SUFFERN, N.Y. — Pro Football Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor was charged Thursday with raping a 16-year-old runaway in an encounter that police said was arranged by a man who beat her up before driving her to Taylor’s suburban hotel room while she texted her uncle for help.

Taylor, the 51-year-old former New York Giant who has faced drug and tax evasion charges in the past, paid the girl $300 for sex in a Holiday Inn, where he was arrested early Thursday, said Christopher St. Lawrence, supervisor of the town of Ramapo.

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BELLEFONTE — In a style of courtroom drama usually reserved for scripted television, a former North Carolina professor sealed his fate in Centre County court Wednesday as he and his defense attorney engaged in role-play, reading aloud to jurors the extremely explicit and foul-language cybersex conversations he had with the 12-year-old Julian boy that he was accused of raping.

OREGON CITY, Ore. — Prosecutors showed graphic pictures in court Thursday in what they called one of the worst child abuse cases they’ve ever seen.

Assault, criminal mistreatment and reckless endangerment charges against 23-year-old Derek Piskorski stem from the alleged abuse of a 3-year-old boy. Piskorski was dating the child’s mother.

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CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) – A Chesapeake father pleaded guilty Thursday, to killing his 5 year old daughter.

Police arrested Joshua Sawyer in June 2009 after the death of his daughter, Carly. Officers responded to his Oliver Avenue home to investigate a complaint of child abuse. Police said the little girl was confined in a box, tied up, beaten and denied food.

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OKEECHOBEE COUNTY, FL – Deputy Sarah Green is a mother and grandmother, so she’ll never forget that moment on April 21st.  Green had been sent to do a welfare check on 2-year old Lilly Harden.

Someone opened the door of their trailer on Highway 98 and told Green the little girl and her mother weren’t home.

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(Reuters) – A Catholic diocese in eastern Spain said Tuesday one of its monks is suspected of abusing a child and asked for the family’s forgiveness, the first such abuse charge to become public in Spain.

The diocese of Segorbe-Castellon said in a statement the monk was from the Order of “Los Carmelitas Descalzos” and his superiors had taken action against him.

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MORE charges were brought in the investigation into a suspected Merseyside and Manchester paedophile ring.

Bolton man John Hawley, 37, of Boundary Street, Halliwell, was charged with five counts of raping a girl younger than 13 in a joint investigation by Merseyside and Manchester Police.

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MISSOULA — A 71-year-old Missoula man accused of having sex with a 4-year-old girl under his supervision has pleaded not guilty to a felony count of rape.

Albert Elmer Gaub was arraigned in District Court on Tuesday and remains at the Missoula County jail on $250,000 bail. If convicted, he faces between four and 100 years in prison.

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31-year-old Toby Patrick Cundiff, of New Holland, is locked up in Lancaster County Prison in lieu of $400,000 bail for allegedly raping a 7-year-old child.

According to the East Lampeter Township Police Department, Cundiff was charged with repeatedly raping and sexually assaulting the child between June of 2005 and November of 2009.

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CALVERT – A police officer in Calvert is in the middle of a child abuse investigation spanning two counties.

On Tuesday, Calvert mayor Marcus Greaves met with News Channel 25 to express his shock at hearing the news that his newest officer was wanted in Falls County.

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Fresno Police say a mother stabbed her 3 year old son as many as 20 times and threw him down a flight of stairs.

It happened around 4pm at the Pleasant Village apartments in west central Fresno.

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