Donald Smith indicted on charges of murder, kidnapping and sexual battery:  The state will seek the death penalty

A new charge of sexual battery has been added against Donald James Smith, who was indicted Tuesday in the death of 8-year-old Cherish Perrywinkle. The cause — strangulation — also was released. Smith, 56, also was indicted on charges of first-degree murder and kidnapping. The Jacksonville girl was abducted June 21 from a Walmart on Lem Turner Road and found dead the next day. READ MORE HERE

Donald James Smith pleads not guilty in death of Cherish Perrywinkle

Donald James Smith – Florida Sexual Offender

Two teenage boys are being hailed as heroes after they chased a car carrying a kidnapped girl — on their bicycles. Five-year-old Jocelyn Rojas was playing in her front yard in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, when she vanished Thursday afternoon. Authorities believe she was abducted by a man who lured her by offering ice cream. For two hours, neighbors and police scoured the area and asked if anyone had seen her. Temar Boggs, 15, and his friend took off on their bicycles to search. READ MORE HERE

Claim NY state program violated their rights

They are some of the most sexually violent predators, convicted of hideous crimes, such as sexually abusing a five-year-old….Now they want $10 million dollars. The civil case in Manhattan’s federal court pits half a dozen child sex offenders against the former governor of New York, George Pataki, and a slew of former state prison and health officials. The six are suing the officials over a 2005 state government program that was designed to keep child sex offenders off the streets, but was disbanded a year later after a New York court ruled against it. READ MORE HERE

The estranged partner of the woman who killed both their sons and leapt 100ft to her death on Dartmoor is awaiting trial for assaulting her, it emerged yesterday. Neil Patterson, 52, is on bail following the alleged assault three months ago. His address was given as the home he had been sharing until then with Katherine Hooper and their two sons, Josh, five, and two-year-old Sam. Neighbors said he was due to go on trial in the next few weeks – which was causing concern for Miss Hooper, who went missing the day after the alleged assault on April 28, prompting a full-scale helicopter search. READ MORE HERE

A grandmother in Chicago is being charged with the murder of her 8-year-old granddaughter after firefighters discovered the girl dead at her home, with signs of long-term abuse.  Gizzell Ford’s body was cold when firefighters responded to a report Friday morning that the child was not breathing.  The girl lived at her grandmother Helen Ford’s apartment in the Austin area of Chicago, along with her bedridden father and two brothers, 12 and 9. READ MORE HERE

A special needs child died a sad and horrible death. Aaron Rowe, 23, of Visalia, California, was arrested and charged with murdering his six week old special needs daughter, Peyton, after allegedly torturing her over a period of weeks, and his wife Courtney faces a charge of failure to protect a child from abuse, with a special allegation of willful harm to a child. READ MORE HERE

A mother accused of starving and murdering her four-year-old son has told a court she was prevented from feeding him by his stepfather. Magdelena Luczak claimed Mariusz Krezolek ‘hated’ Daniel Pelka and had given him physical punishments, including squats, almost every day. Luczak, 27, and Krezolek, 34, are alleged to have murdered Daniel during an ‘incomprehensible’ and escalating campaign of cruelty at their Coventry home. READ MORE HERE

Social services failed to notice shocking injuries of 23-month-old toddler

A vicious pervert is facing a life sentence after a savage attack on a 23-month-old girl after a series of blunders by social services. Christopher Atkins, 30, tried to hide his face as he arrived at court before a jury found him guilty of sexual assault and child cruelty by neglect. After the case it emerged social workers did not spot injuries to the toddler and there were delays carrying out background checks which would have revealed Atkins was suspected of previous assaults on another child. READ MORE HERE

Parents arrested over the death of their 15-month-old daughter who weighed just 9lbs

The parents of a 15-month-old child who weighted only 9lb when she died, have been arrested in connection with her death.  Ernest Ingram, and Denise Snow-Ingram, who are both 38, told police they had never taken their daughter to see a doctor because of religious beliefs.  The tiny girl died at a children’s hospital on Wednesday morning, after an ambulance was called to the parents’ Phoenix home after reports of a child not breathing. READ MORE HERE

The girl claims she was raped by three teachers but the police say they know better.  The 12-year old girl who has had a baby in Qiyang, Hunan province in China claims that three of her teachers raped her repeatedly, but the police have a arrested a 74 year old man from a neighboring village, claiming to have DNA evidence that he is the  father and the man who raped her. READ MORE HERE

Nikki Haley opened up about her own personal experience with child abuse today as she stressed the importance of the Silent Tears study. Haley told reporters at a press conference today that she was physically abused by a day care provider when she was a child. The South Carolina Governor said that her family didn’t know how to deal with the issue when they found out that she was being abused. READ MORE HERE

Baby stabbed 90 times with scissors by his mother after he bit her while breastfeeding him

An eight-month-old boy is lucky to be alive after he was stabbed 90 times by his mother, mostly in the face, for biting her while she was breastfeeding. Xiao Bao needed more than 100 stitches after the incident in Xuzhou, eastern China’s Jiangsu Province.  The infant lives with his mother and two uncles, who make a living recycling rubbish. It was one of the uncles who discovered Xiao Bao lying in a pool of blood in the yard of their home and rushed him to hospital. READ MORE HERE

OHIO — Convicted child killer Robert Wells, who brutally murdered and sexually assaulted 14-year-old Barbara Sue Caulley, will be released from prison on July 13, 2013 after completing his 25-year sentence. He will be under absolutely NO SUPERVISION after he is released. In addition, a loophole in Ohio law means that Mr. Wells will NOT be adjudicated a sexual offender and there will be NO COMMUNITY NOTIFICATION of his residence or employment. We were assured by Ohio Senators Kevin Bacon and Jim Hughes, as well as Franklin County Ohio Prosecutor Ron O’ Brien, that the loophole would be corrected with the passage of Roberta’s Law. Unfortunately none of these career politicians were familiar with the Ohio Constitution. Article II sec. 28 clearly states in part “The general assembly shall have no power to pass retroactive laws.” This law has been in Ohio’s Constitution for over 90 years and this means Mr. Wells could never have been adjudicated a sex offender. READ MORE HERE

NASHVILLE — A former soldier was sentenced to 50 years in prison Monday after pleading guilty to two state charges that he raped a 6-year-old girl in Montgomery County in 2008. The sentencing follows an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) with assistance from the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division. According to court documents, Joshua Matthew Cline, 28, received an automatic 25-year sentence without parole on each charge Monday after pleading guilty in April to two counts of child rape. Cline was previously sentenced to more than 27 years in federal prison for production of child pornography in August 2011. READ MORE HERE