North Charleston, SC — An 18-month-old boy is hospitalized in critical condition after police say he was hanged by his ankles in a closet and repeatedly beaten by three teenage boys – the child’s mother has been arrested for allowing it to happen. Hospital staff alerted authorities Tuesday evening after the child was found to be suffering from numerous injuries including bruises and lacerations to his back, chest and abdomen, multiple lacerations of his liver, spleen and pancreas and five fractured ribs. Doctors also discovered an old skull fracture that had healed.

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The Winder youth minister who was charged with child molestation in Oconee County earlier this month now faces 58 additional charges related to child molestation in Barrow County.

Brian Richard Gray, 32, was arrested last month in Notasulga, Ala., shortly after Oconee County authorities filed charges of child molestation, statutory rape and burglary in connection to a relationship Gray had with a 16-year-old girl. “Their relationship started in the youth group in Monroe in Walton County, but we found that the actual sexual acts took place in Barrow County,” said Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith. “We executed a search warrant on his house and found evidence that corroborated the fact that he brought her to his house.”

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Wisconsin–A Cascade man has been arrested on charges that he repeatedly sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl whom he met on Facebook. The suspect, Devan R. Hill, 20, could face up to 25 years in prison after admitting to the charges on Wednesday. Police say they learned of the victim after rumors began surfacing at the school that she was pregnant.

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OKLAHOMA CITY — A man has been arrested for allegedly making violent threats against children at four area schools.
Authorities say 47-year-old Troy Kegel told a friend Monday he was going to shoot at school children. Sgt. Gary Knight said on Monday, Kegel called a friend and said he was very upset with events going on in his life. “He made a threat to her that he was possibly going to go out and shoot school children,” said Knight. That friend called police. Police came to Kegel’s house in the 4200 block of N.W. 16th Street and did a search, but no weapons were found.

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NEW YORK — A Hasidic rabbi and three of his sons are suspected of sexually abusing at least four female relatives after the eldest victim confided in a co-worker at a Jewish school, police said Friday. The 58-year-old father and his 21-year-old son fled to Israel two days ago and are wanted for questioning in the case, police said. They were apparently driven to the airport by the mother.

Two other sons, a 24-year-old and a 15-year-old, were arrested on sexual abuse and rape charges. It was unclear whether they had attorneys, and a message left at the home wasn’t immediately returned. The suspects’ names are being withheld by The Associated Press to avoid identification of victims.

Police say the abuse came to light after the oldest victim, now 20, who worked as a teacher’s aide at a yeshiva in Brooklyn, told a teacher there she had been abused. Authorities believe she was assaulted by her father repeatedly for 15 years. The other victims range in age from 8 to 19, and investigators believe the abuse was also repeated.

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WILLIMANTIC, CT ( KTLA) — A school teacher from a Willimantic magnet school was given 13 years in prison after being caught having repeated sexual encounters with a 15-year-old student. Adam Friedman, 46, of Newington, received his sentence Thursday after pleading guilty to second-degree sexual assault, risk of injury to a minor, possession of child pornography and violation of conditions of release.

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The 2-year-old girl’s family was in the next aisle

UNION CITY, Calif. — A registered sex offender has been arrested on suspicion of raping a 2-year-old girl in a Union City Dollar Tree Store while her family was in the next aisle. Thirty-six-year-old Eugene Ramos of Union City has been booked into Santa Rita Jail in Dublin on suspicion of kidnapping, rape, sexual acts with a child and false imprisonment in the attack around 1 p.m. Wednesday. Union City police say Ramos snatched the girl and sexually assaulted her within a span of about 30 seconds while her grandmother and aunt were Christmas shopping in the next aisle.

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A 35-year-old Tigard man Tuesday received a 20-year sentence in federal prison after he admitted to begging an 8-year-old girl via e-mail for sex.  Assistant U.S. District Attorney Gary Sussman said in the court Tuesday that Darrick Haaby was “relentless” in his pursuit of his friend’s young stepdaughter. Haaby and his wife sometimes babysat his longtime friend’s two stepdaughters, and when his friend found several inappropriate e-mails to his 8-year-old stepdaughter in October 2009, he called police.

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Over a period of six months Newton, 32, recorded himself hitting, slapping and kicking little Charlie Hunt. He then gave the clips titles including “Happy Slap”, “Two Minutes Of Pain” and “Crying In Cot”. To the outside world, Newton looked a typical family man. He was pictured holding Charlie aloft just four months before he died.  But it hid a sinister side. And last night the role of social services in the period before Charlie’s death was being looked into. The Sun can reveal that Charlie’s mother Laura Chapman, 30, lost custody of her two other children – known as Child A and Child L.  They were taken into care amid allegations of ill-treatment. And it can also be disclosed that she was still being monitored by social workers when she started dating factory worker Newton in 2009.

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Girl tells jury the couple verbally, physically abused her

CORPUS CHRISTI — The 10-year-old daughter of a Corpus Christi man accused of forcing her to take a scalding hot shower testified on Wednesday that she also endured slaps to the face, kicks and belt whippings from her father and his girlfriend. The girl’s father, Palanco Tatman, 30, and Crystal Robinson, 27, each face seven felony counts of injury to a child. The girl was brought to Driscoll Children’s Hospital on June 15 and was flown that same day to a Galveston hospital for treatment of burns on more than 20 percent of her body.

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MISSOULA, Mont. — A 35-year-old Helena man who counseled sexually abused children has been sentenced to 17½ years in a child pornography case. Alejandro Arturo Scholz was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy in Missoula after previously pleading guilty to sexual exploitation of children, receipt of child pornography and possession of child pornography.

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A Morris man who brutally beat his former best friend’s 2-year-old son to death after starting an affair with the man’s wife was sentenced to 52 years in prison Wednesday. Gilbert Knowles, 36, described by a prosecutor as a high school dropout and drug user who worked occasionally and survived on borrowed money, must serve the entire sentence. In August, he was convicted of first-degree murder in the 2007 beating death of Devin Owens, who was found wedged between his bed and a wall above two pools of blood. Authorities have repeatedly described it as one of the worst cases of child abuse they’ve seen.

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Jacksonville, FL –– Justin Satterfield, 25, and Brandy Purvis, 24, are being held without bond this morning, both having been charged with child abuse, after a nasty little incident at a Super 8 Motel early Wednesday morning. Authorities say the two were fighting that morning when one of them went for an AK-47 that had been concealed under a mattress. That led to more arguing as the two began rasslin’ over the weapon. At some point during the tug-o-war, the gun went off, injuring the couple’s 7-month-old baby boy.

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