The effects of childhood abuse and lack of parental affection can last a lifetime, taking a toll both emotionally and physically, reveals a new study. A new UCLA-led study for the first time examines the effects of abuse and lack of parental affection across the body’s entire regulatory system. The study, published online by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found a strong biological link for how negative early life experiences affect physical health and can even lead to cardiovascular disease. READ MORE HERE

Elizabeth Smart reveals her full horror of being her captor’s sex toy and slave in bombshell memoir

Elizabeth Smart’s nine month kidnap ordeal ended not with gunfire and drama but with just three words: ‘I am Elizabeth.’ With this, she reclaimed her life after an abduction that horrified the nation in a harrowing tale told for the first time in her memoir published today. Now, in her book, ‘My Story,’ Elizabeth reveals the life of abject horror into which she was plunged on the night of 5 June 2002 when she was snatched from her bed by Brian David Mitchell. And she has shared previously unseen pictures of her life as she rebuilt it. READ MORE HERE

Thousands of meth labs around the country remain. The midwestern states tend to see the most incidents involving meth labs, and Missouri outranks all others with 1,825 busts and seizures in 2012, according to a Government Accountability Office analysis of Drug Enforcement Administration data. Moreover, an increasingly popular crude cooking method known as “shake and bake” has put meth production in addicts’ hands, eliminating the need for an RV or even chemistry know-how. READ MORE HERE

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Grand jury investigating the Ohio rape case that shocked the nation vows to “uncover the truth”

An IT worker at Steubenville High School has been sensationally indicted by the grand jury investigating additional crimes in the now infamous Ohio rape case, MailOnline can report. Steubenville City Schools employee, William Rhinaman, 53, stands accused of tampering with evidence, obstructing justice, obstructing official business and perjury. The most serious of the charges – tampering with evidence and perjury – carry a maximum jail term of three year. His indictment is the first such issued by Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and the latest development in the ongoing investigation into the case that shocked the nation when it came to trial in March. READ MORE HERE

Police: She Filmed At Least One Incident At Her Ohio Daycare

She was trusted to take care of defenseless children, but now one Ohio daycare worker is accused of doing the unthinkable — and filming it. Heather Koon, 25, faces two counts of rape after police say they found video on her laptop of her “engaging in sexual conduct with an unknown infant.” An investigation also revealed an additional victim, according to WOIO. READ MORE HERE

A 20-year-old Kalkaska man is facing multiple sex crimes charges in two counties. Scott Buning went in front of a judge in May in Kalkaska County for the charges. Police say the crimes took place at the victim’s home in Rapid River Township.  He is also facing sex crimes charges in Antrim County for one count of criminal sexual conduct of the first degree, the prosecutor tells 9&10 News these crimes happened at a relative’s home in Mancelona Township.  READ MORE HERE

Parents indicted on felony child abuse charges

LUBBOCK — The adoptive parents of 10 children have been indicted on felony charges accusing them of withholding food and water from their 12-year-old daughter and telling her siblings to hit her. An affidavit shows that the girl was malnourished and weighed 57 pounds when taken to a Lubbock hospital in August. Sixty-two-year-old Dave Howard Dixon and 58-year-old Wonda Faye Dixon are each indicted on a charge of injury to a child. They remained jailed Friday. READ MORE HERE

A mob killed two Europeans suspected of mutilating and murdering a young boy 

Aged four, Raven Kaliana’s parents took her to a film studio where she was sexually abused in front of cameras. For most of her childhood they regularly trafficked her to the sex industry. Now she campaigns against child abuse

One of Raven Kaliana‘s earliest memories is being taken to a familyportrait studio by her parents, at around the age of four. The studio was in the basement of a department store in a town 50 miles from their home. Once they had arrived, they waited for another couple to arrive with their own child. “Would you like to have your picture taken with this cute little boy?” her mother asked, before the parents left the kids with the photographer and retired to the cafe upstairs. But while they sat eating ice cream, the images being made in the studio down below were far from happy family portraits. Raven and her companion had just been sold into the child abuse industry. READ MORE HERE

Police say there could be MORE victims

A former priest who raped and molested two boys for almost two decades has been jailed for 13 years. Phillip Challis, 52, admitted 17 sexual offences carried out between 1991 and 2009 while he was a priest in Merton, southwest London. He pleaded guilty to crimes including raping a child, indecent assault, attempted rape and taking indecent photographs. Challis was caught by child abuse investigators in January after a 17-year-old boy came forward to say he had been abused by Challis since he was eight. Police later found out that Challis had also abused a second male victim, who is now 29, since he was seven years old. READ MORE HERE

Raymond Avett, 45, and Jennifer Callaway, 34, the mother of the 6-year-old victim, have been charged with concealing a felony 

A Missouri man who vanished over the summer after leaving suicide notes has been found alive and accused of trying to cover up child sex abuse. Raymond Avett, 45, was charged Wednesday with concealing a felony along with his ex-girlfriend Jennifer Callaway, 34, the mother of the 6-year-old victim. Avett disappeared in June after leaving several letters suggesting that he was planning to end his life. He had recently learned that Callaway’s daughter disclosed the alleged sexual abuse. READ MORE HERE

Child died from internal injuries because of 40-year-old husband

According to the Huffington Post on Sept. 9, an 8-year-old Yemeni girl dies from internal injuries on her wedding night. It is believed that the girl died from a tear to her genitals and severe bleeding from a uterine rupture. Identified only by the name Rawan, the girl died in the tribal area of Hardh in the governorate of Hajjah in northwestern Yemen which borders Saudi Arabia. READ MORE HERE

WILLIAM LEE COPP

William Lee Copp is wanted for child pornography offenses which occurred from the late 1990s through 2004, in Englewood, Florida. Copp is alleged to have used his credit card to subscribe to a web site which allowed him to access child pornography. Copp allegedly downloaded child pornography and saved it to his computer and disks. Copp was charged in a 126-count criminal complaint and capias by the 12th Judicial Circuit Court, State of Florida, for obscene material possession-possessing a photograph of the sexual performance by a child (child pornography) in violation of Florida State statute. Copp was scheduled to appear for a court proceeding on February 2, 2006, in Sarasota County, Florida, however, he failed to appear. He also was scheduled to appear for his trial on February 6, 2006, at the Circuit Court, Sarasota, Florida, however, he failed to appear again. On February 7, 2006, a state warrant was issued for his arrest.

In addition, a federal arrest warrant was issued on February 24, 2006, by the United States District Court, Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division, after Copp was charged federally with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.

TEXAS — Police in Cleveland, Texas are investigating the horrifying possibility that another gang rape has occurred in the small town of 8,000, just three years after an assault by 20 men on an 11-year-old girl shocked the nation. The latest crime involves a 15-year-old girl who has told Cleveland police that she was drugged, attacked and raped by four men in an abandoned home over the weekend before last. The girl’s parents made the complaint to law enforcement on Tuesday and the girl was taken to a Houston medical facility to be examined by rape experts before she was interviewed in a secure environment at a child advocacy center. READ MORE HERE