WILLMAR — A Cyrus man has been charged with 12 felony counts of criminal sexual conduct for repeatedly having sex with a female relative between 1999 and 2011. Eugene Otto Zumhofe, 62, made his first appearance Tuesday morning in Kandiyohi County District Court. He faces six felony counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and six felony counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct. Judge Kathryn Smith set his bail at $500,000 cash or bond for unconditional release and $100,000 cash or bond for conditional release. He is being held at the Kandiyohi County Jail. His next court date is June 10. Zumhofe is a former professional wrestler who performed as Buck “Rock n’ Roll” Zumhofe in the 1980s and early 1990s. READ MORE HERE

Court docs: 9-month-old found dead had severe vaginal trauma

RICHLAND, Washington — The 9-month-old baby found dead in her crib last week suffered severe vaginal trauma, according to the autopsy. The child’s mother found Serenity Reedy dead in her crib Friday morning. The mother’s boyfriend, 36-year-old Jose Aguilar, was nowhere to be found. He’s suspected of the baby’s death. Aguilar recently moved in with the mother to her home on Log Lane at a trailer park off Stevens Drive. READ MORE HERE

Stuart Hall will serve barely two weeks in prison for each of the young girls he sexually abused. The sentence prompted a wave of outrage and fury last night, with victims saying it made a mockery of their horrific ordeal and politicians and campaigners condemning it as ‘incredibly lenient’. The disgraced It’s A Knockout presenter, 83, was jailed for 15 months yesterday after admitting that he indecently assaulted 13 girls between 1967 and 1986. His youngest victim was nine. Under sentencing rules Hall will be released automatically after serving just half the term. READ MORE HERE

Outrage as 1,000 pedophiles caught with obscene material are given community or suspended sentences

Two thirds of perverts caught downloading sickening child pornography escape a jail sentence, figures revealed last night. In a new soft-justice outrage, 1,000 pedophiles caught in possession of obscene abuse videos and pictures were handed community sentences or suspended jail terms last year. The revelation was greeted with fury by child abuse campaigners, who are demanding tougher sentences to reflect the damage done to the children pictured in the horrific images. READ MORE HERE

Google develops tagging system to find and delete vile child abuse images from the web

Web giant Google is to develop a global database of child abuse images to make it easier to delete them from the internet. Experts are developing technology similar to hashtags which digitally mark vile images found online. The firm is also offering more than $1 million to independent software developers to produce tools to combat child porn, after being stung by criticism that it was not doing enough to stem the tide of internet filth. READ MORE  HERE

A mother in Orange County, Florida was arrested and charged with aggravated child abuse Thursday, after using a stun gun on her daughter.  34-year-old Melissa Neale had been staying with her two children at a friend’s home in Orlando. Neale and her children had recently relocated from Texas.  It was the female friend she was staying with that reported the crime.  On June 9, Neale brandished a stun gun and used it on her daughter when the girl apparently didn’t make oatmeal to her liking. READ MORE HERE

Las Vegas, California — A 16-month-old baby girl is dead and the person who was supposed to be watching her is now charged with murder. This incident is the latest in a recent string of murders involving young kids being beaten to death. Investigators said Detrail Young admitted shaking his girlfriend’s sister’s baby after she started crying earlier this week. The arrest report details Young demonstrated with a doll what happened. During the police interview, he shook the doll back and forth and asked “what’s wrong with you?” in a stern tone. READ MORE HERE

Lafayette, Louisiana —  A Carencro man has been charged with raping a 5-year-old boy and possibly giving the child AIDS, according to records with the Lafayette Parish District Attorney’s Office. Conwell Cormier, 29, was indicted by a Lafayette Parish grand jury this past week on one count of aggravated rape and one count of exposing the child to AIDS, records show. Cormier, whose address was 241 Beau Basin Road, Apartment 13 in Carencro, has been in the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center since his arrest on April 1.  READ MORE HERE

West Springfield, Massachusetts — A UMass police officer is facing a number of charges, including child rape, following his arrest Thursday. 49-year-old George Colon of West Springfield was arrested Thursday night on a warrant, charging him with two counts of open and gross lewdness, rape of a child, sodomy, and enticing a child under the age 16. Colon was arrested at his home in West Springfield, with the assistance of his UMass Police supervisor and another officer. READ MORE HERE

Fayetteville child killer sentenced to death

Fayettville, North Carolina — A Cumberland County jury deliberated less than 40 minutes Wednesday before deciding that Mario Andrette McNeill should die for the November 2009 death of 5-year-old Shaniya Davis. The eight-man, four-woman jury last week convicted McNeill, 32, of first-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping, sexual offense of a child, indecent liberties with a child, human trafficking and sexual servitude in connection with her death. That decision took almost eight hours over two days, but jurors didn’t even have to call out for lunch Wednesday before handing down the death sentence. READ MORE HERE

The Warning Signs of Child Abuse

Statistics show that in the last year approximately 1 in 10 children have experienced some form of maltreatment.* Teachers and school staff are have a unique ability to monitor children’s health and well-being on a daily basis. Sudden changes in mood, behavior, or health may only be apparent to those closest to the child. Many abused or neglected children are too young to articulate what has happened to them, or to understand right from wrong. Even teenagers may not understand that it is illegal to be sexual with adults or beaten by a parent. When the abuser is a loved one, the dynamic may cause a great deal of psychological conflict for the victim and lead them to hide the abuse. Many signs of abuse are therefore subtle, and will take a trained eye to catch. Here is what to lookout for among your students. READ MORE HERE

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Child Abuse & Neglect – Part 1: What are the warning signs & indicators

Child Abuse & Neglect – Part 2: What are the warning signs & indicators

Police: Baby scalped during parents’ fight

Authorities said a man is being held in the Greene County Jail accused of ripping a baby’s scalp off while fighting with the mother. Police said Kodi Weatherspoon assaulted the woman while she was holding their one-month-old child in their Duncan Drive apartment June 5. Weatherspoon called for help after allegedly hurting the baby and can be heard on the 911 call saying “I’m sorry.” When officers arrived, the mother was found with a facial laceration and was bleeding. She was holding the child, and officers could see his scalp was missing. “The injury provided me with the observation of what appeared to be bone to the head,” the reporting officer wrote in the police report. READ MORE HERE

Father accused of scalping his baby boy

Man to be arraigned for sexually molesting 3-year-old daughter

JACKSON, MI – A Blackman Township man is to be arraigned Monday afternoon on several counts of criminal sexual conduct for allegedly sexually assaulting his 3-year-old daughter. He would take showers with the girl and told Blackman-Leoni Township public safety detectives Christopher Boulter and Joseph Merritt that he may have attempted to have sex with her six times. He said it happened “too many times to remember,” according to a petition seeking to remove the girl from the care of her mother and father, who were living at the Avalon Hotel, 2000 Bondsteel Drive. READ MORE HERE

On July 24, 2006 a family and all of Franklin were forever changed as the result of a horrifying double murder — 10-year-old Blake Dickus and his 26-year-old stepmother Chynna Dickus were brutally slain in their north side Franklin home. Murders are a rarity in smaller communities like Franklin. They are especially shocking when a child is a victim. Since that tragic day, the Franklin Police Department has worked diligently to solve this crime. Despite their valiant efforts the case has remained unsolved for seven years. Blake’s family and friends have refused to let this case fade from the public conscious and have created several avenues to publicize the case with hopes that someone may hear about it and realize they might have valuable information that could lead to an arrest, conviction and closure of this horrible crime. READ MORE HERE