FLINT, Michigan — Corrine Baker, accused of ignoring pleas for help from her 4-year-old son as he was allegedly tortured by her live-in boyfriend in Argentine Township last year, pled guilty today to second-degree murder and second degree child abuse, according to Genesee Circuit Court records.

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http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2011/08/corrine_baker_pleads_guilty_to.html

FORT LEE, Virginia — Pennsylvania authorities hunting for a U.S. soldier accused of killing four people and opening fire on police officers have found the man’s body after he apparently took his own life, police said on Sunday. Police and prosecutors said the body they believed to be of Army Capt. Leonard John Egland, 37, of Fort Lee, Virginia, was found behind a vacant business at a major intersection of Warwick Township.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-hurricane-rampage,0,7687544.story

Mom Blames ‘Ghost’ For Death Of Two Daughters

DALLAS — A 10-year-old Dallas-area boy who died of dehydration after his father and stepmother kept water from him was being punished for wetting the bed, authorities say. The boy, Jonathan James died July 25 after water was kept from him for five days while temperatures soared to 100 degrees or more each day, police said. The boy’s dad, Michael Ray James, and stepmother, Tina Alberson, both 42, were jailed after being charged Thursday with injury to a child causing serious bodily injury.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/28/jonathan-james-dead-deydration_n_939728.html?ncid=AOLDSN00280000000004

Suspect in a 2010 rape case in now connected to two other cold cases

CLEVELAND – Cleveland police are asking for the public’s help in finding a person wanted in three different sexual assault cases. Recently, the Cleveland division of sex crimes/child abuse detectives asked for assistance in locating and identifying a man wanted for sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman in December 2010. Further investigation has revealed that the suspect from the 2010 rape case is also linked to two other violent rapes. The DNA from the wanted man has been linked to two cold case investigations.

LAKEVILLE, Minn. — A father abandoned his 11-year-old son last month, telling him in a letter to move in with neighbors because their south Minnesota home was in foreclosure, according to a warrant complaint seeking his arrest. Steven Alexander Cross, 60, left two notes for his son, according to the complaint charging him with a gross misdemeanor of child neglect. One letter said their home in Lakeville was going to be sold at a sheriff’s sale and instructed the boy to take his PlayStation and go to a neighbor’s house.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/26/minnesota-dad-steven-cros_n_938686.html?ncid=AOLDSN00280000000005

Dance Judge DISTURBING Details In Child Sex Case

Former “America’s Best Dance Crew” judge Shane Sparks allegedly sexually abused at least 6 young girls IN ADDITION to the woman who claims Sparks raped her when she was 12 years old  … this according to court documents obtained by TMZ.  The documents were just made public … following a plea deal Sparks made with the L.A. County District Attorney in which he received 270 days in jail after pleading no contest to having unlawful sex with a minor under 16.

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http://www.tmz.com/2011/08/25/so-you-think-you-can-dance-judge-shane-sparks-child-sex-case-la-county-court-documents/#.Tllb1l34KfM

NEW!!! DREAMCATCHERS MISSING CHILDREN’S DIVISION

Missing Children Division Director: Kinsley Braun

Too Many Are Missing…And they are still among us. 2,300 Americans go missing on a daily basis: Both children and adults. And yet so many go unrecognized, unreported, and forgotten before their communities know they’re gone.

Dreamcatchers new Missing Children’s Division is focused on bringing each of these cases to the forefront and helping locate them!!

Please visit our Missing Children’s Division page here!

You can also add our Missing Children’s Division FACEBOOK page here!

Please email inquires, tips or missing children submissions to:  dreamcatchermissingchildrendiv@gmail.com

A 49 year old Buena woman is facing manslaughter charges after allegedly kicking her pregnant daughter in the stomach– killing the unborn baby. It’s a case that’s saddened neighbors and even seasoned detectives. Dulce Villegas of Buena can’t believe her neighbor 49 year old Querida Guerrero allegedly kicked her 22 year old pregnant daughter Helen Guerrero in the stomach– killing Helen’s unborn baby.

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http://www.kapptv.com/article/2011/aug/25/buena-woman-facing-manslaughter-alleged-assault-ki/

CHANDLER, Ariz. – Chandler police detectives arrested a care provider and her boyfriend on child abuse charges after an infant was found with 14 broken bones. Angelica Jimenez, 25, was booked into the Maricopa County Jail on one count of child abuse and hindering prosecution. Steven Saldana, 30, was booked on three counts of child abuse.

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http://www.fox11az.com/news/local/Baby-suffers-14-broken-bones-care-provider-boyfriend-arrested-128331788.html?hpt=ju_bn6

BRAUNAU, Austria — An 80-year old Austrian man has been taken into custody for allegedly sexually abusing his wife and his two mentally disabled daughters for more than 40 years, police and a prosecutor said Thursday. “We fear that he might bother his victims or continue to abuse women,” chief prosecutor Alois Ebner, who ordered the arrest, told CNN. A police official did not name either the suspect or the alleged victims.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-austrian-man-accused-raping-disabled-daughters,0,1200739.story

Psychological abuse is a subtle method used to destroy a child’s sense of well being, to instill fear or terror, or prevent, undermine or destroy confidence.  The use of psychological abuse, brutality or torture on a growing child is most damaging.  It prevents the child from being who they were born to be, and limits or destroys their ability to function normally in life.  It is the most damagning of child abuse, without leaving any physical scars.

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http://www.privatefamilymatter.com/psychological/psychological-abuse