Australian police say they have broken up a child pornography network with the arrest of at least 13 men nationwide. Officers seized computer hardware containing hundreds of thousands of child exploitation images and videos, police said. The network originated in Germany. The crackdown in Australia came after a tip from Interpol. The men are alleged to have accessed and downloaded the images over a file-sharing network.

A mother is facing jail after leaving her baby home alone which she partied for five days and nights. Neighbours of the 20-year-old woman heard the baby girl’s screams and alerted police officers who broke into her filthy house. They found the 16-month-old starving in her cot, her nappy and clothes had not been changed for days and there was blood on a blanket.

On April 20, 1999, in the small, suburban town of Littleton, Colorado, two high-school seniors, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, enacted an all-out assault on Columbine High School during the middle of the school day. The boys’ plan was to kill hundreds of their peers. With guns, knives, and a multitude of bombs, the two boys walked the hallways and killed. When the day was done, twelve students, one teacher, and the two murderers were dead. The haunting question remains: why did they do it?

An 18-year-old cold case may have been solved after police brought first-degree murder charges over the death of Melonie Biddersingh, whose remains were found in a burning suitcase in 1994. Melonie, 17, was only identified this morning after police arrested her biological father Evertone Biddersingh, 56, and stepmother Elaine Biddersingh, 50, on March 5 in Welland, Ontario. On September 1, 1994, police on patrol discovered a body in a burning suitcase left in an industrial area north of Toronto. The victim’s body was curled in the fetal position and her fingerprints, handprints and footprints were burned off.

The parents of a boy who was beaten and starved to death after being placed back into their care have been charged with his murder. Six-year-old Khalil Wimes died weighing just 28 pounds – the average weight of a two-year-old – and doctors found scars, bruises and cuts all over his frail body. Police have arrested and charged Tina Wimes, 44, and Floyd Wimes, 48, from South Philadelphia, with his murder.

Dozens of vulnerable girls were bought and sold for sex by paedophiles running a modern-day slavery ring, police revealed yesterday. Many of the 24 victims – some as young as 11 – were groomed, drugged and routinely raped over six years. Council chiefs last night faced calls to set up an inquiry after it emerged that all the girls involved were known to social services or had been in their care.

Christopher Leroy Collings has been found guilty of first-degree murder for the November 2007 death on nine year-old Rowan Ford. It took jurors about four hours to decide that the state proved that Collings kidnapped Ford from her bedroom in Stella and took her to his trailer near Wheaton where he raped and strangled the fourth grader with cord from a spool that he had in the back of his truck before dumping her body in a cave in McDonald County.

LAS VEGAS, NV — A teenage has pleaded not guilty to two murder charges stemming from the deaths of his 6-year old cousin and later his cellmate. Carl Guilford is accused of suffocating his 6-year-old cousin and, after his arrest, beating and stabbing to death his cellmate. Guilford was arrested May 26 after being accused of suffocating his cousin with a comforter and was booked into the Clark County Detention Center.

Serial killers are vicious animals, soulless evil persons who kill innocent people for their own thrill, pleasures and gratification. These psychos take others lives without knowing that one day they will face the outcome.

SOUTH GATE — A 21-year old man has been sentenced to 50 years to life in state prison for the beating death of his 10-month-old daughter. Jose Deras was convicted February 7 of second degree murder for the Jan. 2011 killing. The Salvadoran native also was convicted of sexually assaulting his wife.

Just moments before Trayvon Martin was shot and killed, he was on his cellphone talking with a 16-year-old girl. For the first time, the girl is speaking out about the last, horrifying moments of Martin’s life. “He said this man was watching him, so he put his hoodie on. He said he lost the man,” the girl told ABC News. “I asked Trayvon to run, and he said he was going to walk fast. I told him to run but he said he was not going to run.”

A mother violently assaults her two children before leaving them in a burning apartment. Tanicia Goodwin, 25, has been charged with intent to murder, slashing her two children’s throats on Sunday night before setting fire to her Salem, Massachusetts apartment. Goodwin turned herself into a local police station on Monday morning, where, while covered in lighter fluid and blood, claimed she was just protecting her children and had plans to commit suicide.

State troopers discovered a young boy on a Texas interstate early Sunday morning, and soon uncovered the reprehensible conditions from which he’d escaped. After picking up the 7-year-old, who was riding his bike down Highway 87 at 1:30am, the police returned to his home to discover two younger siblings– ages 5 and 2– living in deplorable filth with their grandfather, Edgar Whitt, who– it was soon discovered– fathered the three children with his 26-year old daughter, Tamara Whitt.

A man has been sentenced to more than two years jail for distributing thousands of child sex images. More than 80,000 images and 1200 movies depicting the sexual exploitation of children were found on Aaron Potter’s computer. The 26-year-old was sentenced to 25 months jail in the North Shore District Court yesterday after earlier pleading guilty to 40 charges of possessing objectionable material. Child protection agency Ecpat Child Alert director Alan Bell said Potter was “determined to offend”.