McPHERSON – A former Inman police chief accused of sexually abusing four children took the stand Tuesday in his own defense, and he was adamant. “Did you ever touch the children in a sexual way?” defense attorney David Harger asked 39-year-old Mike Akins Jr. “No, I did not,” Akins said.  Throughout the questioning by Harger and Assistant Attorney General Christine Ladner, Akins maintained he never touched the children inappropriately. He said there wasn’t any accidental touching, either, when he wrestled with the children.

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BURBANK, Calif. — The family of a middle school student who had a sexual affair with his Burbank teacher has filed a lawsuit against the woman’s husband, a Los Angeles police officer, claiming he threatened to kill the teen. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleges that the officer threatened to kill the then 14-year-old boy and his parents with his department-issued weapon after his wife confessed about the sexual relationship, The 818 Now is reporting.

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Teacher placed on leave while officials investigate the incidents.

OAKLAND, Calif. — An elementary school teacher in Oakland has been placed on leave after reports that two students engaged in oral sex during class and others stripped off their clothing in separate incidents. The alleged incidents took place last week at Markham Elementary School but weren’t reported to school officials until Wednesday, KTVU is reporting.

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Homicide detectives are investigating the death of a nine-year-old girl in Mountain View. Officers received a report of a non-breathing child at a home in the 300 block of Milbrae Street on Monday. The family told police they noticed Elizabeth Holloway, 9, did not appear to be breathing and had “sort of a fixed look in her eyes.” “She had her daughter in her arms and she was telling me to come here. When I went out there she laid her daughter in the doorway and her daughter was just passed out,” said Lajahnique Webster.

Woman Molested 1-Year-Old, Sent Abuse Videos to U.S. Marine

PORTLAND, Ore.–A 24-year-old Oregon woman, Inez Lambert, is charged with 21 counts of child sex abuse after she allegedly molested a year-old child and sent videos of the abuse to her Marine boyfriend overseas. A Multnomah County grand jury indicted Lambert, of Portland, Jan. 14 on seven charges each of first-degree sodomy, using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct, and first-degree sex abuse.

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The Auckland mother accused of systematically abusing her nine-year-old daughter wrote to Prime Minister John Key for help, her lawyer says, but the alleged abuse still slipped between the cracks of 12 different agencies. The woman, 30, faces 33 assault and neglect charges and the father faces three, after the girl was found in a cupboard, starving and dehydrated when police responded to a domestic dispute at the couple’s home in November.

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GARDENA, Calif. — Felony charges have been filed against a 17-year-old boy suspected of bringing a gun to school where accidentally discharged wounding 2 classmates. District attorney’s spokeswoman Jane Robison says the teenager could face up to seven years in state prison if he’s convicted as an adult on charges of bringing a gun to a school zone and discharging it in a school zone.

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The jury trial of a Rapid City area couple accused of using fan belts and a cattle prod to discipline their three young sons started Wednesday at the Pennington County Courthouse. David Roney, 53, and Mary Roney, 41, are each charged with two counts of aggravated child abuse of a child under 7-years-old and one count of child abuse. The abuse allegedly occurred over a 16-month period spanning the last half of 2008 up until Dec. 2009 when the Pennington County Sheriff’s Office and the Department of Social Services took the children into protective custody.

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A teenage mother in North Las Vegas has been arrested for child abuse after her newborn baby died last summer. North Las Vegas police said the 16-year-old, who was not identified, was arrested Tuesday for child abuse with substantial bodily harm and child endangerment with substantial bodily harm.

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ELIZABETHTON — Criminal Court Judge Robert Cupp denied requests for probation for two Carter County women who had been accused of child abuse and ordered them to serve 4-year sentences. Tina Woods, 44, and Toinette Worthington, 38, had each been originally charged with two counts of aggravated child abuse in December 2007, when investigators of the Carter County Sheriff’s Department found a boy under age 8 at their Lovers Lane residence who had been taped to a potty chair. The boy was said to be a bed wetter. Investigators said the boy had been taped to the chair on other occasions and had his eyes taped shut as well.

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HONOLULU — A Big Island school P.E. teacher charged with child abuse has been placed on leave by the Department of Education, officials confirmed. Clifford Fabacher was arrested Jan. 6 in connection with the abuse of a child in his home, DOE officials said.After he was formally charged on Jan. 13, Fabacher was placed on “department directed leave” from his job at Kealakehe Intermediate School in Kona.

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GENESEE TOWNSHIP, Michigan — Corey Martin Yeager, 21, was arraigned this afternoon on first-degree child abuse charges after authorities alleged he landed his 8-month-old baby in the hospital by shaking her.  The charge is a 15-year felony.Yeager’s 8-month-old daughter, Lily May Yeager, is in critical condition in a local hospital.

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TUPELO, Miss. _ A Tupelo man is in the Lee County Adult Detention Center on felony child abuse charges.
Sheriff Jim Johnson tells WTVA.com Jimmy Whitfield, 27, was arrested after his office was notified of a 10 month old child brought into the North Mississippi Medical Center on Monday. Johnson says doctors told them the child had suffered a head injury and his brain was swollen.

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