Under Georgia law, the sitter can’t be prosecuted as an adult.

SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — An 11-year-old baby sitter is being held on warrants charging her with felony murder and child cruelty in the death of a 2-year-old girl. Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard is trying to determine how to proceed in the case against the baby sitter in the death of Zyda White.

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Elmhurst, IL – Sandra Clanton, 39, was standing in the kitchen with her daughter and 9-month-old grandson on September 11, when she completely and utterly lost her shit. Police say she suddenly grabbed her infant grandson and smashed his head into the kitchen sink before slashing his face with a butcher knife. The baby’s mother was able to wrestle the child away from Clanton and another person in the home subdued her and called 911. Clanton later told officers she believed the baby was the Antichrist.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/09/21/sandra-clanton-thought-her-grandson-was-the-antichrist-got-stabby/

A Damascus woman who secretly married a man accused of sexually abusing her daughter pleaded guilty Monday to hindering prosecution and first-degree criminal mistreatment.

Barbara Lynn Whitehead, 41, was sentenced by Clackamas County Circuit Court Judge Douglas V. Van Dyk to 18 months in prison. Her husband, Don Edward Smock Jr., is in jail awaiting trial on 45 felony counts of encouraging child sex abuse and other sex crimes. Whitehead was tearful during her court appearance. Her grade-school age daughter and a younger sibling are in protective custody.

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http://www.oregonlive.com/happy-valley/index.ssf/2010/09/damascus_woman_admits_lying_to_protect_man_accused_of_molesting_her_daughter.html

SPOKANE — Spokane Police arrested a former volunteer for a Spokane daycare who admitted to inappropriately touching and fondling a child.

Spokane Police arrested Eugene Wright, 64, Monday afternoon for First Degree Child Rape and First Degree Child Molestation. Police say Wright admitted during an interview with detectives to touching and fondling a 5-year-old girl at the Big Foot Head Start Childcare Center on August 12.

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http://www.krem.com/news/local/Former-daycare-volunteer-arrested-for-child-rape-molestation-103451094.html

CLEVELAND, OH – Andreia Huffman and Jason Dunikowski were sentenced Tuesday for abusing two of their nine children. Huffman received 34 years in prison.  Dunikowski was slapped with 26 years.

Over a period of at least 6 months during each day from 7:00 am to 11:00 pm, Huffman and Dunikowski forced their 8-year-old son to stand facing the wall with his hands clasped behind his head as a form of punishment. While standing facing the wall, Huffman repeatedly pushed her son’s face through the wall of the house. The victim suffered broken noses. Each night, the defendants hogged tied the victim’s feet and hands with duct tape and then tied him to the living room coffee table.

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(Sept. 22) — An Indianapolis woman who’s been charged in the deaths of her two young children allegedly locked her five kids in a closet for 10 hours before the two perished.

That’s according to a police report released Tuesday that accuses Edyan Farah, 28, of dragging a bed up against the closet to block it shut, then leaving to visit a neighbor. Investigators are awaiting results of a toxicology report, but believe the two children — a 5-year-old girl and her 3-year-old brother — died Sunday of asphyxiation. Details were reported by several news agencies.

The children were trapped in a closet about 6 feet by 18 inches for more than 10 hours, and one of the surviving siblings told police they’d been crammed in there before.

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WRTV channel 6 TV station reported.

(CNN) — Hours after a North Carolina police chief issued a tearful plea for help in locating a registered sex offender suspected in the death of his 23-year-old daughter, the man was arrested in upstate New York, authorities said Monday.

Michael Neal Harvey, 34, was arrested without incident by FBI agents and U.S. marshals in Niagara Falls, New York, on Monday morning in connection with the death of Valerie Hamilton, according to a statement issued by Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina, police. Detectives from Charlotte were on the way to New York to interview Harvey and “work on the extradition process,” the statement said.

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http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/09/20/north.carolina.chiefs.daughter/index.html?iref=NS1

SPRING HILL – A mother was charged with child abuse following accusations she threw down her 9-month-old son onto the front lawn during a fit of rage.

Jessica Marie Duhaime, 18, of Spring Hill, also was charged with criminal mischief after she climbed into her mother’s van and rammed into the back of another vehicle, deputies said.

Afterword, she punched her mother in the chest, which led to a domestic battery charge, according to the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office.

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http://www2.hernandotoday.com/content/2010/sep/21/teen-mother-accused-throwing-child/

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Hours after grisly evidence was presented in court detailing the rape and burning deaths of a woman and two young girls, the man accused of committing those crimes suffered seizure-like symptoms, his lawyer has told the court. The trial of Steven Hayes has been halted until Monday because of the accused killer’s medical condition.

On Thursday prosecutors showed jurors grim photos Thursday of rope used to tie up victims, ripped clothing and ransacked rooms in a suburban home invasion that began with the suspects trailing a mother and her two girls at a supermarket and ended with their deaths.

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RISING SUN, Ind. — A southern Indiana teenager who pleaded guilty to murder confided that he wanted to be just like the TV serial killer Dexter a few weeks before he strangled his 10-year-old brother, his ex-girlfriend testified Tuesday.

Alexis Murafski told a judge about her conversation with Andrew Conley shortly after the 18-year-old defendant read a statement in court in which he said he was sorry for killing his brother and didn’t understand why he did so.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-teen-strangles-brother-dexter,0,4002807.story

According to IMPD, 28-year-old Edyan Farah on two counts of Neglect of a Dependant Resulting in Death. She’s being held on a $200,000 bond. IMPD officers said they were called to an apartment in the 4600 block of Londonderry Court after receiving a call about an unresponsive child. When they arrived, officers found two children, a three-year-old boy and a five-year-old girl dead.

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http://www.fox59.com/news/wxin-child-dead-westside-09192010,0,6368441.story