Says say she’s glad her mother will die in jail

Mistie Rebecca Atkinson, 32, from northern California, was sentenced to four years and eight months in prison on Wednesday in Napa County Superior Court, after she made a sex tape with her 16-year-old son.  READ MORE HERE

DEARBORN HEIGHTS — A convicted rapist this week was arrested on child pornography charges, and investigators believe he may also be involved in child-trafficking. Sonny Robert Miller, 52, was arraigned in U.S. District Court Thursday following a three-month investigation by U.S. Marshals. The investigation kicked off in March when Miller was arrested for home invasion in Dearborn. During detainment police found on Miller’s cell phone alleged pornographic videos of minors and sexually explicit text messages. One of the officers who reviewed the pictures recognized some of the children as living at Miller’s Dearborn Heights house, which is on Roosevelt Street near O.W. Best Middle School.  READ MORE HERE

Dreamcatchers for Abused Children has been nominated for a CLASSY Award!  Our Achievement has been published to the Stories page of the CLASSY Awards website.  Here’s the link to our story: http://www.stayclassy.org/stories/dreamcatchers-for-abused-children-spreads-christmas-cheer-in-port-huron-michigan

Woman shook three-month-old child blind then dumped her with boyfriend while she met internet stranger for sex

A woman who blinded a three month-old girl when she tried to stop her crying has been jailed for three years. Agnieszka Barcentewicz, 29, left the three-month-old infant with severe brain damage after shaking her four or five times, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard. The child, now two-and-a-half, is at a greater risk of sudden death in childhood and predicted to have a shorter life expectancy than average as a result of the incident on April 18, 2010. READ MORE HERE

Monsignor convicted of endangerment in groundbreaking trial about his mishandling of sex-abuse claims

Monsignor William Lynn was found guilty on Friday of one count of endangering the welfare of a child, making him the highest-ranking U.S. Roman Catholic official convicted in the church child sex abuse scandal. The jury acquitted Lynn, who oversaw hundreds of priests in the Philadelphia Archdiocese, on two other counts, conspiracy and another charge of child endangerment. The jury deliberated 13 days before reaching the mixed decision in the trial of Lynn, 61, who for 12 years served as secretary of the clergy. Lynn faces up to seven years in prison on the child endangerment conviction.  READ MORE HERE

Karate instructor arrested for child molestation accused twice before

CHANDLER, Ariz. — A Valley karate instructor is accused of child molestation, and this isn’t the first time he’s been under investigation by police. Scott Alan Flood, 47, of Chandler, is currently being held at the Maricopa County Jail on two counts of child molestation.  READ MORE HERE

A professional clown in the River Valley was arrested on child pornography charges Wednesday morning in Fort Smith, according to police. Thomas Harold Morgan, 47, who bills himself as “Sondance the Clown,” was arrested on charges of distributing, possessing, or viewing child porn. Through an online investigation, the Fort Smith Police Department’s computer forensic team was able to detect someone at a residence in the 500 block of S. 20th was downloading the images through a well-known, internet file-sharing network, according to police.  READ MORE HERE

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CLINTON, NC — A mother in North Carolina is upset with administrators at her son’s school, after she says the 10-year-old was strip-searched. Clarinda Cox says she came home from work on June 1 to find her son Justin waiting in the driveway, and that he was very upset. Her third grade son says a girl had dropped money in the cafeteria, and he picked it up and gave it back to her.  READ MORE HERE

LOS ANGELES — An ex-con was sentenced to death on Thursday for the 2003 rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl, whose bound and burned body was discovered in an alley. A jury convicted Latece Megale Brown on April 11 of 17 felony counts, including the first-degree murder of Jacquies Williams and the kidnapping, rape and sodomy of five other victims, who ranged in age from 14 to 25 years old.  READ MORE HERE

UPDATE (6/22/2012–10:27pm) A jury found former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky guilty on 45 out of 48 counts in his child sex abuse trial on Friday.

CNN:  Jury finds Jerry Sandusky guilty

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UPDATE: Jury Reaches Verdict!!

Sandusky Verdict Is In

Sandusky Jurors Have Reached A Verdict

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While Jurors deliberate, Sandusky’s adopted son says he was also sexually abused and is prepared to testify.

BELLEFONTE, PA — The jury considering the fate of Jerry Sandusky on Friday pored over transcripts of testimony in the high-profile child rape case as the second day of deliberations got under way. The statements of prosecution witness Mike McQueary, who testified that he saw Sandusky apparently sodomizing a boy, and defense witness Dr. Jonathan Dranov, who said McQueary’s initial account differs from what he said on the stand, were read back to jurors.  READ MORE HERE

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When Samantha Tomasini and her boyfriend Patrick Fousek tried to sell their baby to two woman outside Walmart for $25, the woman called police. At the time of the arrest Tomasini and Fousek were high on methamphetamine. READ MORE HERE

Robert Kelly, a psychologist from Oxford Michigan, plead guilty this week to beating his 20-year-old daughter Megan to death with a baseball bat while she slept on May 9, 2011. According to the NY Daily News, Kelly went to police almost immediately after the crime, and police dispatcher Tony Van Houten testified that Kelly responded to his question, “Do you know who did it” with “Yes, I did.”  READ MORE HERE

SACRAMENTO, CA — Thirty-six years ago, three men kidnapped a bus full of schoolchildren for ransom before entombing them in a San Joaquin Valley rock quarry. The 1976 crime has become part of California lore — and many of those in the small town of Chowchilla, where it happened, thought those responsible would stay behind bars for life. But later this month, one of the three kidnappers will be a free man.  READ MORE HERE