A 14-year-old boy was left in critical condition after a fight during a dodgeball game. Preston Hodge, 14, was rushed to the hospital after being beaten up by a bully over a dispute during a dodgeball game in Longfellow Middle School, he suffered from broken cheekbones and severe cuts.

Patrick is honored to have been working in conjunction with the SAMHSA/ US Department of Human Services sharing his story for their 2012 National Trauma Campaign as a trauma victim who has survived. He is a public advocate and speaker for several anti-child abuse and bullying organizations such as National Association of Adult Survivors of Child Abuse and RAINN-Rape and the Abuse & Incest National Network and now an advisor board member with Dreamcatchers for Abused Children, Inc.

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Jamie was ten years old when he saw his first pornographic sex scene. During a sleepover, a classmate offered to show him ‘some funny pictures’ on his laptop. ‘At first I found it a bit scary and a bit yucky,’ Jamie told me as he shifted uncomfortably on his chair during our therapy session. ‘I didn’t know it was possible for people to do those sort of things — and there were lots of nasty close-ups. But it gave me funny feelings and the pictures started to stick in my head.’

BALTIMORE, MD — A Baltimore man has been indicted on a charge of first degree murder in the death of Phylicia Barnes, a North Carolina teen who disappeared in Baltimore in 2010, authorities said. Charges against Michael Johnson, the ex-boyfriend of the victim’s sister and the last known person to see Barnes alive on Dec. 28, 2010, were announced Thursday at a news conference.

A ten-year-old boy’s brutal death at the hands of his stepfather could have been avoided after it was revealed the boy called 911 twice in the past year to report abuse. Abdifatah Mohamud, from Buffalo, New York, was found beaten to death in his family’s basement last week. He was bound, gagged and struck repeatedly with a rolling pin. Though the Buffalo Police Department is investigating how officers handled the calls, they did confirm they reported the allegations to Erie County Child Protective Services – who are accused of not doing enough to help the boy or remove him from the home.

LITTLEROCK, Calif. — A teenager charged in the 2010 slashing death of his 11-year-old cousin and a knife attack on her 14-year-old sister was sentenced to prison Thursday. A judge sentenced Lonnie Lee Liner to 11 years, plus 15 years to life in accordance with a plea deal.

(WICHITA, Kan.)—A Haysville man will serve life plus 165 months in prison for raping his step-daughter, and setting her body on fire. Chris Newberry was sentenced Thursday for attempted murder, arson and rape charges. A judge also ruled Newberry will not be eligible for parole until 2047. Newberry raped the 10-year-old girl and then set her on fire in 2009. Prosecutors say Newberry got his four year old daughter out of the room, he then poured lighter fluid on his step daughter and lit her on fire. It was later revealed Newberry had raped his step-daughter several times in the past.

A former Bengals linebacker, Nate Webster, 34, was convicted of unlawful sexual charges involving the teenage daughter of a Bengal’s assistant coach. According to ESPN, Webster had sexual contact with the teenage girl in 2009 when she was 15, and allegedly threatened to harm her if she told anyone.

A young girl was tortured by a school mate in a field near her house. A 15-year-old boy dragged an 8-year-old second grade student into a sugarcane field, gouged her left eye out of its socket, bit her neck, strangled and raped her then left her to crawl bloodied and bruised back home.

Investigators still searching for Madeleine McCann, the British toddler who went missing from a Portuguese holiday rental home five years ago this week, say they believe the girl is still alive and they now have the “best opportunity” yet to solve the case. McCann was 3 years old when she vanished on vacation with her parents Kate and Gerry McCann and twin siblings in the Algarve region of Portugal. The girl’s parents say they found Madeleine missing after having left the children in the home unsupervised while having dinner less than 500 feet away.

One of the most senior Buddhist monks in the UK is accused of a string of sexual assaults on two girls aged under 10, including raping one in his temple’s shrine room. The Venerable Pahalagama Somaratana, is charged with four counts of indecent assault and one of rape against a victim in Chiswick in the summer of 1978 and five counts of indecent assault against a second victim at the Croydon temple in the mid-80s.

An accused child rapist who was arrested in Mexico after nearly a year on the run was returned Tuesday to Tulsa, authorities said. Phillip Steven Borden, now 42, is accused of molesting his girlfriend’s two daughters at his Tulsa home between 2002 and 2006, including raping one of them once and touching her multiple times over about three years, records show.

Sexually explicit notes a family member found on a 12-year-old girl’s Facebook page led to the arrest of a 22-year-old Lansdale man on charges he had raped the girl, according to Lansdale Police Department. Lafonsa Perry of the 100 block of Penn Street allegedly began having sex with the girl when she was 11 years old, police said. An adult family member noticed “disturbing posts” of a sexual nature on the girl’s Facebook dating back to when she was 11 years old in January, police said.