NEW YORK — Recent high-profile cases of child sex abuse have roused national revulsion against the adults who perpetrated them. Rarely mentioned is the sobering statistic that more than one-third of the sexual abuse of America’s children is committed by other minors. For many of the therapists and attorneys who deal with them, these juvenile offenders pose a profoundly complicated challenge for the child-protection and criminal justice systems. It’s a diverse group that defies stereotypes, encompassing a minority of youths who represent a threat of long-term danger to others and a majority who are responsive to treatment and unlikely to re-offend.  READ MORE HERE

Child perpetrators
Can child sexual abuse also involve a child abusing another child?
 

SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Court of Appeals has refused to dismiss charges against a couple accused of killing their baby in 2006 by sleeping with him – their second child to die in bed with them. The Salt Lake Tribune reports the judges sided with a lower court in a pair of opinions released Friday concerning the death of 3-month-old Kayson Merrill. The infant died while in bed between his father, Trevor Merrill, and mother, Echo Nielsen, of South Jordan.  READ MORE HERE

SAN BERNARDINO, CA — Prosecutors have filed charges against a Colton Unified School District custodian accused of sending a link to a pornographic website to a student using a social networking site.  Steven Llamas, 30, of Loma Linda, is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in San Bernardino Superior Court on charges of distributing pornographic material to a minor. He is in custody at West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga. His bail is set at $25,000.  READ MORE HERE

“UGLY-TED” ANTI-BULLYING CAMPAIGN

On Sunday, January 8th, @ 2pm, Dreamcatchers Talk Radio will sit down one-on-one with the author of “Stolen Innocence” and “Living for Today,” Erin Merryn. Erin is well known for her crusade to get “Erin’s Law” passed. This law is intended to prevent child sexual abuse by having schools educating children on sexual abuse in a child friendly manner. Governor Quinn signed “Erin’s Law” on February 14, 2011.

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday expanded the FBI‘s more than eight-decade-old definition of rape to count men as victims for the first time and to drop the requirement that victims must have physically resisted their attackers. The new definition will increase the number of people counted as rape victims in FBI statistics, but it will not change federal or state laws or alter charges or prosecutions. It’s an important shift because lawmakers and policymakers use crime statistics to allocate money and other resources for prevention and victim assistance.

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http://survivorship.org/2012conference.html

http://www.10thanniversarycelebration.blogspot.com/

http://www.cyberrecovery.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1673

http://www.recovery-man.com/sexual-recovery.htm

At first it seemed a miracle to the parents of a 14-year-old autistic child in Michigan whose search for a means of communication for their daughter appeared finally answered. Despite Julian and Tali Wendrow’s daughter said to have never developed mentally past the age of two, facing difficulty matching pictures without help and rarely speaking a word, with the help of an aid holding her hands above a keyboard, Aislinn was typing.  READ MORE HERE

An Alabama schoolteacher who was jailed on charges of sexually abusing a fourth-grade female student, revealed to police that had molested more than 20 other girls over his 25-year career. Alabaster police said Daniel Montague Acker Jr., 49, was charged with three counts of sexual abuse, and additional charges were possible.  READ MORE HERE

SANTA MONICA, CA — Police say they’ve arrested a man suspected of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl he met on a mobile chat application. Santa Monica Police say Brian Anthony Marks, 31, met the victim in September of 2011 on a mobile texting application, similar to a chat room. They say that Marks “developed an ongoing sexual relationship with the victim.”  READ MORE HERE

LA PUENTE, Calif. — A former high school teacher?s aide has been sentenced to 18-years in prison for sexually abusing two special education students. 45-year-old Oscar Enrique Santos of La Puente was convicted in November of 21 felony counts including oral copulation of an incompetent person, oral copulation of a person under 18 and sexual battery by restraint.  READ MORE HERE

UPDATE: Suspected Child Molester Arrested in Las Vegas

Age Of Consent Chart For The United States – 2012

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