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Police Need Your Help in 6-yr-old’s Hit & Run Case

Posted by Sandra On October - 6 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS

Boston Granda, 6, was riding a scooter when he was struck by a minivan.

Anyone with information please call investigators at (951) 270-5673

NORCO ( KTLA) — A 6-year-old Norco boy who was struck by a hit-and-run minivan driver is speaking out about the ordeal. Boston Granda was riding a motorized scooter when he was struck by a female driving a brown minivan at Garden Grove Avenue and Huerta Way around 4:30 p.m. Monday, according to authorities. Deputies say the driver sped from the scene.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-norco-scooter-hit-and-run,0,1915936.story

Man Gets 1-Year for Sexually Abusing Boy

Posted by Sandra On October - 6 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
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NEWARK — A 20-year-old man was sentenced to a year in prison after he admitted to sexually abusing a young boy over several years. Joshua S. George, of Pataskala, pleaded guilty to four counts of gross sexual imposition, a third-degree felony, at a hearing Thursday. George initially was charged in Licking County Juvenile Court because he was between 13 and 17 years old when the crimes occurred. The victim was between 2 and 6 years old.

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http://www.newarkadvocate.com/article/201010010655/NEWS01/10010307

GA Man Arrested for Sexting Porn to 11-Yr Old Girl

Posted by Sandra On October - 6 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS

ALBANY, GA (WALB) –The District Attorney warns parents that sexual predators are using children’s cell phones to prey on them. 20-year old Kenneth Brown is charged with two counts of computer pornography. On July 7th a father found three naked photos of Brown in his daughter’s cell phone and text messages asking for sex.

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http://www.wtvm.com/global/story.asp?s=13248336

29-Yr Old Man arrested for child exploitation

Posted by Sandra On October - 6 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS

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MERIDIAN —     Eight Lauderdale County deputies and investigators sat around a living room with walls that were lined with photos of young children, family portraits and school pictures. They were in this home because a man suspected of being a sexual predator was on his way there to meet a teenaged boy.

At about 8:50 p.m. Saturday, deputies arrested John Weatherford III, 29, of Meridian. On the ground next to Weatherford’s open car door and where he was sitting handcuffed was a paper bag containing a hamburger and a soft drink he had bought for the teenager. Three LCSD deputies stood over him, one armed with an assault rifle, while an investigator read him his rights.

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http://meridianstar.com/local/x231068226/Man-arrested-for-child-exploitation

PA Mom Pleads Guilty in Plot to Impregnate Girl

Posted by Sandra On October - 6 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS

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UNIONTOWN, Pa. – A western Pennsylvania woman accused of conspiring with her boyfriend to drug her 13-year-old daughter so he could try to impregnate her has pleaded guilty in a deal with prosecutors.

The 34-year-old Uniontown woman was slated for trial Monday in Fayette County Court of Common Pleas. But she pleaded guilty to criminal conspiracy, endangering the welfare of children, corruption of minors and unauthorized administration of intoxicants.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101006/ap_on_re_us/us_daughter_pregnancy_plot_1

Man Sentenced To Life (plus 20-yrs) For Child Molestation

Posted by Sandra On October - 6 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS

Tommy Lee Strozier

PAULDING COUNTY, Ga. — A Paulding County man was sentenced to life plus 20 years after being convicted on child molestation charges.Officials said Tommy Lee Strozier, 53, was found guilty on Sept. 27 for rape, sexual battery, aggravated sodomy, two counts of aggravated child molestation and other charges involving a young girl.

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http://www.wsbtv.com/news/25272062/detail.html?taf=atl

Delaware Man Raped Teen Boy

Posted by Sandra On October - 6 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS

Andrew F. Hill

A 46-year-old Selbyville man was charged with raping a teenage boy after giving him alcohol, state police said. Andrew F. Hill of the 36000 block of Mallard Drive was arrested after two people — a 33-year-old Selbyville man and a woman whose age is not known — went to visit him about 7 p.m. Sept. 23, said police Cpl. Jeffrey Hale.

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http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201010030345/NEWS01/10030338

1,000 year sentence handed down in child rape case

Posted by Sandra On October - 4 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS

A man arrested in 2008 on child-sex charges by Palm Bay police will spend the rest of his life in prison, the police department said Friday. Timothy Raymond Anderson, 51, was convicted by a St. Lucie County jury this past week for sexual-battery charges. Judge Dan Vaughn sentenced him to 999 years, 99 months and 98 days in prison. “At least he won’t be able to victimize another child again,” Palm Bay police Detective Jasmine Campbell, who investigated the case, said in a prepared statement.

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http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2010-10-01/news/os-child-rapist-life-sentence-20101001_1_palm-bay-police-sexual-battery-child

Cleveland Police Investigating Child Rape

Posted by Sandra On October - 4 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS

Reginal Canfield arrested for sexual assault on girlfriend’s 8-year old daughter

(Cleveland) – Police are holding a man suspected of raping a young girl. Officers arrested 33 year old Reginald Canfield. He’s charged with sexually assaulting his girlfriend’s 8 year old daughter. Investigators believe the attack occurred at the girl’s home on Storer Avenue Saturday morning. Detectives say the child told them Canfield had assaulted her several times over the past year.

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http://www.wtam.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=122520&article=7669724

Mom’s Boyfriend Charged for Child’s Sex Abuse Murder

Posted by Sandra On October - 4 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A woman’s boyfriend was charged with murder after her toddler died from apparent sexual abuse injuries, DeKalb County police said.Ellison Matthew, 22, was initially arrested after police found the 2-year-old girl unresponsive at her home on Brockett Road in DeKalb County, DeKalb County police spokesman Jason Gagnon said. Matthew was charged on Sunday.Several kids were under Matthew’s care, police said. They said their mother wasn’t home when her toddler became unconscious.

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http://www.wsbtv.com/news/25260668/detail.html

3-Yr Old’s Birthday Party Turns Into 75-Person Brawl

Posted by Sandra On October - 4 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS

Toddler’s Birthday Party Turns Into 75 Person Brawl

Cincinnati, Ohio – Police from seven jurisdictions had to be called out to a 3-year-old girl’s birthday party after her 26-year-old father got into an argument with her mother’s new boyfriend leading to a family feud amongst the 150 people in attendance. The fight escalated to the point that at least 75 guests were throwing chairs and beer bottles at each other. Once the dust had settled, fifteen people were injured with at least five hospitalized, one needing surgery for an eye injury caused by a beer bottle.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/10/04/toddlers-birthday-party-turns-into-75-person-brawl/

Court Hears Gruesome Details on Wife, Children Being Raped & Burned Alive

Posted by Sandra On October - 4 - 2010 1 COMMENT

Jennifer Hawke-Petit, Haley, 17, and Michaela, 11

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Two Connecticut men charged with killing a woman and her two daughters in a 2007 house invasion inflicted unimaginable terror on a model family that had enjoyed their final pleasant summer day together, prosecutors told a jury during closing arguments Friday.

Prosecutor Gary Nicholson said it was impossible to recreate the fear the two girls, 11-year-old Michaela and 17-year-old Hayley Petit, felt when the men tied them to their beds and poured gasoline on or around them before setting their Cheshire house on fire.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-petit-hayes-trial,0,6193998.story

Parents Sue After Classmates Find Dead Son’s Brain in a Jar

Posted by Sandra On October - 4 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS

 

NEW YORK-– A Staten Island couple is suing New York City after their deceased son’s friends found his brain on display while on a field trip to a morgue. Andre and Korisha Shipley’s 17 year old son Jesse was killed in a car crash in 2005, and was buried in a local cemetery. The Shipleys had no idea their son’s brain was removed until his friends and classmates from Port Richmond High School visited a morgue as part of a field trip for the school’s forensic science club.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-dead-teens-brain,0,5652378.story

JonBenet Ramsey Murder Case Re-Opened

Posted by Sandra On October - 4 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS

JonBenet Ramsey was killed in December 1996.

DENVER — Nearly 14 years after six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was murdered in her Boulder home, detectives have launched a new round of interviews looking for potentially missed clues. Investigators have contacted several potential witnesses, including Burke Ramsey, JonBenet’s brother. Burke was 9 years old when his sister was found strangled in the family’s basement. He’s now 23, and police hope a new investigation may trigger memories of additional details.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-jonbenet-new-interviews,0,4091330.story

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