CALGARY – Traumatic injuries to a five-year-old child have landed a Calgary mom with an attempted murder charge.

Police revealed few details Thursday after charging the 32-year-old woman, but said child abuse investigators stepped in when the young boy was taken by his mother to Alberta Children’s Hospital on May 27.

The child had problems breathing and was unable to stand — injuries that were not consistent with an illness.

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http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2010/06/04/14257006.html

LARGO — A 23-year-old Largo man was arrested Thursday after authorities say he beat an 8-year-old boy whose mother said he had eaten too many muffins. Pinellas County sheriff’s deputies arrested Andrew C. Natanski at 12:35 p.m. Thursday on a child abuse charge.

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http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/largo-man-beats-8-year-old-boy-for-eating-too-many-muffins-police-say/1099977

EUGENE, Ore. – A Lane County couple once featured in a flattering newspaper article about foster parents now face assault and criminal mistreatment charges that allege they injured and neglected a boy they adopted.

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http://www.katu.com/news/local/95418274.html

OCEAN CITY — A North Carolina man accused of sexually abusing a child in Ocean City more than 30 years ago was found guilty when he had his day in court Thursday.

Michael Lowell Barnes, 64, submitted an Alford plea June 3 in Worcester County Circuit Court to child abuse as a custodian. Fifteen other charges of second- and third-degree sex offenses, second-degree assault, and additional counts of child abuse as a custodian were dropped by prosecutors.

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http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20100604/WCT01/100604033

DENVER — A Denver police officer wore a black and white jail jumpsuit as he appeared in an Adams County court Friday, accused of assault related to domestic violence and child abuse.

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http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/23793856/detail.html

SAN FRANCISCO — A woman who has a restraining order against the man who falsely claimed to have murdered JonBenet Ramsey said Wednesday the former suspect is living as a woman and trying to form a cult of little girls to have sex with him.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-john-mark-karr,0,2777934.story

LIMA, Peru — Police say Joran van der Sloot, the 22-year-old Dutch playboy twice arrested in the mysterious disappearance of American Natalee Holloway, has been named the prime suspect in the death of a young Peruvian woman found dead in a Lima hotel today, five days after she disappeared.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-van-der-sloot-accused,0,3756605.story

Sandy Ridge, NC – On April 22, William Plaster Jr. and Shannon Fortenberry had their 4-month-old son seen in the emergency room at Morehead Memorial Hospital. An examination of the infant revealed three broken ribs, a broken right leg and severe head trauma that resulted in retinal and brain hemorrhaging. An MRI showed signs of healing ribs, a sure sign of previous abuse. The baby boy is currently in a permanent vegetative state with irreversible neurological damage – he is not expected to survive.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/06/02/william-plaster-shannon-fortenberry-accused-of-plotting-the-death-of-their-infant/

BROOKSVILLE — All six children had lice in their hair, some with infestations so bad they had rashes along their hairlines. Most of them had gone without a bath for days, if not weeks. Another had roach bites all over her back.

And the family’s 6-month-old boy was drinking from a bottle “so dirty that it was black in color,” the detective wrote in his report. Inside the bottle, a dead roach was floating around in liquid.

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http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/criminal/six-children-removed-from-filthy-roach-infested-home-brooksville-police-say/1099272

Missouri–A Holts Summit man has been charged with one count of first-degree child molestation and one count of first-degree statutory sodomy after admitting to police that he performed sex acts on a 6-year-old girl.

Anthony Ryan Basnett, 26, was apprehended after the victim’s mother contacted police and told them of the incidents.

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http://deadkidsofmyspace.com/

A 4-year-old Portsmouth girl who was dropped off at school six hours later than she should have been was on her school bus the entire time.

Police have arrested the girl’s bus driver, 56-year-old Joan Pierce. She is charged with child abuse and neglect.

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http://www.wtkr.com/news/wtkr-pt-link-driver,0,4398855.story

MADISON, Wis. — A Town of Madison woman who pleaded no contest to 22 felony child abuse charges was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison and 10 years of extended supervision.

Minerva Lopez, 34, was accused along with her husband, Porfino Olivas-Lopez, of beating, choking and kicking a 14-year-old girl.

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http://www.channel3000.com/news/23762389/detail.html

SALT LAKE COUNTY — A Taylorsville man who chaperoned a school field trip now faces a child abuse charge. Prosecutors allege the 39-year-old man got too rough while trying to keep control of students on the bus.

The Salt Lake Tribune reports the man accompanied a class from Arcadia Elementary School on an April 21.

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http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=11009312