Covington, KY – Sarah Jones, a Cincinnati Ben-Gals cheerleader and former Dixie Heights High School teacher, has been indicted on charges she had sex with a student while she was teaching. According to police, Jones had sex with a student while she was a teacher at Dixie Heights High School. She was indicted on a first-degree charge of sexual abuse and one count of unlawful use of electronic means to induce a minor to engage in sexual or prohibited acts. (sending him naked pictures most likely).

Sandstone, MN – William Olsen, a 20-year-old Minnesota man was jailed after he allegedly squeezed and twisted his 7-week-old daughter until she had 21 fractured bones. According to police, the infant’s parents brought her to a local hospital after they noticed she was unable to move her arm and her leg appeared longer than the other. The baby also cried as if she were in a great deal of pain.

Hadley, NY – Michael Wheeler, a 36-year-old registered sex offender has been jailed after he allegedly molested an 8-year-old girl, then forced her and two other children to wear diapers. According to police, Wheeler had sex with an 8-year-old girl while staying at a campground in the town of Hadley in 2007. Wheeler then allegedly forced the girl and at least two other girls to wear diapers.

WOONSOCKET, R.I. –A 12-year-old Woonsocket girl is recovering from her injuries after her mother told NBC 10 her daughter was lured to a friend’s house and beaten by four other girls. The four girls ranged in age from 12 to 13 years old. The incident, which happened on Saturday afternoon, was caught on camera by someone who taped the attack.

A sheriff and his sergeant in Washington state have bought burial plots next to Josh Powell’s boys in order to block family members from burying him next to them, according to a media report Wednesday. “The bottom line is, Josh Powell will not be near those two boys,” Pierce County Sheriff’s Sgt. Ed Troyer said in an interview with a Seattle-area radio program called the Ron and Don Show.

OAKLAND, CA — At least seven people are now confirmed dead and 3 wounded in a shooting at a Christian university in East Oakland. Police received reports of shots fire around 10:40 from the campus Oikos University on Edgewater Drive. Witnesses say the gunman walked into a classroom and opened fire.

The friendship between two children cost them their lives, as their bodies were recently found in an eastern province of Afghanistan. A 12-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy were killed after being doused with acid, purportedly because a friendship had developed between the two children in the extremely conservative country of Afghanistan.

Boy, 11, Starved To Death By Parents After Being Locked In Bedroom – ATE OWN FECES To Stay Alive! Some believe parents should require a license before they can have kids. Johnathan Ramsey, an 11-year-old boy from Dallas Texas, ate his own feces before he was starved to death by his parents after they locked him inside his bedroom.

APRIL IS “CHILD ABUSE AWARENESS MONTH”

Dreamcatchers for Abused Children is working with our partners to plan several inter-related events, all designed to heighten the awareness of the important work that’s being done nationwide to support children and families and prevent child abuse and neglect. We encourage you all to participate in any way you can in these upcoming events. Remember, education & awareness is the “KEY” to prevention!!

TACOMA, WA—A Tacoma woman is under arrest after police said she called 911 and told the operator she had just killed her child. The child was 2 years old. Tacoma Police Department spokesperson Mark Fulgham said the woman, described only as being in her late 20s, called 911 about 7 a.m. Friday and admitted to the crime.

MORGAN HILL, CA — Volunteers searching for missing 15-year old Sierra LaMar have found an empty handcuff box and two used condoms not far from where the teenager’s phone was recovered. The handcuff box and condoms were found on a dead end road by members of a volunteer search crew, the KlaasKids Foundation, on Thursday. Police say the area had been searched several times before and is a popular hangout for teens.

LINDEN, CA — Investigators have identified the bodies of 2 women found in an abandoned well believed to be victims of the so-called “Speed Freak Killers” serial murderers. They are Kimberly Billy, 19, and Joanna Hopson, 16. Billy disappeared in December of 1984. Hopson disappeared a year later. Authorities were led to the location by convicted killer, Wesley Shermantine.

Only three out of every 100 rapists will ever spend even a single day in prison, according to a new analysis by RAINN of Justice Department data. The other 97 will walk free, facing no consequences for the violent felony they have committed. Because rapists tend to be serial criminals, this leaves communities across the nation at risk of predators.

Believed to have been killing an average of three women a month by the early 1990s…Including CHILDREN — SUTTON COUNTY, Texas — A serial killer who set up a torture chamber in his long haul truck and kidnapped hitchhikers across the country has admitted to two more murders. Convicted killer, Robert Ben Rhoades, pleaded guilty this week to the murders of a newlywed couple from Seattle in 1990. Prosecutors say missionaries Patricia Candace Walsh and her husband Scott Zyskowski were hitchhiking to Georgia when they took a ride from Rhoades near El Paso, Texas.