The father of a 3-year-old Victorville girl and the man’s girlfriend were charged with child abuse this week after the toddler was treated for severe hot-water burns over 30 percent of her body. After being treated at local hospitals, the child was flown to a burn center in Northern California where she underwent surgery Monday, San Bernardino County sheriff’s investigators said in a written statement. Her condition is described as serious, but stable.

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Document says woman was going to wait and hope granddaughter’s sexual assault injuries healed

The grandmother of the Muskogee child who died Monday told police she knew the child had been sexually abused, according to court documents. Betty Hall, 42, told police she saw evidence her son, Robert Jack Meeks II, had sexually assaulted the 4-year-old child about 12:30 a.m. Saturday, the probable cause affidavit states. Hall said she was scared to say anything to Meeks or her husband and she was going to wait and hope the injuries healed, the document states.

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MI–East Lansing resident Yumar Burks, who allegedly killed his 6-month-old son, will stand trial on charges of homicide and child abuse July 6 in circuit court. There is enough evidence against Yumar Burks for the case to move forward to circuit court, Judge David Jordon said today in the preliminary examination in East Lansing’s 54-B District Court. The cause of the child’s death was multiple blunt force trauma, said John Bechinski, a forensic pathologist at Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital who conducted the autopsy. Antonio Burks died March 25. The manner of death was homicide.

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A man is charged with attempted deliberate homicide for the alleged abuse of a 2 year old girl. Court documents say David Wayne Hyslop was watching the child yesterday afternoon, when emergency personnel received a call regarding a 2 year old female who was not breathing at a south side residence. Hyslop initially told police he did not know how the child was injured, but later told them he dropped her when putting her down for a nap.

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GUADALUPE, Ariz. – Investigators are trying to determine why two children were duct-taped inside a home that caught on fire Wednesday evening. Firefighters responded to a call at about 5:30 p.m. in reference to children being trapped inside a house where the sofa was reportedly on fire.

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NIAGARA FALLS–A veteran Niagara EMS paramedic who lives in Niagara Falls is facing child pornography charges after police arrested a man at a home in the Stanley Ave. and North St. area Thursday. Andrew Caston, 46, of Niagara Falls was arrested after Niagara Regional Police officers executed a search warrant at a Desson St. home Thursday. Police said that detectives with the NRP’s Internet Child Exploitation Unit, Child Abuse Unit, and Technological Crimes Unit were accompanied by officers from the Casino Patrol Unit in the arrest. Detectives seized computer systems and other items from the home.

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A NURSERY owner carried out her own form of “waterboarding” as she tried to force-feed terrified children. Clare Cartwright held one petrified little girl’s face under a cold-running tap because she would not finish her meal, a court heard. The 32-year-old stuffed piles of food into children’s mouths, clamping them shut with both hands to stop them spitting it out, and also gripped their heads against a wall. Staff watched in horror as she used foul swear words while forcing children aged between one and three to eat until they were sick. Yesterday the married mother of three was jailed for 10 months after admitting four counts of child cruelty at the Little Nippers nursery in Halifax, West Yorks.

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Fourteen agencies missed opportunities to save a three-year-old boy who was killed by a couple who were meant to be caring for him, a report has found. Ryan Lovell-Hancox died on 24 December 2008 from a brain injury he received at Christopher Taylor and Kayley Boleyn’s home in Bilston, near Wolverhampton. They were jailed for murder and child cruelty in July 2010. A serious case review by Wolverhampton Safeguarding Children Board said staff may have been “overburdened”. Ryan received more than 70 injuries from the defendants who blamed each other for his death.

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A 23-year-old New Scotland, New York man who was arrested and charged with rape and attempted murder charges in New York, received national attention in the 90s when he was abducted from his grandmother. Adam Croote is charged with brutally attacking and raping and attempting to kill a 10-year-old girl he was babysitting in her Berne, New York home.  Croote was a longtime family friend of the victim and the family trusted Croote.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma City police have arrested a mother in connection with a child abuse case in a southwest Oklahoma City hotel. Officers arrested 31-year-old Leana Lauck on Wednesday. Police say her 3-year-old son was severely abused at the LaQuinta Inn near South Meridian and Interstate 40. Lauck told police one of her friends is responsible for abusing the toddler. She is not being accused of actually abusing her son, but police say she waited nearly 18 hours before bringing the abused child to the hospital.

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A Hartford man received a life prison sentence Wednesday for severely burning a 7-month-old boy in hot water. Circuit Court Judge Kevin Moulton issued the sentence for 32-year-old Jamie Abrams. A jury convicted Abrams last month of a felony aggravated child abuse charge. “This has not been easy case for anyone involved, and although you have shown remorse you do have two priors,” Moulton said. “The facts of the case are bad facts. The things that happened to this child can never be corrected by enough sorries.”

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46-year-old Virginia Sims remains behind bars without bond for the drowning death of her 6-year-old granddaughter Alexis Walker. A frantic call rang through 911 dispatch around seven o’clock Monday night. A call residents describe as gruesome. “I can’t imagine anyone doing that to a child,” says Colquitt County resident Jenny Sauls. But co-workers of Virginia Sims say this isn’t the first time she put Alexis in harm’s way. “I heard she burnt the house down and she ran the car into a tree with her and the little girl in the car,” says Sims’ co-worker Tatiana Hill. A three page police report indicates Sims was charged with first degree arson and another two page report says she was involved in a single car crash with Alexis inside.

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CURRITUCK CO., N.C. –  A 16-year-old from Knotts Island is charged with stabbing her newborn daughter to death. Currituck County Sheriff Susan Johnson says Rebecca (“Becca”) Blackmore went to the emergency department of Chesapeake General Hospital on Friday, June 17.

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