ROSEBURG, Ore. (KMTR) — A sixteen year-old Roseburg boy is charged with the rape and murder of a 5 year old Roseburg girl found dead in her home Friday morning, July 9^th, 2010.

Around 4:48 a.m. Friday morning, Roseburg Police and EMT’s responded to 9-1-1 call from a house on Elaine Street in West Roseburg for a report of a 5 year-old girl who was unconscious and not breathing. The victim’s mother made the emergency call. The girl was pronounced dead at the scene.

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Police say a convicted child rapist from Annapolis has struck again. His victim this time was a 13-year-old girl from Dundalk. Investigators say 28-year-old James Mason had been trolling the Internet for about a month looking for his next victim. He found her on MySpace.

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http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/maryland/annapolis-man-arrested-for-rape-of-13-year-old-after-meeting-on-internet-070910

A Long Beach jury finds that Carlos Aguirre, 25, preyed on his underage niece and her friends. He also is found guilty of child pornography and drug charges. Prosecutors say he could face life in prison.

After 90 minutes of deliberation, a Long Beach jury this week convicted Aguirre, 25, on 10 counts of rape in attacks on one niece and two of her friends. Jurors also found him guilty of a child pornography charge and a drug charge.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-long-beach-rapes-20100710,0,4095435.story

Activities that two Placer County men considered “rough-housing” with young children has earned them jail terms for physically abusing a 10-year-old boy and 5-year-old girl.

Jason Anthony Barr, 29, of Colfax and his ex-roommate, Mark Alan Swan, 30, were each sentenced to more than one year in Placer County Jail and four years of probation for conduct that included sitting on the boy’s chest while play wrestling. Barr and Swan each weighs more than 200 pounds.

About 20 members of Bikers Against Child Abuse were at the preliminary hearing of Dennis Miller, 45, bound over on seven felonies Friday. BACA goes to child abuse cases to support victims.

A juvenile testified Friday that Miller, of Muskogee, threatened to snap her neck and put a specific type of bullet into her head if she did not comply with his order. She said he also chased her and her sister down an alley shortly after he was called to the police station for questioning in various child abuse or sex crimes. It caused the children in the case to have to hide and call for police protection.

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http://muskogeephoenix.com/local/x739951548/Muskogee-man-accused-of-child-abuse-to-stand-trial

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) – A Las Cruces man has been arrested in a child abuse case involving his girlfriend’s young son.

Police say 25-year-old Jason Narvaez was taken into custody Friday. He’s been charged with one first-degree felony count of intentional child abuse resulting in great bodily harm. He’s being held in the Dona Ana County Detention Center on $25,000 bond.

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http://www.newswest9.com/Global/story.asp?S=12783708

INDIANAPOLIS – After they had finished playing at the park near their apartment building Wednesday evening, 10-year-old twin sisters headed home. As they took a common shortcut through one of the buildings hallways, they were approached by a man who asked if they wanted to go to L.A. and offered them money. When the pair declined the man’s offerings, they say he picked them both up and tried to drag them inside a storage closet. The man gave up after one of the girls kicked him in the nuts and the other bit him in the face.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/07/09/police-looking-for-man-who-got-beat-by-twin-girls-he-tried-to-abduct/

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(Newser) – Children’s book author K.P. Bath was sentenced to 6 years in federal prison yesterday after pleading guilty to two counts of possessing child pornography. Investigators discovered a huge cache of disturbing images and videos in Bath’s Portland, Ore., home, many of which “graphically depicted the sexual abuse of very young children,” according to the US attorney’s office. That included sadomasochism, bestiality, and rape.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – U.S. Marshals arrested a man who was wanted for raping a child.

Walter Slicer, 47, was wanted by U.S. Marshals and Springfield Police for outstanding warrants on one count of rape of a child and one count of sodomy.

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http://www.wwlp.com/dpp/news/local/hampden/springfield-man-arrested-for-child-rape

If it takes an entire village to raise a child, it also takes an entire village to prevent child abuse.

That is a lesson we might take from the brief and tragic life of Prhaze Galvan, a 3-year-old Kimball Township child who died Jan. 15 after months of cruel and systematic abuse.

A St. Clair County, MI jury needed only 2 hours Wednesday to convict the child’s father and stepmother of torture, first-degree child abuse and felony murder.

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http://www.thetimesherald.com/article/20100709/OPINION01/7090321

OGLE COUNTY (WREX) – An Oregon father gets probation and jail time after pleading guilty to child abuse.

Thomas Miatke, 22, will spend 180 days in jail and will be on probation for four years. He’s also not allowed to see his child.

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http://www.wrex.com/Global/story.asp?S=12781839

THE Church of England has paid damages to a woman who claims she was forcibly drugged and sexually abused whilst in the care of a church-run children’s home.

Teresa Cooper, who now lives near Chelmsford in Essex, has spent the last 18 years trying to expose the sexual and physical abuse that her and other girls suffered at Kendall House children’s home in Pelham Road, Gravesend, throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

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http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/8263903.GRAVESEND__Church_pays_out_over_alleged_child_abuse/