SHIPROCK, New Mexico – A stranger who lured 11-year-old Ashlynne Mike into his van with promises of watching a movie instead walked her into the hills of a remote area of the Navajo Nation, a place known for its breathtaking views and a monolithic rock outcropping that stands as a beacon for miles. As the sun faded, the man returned alone, with a crowbar tucked in his jacket. The girl was nowhere to be seen. The girl’s 9-year-old brother, who had jumped into the van hoping to protect her — was now distraught and scared. The man drove him toward a highway, and then told him to get out.

Joyce Meyer has been rather open about her past of sexual abuse, but for the first time, she’s portraying it in its true light. “Sexual abuse is so shaming that nobody talks about it. Nobody knows how to talk about it,” stated Meyer. Though Joyce was abused until she was 18, she was too terrified to reveal the secret to anyone for most of her childhood. Because of her father’s coercion and manipulation, a part of her believed it was her fault. Even as Joyce started to open up about her dark past, she always referred to it as “sexual abuse”—but in a recent interview posted on her website this week, she admits that term is truly not enough anymore. It was rape.

Being in the situation where a partner has taken your child to another country can be stressful enough, but it can be made much, much worse if you have reason to believe that your child may be coming to harm in their care. International child abuse cases can often be quite difficult and extremely stressful, especially if you have little or no contact with the child. A common example of this type of case is a violent partner who has fled the country, taking your child with them. Getting custody in the case of international child abduction by a partner can be difficult, however if abuse is suspected it may be easier to get your child back.

Cosby loses appeal, will face sexual assault charge – Bill Cosby’s attempt to avoid facing a sexual assault charge was ended Monday by a Pennsylvania appeals court. The entertainer, who claimed that an old deal with prosecutors not to charge him in the 2004 case should be honored, will now be criminally prosecuted. Cosby, 78, is facing trial over a 2004 encounter at his home with a then Temple University employee who says she was drugged and molested by the comedian. Cosby says they engaged in consensual sex acts.

A child who was allegedly raped by his father and forced to have sex with his mother showed disturbing behavior in school such as biting and spitting, a trial has heard. The 12-year-old boy has now concluded his evidence at the Central Criminal Court after spending nearly two weeks testifying via video-link about various abuses he allegedly suffered in the family home in Waterford including being raped with a hot poker and having a gun held to his head.

WISCONSIN – A teacher’s aide in Milwaukee was charged with the physical abuse of a child after he was captured on camera attacking a high school student while calling him a ‘n***er’ and ‘little motherf***er’. Jasmine Pennix, 39, was fired from Bay View High School in Wisconsin, where several boys were ‘ripping on each other’ in biology class on Wednesday morning, according to a criminal complaint. Pennix got into an argument with a 14-year-old boy, and now faces up to six years in jail along with a $10,000 fine if he is found guilty.

SYDNEY – A 12-year-old girl has been raped by two men who took her from one of Sydney’s northern beaches, police say. It’s alleged the girl was approached at Freshwater Beach on Thursday afternoon by the 25- and 22-year-olds. The pair were then said to have driven her five minutes up the road to Brookvale, where they both allegedly sexually assaulted her.

WISCONSIN – A teenage gunman was shot dead by police officers after he opened fire with a high-powered rifle outside a high school prom, injuring a couple of students, authorities said. Jackob E. Wagner, 18, arrived at Antigo High School in Antigo, Wisconsin, at around 11pm on Saturday night and started firing at the pair, a male and a female, at the school’s entrance as they left the building. Antigo Police Chief Eric Roller said several police officers were at the scene providing security for the event and quickly stopped the threat by shooting the suspect.

It has been almost 20-years since the body of JonBenet Ramsey was found in the basement of her family home in Boulder, Colorado, and the private investigator hired by her parents to find the person or persons responsible for her death is now revealing who he believes killed the child beauty queen. Ollie Gray, who continued to investigate the murder case even after he stopped working for the Ramseys, claims that the child’s killer was a local 26-year-old male whose family owned a junkyard – Michael Helgoth. ‘Based on what we know now, I believe Helgoth and his accomplices committed the crime.’ said Gray. That opinion was backed up by John Kenady, a man who used to work for Helgoth, stating ‘There was a tape recording made by Helgoth. And in it, he said he killed JonBenet.’ Kenady also claims that someone close to Helgoth still has the tape, which was overlooked by police during the investigation.

SEMINOLE, Oklahoma — A missing child alert was issued in late April 2006 for colton-clark-jpgColton Clark of Seminole. He was 9 at the time of his disappearance. A man and woman, Colton’s aunt and uncle, who were arrested last Friday in connection with the disappearance of a Seminole boy in 2006 are expected to face multiple charges, including first-degree murder. Court documents show that James Rex Clark and Rebecca Faith Clark are expected to be charged with first-degree murder/death of a child by injuring, torturing or maiming, abuse of a minor child, child neglect and conspiracy to commit a felony.

Mathematics tutor Quy Huy Hoang enjoyed such confidence from the Sydney families who hired him that they referred their friends for lessons, and installed locks and blinds at his urging. But out of sight, the ‘monster’ was haunting the children he was entrusted with teaching. The 68-year-old showed no visible emotion in the dock of Sydney District Court on Friday as he was handed a 24-year jail term for sexual crimes against five children to whom he gave private lessons between 2007 and 2014. His victims were aged as young as three and were subjected to a barrage of meticulously planned sexual and indecent assaults.

TEXAS – A Texas man is accused of raping a six-year-old female relative and videotaping the sexual abuse while his wife failed to report the incidents, police said. Jeramy Inez Sanchez, 28, was arrested on Tuesday in Odessa and charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child, a first degree felony. His wife, Ruth Campos Sanchez, 30, was charged with endangering a child, a state jail felony, after allegedly not reporting the abuse, police said. Police first learned of the alleged abuse on Tuesday after the six-year-old girl started asking students in her class if they ‘wanted to have sex like boyfriends and girlfriends’.

A Jasper County mother says if she didn’t allow her 5-year-old’s principal to paddle him, the school would have suspended him. That suspension would have put Shana Marie Perez back in jail for truancy, she said Wednesday. Perez said she was arrested two weeks ago on truancy charges, booked into jail and then released. If her son missed any more school, she said she thought she’d go to jail.

Montgomery Texas Police Chief Jim Napolitano, a former Secret Service agent to four different presidents, is an expert in protection and security. With his advice and the help of child and adult actors, News 6 set out to teach parents exactly, step by step, what you need to do to escape from a child abductor in four typical scenarios.