David Hyslop, the Great Falls man convicted in May 2012 of killing 2 year old October Perez, was sentenced on Wednesday afternoon to 100 years in prison without parole. October suffered fatal injuries while under Hyslop’s care in June 2011, suffering massive head trauma and multiple bone fractures. Hyslop originally told detectives several different stories to explain October’s injuries, ranging from feeding her bad hot dogs, to dropping her as he tried to put her down for a nap.  READ MORE HERE

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REST IN PEACE October Perez

A bus driver and his wife have been arrested on suspicion of child abuse, molestation, child pornography and child prostitution. Police say Brian DiCamillo, 39, was found out after he offered a 10-year old boy a dollar to have sex with him and when the boy declined, DiCamillo then showed him pornographic images of his own six-year-old son. Jennifer DiCamillo, 39, also an employee at the Deer Valley Unified School District in Phoenix, Arizona allegedly knew about her husband’s activities and did nothing to stop him.  READ MORE HERE

Sex offender, Alan Robert Johnson, 33, and his girlfriend, Jennifer Sparks, 37, were arrested on Wednesday after they left their cell phone with child porn images on it at Walmart on June 2.  READ MORE HERE

Abusers find ways to get closer to child

The sexual abuse of a child often begins innocently enough-perhaps with just a simple conversation, according to Helen McGrail, Belpre clinic director for Tri County Mental Health and Counseling Services. The clinic provides counseling for child abuse victims. “Initially it seems there’s nothing inappropriate going on,” she said. “The abuser makes a child feel special, maybe buying things for him or her long before the victimization begins. And children love attention.”  McGrail said abusers can be very patient, noting that some pedophiles will take weeks or months to gain a child’s confidence. But she said the sexual abuse can start without the child being involved at all.  READ MORE HERE

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Child Sexual Abuse: 6 Stages of Grooming

Victim Grooming: Protect Your Child from Sexual Predators

SANTA ANA  — A two-month-old girl was found dead in a bathtub at a Santa Ana mobile home park on Friday. Authorities received a call around 4 p.m. about an unresponsive baby found in a Jacuzzi-like bathtub at a home in the 500 block of South Sullivan Street, Santa Ana police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said. The baby’s grandmother grabbed the baby, ran outside holding her, and yelled for someone to call 911. READ MORE HERE

DETROIT  – Sources tell 7 Action News the search for a 17-month old girl who disappeared Friday, has come to a tragic end. Ziya Turner was discovered dead in a bedroom closet at a home in the 18000 block of Brinker on Detroit’s east side. Sources say the body was buried under a pile of clothes. We’re told the toddler’s uncle has been taken into custody. READ MORE HERE

93% of young children know abuser; nearly half are related

When she was a little girl, “Sarah” found herself receiving some unwanted attention from her father. Anytime the young girl needed a bath, her father wanted to join her and have her wash him in ways the little girl never understood. Years later, Sarah, 27, of Parkersburg, began to understand that she was one of the thousands of victims of child sexual abuse, and it came from within the home and the people trusted to raise her. “I will never understand how my mother could have allowed that, or how he could have done that,” said Sarah, who asked to not reveal her real name. Cases like the one involving Sarah aren’t nearly as uncommon as many people believe, law enforcement officials say. READ MORE HERE

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How Child Predators Operate – Part 1 The Molestation Cycle

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-Eleven Ways to Spot a Pedophile

• Pedophiles and Castration: Sex Offenders
• Gender vs. Sex and Child Safety
• Child Abduction, Abductors and Warning Signs
• Pedophiles and Social Networking Sites

-Warning Signs of Child Predators

-Child Predators Tips

-Additional Child Predator Web Sites & Information

“FROM THE MOUTHS OF SEX OFFENDERS”

Words From Sexual Offenders:
Written by offenders in treatment at the Center for Behavioral Intervention in Beaverton, Oregon

I am probably well-known and liked by you and your child.
I can be a man or woman, married or single.
I can be a child, adolescent, or adult.
I can be of any race, hold any religious belief, and have any sexual preference.
I can be a parent, step-parent, relative, family friend, teacher, clergyman, baby-sitter, or anyone.
I am likely to be a stable, employed, respected member of the community.
My education and my intelligence don’t prevent me from molesting your child.
I can be anybody.
I convince your child they are responsible for my behavior.
I make your child think no one will believe them if they tell.
I tell your child you will be disappointed in them for what they have done “with” me.
I warn your child they will be punished if they tell.
I may threaten your child with physical violence against them, you, a pet, or other loved one.
I may make the child feel sorry for me.
I may “accidentally” expose myself or walk in on children while they are changing or in the bathroom.
I may use situations like tucking kids in at night to touch them sexually.
I may have told my children “this is normal/what all fathers do.”
I may be so good at manipulating children that they may try to protect me because they love me.

The father sat hunched on the court bench a few feet from his son. He wept as the verdict was read. His hands hung loosely in his lap, his face slack with grief.  “Yes. Thank God,” whispered the mother on the other side of the room. The girl who said she was raped and sexually abused by Benjamin Scott Marlow from October 2010 to December 2011 trembled as the jury returned guilty verdicts on all charges. She smiled as tears ran down her face.  READ MORE HERE

A well-known pastor of a Fairfield church was arrested last night on suspicion of molesting at least five children in incidents dating back as far as 1994, police said. The Rev. Robert “Silas” Ruark, 65, of St. Timothy Orthodox Church in Fairfield was taken into custody at his Suisun City home after a daylong investigation into the allegations made by the victims, who are all adults now, police said.  READ MORE HERE

* Editor’s note – This article is the first in a series on child sexual abuse. Additional articles in the series will also run Saturday, Monday and Tuesday.

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If the Washington County Health Department were to find that one in three people under the age of 18 had the flu, they’d say they had an epidemic on their hands. But there’s one epidemic raging across the state and nation that has no vaccination to take care of it. Statistics show that one in three girls and one in four boys are sexually abused by the time they turn 18. That figure far exceeds the standard used by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control to determine medical epidemics. It’s an issue gaining national attention recently, with the conviction a week ago of former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky, who was found guilty of 45 counts of sexually abusing 10 boys over 15 years. Sandusky gained access to children through his charity, grooming them before the abuse began. His adopted son has said he was also abused, although he was not part of the trial.  READ MORE HERE

A karate expert who sexually abused pupils, including during a lesson on fighting off sex attackers, has been jailed for 10 years. Henry Cook, known as Harry, also had more than 55,000 child porn images and 600 videos on his computer. He abused five girls in his class, one as young as 11, in what the judge at Newcastle Crown Court described as “the most appalling catalogue of sexual depravity” which spanned 26 years. Cook, 62, of Haltwhistle, Northumberland, who has written a critically-acclaimed book on the martial art, even abused one of his young victims during a lesson on how to tackle sex attackers.  READ MORE HERE

The adopted son of Jerry Sandusky has detailed the agonising seven years of sexual abuse he allegedly suffered at the hands of his father in an audio recording released today.  Matt Sandusky, now 33, came forward during his father’s child sex abuse trial, which ended last week with the disgraced former Penn State football coach convicted of 45 of 48 charges. In a recorded statement to Pennsylvania State Police, he detailed sporadic instances of abuse that he claimed took place between the ages of eight and 15 at the Sandusky home.  READ MORE HERE

Internet porn, sexting and intimate webcam sessions causing ‘worrying child-on-child rape trend’

Internet porn, sexting and explicit webcam sessions are increasingly putting young people in danger, not just from strangers but their own peers, a report suggests. Parents and schools are struggling to cope with the ever-changing advances in technology and social networking and the effect they have on young people’s behaviour, it warns. Recent research suggests as many as one in three children aged ten has seen pornography on the web and 80 per cent of children in their mid teens admit regularly viewing explicit images and videos.  READ MORE HERE

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Juvenile Sex Offenders — Children Who Rape

Children Raping Children

Hidden tide of child-on-child sex attacks