MONTICELLO, AR – Special Agents of the Arkansas State Police have arrested a Drew County couple accused of child abuse and the death of a two-year-old girl. Daniel Pedraza, 23, and Victoria Pedraza, 21, are charged with capital felony murder. The girl, Aubriana Coke, is the biological child of Victoria Pedraza. READ MORE HERE
According to Drew County Sheriff Mark Gober, Capital Murder and Permitting Abuse to a Minor charges were listed as the initial charges filed against the mother and step-father of a local 2 year old infant, who died Monday morning. Victoria Pedraza and Daniel Pedraza of Old HWY 13 were arrested at Stephenson-Dearman funeral home, after the family visitation, on felony arrest warrants last night, for the death of their child, Aubriana D. Coke. READ MORE HERE
A baby found dead in his crib at a suspected drug house may have been murdered, police say. 17-month-old Patrick Nicholas Lerch was unresponsive when police found his body on Sunday night at a two-story home in the 500 block of St. Leger Avenue in the Goodyear Heights neighborhood, Barberton. Patrick was taken to Akron Children’s Hospital where he was pronounced dead. A medical examiner’s investigator said there were signs of possible abuse, after finding ‘apparent bruising’ on his body. READ MORE HERE
A three-year-old boy almost died of starvation after being allegedly put in a freezing “punishment cell” at home where he was so hungry he ripped out his own hair and ate them, a UK court has heard. The Daily Mail reports that the parents of the child have been jailed for keeping him in a tiny room with no lights, heating or food. Mother Lisa Brooks, 25, and stepfather Tomas Lewis, 22 are alleged to have taken camera phone footage of the boy in the room. READ MORE HERE
A couple from Pennsylvania has been arrested for allegedly trapping their seven-year-old son in a coffin in the basement of their home “as a punishment”. According to news reports, neighbors called police after they heard the boy crying from inside the house in Scranton on September 26. Police found the boy sitting in a doorway of the basement, upset and wearing a diaper. The boy told police he was crying because he was hungry. READ MORE HERE
Jerry Sandusky molested young boys as young as 8-years-old according to court documents filed on Thursday in Center County Court. According to documents Sandusky molested at least 10 boys ranging in age from 8 to 17. Information about the boys were discovered in the “bill of particulars” which was released by the Attorney General’s Office. Prosecutors reveal in filing that five of the boys were sexually abused in the Lasch Building, the schools football headquarters. READ MORE HERE
School surveillance video on day of attack here
The parents of a toddler who died from malnutrition months after being released from foster care have been charged with her murder. Jennifer Dalhover, 36, and Joseph Sandoval, 21, from Los Angeles, appeared in court today and were held in lieu of $1-million bail. The parents did not enter pleas and are scheduled to return to court March 21. Vyctorya Sandoval died months after she was taken out of foster care and returned to her biological parents last April. When she died, bruises covered her body, a rib was fractured and blood tests suggested she died thirsty and hungry. READ MORE HERE
Legislature passes ‘Jerry Sandusky bill’ requiring college employees to report child abuse
Germany is rejecting demands from an EU body that it should stop surgically castrating sex criminals – a practice that dates back to the Nazis – because it is ‘degrading’. Defying Brussels, the German government said it intends to carry on with the practice citing low re-offending rates among sex criminals who had opted to have the procedure. It pointed out the results of a 1997 study that tracked the history of 104 sexual offenders ‘who subjected themselves to castration in the decade between 1970 and 1980. Their re-offending rate was three per cent,’ the German authorities explained, ‘as opposed to 46 per cent for a control group.’ READ MORE HERE
A teenage pedophile whose gang may have sexually abused more than 139 under-age girls has had his sentence reduced by three years. Jake Ormerod used social networking websites including Facebook to groom his victims before luring them back to his squalid home in Torquay, Devon. He has now had his jail term cut from 10 years to seven by judges at London’s Criminal Appeal Court. READ MORE HERE
More than 80 children have suffered appalling abuse after being branded as witches in a crime wave fueled by medieval beliefs imported from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. The scale of the problem – with many youngsters being beaten, starved and kept in cages – was revealed as a football coach was found guilty of torturing a boy to death. Eric Bikubi, 28, faces life in prison after murdering 15-year-old Kristy Bamu in a four-day orgy of almost unimaginable violence. READ MORE HERE
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