New fears of a cover-up over VIP abusers as calls for inquiry

Extraordinary new claims pointing to an Establishment cover-up of child sex abuse by senior politicians emerged last night. Home Secretary Theresa May faces questions from MPs over accusations that politicians, the police and even her own officials have suppressed allegations against powerful individuals for decades. Some 114 files ‘potentially relevant’ to child abuse are now known to have been lost or destroyed by the Home Office. READ MORE HERE

New twist in Westminster scandal: 114 secret files on paedophile cases missing, admits Government

There may have been establishment cover-up of child abuse claims to ‘protect the system’, says Lord Tebbit

Hero store clerk saves baby girl ‘kidnapped by bipolar grandmother’ after recognizing infant from Amber Alert

A gas station clerk from Arizona has been hailed as a hero for helping rescue a baby girl who police say was kidnapped by her own grandmother. Carolyn Ferguson, 57, was arrested Wednesday night in a Phoenix suburb for allegedly abducting 6-month-old Laylani Mosley from her parents’ home in Huntington Beach, California. The baby’s disappearance had sparked an Amber Alert, which ultimately helped police track down the infant and her grandmother. According to authorities, the woman has a history of mental illness. READ MORE HERE

A 22-year-old Danish man interning at a New York preschool that caters to the children of international diplomats and UN employees has been accused of sexually abusing 13 children in his care. Malthe Thomsen, who arrived in Manhattan in February to work at the International Preschool at 45th Street, has been in jail since last Friday, charged with 15 counts of first-degree sexual abuse. Prosecutors say Thomsen placed the hands of nine different children on his genitals over his clothing and that he pressed the head of a 10th victim against his clothed genitals. He also allegedly touched several children on the buttocks. READ MORE HERE

Brenna Winter faces attempted murder charges

ORLANDO, FL – An 18-year-old mother was arrested on suspicion of trying to suffocate her baby in an Orlando hospital room. Brenna Elise Winter, of St. Cloud, was arrested on charges of attempted first-degree murder, battery by strangulation and aggravated child abuse. According to court documents, Winter took her 3-month-old daughter to Nemours Hospital earlier this month because the baby was vomiting blood. READ MORE HERE

Mother who claimed daughter, 3, was killed in a hit and run is charged with murder after medical report reveals malnourished child died from blunt trauma

A mother who claimed her three-year-old daughter was killed in a hit and run incident outside their Florida home has been charged with murder. Maryann Schwartz told police her child, Yeliani, had been run over in the parking lot outside their apartment, but a medical examiner said the girl had died from blunt trauma. Yeliani was also described as being malnourished and both she and her two-year-old brother, who is now in protective custody, were covered in bruises. READ MORE HERE

Investigators combing through a stash of more than 50,000 images and videos of child pornography hidden in a bedside table in Matthew Coniglio‘s Georgia home made an even more horrifying discovery: cassette tapes they say show him raping and molesting girls. All were unconscious, apparently drugged, FBI Special Agent William Kirkconnell, who viewed the tapes, told The Associated Press. Some were so incapacitated they were snoring. The camera recording the 56 8-millimeter cassette tapes was always turned off before they awoke. Many of the victims’ faces cannot be clearly identified, so investigators don’t know how many girls were attacked. But each tape recorded at least one assault — some had more — in homes and hotels. The youngest victim appears to be about 10 years old. And authorities’ best chance for resolving the raft of unanswered questions ended on April 20. Ten days after his arrest on child pornography charges, Coniglio wrote goodbye letters to his parents, tied a cord to a vent above a sink in his Savannah jail cell and hanged himself in an apparent suicide. READ MORE HERE

FBI — MATTHEW JOHN CONIGLIO

Shocking pictures show cell of ‘serial child rapist’ 

Alleged Sex Predator’s List of Victims Grows 

LAS VEGAS — A former employee of a Las Vegas school is facing federal child pornography charges. According to the United States Attorney, John-Benedict Galang Alcantara, 24 of Las Vegas, appeared in federal court Wednesday afternoon on charges that he received and possessed child pornography. In the criminal complaint, Alcantara is charged with one count of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. During Wednesday’s hearing, U.S. Magistrate Judge Cam Ferenbach released the defendant on bond with special conditions. READ MORE HERE

SANTA ANA, CA — The parents of a severely autistic boy were arrested after investigators determined the 11-year-old had been kept in a large metal cage, possibly to control his violent outbursts, authorities said Wednesday. The cage — similar to an extra-large dog kennel — was found in the home with a mattress and other bedding inside, Anaheim police Lt. Bob Dunn said. It was roughly 6 feet tall, 5 feet long and 3 or 4 feet wide with room to stand. READ MORE HERE

Brad Cooper, 47, posed as a 16-yo named ‘Trent Thompson’ to start talking to a 14-yo Massachusetts boy in April

A 47-year-old Chandler man has been accused of posing as a 16-year-old to lure a Massachusetts boy cross country. Brad Cooper of Chandler appeared in Maricopa County Court for the first time on Monday as he pleaded not guilty to more than 20 counts of child sex-abuse. Cooper was arrested on June 11, after local police found a missing 14-year-old boy from Pittsfield, Massachusetts at his home. According to court documents, Cooper posed online as a 16-year-old named ‘Trent Thompson’ to start talking to the victim in April. READ MORE HERE

Angela Mtambu, 47, a nurse from Texas, and her daughters, Callidora and Eudora, were found with plastic bags over their heads next to gas tanks 

A mother depressed over her son’s suicide killed her two young daughters and herself early Tuesday using suffocating nitrogen gas at their upstate New York home, about a week after a stay in a mental institution, authorities said. East Greenbush Police Chief Christopher Lavin said a 911 call at about 1:45am sent police to the town house in the Albany suburb, where they found the mom and girls, ages 6 and 9, unconscious from exposure to the odorless gas in a first-floor bedroom. Rescuers had to break down the door to the locked room and tried CPR for a half hour before the three were taken to Albany Medical Center, where they died. READ MORE HERE

Israeli searchers on Monday discovered the bodies of three Israeli teenagers, who were abducted on June 12, north of Hebron in the West Bank. The bodies were found near Halhul on Monday afternoon. Israeli security forces, which had been conducting extensive searches in the area, sealed off the area and declared it a closed military zone. Hebron was also sealed off. A search team from the local Kfar Etzion field school, along with IDF soldiers from an elite unit, found the teens. The local volunteers had been asking for two weeks to join the search. READ MORE HERE

1.9 million Graco infant car seats recalled due to faulty harness buckles

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Graco have recalled approximately 1.9 million infant car seats due to faulty harness buckles. The seats were manufactured between July 2010 and May 2013. Some consumers reported having difficulty opening the buckle. As a solution Graco will provide a free replacement buckle. READ MORE HERE

Boy ‘killed by father in brutal attack’ was kidnapped by him a year ago,

An Oklahoma City mother is devastated after her son, who she hadn’t seen for more than a year because he was kidnapped by his father, was killed in a ‘brutal attack’ Thursday. Katrina DeBoard dropped the 2-year-old Dominic off for a visit with his Marine vet father, Derek Wells, at a home in North Carolina in May 2013. And the next time she saw him was early Friday morning, dead. ‘I never would’ve imagined, in two years, the only way I’d see my son again was him being cold,’ DeBoard said on Saturday. READ MORE HERE

Nanny, 85, sentenced to community service after shaking a baby and leaving him with brain and eye injuries 

An 85-year-old Virginia nanny has been convicted of assaulting an infant she had been babysitting. Evelyn Faye Pillow appeared in Henrico Circuit Court Friday, admitting that there was sufficient evidence to convict her on a misdemeanor assault charge. The abuse occurred last September while the octogenarian was caring for a little boy. Medical experts were prepared to testify that the months-old child showed classic signs of shaken baby syndrome. As part of the plea agreement, Pillow was ordered to perform 400 hours of community service. READ MORE HERE