Jessica Funk-Haslam’s Body Found In Park Baseball Dugout

ROSEMONT, CA – Homicide detectives are Investigating the death of a girl whose body was discovered at a community park. A woman looking for recyclables made the gruesome discovery Tuesday morning in a dugout area of a baseball field at the park. Sacramento County Sheriff’s department officials have confirmed that the girl, identified as 13-year-old Jessica Funk-Haslam, was the victim of homicide. READ MORE HERE

A 3-year-old girl was left behind by her parents at a Chuck E. Cheese’s restaurant and they only realized that they had forgotten her when they saw a report about her on the evening news. Restaurant workers only knew that the girl, identified only as Harmony, was in need of help when she went up to a restaurant worker around 8.30pm Monday night saying that she was thirsty. The staff members told police that she had arrived at the Bel Air, Maryland childrens restaurant around 4pm with a large party of about 10 family members.  READ MORE HERE

The parents of twin 1-year-old boys found bound inside their home in Palatka have been charged with child abuse and neglect. One of the boys was admitted to Putnam County Medical Center for observation after the boys were discovered when deputies went to the house on Peniel Church Road looking for another person. Both boys had numerous bruises, according to the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office.  READ MORE HERE

Most abusers are members of the victim’s family, either a caretaker or parent or a close relative. This includes physical, emotional, and sexual abuse and child neglect.  90% of confirmed physical abuse and neglect cases involve caretakers of children.Contrary to common belief, males and females perpetrate abuse against their own children at surprisingly similar rates. “Among all abused children, those abused by their birth parents were about equally likely to have been abused by mothers as by fathers (50% and 58%, respectively), but those abused by other parents, parent-substitutes, or other, non-parental perpetrators were much more likely to be abused by males (80 to 90% by males versus 14 to 15% by females). Children who had been physically abused by their birth parents were more likely to have suffered at the hands of their mothers than their fathers (60% versus 48%), while those who had been physically abused by other parents or parent- substitutes were much more likely to have been abused by their fathers or father-substitutes (90% by their fathers versus 19% by their mothers).”On the whole, children are somewhat more likely to be maltreated by female perpetrators than by males: “65 percent of the maltreated children had been maltreated by a female, whereas 54 percent had been maltreated by a male.”This last statistic is unfair because it includes child neglect, in which mothers are named at rates that are absurd given that women accused of child neglect are almost always single mothers. The fathers who abandon their children are almost never convicted of child neglect. Still, the statistic shows the current state of affairs.  READ MORE HERE

COPPERAS COVE – A father from Central Texas has received two life sentences after he sexually assaulted his 5-month old daughter, which led to her death. Joseph Edward Allsop was originally charged with Capital Murder for the crime that took place back in 2005. Five month old Jade Allsop was found dead in a Copperas Cove apartment, and the father was suspected in the death. However, there was not enough evidence to charge him with the crime.  READ MORE HERE

PICKENS COUNTY, S.C. — An Easley man charged in the death of his girlfriend’s 7-month-old baby pleaded guilty to a lesser charge on Monday, as the family of the child spoke out on his behalf.Kevin Bryan Adam, of Piedmont, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the death of Braydon Alexander Odell.  READ MORE HERE

A mother was arrested after police received a tip-off she was selling sex with her six-year-old daughter to strangers in return for drugs. The 35-year-old, from Jacksonville Beach, Georgia, was arrested and charged with child neglect after a homeless man told police he had been to the house to use drugs and witnessed the sexual abuse. READ MORE HERE

HERMITAGE, Mo. — A Hickory County jury convicted a man from Strafford for raping a 2-year-old girl.  Marlin Lane faces a prison sentence between 10 and 30 years (life) without chance of parole when he’s sentenced in May for first-degree statutory sodomy. The jury issued the verdict on Friday.  The case was moved here from Webster County to try to ensure a fair outcome.  The charge was filed last year, about two years after investigators believe the abuse occurred. READ MORE HERE

UPPER WEST SIDE –It is a centuries-old religious circumcision ritual used by the ultra-orthodox called a metzitzah b’peh and it’s being blamed for the death of a 2-week-old baby boy in Brooklyn last September and that has many rabbis and mohels, who perform similar circumsions, upset. “Across the board, the infection rate for circumcisions is less than one half of one percent, ” said Cantor Philip Sherman, a certified mohel. “This is part of the anti-religious, anti-circumcision trend.”  READ MORE HERE

LONG BRANCH, N.J. –It’s a story that has parents saying what the heck is going on in my kid’s school. Four little boys headed for a bathroom break at the Gregory Elementary School In Long Branch, NJ run into two maintenance workers, who allegedly tie them up and gag them with tape, then capture the whole thing on a cell phone camera. And incredibly these guys are still collecting a paycheck.  READ MORE HERE

DAHAB, EGYPT –  MILLIONS of people around the world were left stunned when a video of Lena Fokina doing ‘baby yoga’ broke on the internet. The 51-year-old Russian was filmed spinning and flipping babies above her head and behind her back in such an outlandish fashion that several websites banned the footage for glorifying what to many would be considered child abuse. In fact, the moves were so shocking that most conceded they were being performed on a doll as no sane person would consider them acceptable. However, we tracked Lena down to a seminar called “Parenting the Deliberate Way” in Dahab, Egypt, where parents from across Europe were paying her to perform the same moves on their infants, some just a few months old. But Lena, who is a qualified PE teacher in her native Russia, insists the practice is totally safe and actually beneficial to children.

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LANSING, MI— A new call-in system for reporting abuse and neglect debuts Monday in Michigan, another step toward compliance with a court-ordered mandate for the state to improve conditions for children needing protective services. The new system establishes a single phone number statewide for reporting abuse or neglect related to children and adults. The number will be staffed around-the-clock, including weekends and holidays. Decisions on whether to investigate a child abuse case are expected to be made on the spot, no matter what time of day or night, before being directly referred to county-level child protective services staff. The new statewide phone number for reporting abuse and neglect is 1-855-444-3911. READ MORE HERE

CHILD MOLESTER: A little girl is attacked by a child molester while cutting through a back alley. This segment was taken from Episode 107 which aired October 17, 1989 on CBS. However, this segment was not seen on the original broadcast because the episode was interrupted by coverage of the Loma Pietra earthquake.

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