Panama City – A local man and woman, facing aggravated child abuse charges, are each being held in the Bay County jail on $250,000 bond. Panama City Police arrested the couple early yesterday morning, after a relative took their child to the hospital with 6 broken bones. Panama City Police arrested 21 year old Courtney Shaunte Lucille Hawkins and 25 year old Joseph Tyrell Duhon early Tuesday morning on a number of drug and weapons charges, but it was a child abuse investigation that initially brought authorities to their apartment.

One of Hawkins’ relative showed up at Bay Medical Center with Hawkins’ two year old daughter. The child had 6 broken bones. Department of Children and Families investigators say they’re not aware of any other abuse complaints involving this family, but this case is not rare.

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http://www.wjhg.com/home/headlines/Ways_to_determine_child_abuse_112972389.html

George Joseph England (Broward Sheriff’s Office)

Sex Slave’s 20-Year Ordeal: Fla. Man Convicted

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A California child molester has been convicted in Florida of additional federal charges that could send him to prison for 30 years. Prosecutors said Thursday that 66-year-old George Joseph England was found guilty by a jury of five charges involving his lengthy abuse of a young girl he met in Vietnam in the early 1970s.

A married couple have been jailed for assaulting children at the former Jersey children’s home Haut de la Garenne in the 1970s and 1980s. Morag Jordan, 62, from Kirriemuir in Angus, Scotland, was given a nine-month term for eight charges of assaults against four vulnerable children while working at the home. Her husband Anthony, also 62, was sentenced to six months for eight charges involving two boys. They were found guilty in November 2010 following a two-week trial at the Royal Court of Jersey and sentenced today (Thursday).

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http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/uk/couple-jailed-for-jersey-child-home-abuse-$21385030.htm

ALBANY- Phillip Riback, 41, of Cohoes, pled guilty to one count of Sex Abuse in the First Degree. On December 17, 2001, at 3 Atrium Drive, Suite 200 (Upstate Neurology Consultants), in the Town of Colonie, Riback subjected a child less than 11 years old to sexual contact consisting of placing his face in contact with the child’s genitals through clothing for his own sexual gratification.

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IUKA, Miss. _ Iuka police have charged two people with felony child abuse and child neglect charges. Police Chief Randy Stringer tells WTVA.com Jennifer Hale Belue, 30, and Johnny Lee Massengill, 27, were officially charged Wednesday and are currently in the Tishomingo County Jail. He says police were called to a home at 1330 W. Ash St. in the city to check on the welfare of a three year old boy.

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http://www.wtva.com/news/local/story/Two-people-charged-in-child-abuse-case/9JvleZ6gIka8JMphfFtnYA.cspx

A Middletown man faces rape charges involving a 10 year old girl.  Our partners at the Middletown Journal say the young victim was only able to tell her mother about the alleged attack by writing out the details on a piece of paper.
40 year old Michael Hall is behind bars on a $100,000 bond and his case has been bound over by a Grand Jury.

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http://www.local12.com/news/local/story/Man-Accused-in-Rape-of-10-Year-old-Middletown-Girl/bIXYcRmBBkyz56nEBcUp2w.cspx

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RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A 40-year-old woman fought back against 2 carjackers, refusing to leave her vehicle without her 1-year-old child who was in the backseat. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Dept. said two suspects punched the woman and maced her as she tried to get her child out of the truck. They struck her in the head a couple of times and demanded the keys to her 2002 Chevrolet truck, sheriff’s Sgt. Kevin Smith told the Press Enterprise.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-perris-carjacking,0,3891061.story

PA CHILD ABUSE HOT LINE MISSED TOO MANY CALLS

It is outrageous and unacceptable that Pennsylvania has a child abuse hot line that routinely “misses” calls from people trying to report neglected, beaten or sexually abused children.Nearly 10 percent of callers to the statewide hot line last year failed to deliver their tips to officials who might have intervened and saved a life or a lifetime of psychological turmoil. Through November of this year, according to the state Department of Public Welfare, 10,805 calls to the phone number did not get through.

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http://www.ydr.com/premium/ci_17014083

Medical personnel, police, and school officials appear to be learning about more incidents of violence against children and teens than they used to, but there is still substantial room for improvement in reporting, researchers said. Among some 2,650 youths in a telephone survey who reported exposure to violence in the previous year, 45.7% said the authorities knew about at least one of the violent incidents, according to David Finkelhor, PhD, of the University of New Hampshire in Durham, and colleagues. A similar survey conducted in 1992 indicated that only about 25% of violent incidents were reported to schools or police.

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http://www.medpagetoday.com/Pediatrics/DomesticViolence/24177

AUSTIN – A 4-month-old baby was seriously injured on Thursday after he was allegedly beaten by his father, according to Austin police. Austin police responded to a home in the 1800 block of Burton Drive when a woman flagged down officers and said she was in a fight with her husband, Felixino Villegas, 36. She told police he also hurt their infant son. When police tried to get into the couple’s apartment, Villegas refused to open the door and police forced their way in. Villegas initially struggled and resisted arrest, but police restrained Villegas and were able to arrest him.

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http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/crime/4-month-old-baby-injured-man-charged

John and Roseanne Kincheloe are both scheduled to be in Buffalo County court Wednesday in separate cases. John Kincheloe is charged with incest. Roseanne Kincheloe is charged with child abuse. WEAU 13 News obtained court records detailing the abuse that allegedly happened in the Eleva couple’s home. According to police reports, Buffalo County investigators interviewed two young girls about the sexual and physical abuse back in November.

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http://www.weau.com/home/headlines/Adoption_advocates_charged_with_child_abuse_112914229.html

POPLAR BLUFF, MO – Police on one Region 8 city arrest two people accused of abusing two small children. According to the Poplar Bluff Police Department, Donnisha Nelson and Sterling Marshall were arrested and charged with 2 counts of endangering the welfare of a child in the first degree. Police say they found a 23-month old boy with burns on several parts of his body, and a 3-year-old with a broken jaw in the care of both Nelson and Marshall.

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http://www.kait8.com/Global/story.asp?S=13782954&clienttype=printable

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va – Can’t say I blame 21-year-old Jermaine Morgan for pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the death of 2-year-old Jordan Ferebee. He got 10 years in prison with 10 suspended. Had he went to trial, there was more than enough evidence to show that Morgan beat his friend’s little boy too death and a jury may have not been as lenient towards a man who beat a toddler hard enough to tear his liver.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2011/01/05/man-sentenced-to-10-years-for-beating-toddler-to-death/

INDIANAPOLIS — Police are investigating the death of a newborn baby following allegations the mother ingested rat poison prior to giving birth. Investigators say the pregnant Bei Bei Shuai mentioned to some of her friends in Anderson on December 23 that she had ingested rat poison. Those friends said they immediately convinced Shuai to check into St. Johns Hospital in Anderson.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-rat-poison-baby,0,4924577.story