After weeks of torment, a Colorado third-grader finds himself chastised for taking a stand. Nathan Pemberton, 9, endured weeks of bullying before deciding to fight back Wednesday – an act that got the West Elementary School student suspended. Deborah Pemperton, Nathan’s mother, feels the suspension is a misdirected reprimand, arguing that her son had done nothing wrong. READ MORE HERE

A mother and her daughter were found dead after being brutally attacked. Ignacia Martinez, 38, and her daughter Karla Martinez, 10, were found dead after the mother’s 9-year-old son went to school and informed officials that they were dead at home. According to Fox 5 Vegas, Ignacia and Karla were both beaten and raped to death, Arturo Martinez, the husband and father, was also found in critical condition.  READ MORE HERE

Testimony reveals tumultuous life of Baby Gabriel’s parents

PHOENIX — The woman who wanted to adopt missing baby Gabriel Johnson in the weeks before his disappearance is on trial. Prosecutors say 40-year-old Tammi Smith of Phoenix forged adoption papers, and committed custodial interference in December of 2009. Gabriel Johnson was 9-months-old when his parents split.  Logan McQueary, Gabriel’s father, was the first witness called against Smith at trial.  READ MORE HERE

Online pedophiles are abandoning known grooming practices and striking up highly sexualised conversations with their prey within just two minutes. The internet has become so awash with potential victims that sexual predators are now making an immediate pass at children and simply moving on to the next one if unsuccessful. They are also branching out into gaming platforms, such as Xbox Live, to target youngsters, particularly boys.  READ MORE HERE

Jury hears how 18lb girl, 4, ‘was starved, beaten and drugged to death by her mother’

A four-year-old girl who weighed just 18lbs when authorities found her starved, beaten and drugged body tied to a bed was so emaciated that every rib was visible, a jury has heard. Marchella Brett Pierce was tied to her SpongeBob SquarePants bed with a skipping rope when she died in September 2010, prosecutors in the case against her mother and grandmother said.  READ MORE HERE

A woman remained in jail Wednesday after she said there were snakes and lizards on her 3-month-old baby and then stood on a sea wall holding the boy,  authorities said. On Tuesday, the manager of a Clearwater building called authorities after she found 39-year-old Lydia M. Chako in a flooded apartment. Chako was inside, throwing items around and saying she thought there were lizards and snakes on the baby, Clearwater authorities said.  READ MORE HERE

Tommy Braden’s Facebook Page

Creek County, OK – Tommy Braden, a 24-year-old Oklahoma man has been jailed after he allegedly raped his girlfriend’s 4-year-old daughter. According to the Creek County Sheriff’s Office, Braden called 911 Friday morning telling police that someone broke into his mobile home and raped his “little girl.” When deputies arrived on the scene, they found the girl covered in blood from the waist down. They also found the family dog dead of apparent stab wounds.  READ MORE HERE

Port Richey, FL – Chekayla Ariel Dampier, an 18-year-old Florida woman was arrested Tuesday after she allegedly scorched off her baby son’s nipple because he wouldn’t stop crying. According to the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office, Dampier became frustrated when her 7-week-old son wouldn’t stop crying. In retaliation, Dampier placed the infant into a wash tub and ran scorching hot water over his head and body for several minutes. Forensics experts estimated the water temperature to be approximately 142 degrees.  READ MORE HERE

A Canadian man has been arrested, accused of coercing a 12-year-old girl to perform sex acts online by pretending to be pop star Justin Bieber. Toronto resident Lee Moir, 34, was arrested after police posed as a young girl and arranged to meet him. The 12-year-old girl and her family live in New Jersey, where Essex County Assistant Prosecutor John Laurino said the girl believed Moir was Bieber and started a relationship with him, e-mailing back and forth. READ MORE HERE

Search Resumes For 1979 Missing Child Etan Patz In SoHo Basement

NEW YORK — It was one of biggest stories to ever captivate New York City and beyond, and on Thursday the NYPD and FBI resumed the search for Etan Patz, a 6-year-old child who went missing in 1979. Federal and local authorities were searching the basement of a building on Prince Street in SoHo, just feet from where Patz was last believed to have been seen.  READ MORE HERE

UNION TOWNSHIP, Ohio – A Union Township woman is facing several charges for allegedly raping a teenage boy at knife point.
Police said Jamie Nichole Phillips, 20, held a knife to the throat of the 14-year-old victim and brought him into her apartment where she forced him to perform sex acts. The crime allegedly happened in the evening of Saturday April 7 at an apartment located on Eastwood Drive.  READ MORE HERE

5-year-old girl living with the suspects showed the police where they could find the remains of the bodies.

SAO PAULO, Brazil — Police have arrested three people suspected of killing at least two women, eating parts of their bodies and using their remains to make stuffed meat pies sold in the northeastern town of Garanhuns. The three suspects — 51-year-old Jorge Beltrao Negroponte, his wife, Cristina da Silveira, and his mistress, Bruna da Silva– were arrested Wednesday and have confessed to the crimes, the police said on local television.  READ MORE HERE

ROCKFORD — A man who ironed a shirt while it was on the back of an 18-month-old girl pleaded guilty Wednesday to aggravated battery to a child and was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Elliott Moore, 43, of Rockford was sentenced by Judge Rosemary Collins, Winnebago County State’s Attorney Joe Bruscato announced today. On Feb. 5, 2010, Rockford police officers were sent to Rockford Memorial Hospital to take a report of aggravated battery to a child. Officers learned that the child had a large, open burn mark in the middle of the back.  READ MORE HERE

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A Colorado Springs father is thankful to have his son in his arms after his car was stolen with the toddler inside on Sunday. Police say at around 2 a.m. Anthony Pettiford stepped out of his running vehicle to greet some friends in the parking lot of the 7-Eleven on South Hancock Avenue.  READ MORE HERE