NEW ZEALAND — An older woman tricks a preteen into having sex; now they’re both paying the consequences.  A New Zealand mother, 36, gave birth after having a months-long affair with her son’s 11-year-old schoolmate. According the The Times of India, the woman in question gave the Auckland boy “beer to drink and then later took part in a sexual encounter with him.” READ MORE HERE

Bronx teacher sent 10-year-old rape victim apology note after brutal attack

A twisted Bronx teacher emailed his 10-year-old student victim a sickening apology after raping the helpless fifth-grader in his parked car, prosecutors said. “I was too rough,” read the monstrous mea culpa sent by hulking Anthony Criscuolo, 40, one day after the attack Monday in a parking lot at Public School 195. “Sorry. It’s normal. You may feel pain for a few days . . . . How did it feel for you?” wrote the goateed teacher, whose vile behavior was hidden by his car’s tinted windows. READ MORE HERE

Ex-USC professor on FBI Top 10 Most Wanted list APPREHENDED in Mexico

A former professor at the University of Southern California suspected sexually abusing young boys and producing child pornography was yesterday arrested in Mexico. Walter Lee Williams, 64, was captured yesterday evening while drinking coffee near a park in the beach town of Playa del Carmen, on the country’s Carribean coast. He was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list for charges of sexual exploitation of children and travelling abroad for the purpose of engaging in sexual acts with children. READ MORE HERE

Father’s grief at ‘suicide’ of 18-year-old son and girlfriend 15, after they were hit by train

The father of a teenage boy who died after stepping in front of a high-speed train with his girlfriend  in an apparent suicide pact has said he cannot stop crying. Mert Karaoglan, 18, and Charleigh Disbrey, 15, were found dead near a busy commuter station in Hertfordshire. The A-level student’s father Sakru, 48, said his son had told him he was ‘going out for one or two hours’ on Monday evening but he never returned. Today the grieving father, supported by relatives, visited the scene in Borehamwood where his son died on Monday evening. READ MORE HERE

Bellefonte man sentenced to 30- 60 years 

BELLEFONTE, CENTRE COUNTY – A Bellefonte man is sentenced to 30-60 years in state prison on over 300 counts of child rape and sexual abuse charges. 42 year-old Jeffrey Storms must register with Megan’s Law for the rest of his life.  After pleading guilty to more than 300 counts of child sexual abuse in his March jury trial, Jeffrey Storms, of Bellefonte, received a 30 to 60 year sentence in a State Correctional Facility, according to a release issued by the Centre County District Attorney’s office. The 42 year-old man’s charges include attempted child rape, attempted involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, dissemination and possession of child pornography and related sexual abuse charges. Storm committed these offenses over the span of 10 years on prepubescent children, “a young relative, friends of his daughters, and two young daughters of a good friend,” according to the release. READ MORE HERE

Arrests include Disney employee

Other arrests included a student, insurance salesman and law enforcement academy graduate. Charges against the suspects include attempted lewd battery, lewd and lascivious battery, unlawful use of a two-way communication device, seduce/solicit/entice to commit in sexual act, traveling to meet minor, drug possession, possession of drug paraphernalia, traveling to meet/use computer to solicit guardian, transmission of harmful material to minor, to procuring minor for prostitution, and resisting arrest without violence. READ MORE HERE

UK — Jill Meagher was the entire world for her loving husband and a funny, intelligent daughter who promised her parents they would soon have a grandchild. In heartbreaking victims impact statements the people Jill left behind told a judge yesterday of their deep distress and sense of loss over her murder at the hands of a man branded a sexual predator. Jill’s dad George McKeon bravely stood in the body of the Supreme Court of Victoria to face killer and rapist Adrian Ernest Bayley and tell how his crime had destroyed his family. READ MORE HERE

A Glens Falls man who dumped hot sauce down the throat of his girlfriend’s 5-year-old son and inflicted injuries to the boy that were akin to being dropped from a second story window was convicted Tuesday of second-degree murder, Warren County District Attorney Kate Hogan said. “This child suffered atrocities no child should suffer,” said Hogan, who prosecuted the case. READ MORE HERE

A Presho man accused of raping a 9-year-old relative was found guilty by a Brown County jury Wednesday of seven sexual abuse-related charges. Jerry L. Craig Sr., 55, was not sentenced. He faces a maximum of life in prison. After deliberating for nearly four hours, the jury found Craig guilty of three counts of rape of a child younger than 13, three counts of sexual abuse of a child younger than 15 and one count of aggravated incest. READ MORE HERE

NEW YORK — The U.S. Marshals Service has arrested 33-year-old Albert Bowman in York in connection with rape of a child, according to a news release. In September 2012, the York City Police Department investigated an allegation of rape and sexual assault of a minor, according to the news release. Based upon an investigation, an arrest warrant for Bowman was issued on June 14, the news release states. York City Police asked for the assistance of the United States Marshals Service Middle District of Pennsylvania Task Force, according to a news release. The task force determined Bowman was living in York County. READ MORE HERE

OREGON — Gary Lee Rose claimed he was the victim of a 9-year-old girl bent on thwarting his budding romance with her mother. It was the girl who took those sexually explicit photos and a video found on his cell phone, he said. A Clackamas County jury didn’t believe Rose’s story. After deliberating three hours, the 12 jurors unanimously convicted him Friday on multiple counts of unlawful sexual penetration, using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct and first-degree sexual abuse. READ  MORE HERE

ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Missouri – A St. Charles County woman has been charged in connection with the sexual assault and murder of her baby daughter last December. Jessica Lynn Howell, a.k.a. Jessica Lynn Peters, faces counts of 2nd degree murder and child abuse. Her 4-month-old daughter Ashlynn Lilith Peters died on December 3rd after she was allegedly sexually assaulted and strangled to death by the mother’s boyfriend, Jordan Lafayette Prince. READ MORE HERE

New figures revealing the impact of child abuse show as many as one in ten survivors have contemplated or attempted suicide, amid demands for better support from health practitioners including GPs. Analysis of more than 3500 calls over the past four years to a helpline operated by peak body Adults Surviving Child Abuse shows 67 per cent of people who said they had experienced sexual, physical or emotional abuse as a child suffered mental health problems as a result. Nearly 80 per cent of callers said their personal relationships had been affected and 18 per cent said their physical health had suffered. READ MORE HERE

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GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The often-heard outburst of a defendant’s mother screaming “Judge, don’t take my son away” was turned on its head in a Kent County courtroom Monday when a judge threw the book – and then some — at a child abuser based partially on his mom’s plea to separate her son from society. Nathaniel Sweet will spend the next 24 to 50 years in prison after he was convicted of delivering a blow to the head of 8-month-old Ayla Marie Shuart that had the same force as being dropped out of a four-story window, according to a doctor who testified in the trial in May. READ MORE HERE