A sexual predator who repeatedly molested his stepchildren enlisted his partner’s support in the ongoing abuse as she allegedly allowed the man to rape her young son while she sat nearby, a court has heard. The 64-year-old Illawarra man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was sentenced to a minimum 10 years’ jail in Wollongong District Court yesterday for sexually assaulting his stepchildren for nearly a decade. Judge Paul Conlon said the man had exploited the children in the worst possible way. READ MORE HERE

• Red Saunders, 23, played out his sick fantasies, planning scripts, costumes and games for the two girls aged six and eight while he filmed his abuse
• He labelled the videos he made ‘Pedo Productions’ and ‘My Legacy’
• Detectives also found an ‘Abduction Diary’ in which he wrote of snatching little girls off the street, sexually abusing them before killing the
• The journal ends with: ‘Now it’s time to find the unfortunate little girl’
• He was convicted of molesting a girl when he was 15 and social services raised fears of his ‘disturbing and profound predatory interest in young girls’

A pedophile who was spared jail after molesting a five-year-old girl went on to rape a child by posing as a babysitter on the internet. Red Saunders, 23, raped a girl of eight and sexually assaulted another seven-year-old girl after tricking two families into believing he was a legitimate babysitter. He was hired through Gumtree, a popular online classifieds noticeboard, after using his brother’s name to pose as a child minder. READ MORE HERE

VENTURA, CA — The 18-year-old son of a day care center owner has been arrested on charges of allegedly molesting a young girl. Cooper Potter, 18, allegedly molested a 5-year-old girl at Potters Day Care, a child-care facility that was run out of his home. READ MORE HERE

SHE WAS PREGNANT WITH TWIN BOYS

The heartbroken husband of a pregnant woman, found dead at the bottom of a hill, has spoken of their last phonecall – when they both said they loved each other. Anna Byrne (35) from Beechdale in Dunboyne, Co Meath, and her unborn twin sons were killed in the fall at Howth summit in the early hours of March 8 this year. The mother of two’s last known contact was at 11am the previous day when she spoke on the phone with her husband, Terry Byrne, and told him that she was going to the supermarket, an inquest has heard. “At the end of the call, I told her to phone anytime if there was anything,” he told the court. “We told each other that we loved each other and she said ‘I’ll see ya later'”. Mr Byrne was giving evidence at Dublin City Coroner’s Court, where an open verdict was returned at the inquest into his wife’s death. READ MORE HERE

Anna Byrne’s remains recovered

A ‘cold-blooded’ teenage killer who brutally tortured and mutilated his 17-year-old girlfriend before raping and dumping her body must serve at least 22 years behind bars. Adam Lewis tied helpless Hannah Windsor to a tree, bound her mouth with tape, and sexually assaulted, strangled and slashed her with a Swiss army knife during a 40-minute spree of violence. A judge today described the pain inflicted on the victim at a well-known Merseyside beauty spot as both ‘sexual and sadistic’, adding the injuries inflicted on her caused Hannah ‘immense pain and suffering.’ READ MORE HERE

A prisoner told a court today he stabbed notorious child killer Roy Whiting in both eyes because he was a “dirty little nonce”. Double murderer Gary Vinter, 42, sneaked into Whiting’s jail cell and attacked him with a sharpened plastic toilet brush handle. The tip of his makeshift weapon broke and left a piece of plastic in his victim’s eye socket, the court heard. Whiting, serving life for the murder of eight-year-old Sarah Payne in East Sussex in July 2000, was then kicked and punched as he lay on the floor. READ MORE HERE

A 13-year-old girl was shot and killed Tuesday inside a school bus in a Miami suburb, police said. Police said a male student was taken into custody in connection with the attack, but authorities haven’t released his name or age. The shooting occurred on a private bus while it was at intersection of 137th Avenue and Southwest 296th Street in Homestead, Fla., police told the Los Angeles Times. READ MORE HERE

An appalled mother took legal action upon learning of her son’s harrowing mistreatment. An unidentified, 14-year-old freshman from Maine West High School in Illinois, was hazed by his fellow soccer teammates as part of a ritualistic initiation. According to The Chicago Tribune, the young man was beaten and sodomized during soccer practice, and his coaches willingly did nothing. READ MORE HERE

Two children disposed of their father’s body three years after his death. A Russian women has reportedly kept her dead husband in her Moscow apartment for three years in hopes that his body will we be resurrected. The women forced her children to enter the room to feed their father.  READ MORE HERE

Michigan State Police are searching for a suspect who, they say, attempted to kidnap a 13-year-old boy Thursday evening in Armada Township. Police say the boy was approached by a man in a 2002 or 2003 maroon Ford Taurus near North Avenue and Irwin Street. The man tried to entice the boy to get into the vehicle. The boy refused to get inside and ran home where he told his parents what happened. Meanwhile, the man fled in the vehicle traveling northbound on North Avenue. READ MORE HERE

BOLIVAR, Missouri — A 23-year old man is behind bars accused of plotting to open fire inside a movie theater during a screening of the new “Twilight” film. Blaec Lammers of Bolivar was charged Friday with three felony counts, including making a terrorist threat and armed criminal action. Authorities in Bolivar, Mo., have charged a man they say was planning to go on a shooting spree this weekend at a movie theater screening of the new “Twilight” film.

The 20-year-old suspect, Blaec Lammers, was charged Friday morning with making a terroristic threat, armed criminal action and first-degree assault, The Springfield News-Leader reported. The alleged plot draws parallels to the July movie theater massacre in Aurora, Colo., where suspect James Holmes is accused of killing 12 people and wounding 58 others during a midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises.”  READ MORE HERE

Peter Ball, 80, has been arrested on suspicion of eight sex offenses against eight boys and young men in the late Eighties and Nineties

Police investigating historic child sex allegations in a scandal-hit diocese arrested a retired Church of England bishop today. Peter Ball, 80, was arrested at his home in Langport, Somerset, on suspicion of eight sex offenses against eight boys and young men aged between 12 and their early twenties in the late Eighties and Nineties, sources said. The offenses are alleged to have taken place in East Sussex and elsewhere within the diocese of Chichester. READ MORE HERE