TEMPE, AZ — Tempe police have confirmed the skeletal remains found in Apache Junction are those of missing 19-year-old Adrienne Salinas. Tempe police Sgt. Mike Pooley said confirmation was made, through DNA testing, by the Arizona Department of Public Safety.  “At this point in the investigation, we do not conclusively know Adrienne’s cause or manner of death. We […]

Their lives are lost to nannies, which are charged with caring for them; to family members who are supposed to watch out for them; and, by parents whom they thought loved them. Who are these victims of such brutality? That’s right, the children. Whether it’s in Philadelphia, Washington, Boston, New York, or around the world; just pick up any newspaper, on any given day, and you’ll read at least one story of child-murder that will break your heart. It’s devastating when innocence is lost. It seems as if the killing of innocent children has reached epidemic proportions, with death tolls rising regularly. But what’s more alarming, is that those who commit these heinous crimes against our loved ones have little or no remorse. Strangers and family members, with the conscience of a sociopath, snatch their innocent lives away, with the ease of blowing out a candle. And it’s frightening!

PITMAN, N.J. — The Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office and the Pitman Police Department are investigating what appears to be a murder-suicide. Police say the deceased man, woman and child have been identified as 49-year-old Francis Adolf, his wife 44-year-old Bonnie Adolf and their child 6-year-old Francis Adolf Jr. Pitman Police Department officers found the bodies shortly after 10:00 a.m. Tuesday in the home on Kenton Avenue.

A Montgomery County music teacher has been charged with sexually abusing 14 of his elementary school students during the past eight years and with repeatedly having sex with a seventh-grader in the 1990s, according to court documents released Tuesday. Lawrence W. Joynes, 54, had been a teacher in Montgomery County schools since 1985, and he allegedly abused children in his care as early as 1991 and then from 2005 until shortly before he was arrested in February on a pornography charge, according to court documents. Police wrote in court filings that a principal and later a teacher had been made aware of Joynes’s inappropriate actions with girls in his classroom at New Hampshire Estates Elementary School in Silver Spring and that as a result, his access to students was restricted.

HUNTSVILLE, AL – Officials are now confirming that the man who was killed in an officer-involved shooting in Huntsville last Friday was a fugitive from South Carolina already convicted of child sex crimes. Madison County Coroner Craig Whisenant identified the man who was shot as 57-year-old Brent Dotson. Dotson was convicted last year of raping a 6-year-old girl. Records show Dotson never showed up for his trial in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina last December, and had not been seen since he was convicted ‘in absentia’.

Authorities said Jay Thomas Morgan, who was arrested last year as part of a two-county child pornography investigation, committed suicide in jail Monday morning. In a statement, Johnson County Sheriff Bob Alford said Morgan, 50, was found dead in his cell at the county’s Law Enforcement Center. Investigators acting on a tip allegedly found child pornography at Rosalyn Burdett’s home in rural Johnson County on July 30, 2012. Burdett then implicated Morgan.

In the private prison industry, longer sentences earn more money from the state. Since 2003, Ciavarella received millions of dollars in bribes for condemning minors to maximum prison sentences. In one case, Ciavarella sentenced a 10-year-old to two years in a detention facility for accidentally bottoming out his mother’s car.

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The FBI and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation have joined the search for a 15-year-old girl who was last seen two years ago, but was not reported missing until late last month. Police became aware of Erica Lynn Parsons’ disappearance only July 30 when her 19-year-old brother contacted them and said that she was last seen leaving the Salisbury home of her parents in November 2011. An attorney hired by Erica’s adoptive parents, Casey and Sandy Parsons, claimed that his clients were under the impression that the 15-year-old went to live with her biological grandmother and wanted to be left alone, the Charlotte Observer reported.

Aziza Kibibi was only eight-years-old when her father started raping her. By 10, Aswad Ayinde’s lessons teaching his daughter ‘how to be a woman’ turned violent and his regular raping produced five children out of incest. Those days are now long behind Kibibi, who saw her abusive father sentenced to 50 years in prison on July 26. Now 35, married and running a promising baking business, Kibibi recently reflected on her ‘nightmare’ childhood on NJ.com.

A third trial of former Indiana state trooper accused of murdering his wife and children in 2000 got off the ground Monday after his two previous convictions have been overturned on appeal. Prosecutors and defense attorneys began questioning 150 prospective jurors in the trial of David Camm to determine whether Camm is guilty of shooting and killing Kimberly Camm, 35, his 7-year-old son Bradley and 5-year-old daughter Jill. Defense attorney Stacy Uliana said both sides began jury selection by weeding out people who had hardships that would prevent them from serving or who had already decided Camm’s guilt or innocence.

SAVANNAH, GA — WTOC has learned new information about the arrest of a Guyton man on child molestation and exploitation charges. More charges could be on the way against 19-year-old Brandon Fanning. Homeland Security gave the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force in Effingham County a tip about the Guyton man and potential connections to child porn and other materials originating in Effingham County. They busted him for molesting and exploiting a child.

MANCHESTER, N.H. — A New Hampshire man used a handgun to shoot his 9-year-old son to death before taking his own life during supervised visitation at a YWCA office in the state’s largest city, officials said Sunday. An adult supervisor was present when Muni Savyon, 54, of Manchester, produced a handgun and shot 9-year-old Joshua Savyon of Amherst before shooting himself, the attorney general’s office said. Reports of gunfire shortly after 10 a.m. brought a heavy response from police officers who set up a perimeter.

WOODSTOCK, Ill. – A young child was abused, suffered a head injury, and spent nearly a week in the hospital; two adults were home with the girl at the time, yet no one has been criminally charged. There was only an Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) case on the incident.