Some behaviors of an adult who is a caregiver or who interacts frequently with a child may indicate that the adult is abusive. If you observe worrying signs, it does not necessarily indicate that the individual is an abuser; however, you should consider them a serious warning that warrants further investigation. If you suspect abuse, contact your local child protective services department for support and advice on what to do.

A teenage girl was shot dead by her neighbour after she objected to him urinating near the gate of her family home. Yusra Khan, 17, was gunned down by a 21-year-old man, who also broke into her home in New Delhi and left her mother Sadmani critically injured. The teenager is believed to have argued with the man, who lives in the same building, after objecting to him urinating near to the gate of the house.

Child molester Raymond Hewlett went to his death refusing to speak to investigators hunting for Madeleine McCann after he was sensationally linked to her disappearance. But police have now turned their attention back to the notorious paedophile who has a string of child sex convictions and was living on the Algarve when the youngster vanished from her holiday home in May 2007. Scotland Yard detectives who opened a review into the Madeleine mystery want to speak to a couple who befriended the former soldier while they were on holiday in Portugal. They were told by him he had been approached by gypsies wanting to buy one of his six children. Alan and Cindy Thompson met pervert Hewlett, his German wife Mariana Schmucker and their kids.

An eccentric Texas millionaire has been accused of sexually abusing eight teenage boys. Stanley Marsh 3, who is famous for burying 10 vintage Cadillacs nose-down in an Amarillo field in the name of art, is facing a raft of lawsuits alleging he supplied the boys with cash, cars and alcohol in return for sexual favours. The lawsuits also claim the millionaire’s wife, Wendy Marsh, and business partner David Weir, knew of the abuse and covered it up.

“I lived in a psychiatric hospital for 17 days this year. I wear it like a badge, I am so proud of it. I attacked perinatal depression head on and came out on top. This is Postnatal DepressionAwareness Week and I declare my hand so that, in some small way, I can help the cause. I feel so privileged to have been able to stay at the Brisbane Centre for Post Natal Disorders, at Belmont Private Hospital. It changed my life. I am stronger, happier, grounded, and now unable to stand fools who think less of me because I sought treatment for something I had less control over suffering than catching a cold. All I did was have a baby.”

Father  and stepmother both serving prison sentences for child abuse Arkansas police are questioning registered sex offenders in their investigation into the death of a six-year-old girl whose body was found in an abandoned home just 200 feet from where she lived with her mother. Jersey Bridgeman,  whose father and stepmother were jailed last year […]

A sexual predator who repeatedly molested his stepchildren enlisted his partner’s support in the ongoing abuse as she allegedly allowed the man to rape her young son while she sat nearby, a court has heard. The 64-year-old Illawarra man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was sentenced to a minimum 10 years’ jail in Wollongong District Court yesterday for sexually assaulting his stepchildren for nearly a decade. Judge Paul Conlon said the man had exploited the children in the worst possible way.

A pedophile who was spared jail after molesting a five-year-old girl went on to rape a child by posing as a babysitter on the internet. Red Saunders, 23, raped a girl of eight and sexually assaulted another seven-year-old girl after tricking two families into believing he was a legitimate babysitter. He was hired through Gumtree, a popular online classifieds noticeboard, after using his brother’s name to pose as a child minder.

VENTURA, CA — The 18-year-old son of a day care center owner has been arrested on charges of allegedly molesting a young girl. Cooper Potter, 18, allegedly molested a 5-year-old girl at Potters Day Care, a child-care facility that was run out of his home.

Freeport, Ill. —Reports of child abuse and neglect are on the rise in downstate Illinois and Stephenson County’s rate was roughly 33 percent above the state average last fiscal year, according to the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS). A new report from DCFS shows that there has been a 5.4 percent increase in abuse/neglect cases across downstate Illinois, which includes everywhere in the state except Cook County. This comes from comparing fiscal year 2012 — which ran from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012 — to the previous year, said Dave Clarkin, a spokesman for DCFS.

Dreamcatchers for Abused Children’s 1st Annual Masquerade Ball was held on Friday, October 25, 2012 at Remington Park in Oklahoma City, OK. It was hosted by Dreamcatchers National Spokeswoman, Debbie Splawn-Bunch. The event was a huge success and we would like to share some of the moments captured with you (see video below).

“Pedophilia” ( Greek pedos, “child,” and philia, “affinity”) represents – as all recurrent sexually exciting fantasies – impulsive desires and behaviors that include sexual acts with a child and that occur over a period of at least six months. Some 89,000 American children were sexually abused in 2002, and the numbers could be far higher. This is the most detested sexual deviation, and the public does not take chances with pedophiles. Among convicted pedophiles, especially those attracted to boys, the recidivism rate is high. Some of the abusers are not, in fact, pedophiles but target children because they are weaker and more pliable than adults. And not all people who have pedophile tendencies act on them or turn violent: the fear of being identified keeps many pedophiles undercover, surrounded by children while struggling with their secret wishes.

The heartbroken husband of a pregnant woman, found dead at the bottom of a hill, has spoken of their last phonecall – when they both said they loved each other. Anna Byrne (35) from Beechdale in Dunboyne, Co Meath, and her unborn twin sons were killed in the fall at Howth summit in the early hours of March 8 this year. The mother of two’s last known contact was at 11am the previous day when she spoke on the phone with her husband, Terry Byrne, and told him that she was going to the supermarket, an inquest has heard. “At the end of the call, I told her to phone anytime if there was anything,” he told the court. “We told each other that we loved each other and she said ‘I’ll see ya later'”. Mr Byrne was giving evidence at Dublin City Coroner’s Court, where an open verdict was returned at the inquest into his wife’s death.

A ‘cold-blooded’ teenage killer who brutally tortured and mutilated his 17-year-old girlfriend before raping and dumping her body must serve at least 22 years behind bars. Adam Lewis tied helpless Hannah Windsor to a tree, bound her mouth with tape, and sexually assaulted, strangled and slashed her with a Swiss army knife during a 40-minute spree of violence. A judge today described the pain inflicted on the victim at a well-known Merseyside beauty spot as both ‘sexual and sadistic’, adding the injuries inflicted on her caused Hannah ‘immense pain and suffering.’