Flashbacks come and go for Shaya, and she thinks they’ll eventually taper off. She takes a medication that helps reduce dreaming even though sleep, at times, can be hard to come by. Shaya, whose real name is being withheld to protect her identity, was raped and sexually abused by her father for seven years, and when the crime first came to light, no one in her family believed her. Today she’s in her 20s and in college with plans for a better future and a set of tools she uses to cope with her pain.

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A martial arts instructor was arrested on charges of molesting a young teenager three years ago, Seaside police said. The suspect, Roberto Francisco Mendoza, 37, of Seaside was booked Thursday on charges of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 and recurring sexual conduct with a minor, police said. Bail was $125,000. The arrest came after police received a report earlier this month about possible sexual abuse of a teenager that had occurred about three years ago in Seaside. Police said they were told the suspect taught at a martial arts studio.

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A 3-month-old boy injured at a Chicago Heights home this week died in a child abuse homicide, and authorities are investigating his parents for allegations of abuse, authorities said today. Aaron Sweatt, of the 200 block of Arcadia Avenue in Park Forest, was injured in an incident believed to have taken place at a home in the 1600 block of Ashland Avenue in Chicago Heights, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Sweatt’s death was ruled a child abuse homicide today by the office, which found he died of multiple injuries from blunt force trauma.

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AURORA , CO – An Aurora man charged with murder in the death of his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son threw the child across a room, likely slamming his head on a bed frame, and waited two hours to call 911, police said. Theodore Madrid, 30, told police that he was drunk and high on marijuana Jan. 5 when the toddler, Caden Rodgers, was injured, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by The Aurora Sentinel newspaper.

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SOUTH GATE — Police are looking for a 20-year-old South Gate man suspected of killing his 10-month-old daughter. Police were called to a home in the 5100 block of McCallum Avenue around 5:40 p.m. Saturday. Authorities say Jose Deras assaulted his wife and their daughter during an argument. The baby was unresponsive when officers arrived. She was taken to St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood, where she died of blunt force trauma.

Deras is described as a Hispanic male, about 5 feet 8 inches tall and 160 pounds. He has curly black hair, a slight mustache and a goatee. Deras has a tattoo of a dragon on his right shoulder and a tattoo of skulls on his upper right shoulder.

He was last seen driving his black 2008 Nissan Sentra, black, 4-Door, California license number 6FYB170.

Anyone with information about this incident or the suspect’s whereabouts is encouraged to contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500 or South Gate Police Department at (323) 563- 5400.

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SUMMERVILLE — Amber Lynn Bracci told investigators that she smoked marijuana two times before she sought medical attention for her 16-month-old son Rowan, who would later die from a head injury, according to an arrest affidavit released Friday. Bracci, 19, also admitted to striking her son in the head a few days before Dorchester County sheriff’s deputies responded to a 911 call at 198 Rowan Drive in Ridgeville on Jan. 6, the warrant said.

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How far is too far in the name of success?

The book tells how a high-energy Chinese-American woman who graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and who now teaches at Yale Law School, threw herself into raising two daughters with one iron-clad pledge: to never become one of those pushover “Western” parents.

Hays County jurors sentenced a 51-year-old Dripping Springs man to 10 years behind bars on Thursday for the sexual assault of his former foster child. They did not levy any fine against Jesse Aranda and deliberated his punishment for more than three hours. The same jury had convicted Aranda of the second-degree felony for assaulting the girl in the spring of 2008 when she was 15 years old.

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LOS ANGELES — The Sheriff’s Department is asking for the public’s help to find the suspect who sexually assaulted a young boy in a park bathroom. Police say it happened at Belvedere Park in Los Angeles last Saturday. They say the 7-year-old boy was at a soccer game. He went to the bathroom where a man grabbed and sexually assaulted him in a stall.

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Memphis TN– About 90 students at a Memphis High School are either pregnant, or have been recently. The startling news was confirmed by a high ranking city official and comes as the community plans to roll out a new initiative to help combat the problem. However, one Frayser High School graduate says teen pregnancy is not a new problem for the school.

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A Charleston man charged with incest, first-degree sexual assault and second-degree assault of a 5-year-old girl was one of 76 people indicted on felony charges by a Kanawha County grand jury this week. Frederick Thomas Butts, 41, faces 274 counts for allegedly molesting the girl over a nine-year period that began when she was 5, according to a news release from the Kanawha County prosecutor’s office.

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Only 16% of priests involved in 134 cases of child abuse in the Belgian Catholic Church have been prosecuted, a new report shows. The report, which was handed to the Government in December, was reported in the daily Le Soir this week. It details 134 cases of alleged abuse by priests over several decades.

The report, compiled by the secretary of Belgium’s episcopal conference, Etienne Quintiens, indicated that ninety priests are still alive involved with 134 cases of alleged child sex abuse. A further 50-odd complaints not yet on the list have been lodged since a church-backed commission last September revealed nearly 500 cases of abuse by priests and church workers since the 1950s, including 13 victims who committed suicide.

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A Roman Catholic priest has been jailed for eight months after admitting making indecent images of children. At Durham Crown Court, John Terence Paul Shannon, 58, admitted 16 counts of making indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of a child. He also admitted one charge of possession of an indecent photo or pseudo-photo of a child. He was a priest in the Diocese of East Anglia and had taught at a County Durham seminary.

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