Bail was set today for two men accused of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl while she was attending a sleepover party for one of the suspects’ younger sister. Steven Johnson, 19, of the 17800 block of Chicago Avenue in Lansing, and Daniel Rucker, 20, of Calumet City, are both charged with predatory criminal sexual assault, a Class X felony.
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FLUSHING — The NYPD is investigating whether a mother helped her son, who suffers from cerebral palsy, kill himself. The woman called 9-1-1 for help, saying she had an argument and her son was hurt. When police arrived, he was already dead. Beverly, a home health aide who declined to give her last name, works across the hall from apartment 3-C in the Latimer Houses on 137th Street where Rene Vera was stabbed to-death.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Orange County sheriff’s detectives said a mother and her boyfriend had pizza and watched a movie after beating a little boy for an hour because he wet his pants. Robin Greinke, 26, and her boyfriend, Steven Neil, 33, were arrested Thursday after the medical examiner determined Greinke’s 3-year-old son died of blunt-force trauma and not a medical issue as initially believed.
Rensselaer, NY —- An ex-con was arrested for possession of child pornography after a month long investigation by The FBI and local police. Jason T. Burnash, 30, was found to have more than 20,000 images of child porn on his personal laptop. He has no permanent residence and was picked up at a friend’s house.
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BURLINGTON, Colo. — A 12-year-old boy suspected of killing his parents and seriously wounding his younger siblings may be charged as an adult for first degree murder. Bob Watson, the district attorney in the 13th Judicial District, says he plans to file formal charges in the case by Friday night, and then take some time to decide whether to charge the boy as a juvenile or try to charge him as an adult.
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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/kdvr-burlington-homicide-20110302,0,1283205.story
LOMITA — Homicide investigators are looking into the death of toddler who died while he was in the care of his mother’s boyfriend Thursday, police said. Police arrested 25-year-old Daniel Vega around 11:20 p.m. Thursday in West Covina. He was wanted for a parole violation and is being held without bail.
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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-lomita-toddler-killed,0,2076847.story
UPDATE: Bus driver Dan Taylor talks to Q13 FOX News tonight at 9 & 10pm “I was upset, I was frustrated, I got angry and it was my fault..”
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HESPERIA — Authorities searching for a missing girl believed to have run off with someone she met on the internet now say the teenager is safe. 13-year-old Jessie Bender, a student at Cedar Middle School in Hesperia, was last seen in the early hours morning of Feb. 22. Melissa said that Jessie had been late night chatting with a man she met on the internet.
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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-missing-hesperia-teen,0,5672139.story
PALMDALE– A 5-month old boy stabbed by his teenage father during a child abduction in Palmdale has died, authorities say. Palmdale Sheriff’s Station deputies responded to a report of a child abduction in Palmdale at about 11:00AM, Tuesday. An Amber Alert was issued for the child and his father, 17-year old Christopher Earl Glass, around 2:00 Tuesday afternoon.
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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-child-stabbed-abduction-palmdale,0,6016002.story
OKLAHOMA CITY — A study commissioned by the watchdog group, Children’s Rights, details some disturbing trends at the Department of Human Services. “This report confirms absolutely that the DHS system is severely broken,” said Paul DeMuro, Children’s Rights attorney. Children’s Rights hired an independent group, the Center for the Support of Families, to put together the study. It tracked 374 children of the more than 7,400 in state custody.
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http://www.kfor.com/news/local/kfor-news-dhs-study-flaws-story,0,2397724.story
A MURDER inquiry has been launched following the death of a paedophile prisoner at Full Sutton Prison on Tuesday evening. Humberside Police received a call from the prison service shortly before 7.30pm reporting that there was an incident ongoing at prison. Just after 8pm they received a further call stating that a 38-year-old man who had been involved in the incident had died.
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A McAllen man accused in a child rape case spent weeks on the run but is now behind bars after being arrested in Mexico. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers report that they took custody of Beau William Gamble over the weekend. The 43-year-old McAllen man is accused of four counts of sexual assault of a child.
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HARRISBURG, PA- A suspect in the rape of a 12-year-old Dauphin County girl is back in the custody of Texas law enforcement officers after two days on the run. Lower Paxton Township police said King Samuel Williams was captured this morning by the Texas Rangers. Williams had escaped in Texas during his extradition from Arizona on Sunday by complaining that his shackles were too tight and overpowering the driver who had attempted to help him, police said.
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ROGERSVILLE — A 3-year-old child who suffered a fractured skull and broken collarbone in August, allegedly at the hands of her mother’s boyfriend, has permanent brain damage, according to court testimony Monday. A preliminary hearing was held Monday in Hawkins County Sessions Court for Jonathan Jesse Aaron Light, 21, 6742 Carters Valley Road, Lot 6, Church Hill, who is charged with one count of aggravated child abuse.
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http://www.timesnews.net/article.php?id=9030202
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