A 36-year-old New Jersey woman plead guilty today to charges she killed a 2-year-old girl, nearly four years after the toddlers violent death. Sheila Polanski was babysitting little Madeline McHenry on July 5, 2011 when she shook the toddler to death because she was whining and Polanski was stressed out. The violent shaking caused Madeline to go unconscious, and it was revealed that Polanski didn’t call police until hours later.

A Connecticut teen has died after he was fatally shot in the head and leg by an unknown assailant on Saturday night. Kristjan Ndoj, 15, died on Thursday morning at Bridgeport Hospital, after several days on life support. The shooting happened after Ndoj, a sophomore at Shelton High School in Connecticut, is alleged to have received death threats for talking to a girl.

LOS ANGELES – Broadband and telecommunications giant Verizon is under fire for defending its decision to provide hard-core porn titles with child and incest themes. The company was included in the 2014 Dirty Dozen List of pornography’s leading facilitators, compiled by Morality in Media (MIM), a national organization that opposes pornography. According to MIM, lewd titles like “I Banged My Stepdad,” “Mom, Daughter and Me,” and “Pigtail Teens Pounded” are just some of the many offerings featured on Verizon’s FIOS video on-demand service. In a letter to MIM, Verizon’s Associate Director for Advertising and Content Standards John P. Artney defended the company’s choice to provide the content, noting that “consumers today have extraordinary choice in and control over the content available to them across these networks.”

Parents, you need to prepare your children for the real world — not the world you wish they were inheriting. From Life Code: The New Rules for Winning in the Real World, Dr. Phil shares some shocking statistics about children being raised in today’s family paradigm: Your children were born into a very different world from the one you were born into and grew up in. When the game changes, so do the rules, and boy, oh boy, has the game changed for your children! The family paradigm has changed radically. When I grew up, the typical family was still a working dad, a stay-at-home mom, and two or three children in a neighborhood full of intact families. Today, the divorce rate is around 40 percent, and children living with a single parent or in a blended family are common. And this creates a whole new environment of risk for children.

On February 21, 1992, Anthony Kendall Dewater, a teacher’s aide at an elementary school in Salem, Oregon, was charged with nine counts of sexual abuse in the first degree for allegedly fondling multiple students over a six-month period. He was found guilty of seven of those counts in the Marion County Circuit Court for the State of Oregon on July 31, 1992. On November 2, 1992, the Marion County Circuit Court for the State of Oregon issued an arrest warrant for Dewater for failure to appear in the first degree. A complaint was authorized and a federal arrest warrant was issued by the United States District Court, District of Oregon, Portland, Oregon, charging Dewater with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution on July 22, 1993. If you have any information concerning this person, please contact your local FBI office or the nearest American Embassy or Consulate.

A grand jury has indicted parents of an 11-year-old girl in West Virginia who were arrested after arranging for an abortion following a case of pregnancy after incest. West Virginia State Police say they consented to the abortion and the abortion clinic in question didn’t report the abortion to authorities. Michael and Amanda Adkins were arrested on charges of child neglect causing the risk of injury. While some licensed medical professionals were involved in getting information to authorities, WSAZ-TV indicates the abortion clinic in Charleston that did an abortion did not report the clear case of statutory rape.

Police in Canon City, Colo. arrested 31-year-old Jaacob Vanwinkle on the evening of March 9 after Vanwinkle allegedly went on a murderous rampage and killed his 35-year-old girlfriend, her nine-year-old daughter, and her five-year-old son. Police arrested Vanwinkle in the home where the murders occurred, after the murdered woman’s 15-year-old daughter, managed to escape the murder spree and contact a neighbor, who in turn contacted the police, according to CBS News.

ALABAMA – On Thursday, a pastor in Muscle Shoals, Alabama pleaded guilty to 16 counts of sodomy, three counts of sexually abusing a child under 12-years-old, and one count of child pornography. Jeffrey Dale Eddie, also known as “Brother Jeff,” had served as the children’s pastor at Highland Park Baptist Church since 1998. He was first discovered molesting a young boy on January 22, 2014, however, it was not until four days later that church leaders notified police of the abuse, which is a clear violation of Alabama law.

DETROIT – “I was in shock. I was outraged and I just assumed kits were being tested,” said actress Mariska Hargitay about the thousands of rape kits in Detroit and across the country that have been left sitting in storage without being processed, allowing rapists to remain free to attack again. And they often do. Hargitay joined Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy to announce legislation that will soon be introduced to state lawmakers that is aimed at setting guidelines and deadlines for rape kits tests to be processed.

MEDINA — A 23-year-old Wadsworth man pleaded guilty Thursday to filming himself raping a young girl. Charles Mills was charged with raping a child under age 10, two counts of pandering sexual matter involving a minor and tampering with evidence. He also was charged with unlawful sexual conduct with a minor regarding a different child. Medina County Prosecutor Dean Holman said he was glad his office was able to work out a plea deal because it spares the children from having to testify in court.

A Nebraska nanny accused of shaking a 4-month-old baby to death has been convicted during an emotional hearing this week that ended with an embrace between the jurors and the victim’s parents. It took an Omaha jury four hours Tuesday to convict Sarah Cullen of child abuse resulting in death in the February 2013 killing of Ashley and Christopher Bell’s infant son, Cash. When Cullen was arrested a year ago in connection to Cash Bell’s death, she offered police three different versions of events, none of which was true.

LOS ANGELES —The Los Angeles Police Department’s Hollenbeck division issued an Amber Alert for four young siblings reportedly abducted by their parents. The Department of Child and Family Services had removed the children from their biological parents and placed them in the protective custody of their maternal grandmother. The children’s parents, Rose Chairez, and Enrique Felix, went to Chairez’s mother’s home on Friday despite orders that they were only allowed to see the children during scheduled visitations at DCFS or in the presence of a caseworker.

PASCAGOULA — A Moss Point woman will serve 20 years in prison for abusing and torturing her three children in what officials have described as one of Jackson County’s worst cases of child abuse. Stacey Williams, 35, pleaded guilty in February to four charges of aggravated domestic violence, along with three charges of felony child abuse.

PHOENIX — A 27-year-old Arizona man charged with fatally stabbing his 12-year-old half brother reportedly told police he “just felt like killing.” Andrew Ward called 911 from a convenience store near the north Phoenix home where Austin Tapia suffered multiple stab wounds late Wednesday, police Sgt. Steve Martos said. Ward told the dispatcher he had stabbed someone, and officers found Ward with blood on his hands and clothing and a knife in a pants pocket, Martos said. Martos said detectives asked Ward why he killed the boy, and Ward said, “Honestly, I just felt like killing.”