ROSEVILLE, MI–An eye doctor is facing several charges after he was accused of sexually assaulted a 16-year-old patient during an exam. Police say Danny Basim Brikho, D.O., is a staff optometrist at the LensCrafters on Gratiot in Roseville.
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LOUDON — Charged with molesting his 2-year-old son and recording the rape, Edward William Crandall took the witness stand Tuesday and denied the allegations. But Loudon County jurors didn’t buy it. It took the five-man, seven-woman jury less than 50 minutes to convict the 24-year-old father of felony sex-related charges during his one-day trial. Jurors found Crandall guilty of aggravated child rape, sexual exploitation and aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor.
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http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2011/sep/20/loudon-jury-seated-in-child-rape-trial-of-edward/
DENVER – Police say a mother is being investigated for child abuse after a 9-month-old baby was found not breathing in a bathtub and later died. Denver Police says officers responded to the 2700 block of East 33rd Avenue on Tuesday around 10:30 p.m. and found the child not breathing.
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ST. LOUIS – A kindergartener in rural Sweet Springs, Missouri, brought a bag of crystal meth and a crack pipe to school for show-and-tell, but an alert teacher kept the boy from sharing his treasure with others at the school, an official said on Tuesday. “He was very excited when he got to school,” Superintendent Donna Wright said of the September 6 incident. “But I don’t think he knew what he had.”
Mom, daughter may be among 10 bodies found near New York beach
YAPHANK, NY – Police investigating 10 bodies dumped by a possible serial killer near a Long Island beach said on Tuesday two of the victims may be a mother and her toddler daughter. Police suspect some of the remains, found near New York’s Gilgo beach since December, belong to victims of at least one serial killer preying on prostitutes who sought clients on the Internet, including on Craigslist.
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http://news.yahoo.com/mom-daughter-may-among-10-bodies-found-near-203935467.html
Three months after she was put in jail and charged with murdering her newborn daughter and hiding the infant’s body, a North Carolina teen has been released on bond. Rebecca Jo Blackmore, 16, of Knotts Island, was released from the Currituck County Detention Center on a $250,000 bond Tuesday, according to Lindsay Voorhees, a spokeswoman for the Currituck County Sheriff’s Office.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/21/rebecca-jo-blackmore-baby-daughter-murder_n_974661.html
Two of the four people accused in the 2009 death of 4-year-old Landon Payne received the maximum sentence in Kearney County District Court Tuesday. Dustin Scoville and Sharon Turnell were sentenced Tuesday to a minimum of 49 years in prison. They will be eligible for parole in 24 1/2 years. Sharon Turnell’s husband, Charles Turnell, was sentenced Tuesday to 19 to 20 years in prison. He will be eligible for parole after nine and a half years.
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EASTON, Pa. -A charity that has already raised thousands of dollars for a purportedly sick baby has caught the attention of authorities. That’s because officials said Tuesday that the whole thing is a scam. The baby’s fine, they said, and the woman behind the whole thing could soon be in a lot of trouble. The charity is called the “Save Baby Myah Foundation.”
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READING, Pa. -A couple accused of neglecting their young son have been booked on felony charges. Berks County Detectives announced Wednesday the arrests of Lindsay Coleman and Rick Postetter, both of the 300 block of West Green Street in Reading. The detectives’ investigation revealed the couple’s four-year-old son weighed just 19.5 pounds when he was admitted to Reading Hospital on July 14.
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg police are investigating a case of child abuse involving triplets. Investigators say the children are just 3 months old, and they lived in a home off Dapple Court in northeast Charlotte. One infant suffered head trauma, facial bruising and a hemorrhage around the left eye usually associated with suffocation, according to court documents. The girl’s sister had similar injuries, but they were not as severe. Her brother was not injured.
HOUSTON — A Houston woman is accused of sexually assaulting a young boy and at the same time, according to prosecutors, putting that young boy’s life in danger. That boy says he is still scared. He still can’t fathom that someone he knew would allegedly put his life at risk like this. We’re not revealing the 12-year-old boy’s identity.READ MORE HERE:
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=8360034
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