A Detroit father was found guilty Friday of murder and child abuse after prosecutors say he killed his two-year-old daughter and then faked a carjacking to cover up the crime. D’Andre Lane, 32, sat silent as the Wayne County Circuit Court jury foreman read the verdicts on both charges. ‘This has been a very long and very emotional case for everyone involved,’ Judge Vonda Evans told the court.

A grieving St Louis couple has sued two obstetricians for malpractice after a horrifying experience in the delivery room resulted in the gruesome death of their son. Arteisha Betts and Travis Ammonette of Florissant, Missouri, claim that their baby was decapitated during an erroneous attempt at a vaginal delivery by Gilbert Webb, MD, who then forced the baby’s body and head back into the birth canal and attempted to perform a Cesarean section.

A Lynnwood, Washington woman has been arrested on charges that she burned her son’s hands and poured salt in his wounds to discipline him. Karrina Torrescano Hernandez is accused of holding her six-year-old son’s hands over a hot spiral stove element and then pouring salt into the burns, in an effort to teach him not to touch her iPad.

Pennington County authorities arrested a New Underwood High School teacher on rape and sexual-contact charges Thursday evening. Kyle Keegan, 26, was arrested in Rapid City, where he lives, according to a news release from the Pennington County Sheriff’s Office. Keegan made his initial court appearance from Pennington County Jail on Friday morning. He is charged with fourth-degree rape of a victim between the ages of 13 and 15 and sexual contact with a child younger than 16. His bond was set at $50,000.

In his senior year at Mt. Pleasant, quarterback Princeton Harlan was being recruited by a plethora of universities, including Vanderbilt, Auburn, Kentucky, Notre Dame, Tennessee and South Carolina. Indeed, a bright future for Harlan until Wednesday when the 18-year-old was charged with the rape of a child. According to Anthony Bailey, a Maury County Sheriff’s Department detective, the alleged victim was a fellow student who happened to be only 12 years old.

Abused or neglected children often show both physical and behavioral symptoms. Older children may not talk about the problem, because they fear or want to protect the offender or they do not believe they will be taken seriously. Sometimes children report abuse to an adult they trust. These conversations should be taken seriously and acted upon. Some symptoms are specific to certain forms of maltreatment. There are also general symptoms that can occur with all types.

New Jersey police have identified a child whose skeletal remains were found in 2005 and charged three people, including her aunt and uncle, on Wednesday with covering up her death. Authorities said the body was that of 9-year-old Jon-Niece Jones, who was abused and died at her aunt’s New York City home in August 2002.

A Republican politician personally endorsed by vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan is today at the center of a storm after a controversial interview emerged in which he relayed his father’s advice that ‘some girls rape easy.’ Desperately trying to control the damage, Wisconsin state Rep. Roger Rivard, claimed that repeating his father’s comments were meant as a warning that a woman could agree to sex but then later claim it wasn’t consensual. However, the backlash has been severe, with Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan announcing today he was withdrawing his support for the embattled representative who is running for re-election.

Convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky will be allowed to keep the more than $900,000 he earned in state pension payments in spite of his recent sentencing of 30 to 60 years in prison. Because of the bylaws of the Pennsylvania state employee’s retirement system, the former football coach will keep the hundreds of thousands of dollars he earned following his 1999 retirement from Penn State University’s sports program. The state’s forfeiture law does not authorize the government body to go after money paid before the date of a plea or conviction, meaning he will keep everything awarded between 1999 and September 2012.

An inmate on death row used his last breath to protest his innocence of the murder of a 12-year-old girl as he was executed in Texas last night despite his legal team arguing he was mentally ill. Jonathan Green, 44, was jailed for the abduction, rape and strangling of Christina Neal, 12, whose body was found at his home a month after she was reported missing in 2000. Several last ditch appeals were made on the basis of his mental health in an attempt to save him from the death penalty but Green was given a lethal injection after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the arguments to spare him.

Authorities combing Pattridge Park open space in Arvada, Colorado discovered a body Wednesday evening, but will not say if it is the body of missing Westminster 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway who disappeared on Friday on her way to school. On Wednesday, around 6:40 p.m., Westminster Police Department tweeted the following new information in the ongoing investigation: This afternoon a body was discovered […]

WAYNE — An Essex County sheriff’s officer has been arrested and charged with sexually abusing two minors. Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia Valdes says 48-year-old Thomas Ingham of Wayne was arrested Thursday. Prosecutors say Ingham allegedly sexually assaulted two family friends when they were between the ages of eight and 14 years-old.

LONDON — Police say the former host of a children’s television show may have sexually assaulted more than 20 girls over four decades. Jimmy Savile, one of Britain’s best known TV personalities, died last year at the age of 84. Savile, hosted “Top of the Pops” and children’s program “Jim’ll Fix It” and was well known as a charity fundraiser.

A serial pedophile who abused girls as young as two, including two of his own daughters, has walked free from a court because of his bad health. Gerald Longman, who is aged 78, was given an absolute discharge despite being convicted of a string of attacks on girls which date back to the 1960s. He committed four indecent assaults and two rapes, and incited a girl under 14 to carry out an indecent act, but a judge handed him an absolute discharge because he suffers from dementia.