A substitute teacher and field hockey coach in the Muhlenberg School District has been arrested on charges she had an inappropriate relationship with a young girl. Jean Kleckner was charged Thursday with corruption of minors and endangering the welfare of children.

A Winnipeg father is facing the prospect of being locked up indefinitely after pleading guilty in what city police consider to be the worst case of child sexual abuse they’ve ever dealt with. The 48-year-old pleaded guilty to 11 charges Thursday relating to years of what can only be described as unspeakable sex crimes inflicted on his daughter and step-daughter inside his ramshackle west Winnipeg home between 2002 and 2009 when the girls were between 9-16 and 11-16 years old.

CADILLAC — A Wexford County baby is fighting for his life at a hospital in Grand Rapids, while the man accused of causing his injuries sits in jail. Andrew Basinski, 24, of Cadillac was charged Thursday with three counts of first-degree child abuse. Bond is set at $100,000 cash for each charge.

SOUTH OGDEN — Officers arrested Rachel Ann Patrick, 29, for third-degree felony child abuse. South Ogden Department of Public Safety said Patrick allegedly struck a child with a phone charger cord multiple times on the arms, back and legs causing welts and bruises to the child.

MANOR, Texas — Police have arrested and charged a Manor Independent School District bus driver with continuous sexual abuse of a young child. Police have identified the driver as 62-year-old Gilbert Briseno. Manor ISD said the investigation started on Thursday after someone in the community saw a student standing on the bus. The school district immediately launched an investigation, placed Briseno on administrative leave, and notified the 10-year-old female student’s parents.

According to court documents, a pregnant 21-year-old Tazewell woman left the Claiborne County Hospital Monday after a doctor told her doing so would result in her and her unborn child’s death. Police say Jessica Diamond Miracle signed herself out saying she just wanted to go home. Miracle then had a baby boy in the hospital parking lot.

Witnesses say that a 25-year-old Flagstaff mother — now in jail on child abuse charges — punched her 2-year-old daughter in the face because she was upset over the price of orange juice at an eastside restaurant last week. The woman had finished eating breakfast at Mike and Ronda’s The Place when she got upset about the drink’s price and threw it at her infant as she sat in a stroller, according to information from the Flagstaff Police Department.

Sometimes through divorces, separations or physical incapacities, issues such as child custody, support or visitation rights must be determined. A common misconception is that courts are likely to grant unreasonable custody arrangements, unrealistic visitation access or copious amounts of financial support awards to one party unfairly. In reality, courts have broad discretion in tailoring these orders, primarily taking into consideration the child’s best interests. According to Kansas state law, the court may order the joint legal custody of a child with both parties. In that event, the parties shall have equal rights to make decisions in the best interests of the child. Or, the court may order the sole legal custody of a child with one of the parties when the court finds that it is not in the best interests of the child that both of the parties have equal rights to make decisions pertaining to the child.

I never imagined I would pressure a grieving family member into giving me an interview. But I was desperate. My deadline was looming and there was still an important piece missing from my story: An interview with the aunt of a young boy who was beaten to death. His aunt’s name is Katrina and she had agreed to meet me at the cemetery where little Christopher was buried. Then she stood me up. I really needed this interview. Finally a few days later, I gathered the strength to pick up the phone one last time. She didn’t answer, so I left a message telling her that I would be writing about Christopher’s death with or without her. I wanted to do the story justice, but for that, I needed her. A few minutes later, she sent me a text…

MOULTON, AL – A Moulton police officer is suspended with pay pending the outcome of a child abuse investigation. Mitchell Breland is charged with two felony counts of torture and willful abuse of a child under 18. Moulton police Chief Lyndon McWhorter said Breland turned himself in to Alabama Bureau of Investigation authorities this morning.

RENO, NV — A woman was sentenced to 4-16 years for child abuse and neglect today, according to Washoe County Deputy District Attorney Elliott Sattler. Tkeyah Jordan, 21, has been convicted of child abuse and neglect after her live-in boyfriend, Trevor Swanson, dislocated her toddler, Nalaya’s, shoulder and she did not take her to the doctor for fear they would be charged with child abuse.

BUFFALO, NY—U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that James S. Allen, 36, of New Baltimore, Michigan, has been arrested and charged by criminal complaint with cyber-stalking, trafficking in computer passwords, and making harassing telephone calls. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron J. Mango, who is handling the case, stated that according to complaint, between June 24, 2012 and August 14, 2012, the defendant utilized the Internet and text messages to communicate with at least 10 female victims in the Western District of New York, many of them minors, in an effort to obtain pornographic pictures of the minors. The complaint alleges that Allen would contact the victims and tell them that he found naked pictures of them on the Internet. The defendant then directed the victims to a specific website to view the pictures. In reality, the website was a front by which the defendant sought to surreptitiously obtain the victim’s private e-mail address and password—such a site is sometimes referred to by law enforcement as a “phishing” website.

America’s original most-hated mom Susan Smith was found in a pool of blood in her prison cell after she slashed her wrists during one of her bizarre cutting rituals, according to reports. The 40-year-old monster mom came to national attention in 1994 when she strapped her sons – Michael, three, and Alex, one – into their car seats before rolling the vehicle into a lake so she could be with her wealthy lover. She is serving a life sentence in Leath Correctional institute in North Carolina after she eventually confessed to the murder of her children.

A 49-year-old man accused of sending sexually explicit messages to at least 17 young girls on Facebook is ‘every parent’s worst nightmare’, said police. An investigation into Duane Charles Parker, of Lafayette, Louisiana, found that he sent sexual messages to preteens who were all schoolmates and sent a video of himself masturbating while saying what he wanted to do to a seventh-grade girl, investigators revealed yesterday. Parker’s arrest last month also led to him being charged with aggravated sexual assault against a child relative, who was still living with Parker when he was captured.