BELLEFONTE, CENTRE COUNTY – A Bellefonte man is sentenced to 30-60 years in state prison on over 300 counts of child rape and sexual abuse charges. 42 year-old Jeffrey Storms must register with Megan’s Law for the rest of his life. After pleading guilty to more than 300 counts of child sexual abuse in his March jury trial, Jeffrey Storms, of Bellefonte, received a 30 to 60 year sentence in a State Correctional Facility, according to a release issued by the Centre County District Attorney’s office. The 42 year-old man’s charges include attempted child rape, attempted involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, dissemination and possession of child pornography and related sexual abuse charges. Storm committed these offenses over the span of 10 years on prepubescent children, “a young relative, friends of his daughters, and two young daughters of a good friend,” according to the release.

Other arrests included a student, insurance salesman and law enforcement academy graduate. Charges against the suspects include attempted lewd battery, lewd and lascivious battery, unlawful use of a two-way communication device, seduce/solicit/entice to commit in sexual act, traveling to meet minor, drug possession, possession of drug paraphernalia, traveling to meet/use computer to solicit guardian, transmission of harmful material to minor, to procuring minor for prostitution, and resisting arrest without violence.

UK — Jill Meagher was the entire world for her loving husband and a funny, intelligent daughter who promised her parents they would soon have a grandchild. In heartbreaking victims impact statements the people Jill left behind told a judge yesterday of their deep distress and sense of loss over her murder at the hands of a man branded a sexual predator. Jill’s dad George McKeon bravely stood in the body of the Supreme Court of Victoria to face killer and rapist Adrian Ernest Bayley and tell how his crime had destroyed his family.

A Glens Falls man who dumped hot sauce down the throat of his girlfriend’s 5-year-old son and inflicted injuries to the boy that were akin to being dropped from a second story window was convicted Tuesday of second-degree murder, Warren County District Attorney Kate Hogan said. “This child suffered atrocities no child should suffer,” said Hogan, who prosecuted the case.

A Presho man accused of raping a 9-year-old relative was found guilty by a Brown County jury Wednesday of seven sexual abuse-related charges. Jerry L. Craig Sr., 55, was not sentenced. He faces a maximum of life in prison. After deliberating for nearly four hours, the jury found Craig guilty of three counts of rape of a child younger than 13, three counts of sexual abuse of a child younger than 15 and one count of aggravated incest.

NEW YORK — The U.S. Marshals Service has arrested 33-year-old Albert Bowman in York in connection with rape of a child, according to a news release. In September 2012, the York City Police Department investigated an allegation of rape and sexual assault of a minor, according to the news release. Based upon an investigation, an arrest warrant for Bowman was issued on June 14, the news release states. York City Police asked for the assistance of the United States Marshals Service Middle District of Pennsylvania Task Force, according to a news release. The task force determined Bowman was living in York County.

OREGON– Gary Lee Rose claimed he was the victim of a 9-year-old girl bent on thwarting his budding romance with her mother. It was the girl who took those sexually explicit photos and a video found on his cell phone, he said. A Clackamas County jury didn’t believe Rose’s story. After deliberating three hours, the 12 jurors unanimously convicted him Friday on multiple counts of unlawful sexual penetration, using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct and first-degree sexual abuse.

ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Missouri – A St. Charles County woman has been charged in connection with the sexual assault and murder of her baby daughter last December. Jessica Lynn Howell, a.k.a. Jessica Lynn Peters, faces counts of 2nd degree murder and child abuse. Her 4-month-old daughter Ashlynn Lilith Peters died on December 3rd after she was allegedly sexually assaulted and strangled to death by the mother’s boyfriend, Jordan Lafayette Prince.

New figures revealing the impact of child abuse show as many as one in ten survivors have contemplated or attempted suicide, amid demands for better support from health practitioners including GPs. Analysis of more than 3500 calls over the past four years to a helpline operated by peak body Adults Surviving Child Abuse shows 67 per cent of people who said they had experienced sexual, physical or emotional abuse as a child suffered mental health problems as a result. Nearly 80 per cent of callers said their personal relationships had been affected and 18 per cent said their physical health had suffered.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The often-heard outburst of a defendant’s mother screaming “Judge, don’t take my son away” was turned on its head in a Kent County courtroom Monday when a judge threw the book – and then some — at a child abuser based partially on his mom’s plea to separate her son from society. Nathaniel Sweet will spend the next 24 to 50 years in prison after he was convicted of delivering a blow to the head of 8-month-old Ayla Marie Shuart that had the same force as being dropped out of a four-story window, according to a doctor who testified in the trial in May.

WILLMAR — A Cyrus man has been charged with 12 felony counts of criminal sexual conduct for repeatedly having sex with a female relative between 1999 and 2011. Eugene Otto Zumhofe, 62, made his first appearance Tuesday morning in Kandiyohi County District Court. He faces six felony counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and six felony counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct. Judge Kathryn Smith set his bail at $500,000 cash or bond for unconditional release and $100,000 cash or bond for conditional release. He is being held at the Kandiyohi County Jail. His next court date is June 10. Zumhofe is a former professional wrestler who performed as Buck “Rock n’ Roll” Zumhofe in the 1980s and early 1990s.

RICHLAND, Washington — The 9-month-old baby found dead in her crib last week suffered severe vaginal trauma, according to the autopsy. The child’s mother found Serenity Reedy dead in her crib Friday morning. The mother’s boyfriend, 36-year-old Jose Aguilar, was nowhere to be found. He’s suspected of the baby’s death. Aguilar recently moved in with the mother to her home on Log Lane at a trailer park off Stevens Drive.

Stuart Hall will serve barely two weeks in prison for each of the young girls he sexually abused. The sentence prompted a wave of outrage and fury last night, with victims saying it made a mockery of their horrific ordeal and politicians and campaigners condemning it as ‘incredibly lenient’. The disgraced It’s A Knockout presenter, 83, was jailed for 15 months yesterday after admitting that he indecently assaulted 13 girls between 1967 and 1986. His youngest victim was nine. Under sentencing rules Hall will be released automatically after serving just half the term.

Two thirds of perverts caught downloading sickening child pornography escape a jail sentence, figures revealed last night. In a new soft-justice outrage, 1,000 pedophiles caught in possession of obscene abuse videos and pictures were handed community sentences or suspended jail terms last year. The revelation was greeted with fury by child abuse campaigners, who are demanding tougher sentences to reflect the damage done to the children pictured in the horrific images.