Even as anti-bullying activists and most of the world mourns the suspected suicidal death of bullied Canadian teen Amanda Todd, cyberbullies are still beating up on the now deceased 15-year old as vengeful and hateful posts to the Facebook memorial pages established to honor her began appearing yesterday. According to The Star, bullies are not only posting hate messages, but inappropriate photos. One image depicted a silhouette of a female body hanging dead with the caption, “Todding.”  READ MORE HERE

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Bullied Teen Amanda Todd Leaves Behind Chilling YouTube Video

Jesse Paul Speer allegedly told his Wyoming kidnap victim to put her head down as he drove his SUV through town after stopping a church parking lot in order to tie the 11-year-old Cody resident’s hands. When she attempted to raise her head up, he hit her with the butt of his gun, the Billings Gazette reported. More details have been revealed as well now that the man has been apprehended and kept inside the Gallatin County Detention Center on a $2 million bond since the weekend, including how he enticed her to help him look for his dog and then abducted her from her friends.  READ MORE HERE

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Vile Jimmy Savile preyed on vulnerable patients at all-girl discos he ran at Broadmoor psychiatric hospital, it emerged last night. The sexual predator used his unlimited access on the wards to recruit the young women for his private parties where he exclusively installed himself as DJ. Dressed up as “therapeutic entertainment”, his discos in the 70s, which Savile insisted on making, “lasses only” – gave him the opportunity to mingle with unsuspecting victims, away from staff. READ MORE HERE

Child abuse investigations usually begin with a phone call. More than 400 times each day, someone in Tennessee — a family member, concerned neighbor, teacher, police officer, or doctor — dials a hotline to warn of a child in danger. More often than not, the call ends up on hold. During the last two years, the department hasn’t answered its phones as quickly as it used to, so more callers than ever have been hanging up — as many 25 percent in the early months of 2012, department data show. Nobody can say what happens to those thousands of callers and their concerns, or whether chances to help children are being missed. READ MORE HERE

Florida’s Dozier School For Boys: A True Horror Story

Florida Panhandle may be home to a secret that has been laying in the grass and under rusted white metal crosses since the 1900. Dozier School for Boys, was under investigation in 2009 after a total of 50 students shown up unaccounted for by the former reform school. The now shuttered school was rumored to be home to severe abuse that some former students, now in their late 60?s and older, blame for the death of fellow residents. READ MORE HERE

The Lost Boys: 50 New Graves Uncovered At ‘House Of Horrors’ Reform School

The Impact of Childhood Abuse on Women’s Adult Relationships

Children who have been victims of maltreatment can develop emotional regulation problems that affect many areas of their lives. Some survivors of abuse can experience symptoms of post-traumatic stress, anxiety, and depression throughout life. Coping and relational skills learned in childhood form the foundation from which future behaviors evolve. It has been hypothesized that women who survived maltreatment, in the form of physical or sexual abuse or neglect, will have sexual challenges in adult relationships. To test this theory, Alessandra H. Rellini of the Department of Psychology at the University of Vermont conducted a study involving 192 women ranging in age from 18 to 25.  READ MORE HERE

SEATTLE — An Oregon man who conducted Internet searches for the phrase “father hates infant” and had a violent child abuse video game on his computer was convicted Friday of murdering his 11-month-old twin son. A jury in Washington County, Ore., deliberated about two hours before convicting Kaliq Mansor, 34, who had called 911 in June 2011 to report that his infant son Bryan was not breathing.  READ MORE HERE

A Detroit father was found guilty Friday of murder and child abuse after prosecutors say he killed his two-year-old daughter and then faked a carjacking to cover up the crime. D’Andre Lane, 32, sat silent as the Wayne County Circuit Court jury foreman read the verdicts on both charges. ‘This has been a very long and very emotional case for everyone involved,’ Judge Vonda Evans told the court. READ MORE HERE

DOCTOR TRIED TO COVER UP DECAPITATION BY DOING AN EMERGENCY C-SECTION

A grieving St Louis couple has sued two obstetricians for malpractice after a horrifying experience in the delivery room resulted in the gruesome death of their son. Arteisha Betts and Travis Ammonette of Florissant, Missouri, claim that their baby was decapitated during an erroneous attempt at a vaginal delivery by Gilbert Webb, MD, who then forced the baby’s body and head back into the birth canal and attempted to perform a Cesarean section.  READ MORE HERE

A Lynnwood, Washington woman has been arrested on charges that she burned her son’s hands and poured salt in his wounds to discipline him. Karrina Torrescano Hernandez is accused of holding her six-year-old son’s hands over a hot spiral stove element and then pouring salt into the burns, in an effort to teach him not to touch her iPad.  READ MORE HERE

Pennington County authorities arrested a New Underwood High School teacher on rape and sexual-contact charges Thursday evening. Kyle Keegan, 26, was arrested in Rapid City, where he lives, according to a news release from the Pennington County Sheriff’s Office. Keegan made his initial court appearance from Pennington County Jail on Friday morning. He is charged with fourth-degree rape of a victim between the ages of 13 and 15 and sexual contact with a child younger than 16. His bond was set at $50,000.   READ MORE HERE

May Have Possibly Impregnated the 12-YO Girl

In his senior year at Mt. Pleasant, quarterback Princeton Harlan was being recruited by a plethora of universities, including Vanderbilt, Auburn, Kentucky, Notre Dame, Tennessee and South Carolina. Indeed, a bright future for Harlan until Wednesday when the 18-year-old was charged with the rape of a child. According to Anthony Bailey, a Maury County Sheriff’s Department detective, the alleged victim was a fellow student who happened to be only 12 years old. READ MORE HERE

Abused or neglected children often show both physical and behavioral symptoms. Older children may not talk about the problem, because they fear or want to protect the offender or they do not believe they will be taken seriously. Sometimes children report abuse to an adult they trust. These conversations should be taken seriously and acted upon. Some symptoms are specific to certain forms of maltreatment. There are also general symptoms that can occur with all types. READ MORE HERE

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New Jersey police have identified a child whose skeletal remains were found in 2005 and charged three people, including her aunt and uncle, on Wednesday with covering up her death. Authorities said the body was that of 9-year-old Jon-Niece Jones, who was abused and died at her aunt’s New York City home in August 2002. READ MORE HERE