Child rapists, kidnappers and perverts caught with child abuse images have been allowed to walk free by the police – because they said they were sorry. Hundreds of sex offenders have been let off the hook because they apologized to their victims and the police for their actions, according to figures obtained by MailOnline. The government is facing calls to halt the use of controversial use of the resolution orders, with MPs demanding to know: ‘How on earth has this happened?’

A Florida mother and her live-in boyfriend are facing a slew of child abuse charges after sheriff’s officials say the man repeatedly molested his girlfriend’s children – and she did nothing to stop him. According to the Manatee County’s Sheriff’s Office, 42-year-old Shawn Ussery had not only sexually abused the minors for five years, but he also smoked methamphetamine with at least one of the victims. Ussery was arrested Tuesday at his home in Bradenton on 10 counts of sexual battery, 16 counts of capital sexual battery and a single count of aggravated child abuse.

A father attacked his baby son in hospital while the little boy was being treated for injuries he had inflicted in a previous violent outburst, it has been revealed. The child was taken to Rotherham District Hospital in South Yorkshire when he was less than three weeks old where medical staff found he had suffered severe head injuries and ‘forceful shaking’. While he was still being treated for his injuries his father attacked him again – leaving him with extensive bruising.

STUART, Florida — More than two decades after she reported her 5-year-old son missing from a carnival in New Jersey, a woman investigators say they long considered a suspect was arrested on the day that Timothy Wiltsey would have turned 29. Michelle Lodzinski, 47, was held without bail by a Florida judge after a brief court appearance Thursday. She was arrested Wednesday in Jensen Beach. It wasn’t known whether she would agree to return to New Jersey, where a judge set her bail at $2 million. She appeared on camera from jail wearing an orange jumpsuit and did not yet have an attorney.

A pediatric nurse who allegedly murdered more than 40 infants in the 1980’s and was sent to prison for 99 years is up for parole this week. The parole board will almost certainly vote to keep Genene Jones behind bars. But no matter what the board does, she will walk free in less than four years. ‘She’s probably going to be the first serial killer in this country’s history to be legally released,’ said Andy Kahan.

A 21-year-old mother of five from Denver has been charged in the beating death of her 2-month-old daughter after a night of heavy drinking. Kelsy Newell-Skinner was arrested last Monday and remains in custody for allegedly beating her daughter, Natalee Marie Skinner-Hurst, over the weekend. The infant, who died at a hospital last Thursday, was brain dead and had multiple injuries, including severe bruising on her head, a swollen left eye, fractured ribs and what are thought to be bite marks on her left thigh.

A Kenosha, Wisconsin, couple is suing the popular child care website Care.com for the death of their baby girl. Prosecutors say 3-month-old Rylan Koopmeiners died of blunt force trauma on July 27, 2012, while under the care of Sarah Gumm, a nanny the girl’s parents found on Care.com. Now, Nathan and Reggan Koopmeiners claim the website is partially responsible for their daughter’s death. According to the suit, Gumm, 33, repeatedly left the 3-month-old unattended while she allegedly took a taxi to a local pharmacy and purchased wine. The lawsuit goes on to allege that Gumm was under the influence of alcohol while providing nanny services and “negligently struck and/or slammed Rylan on her head causing a head injury” and ultimately, death.

KENTWOOD, Michigan — A community in Kentwood is in mourning following a fatal stabbing that took place between two kids on the playground Monday evening. It happened Monday at Pinebrook Village Mobile Home Park at about 6 p.m. Police said four children were at the playground inside the mobile home park when a 12-year-old pulled out a knife and began stabbing Michael Conner Verkerke, 9, repeatedly in the back. Adam Zachow, who lives across the street from the Verkerke’s, said his kids spend the weekend playing with Michael, who goes by his middle name, Conner.

Research has shown, along with parents and caregivers, many educators are unaware of the signs, symptoms and prevention of childhood sexual abuse adding to the rapid and ever rising statistics. This is unacceptable with over 60 million survivors of childhood sexual abuse in the United States affecting 1 in 3 girls and 1 in 7 boys. Many parents and caregivers have trouble talking to their young children about their bodies. Small children are notorious for asking questions that make parents squirm, especially when it comes to sexuality. Sex education and sexual awareness is a topic many parents and caregivers would prefer to avoid, but with childhood sexual abuse statistics at an all time high; it is one of the most important talks a parent or caregiver can have with their child.

PENNSYLVANIA – Today WNEP.com reported Pennsylvania State Police have charged 22 year old Tara Paltanavage with abuse of corpse and concealing the death of a baby girl. Pennsylvania State Police spent several hours searching through a trash covered lawn for evidence after a baby was found dead in the trash at a local residence. The coroner told WNEP the “body of a newborn was found in the trash early Tuesday morning along Winfield Drive near Middleport.” It remains unclear how the baby girl died, but an autopsy on the infant is scheduled for Wednesday.

DETROIT – Two Detroit men were arraigned in Wayne County Circuit Court in the fatal shooting of an 8-year-old boy on July 29. Calvin Mosby, 28, and Devaunte Starks, 17, were charged with first degree murder in the shooting of Jakari Pearson in the 680 block of East Street in Detroit. Mosby had previously dated Pearson’s mother and allegedly has threatened her. At 1:20 a.m. Mosby, accompanied by Starks, went to the woman’s home and shot Pearson.

A recent investigation by Tennessee Bureau of Investigation revealed a four-city child sex trafficking loop made up of Memphis, Nashville, Atlanta, and Birmingham. Investigators say teenage girls are brought from city to city. One teen talked about how she was sold into the sex trade at 15 years old. An older man showed her affection, then drugged and took her to an abandoned house.

MICHIGAN – A jury found Dr. Donald Quinn, a dentist who was the focus of a recent 7 Action News investigation, guilty of two counts of willfully violating the sex offender registry act, following a one-day trial before Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Colleen O’Brien. Last year, 7 Action News Investigator Heather Catallo found Quinn working at a dental office that wasn’t listed with the state’s sex offender registry. That is a felony. “Have you told the state that this is where you’re working – it’s not on the sex offender registry,” Catallo asked Quinn in November. He did not answer the question. A few days after Catallo found Dr. Quinn at Southfield Dental Care PC, police arrested him at the dental office.

The mother of a 12-year-old Florida girl who authorities say jumped to her death because she was excessively bullied is now suing the Polk County School Board, a construction materials company and a teenager accused of stalking her daughter. The lawsuit was filed on Monday in Polk County. Rebecca Sedwick leaped to her death from the roof of an abandoned concrete plant in Lakeland in September 2013. A month later, the sheriff’s office controversially arrested two of her classmates, Guadalupe Shaw, 14 and Katelyn Roman, 13, on charges of aggravated stalking.