LUDINGTON, Michigan — The state appeals court says a murder charge can stick against a northern Michigan man accused of killing his infant daughter, whose body hasn’t been found. In a 3-0 decision released Friday, the court affirmed a decision by a Mason County judge. Katherine Phillips, known as “Baby Kate,” disappeared in 2011 in the Ludington area, about 80 miles northwest of Grand Rapids. Her father, Sean Phillips, is charged with murder. READ MORE HERE

Teen, Lucas Leonard, beaten to death at church while confessing sins

NEW YORK – A teenager was allegedly beaten to death by his parents and other church members during a counseling session in which he was supposed to confess his sins. The 19-year-old’s younger brother also suffered blunt force trauma injuries during the assault. He was hospitalized in serious condition. The brutal beatings occurred during a Sunday night service at Word of Life Christian Church in New Hartford, New York, during a counseling session on the spiritual state of the two brothers. READ MORE HERE

Mother of infant Chance Walsh charged with 1st degree murder

SARASOTA, Florida — The mother of infant Chance Walsh was formally charged with first-degree murder Saturday. Kristen Bury, 32, of North Port made her first appearance before a Sarasota County judge Saturday morning and was denied bond. She also faces one count of child neglect in the death of Chance, whose body was found in a makeshift grave Thursday. The baby’s father, Joseph Walsh, also will be charged with murder after he is extradited from South Carolina, according to Bury’s probable cause affidavit. “Both Kristen Bury and Joseph Walsh were principals in the commission of 1st degree felony murder,” the affidavit says. READ MORE HERE

Kristen Bury directed them to Chance’s body

How Did Chance Walsh Die? Infant’s Mother Charged

GEORGIA – Authorities in Georgia said a mother admitted to drowning her two children Tuesday. Savannah-Chatham Metro Police said Jokeera Morgan, 26, called 911 shortly before 12:38 p.m. ET and said she drowned her two daughters, 18 months old and 8 months old, at her Savannah home. Officers gave the girls CPR, but the children were pronounced dead on arrival at an area hospital, police said. READ MORE HERE

UPDATE: Savannah-Chatham police charge mother

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – The victims of a Florida woman who allegedly killed her own children are said to have told their mother how much they loved her before they died. Jessica McCarty, 33, told police officers that she didn’t deserve to live after the alleged deed, for which she faces the death penalty and three first-degree murder charges in Brevard County. Police say that Lacey McCarty, 7, was drowned in a bathtub, and that her brothers Phillip McCarty, 6, and Christopher Swist, five months, were strangled with cords around their necks. New court documents, including handwritten notes from the officers who arrested her after she tried to take her own life with a knife,  reveal what she said in the aftermath of the killings in March. READ MORE HERE

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Gunman dead after college rampage

Oregon shooting: Gunman dead after college rampage

Oregon Shooting at Umpqua College Kills 10, Sheriff Says

Oregon college shooting updates – Los Angeles Times

Ten killed in college shooting in Oregon – BBC News

Gunman opens fire at Oregon college in mass killing

Gunman killed at least 13 according to Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum and wounded 20 others 

Americans are agog over the U.S. military’s decision to go along with the long-time custom of the Afghan police to sexually abuse young boys. I can certainly understand why Americans would be dismayed over such a decision, but I don’t see how they can be surprised about it. After all, ever since the national-security state was grafted onto America’s original governmental system at the end of World War II, the U.S. government has knowingly, deliberately, and intentionally partnered with evil, under the guise of fighting evil and protecting “national security.” READ MORE HERE

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U.S. soldier punished for intervening in child assault by Afghan

Report: US Soldiers Ordered to Ignore Child Sex Slavery

U.S. military members grapple with authority, morality in dealing with child sex abuse 

Media should have sounded alarm sooner on Afghan child sex abuse

US soldiers say they’re ordered to ignore Afghan soldiers who sexually abuse young boys

Afghanistan Vows to Stop ‘Inhuman’ Child Sex Abuse

US Must Leverage Aid to Stop Child Sexual Abuse Among Afghan Security Officials

Officer Christopher Page, 27, has been charged with first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse

A Tennessee police officer has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of his 2-month old son earlier this month. Christopher Page, 27, an officer with the Paris Police Department, was taken into custody Thursday by Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agents at the conclusion of a three-week investigation into the death of his child, Gunner Page. The probe was set into motion September 2 when police responded to the home of Christopher Page and his domestic partner, Hope Carson, in Puryear. READ MORE HERE

PLATTE, S.D. — Authorities believe a man fatally shot his wife and four children, set their rural South Dakota house on fire, then turned the shotgun on himself, the state’s attorney general’s office said Tuesday. Preliminary autopsy results show all six members of the Westerhuis family died of shotgun wounds. The bodies of Scott and Nicole Westerhuis and their children Kailey, Jaeci, Connor and Michael were found in the burned ruins of their home in Platte on Thursday. READ MORE HERE

BOSTON — A mother has been arrested and her boyfriend is charged with murder in the death of a little girl whose body was found inside a trash bag on a Boston Harbor island this summer, a prosecutor said Friday, after a monthslong campaign to learn the child’s identity. Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley said he authorized a murder charge for Michael McCarthy, 35, and the girl’s mother, Rachelle Bond, 40, is under arrest for accessory to murder after the fact. “At just shy of three years old, Bella Bond was a true innocent,” Conley said at a news conference announcing the charges. “This child, whose very name means beauty, was murdered,” he said. READ MORE HERE

Mother claims boyfriend punched Bella, causing death

‘Baby Doe’: Girl Found Dead in Boston Identified

‘Baby Doe’ ID’d as ‘Bella,’ Suspect Charged With Her Murder

BABY DOE’S MOTHER AND HER BOYFRIEND:

A Bernalillo County jury found Stephen Casaus guilty of child abuse with reckless disregard resulting in the death of his 9-year-old stepson Friday. The jury reconvened Friday morning to determine a verdict in the 2013 beating death of Omaree Varela. The reckless disregard count of child abuse means Casaus did not call for help or try to save Omaree’s life when the boy was allegedly kicked to death by his mother. Casaus was found not guilty of the most serious charge: intentional child abuse resulting in death. That charge alleged Casaus took part in Omaree’s fatal beating. READ MORE HERE

A gang of pedophiles who raped babies, toddlers and pre-school children and streamed the abuse over the internet have been jailed for 78 years. The seven man ring, aged between 31 and 51, preyed on the families of the children they targeted, in one case grooming a mother and father before their baby was born. They traveled across the country to carry out vile attacks together in groups, or used internet streaming so they could be ‘encouraged and directed’ in real-time by other pedophiles. READ MORE HERE

Gynecologist Accused of Switching Newborns at Birth

The mother of the baby boy allegedly swapped at birth at a private hospital in El Salvador screamed: ‘Doctor, where is my son?’ as she confronted her gynecologist.  Mercedes ‘Mercy’ Casanellas and her husband Richard Cushworth – who is British born but a longtime US resident who calls himself American – are currently fighting to find out what happened to their biological son after he was born by emergency Caesarean at a private hospital in the capital San Salvador. A DNA test has proven that Ms Casanellas and her husband are not the biological parents of four-month-old Jacob, the child she has been ‘loving, breastfeeding and caring for 24/7’ since he was handed to her in May this year. She spoke to Daily Mail Online after a courtroom confrontation last Friday with the doctor arrested on suspicion of being involved in swapping their baby – part of child trafficking crime. READ MORE HERE

INDIANAPOLIS – Jeffrey Fairbanks, the father of a three-month-old girl reported missing earlier this year, is now facing murder charges. Fairbanks, 45, was arrested Thursday and charged with one count of murder and one count of neglect of a dependent resulting in death. His initial court hearing on Friday only lasted a few minutes. He answered all of the judge’s questions and asked for a public defender.  “Certainly, the state has elements that we need to prove. But as indicated, we’ve spent a considerable amount of time looking at this case and believe that we’re prepared to go forward,” said Marion County Deputy Prosecutor Denise Robinson after the hearing. READ MORE HERE

Fairbanks’ ex-wife: ‘I was so scared’

Docs: Baby Janna’s dad covered her face with pillow

Indiana father of missing baby now presumed dead charged in case