BROOKLYN, NY — Accused child killer, Levi Aron, was arraigned in a New York court Thursday on charges of murder and kidnapping in the death and dismemberment of an 8-year-old boy Hasidic boy who disappeared while walking home from day camp. Aron, 35, showed no emotion as he entered the court handcuffed and did not enter a plea.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Police have accused a local man of shaking his 4-week-old son so badly that the child’s ribs broke, his skull cracked and he may have permanent brain damage.Investigators said it is the worst case of child abuse they’ve seen in decades.The child’s maternal grandmother, Ingris Viscaino, said the child is on a ventilator at Florida Hospital Orlando.
LOS ANGELES– Los Angeles County is warehousing children in an office building with inadequate food and bedding, a social worker charges. “In some cases, the treatment that these children receive comes very close to the child abuse from which they are escaping,” supervising social worker Lincoln Saul wrote in a recent complaint letter, the Los Angeles Times reports.
PINE HILL — A borough man currently on parole for a child sex abuse conviction has been charged with sexually assaulting another child, Camden County Prosecutor Warren W. Faulk said Tuesday. Attilo Daversa, 68, of Fifth Street is charged with three counts of sexual assault, two counts of aggravated sexual assault and one count of endangering the welfare of a child.
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MYFOXNY.COM – The body of a missing eight-year-old boy from Borough Park, Brooklyn, was found Wednesday in two separate locations, according to the NYPD. A man seen in surveillance video taken on the day of the boy’s disappearance was arrested, said police. The boy’s remains were discovered inside a refrigerator in the third-floor attic of the suspect’s home in Kensington and in a dumpster in Greenwood Heights. Speaking during a news conference Wednesday, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly identified the man under arrest as maintenance supply clerk Levi Aron, 35. He was taken into custody inside his home in Kensington just before 3 a.m., according to police.
Levi Aron–Suspected Murderer
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As reported By The New York Post:
Cops said Aron, who works at the Empire Supply hardware store on McDonald Avenue in Kensington, allegedly suffocated the boy before chopping him up. Police said they also found three knives in a butcher block inside Aron’s apartment. Co-worker said Aron is divorced with no kids and acted completely normal at work yesterday.”I can’t believe this,” he said. “He was a strange guy, but he was here yesterday and he was fine after killing this little boy.” It was a tragic end to the “angelic” boy, who disappeared Monday afternoon after getting lost while walking alone for the first time from his Borough Park day camp and following a man down a busy street, sparking a massive search.
SOURCE: NY POST
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SALT LAKE CITY — Coming forward with her amazing story of survival, Jaycee Dugard — along with others like Elizabeth Smart — give other children who have suffered abuse the courage to talk about what happened to them. The story of Dugard’s kidnapping and 18 years of captivity has come to light in her new book “A Stolen Life.” Dugard was kidnapped near her California home in 1991 when she was just 11 years old. Convicted pedophile Phillip Garrido took her to his house and locked her in backyard sheds, where he subjected her to sexual assaults.
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Nine former students of Mount Bachelor Academy, a now-defunct school in Oregon for “troubled teens,” have filed a $14.25-million lawsuit against the school for emotional, sexual and physical abuse. The suit was filed on behalf of the plaintiffs on July 6 in Multnomah County Circuit Court by attorney Kelly Clark, who specializes in child sex abuse cases and who has successfully represented survivors of abuse by Catholic priests and other clergy. Clark recently won a $20 million judgment in a case of sexual abuse involving the Boy Scouts.
CHANDLER — The mother of a child who was beaten to death has been sentenced in a separate case to 15 years in prison for molesting a 10-year-old boy. The Chandler woman, Samantha Deal, 21, is the mother of Serenity Anne Deal, 5, who died June 4, a month after child welfare workers recommended she live with her father. Deal was sentenced July 5 in Lincoln County District Court. She pleaded no contest to felony forcible sodomy in connection with the May 28, 2009, sexual assault of a child.
WINSTON-SALEM — A Winston-Salem man was charged with felony child abuse after a hospital exam of his 4-month-old son revealed multiple fractures, police said today. On Friday, James Walter Duggins’ son was admitted to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center for health problems.
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http://www.news-record.com/content/2011/07/12/article/father_faces_felony_child_abuse_charge
The Casey Anthony story grabbed headlines around the world. It tore at people’s emotions, and brought up the topic of child abuse once again. Though there are hundreds of thousands of cases of child abuse, most don’t make the headlines. The children simply suffer in silence. Child abuse is much more than bruises and broken bones. No caring person would want to let a child suffer, yet many people are either scared to interfere, aren’t sure what to do, or they don’t recognize the signs of child abuse.
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http://www.wfaa.com/news/health/kids-doctor/125400873.html
OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma County prosecutors formally charged Tuesday two women in connection with a severe case of child abuse. Jennifer Chapman-Ragland is accused of allowing two men to rape a 3-year-old boy in exchange for drugs. The boy’s mother, Leana Lauck, is accused of waiting nearly a day before bringing her son to the hospital. According to new court documents, the nightmare for the 3-year-old boy possibly lasted for three days at an Oklahoma City hotel on the southwest side. On June 19, the boy was sent to Children’s Hospital with a long list of injuries. The injuries include chemical burns on his face, a head injury and a torn rectum.
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http://www.news9.com/story/15071242/two-okc-women-formally-charged-in-severe-case-of-child-abuse
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David Eugene Bridgeman, 28, is charged in Tulsa District Court with one count of child-abuse murder and child neglect in the May 4 death of his niece, Adriana Hernandez. Paula Christine Najar, 21, is facing charges of child neglect and permitting child abuse. Glenpool police allege that Bridgeman threw Adriana around her bedroom and to the floor, hitting her several times. She had brain trauma, a lacerated bowel and multiple bruises to her face and head, according to the charges.
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ORANGE CITY — A 4-week-old may die after his father, frustrated over the baby’s crying, threw him against a couch, then the boy landed on the floor. Ivan Charles, 23, was arrested today and charged with aggravated child abuse and child neglect, a charging affidavit showed. The child suffered eight fractured ribs, detachment and bleeding of his retinas, multiple skull fractures and bleeding from the brain. He also had a fractured right arm and right leg, the police arrest report states.
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