MIAMI — A Miami-Dade County grand jury is urging that the Department of Children and Families adopt better training and investigative skills for employees in the aftermath of the horrific killing of a 10-year-old girl. The jury’s report released Monday says DCF must beef up its law enforcement training for investigators looking into child abuse allegations. The report says DCF hotline counselors must learn how to properly classify cases so the most serious are investigated quickly.

After Sascha Chandler’s first child was born, he decided to do all he could to bring a paedophile who had abused him more than 15 years earlier to justice. That decision prompted a remarkable hunt for one of Australia’s most notorious paedophiles, Andrew McIntosh. In an exclusive interview with Australian Story, Mr Chandler reveals the obstacles he faced bringing his abuser to justice.

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-25/australian-story-sascha-chandler/2809398/?site=newcastle

BOISE, Idaho – Promises are being made to every child in Idaho, and around the country. The basic idea is that every child deserves to live in a nurturing environment that supports healthy brain development, and everyone has an obligation to help make that happen. The “National Movement for America’s Children” comes from Prevent Child Abuse America and other children’s-advocacy groups.

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http://www.publicnewsservice.org/index.php?/content/article/21350-1

CO.NZ–Immediate action must be taken over the country’s terrible child abuse rate and discussions over the issue should not delay work, critics say. The Government is to launch its Green Paper on child welfare and abuse tomorrow. The discussion document will contain controversial recommendations including questioning the current whanau-first policy for children taken out of their homes, mandatory reporting by professionals, and prioritising parents ahead of others for receiving state services.

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http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/5338700/Minister-ready-for-onslaught-on-abuse

21 Proactive Ideas for Govt to Prevent Child Abuse (and 14 Ways You Can Too)

Children’s Services and the Children’s Aid Society are the reactive, temporary ”solution” to the abuse of children in North America. What good is it to finally remove an indelibly emotionally scarred child from a chaotic environment, only to shuffle that child off into the foster care system or worse, return the child to the same abusive environment? That happens more often than you might think. Why?

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http://jl10ll.wordpress.com/2010/11/04/21-proactive-ideas-for-government-to-prevent-child-abuse-and-14-ways-you-can-too/

A New Orleans woman was arrested at the Magic Kingdom Park in Disney World on Thursday for punching and kicking a one year old child in the stomach. Witnessed who observed the beating notified authorities at the Park who called int he Orange Beach Sheriff’s Department according to WDSU News.  The woman was identified as Jessica Lewis, 26, of New Orleans, LA.  Lewis is accused of punching the one year old child in the stomach and kicking him repeatedly according to the police report.

Sherrill, NY- David L. Trebilcock, a 30-year-old New York man was jailed last week after he brutally stabbed his girlfriend’s 6-year-old daughter to death before stabbing himself in the chest. According to police, 36-year-old Alison Bellus awoke last Tuesday to the sounds of her six-year-old twins (Erica and Lauren) screaming. When Bellus attempted to enter her daughters’ room, she found the door barricaded with a dresser.

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http://www.theweeklyvice.com/2011/07/david-trebilcock-viciously-stabs.html

ST. PAUL, MN – A 19-year-old teen is being treated for second and third-degree burns, after his mother’s boyfriend allegedly attacked him. Most of Antoine Willis’ body is covered with band-aids and gauze, protecting burns he says were caused by his mother’s boyfriend of more than eight years. “He was just walking around the house with hammers and stuff still talking stuff like, ‘don’t go to sleep, don’t go to sleep,'” Willis said. Willis says the threats began after he intervened when 54-year-old Curtis Reed was threatening his mother with a knife. That’s when Reed turned on him and after he fell asleep and that’s when Reed lit him on fire.

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http://www.cbsatlanta.com/story/15134421/teen-burned-by-mothers-boyfriend

Some studies estimate that just under 5% of adults may have feelings associated with peadophilia or act out on their impulses by sexually abusing children. That’s 5 adults in every 100 or 1 in every 20! Does your child have contact with 20 adults? Then you need to know about peadophilia! You need to know what peadophiles look like, what they do, what they say and how they act.

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http://www.parentsagainstpeadophiles.com/node/17

REGISTERED SEX OFFENDERS—BY STATE: Listed in the data report are the sex offender registry counts for each state including the years 2005 through July 2011. TOTAL SEX OFFENDER Registrants in the United States (as of 2011):  738,595

VIEW STATE ITEMIZED DATA HERE:

http://www.parentsformeganslaw.org/public/meganReportCard.html

NATIONAL SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY:

http://www.familywatchdog.us/

http://www.nsopw.gov

http://www.city-data.com/so/sexoffenders.html

GALVESTON, TX — A man intoxicated on bath salts attacked a baby in a shopping cart in a Texas Walmart, police say. Austin Jones, 20, of Pasadena, Texas, was held on $13,000 bond on a felony charge of bodily injury to a child and misdemeanors of resisting arrest and assault by contact, Galveston police told The (Galveston) Daily News. Detective Michelle Sollenberger said Jones approached the woman, who he did not know, as she entered the store with her 11-month-old child Monday afternoon.

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http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/07/20/Cops-say-man-on-bath-salts-attacked-baby/UPI-65181311198878/

WESTVILLE | A man and woman have been charged with engaging in sex acts with a pit bull in Westville then allowing a young relative to join in. Rebecca Bermudez, 40, is charged in LaPorte Circuit Court with child molesting, bestiality, and aiding, inducing or causing bestiality, all felonies. Jackie Koker, 44, is charged with bestiality, aiding, inducing or causing bestiality, and aiding, inducing or causing child molesting, all felonies.