A man accused of ‘marrying’ and having a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old girl has pleaded guilty to ongoing child sex abuse. The 27-year-old Lebanese student, who can’t be named, pleaded guilty in Burwood Local Court on Thursday to one count of persistent sexual abuse of a child, which carries a 25-year maximum jail sentence. The charge takes in 25 counts of sexual intercourse with a child between 10 and 14, with which the man was originally charged. READ MORE HERE

The Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking (SMART) was authorized in the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, which was signed into law on July 27, 2006. The responsibilities of the SMART Office include providing jurisdictions with guidance regarding the implementation of the Adam Walsh Act, and providing technical assistance to the states, territories, Indian tribes, local governments, and to public and private organizations. The SMART Office also tracks important legislative and legal developments related to sex offenders and administers grant programs related to the registration, notification, and management of sex offenders. READ MORE HERE

GUILDERLAND, New York — The four people found slain inside their suburban upstate New York home were two adults and two boys, ages 7 and 10, authorities said Thursday as they sought the public’s help in their investigation. The adults were a 37-year-old man and a 39-year-old woman, but officials weren’t saying how the four were related. The victims’ names were being withheld while relatives were notified, Albany County District Attorney David Soares said during a news conference in Guilderland. Officials refused to comment about whether the deaths, which were discovered Wednesday afternoon, were a murder-suicide or whether the victims were targeted. READ MORE HERE

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Hollywood star reveals he suffered horrific child abuse

Hollywood actor Alan Cumming has revealed the horrific abuse he suffered as a child, at the hands of his father. The X Men star has opened up about his troubled childhood in his new autobiography, Not My Father’s Son. The Scottish actor talks in detail about his tough upbringing, and says that his father Alex, who died in 2010, used to beat him throughout his childhood. In one particularly troubling chapter, Alan recalls a time when his father held him down and cut his hair off with a pair of clippers used for shaving sheep.  “My head was propelled forward by his hand, the other one wielding a rusty pair of clippers that he used on the sheep. They were blunt and dirty and they cut my skin, but my father shaved my head with them, holding me down like an animal,” wrote Alex. READ MORE HERE

Connor Gibson, 23, battered and shook 2-year-old Kacey Hambleton

A violent killer shook his girlfriend’s two-year-old daughter with such ferocity that her fatal injuries resembled those of a car crash victim, a court heard today. Connor Gibson, 23, was said to have had a violent ‘flare up’ during which he grabbed and battered Kacey Hambleton in an assault which left her crying in pain. The youngster was later found unresponsive when police were called to her family home in Blackpool at around 10am in April this year. Today at Preston Crown Court, Gibson, from Blackpool, admitted manslaughter after his not guilty plea to murder was accepted by the prosecution. READ MORE HERE

Delaware Mom Arrested After 4-YO Daughter Gives Heroin to Kids at Daycare

A Delaware mother was arrested after her 4-year-old daughter brought over 200 bags of heroin to school and passed them out to other children at a local daycare, thinking they were candy, police say. Delaware State Troopers and medics were called to the Hickory Tree Child Care Center on Hickory Tree Lane in Selbyville Monday around 11:45 a.m. Staff at the daycare told police they spotted some children with small bags of an unknown substance. READ MORE HERE

Rose was just 15, a student at Central Bucks South — and lonely. She logged on to the social networking site Myspace, sharing secrets with an older man about her troubled and abusive home life. He told her what she wanted to hear: that he’d take care of her. He bought her a Chanel purse, spent hundreds of dollars on meals for her and treated her to manicures and pedicures. He made her feel pretty, wanted. Rose, whose real name is being withheld, left home and moved in with him. Soon, they moved out of the area where she had been raised. And then he began asking for “favors.” READ MORE HERE

‘Sickened’ judge jails woman for ‘horror’ child abuse

A woman who grossly physically abused a young boy, who was found with hundreds of bruises and serious facial injuries, has been jailed by a Melbourne judge sickened by her actions. The County Court heard that during Julie Sevigny’s three days of abuse she forced dog excrement into the boy’s mouth and made him drink her urine and then poured it over his head. Judge Lisa Hannan was told on Monday that after he woke from an induced coma in the Royal Children’s Hospital last November, he had more than 230 bruises on his body, there were ulcers and cuts to his mouth, his face was misshaped and his eyes so swollen he could not see. READ MORE HERE

Stephen Collins — who played the pastor/dad on “7th Heaven” — allegedly confessed to his estranged wife he was a child molester, and it’s all on tape … a tape obtained by TMZ. And the New York Police Dept. is now conducting an active criminal investigation involving sexual contact with multiple children. Collins — who is in the middle of a nasty, prolonged divorce with actress Faye Grant — revealed to her in 2012 he had molested and/or exposed himself to several underage girls years before. Collins and Grant went to a therapist where she peppered him with questions about the incidents … and he not only answered, he was specific. Here’s what Collins didn’t know at the time. Grant taped the therapy session. We’re told her lawyer advised her it was legal to secretly record the conversation because in California you’re allowed to secretly record conversations to gather evidence the other person committed a violent felony … and molesting a child under the age of 14 qualifies. READ MORE HERE

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Babysitter charged with murder in ‘shaken baby’ death

A 24-year-old baby sitter has been charged with murder after the death of a 4-month-old who had been suffering from traumatic brain injuries, Palm Bay police said Monday. Joseph Kyle Lamay faces one count of first-degree murder in the death of his girlfriend’s baby, Lorenzo Hernandez, Palm Bay police spokeswoman Yvonne Martinez said. “The investigation revealed the child died from blunt-force trauma. However, the exact circumstances are still being investigated,” Martinez said. READ MORE HERE

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Murder charge after baby’s death

Babysitter faces murder charge in Palm Bay infant’s death

ABINGDON, Virginia –  In what the judge called a “reprehensible” case, an Abingdon man was ordered to serve two life sentences plus 10 years on Wednesday for raping of a child. Washington County Circuit Court Judge C. Randall Jones sentenced Hursel Harold Elkins Jr., 44, of Abingdon, for rape involving his 11-year-old stepdaughter. Commonwealth’s Attorney Nicole Price said the Washington County Sheriff’s Office began investigating in December 2012, after the victim, who was 14 at the time, said Elkins, her stepfather, raped her on a regular basis. READ MORE HERE

Police ask for public’s help in finding child rapist, Gregory Lewis

SOUTHBRIDGE — Gregory Lewis continues to elude capture, and the police are asking for the public’s help in the search. Friday morning, police issued a statement saying that Lewis is considered to be armed and dangerous. The department is working with other police agencies in their search, but asked that if anyone should see either Lewis or the blue 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee to call the department immediately. They do not know whether the Jeep still has the Massachusetts registration plates affixed to the body; it’s a possibility he has changed plates. READ MORE HERE

Police step up search for child rape suspect

20-year-old Lance Cpl. Robert J. Myers of Randolph County, Indiana, is being held by civilian authorities in Jacksonville, Florida. Police accuse Myers of attacking the same 12-year-old girl repeatedly between May 1 and Aug. 22. Myers faces more than two dozen counts of abuse including first-degree rape of a child, first-degree rape, second-degree rape, first-degree sexual offense, second-degree sexual offense, sexual offense with a child, sexual battery, indecent liberties with a child and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. READ MORE HERE

PORTLAND, Oregon — The woman prosecutors claim tricked doctors into performing unnecessary surgeries on at least three of her children will be released from jail, pending trail. Katherine Parker, who also goes by the name Kate Parker, has posted bail, the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office confirmed. Her specific release time is not being released, the sheriff’s office said, citing security concerns. On Friday, Parker and her defense attorneys successfully argued before Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Eric Bloch that her bail should be lowered now that she has stable housing. READ MORE HERE