A 25-year-old man has been arrested after allegedly advertising on Craigslist for ‘fathers willing to share their daughters’ for sex. Brandon J. Bergthold from Will County, Illinois was caught by an undercover cop posing as a father happy to turn over his daughter. When he was arrested outside a motel, Bergthold thanked cops for saving him from his addiction to child porn, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. The arrest followed two months of investigations by Will and Cook County sheriff police, who had been monitoring Craigslist, a classifieds website.  READ MORE HERE

A police officer under investigation for sexual misconduct with a teenage minor was shot and killed while on duty by fellow officers Saturday as they tried to arrest him on California’s central coast, authorities said. The officer was manning a DUI checkpoint when the shooting occurred shortly after 1 a.m. He was declared dead after emergency surgery at Marian Medical Center, Santa Maria police Chief Danny Macagni said in a statement. The officer, a four-year Santa Maria department veteran, had just learned of the internal investigation of an alleged sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl, and it became necessary to arrest him immediately, Macagni said. READ MORE HERE

A few weeks ago, a disturbing story broke that Morgan Freeman was maintaining a 10-year relationship with his step-granddaughter with whom he had a questionable sexual encounter when she was young. Yes, they are not related through blood, but Freeman is 72 and E’Dena Hines is now 27, which means she would have been 17 when they first… um… got together.  READ MORE HERE

Judge Blames SOCIAL WORKERS

• Baby girl suffered broken bones in her legs, ribs, right wrist, right hip, and both knees
  
• Judge tells father, ‘in my view you and your partner were let down by the social services’

A mother was arrested after she was captured on video shouting encouragement at her daughter during a fistfight with another teen, telling her to ‘hit harder’ and ‘bite her’. Sandra Padilla Miranda, 38, was arrested on Thursday after police discovered she allegedly asked the girl to come to her apartment complex in Orlando, Florida, so she could finish off a fight with ehr daughter that started at school.  READ MORE HERE

Blood found in house where baby Ayla disappeared

An End To Silence

WASHINGTON —The world of college sports had been thrown off balance by recent allegations of sexual abuse against Jerry Sandusky, a former assistant football coach at Penn State University. Sandusky is accused of having inappropriate sexual contact with young boys he met through the “Second Mile” charity he founded in 1977, and using the athletic facilities at Penn State as a haven for his abusive actions.  READ MORE HERE

A woman in Woods Cross, Utah, could face child endangerment charges after she made her son run alongside her car when she grabbed his belt and started to drive down the street.  The woman, who has not been identified, was angry at the 9-year-old boy because he missed his school bus.  Several motorists who saw the boy running down the street into oncoming traffic called police to report the incident. READ MORE HERE

As the clock struck midnight Saturday, Judge John H. Gasaway’s courtroom was silent as friends, law enforcement and others involved in the Perry case filled the gallery.The jury foreman read each count of the 34-count indictment in the child abuse/torture trial of the Perry family and announced that the jury had become deadlocked or hung on one count. Windie Perry, her husband Ernest and their adopted daughter Elizabeth were charged with abusing and torturing two adopted girls during a two-year period ending in 2008.  READ MORE HERE

Jeffrey Baldwin (20 January 1997 – 30 November 2002) was a Canadian child whose death from septic shock after years of mistreatment by his grandparents, Elva Bottineau and Norman Kidman, led to significant changes in policy by children’s aid societies in the granting of custody of children to relatives.  On 19 March 2003, his grandparents were arrested and charged with first-degree murder for their role in his death. The trial heard they had kept Jeffrey locked in a bedroom, where he lived in his own feces, and left him to drink from a toilet. The judge was told that the pair used the children as a source of income, collecting government support cheques while offering little in return. On 7 April 2006 they were convicted of second-degree murder by Justice David Watt in Ontario Superior Court. READ MORE HERE

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