rockingham Department of Social Services.

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Renee Marie King, 29, is charged with felony murder, first-degree child abuse and first-degree criminal sexual conduct on allegations she sexually assaulted and killed her stepdaughter, Lily.

Tearful testimony marks hearing against stepmom accused in toddler’s death

New Baltimore, MI— A paramedic broke down in tears Wednesday as she recalled an afternoon last year when she entered a New Haven home and found an unclothed and unconscious 2-year-old girl lying in the middle of the living room floor. “She was unresponsive, not breathing and she didn’t have a pulse,” Richmond-Lenox EMS paramedic Katie Eisen said. “I started CPR on her right away.” Eisen tearfully testified about the chaotic scene during the preliminary examination Wednesday of Renee Marie King in New Baltimore District Court. The 29-year-old is charged with felony murder, first-degree child abuse and first-degree criminal sexual conduct on allegations she sexually assaulted and killed her stepdaughter, Lily Lynette Furneaux-Wolfenbarger.

Actor Nicolas Cage may now face a child-abuse investigation as new details from his April 16 arrest for public drunkenness in New Orleans have emerged from a police department’s report. According to People Magazine, Cage’s son, 5-year-old Kal-El, fell and scraped his knee in the midst of the chaos and a child-abuse detective was called to the scene.

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Police in the southwest suburbs are searching for the killer of an 18-year-old girl who was nine months pregnant.  Rosemary Newman’s body was found Sunday in a Cook County forest preserve near Calumet City. The medical examiner says Newman was strangled. Her baby did not survive the attack. Newman was days away from giving birth to a baby girl she named Nevaeh, heaven spelled backwards.

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BOYLE HEIGHTS, CA — Authorities have identified a 17-year-old girl whose naked body was found in a plastic storage container alongside a freeway off-ramp in the Boyle Heights area. Los Angeles County Coroner’s officials have identified the victim as Michelle Lozano of Los Angeles.

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Serial Rapist Strikes Girls Walking To School

PHOENIX — Police say the methods of a man who raped a 17-year-old girl Monday morning match that of two other assaults, one involving a 10-year-old girl and another a 12-year-old girl.A 17-year-old girl was sexually assaulted on her way to South Mountain High School Monday morning near 7th St. and Carson Road.

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Police arrest mother

SAN ANTONIO — A 24-year-old woman in Frio County has been arrested and charged with injury to a child. Child Protective Services picked up Irene Contreras at the CPS office in Pearsall Wednesday morning. The 18-month old child is in critical condition.

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Child sexual abuse is more common than many people think. Darkness to Light – an organization dedicated to helping protect children from sexual abuse – estimates that one in four girls and one in six boys will be sexually abused before they reach the age of 18. Yet sexual abuse often remains a horrible secret for the victim; Darkness to Light estimates that only one in 10 sexually abused children will tell someone. It is not uncommon for a child to delay disclosure of sexual abuse, sometimes indefinitely. Sexual abuse can be challenging to talk about, but talking about it and talking about healthy sexual development may be exactly what is needed to create an environment where children can disclose a personal history of abuse.

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GENESEE COUNTY, MI — Whether it’s domestic violence or shootings in the neighborhood, more children in the Flint area are being exposed to violence. Recent numbers show that children increasingly have to deal with violence at home and on the streets. According to the National Survey for Children’s Health, the national rate of children ages 2 to 17 with emotional behavioral or other mental conditions is 11.3 percent. In Michigan, that rate is over 12 percent.

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Calif teen found guilty of molesting, drowning boy

FRESNO, CA — A California teenager accused of molesting and drowning a 4-year-old neighbor boy and hiding his body in a clothes dryer was convicted of first-degree murder Friday. A judge also found 15-year-old Raul Castro guilty of lewd and lascivious conduct, and sodomy. The judge found Castro not guilty of two counts of kidnapping. Castro was tried as an adult in the October 2009 killing of Alex Mercado. Castro was 14 when he drowned the preschooler in a bathtub after the child said he would tell his mother about the sexual assault.

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