Chambersburg – Edy J. Aguirre, 30, is accused of assaulting and threatening two unidentified children ages 9 and 8, and will face a preliminary hearing Tuesday during Franklin County Central Court. Aguirre is charged with two counts of endangering the welfare of a child and three counts of terroristic threats, according to court documents. On Jan. 6, a member of the Franklin County Children and Youth Services spoke with the two children, who described Aguirre abusing them by verbally and physically threatening them, according to court documents. READ MORE HERE

Florida woman arrested for using stun gun to discipline children as young as seven-years-old

A Florida caregiver faces child abuse charges after the relatives she looked after ratted on her use of a taser-like gun for discipline to school officials. Letina  Smith, 41, of Kissimmee, made the three children aged seven, eight and nine-years-old sit against the wall as they would in a chair with their arms out, but minus the chair – if they moved they would be zapped, she called it the ‘electric chair,’ officials said. READ MORE HERE

Hunt for mother who fled home leaving her four-year-old daughter dead in bed

UPDATE: This couple has been apprehended!! Police in Northern California say the mother of a 3-year-old girl who was found dead in her bed and the mother’s boyfriend are wanted for questioning in a case that has been classified as a homicide. Napa Police Department Lt. Debbie Peecook said officers have unable to find 23-year-old Sara Krueger and her boyfriend, 26-year-old Scott Warner, since the body of Krueger’s daughter was discovered on Saturday afternoon. Peecook says the girl, whom police have not named, showed signs of having been sexually assaulted and blunt force trauma. READ MORE HERE

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BART police have reported they have detained the mother and boyfriend wanted in connection with the murder of her 4-year-old baby. They were detained by BART police in El Cerrito, California this afternoon.

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Children abused by teachers at kindergarten in Vietnam

Horrific child abuse caught on tape! WARNING: This video contains images that are not suitable for children! Viewer discretion is advised. (*Trigger Warning*) NOTE: Both kindergarten teachers in this video were arrested by police, prosecuted, and received 3-year prison sentences.

Nursemaids caught on tape abusing kids (with video)

Dad Accused Of Incest, Assaulting Daughter And Her 2 Friends Multiple Times

LETHBRIDGE, Altanta – A man from Lethbridge, Alta., is accused of sexually assaulting his nine-year-old daughter and two of her friends. The 51-year-old suspect was arrested Wednesday and charged with three counts of invitation to sexual touching and one each of sexual assault, incest and sexual interference. The father’s name can’t be released to protect his daughter’s identity. READ MORE HERE

THE STATE OF THE WORLD’S CHILDREN 2014 IN NUMBERS

Thirty years have passed since The State of the World’s Children began to publish tables of standardized global and national statistics aimed at providing a detailed picture of children’s circumstances. Much has changed in the decades since the first indicators of child well-being were presented. But the basic idea has not: consistent, credible data about children’s situations are critical to the improvement of their lives – and indispensable to realizing the rights of every child. READ MORE HERE

AUSTRALIA — Young boys were locked in a cage for days on end as part of a brutal regime of physical and sexual abuse meted out to dozens of youngsters at Salvation Army homes in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, a royal commission into child-sex abuse has heard. And the Salvation Army’s leadership often failed to discipline or remove the perpetrators, but simply moved them to other homes where they frequently continued the abuse. The revelations came during the first public hearing in Sydney by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse for 2014. READ MORE HERE

Salvation Army captain accused of raping boys was acquitted in 1990s

Boys caged, tethered, raped by Salvation Army officers and older boys

Salvation Army in Australia ‘rented out’ boys for sexual abuse

Police say sex offender, on probation, raped girl, 14

HIGHLAND FALLS — A Highland Falls man, already a Level 1 registered sex offender and currently on probation for a sex offense, was arrested Wednesday, charged with the rape of a 14-year-old girl. The arrest was made by the Orange County Child Abuse Unit, which includes state police, Orange County sheriff’s deputies and Town of Warwick and Village of Goshen police.  State police said the arrest followed an investigation of a case that was referred to the unit by the New York State Child Abuse Hotline. READ MORE HERE

HERNANDO COUNTY, Florida – Three-year-old Ethan isn’t old enough to express how he feels with full sentences but his repeated use of one word gets across the pain he feels from the second degree burns on his little body. “Owie! Owie,” screamed Ethan while in his mother’s arms. The Hernando County boy was repeatedly burned with a hot blow dryer as a form of punishment last Friday, deputies say. READ MORE HERE

‘I thought this was how fathers doted on their daughters. But what he did to me in the attic felt different’

Woody Allen’s adopted daughter Dylan Farrow penned an open letter Saturday on a New York Times blog, publicly accusing the controversial filmmaker of sexually assaulting her when she was a young girl. Farrow’s first-person account, which appeared on reporter Nicholas Kritoff’s blog, marks the first time that Miss Farrow, the daughter of actress Mia Farrow, has directly addressed the alleged sex abuse. In gut-wrenching detail, Dylan Farrow wrote in her statement how at age seven, her adoptive father, Allen, allegedly led her by the hand to a dim attic on the second floor of their house. READ MORE HERE

Pulaski police discovered the body of an infant Thursday night in Pulaski County after a daylong search for a 5-month-old boy. The search began after a man was arrested in Pulaski on Thursday morning on a child abuse charge. On Wednesday, an arrest warrant was issued for Howard Samuel Cole, 31, on a charge of child abuse after police received information that an infant had been abused by his father on Sunday morning, authorities have said. READ MORE HERE

PORTSMOUTH — Police in New Hampshire are calling it a horrific crime and have arrested two teenagers in connection with a rape case involving a brain-damaged child. “This is a case where they need to be brought to justice and answer for what they did,” explained Portsmouth Deputy Chief Corey MacDonald. Vincent Pittore, 18, of Derry, New Hampshire is accused of raping a young girl twice. He’s charged with two counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault. READ MORE HERE

Sexual abuse of children by teachers or other public school employees is likely underestimated because of a patchwork reporting system and involvement of numerous local, state and federal agencies in investigating such claims, according to a new government report obtained exclusively by NBC News. The report by the Government Accountability Office, released Thursday, raises numerous questions about how closely public schools are following federal requirements for mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse allegations or suspicions involving the public school employees who oversee the 50 million children enrolled in the nation’s public K-12 schools. The report also raises doubts about the accuracy of the data on the scope of the problem. READ MORE HERE

State officials failed in 2013 to address school child abuse

Sex abuse at schools: Systems for reporting suspicions lacking

The School’s Role in the Intervention of Child Abuse and Neglect

Man killed his children when he realized he didn’t have car seats to take them with him after he killed his wife

A New York man charged with murder in the stabbing deaths of his wife and their two toddlers only killed the children because he didn’t have car seats to take the pair with him. Miguel Mejia-Ramos, 29, was placed on suicide watch after being arraigned Friday. Prosecutors say he told investigators he killed his children because he didn’t have car seats to take them on the lam. READ MORE HERE