Geriatric researchers have discovered that events that took place long ago can disrupt sleep quality among older adults. Suffering from parental abuse as a child increases a person’s chances of having poor sleep quality in old age, according to a research article in the current issue of the Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological and Social Sciences. Scientists analyzed information from a sample of 877 adults aged 60 years and above and found that early parental emotional abuse was associated with a higher number of sleep complaints in old age.

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A Hopatcong woman failed to stop her husband from beating and, ultimately, killing her 2-month-old daughter in Maryland, authorities allege. Jessica Denise Peavy, 20, has been charged with second-degree child abuse and is being held on $25,000 bail. “She obviously, as a parent, has responsibility for the child and she can’t stand by and see the child being abused and fail to act,” prosecutor Lindell K. Angel said Thursday morning.

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Mark Allen Hyzer Jr., 25, a teacher at Beechfield Elementary/Middle School in Irvington, Maryland has reportedly been arrested on allegations of committing sex acts with a 15-year-old boy. Reportedly, Hyzer has been charged with third-degree and fourth-degree sex offenses, sexual abuse of a minor and second-degree assault.

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Police: Restaurant Staff Reports ‘Wasted’ Parents Passed Out At Table, Dangled Baby By Arms’

SANTA FE, N.M. — Santa Fe police said they arrested a Las Vegas couple and charged them with child abuse after Red Lobster restaurant staff members reported witnessing the parents abusing their 5-month-old baby girl Monday night.The Red Lobster’s local manager and waitress said the couple was passing out at the table, hardly able to speak, according to police.Restaurant staff said they saw the mother was shaking and dangling the baby by the arms, trying to make her dance. Police said the waitress reported the couple was “clearly wasted.”

Forty-nine children in the United States died of heatstroke after they were left in hot cars last year, a grim record. But as child-welfare groups try to prevent more deaths with information campaigns and as inventors work on technical fixes, both efforts founder on a hard reality: Good parents don’t think it can happen to them. It can, experts and statistics say, and new recommendations on rear-facing car seats could make the problem even worse.

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Sex Offender Arrested for Raping 2 Children

LINCOLN, Del.– Delaware State Police have arrested a registered sex offender accused of raping two young girls he was supposed to be watching. Stanley O. Taylor, 55, of Lincoln, was taken into custody Sunday, June 5, and charged with four counts of second-degree rape, one count of first-degree attempted rape, one count of sex offender-unlawful sexual conduct, two counts of sexual exploitation of a child- photograph/film in sexual act and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child.

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Former Patrick Henry Middle School special education teacher Nicolas Lee Jastorff, 26, was sentenced Tuesday to 45 years in the South Dakota State Penitentiary for multiple charges of rape in the fourth degree and solicitation of a minor involving two 13-year-old girls.

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COLUMBUS, OH — The Ohio Supreme Court ruled that sexual activity between two children under the age of 13 without force or impairment cannot be defined as rape. In August 2007, a 12-year-old boy was accused of engaging in sexual acts with an 11-year-old boy in Licking County. A young witness said the older, taller boy would bribe the younger one with video games, but the conduct did not occur until the 11-year-old consented, according to the case background.

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A Checotah elementary teacher faces additional sex-related charges after investigators turned up evidence showing there may be other victims. Authorities say Michelle McCutchan, 38, engaged in sexual relations with at least three teenage boys, two of them students. McIntosh County Assistant District Attorney Crieg Rittenhouse charged McCutchan with nine counts each of second-degree rape and sodomy as a result of the teacher’s alleged involvement with the students.

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A male nursery worker has admitted raping a toddler in his care and to grooming more than 20 other girls online. Paul Anthony Wilson (20) pleaded guilty at Birmingham Crown Court today to two counts of the oral rape of a girl aged two or three at the nursery where he worked. Wilson, from the Nechells area of Birmingham, also admitted a further 45 charges of making and distributing indecent images and inciting youngsters to engage in sexual activity on the internet.

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A Kearns man has pleaded guilty to a reduced count of child abuse homicide in the death of his 4-year-old daughter. Clinton Joseph Hart, 22, pleaded guilty Monday in 3rd District Court to one count of child abuse homicide, a third-degree felony, and two counts of second-degree felony child abuse in connection with the June 2010 death of Vanessa Hart.

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