A magician who performed at holiday camps for 18 years has been jailed for abusing children he groomed with his magic tricks.  Ivan Russell, 42, targeted vulnerable families at the resorts and used his magic skills to befriend them before abusing the children.  The ‘predatory pedophile’ abused four boys and one girl, aged between eight and 15, while working at camps in Great Yarmouth, Northamptonshire and Lancashire.  He has been jailed for six years and the judge branded him the ‘most selfish man I have ever come across’. READ MORE HERE

A father who discovered his girlfriend was cheating on him battered their three-year-old daughter to death, a court heard today.  Richard Green, 22, subjected Lia Green to ‘significant physical abuse’ after learning girlfriend Natalie Critchley was having an affair with a parent at a children’s nursery where she worked, it was said. Lia was rushed to hospital in August last year after she was found unresponsive and not breathing.  She died shortly after being admitted to the Royal Preston Hospital. Doctors discovered Lia had a significant number of bruises to her neck, chest, abdomen, both arms, both legs, buttocks and back caused by deliberate blows. Part of her bowel had been completely severed. READ MORE HERE

PORT SALERNO — Moments after the 10-year old girl escaped from a man who had sexually assaulted her in the woods behind Manatee Creek Park, her mother was on the cellphone with 911 dispatchers, running to the park to find the man, according to a recording released Tuesday. “My daughter just came home and said a man asked her to find his dog in the woods and then she went to help him and he pulled her pants down,” the mother said. In the 3 minute and 40 second recording, the mother could be heard walking to the park while talking to a dispatcher. READ MORE HERE

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MOTHER STABBED TO DEATH DURING STRUGGLE TO SAVE HER DAUGHTER’S LIFE

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A New York woman who’d just seen her 10-year-old daughter raped during a carjacking was stabbed to death during a struggle that allowed the child to escape and get help, a prosecutor said Wednesday. Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick said 29-year-old David Renz was trying to use cable ties to bind the woman to a headrest in her car when she fought back and shouted for the girl, whose hands were tied behind her back, to bolt from the car. As the child ran off and was rescued by a passing motorist, her mother was strangled and repeatedly stabbed in the head and chest, according to a 37-count indictment that includes a top count of first-degree murder. READ MORE HERE

David Renz to be arraigned in brutal murder, rape case

David Renz indicted on charges of murder, rape and kidnapping

David Renz, Accused Of Murder, Rape, Will Stand Trial For Child Porn Charges

Anonymous threaten to unmask boys who ‘drove 17-year-old girl to hang herself after they gang raped her and put photo on web’

Anonymous has vowed to expose the identities of the four boys behind the rape of a 17-year-old girl who killed herself after they circulated a photograph of the assault. The hacking collective said that they knew who two of the supposed culprits were and that they were confirming the identity of a third before putting them on the Internet. In a post the group added that it was ‘only a matter’ of time before they got the fourth as well. READ MORE HERE

36-year-old Daniel Reilly of Queens, New York, was arrested Monday after evidence of sexual liaisons with a student surfaced. According to the New York Daily News, Reilly had pursued a sexual relationship with a student over a period of eight months at his apartment. READ MORE HERE

JACKSON — A Michigan woman charged in the death of a newborn lost custody of two of her other children a decade ago. Amanda Redman is charged with involuntary manslaughter. According to the Jackson County prosecutor’s office, Redman’s 27-day-old-daughter, Amillia, was found dead in her home on April 2. Authorities say the cause of death was suffocation. READ MORE HERE

Georgia teen, 13, ‘hanged himself in his closet after bullies called him a snitch’ 

A 13-year-old boy committed suicide because he was scared of revenge attacks from bullies he had told on, his father claims. Devin Brown had only been in Columbus, Georgia, for six months, moving to live with his father and starting as a new student at Rothschild Middle School. But soon the bullying began, his father said, kids at the school smeared him with food and beat him up. READ MORE HERE

ROCKFORD, Ill. — A northern Illinois woman who admitted leaving a newborn daughter to freeze to death along a rural roadway in 2004 was sentenced Friday to 50 years in prison. Katie Stockton, 32, faced up to 60 years in prison for the death of the infant, who became known as Baby Crystal around the Rock River Valley after her frozen remains were found. Winnebago County prosecutors dropped 11 remaining murder charges in exchange for her guilty plea in February to a single count of first-degree murder. READ MORE HERE

PHILADELPHIA – Abortionist Kermit Gosnell, who ran the “House of Horrors” abortion clinic in West Philadelphia that was shut down after an FBI raid in 2010, faced the jury for the first time Monday in a case with high stakes: Gosnell faces the possibility of the death sentence if found guilty. Gosnell, 72, is facing capital murder charges for allegedly severing the spines of at least seven babies born alive at his filthy abortion center.  He is also facing one additional count of third degree murder for the death of Karnamaya Mongar, 41, who sought an abortion at his clinic and was given a lethal overdose of medication.  READ MORE HERE

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Dance and cheer coach arrested on child molestation charges

A Texas dance and cheer coach was arrested at Dallas Airport on suspicion of child abuse before he could board a flight to Paris Tuesday. Kyle Austin Ware, 30, has been charged with three counts of continuous abuse of a child under age 14 – a felony. If convicted, he could face up to 99 years in prison. He is being held at the Collin County Jail on $300,000. Ware stands accused of abusing three of his students while working at Express Cheer & Dance, a private training studio in Fresno. READ MORE HERE

Former Church of England priest and retired organist face jail for sexually abusing boys as young as 10

A former Church of England priest and a retired organist were found guilty today of a string of child sex abuse offences. Father Keith Wilkie Denford, 78, and Michael Mytton, 69, abused their access to young boys while they worked together at St John the Evangelist Church in Burgess Hill, West Sussex. Hove Crown Court heard how the priest had gave one of the boys alcohol and then got into a bath with him while aroused. Denford had invited the boy to stay over after he acted as a waiter for a dinner party at his house. READ MORE HERE

24-year old Ashley Delvalle of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has been arrested after posingas a nurse and assaulting children in a hospital. Ashley Delvalle brought her own child to St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children before wandering off to play nurse. Police confirm that Delvalle walked in to several rooms in the hospital and informed parents that she was a nurse. READ MORE HERE

A former professor was caught watching child pornography

Grant Smith, 50, has jail sentence suspended by judge so long he sticks to the terms of his five-year probation after he was caught viewing child pornography on an airplane. According to Daily Mail, a Boston judge suspended Grant Smith’s 2 1/2-year sentence after the Salt Lake City father of two pleaded guilty on Thursday to possessing child pornography. READ MORE HERE