Investigators are combing two chilly bodies of water in Maine this morning as the search for missing baby Ayla Reynolds continues. The Maine Warden Service and the Maine State Police diving units entered the Kennebec River and Messalonskee Stream — both located in the Waterville region where Reynolds was last seen — in hopes of locating the 2-year-old, according to a press release from the Maine Department of Public Safety. Authorities maintain that Reynold’s father, Justin DiPietro — believed to be among the last people to see Reynolds — has not been forthcoming and cooperative with information regarding his daughter’s disappearance. Police are currently investigating Reynolds blood samples discovered at DiPietro’s home. Divers are expected to continue their search through the afternoon. Earlier this week, Boston-area television station WCBV reported that authorities believed Reynolds to be dead — a claim that state police pubic information officer Steve McCausland dismissed as “unattributed, irresponsible and inaccurate,” according to the Bangor Daily News.  READ MORE HERE

 

The father of a three-month old who died after claims she fell off his lap twice fracturing her skull, rib, shoulder and arm while he was playing a video game has been convicted of murder. Jason Gallaway, 32, of Delaware was found guilty of first degree murder by abuse or neglect Thursday. He first reported his daughter Marissa had stopped breathing in December of 2010 at his Seaford home. A detective testifying in his trial said when he arrived at the home following the infant’s rush to a hospital Gallaway appeared distracted by a Play Station video game that had been left on pause beside him. READ MORE HERE

A police community support officer who raped a 12-year-old schoolgirl was today jailed for ten years. Michael Yardley, 35, had a seven-month affair with the child before his shocked wife Stephanie caught them kissing and cuddling on the sofa in the living room of the marital home. The PCSO, employed by Lincolnshire Police, was caught out after getting up early to tell his wife he was going for a run, according to Andrew Scott, prosecuting. Instead he went downstairs and let the girl into the house. His wife later went downstairs and caught them kissing on the sofa.  READ MORE HERE

 

A mother has allegedly been caught on camera tampering with her five-month-old baby’s IV in hospital after doctors suspected child abuse. Ladonna Parlier, 26, was filmed injecting an ‘unknown substance’ into her daughter Naomi’s intravenous tube in North Carolina, according to police.  Naomi, who weighs less than 8lbs, has a cleft palate and has been hospitalized for months for various health problems. READ MORE HERE

Police are pressing the three adults who were home the night missing toddler Ayla Reynolds disappeared to provide a full account of what happened, after investigators confirmed blood found in the father’s home belonged to the child.  State and local detectives believe Justin DiPietro, the girl’s father, and two other adults know more than they’ve told investigators so far, said Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety. The notion that someone slipped into the small house and took the 20-month-old without awakening anyone ‘doesn’t pass the straight-face test,’ McCausland said.  READ MORE HERE

Children’s horror after mother abandons them at gas station and disappears for 12 hours

A Clovis teacher used his darkened, empty classroom to take video of a blindfolded second-grade girl giving him oral sex in what he called “the lollipop game,” a federal investigator says. The disturbing accounts and videos, dating as far back as Jan. 3, came to light after the victim’s mother became suspicious because she could not see her daughter outside with the rest of her class in physical education at Freedom Elementary School last Thursday. The girl’s teacher, Neng Yang, 43, also was not with his class. READ MORE HERE

 

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MORE ON THIS STORY HERE:

• Clovis teacher pleads not guilty to child porn

• Clovis teacher faces new charges in second-grader’s molestation
• Clovis Unified meets parents of teacher accused of child molestation
  • PDF: Federal criminal complaint against Neng Yang (graphic content)
  • Clovis Unified meets parents of teacher accused of child molestation

Dog Mauling Case Grows More Complicated–Parents Meth Users

TARRANT COUNTY, Texas – City of Fort Worth officials are delaying the decision to put down four dogs that attacked a toddler in a back yard near Lake Worth yesterday until they can figure out exactly who owns the animals. The announcement seemingly reverses the statement made earlier Tuesday by Fort Worth Code Compliance, which said the dogs would be put down. Monday afternoon, 18-month-old Chance Walker, Jr., was severely bitten when he crawled through a doggie door at his family’s home and into the back yard where four Boxer dogs attacked him.

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OLYMPIA—Should adults face jail time if they fail to report child abuse? Some state lawmakers think so, and want to make it a crime if people see it happening and don’t report it. They’re calling one of these proposals the Jerry Sandusky bill, named after the former Penn State assistant football coach accused of sexually abusing children on campus.  READ MORE HERE