Parents are surrounded by messages about child sexual abuse. Talk-shows and TV news warn parents about dangers on the Internet, at school and at home. However, parents don’t get much advice on how to talk to their children if they are concerned that sexual abuse is occurring.
Talk to your child directly.

Kaliq Mansor, 34, is charged with murder by abuse in the death of his 11-week-old son. Computer forensics reports show Mansor’s computers accessed information on child abuse law and shaken baby syndrome in the weeks before the death.

Child sexual abuse is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation.[1][2] Forms of child sexual abuse include asking or pressuring a child to engage in sexual activities (regardless of the outcome), indecent exposure (of the genitals, female nipples, etc.) to a child with intent to gratify their own sexual desires or to intimidate or groom the child, physical sexual contact with a child, or using a child to produce child pornography.

How Child Molesters Fool You and Your Child — Research indicates that one in three girls and one in five boys will be sexually abused. Child safety is our responsibility as adults, not a burden that children should shoulder by themselves. Fewer than 10% of child victims report. Worse still, 52% of child molesters surveyed reported that, when the children did tell, they were able to “talk the adults out of calling the police.” After that, most molested more children. As adults, we need to prepare children and talk to them about sexual abuse and offender behavior. If we don’t talk to them, who will?

A Fateful Morning — On the morning of December 5, 2010 two-year-old Conner Bachuss woke up and wanted his mommy. Connor’s older sister brought him into his mother’s room. Ms. Bachuss was suffering from a kidney stone that resulted in severe bouts of pain and she had finally fallen asleep. Ronald Saunders, Ms. Bachuss’ boyfriend, told Conner’s sister that her mother was sick and to let her sleep. Saunders then took Conner to the living room. A few hours later Ms. Bachuss woke up and was feeling better. She planned on making breakfast and taking the children to church. Saunders came into her room and asked her if Conner had fallen the previous night. Ms. Bacchus told him “No” and Saunders left the room. Within a few minutes Saunders came back in the room carrying Conner’s lifeless body.

TARZANA, CA — A former president of L.A.’s Board of Neighborhood Commissioners pleaded guilty Friday on federal charges of distributing child pornography. 64-year-old Albert Abrams, of Tarzana, accepted the guilty plea months after claiming that the charges stemmed from a now removed growth on his spine that caused him to act out of character.

A Philadelphia judge on Friday granted a condemned man a rare hearing to weigh whether prosecutors failed to disclose key evidence indicating the true motive behind a grisly killing nearly 30 years ago. The ruling is a major break for Terry Williams, 46, slated to be the first prisoner in more than 50 years to be executed in Pennsylvania while still appealing his sentence. Attorneys for Williams say his life should be spared due to his traumatic and violent childhood, and the fact that he was sentenced to die for killing a man who sexually abused him and other teenage boys.

BOSTON (Reuters) – A prominent Boston physician, who served as medical director of the famed prep school Phillips Academy for nearly two decades, was arrested on Thursday and charged with receiving child pornography at his school office. A search of Richard Keller’s home turned up more than 500 photographs and as many as 100 DVDs full of pornography, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston said in a statement. An associated complaint described the content of some of the DVDs, which mostly featured young boys in a variety of situations.

The NCSBS was given a challenge by their International Scientific Advisory Board to empirically test a shaken baby syndrome (SBS) prevention program that is effective and can be used in any jurisdiction or setting. From 2003 – 2007, parallel studies were conducted on the Period of PURPLE Crying program through randomized controlled trials (RCT) PURPLEparentsin Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Delivery sites included pediatric practices, maternity departments, pre-natal classes, and nurse home visitor programs.

For 10 years, Tanya Kach, of McKeesport, Pa., was held as a sex slave under her abductor’s complete control. Now, she’s come out to tell her amazing survival story. In 1996, Kach was a 14-year-old girl carrying around grown-up problems. Her parents were splitting up. And, like most girls that age, adjusting to the teenage years was tough. A woman recalls her experiences of being abducted and held hostage for ten years. And you won’t believe who her captor was!

Bullies don’t just roam the schoolyards and playgrounds. They can be found at work, your social circles and even under your own roof! Bullying is one of the most underrated and enduring problems in schools today and is a reality in the lives of all children, whether they are bullies, victims or witnesses.

From the time she started school through sixth grade, Trish McClune was bullied. Kids called her “Tissue” and wiped their noses on her clothes. Once, her best friend punched her. Even her cousins and sister got in on the game, forming “WHEAT” — the “We Hate Everything About Trish Club.” “There were times when I’d just sit outside by myself at recess,” McClune, now 31 and a communications associate in Lancaster, Pa., told LiveScience. “Just sit outside and pick the grass, because I felt like the world hated me.”

Convicted child sex abuser Roger Bruce Bell, 56, of the Muscadine community was sentenced this week by Circuit Court Judge Debra Jones following a jury trail in Heflin. According to Cleburne County Sheriff’s Investigator Dennis Green, Bell was arrested Feb. 9, 2011 after Stringfellow Hospital in Anniston reported an alleged sexual assault involving a child under the age of 12. Investigator Green noted that by law, health care providers are required to report abuse pertaining to a child.

A 14-YEAR-OLD girl has filed a complaint for child abuse against her mother, whom she accused of hurting her physically and abusing her verbally. The alleged abuse pushed Joy to slash her wrist, hoping it would end her mother’s abuses. Mary, however, did not stop hurting Joy. (Sun.Star Cebu is withholding the names of the parties involved in compliance with Republic Act (RA) 7610, or the Anti-Child Abuse Law, which prohibits naming the victim and the accused.)