FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Two Fort Wayne parents have been charged after police said they drove their car with their four children strapped to the hood Monday. Jessica Clark, 29, and Aaron Stefanski, 29, were both charged with neglect of a dependent. Stefanski was also charged with three counts of operating while intoxicated. READ MORE HERE

PROVIDENCE, RI — A TSA officer discovered something more than just fluff inside three stuffed animals in a 4-year old boy’s carry-on bag. As the bag was going through the X-ray checkpoint at T.F. Green International Airport the agent spotted gun components inside a teddy bear, a rabbit and a Mickey Mouse doll. READ MORE HERE

A family struggles to put together the pieces of a brutal and bizarre murder. A 14-year-old Indianapolis girl will be facing preliminary murder charges after she repeatedly stabbed her 4-year-old cousin, Leon Thomas Ill, to death. According to ABC News, the girl was watching her cousin along with his eleven-year-old brother at their grandparent’s house Saturday night when the murder occurred. READ MORE HERE

Trauma and Children
Learn about the signs of Post Traumatic Stress in children and how you can help them to recover from direct or indirect violence. A team of experienced clinicians and caregivers will discuss how we can protect and empower our children.

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Part 1 Trauma and Children (59 min)

Part 2 Stress Reduction Techniques (26 min)

A 24-year-old Orlando man has been charged with first-degree murder of his two-month-old son. The baby, who lived full-time with his mother in South Florida, was on a two-week visit with his father, Eddie Lee Daniels, when he died on Friday. An autopsy report said the child suffered internal bleeding and serious head wounds including ‘frontal bulging and retinal hemorrhaging behind the eyes’ which were signs of ‘possible abuse’.
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St. Paul, MN – Katie Elaine Lewis, a 24-year-old Minnesota woman, was charged Friday after she allegedly took her infant son to a hospital, then tried to suffocate him when doctors were unable to find anything wrong with him. According to police, officers were dispatched to Children’s Hospital in St. Paul after receiving a 911 call from a hospital staffer.  READ MORE HERE

Boulder, CO – According to police, a Colorado youth hockey coach has admitted having online chats where he asked young male teen players to send him nude photos and challenged them to ‘masturbation races’ on Facebook. Police failed to see this as merely an effort to foster competitiveness. Zachary Meints, 24, was arrested in response to police allegations that Meints had inappropriate online communication with boys as young as 13 when Meints was an assistant coach with the Boulder Hockey Club. Police said that he later moved to the Rocky Mountain RoughRiders youth hockey club where the conduct continued. READ MORE HERE

Said she would do it again because school administration failed to help her son

An Indiana mother who sent her gay son to school with a stun gun after administrators apparently didn’t do enough to stop the bullying against him said she would do it again — even though the teen now faces expulsion. “I do not promote violence — not at all — but what is a parent to do when she has done everything that she felt she was supposed to do … at the school?” the mother, Chelisa Grimes, told CNN’s Don Lemon on Sunday. “I did feel like there was nothing else left for me to do, but protect my child.” READ MORE HERE

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Investigation shows kids being raped, sodomized on Facebook Pages

Editor’s note: This is the first of a four-part series examining the dark side of Facebook.

(EXPLICIT CONTENT: This report contains graphic details of sexual abuse of children as it has appeared in numerous locations on Facebook. WND immediately reported images of child pornography and child sexual abuse to the FBI. Censored screenshots published are among the mildest of those found.) She’s a tiny brunette with brown eyes, barely 10, and she’s naked – posing for the man who raped her and traded her photo like currency with thousands of insatiable predators on Facebook. The girl doesn’t smile, because she knows what comes next. Her abuser will share photos and earn bragging rights from thousands of others just like him who will exchange their own titillating snapshots – often images uploaded from cell phones – of boys and girls they molest.  READ MORE HERE

Police believe family friend Christopher Mayes abducted them and may have forced the family to cut and dye their hair to conceal their identities

A desperate hunt for a mother and her three children missing since last month has led to a grim discovery, as two bodies were found buried at a Mississippi home. The bodies have not yet been positively identified, but police indicated on Sunday that they believe one to be Tennessee mom Jo Anne Bain, 31, who disappeared along with her daughters, Adrienne, 14, Alexandria, 12, and Kyliyah, 8. MyFoxDFW reported that the remains were found Friday at a home linked to the prime suspect in the family’s disappearance, Adam Christopher Mayes.

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Doctor indicted on child rape charges

DAYTON, Ohio  – A Washington Township doctor was indicted Friday on child sex charges. The Montgomery County Sheriff issued a warrant accusing the suspect of sex crimes against children.  They arrested him a short time ago, around 5:30 p.m. spoke with his neighbor, Frank Howard,  who said if the allegations are true he should be go to prison “forever.” READ MORE HERE

A former Northern Virginiapolitical leader was convicted Wednesday of molesting two girls during a sleepover party for his daughter’s birthday last summer. Michael Gardner, husband of former Falls Church mayor Robin Gardner, a current member of the City Council, was convicted of two counts of sexual battery and one count of object penetration. He reacted stoically to the verdict. READ MORE HERE

KINGMAN – A man who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a young girl wept quietly from the defendant’s table Thursday as he listened to the girl and her mother describe what effect his actions have had on their family. READ MORE HERE

Infant in Child Abuse Case Improves, Rummage Sale Fundraiser Planned

CANTON, MI–In the days following Dec. 7, 2011, family members of Hunter Sewejkis, then just four months old, began planning a funeral as they prepared to disconnect the infant from life support after Hunter was critically injured in a case of suspected child abuse. Hunter’s father, 25-year-old Anthony Sewejkis, faces trial in Wayne County Circuit Court beginning May 8 on charges of first-degree child abuse after being accused of twice slamming the infant’s head into the floor of the family’s Michigan Avenue home in Canton. He faces up to 15 years in prison.  READ MORE HERE