The father sat hunched on the court bench a few feet from his son. He wept as the verdict was read. His hands hung loosely in his lap, his face slack with grief.  “Yes. Thank God,” whispered the mother on the other side of the room. The girl who said she was raped and sexually abused by Benjamin Scott Marlow from October 2010 to December 2011 trembled as the jury returned guilty verdicts on all charges. She smiled as tears ran down her face.  READ MORE HERE

FBI: Child Prostitution Sweep Rescues 79 Children

During a three-day law enforcement sweep targeting the problem of teenage prostitution, officers rescued 79 children and arrested 104 alleged pimps, the FBI announced Monday.Operation Cross Country 6 took place from Friday though Sunday with more than 2,500 state, local and federal officers working in 57 cities.FBI Acting Executive Assistant Director Kevin Perkins said the children law enforcement freed from their handlers ranged in age from 13 to 17 years old with one girl saying she had gotten involved in prostitution when she was 11 years old.  READ MORE HERE

UPDATE (6/22/2012–10:27pm) A jury found former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky guilty on 45 out of 48 counts in his child sex abuse trial on Friday.

CNN:  Jury finds Jerry Sandusky guilty

————————————————————————

UPDATE: Jury Reaches Verdict!!

Sandusky Verdict Is In

Sandusky Jurors Have Reached A Verdict

———————————————————————–

While Jurors deliberate, Sandusky’s adopted son says he was also sexually abused and is prepared to testify.

BELLEFONTE, PA — The jury considering the fate of Jerry Sandusky on Friday pored over transcripts of testimony in the high-profile child rape case as the second day of deliberations got under way. The statements of prosecution witness Mike McQueary, who testified that he saw Sandusky apparently sodomizing a boy, and defense witness Dr. Jonathan Dranov, who said McQueary’s initial account differs from what he said on the stand, were read back to jurors.  READ MORE HERE

—————————————————————————-

WHO ARE THE JURORS?

Ogad Singh, a marble miner in the village of Dengari in Rajasthan, India, beheaded his 20 year old daughter with a sword and paraded it around town because he disapproved of her promiscuity.  Daily Mail cites that Singh’s daughter had moved back in with he and his wife after she left her husband two years ago. Since then, she had been carrying on affairs with various men around the village.  READ MORE HERE

Disney employee among 38 arrested in Polk child sex sting

A fifth-grade teacher and youth soccer coach, a registered sex offender from Hernando County and a Disney employee are among 38 men charged as part of a sex sting operation involving minors in Polk County. The men were charged as part of “Operation Cyber Child,” a 10-day extensive undercover operation conducted by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE); U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and various other area law enforcement agencies.  READ MORE HERE

Ex-foster father gets life in prison for sexually abusing and raping five children under the age of 13

An Akron, Ohio, ex-foster father who sexually abused five boys he was supposed to care for was sentenced to life in prison today. Roger Ball, 65, was convicted of one count of rape, one count of sexual battery and five counts of gross sexual imposition in May. Judge Tammy O’Brien called his crimes against children, one as young as five, ‘truly horrific.’  READ MORE HERE

Former Indian Army Major Kills Family, Self

Authorities found Singh, his wife and two of their children dead at their home. A third child, a 17-year-old boy, was found alive with head trauma.

SELMA — A man in Selma killed his wife and two of their children and then apparently committed suicide on Saturday. Avtar Singh, 47, called police on Saturday morning and said he had killed his family and was going to kill himself, the Fresno Bee reported.  READ MORE HERE

Mississippi executed a man on Tuesday for the 1990 murders of four of his young nieces and nephews, with the state’s governor rejecting pleas for a reprieve from the mothers of the children he killed. Henry Curtis Jackson Jr, 47, fatally stabbed two nieces and two nephews – aged 2 to 5 years – while he searched for money to steal from a safe kept in his mother’s home near Greenwood, authorities said.  READ MORE HERE

Lewis Beatty Allegedly Murdered Estranged Wife And Cut Daughter’s Throats Before Setting Home On Fire

Pennsylvania — A prosecutor said he may pursue the death penalty against a western Pennsylvania man jailed on charges he killed his two young daughters and his estranged wife at separate residences which were also set on fire. Indiana County District Attorney Patrick Dougherty announced his intentions at a Monday news conference that detailed the killings Friday about 45 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. READ MORE HERE

(Reuters) – The child sex abuse trial of a former Pennsylvania State University football coach starts on Tuesday in a scandal that shook the school and its vaunted football program and opened a national dialogue on sexual predation in sports.  READ MORE HERE

Father of 2-year-old Bianca Jones to be tried in abuse, killing of child

D’Andre Lane, the father of missing 2-year-old Bianca Jones, was bound over for trial Tuesday on charges of first-degree felony murder and first-degree child abuse by Judge Ruth Carter in 36th District Court in Detroit.  READ MORE HERE

LOS ANGELES, CA — Convicted child killer James Lee Crummel, 68, was found hanging in his cell on death row at San Quentin State Prison. Crummel was found dead shortly after 4:00 p.m. on Sunday by staff members bringing him his meal. They had last spotted him alive 15 minutes earlier when passing by his cell. READ MORE HERE

Mother Gouges Her 5-YO Son’s Eyes Out – Believes It Was To ‘SAVE THE WORLD’

An ‘end of the world’ ritual went wrong in Mexico. Carmen Rios García, from Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico, 23, was arrested after gouging out the eyes of her 5-year-old son, Fernando, with her bare hands during a cult ritual on Thursday, when he refused to close his eyes during a prayer ceremony. READ MORE HERE

4-Year-Old Boy Handcuffed And Starved To Death By ‘MONSTER’ UNCLE – Weighed Only 21 POUNDS

Randy Gardner pled guilty to second-degree murder and was sentence to 30-60 years imprisonment for the death of his nephew, 4 year old Robert Byrd, who he handcuffed, withheld food, and regularly beat. According to Daily Mail, Byrd died last May of starvation and neglect, and was found weighing only 21 pounds – half of the average weight for a 4 year old boy- and with skin erosions and bruises on 90 percent of his body. READ MORE HERE