A vicious case of arson left three family members dead and another fighting for his life. Chicago resident Nariyah Beller doused his two young children and their mother in gasoline before setting the house on fire. The blaze killed Beller, Taniya Johnson, and their 4-year-old daughter, while their 9-year-old son remains in the hospital with severe injuries.

We ask the Federal government to increase the offense level for all child related crimes and to help us raise awareness of this growing epidemic spreading across our country. We are planning a march to Washington DC April 22, 2013 and we would like the President to march with us to raise awareness about child abuse.

OCEAN CITY, MD – Ocean City police have filed charges against a former Roman Catholic priest accused of sexually abusing a child in the resort town more than 30 years ago. Bruno Michael Tucci, 70, of Salisbury, was arrested in December and charged with fourth-degree sex offense and child abuse: custodian.

When Julianne Hough was 10 years old, she lived in London, away from her parents in Utah, studying dance. That’s when the abuse began, she says. “I was abused, mentally, physically, everything,” she says in Cosmopolitan’s February issue, on newsstands Jan. 8. While attending the prestigious Italia Conti Academy of Arts, she says the adults around her took advantage of her being without parental supervision: “I was 10 years old looking like I was 28, being a very sensual dancer.”

Comedian Jim Davidson “vigorously denies” allegations made against him after his arrest on suspicion of sexual offences, his solicitor said tonight. The 59-year-old was one of two men held today as part of Operation Yewtree, the police investigation into the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal and others. Former Generation Game host Davidson was arrested in west London at around midday and taken into custody.

Ben Needham’s dad has said he could forgive a childless couple if they had abducted his son. Tormented Simon Ward, 42, is still desperate to discover what happened to tot Ben who disappeared in 1991. Simon said: “It sounds strange but if Ben was abducted for a childless couple and they have him, I’d feel some sympathy. “They obviously wanted a child to love, so I’d understand that.

An Indiana special education teacher has been fired for allegedly slapping a student. The teacher, 42-year-old Gail Marie Huff, was fired from Attica Elementary School after a unanimous vote by the five-member school board to cancel her employment contract. Huff says she did nothing wrong.

LAS VEGAS — Prosecutors brought a murder charge against a 50-year-old woman accused of stabbing a young girl to death in an undeveloped Las Vegas-area housing tract and later slashing a casino co-worker while that woman dealt blackjack at a Las Vegas Strip resort.

JUST RELEASED: This report presents national data about child abuse and neglect known to child protective services agencies in the United States during federal fiscal year 2011. Child fatalities are the most tragic consequence of maltreatment.For FFY 2011, a nationally estimated 1,570 children died from abuse and neglect.The number of reported child fatalities due to child abuse and neglect has fluctuated during the past 5 years, from 1,608 in 2007 to a high of 1,685 in 2009, and a low of 1,545 in 2011.

Duane John was charged with six counts of DUI?manslaughter Monday in the deaths of his five children and an adult in a wreck that occurred early Saturday morning, according to Neshoba County Sheriff Tommy Waddell. John, 34, was released from Neshoba County General Hospital Monday morning and charged by the Sheriff’s Office in the afternoon, Waddell said. John was in the county jail on a $150,000 bond, said Waddell. The victims, all members of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, were trapped inside. The five children who died are: Dasyanna John, 9; Duane John, 8; Bobby John, 7; Quinton John, 4; and 18-month-old Kekaimeas John. Dianne Lewis Chickaway, 37, also died.

LOS ANGELES — A woman accused of throwing her baby from the fourth floor of a hospital parking structure pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in court Wednesday. On August 22, 2011, Sonia Hermosillo arrived at Children’s Hospital Orange County with her 7-month-old son, Noe Medina Jr. After parking her car, Hermosillo allegedly removed a special helmet her son wore to reshape his head, and then pushed him from the parking garage.

A man brought his newborn baby into a strip club. Kenneth Rowe Junior, 26, entered the Daytona Beach bar strip-club drunk with his newborn baby Saturday night and was arrested soon after. The cops were called when Rowe asked a clerk to watch his child as he stepped out to have a “cigarette.”

DETROIT – A Detroit mother has been charged with murder in the death of her 8-year-old daughter. Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said Wednesday that 26-year-old Semeria Greenenot Demeria Greeneis charged with felony murder and first-degree child abuse. Her daughter, Tameria Greene, was found stabbed in the chest Dec. 30.

OTTAWA — The mother of a boy killed by Clifford Olson praised the Conservative government Sunday for announcing new income support for parents who take time off work when their children are murdered or go missing. Under the new federal program, the parents of children under the age of 18 who die or disappear as the result of a probable criminal offence will get up to $350 per week for up to 35 weeks as long as the applicant earned $6,500 in the previous calendar year or the previous 52 weeks and take leave from their job.