RED HILL — During what prosecutors described as “monstrous” acts, a Schwenksville area man allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted four little girls and videotaped the acts which he called “sleep assaults” to share with others on the Internet. “This is one of the most disgusting, most egregious cases of sexual crimes that I have ever prosecuted,” said veteran Montgomery County Assistant District Attorney Samantha Cauffman, who leads the district attorney’s sex crimes unit.

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SYCAMORE – Authorities have exhumed the body of a 7-year-old Sycamore girl who was kidnapped and murdered more than 50 years ago, and the man accused of killing her is on his way to Illinois to face charges. Monique Bond, spokeswoman for Illinois State Police, said this morning while in Elmwood Cemetery in Sycamore that the DeKalb County State’s Attorney’s Office had a court order to exhume the remains of Maria Ridulph. The girl was abducted from a Sycamore street Dec. 3, 1957, and her remains were found nearly five months later in Jo Daviess County.

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BESSEMER CITY, N.C. – 32-year-old Shanna Lanham is behind bars on charges including involuntary manslaughter and felony child abuse for the death of her two-year-old daughter, Addison. Lanham is already on three years probation for a felony drug conviction in 2009.  Her family tells FOX Charlotte they blame Lanham for the little girl’s death but they also blame the Department of Social Services.

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The Hawkins County Sheriff said Wednesday he knows who is responsible for the child abuse death of a three-year-old girl, but charges have not yet been filed against that woman. Sheriff Ronnie Lawson said Emily Barnard died Monday after she was found unresponsive by deputies on Saturday.

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Say you’re a child welfare investigator. You get numerous reports that children in a particular family are being abused. Most recently, you hear they are being tied up and confined to a bathtub. How can you tell if these allegations are true? This is where your skill, training and experience as a professional investigator comes in. You go to the house and ask the parents if they are abusing their children. They say no. And that’s that. Case closed. No need to see the children. Why would their parents lie?

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Deputies Cited In Park County Incident Involving 4 Children

FAIRPLAY, Colo. — Two Teller County Sheriff’s Office deputies have been fired after they were issued summonses on misdemeanor child abuse charges.The incident happened early Saturday at a home in Park County.When deputies arrived in the 38000 block of Park County Road 77 (Tarryall Road) at 12:30 a.m., they found four children and two intoxicated adults in the home, according to Park County Sheriff Fred Wegener.

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LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police have arrested a woman they say attacked an infant in a stroller in the downtown toy district and claimed she was trying to break the baby’s arm off “so she could eat it.” Natasha Hubbard, 36, was arrested and has been charged with aggravated assault. The attack took place on July 21st around 1 p.m., according to detectives.

Accused Child Rapist Says, “What I did was shameful, but not illegal!”

TACOMA, Wash. — Marc Gilbert says what he did was wrong, and he’s ashamed of it. But because he wants to set the record straight, he agreed to an exclusive jailhouse interview with KOMO News.  “There was some activity that took place that I’m not proud of,” he said. “It was activity that was condoned behind closed doors, but publicly is excruciatingly embarrassing.”

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A Taekwondo instructor in Lithonia was indicted Tuesday on charges that he raped a female student, according to authorities. A DeKalb County grand jury returned a three-count indictment against Adrian Thomas Spellen, who authorities say assaulted a girl at his school, Powerkicks Martial Arts, in the 3000 block of Miller Road in Lithonia.

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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Nearly three weeks after a baby boy was transported to University Medical Center, he continues his fight to survive, while his mother and her boyfriend, are in jail for allegedly abusing him.The statement of facts contains graphic details about the abuse 7-month-old Malakai Workman suffered, allegedly at the hands of his mother, Danielle Workman, 22, and her boyfriend, Jaime Cardenas Jr., 24.

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Florida lawmakers have rejected more than $50 million in federal child-abuse prevention money. The grants were tied to the Obama administration’s health care reform package, which many lawmakers oppose on philosophical grounds. The money, offered through the federal Affordable Health Care Act passed last year, would have paid, among other things, for a visiting nurse program run by Healthy Families Florida, one of the most successful child-abuse prevention efforts in the nation. Healthy Families’ budget was cut in last year’s spending plan by close to $10 million.

We don’t normally comment on the views expressed by judges as they’re sentencing criminal defendants, but in this case, we’ll make an exception. Mower County District Court Judge Donald E. Rysavy launched verbal barb after verbal barb at Brian and Charity Miller last week while sentencing the Dexter couple to one year in jail as punishment for chaining their 5-year-old son to his bed and depriving both their sons of food. Rysavy used words like “outrage,” “abhorrence” and “incomprehensible” to describe the Millers’ crimes.

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SPRING HILL — Someone called 911. A 16-year-old boy — blind and mentally challenged — had collapsed in his family’s bathroom July 14. Paramedics rushed him to Spring Hill Regional Hospital. His organs were shutting down and his body was in septic shock. One of his eyes was black, and his arms, chest and legs were spotted with bruises.

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An Arizona mother is facing child abuse charges after allegedly leaving her 2-year-old daughter in a hot car while she shopped on a day when temperatures reached 106 degrees. Police in Tolleson, Ariz., say Sandra Rey Holguin, 33, left her toddler daughter locked in a parked car while she shopped at a Kmart in Phoenix’s west valley on Friday, MyFoxPhoenix.com reports. Customers and employees at the store became concerned and called 911 when they saw the child crying, according to the station. Officers rescued the girl and gave her water before detaining Holguin.