A Chicago man used drugs as a way to control his victims. DeJuan Brown of Cook County, Chicago pimped 12 young women over a span of 5 years, getting them addicted to heroin, and punishing them by withholding the drug, forcing them to go through vicious withdrawal symptoms. According to Daily Mail, the young women solicited through the internet and were each given pre-payed cricket phones, which Brown collected on their return.

NOTE: I receive hundreds of emails every week from individuals who are fighting a losing battle with CPS, the criminal justice system, and/or child protection. I received the following email a few days ago and, with her permission, am posting it publicly as a last resort to try to get her the help she needs. As you read through her heartbreaking email, you will see just exactly how broken our system, and Child Protective Services, really is:

A head blow to an 8-month-old child delivered by his mother was so severe the back of his head was “concave,” an assistant Macomb prosecutor said Wednesday in court. “The most significant (injury) was how the skull was crushed in the back of his head,” assistant prosecutor William Cataldo said. “It was so significant, it shattered the bone. It created a bleeding and swelling in his brain that caused him to die.”

Gen. Bosco Ntaganda, who mutiniedagainst the Democratic Republic of Congo in early April 2012, has forciblyrecruited at least 149 boys and young men into his forces since April 19, HumanRights Watch said today. Ntaganda, a former rebel leader turned army general,is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of war crimesfor previous recruitment and use of child soldiers. “Bosco Ntaganda is once againcommitting the very crimes against children for which the InternationalCriminal Court has been demanding his arrest,” said Anneke Van Woudenberg,senior Africa researcher at Human RightsWatch. “Children and civilians in eastern Congo will remain at grave risk solong as Ntaganda is at large.”

A boy taken to a men’s group home for discipline was instead tortured and abused, according to court documents released Wednesday. Lonnie Remmers, 54, of Corona, is the pastor of the Heart of Worship Community Church, which operates the men’s group home. Remmers, along with Nicholas Craig, 22, and Darryll Jeter, 28, were arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, torture, and child abuse, Corona police said.

The 14-year-old, who like his victim cannot be identified, was unanimously convicted of raping the child by the Belfast Crown Court jury on Tuesday. They also convicted him, by a majority verdict, of one count of sexually assaulting the boy. After more than two hours of deliberations, the jury of eight men and four women also acquitted by majority verdicts the teenager of three further charges of rape and three of sexual assault.

The Diocese of Portsmouth is challenging a High Court ruling that the Roman Catholic Church can be held liable for the sex crimes of priests. Last year Mr Justice MacDuff gave a decision in favour of a woman, who claims she was raped and assaulted as a child by a priest of the diocese.

MARTINEZ, CA — Six sisters who for years were sexually abused by their father with their mother’s help have sued government entities and officials, claiming they failed to properly investigate their ordeal. At the time, police in the family’s hometown of Antioch were investigating rape allegations one of the girls had made against her father, Bruce “Zion” Dutro. He later pleaded guilty to one count of molestation and was sentenced to three years’ probation.

A Juvenile Justice Board here sentenced a 10-year-old boy for sexually abusing a four-year-old girl last year, a lawyer said on Wednesday. Principal Magistrate Ashu Kumar Jain Monday sent the boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, to three years in a special home.

EVIDENCE in a groundbreaking priest-abuse trial shows the men running the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia used elaborate methods to keep sex-abuse complaints from prying eyes. Memos unearthed from long-secret archives show the complaints were not just under lock and key – but guarded by locks, keys, alarms, safes and computer security programs.

WAUPUN — It’s a room built for solitary confinement, but it’s not a cell at Waupun State Prison. It’s a ‘time out’ area at Rock River School, just a few blocks away. “It`s a very common thing to have in public schools,” Donald Childs, Superintendent of the Waupun Area School District said. Teachers call it the ‘Quiet Room.’ The mother of an autistic child calls it ‘the box.’ “It’s a boxed roof. It’s an enclosed box,” Mandy Rennhack said. “It’s not a box. It is a room,” Childs counters.

Terrifying details of a Florida killing spree, which left three people dead and two with shocking injuries in February, were released to the public for the first time yesterday. William De Jesus, a 41-year-old Floridian with a history of mental illness, shot and killed a 76-year-old man at a Deerfield Beach trailer park on February 9 – sparking a hostage stand-off with police that ended in a frenzied knife attack on his wife and two young sons. At one point he allegedly asked his wife which son she wanted him to kill first. He also told both boys that he had to kill them, otherwise they would be cut up and eaten by police officers.

In 2007 James Kent, a professor of public administration at Marist College, was convicted on 134 counts of possessing child pornography on his computer. Just a few days ago, New York State’s highest court, considering Kent’s appeal, ruled that mere possession of computerized pornographic images of children does not constitute a violation of New York law. While New York State legislators are rushing to repair the breach in the state’s pornography legislation, the arguments used on both sides reveal a confusion – especially on the part of opponents of pornography – that only strengthens the hand of pornographers and may some day serve to render some forms of kiddie porn completely legitimate.

Miami, FL – Marlene Mieses, a 24-year-old Florida woman was jailed Monday after she allegedly left her 11-month-old son alone in a motel room to sell food stamps. According to police, officers were dispatched to the Seven Seas Motel in Miami after the housekeeping staff found an 11-month-old baby abandoned in a motel room.