TITUSVILLE, FL — A Florida man sentenced to 315 years for child molesting has been set free after less than two decades.
52-year-old Thomas Spioch was convicted in 1997 of molesting a 14-year-old boy and trying to hire a hit-man to kill seven witnesses at his trial.
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EDINBURG, Texas — A jury has found a south Texas man guilty of capital murder for beheading his common-law wife’s three children in 2003.
The Hidalgo County jury deliberated for about three hours Monday before returning its verdict.
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According to the arrest warrant, Brown called 911 and when officers arrived at the Aqua Vista Apartments, they found the child ”lying face up on the bed, unresponsive, cold to the touch and had no pulse.” Brown told police that the child became “unsteady on his feet, falling asleep and not being able to stay awake.”
AMARILLO, Texas — Police are investigating the discovery of a an infant boy’s mummified body in the attic of a home.
Amarillo Police Lt. Gary Trupe says renters of the house were installing a ceiling fan when they discovered the body in a small, tightly sealed plastic ice chest on Monday.
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PORT RICHMOND, N.Y. (WPIX) -FDNY officials say a fire that ripped through a second-floor apartment in the Port Richmond section of Staten Island early Thursday morning — resulting in the deaths of four children and their mother — was intentionally set by the woman’s 14-year-old son, who in turned committed suicide.
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CONCORD, Calif — Police say a 38-year old woman stabbed her only child in chest before killing herself in an attempted murder suicide.
The 10-year old girl told police that she had been asleep when her mother attacked her with a kitchen knife.
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BETHPAGE, N.Y. — He was a well regarded pediatrician, but now allegations have surfaced that for years Dr. Rakesh Punn has been sexually abusing and secretly video taping young girls.
“When the girls would be laying on the examination table he would ask them to put on a blindfold,” Assistant District Attorney Anne Donnelly told reports.
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Lawsuit: Signs of abuse reported before 3-year-old was killed by mother’s boyfriend
The state has reached a $2.1 million settlement with the family of a 3-year-old Tacoma boy who was beaten to death by his mother’s boyfriend after signs of possible abuse were reported to social workers.
Michael-Kekoa Ravenell’s father reached the agreement with the state Department of Social and Health Services on Thursday. The settlement has not yet been approved by Pierce County Superior Court.
SACRAMENTO — It was milestone legislation hailed at the White House, the culmination of an exhaustive campaign by bereaved parents to help prevent future abductions and murders of children.
Yet, nearly four years after the Adam Walsh Act was signed by then-President George W. Bush, California and 46 other states have refused to follow through and implement the law, despite its potential political appeal and the threat of losing federal funding for noncompliance.
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Duane Edward Taylor has spent most of the past 33 years in prison. Loose on the streets of Kingston for 11 days in 1981, he raped and murdered a two-year-old girl.
Now 49, he wants out of prison again.
“I don’t have any skills but I like animals,” Taylor told two National Parole Board members at a hearing last week in Saskatoon, where he appealed for his freedom.
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A girl who was kidnapped when she was a toddler has been discovered alive and well nearly seven years later.
In a case that will give hope to the parents of Madeleine McCann, the victim was found hundreds of miles away from her hometown in California.
(CNN) — William Garner, 37, who was convicted of murdering five children in 1992 in Cincinnati, Ohio, was executed by intravenous lethal injection at 10:38 a.m. Tuesday at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, according to the state’s Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/07/13/ohio.execution/index.html?section=cnn_latest
Popular social networking website Facebook will add a ‘panic button’ application which will report child abuse to Britain’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP). Once installed, the application appears on the homepage saying that the users are in ‘control online’. Facebook had initially resisted the idea, but finally agreed after months of negotiation with the CEOP, BBC reported.
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