DENVER – A 3-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed a 5-year-old child in suburban Denver, and a man visiting from Kansas is under arrest on suspicion of child abuse in connection with the tragedy, police said on Saturday. Police in Lakewood, Colorado were summoned to an apartment building Friday by reports of a shooting and found the 5-year-old with a gunshot wound to the chest, police spokeswoman Bonnie Martin said in a written release.

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Famous Sportswriter Quickly Retires Amist Child Molestation Allegations

Hall of Fame sportswriter Bill Conlin has retired from his position with the Philadelphia Daily News following allegations of child molestation, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. An investigative story detailing the allegations against Conlin was published Tuesday afternoon by The Inquirer. In it, three women and a man say Conlin molested them when they were children.

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NEW YORK–A history teacher received a lesson in criminal justice Thursday after being arrested for having a year and a half long sexual relationship with one of his own 8th grade students. And it was his wife who dropped the dime on him.Sex Ed was on the curriculum at the Susan B. Anthony school in Queens, except it was private lessons between a 13-year-old girl and her 44-year-old history teacher Charles Oross, officials said. Oross, a married father of 2 from East Islip, Long Island was charged with statutory rape Thursday morning of his 8th grade student.

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LAGUNA HILLS — A school bus driver has been arrested on suspicion of sexually molesting three children younger than 14 at his Laguna Hills apartment, officials said Thursday. Shane Norman Crawford, 37, worked as a bus driver for 12 years, most recently for First Student Transportation Services, driving buses for several schools in Orange County, according to Orange County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Jim Amormino.

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HARRODSBURG, KY — The mother of a 9-year-old autistic boy in central Kentucky says her son was stuffed inside a duffel bag at school for misbehaving. Sandra Baker says that last week, she was called to Mercer County Intermediate School, where her son Christoper is enrolled in a special needs program, because he was acting up.

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Danville, VA – There is often a story of child sex abuse or child pornography in the news, most recently the Penn State scandal. So what is it that makes these people do what they do? “Stranger Danger,” that common saying police have taught American children for decades. Authorities say nine times out of 10 a molested child knows their abuser. “It’s a relatively small amount of children that are being offended this way by strangers where as it’s someone that knows the child and has access to the child,” said Sgt. Stephen Anders of the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force of the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office.  READ MORE HERE

FBI REPORT: Child Predators ~ The Online Threat Continues to Grow

It’s a recipe for trouble: naive teenagers, predatory adults, and a medium—the Internet—that easily connects them. In a new video blog, Executive Assistant Director Shawn Henry warns against the dangers of online predators. “It’s an unfortunate fact of life that pedophiles are everywhere online,” said Special Agent Greg Wing, who supervises a cyber squad in our Chicago Field Office.  READ MORE HERE

A mother punched her nine-year-old daughter so hard that the woman broke bones in her hand. The punch was one of many incidents heard in the Auckland District Court today as Judge Brooke Gibson sentenced the 31-year-old mother to seven and-a-half years in prison with a minimum non-parole period of five years.

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Two men were charged Friday with rape of girls they met at Governor’s Square Mall, according to Montgomery County Sheriff’s spokesman Deputy Ted Denny.Timothy Crawford Jr., 23, who gave a 1235 Parkway Place Apt. G address, was charged with child rape. Dominique Elder, 20, who gave the same address, was charged with rape, Denny said. Both men are Fort Campbell soldiers, he said.

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DOVER— The former Provider bus driver already indicted on federal charges involving the sexual exploitation of children was indicted this month by the state on 15 new charges, alleging he sexually abused a local child between February 2009 and February 2011. If convicted, the charges could send him to prison for more than 200 years.

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Human Trafficking Group Killed Saunders

BETHANY, Oklahoma – Bethany Police made two major announcements Tuesday afternoon in the investigation into Carina Saunders’ murder: they’ve made an arrest and they’re looking for a person of interest who may have vital information in the case. Police arrested 33-year-old Jimmy Lee Massey Tuesday morning on a complaint of first-degree murder in the 19-year-old woman’s death.

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