CORCORAN, Calif — The latest photos of notorious killer Charles Manson have been released by the California Department of Corrections, one week before his next parole hearing. At the request of CNN, the department provided two photographs of Manson taken in June at the state prison in Corcoran, California. They show Manson, 77, with long, flowing gray hair, long beard and mustache. READ MORE HERE
The mother of a toddler missing since December says she was in denial for three months but has come to accept the heart-wrenching possibilities of what may have happened to her daughter, whose whereabouts remain unknown as her second birthday approaches. Trista Reynolds says she continues to pray for Ayla’s safe return but needs answers – good or bad – about her daughter’s fate. She believes Ayla’s father, Justin DiPietro, has the answers. Police also believe DiPietro knows more than he has told investigators. READ MORE HERE
With no evidence against them, couple were banned from looking after their son
When Julie Nevin put her only son to bed in late December 2010, he was seven months old. The next time she was allowed to perform that simple act, Reilly was a 16-month-old toddler. She and her husband David lost nine months of their little boy’s life after social services took him away over a minor bruise on his forehead. READ MORE HERE
Kevin Wells said he now imagines Holly, who would have been 21 this year, as a grown woman rather than allowing the last photograph of her to dominate his thoughts. With the tenth anniversary of his daughter’s death approaching, Mr Wells gave a rare interview to announce his participation in the London Marathon to raise money for a bereavement charity. READ MORE HERE
Serial killers are vicious animals, soulless evil persons who kill innocent people for their own thrill, pleasures and gratification. These psychos take others lives without knowing that one day they will face the outcome. READ MORE HERE
Christine Ackerman said she often finds it difficult to talk to people about the sexual abuse she endured as a child. But Ackerman, 31, said she had no trouble talking to Pilot, the horse she came to know in a program called EAST or Equine Assisted Survivors of Trauma.
The program is a partnership of the Bluegrass Rape Crisis Center and Central Kentucky Riding for Hope at the Kentucky Horse Park. Its creation stems from a desire to expand the riding program’s mental health programming at the Kentucky Horse Park and the rape crisis center’s commitment to offer cutting-edge healing opportunities to survivors of sexual violence. READ MORE HERE
Tammy Lerner grew up in a big, close-knit family in central Pennsylvania. Everyone lived near one another, celebrated holidays together, and respected the elders as the strong-willed heads of the extended household. When some family members heard allegations that young Tammy and a couple of cousins were being sexually abused by two of their uncles, they protected their kin. The accused abusers, that is. READ MORE HERE
As Mark Standish faces the prospect of jail after being convicted of molesting a teenage boy during the sex abuse scandal that rocked Crookham Court School in Thatcham in the late 1980s, his victim Andy Hudson bravely waived his legal right to anonymity to tell Paul Cassell why he finally broke his silence.
He hid behind a sinister veil of depravity and deceit for more than 20 years. A teacher, a man respected and trusted by both pupils and parents, who even acted as the guardian for a number of boys entrusted in his care. But underneath this friendly facade Mark Standish, known more commonly as Alex, had a sick perversion for young teenage boys. READ MORE HERE
Crystal Valdez awaits her next court date from a Cook County Jail cell. She’s 28 and accused of murder. Prosecutors say she watched as her boyfriend beat her young son to death. We wrote about this terrible case on Jan. 1. It makes you gasp. Caseworkers for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services knew something was wrong. Months before Crescencio “Christopher” Valdez died on his fourth birthday, an emergency room doctor had reported his suspicion that the little boy was being harmed. Police investigated, but DCFS made little effort to find out the results of the police investigation and quickly closed its own case. The DCFS investigator believed Crystal Valdez’s story about her son’s injuries. She said he fell off a porch. You might be tempted to say that this was a tragic error, but an isolated one. That would be dangerous. READ MORE HERE
As more and more cases of sexual child abuse come to surface through the media, one well known figure is stepping up to reveal that he, too, was sexually abused as a child. Sugar Ray Leonard, an Olympic gold medalist in boxing, has written a book and spoke for the first time publicly about his abuse Wednesday in Omaha. Leonard said he was abused for nearly 30 years, beginning when he was 14-years-old. READ MORE HERE
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