An LAPD officer is accused of beating a young relative because the child had poor grades and was behaving badly, prosecutors said. Daniel Hun Chun, 39, allegedly hit the teen repeatedly with a variety of household items on March 13, “leaving welts and bruises,” according to a statement released by the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. He was charged with one felony count of child abuse and one felony count of corporal injury on a child and faces up to six years in state prison.

Abuse began at six months and went on for a year

A mother has admitted pulling off her baby daughter’s finger and toe nails in an horrific year-long campaign of abuse. The 26 year-old began hurting the child when she was just six months old. Suspicions were first aroused when the child’s GP noticed the injuries to her nails in August 2010.  The mother initially claimed her baby was suffering from infected nails, but doctors found there was no medical cause for the injuries. The woman, from Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. was arrested and charged with wounding with intent. READ MORE HERE

A mother who abused her adopted son for more than a decade, beating him and locking him in darkness for a year, has today been jailed. Jean Robinson beat her son Joseph for 11 years, after adopting him as an 18-month-old baby. The 62-year-old locked him away without access to a toilet, caging him in total darkness for a year. Robinson was today sentenced to 12 months in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of willful assault at Preston Crown Court. Speaking after the hearing, Joseph, now 27 and a dad himself, said: ‘It started when I was adopted at 18 months old and went on until I was 11. ‘She did awful things to me, and I used to wonder why she hated me so much. READ MORE HERE

Parent education programs focus on enhancing parenting practices and behaviors, such as developing and practicing positive discipline techniques, learning age-appropriate child development skills and milestones, promoting positive play and interaction between parents and children, and locating and accessing community services and supports. The following programs and resources have been useful in supporting parents and strengthening parenting skills.

• Parent education for families involved in child welfare
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Three starving children — including one who was chained to the floor to prevent her from getting food — were found last month in the squalid home of a Northern California couple, authorities said. All three — two boys and a girl — were taken into protective custody, and one was hospitalized, Monterey County Sheriff Scott Miller said Friday. Authorities discovered them in the Salinas, Calif., home on March 14 after two of the young people missed appointments, according to several published reports. READ MORE HERE

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Two teachers at Ottawa’s elite private school Ashbury College, have been found guilty of professional misconduct for covering up a sexual assault against a student on a field trip to Boston in 2007. The teachers, Alyssa Novick and Ian Middleton were supervising a group of history students on a trip to Boston, when a 16-year-old student was sexually assaulted. The family of the victim claims the school and the two teachers did not deal with the victim appropriately, and did not contact Boston police immediately. READ MORE HERE

Mother and boyfriend charged with murder of her 2-yo son found dead on the sidewalk with more than 230 bruises and bite marks

A Texas mother and her boyfriend have been charged with murder in connection to the 2012 death of her 2-year-old son found lying on the sidewalk with contusions all over his body.  On November 17, 2012, little Steven Drouillard was discovered unresponsive on the ground outside his mother’s apartment building in Pasadena, Texas. The toddler was wearing only a diaper, and his body was covered in more than 200 bruises, lacerations and bite marks. READ MORE HERE

Detroit mom pleads guilty to killing 8-yo daughter; State tried to get girl out of home

A Detroit woman has pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing her 8-year-old daughter, a death that occurred weeks after a court official declined to remove the girl from her home. The Wayne County prosecutor’s office says Semeria Greene pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Thursday and will serve at least 23 years in prison before she’s considered for parole. The maximum term would be 50 years. Sentencing is April 7. READ MORE HERE

Babysitter admits shaking 2-yo to death and leaving her to die on the floor ‘while she played a Facebook game for two hours’

A 36-year-old New Jersey woman plead guilty today to charges she killed a 2-year-old girl, nearly four years after the toddlers violent death. Sheila Polanski was babysitting little Madeline McHenry on July 5, 2011 when she shook the toddler to death because she was whining and Polanski was stressed out. The violent shaking caused Madeline to go unconscious, and it was revealed that Polanski didn’t call police until hours later. READ MORE HERE

‘My boyfriend is going to kill you’: The chilling text message boy, 15, received just before he was shot dead in ‘row over girl’

A Connecticut teen has died after he was fatally shot in the head and leg by an unknown assailant on Saturday night. Kristjan Ndoj, 15, died on Thursday morning at Bridgeport Hospital, after several days on life support. The shooting happened after Ndoj, a sophomore at Shelton High School in Connecticut, is alleged to have received death threats for talking to a girl. READ MORE HERE

Verizon defends decision to offer incest, child porn on video-on-demand

LOS ANGELES –  Broadband and telecommunications giant Verizon is under fire for defending its decision to provide hard-core porn titles with child and incest themes. The company was included in the 2014 Dirty Dozen List of pornography’s leading facilitators, compiled by Morality in Media (MIM), a national organization that opposes pornography. According to MIM, lewd titles like “I Banged My Stepdad,” “Mom, Daughter and Me,” and “Pigtail Teens Pounded” are just some of the many offerings featured on Verizon’s FIOS video on-demand service. In a letter to MIM, Verizon’s Associate Director for Advertising and Content Standards John P. Artney defended the company’s choice to provide the content, noting that “consumers today have extraordinary choice in and control over the content available to them across these networks.” READ MORE HERE

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Parenting in the Real World: Shocking Statistics

Parents, you need to prepare your children for the real world — not the world you wish they were inheriting. From Life Code: The New Rules for Winning in the Real World, Dr. Phil shares some shocking statistics about children being raised in today’s family paradigm:  Your children were born into a very different world from the one you were born into and grew up in. When the game changes, so do the rules, and boy, oh boy, has the game changed for your children! The family paradigm has changed radically. When I grew up, the typical family was still a working dad, a stay-at-home mom, and two or three children in a neighborhood full of intact families. Today, the divorce rate is around 40 percent, and children living with a single parent or in a blended family are common. And this creates a whole new environment of risk for children.

Did you know that compared to a child living in what researchers refer to as an intact family:

• A child with a biological mother who lives alone is 14 times more likely to suffer abuse.
• A child with a biological father who lives alone is 20 times more likely to suffer abuse.
• A child with biological parents who are cohabitating but not married is 20 times more likely to suffer abuse.

And, most shocking of all:

• A child with a biological mother who is living with a man who is not the child’s father is 33 times more likely to suffer abuse. (Source: Dreamcatchers for Abused Children)   READ MORE HERE