Two brothers had their childhood ‘stolen’ by their mother and stepfather who kept them locked in a bedroom for up to 23 hours a day, a court was told. The boys were shut away for weeks on end, given little food and forced to take cold showers in the garden with a hosepipe. They endured the ‘oppressive regime’ for seven years and when they were eventually rescued as teenagers, they were so malnourished that neither had gone through the normal physical changes of puberty.  READ MORE HERE

A tragic woman killed herself after breaking her silence about the rapes she suffered as a child at the hands of her father. Newcastle Crown Court heard it wasn’t until 2010, that Claire Warrener felt able to report the sexual abuse. She went to the police six years after the attacks committed by her father Michael Warrener had ended. She then took her own life when she was barely into her 20s, just  months after going to the authorities. READ MORE HERE

LOS ANGELES — Authorities arrested a part-time Los Angeles Unified School District teacher’s aide on suspicion of lewd acts with a child after a video of the alleged lewd acts was sent to police. Jorge Dominguez, 25, was arrested at his home on Thursday by detectives from the LAPD‘s juvenile division and sexually-exploited child unit.  READ MORE HERE

A Chicago man used drugs as a way to control his victims. DeJuan Brown of Cook County, Chicago pimped 12 young women over a span of 5 years, getting them addicted to heroin, and punishing them by withholding the drug, forcing them to go through vicious withdrawal symptoms. According to Daily Mail, the young women solicited through the internet and were each given pre-payed cricket phones, which Brown collected on their return.  READ MORE HERE

A head blow to an 8-month-old child delivered by his mother was so severe the back of his head was “concave,” an assistant Macomb prosecutor said Wednesday in court.  “The most significant (injury) was how the skull was crushed in the back of his head,” assistant prosecutor William Cataldo said. “It was so significant, it shattered the bone. It created a bleeding and swelling in his brain that caused him to die.”  READ MORE HERE

Gen. Bosco Ntaganda, who mutiniedagainst the Democratic Republic of Congo in early April 2012, has forciblyrecruited at least 149 boys and young men into his forces since April 19, HumanRights Watch said today. Ntaganda, a former rebel leader turned army general,is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of war crimesfor previous recruitment and use of child soldiers. “Bosco Ntaganda is once againcommitting the very crimes against children for which the InternationalCriminal Court has been demanding his arrest,” said Anneke Van Woudenberg,senior Africa researcher at Human RightsWatch. “Children and civilians in eastern Congo will remain at grave risk solong as Ntaganda is at large.” READ MORE HERE

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A boy taken to a men’s group home for discipline was instead tortured and abused, according to court documents released Wednesday. Lonnie Remmers, 54, of Corona, is the pastor of the Heart of Worship Community Church, which operates the men’s group home. Remmers, along with Nicholas Craig, 22, and Darryll Jeter, 28, were arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, torture, and child abuse, Corona police said.  READ MORE HERE

The 14-year-old, who like his victim cannot be identified, was unanimously convicted of raping the child by the Belfast Crown Court jury on Tuesday. They also convicted him, by a majority verdict, of one count of sexually assaulting the boy. After more than two hours of deliberations, the jury of eight men and four women also acquitted by majority verdicts the teenager of three further charges of rape and three of sexual assault.  READ MORE HERE

Catholic Church challenges priest child rape liability ruling

The Diocese of Portsmouth is challenging a High Court ruling that the Roman Catholic Church can be held liable for the sex crimes of priests. Last year Mr Justice MacDuff gave a decision in favour of a woman, who claims she was raped and assaulted as a child by a priest of the diocese.  READ MORE HERE

MARTINEZ, CA — Six sisters who for years were sexually abused by their father with their mother’s help have sued government entities and officials, claiming they failed to properly investigate their ordeal. At the time, police in the family’s hometown of Antioch were investigating rape allegations one of the girls had made against her father, Bruce “Zion” Dutro. He later pleaded guilty to one count of molestation and was sentenced to three years’ probation.  READ MORE HERE

A Juvenile Justice Board here sentenced a 10-year-old boy for sexually abusing a four-year-old girl last year, a lawyer said on Wednesday. Principal Magistrate Ashu Kumar Jain Monday sent the boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, to three years in a special home.  READ MORE HERE

EVIDENCE in a groundbreaking priest-abuse trial shows the men running the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia used elaborate methods to keep sex-abuse complaints from prying eyes. Memos unearthed from long-secret archives show the complaints were not just under lock and key – but guarded by locks, keys, alarms, safes and computer security programs. READ MORE HERE

WAUPUN — It’s a room built for solitary confinement, but it’s not a cell at Waupun State Prison. It’s a ‘time out’ area at Rock River School, just a few blocks away. “It`s a very common thing to have in public schools,” Donald Childs, Superintendent of the Waupun Area School District said. Teachers call it the ‘Quiet Room.’ The mother of an autistic child calls it ‘the box.’ “It’s a boxed roof. It’s an enclosed box,” Mandy Rennhack said. “It’s not a box. It is a room,” Childs counters.  READ MORE HERE