RICHLAND, Wash. — A man who worked at a Richland day care was sentenced to nearly eight years in prison for raping a 2-year-old boy. The sentence given to 22-year-old Luca Anthony Miller on Thursday in Benton County Superior Court is a mandatory minimum. He could spend the rest of his life behind bars without approved sex offender treatment.

A sleepy Indiana town awoke one chilly morning in the winter of 1992 to discover the lifeless body of 12-year-old Shanda Sharer in an open field. She had been stabbed, strangled, beaten and burned alive. Authorities quickly narrowed in on the killers ” four teenage girls, three of whom had never met the victim until the night they kidnapped, tortured and lit her on fire. The story has captivated news headlines for 20 years, but for the first time on national television, Shanda’s grief-stricken mother, Jacque, and sister, Paije, share their pain. Plus, don’t miss the heart-wrenching confrontation Monday, when Jacque and Paije sit down with one of the four murderers since released from prison.

PHOENIX – An Arizona mother was re-arrested on Thursday in connection with the year-long disappearance of her 5-year-old daughter and was jailed on first-degree murder and child abuse charges, authorities said. Jerice Hunter, 38, was taken into custody without incident in her suburban Phoenix home after being indicted by a state grand jury on charges stemming from the presumed slaying of her child, Jhessye Shockley, police said.

TALLAHASSEE —The Florida Department of Health’s State Surgeon General, Dr. John Armstrong, on Friday issued an Emergency Suspension Order (ESO) for Thomas P. Floyd, DMD, with the assistance and partnership of the West Palm Beach Police Department. The Florida Department said today that this will halt his ability to practice coinciding with his arrest pending charges of child abuse. Dr. Floyd was arrested this morning after an arrest warrant was obtained through the West Palm Beach Police Department. Dr. Floyd has been charged with one count of child abuse stemming from a 2010 incident involving a four-year old patient.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The first American bishop criminally charged in the clergy sex abuse scandal was found guilty Thursday of a misdemeanor count of failing to report suspected child abuse, a conviction that extends the struggle of Roman Catholic leaders to restore trust in the church. Bishop Robert Finn was acquitted on a second count. He received two years of probation, but that sentence was suspended and will be wiped from his record if he adheres to a set of conditions that include mandatory abuse reporting training, setting aside $10,000 in diocese money for abuse victim counseling, and instructing all diocesan agents to report suspected criminal activity involving minors.

The effects of human trafficking are still easy to see on certain streets in Cincinnati, but now there’s a new weapon at work to help fight the problem. “For me, I felt like I was trapped,” said one former victim of human trafficking. “I felt like there was no getting out.” The woman, who asked not to be identified, said her father pimped her out to pay for his drug habit when she was 14 years old. She’s now recovering at Cincinnati Union Bethel’s Off The Streets program. “I wasn’t living; I was just existing, and I was just so miserable,” the woman said.

The FBI lists 27 parents on its Most Wanted list for parental kidnappings. See pictures and information on the parents and children involved in these cases. Fugitive #1 — Faical Chebbi was awarded visitation rights after divorce proceedings in 2011. Authorities say Chebbi exercised his rights and picked up his children, Zainab and Eslam, from their grandparents’ home in Prince George’s County, Maryland. According to the FBI, he took them to Tunis, Tunisia, where he called the children’s mother and told her they would not return.

YUMA, AZ – Authorities say a Yuma High School teacher has been arrested in a child pornography case. Yuma police announced Tuesday that 37-year-old Michael A. Cox was booked Tuesday into the Yuma County Adult Detention Facility. He’s being held on suspicion of 10 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor.

Surveillance video of a man arrested and accused of kidnapping and, in one case, sexually assaulting two young girls in Prince George’s County has been released by investigators. The man pictured in the video is identified by Prince George’s County Police officials as 25-year-old Charles Amofa of Chillum. He’s charged with kidnapping, sexual abuse, child abuse and assault in connection with the two alleged incidents.

Fugitive #1 — John J. Hartin is wanted for allegedly abusing two young boys, approximately eight and nine years old, whom he had befriended in the Boston, Massachusetts, area in 1993. After being charged locally with five counts of statutory rape of a child, a federal arrest warrant was issued for Hartin on December 18, 1997, in Boston, Massachusetts, and he was charged with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.

“Just Melvin, Just Evil” is a very hard to find documentary about the tormented family of Melvin Just, a man almost too evil to be believed. In it, they detail their experiences of abuse over decades, at his hands, even admitting to knowing of a murder he committed to keep his crimes quiet.

Disgraced Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, who died in January, is about to be immortalized in a new movie starring Hollywood legend Al Pacino. The Oscar-winning actor has agreed to take on the controversial role in a film based on the New York Times bestselling book Paterno. The movie is still in the early stages of development, but respected Hollywood entertainment blog deadline.com is reporting that it will be shopped around Los Angeles early next week.

The Ohio parents of Olympic gold medalist Tianna Madison have filed a lawsuit against her, saying she falsely spread stories they had been selfish and bullying and cheated her financially causing her bankruptcy. Elyria residents Robert and Jo Ann Madison filed the libel, slander and defamation lawsuit on Thursday in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court in Cleveland. They say they’ve been loving, supportive and generous parents. The lawsuit, which also names her husband, John Bartoletta, reportedly says Madison and Bartoletta have repeatedly made false statements since March to the media.

Lake City, FL – Gerome Robinson, an 18-year-old Florida man accused of attempting to rape a 13-year-old girl, told police “the devil tried to rape her in my body.” According to Lake City Police, a 13-year-old girl was walking to her grandmother’s house when Robinson approached her and asked if she wanted to “hang out.” When the girl told Robinson “No,” Robinson responded by pushing the girl into his backyard, stripping naked and then attempting to undress the victim.