Jason Daniel Gandy, 35, from Houston, Texas, was arrested on Wednesday for taking a 15-year-old boy to London to sexually exploit him. According to chron.com, Gandy was charged with transportation of a minor for a commercial sex act. This charge could put him in prison for up to ten years and a fine up to $250,000.

LAFOLLETTE – A former LaFollette police officer indicted on 44 felony counts of child sex crimes has been added to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s Top Ten Most Wanted List. The investigation of Michael Shane Baker, 39, began in Georgia several months ago. Baker is accused of having inappropriate contact with an underage girl through the Internet, webcams and text messages between August and December 2011. The indictment says Baker allegedly got the girl to engage in sexual activity and simulated sexual activity.

QUINCY, PA — A man in south-central Pennsylvania confronting his wife about custody arrangements for their daughter fatally shot three people, then fled with the 4-year-old girl before the two were found about 250 miles away in Ohio, authorities said Saturday. The man, Kevin Matthew Cleeves, was trying to contact his wife Friday to make arrangements to pick up his daughter Leia, but his wife didn’t answer the phone, so he went to a home in Quincy Township, the (Waynesboro) Record-Herald reported, citing court records.

OXFORD, Mass. – A man who had recently separated from his wife shot his two children, killing his 7-year-old daughter, before committing suicide, prosecutors said. A family member called police Saturday night after finding the bodies of 41-year-old Daryl Benway and his daughter, Abigail, in the master bedroom of their two-story Oxford home, Worcester County District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. said.

At Childhelp, we have always believed that sports help children heal. The psychological and physical benefits of fitness are well documented, and there are so many areas where organized sporting activities allow children that have been abused and neglected to work through obstacles. Accomplishments on the field raise self-esteem, problem solving on the court can renew confidence and teamwork rebuilds trust. “Trust” is a key word in recovery and the relationship between a child and his or her coaching staff should be based on the essential belief that an adult authority figure is someone of understanding, integrity and security. At our residential treatment facilities, staff members work closely with our little survivors to help them kick the soccer ball farther (as their troubles roll away from them), toss the football a little straighter (while learning they can visualize their lives going any direction they please), swim an extra lap (because through hard work anything is possible) and shoot the basketball a little higher (hopefully closer to their dreams). Through trust, the children in our care believe their futures can be brighter.

Reports out of Syria show horrific abuses or children from both sides of the conflict, including abduction, rape and extreme torture. It is estimated that between 500 and 1,300 children have been killed in the conflict to date. Rob Williams, chief executive of War Child, which is providing emergency assistance to Syrian children refugees in Lebanon, said: “The Syrian conflict must now rank as one of the worst for the depth and scale of abuses against children. “

The father of a young girl who was raped while camping with her family five years ago expressed his satisfaction after an arrest was finally made in the case, and also anger that the crime happened in the first place. Reginald Juntunen, 24, was booked into the Lewis County Jail on Thursday for investigation of rape of a child, rape, child molestation, kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment and assault, after a DNA match connected him to the crime.

A marine is now charged with rape and a fellow marine is charged as an accessory after Onslow County deputies say they took girls to a hotel and they were reported missing. Chandler Bible is charged with first degree rape and Ethan Lee is charged with accessory after the fact.

Attorneys representing a 17-year-old boy accused of killing another teen told jurors Friday that their client has suffered from various mental disorders since he was a child and some of this mental problems can be linked to sexual abuse. But prosecutors told jurors defendant Alex Medina, of Ojai, is a malingerer and manipulator who trying to get out of a long prison sentence for first-degree murder.

As long ago as 1932, the MP Colonel Wedgwood (direct descendent of the famous potter) spoke in parliament on the ‘horrible practice of female circumcision’ that he had seen in Kenya and questioned any acceptance of ‘their customs…their cruelties’. It’s a practice that involves the partial to complete removal of a girl’s external genitals which inevitably has a severely damaging impact on her physical, sexual and mental health.

A convicted child rapist sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl after spiking her Fruit Shoot drink with vodka while on bail for another sex attack on a youngster. Twisted Samuel Omar, 64, was given the opportunity to offend again after his court case for a vile attack on a young girl was delayed because of government funding cutbacks. The pedophile had been due to stand trial in May for sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl last July and superimposing her face onto pictures of topless models.

WOODSTOCK, Ill.— The nephew of infamous serial killer John Wayne Gacy is facing his own legal woes as he stands trial in McHenry County this week on sexual assault and abuse charges. Raymond Kasper, 49, is accused of predatory criminal sexual assault and aggravated criminal sexual abuse against a girl under the age of 13.

23 years ago, Kelley Currin was forced into signing a non-disclosure agreement in which her swim coach, Rick Curl, would pay her and her parents $150,000 dollars in exchange for their silence on Curl and Currin’s sexual relationship.

In Joplin, Missouri, Beth Williams, 26, and her roommate Christina Haidle, 27, starved Williams’ 3-year-old daughter to the point where she only weighed 12 pounds, 9 ounces, had a low heartbeat, and a temperature too low to register.