Logansport, IN—— It’s often said that no good deed ever goes unpunished. In one extreme example, a woman was arrested after stabbing the daughter of her boyfriend who was allowing her to stay temporarily in his apartment. On Sunday morning, the 12-year-old girl was eating breakfast while watching television. Tammy Kelly, formerly from Kokomo, allegedly approached the girl and stabbed her several times in the upper torso with a steak knife.

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A high school coach is being investigated for allegedly beating a student, the Los Angeles Unified School district said. Jorge Chavez, 33, a coach and teacher at Bernstein High School in Hollywood, was arrested on March 1 and charged with felony assault. He is accused of punching, slamming and kicking the student, Robert Alaniz of the LAUSD confirms.

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FBI Arrests North Carolina Trucker in Child Sex Sting

ATLANTA—Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Brian D. Lamkin announces, on behalf of the FBI’s Safe Child Task Force, the following arrest at Dalton, Georgia. John Neff, age 47, of Denver, North Carolina, was arrested Monday afternoon, February 21, 2011, by FBI agents and task force officers of the FBI-led Safe Child Task force after coming to the attention of undercover agents/officers on the Internet. Neff, a commercial truck driver, is facing state charges of criminal attempted child molestation stemming criminal attempted aggravated child molestation from his efforts to have sex with a minor child.

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http://www.sickcrimes.us/2011/02/fbi-arrests-north-carolina-trucker-in-child-sex-sting-5574

Authorities say they’re investigating an apparent murder-suicide in which a 22-year-old man is believed to have shot two children before turning the gun on himself. All three were found in a residence early Sunday. First District officers responded to a call of a shooting in the 2100 block of Pauger Street, and found a 9-year-old boy and 10-year-old girl lying on a sofa suffering from a gunshot wound to the head.

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Hepburn sentenced to 45 years for murdering her 16 month old daughter

Ashley Nicole Hepburn of Cross Hill and Richard Brandon Lewis of Clinton were sentenced in General Sessions Court in a Laurens courtroom on Thursday by Eighth Circuit Judge, the Honorable Frank R. Addy, Jr. of Greenwood. Both defendants were charged with homicide by child abuse and aiding and abetting homicide by child abuse. Hepburn was sentenced to 45 years for homicide by child abuse and Lewis was sentenced to ten years for aiding and abetting homicide by child abuse.

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Albany schools changed their policy on police interrogation of students in sex-abuse cases because of an appeals court decision in an Oregon case now before the Supreme Court. Schools now make sure that a staff member is in the room with any child being questioned about suspected abuse. Acting on a decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Albany schools alerted principals more than a year ago to change the way sex abuse investigations are handled at schools.

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A Chicago Police commander found not guilty last year of misdemeanor telephone harassment is now the focus of an abuse investigation. A spokesman for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services confirmed Saturday the agency is investigating allegations of child abuse involving Harrison District police Cmdr. Penelope Trahanas and her teenage daughter.

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A new study on child abuse — the first to look at the differences in head trauma perpetrated by men and women — may shed some light on this type of abuse, but raises even more questions about how many cases go undetected. The study looked at 48 cases of abusive head trauma in children brought to a Long Island hospital between 1998 and 2008. In 34 of those cases, perpetrators were identified. Seventeen were male and the other 17 female.

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http://www.myhealthnewsdaily.com/child-abuse-head-trauma-male-female-abusers-1240/

A newborn was cared for in a hospital Saturday night after witnesses said the mother threw the baby in the snow. The baby was only wearing a T-shirt and was wrapped in a blanket. The mother, 21-year-old Ashley Couch, is accused of throwing her infant in a snow bank near Chicago Avenue and 18th Street Saturday morning.

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http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2011/03/05/police-baby-found-in-snow-bank/

A Clayton, Missouri hotel guest molested a 9-year-old girl after obtaining a room key to a room that was not his. Police said around 4 a.m. on Sunday the suspect entered the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Clayton, Missouri in an intoxicated condition.  He had been staying with a registered guest.  He approached the front desk and told the clerk he was staying in a specific room, but did not have his room key.

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Police in Louisiana have arrested a 26-year-old man on charges that he molested a 7-year-old girl on multiple occasions. After being taken into custody, Daniel Paz, of Metairie, then admitted to investigators that he had in fact molested the girl in three separate incidents and even told them that the child came onto him and was the aggressor in all of this.

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The 10-year-old girl was found dead in plastic bag.

MIAMI, Fl. — The adoptive mother of a Florida girl found dead in a plastic bag in her husband’s truck has been charged with first-degree murder, police said Saturday. Carmen Barahona also faces seven counts of aggravated child abuse and seven counts of child neglect, the Miami-Dade Police Department said in a press release.

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TACOMA, Wash. — A convicted sex offender is suing the mother of a child he had inappropriate contact with because he says she wrote negative things about him on her blog. Patrick Rojas, 26, plead guilty in 2007 to a gross misdemeanor for contact with a minor for immoral purposes. But Danielle Schneider says that charge didn’t come close to describing what Rojas did to her 11-year-old child. Schneider decided to blog about it and warn others.

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