Like many young victims at the time, Mr Tait had no professional support and was too ashamed to tell his parents. The perpetrator died shortly afterwards but his actions had a cancerous effect on David’s family life, alienating him from his parents.

A woman convicted in July of murdering her 16-month-old daughter is pregnant with another child. The fact that Jennifer Hannah is pregnant and married were surprises revealed Friday at a sentencing hearing in Davidson County Criminal Court. Hannah’s own attorney, Patrick McNally, did not know.

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http://www.tennessean.com/article/20110903/NEWS03/309020101/Convicted-child-murderer-pregnant

 

MOUNT CLEMENS, MI- A 28-year-old Macomb County man was being held Tuesday on a $1 million bond on charges that he sexually assaulted and impregnated a girlfriend’s 11-year-old daughter. Trevaun Brooks was arraigned in Mount Clemens District Court on first-degree and second-degree criminal sexual conduct charges.

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http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/local/sheriff-arrests-man-accused-of-impregnating-girl-11-20110905-wpms?314

PHOENIX – A father was arrested after admitting to throwing his infant daughter to the ground, causing several fractures on the child’s arm. Detectives were called by staff at Good Samaritan Hospital after Samuel Herrera, 21, took his infant daughter Audrina Herrera to the hospital with a broken arm.

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http://www.azfamily.com/news/local/Babys-arm-fractured-after-dad-admits-to-throwing-her-twice-129163223.html

BANNING, CA — Police say a 2-year-old has been found in a closet at the scene of a triple homicide in Banning. Police say three bodies, two of them the child’s parents, were discovered round noon at a home on the corner of Phillips and Williams streets.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-toddler-missing-parents-dead,0,2028618.story

Anthony Alvarez, a 40-year-old former assistant principal at Arvada High School, was arrested after his wife discovered sexually explicit messages he exchanged with a 15-year-old high school student on Facebook and forced her husband to turn himself in, according to the Arvada police arrest affidavit. Alvarez was arrested on charges of sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/06/anthony-alvarez-former-ar_n_950907.html?ncid=AOLDSN00280000000001

Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) is a rare disorder and is frequently over diagnosed. In fact, in the year 2000 (MPD) is no longer a working diagnosis. It has been changed to Dissociative Identity Disorder. Dissociative Disorder is the presence of two or more personalities. These personalites cannot recall specific information about themselves. There can be florid psychosis,delusions and hallucinations. It is common for self injurious behavior to occur, angry outbursts and suicidal gestures. Loss of childhood memories are common. A past history of severe trauma as a child usually helps confirm the diagnosis.

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http://www.abovehisshoulders.com/questions-about-sexual-abuse/multiple-personality-disorder-and-sexually-abused-victims/

A MUM abused by her pervert uncle has spoken of her child sex abuse ordeal and revealed how she can finally rebuild her life now her tormentor is dead. Alexander Pepperell molested Katie O’Neill from the time she was a tot. He was jailed for five years in January 2009 after being convicted of five offences of indecent assault and three charges of indecency with a child at Cardiff Crown Court in December 2008.

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http://www.walesonline.co.uk/showbiz-and-lifestyle/real-life/2011/09/04/mother-recalls-childhood-sex-abuse-at-hands-of-uncle-91466-29358651/#ixzz1X146e3QL

A three-year-old girl was allegedly raped before being murdered by an 18-year-old man in Goregaon late Friday evening. According to the police, when the child started crying for help, the accused allegedly smashed her head with a stone. She died in hospital the next day (Saturday).

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http://www.hindustantimes.com/Teenager-held-for-rape-murder-of-3-year-old/Article1-741703.aspx

STATE INTERVENTION GONE TOO FAR?

Four obese children are on the brink of being permanently removed from their family by social workers after their parents failed to bring their weight under control. In the first case of its kind, their mother and father now face what they call the ‘unbearable’ likelihood of never seeing them again. Their three daughters, aged 11, seven and one, and five-year-old son, will either be ‘fostered without contact’ or adopted.

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http://www.stateintervention.com/2011/09/parents-of-seven-told-your-children-are.html

Today’s youth faces an increasingly uncertain world where climate change, rapid urbanization, the economic recession and rising unemployment pose unprecedented challenges. There are 1.2 billion adolescents across the world, nine out of ten of these young people live in developing countries. Millions are denied their basic rights to quality education, health care, protection and exposed to abuse and exploitation. Recognizing the need to turn this vulnerable age into an age of opportunity, UNICEF has dedicated it flagship publication State of the World’s Children 2011 to adolescents. This video highlights the importance of investing in adolescents for breaking the cycles of poverty and inequity.

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http://www.unicef.org/sowc2011/

Citizen’s Guide to United States Federal Exploitation Laws

The Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) of the Department of Justice prosecutes individuals who violate federal law by sexually exploiting children and enforces the federal obscenity laws. CEOS works in conjunction with the 93 United States Attorney Offices around the country to prosecute individuals who commit crimes in violation of federal statutes that encompass the sexual exploitation of children though the possession, receipt, distribution or manufacture of child pornography, the sexual abuse of children, and the trafficking of children for sexual activity.

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http://www.justice.gov/criminal/ceos/citizensguide.html

Mom makes 4-year-old wear fake boobs for US reality show. Experts say Indian parents are not far behind. When Maddy Jackson’s mom dressed her in a sexy gown with a blonde wig, fake C-cup boobs and bum pads on a US reality show to make her look like voluptuous singer Dolly Parton, the viewers were left shocked. Maddy is four-years old. Wednesday’s incident, as reported by UK’s Daily Mail, caused an outcry among viewers and child rights activists who have set up a facebook page to urge the TV channel, TLC, to take the show Toddlers and Tiaras off the air.

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http://www.hindustantimes.com/Mom-makes-4-year-old-wear-fake-boobs/Article1-741139.aspx