In a news conference on Monday two state lawmakers said they’re tired of seeing headlines about children who die while in state care. The Oklahoma Department of Human Services says 129 children have died while in state care over the past decade.

Why is the problem of violence against children so much more acute in the US than anywhere else in the industrialised world, asks Michael Petit, President of Every Child Matters. Over the past 10 years, more than 20,000 American children are believed to have been killed in their own homes by family members. That is nearly four times the number of US soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15193530

On Friday Bishop Robert Finn, of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, became the highest ranking member of the Catholic Church to be charged for covering up child abuse. Bishop Finn and the diocese have been accused of taking about six months to tell authorities that they’d found child pornography on a priest’s laptop, during which time he allegedly abused more children. The indictment is a landmark event in the church’s ongoing struggle with allegations of sexual abuse by its members. Yet, during yesterday’s services priests in the diocese met the issue with even more silence, choosing to discuss forgiveness rather than addressing the new developement directly.

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An accused child molester killed himself outside a Vermont state police barracks Sunday, after troopers were warned the suicidal man was en route to their headquarters. Michael Weisler, 43 of Waterville, pulled into the parking lot of the Vermont State Police dispatch center in Williston on Sunday, stepped outside the vehicle and shot himself.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/17/michael-weisler-suicide_n_1015827.html

American Association for Lost Children, Inc.  (AAFLC) is a Christian nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization  founded in 1987 that  physically  searches for and recovers  missing children at no cost to the parents.  AAFLC spends hours, days, weeks, and months conducting “hands-on” investigations while traveling in and outside the country performing surveillance and undercover work searching for missing children.

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On the morning of 15 March Joy Vincent left Croydon’s Gilroy Court Hotel, and then she disappeared. No one knows what happened next: whom she met, where she was taken, whether she even went left or right. She had no family, no apparent friends, no one whom the 17-year-old could trust.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2011/oct/16/britains-child-sex-trade?newsfeed=true

Using the same tactics used by “gay” rights activists, pedophiles have begun to seek similar status arguing their desire for children is a sexual orientation no different than heterosexual or homosexuals. Critics of the homosexual lifestyle have long claimed that once it became acceptable to identify homosexuality as simply an “alternative lifestyle” or sexual orientation, logically nothing would be off limits. “Gay” advocates have taken offense at such a position insisting this would never happen. However, psychiatrists are now beginning to advocate redefining pedophilia in the same way homosexuality was redefined several years ago.

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http://www.greeleygazette.com/press/?p=11517

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Reporting Child Abuse

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IRMO– Two suspects officials say were involved in the abuse of a 2-month-old girl have been arrested in Lexington County.The sheriff’s department says 18-year-old Tameeka Wallace and 21-year-old Benson Essien turned themselves in Friday morning.Investigators say the pair is charged with unlawful conduct towards a child by legal custodian.

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