Two young men convicted of pimping children as part of a West Seattle street gang have been sentenced to years in prison.

A King County jury returned guilty verdicts Feb. 19 against alleged West Side Street Mobb members Donta Walters and Gamada Abdullahi. Each was found guilty of prostituting children and conspiring with Street Mobb members to prostitute teen girls.

King County prosecutors claimed each man pimped underage girls as part of a prostitution ring that’s already garnered convictions against six members of the West Seattle-based gang. The convictions follow that of Deshawn Cashmoney Clark, a 19-year-old man sentenced to a 17-year prison term following convictions on human trafficking and child prostitution charges.

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“We are trying to bring someone to justice for this little girl right here,” Sheriff Jeff Hardy said.

(CNN) — Authorities now believe Haleigh Cummings is dead and are treating the 5-year-old’s disappearance as a homicide investigation, the Putnam County, Florida, sheriff said Thursday.

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The stepfather who defended three of the men accused of taking part in the gang rape of a 7-year-old girl at a party after she was allegedly pimped out by her teenage stepsister is a convicted sex offender. This certainly explains a lot. In the meantime, two boys, who are ages 13 and 14 were charged in the horrific crime. They identified Gregory Leary, who has already been arrested, as one of the sickos involved in the attack. You’ll remember that Father of The Year claimed Leary was just trying to help. Pop the hood.

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In an investigation spanning 21 countries across six continents, The Associated Press found 30 cases of Roman Catholic priests accused of abuse who were transferred or moved abroad.

Here are snapshots of the cases:

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REV. DENIS VADEBONCOEUR

Vadeboncoeur, a 69-year-old priest, served a 20-month sentence in Quebec in the 1980s after pleading guilty to sexual abuse and sodomy of four teenage boys.

Afterward, he moved to a small parish in Normandy, France — and was convicted in 2005 of raping an adolescent boy. He was sentenced to 12 years in a French prison, where he is now.

The bishop at the time, Jacques Gaillot, said he tried to give the priest a second chance.

“That was my first mistake,” Gaillot told The Associated Press. “Retrospectively I realized that I was wrong to take him in, and I was wrong not to say anything.”

A 1987 letter to Gaillot from Vadeboncoeur’s Canadian superior, Pierre Levesque, clearly spelled out Vadeboncoeur’s sex crimes and concerns that he would abuse again. But Levesque also supported Vadeboncoeur’s move to France and said “the hard lesson Vadeboncoeur endured had beneficial effects on him.”

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Police in Florida have charged a 56-year-old truck driver with 20 counts of child pornography after paying a visit to his home in Ocala and taking with them his personal laptop.

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Robert Gingrich, a psychologist who specializes in sex-related problems but has no specific knowledge of Thomas Ott’s case, said many male sexual abusers first become frequent users of pornography.

“It’s like alcohol. Some of us can handle it, and some of us can’t. I think pornography’s quite toxic. I’ve seen it do damage to marriages, and I’ve seen a lot of men I’ve worked with compulsively using it,” Gingrich said.

He said up until the early 1990s most pornography involved only adults. But growth of the internet offered more variety, including child pornography.

“I know in this era of Tiger Woods there’s this question, does sexual addiction really exist? Yes, it does. I’d rather try to get somebody off cocaine than pornography,” he said.

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http://www.capegazette.com/zdocuments/20100409thomas-ott/13-child-abuse.html

Naeem Williams is facing the death penalty in the beating death of his 5-year-old daughter Talia

A South Carolina mother has been granted permission to sue the U.S. Army in the beating death of her little girl in a case that could force the Pentagon to take a hard look at its duties to families stationed on base.

Tarshia Williams’ 5-year-old daughter Talia was beaten to death on a Hawaii Army base after what she charged were repeated failures on the part of military personnel to protect her daughter from obvious signs of abuse, allegedly at the hands of her father and stepmother.

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The St. John’s-Ravenscourt campus. (KEN GIGLIOTTI / FREE PRESS ARCHIVES)

WINNIPEG – The Winnipeg Police Service says its child abuse unit is investigating assault allegations involving students at an exclusive school in the city.

Police won’t release details of the allegations involving the St. John’s-Ravenscourt School.

But Stephen Johnson, the head of the university-preparatory school, says the incidents involve what he calls organized bullying.

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http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/winnipeg-police-child-abuse-unit-investigates-allegations-at-exclusive-school-90803969.html

Police: Boy Was Beaten, Tortured Before Death

ARGENTINE TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The mother of a 4-year-old Argentine Township boy who was beaten to death has been released from jail.Police had arrested the boy’s mother and her boyfriend in connection with Dominick Calhoun’s death, but released the mother Tuesday afternoon.

The child died Monday morning at the Hurley Medical Center after a concerned relative found the boy beaten and tortured Sunday inside of a Pinehurst Apartment Complex in Argentine Township Sunday.

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A Florida river has again become the focal point for a search of 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings, who went missing more than a year ago. Investigators today combed the St. John’s River for Haleigh, who disappeared from her father’s home in Satsuma, Fla., in February 2009. Satsuma is just 60 miles south of Jacksonville.

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BROOKLYN — Rabbi Baruch Lebovits, 59, the wealthy owner of a travel agency in Borough Park, Brooklyn, was hit Monday with a lengthy prison term for sexually abusing a then-16 year old teenager from his neighborhood.

Lebovits, a father of seven children and grandfather to twenty four, had long been the subject of talk in his community, but no action was ever taken against him, until three alleged victims came forward a couple of years ago.

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SATSUMA, Fla. — Investigators were back out in Satsuma, Fla. looking for clues in the Haleigh Cummings investigation Tuesday. She’s the 5-year-old girl who disappeared from her bed in her father’s mobile home 14 months ago.

Sources told WFTV a suspect is in custody, but wouldn’t provide any additional details. WFTV spoke to Haleigh’s grandmother, but she said she’s not allowed to talk about the search.

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HOMESTEAD, Fla. (WSVN) — A South Florida mother accused of beating her 7-month-old baby has been arrested.

Homestead Police responded to calls of a disturbance at a home involving an infant. “At approximately midnight, Homestead Police Department was contacted and advised that at 40 Northeast 13 Street in Homestead, there was a highly intoxicated female that was beating on a small baby,” said Homestead Police Detective Fernando Morales.

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