KENOSHA — 33-year-old Antonio Brown of Kenosha faces multiple felony charges for allegedly dangling a boy from an overpass. He’s also accused of forcing two boys to drink alcohol. Brown faces two counts each of physical abuse of a child and second-degree recklessly endangering safety. According to the criminal complaint, Brown had been out with his girlfriend at a Halloween party and returned to her Kenosha home around 1 a.m. on Sunday, October 27th. The complaint says Brown, who police say was still wearing clown makeup from the party, told his girlfriend’s 13-year-old and eight-year-old boys that “he wanted to go for a walk on the train tracks.” They had apparently done this in the past — and the boys joined Brown.

A murdered schoolgirl who vanished ten years ago was sexually abused by as many as 100 men in the run-up to her death, it emerged yesterday. Charlene Downes, 14, had been a victim of child sex gangs in Blackpool, many of them centered on takeaway restaurants. Yesterday it was claimed that her parents turned a blind eye to the some of the abuse which is alleged to have taken place in the family home.

Two sisters have revealed how they suffered in silence for 12 years as their own father sexually abused them. Nicola Twomey, now 22, and Emma Wills, 27, were repeatedly abused by Kevin Twomey, who turned their family home in Port Talbot, South Wales, into a place of fear and pain. The abuse of Nicola started when she was just five-years-old and culminated in Twomey raping her when she was a teenager.

WARREN, MI — A Warren mother stands accused of offering up her 4-year-old daughter on an adult website for money. Jennifer Brys, 26, is accused of posting an ad on Backpage.com, a listing website that contains an area for adult content, and carrying on a conversation with 25-year-old Edward Reardon when he responded. During the course of the conversation, investigators allege that Brys shared with Reardon that she had a young daughter.

MACON, GA — A federal prosecutor said Thursday that he is conducting a formal review of facts and evidence in the death of a teenager whose body was found inside a rolled-up wrestling mat in his high school gym. U.S. Attorney Michael Moore said that if he uncovers sufficient evidence to warrant a criminal or civil rights investigation into the death of Kendrick Johnson he will ask the FBI to conduct it.

In a move toward de-stigmatizing pedophilia, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in its updated Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), distinguishes between pedophiles who desire sex with children, and those who act on those desires. The former group — those who want to have sex with children but whose desires are not distressing or harmful to themselves or others — is no longer classified as having a psychiatric condition in the updated DSM.

BARRIE, Ontario — An Orillia, Ont., woman charged with a slew of sex-related charges against children and animals has been placed into protective custody, her lawyer said. Kathryn Thompson, 19, made a brief appearance by video in Barrie court Wednesday. She is charged along with Avery Taylor, 20, of Orillia, and Shayne Lund, 22 of Penetanguishene, Ont. Lund faces 110 counts including counselling and conspiring to kidnap a child, making and selling child pornography, invitation to sexual touching, voyeurism, sexual assault and bestiality. The women are each facing 16 similar charges. Five alleged child victims have been identified between the ages of two and 10. The charges are so disturbing that the Crown attorney has given notice that it will be seeking dangerous offender sentences.

Bryan Eugene Sweatt, 27, has been named as the deceased gunman and hostage-taker behind a horrific mass murder-suicide in Greenwood, South Carolina, that left two children and four adults dead. Police responded to a 911 call at 5:54 p.m. on Tuesday evening 2007 Callison Highway. A man called cops and said he was contemplating hurting himself. Cops arrived, followed by a SWAT team. After two hours of unsuccessful attempts to communicate with anyone inside, at 7:34 p.m., SWAT officers entered the home and discovered the deceased victims, in various rooms, bound in duct tape. Here’s what you should know about Sweatt and his role in this tragedy.

A rabbi accused of sexually abusing boys in New York was arrested Tuesday afternoon at a Jewish community center in Beverly Hills, California. Menachem Tewel, 30, also known as Mendel Tevel, was handcuffed and led away from the JEM Community Center at 9930 S. Santa Monica Boulevard, at around 1.30pm, where he was working a youth worker. He is suspected of abusing four boys between 1995 and 2004 on two counts of criminal sexual acts and one count of sexual abuse.

A father convicted of keeping his 13-year-old son in a dog cage, torturing him, letting him starve, then burying his body behind the family mobile home claims he’s the only person who ever loved his abused child. Riley Choate spoke out this week from the Indiana prison where he is serving 80 years for the boy’s 2009 death and claimed he was ‘the fall guy’ for a case for which he claims many people are responsible. Authorities say the final year of Christian Choate’s life was subhuman. He was subjected to regular beatings, taken out of school, starved and kept locked in a dog cage.

Twelve years after Lauren Kavanaugh was found emaciated and imprisoned in a tiny urine-soaked closet, she has revealed her extraordinary strength. Speaking to the Dallas Morning News in a series of powerful interviews, the now-20-year-old shared how she has struggled to gain control of her life after suffering six years of sexual, emotional and physical abuse at the hands of her mother and stepfather, Barbara and Kenneth Atkinson. ‘I’m hoping one day I’ll be able to have a normal life,’ Lauren, who now lives in Canton, Texas with her adoptive mother, told writer Scott Farwell. ‘Of course, my life hasn’t ever been normal.’

A former BBC presenter dubbed a ‘predatory pedophile’ has been jailed for 22 years after being convicted of sexually abusing seven boys over two decades. Ex-BBC Norfolk and Radio Clyde broadcaster Michael Souter was found guilty of 26 offences including indecent assault, indecency with a child, serious sexual offences and seven counts of possessing indecent images of children at a trial which finished earlier this month. He was sentenced at Norwich Crown Court today.

A Texas couple have been charged with child neglect for allegedly allowing their severely disabled 11-year-old son to nearly starve to death. The alleged abuse happened in May 2012 when Elijah and Susan Johnson’s son, Nathaniel, was discovered in their home weighing only 30lbs. According to police, the family, which have two other children, were living in a cabin without electricity or running water, ABC13 reported.

An 8-year-old girl was left scalped after being terrorized by bullies at an elementary school in Georgia, her family says. The girl’s grandmother, Dorris Bearden, told WSB-TV that bullies pulled the girl’s hair so hard that a piece of Aolani Dunbar’s scalp was torn off leaving a gaping wound. Doctors say the girl may never grow hair in that part of her scalp again and she may need skin grafts, according to Bearden.