WAYNE COUNTY, OH — The body of a missing 9-year-old girl was found inside of a trash dumpster Sunday morning, according to Wayne County police. Reann Marie Murphy was last seen on Saturday at 5:30 p.m. playing in an Akron mobile home park. Authorities searched the area and discovered her body in a trash dumpster near her home at 1:35 a.m.

Children as young as four have violently attacked their teachers, new figures suggest. In one instance, a nursery school teacher was reportedly smacked, kicked and headbutted by a child in Walsall, West Midlands. Elsewhere, it is claimed a pupil punched and headbutted a staff member after grabbing them by the neck in Houndslow, West London. One teacher in Derby was stabbed in the arm with a pencil, according to reports.

Medical examiners said a 2-year-old girl who died a year ago was murdered while she was in the care of a Phoenix day care. The final medical report released Thursday in the December 2012 death of Savannah Cross, who was weeks away from her third birthday, said the cause of death was multiple traumatic injuries, acute methamphetamine exposure and dehydration. Ryan Alan Reed, 27, was re-arrested in November after new forensic details emerged showing he molested the girl, according to authorities. Reed and Allison Ann Clement, 28, were living together and ran the home day care at 48th Street and Southern Avenue for five months. Savannah was placed in the day care for weeks and months at a time by her mother, who was an erotic dancer.

Two former lovers who each murdered children in separate slayings are back in contact and writing love letters to each other from behind bars, it has been revealed. Wesley Williams strangled his former partner and her seven-month-old baby after the graduate broke up with him – then wrote about his crimes on Facebook. At the time of his sickening attack, in June, his ex partner Rebecca Shuttleworth was also facing trial for the murder of her two-year-old son Keanu.

Covered in bruises, his skin red and smarting, this sobbing eight-year-old has just been stripped to his underwear, tied to a tree and beaten by his father. If that wasn’t shocking enough, many in the sizeable crowd that gathered around applauded as the father lashed him with a stick. The boy from Nanchong in Sichuan province, south-west China, skipped classes after receiving the equivalent of £10 from his father. He had also reportedly failed to return on time earlier in the week. After driving around the city in search of his son, the father caught him near a market and exacted his punishment.

A “self-proclaimed” pastor in Minnesota has been charged with the rape of two girls. Jacoby Kindred, 61, is accused of sexually abusing the daughters of his son’s girlfriend beginning when they were only six years old. According to a criminal complaint obtained by the Pioneer Press, Kindred, a pastor with One Accord Ministries, told one victim that “the devil was inside her and he could take the demons out of her.”

At least two people were injured in a shooting at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colo. on Friday. One student was taken to a hospital with serious injuries, according to KDVR. The second student suffered a minor gunshot wound. At a 1:45 p.m. MST press conference, County Sheriff Grayson Robinson said the suspect, who was a student, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Authorities “found his body in the internal portion of the school in a classroom,” Robinson said at a 3 p.m. press conference. The shooter is believed to have acted alone. The shooter “targeted a specific teacher that he was interested in confronting,” according to Robinson.

GREAT FALLS, Mont. — A teenager who pleaded guilty to raping an 11-year-old girl as she walked home from school last year was sentenced to 75 years in the Montana State Prison. Ten years of Kaleb Kuebler’s sentence was suspended, but the 16-year-old also must register as a sex offender and complete treatment before he is eligible for parole, Judge Greg Pinski of Cascade County District Court said Wednesday.

Children as young as five have been excluded from schools for serious sexual abuse, watching pornography and ‘sexting’ inappropriate images of themselves. Hundreds of pupils have been banned from class for a raft of ‘sexual misconduct’, including assault, harassment and bullying. Others have been excluded for inappropriate touching, lewd behavior and sexual graffiti. Shockingly, some children were disciplined within their first year at primary school when new learners are just four or five-years-old, although 13, 14 and 15 years old are the most likely to be punished.

LAURENS, SC – Pictures of Audrina Claire Hepburn are posted on the wall of the Ebel home. They still bring the family comfort and a mold of the 16-month-old’s hand touches Rita Ebel’s heart. “She melted everybody’s heart. We had 16 short months and we were blessed to have those,” Ebel said. Ebel said she always thinks about her granddaughter, Audrina Claire Hepburn. “Everyday I speak her name, I tell somebody about her story, I talk about her, I wear a tattoo on my arm to remind me of her,” Ebel said. Back in October 2009, investigators said someone killed the 16-month-old and accused the baby’s mother, Ashley Hepburn, and her boyfriend, Richard Lewis, of the crime.

The ragtag children born into a horrifying incest ‘cult’ in Australia spent their days having sex and mutilating the genitals of their animals, it emerged today. New disturbing secrets have emerged that shed more light on what happened in the remote homestead discovered in a picturesque New South Wales valley. Investigators found unwashed children born from generations of incest lived there suffering from physical deformities in a ‘cult’ of 40 adults and youngsters. The cult engaged in a sexual ‘free-for-all’ where brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts had sex with one another over four generations.

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A golf coach who has ties to Michigan, has been charged with 65 counts of sexual assault against children. Andrew Michael Nisbet was arrested in Livermore, California on December 7. His arrest came after an extensive sexual abuse investigation. The investigation revealed that the incidents reportedly happened between 2009 and 2012. Nisbet was employed at Las Positas Golf Course in Livermore as a coach for children.