A Hidalgo County baby at the center of child abuse case has died just two days after being removed from life support. Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office deputies reported that Baby Destiny Barrientos died on Sunday. The baby girl had spent more than seven months on life support. The girl was only 10 months old at the time of a fatal beating. Baby Destiny was removed from life support late Friday morning and had been breathing on her own but passed away Sunday.

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Police were led to a home in Syracuse after a 9-year-old girl was reported missing early Monday morning, a home of a registered sex offender. Syracuse Police Sergeant Gary Bulinski said, “The mother, who is obviously a very loving mother and good mother. She happened to check on her daughter, roughly around 2 in the morning. She poked her head in the bedroom and realized that both the window and the screen were open, and her daughter was missing.”

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Many children’s services are required to deliver evidence-based interventions, but for those working within the child protection system this is a difficult task. Whilst many interventions have proved successful at improving outcomes for families living in a number of different contexts, very little is known about the effectiveness of these programs when delivered to those involved with the child protection system, particularly when there is evidence or suspicion of child maltreatment.

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http://www.preventionaction.org/what-works/reducing-child-abuse-potential/5604

A Gibson County man is in jail and facing charges after police say he kidnapped a young child and then dropped him from a two-story window at the Trenton Tower Apartment complex.Sean Vaughn, 21, is charged with aggravated rape of a child, aggravated sexual battery, especially aggravated kidnapping and reckless endangerment, according to Gibson County court documents. He will be back in court at 1:30 p.m. today.

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In late 1993, the Criminal Division of the Washington State Attorney General’s Office undertook a 3-1/2 year research project, partially funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, to study the investigation of child abduction murder cases. In this first research project, published in 1997, researchers reviewed more than 600 child abduction murder cases across the United States, then interviewed the investigating detectives. This data provided law enforcement valuable insight into what investigative techniques tend to be most productive.

Now the Attorney General’s Office has released a follow-up study, including 175 additional solved cases. The additional cases generally reflect and support the findings in the original report with several significant and definite differences:

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CEBU CITY — Four girls accused a 64-year-old relative of rape and child abuse, in a case now being investigated by the Carcar City police, with the Provincial Women’s Commission (PWC) coming in to help the children. The allegations are still being verified, nearly a month after the abuse supposedly happened. Carcar Police Station Chief Inspector Teodulfo Manatad II said the minors are 2, 7, 8 and 11, and that the case is about to be filed against their relative. Initial reports said the relative was a grandfather, but that has yet to be confirmed.

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PHOENIX -“You are grown. That little innocent child can’t do nothing. You, yourself maybe can do something. But at the time, you think it’s a little kid. For what?” said a neighbor. Crime tape went up at a Central Phoenix apartment complex near 16th Avenue and Missouri as police started investigating the beating death of a little girl early Saturday morning. But the story starts at the pay phone down the street. That is where police say 18 year old Martwain Mackey took the three year old little girl at 2 am.

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Police Search for 9-Year-Old Missing After Argument With Stepmother

LOS ANGELES — Police are asking for help from the public as they search for a 9-year-old boy who went missing Saturday night after having an argument with his stepmother. Kevin Rodriguez was last seen about 6pm Saturday night at his family’s home located at 1510 E. 22nd Street. The boy and his stepmother squabbled, but she felt they had resolved the issue, said a family member. She later found her front door open and Kevin was gone.

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LITTLE ROCK — An 81-year-old registered sex offender is in custody after he allegedly tried to lure a 12-year-old girl into his car Saturday morning. Keith Holmes is being held on $1 million bail on charges of attempted kidnapping of a child under 14 years old after the 81-year-old man pulled alongside the girl in his vehicle as she walked alone near the intersection of Pearblossom Highway and 85th Street just before 11am and asked her if she wanted a ride. When she declined, Holmes allegedly drove slowly alongside her.

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HORRY COUNTY, SC – Two Little River residents have been arrested and charged with child abuse Friday after their five-week-old baby suffered a spiral fracture June 2. According to a police report from the Horry County Police Department, officers responded to a call for a welfare check on a child after the complainant received a phone call from Seacoast Medical Center about a five-week-old with a fracture to her arm.

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CHANDLER — Chuck and Annette Deal say child welfare workers practically cut them out of their granddaughter’s life before she was sent to live with her father and died. Chuck Deal said he was in the delivery room when Serenity Anne Deal was born May 12, 2006. His daughter, Samantha Deal, was a young, single mother, so he and his wife stepped in to help financially, with midnight feedings and everything in between that it takes to raise a child. Serenity died June 4, less than a month after workers with the state Department of Human Services recommended she live full time with her father, Sean Devon Brooks, 31, of Oklahoma City.

Columbia, SC– Investigators in South Carolina charged a mother in her child’s from November 2010. Officers say the infant girl died from a lethal dose of illegally obtained morphine, that was in her mother’s breast milk. Deputies told the Associated Press the mother obtained the drugs illegally. Stephanie Greene, who is the mother, was charged on Friday. Detectives charged the 37 year-old with homicide by child abuse or neglect.

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Police say a Charleston woman beat her daughter so badly the girl had to be hospitalized. Witnesses told Charleston Patrolman J.O. Branham they saw Dominique Delores Martinez, 25, of South Park Road beating her daughter Saturday near the entrance to the apartment complex where she lives. Witnesses saw her grab the 10-year-old by the hair and punch her in the face multiple times, according to a complaint filed in Kanawha Magistrate Court.

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