Child sexual abuse has been at the center of unprecedented public attention during the last decade. All fifty states and the District of Columbia have enacted statutes identifying child sexual abuse as criminal behavior (Whitcomb, 1986). This crime encompasses different types of sexual activity, including voyeurism, sexual dialogue, fondling, touching of the genitals, vaginal, anal, or oral rape and forcing children to participate in pornography or prostitution.

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http://www.ncvc.org/ncvc/main.aspx?dbName=DocumentViewer&DocumentID=32315

AKRON, OH– An Ohio man has been charged with beating his daughter because she couldn’t do her alphabet homework. Christopher D. Curry, 39, of Akron, Ohio, allegedly beat his 5-year-old daughter for having trouble identifying the letter D on Tuesday. Akron police said Curry picked up the girl by the neck and struck her in the head repeatedly.

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http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news%2Fnational_world&id=8429040

A NEW website dubbed “A Predator’s Paradise”

Chat Roulette, launched online in November, instantly puts users face-to-face with a stranger anywhere in the world. In a concept Queensland Police say is one of the most dangerous on the web, the site shows webcam footage of the stranger – one of more than 20,000 on the site at one time – and has an option to “spin the wheel” to the next stranger.

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http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/warning-to-parents-over-predators-paradise-chat-roulette-website/story-e6freon6-1225837516356

A Massachusetts mother is facing child endangerment charges after authorities said she forced her daughter to pose nude in hopes of winning a $20,000 mother-daughter bikini photo shoot. Ann Lussier, 41, of Attleboro, Mass., allegedly made her daughter strip down to her bra and underwear and then completely disrobe while a man who identified himself as a Florida-based photographer watched over Skype.

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http://abcnews.go.com/US/massachusetts-mom-allegedly-forced-daughter-pose-nude-skype/story?id=14926836#.Tr7WwHLk-yw

COMPTON, CA — Parents at an elementary school in Compton are expressing outrage that a former porn star was invited to read to their children. Earlier this month, recently-retired porn star Sasha Grey was a guest reader at Emerson Elementary School for their Read Across America Day.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-porn-star-reads-to-kids,0,973081.story

ABILENE, TX — A West Texas woman is accused of buying a 7-week-old infant from the child’s mother for $2,000 — to be paid in installments, Abilene police said Friday. The woman, Marilu Munoz, 27, and the child’s mother, Joana Delacruz Huerta, 29, were charged late Thursday with the sale or purchase of an infant, a third-degree felony, police said.

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http://news.yahoo.com/2-texas-women-charged-buying-selling-baby-225833083.html

By: Paul Mones ~ Children’s rights attorney

On the surface, the Penn State scandal would seem to be another example of an institution of trust failing in its moral obligation to protect children. In fact, what the tragic web of human actions and inactions behind this outrage really shows us is that child sexual abuse is close to the perfect crime. As the choruses of bloggers and essayists who have rushed to print in the last week have reminded us, perpetrators can rely on the majority of children to tell no one about their sexual abuse; most will carry the secret to their graves. Child molesters, especially trusted and respected adult authority figures like priests, coaches and teachers, gain control of their prey gradually rather than resorting to violent assault.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-mones/the-perfect-crime_b_1088470.html

Shasta County Woman Arrested For Killing Secret Baby; Infant Found Mummified

WHITMORE, Calif. — A young mother is facing murder charges after the mummified body of her baby girl was found dead at a boarding school for troubled teens in eastern Shasta County.Jessica Nicole Bradford, 23, was arrested Sunday at Julian Youth Academy near Whitmore, east of Redding.KRCR News Channel 7 has learned Bradford is a current employee of the Julian Youth Academy and lived in a dorm on the 250-acre property on Tintagel Lane.

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http://www.krcrtv.com/news/29713689/detail.html?hpt=ju_bn6

Laws & Policies

U.S. Dept of Health & Family Services: Child Welfare Policy Manual

The Child Welfare Policy Manual conveys mandatory policies that have their basis in Federal law and/or program regulations. It also provides interpretations of Federal statutes and program regulations initiated by inquiries from State Child Welfare agencies or ACF Regional Offices.

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http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/laws_policies/

DENVER — A contract teacher at Denver’s Barney Ford Elementary School has been cited for “wrongs to a minor” after allegedly choking a 6-year-old boy. The boy’s mother Danielle, who does not want to use her last name, says her son told her the teacher put one hand around the boy’s throat and squeezed. She says it scared and hurt her little boy.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/kdvr-denver-contract-teacher-accused-of-choking-boy-20111109,0,3947929.story

DENVER, CO– A woman who survived a brutal attack by a man who had already killed another young woman is speaking out about the terrifying ordeal that left her in a coma for 5 weeks. In an interview with ABC’s 20/20, Lydia Tillman, reveals details of the attack and talks about her struggle to overcome the injuries she suffered in the vicious assault. Her nightmare began innocently enough at a 4th of July fireworks show in Fort Collins.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-woman-attacked-freezer-killer,0,6052787.story

Ashley Billasano kept the pain locked inside her for years, allowing only a handful of people closest to her to have a glimpse. On Monday, the 18-year-old Rosenberg high school student let it all out in a torrent of messages on Twitter – the sexual abuse that she said ruined what should have been some of the best years of her life, her inability to see justice done on her behalf. Then she killed herself.

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http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Tweets-before-suicide-point-to-teen-s-sexual-abuse-2261520.php