Former police officer faces child abuse charges

Bullitt County authorities investigate boy, 2, with fractured skull

SHEPHERDSVILLE, Ky. – A former police officer found himself facing charges after police in Bullitt County said he severely beat his girlfriend’s young son. Authorities in Bullitt County have been investigating the case for weeks. They said the 2-year-old boy was beaten so badly that his skull was fractured. “We mostly look for the outward signs, which are the bruising, any marks that shouldn’t appear on the child,” said Lettisha Coleman, of Today’s Kids Daycare. For the staff at Today’s Kids Daycare, keeping a close eye on the children parents ask them to watch means noticing what others could overlook. But they said the things they saw on a 2-year-old boy were very hard to miss.  READ MORE HERE

This video shows the shocking torment suffered by a 10-year-old boy on his way to school. For 40 minutes Cequan Haskins was abused by a pair of 15-year-old bullies in May 2011. They called him names, made sexual and racial slurs and held a scorching cigarette lighter to his skin.  READ MORE HERE

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A housemaster at one of Britain’s most prestigious public schools was jailed for 11 years today after being found guilty of sexually assaulting five young boys during a ‘20-year campaign of abuse’. Predatory pedophile Bruce Roth, 46, would sneak into the dormitory of £30,000-a-year Wellington College to molest his victims as they slept. He was also convicted of assaulting two eight-year-old boys at £26,000-a-year King’s School, in Kent, where he worked before his recent post at the Berkshire boarding school.  READ MORE HERE

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Puppeteer was listed in the Pinellas County schools speakers’ directory as for grades K-8.

FANTASIZED ABOUT “EATING CHILDREN”

TAMPA –A puppeteer who has entertained children for years around the Tampa area had a sickening secret, according to a federal complaint.  Ron Brown collected pornographic images of children and fantasized about strangling, dismembering and cannibalizing children, court documents state. The 57-year-old Largo man is under arrest in the Pinellas County Jail, facing federal charges of conspiring to kidnap a child and possession of child pornography.  READ MORE HERE

In 1977, Portland police questioned Jeffrey P. Cutlip in the death of a 15-year-old Milwaukie girl found dead in Johnson Creek after a trip to a local store.  Cutlip, then 27, said he had walked the girl, Julie Marie Bennett, back to Johnson Creek Park, after buying beer and cigarettes at the market. He then headed home, he told police.  Thirty-five years later, Cutlip, 63, suddenly confessed to Bennett’s killing, as well as the strangulation death two years earlier of a 44-year-old Portland woman, police said. READ MORE HERE

Mandatory polygraph testing for sex offenders is set to be rolled out across England and Wales following a successful pilot scheme, ministers say. It found offenders who were tested were more honest and gave better information, which meant they were managed more effectively. The pilot took place in the East and West Midlands probation areas from April 2009 to October 2011.  READ MORE HERE

CHESTERVILLE, SOUTH AFRICA  — A 15-year-old South African girl who was kidnapped and then repeatedly raped during a three-and-a-half month ordeal managed to escape on Monday, local police said. A suspect has been taken into custody and is facing charges. The teenager, who is from the town of Madadeni in KwaZulu-Natal province, went missing at about 8 p.m. local time on March 29 after she was threatened with a knife and a firearm. She was taken to the town of Chesterville, nearly 250 kilometers (155 miles) southeast of Madadeni, where she was repeatedly drugged and raped for months. READ MORE HERE

A Broward County man who filmed himself performing sex acts on two children he was helping care for described that time in his life as “a period of madness.” But the judge, the federal prosecutor and Randy Jerome Pozdol’s own defense attorney all agreed on one blunt word to describe the crimes: “Reprehensible.”  Pozdol, 68, was sentenced Monday in Miami federal court to the maximum term of 30 years — akin to a life sentence — on his conviction for one count of producing child pornography. U.S. District Judge Joan Lenard rejected the defense argument for a lighter sentence based on Pozdol not having a prior record, saying, “There aren’t many offenses in the U.S. code more heinous than this.”  READ MORE HERE

Mom ordered to stand trial in toddler’s death

Although no evidence was presented that Brittney N. Betzold personally caused any of the bruises that covered her 14-month-old son’s body, the Salina woman was bound over for trial Monday on charges of first-degree murder, aggravated endangerment of a child and child abuse because she allegedly did not act to protect him. READ MORE HERE

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. This story contains graphic details of sexual violence against children and may not be suitable for young readers. PROVO — Even with an extra cushion on her seat, the little girl could barely see out of the witness stand Monday morning as she clutched her favorite blanket and told the court she had been molested. “He touched me on,” the girl said, pausing to look around the courtroom, her pigtails swinging, “right under my leg.”  READ MORE HERE

A 41-year-old convicted sex offender — who resigned nine years ago as principal of Sherwood High School — is facing new charges of molesting a 12-year-old boy and possessing child pornography.  A judge in Multnomah County Circuit Court Monday raised Robert Paul Patton’s bail by $250,000 — to a total of $700,000. Judge Eric Bergstrom said he was raising Patton’s bail because it is “paramount” to protect the community. Bergstrom said he took into account the nature of the pending charges and Patton’s 2003 sexual-abuse convictions for taking a 16-year-old boy he’d met online to motels in Tigard and Tualatin for sex.  READ MORE HERE

Father James Brennan will be retried in the landmark priest child sex abuse case. He’s accused of sexually abusing a 14-year-old boy in 1996. Jurors could not agree on a verdict in his first trial. On Monday morning, Philadelphia prosecutors announced they’ll put Brennan on trial again. READ MORE HERE

It’s hard to pin down the numbers. The American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry says child sex abuse is reported 80,000 timesa year. But experts acknowledge those numbers are just a drop in the bucket. Many more child sex abuse cases never go reported. “Most of the kids don’t report that someone did something to them; there’s the whole shame factor,” said Steven Lancaster, executive director of the nonprofit Childhelp Alice C. Tyler Village, a residential treatment center for abused children in Lignum, Virginia.  READ MORE HERE