TULSA – According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, child abuse occurs during potty training more than any other time in a child’s life. At the Child Abuse Network in Tulsa, they see 35 to 45 children per week, most have suffered some type of abuse. Experts say it’s important to spot the signs and report it before it’s too late.

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http://www.kjrh.com/dpp/news/local_news/child-abuse-occurs-more-often-during-potty-training.-

FAIRMONT — The West Virginia State Police have arrested a Fairmont man on charges of incest, sexual abuse and child abuse. George Jones, 48, faces 15 felony counts. Authorities say Jones allegedly sexually abused a female family member for eight years and that he might have abused other children in the house.

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http://www.wboy.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=98909

The city’s most notorious child abuse case – the death of Lisa Steinberg – became an issue Thursday in the trial of two cops charged with rape. The bizarre aside came as prosecutors were grilling defense witness Dr. Mitchell Essig, who had just testified about the accuser’s injuries. In an attempt to discredit him, they got Essig to admit he was involved in the 1986 illegal adoption of a newborn boy by Joel Steinberg – who was later convicted of killing adopted daughter Lisa, 6.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/05/05/2011-05-05_child_abuse_case_surfaces_in_trial_of_accused_rape_cops_as_witness_admits_connec.html?r=news

Man gets 30-yrs for killing toddler over soiled diapers

Toddler beaten, then scalded with boiling water

KISSIMMEE, FL — A 21-year-old man pleaded guilty Tuesday to killing his girlfriend’s son in 2009. Jonathan Alicea pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. “Brutal crimes perpetrated upon innocent child victims are impossible to understand,” Kissimmee Police Chief Fran Iwanski said in a prepared statement after the sentencing. “We are somewhat relieved that the offender made the decision to admit his guilt and accept the consequences for his actions.”

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http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2011-05-03/news/os-jonathan-alicea-murder-plea-20110503_1_jariel-alexander-silkia-mateo-jonathan-alicea

LOS ANGELES, CA — A $50,000 reward is expected to be announced Friday in the search for the driver of a sport utility vehicle that struck and killed a 6-year-old girl in South Los Angeles. Kemberly Arrue was playing with a ball near her home in the 600 block of West 49th Place around 9:53 p.m. Tuesday when she lost the ball and ran after it into the street, LAPD Capt. Jorge Rodriguez said.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-south-la-girl-ball-fatal-hit-and-run,0,3057597.story

Anesthesiologist Charged With Sexually Assaulting Unconscious Patients

SANTA ANA — An anesthesiologist is accused of sexually assaulting two female patients while they were unconscious.
Yashwant Balgiri Giri, 58, is charged with one felony count each of sexual battery and sexual penetration by foreign object. The defendant was arrested in Cypress on Thursday.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-anesthesiologist-charged-with-sexually-assaulting-unconscious-patients,0,7779875.story

A police officer is being investigated after a horrific video surfaced on YouTube of him fiercely pushing over a 15-year-old girl against a wall and to the ground. The teenager appears to pose no threat at all to cop Patrick Larrison, but is seen walking away from an incident scene when he suddenly runs up and violently slams her to the floor in Phoenix, Arizona. The video shows Officer Larrison running after the allegedly drunk teenager after she was kicked out of her school. She is walking slowly before being taken out, handcuffed and led away.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=173AfgLa2wc

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http://news.mwza.com/news/patrick-larrison-officer-tackles-drunk-teenage-girl-on-video/2143/

The 10-year-old girl who video-recorded her rapist using a mobile phone as he coerced her into a sexual act about two years ago can best be described as empowerment at its best.

Rape on minors has always posed a headache for the justice delivery system because vital evidence is sometimes lost as children tend to forget what exactly would have transpired. The sad reality, however, is that young girls have been infected with HIV through rape and this has created a serious problem in families as they try to come to terms with such cases.

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http://www.newsday.co.zw/article/2011-05-05-protect-the-girl-child

Parents arrested after starved six-year-old is found trying to eat herself in cage – with remains of another child buried in garden

VIRGINIA–The girl, aged between six and seven, was so hungry that when found her she was eating the flaky skin of her forehead. She was covered in bed sores and her own faeces and is feared to have been kept in a cage for months. Brian and Shannon Gore face first degree murder charges stemming from the grisly find. Police made the startling discovery of the remains of a second child when they dug under a trailer home. They have already been charged with the attempted murder of their daughter who was found barely alive in a darkened room.

It is every parent’s, or in this case grandparent’s, nightmare. Your 11-year-old goes missing—and stays missing for nearly a week. Eventually the child is returned, which is all to the good, though hardly unharmed, which is not. Such was the case seven months ago for a prepubescent female who was lured from the Bronx home she shared with her grandmother. The child thankfully survived. However, it was when she managed to escape that the horrors began. She revealed, hesitantly at first, that for the duration of her capture, she was forced to perform sexual acts on depraved men in a Lower East Side apartment.

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http://www.examiner.com/manhattan-conservative-in-new-york/11-year-old-bronx-sex-slave-speaks-about-her-ordeal

The first photograph showed a beautiful baby girl, healthy and smiling. The second, taken two weeks later, showed her dead in a morgue, her mouth open and bruising across much of the left side of her face. On Thursday, the girl’s father, Joseph A. Urquia, pleaded guilty to beating her to death on Dec. 19 at their Easton home, admitting he punched her “at least twice” in the head because she wouldn’t stop crying.

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http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-easton-baby-murder-child-abuse-20110505,0,4343764.story

SMYRNA, TN — The director of a local daycare was arrested and fired after police say she abused a 4-year-old child. Meg’s Playhouse Director Kim Rife, 32, was arrested on April 22 for aggravated child abuse, a felony, and was released on a $25,000 bond, police said. The daycare’s owner, Debbie Reyes, said Rife was fired immediately after she was arrested.

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http://www.dnj.com/article/20110505/NEWS06/305050013/Daycare-director-charged-felony-child-abuse

Over the past decade, more and more attention has been given to the issues associated with “at-risk youth” including youth crime, violence, sex, substance abuse, poor academic performance, etc. Research shows that at-risk youth struggle with complex issues and scenarios that are brought on by peers, mentors, family members, and difficult social environments. The increased complexity of today’s at-risk youth has forced parents and federal agencies to work together to find solutions. There has been growing interest in community-based efforts that help to educate and direct at-risk youth and families to a variety of helpful services.  This is evident by the recent support of at-risk youth programs or initiatives by federal agencies such as the OJJDP (Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention). The OJJDP has recently joined with other federal agencies to help bring about the SafeFutures initiative and the Children at Risk initiative.

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http://www.at-risk.org/