A man has been jailed for 15 years for raping and sexually assaulting his then eight-year-old daughter. The court had heard that the defendant gave the girl alcohol and cigarettes and made her watch a pornographic film as he abused her. The 50-year-old man continues to deny the offenses and claims the girl’s mother put her up to making the complaints. The defendant cannot be named to protect the identity of the victim. A sentencing hearing yesterday heard that the girl had changed from “a happy, fun-loving child” to one with severe depression.

PALM BAY, FL — Palm Bay police continue to search for a convicted sex offender who is on the run. Johnny Ray Morgan was convicted in 1995 of sexual battery on a child under 12. He was recently released from prison and is required to wear a GPS ankle bracelet. On Sunday, Morgan took off his GPS tracker, triggering an alarm.

Richard Mourdock is the Republican nominee for Senate in the great state of Indiana — and as Mitt Romney has said, if he wins, he could be one of the 51 votes needed to overturn “Obamacare.” But this week, Richard Mourdock found a way to stand out from the pack, so much so, that I thought I’d send him a note.

Tucked away in the quaint college town of Athens, Georgia, an Army colonel and scoutmaster allegedly molested young boys for decades while pastors, boy scout officials and even parents looked the other way, according to confidential documents kept by the Boy Scouts of America. Earnest P. Boland, now 88 and confined to a wheelchair, forced at least one dozen boys to perform sex acts on him between the 1950s and 1970s, the documents state.

A ‘predatory pedophile’ who changed his name to Michael Jackson has been jailed indefinitely for snatching a ten-year-old boy off the street in broad daylight. The sex attacker – who took the name of the late singer to impress a former wife – was branded the ‘stuff of every parent’s nightmare’ by the judge who sentenced him yesterday. Jackson, 50, marched the victim to his housing association flat and threatened him at knifepoint, telling him, ‘Scream and I’ll kill you’, before pushing him into an airing cupboard, trussed up and naked from the waist down.

NEW YORK – Vindalee Smith, a pregnant mother of four, was found stabbed to death in her New York city apartment on the day before her wedding. Cops are now looking for a suspect. Authorities say that Smith, 38, was eight months pregnant when she was died from slash and stab wounds to the neck. Her unborn child did not survive. Smith was found on the floor of her home in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn on Oct. 20 . Neighbors said she had moved into the area in recent weeks. Her other children are older and did not live with her.

SAN JOSE – A California jury has convicted a former San Jose principal of failing to report suspected sexual abuse of a child by a teacher. Lyn Vijayendran was found guilty Monday of the misdemeanor after jurors deliberated for two days. The former principal of O.B. Whaley Elementary School was sentenced to six months court probation, $602 in fines and 100 hours of community service.

Lancaster, Kentucky – Curtis Howard, a 32-year-old Kentucky man was jailed Thursday – accused of committing 250 sex offenses including rape, sodomy and incest. According to Kentucky State Police, an investigation was launched Wednesday when Howard’s wife contacted police while the family was preparing to move to Mercer County. Investigators say Howard is accused of physically and sexually abusing his wife and a family relative. The alleged sexual abuse was occurred on an ongoing basis over a 5-6 month period.

Top Penn State officials- including the school’s former president- now face criminal charges for perjury and obstruction of justice because of their role in allegedly covering up Jerry Sandusky’s years of child sex abuse. The Pennsylvania state’s attorney general focused her attention on the school’s former president Graham Spanier, announcing his eight criminal charges including three felony counts of perjury, obstruction of justice and child endangerment. ‘This was not a mistake, oversight of misjudgment. This was a conspiracy by top officials at Penn State,’ attorney general Linda Kelly said at a Thursday press conference.

Amid disturbing accusations an elementary school teacher molested his students while blindfolding them in seclusion it was the principal who took the stand in her own defence on Thursday. Former San Jose Principal Lyn Vijayendran testified that Craig Richard Chandler told her it was all a lesson plan on Helen Keller. ‘Now looking back, I have a different lens,’ the former principal of O.B. Whaley Elementary School told the courtroom according to MercuryNews.com

ATHENS, Ga. – Police in north Georgia say an infant was stabbed to death at an Athens house, hours after being born. Athens-Clarke police say the newborn’s 21-year-old mother, Cassandra Elyse Norwood, was charged with murder in connection with the baby’s death on Thursday afternoon. The Athens Banner-Herald reports that Norwood was under guard at a hospital, where she was being treated for blood loss from giving birth. It wasn’t clear early Friday whether she has an attorney.

A young boy lost his life for not studying hard enough. 7-year-old Yaseen Ali Ege died after his mother allegedly beat him to death and set him on fire because he failed to learn the Koran fast enough. Sara Ege has been accused of brutally beating her son and then setting his corpse on fire to hide her crime. It was initially believed that Yaseen’s death had been an accident, however a post-mortem revealed that he had been suffering beatings for months leading up to his July 2010 death.

According to the W.Va. State Police Dept., a doctor, who is also a pastor, was charged with battery and child abuse creating risk of injury to a child. Sgt. Hammack, with the W.Va. State Police Dept., says he received a complaint in Sept. from the daughter of a 77-year-old patient with Parkinson’s, dementia and a broken hip. Dr. Kenneth Seen operates a practice in Spencer, W.Va. Through an investigation and search warrants, it was revealed that Dr. Seen’s account of events could not have happened. The investigation discovered that a significant portion of Seen’s tongue had been bitten off.

The Illinois woman charged with the murder of her 7-year-old son and a 5-year-old girl she was babysitting stabbed them dozens of times in order to get attention from her husband, according to police. Elzbieta Plackowska, 40, of Naperville, Ill., was denied bail by a Chicago-area court today on two counts of first-degree murder. She was ordered held in DuPage County. Plackowska, who was babysitting Olivia Dworakowski, was arrested after the 5-year-old and her son Justin Plackowski, 7, were found by police slashed and stabbed “numerous, numerous times” at approximately 10:15 p.m. Tuesday at Dworakowski’s family home.