An 8-year-old girl was left scalped after being terrorized by bullies at an elementary school in Georgia, her family says. The girl’s grandmother, Dorris Bearden, told WSB-TV that bullies pulled the girl’s hair so hard that a piece of Aolani Dunbar’s scalp was torn off leaving a gaping wound. Doctors say the girl may never grow hair in that part of her scalp again and she may need skin grafts, according to Bearden. READ MORE HERE

Man, 37, ran away with girl, 15, after ‘grooming her for years’

The 37-year-old man who ran away with a 15-year-old girl has been charged with sex abuse and faces life in prison, it was revealed today. Robert Messer befriended teenager Emily Lalinksy’s mother, Lisa Schwartz, through their church in Plymouth Township, Michigan and had known the 15-year-old since she was a little girl. Today Lieutenant Cal Lauria told MailOnline: ‘He has been charged on six counts. Count one, Criminal Sexual Conduct in the first degree, which carries life imprisonment. ‘Counts two through five, Criminal Sexual Conduct in the third degree, each count carrying a 15 year penalty and Count six Accosting a Minor which carries a four years.’ READ MORE HERE

Soldier charged with child rape for allegedly having sex with 13-year-old

TACOMA — A 47-year-old soldier was charged Monday with second-degree rape of a child for allegedly having sex with a 13-year-old girl he met online. The defendant, Glen Winans, pleaded not guilty in Pierce County Superior Court Monday.  He was ordered held on $100,000 bail. The Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office said Winans, while deployed with the U.S. Army in Afghanistan, met the girl online and engaged in multiple conversations with her. The girl told the defendant she was 15, the prosecutor’s office said. READ MORE HERE

13-yo girl dumped in roadside grave by two men after rape 

A girl in Pakistan had to dig herself out of her roadside grave after being buried alive by two men after they raped her. The 13-year-old girl from the Punjab province was abducted by two men on her way to Quran lessons, India’s PTI reports. Her father told police about his daughter’s abduction, but they reportedly refused to cooperate with him. After being abducted from her home in a village in Toba Tek Singh district, the girl was allegedly raped in a deserted area. The attackers, believing they had killed her, buried her in a grave on the roadside. READ MORE HERE

Penn State to pay Sandusky child abuse victims $59.7m in settlements

Penn State said Monday it is paying $59.7m to 26 young men over claims of child sexual abuse at the hands of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. The school said 23 deals are fully signed and three are agreements in principle, but did not disclose the names of the recipients. The school faces six other claims, and the university says it believes some of those do not have merit while others may produce settlements. READ MORE HERE

NEW LONDON, CT — A father is accused of fatally shaking his 2-month-old boy and was on suicide watch in a Connecticut prison. Police say 24-year-old Adam M. Browne called 911 from his New London apartment early Friday morning to report that his son was limp and not breathing. While a dispatcher walked Browne through emergency medical procedures, the fire department sent personnel and transported the baby to the hospital. READ MORE HERE

Columbus, Ohio will use an untried-dose of two drugs to put to death a condemned inmate who raped and killed his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter, the state prisons agency said on Monday. A warden determined the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility doesn’t have enough pentobarbital, the drug Ohio formerly used until its manufacturer put it off-limits for executions, Department of Rehabilitation and Correction spokeswoman JoEllen Smith said in an email. Instead, the state will use an intravenous combination of midazolam, a sedative, and hydromorphone, a painkiller, in the Nov. 14 execution of Ronald Phillips of Akron. READ MORE HERE

MINNEAPOLIS  — A 24-year-old man has been sentenced for abusing a 2-year-old in Apple Valley to the point of being partially paralyzed. On Wednesday, Carlton Lewis plead guilty to felony punishment of a child and neglect. He was then sentenced to 120 days in jail with credit for 56 days served. Police received a report on April 23 that 24-year-old Ashley Marie Roff, and her boyfriend, Lewis, were abusing two girls, leaving bruises on their bodies. READ MORE HERE

NASHVILLE, TN — Tennessee’s first execution in nearly five years — and the first using a new single-drug method — has been scheduled for January. Department of Correction spokeswoman Dorinda Carter told The Associated Press on Thursday that 55-year-old Billy R. Irick is to be executed Jan. 15. According to the state Supreme Court clerk’s office, the execution order was filed Tuesday. Irick has been on death row since 1986 for the rape and murder of a 7-year-old girl. READ MORE HERE

HUNTSVILLE, AL – The foster mother of three small children has been charged with one count of Aggravated Child Abuse and two counts of Torture and Willful Abuse of a Child after a co-worker alerted authorities. Meghan Calandra Hargress, 28, was booked into the Madison County Jail on Friday morning.  Huntsville Police spokesman Harry Hobbs said she was the foster mother of three small children, two girls and one boy. READ MORE HERE

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — An ex-Texas soldier who blamed post-traumatic stress disorder for sexually assaulting a 3-year-old boy has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison. Former Army Sgt. Wade Allen Perkins acknowledged to authorities that he coerced his girlfriend, also a former soldier, into sex acts with the child. READ MORE HERE

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PTSD prompted child porn, sentenced sergeant says

Two Soldiers In Texas Charged In Child Porn Case

A Colombian mother has been caught selling her 12 young daughters’ virginities for just £125 each, police said. Margarita de Jesus Zapata Moreno, 45, was detained in Bogota earlier this week after one of her girls, now 16 and pregnant, contacted police. The teen was angry after her mother ordered her to abort her child, it is claimed.  Tito Cornelio Daza, 51, reportedly the biological father of the girl’s baby, was also arrested. Univision reports that Zapata, who has a total of 14 children, would sell their virginities once they turned 12-years-old. READ MORE HERE

BELMONT, N.H. —The family of a 2-year-old girl who died after falling down a flight of stairs at her Belmont home is seeking answers. The girl fell at her home on Concord Street on Wednesday and died this weekend, officials said. The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office is involved in the case but would not say if the death is suspicious. Belmont police would not comment about the case this weekend. READ MORE HERE

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Havana E. O’Flaherty, 2 – Obituary

2-year-old Belmont girl dies as result of injuries

MOTHER AND HER BOYFRIEND CHARGED WITH BOY’S MURDER

It’s been at least 20 years since the death penalty was sought in a Rhea County, Tenn., court, according to District Attorney Mike Taylor. But, he said, that’s what a number of Rhea County residents want for Jessica Robbins and Bradley Adcox, the couple accused of abusing Robbins’ 5-year-old son Landon, ultimately to his death. “I have received some calls from probably around a dozen people supporting the prosecution, saying ‘We want to see justice done.’ Words to that effect,” Taylor said. READ MORE HERE