Potential red flags that Lauren McConniel was being abused were presented to Ball Memorial Hospital, Southway Urgent Care Center, St. Vincent Randolph Hospital and Meridian Services during multiple visits between Nov. 19 and March 2. They included:
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Jonathan Perfetto, a repeat sex offender, left prison eight days ago. He’s living in a Concord parking garage and spending his days at the city library. He never finished sex offender treatment in prison, and he has no one supervising him.
Perfetto’s biggest fear, he says, is that he’s going to reoffend. His measure of success isn’t reassuring. “I haven’t bought pornography yet, and I’ve been out (of prison) almost a week,” he said yesterday.
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http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/repeat-sex-offender-living-in-parking-garage?page=0%2C0
STOCKTON — Newly released grand jury transcripts show Melissa Huckaby drugged 8-year old Sandra Cantu and sexually assaulted her with a rolling pin before strangling her with an alcohol soaked noose.
Sandra”s body was found with a blood-soaked cloth knotted into a noose, and her official cause of death was listed as “homicidal asphyxiation,” according to court records that had previously been under gag order.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — The search for missing 7-year old Kyron Horman has placed an unwelcome spotlight on family members.
Detectives appearing to be focusing their investigation on Kyron stepmother with a flier showing her picture, and asking if anyone saw her at the boy’s school the day he disappeared.
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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-missing-portand-boy,0,2258470.story
San Jose, CA– On Tuesday, a 5-year girl was playing on her front lawn when a man, who police believe is 35-year old Phillip Michael Dominguez, grabbed her and took her to his home where he then sexually assaulted her. The only good news about this story is that the girl was later released.
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Atlanta, Georgia – What initially started out as a 911 call involving a 12-year-old boy suffering from a heat stroke turned into something far more horrific, with the boy’s sister and her boyfriend charged with his murder. Police say that Omar Pitts and Sabrina Powell were attempting to punish the boy Thursday afternoon by making him stand outside the Camelot apartments holding a paint bucket.
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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/06/18/sister-and-her-boyfriend-charged-with-killing-boy-12/
Casarez Sr. and his son had pleaded guilty after a 2009 incident in which a 15-year-old Shoreline girl was drugged, raped and photographed at Casarez’s home.
MANATEE — A 29-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison Friday by Judge Thomas Gallen after a jury deliberated for two hours to find him guilty of sexually battering a 5-year-old girl, according to prosecutors.
Kyle Wortman was convicted of raping the girl, who was from his neighborhood in the 2400 block of Bayshore Gardens Parkway. Wortman told the girl’s mother he was taking the child to the store with him to buy cigarettes on Dec. 30, 2006.
U.S. Marshals based in Abingdon, Virginia captured a fugitive wanted by North Carolina authorities on a first degree rape charge.
24-year old Eleuterio Diaz of Greensboro, NC was charged with raping of his girlfriend’s daughter, who is under the age of 13. Diaz was found working on a home construction site in The Virginian.
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Not even the sacred halls of New Beverly Baptist Church afforded protection to the young boys who fell victim to Randall T. Hollifield, a 46-year-old Powell man who was sentenced to spend 50 years in prison Friday for molesting three children.
Hollifield, who was a youth volunteer at the Knoxville church, used his position to meet boys and even videotaped one of them performing sexual acts in the house of worship’s gymnasium and fellowship hall, authorities said during a hearing in Knox County Criminal Court.
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Dr. Sonnet Ehlers, of South Africa, has invented a female condom with ‘teeth’ in an attempt to thwart rape in that country. South Africa has one of the highest rape rates world-wide, and very few convictions. Justice for a victim is rare, indeed.
Ehlers’ had to sell her home and car to fund the anti-rape project that some are calling a medieval device. The female condom contains jagged rows of teeth-like hooks line its inside, and is inserted in the woman like a tampon.
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”The Department of Human Services was called many times”, said Diane Haylock on Friday from her home in Maquoketa. ”It shouldn’t have happened. DHS was involved many times, why didn’t someone get him out of there?”
Collin Holdgrafer died Saturday at the apartment of his adoptive parents in Andrew, Iowa. Now, they’re charged in connection with his death. Danielle Holdgrafer is charged with first degree murder, accused of intentionally holding the four year old’s head underwater in the bathtub.
RICHMOND — A Berea man accused of seriously injuring his 6-week-old daughter was indicted Wednesday by a Madison County grand jury.
Brian Farris, 19, was charged with first-degree criminal abuse after state child abuse investigators contact Berea police Feb. 16 after the infant was admitted to the University of Kentucky Medical Center and diagnosed with a brain hemorrhage, lacerations to her liver, rib and wrist fractures, evidence of seizures and other internal bleeding.
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http://richmondregister.com/localnews/x1617556307/Teen-indicted-for-abuse-of-newborn-baby
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