MOTHER CLAIMS SHE DID IT TO “SAVE HER MARRIAGE” 

Bellevue, NE – A Nebraska couple that was jailed in February for repeatedly raping their 5-year-old son, now faces a new charge of child pornography. The couple’s identity was not released to protect the identity of the victim. According to police, an investigation was launched after a 5-year-old boy told his therapist that his parents had sexually assaulted him. As the investigation unfolded, it was learned that the alleged sexual assault was ongoing in nature. READ MORE HERE

Infant had suffered two broken bones, ruptured spleen and liver, and all of his abdominal organs had been crushed

A Philadelphia father has been accused of beating his 3-month-old son to death. Samuel Cabrera, 27, was arrested and charged with murder. Cabrera’s neighbor, Rashawn Reddick, didn’t hold back her disgust when she learned of the accusations. “It makes me sick to my stomach,” she said. “A 3-month-old innocent baby. It makes me want to cry.”  READ MORE HERE

An Arizona mother has been arrested after her baby son was found dead while in her care. Jennifer Respicio, 14, was charged with murder in Del City, Oklahoma, after her 7-month-old son Jaidyn was found unresponsive on Sunday. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead. READ MORE HERE

Man gets life in prison for starving son to death

A man accused for starving his son to death has been found guilty by a Dallas County jury and will spend life in prison. The verdict and decision on punishment both happened Tuesday afternoon. Aaron Ramsey, 35, was accused of starving his 10-year-old son Jonathan to death. READ MORE HERE

SANTA ANA, CA — A Santa Ana man is behind bars, after police say he and an accomplice tried to kidnap a 15-year-old girl walking to school. Police are still searching for the alleged accomplice. It happened around 8:25 a.m. Wednesday as the girl was walking in the 1200 block of South Sullivan Street on her way to Valley High School. READ MORE HERE

A family doctor raped a vulnerable schoolgirl from the age of 10 after secretly medicating her with an anti-depressant, a court heard. Dr Stephen Hamilton, 45, from Altrincham, Greater Manchester, is alleged to have given the girl the drug citalopram before subjecting her to degrading sexual abuse. Manchester Crown Court heard how he would put his hands around the girl’s neck as he attacked her and told her ‘you deserve to die’. The historic offences are alleged to have occurred over two-and-a-half years between 2006 to 2009. READ MORE HERE

Katie Taylor was drugged and raped for two years – and endured pregnancy and abortion – after being abducted by a predatory gang aged 13. When the Rotherham child abuse scandal exploded last year the nation hoped that the sordid story was a horrifying one-off. But in the wake of the revelations came allegations of more Asian gangs sexually abusing white girls – some as young as 12 – in cities across the north of England. For Katie Taylor (not her real name), the sickening tales of sexual abuse came as no surprise, because as a 13-year-old, she too had been a victim of predatory gangs. READ MORE HERE

Child Abuse is defined as the mistreatment of children or minors, resulting in a variety of harmful and damaging results with regard to both the safety and wellbeing of the victim. Child abuse can range in the details and circumstances in which the offense takes place; child abuse can take place in a direct, physical fashion, which includes attacks and sexual assault – however, child abuse can take place verbally and psychologically. Regardless of the nature of the child abuse offense, results of this kind of abuse may result in negative aftereffects, both short-term and long-term in nature; a wide variety of Facts About Child Abuse exist, which state that victims of child abuse are prone to physical injury, bodily harm, the development of mental and psychological disorders, and in certain cases – death.

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Police in Plaquemines Parish have arrested a man for allegedly having sex with his teenage daughter. “Sheriff Lonnie Greco announces the arrest of a 37-year-old father for having sexual intercourse with his 16-year-old daughter,” Commander Eric Becnel said in a news release.  “Plaquemines Parish Sheriff’s Office 1st District Patrol Division responded to an incest complaint in Belle Chasse. Upon arrival, responding deputies learned that a 37-year-old father had been coercing his 16-year-old daughter to have sexual intercourse with him for the past year.” Becnel says that the father got the daughter drunk and had sex with her on multiple occasions. READ MORE HERE

Federal authorities tracked down Eric Toth – a 31-year-old former elementary schoolteacher convicted of producing child pornography – to Nicaragua and extradited him to the U.S. for trial. According to The Washington Post, Toth had fled authorities back in 2008, after officials at the Washington National Cathedral’s Beauvoir elementary school found disturbing footage of his students on a camera that had been assigned to him from the school. READ MORE HERE

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AMW | Fugitives | Eric Toth | Case – America’s Most Wanted

Eric Toth, on FBI’s most wanted list, is arrested in Nicaragua

Eric Justin Toth Arrested: Top 10 Facts You Need to Know

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Dr Kermit Gosnell, 72, charged with killing four babies and one woman, 41, at his Philadelphia clinic for late-term abortions

Defense lawyers for a doctor accused of killing four babies in a Philadelphia abortion clinic by snipping their spines have rested their case without calling a single witness. The high-profile murder trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, has been underway for almost six weeks, during which time the jury has heard from a plethora of former employees who have shared startling stories of the practices they allegedly witnessed. He is charged with killing four infants during botched abortions as well as a 41-year-old woman who died of an overdose after the procedure at his Women’s Medical Society clinic in urban West Philadelphia. He could face the death penalty if convicted. READ MORE HERE

PONTIAC, Mich. – Sandra Layne, the 75-year-old Detroit-area woman convicted of murder in the fatal shooting of her teenage grandson, was sentenced to at least 22 years in prison Thursday, despite a plea from her lawyer that she may not survive a long stay. Layne got a minimum sentence of 20 years for second-degree murder, along with a mandatory two-year sentence for using a gun to kill 17-year-old Jonathan Hoffman. READ MORE HERE

PICTURES: Grandma convicted of murdering grandson

15-YO boy kept inside room made from tarps while being tortured and abused for 4-years

ESCANABA, MI — A 15-year-old boy was kept inside a home in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula for four years, rarely leaving a room made from tarps while being tortured and abused, police said Thursday. The teen’s mother and her boyfriend were arrested last week and are in the Delta County jail, charged with torture, child abuse and criminal sexual conduct, Escanaba police Capt. Jamie Segorski said.

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Mother Susan Bardo and her boyfriend, Carl Pellinen, have been charged with torture, child abuse and criminal sexual conduct

UK– Children are safer playing out in the street or their local park, a landmark report by the NSPCC shows