A team of Monash University researchers has released the findings of a study, which indicates child sexual abuse may be a trigger for the onset of psychotic illness later in life.

The study suggested that children, who were sexually abused, appeared to be at higher risk of developing schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. The research was led by Margaret Cutajar and included research by Professor Paul Mullen, Professor James Ogloff, Dr Stuart Thomas, Associate Professor David Wells and Josie Spataro. The findings of the study were reported in the November issue of  Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Previous studies established that abused children were more likely to develop depression, anxiety, substance abuse, borderline personality disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder and suicidal behavior, according to background information in the article.

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Reed City, MI – According to police, 19-year-old Stephen Graham-Wright and his girlfriend, 20-year-old Kayla Grillo, have been arrested and accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 6-year old girl. Police say the child was taken from her home in Hersey Township early Sunday morning, and assaulted at another home in Big Rapids. Grillo reportedly swiped the kid that morning and took her to a get-together at Wright’s home. Police say that at some point during the visit, the child was sexually assaulted.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/11/04/couple-accused-of-using-6-year-old-for-child-porn/

West Palm Beach, FL – A substitute teacher for Belvedere Elementary School has been fired after allegedly biting a 6-year-old autistic student on the arm in front of other teachers. It’s not being reported what provoked the man to attack the boy, but the two teachers who witnessed it reported the incident immediately. After learning what happened the school principal escorted the unidentified teacher, who had been filling in for a speech teacher, out of the classroom.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/11/04/teacher-fired-after-biting-severely-autistic-student-in-classroom/

CATHEDRAL CITY, Calif. — A teenage mother, found still cradling her wounded infant, was shot to death during a drive-by shooting that left two people dead and four others wounded. The victims were standing between two parked cars at 6:24 p.m. Tuesday in the gang-infested Dream Homes neighborhood when a vehicle pulled up and the driver asked, “Where you from?” Moments later, there was a burst of gunfire, said Lt. Chuck Robinson.

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COVINGTON, Ga. — A 9-month-old baby is in critical condition at an Atlanta hospital after she was attacked by two raccoons while sleeping in her crib in the same room as her mother. Authorities say they are investigating how the raccoons got inside the home and whether the family was keeping the animals as pets. Newton County Sheriff’s Lt. Tyrone Oliver says authorities arrived about 4 a.m. on Wednesday after the mother called 911 to say the baby had been attacked. She was bitten severely on her head and on other parts of her body.

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San Antonio, Texas (The Weekly Vice) – Jonathan Reyes-Espinoza, a 21-year-old Texas man was jailed Saturday after he allegedly beat a baby’s head against the wall after the child’s mother refused to help him with work. According to police, the mother of a 1-year-old child was awaken Friday afternoon when Espinoza told the woman that she needed to get up and help him with some work. When the woman refused, Espinoza began shouting, which awoke the woman’s baby. Investigators say Espinoza became irate at the crying baby and threatened to snap the toddler’s neck in retaliation. When the woman still refused to bend to his will, he allegedly picked the child up and beat her head against a wall.

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http://www.theweeklyvice.com/2010/11/jonathan-reyes-espinoza-threw-temper.html

MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) – A young mother makes a startling and disturbing admission as police arrive on the scene of a car accident in Montgomery Monday. Officers say they responded to a car wreck in the 1300 block of Woodley Road only to learn from the traffic victim that she’d intentionally slammed her automobile into a power pole in an effort to kill herself and two of her children. Tia Thompson, 23, and two of her four children, ages three and four, were transported to Jackson Hospital for what turned out to be minor injuries. Thompson hadn’t strapped either child into a safety seat and she didn’t have a seat belt on either.

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PARIS, France (KTLA) — A 18-month boy appeared unhurt after falling seven stories and bouncing off an awning into a man’s arms, witnesses told Le Parisien newspaper. Witnesses said the child and a sibling had been left alone briefly Monday in their seventh-floor apartment. Somehow, the toddler fell out a window, but a boy on the street saw what was happening and alerted his father, who caught the child after he bounced off the awning of a tobacco shop and cafe on the building’s ground floor, the paper reported.

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SOUTH PASADENA (KTLA) — Police are looking for a paroled sex offender who removed his GPPS locator and disappeared. Department is presently looking for a habitual sex offender who is a parolee-at-large. Stanley Morrow resides at the South Pasadena Convalescent Hospital located at 904 Mission Street in the City of South Pasadena. Morrow recently removed his GPS tracking device resulting in him being out of compliance and in violation of the terms and conditions of his parole. He is described as a 54 year-old male African-American, 5’9″ and 140 lbs., with a black/grey mustache. Morrow is listed as armed and dangerous.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-sex-offender-pasadena,0,7075968.story

SIOUX FALLS, SD – Sioux Falls police arrested a registered sex offender, 43-year-old Sandor Czekus, Sunday afternoon and he now faces a list of new sex charges. That includes first-degree rape, having and manufacturing child pornography and having sexual contact with a child younger than 16.  Police say the victim in this case is just two years old. But this isn’t the first time he’s been in trouble with the law. Czekus was found guilty of sodomizing a 16-year-old girl in 2002 in Missouri. He moved to Sioux Falls four years later and is now facing more serious charges.

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http://www.keloland.com/News/NewsDetail6371.cfm?Id=106611

DUNEDIN — Detective John Grubb was off-duty, strolling the Publix. He grabbed the bananas, the zucchini, and headed to the pharmacy to pick up a prescription for his boxer, Maxine. Another shopper caught his attention. Grubb knew Thomas Manning Hook was a registered sex offender. He knew Hook had a history of impersonating cops. Then Grubb saw something that made him abandon his shopping cart: Hook had a sheriff’s badge clipped to his waist.

Grubb thought: This guy has to be stopped.

Grubb might have prevented a sex crime when he recognized Hook stealing cookies and children’s sticker books at the Dunedin Publix on Wednesday night, authorities said.

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