TEXAS – Thirteen male athletes have been arrested at a Texas high school for what is being characterized as a sadistic hazing ritual where they allegedly anally raped at least 10 underclassmen with various objects. The small town of La Vernia, Texas, has been rocked by a major sexual assault case where nearly a dozen student athletes are accused of raping other students as a sports initiation practice, according to police. Three members of the basketball team at La Vernia High School, Colton Weidner, 18; Christian Roberts, 18; and John Rutkowski, 18, were arrested on a charge of second-degree felony sexual assault on Tuesday. This brings the total number of men arrested to 13, as six adult and seven juvenile students have been accused of the sexual assault where they allegedly raped at least 10 other male students with Gatorade and Coke bottles, flashlights and the threaded end of a carbon dioxide tank, according to police. READ MORE HERE

DELAWARE – Federal prosecutors have charged two airmen stationed at Dover Air Force Base with sexually abusing a teenage runaway they harbored on base. According to court records unsealed Thursday, Dalian Washington, 25, and Akeem Beazer, 21, waived their rights to preliminary hearings and are being detained pending trial. Both men are charged with sex abuse of a minor. Washington is also charged with sex trafficking of a child. READ MORE HERE

Facebook should not be a safe space for pedophiles and terrorists to share ‘hateful’ pictures and videos, the Home Secretary insisted last night. Amber Rudd spoke out after the social media site was accused of endangering the lives of youngsters by refusing to remove child abuse images. Child protection charities said sex abuse pictures on Facebook act like a gateway drug to would-be pedophiles, encouraging them to abuse youngsters in real life. Material including sexual images of children and gruesome terror videos were still rife on the social network yesterday. READ MORE HERE

Healthcare staff ‘backed off’ a mother who jumped to her death while holding her newborn baby because she was ‘middle class and articulate’, a new report revealed today. Charlotte Bevan, 30, vanished from St Michael’s Hospital in Bristol with her four-day-old daughter Zaani Tiana Bevan Malbrouck in her arms. She walked off the maternity ward holding her four-day-old child and walked past at least four nurses without being stopped. The new mother – who had a long history of mental illness – threw herself into Avon Gorge in November 2014 still cuddling Zaani around 40 minutes after leaving hospital. READ MORE HERE

WRITTEN BY: JAYNEEN SANDERS 

As a parent and an educator I find the statistics below both confronting and horrifying. However, they do highlight the reasons WHY we need to teach the children in our care Body Safety from the earliest of years. Such age-appropriate knowledge is empowering for children, and might well be the difference between a child becoming one of these statistics or not.

As an advocate for Body Safety Education in both homes and schools, I have heard many sad and crippling stories from adult survivors; but it’s this one shared comment that stays with me, “If only I had known from the first inappropriate touch it was wrong, my life could have been so different.”

I am not a survivor of childhood sexual abuse but I am a mother and teacher who believes we can do better by our kids. We need to put our adult fear of this topic aside, and take on the responsibility of educating our children so they know to tell, and keep on telling until they are believed. We also have a responsibility to educate ourselves so we know the signs of sexual abuse and grooming. Believing a child when they disclose sexual abuse is of the utmost importance, as is our reaction to the disclosure.

These statistics are a call to action for parents, carers and teachers everywhere — let’s educate ourselves and our kids in Body Safety, and like any good “ripple effect,” let’s educate others to do the same! I am asking you to play your part. Ironically, you may never know but your advocacy could positively change a child’s life forever. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE

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SAN ANTONIO — A mother and her girlfriend have been arrested and charged in connection with the death of a 2-year-old girl. Police say the child’s mother, Shari Newman and her live-in girlfriend, Letica Young, have both been charged with capital murder. The incident happened Saturday night at an apartment on Fairhaven near Datapoint on the Northwest Side. Officers were called to Methodist Children’s Hospital concerning the death of a 2-year-old Saturday. When they arrived, they noticed bruising on the child and called for homicide detectives. The detectives then examined the child and found bruising all over her body and believed it was obvious some sort of abuse had taken place. READ MORE HERE

WARREN, Michigan – A new father is in jail accused of killing his own 4-month-old baby girl. Brandon Dunmire is charged with first-degree murder and first-degree child abuse. Naomi Reese was killed Tuesday inside her mother’s home in Warren near 11 Mile and Hoover roads. Warren police said Dunmire called 911 saying his daughter was not breathing. Paramedics found Naomi unresponsive. READ MORE HERE

Tishomingo Police Officer Russ Robinson committed suicide March 24 after admitting to authorities he had molested minors. His admission came after the Alcorn County Sheriff’s Department, with assistance from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, questioned the 53-year-old officer about allegations he molested a 17-year-old boy after flashing his headlights to get the teen to pull over. A day after that questioning, Robinson was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside his home in the Crossroads Community near Iuka. READ MORE HERE

PENNSYLVANIA – The Butler County District Attorney’s office on Monday charged a 20-year-old man with homicide and rape in the death of his girlfriend’s son. Keith Jordan Lambing also faces multiple assault charges in the death of 4-year-old Bentley Miller. Mr. Lambing was captured by authorities about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday after he was found hiding with his mother, Kristen Herold, in the attic of an abandoned home in Butler. He was being sought by authorities after Bentley died from “severe injuries” that District Attorney Butler Rich Goldinger described as “horrible.” READ MORE HERE

MOST WANTED: Frederick McLean

$7,500 Reward Offered for Wanted TX Child Sex Predator

UPDATE: Fugitive with ETX ties captured in Dallas

AUSTIN, Texas – The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has added Jahmar Nykel Young, 37, to the Texas 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list, and a cash reward up to $7,500 is now being offered for information leading to his capture. Young, who is a Bloods gang member and convicted sex offender, is wanted for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, failure to comply with sex offender registration requirements, parole violation and larceny. All tips are guaranteed to be anonymous. READ MORE HERE

Penn State University’s former president Graham Spanier has been convicted of child endangerment over his handling of the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal. A jury in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, found Spanier guilty of one count of child endangerment. They determined that he was responsible for victims who were sexually assaulted by former Penn State assistant football coach Sandusky in a school locker room shower in 2001.  READ MORE HERE

SYDNEY – Dozens of teenage students are reportedly under investigation after receiving a video that depicts an unconscious 15-year-old girl being raped at a house party in an exclusive Sydney suburb. A 15-year-old boy allegedly sexually assaulted the girl earlier this month, and another boy his age allegedly filmed the attack at a house party, police said. The footage of the alleged rape, which was shot at a Mardi Gras-themed party in Sydney’s eastern suburbs after the victim became unconscious, was shared among more than 50 teenagers who are now being investigated by NSW Police. READ MORE HERE

A man has been charged with murder after a four-day-old baby and the newborn’s two-year-old sister were found stabbed to death. Tillman Freeman, 30, faces two counts of murder in the death of the children, whose bodies were found early Saturday inside a car near Raeford, North Carolina. Freeman, whom authorities first named as the father, claimed his wife had been seeing someone else and that the children weren’t his. READ MORE HERE