TAYLORSVILLE, Utah – A 14-year-old boy died Thursday afternoon after he shot himself on a skywalk leading to Bennion Jr. High School in Taylorsville. The family allowed police to release the name of the victim. He was identified as David Q. Phan. The shooting occurred at about 3 p.m., shortly after school ended for the day.

A New York City woman was forced to watch a harrowing video of her son’s murder during his killer’s trial yesterday. Erma Francis wept quietly as prosecutors showed the video of her son, Tracy, 40, being shot twelve times in the hallway of his apartment building. The NY Daily News reports that Asim Martinez, 33, a resident of the same building, shot Francis twelve times in the head, chest, arms, thighs, buttocks and genitals.

A young Delaware boy is in the hospital after escaping from his parents’ house of horror. Robert Hohn, 41, and Shannon Watterson, 39, of Newark, Delaware allegedly kept their twelve-year-old son locked in a room with no furniture, only letting him out once a day to use the bathroom and eat a small meal. According to NBC 10 Philadelphia, the boy escaped the home after three months of abuse and ran to the home of a boy he had attended school with in the past.

A classroom murder leaves a small community college shaken. It is believed that the killer used a sharp-edged, bow-and-arrow-type weapon to murder a female student, a teacher, and then himself. The female student was not murdered on the campus, but a mile or so down the street. The teacher was murdered in front of a classroom of students and the killer then took his own life in front of the same classroom.

At least 2,409 children were raped or abused by gangs or groups in England between August 2010 and October 2011, according to the Office of the Children’s Commissioner. Its interim report – the most in-depth investigation to date of child exploitation by gangs and groups in England – found a further 16,500 children were at “high risk” of abuse. Deputy Children’s Commissioner Sue Berelowitz told Sky News the figures were likely to be an “under-counting”.

BASRA, Iraq — The brutal crimes struck a nerve, even in a country that has seen a horrific amount of bloodshed in the past decade: Young Iraqi girls kidnapped, repeatedly raped and then bludgeoned to death in two separate incidents near the southern city of Basra. Despite a conviction in one case, a handful of arrests in the other and beefed up police patrols in the city, families in Basra remain on edge following the murders of 4-year-old Banin Haider and 5-year-old Abeer Ali in a span of less than two months.

2012 Introduced State Legislation Approximately 107 bills in 30 states and the District of Columbia have been introduced in the 2012 legislative session on the reporting of suspected child abuse and neglect; 10 of these states have enacted legislation. Click here for NCSL’s Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting State Statute Overview. Click here to listen […]

This is a child abuse lecture designed for pre-hospital providers. There are references to Idaho Codes, but this could be made state specific. Very educational.

Heavyweight MP Sir Cyril Smith was a pedophile who should have been brought to trial, authorities admitted today. The MP was accused of molesting eight boys in a children’s home in his constituency of Rochdale in the Sixties. Today the Crown Prosecution Service confirmed they decided three times – in 1970, 1998, and 1999 – not to prosecute the Liberal MP for alleged child abuse after being passed files by the police. And Greater Manchester police said tonight that if they allegations had been made today they could have taken the case to court.

A 23-year-old man faces molestation charges for allegedly molesting his girlfriend’s children. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, court records say Tyree Ivory had access to the children while he was babysitting them back in March.

BENTONVILLE, Ark. – Authorities in northwest Arkansas said a fellow inmate attacked accused murderer Zachary Holly on Tuesday, a day before Holly was expected in court for the slaying of 6-year-old Jersey Bridgeman. Holly, 28, was arrested Monday on capital murder, kidnapping and residential burglary charges in Jersey’s death. He was due in court later Wednesday, when a judge was expected to assign him a public defender.

A former scoutmaster who had deep local ties to his New Jersey community was brutally murdered over the summer and was found with his throat slit and multiple stab wounds over his body. Dennis J. Pegg was considered a mentor to the Boy Scouts he trained, but months after his grisly murder, darker questions have arisen. Clark Fredericks, the 46-year-old man who confessed to Pegg’s murder, said that the scoutmaster sexually abused him as a boy, and said that he ‘got what was coming to him.’ Now, months after Pegg’s gruesome murder, others have echoed Fredricks’ complaint of sexual abuse.

The defense attorney for one of 20 men accused in a gang-rape scandal likened the victim, an 11-year-old Texas girl, to a ‘spider’ who lured men into her web during the one and only day of testimony on Tuesday. Attorney Steve Taylor said the accused, 20-year-old Jared Len Cruse, is innocent of any wrongdoing in the case because he was baited by the girl, whose name has not been released because she is a minor. ‘Like the spider and the fly. Wasn’t she saying, “Come into my parlor, said the spider to the fly?'” Taylor asked former Cleveland Police Department Sgt. Chad Langdon, who was the lead investigator on the case, the Houston Chronicle reported.

A couple have been arrested after allegedly locking three of their adopted children in a bedroom and starving them – before enjoying a Thanksgiving feast downstairs with their biological son. The alleged treatment at the hands of Larry and Nikki Russell was uncovered when their eldest adopted son escaped at their Terre Haute, Indiana home on Friday after breaking a window. Wandering barefoot and weighing just 93 pounds, the 17-year-old boy was picked up by a motorist and taken to Union Hospital, where staff called police and the Department of Child Services.