A Delaware mother who gave birth to a child after her uncle molested her has spent months fighting to limit the man’s contact with the child and to have the man charged with sex offenses. It is a protracted fight that sheds light on how Delaware officials handled sexual abuse claims. The struggle the mother has faced to gain sole custody of her child and to see charges brought against the relative she said raped her when she was 17 continued last week, as Delaware Family Court heard arguments over her request to undo earlier orders granting the man significant custodial and parental rights over the child born from the assault.

College students with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) drink more alcohol than their peers, according to a new study published earlier this year in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. In addition to the problems normally associated with alcohol abuse, the students’ heavier drinking also exacerbates their PTSD symptoms, the study found. “The study doesn’t identify what traumas led to the students’ stress disorder, but it’s safe to assume a good portion of them are survivors of child abuse and/or neglect,” says Rayne E. Golay, psychotherapist, child advocate and award-winning author of The Wooden Chair, a novel that illustrates the post-traumatic stress in the wake of child abuse and neglect.

TULSA, Oklahoma – A Tulsa man is in jail Saturday for allegedly abusing his son and girlfriend’s daughter. A police officer was assigned to investigate a domestic in progress at 26303 W. 16 Ct., officials say. When the officer got to the home he met Robert Edward Wixson Jr. and his girlfriend, Mindy Nelson.

PHILADELPHIA — The archdiocese of Philadelphia had permanently removed two more priests from the ministry over allegations of child sexual abuse, officials said. Archbishop Charles J. Chaput announced Sunday in a statement the removal of the Rev. John P. Paul, formerly of Our Lady of Calvary Parish, and the Rev. James J. Collins, 75, a former professor of religious studies at Holy Family University in Northeast Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

ALBUQUERQUE – A 24-year-old woman is facing child abuse charges after allegedly trying to give her baby away outside an Albuquerque pharmacy. KOAT-TV reports Laura Lopez appeared in court Saturday and will be held on $15,000 bond. Police say a substance abuse counselor heard Lopez trying to give away the infant in front of a pharmacy on Central Avenue. Police say the baby was covered in a sticky substance, which was the result of a severe case of pink eye.

Sitting in his wheelchair beside his parents Tuesday night, Billy Travis flails his arm and lets out a small squeak. Mother Kim Travis immediately responds, checking him and making sure his head is positioned OK, saying something like “Oh I know,” with a cheerful tone. The 7-year-old is likely having a seizure — one of five larger ones he has in an hour and a half — and isn’t registering a word of what Kim has said due to a traumatic brain injury suffered nearly three years ago. Kim and her husband Bob know the outlook for Billy is grim and that he will never respond the way their other children do, but they’re still doing everything they can to keep him comfortable.

The trial of a man who has admitted to the murder and mutilation of his girlfriend and her two young children looks to have been jeopardized by the way police handled his arrest. Edward Covington, 35, is facing the death penalty for the grisly killings of Lisa Freiberg, 26, and her children, 2-year-old Savannah and 7-year-old Zachary, inside their home in Lutz, a small town in Hillsborough County, Florida. Covington admitted to murdering the three during a crack cocaine and vodka-induced rage on Mothers Day, 2008, according to Tampa Bay. He confessed to doctors that he ‘ripped’ his girlfriend in half. Covington, who is bipolar, also said that he cut off her son’s male organ before killing him.

A search was underway Sunday for a group of men who beat and raped a female student from the University of California Santa Barbara, authorities said. The 19-year-old was attacked between 11 p.m. Saturday and 4 a.m. Sunday, according to a statement from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department. The crime occurred somewhere between the UCSB campus and Isla Vista, the statement said.

Charley Hollin is wanted for kidnapping and child molestation. On January 20, 1999, a ten-year-old female resident of Seymour, Indiana, was allegedly abducted at knife point outside a local girl’s club and later sexually assaulted. After the molestation occurred, Hollin reportedly made the victim leave the car naked, and her clothes were thrown out of the car after her.

CASS COUNTY, MO — A couple is facing murder charges after a baby’s body was found encased in concrete in November. Authorities say the couple’s meth use killed their baby and endangered the welfare of their other children. On Tuesday authorities said they were still looking for the man and woman. Thursday morning they said Matthew Scroggs turned himself in and Krystal Scroggs did the same later in the day. Cass County Prosecutor Teresa Hensley announced charges against the couple.

A Connecticut schools administrator said Friday that a video showing a principal dragging two young students down a hallway should have led to the principal’s firing. The videos, made public this week, show Tisdale School principal Carmen Perez Dickson dragging two kindergartners through the halls on different occasions, according to Sandra Kase, chief administrative officer for Bridgeport schools. Both were in the spring of 2012. The Board of Education investigated the incidents, and in October 2013 it voted to suspend Dickson for six months, rather than fire her, something Kase had recommended.

BELLINGHAM — Michael Sulak, 52, a veteran Seattle firefighter, pleaded not guilty in Whatcom County Superior Court Friday to charges of child rape. Sulak is accused of having sex with a then-15-year-old girl several times late last year. Sulak is charged with three counts of third-degree child rape and one count of unlawful harboring of a minor. According to court documents, the girl, who has since turned 16, told authorities she first met Sulak through a theater group, Northwest Washington Theater Group, and that they grew close because she felt he “really listened to her,” court documents said. “She admits being flirtatious with him … does recall one incident when she took his phone and hid it in her bra. The defendant put his hand in her bra to get it out.”

MANCHESTER, N.H. – Two-year-old Sonya Lambert is back home after a frightening attack outside a Market Basket supermarket in Manchester, New Hampshire on Wednesday. Sonya’s mother Krystan had been holding her daughter’s hand and pushing a grocery cart to the car when a stranger started to assault her little girl. “She was just swinging at her,” said Lambert. “Trying to hit her, circling around me.”

A teenage girl was groomed and raped by up to 30 Asian men – including a father and his schoolboy son – during an horrific sex attack lasting six hours, an inquiry heard. Campaigner Shaista Gohir MBE detailed abuse of the young vulnerable Asian girl in a shocking report highlighting how rife grooming was within ethnic communities. She claimed that sexual exploitation and grooming of young Asian girls by men of the same ethnic origins was happening under the noses of authorities – with community leaders, schools and families are all too ready to dismiss the attacks or even cover them up.