Routinely screening all children seen in the ER for signs of maltreatment seems to have improved child abuse detection in the Netherlands, a new study finds. The progress suggests that such systematic screening helps catch more cases of child abuse, researchers report in the journal Pediatrics. But whether the findings could extend to other countries is unclear. And one emergency physician doubted the usefulness in U.S. hospitals.  READ MORE HERE

When parents disagree about discipline, the underlying issue is often a conflict in parenting styles. Parenting styles develop in a complex process from childhood history to adult knowledge and experience. Because parenting styles are rooted in individual belief systems, polarization and conflict are common when parents’ styles differ. The most common conflict occurs between parenting couples who have authoritarian and indulgent styles. The authoritarian parent is adult-centered and high in control efforts. The indulgent parent is child-centered and low in control efforts.  READ MORE HERE

The wife of the Minnesota State football coach accused of child pornography made an emotional statement today, saying that her husband is innocent and charges against him were ‘ridiculous and baseless’.  Melodee Hoffner said she hoped authorities would reconsider the charges against her husband after videos of their three children, aged nine, eight and five, dancing naked were found on his school cell phone by an IT worker.  Todd Hoffner, of Eagle Lake, faces two felony counts related to child pornography after authorities said they found nude images of the 46-year-old’s children earlier this month.  READ MORE HERE

INDIANAPOLIS – The man arrested in the death of a 3-year-old girl told police he beat her because she soiled herself, according to court documents. Jose Cruz, 21, was the boyfriend of the girl’s mother. He was arrested after police were called to the home in the 3700 block of Long Wharf Drive Tuesday for the girl’s injuries. She died Wednesday night .  READ MORE HERE

Neighbors tackle child kidnap suspect after mom punches him

PORTLAND – Strangers helped a Portland mom tackle and capture a man she said tried to drag her 6-year-old daughter into the bushes Sunday night. Antoinette Robinson told KGW she saw the man grab her daughter and her instincts kicked in. She sprinted outside and started punching him. The girl had been playing outside, at a friend’s house, when the young man grabbed her just before 6:30 p.m. in the 16900 block of SE Lafayette Street, according to police.  READ MORE HERE

Willie ‘Slick’ Parks faces aggravated assault charges after his ex-girlfriend filed a criminal complaint claiming that Parks broke her nose, gave her a concussion, and was beaten so badly that  she miscarried. According to Huffington Post,  the complaint also says that Parks did not allow the 28-year-old-woman to go to the hospital for days after the assault.  READ MORE HERE

Two teenagers, 18-year-old Tyler Best and 16-year-old John Freeman, have been arrested in connection to the murder of five year old Isabella Tenant, whose remains were found in a trash can last Monday. The two were arrested after Best, described as a family friend, led the police to a trash can, where the remains of five year old Isabella were found.  READ MORE HERE

20 year old, Myriah Moreland of Montesano, Washington sent pornographic pictures of her six-month-old son to Christopher Dupea of Spanaway, Washington through use of the social networking site, Skout. According to the New York Daily News, Skout’s monitors immediately notified The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children once they came across the exploitative material. READ MORE HERE

COLUSA – A 14-year-old boy was found shot to death on a Colusa street Thursday night. Friends and family are overwhelmed with grief after the teen was gunned down on a residential street in the small town. Family has identified him as 14-year-old Miguel Muniz. “Whoever did this, I swear you’re going to pay for this,” his sister Alma Gallardo said on Friday. “He never caused any problems to anybody. “He was 14, he was 14. He was still a kid.”  READ MORE HERE

Former Playboy Playmate turned DJ, Colleen Shannon was arrested Thursday night afterallegedly trying to smuggle an unidentified man into the United States through the Canadian border. The 34-year-old blonde bombshell was arrested by Customs and Border Protection and was taken into custody at Clinton County Jail in Upstate New York. She was booked for violating a statue prohibiting “bringing in and harboring aliens.”  READ MORE HERE

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Jesse Pomeroy was fourteen when he was arrested in 1874 for the sadistic murder of a four-year-old boy.  He was quickly dubbed “The Boston Boy Fiend.”  His rampage had begun three years earlier with the sexual torture of seven other boys. For those crimes Pomeroy was sentenced to reform school, but then he was released early. Not long afterward he mutilated and killed a 10-year-old girl who came into his mother’s store. A month later, he snatched four-year-old Horace Mullen. He took Horace to a swamp outside town and slashed him so savagely with a knife that he nearly decapitated the child. Because of his strange appearance he had a milky white eye—and his previous behavior, suspicion turned to him. When he was shown the body and asked if he’d done it, he responded with a nonchalant, “I suppose I did.”  Then the girl was found buried in his mother’s cellar and he confessed to that murder, too. He was convicted and sentenced to death, although a public outcry against condemning a child to hang commuted the sentence to four decades of solitary confinement.  READ MORE HERE

I told no one. For so many reasons, I told no one.

I knew him. Hell, I’d had a crush on him for years. Co-captain of the football team. Swoon-worthy. The talk of mid-night sleepovers with the girls. So I told no one.

I’d walked outside with him — into the dark. I was drunk. When he kissed me, I kissed him back. So I told no one.
Because had he not done what he did, I might have. Oh hell, I would have.

Had I had the choice. But he took the choice away.  And I told no one.

Because I thought it was my fault.

Yeah, he pulled the trigger, but I walked outside with him, said the voice.

Into the dark.

When he kissed me, I kissed him back.

I handed him the gun, the voice told me. It must have been my fault.   READ MORE HERE

MARION – A local woman charged with two counts of rape has pleaded guilty to both counts. Laura Owens, 26, of Marion, may be one of the first women to be charged with and convicted of rape in Marion County. An initial search of court records by clerk Julie Kagel did not produce any other cases.  READ MORE HERE