A leading campaigner against child abuse says she blames herself for her teenage son’s suicide, because she ‘couldn’t win’ against school bullies. Ayden Olsen, 14, was found dead at his family home on Thursday morning. His heartbroken mother Shy Keenan, who campaigns for tougher controls on paedophiles alongside Sara Payne, claims her ‘beautiful, kind-hearted’ boy was ‘bullied to death’.

The Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, which coordinates U.S. government activities in the global fight against contemporary forms of slavery, also assesses global trends, provides training and technical assistance, and advocates for an end to modern slavery.

On July 29, 1986, Tina Dukes, age seven, was playing outside in front of her home with her cousin and another child. Tony Powell approached Trina and her cousin and asked them if they knew how to ride a bike. After Trina said, “Yes” the three children followed Powell around the corner. Powell then asked Trina to go upstairs with him and told Trina’s cousin and the other child to leave. After luring Trina to the fourth floor Powell told her to take off her cloths. Powell later admitted to police that at this point he intended to “F..k” Trina. Trina then began to cry and said she wanted to go home.

An 11-year-old Oklahoma boy and his mother have been arrested after the boy allegedly raped his 6-year-old sister and the mother failed to report the incident, according to authorities. Police made the arrests on Friday afternoon after an Oklahoma Department of Human Services worker received a tip about the alleged assault and interviewed family members. The 6-year-old girl told the human services worker that she was in her bedroom doing homework on Wednesday when her brother and a 7-year-old cousin asked her to pull her pants off, according to a police report obtained by MailOnline.

A number of ‘very high profile’ figures are to be arrested over new child sex abuse allegations, a top prosecutor has revealed. Detectives investigating the Jimmy Savile scandal and other historic sex allegations are preparing a dramatic new wave of celebrity arrests. In an extraordinary public statement, Nazir Afzal of the Crown Prosecution Service said child sex abuse inquiries are a ‘growing industry’ and more arrests are planned for the next few weeks.

Two instructors at a California camp for at-risk teenagers were arrested for allegedly physically assaulting campers. Retired Marine Corps Sgt. Edgar Alvarado and Ruben Romero Mora, were instructors at 180° Recon in East Los Angeles and are accused of using excessive force in their dealings with kids who attended Camp Coulter. The victims include nine boys and two girls who ranged in age from 12 years old to 17 years old.

An Arizona mother who had spent 22 years on death row after being found guilty of murdering her four-year-old son had her conviction thrown out Thursday. A US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that 48-year-old Debra Jean Milke’s guilty verdict for the gruesome 1989 slaying of her toddler son was tainted by a detective with a history of lying under oath. The move marked a surprising turn in a case that made national headlines due to the brazen and disturbing nature of the crime.

An 11-hour trial session is set to begin. The controversial trial of two teens charged with rape in Steubenville, OH has been set to continue. Trent Mays, 17, and Ma’lik Richmond, 16, stand accused of raping a 16-year old girl at a party. The case has received national attention due to coverage by bloggers and comments by Anonymous, the hacker collective.

CENTRALIA, WA — A mother in Centralia is accused of letting her 22-month-old son inhale marijuana from a bong, police said. On Friday afternoon, police served a search warrant at home in the 1400 block of Delaware Avenue. Centralia police said authorities found firearms and 40 marijuana plants. Officers took two adults into custody.

NORRIDGEWOCK — State police have arrested a former sheriff’s deputy, the husband of a day care center operator, on charges of unlawful sexual contact with three children. Horace Barstow, 67, of Norridgewock, was arrested Friday and released on bail,Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety, said in a news release. He did not release the names or genders of the children, but he said they were all under 12 years old and that the offenses took place at the day care site.

An unbelievably evil car thief strangled a baby to death after finding him in the luxury motor he stole – because the child wouldn’t stop crying. Zhou Xijun, 48, is facing the death penalty after telling police he killed the two-month-old because he was worried the baby’s crying would give him away. Xijun had stolen the 4×4 in Jilin province, northern China after baby Xu Haobo’s dad Xu Ling, 34, had left the car engine running to warm up.

CHICAGO — A 6-month old girl became the latest innocent victim of Chicago gang violence when a gunman ambushed her father while he was changing her diaper along a South Side street and unloaded round after round into the two of them. Jonylah Watkins died at a hospital Tuesday after surgeons did what they could to repair the damage from the five bullets that tore through her body during Monday’s attack in Woodlawn. Her father, Jonathan Watkins, was in serious but stable condition Tuesday after receiving treatment for wounds to his buttocks and side and a graze to his face, police said.

A teenager who plotted to massacre classmates after being bullied was detained indefinitely yesterday after admitting terrorism charges. The 16-year-old kept a stockpile of explosives, became ‘fascinated’ by mass killings and drew up a hit-list of his fellow students. The boy – who cannot be named for legal reasons – then planned to kill himself after wiping out his school pals and teachers, a court heard. He was arrested after boasting anonymously to a fellow user of chat room Omegle. The American user alerted the FBI who raised the alarm with UK police.

A famous artist sexually abused young girls after blindfolding them and dressing them in Victorian-style nighties, a jury heard today. Graham Ovenden, 70, is accused of offences against four children aged from six to 14 who posed for him between 1972 and 1985. Ovenden’s work includes nude and semi-nude portraits of young girls. Ramsay Quaife, prosecuting, said the offences took place at his homes in London and Cornwall and the alleged victims – all now adults – had similar accounts of the alleged abuse.