SAN DIEGO — A Mission Valley man abused and molested children that his wife brought to him at their daycare center, a prosecutor said Tuesday, but attorneys for the defendants said there wasn’t enough evidence to back up that claim. Mark Kaczmarczyk, 59, and his 45-year-old wife Anita are charged with one felony count each of child abuse likely to produce great bodily harm and committing a lewd act on a child, and a misdemeanor count of child abuse.

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Massive online pedophile ring busted by cops

5 Americans among 184 people arrested; 230 abused children saved

An Internet pedophile ring with up to 70,000 members — thought to be the world’s largest —has been uncovered by police, a security official said Wednesday. The European police agency Europol said in a statement that “Operation Rescue” had identified 670 suspects and that 230 abused children in 30 countries had been taken to safety. More children are expected to be found, Europol said.

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Casey Royer, an Orange County punk-rock pioneer, faces misdemeanor charges after overdosing on heroin while watching television with his 12-year-old son at home in Newport Beach on Thursday. The boy ran to a neighbor’s house to get help for his 52-year-old dad. While reviving him, authorities discovered what the Orange County district attorney’s office referred to as “filthy” living conditions.

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A special education teacher in the Appleton Area School District was charged Tuesday with nine counts of intentionally causing bodily harm and one count of strangulation and suffocation related to her treatment of five students over a two-year period. Each of the charges against Mary C. Berglund, 53, carries a possible fine of up to $10,000 and up to six years in prison, acccording to the criminal complaint filed in Calumet County.

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Number of web pages hosting child abuse material rose by 89% during 2010

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MIAMI, March 15 — The state of Florida has fired two welfare workers connected to the case of a 10-year-old girl who was found dead in her adoptive father’s pickup truck. The Florida Department of Children & Families said Andrea Fleary has been terminated from her position as a child abuse investigator and her supervisor, Kevin Ramos, has also been fired, The Miami Herald reported.

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Pickens County, SC – Ernesto Sanchez, a 31-year-old South Carolina man was jailed after he allegedly burned a 5-year-old boy with a kerosene heater for wetting the bed. Police say the burn was so bad, it will leave the boy’s hand permanently scarred and deformed. According to police, an investigation was launched when a relative reported seeing the boy’s hand severely burned.

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Council Bluffs, Iowa—- A former youth pastor of Victory Fellowship Ministeries was arrested on a warrant by a fugitive task force in Omaha, Nebraska. Brent Girouex, 33, has been charged with 60 felony counts of “sexual exploitation by a counselor or therapist”.

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SAN CLEMENTE — A former pastor at a church in San Clemente has been convicted of molesting a 14-year-old girl who worked as a volunteer in the church’s office. 44-year-old Ricardo Avalos Maffey was found guilty of five felony counts of lewd acts upon a child and one felony count of contacting a minor with the intent to engage in child molestation.

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COTTONWOOD, Ariz. – A Cottonwood man was arrested after his 4-month-old baby boy and the family puppy were found to have suffered bone fractures. The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office says 22-year-old Johan Wall was at home when the infant fell out of portable swing in which he hadn’t been strapped in. They allege that after the infant fell at least a foot and struck his head, Wall injured the child by snatching him up by one arm.

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SAN DIEGO – A Navy couple pleaded not guilty Friday to felony child abuse in connection with the death of their infant daughter 17 months ago. Petty Officer 3rd Class Steven Curtis Davinger, 28, and his 22-year-old wife, Sara, whose rank wasn’t immediately available, were arrested about 9 a.m. Thursday by San Diego police and military detectives at the 32nd Street Naval Station, said Lt. Kevin Rooney of the San Diego Police Department.

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