WOODBURN, Ore. — A 46-year old priest is facing sexual abuse charges after being accused of fondling a 12-year-old boy during a sleepover. Police say the boy was invited to spend the night at the home of Father Angel Armando Perez. The boy told police Perez gave him a beer and they watched a movie.  READ MORE HERE

LANCASTER, CA — A longtime American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) coach is behind bars, accused of sexually abusing underage boys in the Antelope Valley. Renoir Valenti, 50, has worked as a volunteer coach and referee for boys between 9 and 14 years old for more than 16 years, according to authorities. Los Angeles County Sheriff?s investigators believe Valenti used his position as a soccer coach as a method to meet and befriend children.  READ MORE HERE

Bus Driver Stabbed Step-Daughter 40x’s With A Sword

43-year-old, David R. Hang, is on trial after viciously murdering his 12-year-old step-daughter, Belinda Nguyen, by stabbing her over forty times with a small sword. According to the Washington Post, the murder occurred after Hang and Belinda’s mother went through a difficult divorce.  READ MORE HERE

Joe Martinez, 19, is accused of stabbing his 17-year-old girlfriend’s father to death with a pocket knife after girlfriend told him her father was abusive. Martinez stabbed 45-year-old Jamie Meza Guzman 30 times while sleeping reports CBS as Guzman’s daughter did nothing to help. READ MORE HERE

High school teacher Brittni Colleps is accused of having affairs with five of her students. Colleps, a 27-year-old married mother of three, is accused of using text messages to pursue five 18-year-old students. There was a video shown in court that allegedly shows Colleps having group sex with four of the young men in her home.  READ MORE HERE

They appeared to be upright and decent members of our society. She dressed smartly, and had worked for Marks & Spencer. He drove a top-of-the-range Mercedes and spent his spare time coaching a local women’s football team. But unbeknown to their neighbours and friends, this couple living in their suburban London flat led a terrifying secret life. They practiced African black magic or voodoo, and on Christmas Day in 2010 they murdered a teenage boy in the belief he was a witch.  To rid the 15-year-old of his ‘demons’, the couple attacked him with knives, sticks, metal bars, a hammer, pliers and a chisel until he begged to die.  READ MORE HERE

First-degree murder and prior child abuse charges have been filed against a 22-year-old Reno man in connection to the death of his girlfriend’s baby.Donald Jackson was charged Wednesday morning in a criminal complaint with the Aug. 8 killing of Jayden Marion, who was the 1-year-old son of Jackson’s live-in girlfriend.  READ MORE HERE

DAVIE – A teacher at an alternative education school in Davie has been arrested and charged with two counts of child abuse. Davie police announced on Wednesday that they had charged 49-year old David Baier. Baier is an employee of the Alternative Education Foundation (AEF) school at 4650 SW 61st Avenue. READ MORE HERE

Penn State announced Wednesday that it will host a national child sex-abuse conference this fall, the latest in a series of initiatives designed to raise awareness of the issue and help the university recover from a devastating molestation scandal. The gathering scheduled for Oct. 29-30 in State College will feature academic and clinical experts on childhood molestation and trauma, as well as remarks by retired boxing champ Sugar Ray Leonard and former kidnapping victim Elizabeth Smart, both of whom suffered sexual abuse.  READ MORE HERE

RIO VISTA – A 49-year-old Rio Vista man is accused of sexually abusing two children at his wife’s “Lots of Tots” daycare business. Don Elliot, 49, was arrested Wednesday following a multi-agency investigation into the alleged abuse at the facility on the 200 block of Tahoe Drive. Elliot was booked on suspicion of lewd act upon a child, attempted lewd act upon a child and felony child abuse, according to the Solano County Sheriff’s Office. He was being held on $230,000 bail.  READ MORE HERE

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan — A Canadian youth pastor, who is HIV-positive, has been arrested for allegedly trying to lure a teenage boy online for sex. Kris Gowdy, a youth pastor in Southern Ontario, was arrested for allegedly arranging to meet a 15-year-old boy for sex.  READ MORE HERE

Florida woman Lawanda Lowery-Gale has been charged with eight counts of child neglect after receiving a DUI on her way to a nightclub with eight children in the car. As reported by The Gainsville Sun, Gale was found slurring her speech with bloodshot eyes after sideswiping another vehicle on the road.  READ MORE HERE

BLANCHESTER, Ohio – A Blanchester man was arrested over the weekend after investigators said he raped a girl. John Beltzhoover was charged Saturday with one count of rape and taken to the Clinton County Jail, where deputies said he told them he worked as a maintenance man for Fleishman Property Management. Police also arrested 28-year-old Sheena Halm, who officers said knew about the sexual assault and failed to report it. READ MORE HERE

A father was driven to suicide by rumours he was one of James Bulger’s killers, his distraught mother has claimed. Scott Bradley, 36, was accused of being child murderer Robert Thompson, whose real identity is protected, and suffered months of malicious abuse and torment from a hate mob in the village of Garlieston, Wigtownshire, in Scotland. Mr Bradley, who moved to Scotland seven years ago, left a heartbreaking suicide note which read: ‘They called me all sorts – a paedophile, a follower of young girls, walking around bullying old people. ‘The list is endless. And I’m supposed to be a child killer.’  READ MORE HERE