The 24-year-old San Jose mother who dropped her toddler from a two-story windown on Christmas morning has been booked on attempted murder, child abuse and assault with a deadly weapon charges, San Jose police said Monday. Sgt. Jason Dwyer did not know whether Lupita Cotez had been “paper booked” and was still in the hospital suffering from broken bones in her ankles and feet, or whether she had been physically taken into jail custody. A jail spokesman did not immediately return comment to determine her exact location.

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More charges for Iowa mom accused of failing to stop boyfriend from molesting her daughters

DAVENPORT, Iowa — More charges have been filed against a 29-year-old Davenport woman who’s accused of doing nothing to stop her boyfriend from molesting her three daughters. The woman had already been charged with misdemeanor child endangerment. Scott County Attorney Mike Walton told television station WQAD that the new charges include three counts of neglect and three of child endangerment. Three of the counts are felonies.

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The Mount Diablo Unified School District Custodian who was arrested on child molestation charges last week worked at at least two Concord elementary schools, according to sources. Law enforcement & the school district aren’t saying where 44-year-old Walnut Creek resident John Astor worked, but we’re hearing it was at Holbrook Elementary & Cambridge Elementary, which are both located in the City of Concord.

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Shame of the Nation:

Sexual Violence in America

Many sex-related stories captured popular attention in 2011.  Most upsetting, many of the incidents involved sexual violence.  Taken together, they indicate something bigger, deeper, taking place in America, a social crisis.  It’s as if the body politic is moaning, declaring that sexual intimacy, too, is a terrain of the mounting social crisis.

A number of nonviolent incidents are illustrative.  Most pathetic, the outing of Herman Cain for an increasing number of disturbing actions involving women (e.g., pay-offs related to sexual harassment suits and an extramarital “friendship” with a woman his wife didn’t know about) forced him out of the Republican presidential race.  The Cain incident followed the outings of Congressmen Anthony Weiner (D-NY), Chris Lee (R-NY) and Mark Souder (R-IN) for inappropriate sex-related conduct, conduct that led to their resignations.

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Professor charged with rape of child

NORMAN — Multiple felony charges of rape and lewd acts with a child were filed Monday afternoon against a suspended University of Oklahoma professor. The case involves at least three teen girls, court documents show. Dwain A. Pellebon, 54, was charged with two counts of rape in the first degree of a victim under age 14, two counts of child sexual abuse by lewd acts and two counts of lewd acts with a child under 16.

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A state Governor and her appointees obstruct an investigation into repeated coverups of child rape. When they find they can no longer stave off the inevitable, they destroy the evidence. Along the way they try to have the prosecutor disbarred. The Governor later becomes a member of the President’s Cabinet. These are the makings of a major scandal that should be plastered across the front page of every newspaper in America. Instead, hardly anyone has heard of it. Why?

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‘I spent 32 years afraid to breathe’

Tricia McKnight is no stranger to domestic abuse and her mission is to share her story in the hopes it will encourage and help other women get out of violent, abusive situations.”A lot of them are like me,” said McKnight, 48, of Breese. “They were ‘trained’ to behave in a certain way and accept certain things and not think anything about it. It becomes a pattern of abuse. I spent 32 years afraid to breathe, literally afraid to breathe.”

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Tricia is a BlogTalk Radio Host for child abuse survivors. Please tune-in and listen to her shows here:

 http://www.blogtalkradio.com/dreamcatchers/2011/12/24/survivors-speak-out

Lawyers for the state of Kentucky went back to court Thursday seeking to block the immediate release of hundreds of pages of uncensored records in cases involving child-abuse deaths and injuries — one day after Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd ordered them produced for his review.Lawyers for the Cabinet for Health and Family Services said they want a chance to appeal any decision Shepherd makes about releasing records that contain details they believe should be withheld, or redacted.

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KNOXVILLE, TN — It’s time for family gatherings and fun for the holidays, but it’s also a time when child abuse reports spike. The Department of Children’s Services heads up the investigations, but they say there are still plenty of abuse cases that go unreported. So they’re using the internet to encourage more people to report child abuse. It’s a free, online lesson plan.  READ MORE HERE

CLICK HERE for your FREE online tutorial on child abuse reporting!!!

(This tutorial is very detailed. Even though it does focus on Tennessee, the information pertains to anyone who wants to report child abuse)

Online child abuse victims asked to get in touch with NSPCC

POLICE officers involved in an international child sex abuse racket are appealing to victims to get in touch with them via a specially dedicated NSPCC number. The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre is involved in an investigation with national and international partners which has lead to the arrest and detention of an individual in Kuwait for the suspected sexual abuse of children. The investigation has been co-ordinated by CEOP, working with the authorities in the UK, Kuwait and its representatives in the UK, as well as a number of other law enforcement agencies around the world.

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Child sex abuse linked to suicide

Calls have been made for a national study to examine the link between childhood sex abuse and suicide. Suicide prevention helpline 1Life said more than a quarter of crisis calls this year were from adults who suffered attacks as a youngster. And a group for survivors of abuse also revealed two people on its waiting list died by suicide over the last 18 months. Ciaran Austin, director of services with Console which runs 1Life, raised concerns over the hike in calls following the publication of sickening clerical abuse reports, including the recent Cloyne Report.

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CHILD ABUSE RESEARCH & STATS

Long-term study examines suicide risk following child sexual abuse

Suicide Risk Among Abused Children | Psych Central News

Suicide risk following child sexual abuse

Suicide and fatal drug overdose in child sexual abuse

Gender in Suicide Attempt Rates and Childhood Sexual Abuse Rates

A woman who told deputies she had sex with a 7-year-old girl to prove her love for her married boyfriend is in the Orange County Jail, where she is being held on sexual-battery and other charges. Margaret Ann O’Neill, 26, of Kissimmee, admitted to sheriff’s investigators that she had sex with the child three times last year at a home in west Orange County, they said.

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