WILMINGTON, DEL. — A du Pont family heir who raped his 3-year-old daughter nearly a decade ago but received no prison time now faces a lawsuit from his former wife that accuses him of sexually abusing his toddler son. Robert H. Richards IV, 47, who is supported by a trust fund and who paid $1.8 million for his 5,800-square-foot mansion near Winterthur Museum, pleaded guilty in 2008 to fourth-degree rape of his daughter. Currently on probation, he has never been charged with crimes against his son. The lawsuit provides in-depth details about a child rape case that Delaware authorities never disclosed publicly and did not receive media attention.

A teacher at a suburban Texas middle school faces felony charges for allegedly having a sexual relationship with one of her 15-year-old male students that dates back to at least November of 2013. In at least one case, Hopper Middle School math teacher Corrie Anne Long, 43, performed oral sex on the boy in her classroom. Authorities first started investigating Long after a fellow student told school staff that he saw Long and the 15-year-old alleged victim engaged in bizarre horseplay – namely, the witness said he saw the 15-year-old student spanking Long.

Police in New York have launched an investigation to determine whether an apparently devoted mother fatally poisoned her own 5-year-old son with toxic levels of salt. Garnett Spears died at Westchester Medical Center in January after his 26-year-old mom, Lacey Spears, rushed him to the emergency room on suffering intense abdominal pains from what appeared to be a stomach virus. The little boy’s condition worsened and he died four days later with what appeared to be dangerously high amounts of sodium in his system – leading investigators to question whether Garnett was deliberately given the salt.

On city streets throughout America a battle is being waged for the soul of humanity, and it is taking place right in front of our eyes. As darkness descends, the fading light lays bare an open wound in the fabric of society. The most vulnerable among us are being offered up as prey for those with unspeakable appetites. Children are being trafficked sexually in this country at an alarming rate and right now 300,000 are at risk of being prostituted. According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the average age of a sex-trafficked child is 13-14 years old. Each pimp can make $150,000-$200,000 per child a year, and the average pimp has four to six girls.

A slim, pretty and vivacious blonde, Cynthia Duckett charmed everyone she met. To her neighbors, she was a doting mother to her daughter Terrie and her younger son Paul. Along with her partner, Peter Bond-Wonneberger, they seemed to be a wonderfully happy family. Yet beneath the facade, they were falling apart. Peter was meting out savage beatings to Cynthia’s children, and in his thrall, she turned a blind eye.

An LAPD officer is accused of beating a young relative because the child had poor grades and was behaving badly, prosecutors said. Daniel Hun Chun, 39, allegedly hit the teen repeatedly with a variety of household items on March 13, “leaving welts and bruises,” according to a statement released by the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. He was charged with one felony count of child abuse and one felony count of corporal injury on a child and faces up to six years in state prison.

A mother has admitted pulling off her baby daughter’s finger and toe nails in an horrific year-long campaign of abuse. The 26 year-old began hurting the child when she was just six months old. Suspicions were first aroused when the child’s GP noticed the injuries to her nails in August 2010. The mother initially claimed her baby was suffering from infected nails, but doctors found there was no medical cause for the injuries. The woman, from Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. was arrested and charged with wounding with intent.

A mother who abused her adopted son for more than a decade, beating him and locking him in darkness for a year, has today been jailed. Jean Robinson beat her son Joseph for 11 years, after adopting him as an 18-month-old baby. The 62-year-old locked him away without access to a toilet, caging him in total darkness for a year. Robinson was today sentenced to 12 months in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of willful assault at Preston Crown Court. Speaking after the hearing, Joseph, now 27 and a dad himself, said: ‘It started when I was adopted at 18 months old and went on until I was 11. ‘She did awful things to me, and I used to wonder why she hated me so much.

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Three starving children — including one who was chained to the floor to prevent her from getting food — were found last month in the squalid home of a Northern California couple, authorities said. All three — two boys and a girl — were taken into protective custody, and one was hospitalized, Monterey County Sheriff Scott Miller said Friday. Authorities discovered them in the Salinas, Calif., home on March 14 after two of the young people missed appointments, according to several published reports.

Henry Enriquez is wanted for rape and gross sexual imposition in Cleveland, Ohio. These charges are based on Enriquez’s alleged sexual assault of a female victim who was under the age of 13 when the crimes occurred. The incidents took place in Lakewood, Ohio, from January 3, 1992 through May 31, 1992. On February 16, 1993, an arrest warrant was issued by the state of Ohio, Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, after Enriquez was charged with rape and gross sexual imposition. Enriquez was also charged with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution, and a federal arrest warrant was issued by the United States District Court, Northern District of Ohio, on March 15, 1993.

Two teachers at Ottawa’s elite private school Ashbury College, have been found guilty of professional misconduct for covering up a sexual assault against a student on a field trip to Boston in 2007. The teachers, Alyssa Novick and Ian Middleton were supervising a group of history students on a trip to Boston, when a 16-year-old student was sexually assaulted. The family of the victim claims the school and the two teachers did not deal with the victim appropriately, and did not contact Boston police immediately.

A Texas mother and her boyfriend have been charged with murder in connection to the 2012 death of her 2-year-old son found lying on the sidewalk with contusions all over his body. On November 17, 2012, little Steven Drouillard was discovered unresponsive on the ground outside his mother’s apartment building in Pasadena, Texas. The toddler was wearing only a diaper, and his body was covered in more than 200 bruises, lacerations and bite marks.

A Detroit woman has pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing her 8-year-old daughter, a death that occurred weeks after a court official declined to remove the girl from her home. The Wayne County prosecutor’s office says Semeria Greene pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Thursday and will serve at least 23 years in prison before she’s considered for parole. The maximum term would be 50 years. Sentencing is April 7.