THIBODAUX, LA. — A 30-year old man is behind bars accused of decapitating his disabled 7-year-old son and leaving the boy’s head near the street for his mother to find. According to police, Jeremiah Lee Wright confessed to killing the boy because he was tired of taking care of him. Family members say Jori Lirette, who suffered from cerebral palsy, was confined to a wheelchair and required a feeding tube.

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BREAKING UPDATE:  Authorities believe they have found Breeann’s remains. View story here.

Confessed Child Killer ‘Felt Like it Took an Hour For The Girl to Die’

$45,000 reward in case of missing 3-year-old Breeann Rodriguez

DUNKLIN CO, Mo — A neighbor suspected in the murder of 3-year-old Breeann Rodriguez told authorities that “he felt like it took an hour for the girl to die” when he suffocated her with a white trash bag, according to court documents. 43-year-old Shawn Morgan, who lives on the same street as Breeann’s family in Senath, Missouri, allegedly told Agent Tim Trowbridge of the Bootheel Drug Task Force that he found the child standing on the ladder over the pool in his backyard on August 6.

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SANTA ANA, CA — A man faces sex trafficking charges Monday afternoon in federal court after intending to prostitute three teenage girls, according to authorities.Samuel Martinez Gonzalez was due in court Monday at 2pm after he had lured the girls from Texas to Orange County with promises of trips to the beach, instead buying them revealing dresses and high-heeled shoes upon their arrival intending to force the girls to work as prostitutes, according to an affidavit.

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The Delaware American Civil Liberties Union has filed court papers to stop sex offenders from being evicted from a safe house that is located near a new day care center. The ACLU, along with an attorney representing the safe house and three sex offenders, has asked a judge to issue a temporary restraining order to prevent the city from evicting the residents.
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/08/16/aclu-sides-with-sex-offenders-in-day-care-center-dispute/#ixzz1VFGrysoB

TITUSVILLE, Fla. — A Titusville preschool teacher was arrested Friday on charges that she slammed the face of a misbehaving 4-year-old into a desk. Priscilla Dale Cole, 48, of Mims, faces a charge of aggravated child abuse, a second-degree felony punishable by 15 years in prison. Cole is a teacher in the voluntary pre-kindergarten program at A Gold Star Academy at 330 Knox McRae Drive.

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http://www.13wmaz.com/news/watercooler/article/139907/155/Fla-Pre-K-Teacher-Charged-with-Child-Abuse

A Florida woman has been accused of child abuse after beating her son with a computer cable for using Facebook without permission.  Althea Ricketts, 62 has been charged with aggravated child abuse.Ricketts first found out about her son’s account after an acquaintance told her about a disturbing post on his Facebook profile page.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2025882/Woman-beat-son-cable-using-Facebook-website.html#ixzz1V4Z6y5nZ

The Archdiocese of Boston says it has placed a priest on administrative leave after receiving an allegation of sexual abuse of a child in the 1980s. The archdiocese announced Sunday that Rev. John M. Mendicoa, a vicar at Sacred Heart Parish in the Roslindale neighborhood, will remain on leave pending the outcome of a preliminary investigation. The archdiocese said in a news release that it initiated the investigation and notified law enforcement of the allegation.

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http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20110814boston_priest_accused_of_child_sex_abuse/

Family First of New Zealand has released the list of child abuse deaths in the past 12 months, and says that the shocking trend of eight deaths in the past 12 months is ample evidence of the need for a non-political Commission of Inquiry into child abuse. “We have had Commission of Inquiries this year into the Pike river tragedy, the collapse of buildings and consequent loss of life in the Christchurch earthquake, and previous inquiries into police conduct (2004), genetic modification (2000-2001), and Auckland governance (2007-2009) – yet no inquiry into one of the greatest social problems facing the country. The issue of child abuse deserves a high priority total focus which a Commission would give,” says Bob Mccoskrie, National Director of Family First NZ.

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http://www.voxy.co.nz/politics/shocking-trend-child-abuse-deaths-family-first/5/98143

Help children become lifeline to our future

“Our national security in the year 2030 is absolutely dependent upon what is going on in pre-kindergarten today.” — Retired Rear Admiral James Barnett.  As a pacifist by nature and social services coordinator dedicated to child abuse prevention, it is odd that I have found some of the most compelling information to support expansion of services for children and families coming from the Pentagon. In a recent report, the Pentagon reported that a whopping 75 percent of Americans ages 17 to 24 — 26 million young Americans — cannot join the military. The reasons behind this are extremely serious, and if left unaddressed, there will be a deleterious effect on the future of national security. Seems that one out of four of our nation’s youth do not have a high school diploma. To make matters worse, about 30 percent of the recruits with a diploma who take the military qualifying test, fail it.

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http://www.mcall.com/opinion/yourview/mc-children-freedman-yv-20110814,0,4520970.story

JACKSON, Miss. – A federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit that claims a 9-year-old Mississippi girl was checked out of school six times by an unauthorized man who then raped her. The lawsuit said the school failed to verify Tommy Keyes’ identity when he took the girl from a Covington County elementary school between 2007 and 2008. The 6-foot-2-inch Keyes allegedly signed the check-out sheet on one occasion as the girl’s mother but usually signed her father’s name.

CALGARY – Calgary cops walked in on a horrific scene early Saturday – a man with a knife, his baby son slashed and bleeding in the kitchen of a home in a quiet southeast community. He dropped the knife and surrendered, allowing officers to tend to the 11-month-old (not six months as police previously indicated), suffering severe cuts to his neck and abdomen.

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http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2011/08/14/18552176.html?cid=rssnewslast24hours

The number of reports of child abuse crimes usually increases when schools start after summer vacation, said Joe Nabors, executive director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Calhoun and Cleburne counties. He said when children are out of school for the summer, they often have had nobody to tell, and they seem to want to tell someone once school starts.

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http://www.gadsdentimes.com/article/20110814/NEWS/110819882?Title=Investigator-8216-There-8217-s-no-excuse-for-not-reporting-8217-crimes-against-children

DETROIT, MI– The Detroit family of a 14-year-old who was shot and killed in his own home is searching for answers about exactly what happened. Dontavis Jones was shot by a gun that was being held by his 18-year-old friend. The shooting happened late Saturday on Coplin in Detroit.

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http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/detroit/a-detroit-family-is-trying-to-cope-with-the-shooting-death-of-a-14-year-old-in-his-own-home

Confessed Child Killer Gives Jailhouse Interview