The House on Monday cleared legislation to reauthorize the Victims of Child Abuse Act for the president’s signature. Passed by voice vote, the measure, S. 1799, would authorize $15 million annually through fiscal 2018 for child abuse prevention programs, including grants to train attorney prosecuting cases and develop investigations. READ MORE HERE

S. 1799: Victims of Child Abuse Act Reauthorization Act of 2013

Introduced: Dec 11, 2013

Status: Passed Senate on Jun 26, 2014

Prognosis: 74% chance of being enacted

Schedule: The House Majority Leader indicated on Jul 24, 2014 that this bill may be considered in the week ahead.

Horrified parents allegedly witnessed children as young as five being beaten in an unlicensed Romanian kindergarten after staff forgot to turn off CCTV cameras. Staff at the Little Kingdom nursery, in the Black Sea city of Constanta, used to leave cameras on each morning from 9am until 12noon so parents could watch their children playing and in lessons. The cameras were usually switched off at midday when the children were expected to go to sleep. But police and social workers investigating the incident say a parent who logged on after that time one day at the end of last year noticed the cameras were still running, and was shocked to see children allegedly being shouted at and abused. READ MORE HERE

BELLEFONTE — A Pleasant Gap man has agreed to a plea that could mean several decades behind bars for raping two children. Eric Todd Crader, 33, accepted the arrangement with the Centre County District Attorney’s Office on Thursday, pleading guilty to 213 counts of rape of a child. He also entered a guilty plea for a separate marijuana possession charge for drugs found when he was arrested. Crader was charged with a total of 1,278 counts in connection with the case, including an additional 213 counts each of statutory sexual assault, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, indecent assault of a child, sexual assault and indecent assault of a person under 13. READ MORE HERE

MICHIGAN – A man has been sentenced to life in prison for beating his girlfriend’s two-year-old son to death. Ronald Dimambro Jr., from Washington Township, Michigan, was convicted in June of first-degree murder and first-degree child abuse for breaking Damian Sutton’s skull in August last year. Before the sentencing on Thursday, Damian’s distraught mother, Nicole, called her ex-boyfriend a ‘demon’ and an ‘evil monster’ for how he had treated her son, who died six days after he was beaten. ‘Damian is getting his justice today,’ she said as she held on to her son’s blue blanket, the Detroit Free-Press reported. READ MORE HERE

How to keep your kids safe

It’s hard to believe until you enter any store–school is almost back in session! And while most parents keep a close eye on back-to-school sales, and tax-free holidays, it’s also a good time to refresh yourself on how to keep your children safe!

Backpacks

They may be all the rage, but getting your child’s new back-to-school book bag personalized with his or her name could be a safety mistake this fall. The younger the child, the more vulnerable they could actually be. “Strangers are people who we don’t know and who don’t know us,” says frequent Nancy Grace guest and president of the KlaasKids Foundation Marc Klaas. Klaas’ 12-year-old daughter Polly was brutally murdered. His goal now is to create a legacy in Polly’s name to stop crimes against children.  READ MORE HERE

Back to School Safety – National Safety Council

Back to School Tips and Checklist

Youth Safety Tips Back to School Checklist

SafeDragon: Back-To-School Safety Checklist

Safety Checklist Program for Schools

Johnathan Ramsey, 10, dropped from 90 to 60 pounds before he died trying to survive on a restricted diet of bread and water. The diet was enforced by the boy’s father Aaron Ramsey and stepmother Elizabeth Ramsey, who kept him locked in a bedroom in their Dallas, Texas home. Dallas County District Attorney, Eren Price, said Johnathan’s parents confessed to letting Johnathan starve to death, and his father eventually led police to the boy’s body. READ MORE HERE

14-YO Armada, MI teen, April Millsap, killed while out walking her dog

ARMADA, Michigan -Police say the body of 14-year-old girl, April Millsap, has been found in a wooded area near a recreational trail in the Macomb County village of Armada.  Police say her death has been ruled a homicide. Armada Police Chief Howard Smith says April took the family dog for a walk on the Macomb Orchard Trail around dinner time on Thursday. Around 8:20 p.m., two people walking on the trail were led by April’s dog to her body. Police say the dog stayed over April, wandering back and forth to the path, seemingly looking for help. Her body was 15 to 20 feet off the trail. READ MORE HERE

April text to boyfriend: ‘I think I’m about to be abducted’

Murder investigation under way 

Teen’s murder shocks Michigan village – USA Today

Family dog protects body of slain 14-year-old girl 

April Millsap: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Death of Armada teen, April Millsap, ruled a homicide

Teen’s body found in wooded area of Armada

Donate to April’s family here

UPDATE: URGENT ALERT: Please share right away. #ArmadaMurder person of interest, pic of April Millsap, and her dog last seen with her on trail.

_________________________________________________________________________

Kevin Patrick Stoeser is a Fort Hood soldier turned convicted child predator — and he’s part of the U.S. Marshals Service top 15 most wanted.  He’s on the run, but in the last few days he’s been spotted at least a dozen times in Leander. Now, group of neighbors are helping track him down. The last time anyone officially saw Stoeser was at a Del Valle treatment house right before he escaped through an emergency exit. So to help catch this fugitive the community has been fighting back by posting his photos on every window they can find. READ MORE HERE

Escaped Child Predator Kevin Patrick Stoeser ~ $25,000.00 Reward! A national manhunt is now underway for a fugitive who escaped from an Austin, Texas half-way house in October 2013. Kevin Patrick Stoeser is a soldier turned child predator, and he’s now one of the 15 most wanted by the U.S. Marshals Service. Staff members of the halfway house confiscated an unauthorized smart phone from Stoeser Oct. 24, 2013. Staff members found approximately 26 images of underage children contained within the smart phone. Following the discovery, Stoeser immediately fled the halfway house through an emergency exit and has remained on the lam since.  Originally from Rapid City, South Dakota, Stoeser’s crimes began at Fort Hood. The 41-year old pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting at least three girls and spent several years in a military prison. He’s been released twice and both times immediately re-offended. Investigators say he meets his victims online or befriends women with children.

Stoeser is 5’9” tall, weighs 170 lbs, has brown hair and blue eyes. His appearance changes frequently but he has several tattoos (shown), including: “Kayla” intertwined with barbed wire on his left upper arm; “Khaos” and “Stoeser” on his chest; barbed wire designs on his right arm; and a naked female on his right calf. Stoeser is known to use aliases such as Patrick Kevin Stoeser, Patrick Stoeser, Mark Johnson, Kevin Johnson and Jason Thompson.

If you have any information on Stoeser’s whereabouts, call the U.S. Marshals at 1-800-336-0102 or 911. Tips may also be emailed to usms.wanted@usdoj.gov There is a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to his arrest.

To assist with missing persons and wanted fugitives cases join Missingcases.com on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/missingcases and follow on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/MissingCases

Kevin Patrick STOESER – Sex Offender Details – Texas.gov

Austin escapee added to Marshals’ Most Wanted list 

KEVIN PATRICK STOESER DANGEROUS CONVICTED CHILD SEX OFFENDER ESCAPES

What drives a child to commit sexual abuse?

A unique insight into why young children sexually abuse other children is to be revealed in a ground-breaking study. The research, which has yet to be formally published, was on boys aged 10 or under who have molested siblings, classmates, or friends. It found that they are invariably born into families in which abuse, violence and neglect has become routine over several generations. The peer-reviewed study found that the boys were unable to form healthy relationships as a result of neglectful and hostile parenting. Even before starting school, they were anxious, angry and detached; bed-wetting, nightmares, self-harm and eating problems were common. READ MORE HERE

Why do some children sexually harm others?

Teaching Your Child About Children Who Sexually Abuse

See our Warning Signs section if you’re concerned about behavior between and among children and adolescents.

Learn More

• Signs That a Child or Teen May Be At-Risk to Harm Another Child
• Do Children Sexually Abuse Other Children? Guidebook
• Talking to Children and Teens
• Children and Youth with Sexual Behavior Problems

‘My dad murdered my mother – and then sold me to Yemen as a wife when I was 13’

With her dark hair neatly pinned back, glamorous sense of style and remarkably unlined skin, Gabriella Gillespie, 50, looks every inch the professional mother-of-five. But her immaculate looks conceal a dark secret, for unlike her neighbors in the quiet Bristol suburb that she calls home, Gabriella is a former child bride. Now, more than 20 years after escaping her violent rapist husband, she has written a memoir in the hopes that telling her story will help prevent other girls from going through the same trauma. READ MORE HERE

Matthew Durham, 19, allegedly confessed sexual abusing 4 – 10 children, age four to ten years old 

A 19-year-old missionary from Oklahoma sexually abused up to ten African orphans – some as young as four years old – while volunteering at the shelter where they lived in Nairobi, Kenya, according to federal charges filed against him. Matthew Lane Durham was arrested last Thursday at his parents’ home in Edmond, Oklahoma, after he fled Kenya when he was confronted with the sex abuse allegations. The founder of Upendo Children’s Home, Eunice Menja, told the FBI that Durham admitted to assaulting between four and ten children, aged four to ten – including one who is HIV-positive – while volunteering at the orphanage between April and June of this year. He allegedly wrote out a sickening confession for Mrs Menja in which he detailed horrific acts of sexual abuse against both boys and girls. According to court documents, he admitted in the written confession that he raped at least three children and forced others to watch the sex abuse. READ MORE HERE

Father smirks as he is sentenced to 18 years for fatally beating two-year-old daughter

A father has been sentenced to a minimum of 18 years and nine months in prison for beating his two-year-old daughter to death in an attack he had hoped would make her a lesbian. Donovan Lamar Haynes, 23, was sentenced in Flint, Michigan on Monday after pleading no contest to second-degree murder for the 2011 killing of Ti’Airra Woodward. A pre-sentence investigation report claimed Haynes had beat the girl to turn her gay in hope that she would avoid men like him, who had a history of treating women poorly, Mlive reported. Haynes’ attorney Elbert Hatchett called him ‘deranged’ before Genesee Circuit Judge Joseph J. Farah sentenced him to serve a concurrent five-to-15-years in prison for first-degree child abuse. READ MORE HERE

Mom’s Ex-Boyfriend Arrested

Believing his ex-girlfriend’s 11-year-old daughter caused their break up — a 42-year-old man snuck into the home and stabbed the 6^th grader to death in gruesome fashion, authorities claim. Investigators say the wounds were extremely gruesome.  Miami police say 11-year-old Marta Guzman did not slash her own wrists, or commit suicide. The Little Havana girl was found unresponsive at her own home on June 22. According to an arrest affidavit, police responded to the Little Havana apartment where Marta lived with her mother, Amaury Alvarenga. Alvarenga called police after arriving home around 2:30 pm to find her daughter’s neck and wrists slashed. READ MORE HERE

The mother and grandparents of a 7-year-old Pennsylvania boy were arrested last week after an investigation revealed that the mother allegedly had beaten and starved the boy to the point that he only weighed 25 pounds. The investigation was set in motion when Mercer County Youth Services sent caseworkers to the family’s home in Greenville, where they saw that the boy was ‘clearly under weight’ in early June. Caseworkers took the unidentified boy straight to the UPMC Horizon hospital before he was transferred to UPMC Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh, where he reportedly has gained 20 pounds since he first arrived on June 6. READ MORE HERE