The author of a guide book for pedophiles, which created a storm of protest after being offered for sale on Amazon, has been questioned by detectives.

Officers in Colorado say they are investigating whether Phillip Ray Greaves II has done anything illegal. They have also revealed they are monitoring the author’s home following threats against him on a local website. Greaves attracted condemnation on both sides of the Atlantic after his self-published “code of conduct” for paedophiles appeared on the online retailer’s site. Amazon initially defended its actions before blocking sales. Hundreds of customers posted critical comments on its website and a group on Facebook called for a boycott of its services. In television interviews Greaves questioned whether children actually suffered in child abuse cases and said some offenders should simply be fined.

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(Reuters Legal) – The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami was accused on Friday of covering up the activities of a U.S. priest facing child sexual abuse charges and described by a victim’s lawyer as a “serial predator.” A Florida man filed a complaint in Florida state court seeking damages “in excess of $5 million” from the archdiocese. He alleges the archdiocese is liable for employing a priest who allegedly sexually molested the man when he was a teenager.

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Man used a knife, wooden club and car during the attack.

A 49-year-old Canyon Country man was arraigned in Newhall Superior Court on Friday and is facing nine felony charges, including the alleged attempted murder of a child.  Preston Brandon was arrested on a warrant Thursday in connection with an alleged crime that occurred Oct. 22, according to a complaint from the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. Brandon has been charged with attempted murder, four counts of assault with a deadly weapon, four counts of child abuse and one misdemeanor count of assault and battery.

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A Fernley mother is in jail after allegedly plunging a kitchen knife into the chest of her sleeping 7-year-old son Thursday night, saying it was at the urging of God, police said.  Jeannine Ravenna Brandt, 40, is being held in the Lyon County Jail on suspicion of felony battery with intent to kill and child abuse.

According to Lyon County Detective Lt. Bryan Veil, Brandt’s husband called officers to the home on Primton Way in the Villa Mobile Home Park about  11 p.m. on a report of an accidental stabbing.  According to the police report, Brandt’s husband reported his wife was “sleepwalking and stabbed son with knife.” When deputies arrived they found Brandt in her bedroom and the boy lying in his bed screaming. The knife had been removed from his chest by his mother before police arrived, said Veil.

“When deputies found her she had her knees on the floor and was bent over her bed,” said Veil. “She told us she did it because God told her to do it.” Veil said she also called the child the “anti-Christ.”

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SALISBURY — A Salisbury man is facing child abuse charges after allegedly beating two children with a rod, according to court documents. One victim alleged Sun J. Kim beat him with a 2-foot wooden rod after he lied about his grades, according to charging documents. Kim is accused of beating the child before and after school Nov. 4. A second boy, the victim’s brother, also alleged Kim beat him Nov. 2. In addition to child abuse, Kim has been charged with reckless endangerment and assault.

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A 3-year-old boy had to get surgery after he was brutally beaten by a man known to him. According to the magistrate’s complaint, the toddler received bruising to his stomach and the abuse was so severe that a surgeon noticed that the child’s intestine and other portions of his stomach had been torn. The child also had bruising and swelling on his forehead, his eyes, and leg.

27-year-old Vanderray Barcinas Mundo was arrested and charged with family violence, child abuse and aggravated assault. According to court documents, the boy’s mother told police that she had observed injuries on her son on three prior occasions.  Police have not charged the child’s mother with any crimes yet. She told police that Mundo would babysit her son when she went to work.

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BRENTWOOD, Pa. — A French teacher at Brentwood High School and her husband have been charged with abusing their infant son, but their defense attorney said the boy merely suffers from a condition that makes his bones brittle.Stephanie Faust, 31, and her husband, Scott, are charged with aggravated assault and child endangerment because of broken bones and head trauma Children’s Hospital doctors discovered in June when their son was just 10 weeks old.The couple also has a 2-year-old daughter who has no injuries.Their attorney, Patrick Thomassey, said the baby has a rare brittle bone disease and hasn’t been abused. The attorney said the condition “always ends with these unexplained injuries, and people will go to jail.”

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LOS ANGELES—A top official says Los Angeles County’s child welfare service says a crisis is brewing because of a backlog in abuse investigations. In a report this week, county Chief Executive William Fujioka said shifting workers to handle the backlog of more than 10,000 cases has pulled them from other duties such as foster care placement.

Fujioka says that appears to be creating a crisis for some critical tasks in the Department of Children and Family Services. The Los Angeles Times says nearly half of the child abuse probes have exceeded the state’s two-month deadline.

The department handles 170,000 child abuse hotline calls a year. Nearly 70 youngsters have died of abuse or neglect since the beginning of 2008 after being referred to the department.

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Acworth, Georgia – Joshua Wilson, 29, and his fiancee’ Tosha Jacobs, 25, were jailed Monday after police arrived at their home to find their three children locked inside a urine soaked room with bite marks and a 100-pound Rottweiler. According to Acworth Police, officers were called out to the couple’s home on a report of a possible dog attack, however when they arrived on the scene, they found three children living in dangerous and deplorable conditions.

Investigators say officers found the children (ages 2, 4 and 6) locked inside a bedroom at the residence along with a 100-pound Rottweiler. The mattress inside the room was soaked with urine and feces. Another mattress inside the home amounted to little more than a blanket that covered exposed springs.

When officers asked Wilson where his children were, he appeared to be too drunk to comprehend where they were, according to the arrest report. The home reportedly had no food, and the kitchen appeared to have caught on fire recently. Beer cans littered the bedrooms, kitchen and living room and bite marks were found on the children.

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Santa Cruz, California – Eric Lamb, a 38-year-old Live Oak man was jailed Monday after he allegedly threatened to run over a toddler on his bike, and then proceeded to do just that. According to Santa Cruz police, Lamb was riding a bicycling through San Lorenzo Park around 11:00 a.m. when he reportedly encountered two small children. Lamb began shouting profanities at the children, threatening to run them over if they didn’t get out of his way. Investigators say Lamb allegedly veered about 8 feet from his path and intentionally hit the 3-year-old boy, knocking him on the ground and running him over. Deputies found tire marks on the toddler’s sweatshirt.

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HURON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Samantha Kelly endured merciless taunting from classmates after they learned that the high school freshman had accused a senior of rape. The weeks of harassment eventually became too much. Samantha went home from school Monday and hanged herself in this community southwest of Detroit. With their key witness dead, prosecutors on Wednesday dropped criminal charges against the older student, saying they had no case without the accuser’s testimony.

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A former Mountain Home man will likely spend the rest of his life in prison for rape and creating pornographic images of a child. Federal judge Jimm Hendren sentenced Kirk Harry Demeyer, 52, formerly of Mountain Home, to four consecutive prison terms of 30 years each — 120 years total — following guilty pleas from Demeyer to four counts of production of child pornography, according to Baxter County Sheriff John Montgomery, who attended the trial.

Demeyer was arrested by federal and local authorities May 8, 2009, at his residence. He was charged with four counts of raping a pre-pubescent girl. Demeyer was already serving a 40-year sentence at Wednesday’s bench trail in Harrison. Demeyer pleaded guilty to state charges parallel to federal counts that all stem from a search of Demeyer’s residence at 298 Garden Terrace Drive.

Time for a game of which is more disturbing — starring 26-year-old Michael Barham, of Buckeye. Barham was arrested yesterday after Phoenix police got word that he may have some kiddy-porn on his computer. After searching his home and computer, kiddy-porn was the least disturbing stuff cops dug up — as hard to fathom as that may be. The most disturbing of the many items found in Barham’s posession is probably a toss up between the “child rape” videos and the bestiality flicks, but we’ll get to those later.

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