DEKALB COUNTY, Georgia — A DeKalb man will now face the death penalty for the murder of 9-month-old Ken Darious Edwards Jr. The DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office filed a notice of intent to seek the death penalty on November 12, against Devin Thomas. “Because of the egregious nature of this senseless crime, my office had no choice but to seek the death penalty regarding the death of an innocent baby,” said District Attorney Robert James. Two members of the Bloods street gang were recently indicted on eight felony counts after being charged with Edwards’ death. READ MORE HERE

Prosecutors seek death penalty in baby’s murder

OHIO — An Ohio elementary school teacher and her ex-husband face a total of 78 counts in the rape of the woman’s son. On Monday, Lori Ann Anderson, 50, pleaded not guilty to 25 counts, including sexual battery and gross sexual imposition. Charles Wycuff, 53, who split with Anderson in 2003, faces 53 counts including rape using force, coercion and drugs. He remains in Auglaize County Jail. Anderson was released Monday afternoon, after posting bond. READ  MORE HERE

A North Carolina mother has been arrested and charged with sickening child abuse after allegedly locking her four children away in a room and intentionally starving them to the brink of death. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police arrested Ronika Bell, 28, and her partner, Deron Cuthbertson after she dumped her children aged 10 to six with her estranged husband and their biological father in Florida. Appalled at their gaunt and skeletal features, Joshua Bell tried to feed his kids, only to find they were too starved to swallow having been locked away for six months, so he rushed them to the ER for treatment. READ MORE HERE

“An Open Secret” by Oscar-nominated documentarian Amy Berg

An explosive documentary debuting at a New York film festival on Friday is set to name a list of men who have allegedly sexually abused minors in Hollywood. An Open Secret, a documentary by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Amy Berg, will screen at the DOC NYC festival on November 14. It features interviews with men who say they were sexually abused or exploited by Hollywood agents or movie bigwigs when they were children. Among the men named are managers Marty Weiss, Michael Harrah and Bob Villard – Leonardo DiCaprio’s former agent – and internet company owners Marc Collins-Rector and Chad Shackley. READ MORE HERE

An Open Secret spotlighting sex abuse against child actors to reveal names

Hollywood Sex Abuse Film Revealed: Explosive Claims, New Figures Named (Exclusive)

Essex, North Yorkshire and North Wales police forces under investigation

Three police forces in Britain are under investigation for allegedly failing to act on child porn intelligence, it has emerged. Police watchdog, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), is looking into Essex, North Yorkshire and North Wales police forces in relation to the way it handled intelligence received from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop). The move comes after Essex Police referred itself to the IPCC following a delay in acting on an intelligence package from the National Crime Agency (NCA) in November 2013, which identified now-deceased teacher Martin Goldberg as a potential pedophile. READ MORE HERE

Accused pedophiles are importing child-like sex dolls – but claiming they are harmless toys to avoid prosecution.  One Sydney man is expected to fight a charge of possessing one of the dolls, insisting it is not child abuse material. A man has been charged with possessing a silicon sex doll, allegedly in the shape of a teenage girl. In a case that is thought to be one of the first of its kind in NSW, the man will reportedly allege that he does not fit the legal definition of a child abuser. If the defense of his case, thought to be the first of its kind in NSW, is successful, the 32-year-old it could force the government to rethink what is defined as child sex abuse. READ MORE HERE

Sick site selling kid-sized sex dolls

Chinese Site Sells ‘Child-Sized’ Sex Doll: Protest Group Launched

A pedophile doctor used tiny video cameras hidden in pens to film himself abusing young cancer patients, it has emerged. And the 18 boys as young as eight molested by pediatric consultant Myles Bradbury are probably only a fraction of his victims – as a series of official blunders gave him time to destroy his sick library of films. The doctor was left free for 16 months to wage his campaign of abuse by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP). READ MORE HERE

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Thousands of Children Poisoned by Laundry Detergent Pods

According to Pediatrics Online, there were more than 17,000 poison center calls involving children under the age of 6 accidentally swallowing the pods. One child died last year. Last year a Florida mother of a 7-month-old came back to her room to find that her baby had accidentally eaten one of those bright colored laundry detergent pods. He had been sleeping in a laundry basket with the pod when it happened. They rushed him to the hospital, but it was too late. He died, of poisoning from the detergent, according to the Kissimmee, Florida, police department. He is not the first child to mistake the potent packet for something else. READ MORE HERE

Third person arrested in toddler’s killing as ‘house of horror’ photos reveal horrifying abuse

A third person has been arrested and charged in connection to the beating death and alleged torture of a 3-year-old boy in Pennsylvania. Jillian Tait, 31, and Gary Lee Fellenbaum, 23, were charged Thursday with murdering Tait’s son, Scott McMillan in what Chester County District Attorney Thomas Hogan has referred to as ‘an American horror story’. The couple allegedly hung little Scott by his legs, tortured him for weeks and smashed his head into the wall before beating him to death. Police arrested Fellenbaum’s wife, 21-year-old Amber Fellenbaum, who allegedly witnessed the beatings but did nothing to stop the violence. READ MORE HERE

3-Year-Old Scott McMillan Beaten to Death for Not Eating

Clothing, toy drive held for Scotty McMillan’s surviving brother

EDITOR’S NOTE: The details of this case are graphic and may be upsetting for some readers.

Thousands of people lit candles at 7 p.m. Friday to remember Scotty McMillan, the 3-year-old Philadelphia-area boy who prosecutors said was tortured and killed by his mother’s boyfriend. “How could you do that to a 3-year-old boy?” asked Jeff Messantonio, of Norristown, Pa., who started the Facebook page calling for people to simultaneously light candles, wherever they are, to “light the way to heaven” for Scotty. More than 16,000 people joined the event and honored the Chester County boy, who investigators said had already died before arriving at a local hospital Tuesday night. READ MORE HERE

Vigil to honor and remember Scotty McMillan

Arrest Made In 2010 McStay Family Murder Case

SAN BERNARDINO, California — A business associate was arrested in the murders of a family of four, including two young boys, whose disappearance from their San Diego County home in 2010 was a mystery until their remains were discovered in graves in the California desert last year, officials said Friday. San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon identified the suspect as Charles Merritt, who was due in court later in the day to face four counts of murder. READ MORE HERE

Business Associate Arrested In McStay Family Murders

Business partner killed Joseph McStay, wife and family

Inside the Gruesome McStay Family Murder

Dad confronts kidnapper, saves 5-year-old daughter

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH — A set of Utah parents were awakened Friday to an unsettling noise for 4:30 in the morning: the sound of their front door opening and their 5-year-old daughter talking. When the father rushed outside in his pajama pants and hoodie he saw the terrifying sight of his 5-year-old stepdaughter in the arms of a stranger who was carrying her away across the front lawn. The man had snatched the girl out of her bed in the basement moments earlier after coming in the house through an unlocked door, police said. READ MORE HERE

POPLAR BLUFF — Poplar Bluff police are searching for a violent sex offender that allegedly cut his electronic ankle monitor and fled.  John L. Squires, 55, was last seen at a doctor’s appointment in Poplar Bluff on Wednesday, where he removed his monitor and took off. According to police, Squires is considered a sexual predator with violent tendencies and is currently wanted on a no-bond warrant for absconding. Anyone with information about the whereabouts or with any other information about Squires is asked to call local law enforcement or the Poplar Bluff Police Department  at (573) 686-8685.  READ MORE HERE