Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel toured the Children’s Advocacy Center of Benton County (CAC) Saturday afternoon taking a close look at the names on the walls the children posted on stars. “Every star on that wall, every child who has ever been through this place is important and we have to make sure that here and all over Arkansas we continue to serve,” McDaniel said.  READ MORE HERE

Ron Morgan and Kerry Lewis grew up in adjoining states — one in Idaho, the other in Oregon. Both belonged to Boy Scout troops during the 1980s, and decades later, both alleged in lawsuits that the Scouts failed to protect them and other boys against known molesters, citing detailed evidence from the organization’s confidential files. In 2010, Lewis won a jury verdict of nearly $20 million against the Scouts, the largest such award in the organization’s history. Morgan’s case was never considered on its merits. The Idaho Supreme Court ruled in 2009 that, under state law, it was filed too late. “Our state … turned us away,” Morgan said. “His didn’t.”  READ MORE  HERE

PHOTO: In this file photo, Kerry Lewis, left, leans into his lawyer, Paul Mones, in a Portland, Ore., courtroom after a jury found the Boy Scouts of America negligent for repeated sexual abuse by an assistant Scoutmaster in the 1980s. Files released Thursday reveal that local Boy Scout leaders and town officials helped hush up numerous child sex abuse allegations.

AP Photo/The Oregonian, Jamie Francis

Pedophiles have a ‘mental illness’ that can be spotted before they abuse anyone, new research claims. Experts believe they can identify a potential offender through MRI and IQ tests, and treat the pedophile before they attack a youngster. Some believe that they can even ‘cure’ pedophiles, who may have an abnormality in their brains that means they struggle to differentiate between sexual objects.  READ MORE HERE

Jurors shown graphic video of body beaten to death with rolling pin

As he confessed to police, Ali-Mohamed Mohamud seemed as “calm as could be” admitting he killed his 10-year-old stepson, Abdifatah, said Detective Sgt. James Lonergan in court Tuesday. “He was very calm, well spoken, and responsive to questions,” Lonergan said of Mohamud’s demeanor during police questioning. Abdi, as he was called by family and friends, had already climbed out of a window and run away from home, only to be caught by Mohamud with the help of a neighbor. Now the boy was trying to run away again, Mohamud said in his police statement. READ MORE HERE

A pedophile who abused up to 3,500 boys over a 35-year period has died in prison. William Goad, 68, from Plymouth, Devon, who was jailed for life in 2004, died of natural causes at HMP Albany on the Isle of Wight, according to the Prison Service. The wealthy businessman is thought to have been Britain’s most prolific child abuser, with his sick assaults causing two of his victims to commit suicide. Goad was previously described in court as a ‘voracious, calculating, predatory and violent homosexual pedophile’ who boasted of beating his own ‘record’ of abusing 142 boys in a year. READ MORE HERE

Schoolgirl Can Stand, Communicate

London — Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai stood for the first time after her shooting Friday morning and is “communicating very freely,” according to the director of the UK hospital where she is undergoing treatment. Malala can’t talk because she has a tracheotomy tube inserted to protect her airway, which was swollen after her gunshot injury, but she is writing coherent sentences, said Dave Rosser, director of University Hospitals Birmingham. “We have no reason to believe she won’t be able to talk when the tube is out, which may be in the next few days,” he said.  READ MORE HERE

Contaminated Medicine Responsible for Fungal Meningitis Outbreak

With the toll from the fungal meningitis outbreak up to 21 dead and 247 sickened, and as the compounding facility responsible for fungus-tainted drugs is hit with a lawsuit, researchers have looked back at the first case that alerted them to the disease. Their results were published online Friday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The epidural steroid injections were produced at the New England Compounding Center, which shut down production and recalled all its products Oct. 6. About 14,000 patients are believed to have received injections. (The company is now being sued by Peter McGrath, a former federal prosecutor, on behalf of an unnamed plaintiff in Boston, according to the Chicago Tribune.)  READ MORE HERE

HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA — A Huntington Beach mother and father are pleading for help in finding whoever severely beat their son. 20-year-old Ted Currie was helping a friend who was deejaying a party at Skyhi Clothing in Santa Ana on September 29. Police say that outside after the party, following some sort of verbal dispute, Ted was jumped. READ MORE HERE

SUPERIOR, Colo. — Two weeks ago, 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway disappeared. Last week, police said she was dead. Now, they are asking for the public’s help to identify a cross that authorities say could lead to her killer. Police from the girl’s hometown of Westminster, Colorado, on Friday released several images of a wooden cross recovered during the investigation. It is about 1 1/2 inches tall and 1 inch wide, with a hole drilled through it so it can be worn as a pendant.  READ MORE HERE

A sunscreen manufacturer is under fire after some accidents involving their products. The maker of Banana Boat sunscreen is recalling 500,000 bottles of their spray-on sunscreen lotion after reports surfaced that a handful of people were lit ablaze when using the product while near open flames. According to ABC News, Banana Boat’s company spokesman confirmed five reports of users suffering burns in the last year.  READ MORE HERE

The Jessica Lunsford Act aka. Jessica’s Law

Parents, who have suffered the pain, anguish of losing a child deals with this torment constantly. One such parent that suffered this horrible anguish was Mark Lunsford. His daughter, Jessica Lunsford the 9-year-old girl been sexually abused, kidnapped, and buried alive in Florida. This could have been your daughter, just imagine the anguish any parent would have to live with, if this happened to them. John Couey, who convicted, had a record as a sex offender. Once John Couey was not required to wear GPS tracking went for his next victim, Jessica Lunsford. Jessica Lunsford came from Gaston County, North Carolina before moving to Florida. In the loving memory of Mark Lunsford’s daughter Jessica, a law introduced to enforce stricter laws about sex offenders called, “Jessica’s Law.”  READ MORE HERE

I am posting this article as some of the photos released look like they could possibly be young teen girls. Please take a look at the images to see if you recognize any of these women. Thank you!

LOS ANGELES, CA — Los Angeles police are turning to social media for help identifying dozens of women seen in photos found at the home of the alleged Grim Sleeper” serial killer. Forty-two photographs found at the home of suspect Lonnie Franklin Jr. were be posted on Facebook and Twitter on Thursday. The photos, taken between 1976 and 2010, were among about 1,000 photos seized from Franklin’s home when he was arrested in July 2010. READ MORE HERE

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Researched ‘Evil Ways’ to Force Miscarriage

LOS ANGELES  — A prominent restaurateur is charged with attempted murder after allegedly poisoning his former girlfriend to cause her to miscarry their child. Joshua Woodward, 40, an investor in Los Angeles and Miami restaurants including the old Table 8, has pleaded not guilty to four counts of attempted murder in the 2009 case. Prosecutors say that Woodward, who is from a prominent Chicago family that owns Churchill Downs, begged his girlfriend to voluntarily terminate her pregnancy.  READ MORE HERE

More than 100 New Yorkers are the list, released by order of the Oregon Supreme Court

PORTLAND, OR — More than 20,000 confidential Boy Scout documents were released Thursday identifying more than 1,000 leaders and volunteers banned from the group after being accused of sexual or inappropriate conduct with boys. The public release of the Scouts’ 1,247 “ineligible volunteer files” from 1965 to 1985 do not contain the identities of the boy victims and witnesses. The national files are being distributed with the approval of the Oregon Supreme Court by a law firm that won an $18.5 million judgment in 2010 against the Boy Scouts in a case where a Scoutmaster sexually abused a boy.  READ MORE HERE

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