One is a former music teacher acquitted of groping two girls, the other a high school principal accused of beating his daughter with an electric cord. Neither will be returning to his job with the Broward County School District. On Tuesday, the School Board fired Hallandale High School Principal Darren Jones, who was arrested in January on child abuse charges. A district report said Jones “struck his daughter numerous times with an extension cord.”

Boy was beaten with a hammer and phone book over 100x’s over a period of several hours.

 

Should teachers communicate with their students on Facebook and other social media sites? Missouri teachers are angry after a new state law limits their contact with students through such websites, saying they use site like Twitter and MySpace for lessons and to stay in contact with students.

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http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2011/08/should_teachers_become_faceboo.html

 

At what point does spanking or hitting – not punching but hitting like on the back of the hand or even slapping the cheek – a child cross the line legally? If you spanked your child on the bottom and they called police what would happen?

We got some answers from people who should know including Assistant Kent County Prosecutor Helen Brinkman who specializes in crimes against kids; Susan Powers who is a therapist with the Children’s Assessment Center where children who are victims of crimes are taken to be interviewed by staff trained in child psychology; and Grand Rapids Police Detective Dan Adams, a member of the department’s major crimes unit.

THIBODAUX, LA. — A 30-year old man is behind bars accused of decapitating his disabled 7-year-old son and leaving the boy’s head near the street for his mother to find. According to police, Jeremiah Lee Wright confessed to killing the boy because he was tired of taking care of him. Family members say Jori Lirette, who suffered from cerebral palsy, was confined to a wheelchair and required a feeding tube.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-disabled-son-decapitated,0,1322675.story

SANTA ANA, CA — A man faces sex trafficking charges Monday afternoon in federal court after intending to prostitute three teenage girls, according to authorities.Samuel Martinez Gonzalez was due in court Monday at 2pm after he had lured the girls from Texas to Orange County with promises of trips to the beach, instead buying them revealing dresses and high-heeled shoes upon their arrival intending to force the girls to work as prostitutes, according to an affidavit.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-tx-teens-prostitution-scandal,0,567365.story

The Delaware American Civil Liberties Union has filed court papers to stop sex offenders from being evicted from a safe house that is located near a new day care center. The ACLU, along with an attorney representing the safe house and three sex offenders, has asked a judge to issue a temporary restraining order to prevent the city from evicting the residents.
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/08/16/aclu-sides-with-sex-offenders-in-day-care-center-dispute/#ixzz1VFGrysoB

TITUSVILLE, Fla. — A Titusville preschool teacher was arrested Friday on charges that she slammed the face of a misbehaving 4-year-old into a desk. Priscilla Dale Cole, 48, of Mims, faces a charge of aggravated child abuse, a second-degree felony punishable by 15 years in prison. Cole is a teacher in the voluntary pre-kindergarten program at A Gold Star Academy at 330 Knox McRae Drive.

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http://www.13wmaz.com/news/watercooler/article/139907/155/Fla-Pre-K-Teacher-Charged-with-Child-Abuse

A Florida woman has been accused of child abuse after beating her son with a computer cable for using Facebook without permission.  Althea Ricketts, 62 has been charged with aggravated child abuse.Ricketts first found out about her son’s account after an acquaintance told her about a disturbing post on his Facebook profile page.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2025882/Woman-beat-son-cable-using-Facebook-website.html#ixzz1V4Z6y5nZ

The Archdiocese of Boston says it has placed a priest on administrative leave after receiving an allegation of sexual abuse of a child in the 1980s. The archdiocese announced Sunday that Rev. John M. Mendicoa, a vicar at Sacred Heart Parish in the Roslindale neighborhood, will remain on leave pending the outcome of a preliminary investigation. The archdiocese said in a news release that it initiated the investigation and notified law enforcement of the allegation.

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http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20110814boston_priest_accused_of_child_sex_abuse/

Family First of New Zealand has released the list of child abuse deaths in the past 12 months, and says that the shocking trend of eight deaths in the past 12 months is ample evidence of the need for a non-political Commission of Inquiry into child abuse. “We have had Commission of Inquiries this year into the Pike river tragedy, the collapse of buildings and consequent loss of life in the Christchurch earthquake, and previous inquiries into police conduct (2004), genetic modification (2000-2001), and Auckland governance (2007-2009) – yet no inquiry into one of the greatest social problems facing the country. The issue of child abuse deserves a high priority total focus which a Commission would give,” says Bob Mccoskrie, National Director of Family First NZ.

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http://www.voxy.co.nz/politics/shocking-trend-child-abuse-deaths-family-first/5/98143

JACKSON, Miss. – A federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit that claims a 9-year-old Mississippi girl was checked out of school six times by an unauthorized man who then raped her. The lawsuit said the school failed to verify Tommy Keyes’ identity when he took the girl from a Covington County elementary school between 2007 and 2008. The 6-foot-2-inch Keyes allegedly signed the check-out sheet on one occasion as the girl’s mother but usually signed her father’s name.

CALGARY – Calgary cops walked in on a horrific scene early Saturday – a man with a knife, his baby son slashed and bleeding in the kitchen of a home in a quiet southeast community. He dropped the knife and surrendered, allowing officers to tend to the 11-month-old (not six months as police previously indicated), suffering severe cuts to his neck and abdomen.

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http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2011/08/14/18552176.html?cid=rssnewslast24hours

The number of reports of child abuse crimes usually increases when schools start after summer vacation, said Joe Nabors, executive director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Calhoun and Cleburne counties. He said when children are out of school for the summer, they often have had nobody to tell, and they seem to want to tell someone once school starts.

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http://www.gadsdentimes.com/article/20110814/NEWS/110819882?Title=Investigator-8216-There-8217-s-no-excuse-for-not-reporting-8217-crimes-against-children