The girl weighed only 14 pounds and had been there five months

A Houston mother has been charged with neglect after her nine-year-old daughter’s body was discovered stuffed inside a refrigerator six months ago. Amber Keyes is being held Wednesday on a charge of injury to a child-serious bodily injury. The 35-year-old Keyes hasn’t been charged with killing her daughter, Ayahna Comb, but Houston police say the neglect charge is linked to her death. Ayahna weighed 14 pounds when some children looking for food found her body in Keyes’ refrigerator in June. READ MORE HERE

One of the largest organized polygamy groups in Utah said this week it is investigating an allegation that its leader molested one of his daughters, who is now featured on the TLC reality TV show ‘My Five Wives.’ Rosemary Williams wrote in a blog posted last month that she was molested more than two decades ago by her father, Lynn A. Thompson. Ms Williams says her father fondled her when she was 12 years old. David Watson, a spokesman for the Apostolic United Brethren, or AUB, declined to answer questions about the investigation, referring repeatedly to a news release the group sent earlier this week. ‘We’re handling it internally,’ Watson said. READ MORE HERE

Data taken from tens of millions of child abuse photos and videos will shortly be used as part of a new police system to aid investigations into suspected pedophiles across the UK. The obscene material was seized during previous operations. The project, called the Child Abuse Image Database (Caid), will be launched by the Prime Minister at an internet safety event on Thursday 11 December. But one expert warned its success depended on it being properly staffed. READ MORE HERE

• Microsoft alerts police to child porn
• UK builds child abuse image database
• Google ‘reveals child porn user’

OHIO – A 16-year-old junior at an Ohio High School was arrested Monday for carrying a loaded weapon that he told police he was planning to use to ‘open fire’ on students, officials said. Police said that a classmate at Fremont High first noticed the handgun and contacted authorities, who placed the school on lockdown after confirming the student had a weapon. ‘After interviewing the subject, he admitted to detectives that he brought the gun to school with the intent to shoot a particular student and then open fire on the rest of the school, READ MORE HERE

PRINCETON, West Virginia — A Bluefield man has been sentenced to up to 950 years in prison on sex charges involving children. WVVA-TV reported that 57-year-old James Irvin received a sentence of 235 to 950 years on Monday in Mercer County Circuit Court. A Mercer County jury convicted Irvin on 30 counts of sexual assault and sexual abuse in October. READ MORE HERE

The Russian parliament has approved a law on pedophilia in a first reading. From now on people found guilty of sex crimes against children under the age of 14 will face chemical castration, while repeat offenders face a life sentence. According to the new law, the decision on a convict’s obligatory chemical castration will be made through a forensic psychiatrist’s report requested by the court, which may ultimately turn to other medical measures, MP Dmitry Vyatkin explained to Itar-TASS. READ MORE HERE

Thirteen men have been convicted of a string of child sex abuse crimes following the discovery of two child sex rings in Bristol. The revelations have shocked the local community. But how did police uncover the crimes? And how do these damaging relationships begin? The concrete monolith of Bristol’s Premier Inn hotel, at the foot of the M32 motorway, towers above the city center. Inside the imposing structure, in December 2012, a 13-year-old girl was raped by three men. READ MORE HERE

Cody police arrested Jason Nichols, 39, of Mount Vernon, Wash., on four counts of first-degree rape of a child. The arrest at a Cody apartment was the result of an outstanding warrant from Skagit County, Wash. Police and marshals arrested Nichols without incident about 8:15 a.m. Nov. 27. The police assisted with the arrest after the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force was informed Nichols and his family might be living in the Big Horn Basin. READ MORE HERE

Your child being abused is every parents worst nightmare, but for one couple, it was happening right under their nose in their own home. Ben was just 13 when he became the victim of online grooming and ultimately sexual abuse by four adult men. His parents, increasingly concerned about his reclusive behavior, only discovered what was happening when they overheard a late night phone call between Ben and his abusers. What followed is a harrowing tale of not only unwinding the psychological control the groomers had over their son, but a struggle to get support and to see the abusers convicted. READ MORE HERE

A Florida woman is accused of using a stun gun on her three-year-old nephew. But the woman and her family are denying the charges and claiming the incident was a misunderstanding. Ramona Braswell, 30, of St Petersburg, Florida was arrested and charged with felony child abuse Saturday after police responded to a 911 call from her sister, Karen Braswell, saying Ramona had used a Taser on her son. READ MORE HERE

25-year-old Jessica Bell from Oak Creek, Wisconsin, has been sentenced to seven years in prison due to the role she played in making pornographic films featuring her young son. The seven year sentence is only for a charge of possession of child pornography, but Bell still faces 10 additional felony counts for the actual acts against the boy, who was around 2 years old at the time the videos were made. Bell is expected to enter a guilty plea for those 10 felony counts in January. READ MORE HERE