RICHLAND — The Richland Police Department is investigating a child abuse incident that occurred at Kid’s World Daycare, in Richland. A child who attends the daycare disclosed to their parents that inappropriate physical contact by staff member Lucas Miller had occurred at the daycare. The parents notified Kid’s World on August 31, 2011. Mr. Miller was no longer employed with Kid’s World as of September 1, 2011. Kid’s World staff notified Child Protective Services, who then notified the Richland Police Department.

Sex abuse allegations at Richland daycare

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A 35-year-old is accused of burning her stepdaughter with an iron and using a stapler on her ear, according to a spokesman for the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department, who said deputies were informed of the alleged abuse when the 12-year-old victim told a stranger at a DMV office.

HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA — An Orange County pastor is facing sex charges after allegedly molesting an 8-year-old girl. Christopher Raymond Olague, 39, is accused of picking up the girl for a play date with one of his children. But instead, Olague allegedly took the girl to a park in Huntington Beach where he molested her in his car.

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Father charged with attempted murder of daughter, 2

LAWRENCE, N.Y. — Khemchan Sulaiman, 45, of Jamaica, New York, has been charged with attempted murder in the poisoning of his little girl. They were both found unconscious in a car on Long Island on Tuesday. Police say the toddler’s bottle contained ammonium chloride, and a pesticide was found in the toddler’s car seat. Both the father and daughter are in critical condition.

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LOS ANGELES– A 19-year-old Oxnard girl has been reunited with her family 4 years after she was allegedly kidnapped and taken to Mexico by a convicted rapist. Chioma Gray arrived in Los Angeles Wednesday night from Mexico City and was greeted by emotional family members.

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OCOEE, Florida — The estranged daughter of Oscar-winning actor Billy Bob Thornton was sentenced in Florida on Thursday to 20 years in prison for killing a child in her care. Amanda Brumfield, 32, was convicted in Orlando in May of aggravated manslaughter of a child in the death of Olivia Madison Garcia, the 1-year-old daughter of one of Brumfield’s close friends.

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The Cinderella effect is a term used by psychologists to describe the high incidence of stepchildren being physically abused, emotionally abused, sexually abused, neglected, murdered, or otherwise mistreated at the hands of their stepparents at significantly higher rates than at the hands of their genetic parents. It takes its name from the fairy tale character Cinderella, who in the story was cruelly mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters.

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http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/buller/cinderella%20effect%20facts.pdf

Over the last few weeks, grand juries in Clay and Jackson counties in Missouri have convened to investigate how the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph has dealt with the problem of priests who sexually abuse minor parishioners. The investigations center on the arrest of Reverend Shawn Ratigan, who was arrested on federal child pornography charges earlier this year. The grand jury is marching right up the diocese hierarchy, even taking testimony from Bishop Robert Finn. The Missouri investigation comes on the heels of the Philadelphia grand jury, which issued its report earlier this year, the effects of which are still reverberating through the City of Brotherly Love.  As a clergy abuse lawyer, I am encouraged  by these developments.

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http://www.paulmones.com/2011/10/04/clergy-abuse-lawyer-grand-jury-investigations-effective-justice-for-victims/

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The teenager who was the last person with a baby before her death has had his charges upgraded from aggravated child abuse to murder. Javarris Jawon Lane, 16, was arrested following the Sept. 25 incident at a home on West First Street.

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http://downtownjax.firstcoastnews.com/news/crime/61864-teen-child-abuse-suspect-now-charged-murder

The father of an infant who died under what police called suspicious circumstances last week has been charged with capital murder and felony child abuse, Covington police said today. Jared Meadows, 25, was arrested Tuesday evening and is being held without bond at the Alleghany Regional Jail.

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http://www.roanoke.com/news/breaking/wb/299281