Nearly five children die every day in America from abuse and neglect. In 2009, an estimated 1,770 children died from abuse in the United States. In the same year, Children’s Advocacy Centers around the country served over 254,000 child victims of abuse, providing victim advocacy and support to these children and their families. In 2010, this number was over 266,000.

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http://www.nationalchildrensalliance.org/NCANationalStatistics

David James (Dave) Pelzer is an American author, best known for his 1995 memoir of childhood abuse, A Child Called “It”. Pelzer was born in San Francisco, California, and was the second of five boys. Pelzer wrote in his book that as a child he was continually abused, mistreated, and beaten by his mother, who thought of it as a game. The book documents how his mother starved him, forced him to drink ammonia, stabbed him in the stomach, burned his arm on a gas stove and forced him to eat his own vomit. His teachers stepped in on March 5, 1973 and 12-year-old Pelzer was placed in foster care. In 1979, he joined the Air Force and later became an author.

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http://www.davepelzer.com/

Ray Coriell Pleads Not Guilty, Search Warrant Released To Media

DA Releases Home Videos that Helped Convict Garridos

MORENO VALLEY, CA — Authorities have arrested a man accused of sexually assaulting a young girl inside a restroom at the Moreno Valley Mall. Moses Solis, 20, of Rialto, was arrested Monday night along the 200 block of Base Line Road. Solis is accused of sexually assaulting the girl after following her into a women’s restroom at the mall on Sunday, according to sheriff’s officials.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-moreno-valley-mall-restroom-sex-assault,0,7482030.story

Child Molestation

A child molester is described as an older person, male or female, which experiences any type of sexual act with another person who is a child. The majority of child molesters, more than 95 percent, are male. America’s most famous female child molester, Mary Kay Letourneau, is currently serving a seven-and-a-half year sentence in a Washington state prison for her sexual involvement with a 13-year-old boy⁽³⁾. The relationship began when the victim was a student in her sixth-grade class. Letourneau has given birth to two daughters fathered by the youth. One was born in prison. But Letourneau’s case is rare. It does not seem to be part of the psychological composite of females to sexually molest a child. That compulsion, whatever its origin, seems to lie deep within the male psyche.

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http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/criminal_mind/psychology/pedophiles/2.html

Recidivism: How often do Child Molesters go on to Reoffend?

Some people claim that child abusers can’t be cured and invariably reoffend. Others suggest that recidivism rates are low and that sex offenders are less likely to reoffend than those who commit other types of crimes. What is the truth? Overall, follow-up studies typically find sexual recidivism rates of 10%-15% after five years, 20% after 10 years, and 30%-40% after 20 years (see, Hanson, Morton, & Harris, 2003). However, these numbers are conservative because not all offences are detected.

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http://www.leadershipcouncil.org/1/res/rcd.html

Former police officer pleads guilty to child sex abuse

OGDEN — A former South Ogden police officer has pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated sexual abuse of a child and forcible sodomy. Andrew Welling, 41, of Farr West, has been held in Weber County Jail in lieu of $200,000 bail since his March 1 arrest on 10 first-degree felony charges. The allegations involved an ongoing illicit sexual relationship with a youth under the age of 14.

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http://www.standard.net/stories/2011/07/31/former-police-officer-pleads-guilty-child-sex-abuse

BAY MINETTE, Ala. — The Baldwin County grand jury will examine evidence against a Foley man who allegedly touched his genitalia to that of a female under age 12 in December 2010, according to Baldwin County District Court records.

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http://www.baldwincountynow.com/articles/2011/08/01/local_news/doc4e36c034c12fb024153612.txt

Sex charge reinstated against woman accused in death of stepdaughter, 2

Mount Clemens, MI— A judge today reinstated criminal sexual conduct charges for a woman awaiting trial in the death of her 2-year-old stepdaughter. Macomb County Circuit Judge Diane Druzinski made the ruling today during a hearing for Renee Marie King. The 29-year-old New Haven woman is facing life in prison on charges of felony murder and first-degree child abuse in the Nov. 20, 2010, death of Lily Lynette Furneaux-Wolfenbarger.

SANFORD – A husband and wife who adopted a 9-year-old boy and his 6-year-old sister then spanked them until they were bloody and punished them by starving them are to be sentenced this afternoon. Pamela Hardy, 47, of Altamonte Springs, the primary abuser, faces a minimum of 11 years in prison and a maximum of 70 years. She pleaded guilty to aggravated child abuse and child neglect in June.

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http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/crime/os-adoption-torture-sentence-20110801,0,2663002.story