Lt. John Swaim, the commander of the Winterhaven office of the California Highway Patrol, has been formally charged with four felony counts of lewd and lascivious conduct with a child under the age of 14. Swaim, who has been placed on administrative leave, turned himself in to the Imperial County Jail on Thursday, where he was arraigned during a hearing held at the courtroom inside the jail building.

LOS ANGELES  — The Ventura County District Attorney’s office says 17-year-old Brandon McInerney has agreed to a plea deal in which the teenager will serve 21 years behind bars. McInerney, 17, pleaded guilty to second degree murder and voluntary manslaughter with use of weapon in the murder classmate, Larry King. Sentencing is set for Dec. 19.

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TRIPLE SEX ABUSE ALLEGATIONS ROCK THE NATION

As Syracuse University became the third U.S. college whose workers have faced high-profile allegations of child sex abuse this month, child welfare advocates say the accounts may be triggering a surge in reports of juvenile sex abuse. The Syracuse allegations are the latest of three child sex abuse cases at U.S. colleges that have gained national attention this month. Syracuse put longtime associate men’s basketball coach Bernie Fine on leave Thursday after two former ball boys, now in their 30s and 40s, told ESPN that Fine molested them years ago. Fine, who has not been charged, denies the allegations.

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Oregon—- A Salem man has been arrested after police allege he exposed himself to children in two separate drive-bys on November 4th and November 8th. Jeremiah Tyler Auvil, 19, is being charged with public indecency and “using a child in the display of sexually explicit conduct.”

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STOCKTON – A Lincoln Unified School District teacher has been placed on paid leave amid allegations she was operating pornographic websites on a school computer with a Stockton police officer as her partner. District officials confiscated the school-issued Apple laptop of Heidi Kaeslin, a special-education teacher at Lincoln High, about one month ago. Kaeslin, 35, has been replaced by a long-term substitute teacher.

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Teacher, Two Pastors, And Principal Arrested In Child Sex Assault Case

EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. — Four people have been arrested in connection to a child sex assault case.In December of 2010, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a possible sexual assault on a child involving a teacher at the Hilltop Baptist School. Investigation revealed a 15-year-old male victim was sexually assaulted multiple times by a teacher during 2007.

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Wentworth, NC– A convicted sex offender is going back to prison for using social media. In North Carolina registered sex offenders are not allow to use any form of social media. However, investigators said that didn’t stop a Rockingham County man. Victor Gaston, 36, of Reidsville, was charged last summer with violating the social media rules. Gaston, according to deputies, tried to “friend” his former victim on her facebook page.

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A convicted murderer who brutally stabbed a nine-year-old boy in a public restroom in 1998 has killed himself in his death row cell. Brandon Wilson, 33, a drifter from Wisconsin, Ohio, was found hanging inside in his cell in San Quentin State Prison, California on Thursday.
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DAYTON, Ohio — A 42-year old woman has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of her 14-year-old daughter, who weighed 28 pounds when she died. The county coroner ruled that Makayla Norman died of nutritional and medical neglect complicated by cerebral palsy. “She was the worst malnourished child this office has ever seen,” Ken Betz, director of the coroner’s office, said Thursday.

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A Lehigh Acres woman has been arrested for suspected child abuse after her three-month-old daughter was found with a broken arm. Leiliana Chang, 22, brought the infant to Health Park Hospital on Tuesday for treatment of the injury. An employee of the hospital notified the Child Abuse Hotline and the Lee County Sheriff’s Office that the parents of the victim were unable to explain the cause of the injury.

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http://www.nbc-2.com/story/16075556/2011/11/18/lehigh-mother-charged-with-child-abuse

A Hollywood casting agent who placed child actors in films like Cheaper by the Dozen 2 is a convicted sex offender who kidnapped and molested an eight-year-old boy, it has been revealed. Jason James Murphy worked his way up the Hollywood ladder as a casting agent on a string ofHollywood family films, including ‘Super 8? alongside director J.J. Abrams.

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http://wishididntknow.com/2011/11/18/hollywood-child-casting-agent-revealed-to-have-kidnapped-and-molested-eight-year-old-boy/