CLARKSVILLE, TN. — A man and woman have been indicted by the grand jury on allegations of injuring two children. A Department of Children Services referral was made about Krystie Chancey’s 4-year-old son between March 27 and April 21. The child was treated for a broken collar bone at Gateway Hospital. When a DCS caseworker located the family and began gathering information, Chancey said the 4-year old hurt himself while playing on a playground. While at the home, the DCS worker noticed a 1-year-old had a black eye.

Port Huron police are working to solve the deaths of two young parents. The bodies of 26-year-old Melissa Ichenberg and 29-year-old Daniel McRoberts were discovered around 7:30 Tuesday evening in an apartment on Riverview Street. Friends say McRoberts had recently moved in with her when he became homeless. Ichenberg’s six-year-old daughter was apparently in the house when the killings occurred, but was not aware of what happened. Neighbors say she was playing in the neighborhood, and asking for food earlier Tuesday. She said she thought her mother was sleeping. Finally, a neighbor checked inside the apartment and made the discovery.

The parents of a 17-month-old girl have been arrested after she was allegedly strapped in a car seat for 15 hours without food or water and suffocated to death after a blanket was stuffed into her mouth. Toni Maurie Gwynn was found unresponsive at her parents’ home in Eden, North Carolina on July 11 after her father, Antonio Gwynn, 22, allegedly forced the blanket into the child’s mouth to stop her from crying. Her father, Antonio Gwynn, 22, has been charged with felony child abuse and second-degree murder and her mother, Heather Gwynn, 22, has been charged with felony child abuse.

Nearly 30,000 children have suffered abuse or neglect in Army homes over the past decade, an Army Times investigation shows. Beatings, torture and starvation claimed the lives of 118 Army children. More than 1,400 children were subjected to sexual abuse. “The Army put a lot of focus on domestic violence because there’s been a lot of political pressure,” said Dr. Rene Robichaux, social work programs manager at Army Medical Command. “There hasn’t been a concurrent interest in child abuse.”

Following Monday’s record-breaking child prostitution sweep, the FBI revealed that earlier stings had targeted huge sporting events and major tourist attractions. Ronald Hosko, assistant director of the agency’s criminal investigative division, said that teen sex slaves had also been recovered at occasions such as NCAA Final Four and the Super Bowl. In the 1990s, gangs took control of street prostitution across America; that forced pimps to move girls into sporting events where security existed, said Dr. Lois Lee. Lee is founder and president of Children of the Night, a nonprofit group that has rescued 10,000 children from prostitution since 1979.

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas – A man who skipped out on his court date has been captured in Michigan. Captain Ken Mitchell with the West Memphis Police Dept. says Stanley Carter was apprehended in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He says as news stories aired about him, Crittenden County Crime Stoppers began receiving tips on Carter’s possible whereabouts including a tip where he had fled to and where he was hiding. Local law enforcement took Carter into custody without incident.

Most adults who were abused as children were harmed by those in their immediate family rather than by those in religious, educational or health institutions, new research shows. The findings, based on statistics from more than 3500 telephone calls to the Adults Surviving Child Abuse helpline in the past four years, quashes the perception that most abuse happens inside institutions.

A list believed to detail the names of child abuse victims has been found behind a secret wall by police investigating crimes uncovered as a result of the inquiry into disgraced DJ Jimmy Savile. Officers swooped on a flat above a record shop in Greater Manchester following a tip-off and discovered the appalling roll call scrawled behind layers of wallpaper and plaster, it has emerged. The list includes the names and ages of hundreds of boys and girls, next to a disgusting ratings system that apparently related to their sexual performance. Some of the names were reportedly boys and girls the pedophiles were planning to target.

MICHIGAN — Alyce Morales,18, (pictured) allegedly freaked out and punched her newborn baby in the head after giving birth to it; she has now been charged with murder, according to the Traverse City Record Eagle. Police records state that the Cicero, Ill., teen had gone on a camping vacation with her parents at a Benzie County, Mich., campsite, but they were unaware of her pregnancy at the time. At some point during the trip, Morales told her folks she was not feeling well and retreated to her tent.

Mia Farrow’s brother has pleaded guilty to two counts of sexually abusing two young boys, but also claimed his innocence as he entered an Alford plea in court on Friday. Businessman John Villers-Farrow made the plea at his hearing in Maryland’s Annapolis court as a way to reduce his sentence while asserting that he was innocent. The father was accused of 39 counts of abusing two boys, who lived near his home, over a five-year period.

A young girl with desires for a job was brutally deceived and killed. On January 31, Blackpool man David Minto, 23, lured Sasha Marsden, 16, to her death by promising her a job at his girlfriend’s hotel. According to BBC News, “In late January he contacted Sasha online asking if she was interested in a part time job at the Grafton House Hotel, even though he had no authority to do so.”

JASPER, Alabama — A 62-year-old Jasper man is charged with sexually abusing a 3-year-old girl, according to a Daily Mountain Eagle report. Joel Wade Morgan was arrested Thursday and is accused of abusing the girl earlier this year, the newspaper reported. He faces a charge of sexual abuse of a child under 12 and is being held in the Walker County Jail on a $30,000 bond.

AKRON — Sharnae Lathan’s story is one of hope and resilience. At 31 years old, the Akron mother has been through more in her life than most people can imagine. Lathan was sexually abused for years by someone close to her. While it’s taken Lathan nearly her entire life to cope with the abuse she suffered as a child, she’s turning that pain into helping others. As Ohio’s representative in the Triumph Over Tragedy: Ms. USA pageant, she has the chance to share her story on a national stage.

Welcome to the United States G8 affiliated wanted child sex offender initiative in collaboration with Interpol General Secretariat. This initiative aims to identify and apprehend wanted child sex offenders from across G8 countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, United Kingdom and United States) by bringing together initiatives relating to child sex offenders. The United States Marshals Service is leading the United States’ participation in the G8 Most Wanted Initiative through the National Sex Offender Targeting Center (NSOTC). NSOTC is an interagency intelligence and operations center supporting the identification, apprehension, and prosecution of non-compliant sex offenders.