VOLUSIA COUNTY, Florida – A florida mom is behind bars after police say she tried to kill her two young children and herself with toilet cleaner. A Christmas wreath hangs outside the front door where inside, Port Orange Police say 29-year-old Amelia West tried to kill herself and her two young children by forcing them to drink toilet bowl cleaner. Neighbor Catherine Gardner is stunned. “I have children I have grandchildren I would say she was out of her mind. She needed help and she should have asked for help.” Police responded to this home on Timber Trail in Port Orange around 10:30 Saturday morning. READ MORE HERE

SAN DIEGO — Jose Lopez was awarded a $13.5 million judgment Wednesday from the head of the Jehovah’s Witnesses Church for alleged sexual abuse by Gonzalo Campos of the Linda Vista Spanish Congregation and Playa Pacifica in Pacific Beach. Lopez, 36, claims that the abuse began around 1986, when his mother enrolled him at age 7 in bible study classes with Campos. “I just kept it bottled up inside,” Lopez said. “I never told anybody. I never dealt with it.” READ MORE HERE

An 18-year-old mother has been arrested after a sickening photo of her crying 14-month-old son hanging from a hook by his shirt was posted on Facebook. Alexis Breeden from Spotsylvania County, Virginia, took the disturbing image of the youngster suspended from a door frame with what appears to be a top pulled around his neck. The picture was believed to have been put on Facebook by the boy’s father in retaliation after he had an argument with Breeden. READ MORE HERE

A man has been charged with pedophilia offences in the US after Australian officials found disturbing images on the phone of a passenger who was flying out of Sydney airport. Airport staff found pictures of a 10-year-old boy being abused in Arizona alongside online chat messages – and immediately alerted the Phoenix Police Department. US police then swooped on an apartment belonging to Edwin Collison, 35, and charged him with a series of child sex abuse offences. READ MORE HERE

South Texas Man Had More Than 5M Porn Images

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A local man pleaded guilty Friday to possessing more than five million images of child pornography on his computer, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson, Southern District of Texas. This investigation was conducted by the Corpus Christi Police Department-Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force with assistance from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). READ MORE HERE

Police check apartment after girl, 5, failed to show up for school on Thursday

A murder-suicide is suspected after a mother and her five-year-old daughter were found dead in their Brockville, Ont., apartment on Thursday. Family and neighbors have identified the mother as Monica Willemsen, 36, and the daughter as Katrina. The girl’s school called police when she was absent from class without warning on Thursday morning, Brockville police said. READ MORE HERE

A Clark County jury has found former Beaverton, Ore., police Officer Christopher Warren guilty of raping a 5-year-old girl at his central Vancouver home. Warren, 34, did not show emotion Friday during the reading of the verdict on a charge of first-degree child rape. His wife and other family members and friends were in the courtroom’s public gallery. Superior Court Judge Barbara Johnson remanded him into the custody of the Clark County Jail. A corrections officer escorted him out of the courthouse. The jurors reached the unanimous verdict after about 6½ hours of deliberation. Testimony started early Tuesday and concluded at the close of the business day Thursday. READ MORE HERE

A former teacher is facing a 250-year jail sentence after he admitted to abusing and photographing at least 29 pupils as young as six at his home and on school trips for four years. Matthew Graziotti, 43, met his victims while working as an elementary school teacher, a youth sports coach, a youth pastor and director of a summer camp in South Daytona, Florida. FBI agents found more than 8,700 explicit images in one of numerous files titled ‘Privately Known’ on his computer, taken between 2010 and 2014. READ MORE HERE

Officers seized computers and found 1.2million indecent images and videos 

A pediatrician has admitted a string of sex offences against young boys including sexual activity with a child and possessing more than a million indecent images. Raza Laskar, 32, of Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, is charged with 31 offences committed against 12 boys after he was caught by police with a cache of vile child pornography. Detectives raided his home after 1,600 files suspected to contain indecent photographs of children were made available on a file sharing site between Christmas Day last year and January 27. READ MORE HERE

Honorario Yano, 78, killed his daughter Christine Dela Isla, 39 and granddaughter Anahlia Cowherd, 11, before committing suicide

Police believe a 78-year-old man shot dead his daughter, 39, and 11-year-old granddaughter in a tragic murder-suicide at their home in Seattle, Washington on Monday. The bodies of grandfather Honorario Yango, his daughter Christine Dela Isla and granddaughter Anahlia Cowherd were found by local police around 8:15pm after the suspected shooter’s 10-year-old grandson called 911. While police have not yet released a motive in the murder-suicide, Anahlia’s personal blog tells the shocking story of how she was allegedly sexually-abused by her grandfather for years and how he threatened to kill her just hours before her death. READ MORE HERE

A father with a history of domestic abuse has been arrested on suspicion of killing his two-month-old son who was found beaten to death with bite marks covering his body. Emery Jenkins, who turns 38 today, was arrested after the lifeless body of his son, Joseph, was found at the family home in Deer River, Minnesota on October 16. Paramedics performed CPR on the child in a desperate bid to save his life but to no avail. READ MORE HERE

Mother accused of killing 13-yo disabled son by putting alcohol in his IV FREED because lawyers can’t prove she meant to kill him

A woman whose severely disabled son died after alcohol was put in his IV was released from jail Tuesday after a judge set bail, saying prosecutors couldn’t prove she intended to kill the child. Judge Robert Bent said prosecutors have ‘a viable manslaughter case’ against Melissa Robitille in the August 22 death of 13-year-old Isaac Robitille, but not a second-degree murder case.  Intent is necessary for a second-degree murder charge. Robitille’s attorney, Robert Sussman, said she was released Tuesday afternoon, hours after Bent set her $25,000 unsecured bail. READ MORE HERE

A foster father who confessed to multiple instances of abuse against his disabled foster child is set to spend years behind bars. Dr. Dennis Sullivan faces a prison sentence of 43 months which was handed down on Friday. The 51-year-old Benedict, Minnesota resident earlier entered a guilty plea on August 25 for attempted first-degree assault, according to the media outlet. On that day, Sullivan reportedly confessed to covering his 10-year-old foster son’s mouth with his hand on June 17 after jamming a latex glove in his mouth. READ MORE HERE

1 DEAD AFTER GRANDPA SHOOTS HOME INVADERS ATTEMPTING TO GANG RAPE TEEN GRANDDAUGHTER

NORTH CAROLINA – On Monday night, in Lumberton, N.C. a homeowner’s worst nightmare came true. According to the Robeson Sheriff’s Office, an innocent knock at the door turned into a gun battle with one dead. Carolina Live, citing the Roberson Sheriff’s Office, said around 10 p.m. an unknown man knocked on the door of a home along Yedda Road. The man reportedly told the homeowner his car was having mechanical problems, and he needed water. Just as this was happening, according to Carolina Live, two other men, dressed in black with ski masks and gloves busted through the door and made their way inside. Once the suspects made their way in, it was soon apparent they weren’t just there for money. READ MORE HERE