Skye Reece sobbed uncontrollably and moaned audibly as the jury rendered its verdict Thursday in Ottawa County District Court, finding the 20-year-old guilty of murdering 17-month-old Lanceton Hollenbeck. This was the first time during the four-day jury trial Reece showed this much emotion. The 12-person jury of 11 men and one woman was sequestered for deliberations around 10:11 a.m. and returned with its decision around 11:30 a.m.

A judge set bail at $100,000 today for a 20-year-old man accused of silencing his 4-month-old son’s crying by pulling on the infant’s leg until hearing a “popping noise” in the baby’s knee, authorities said. Manual A. Lopez, 20, of the 4900 block of West Oakdale Avenue in the Cragin neighborhood, was charged Sunday afternoon with two counts of felony aggravated battery to a child, police said. Lopez is scheduled to appear in court Monday.

Thousands of previously unpublished Boy Scouts of America files that detail suspected sexual abuse by employees and volunteers, including doctors, teachers and priests, have been posted online. The Los Angeles Times published the horrifying database with redacted victims’ names on Tuesday, including material that was released earlier by an Oregon Supreme Court judge’s ruling. The Boy Scouts kept the files – numbering almost 2,000 – for internal use for nearly a century, and they now reveal the systematic coverups by the organisation, which in turn led to more abuse.

Thousands of previously unpublished Boy Scouts of America files that detail suspected sexual abuse by employees and volunteers, including doctors, teachers and priests, have been posted online. The Los Angeles Times published the horrifying database with redacted victims’ names on Tuesday, including material that was released earlier by an Oregon Supreme Court judge’s ruling. The Boy Scouts kept the files – numbering almost 2,000 – for internal use for nearly a century, and they now reveal the systematic coverups by the organisation, which in turn led to more abuse.

PLATTE CITY, Mo. — A nationwide search is underway for an elderly Platte County man who’s charged with raping a 9-year-old girl in Tennessee. For the last two weeks, detectives with the Platte City Police Department and the Platte County Sheriff’s Office, along with officers in Tennessee and the U.S. Marshal’s Office, have all been looking for 82-year-old Wendell Lee Washam.

Talk often with your child and set a tone of openness. Talking openly and directly will let your child know that it’s okay to talk to you when they have questions. If your child comes to you with concerns or questions, make time to listen and talk to them.

Funeral Services for 9 year old Skylar Dials have been announced by Haisten McCullough Funeral Home. Visitation will be from 6 until 9pm Wednesday at the funeral home. The funeral will be Thursday at 11:00 am at the Center Point Church of God. with internment at Oak Hill Cemetery.

CAMARILLO, CA — A woman suspected of murdering her newborn baby, which was found dead in a Camarillo strawberry field earlier this year, is facing murder charges, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department announced Thursday. 20-year-old Rosalba Moran of Oxnard was arrested Dec. 21 after a lengthy investigation in which detectives used DNA samples from farm workers to track down a relative of the baby’s mother.

Police are searching for a 34-year-old man who is accused of raping a child in Lancaster County. Investigators from the Southern Regional Police Department have obtained an arrest warrant for Phillip Lee Langley, of New Providence. He is accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl over the course of 6 months, police said. The incidents began in November 2011 and continued through May of 2012 at Langley’s former home in Conestoga Township.

BURLEY • Tara Leigh Bagley, 41, a vice principal at Burley High School, was arrested Friday on charges of sexually abusing a minor. According to a press release issued by the Cassia County Sheriff’s Office, Bagley was arrested without incident on a warrant by police near St. George, Utah. She is charged with seven counts of sexual abuse of a minor 16 to 17 years old, and is being held in the Mini-Cassia Criminal Justice Center on $250,000 bond.

PENSACOLA, FL – Escambia County Deputies said Dorothea Vega, 59, is suspected of severe child abuse that may have been going on for months. Authorities said the alleged abuse came to light after the victim told a school resource officer. When investigators responded to Vega’s home, they say they found alarms on the door of a young child’s room.

MOULTON, AL – A Lawrence County Grand Jury formally indicted a former Moulton police officer on child abuse charges. Mitchell Breland was indicted for allegedly beating two 8-year-old girls. Breland was arrested in September after investigation by the Alabama Bureau of Investigation. The arrest came after complaints from hospital workers who treated one of the alleged victims.

Detectives probing child abuse allegations have searched the home of TV weatherman Fred Talbot. Officers swooped on the property in Bowdon, Greater Manchester, eleven days ago, it was revealed today. The allegations date from the 1970s when the alleged victims were pupils at Altrincham Grammar School for Boys. Mr Talbot, 63, who is currently abroad, taught biology there. No arrests have been made. The inquiry originally began into another school, St Ambrose RC College in Hale.

A three-year-old girl was left needing a skin graft after she was held under scalding water for wetting her pants. Police arrested her father, Terrell Williams, 28, his girlfriend, Kenyatta Gill, 31, and Gill’s brother, Aaron Alston, 25. All three live in the Phoenix home where the incident happened along with Gill’s three-month-old daughter, documents stated. The unidentified child was taken to a Valley hospital on December 12.

A Colorado father set off on a somber 15-hour journey this week to bring home the brutalized body of his three-year-old daughter who was beaten to death while left in the care of babysitters for weeks on end. Stephen Cross arrived at a funeral home in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Tuesday to claim the body of little Savannah resting in a small white marble casket. Police say the toddler was savagely and repeatedly beaten by one of her caretakers, 27-year-old Ryan Reed, while his girlfriend, 28-year-old Allison clement, looked on and did nothing to stop the abuse.