Mother, 32, killed her daughters, 13 and 7, in tragic murder-suicide just one day after ex-boyfriend moved out

Authorities believe a Utah mother shot and killed her two young daughters before turning the gun on herself in a tragic murder-suicide Tuesday evening in Syracuse, Utah. The untimely deaths of 32-year-old Kyler Ann Ramsdell-Oliva and her daughters Kenadee Oliva, 13, and Isabella Oliva, 7, come just one day after police supervised the mother’s ex-boyfriend and former fiance moving out of the house. When police responded to 911 calls at the address around 7pm, they found the ex-boyfriend outside having shown up to gather up a few things he left at the home. READ MORE HERE

Picture by harrowing picture, he searches for clues to the vilest crimes

The vital clue is quite innocuous: part of a canoe. But it is enough to secure an arrest, then a conviction – and the safety of two small boys. The canoe features in several photographs, but it is not the focus of the images. On the contrary, it is a seemingly incidental background detail in a series of sickening depictions of child sex abuse. But police child protection expert James Traynor is skilled at spotting the relevance of such clues. READ MORE HERE

An international pedophile group that arranged “heinous” child sexual abuse on live webcams has been dismantled by a joint operation between U.S. investigators and other forces across the world, officials said Wednesday. “Children have been rescued from a living nightmare,” said James Dinkins the executive associate director of the U.S. Homeland Security Investigations Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “The group responsible for these heinous crimes mistakenly believed that they could use technology to avoid detection, but they were wrong.” READ MORE HERE

A gang of Eastern Europeans were yesterday found guilty of subjecting girls as young as 12 to horrific sexual abuse. Two adults and three boys were convicted of rape and sexual assault in what prosecutors described as one of the worst cases they had ever seen. A court heard how the group, of Czech, Slovak and Kurdish origin, groomed five vulnerable girls between 12 and 14 and then abused them in a range of locations, including near a playground, in 2012. READ MORE HERE

MICHIGAN — Glenn Norton, 48, of Detroit is accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy. Hazel Park police say Norton was a friend of the boy’s family and frequently took the child to the Koei Kan Karate-Do club on John R. Road where he was an instructor and the boy was a student. Police say that’s where the child was violated. READ MORE HERE

An Arkansas woman who is featured in a reality television series has been charged with the rape of a teenage boy. Andrea Clevenger, one of the moms fromTLC’s “Cheer Perfection,” a show about competitive cheerleaders, turned herself in to authorities Tuesday, according to KATV. Clevenger is charged with one count of rape and one count of engaging children in sexually explicit conduct for use in a visual or print medium, according to KARK. Police began an investigation following a tip from the Arkansas Child Abuse Hotline in November. READ MORE HERE

‘Swiss Cheese Pervert’ On The Loose In Mayfair, Pennsylvania

The Mayfair Town Watch of Mayfair, Penn., posted a warning on Facebook Thursday that residents should “please be aware of the Swiss Cheese Pervert!” The suspect in question allegedly drives around town “exposes himself to women” and “offers them money to watch him put swiss cheese on his privates.” The group also posted a photo of the suspect. READ MORE HERE

A 73-year-old from Tunbridge Wells has been jailed for more than eight years for sexually abusing a four-year-old girl. John Luker, of South View Road, appeared at Maidstone Crown Court and pleaded guilty to charges of oral rape, two offences of sexual assault and one of causing a child to engage in sexual activity. READ MORE HERE

‘My father raped me then told me it was better to lose my virginity to him than a random person in a hotel’

A young woman who was raped by her father at the age of 12 has shared her story in the hope it will help other victims of sexual abuse. Gemma Schembri, now 21, from Lincolnshire, revealed her father, Mark, had always been controlling but took his abuse further after he split up with her mother.  She said: ‘He started to sexually abuse me when I stayed with him and it went on for over a year. He was very manipulative and controlled my thoughts to make me believe it was normal. ‘The first time he raped me he said afterwards, “Well it was better that it was with me than with some random person in a hotel”.’ Gemma said she didn’t realize what her father was doing was wrong and it took her years to pluck up the courage to reveal she was a victim of abuse.  READ MORE HERE

Robert W. Thomas Jr., 36, allegedly posted online ad asking if anyone would help arrange marriage of their daughter to him

ALLIANCE, Ohio – An Ohio man accused of trying to buy a 10-year-old girl Saturday has been arrested. Robert W. Thomas Jr., 36, of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio posted on a website that he was looking for anyone willing to arrange a “marriage” between him and their daughter.  An officer from Alliance, Ohio who works with the Ohio Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force saw the posting and responded to Thomas. READ MORE HERE

Police reportedly planning their first arrests in the Maddie McCann case

London police appear poised to make an arrest in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the girl who was 3 when she vanished while on a Portuguese vacation with her family nearly seven years ago. The arrests of a trio of alleged burglars who had been active in the neighborhood would be the result of Operation Grange, the reopening of the McCann investigation three years ago. “We can confirm that a second International Letter of Request has been sent to the Portuguese authorities by the Crown Prosecution Services this week… in connection with Operation Grange,” Scotland Yard told ABC News in a statement. The authorities would not discuss any further details. READ MORE HERE

British police ‘preparing to make arrests’ in Madeleine McCann case

Madeleine McCann Cops Poised to Make Arrests in Her Disappearance

Reports: Arrests ahead in Madeleine McCann disappearance

A 4-year-old boy was found dead in a luxury New York apartment with “horrific” cigarette burns and cuts to his face and body, police said. Myls Dobson had been abused for several days before he was found dead in a bathtub of the Ritz Plaza building, in Midtown Manhattan, according to the NYPD on Thursday. The boy’s babysitter, 27-year-old Kryzie King, has been arrested on suspicion of first-degree assault and reckless endangerment of the first degree. She has not yet been charged, police said. READ MORE HERE

Horrific cell phone footage shows teen girls ‘beating their 16-year-old friend before holding her down to be raped’ 

A 16-year-old girl was allegedly beaten by other girls before being held down to be raped in a horrifying attack that was filmed on a cellphone, it was revealed today. Patricia Montes, 15, and 16-year-old Erica Avery are accused of punching, kicking and pepper-spraying the girl before holding her down to be raped by Jayvon Woolfork, 19, police said.  The barbaric attack was filmed on a cell phone by Lanel Singleton, 18, and shows the girl writhing half naked and weeping in the yard of a home in Hollywood, Florida while her attackers leer over her. READ MORE HERE

A 34-year-old Washington woman who sadistically and systematically tortured her 13-year-old brother-in-law by beating him with a baseball bat, slicing his skin with a heated knife and forcing him to remain tied naked to a dog house without food and water has been sentenced to 31-years in jail. Silverdale mother Viviana Gunn was sentenced on Monday after she pleaded guilty in August to hanging 13-year-old Jordan Gunn from the rafters of her house for gruesome hours long ‘sessions’ of abuse according to court proceedings. Torturing the teen over the course of last year, Gunn once clamped the boys hand in a bench vise, tightened the jaws and drove a nail through his hand with a hammer. The teen told the shocked court that he could see the nail coming out the other side of his hand. READ MORE HERE