A pervert school teacher is facing jail after he was convicted of sexually abusing four teenage girls over Facebook. Alexander Thomas, 30, from Swindon, Wiltshire, used the social network site to groom the sixth form students – asking them to send him semi-naked photographs, a court heard. The PE and Business Studies teacher was convicted by a jury at Swindon Crown Court of five counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity while in a position of trust. He was bailed for sentencing on June 13. READ MORE HERE

Cora Delille hanged herself in her family’s Ohio home on May 10

A 15-year-old girl who was bullied by classmates for years has killed herself after naming her tormenters in a suicide note and telling them: ‘Thanks for all the pain.’ Cora Delille’s body was found by a family member at their home in Pickerington, Ohio on May 10 after she hanged herself, Commander Matt Delp of Pickerington Police said. She left an emotional note giving a ‘myriad of reasons’ why she took her life, including classmates calling her names and feeling abandoned by her father and stepfather, he told MailOnline. ‘There were complex issues,’ Delp explained. ‘She wrote about her home life and feeling unloved. Her mother and stepfather – the father she had known for 14 years – were getting a divorce. Her boyfriend had broken up with her the day before. There were many reasons.’ READ MORE HERE

A man jailed for cannibalism has been rearrested after police found the head of a three-year-old boy in his home a year after his release. Mohammad Arif Ali and his brother Mohammad Farman Ali were first arrested back in 2011 after they were found to have disinterred bodies from a Bhakkar district graveyard and eaten parts of them, Pakistan’s Express newspaper reports. The pair were fined and jailed for two years but upon their release they returned to their home town of Darya Khan. READ MORE HERE

Police: Infant asphyxiated in attempt to conceal birth

OKEMOS, MI— A Michigan woman intentionally suffocated her newborn daughter in an attempt to conceal her pregnancy, a police detective testified earlier this month. Melissa Mitin did not know about her pregnancy when she delivered the baby at an Okemos, Mich., home in late December, Meridian Township police Detective Brett Reed testified during a hearing that led to charges being filed. READ MORE HERE

James O. Napier, 40, was sentenced on Tuesday for the horrific attacks on the two girls three years apart

A Cincinnati man described as an ‘enthusiastic participant’ in child pornography involving an 11-month-old and a nine-year-old showed no remorse on Tuesday as he was sentenced to 240-years behind bars. James O. Napier, 40, was ordered to pay $95,009 to his victims after being found guilty of recording a video of himself molesting the infant in November of 2009 and placing it online after having babysat the child. Napier, who was found in possession of 1,300 child pornography pictures and 550 videos, also videoed himself making the nine-year-old girl perform oral sex on him, which he also placed on the Internet. READ MORE HERE

A convicted sex offender from Iowa faces felony charges after he was found hiding under a child’s bed.  The two charges were filed Tuesday for 33-year-old Julien Martell Skipper. He remains at the Scott County Jail.  Mr Skipper was found April 19 hiding at a neighbor’s apartment in Bettendorf as police investigated a disturbance call.  He was arrested at the time and charged with possession with intent to deliver and a parole violation. READ MORE HERE

For some abuse survivors, they have no idea when they first became the survivor, or the time that has passed since the abuse occurred- they would rather not remember anything about any of it- ever. We have lost time, days, weeks, years- we have lost parts of our selves… Innocence was stolen, trust was taken, and happy human beings suffered in silence- or expressed themselves so vocally crying out for help from day one- hoping someone would notice, or listen and see the pain- We prayed for it to stop, we prayed for ‘it’ to go away. READ MORE HERE

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Mother ‘repeatedly raped her son and daughter when they were five and 11-years-old’

A mother has been accused of repeatedly raping her two children ten years ago when they were aged five and 11. The son and daughter of A.M. – whose name is not being revealed to protect the victims’ identity – from Portland, Oregon, turned herself in after her children went to police to give ‘detailed statements’ about rapes and sexual assaults they allegedly suffered at her hands. Murfreesboro Police Department arrested the 50-year-old after an eight-month investigation. READ MORE HERE

With nagging doubts Rowena & Jack secretly filmed their son’s room. They had a gut feeling their 18 month old was being abused by their nanny. They were right. After firing the nanny they gave the video to the police. Six days later, the ex-nanny was arrested for assaulting their son. READ MORE HERE

Burmese refugee, 27, shows no remorse as he’s sentenced to life in prison for raping and murdering neighbor, 7

A Burmese refugee showed no remorse as he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Wednesday for raping and murdering a seven-year-old neighbor in 2008. ‘I didn’t kill that girl and I don’t know who killed that girl,’ Esar Met, 27, told the judge in court in Salt Lake City, Utah about his alleged victim, Hser Ner Moo. He had insisted that he was at his aunt and uncle’s home when the little girl, whom he had often played with, vanished in March 2008 before she was found dead in his apartment. ‘This girl is a girl I used to play with,’ he said, the Salt Lake City Tribune reported. ‘That girl loved me and I loved her… I’m telling the truth that I didn’t kill the girl.’ READ MORE HERE

A ten-year-old boy in China has become the poster boy for anti-family cruelty campaigners after being beaten black and blue by his violent stepmother. Bin Bin, a pupil at a primary school in Heyuan city in Guangdong province, was asked by his teacher why he seemed in pain every time he moved. The boy burst into tears, before admitting he did not want to go home as his stepmother would regularly tie him to a clothes rack so she could carry out savage beatings. READ MORE HERE

Maria Garate walked inside the store with a crowbar and attacked the father and daughter without warning, police said

A crazed homeless teen who mercilessly beat a young girl and her father inside a California Walmart with a crowbar screamed that the child deserved the attack. Maria Garate, 18, walked into the San Jose store just before 11.00 a.m. Tuesday and bashed the girl in the head with the crowbar before her father intervened and was also attacked, authorities said. The young girl’s injuries are not believed to be life-threatening, store employees told KBCW, but Garate has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon. READ MORE HERE

Military mom sentenced to life in prison after jury rules she was sane when she shot dead her teenage children

A Florida mother has been found guilty after a jury ruled she was sane when she shot dead her two teenage children. After a day of closing arguments on Thursday, the jury returned their verdict on Julie Schenecker, a military wife who killed her 13-year-old son Beau and 16-year-old daughter Calyx in Tampa in 2011.  Schenecker, 53, was found guilty on two counts of first-degree murder after prosecutors argued that she was sane at the time of the shootings. READ MORE HERE

A flood of sex abuse victims are expected to come forward in the wake of a new lawsuit filed against Michael Jackson, the MailOnline has learned. James Safechuck, 36, is suing the Jackson estate claiming he was abused by the King of Pop after the two appeared together in a 1988 Pepsi ad when he was aged 10. James claims the pop star went on to molest him for years up until the age of 14. He has added his name to a previous suit filed last year by 31-year-old Wade Robson, an Australian former-choreographer who claims Jackson sexually abused him at a young age. READ MORE HERE