Serial pedophile Anthony Rowley is now back in the arms of his wife Julie, and she has brazenly defended him

Emma ­Rowley thought she had suffered the ultimate ­betrayal when as an innocent 10-year-old she was sexually abused by her dad. The man she should have been able to trust with her life stole her ­childhood in the vilest and most terrifying way. Eventually he was locked up in a rehabilitation centre for sexual offenders for his crimes. Yet, shockingly, 15 years later Emma ­suffered an even greater treachery… when she found out that serial paedophile Anthony Rowley, 48, was back in the arms of her ­mother, Julie Cockersole. READ MORE HERE

AKRON — Sharnae Lathan’s story is one of hope and resilience. At 31 years old, the Akron mother has been through more in her life than most people can imagine.  Lathan was sexually abused for years by someone close to her.  While it’s taken Lathan nearly her entire life to cope with the abuse she suffered as a child, she’s turning that pain into helping others. As Ohio’s representative in the Triumph Over Tragedy: Ms. USA pageant, she has the chance to share her story on a national stage. READ MORE HERE

Nikki Haley opened up about her own personal experience with child abuse today as she stressed the importance of the Silent Tears study. Haley told reporters at a press conference today that she was physically abused by a day care provider when she was a child. The South Carolina Governor said that her family didn’t know how to deal with the issue when they found out that she was being abused. READ MORE HERE

During her primary school years, Katie was considered academically gifted and dreamed of becoming a forensic scientist. At home, her loving parents read her bedtime stories and would at times remind her to feed her giant African land snail. But when she turned 12 her life changed forever. Sitting on some steps with a friend in Oxford, Katie was approached by two Pakistani brothers who befriended her with alcohol and cigarettes. She was flattered by the attention they paid her, completely unaware she was being groomed for sexual exploitation until it was too late. For almost three years she was violently and sexually abused by a gang and then sold for sex on hundreds of different occasions to a network of child abusers across Britain. READ MORE HERE

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The often-heard outburst of a defendant’s mother screaming “Judge, don’t take my son away” was turned on its head in a Kent County courtroom Monday when a judge threw the book – and then some — at a child abuser based partially on his mom’s plea to separate her son from society. Nathaniel Sweet will spend the next 24 to 50 years in prison after he was convicted of delivering a blow to the head of 8-month-old Ayla Marie Shuart that had the same force as being dropped out of a four-story window, according to a doctor who testified in the trial in May. READ MORE HERE

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s Cyber Crimes Unit officers observed National Child Abuse Prevention Month in April following a successful year that landed 36 suspected online sex predators and child pornographers in jail. The Cyber Crimes Unit’s arrest total included 15 individuals who were charged with online solicitation of a minor for placing or responding to online advertisements seeking sexual encounters with children. READ MORE HERE

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SEX OFFENDER REGISTRIES:

FBI Registry

NSPOR

Family watchdog

www.missingkids.com–Sex Offender Resources

www.offendexdata.com/browse/Sex_Offender_Registry_Sources

FROM BRIGHT, HAPPY CHILD, TO LOST SOUL

A classroom swot, Girl A was  a ‘bright and happy child’ from a  loving home. Then, aged 12, she turned into a ‘lost soul’. Within a few short months, she was playing truant, self-harming and going missing for days on end. Her bewildered parents begged her to tell them what was wrong, and why she had cigarette burns on her arms and blood stains on her underwear. Their once-diligent daughter  simply shrugged off their questions. Whenever she failed to come home, her father wandered the streets of Oxford bearing her photo as he searched in vain in pubs, nightclubs and cinemas. Her mother said she felt a failure, and recalled: ‘There was no emotion left in her whatsoever. She didn’t laugh. She didn’t cry.’ READ MORE HERE

Five years on, Fritzl incest kin live anonymously

VIENNA – When Elisabeth Fritzl emerged in April 2008 to her first breath of fresh air and ray of sunlight in a quarter of a century, she had been raped countless times by her father, Josef, and had borne him seven children. Five years after the horrors of Austria’s Fritzl case shocked the world, revealing 24 years of incest rape, captivity and childbirth in a damp cellar, the perpetrator and his victims are noticeable by their absence from the public eye.  READ MORE HERE

Actress Emily Lloyd has revealed for the first time that she was sexually abused when she was five years old. Emily, 43, who shot to fame as a 16-year-old in the hit 1987 film Wish You Were Here, makes the revelations in her forthcoming autobiography Wish I Was There, which is serialized in The Mail on Sunday’s Event magazine today. She says her abuser was a family friend who babysat for her and her younger sister. Emily writes: ‘Mum had so many demands on her time that she often trusted babysitting duties to friends. ‘One family friend was an older man. What she didn’t know was that he was a depraved predator. READ MORE HERE

A ‘highly dangerous’ man has been jailed indefinitely for raping a young girl and attacking three more in a single night. After his arrest, John Hinton wrote a series of disturbing diary entries, describing himself as ‘the devil’ and writing: ‘I still feel like killing and eating somebody.’ He detailed sick fantasies about how he would ‘catch the prey and tie her up’, saying he wanted to cut a girl up, send her body parts to her family and then drink her blood. READ MORE HERE

Katie Taylor was drugged and raped for two years – and endured pregnancy and abortion – after being abducted by a predatory gang aged 13. When the Rotherham child abuse scandal exploded last year the nation hoped that the sordid story was a horrifying one-off. But in the wake of the revelations came allegations of more Asian gangs sexually abusing white girls – some as young as 12 – in cities across the north of England. For Katie Taylor (not her real name), the sickening tales of sexual abuse came as no surprise, because as a 13-year-old, she too had been a victim of predatory gangs. READ MORE HERE

Son, 57, speaks out against mother as she is set to be sentenced to only 45-days for 1958 death of his baby sister

A Wisconsin woman recently convicted of killing her daughter more than 50 years ago is an ‘evil monster’ who deserves to die in prison, said her adult son, who claims he suffered years of horrific abuse at his mother’s hands. Ruby C. Klokow, 76, of Sheboygan, pleaded no contest in February to second-degree murder in the 1957 death of her 6-month-old daughter, Jeaneen. But as part of a plea agreement, prosecutors have agreed to recommend a sentence of 45 days in jail and 10 years’ probation, citing her age and medical issues. READ MORE HERE