SEATTLE, WA — A dozen men filed a broad new lawsuit against the Boy Scouts and former adult leaders Thursday, saying that abuse occurred regularly in Washington state sites such as a popular camp outside of Seattle. The case accuses 13 different people of abuse — the largest number of such defendants in a case filed against the Boy Scouts of America, according to the attorneys. Those named in the filing include a scoutmaster accused of repeatedly abusing two boys, a camp cook accused of raping a boy, and a business manager accused of abusing a boy in a tent. At least one of those accused denies the allegations and says he was out of the country when the alleged abuse happened.

MARIETTA, GA — The mother of a baby fatally shot in his stroller in coastal Georgia has taken the stand for the second day. Sherry West gave tearful testimony Tuesday about the killing of her son at a suspect’s murder trial. When proceedings ended for the day, she was still being cross examined by the defense. DeMarquise Elkins is charged with murder in the March 21 killing of 13-month-old Antonio Santiago in Brunswick.

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LAS VEGAS — A California man is under arrest charged with kidnapping and sexually assaulting a student at a Las Vegas middle school. According to Metro Police, the 13-year-old victim was locking up her bicycle at Woodbury Middle School, near Sandhill Road and Harmon Avenue, at about 6 a.m. Wednesday. She catches a bus there to K.O. Knudson Middle School. Police said the suspect grabbed her, pushed her into a dark place and assaulted her several times. He used a knife during the attack, police said.

Britain’s regime for controlling dangerous pedophiles is fundamentally flawed, a damning police review has concluded. It leaves thousands of serious sex offenders free to leave the country to abuse youngsters overseas. There are some 65,000 registered sex offenders in the UK, but only 50 orders stopping such individuals travelling abroad have been obtained in the past five and a half years.

Masha Allen suffered years of horrifying sexual abuse at the hands of her wealthy adoptive father and is now suing him and 13 other pedophiles who include doctors and lawyers in a $20,000,000 lawsuit filed on Friday. Originally from Russia, Allen was adopted at the age of five in 1998 by an unmarried Pittsburgh businessman, Matthew Mancuso who proceeded to rape and post sickening images of her online for five years.

A teenage boy has been discovered bearing horrific signs of torture after it is believed that his brother and sister-in-law beat him with a hammer, drove a nail through his hand and chained him naked for days in a dog kennel. Jordan Gunn, 13, was found by police sleeping rough on a park bench in Seattle, Washington after he managed to escape the home of Brandon Gunn, 27, and his 34-year-old wife Viviana Gunn. The teenager’s arms were covered in deep scars and fresh wounds. He is now in protective custody. The married couple were charged with assault and unlawful imprisonment on Tuesday after being arrested at the weekend.

MACOMB COUNTY, Michigan – Macomb County Prosecutor and Sheriff Anthony Wickersham move to increase charges against Ronald Dimambro, the man accused of beating two-year-old Damian Sutton. Macomb County Medical Examiner Dr. Daniel Spitz has completed the of the little boy. Dr. Spitz has determined that the cause of death is blunt force trauma and the manner of death is homicide. As a result of these findings, Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith says he is increasing the charges against Ronald Dimambro to First Degree Felony Murder.

AUGUSTA, GA — A 78-year-old Augusta man is facing multiple charges of child molestation as well as a rape charge. Harold “Dusty” Rhodes is in jail, accused of having sex with a 13-year-old girl. According to the incident report, the victim’s father contacted deputies after she told him about the alleged sexual assault. In a five page statement, the girl says that Rhodes has been molesting her since she was six years old, stating that he would make “sexual comments” to her while she was performing oral sex. By the age of 8 or 9, she says Rhodes began having sex with her and physically abusing her. She says he’s also pointed a loaded pistol at her.

Six schoolgirls molested and given sexually transmitted diseases by their teacher in Jiangxi say they only want two things: They want to see their mums. And they want the man responsible for their suffering sent away so he cannot hurt anyone ever again. Those two things are “most beautiful things” they can imagine, they say. All six are “left-behind children” who have been cared for by their grandparents since infancy while their parents work in more affluent coastal cities, earning roughly three times what they could make back home. The incident has shocked the nation and served as a wake-up call about child sex abuse in the country, particularly involving left-behind children.

DENVER – Two women have pleaded guilty in a child abuse case involving one’s 6-year-old adopted daughter. Deanna Martinez pleaded guilty Friday to child abuse resulting in serious body injury. Her girlfriend — Regina Marquez — entered the same plea earlier. Marquez is the adoptive mother of the victim. Police say the girl was kept in isolation and not fed properly for several years. She had a broken arm and fingers that were never treated.

NASHVILLE, TN — A Clarksville, Tenn., woman is suing the U.S. Army for $30 million, saying its silence on a sex abuse investigation allowed a man to rape her daughter and videotape the act. Joshua Cline, 29, is awaiting transfer to prison after being convicted on federal child pornography and state child rape charges involving the girl, who was 6 years old when the abuse was discovered in 2008. But according to the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Nashville by attorney Amy Bates, the Army failed to warn the girl’s mother after it began investigating the charges, instead telling her that she didn’t have anything to worry about regarding her daughter.

Portsmouth, VA – Keisha Holmes, a 36-year-old Virginia woman, has been jailed after she allegedly took her 1-month-old baby to a nearby church and then smothered the child to death. According to police, officers were dispatched to Holmes’ residence earlier this month after she called 911 and told police dispatchers that she smothered her baby to death.

A convicted child molester facing new charges of abusing a teenage boy asked a court to dismiss the case because he claimed he married his victim according to Jewish law. Andrew Goodman, 28, was convicted in 2012 for several years of abuse of a boy who was just 12 years old when the crimes started. He was sentenced to two years in prison but in October 2012 additional charges surfaced because he once took his victim, at the time 15, across state lines to Atlantic City, the New York Daily News reported on Tuesday.