Preventing Child Abuse

Secure and healthy families are the foundation of healthy and safe homes as well as strong communities. Exchange Clubs and Exchange Club Child Abuse Prevention (CAP) Centers across the country help build this foundation. At the heart of our efforts is  the Exchange Parent Aide program, facilitated through Exchange Club CAP Centers across the country. Parent Aides are trained and professionally supervised individuals who work in the homes of families to provide education and support. Parent Aides are mentors for families. In addition to the Parent Aide program, these centers also provide a variety of other supportive services. Exchange Club members support this effort in a variety of ways—from distributing educational information to volunteering to raising funds for CAP programs. READ MORE HERE

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VIP child abuse ring: Cops probe paedo teacher Charles Napier

Police are re-investigating notorious paedophile Charles Napier as part of their probe into a high-profile VIP child abuse ring, the Sunday People has revealed. The Sunday People first revealed the shameful past of Napier, ex-treasurer of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE), after we tracked him down in a sleepy country town. Now officers from Operation Fairbank – set up to investigate historical allegations of a UK-wide paedophile network – are re-opening files on the 68-year-old. READ MORE HERE

Pope Benedict Will Have Immunity From Child Abuse Claims By Living In Vatican

Pope Benedict will have immunity from any attempts to prosecute him in connection to sexual abuse cases around the world, legal experts say of the pope’s decision to resign his position. Benedict announced that he will spend the remainder of his days living at the Vatican, where he will also be given security measures, Reuters reported. READ MORE HERE

• Disgraced Legion of Christ founder, Reverend Marcial Maciel, is accused of fathering three children with two women and abusing seminarians
• Claims that Vatican ignored reports of sexually abusive priests for decades
  
• Legion also accused of soliciting $60 million from an elderly widow

The inner workings of a secretive and now-disgraced Roman Catholic order called the Legion of Christ were revealed by documents released on Friday. They include details on how the founder of the organization, the Reverend Marcial Maciel who died in 2008, lived a double life, fathering three children, and was accused of abusing seminarians. The Legion kept this information hidden. Also revealed are allegations that the organization solicited money from an elderly widow, eventually persuading her to bequeath it $60 million. READ MORE HERE

Stanley Marsh 3 was charged with 11 felony counts of molesting children

Stanley Marsh 3, an eccentric millionaire artist best known for his “Cadillac Ranch” art display along an interstate in the Texas Panhandle, has settled lawsuits from 10 teenagers who allege he paid them for sex acts, attorneys announced Saturday. In a statement, plaintiffs’ attorney Anthony Buzbee and Marsh’s attorney Kelly Utsinger said the teenagers and Marsh have resolved their differences and that no side will have further comments.  The statement was obtained by the Amarillo Globe-News. READ MORE HERE

SPOKANE, WA — The effort to prosecute two boys, ages 10 and 11, for allegedly bringing weapons to a Colville school in a plot to kill a classmate is posing legal challenges because the suspects are so young. The state’s criminal justice system presumes that children below the age of 12 do not have the capacity to understand they are planning to commit crimes, Stevens County Prosecutor Tim Rasmussen said Thursday. READ MORE HERE

MOM WALKS IN ON MAN MOLESTING HER DAUGHER

ORMOND BEACH, FL — A Volusia County man is accused of molesting a child, and the victim’s mother told police officers she caught him in the act. Matthew Tighe, 24, was arrested in Ormond Beach on Thursday night after a 7-year-old’s mother caught him in the child’s bedroom with the victim, police officers said. READ MORE HERE

A judge calls the incident “every parent’s nightmare.”  Peter Lowe, 68, repeatedly punched a pregnant woman while trying to kidnap the baby she was holding in her arms. The incident occurred at a bus stop as the 20-year old mother attempted to put her 11-month old daughter in a stroller. READ MORE HERE

CONVICTED CHILD MURDERED KILLED BY PRISON INMATES

A man serving time for murder was killed by prison mates.  Anwar was jailed for a minimum of 23 years in 2009 for the murder of his partner’sdaughter Sanam Navsarka. The child died after fat deposits from her broken bones got into her bloodstream after being beaten.  READ MORE HERE

A baby girl is dead after the Florida Department of Children and Families failed to remove her from her drug addicted, violent parents, who had already been the subject of more than 10 reports to the state’s abuse hotline. Little Emma Morrison was just 49 days old when her mother, Lisa Lamoureaux, 33, found her lifeless in her crib at around 9:30 a.m. on January 17 after putting her to sleep nine hours earlier and failing to check on her.  The murky circumstances surrounding her death are still being investigated by Palm Beach County sheriff’s Office and the medical examiner. Lamoureaux had a long history of drug abuse, she had been arrested nine times and her four older children had been permanently taken from her by the state, according to the Miami Herald. But the newspaper reported DCF’s only action after Lamoureaux gave birth to Emma late last year was to refer her to parenting classes that she turned down or was unable to get access to. READ MORE HERE

The father of 17 accused of killing six of his children in a house fire once ordered his toddler son to punch his mother in the face because she dared to stand up to him, a court heard yesterday. Heather Kehoe, 33, told a jury how Michael Philpott took her virginity when she was just 15, then subjected her to years of physical and mental abuse. The pair ran away together a fortnight after her 16th birthday, when his first wife walked in on them having sex. Within six months, the teenager was pregnant with the first of two sons she bore him during a violent relationship which culminated in Philpott ordering their son Mikey to punch her. READ MORE HERE

A violin teacher who came to Britain on the invitation of Yehudi Menuhin has been arrested by detectives investigating sex abuse at Chetham’s School of Music in the 1970’s and 80’s. Professor Wen Zhou Li, who has tutored some of the country’s brightest musical talents over the past 25 years, was last night being held on suspicion of rape. The 57-year-old is the first teacher to be arrested following the conviction of Michael Brewer for indecently assaulting Frances Andrade, who committed suicide halfway through the trial. READ MORE HERE

PORTSMOUTH, VA – Portsmouth Police have charged a man with abusing his 11-day-old son while the newborn was in an intensive care unit. Jan Clark with the Portsmouth Police Department said officers were called to the Portsmouth Naval Medical Center in the 300 block of Effingham Street on Feb. 1 for a report of possible abuse. There, they learned sometime between 1:30 a.m. and 2:30 a.m., the newborn received bruises to his body while in the Neo Natal Intensive Care Unit. The newborn had visible contusions to his back and face, Clark said. READ MORE HERE

A former Ivy League sports star’s wife discovered a shocking secret. Matthew White, a member of the University of Pennsylvania’s famed 1979 Final Four team, was stabbed to death in his sleep by his wife after she caught him watching child pornography. READ MORE HERE