LOS ANGELES — Police have arrested local soccer coach on multiple charges of child molestation. Jose Duarte, 42, was taken into custody on Monday in the mid-city area. Police began investigating Duarte after a 13-year-old victim came forward and said he had been sexually assaulted by his soccer coach, the LAPD said.

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. – A Memphis man was found guilty of sexually abusing his step-granddaughter for nearly eight years. 51-year old Michael McVay was found guilty of rape of a child, rape, aggravated sexual battery, and sexual battery by an authority figure. Prosecutors with the Shelby County District Attorney’s office stated that McVay started sexually abusing the child in the year 2000, when she came to live in his home at age 8. The sexual abuse continued and escalated until the child was 15 years old.

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MI–A Hillsdale County man is charged with first-degree murder, torture and first-degree child abuse in the death of his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter. James David Campbell, 29, was arraigned today in Hillsdale County District Court. Beautiful Skyla Villanueva was pronounced dead June 10 at Hillsdale Community Health Center. Police, called to her home in the 7600 block of Hudson Road in Pittsford, were told Beautiful had fallen down the stairs, but further investigation showed signs of abuse, Michigan State Police earlier reported.

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TRENTON — The manager of the state’s child abuse hotline was fired Monday, making her the first casualty in the scandal surrounding a mishandled hotline call about an 8-year-old Irvington girl found dead in her home nine days later. A spokeswoman for the commissioner of the state Department of Children and Families confirmed that Margarita Marriaga, the administrator of the statewide central registry, “was relieved from service’’ in connection with the May 13 call from an anonymous tipster.

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The dispute over shaken baby syndrome is a bitter civil war. On one side, doctors, lawyers and other experts say the diagnosis is key to winning convictions of people accused of the most horrible acts of child abuse. Opponents say the diagnosis is used too freely and that sometimes, innocent people go to prison. Norman Guthkelch, the pediatric neurosurgeon who is credited with first observing the condition in young children, is speaking out for the first time about his concerns regarding how that diagnosis is used. He worries that it is too often applied by medical examiners and doctors without considering other possible causes for a child’s death or injury.

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A Hidalgo County baby at the center of child abuse case has died just two days after being removed from life support. Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office deputies reported that Baby Destiny Barrientos died on Sunday. The baby girl had spent more than seven months on life support. The girl was only 10 months old at the time of a fatal beating. Baby Destiny was removed from life support late Friday morning and had been breathing on her own but passed away Sunday.

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Police were led to a home in Syracuse after a 9-year-old girl was reported missing early Monday morning, a home of a registered sex offender. Syracuse Police Sergeant Gary Bulinski said, “The mother, who is obviously a very loving mother and good mother. She happened to check on her daughter, roughly around 2 in the morning. She poked her head in the bedroom and realized that both the window and the screen were open, and her daughter was missing.”

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CEBU CITY — Four girls accused a 64-year-old relative of rape and child abuse, in a case now being investigated by the Carcar City police, with the Provincial Women’s Commission (PWC) coming in to help the children. The allegations are still being verified, nearly a month after the abuse supposedly happened. Carcar Police Station Chief Inspector Teodulfo Manatad II said the minors are 2, 7, 8 and 11, and that the case is about to be filed against their relative. Initial reports said the relative was a grandfather, but that has yet to be confirmed.

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PHOENIX -“You are grown. That little innocent child can’t do nothing. You, yourself maybe can do something. But at the time, you think it’s a little kid. For what?” said a neighbor. Crime tape went up at a Central Phoenix apartment complex near 16th Avenue and Missouri as police started investigating the beating death of a little girl early Saturday morning. But the story starts at the pay phone down the street. That is where police say 18 year old Martwain Mackey took the three year old little girl at 2 am.

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LITTLE ROCK — An 81-year-old registered sex offender is in custody after he allegedly tried to lure a 12-year-old girl into his car Saturday morning. Keith Holmes is being held on $1 million bail on charges of attempted kidnapping of a child under 14 years old after the 81-year-old man pulled alongside the girl in his vehicle as she walked alone near the intersection of Pearblossom Highway and 85th Street just before 11am and asked her if she wanted a ride. When she declined, Holmes allegedly drove slowly alongside her.

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HORRY COUNTY, SC – Two Little River residents have been arrested and charged with child abuse Friday after their five-week-old baby suffered a spiral fracture June 2. According to a police report from the Horry County Police Department, officers responded to a call for a welfare check on a child after the complainant received a phone call from Seacoast Medical Center about a five-week-old with a fracture to her arm.

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Police say a Charleston woman beat her daughter so badly the girl had to be hospitalized. Witnesses told Charleston Patrolman J.O. Branham they saw Dominique Delores Martinez, 25, of South Park Road beating her daughter Saturday near the entrance to the apartment complex where she lives. Witnesses saw her grab the 10-year-old by the hair and punch her in the face multiple times, according to a complaint filed in Kanawha Magistrate Court.

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A 25-year-old Sheboygan woman was charged Thursday with felony child abuse for spanking a 6-year-old boy hard enough to leave multiple bruises, according to a criminal complaint. Katie M. Champeau, of 1702 N. 11th St., could face up to three years in prison, if convicted.

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