A Dallas ISD middle school teacher has been charged with sexual assault after a 14-year-old girl accused him of having sex with her in his classroom in recent months. The eighth-grade girl told police that the relationship escalated, with Scott Alcaraz buying her Dr Peppers at Marsh Middle School and offering to buy her anything she wanted. It ended after two months when the girl said she saw him kissing another girl in his classroom, court documents state. READ MORE HERE

For victims of a serial rapist broadcaster, his guilty plea may finally bring some good news.  83-year-old veteran BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall has pleaded guilty to charges that he raped upwards of thirteen girls between 1967 and 1985. The Chief Crown Prosecutor has described Hall as an opportunistic predator who would befriend a target and wait until she was alone, according to BBC.  READ MORE HERE

A mother was charged in the fire deaths of her four children.   Hope Kaneshia Hawkins, 21, the mother of four children who died in a mobile home fire in Hartsville, has been charged with four counts of unlawful neglect of a child and four counts of homicide by child abuse.  According to WBTV, during that news conference, Fire Chief Jeff Burr revealed that the investigation so far has determined that fire began in the kitchen, and has been deemed accidental though they are not sure of the exact cause.  READ MORE HERE

Father and Girlfriend Tried to Hide Son’s Abuse with Make-Up

There was no hiding the child’s disfiguring injuries in a Douglas County district courtroom Tuesday. Nor was there any concealing of the abuse of the child by his father and the father’s girlfriend. Not like Chad Cymbalista and his then-girlfriend, Nicole Corcoran, had tried to do April 24, 2012, when they caked makeup on the boy’s face and took him to the Nebraska Medical Center. Tuesday, their abuse of the little boy was laid bare. READ MORE HERE

North Wales Police release report detailing sexual abuse from 1963 to 1982

One of Britain’s biggest child abuse scandals is likely to have been even larger than previously thought, police revealed yesterday. Dozens of former residents of North Wales children’s homes have given detectives ‘graphic’ accounts of appalling abuse at the hands of 84 staff – most of whom have never been prosecuted. Barely a decade after a 13 million public inquiry that was meant to uncover the extent of the scandal, police yesterday revealed they had ‘significant’ new evidence of ‘serious and systemic’ abuse. READ MORE HERE

PHOENIX – Phoenix police have arrested a 36-year-old mother of nine on suspicion of first-degree murder in the suffocation death of her newborn daughter. “Anyone who has a child, particularly a new baby, it tears at their heart,” said Phoenix police Sgt. Tommy Thompson. “It shocks them to think a mother, for whatever reason, would ever suffocate or, for that matter, do any type of injury to their newborn child.” Police said Bradley Koistinen found his daughter’s body in bed next to her mother around 6:45 a.m. April 8 and called 911. READ MORE HERE

In Homedale, Idaho, 29-year-old Veronica T. Herrera has pleaded to involuntary manslaughter in connection with the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Nakita. According to Idaho Statesman, Herrera initially told police that her daughter hit her head while potty training.  READ  MORE  HERE

INTRUDER BRUTALLY STABBED 8-YO GIRL TO DEATH

Residents of Calaveras County, California were warned by police to stay indoors after 8-year-old Leila Fowler was stabbed to death by an unknown assailant, who is still roaming the streets of the small town. CBS San Francisco identified the young girl who was due to turn 9 this June. Her 12-year-old brother walked in on an intruder in the house and ended up finding his sister, suffering from multiple stab wounds.  READ MORE  HERE

California Manhunt for 8-Year-Old Leila Fowler’s Killer; Family Devastated

Leila Fowler Murder: Patrols increased outside school as town hunts for killer

Leila Fowler 8-Year-Old Killed: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know 

Leila Fowler stabbing: Girl, 8, killed by intruder in her Valley Springs

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2006 Child Abduction Murder Study

In late 1993, the Criminal Division of the Washington State Attorney General’s Office undertook a 3-1/2 year research project, partially funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, to study the investigation of child abduction murder cases. In this first research project, published in 1997, researchers reviewed more than 600 child abduction murder cases across the United States, then interviewed the investigating detectives. This data provided law enforcement valuable insight into what investigative techniques tend to be most productive. Now the Attorney General’s Office has released a follow-up study, including 175 additional solved cases. The additional cases generally reflect and support the findings in the original report with several significant and definite differences:

• With more killers identified, researchers found threat that the killer will be a friend or acquaintance is nearly equal to that of a stranger.
• The probability that the killer’s name will come up during the first week of the investigation has decreased.
• The use of pornography by killers as a trigger to murder has increased.

Key findings:

• In 74 percent of the missing children homicide cases studied, the child murder victim was female and the average age was 11 years old.
• In 44 percent of the cases studied, the victims and killers were strangers, but in 42 percent of the cases, the victims and killers were friends or acquaintances.
• Only about 14 percent of the cases studied involved parents or intimates killing the child.
• Almost two-thirds of the killers in these cases have prior arrests for violent crimes, with slightly more than half of those prior crimes committed against children.
• The primary motive for the child abduction killer in the cases studied was sexual assault.
• In nearly 60 percent of the cases studied, more than two hours passed between the time someone realized the child was missing and the time police were notified.
• In 76 percent of the missing children homicide cases studied, the child was dead within three hours of the abduction–and in  88.5 percent of the cases the child was dead within 24 hours.

Key recommendations to protect children:

• Be aware that children are not immune from abduction because they are close to home.   More than half of the study’s abductions took place within three city blocks of the victim’s home.
• Be certain that your children are supervised – even if they are in their own front yard or neighborhood street.   Approximately one-third of the abductions studied took occurred within one-half block of the victim’s home.
• Teach your children not to ever approach a car– whether the occupant is a stranger or not– no matter what the occupant the tells them or asks them.
• Be aware of strangers and unusual behavior in your neighborhoods.   Many child abductions are witnessed by people who do not realize that a crime is being committed.
• If your child is ever missing, CALL POLICE IMMEDIATELY.   An immediate response to a missing or abducted child may be the difference between life and death.

Executive Summary

Conclusions

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Meet the research team

Shocking Child Abduction Statistics – How Safe Are Your Children?

Baby taken from parents who wanted 2nd opinion on medical treatment

A Sacramento family was torn apart after a 5-month-old baby boy was taken from his parents following a visit to the doctor. The young couple thought their problems were behind them after their son had a scare at the hospital, but once they got home their problems got even worse. It all began nearly two weeks ago, when Anna Nikolayev and her husband Alex took their 5-month-old boy Sammy to Sutter Memorial Hospital to be treated for flu symptoms, but they didn’t like the care Sammy was getting. For example, one day Anna asked why a nurse was giving her son antibiotics. “I asked her, for what is that? And she’s like, ‘I don’t know.’ I’m like, ‘you’re working as a nurse, and you don’t even know what to give to my baby for what,'” Anna explained. According to Anna, a doctor later said Sammy shouldn’t have been on the antibiotics. Anna said Sammy suffers from a heart murmur and had been seeing a doctor at Sutter for regular treatment since he was born. After Sammy was treated for flu symptoms last week, doctors at Sutter admitted him to the pediatric ICU to monitor his condition. After a few days, Anna said doctors began talking about heart surgery. READ MORE HERE

Anna Nikolayev Loses Sammy Nikolayev After Asking for Second

How does CPS decide when to remove a child from his parents

CPS Takes Baby After Parents Seek Second Medical Opinion

Sacramento couple still unclear why CPS took their baby boy after dispute with doctors

Anna Nikolayev Loses Sammy Nikolayev After Asking for Second Opinion

Video: Couple says baby taken by CPS for no reason

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JONESBORO, AR – Police in Jonesboro say a 15th person has been arrested in connection with a rape and child pornography investigation involving a 12-year-old girl. Sgt. Lyle Waterworth told The Jonesboro Sun that a Searcy man was arrested Friday. Police say the 15 people arrested in the case includes a relative of the victim and several juveniles. READ MORE HERE

On July 3, 2000, Herman Carroll was arrested for sexually assaulting his 12 year old daughter. He is a child sex offender with two prior convictions. He is currently WANTED in Moultrie County, Illinois for: Failure to Appear, Predatory Criminal Sexual Assault of a Child, Criminal Sexual Assault, and Aggravated Criminal Sexual Abuse. He is a skilled trim finisher specializing in new construction. He has family in the Peoria and Mt. Vernon areas of Illinois. Frequently stays in campgrounds. Possible locations are: The Ozarks, Las Vegas, or the Florida Keys. Other Possible Locations: Springfield, MO. Carroll is believed to be hiding out in homeless camps in the wilderness of Springfield, Mo.

Last Known Locations: Sullivan, IL

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Herman Arthur Carroll Sr.

Male White Current Age: 61 Height: 5’7” Weight: 240 lbs. Hair- Brown Eyes: Hazel • Carroll’s hair is typically disheveled. • He is currently thought to be clean-shaven. • In the past, he typically wore a mustache. Other Phys. Characteristics: • Carroll has a birthmark/discoloration on his abdomen. Scars and Tattoos: • Carroll has a scar on his right finger. • He has a scar on his left wrist. • On his left shoulder, Carroll has a tattoo of a red heart with the name “JOANNE” in the center. • On his right shoulder, he has a “family tree” with the initials of family members on two branches. • One branch has the initial “K” on the main branch, with three offshoot branches. These three offshoot branches contain the letters “E”, “K”, and either “C” or “H”. • The second primary branch contains the letter “J” with three offshoot branches, containing the letters “N”, “E”, and “B”.

On December 26, 1985, Awilda Maddox, age 71, was excited to be spending time with her five grandchildren. Mrs. Maddox’s son, Curtis Jr., had recently moved in with his mother after separating from his wife. The boys, Jody, age 10, and William, age 8, and the girls, Evelyn, age 9, and twins Dawn and Jennifer, age 7 were spending that Christmas with their father and Mrs. Maddox. The children went to bed that evening and were looking forward to watching movies the next day on the new VCR their grandmother had gotten for them for Christmas. Sadly they would never get the chance.  READ MORE HERE

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The daughter of a prostitute has won a landmark £20,000 payout after suing social services for failing to take her into full-time care when she was a child in order to protect her from her abusive mother. Collette Elliott, 35, launched legal action against Birmingham social services last year, in what is thought to be the first case of its kind in Britain. Mrs Elliott, from Erdington, Birmingham, had managed to get hold of her social services records which showed officers had been aware of serious concerns about her mother Maureen Batchelor. Batchelor, who died of a brain tumor last August, had been cautioned for soliciting, criminal damage and for failing to feed her daughter properly. READ MORE HERE