Portland, OR—- With inspiration from reading her Bible and watching a couple of YouTube videos for good measure, Keemonta Peterson, 29, decided her son needed to be circumcised. In a Do-It-Yourself gone horribly wrong, she used a box cutter and a pair of pliers and proceeded to remove her infant’s foreskin.

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A surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital is being investigated over claims of child abuse. The allegations against Philipp Bonhoeffer, a world-renowned cardiologist, relate to his time working for a charity in Africa. He was suspended two years ago but the case has only just come to light. The hospital has set up a helpline for parents of children he has treated.
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CRESTVIEW — A Crestview couple was arrested March 11 on charges of six counts of child neglect without great harm and five counts of misdemeanor animal abuse. According to an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s report, 35-year-old Timothy Duane Barnhill and 31-year-old Misty Dawn Barnhill were being investigated for possible child abuse.

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STILLWATER, Okla. — A 20-year-old Stillwater man has been charged with felony child abuse for allegedly burning his 3-month-old son with a hair dryer. Maurice Wilson was arrested Wednesday and charged Thursday in Payne County District Court. He’s being held in the Payne County Jail on $100,000 bond. Court records do not list an attorney for him.

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COLLIER COUNTY: A woman grabbed two children while they were playing with their mother at a Collier County beach Wednesday, and claimed the kids were hers, according to a sheriff’s office report. The mother and her three children were playing in the Gulf at Clam Pass Beach while the children’s father was on shore, not far away.

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Courts » Her son is charged with raping teen girl living in the home.

A Vernal foster mother has been charged with witness tampering and failing to report child abuse after police say her son raped a 16-year-old girl living in the home. Nola K. Fortine, 66, found her son in bed with the teen girl on the morning of Jan. 2 but did not report the incident and later coached the girl about what to say if she were questioned, the Uintah Basin Standard reports.

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LAKEWOOD, CO — Police are defending their use of pepper spray on an 8-year-old boy who was throwing a tantrum at school. Police were called to the school after teachers say Aidan Elliot had been spitting and cursing at them.
He was also allegedly trying to stab them with a piece of wood trim he had broken off the wall, according to local TV station KUSA-TV.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-8-year-old-pepper-spray,0,2305633.story

Catholic School Chaperones Had Sex With Students on Class Trip,

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The man extradited to Florida for writing, publishing and selling a controversial book considered a “how-to” for pedophiles pleaded no contest to criminal charges in exchange for two years’ probation, authorities said Thursday. Phillip Greaves was arrested in his home state of Colorado in December and extradited to Polk County, Florida. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said at the time his detectives were able to establish jurisdiction in the case by conducting an undercover operation, buying a copy of the book “The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover’s Code of Conduct,” through the mail.

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AZUSA– A man who volunteered at a high school in Azusa has been arrested for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old student, police said. 23-year-old Eric Doung faces felony sex charges, according to Azusa police. Doung is scheduled to be arraigned at the Pomona courthouse on Thursday.

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(CNN) — Thursday’s massacre of 11 students at a Brazilian school could have been even worse, were it not for the heroic actions of a military policeman, according to a statement from the Rio de Janeiro state governor’s office. Third Sgt. Marcio Alexandre Alves, 38, and a colleague raced to the Municipal School Tasso da Silveira in Realengo after they were approached by a student two blocks away from the school, who asked them for help, the governor’s office said.

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http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/04/07/brazil.school.shooting/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn