STOCKTON – A Lincoln Unified School District teacher has been placed on paid leave amid allegations she was operating pornographic websites on a school computer with a Stockton police officer as her partner. District officials confiscated the school-issued Apple laptop of Heidi Kaeslin, a special-education teacher at Lincoln High, about one month ago. Kaeslin, 35, has been replaced by a long-term substitute teacher.

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Teacher, Two Pastors, And Principal Arrested In Child Sex Assault Case

EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. — Four people have been arrested in connection to a child sex assault case.In December of 2010, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a possible sexual assault on a child involving a teacher at the Hilltop Baptist School. Investigation revealed a 15-year-old male victim was sexually assaulted multiple times by a teacher during 2007.

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http://www.krdo.com/news/29796849/detail.html

Wentworth, NC– A convicted sex offender is going back to prison for using social media. In North Carolina registered sex offenders are not allow to use any form of social media. However, investigators said that didn’t stop a Rockingham County man. Victor Gaston, 36, of Reidsville, was charged last summer with violating the social media rules. Gaston, according to deputies, tried to “friend” his former victim on her facebook page.

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http://www.digtriad.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=199633

Ricardo Costa, once held on $75 Million bond, takes shocking plea deal in child abuse case

PRESCOTT – Ricardo Costa, held in the Yavapai County Jail for most of the last three years on a record-breaking high bond of $75 million dollars, accepted a plea agreement and will serve only: lifetime probation. Costa, 39, was charged with two counts of continuous sexual abuse of a child. He originally faced a dozen counts of sexual misconduct and was not eligible for bond. Last year, those charges were thrown out and Yavapai County Superior Court Judge Tina Ainley set his bond at $75 million, cash only.

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http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/11/18/20111118sedona-high-bail-inmate-pleads-guilty.html

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO WRITE OR PHONE SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE, TINA AINLEY, TO PROTEST THIS SENTENCE:
Yavapai County Courthouse
ATTN: Superior Court Judge Tina Ainley
120 South Cortez Street
Prescott, AZ 86303
Phone: (928) 771-3100
Phone: (928) 771-3483

Website: http://www.co.yavapai.az.us/Content.aspx?id=34514

A convicted murderer who brutally stabbed a nine-year-old boy in a public restroom in 1998 has killed himself in his death row cell. Brandon Wilson, 33, a drifter from Wisconsin, Ohio, was found hanging inside in his cell in San Quentin State Prison, California on Thursday.
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DAYTON, Ohio — A 42-year old woman has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of her 14-year-old daughter, who weighed 28 pounds when she died. The county coroner ruled that Makayla Norman died of nutritional and medical neglect complicated by cerebral palsy. “She was the worst malnourished child this office has ever seen,” Ken Betz, director of the coroner’s office, said Thursday.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-ohio-mother-unweight-teen,0,4069481.story

ANALYSIS/OPINION

If you have a young son or daughter, or a young niece or nephew, or another young person you care about regardless of relation, the past week led to some reflection. Is there anybody who might be abusing them? Would they tell someone if it’s happening? What can be done to prevent the former and ensure the latter?

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/nov/17/snyder-what-if-it-was-itheiri-child-who-was-abused/

WHAT TO DO IF YOUR CHILD DISCLOSES SEXUAL ABUSE:

http://kids.delaware.gov/pdfs/dscyf_trauma_disclosure.pdf

A Lehigh Acres woman has been arrested for suspected child abuse after her three-month-old daughter was found with a broken arm. Leiliana Chang, 22, brought the infant to Health Park Hospital on Tuesday for treatment of the injury. An employee of the hospital notified the Child Abuse Hotline and the Lee County Sheriff’s Office that the parents of the victim were unable to explain the cause of the injury.

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http://www.nbc-2.com/story/16075556/2011/11/18/lehigh-mother-charged-with-child-abuse

The Penn State scandal is keeping child sexual abuse in the headlines and in our national conversation like nothing else ever has. I think that it’s great. It’s great because child abuse is rampant in our society and we still haven’t figured out how to handle it when it happens, what to do with the perpetrators or how to prevent it. We’ve been treating it like it’s just going to go away every time we uncover it.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robin-quivers/child-sexual-abuse_b_1101894.html?ref=travel

A Hollywood casting agent who placed child actors in films like Cheaper by the Dozen 2 is a convicted sex offender who kidnapped and molested an eight-year-old boy, it has been revealed. Jason James Murphy worked his way up the Hollywood ladder as a casting agent on a string ofHollywood family films, including ‘Super 8? alongside director J.J. Abrams.

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http://wishididntknow.com/2011/11/18/hollywood-child-casting-agent-revealed-to-have-kidnapped-and-molested-eight-year-old-boy/

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Just two weeks after Penn State was rocked by a child sex-abuse scandal, ESPN reported Thursday that police were investigating an assistant basketball coach at Syracuse University on allegations of child molestation. Shortly afterward, Syracuse placed longtime assistant coach Bernie Fine on administrative leave “in light of the new allegations and the Syracuse City Police investigation,” the school said.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/17/bernie-fine-child-abuse-syracuse-basketball-investigation_n_1100579.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false

Riverside police shot and killed a suspected child molester after he pulled a gun on detectives who were at his apartment to serve a search warrant Wednesday morning, police said. The shooting occurred about 7:20 a.m. in the 10400 block of Indiana Avenue, just south of the 91 Freeway. Shortly after detectives from the department’s sexual assault and child abuse unit knocked on the suspect’s apartment door to search the home, the man allegedly pulled a gun.

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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/11/riverside-police-fatally-shoot-suspected-child-molester.html

PHOENIX, AZ — It’s a new record for Arizona and no one is happy about it. Seventy children died in 2010 from severe abuse. But experts have a plan to fight the disturbing trend.  They are the littlest ones among us, too small to stand up for themselves and last year dozens were silenced by the very people who were supposed to protect them.

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http://www.azfamily.com/news/Deadly-Child-Abuse-Reaches-New-Record-in-Arizona–133899508.html