Katherine Amanda Mattern, 23, was charged with domestic violence after starving her 7-week-old son nearly to death, and neglecting her 2-year-old daughter in Burien, Washington. Both children were underfed, but Mattern’s son was near death at only eight pounds when he was brought to the hospital.  READ MORE HERE

Mississippi executed a man on Tuesday for the 1990 murders of four of his young nieces and nephews, with the state’s governor rejecting pleas for a reprieve from the mothers of the children he killed. Henry Curtis Jackson Jr, 47, fatally stabbed two nieces and two nephews – aged 2 to 5 years – while he searched for money to steal from a safe kept in his mother’s home near Greenwood, authorities said.  READ MORE HERE

Two current and one retired Penn State professors, a current student and a long-time football season ticket holder

The identities of eight alleged victims of child abuse at the hands of former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky will be made public during the trial that begins this month, a judge ruled on Monday. Four of the alleged victims had petitioned Judge John Cleland to keep their identities anonymous by allowing them to use pseudonyms.  All of the victims have been previously denoted only by number, such as “Victim 1” and “Victim 2,” during the investigation and pre-trial hearings. READ MORE HERE

OXNARD, CA — A man accused of sexually assaulting a child inside a Walmart store in Oxnard is suspected in as many as 20 similar attacks. Police were called to the Walmart Supercenter Store at 2001 N. Rose Avenue in Oxnard last month. A child told officers that he had been in the electronics area of the store when Gonzalez approached him and sexually assaulted him.  READ MORE HERE

Tragedy struck one family after a mother went insane and violent. Aaliyah Johnson, 14, and her father Reuben Johnson, 56, were found shot to death in their San Carlos home, investigators claim the mother, Regina Johnson, 55, stayed with the corpses for days before mentioning the death to a relative.  READ MORE HERE

Lewis Beatty Allegedly Murdered Estranged Wife And Cut Daughter’s Throats Before Setting Home On Fire

Pennsylvania — A prosecutor said he may pursue the death penalty against a western Pennsylvania man jailed on charges he killed his two young daughters and his estranged wife at separate residences which were also set on fire. Indiana County District Attorney Patrick Dougherty announced his intentions at a Monday news conference that detailed the killings Friday about 45 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. READ MORE HERE

On July last year when temperatures peaked, a desperately thirsty eight-year-old child living in a park went in search of water, leaving her younger siblings behind, after her poverty-struck mother left for work. The child found what she was looking for, but never returned. She was raped, bludgeoned 15 times with a steel rod and killed behind an NDPL office near Maurya Enclave in North-West Delhi where she had chanced upon a water cooler, but then encountered a sex-crazed accused Sanjay Kumar Valmiki.  READ MORE HERE

The wife of an East Prairie pastor charged with statutory sodomy and possession of child porn is charged with endangering the welfare of a child. Beth Lynnette Allen, 36, is charged with the endangering welfare of a child-1st Degree. Her husband, Kenneth Neal Allen, 36, is charged with three counts of first degree statutory sodomy and possession of child pornography. The East Prairie community says Kenneth Allen is the Pastor at Grace Apostolic Church.  READ MORE  HERE

Less than 24 hours after Minister of Youth and Culture Lisa Hanna called for tougher penalties for adults who sexually abuse children, the blood-curdling story has emerged of a mother who held her teenage daughter hostage, so that she could be repeatedly raped by an adult male.  READ MORE HERE

Police are investigating more than 250 complaints of the abuse of children living in residential care in Northern Ireland. Most of the 251 cases being examined by Operation Charwell relate to incidents at least 20 years ago, but some date back 40 years.  READ MORE HERE

(Reuters) – The child sex abuse trial of a former Pennsylvania State University football coach starts on Tuesday in a scandal that shook the school and its vaunted football program and opened a national dialogue on sexual predation in sports.  READ MORE HERE

A top canoe coach who represented Great Britain in three Olympics was found guilty today of sexually abusing one of his promising young pupils. Peter Lawler, 71, faces a jail sentence for indecently assaulting the girl over a two-year period when she was just 13. His conviction represents a shocking fall from grace for the one-time sporting star, who reached the semi-finals in 1,000-metre Kayak events at the Tokyo Olympics in 1964, again in Mexico City in 1968 and just missed out in the same event at 1972 Munich Games.  READ MORE HERE

A wealthy Texan socialite who has the car number plate ‘My Syn’ has been arrested on child pornography charges. Erika Perdue is alleged to have amassed so large a collection of graphic videos and photos she had trouble keeping track of them. The 41-year-old, who lives with her attorney husband in one of Dallas’s most expensive areas, is alleged to have told police she traded in the illegal images every day.  READ MORE HERE