ORMUND BEACH, FL — A Volusia County man is accused of molesting a child, and the victim’s mother told police officers she caught him in the act. Matthew Tighe, 24, was arrested in Ormond Beach on Thursday night after a 7-year-old’s mother caught him in the child’s bedroom with the victim, police officers said.

A judge calls the incident “every parent’s nightmare.” Peter Lowe, 68, repeatedly punched a pregnant woman while trying to kidnap the baby she was holding in her arms. The incident occurred at a bus stop as the 20-year old mother attempted to put her 11-month old daughter in a stroller.

A man serving time for murder was killed by prison mates. Anwar was jailed for a minimum of 23 years in 2009 for the murder of his partner’sdaughter Sanam Navsarka. The child died after fat deposits from her broken bones got into her bloodstream after being beaten.

A baby girl is dead after the Florida Department of Children and Families failed to remove her from her drug addicted, violent parents, who had already been the subject of more than 10 reports to the state’s abuse hotline. Little Emma Morrison was just 49 days old when her mother, Lisa Lamoureaux, 33, found her lifeless in her crib at around 9:30 a.m. on January 17 after putting her to sleep nine hours earlier and failing to check on her. The murky circumstances surrounding her death are still being investigated by Palm Beach County sheriff’s Office and the medical examiner. Lamoureaux had a long history of drug abuse, she had been arrested nine times and her four older children had been permanently taken from her by the state, according to the Miami Herald. But the newspaper reported DCF’s only action after Lamoureaux gave birth to Emma late last year was to refer her to parenting classes that she turned down or was unable to get access to.

The father of 17 accused of killing six of his children in a house fire once ordered his toddler son to punch his mother in the face because she dared to stand up to him, a court heard yesterday. Heather Kehoe, 33, told a jury how Michael Philpott took her virginity when she was just 15, then subjected her to years of physical and mental abuse. The pair ran away together a fortnight after her 16th birthday, when his first wife walked in on them having sex. Within six months, the teenager was pregnant with the first of two sons she bore him during a violent relationship which culminated in Philpott ordering their son Mikey to punch her.

A violin teacher who came to Britain on the invitation of Yehudi Menuhin has been arrested by detectives investigating sex abuse at Chetham’s School of Music in the 1970’s and 80’s. Professor Wen Zhou Li, who has tutored some of the country’s brightest musical talents over the past 25 years, was last night being held on suspicion of rape. The 57-year-old is the first teacher to be arrested following the conviction of Michael Brewer for indecently assaulting Frances Andrade, who committed suicide halfway through the trial.

PORTSMOUTH, VA – Portsmouth Police have charged a man with abusing his 11-day-old son while the newborn was in an intensive care unit. Jan Clark with the Portsmouth Police Department said officers were called to the Portsmouth Naval Medical Center in the 300 block of Effingham Street on Feb. 1 for a report of possible abuse. There, they learned sometime between 1:30 a.m. and 2:30 a.m., the newborn received bruises to his body while in the Neo Natal Intensive Care Unit. The newborn had visible contusions to his back and face, Clark said.

A former Ivy League sports star’s wife discovered a shocking secret. Matthew White, a member of the University of Pennsylvania’s famed 1979 Final Four team, was stabbed to death in his sleep by his wife after she caught him watching child pornography.

An absolutely sickening case of child abuse. An Emirati and his girlfriend now face execution for the gruesome torture of his daughters, which ultimately led to the death of one. Over a 6-month period Hamad Saud Juma al-Shirawi imprisoned his daughters, 7 and 8, brutally torturing them daily by diabolical means.

For the first time in American history on April 22, 2013, individuals in over 200 cities in 50 states will join together in national walks to raise awareness of child abuse and crimes against children in the U.S.   I look forward to seeing you all there! Dreamcatchers for Abused Children’s march will be held […]

Our organization, Dreamcatchers for Abused Children, has been doing fundraisers for at-risk children in the community for three years now. We do back to school fundraisers in the fall, Christmas stockings in the winter, and our biggest event: the Easter Basket Drive. We build each basket (or stocking in the winter) personally for each child. We work with the shelters and housing commissions in advance to get the age and genders of the children in their program, then build a basket personalized for each child.

MARIANNA, FL — Nobody is quite sure how many boys’ bodies lie beneath the grounds of the notorious Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, or which one is Thomas or Owen or Robert. Nobody is quite sure how most of them died — the cause is often listed as “unknown” or “accident” — or why a great number were buried with such haste. The scattered graves bear no markings: no names, no loving sentiment. The only hint of a cemetery are the white crosses that the state planted in the 1990s, belatedly and haphazardly.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Almost two years after a 10-year-old boy starved to death at an Oklahoma Army base, a soldier accused of first-degree murder is set to go on trial in a rare case in which federal prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday at the federal courthouse in Lawton for the trial of Pvt. Connell C. Williams, 33, who was indicted by a federal grand jury for the May 5, 2011, death of Marcus Holloway, the son of Williams’ girlfriend, at Fort Sill in southwestern Oklahoma. He has pleaded not guilty.

OKLAHOMA CITY — A jury has recommended the maximum sentence for the defendant who stood trial in the death of an Edmond toddler. At about 3:40 p.m. Monday, the 8-woman, 4-man jury announced they had reached a verdict. They had received the case from Oklahoma County District Judge Glenn Jones at about 1:05 p.m. when closing statements ended. The defendant, Rico Antwoine Berry, 28, entered the courtroom wearing a dress shirt and tie; he would later leave wearing handcuffs and with the knowledge he had been found guilty on charges of first-degree murder and child neglect.