The livid white-haired Syrian?s question to the U.N. blue helmet was rhetorical. He didn?t expect a real answer, not to that question. “Did the infant carry an RPG?” he asked angrily, gesturing wildly, his hands clad in red rubber gloves. He had washed the bodies of nine slain children already, one of whom was not even a year old, he told the U.N. observer. He wanted to know why. That question he actually wanted answered. The observer appeared overwhelmed. READ MORE HERE  (and) HERE

OXNARD, CA — A man has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a child inside a Walmart store in Oxnard. Police were called to the Walmart Supercenter Store at 2001 N. Rose Avenue in Oxnard around 8 p.m. on Friday. A child told officers that he had been in the electronics area of the store when Gonzalez approached him and sexually assaulted him. The incident was captured on the store’s surveillance cameras. READ MORE HERE

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An apparent murder-suicide rocked a Kansas town Friday. Four people are dead from gunshot wounds in Blue Spring, including two girls aged two and four years old. According to the Kansas City Star, the mother of the children discovered them and her boyfriend dead at the scene.  READ MORE HERE

This week, a Boise Idaho television news team released startlingly frank recordings of prison telephone conversations in which a mother who helped murder her 8 year old son gloated about how much fun she was having in prison.  Serving a 25 year sentence without the possibility of parole, the mother showed no remorse about her role in the murder, as she discussed with someone named “Jess” how much “fun” she was having in prison. READ MORE HERE

A woman was arrested on Sunday for stabbing her one-year-old daughter to death in Kagiso on the West Rand, police said. Warrant Officer Solomon Sibiya said police arrested the 19-year-old mother around 3am on Sunday at her house in Kagiso. “The little girl was found with five stab wounds to the chest. The child was still breathing when police arrived.”  READ MORE HERE

One of WA’s most notorious paedophiles was secretly preying on boys at Fairbridge Farm School more than a decade before his first arrest on sexual abuse charges, a victim has revealed. Robert Ernest Excell, who attained notoriety for spending 37 years in WA prisons after a string of sex crimes against children as young as seven, can now be shown to have begun a lifetime of child rape earlier than ever suspected. Revelations about his unpunished, early crimes against young children have emerged along with evidence Excell was himself a victim of sexual abuse at Fairbridge. READ MORE HERE

WELLINGTON: A global network that used social networking sites such as Facebook to distribute child pornography has been smashed after a tip-off from New Zealand authorities, officials said Tuesday. Investigators caught 55 people in 20 countries who were distributing child sexual abuse pictures and rescued 12 abused children, some of them babies, officials said.  READ MORE HERE

Summer vacation may mean an increase in abuse as students spend more time at home. Child abuse instances increase for both The Bridge and CASA during the summer months, sometimes they nearly double. The Bridge Children’s Advocacy Center and CASA say there are many stresses adding to the increase in abuse. “Sometimes mom and dad are having to pay for food when normally they would have been getting lunches and breakfast at school. Kids may be at home by themselves now because parents still have to work, even when school is out and they may not have the funds to send them to camp or to school,” said Lara Escobar with CASA. READ MORE HERE

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IRELAND–A new report by the Dublin Archdiocese reveals one in every 14 priests has been the subject of child abuse allegations. The shocking figure, reported on wwww.thejournal.ie, relates to official statistics going back over 70 years. The archdiocese report also states that the figure continues to rise with fresh allegations ongoing. Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin has been outspoken in cleaning up the mess in his own archdiocese and speaking out strongly. READ MORE HERE

A one-year-old boy who was reported missing in Covington, Kentucky, on Friday was discovered murdered in Cincinnati, and police say they have arrested the victim’s aunt. According to authorities, 26-year-old Marquita Burch has been charged with abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence in connection with the William Cunningham’s death.  READ MORE HERE

West Virginia State Police announced on Saturday that they had discovered four bodies in a wooded area believed to be those of a missing man, his girlfriend and his two young children. Police said the bodies were found about a mile from where Steven Hendrix’s missing 2003 Chevy Venture van was discovered on Friday night near Carl, in Nicholas County. Police suspected foul play based on the vehicle’s condition. READ MORE HERE

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Murder Suspect Wanted: James Roy Belknap, 26, has been identified as a suspect in the quadruple murder

A two-year-old girl who was found drowned in a bathtub was ‘systematically tortured’ prior to her death. Investigators believe Koralynn Fister was raped and suffered from prolonged abuse at the hands of her mother’s boyfriend. Details of the alleged abuse were revealed as James M Reeder appeared in court accused of her death from drowning and blunt head trauma.  READ MORE HERE

River Beach, FL  – Nicole McDowell, a 23-year-old Florida woman was jailed Sunday after she alleged beat a small child with a metal pole because he failed to keep track of her toddler son for her. According to police, McDowell was doing housework when she asked a 7-year-old neighbor boy to keep an eye on her son while she mopped her floor.  READ MORE HERE