A witness has told a court how he was playing computer games in former Catholic priest David Rapson’s office at Salesian College Rupertswood in Sunbury when he was given a glass of lemonade and passed out. He claimed he woke up to find Rapson raping him. He was 12 years old. And as he ran from Rapson’s office, the priest allegedly called out for him to come back ”in a voice like the devil”. Rapson, 59, has been charged with one count of rape, five counts of indecent assault, four counts of indecently assaulting a child under 16, and one count of gross indecency from 1973 to 1990. READ MORE HERE

Man groomed victim online by posing as a teenage girl 

A ‘devious’ internet paedophile has been jailed for 14 years for raping a 12 -year-old girl after grooming her on a social networking site. Father of four, Gary Cooper, 47, who called himself  ‘Chantelle’  to befriend his victim, abducted and raped her twice days after  making contact with her. The girls’ ordeal was described as wreaking ‘incalculable psychological damage’. Cooper joined the social network Tagged.com and began grooming the schoolgirl. He told her she was ‘gorgeous’ and having got her phone number claimed to be the fictitious girls’ father, confessing he found her attractive. READ MORE HERE

NEWBURYPORT, Mass. — A teen mother is being held without bail after she was accused of poisoning the child of another young mother. A home for pregnant and parenting teens on Low Street in Newburyport was the scene of the crime, according to police. “It’s alleged that a juvenile female with a young child that was at the establishment had taken a substance and added it to the formula of another female’s child out there,” said Thomas Howard, city marshal of the Newburyport Police Department. The sick child was rushed to Anna Jaques Hospital where the little boy was treated and released, but the teenage suspect detectives were looking for was nowhere to be found. READ MORE HERE

Grandmother and adult son ‘kill themselves and three young children’ by pumping car full of carbon monoxide after bitter custody battle

Caught up in a family disagreement over who should care for three young children, a grandmother and her son barricaded themselves and the kids in a garage and filled it with deadly carbon monoxide gas. All five died. Police spent Tuesday trying to explain the heartbreaking scene discovered a day earlier at the home of 54-year-old Sandy Ford and her son Andy in a quiet Toledo neighborhood. Firefighter’s using a sledgehammer broke down the garage door to find the bodies of 5-year-old Madalyn Hayes, her 6-year-old brother Logan and 10-year-old sister Paige slumped inside a car, along with their grandmother and uncle. Two hoses attached to the exhaust of a pickup truck pumped gas fumes through the car’s rear window. READ MORE HERE

INGLEWOOD — A man accused of sexually assaulting a mentally disabled teenager on an MTA bus pleaded not guilty Wednesday. Kerry Trotter, 20, is charged with one count each of forcible rape and rape of an incompetent person and two counts of sexual penetration by a foreign object in connection to the Nov. 7 incident. Authorities describe Trotter as a parolee and a transient who had previously been investigated on suspicion of sexual assault. READ MORE HERE

An irascible man may face up to twenty years in prison. Eric Boone, 21, of Minneapolis, MN was charged with first degree assault regarding an incident in October when he threw his girlfriend’s 21-month old daughter onto a bed. READ MORE HERE

Delco mother charged with murder in infant’s heroin death

The baby was born addicted to heroin. And 11 months later, Niccolo Varner died from ingesting heroin that his mother either gave him or left out for him to find, officials said. Christine Rivero, 29, of Collingdale, stood quietly in shackles on Friday morning before Delaware County Court Judge Horace Z. Davis as he read her her rights. She was charged with third-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter, aggravated assault, endangering the welfare of children, and other crimes in the death of her infant son, and was remanded to the Delaware County jail with no bail. READ MORE HERE

The family of Alicia Moore says they tried to tell Greenville police something was wrong when the young girl didn’t come home Friday night. Instead they were told to wait until Monday and that she was considered a run-away.  The family says they tried to use social media to get help to locate the young girl, and even passed out flyers. On Tuesday the body of the 16 year-old was found inside a furniture trunk.  Authorities then held a press conference saying they will investigate the case as a homicide and that the body had a form of trauma. READ MORE HERE

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$15k reward offered for info in Texas teen’s slaying

Alicia Moore Sexually Assaulted Months Before Homicide, Police Say

Alicia Moore’s Murder: Heartbroken Family Pleads For Teen’s Killer To Come Forward

Artesia, N.M.  – Jodi Kirkpatrick (view her FACEBOOK page here) , a 42-year-old science teacher Artesia Junior High School, was jailed Friday after she allegedly violently raped several foster children that were in her care. According to police, Kirkpatrick’s sex offender ex-husband, Richard Glascoe, was sentenced to a 25 year sentence after he was found guilty of raping three 7-year-old children that were in foster care. READ MORE HERE

Two foster parents from Ankeny, IA, Paul and JoAnn Drake, were arrested for false imprisonment and neglect of an abandoned person, after they forced their 13-year-old daughter and 14-year-old son to live in the basement. One of the children eventually informed a school employee that they had been forced to live in the basement as a form of punishment. The employee then proceeded to alert the Department of Human Services. READ MORE HERE

After years of waiting for justice, a family of Burmese immigrants will finally face the man accused of brutally raping and murdering their seven-year-old daughter in court. Esar Met, 25, is accused of kidnapping, raping and strangling Hser Ner Moo, who was seven years old at the time of her death in March 2008. READ MORE HERE

SAYREVILLE, N.J. — A father who threw his infant daughter off a bridge was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday. Shamsiddin Abdur-Raheem, 24, was convicted of killing 3-month-old Zara by throwing her into the Raritan River in February 2010. He was sentenced to an additional 30 years for kidnapping the child from her grandmother?s apartment. READ MORE HERE

BURBANK, CA — Police have arrested a 14-year-old boy for allegedly sexually abusing a 4-year-old boy at his parents’ day-care center in Burbank. The investigation began on Monday, after the 4-year-old boy’s mother reported the alleged abuse. READ MORE HERE

This young boy was left barely living while under the inhumane roof of his adoptive parents. Weighing only 35 pounds at 8 years old, the child was checked into Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic Health System for vomiting blood by his adoptive mother Mona Hauer, who was later charged with 6 felonies after it was discovered she and her husband Russell had been starving and beating the boy to near death. READ MORE HERE