CROSWELL, Michigan – A 22-year-old mother has been charged in a child abuse case involving her 10-month-old daughter. Sarah Daldine of Croswell was arrested last Thursday and arraigned in 73rd District Court Friday on 4 felony counts: 2 counts of assault by strangulation; and 2 counts of child abuse-second degree. Her pre-exam conference is set for Feb. 20 and the preliminary examination on Feb. 25 She was released on cash or surety $1,000. READ MORE HERE

HESPERIA, Michigan – The death of a four-month-old infant is under investigation by the Michigan State Police in Oceana County. According to troopers at the MSP Hart Post, the infant was from Hesperia.  It was found unresponsive on Monday and taken to Gerber Hospital in Fremont.  From there, the infant was flown to DeVos Children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids, where it was pronounced dead on Tuesday. READ MORE HERE

A soldier from Washington County is arrested at his base in Washington state on charges of child rape. Sgt. Joseph T. French, 27, was arrested at Joint Base Lewis-McChord last week. He was formally charged in federal court on Valentines Day.  Washington State Police were alerted by the Washington County Sheriff’s Office, where according to federal court filings, the alleged rape was reported.  The document states the girls’ mother reported the alleged crimes on Sunday February 9. The mother says French had been raping her 10-year-old daughter for 3 years with some of those incidents happening in Chipley and others at his base home in Washington State. READ MORE HERE

JBLM sergeant charged with raping young family member over 3-year period

MANILA, Philippines — Government agents raided an Internet child porn operation based in a Philippine school and arrested its president and eight other people, investigators said Tuesday. The suspects used a room at the Mountaintop Christian Academy to post online images and video of children and adults for foreign consumption, said Ronald Aguto, cybercrime investigation head in the National Bureau of Investigation. Authorities were still investigating, but Aguto said it didn’t appear that children at the school were being abused and that the operators were uploading pre-recorded images and video stored. READ MORE HERE

Proposed bill would allow spanking children to the point of bruising

A Kansas lawmaker is proposing a bill that would allow teachers, caregivers and parents to spank children hard enough to leave marks. Current Kansas law allows parents to smack their children, as long as it doesn’t leave marks. But now State Rep. Gail Finney, a Democrat from Wichita, says she wants to allow up to 10 strikes of the hand and that could leave redness and bruising. READ MORE HERE

Proposed Kansas bill would allow spanking that leaves marks

Proposed Kansas bill would allow stronger spanking 

Proposed bill would allow teachers to spank children up to 10 times with hand

A Maryland man and military combat veteran who currently works for the National Security Agency has been charged in the fatal beating of his 3-year-old son who was adopted months earlier from Korea after he failed to bond with the boy, police said Tuesday. Brian Patrick O’Callaghan, 36, has been charged with first-degree murder and child abuse resulting in the death of the boy earlier this month.  O’Callaghan was ordered held without bond during a court appearance Tuesday as his lawyer said his client did not commit any crime. O’Callaghan, a former Marine, is a National Security Agency worker who specializes in Korea, his attorney said. READ MORE HERE

May be missing 7-week old baby boy, Aniston Walker

UPDATE: 12:15 p.m. Andrea Walker, mother of a baby girl who has been missing since January 9, was arrested Monday morning. The arrest comes less than 24 hours after a baby’s body was found in a ditch, though police have yet to confirm the body is that of Aniston Walker. CLICK HERE for the very latest information.

A motorcyclist found a baby’s body just after noon Sunday on Singleton Parkway, just south of I-269 in Millington. “I would say that it seems like the body has been there for some time,” said Millington Police Chief Rita Stanback. “It’s less than a year old, wearing a onesie.” Millington investigators contacted Memphis Police Department crime scene investigators knowing they had been working a missing baby case since early January. READ MORE HERE

Five Wisconsin teenagers have been arrested and face charges of first-degree attempted murder for the beating and stabbing of two 19-year-olds. Sergio Rivera, 17, Royce Bressette, 17, Cory Mayer, 17, Tyler Brickham-VanVorce, 17, and a 16-year-old boy were all arrested in relation to a violent encounter at a party in Howard. The incident is believed to be caused by a dispute between rival gangs. READ MORE HERE

The heartless explanation by lawyer when asked by mother of rape victim aged FIVE why it happened to her child

A federal investigation into a county courthouse has revealed a shocking catalogue of claims that sex assault victims were routinely discriminated against and ignored. In one case, it is alleged a prosecutor in Montana left a five-year-old rape victim’s mother horrified when he explained away the attack by saying ‘boys will be boys’. According to a report, the mother of the child said she wanted to know why the boy who raped her daughter was only getting a slap on the wrist. READ MORE HERE

19-YO Pennsylvania ‘Craigslist killer’ says she slayed dozens more across U.S. as part of satanic cult

A Pennsylvania newlywed accused of meeting a man on Craigslist and then stabbing him to death with her husband’s help said she killed more than 20 more people as part of her involvement in a bloodthirsty satanic cult. “When I hit 22, I stopped counting,” 19-year-old Miranda Barbour told the Sunbury, Pa., Daily Item newspaper in a chilling jailhouse interview Friday. “I can pinpoint on a map where you can find them,” she boasted. “I remember everything. It is like watching a movie.”

‘I killed bad men who did bad things’: The real-life ‘Dexter’ who claims to have murdered more than 22 people 

CONNEAUT — The death of 4-year-old Melanie Powell has been ruled a homicide, according to a statement from the Cuyahoga County medical examiner’s office. Cause of death was “blunt impact injuries of (the) head,” while the manner of death a homicide, the statement said. The ruling will not change the way the Conneaut Police Department investigates the death, Police Chief Charles Burlingham said Thursday.  READ MORE HERE

GERMANTOWN, Md. -Montgomery County Police have charged a second woman with murder in the deaths of two children in Germantown.  Saturday afternoon, detectives arrested Monifa Denise Sanford, age 21, of the 19000 block of Cherry Bend Drive in Germantown after she was released from the hospital. Sanford has been charged with two counts of First Degree Murder and two counts of Attempted First Degree Murder. She is being held without bond. READ MORE HERE

Mother’s anguish at the ‘monster’ she let stay at her house who stabbed her four-year-old boy to death as he slept

The mother of a four-year-old boy savagely murdered by a friend who was allowed to sleep on her sofa has said she feels ‘so much guilt’ over letting the ‘monster’ stay with them. Sharon Smith and her partner Guy Earwaker had thought psychopath Anwar Daniel Rosser was a harmless neighbor and allowed him to stay at their house when he asked after turning up after a night out. In the early hours, the 33-year-old sneaked upstairs armed with four knives and stabbed Riley Turner to death. He then crept into another bedroom where the boy’s mother and her partner were sleeping and curled up to sleep on the floor. READ MORE HERE

A father accused of hacking his disabled seven year-old son’s head off with a meat cleaver and leaving it by the road for the boy’s mother to see has been ruled not guilty of murder by reason of insanity. Defense experts have successfully proven that Jeremiah Wright, 32, from Louisiana, was suffering a delusion at the time of the brutal murder of Jori Lirette, who suffered from cerebral palsy. Wright was charged with the first degree murder of the little boy on August 14, 2011, and faced life in prison or death by lethal injection if convicted. READ MORE HERE