Cincinnati, OH – Alicia Gaston, a 20-year-old Ohio woman has been jailed after she allegedly raped her boyfriend’s 7-year-old son. According to police, Gaston was taken into custody after she confessed to having intercourse with her boyfriend’s minor son. The alleged sexual contact reportedly took place in April, 2011. READ MORE HERE

(CNN) — A Catholic priest, facing criminal charges and a lawsuit alleging that he sexually abused a teenage boy, is now charged with attempting to hire someone to kill the youth, authorities said Tuesday. The Rev. John M. Fiala was in the Dallas County, Texas, jail on Tuesday, charged with one count of criminal solicitation to commit capital murder, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety and the jail’s website. He also is charged with two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child. His bail totals $700,000. READ MORE HERE

Italian Dad Kills Kids Then Jumps To Death

A cash-strapped father threw his two young children to their deaths from a balcony before leaping off himself, Italian police have said. Marco Turrini, 41, had been unemployed for 18 months after the advertising firm where he worked was hit by the economic crisis and cut back his hours. Neighbors said he had grown increasingly depressed as he struggled to find a new job, and feared losing his wife and his home as the family’s situation worsened, according to police. READ MORE HERE

An Italian exorcist claims a radical theory on a 29-year-old mystery. The body of Emanuela Orlandi, a 15-year-old girl who went missing in Rome almost 29 years ago, may have been discovered in the tomb of murdered Italian mobster Enrico De Pedis. Furthermore, Father Gabriel Amorth,  the Catholic church’s leading exorcist who conducted 70,000 exorcisms,  believes the girl  was abducted and used for Vatican “sex parties”. READ MORE HERE

LOS ALAMOS, N.M.- The mother of an 11-week-old baby, who police say was beaten , is defending the baby’s father, even though police have charged him with child abuse.  The baby is still recovering in the hospital Los Alamos. Police say his 19-year-old father, Tyrell Abney, admitted he hit the child with an open hand after first claiming he had dropped the child.  The child’s mom called KRQE News 13 saying police got it all wrong.  READ MORE HERE

CANNES, France (Reuters) – Danish director Thomas Vinterberg burst on to the scene in Cannes in 1998 with the acclaimed “Festen”, and critics say he is close to his best again this year with “The Hunt”, a shocking take on child abuse and its impact on a small community. Unlike some movies on the same theme, The Hunt leaves no doubt as to the main character’s innocence. READ MORE HERE

Sexually Abused At Least 4 Young Girls He Met On Facebook

A ‘very dangerous and predatory’ teenager who sexually abused four girls he met on Facebook has been jailed for three years and nine months. Ryan Chambers amassed the names and phone numbers of more than 1,000 girls aged between 12 and 15 years by making flattering remarks about their profile pictures on the social networking site. READ MORE HERE

A mother pimped out her daughters to multiple men on multiple occasions was recently caught, along with a fourth man. 22-year-old Logan Roepke, of McCook, was just charged for having sex with a 14-year-old twice last year; but it turns out her mother had paid him and a few others to do it. READ MORE HERE

A Michigan boy died Friday after an argument with his grandmother. Jonathan Hoffman, 17, was shot to death by his 74 year old grandmother multiple times Friday night after an apparently heated argument that escalated to violence.  READ MORE HERE

A man and a woman have been charged with murder over the death of a newborn girl whose body was found in a washing machine on Australia Day. Detectives from the North Brisbane Child Protection and Investigation Unit charged the pair late last night. The man and woman, both aged 36, have been charged with murder and concealing the birth of a child in relation to the baby girl’s death at a Bald Hills home, in Brisbane’s north, on January 26. READ MORE HERE

Raleigh, N.C. — It’s not uncommon to see news reports about parents being charged with child abuse or neglect. In North Carolina alone, about 126,000 cases of child neglect or abuse are reported to departments of Social Services each year. Many experts believe that even more cases of abuse go unreported. READ MORE HERE

ALBUQUERQUE  – The Albuquerque man accused of throwing his 5-year-old stepson into a dresser and killing the boy because the child wet himself has officially been indicted for murder. And new details show the boy’s death may only be the end of a history of terrible abuse suffered at his the hands of hi stepdad, Richard Gutierrez. READ MORE HERE

STATE COLLEGE, PA —In the wake of the child sex abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky that rocked West-central Pennsylvania, 6News sat down with advocates and abuse survivors to take a closer look at the troubling trend in our region.  Cambria County native Matt Bodenschatz kept his abuse as a child secret, until the Sandusky scandal nudged him to open up through a public letter to the editor in the Centre Daily Times last November.  READ MORE HERE

GENESEE COUNTY, MI — The state House this week unanimously approved legislation that would strengthen penalties for convicted child abusers, and the measure will now go to the state Senate for its consideration. The bills are known as “Dominick’s Law,” named after 4-year-old Dominick Calhoun, who died after he was beaten in April 2010 in his Argentine Township home.  READ MORE HERE