INDEPENDENCE, Missouri — An Independence woman is charged with felony child abuse after prosecutors say she beat her little girl so badly, she had a broken nose, a swollen lip and bruises all over her body. Kimberly Cooper, 32, is now in the Jackson County jail under a $50,000 cash bond. Cooper’s brother said he couldn’t believe his eyes when he returned home to see his beloved 10-year-old niece covered in blood. READ MORE HERE

A prominent Sydney solicitor is being sued by his daughter for allegedly sexually abusing her numerous times since the age of four. Jayne Gersbach, 32, is planning to take her father, Rodney Gersbach, to court in civil preceedings claiming he repeatedly raped and physically assaulted her in their family home for over 15 years. Responding to the allegations, Mr Gersbach said there is no evidence to support her claims and it was all a lie in a bid to take her grandfather’s inheritance. READ MORE HERE

A former youth counselor has been jailed for a decade for sexually abusing troubled boys in his care 25 years ago. Allan Keith Huggins, 68, was convicted after a trial in the West Australian District Court earlier this year found him guilty of 16 offences committed in 1990 and 1991. The Perth father-of-three was sentenced on Friday for the offences against boys aged 13 and 17, and some were wards of the state who had been in trouble with the law. READ MORE HERE

BEDFORD, TEXAS – Parents in North Texas want to know why a pastor with pending charges of child rape and sodomy in Alabama has been hired by the First Baptist Church of Bedford. According to Alabama court documents obtained by KDFW, Kyle Adcock faces charges for 29 counts of sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl while he was working at Woodward Avenue Baptist Church between 2010 and 2012. READ MORE HERE

NOTE: Anyone who would like to reach out to the First Baptist Church of Bedford to voice their concerns can do so by calling them at: (817) 283-5359

The disgraced former mayor of a New Jersey town has been sentenced to 25 years behind bars for repeatedly raping a relative’s daughter, beginning when she was age 6. Matthew Scannapieco, 71, was also ordered Friday to have no contact with the victim. He was arrested in August 2014 after the girl told her mother about the abuse, authorities said. READ MORE HERE

Police were searching on Monday for a man in his 50s who authorities said sexually assaulted a little girl inside a Riverside home over the weekend while her parents were asleep. The family reported the incident, which occurred in the 5000 block of Picker Street, at about 6 a.m., according to a news release from the Riverside Police Department. READ MORE HERE

A married female tutor seduced a 13-year-old boy during a lesson at his home before having sex with him 100 times over the next two years, a court has heard. Carolyn Keeling, 64, from Taynton, Oxfordshire, allegedly smoked cannabis and drank wine during bi-weekly lessons at the teenager’s family home. Gloucester Crown Court heard how the abuse began when Keeling, who was in her forties at the time, stripped down to her underwear to sunbathe during an outdoor lesson at the boy’s home. READ MORE HERE

“He messed with the wrong mom”

ALABAMA – Mobile Police arrested 27-year-old Patrick Herron Sunday, September 6, and charged him with four counts of Criminal Surveillance after reports of him videotaping and taking photos of customers in the women’s restroom at San Miguel’s restaurant on Schillinger Road. According to Robyn Toomey-Glass of Mobile, she and her family were celebrating at the restaurant when her 11-year-old daughter and a friend went to the restroom together. “My daughter’s friend didn’t want to stand outside of the stall alone, so she went in with my daughter and turned to the wall,” said Toomey-Glass. “That’s when she saw him with a cell phone and came and got me.” READ MORE HERE

LUFKIN, Texas – An East Texas teenager is accused of pushing his pregnant girlfriend’s 3-year-old nephew into a pond so the boy would drown to make room for the unborn child to live at their home. Bobby Woods, 17, faces a charge of capital murder of a person under age 6. He was booked as an adult after his arrest Friday and remained in the Angelina County jail without bond Saturday. Online records don’t list an attorney for Woods. READ MORE HERE

A woman who killed her 17-month-old baby girl with a lethal dose of methadone last year was sentenced to up to 30 years behind bars on Wednesday. Courtney Nicole Howell, 27, of Layton, Utah pleaded guilty in July to giving her baby girl Jaslynn Mansfield methadone but said she only thought the drug would help the child sleep. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that on Wednesday Howell tearfully said she will regret her choice for the rest of her life. READ MORE HERE

Man charged with killing his girlfriend’s one-year-old son while babysitting

A Maryland man has been accused of killing his girlfriend’s one-year-old son earlier this month. Riverdale resident Osmay Sesay, 28, was arrested Wednesday, the Prince George’s County Police Department (PGPD) said Thursday. Sesay was charged with first-degree murder and child abuse, authorities said. Police identified the victim as Ahmed Jalloh. READ MORE HERE

Cops: Students hack boy to death

Four Florida students allegedly hacked a 17-year-old boy to death with a machete and buried him in the woods before two of them had sex near his grave, police said. The students attended the Homestead Job Corps, a live-in school and vocational training program run by the U.S. Department of Labor. The suspects, Jonathan Lucas, 18, Desiray Strickland, 18, Kaheem Arbelo, 20, and Christian Colon, 19, allegedly planned the slaying of Jose Santos Amaya Guardado two weeks before carrying out the crime on June 28, according to an arrest report filed by the Miami Dade Police Department. The group allegedly lured Guardado into the woods, where he was ambushed and repeatedly struck with a machete. READ MORE HERE

A 3-year-old girl drowned on August 12 after being repeatedly thrown into a hotel swimming pool. After CCTV footage showed the entire incident occur, the girl’s stepfather was arrested. The graphic video can be seen here.  READ STORY HERE