In a landmark ruling, a California jury has awarded record $28million in damages to a woman who had accused the Jehovah’s Witnesses of allowing one of its adult members to molest her as a child.  Alameda County jurors awarded $7million in compensatory damages last Wednesday and another $21million in punitive damages the following day to 26-year-old Candace Conti, her attorney, Rick Simons, said.  READ MORE HERE

PULASKI, TN — An 80-year old man was indicted Wednesday on 13 counts stemming from the sexual abuse of 5 members of the Giles County Amish community. Maurice Dale “Jimmy” McAllister, who is not Amish, was arrested on May 1 on three initial charges of aggravated rape, sexual battery and aggravated burglary.  READ MORE  HERE

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — A San Francisco couple is accused of allegedly tracking an alleged pimp across California before finally hunting him down and killing him. Police say the couple, whose teenage daughter was allegedly being pimped by a 22-year old Compton man, shot him to death near Candlestick Park.  READ MORE HERE

SAN ANTONIO — A Texas teacher will lose her job after ordering more than 20 kindergartners to line up and hit a classmate accused of being a bully, a district spokesman said Friday. The teacher at a suburban San Antonio school is accused of orchestrating the slugfest after a younger teaching colleague went to her last month seeking suggestions on how to discipline the 6-year-old, according to a police report from the Judson Independent School District.  READ MORE HERE

ATLANTA –  A grand jury indicted an Atlanta father Thursday over the death of his four-month-old daughter, who died after allegedly being fed vodka mixed with baby formula. Keith Furlow, 30, was indicted on  charges of felony murder and cruelty to children in the second degree, related to his baby’s June 2011 death, myFOXatlanta.com reported.  READ MORE HERE

Asia Parveen, 31, was put in jail Friday for repeatedly beating a ten-year-old girl with a steel ladle for not reading enough verses of the Koran.  READ MORE HERE

Pamela McCarthy, 35, was allegedly beating her son when police arrived

LAWRENCE, Kansas – Police say two children from suburban Chicago who were found bound and blindfolded outside a Kansas Walmart are in temporary protective custody. Lawrence police spokesman Trent McKinley says the presumed parents of the children have been arrested on suspicion of child abuse and endangerment and will appear in court Thursday.  READ MORE HERE

911 Recording: Dad Killed Mom, Told Me to Call You

Barely holding back his sobs, a 13-year-old boy makes a heart-rending 911 call to the Grove City Police Department in Ohio. “My dad just killed my mom. He just told me to call you guys,” the boy is heard telling a 911 dispatcher. “He just ran outside and killed my mom. And she’s laying in the grass in front of the apartment.” The boy’s father, Jeremy Roberts, had the boy make the call, police said, after allegedly stabbing his ex-wife to death outside his apartment.  READ MORE HERE

LUBBOCK, Texas — Dashcam video shows a toddler being thrown from an SUV and walking away with minor injuries. Police were in pursuit of robbery suspects when the driver of the SUV lost control and flipped the vehicle.  READ MORE HERE

A teenage father has been charged with child abuse after his seven-week-old daughter was treated in hospital for a fractured skull and broken ribs. Jordan Alan Minteer, 19, of Lincolnton, North Carolina, was arrested on Sunday after his daughter Emma Grace was admitted to intensive care. It is not sure if she will survive. It is still unknown what caused the child’s injuries or why they were inflicted on her.  READ MORE HERE

BELLEFONTE, Penn. — The prosecution in a child rape proceeding against former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky could finish by Friday, the judge said Wednesday. “Things are moving along quicker than anticipated,” Pennsylvania judge John Cleland said before ending the day’s proceedings.  READ MORE HERE

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‘He insisted on washing my hair and drying me off’: Latest accuser testifies about Sandusky touching him in shower after ‘Victim 10’ describes forced oral sex in ex-Penn State coach’s basement

Swimming pool lifeguard ‘molested teenage boy 30 years after abusing his father in showers’

Online child abuse images are becoming “more extreme, sadistic and violent”, with the vast number of images and pressure on resources making identifying new victims increasingly difficult, according to a study from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP). “The children in these images are getting younger and the offenses committed against them are getting more serious and extreme,” said Andy Baker, deputy chief executive of the CEOP Centre. “Not only has a child been abused when these images were taken but they are being abused again each time that image is viewed.”  READ MORE HERE