An 18-year-old youth has been sentenced to ten years in jail for raping a five-month-old girl with the court expressing anguish at the “ghastly and inhuman act” of the convict. Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Kamini Lau said the case “where the five-month-old girl was subjected to unwanted physical contact by a perverted male adult, was a glaring example of the growing menace of sexual abuse of young children.” The court sent north-west Delhi resident Sonu to jail for raping the infant, who was also his distant relative.  READ MORE HERE

TUSTIN, CA– Police arrested a 23-year-old Anaheim man with a juvenile history of sex offenses Friday afternoon after a 13-year-old boy reported being sodomized in the men’s room of the Orange County Public Library in Tustin. The boy fled the library to a police station across the street to report the alleged attack.  Police took the boy to a hospital for treatment and he was later released to his family. READ MORE HERE

SAN FRANCISCO —A former East Bay college professor was sentenced in federal court in San Francisco to 37 years and six months in prison for sexually abusing an infant in Missouri in 2009. Kenneth Kyle, 47, of San Francisco, was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White after he pleaded guilty to a charge of crossing state lines to engage in aggravated sexual abuse of a child. The victim, who lived with her mother near St. Louis, was 5-months-old when the abuse began in August 2009, according to court papers filed by prosecutors. U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag said Kyle admitted during the guilty plea that the sexual abuse lasted for several months. READ MORE HERE

MANDATED CHILD ABUSE REPORTERS LIST GROWS

Members of the clergy, school teachers and health professionals are among those already required by state law to report suspected child abuse or neglect.  But in light of the sexual abuse scandal at Penn State University, that list will grow. Under Senate Bill 161, camp counselors or employees, coaches or volunteers at entities that provide activities for youth or children and commercial film or photo processors who have “reasonable cause” to suspect child abuse are required to report their suspicions within 48 hours. Delegate Meshea Poore, D-Kanawha, said supervisors must be advised of any suspected abuse or neglect.  READ MORE HERE

Preliminary reports are that 37-year-old Guadalupe Gutierrez-Juarez is likely illegal, so my post will be much decried by people who will say I’m a racist and that it doesn’t matter where Gutierrez-Juarez was from in the first place. Aside from the fact that had our border been secure he’d never had access to the victim I would put forward that if a person comes from a country where children as young as twelve are allowed to “consent” to sex it is reasonable to expect that without pressure to assimilate that person may well begin violating children. READ MORE HERE

Efrain Bernal, of East Hemet, faces six felony charges of abusing girls under age 14 and under age 10. Prosecutors charged a Hemet man with six felonies after three young girls accused him of molesting them as part of a religious ceremony. Efrain Bernal, 41, pleaded not guilty to the charges Friday afternoon in a French Valley courtroom. He could face life in prison if convicted of molesting multiple victims.  READ MORE HERE

A trio of sick sex offenders who were jailed for their parts in an international pedophile ring today received huge increases in their sentences at the Court of Appeal. Senior judges led by Lady Justice Rafferty said the offenses were so outrageous that the sentences received by the two men and a woman were ‘unduly lenient’. Robert Hathaway, 37, originally got an open-ended public protection sentence with a minimum term of six years, but is now jailed for life, with a minimum of ten years. READ MORE HERE

OZONE PARK, QUEENS –Seven men and a woman kidnapped, drugged and raped a 15 year-old girl, then kept her as both a sex slave and a prostitute. That’s what prosecutors in Queens said Thursday, as a half-dozen members of a crime ring were arraigned before a judge, and as police remained on a manhunt for at least two other people in relation to the alleged crimes. READ MORE HERE

SHENZHEN, CHINA –A father, believed to be suffering from a mental disorder, attacked his 6-year-old son in public Wednesday and bit off the boy’s penis, the Shanghai Daily reported. According to witnesses, the 32-year-old father went for a walk in Shenzhen, in the Guangdong Province, with his son and 4-year-old daughter — all of them naked. The father reportedly asked the boy to bite his own penis, and, when his son refused, he turned on him, biting off his son’s penis. READ MORE HERE

A police officer has been suspended after the suspected murder weapon, a .22-caliber rifle, used in the killing of Monae Turnage was found in his car. Police investigators believe the off-duty Baltimore police officer, whose name was not released, was in a relationship with a relative of one of the juvenile suspects charged with involuntary manslaughter, sources said.  READ MORE HERE

Proposal would allow for appeals after five years

Hartford – Low-risk and rehabilitated suspects of child abuse and neglect might soon have the opportunity to have their names removed from the state’s database under legislation being considered by the General Assembly. The proposed bill would allow offenders on the state’s child abuse and neglect database to appeal their listing after five years if they aren’t involved in any new abuse reports or investigations.  READ MORE HERE