As the clock struck midnight Saturday, Judge John H. Gasaway’s courtroom was silent as friends, law enforcement and others involved in the Perry case filled the gallery.The jury foreman read each count of the 34-count indictment in the child abuse/torture trial of the Perry family and announced that the jury had become deadlocked or hung on one count. Windie Perry, her husband Ernest and their adopted daughter Elizabeth were charged with abusing and torturing two adopted girls during a two-year period ending in 2008.  READ MORE HERE

Jeffrey Baldwin (20 January 1997 – 30 November 2002) was a Canadian child whose death from septic shock after years of mistreatment by his grandparents, Elva Bottineau and Norman Kidman, led to significant changes in policy by children’s aid societies in the granting of custody of children to relatives.  On 19 March 2003, his grandparents were arrested and charged with first-degree murder for their role in his death. The trial heard they had kept Jeffrey locked in a bedroom, where he lived in his own feces, and left him to drink from a toilet. The judge was told that the pair used the children as a source of income, collecting government support cheques while offering little in return. On 7 April 2006 they were convicted of second-degree murder by Justice David Watt in Ontario Superior Court. READ MORE HERE

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A Ukrainian hockey coach was charged today in federal court with traveling for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct and transporting a person to engage in criminal sexual activity. The case is being investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).  Ivan Pravilov was accused of molesting a 14-year-old boy in his apartment in the Mt. Airy section of Philadelphia.  READ MORE HERE

OCALA, FL — A 13-year-old girl was brutally beaten on a school bus, all because she wanted to sit down, authorities said. In all, seven children were arrested for the attack, which happened in Ocala, Florida. The beating was caught on the bus’ surveillance camera. The teenage victim suffered a concussion before the driver could break things up. The girl’s mother says the reason for the fight was petty.  READ MORE HERE

A Special Forces soldier has been jailed after being accused of using an electric dog collar to punish two small children. Michael Lee Mitchell is also accused of torturing the girls by making them carry out extreme physical exercise until they vomited. The eight-year-old girl told authorities Mitchell would put the dog collar on arm after and use it to shock her if she stopped running. She told police Mitchell threatened to put the device on her neck before wrapping it around her arm.  READ MORE HERE

MANCHESTER, Tenn. – A Manchester man charged with child abuse, domestic violence and drug possession is recovering after inmates in the Coffee County jail attacked him on January 11.  Jeremy Neal had to be taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center for reconstructive surgery on his teeth, face and eyes.  The Coffee County sheriff estimates the medical cost for the county will reach $100,000. The county will cover the cost because Neal was in county custody when he was attacked. READ MORE HERE

STERLING, Colo. — More than 200 people gathered to remember the life of 3-year-old Caleb Pacheco, a toddler whose body was discovered underneath a mobile home on Sunday.  “Why did this have to happen like this, they could have done something, like an amber alert or something,” said relative Rose Pacheco.  Investigators in Logan County discovered the boy’s body after receiving tips from family members that the child had not been seen or heard from for several months. The Pacheco family is hoping an investigation into complaints at the Logan County Social Services office could help uncover the timeline that lead to the child’s death. READ MORE HERE

HOUSTON — A woman’s baby is dead and her boyfriend is in jail, accused of killing him. Now, she’s telling us what she says happened. Tiffany Wells is grieving. “I miss him so much,” Wells said. But she is also angry. “Y’all need to get your facts together before you start posting (expletive) all over the news,” she told us. After several attempts by Eyewitness News to reach her on Monday, she came home to the west Houston apartment she shared with her 16-month-old son, Casen Wells, and her fiance, Joshua Beall. Casen is now dead, and police believe Beall is responsible.  READ MORE HERE

A primary mission at the National Association of Adult Survivors of Child Abuse is to help abused people who have reached maturity get into recovery. If you are a man or woman who experienced sexual abuse, violence, severe neglect or emotional trauma in your youth, and are still suffering its lasting effects, we want to help you have a happy, healthy, productive life, and meaningful relationships.

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Child Sex Trafficking Plagues a Marquee Event

The contestants are set for Super Bowl Sunday. Fans from Pittsburgh, Green Bay and around the world will travel to Dallas starting next week for the festivities. It’s disgraceful but for some those festivities will include engaging in sex for pay with underage victims. Child sex trafficking is a year-round, worldwide problem. Numerous organizations, including our parent LexisNexis, are battling to end this tragedy. Now you can too, by petitioning the Super Bowl Host Committee to make a statement against child sex trafficking at the event.  READ MORE HERE

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New Efforts Launched Against Sex Trafficking

Sex trafficking of human beings, particularly minors, is one of the greatest challenges facing law enforcement in the twenty-first century. The secretive nature of the crime, its perpetrators and its consumers make it difficult to combat, difficult to expose and difficult to quantify. There is no one solution to the plague, and various organizations are working around the world to raise awareness and help combat the illicit trade.  READ MORE HERE