BERNE, IN – A mother was charged with attempted murder and neglect of a dependent after police said she tried to suffocate her infant son with a sock and then left him in a closet face down. According to the police report, on October 13, Sasha J. Hunt, 22, of Berne, placed a sock over the mouth of her three-month-old son and wrapped tape around his head to keep the sock in place. Hunt then wrapped the infant in a blanket, put him face down on a pillow, and shut the baby inside of a closet. READ MORE HERE

FBI investigates whether abducted girl found in Greece is Lisa Irwin

KANSAS CITY, MO – Authorities in Europe and across the world are working to determine the identity of an abducted girl found in Greece. The girl known as Maria was apparently kidnapped by a Gypsy couple. She was initially believed to be 4 years old but a dental exam now indicates she is 5 or 6. The FBI and Greek authorities will work to determine that the child isn’t that of missing Kansas City toddler Lisa Irwin as well as other missing children. Known as Baby Lisa, the infant was almost a year old when she went missing in early October 2011. READ MORE HERE

Affidavit: Man fathers baby with ex-girlfriend’s 13-year-old daughter

CHARLESTON, SC – Investigators say a 37-year-old man is behind bars after fathering a baby with his ex-girlfriend’s 13-year-old daughter. The Charleston Police Department charged Anthony Kareem Hicks with second-degree criminal sexual conduct. According to the victim, Hicks is the father of her child who was born on Sunday. The victim said she was 12-years-old when she began a sexual relationship with Hicks from August 2012 to June 2013. READ MORE HERE

LYNNWOOD, WA – A man who admitted to raping a 12-year-old girl used the Whisper app to locate her, according to police investigators. Ron Peterson, 21, was arrested for child rape and released on bail after admitting to taking the girl to a motel where they had sex. Detectives said Peterson, who does not have a history of sex crimes, used the app to chat with the girl and convinced her to send sexy photos of herself. He then told her by phone how to remove the screen from her bedroom window and run away. Users of the Whisper app post about alcohol, adultery – anything on their mind. READ MORE HERE

The girl was taken to the UK from Somalia with the intention of removing her organs and selling them to those in need of a transplant, reports The Telegraph. Child protection charities believe the case in unlikely to be isolated, and suspect that smugglers used a group of children. The case emerged as a government report revealed that human trafficking increased 50% in the UK last year. READ MORE HERE

A crack-addicted childminder has been jailed for 13 years for killing a child she meant to be taking care of and hiding his body in a freezer. Carolyn Renee Miller, 42, who was paid in drugs to look after seven-month-old Ja’veon Mitchell in 2011, may have been high on crack when he died, a court heard. Miller pleaded no contest to aggravated manslaughter of a child and improper disposal of a human body, during a hearing in August. READ MORE HERE

JOHNSON CITY, TN – An East Tennessee couple is facing a list of charges, accused of selling their children to take part in sex films. Connie Sue McCall, 40, and her husband, Ronnie Lee McCall, 61, of Johnson City have been charged by a federal grand jury. Paperwork shows the couple was selling their four daughters. Prosecutors say the four girls were between the ages of 5 and 16 when this happened. READ MORE HERE

A Ghanaian pop star who was extradited back to the UK to face child sex offences has been jailed for 12 years after he admitted two counts of raping a seven-year-old girl. Deeba Akyampong, aged 35, was returned to the UK in July to face allegations that he raped a child under the age of 13 between December 2004 and September 2008 when he was in the UK. Akyampong used to live in Northampton, before he returned to Ghana. READ MORE HERE

Online child abuse study examines nasty new trends including sextortion

A report by a European expert group on the commercialisation of child sex abuse online suggests that sexual images and videos shared between youngsters may become a major target for traffickers, who are using increasingly aggressive tactics to gain remote power over vulnerable kids. The study was put together by the European Financial Coalition against the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children Online (EFC), a group headed by Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) with members including child protection organisations and commercial firms such as Google, Microsoft and PayPal as well as law enforcement bodies. READ MORE HERE

MOTHER BURNED SON’S PENIS

A mother has been jailed for up to 30 years after burning her 19-year-old son’s PENIS and nipples with a lighter. Christine Gelineau from Massachusetts pleaded guilty to first-degree assault and witness tampering, after she also coerced her son to lie about the abuse. At a hearing in New Hampshire the youngster described in detail the brutal abuse she subjected him to. “Dear ex-Mother,” he began as he read from a prepared statement. “What you did to me is unforgivable. “You beat me, starved me, almost chopped my penis off, threw my clothes away, wouldn’t let me bathe. “You almost killed me by having me take three (antidepressants) and two muscle-relaxers. READ MORE HERE

A Walmart employee has been arrested after allegedly luring a young boy into a store bathroom while his mother shopped before launching a sexual assault. Matthew Bulmer, 22, from Long Island, New York, was detained at the shop in Islandia and charged with first-degree sex abuse and acting in a manner to injure a child. Police say Bulmer attacked five-year-old child on Saturday night at about 8.45pm. READ MORE HERE

DETROIT, MI – Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy has charged the boyfriend of 5-year-old Mariah Smith with the 2011 murder of the young child. Smith was reported missing on July 24, 2011. DNA was later used to identify her body after it was found burned in an abandoned home in the 2900 block of Waverly in Detroit. The scene is about a mile from the Burlingame home where Mariah was last seen. READ MORE HERE

Student opens fire at Nevada middle school, killing teacher; injuring 2 students, shooter dead

A student apparently opened fire at a Nevada middle school Monday, killing a teacher and wounding two boys, authorities said. The shooter was left dead. A hospital said that the two boys arrived in critical condition. One was later upgraded to fair. Kyle Nucum, a student, told the Reno Gazette-Journal newspaper that he heard “a pop, like a loud pop, and everybody was screaming.” He said the shooter was wearing a Sparks Middle School uniform, and shot the teacher after the teacher told him to put the gun down. READ MORE HERE

BREAKING: 2 Dead in Nevada Middle School Shooting

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One of the most famous child actors from the 1980s has opened up about sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of older men in Hollywood and how his friendship with Michael Jackson was the healthiest relationship he had. In a new book, Coreyography, Corey Feldman, from hit movies ‘Stand By Me,’ ‘The Lost Boys,’ ‘Gremlins’ and ‘The Goonies,’ recalls his often twisted friendship with fellow child star Corey Haim and how the pair were told by trusted adults that it was normal for older men and young boys to have sexual relations in the industry. Feldman explains his family life wasn’t happy: his former Playboy model mother dyed his hair blonde at age four and tortured him about his weight, force-feeding him diet pills. Meanwhile, his father only seemed to care about him when they were getting high together, he writes. READ MORE HERE