On September 21, 2010 the Austin Police Department Child Abuse Unit received a call stating that a child had been molested by a friend’s father while she was being homeschooled at a home school co-op during 2007 and 2008. On Wednesday, October 13, 2010 Richard “Rick” Charles Sweeten was arrested by the APD Fugitive Apprehension Unit for Sexual Assault of a Child, 2nd Degree Felony related to APD incident 10-5051474.

For many years Sweeten has been involved in a home school co-op and has had access to many children. The APD Child Abuse Unit is seeking the public’s assistance in locating any other potential victims who may have visited, attended and/or been homeschooled at his residence.

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http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/blotter/entries/2010/10/13/police_seek_possible_child_vic.html?cxntfid=blogs_the_blotter

NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – A coach with the North Providence East Little League is facing child abuse charges. Our news partners at The Providence Journal reports 38-year-old Patrick Picard is free on $20,000 personal recognizance, after being charged with abusing his 9-year-old son on October 6th. Picard is accused of throwing the boy across a room, causing him to land face-first against the leg of a piano bench.

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http://www.wpri.com/dpp/news/local_news/northwest/north-providence-local-coach-facing-child-abuse-charges

HICKORY, N.C. (CBS/AP) The investigation into Zahra Baker, the hearing-impaired10-year-old North Carolina girl who was reported missing Saturday, is now a homicide investigation, Hickory Police Chief Tom Adkins announced Tuesday. PICTURES: Zahra Baker Missing

Adkins said that Zahra’s stepmother, Elisa Baker, confessed to investigators that she wrote the ransom note found at the scene that asked for $1 million and then asked for an attorney. Elisa Baker originally told police that she last saw Zahra, who also suffered from bone cancer and had a prosthetic leg, sleeping in her bed around 2:30 a.m. Saturday morning, three hours before a brush fire in the backyard of the family home was reported. Hours after the fire Adam Baker called police to report Zahra missing.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20019330-504083.html

MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee County medical examiners office ruled Wednesday that Mattasia Bowie, 3, died from blunt force injuries to her head.The 3-year-old girl died in Milwaukee earlier this month.It said methadone intoxication also contributed to the girl’s death this month in Milwaukee.Her mother has been charged with child neglect, and her mother’s boyfriend has been charged with child abuse.

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http://www.wisn.com/r/25384716/detail.html

SALISBURY, Md.- A former Delmar, Md. man was sentenced to 35 years in prison Thursday for sexually abusing a child more than a decade ago. Wicomico County State’s Attorney’s Office Davis Ruark said that in February of this year, the Delmar Police Department received a report of sexual abuse that occurred in the late 1990s.  The investigation was forward to S.A.R.A.H.’s house, the Wicomico County Child Advocacy Center. The now 25-year-old victim was interviewed and disclosed that she had been repeatedly sexually abuse by Thomas Edward Ingram from January 1997 January until August 1998. The victim came forward in January after viewing a program about sexual abuse, according to Ruark.

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http://www.wboc.com/Global/story.asp?S=13323130

Tampa, FL – The beastly 340 pound pile of excrement you see to the left is 39-year-old Jimmy George Clarke. Just lookin’ at his sweaty face is enough to produce bile in the back of my throat – knowing the story behind the mugshot makes it taste that much worse. Police have reason to believe that the man with three first names has been diddlin’ three young relatives, ages 14, 10 and 7, for quite some time. Aside from the alleged diddlin’, which included *gag* intercourse, police say Clarke took it upon himself to give the oldest girl a thorough breast and cervical exam every month for the past year and a half.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/10/14/jimmy-george-clarke-charged-with-sexual-battery-incest/

Madison, MS – Since I seem to be on a roll with bizarro mugshots this a.m., I figured I’d throw a couple more your way. Allow me to introduce 52-year-old Lisa Pierce and her son(?), Keyes Pierce. Not a lot of information on this one, but the hobbit and her girlish-looking spawn were arrested after officers from the Madison Police Department and members of the Attorney General’s Internet Crimes Against Children unit conducted a search of their home and computers last Tuesday. I’m assuming they found exactly what they were looking for because junior has been booked on four counts of possession of child pornography. Bond for 28-year-old Keyes has been set at $1 million.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/10/14/mother-and-son-facing-child-porn-charges/

Murfreesboro, TN – Police say a violent sex offender with a lengthy criminal history has been arrested after reportedly sticking his tongue down the throat of an 11-year-old girl. That lengthy criminal history includes a manslaughter charge and various sex crimes – one being the aggravated sexual battery of a 12-year-old girl. Oh yeah, sounds like boyfriend material to me. As far as his latest arrest is concerned, police say Jody Lee Lindsey met a woman on some sort of chat line and recently visited with her and two young daughters in Rutherford County.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/10/14/violent-sex-offender-arrested-after-kissing-11-year-old-girl/

FAIRFIELD, Calif. — Monica McCarrick, 28, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of murder, accused of using a sword to stab her twin 3-year-old daughters to death, nearly decapitating one of them, before attempting using the sword to slash her own throat and wrists and setting a closet on fire. Firefighters found McCarrick and the bodies of her two dead children Tuesday evening after responding to reports of a fire in McCarrick’s apartment. She allegedly placed Lily and Tori’s bodies against the front door to prevent anyone from gaining access inside. She was taken to John Muir Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/10/14/mom-stabbed-twin-daughters-to-death-with-sword-before-attempting-suicide/

CHICAGO (STMW) – Police are looking for a man believed to be in his 60s who sexually abused a girl in a North Side Target store on Thursday. According to a Community Alert from Rogers Park District police, about 5:25 p.m. on Thursday, the man entered the store at 2112 W. Peterson Ave., which is a Target store. Once inside, the man spoke with the victim and her mother in the food court. The mother and her children went on to shop, with the man walking in another direction. The man approached the girl, the alert said, and inappropriately touched her genital area over her clothing.

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http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2010/10/09/police-look-for-man-who-fondled-girl-at-target-store/