Staind was performing at a festival in Kansas when their frontman spotted a young girl crowdsurfing. Disturbingly, Lewis allegedly saw members of the crowd molest her while she was held aloft. He immediately stopped the song and issued a stern warning: ‘That f**king girl right there is, like, 15 f**king years old and you f**king pieces of s**t are molesting her while she’s on the f**king crowd…If I f**king see that s**t again, I swear to God, I will point you out in the crowd and have everyone around you beat your f**king ass.’

We as parents are the only ones who can stand between our children and any type of abuse. Three types of child abuse occur on a regular basis, and all three types can occur anywhere, in any family, no matter their outward appearances, or wealth. Most abuse is perpetrated by someone close to the child; however, this is not limited to the immediate family. Abusers can include babysitters, neighbors, and even, teachers and church leaders. We’ve all heard the stories, and we don’t want to believe that anyone we know would do such a thing, but it happens. Emotional abuse, neglect, and physical abuse are all types of abuse that affect our society, and, as much as we would like to believe otherwise, it can affect our children even if they don’t experience it in the home. It also affects our children’s friends much more often than we’d like to think.

Muncie child abuse case reveals horrific details of girl’s 80 scars, burns and bruises MUNCIE – When interrogated by police last summer, Charlene Tabb maintained she knew nothing about the many scars, burns and bruises that covered her 5-year-old cousin’s body. The 30-year-old Muncie woman is on trial for murder, charged with causing the death of young […]

With more children narrating their account of horror during their stay at the illegal Karjat shelter in Maharashtra’s Raigad district, a child rights activist said there was a strong indication of child pornography racket operating at the home. The police have already arrested Ajit Dhabolkar, managing trustee of Chandraprabha Charitable Trust, along with his aide Lalita Tonde who was the resident caretaker of the shelter. Initially, five children – including three boys and two girls – gave their account of sexual abuse at the shelter to the Childline.

Even though they have less access to online technologies, poor teens are as likely as middle-class and rich teens to be victims of cyberbullying, according to a new study. The findings suggest that there is no economic “digital divide” when it comes to cyberbullying, said lead author Thomas Holt, an associate professor of criminal justice at Michigan State University.

At the end of finals, most college kids go party. When Emma Sulkowicz finished her last exam of the school year on Tuesday, she went back to her dorm room and dialed 911. It had been almost two years since Sulkowicz, now a rising senior at Columbia University, says she was raped by a classmate. And it had been seven months since she revisited the experience at a school disciplinary hearing, a process that she said left her feeling physically sick, then empty and then scared.

Malaysian police have detained 13 men and are looking for other suspects following allegations that a 15-year-old girl was raped by 38 men in the country’s northern region. Astro Awani television and The Star newspaper reported that the assault took place in the northern state of Kelantan on May 20, when the girl was lured to an empty hut reported to be a local drug haunt. The men took turns to rape her for hours. Police are also investigating whether her 17-year-old friend was also raped. Media accounts, quoting information from district police chief Azham Otham, said 38 men were involved.

Authorities in London, Ontario have pressed charges against a couple after finding a malnourished 10-year-old boy in their home, living in horrible conditions and covered in his own waste. CTV has more. “The master bedroom – an alleged jail cell for a 10-year-old boy for as long as two years. … The boy had come to Canada four years ago from an unnamed Asian country without his parents.” The boy was found after an anonymous tip to Children’s Aid Society of London and Middlesex.CTV also reports the homeowners were called to the scene and when police entered the home, they found the boy living in so-called “squalid” conditions.

Rex C. Reichert is wanted for the alleged sexual abuse of two juvenile males, ages fourteen and ten, over a two-year period at his apartment in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. Reichert had cared for the boys while a relative was receiving medical treatment. The boys also visited him on weekends and accompanied him on camping trips. On September 28, 1990, Reichert was charged with criminal attempt with intent to commit the crime of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, criminal solicitation with the intent of promoting or facilitating the commissions of the crime of involuntary sexual intercourse, indecent assault, corruption of a minor, and endangering the welfare of children by the Collegeville Police Department, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, and a state warrant was issued for his arrest. On March 31, 1992, a federal arrest warrant was obtained for Reichert after he was charged with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution in the United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Over time, I have heard a number of victim impact statements. Some are touching, others seem to miss the point. They can be rambling dissertations that make everyone in the courtroom uncomfortable or even confused. They are sometimes read by the lawyers in the case, but in those circumstances they seem more like a performance than an actual heartfelt statement. There are even times where they hurt the real effort to punish. My advice when a client asks about what to say is:

A 21-year-old man is believed to have shot dead his parents and teen sister in a bloody memorial day murder-suicide, but the motive for the attack remains a mystery. Michael Sheer killed his parents Mark and Lydia Sheer, 55 and 54, as well as his 15-year-old sister Amy Sheer, according to a statement from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. They apparently died early Monday at their home in Mission Viejo, authorities said.

LAS VEGAS — A dramatic development in the shooting of an eleven year old boy who was shot in the head. The boy remains in critical condition at University Medical Center. Police arrested that boy’s mother on charges of attempted murder and child abuse. It’s been more than day now and the boy’s condition at UMC has not improved. Neighbors were surprised about the shooting, but floored about the mother facing charges.

NASHVILLE, TN -A man wanted by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation for nearly three years was captured in Wilmington, North Carolina this week. Stephen Beck, 43, was added to the Top 10 Most Wanted fugitive list in July of 2011 after he failed to appear in court in Wilson County. Beck was due in court to enter a plea deal or set a trial date on charges stemming from his August 2010 arrest on dozens of rape and sex-related charges.

TOCKTON, CA —When authorities investigated child abuse reports of two young boys, they said they uncovered evidence of a prostitution operation inside a Stockton home where the brothers live. The San Joaquin Sheriff’s Department got a tip from an emergency room nurse who filed a severe child abuse case after a mother of a 10-year-old boy brought her son to the hospital for medical attention.