NEW!!! DREAMCATCHERS MISSING CHILDREN’S DIVISION

Missing Children Division Director: Kinsley Braun

Too Many Are Missing…And they are still among us. 2,300 Americans go missing on a daily basis: Both children and adults. And yet so many go unrecognized, unreported, and forgotten before their communities know they’re gone.

Dreamcatchers new Missing Children’s Division is focused on bringing each of these cases to the forefront and helping locate them!!

Please visit our Missing Children’s Division page here!

You can also add our Missing Children’s Division FACEBOOK page here!

Please email inquires, tips or missing children submissions to:  dreamcatchermissingchildrendiv@gmail.com

A 49 year old Buena woman is facing manslaughter charges after allegedly kicking her pregnant daughter in the stomach– killing the unborn baby. It’s a case that’s saddened neighbors and even seasoned detectives. Dulce Villegas of Buena can’t believe her neighbor 49 year old Querida Guerrero allegedly kicked her 22 year old pregnant daughter Helen Guerrero in the stomach– killing Helen’s unborn baby.

READ MORE HERE:

http://www.kapptv.com/article/2011/aug/25/buena-woman-facing-manslaughter-alleged-assault-ki/

CHANDLER, Ariz. – Chandler police detectives arrested a care provider and her boyfriend on child abuse charges after an infant was found with 14 broken bones. Angelica Jimenez, 25, was booked into the Maricopa County Jail on one count of child abuse and hindering prosecution. Steven Saldana, 30, was booked on three counts of child abuse.

READ MORE HERE:

http://www.fox11az.com/news/local/Baby-suffers-14-broken-bones-care-provider-boyfriend-arrested-128331788.html?hpt=ju_bn6

BRAUNAU, Austria — An 80-year old Austrian man has been taken into custody for allegedly sexually abusing his wife and his two mentally disabled daughters for more than 40 years, police and a prosecutor said Thursday. “We fear that he might bother his victims or continue to abuse women,” chief prosecutor Alois Ebner, who ordered the arrest, told CNN. A police official did not name either the suspect or the alleged victims.

READ MORE HERE:

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-austrian-man-accused-raping-disabled-daughters,0,1200739.story

Psychological abuse is a subtle method used to destroy a child’s sense of well being, to instill fear or terror, or prevent, undermine or destroy confidence.  The use of psychological abuse, brutality or torture on a growing child is most damaging.  It prevents the child from being who they were born to be, and limits or destroys their ability to function normally in life.  It is the most damagning of child abuse, without leaving any physical scars.

READ MORE HERE:

http://www.privatefamilymatter.com/psychological/psychological-abuse

Spruce Grove resident Melanie Duhan doesn’t have many memories from her childhood. The ones she does are painful reminders of the vicious abuse she and her mother suffered through for years. Duhan recalled a time as a child when she watched her six-foot-four, 250-pound father beat her mom “like a dog” and drag her by her hair across the front yard, kicking her with his steel-toed boots.

“I sat there frozen not being able to do anything,” said Duhan, now 47.

But, she’s not a victim anymore…

READ MORE HERE:

http://www.sprucegroveexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3273367

A 27-year-old Tucson man was arrested this week after police say he abused his infant son, police said. Thomas Francis Wood is facing five felony counts of child abuse in connection with the injuring his 1-month-old son, causing the child to have brain bleeds and numerous fractures, said Sgt. Maria Hawke, a Tucson Police Department spokesman. Wood was booked into Pima County jail.

Read more here: http://azstarnet.com/news/local/crime/article_85bdb73a-ceba-11e0-83b4-001cc4c03286.html#ixzz1W64jv5lW

A Hubert couple accused of seriously abusing their five children were charged Thursday with counts related to sexual abuse. Larry W. Anderson, 25, was charged Thursday by Onslow County Sheriff’s Sgt. John Getty with child abuse by sex act and taking indecent liberties with a minor. Janet Lynn Anderson, 28, was charged with accessory after the fact in connection to her husband’s charges.

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http://www.jdnews.com/news/charges-94348-parents-sex.html

Rally allowed despite state ban on activity in front of children

Child abuse complaints have been filed against the city of Asheville, N.C., and its police department following a “rally” last weekend that promoted “equal rights” for women and encouraged them to take off their shirts. They did. But while the state allows that level of nudity under some circumstances, it forbids it in front of children, and there were children at the rally, critics have documented.

Church posts names of Boston clergy accused of child sex abuse

(CNN) – A total of 250 clerics in the Boston Archdiocese have been accused of child abuse in recent decades, according to information made public Thursday by Cardinal Sean O’Malley in an attempt to help resolve an issue tearing at the core of Catholicism.

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http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/25/church-posts-names-of-boston-clergy-accused-of-child-sex-abuse/

New Study Warns of the Dangers of Social Media to Children and Teens

A new report, which is almost sort of certain to attract some rather harsh feedback from hardcore social media enthusiasts, claims that teens who are addicted to social networking sites such as Facebook and Myspace, are more likely to fall victim to alcohol, nicotine, and even marijuana than those who shy away from socialising in the virtual world.

UPDATE!! Suspect has been arrested. Read more here!

VIDEO: Sexual Predator Seen at El Segundo Apartments, CA

EL SEGUNDO, CA — Police are searching for a sexual predator who masturbated while watching a toddler playing in a kiddie pool at an apartment complex in El Segundo. The man was seen peering through an opening in a fence near an apartment complex in the 300 block of Bungalow Dr. on August 20. Police say the suspect began to masturbate while watching a toddler playing in a kiddie pool.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-el-segundo-sexual-predator-kiddie-pool,0,2585173.story

RICHMOND, Texas — An accused child molester on the run from the law is back in custody. Charles Dyer is accused of sexually abusing a child and also having a stolen grenade launcher. Dyer was headed to trial in Duncan last week when he bolted. Thursday morning, a call about a suspicious person led authorities south of Houston, Texas straight to the fugitive. Dyer will now be brought back to Oklahoma to face his sexual abuse allegations in addition to new federal charges.

READ MORE HERE:

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/kfor-armed-dangerous-ok-fugitive-captured-in-texas-20110825,0,4630953.story