To protect children from sexual abuse, parents should keep some specific things in mind about how adults interact with their children, particularly in youth-service organizations largely staffed by volunteers, experts say. Parents should be “attuned enough” to notice if “the kid who was happy and engaged until last month … starts breaking things, crying, being moody” — and should try to find out why, said Dr. Jonathan Slavin, a clinical instructor in psychology at Harvard Medical School who works with adult survivors of trauma and sexual abuse.

Williamston, S.C. – Jayme Sanders, a 33-year-old Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) president, has been jailed after she allegedly had sex repeatedly with a 14-year-old student. According to Williamston Police, an investigation began last month when the boy’s mother reported the alleged relationship. Investigators say Sanders met the boy when he became friends with her Sanders’ teenage daughter.

So disturbing was the scene on De Soto Way on Tuesday afternoon that chaplains were called in to counsel the deputies who first arrived. On the quiet Rancho Cordova street, a young mother and two of her children, ages 3 & 4, had been found brutally slain, their bodies discovered, authorities say, when the children’s father arrived home at the family’s duplex. Still alive and apparently unharmed was the couple’s youngest child, a 6-month-old baby boy, found in a back room after deputies followed sounds of his cries.

Every day thousands of teens wake up afraid to go to school. Bullying is a problem that affects millions of students, and it has everyone worried, not just the kids on its receiving end. Yet because parents, teachers, and other adults don’t always see it, they may not understand how extreme bullying can get. Bullying is when a person is picked on over and over again by an individual or group with more power, either in terms of physical strength or social standing.

FOWLERVILLE, Mich. — A motorist driving along Interstate 96 was shot and wounded Saturday in the latest in a string of shootings in southeastern Michigan, authorities said. Livingston County Sheriff Bob Bezotte said in a news release that the man was taken to the hospital Saturday afternoon after being shot in the left hip by a bullet that came through the driver’s-side door. He was listed in stable condition.

When the Boy Scouts of American were forced to release their ‘perversion files,’ 5,000 incidents of suspected sexual abuse became public. But the horrifying scope of the issue was not fully revealed until the Los Angeles Times plotted all of the reports, going back 60 years, on a map.The orange dots spread across the nation and showed that no state was spared. From Laramie, Wyoming, to Butler, Kentucky. Towns and cities across the nation had reports of possible abuse among Scout leaders.

New York (CNN) — The New York nanny suspected in the killings of two children in her care began knifing herself when their mother entered the bathroom and saw the bodies in the bathtub, police said Friday. “We believe now that the nanny began to stab herself as the woman entered the room,” Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told reporters in a revised account of Thursday’s events. “We initially thought that had already been done but now information is coming out that she did it as the mother entered the bathroom.”

A three-year-old boy who was allegedly left to die with his five-year-old brother in a hot car by their mother had a body temperature of 109 degrees when he was found, an autopsy has revealed. River Bates and his older brother Leland were found unresponsive at their grandfather’s house in Cleveland, Tennessee on June 28, after their mother had rushed there as she did not have a phone. Tasha Bates, 26, claimed she had left her sons outside to play on a Slip ‘n Slide water toy, but investigators believe they were trapped inside a car, as outside temperatures topped 105 degrees.

A kindergarten teacher’s use of corporal punishment sparked outrage from local parents. Yan Yanhong, 21, a former kindergarten teacher from Wenling, Zhejiang Province in China was detained for provocative and disturbing behavior after a photo was posted on the internet of her lifting a student off the ground by his ears.

A Texas woman faces life in prison after four children died while she went shopping. Jessica Tata is currently standing trial for murder, reckless injury and abandonment, with prosecutors alleging she went shopping while her daycare center burnt down, killing four young children. Tata was spotted on security cameras casually shopping at a nearby WalMart, leaving seven children, all under 3, unsupervised in her home.

BRANDON TOWNSHIP, MI – Oakland County Medical Examiner officials say the death of a 4-month-old Brandon Township boy was caused by blunt-force trauma and has been ruled a homicide. County sheriff officials say in a release Friday that Brandon Township fire personnel found the unresponsive infant lying on the living room floor about 2:30 p.m. Thursday. He later died at a hospital.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama — At least two more parents have come forward with allegations that their children were beaten by a security guard at a Huntsville-based alternative school last week. Harry Hobbs, a Huntsville Police Department spokesman, confirmed that additional parents and students are coming forward with allegations that the children were beaten by a security guard at the Pinnacle Schools, the alternative school adopted in January by the Huntsville school district.

WESTMINSTER, Colo. — A high school student has been arrested in the abduction and murder of 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway. Austin R. Sigg, 17, will be tried as an adult, Jefferson County District Attorney Pam Russell said Wednesday. Charges probably will be filed on Monday, Russell said. Sigg, who was arrested Tuesday night, will likely face murder and kidnapping charges in death of Ridgeway.

A pregnant woman suffered an early termination by the hand of her own husband. Tuesday morning Jefferey Reynolds, 31, inexplicably stabbed his wife, 28, carving out the baby she was 7 1/2 months pregnant with, immediately killing the unborn child on the floor of their Livingston, Louisiana home. The man was still at the scene of the disturbing crime when police arrived – his wife in critical condition, but still alive.