Boy, 4, murdered in his bed: Killer struck as child slept near twin brother

A boy of four is believed to have been murdered in his bed as he slept near his twin brother. The killer is thought to have struck in the early hours of Sunday morning. Neighbors heard screams around 3.30am and saw the boys’ mum’s 22-year-old partner carrying a youngster, crying: “Somebody please help.” Armed police later arrested a 32-year-old man in a nearby railway tunnel. READ MORE HERE

KINGSLAND, GA — The City of Kingsland Police Department has arrested a man wanted overseas suspected of murdering a child. Police say they answered a call about an intoxicated person at the Flash Food/Krystals restaurant located at 1341 Georgia Hwy 40 in Kingsland. Upon arrival, officers found 31-year-old Ricardo Chaves Dos Santos of Charleston intoxicated and creating a commotion inside the store. READ MORE HERE

LAFAYETTE, IN – An Indiana woman serving a life sentence in the beating death of her 4-year-old stepdaughter wants a judge to reverse her conviction in the 2005 killing. State deputy public defender Joanna Green asked a Tippecanoe County judge Thursday to reverse Michelle D. Gauvin’s convictions on the grounds that she received poor representation from court-appointed trial attorneys. READ MORE HERE

The Sheriff’s Office said that deputies arrived at the home of Theresa Corrales, 37, and Luis Cortez, 38, on Saturday morning to find an infant unable to breathe. The baby, identified as 3-month-old Adrian Cortez, was transported to mercy hospital where he was pronounced dead. An autopsy is scheduled for next week to figure out what caused the 3-month-old baby boy to die Saturday morning. READ MORE HERE

An Apollo Beach man is charged with child abuse. Hillsborough County deputies say 26-year-old Joshua Johnson shook a 4-month-old baby, causing brain injuries. Deputies say Johnson admitted to forcefully picking up the baby and putting her down, bouncing her head against things and not supporting her head. READ MORE HERE

GULFPORT — A Gulfport woman has been charged with felony child abuse after police say she struck her 9-year-old son in the head with a bat. Kizzie Margaret Williams, 31, of Campbell Circle in Gulfport, is in the Harrison County jail on a $50,000 bond pending a hearing by Judge Diane Ladner. READ MORE HERE

How big business is stealing our little girls’ childhoods

What girls really, really want, according to Lego, is their very own version of the popular plastic bricks.So, recently, the company started producing five curvy plastic ‘friends’ who bake, home-make, decorate, style hair and shop. Plus a plastic female ghetto called Heartlake City, which somehow manages to thrive without any fire-fighters or policemen. READ MORE HERE

Boy, 15, ‘shoots his pastor father and family dead with military-style assault rifle’

A former Texas high school teacher was charged for having inappropriate relationships with multiple students.Tonya Flink is accused of having sex with at least four of her students during the 2010-2011 school year. According to OpposingViews, Flink used to be a computer technology teacher at a Haltom City, TX high school. READ MORE HERE

Brent Egan Dotson, age 57, is a fugitive on the run, WANTED after being CONVICTED of repeatedly raping a girl over the course of two year period between 2009 and 2010, who is now 9-years-old. *The mandatory minimum sentence for the sexual assault charge is 25 years in prison* He could be traveling anywhere, possibly even your neighborhood!

Brent has a tattoo on the outside of his right upper arm of a large SHARK design. Brent usually wears a cap, likes to wear sleeveless shirts and is a smoker. Brent is a hoarder who frequents yard sales, is known to pawn items and go to the dump to rummage through trash. Brent was last known address was 4274 Holmestown Rd Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. He has friends and family in Alabama, West Virginia, Virginia and Florida. He is a painter by trade.

Crimestoppers is offering up to $1,000.00 and Al Holcomb Bonding is offering $5,000.00 for information leading to Brent Dotson’s arrest.  READ MORE HERE

LAS VEGAS  – A Saudi Air Force sergeant in the United States for training has been arrested on child sexual assault charges over accusations he raped a 13-year-old boy in a Las Vegas hotel, and bail was set on Friday at just over $1.2 million, authorities said. Mazen Alotaibi is accused of raping the boy on New Year’s Eve at the Circus Circus hotel on the Las Vegas Strip, where both Alotaibi and the boy were guests, according to a criminal complaint. READ MORE HERE

A 32-year-old man was on Friday imprisoned for four years and three months for aggravated rape and the sexual assault of a child. The man has in recent years been employed at several preschools in Malmö in southern Sweden, where the attacks are reported to have occurred. The man stood accused of having assaulted four children, including one charge of having raped a four-year-old girl. READ MORE HERE

Kevin Taylor wanted for Felony Child Abuse

KALAMAZOO, MI – Kalamazoo Public Safety is asking for information on the whereabouts of a suspected child abuser. On Wednesday, January 16, Public Safety officers responded to Bronson Hospital on a report of child abuse.  Doctors at the hospital were treating a 2-year-old child with injuries consistent with child abuse, including blunt force trauma to his abdomen and multiple bruises on his body. READ MORE HERE

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