Santa Barbara-Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Deputies have arrested a North Santa Barbara County man suspected of sexual child abuse. On Thursday, December 16, 2010 Sheriff’s detectives were advised of a possible child sexual abuse crime that occurred in the unincorporated area of Santa Barbara County commonly known as Tanglewood. Sheriff’s detectives conducted an investigation and indentified the suspect as 51-year old Ernest Hernandez Madrigal (DOB 6/18/59) who they arrested on Thursday, December 30, 2010 in the 1100 block of Cook Street in the City of Santa Maria.

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IT REMAINS the stain on a country consistently voted as the best in the world. It remains our national shame. It has followed us as every calendar is discarded, and as every new year is ushered in. The violent death of Maori children at the hands of their whanau and friends. And last week it got personal…

Like most New Zealanders, I regard child abuse in this country to be an overwhelmingly Maori disease. The statistics prove as much, as do the photos of the brown faces that are no longer with us. Their names have entered the legend, James Whakaruru, Delcelia Witika, Chris and Cru Kahui, Nia Glassie, Cherish Tahuri-Wright, and now Sahara Baker-Koro.

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http://www.stuff.co.nz/sunday-star-times/opinion/4505801/Maori-abuse-is-our-problem

HILLSBORO — A longtime Dayton School District music teacher and assistant football coach faces multiple child porn charges in Washington County. Mark Read Culbertson, 37, of Sherwood was arraigned in circuit court Monday at the Washington County Community Corrections Center in Hillsboro on four counts of first-degree encouraging child sexual abuse, a Class B felony, and 11 counts of second-degree encouraging child sexual abuse, a Class C felony. No children attending school in the district are considered victims, according to Dayton Superintendent Janelle Beers.

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http://www.newsregister.com/article/46542-child+porn+charges+detailed

HENDERSON, Nev. — Questions remain in the child abuse case that Henderson police say nearly killed a 4-year-old boy. According to police, the severe abuse went on for months and involved the boy and his 8-year-old brother. Psychologists and abuse advocates are now speaking out about the case. Paramedics and Henderson police officers found a 4-year-old boy unconscious at a condominium inside the Montelago Village Resort November 23. Detectives report that the boy’s 8-year-old brother had sunken eyes and was so malnourished, his hair was falling out. Police say the mother’s boyfriend, Edward Colucci, bit the boy’s nose, sprayed glass cleaner into his eyes and forced him to eat his own vomit. Police say both boys were victimized by Colucci.

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http://www.8newsnow.com/story/13766336/henderson-child-abuse-case-raises-questions

THOMASVILLE, N.C. — A Thomasville man was arrested Thursday and charged with statutory rape and other sex offenses against a child, police said.Michael Lee Watkins, 27, committed several statutory sex offenses with a child in November, according to a Davidson County Sheriff’s Office report.Watkins was arrested Thursday and charged with seven counts of statutory rape, seven counts of indecent liberties with a child and four counts of statutory sex offense.

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A former Bethlehem youth football coach accused of repeatedly raping a child was only caught because he was confronted about exposing himself to a different woman, authorities allege. Jose Vazquez, 38, is awaiting trial for allegedly raping a girl between the ages of 8 and 16. The accuser, now 25, previously said she was raped so often she lost track of the total count. In court documents filed Thursday, prosecutors claim Vazquez was caught only after his wife learned from a different woman that Vazquez had exposed himself to her and demanded a sexual act.

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http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/bethlehem/index.ssf/2010/12/a_womans_allegations_against_a.html

MONTROSE ?– When formal charges are filed against the woman accused of killing 4-month-old Angel Nieto, she could be looking at more serious allegations than the manslaughter warrant on which she was booked Thursday. Maria Zavala-Espinosa, 32, appeared in court Thursday on the felony-4 offense. The judge also told her that she could potentially be charged with child abuse resulting in death, a class-2 felony, or even first-degree murder, depending on what prosecutors decide. Espinosa is accused of inflicting non-accidental trauma on the baby boy, who she was babysitting on Oct. 7.

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http://www.montrosepress.com/articles/2010/12/31/news/doc4d1d7866894f3387111811.txt

LAWRENCE — A Lawrence man who had failed to attend court-mandated parenting classes after being imprisoned for physically assaulting his infant daughter several years ago is accused of shaking his 3-month-old son to death this week, said the office of Essex District Attorney Jonathan W. Blodgett. Evidence in the death of Alexis Medina’s son, Alex, points to shaken-baby syndrome, according to hospital and police records. Authorities said the baby also suffered broken ribs.

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http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/12/31/abuser_held_in_death_of_infant_son/

The Fresno County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a case of child abuse against an 8-year-old girl. 62-year-old Salvador Fernandez of Fresno was arrested at his home late Christmas Eve on felony child abuse charges. Sheriff’s Deputies say they went to Community Regional Medical Center on Christmas Eve for reports of possible child abuse against an 8-year-old girl. The mother of the girl told deputies she had taken her daughter to the hospital after her daughter told her she had been assaulted by Fernandez.

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A Jacksonville woman has been charged with assault inflicting serious bodily injury, and other charges, after authorities say she left her toddler in a tub of hot water. Felicia Shonnta Bell, 32, of Hargett Street, was charged by the Jacksonville Police Department with assault inflicting serious bodily injury, misdemeanor child abuse, and contributing to delinquency of a juvenile. Bell is accused of allowing her 3-year-old to be left unattended in a bathtub with running hot water, resulting in child sustaining 2nd-degree burns, according to warrants.

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http://www.jdnews.com/news/child-86294-hot-left.html

Henderson, NV – Police say 33-year-old Edward Colucci didn’t just try to break his girlfriend’s two young sons physically, he also tried to break them emotionally. Colucci was arrested late last month, charged with child abuse, assault and kidnapping, after paramedics and police officers found his girlfriend’s 4-year-old son unconscious in the couple’s apartment. The child was suffering from severe malnutrition – so severe his hair was falling out. Dispatchers say that when the boys’ mother called 911 on November 23, she could be heard telling Colucci, “you went too far.” And she wasn’t fucking kidding. According to police, over the course of a few months, Colucci allowed the boy to eat nothing but dry ramen noodles, garlic cloves and onions. He reportedly spit in the child’s water. When the child’s mother made eye contact with the boy, Colucci reportedly viewed it as showing “too much affection” and punished the kid by punching or kicking him. Police say Colucci bit the boy’s nose, sprayed glass cleaner in his eyes and forced him to eat his own vomit.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/12/31/detectives-believe-edward-colucci-tried-to-break-kids-will-to-live/

CINCINNATI — A father and son are both jailed in Hamilton County, each charged with killing children.Christopher Dangerfield, 48, is accused of killing his son, 3-year-old Tyrese Short.Short died Tuesday. Dangerfield’s attorney said the boy slipped in the bathtub and hit his head.Dangerfield was being held on $500,000 bond.An adult son of Dangerfield is also facing charges in connection with a child’s death.Loinell Dangerfield was charged in connection with the death of 3-month-old Zhi Binford in May. Binford was his girlfriend’s daughter.

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Yes, Virginia, sexual assaults against children are extremely common in the United States.  They run the gamut from indecent exposure, physical fondling of children, engaging in sex acts with minors, showing pornography to or using children in porn films, exposing minors to sex acts of adults (in real time or through media), and continue all the way to prostituting minors or enslaving them for sex trafficking.  Just in the most extreme measures alone-selling children to be raped for profit (prostitution of minors), estimates of 200,000 to 300,000 children annually in the United States are introduced into this vile life.

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http://www.examiner.com/sex-trafficking-in-national/sexual-assaults-against-children-the-news-december-26-29-2010