COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A 23-year-old Colorado Springs mother faces felony charges for allegedly leaving her two young children in a bathtub where one was scalded and drowned. At about 4:45 p.m. on Tuesday, police responded to an apartment on S. Chelton Road after getting a 911 call for an unconscious 9-month-old boy. Paramedics could not revive him.
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Authorities in El Paso, Colo., have opened an investigation into the decade-old disappearance of two foster children, one of whom appears to have been physically abused while in the care of his parents. “The message is that we want to get this out, and we want to find these boys,” said El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa at a press conference on Thursday night.
Utah—- A 20-year-old Roosevelt woman is being charged with Child Abuse Homicide after her baby died after being taken off life support. Samantha Lynn Gilley brought her lifeless 2-month-old daughter to Uintah Basin Medical Center on February 28th. Doctors managed to revive the infant, who was cold and blue in the face upon arrival. She was placed on life support and flown to Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, where she lingered 5 days until her death.
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Delaware—- A Harrington police sergeant was arrested for possession of child porn after an investigation by the Delaware Child Predator Task Force. Jonathan Kendall, 37, had seventeen years on the department and was voted Officer of the Year in 2002. He is now being held on a $272,000 bond after evidence was seized from his home and personal vehicle.
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A Scotland man was charged Wednesday with killing his infant son. Chris A. Miller, 37, was initially charged with felony child abuse and aggravated assault of a child younger than 3 years of age for a Friday incident in Scotland, but when the infant died Wednesday afternoon, Miller was charged with alternate counts of first-degree murder, second-degree murder and manslaughter in the first degree.
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DETROIT — Nearly a year after the shooting death of seven-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Michigan State Police requested a warrant, March 3, for an unidentified officer in the child’s killing. The Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office says the warrant request is for “an officer,” but has refused to provide a name or details regarding the investigation.
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Sexual child abuse – Enrique Rivas, 61, of the 400 block of Old Gilroy Road, March 7, 12:50 p.m. near the intersection of Chestnut Street and Ninth Street for lewd or lascivious acts on a child under 14, including oral copulation, sexual penetration and sexual penetration with a foreign object.
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http://www.gilroydispatch.com/news/273563-police-blotter-61-year-old-charged-with-sexual-child-abuse
A Roosevelt woman has been charged with causing the death of her 2-month-old daughter. Samantha Lynn Gilley, 20, was charged Wednesday in 8th District Court with child abuse homicide, a first-degree felony. Gilley is accused of inflicting fatal brain injuries on her daughter, Riyln Paige.
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It’s Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent for Catholics, but churchgoers observing the holy day at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Philadelphia had an unusual greeting on their way into mass. They were met by silent protesters — clergy sex-abuse victims — who handed them leaflets about sexual abuse as they entered the cathedral.
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Missouri — A Columbia man has been arrested at his home for possessing a large amount of child porn. The Boone County Sheriff’s Cyber Task Force had received a tip. Joel W. Hartenbower, 38, was booked and charged with three counts of possessing child porn after evidence was seized from his home. A large amount of photos and videos of children, young as two to four years old, engaging in sexual contact were discovered on his computer.
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A gym teacher in Whittier is under arrest, charged with committing lewd acts on a child. 29-year-old Jesse Serrato was teaching physical education at East Whittier Middle School. Serrato is accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a 14-year-old student at the school over a period of several months.
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On March 2, paramedics where called to the Centralia, Washington home of 25-year-old Laura Lynn Hickey after neighbors heard her screaming. She was rushed to a hospital, where she told doctors she’d just suffered a miscarriage. They could find the fetus under her kitchen sink…
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