A 38-year-old woman has admitted she raped a teenager while she was employed as a food services worker at a Weymouth middle school, according to prosecutors. Janelle Foley pleaded guilty to four counts of rape of a child on Wednesday, according to the Norfolk County District Attorney’s office. A trial was set to begin this week. Foley was indicted in March 2014 and charged with raping a 15-year-old boy, who authorities said was not a student at Chapman Middle School where Foley worked at the time the crimes occurred. The mother of four was accused of sexually assaulting the victim during parties at his family’s home. READ MORE HERE

ELKTON — Detectives arrested a woman, her husband and her ex-husband on Friday after an investigation revealed they beat their children inside their Elkton residence with their fists, shoes, ladles and other objects, or played supporting roles in those attacks, police reported. Officer Sean Murphy of the Elkton Police Department started his investigation on Monday. Agents from Child Protective Services had contacted his agency and alleged that physical child abuse had been occurring inside a residence in the 100 block of Huntsman Drive, according to police. READ MORE HERE

SWEDEN – Eight teenage boys have been arrested in connection with an alleged gang rape of a child in Gothenburg in western Sweden. Five of the boys are suspected of aggravated rape of a child aged 15 or younger and the other three are accused of participating in other activities linked to the incident last summer, reported the Aftonbladet daily on Wednesday. READ MORE HERE

Judge ruled Thursday that Nehemiah Griego, now 18, can be sentenced as a juvenile and released from state custody when he’s 21 

A judge has cleared the way for a New Mexico teenager who shot and killed his parents and three younger siblings to be sentenced as a juvenile and released from state custody by the time he turns 21 after the teen’s attorneys argued he could be psychologically rehabilitated. Nehemiah Griego was 15 when he opened fire in his family’s home south of Albuquerque, killing his mother as she slept and then his nine-year-old brother and two sisters, ages five and two, authorities said. Griego’s father was the last to die in the family. The teen waited in a bathroom and ambushed the gang member turned pastor after he returned home, sheriff’s officials said. READ MORE HERE

OKLAHOMA – A man and woman arrested, each accused of more than 100 counts of sexual child abuse. Jamala Monroe, 28, and Zicole Monroe, 22, were each arrested last week, accused of abusing a 14-year-old girl. The alleged acts, taking place in an apartment off of N. Macarthur. With more complaints brought forward on Thursday, their jail registry now reads like a horror story. The alleged pattern of assault seems to have spanned months. “A total of 137 counts of sexual abuse of a child were added to both people,” said MSgt. Gary Knight with Oklahoma City Police. READ MORE HERE

IOWA – A boarding school for troubled teenagers in Iowa that is being investigated by the FBI routinely kept pupils in small concrete ‘isolation boxes’ for days or weeks and wouldn’t let them out unless they sat in a specific posture for 24 hours, according to several former students. Six former students recently described the abuse they say they suffered while attending Midwest Academy in Keokuk, a city along the Mississippi River where Iowa borders Illinois and Missouri. They said the dark, cell-like punishment rooms were often filled with the sounds of students’ screams and motivational recordings piped in through speakers. Surveillance cameras and staff members kept watch. READ MORE HERE

GLENARDEN, Maryland — Deonte Carraway, 22, was a volunteer at Judge Sylvian Woods Elementary school in Glenarden, where police said he admitted to making child pornography with 10 students during the school day. “Man…What a scumbag!” said one father who declined to be identified. The man said he had been up since 3 a.m. – sleepless and sickened by the allegations against the volunteer he said he never trusted. READ MORE HERE

School volunteer admits to producing child porn, police say

The Catholic church has issued a new directive instructing bishops to deal with accusations of clerical child abuse internally and “not necessarily” report it to the police. According to The Guardian, the training document that was recently released by the Vatican says that only victims or their families should make the decision to report abuse to police. “According to the state of civil laws of each country where reporting is obligatory, it is not necessarily the duty of the bishop to report suspects to authorities, the police or state prosecutors in the moment when they are made aware of crimes or sinful deeds,” the training document states. READ MORE HERE

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Madison County authorities said Friday an Internet child pornography investigation turned into a child sex abuse case that landed a Decatur man behind bars. David Lamar Camp, 64, was booked into the Madison County Jail Thursday afternoon. He is charged with two counts of sexually abusing a child under 12, two counts of first-degree rape and one count of first-degree sodomy. READ MORE HERE

Tennessee – Less than a day after the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation added suspected child molester John Lamb III to its Most Wanted list, Lamb was in custody at the Rutherford County Adult Detention Center Thursday. At 1:13 p.m., the TBI tweeted: “Just getting word the newest entry on our Top 10 Most Wanted, John Lamb, is in custody in Rutherford County.” Lamb, from Kentucky, was wanted by the La Vergne Police Department and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation for aggravated rape and incest, after a relative reportedly witnessed Lamb sexually assaulting a minor family member, according to the TBI. Officials said Lamb fled on foot. READ MORE HERE

ECTOR COUNTY, TX – An Odessa mother will be spending the next 50 years behind bars. That’s after Tonya Carroll pled guilty on Monday to three counts of injury to a child. Back in Dec. 2013, a local store clerk saw a woman making verbal threats to her child. READ MORE HERE

BURKE COUNTY, NC – A mother and father have been charged in the abuse of twin three-month-old boys in Burke County, deputies said Monday. Nicholas Brandon Clark, 20, and Brittany Nichole Hefner, 24, are both charged with felony child abuse. Officers responded to a report of an infant who wasn’t breathing at a home on Sunset Grill Street in Connelly Springs Sunday. First responders at the scene told police they performed CPR on a three-month-old boy before he was taken to Frye Regional Medical Center in Hickory. READ MORE HERE

A couple have been jailed after their eight-month-old daughter was found with broken bones and covered in bruises. Parents Wayne and Abbie Jones inflicted the injuries on the infant during at least two incidents, leaving her with seven fractured ribs, two fractured arms and a fractured shoulder blade. The abuse was uncovered when police were called to the family home in Halesowen, West Midlands, in the early hours of February 12, 2014. READ MORE HERE

Lee County couple planned failed murder-suicide

FORT MYERS, Florida– After watching Tammy Modlin stab the family dog to death, then doing the same to her three-year-old daughter, and then shooting her 16-year-old daughter to death, Patrick Sean Carlopoli then shot his girlfriend to death, according to an unredacted arrest report released Tuesday. Carlopoli was supposed to then turn the gun on himself, the report said. “At that point, Patrick said he shot his girlfriend, however, he could not go through with killing himself,” the report said. “Patrick then went outside and called 911 after dropping the firearm on the bed.” Carlopoli, 27, was arrested Sunday after contacting emergency dispatchers. He is charged with second-degree murder, two counts of conspiracy to commit second-degree murder, two counts of aggravated child abuse and one count of felony animal cruelty. READ MORE HERE

Girlfriend, 16-yo and 3-yo Child, Family Dog Killed

FORT MYERS, Florida – In what Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott described as a “gruesome” crime scene, a woman, her two daughters and a family pet were found dead inside an apartment early Sunday morning. Patrick Sean Carlopoli, 27, of 15224 Iona Lakes Drive, is charged with second-degree murder, two counts of conspiracy to commit second-degree murder, two counts of aggravated child abuse and one count of felony animal cruelty. Carlopoli remained in the Lee County jail Monday under no bond. Carlopoli has not been charged with killing the two children, said Scott, who did not release a motive in the killings. READ MORE HERE

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