By: Vicki Polan

For many families in the United States who celebrate Thanksgiving, it is time of year filled with wonderful memories of families getting together. Thanksgiving (like any other holiday) often mean that families get together, routines are changed, and there is also the added stress of cleaning and preparing meals. These issues alone can be extremely stress-producing. Unfortunately the reality is that there are parents who are already inclined to use their children as an outlet for emotions and urges, and they are more likely to do so when under the pressure of increased anxiety.

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PECOS, N.M. — Disturbing video from a Pecos school bus shows two teens bullying an 8-year-old boy for more than 20 minutes. The school’s principal admitted to police that it’s hard to watch what happened to the third-grade boy as he rode the bus home from school.In exclusive video given to Action 7 News by New Mexico State Police, the 8-year-old is seen trying to crawl under seats to get away from two 14-year-old bullies in late September.

SOUTH LOS ANGELES, CA — Police detectives are looking for a man they say aggressively approached a young girl at a school in what was likely a botched sexual assault. The 12-year-old girl, a student at George Washington Carver Middle School in the 4400 block of McKinley Avenue, was waiting for a classmate outside a restroom Friday when a man approached her from behind.

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BELLEVUE — Sources tell KOMO News the FBI has joined the search for 2-year-old Sky Metalwala, who vanished after he was left alone in a car in Bellevue on Sunday morning. The boy’s mother told police she ran out of gas in the 2400 block of 112th Avenue Northeast and left the boy alone inside the unlocked car while she her 4-year-old daughter went to get gas. When she returned an hour later just before 10 a.m., Sky was gone.

Two Penn State officials surrendered Monday on charges that they failed to report suspected child-sexual abuse by a former coach and committed perjury in their related grand jury testimony. Senior Vice President Gary Schultz and Athletic Director Tim Curley both stepped down from their posts late Sunday, one day after the charges were announced.
They are accused of failing to alert police to complaints that former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky had sexually abused boys.

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Law Enforcement Rescue in Minutes

Fewer than four out of every 100 adults with memory impairment who wander away from home are able to return without assistance. “If not found within the first 24 hours, half will experience serious injury or death,” says Peter Reed, PhD, senior director of programs for the Alzheimer’s Association. The only reliable way to rapidly locate someone who has wandered is with the assistance of E-9-1-1 and law enforcement. Historically, law enforcement has incurred high expense to find a missing person and with the limited capabilities of existing technology. Wandering cases cost an average of $15,000 per search and traditionally require large numbers of law enforcement officials to physically span a wide geographic area in a race against the clock.

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The National Sex Offender Public Website—coordinated by the Department of Justice—enables every citizen to search the latest information from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and numerous Indian tribes for the identity and location of known sex offenders. To run a search: Enter the site, select the “I agree” button under Conditions of Use, fill out the Search form, and select “Search.”

You can also search registry websites maintained by individual jurisdictions by following the state links below. Note: the information contained in the national registry and the state and tribal registries is identical; the national registry simply enables a search across multiple jurisdictions.

NATIONAL SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY

FAMILY WATCHDOG — FREE SEX OFFENDER COMMUNITY NOTIFICATIONS/INFO

Part I of the book is the powerful true story of a young Florida girl’s death from abuse at the hands of her mother’s boyfriend, with the acquiescence of the mother. It is an intimate picture of this tragedy, largely told from the perspective of the child. Part II was extensively updated and revised in 2002. It is a comprehensive but concise  guide to understanding and confronting child abuse and neglect, domestic violence, and dating violence. It has concrete advice for parents and young people on building healthy relationships. Readers are often deeply moved and motivated by this book. It enjoys a great popularity with young people and is highly valued by many educators and professional trainers.

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Judge orders Kentucky to release records on child–abuse deaths

KENTUCKY–The Beshear administration should quit wasting resources fighting to keep state records in child abuse deaths secret. For one thing, the administration will ultimately lose. That should be obvious to everyone after Franklin Circuit Judge Philip Shepherd’s latest ruling in a suit brought by the Lexington Herald-Leader and The Courier-Journal of Louisville.

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http://www.kentucky.com/2011/11/04/1946472/culture-of-secrecy-about-child.html

Kelli O’Laughlin, a freshman at Lyons Township High School, was discovered by her mother at their Indian Head Park home on Oct. 27. She had been stabbed multiple times. John L. Wilson Jr., 38, a parolee with three prior convictions including one for armed robbery, was charged with first-degree murder and residential burglary in her death. Friday’s bond hearing came as O’Laughlin was laid to rest, La Grange Patch reports. Wilson’s DNA matched evidence found on a knit cap left behind in the O’Laughlin home, which was spattered with Kelli’s blood.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/04/john-l-wilson-jr-charged-_n_1075937.html

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Female Corpses Ranged in Age of 15–26

NIZHNY NOVOGOROD, Russia — A gruesome discovery in an apartment in Russia, the decomposing remains of two dozen women. It gets worse…The woman had apparently been dug up from their graves and dressed up as dolls.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-russian-bodies-found,0,6034287.story