A scout master who molested a teenager 30 years ago on several occasions at a swimming pool went on to abuse the man’s son, a jury heard today. Robert Major’s copycat crimes were only exposed when the latest victim told his father he had been abused by the now 63-year-old. The horrified father then revealed his own secret which he had kept bottled-up for three decades.

An Akron, Ohio, ex-foster father who sexually abused five boys he was supposed to care for was sentenced to life in prison today. Roger Ball, 65, was convicted of one count of rape, one count of sexual battery and five counts of gross sexual imposition in May. Judge Tammy O’Brien called his crimes against children, one as young as five, ‘truly horrific.’

Online child abuse images are becoming “more extreme, sadistic and violent”, with the vast number of images and pressure on resources making identifying new victims increasingly difficult, according to a study from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP). “The children in these images are getting younger and the offences committed against them are getting more serious and extreme,” said Andy Baker, deputy chief executive of the CEOP Centre. “Not only has a child been abused when these images were taken but they are being abused again each time that image is viewed.”

A father was arrested on abuse charges as his son struggles for life in the hospital. In Oklahoma City, Charles Whitlow, 20, brought his 2-month-old son into the hospital with a brain hemorrhage and was arrested after admitting to violently shaking the child and then slamming him down in bed.

A Texas father may have been within his rights when he beat a man to death after allegedly catching him in the act of molesting his four-year-old daughter. According to reports, the incident took place Saturday while the little girl’s family was hosting a get-together at their home in rural Shiner, Tx.

DNA confirmed that the remains of a seven-month-old boy were found in a garbage dump after the baby’s mother told police he would be ‘found in a casket.’ Torrey Brown, who went missing in March, was found in a landfill in Arapahoe County, Colorado after crews sifted through more than 9,000 tons of trash at a cost of $10,000 per day, it has been revealed.

TROY — The Troy man accused of raping his children and allowing two other men to have sex with one son has requested a new public defender. Kenneth H. Brandt, 39, faces 31 counts of felony rape in Miami County and seven similar felonies in Montgomery County.

More than 20 WA institutions have been implicated in cases of child abuse and neglect, The West Australian can reveal. Religious orders and government agencies are among the long list of organisations behind the facilities that have been linked to claims including sexual, physical and psychological abuse.

A Tulsa County jury on Friday recommended a man found guilty of abusing his newborn son serve 125 years in prison. The man’s 6-week-old child underwent emergency brain surgery in Feb. 2011 after suffering a severe skull fracture and brain bleeding, according to a police affidavit filed in the case. The child was in the care of his father, Jeffery Reece Isbell, now 25, at their Tulsa home when the baby was injured.

SELMA — A man in Selma killed his wife and two of their children and then apparently committed suicide on Saturday. Avtar Singh, 47, called police on Saturday morning and said he had killed his family and was going to kill himself, the Fresno Bee reported.

A Florida mother recently released from a mental hospital will spend the rest of her life in prison for strangling her daughter with a bra. Following a judge’s decision to proceed with the trial, Nioshka Bello was found guilty on Wednesday of first-degree murder in the death of 2-year-old Janessa Sandoval.

SOUTH LOS ANGELES — Police and city officials will announce a large reward Saturday for any information in the hit-and-run death of a toddler in South L.A. more than 20 years ago. D’Ancee Nathaniel Barnes, 3, was killed by a hit-and-run driver on March 18, 1989 when he ran into roadway at the intersection of Gage and Van Ness avenues.

Two suspected shoplifters in Spain were arrested when they returned to the store they stole from to pick up their baby, who they left behind when they fled the store on Saturday. UPI stated that investigators said the couple was seen in Barcelona bookstore, hiding items in their bags and slipping things into their clothing, and then ran out of the store, when a manger saw them, leaving a stroller with their baby in it.

Children rarely fabricate allegations of sexual abuse (Studies show only 0% to 2% are fabricated allegations). Even in legally confirmed child sexual abuse cases involving vaginal penetration, the rate of physical medical findings is only 5.5%; In anal abuse, the rate is less than 1%. So, if a child discloses sexual abuse, BELIEVE THEM!