A man has been arrested for trying to smother his infant son at the hospital, Chattanooga police say. Dakota Eldridge, 19, has been charged with attempted first degree murder and aggravated child abuse after Erlanger authorities alerted police to an assault on a 12-week-old boy last night, police say.
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http://timesfreepress.com/news/2011/jun/03/man-charged-trying-murder-his-infant-son-erlanger/
DORAVILLE, Ga. – The son of a former metro Atlanta area mayor is facing child abuse and animal cruelty charges. Investigators say John David Norman, who is the son of former Doraville Mayor Jesse Norman, was arrested Thursday, but few details were given about what they found inside his home that led to the arrest. John David Norman is charged with cruelty to animals, bestiality, and sexual exploitation of children. He was being held Friday on $110,000 cash bond.
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http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpp/news/local_news/former-doraville-mayor-charged-20110603-es
GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. — Deputies say a 26-year-old man suffocated a 1-year-old, but friends and relatives of the man who is charged say that he could not have done it.James Allen Johnson, 26, of Travelers Rest, is charged with homicide by child abuse.
HOUSTON– A Houston mom is accused of burning her young daughter’s face with an iron after the girl was reading words incorrectly in a book.Hope Adele Askew, 42, is charged with injury to a child. According to a probable cause document, Askew was ironing clothes at her northeast Harris County residence on April 11 when she became angry with her 10-year-old daughter because she was not reading words correctly in a book.
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A New Zealand foster couple and their daughter are facing charges of child abuse after allegedly scrubbing the bodies and teeth of boys in their care with wire brushes, making them run around a racecourse until they vomited, chaining them together and forcing them to sleep outside without blankets. Andrew John Hemara, 53, Jenny-Lee Hemara, 49, and daughter Tamara Lee Hemara, 21, together face 38 charges relating to the abuse of four children between the ages of seven and 14, the New Zealand Herald reports.
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http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8256615/foster-couple-chained-boys-together
A couple from New York are being held in Marion County on charges of abusing their 10-week-oldtwins, the Sheriff’s Office said. The infants suffered “acute factures are too many to list,” a statement from the Marion County Sheriff’s Office said. Priscilla Melina Martinez, 20, and Brian Juelz Joseph, 22, both of Brooklyn, were charged with two counts each of child abuse and/or neglect. They are being held without bond. The couple were visiting with infants’ grandmother before their arrests.
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An accusation of child abuse against a former French minister has sparked a major row in the wake of the charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn for attempted rape. Luc Ferry, a philosopher and former education minister, told a TV chat show that a former French minister had previously been caught at an orgy with young boys in Marrakech in Morocco. He said senior government sources, including a former prime minister, had told him about the incident, but would not name the ex-minister involved for fear of libel laws.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/01/child-abuse-accusation-former-french-minister-row
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A woman charged with child abuse and murder after two of her children died in a house fire last year pleaded guilty in court Thursday morning.Orgal Opata’s hearing lasted about 20 minutes and she delivered a statement apologizing for what happened.”I wish I could turn back the hands of time, but I cannot. On that day I made the biggest mistake of my life,” she read.
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SARASOTA, FL. – A homeless woman has been arrested after kidnapping a child outside of a Sarasota church. According to the Sarasota Police Department, at approximately 2pm Sunday, a 9-year-old male child was kidnapped. The child was in a Church parking lot less than a block from his home when a stranger grabbed him. The child said he was looking for his bicycle when a female grabbed him by the arm and stated “you don’t have a mother, you have a brother waiting for you at the store.”
LAGOS- – Nigerian police have raided a home allegedly being used to force teenage girls to have babies that were then offered for sale for trafficking or other purposes, authorities said on Wednesday. “We stormed the premises of the Cross Foundation in Aba three days ago following a report that pregnant girls aged between 15 and 17 are being made to make babies for the proprietor,” said Bala Hassan, police commissioner for Abia state in the country’s southeast.
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http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne+News/Crime/Story/A1Story20110602-281997.html
CHULA VISTA, Calif. — A woman and two young children were found dead inside a townhouse Wednesday by officers investigating the suicide of a man who jumped to his death from a freeway overpass. Authorities say officers were following up on the apparent suicide of a man found in a ravine along state Route 125 in Spring Valley. A CHP officer found the man’s body and his abandoned car.
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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-chula-vista-murder-suicide,0,7241664.story
MORENO VALLEY, Calif. — Shocking allegations of sexual abuse in Moreno Valley where police have arrested a man suspected of repeatedly assaulting a 14-year-old girl. 22-year old Alonso Ramon Pedro was arrested Sunday at his home on suspicion of more than 100 counts of sexual assault on a child.
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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-man-rapes-girl-100-times-cops-say,0,7795653.story
As the P-I reports this 39-year-old charmer was just charged with second-degree assault of a child, after he, his girlfriend and her four-week-old baby showed up at Seattle Children’s Hospital on May 19. Staff at the hospital quickly determined the boy had a broken arm and shoulder. Further tests showed both the boy’s legs had been broken in several places; an older fracture to the month-old child’s left leg had already begun to knit.
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http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2011/05/edward_e_st_amant_iii_seattle.php
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