Arrests made in cyberbullying-suicide case

LAKELAND, FL — Polk County deputies have arrested and charged two girls with felony aggravated stalking after last month’s suicide of Rebecca Sedwick. One of the girls allegedly told Rebecca to “drink bleach and die.” Deputies say the arrests were prompted by a weekend Facebook post. In a press conference Tuesday morning, Sheriff Grady Judd cited a post from the 14-year-old girl that said, in summary, that she knows her bullying led to Sedwick’s suicide, and she didn’t care. That post was “liked” by more than 30 people. The sheriff’s office charged that 14-year-old and Sedwick’s former best friend, who is 12. READ MORE HERE

Prosecutors drop rape charges against a prominent high school football player

• 14-year-old ‘victim’ self-harmed and attempted suicide twice as a result of vicious victim-blaming
  
• ‘Accused’ Matthew Barnett, is the scion of a prominent political family in Maryville, Missouri
  
• Friends tweeted support for Barnett while ‘victim’ Daisy Coleman was abused by online bullies
• Missouri Lieutenant Governor on Wednesday called for a grand jury to review the case
  
• Mother, Melinda, says she and her family were driven out of town after intense local backlash that saw her lose her job
• The family’s home was later burned down
• Daisy left intoxicated and without socks or shoes on front lawn as temperatures plummeted to -22 degrees

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Missouri officials are facing a firestorm of criticism and social media attacks over renewed interest in a 2012 case in which prosecutors dropped sexual assault charges against a prominent high school football player arrested for allegedly raping a drunken 14-year-old cheerleader and having it recorded on video. Felony charges were also dropped against another 17-year-old senior in Maryville, Mo., who used a friend’s iPhone to record a video clip of the grandson of Rex Barnett, a powerful former Republican state representative, having sex with the girl. READ MORE HERE

Hacktivists Anonymous shut down Nodaway County Sheriff’s website in protest and call for a Twitter Storm –Today 19-year-old Matthew Barnett  is a student at the University of Central Missouri after all charges against him were dropped.

Hackers Target Town After Dropped Sexual-Assault Case | TIME.com

Family Driven from Maryville, Missouri Home After Daughter’s Rape

Horrifying Maryville Rape Case Follows Familiar Pattern

Teen charged in videotaped beating

CHESTER, PA – October 15, 2013 — Action News has learned that one student has been charged in connection with a videotaped beating on a Delaware County school van. No further details have been released about that teen. Investigators tell Action News that two more teens are being sought. The incident happened Wednesday, October 9th, aboard a Southeast Delco School District van. READ MORE HERE

VIDEO: School bus driver ignores boy getting punched

Students and bus driver may face charges over Facebook video

‘Son of Sam’ loophole

MINEOLA, N.Y. — It’s the hallmark of New York’s Son of Sam law and others like it across the nation — convicted criminals should not be able to profit from their crimes. But legal experts say the case of a Long Island mother who drowned her three children in a bathtub and is now seeking to cash in could succeed because of a loophole. Since Leatrice Brewer was never convicted — instead found not guilty by reason of mental disease — legal experts say she could make a plausible case to receive some of her children’s $350,000 estate. READ MORE HERE

The NYPD cracked the murder case of ‘Baby Hope’ after 22-years when an anonymous tipster who overheard a conversation in a laundromat led police to the sister of the four-year-old girl – and eventually, Conrado Juarez, who has confessed to killing the child. Following a media blitz over the summer as the NYPD marked the 22nd anniversary of her death, a Manhattan mom phoned police to say that two years ago she listened in as a lady said her little sister had died and may have been killed. READ MORE HERE

Thousands of images are published on sites after being stolen from Facebook and other social networks

Tens of thousands of explicit self-portraits taken by teenagers are ending up on websites viewed by pedophiles. The naked or sexual pictures are often taken by girls at the request of boys in their classes and sent by mobile phone, in a practice known as ‘sexting’. But unbeknownst to the girls, these photographs may end up being passed around the school and even shared on social networking sites such as Facebook – then stolen and published on websites used by pedophiles. An earlier investigation found boys and girls as young as 13 are routinely swapping naked self-portraits. READ MORE HERE

Health fears have been raised for thousands of boys who made contact with a prolific paedophile with HIV who groomed his victims online. Anthony Marsh, who has the virus, and Lee Davis used social networks such as Facebook and Bebo, as well as specialist gay websites, to befriend boys before sexually abusing them, South Yorkshire Police said. The pair have admitted a total of 55 sex offences against 10 boys.  After grooming the boys online, salesman Marsh, and unemployed Davis would meet their victims and sexually abuse them. READ MORE HERE

Janice Rene Anthony, 20, was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Friday in Fort Worth, TX for killing her 3-year-old daughter. She pleaded guilty to choking and killing 3-year-old Paris Howard over the child’s potty training issues. On Sept 6, 2012 police arrived at the family’s home at the 5400 block of Enclave Circle to find Paris dead on the floor. Anthony told the police that the child had fallen down some stairs but evidence later revealed that Anthony was physically abusive towards her daughter. READ MORE HERE

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — The Cumberland County Sheriff’s office has arrested a former Fayetteville middle school principal. David Ellis Edwards, 49, of Tobago Place is charged with two counts of second-degree forcible sex offense, two counts of sexual acts with a student, and five counts of taking indecent liberties with a minor. Judge Tal Baggett added Edwards is also facing crimes against nature charges. READ MORE HERE

One of Jamie Bulger’s killers was rehoused to a bail hostel just a few yards from a children’s play ground, it has been claimed. Jon Venables, 31, was released from prison in August this year with a fourth new identity after being hauled back to prison in 2010 for possessing child porn. But now it’s been claimed that authorities housed him in a bail hostel somewhere in the north of England, a short distance from a playground, to prepare him for life in the community. The revelation provoked fury from Jamie Bulger’s father. READ MORE HERE

Parents Plead Not Guilty In Heroin Baby Bottle Case

QUINCY, Mass. — A couple accused of killing their 5-month-old daughter by giving her a bottle of formula with heroin in it were charged with manslaughter on Friday. Ryan Barry and Ashley Cyr, both of Quincy, just south of Boston, were arrested Friday. They pleaded not guilty and were ordered held on $200,000 cash bail. READ MORE HERE

Teen’s body has organs removed, stuffed with newspaper

The mysterious death of a Georgia teen has taken a bizarre twist with the revelation that an autopsy of his exhumed remains found his internal organs missing and his body stuffed with newspaper. The family of Kendrick Johnson, 17, of Valdosta, Ga., was “outraged” and “devastated” by the discovery and believes his death was a murder that is being covered up, a lawyer representing them said Thursday. Johnson, a three-sport athlete, was found dead on Jan. 11 in a rolled-up wrestling mat in his high school gym. State medical examiners concluded that he accidentally suffocated while trying to retrieve a sneaker. READ MORE HERE

Shocking evidence photos

Kendrick Johnson Death: Missing organs are reason to suspect foul play

Gym mat death shocker: Body stuffed with newspaper – CNN.com

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The Child’s Mother’s Boyfriend Has Been Arrested

(CNN) — A 2-year-old boy who was reportedly the son of Minnesota Vikings star Adrian Peterson died Friday of injuries he suffered after allegedly being abused, police said. Sioux Falls, South Dakota, police said Joseph Robert Patterson, 27, has been charged with aggravated battery of an infant and aggravated assault. If convicted on the charges, both felonies, Patterson could face up to 40 years in prison and an $80,000 fine. Prosecutors are considering filing additional charges against Patterson in light of the boy’s death, according to police. READ MORE HERE