A 24-year-old Allentown man has been charged with attempted homicide after he severely beat a 2-year-old girl for three months this year, causing a skull fracture and bruising to her eyes and body, according to court records. Brandon Bishop, of 2928 Fernor St., admitted to an Allentown detective that he punched and kicked the 2-year-old girl, choked her, picked her up by the hair and then dropped her onto the concrete floor and hit her over the head with a metal spoon, according to court records.

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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — A mother accused of trying to kill her children and herself has been charged with two counts of attempted murder.Tourists witnessed the incident in Biscayne Bay just after 6 p.m. Thursday. Miami Beach police said Shirley Jean, 27, drove her car into the water near the Julia Tuttle Causeway.

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Denver kidnapping victim, 8, was sexually assaulted

DENVER — An 8-year-old Denver girl who was kidnapped for roughly an hour-and-a-half on Thursday was sexually assaulted by her abductor, Denver Police revealed on Friday. Police say the suspect grabbed the girl from an alley in the 400 block of S. Raleigh St. about 1:20 p.m. Thursday. The girl and her friend, Eric Martinez, 11, had gone into the alley to catch the family’s Chihuahua, J-Lo, who had escaped from the yard, when a man in a white van approached them.

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May Have Been Taken to Mexico

LOS ANGELES– Police are asking the public for help in finding a 13-month-old boy believed to have been taken by his mother. Bryan Bazan was taken from his father on June 1 around 7 p.m. while his mother, 19-year-old Wendy Cervantes was visiting him, officials said. His father, Elim Bazan, has sole custody of the child and allowed the visitation on the understanding that Cervantes, who lives in the Van Nuys area, would return the boy by 6 a.m. Saturday.

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SAN JACINTO — Police are investigating the death of a baby boy after he was surrendered by his parents at a Riverside fire station. The parents dropped the 2-month-old boy off at Station 78 on the 2000 block of Cottonwood Street in San Jacinto around 4 a.m. Sunday.

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LOS ANGELES — The two-page letter landed in the judge’s chambers at the Los Angeles County Children’s Court last fall, registering “grave concern” for the well-being of 17-month-old Vyctorya Sandoval. Linda Kontis, co-founder of a foster family agency that contracted with the county to provide care to the girl, complained that the court system hadn’t properly considered the risks of returning the saucer-eyed toddler known as Tori to her long-troubled biological parents.

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PLEASE HELP US GET FACEBOOK TO *REMOVE* THIS PAGE!!!!

Dreamcatchers for Abused Children has been trying, adamantly, along with all of their members, to REPORT and get REMOVED a sick, disgusting page that is on FACEBOOK called: “Punching Babies.” This page, that Facebook has allowed to remain running after months of reports, now has over 16, 300 members who *LIKE* the page. Why would Facebook allow such trash and promotion of such violent abuse against babies? Why would 16,000+ people join such a page? If you take a moment to look at the comments left on the page, you will see a SERIOUS problem–I do not know anyone, that I have spoken to, that finds any of this remotely funny. This needs to be investigated!! Facebook needs to censor & monitor these types of violent pages.

LINK TO THE “PUNCHING BABIES” FACEBOOK PAGE:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Punching-Babies/235727541118

A man has been arrested for trying to smother his infant son at the hospital, Chattanooga police say. Dakota Eldridge, 19, has been charged with attempted first degree murder and aggravated child abuse after Erlanger authorities alerted police to an assault on a 12-week-old boy last night, police say.

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http://timesfreepress.com/news/2011/jun/03/man-charged-trying-murder-his-infant-son-erlanger/

Should clowns be subject to background checks?

A former clown and child abuse activist is now calling for background checks for the smiling goofballs. The real concern behind the movement is the proximity that clowns have with children. Most of the hired clowns are strangers and with no background check people have no idea of who is entertaining their children.  In an interview with AOL Weird News Linda Beaudoin said, “I’m leading the way on a multinational effort to have children’s entertainers licensed,” she said. “It should be a law.”

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http://www.whptv.com/news/local/story/Should-clowns-be-subject-to-background-checks/vR_sfD5uvUqvw4x4Nt_oTg.cspx

DORAVILLE, Ga. – The son of a former metro Atlanta area mayor is facing child abuse and animal cruelty charges. Investigators say John David Norman, who is the son of former Doraville Mayor Jesse Norman, was arrested Thursday, but few details were given about what they found inside his home that led to the arrest. John David Norman is charged with cruelty to animals, bestiality, and sexual exploitation of children. He was being held Friday on $110,000 cash bond.

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http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpp/news/local_news/former-doraville-mayor-charged-20110603-es

GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. — Deputies say a 26-year-old man suffocated a 1-year-old, but friends and relatives of the man who is charged say that he could not have done it.James Allen Johnson, 26, of Travelers Rest, is charged with homicide by child abuse.