A Doraville child photographer was arrested after police allegedly discovered  extensive videos and photos of children being sexually abused on his computer. Still, DeKalb County police aren’t sure if the 37-year-old man is responsible for producing any of the images. Mr. Benjamin Miller, who was in jail on $50,000 bond, had his first court appearance on Friday for sexual exploitation of children, the police spokeswoman Ms. Mekka Parish said.  READ MORE HERE

SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Court of Appeals has refused to dismiss charges against a couple accused of killing their baby in 2006 by sleeping with him – their second child to die in bed with them. The Salt Lake Tribune reports the judges sided with a lower court in a pair of opinions released Friday concerning the death of 3-month-old Kayson Merrill. The infant died while in bed between his father, Trevor Merrill, and mother, Echo Nielsen, of South Jordan.  READ MORE HERE

SAN BERNARDINO, CA — Prosecutors have filed charges against a Colton Unified School District custodian accused of sending a link to a pornographic website to a student using a social networking site.  Steven Llamas, 30, of Loma Linda, is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in San Bernardino Superior Court on charges of distributing pornographic material to a minor. He is in custody at West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga. His bail is set at $25,000.  READ MORE HERE

An Alabama schoolteacher who was jailed on charges of sexually abusing a fourth-grade female student, revealed to police that had molested more than 20 other girls over his 25-year career. Alabaster police said Daniel Montague Acker Jr., 49, was charged with three counts of sexual abuse, and additional charges were possible.  READ MORE HERE

SANTA MONICA, CA — Police say they’ve arrested a man suspected of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl he met on a mobile chat application. Santa Monica Police say Brian Anthony Marks, 31, met the victim in September of 2011 on a mobile texting application, similar to a chat room. They say that Marks “developed an ongoing sexual relationship with the victim.”  READ MORE HERE

LA PUENTE, Calif. — A former high school teacher?s aide has been sentenced to 18-years in prison for sexually abusing two special education students. 45-year-old Oscar Enrique Santos of La Puente was convicted in November of 21 felony counts including oral copulation of an incompetent person, oral copulation of a person under 18 and sexual battery by restraint.  READ MORE HERE

COLUMBIANA, Ala. –Daniel Montague Acker, Jr, is in the Shelby County jail charged with three counts of sexual abuse. He is the son of Shelby County Commissioner Daniel Acker, Sr. Acker, Jr, was a fourth grade teacher for 25 years, he drove a school bus for 15 years and had been a substitute bus driver since he retired in 2009. Alabaster police say a former student, who is now roughly around the age of 13, filed a complaint against Acker, Jr. In that complaint she claims Acker, Jr. molested her. READ MORE HERE

 

TRENTON (NEW JERSEY) — An Assembly panel has approved a bill to remove the state’s two-year statute of limitations on lawsuits for child sexual abuse. Under current law, adult victims of childhood abuse have two years to bring suit against individuals or institutions from the point when they realize it damaged them. The measure (S2405) would allow them to file suit no matter how much time has passed, against individuals and institutions – public, private, for-profit and non-profit. READ MORE HERE

A paedophile monk who forced a schoolboy to take part in sex acts and paid him 50p each time has been jailed for five years. Richard White, 66, was finally jailed yesterday after evading justice for more than two decades – because monastic authorities and the parents of one of his two victims hushed the matter up. White, a Benedictine monk, abused pupils while a geography teacher at Downside, one of England’s leading Roman Catholic schools. READ MORE HERE

A mother who was being attacked by her boyfriend with a knife held up their one-year-old son to act as a human shield, police say. Devin Juan Wilkes, 24, from Jacksonville, Florida, was beating his 22-year-old girlfriend with his fists before picking up a knife.  When Sheena Hunter grabbed their son in the hope he wouldn’t attack his own child, Wilkes allegedly threw the baby face first on to the floor and continued to attack the victim.  READ MORE HERE

A Filipino teen has become the victim of a horrifying, allegedly homophobia-fueled attack by his own father. The Philippine LGBT Hate Crime Watch (PLHCW) is now demanding justice for 19-year-old Edmund Padilla, who allegedly suffered severe burns after his father Erano scalded him with boiling water. Erano, who has since been detained and was reportedly drunk at the time of the attack, told authorities he committed the crime after Edmund turned out to be the third of his children who identified as gay.  READ MORE HERE