The law would have deferred sentencing for men who have married girls under age 18, which opponents say would essentially legalize child rape.

TURKEY – Turkish leaders plan to rework a bill some say would have legalized child rape, as long as the attacker married the victim, after it sparked protests across the country last week. Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirimsent on Tuesday sent the bill, which would have applied to at least 3,000 men currently in prison, back to be changed by a parliament subcommittee after people in Turkey and around the world said the law appeared to consider child rape permissible. The ruling party in Turkey, the Justice and Development Party, also known as AK Party, brought the bill to the floor of the Turkish parliament amid opposition from some in the legislative body and several women’s rights groups. The bill is aimed at reducing the number of husbands sent to jail — leaving wives and children alone — by deferring sentencing for men who marry girls under age 18. READ MORE HERE

Turkey withdraws child rape bill after street protests

Turkey Drops Legislation Protecting Child Marriage

Men would be off the hook for child rape if they marry the victim

A 56-year-old grandmother has been charged with child abuse after a 6-month-old baby suffered a brain injury. Rebecca Laca is charged with child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury, a felony, according to the Denver district attorney’s office. READ MORE HERE

MASON, Michigan — A former USA Gymnastics team doctor was charged Monday with first-degree criminal sexual conduct in Michigan involving a child under 13. Three charges were filed against Dr. Larry Nassar of Holt, Michigan, according to online court records in Ingham County. The alleged incidents occurred in 1998. The records don’t indicate whether the charges involve one victim or more. Nassar was arrested and lodged in the county jail. READ MORE HERE

Former Team USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, 53, is charged with three counts of sexual abuse – with ‘at least one 13-year-old victim’ – the latest in a string of allegations going back to 1994

Ex-gymnastics doctor arraigned; police probing 50 complaints

A woman who was sexually abused by her parents as a child has confronted them two decades later, after their release from prison. The depraved couple, named only as Jim and Justine, were convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison each in 1996 for the incestuous attacks on their teenage daughter Amanda, which lasted for around three years. In a harrowing episode of Dr Phil, the victim, now in her 30s, confronted her biological parents, revealing how their abuse wrecked her life. READ MORE HERE

The young boy who died while in the care of a foster home agency had at least four drugs in his system, including heroin and diazepam, as well as burns and bruised on his body, child protection sources have revealed. The five-year-old, who suffered from epilepsy and hepatitis C, died in 2015 in a Uniting Care run foster home in Pennant Hills, north west Sydney – the same agency who ran the home where Girl X infamously died of a drug overdose in 2014. READ MORE HERE

Former Detroit City Council President & TV Anchor Sentenced for Child Molestation

DETROIT – Former Detroit City Council president Charles Pugh learned how much time he faces in prison on Wednesday. Pugh pleaded guilty this past month to third-degree criminal sexual conduct. According to the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office, the former Detroit leader engaged in sexually inappropriate behavior with a 14-year-old boy in 2003 when Pugh was a reporter and anchor at WJBK-TV. Pugh was sentenced Wednesday to 5 1/2 to 15 years in prison. He must also register as a sex offender. READ MORE HERE

Charles Pugh sentenced to up to 15 years in prison

Charles Pugh sentenced to 5 1/2-15 years in prison in sex assault

A young child clings to life after a horrific case of child abuse in Wentzville, Missouri. This is likely one of the worst cases of infant abuse that police in Wentzville have ever dealt with. It all began Thursday with a six-week-old doing what babies do, cry. Police say the infant’s father, Robert Burnette, couldn’t deal with the crying so he shoved his fingers down the baby’s tiny throat. He was trying to reach the boy’s larynx to stop the crying. Investigators say they got these details from the child’s mother, Megan Hendricks, who investigators say stood by and watched and made no attempt to stop the abuse. READ MORE HERE

Dad Accused of Shoving His Fingers Down 6-Week-Old Son’s Throat to Stop Crying as Mom Stood By

Baby severely injured in alleged child abuse; 2 arrested

A 40-year-old Campton Hills man has been charged with raping a girl younger than 13 over a three-year span. Donald R. Lumbert, of the 4N700 block of Brookside Drive, faces five counts of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child younger than 13 and four counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, according to Kane County court records. READ MORE HERE

DAYTON, Ohio – A Dayton man is in custody after members of multiple law enforcement jurisdictions arrest him for charges related to child rape. Robert Taylor, 53, is accused of raping a child under the age of 13 “over the course of several years,” according to a press release from the U.S. Marshals. READ MORE HERE

FARGO, North Dakota– A man is charged in Cass County Court after court documents say he admitted to shaking an infant. Reese Andrew Young is charged with one count of child abuse and one count of aggravated assault/domestic violence. Court documents say the charges stem from Young grabbing a two-month-old by the ribs and shaking him, causing a brain bleed and extreme pain. READ MORE HERE

FERRARI PRESS AGENCY…A DEPRAVED ex-pat Brit who travelled hundreds of miles to the UK from his home in The Provence in the sick hope of sexually abusing twin girls aged eight has been jailed for four-and-a-half years.
 
Married 52-year-old Richard Chapman was caught in a police sting. SEE FERRARI COPY

A depraved ex-pat Brit who traveled hundreds of miles to the UK from his home in The Provence in the sick hope of sexually abusing twin girls aged eight has been jailed for four-and-a-half years. Married 52-year-old Richard Chapman was caught in a police sting. He engaged in online communications with a female officer in the false belief she was the youngsters’ mother and told her they were the “perfect age” for his sordid plan. READ MORE HERE

ROTHERHAM – Eight men who sexually abused three teenage girls in Rotherham between 1999 and 2003 have been jailed. The men are Sageer Hussain, Ishtiaq Khaliq, Waleed Ali, Masoued Malik, Asif Ali, Naeem Rafiq, Basharat Hussain and Mohammed Whied. They were jailed at Sheffield Crown Court, having been convicted of a total of 16 charges after a trial. The judge said their victims had been “targeted, sexualised and subjected to degrading and violent acts.” READ MORE HERE

A gym teacher working at a Florida middle school has been arrested on nearly two dozen charges after authorities say she exchanged 129,000 inappropriate messages with a female student on social media. Alyson London, 44, of Apopka, was taken into custody on Friday on multiple criminal counts, including solicitation to commit sexual battery, failure to report child abuse as a mandatory reporter and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. READ MORE HERE

Guam — The latest on allegations of child sex abuse in Guam’s Catholic Church. A lawyer for four former altar boys has filed a new civil lawsuit against the Catholic Church in Guam, Archbishop Anthony Apuron and Father Louis Brouillard over child sexual abuse. A statement was released by the men’s attorney Tuesday afternoon in Hagatna. Three of the men, now in their 50s, were altar boys in the 1970s under Apuron, who was a pastor at the time. They allege Apuron molested them during sleepovers. READ MORE HERE