Double child killer Jeremy McLaughlin will be almost 60 by the time he can apply for parole again. The 35-year-old teetered on the “brink” of becoming the first New Zealand murderer to be jailed with no hope of parole today. At the High Court in Christchurch, Crown prosecutor Brent Stanaway told Justice Graham Panckhurst that McLaughlin met the criteria for life in jail without parole. READ MORE HERE
A groundbreaking report on child rape and sexual abuse shows the average age of an offender is 26, over a third of abusers are children, and family members pose the greatest threat to children — not ‘stranger danger’. It shows a child under 13 is most likely to be targeted for sexual abuse by a family member in their or the family member’s home. But Irish teenagers are more likely to be abused by their peers or somebody slightly older, in a location outside of the home. The sexual abuse of a child under 12 is also more likely to last for years while the sexual assault of a teenager will be a one-off incident, normally taking place over several hours. READ MORE HERE
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OKLAHOMA CITY – An Oklahoma City man is charged with 13 counts of rape and lewd acts with a child. Now his sister is speaking out because she says she’s afraid he may have hurt even more children. This sister is devastated at the turn of events. She says she took her brother in to try to help him and give him a roof over his head. Instead she says he betrayed her, in the worst possible way. READ MORE HERE
BROCKTON – Every night for a year, Terry Jackson would pull a sheet over his victim’s head and rape her. Now, 299 charges of rape and sexual assault later, Jackson is going to prison. The Brockton man pleaded guilty to all 299 charges Monday after his attorney struck a plea deal with the state. Terry Jackson, 56, of 36 Montello St. Extension, Apt. 1, Brockton, was sentenced Monday by Judge Frank M. Gaziano to 40 to 50 years in state prison. READ MORE HERE
UPDATE: The true identity of ‘Baby Hope’ has finally been revealed 22 years after her abused and beaten body was found squashed into a cooler and dumped off a New York highway. The child was named today as Angelica Ramirez, which was discovered when police tracked down the girl’s mother after receiving a tip from a woman who believed she knew the older sister of ‘Baby Hope’. The sister told investigators she remembers traveling to Mexico with her father after leaving Angelica with her mother and then never seeing her again. READ MORE HERE
Police come closer to solving case of girl, 3, found naked and stuffed in picnic cooler off New York highway 22 years ago
Police have identified the mother of ‘Baby Hope’, a little girl whose body was found dumped in a cooler off a New York highway more than two decades ago. NYPD cold case detectives had renewed their investigation this summer after highway workers in 1991 found the child, believed to be between three and five years old, tied with rope and squeezed into a picnic cooler beneath full cans of Coca-Cola, off the Henry Hudson Parkway. New information was revealed today after authorities received a tip from a woman who believes she knows the sister of ‘Baby Hope’. READ MORE HERE
MESA, AZ — A 16-year-old mom is facing attempted homicide charges after her newborn child was allegedly thrown out of her family’s bathroom window in Mesa in an attempt to conceal her pregnancy, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office said. The teen, whose name is not being released, was arrested Tuesday night and booked into jail on charges of attempted murder and child abuse. READ MORE HERE
VALDOSTA, GA – A south Georgia man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole on charges of child molestation, aggravated sexual battery and rape. A judge in Lowndes County sentenced 60-year-old Carter Arnold Wednesday, a day after the man – who represented himself in the case – cross-examined the 13-year-old victim. READ MORE HERE
A Nebraskan appeal court has banned a 16-year-old foster girl from having an abortion – forcing her instead into a position of teenage motherhood. The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, brought the appeal case to court after an initial ruling in July by a lower court where Douglas County District Judge Peter Bataillon refused her the right to choose an abortion. Then a majority vote of 5-2 in the Supreme Court upheld this decision. The case has caused a flurry of reaction online, with one legal expert pointing out that in this case judges are using their judicial influence to promote their own ideology with disregard to the dire consequences for the most vulnerable. In Nebraska, a person under the age of 18 must obtain written, notarised consent from a parent or guardian before undergoing an abortion. READ MORE HERE
A maths teacher who offered schoolgirls £300 to pose topless and sent naked pictures of himself to a 16-year-old girl has been jailed for more than two years. Neil Mason, 28 – who taught at The Heath School in Runcorn, Cheshire – made sexual suggestions to girls, often texting under a pseudonym and using Facebook, Chester Crown Court heard. He used pupils at the school as ‘sex objects of desire to satisfy his sexual lust’ and admitted intimately kissing the girl to whom he sent the naked images on the lips and stroking her leg. READ MORE HERE
DENVER – Four children found living in a Denver home full of flies and cat feces were severely malnourished and could only communicate with each other in grunts, according to an arrest affidavit released Monday. The boys’ parents, Wayne Sperling, 66, and Lorinda Bailey, 35, are charged with multiple counts of child abuse. The investigation began when Bailey took her 2-year-old son to St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital to be treated for a cut on his forehead on Sept. 29. The child was non-verbal, unwashed, and smelled like cigarette smoke, according to the emergency room doctor. READ MORE HERE
There are laws and proper child care systems in the USA that ensure healthy growth of a child, both mentally and physically. Sadly, some children fall through the cracks in the system and end up in juvenile prisons. The major reason behind this is their inability to understand and accept diversity in the society, which leads to youth hate crimes. According to recent statistics, 29% of all the hate crimes in USA are committed by teenagers. Follow the infograhics to find out more facts about youth hate crimes in the country. READ MORE HERE
Source: SecureTeen
Six-month-old baby ‘beaten to death with a sledgehammer and carving knife by grandmother who was babysitting’
A grandmother has been charged with the murder of her granddaughter after she allegedly hit the baby with a sledgehammer as she lay sleeping before slitting her throat. Alfreda Giedrojc, 61, is believed to have killed six-month-old Vivian Summers on Sunday morning, authorities said on Monday. The grandmother, of Oak Lawn, Illinois, allegedly placed the baby on the floor of the suburban home and hit her repeatedly with the sledgehammer. She then retrieved a carving knife from the kitchen and slit the baby’s throat. READ MORE HERE
ALABAMA — Police in Alabama believe that four people found shot to death in a car 65 miles northwest of Birmingham were killed in an apparent murder-suicide plot after two of them had been charged, the other two implicated in a Tennessee child pornography investigation. Authorities would not release the names of the victims, but Winston County Sheriff Rick Harris told WVTM News that two of the bodies had been identified as people who had been charged in connection with a child pornography case and had been scheduled to appear in a Tennessee court yesterday. The other two people in the car had been implicated, but not officially charged in the case. READ MORE HERE
Sheriff: 4 dead in car linked to Hardin County child pornography investigation
Four found shot dead in Alabama car left suicide notes denying child-porn
LLOYDMINSTER, Saskatchewan – RCMP are asking the public to be on the lookout for 48-year-old Michael Sean Stanley who is a high-risk sex offender. RCMP say Stanley left Edmonton on Tuesday morning, went to Lloydminster and cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet. The bracelet was found on a business’s roof in the 4300-block of 54 Avenue. Mounties say Stanley has a long history of sexual offences and has taken kids from playgrounds in the past. READ MORE HERE
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