More than two million images of child sex abuse had been circulated by 100 offenders who went on to be convicted in the last 20 months, the NSPCC says.
In a sample created by analysing media reports of court cases, the charity found that nearly 50,000 of the photographs were in the worst category.
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Sexual abuse is a problem that affects 20 to 25 percent of American women before they reach the age of 18. It is a problem that from 2005 to 2006 afflicted 135,300 American children. It is a problem that the World Health Organization estimates has harmed approximately 25 percent of girls and eight percent of boys worldwide. Child sexual abuse is a human problem.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vinnie-rotondaro/a-human-problem_b_551154.html
NEW YORK (AP) — Fighting child abuse is a cause with universal support. Yet a push to create a national database of abusers, as authorized by Congress in 2006, is barely progressing as serious flaws come to light in the state registries that would be the basis for a national list.
In North Carolina, a court ruled last month that its registry is unconstitutional because alleged abusers had no chance to defend themselves before being listed.
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http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2010/apr/26/flawed-state-abuse-registries-hamper-national/
Parents and relatives are overwhelmingly the most likely perpetrators of abuse of a child, according to an annual report released by the state Department of Public Welfare.
About 81 percent of the substantiated 3,365 sexual assaults on children statewide in 2009 were committed by parents, family members or someone living in the child’s home, the report found. Another 16 percent of the sexual assaults were committed by baby sitters.
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http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/parents-relatives-remain-most-likely-abusers-of-children-1.742869
Oscar nominee’s dark past revealed on Oprah
Newly famed celebrity, Mo’Nique has opened up about a very dark childhood secret that saw her brother banished from the family home. When the Precious star went public about child molestation claims laid on her by brother, Gerald, her parents were left distraught. To confront their public shame, both Mo’Nique’s parents and her troubled brother appeared on Oprah Winfrey’s show to discuss the situation in which Gerald aged 13 at the time tried to “lay on top of” Mo’Nique, then eight.
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http://www.ahlanlive.com/20858-monique-tells-all-about-child-sex-shame
I didn’t hear who made the statement but a newscaster on TV reported this was the strongest language used to date in regards to the child sex abuse scandal plaguing the Catholic Church. Now there’s a good idea.
Child abuse is not a new phenomenon. The practice of exploiting children for the benefit of adults, in a wide variety of forms, has been going on forever. In all of history, all over the world, children have been used for work, for testing and experimentation, for sex, for profit, for recreation, as currency, for just about anything you can think of and then some.
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http://www.tillsonburgnews.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2548266
While most parents don’t believe they could ever harm their child, each year, more than 900,000 cases of suspected child abuse are investigated nationally.
Even more alarming, the number of children in the United States who die from neglect or abuse each year in most states ranges from two to three per 100,000, according to estimates from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service -Administration for Children and Families. This equates to 50 child deaths in Missouri, based on 2007 numbers.
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So far in 2010, there have been 84 confirmed victims of child abuse or neglect Milam County, according to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services.
One case of child abuse that stands out in the mind of Cameron Police Lt. Kris Stringer involved the death of a baby girl, who was wrapped in a blanket and beaten for crying too much.
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http://www.cameronherald.com/articles/2010/04/19/news/news01.txt
A national advocacy group says it’s filing a lawsuit in federal court in Boston seeking reform of the state’s foster care system because it is hurting, rather than helping, vulnerable children.
The group Children’s Rights says in its civil rights class action suit that the foster care system is “causing physical and psychological harm to the abused and neglected children it is mandated to protect.”
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Last October, Ashleigh Hall, a 17-year-old British student, told her mother she was staying at a friend’s house and instead arranged to meet a teenage boy she had been messaging with on Facebook. She never returned the next morning. The teenage boy turned out to be a 32-year-old serial sex offender, Peter Chapman, who raped and murdered Hall and dumped her body in a ditch. Chapman eventually confessed to the crimes and was jailed for life last month.
Maryland lawmakers are negotiating down to the wire on an overhaul of sex offender laws that they hope will be the hallmark of this year’s General Assembly session, which ends Monday.
They arrived in Annapolis in January promising to improve a system universally acknowledged to be flawed. Weeks earlier, an 11-year-old girl was murdered on the Eastern Shore, and a registered sex offender was later charged in the capital case.
Delegates and senators have signed off on a few of some 80 proposed fixes, including lifetime supervision of violent sex offenders who have been released from prison and elimination of good-behavior credits for those still behind bars.
But they remain deadlocked on what victims’ groups call some of the most significant proposed changes: longer mandatory prison sentences for child molesters that Republicans have long sought; and federally required reforms to the state’s publicly available sex offender registry that Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley is seeking.
Some advocates are furious about the delays. They say lawmakers are “playing games” to appease one or two reluctant members instead of acting on key legislation that received near-unanimous approval in the Senate and House of Delegates – although in slightly different forms.
Negotiations have yielded little progress. On Saturday, key lawmakers said they still weren’t planning to budge.
“It’s very, very disheartening,” said Joan Harris, a Catonsville resident and president of Citizens for Jessica’s Law, which has worked for years to increase prison sentences for child predators.
“We just felt like this was the year,” she said, because of the coming election and the “horrible, tragic” case of Sarah Foxwell, whose body was found on Christmas Day on the Eastern Shore after a search involving 2,000 volunteers. The man charged, Thomas J. Leggs Jr., had been convicted of sex offenses in Delaware and Maryland.
Lisae Jordan of the Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault said she is “very concerned” that the sex offender registry overhaul might not pass, calling it one of several “important victim bills still up in the air.”
Proposed changes to the registry include, for the first time, adding the names of those who commit sexually motivated acts of indecent exposure or possess child pornography. People who list themselves as “homeless” on the registry also would have to provide more information.
Many of the registry revisions were designed in part to bring Maryland into compliance with the Adam Walsh Act, and avoid cuts in federal public safety funding.
O’Malley identified strengthening sex offender laws as a priority this year, referring to the Sarah Foxwell case in several speeches. He put forward three measures, including lifetime supervision, reformation of a state sex offender advisory board, both of which have been approved, and registry changes.
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bal-md.sexoffender11apr11,0,600482.story
He was 35.
Timothy White was 5 years old when he was kidnapped in Ukiah by child molester Kenneth Parnell.
Two weeks later, fellow kidnap victim Steven Stayner, 14, fled with the boy, known as “Timmy,” and hitchhiked to safety.
The dramatic story was told in the 1989 television movie, “I Know My First Name is Steven.”
White’s stepfather, Roger Gitlin, said White died April 1 of an apparent pulmonary embolism.
A case of child abuse in Worcester County…It happened on Booth Street, where a Sheriff’s deputy learned that the child and his father, Christopher Burrell, became involved in a heated argument when according to the kid, his father punched him in the face injuring him. The father is in custody on charges of child abuse and second degree assault.
Date of Incident: 1 April 2010
Location: 900 block of Booth Street, Salisbury, MD
Suspect: Christopher D. Burrell, 46, Salisbury, MD
Narrative: On 1 April 2010 at 9:30 AM, a deputy from the Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office responded to a reported altercation in the 900 block of Booth Street. Upon arrival, the deputy met with a male juvenile who was visibly upset and suffering from a recent contusion to the face. The deputy learned that the juvenile and his father, Christopher Burrell, became involved in a heated argument when the juvenile stated that his father punched him in the face causing the injury.
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