POLICE FEAR THERE MAY BE MORE VICTIMS

COSTA MESA — A dance instructor is accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old student, and police believe there may be more victims. Brandon Marriott, 21, was arrested Sunday, October 14. His arraignment is set for Tuesday. The District Attorney is asking that he be held on $100,000 bail.

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DIAMOND BAR, CA — A 41-year-old middle school teacher in Diamond Bar has been arrested for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old student. Steven Andrews, who taught history at Lorbeer Middle School, is facing 17 felony charges, including lewd acts with a child, unlawful sex with a minor and oral copulation with a child under 16.

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SANTA CLARITA, CA — A 25-year old man wanted in the sexual assault of an 11 year-old boy at the Westfield Valencia Town Center Mall in Santa Clarita has surrendered to authorities. Casey Crockett is suspected of molesting the boy Monday, around 4:00 p.m. inside a public restroom in the food court area of the mall.

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WARNING: Graphic Video!! Horrifying footage of a 2-year-old girl in China being run over by two separate vehicles and left to die by passersby has stirred outrage throughout the country, with CNN reporting that security footage of the incident has led the nation of 1.3 billion people to do some collective soul-searching.

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In a news conference on Monday two state lawmakers said they’re tired of seeing headlines about children who die while in state care. The Oklahoma Department of Human Services says 129 children have died while in state care over the past decade.

Why is the problem of violence against children so much more acute in the US than anywhere else in the industrialised world, asks Michael Petit, President of Every Child Matters. Over the past 10 years, more than 20,000 American children are believed to have been killed in their own homes by family members. That is nearly four times the number of US soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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On Friday Bishop Robert Finn, of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, became the highest ranking member of the Catholic Church to be charged for covering up child abuse. Bishop Finn and the diocese have been accused of taking about six months to tell authorities that they’d found child pornography on a priest’s laptop, during which time he allegedly abused more children. The indictment is a landmark event in the church’s ongoing struggle with allegations of sexual abuse by its members. Yet, during yesterday’s services priests in the diocese met the issue with even more silence, choosing to discuss forgiveness rather than addressing the new developement directly.

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An accused child molester killed himself outside a Vermont state police barracks Sunday, after troopers were warned the suicidal man was en route to their headquarters. Michael Weisler, 43 of Waterville, pulled into the parking lot of the Vermont State Police dispatch center in Williston on Sunday, stepped outside the vehicle and shot himself.

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American Association for Lost Children, Inc.  (AAFLC) is a Christian nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization  founded in 1987 that  physically  searches for and recovers  missing children at no cost to the parents.  AAFLC spends hours, days, weeks, and months conducting “hands-on” investigations while traveling in and outside the country performing surveillance and undercover work searching for missing children.

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On the morning of 15 March Joy Vincent left Croydon’s Gilroy Court Hotel, and then she disappeared. No one knows what happened next: whom she met, where she was taken, whether she even went left or right. She had no family, no apparent friends, no one whom the 17-year-old could trust.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2011/oct/16/britains-child-sex-trade?newsfeed=true