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Violent sex crimes committed by active U.S. Army soldiers have almost doubled over the past five years, due in part to the trauma of war. Research released today showed that the number of offences increased by 90 per cent from 2006 to 2011. There were 2,811 violent felonies in 2011, nearly half of which were violent felony sex crimes. Most were committed in the United States.  READ MORE HERE

DECATUR, Ga. — Ryan Brunn, the man who confessed to killing seven-year-old Jorelys Rivera, hanged himself with a sweatshirt in his cell at the Jackson State Prison, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a statement emailed to 11Alive News. An autopsy on Brunn’s body was performed Friday at the GBI Crime Lab in DeKalb County, less than a day after Brunn was found dead in his prison cell.  READ MORE HERE

POMONA, CA — A 32-year old woman who smothered her two young sons and killed her husband with a sword was formally sentenced to death today. Manling Tsang Williams was convicted in 2010 of three counts of first-degree murder in the 2007, killings of her 27-year-old husband Neal, and sons Ian, 3, and Devon, 7.  She was also found guilty of the special circumstance allegations of multiple murders and lying in wait.  READ MORE HERE

TUCSON – The Tucson Police Department makes two new arrests in the child abuse death of a baby girl. They arrested Kiyana Higgins a week ago. One day after her infant daughter, Za’Naya died and her 3-year old son was hospitalized. The death prompted Child Protective Services to take custody of Higgins’ three other children. Thursday night, Tucson Police made two more arrests. The accused killer’s mother and sister were picked up for not reporting the alleged abuse.  READ MORE HERE

Ordered to pay legal fees after withholding public child abuse records

FRANKFORT, KY. — In a sharply critical decision, a judge has ordered a state agency to pay $16,550 in fines and $56,663 in legal costs to three newspapers for illegally withholding public records involving child-abuse deaths and serious injuries.Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd also rejected efforts by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to heavily redact, or remove, information from such documents. He said the cabinet was continuing its “efforts to blanket the operation of the child welfare system under a veil of secrecy.”  READ MORE HERE

AN INTERNATIONAL karate champion from York has been jailed for five years for child abuse against a 13-year-old girl. Liam O’Grady, was sentenced today at York Crown Court, after being convicted by a jury last month. O’Grady, 30, of Osbaldwick, has taught hundreds of children karate at after-school clubs and won gold at World and European level. A jury had heard earlier that he sent sexual texts and pictures of himself to the girl and sexually abused her in his house, his car and men’s toilets.  READ MORE HERE

CHILD abuse appears to have reached alarming new levels in Victoria.

In 2010-11, 1000 more children were identified as victims than in the previous year. Protection services have seen a 15 per cent rise in children reported to them, while cases of abuse and neglect have hit the highest level in six years. Victoria has bucked a national trend of a 13 per cent drop in notifications, and stable numbers of substantiated cases, according to the latest Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report.  READ MORE HERE

After listening to testimony for more than a week, a Clark County District Court jury began deliberating this morning in the child abuse murder trial of a Henderson man accused of killing his girlfriend’s 16-month-old daughter in 2010. Jurors returned at 9:30 a.m. today to sift through the evidence in the trial of Cody Geddings, 26, who has been accused in the death of Addison Weast on March 31, 2010, in his home in Henderson.  READ MORE HERE

Brandon Hayes Guilty of Murder

Rick Calhoun choked back tears Thursday after a jury found a Genesee County man guilty of killing his 4-year-old grandson. “Our family’s been dead for two years …” Calhoun said. “Now, we’re going to get to start living again, enjoying ourselves together as a family.” Brandon Hayes, 26, of Argentine Township, was found guilty of 10 charges, including first-degree murder, child abuse and torture in the death of Dominick Calhoun.  READ MORE HERE

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