ORANGEBURG, S.C. — The bodies of two children have been recovered from a car submerged in a South Carolina river and their mother has been arrested.
Orangeburg County Sheriff Larry Williams said the children were recovered from the North Edisto River after the car was found near a boat landing Monday.
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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-children-submerged-car,0,6629887.story
Thanks largely to a ‘don’t accept sweets’ advertising campaign, mums and dads would be left with nagging fears that one day their child could be snatched after innocently talking to a stranger in the street.
Nowadays strangers don’t need sweets. At the click of a button they can make contact with children in their own bedrooms and even through their mobile phones.
Although the internet is an invaluable communication tool, the sad fact is that it is exposing millions of children across the world to danger from online predators.
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http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/Tackling-the-dangers-of-online.6476747.jp
MARY ESTHER – A 30-year-old man was charged after a child protection doctor determined that he physically abused two children.
On Aug. 8, the children, who are 4 and 7 years old, got in trouble for playing too loudly in the living room, according to an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office arrest report. Russell Brian McKesson pulled one of the children’s shorts down and spanked the child with a black braided belt, leaving marks that were visible for three days.
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A 56-year-old Victorian man has pleaded guilty to 25 years of sexual abuse against multiple children.
The Victorian County Court heard Dennis Goudge, from Bendigo in central Victoria, molested 18 children, one as young as three, between 1970 and 1994.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/08/16/2984435.htm?section=justin
SAN DIEGO – Growing up in a troubled home can cut your life short or lead to a host of health problems later on, according to studies presented over the weekend at the American Psychological Association meeting.
In several major presentations, researchers outlined evidence that weathering difficulties as a child can set your health on the wrong course decades later.
“Our latest research shows that those reporting multiple adversities could shorten their life span by seven to 15 years,” says Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, a health psychologist at the Ohio State University College of Medicine. “What we have is clear evidence that adverse childhood experience may have lasting, measurable consequences.”
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A Lexington Park man has been jailed in lieu of $500,000 bond on a charge of first-degree child abuse resulting in death, after his 4-month-old daughter died last week at a hospital. Court papers allege that Brian T. Hart, 21, committed the offense on Saturday, Aug. 7.
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http://www.somdnews.com/stories/08132010/entetop103127_32340.shtml
Mooresville, IN –After receiving an anonymous tip about possible child abuse/medical neglect, caseworkers from DCS made an unannounced visit to the home of 19-year-old Kaitlin Moore and her 24-year-old boyfriend, Justin Weber. There they found the couple’s 2-month-old infant suffering from severe, untreated burns. When the child was examined at the hospital, doctors also discovered a total of 8 fractures to several bones including one rib, both arms, both legs and her right ankle.
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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/08/16/infant-severely-scalded-broken-parents-charged/
MUSKEGON, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say a western Michigan man reported to his parole officer that he sexually assaulted his pit bull.
Jose Antonio Sanchez, 58, of Muskegon, faces a preliminary examination Tuesday on one felony count of sodomy. His bond was set at $50,000 last week in Muskegon County district court. He remains jailed.
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http://www.wzzm13.com/news/news_story.aspx?storyid=127406&catid=14
A Blackwood man assaulted his girlfriend’s toddler son and then left him to die in a bedroom with the boy’s twin sister as he and other adults partied in the house overnight, authorities said.
David Ward, 29, of Lower Landing Road, hosted a night of drinking games and marijuana smoking while 2-year-old Riley Cuffee was in dire need of medical care last month, an assistant prosecutor said at Ward’s arraignment on murder charges in a Camden courtroom Friday.
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http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20100813_Man_charged_with_murder_in_death_of_girlfriends_son.html
BENSALEM, Pa. – Bensalem police said a Philadelphia mother faces child endangerment charges for allegedly leaving two children inside her car for nearly six hours while she gambled at Parx Casino.
The incident occurred Aug. 1st, when 35-year-old Sharon Balek left her 15-year-old and 8-year-old girls inside the car while she played the slots, police said.
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http://www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/news/local_news/Gambler_Left_Kids_In_Car_For_6_Hours_081310
The stepfather of a Jackson woman charged with capital murder in the disappearance of her then-2-year-old son said she told him the child was living with one of her husband’s relatives.
“About five or six months ago we asked about the child, and she said the child was with Keith’s sister,” Carnell Brown said Thursday.
Police announced Wednesday that they had found the child’s remains near his home and had charged Kathleen Cassidy and her husband, Keith, in his death.
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http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201008130100/NEWS/8130347
Richard Volberding‘s water heater wasn’t working last February. So he called Daniel Johnson and Mark Owens to fix the thing. Problem for Volberding was that the guys had to walk past his computer to get to the circuit box — and Volberding didn’t bother closing photos of naked children in sexually suggestive poses on his computer screen. The repairmen saw ’em, figured out an excuse to leave the Volberding’s home and turned him in.
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http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2010/08/richard_volberding_child_porn.php
CHARLOTTE – An Ecuadorian man accused of raping two children in south Charlotte should not have been in the country, according to Mecklenburg County Sheriff Chipp Bailey.
Police arrested 40-year-old Ricardo Velasquez on Sunday. He’s charged with two counts of rape, on children ages 7 and 8, but had been previously convicted of several other crimes, including at least one DWI in 2007.
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