SANTA ANA — A 425-pound man was arrested Thursday for allegedly trying to abduct a 10-year old boy on his way to soccer practice. Police received a call around 7:30 p.m. Thursday night when about a man trying to kidnap a young boy in the 500 block of E. Central. The caller said the boy’s soccer coach was trying to detain the man, but he had escaped.

Eddie Johnson, 37, Mortimah Kesselly, 41 and Alfred Kulah, 35 have been accused of snatching a 15-year-old from the side of the road and engaging in three days of vicious rape and sodomy. The girl, from southwest Pennsylvania, was walking to her father’s house when she was taken by the three men. She tried to escape, but they threw her into a car and held her down so she was unable to see where she was being taken.

A 20-year-old from Jacksonville is in jail for child abuse after a doctor’s check-up revealed his baby was recovering from several broken ribs. The Onslow County Sheriff’s Office says Salvador Nunez was arrested, accused of squeezing his daughter when she was just 2-3 months old because she wouldn’t stop crying.

Syracuse — According to DeWitt Police, it’s very possible that the child found living in deplorable conditions at a home on James Street Thursday could have been rescued long before, if only people had picked up the phone and called authorities. Child welfare agencies estimate that close to 700,000 children were abused or neglected last year, but studies have repeatedly found that even more abuse goes unreported. From what police described, it’s hard to imagine the life that little boy lived. Some of the boys’ neighbors say they had no idea.

Child activists are furious with a Colorado judge for giving a child-killer a slap on the wrists. Dylan Kuhn, 19, plead guilty to manslaughter for slamming his daughter Sailor Serenity Raine Kuhn on November 1, 2011, after partying with friends the night before on Halloween. But District Court Judge Douglas Walker decided on 90 days in prison, four years probation and a parenting class in lieu of a harsher penalty because he did not wish time behind bars to harden the guilty teen.

The judge who was suspended from his job after a video showing him beating his cerebral palsy daughter was posted online is asking the Supreme Court to reinstate him. The 2004 video posted by the daughter of Judge William Adams, from Texas, sparked outrage across the nation last year due to the viscous verbal and physical abuse he administered on Hillary Adams when she was just 16. His former wife Hallie has asked that he does not return to the bench. She filed a grievance with the the state’s Commission on Judicial Conduct in August and in a letter on Tuesday, she asked that the suspension not be lifted until her complaint has been fully investigated.

An 18-year-old who was confined to a room in his home with little food for years was so malnourished he still had his baby teeth and looked like a pre-teen, a detective testified Thursday. ‘I thought he was a 12-year-old boy,’ said Georgia Detective Kevin Morgan at the bond hearing of Paul and Sheila Comer, who were arrested last month on charges of cruelty to children and false imprisonment. Mitch Comer was just 5′ 1″ and weighed only 87 pounds when he was found wandering around downtown Los Angeles.

Staff at the BBC were last night urged to come forward with information as a nationwide police inquiry was launched into Sir Jimmy Savile’s alleged reign of child abuse. It came as more women said they were raped or molested as girls by the ‘predatory’ BBC presenter. At least six police forces have now received allegations of abuse, and the Metropolitan Police has been chosen to co-ordinate inquiries.

Stark County, Illinois – Kendra Meaker, a 19-year-old Illinois woman was jailed Thursday after she allegedly dumped her three-week old daughter in a ditch, drove off, waited 12 hours, then claimed her daughter had been kidnapped. According to the Stark County Sheriff’s Office, Meaker reportedly walked into their office Thursday morning and told deputies that her daughter had been kidnapped out of her car while she was mailing a package at the post office.

A Florida mother has been convicted of child neglect after prosecutors said she failed to protect her two sons as their father stabbed them during a hostage situation. Last week, Deanna DeJesus, 38, pleaded not guilty to charges of both child neglect and aggravated manslaughter in the February rampage that left one child dead and the other wounded. The attack occurred when DeJesus’ husband, William DeJesus, drove his family to a Deerfield RV park and forced them inside an RV at random before fatally shooting the RV’s 76-year-old owner.

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — A 25-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly molesting a 6-year-old girl at a library. The incident was reported at the San Bernardino County Library Needles Branch on Monday afternoon. The suspect, identified as Caleb Brooks, was arrested at his home Tuesday for lewd or lascivious acts with a minor under 14.

GLENDALE, CA — A long-time tennis coach in Glendale is accused of molesting one of his students, and police want to know if there are more victims. 46-year-old Dale Kim, a married Northridge resident, faces 10 felony counts of committing lewd acts with a 15-year-old student — a girl from Granada Hills. He is also charged with seven felony counts of oral copulation of a minor, two felony counts of unlawful sexual intercourse and two felony counts of sexual penetration with a foreign object.

The Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration announced today they are advising medical professionals not to use any products manufactured by the New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Mass., due to an outbreak of fungal meningitis tied to some medications made by the company. Three lots of the company’s preservative-free methylprednisolone acetate that go back to July 2012 have been recalled and are believed to be the cause of the recent outbreak. Thirty-five cases of fungal meningtitis in six states have been identified, with five deaths.

19-year-old, Robert Weaver, raped a 13-year-old girl he met through Facebook. According to WSOCTV, Weaver picked the girl up at her home, took her back to his place and raped her, then returned her home. When she got home, a relative called the police to report the rape.