On Monday night, an 11-year-old girl from Safety Harbor told her mother she felt dizzy. Her stomach hurt. She had a headache. The mother and her live-in boyfriend, Gregory J. Johns, took the girl to the hospital. The pair waited in a lobby as a doctor examined her. After a few minutes, the doctor came back with news: The girl was pregnant. Her mother was distraught, and so was Johns. He asked for the car keys. He needed a smoke. Johns never came back.  READ MORE HERE

Raleigh, N.C. — The former president of Wake Technical Community College entered a special guilty plea to a number of charges Wednesday in connection with allegations that he endangered the lives of his three grandchildren. Bruce Howell, who was Wake Tech’s president for 23 years until 2003, entered an Alford plea to three counts of misdemeanor child abuse and one count of injury to property.  READ MORE HERE

JUNCTION CITY, Kansas — A Junction City minister at the center of a church sex scandal has been arrested in connection with two additional cases. Jordan Young, 25, is facing child molestation charges in four separate cases stemming from an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct at Faith Tabernacle Apostolic Church in Junction City where he had been serving as the music minister. Young was originally taken into custody at the Junction City Police Department at 11:30 AM on Monday, August 13, 2012.  READ MORE HERE

Angela Estrella, 36, a federal corrections officer from Miami, is facing attempted murder charges after State Troopers said she was purposely trying to kill her children after leading troopers on a high-speed chase in Osceola County, Fla. and ultimately crashing her car earlier this week. Estrella was in a Fla. courtroom yesterday, albeit detained in a cage for her own protection, as the judge read off the list of charges against her.  READ MORE HERE

A pedophile who downloaded child porn has been spared jail after a judge said locking him up could be more dangerous to society in the long term. Jason Fairfax, 35, of Bargoed, south Wales, had amassed a collection of around 2,700 indecent images when police raided his home earlier this year. The photographs and videos were later graded from one to five – with the higher the category, the more serious the offense.  READ MORE HERE

How old is old enough when it comes to sexual relationships?

Do you know the risk of pregnancy? Do you know about the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases (STD)? Do you know about contraception? Do you know about the social implications of what you are doing? Are you ready to face all the pressures from the consequences of what you are doing? These are the questions that need to be posed (not verbatim) to any adolescent who is about to have consensual sex or have had consensual sex to see if they are mature enough to make a rational decision, says Datuk Dr Amar Singh, senior consultant community paediatrician at the Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun Ipoh, Perak.  READ MORE HERE

Teens and Sex

Nearly 3 in 10 young teens ‘sexually active’ – NBCNews.com

Teens and Sex | Psychology Today

Rebecca’s  obstetrician was off duty on the day she went into labor in 2010. That was a problem, because Rebecca was taking methadone on doctor’s orders. She had been prescribed it eight months earlier, in an effort to help break her addiction to Vicodin. Doctors told her it was the best thing she could do for the fetus growing inside her. But that did not matter to the hospital staff, who seemed sure that Rebecca was abusing methadone. Between contractions, Rebecca tried frantically to convince the staff that she was only doing what her doctor had ordered. Her son, Sam, was delivered via Caesarean section in good health: 8 pounds, 1 ounce. But instead of waking up to Sam’s face, the first she saw was the surgeon’s.  READ MORE HERE

GUILTY! Jury convicts man who gang raped 11-year-old for months after just 20 minutes…. but he’s still missing after vanishing from court

Eric McGowen has been sentenced to 99 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of aggravated sexual assault of a child in the first trial stemming from the horrific gang-rape of a Texas 11-year-old — but the 20-year-old is still missing after brazenly escaping from court yesterday. McGowen hasn’t been seen since he vanished during a break in proceedings on Wednesday afternoonand the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office had no update on his whereabouts today. But Judge Mark Morefield chose to push ahead with the trial without the defendant, calling the remaining witnesses. Jurors deliberated for just 20 minutes before finding the missing man guilty and after another 30 minutes they had decided his sentence.  READ MORE HERE

A teaching assistant was arrested on Tuesday after leaving her six-year-old daughter with a group of homeless people so that she could allegedly go and satisfy her ‘manic sexual rage’, by prostituting herself. Laura Lee Kelly left the young girl with the strangers, in Evergreen Park, Mesa, Arizona. She asked them to babysit and handed them beers in return for their trouble, Fox News reported. Kelly then went and had sex with two men, allegedly in exchange for cash.  READ MORE HERE

The hunt for a fugitive monk who faces pedophile allegations is being stepped up by Scotland Yard today with the release of the first clear photograph of him since his arrest and subsequent disappearance 18 months ago. The image of 68-year-old Laurence Soper, wearing a traditional habit, was taken about ten years ago and will appear on police websites. Religious magazine Faith Today will also circulate the picture and alert monasteries worldwide.  READ MORE HERE

York, PA – Victoria Manning, 29, and her boyfriend Darren Leber, 33, were charged last week after they allegedly beat and burned Manning’s 3-year-old son over a period of several months. According to police, officers were dispatched last week when Manning brought her 3-year-old son to York hospital and the boy was found to be suffering from numerous injuries and a severe infection to a burn on the arch of his foot.  READ MORE HERE

ROCK SPRINGS, Wyoming  — Sheriff’s officials in Wyoming are asking the public for help in the investigation of a murdered teen from Pomona. Rigoberto Alvarado, Jr., 17, was reported missing by his father on July 30 after he didn’t return home to their apartment in Rock Springs the night before. His body was found on August 19 near a long-abandoned coal mine outside of town after days of intense searching.  READ MORE HERE