GRESHAM, Ore. – Child abuse investigators said Monday a Gresham 5-year-old girl who died last week had been abused for years in what they said was the “worst case of child abuse that anyone can ever recall” in the area.
Detectives arrested the girl’s father, 23-year old Christopher Rosillo, and Guadalupe Quintero, a woman police said was a long-time live-in fiance of Rosillo’s.
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Jeremiah J. Stillwell
DELAVAN — A Delavan man accused of causing bruises to his 4-month-old baby’s face could go to prison for six years on a felony charge of physical abuse of a child.
Jeremiah J. Stillwell, 22, of 511 Autumn Drive, No. 202, is scheduled to next appear in Walworth County Court on May 10. The court has entered a not guilty plea for Stillwell.
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Pope Benedict XVI held an ‘intense and emotional,’ meeting in Malta with eight men who say they were molested as minors by priests.
Sex abuse victims meet pope, who admits ‘shame and sorrow’ over the suffering they have endured
Pope Benedict XVI was said to have been reduced to tears as he expressed his “shame and sorrow” over the Catholic church’s sex abuse scandal during a meeting with a group of victims in Malta.
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Baby suffered broken ribs, fractured skull
Watertown, CT– On April 1, a nurse who routinely visited the home of Marci and Merle Stimpson became alarmed when she noticed large bruises on their 4-month old infant and swelling on the baby’s head. The nurse called 911 and the baby was taken to a hospital where doctors found that the infant had suffered 12 rib fractures, a skull fracture, a black eye and extensive bruising. Three of the rib fractures were caused by squeezing, a doctor told police.
When questioned, Merle Stimpson gave the investigators many excuses for the bruises, including that the family cat jumped on the child’s back, that he accidentally dropped the baby a lot because he’s a “klutz”, and then he blamed the baby’s medication saying it was known to cause bruising.
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Eugene, OR – Wearing a black trench coat, that looked out of place on such a nice day, a man attempted to kidnap a two-year-old boy who had become separated from his mother. This happened at a Boy Scout carnival being held at Bethesda Lutheran Church.
Azoulas David Yurashunas, 23, was luring the toddler away from the crowd as the frantic mother called out for her son. The pair made it as far as the parking lot when an alert parent, Chrystal Batchelor, spotted the two about to leave and instinctively grabbed the child. Yurashunas immediately jumped in his car and sped away.
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Where He Belongs According to Director of Halfway House 100-Year-Old Theordore Sypnier Was Staying AtTheodore Sypnier, at age 100, is New York States oldest registered sex offender, in the back where he belongs, prison, according to the director of a halfway house the state’s oldest registered sex offender was staying at.
“He remained adamant that he was going to continue his behavior of molesting children. As a father myself, I’m glad to see him back in jail,” Rev. Terry King, Executive Director of Grace House, a halfway house in Buffalo, New York told ABC News today.
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A veteran Queens prosecutor said Thursday that a recent surge in brutal child abuse cases – including four deaths – is the worst she has seen in the borough in 25 years.
At least eight Queens children have been badly beaten since Feb. 25, and authorities are unsure what to do to stop the disturbing upswing.
“We’ve never seen anything like this,” said Marjory Fisher, chief of Special Victims Bureau in the Queens district attorney’s office.
The state legislature appears to have reached a reasonable compromise in debating whether to lift a 30-year statute of limitations on the filing of lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse.
Advocates for the change say having a statute of limitations in cases of child sexual abuse makes no sense. According to experts, it is common for child sexual abuse victims to suppress memories. Some children are unable to process the reality that a person they love or trust has violated them. They can feel guilty that they have done something wrong and fear turning to anyone.
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TEXAS: Dozens of volunteers have joined police in Wylie, Texas as they work to identify a young boy found dead last week.
The body was found Thursday morning by a landscaper mowing the grass near Lavon Lake.
The Collin County medical examiner said Friday that the boy is about six years old and had significant medical needs and was likely being fed through a feeding tube.
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Christopher Wells, shown in this 2010 Florida Dept. of Corrections photo, is currently in jail on second-degree murder charges, after he left his daughter Christina with permanent brain-damaged after he violently shook her and covered her mouth to keep her from crying when she was two-months old. Christina never learned to walk, talk, or sit by herself and died in March 2006 at age 19.
(AP Photo/Florida Dept. of Corrections)
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. — Soon after Christina Welch turned 18 in the spring of 2005, her biological parents asked permission to pay her a visit. Mike and Tina Wells broke down when the bed covers were pulled back and they saw the state of the girl: so severely brain damaged as a baby that she never learned to walk, talk or sit up by herself.
Maureen Welch, the woman who had adopted her, walked into the kitchen to leave the three of them alone, thinking to herself that it was good the couple finally got to see what Mike Wells had done to his infant daughter.
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Gary Eastburn talks Friday about Timothy Hennis being sentenced to death
for the murders of Eastburn’s wife, Kathryn, and two of their children.
SPRING LAKE — Gary Eastburn has questions for the man who was sentenced to death Thursday for murdering Eastburn’s wife and two of his daughters 25 years ago.
“I always wondered: ‘What the hell were you thinking when you did that? What could any of them have done to cause that?’ ” Eastburn said.
Kathryn Eastburn and children Kara, 5, and Erin, 3, were stabbed to death in their home in the Summerhill neighborhood of Fayetteville in May 1985. A third child, 22-month-old Jana Eastburn, was left alive.
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PLACERVILLE, Calif. – Prosecutors have amassed an overwhelming amount of evidence against a California man charged with kidnapping, raping and holding Jaycee Dugard captive for nearly two decades, a prosecutor said Thursday.
In addition, information has been uncovered that could mitigate the guilt of his wife and co-defendant Nancy Dugard, El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson said during a court hearing.
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Mark A. ShepherdAccording to Sheriff Kevin Harrison, investigators were contacted April 12 about a possible incident of molestation. A friend of the 15-year-old victim spoke with detectives and further investigation led to the arrest of Mark A. Shepherd.
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WEST CHESTER — The mother of two young girls testified Tuesday in Common Pleas Court that she had allowed a man she met online to sexually molest them because she wanted to continue their affair.
“I loved him and I loved him dearly,” the woman told the jury hearing the case against Geoffrey Elkington. “I didn’t want him to leave me, so I let him do what he wanted to do.”
The mother is now serving a state sentence for child abuse stemming from the incidents.
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