California—- A Sacramento music teacher was arrested for receiving and possessing child pornography. Robert Broadfoot, 29, is a California State University graduate who has been giving private lessons to children inside their homes. He was a “Liberace Scholar” at Sacramento State, and has a Masters Degree in Music Performance at CSUS.
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A teacher at Schaumburg Christian School was charged with sexual exploitation of a child Tuesday after a student told administrators he masturbated while students were in his classroom, police said. On Friday, Paul LaDuke, 75, of Hanover Park, was seated behind his podium when he unzipped and lowered his pants and masturbated, Schaumburg police said.
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A fifth-grader in Illinois is dead and her family says bullies are to blame. The 10-year-old girl committed suicide after asking her mom if she could be homeschooled. “I really thought she had it all under control because I thought she was listening to me,” said Stacy Conner, Ashlynn’s mother. Stacy has talked to her daughter about bullying before but she never expected that her daughter, Ashlynn, an honor roll student at Ridgefarm Elementary, would take her life at just 10 years old.
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A McKinley Park neighborhood man became so enraged that his son soiled his diaper that he placed a frying pan filled with hot cooking oil onto his genital area and thigh earlier this month on the Northwest Side, prosecutors and police said. The 23-month-old suffered second and third-degree burns to his genitals and thigh. His mother was also charged for allegedly failing to seek medical care for the child for more than three days, authorities said.
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Each year, statistics from the Children’s Bureau’s National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) are compiled and reported. The most recent report, Child Maltreatment 2009, refers to data from Federal fiscal year (FFY) 2009 and includes national and State-by-State data on child maltreatment, including fatalities due to abuse and neglect. Using data from Child Maltreatment, this factsheet summarizes the information on child fatalities for FFY 2009 and includes some additional research and information on prevention.
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HESPERIA • Authorities arrested a mother and a Hesperia man for the torture and abuse of at least one of the woman’s children, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s officials said Friday. Desiree Perez, 30, and Daniel Knutte, 23, both of Hesperia, were arrested Thursday for abuse of a child, torture and kidnapping.
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CANADA–MONCTON, N.B. — A Moncton man was sentenced to five years in prison Monday for owning what is being called the largest collection of child sex-abuse images ever discovered by Canadian police. Douglas Hugh Stewart, 52, was sentenced by Moncton provincial court Judge Anne Dugas-Horsman, after earlier pleading guilty to possessing, accessing and distributing child pornography.
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Having difficult conversations and asking tough, sometimes awkward questions — of your children and those whose care you put them in — is the key to helping protect kids from becoming victims of sexual abuse, experts say. “You have to be strong enough to overcome your fears about teaching your children about sex and their sexuality, so you can arm them with knowledge to arm themselves,” said Kimberly Steward, a Park Forest resident and facilitator for Darkness to Light, a national group aimed at ending child sexual abuse.
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Cleveland, OH— A Cleveland man was arrested and charged with endangering a child after his infant son had to be taken to the hospital and put on life support. A baby wipe was found shoved down his throat. Joshua Rains, 25, told police that the wipe disappeared after he wiped his son’s mouth. He claimed in trying to pull the wipe free, it would only go deeper inside the baby’s throat.
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Four teenagers have been found guilty of murdering pupil Zac Olumegbon outside the gates of his school, and one offender has been convicted of manslaughter. Judge Giles Forrester lifted a ban on reporting the identities of the defendants, who are all from south London and 18 or younger. Helder Demorais, 17, Ricardo Giddings, 17, Jamal Moore, 17, and Kyle Kinghorn, 18, were found guilty of murder and face life terms. Shaquille Haughton, 16, was found guilty of manslaughter.
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OHIO–A 13-year-old boy has been arrested for the rape of a 5-year-old girl at a McDonald’s Playland in southern Ohio, police said Friday. The assault allegedly occurred on October 29 in Anderson Township, near Cincinnati. The 5-year-old old was visiting the restaurant with her grandmother and playing in the Playland area at the time of the alleged attack.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/11/us-rape-mcdonalds-idUSTRE7AA5KY20111111
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Fresno police have arrested a 20-year-old man and charged him with murdering a toddler Sunday in a horrific case of child abuse. The man, Xavier Christopher Hawkins, was the live-in boyfriend of the boy’s mother, police said. Hawkins also goes by the last name Weeks. He was arrested Thursday and booked in Fresno County Jail on charges of murder, child abuse causing great bodily harm and penetration with a foreign object.
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