The tyrant sun claimed an innocent victim in Prince William County, VA. Forgotten by his mother, Karen Murphy, in a minivan for seven hours as she facilitated her veterinary practice, 2 yr. old Ryan Murphy succumbed to heatstroke in his carseat. Obviously accidental, the incident has nonetheless brought heartbreak to the Murphy family.

Tragedy struck in Little Rock, Arkansas, changing the lives of a young family. A 9-year-old autistic daughter shot her little brother after the two children were left alone briefly as the parents went to sign some papers at the apartments leasing office. According to Huffington Post, originally authorities were told by the girl that two men had entered the apartment and shot her brother. With no signs of forced entry, and further conversation with the girl, investigators believed the girl was responsible for the shooting. The young boy was rushed to the hospital and later pronounced dead.

Dane Greathouse, 28, who is known as the man that had a cell phone when a 50-second phone call in from the house where baby Lisa went missing, has been charged with assault and armed criminal action. He allegedly attempted to stab a man Saturday. According to Fox4KC, Greathouse was at the Vienna Square Apartments near NE 64th and North Oak, when he got into an argument with Greg R. May, 31, that turned physical. May was accusing Greathouse of stealing things from his car when Greathouse took out a pocket knife and stabbed May with it.

Crystal Valdez awaits her next court date from a Cook County Jail cell. She’s 28 and accused of murder. Prosecutors say she watched as her boyfriend beat her young son to death. We wrote about this terrible case on Jan. 1. It makes you gasp. Caseworkers for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services knew something was wrong. Months before Crescencio “Christopher” Valdez died on his fourth birthday, an emergency room doctor had reported his suspicion that the little boy was being harmed. Police investigated, but DCFS made little effort to find out the results of the police investigation and quickly closed its own case. The DCFS investigator believed Crystal Valdez’s story about her son’s injuries. She said he fell off a porch. You might be tempted to say that this was a tragic error, but an isolated one. That would be dangerous.

A CONVICTED child killer who breached reporting conditions by allegedly having unsupervised contact with kids has been granted bail – outraging the family of his young murder victim. Jailed for 16 years for the brutal hammer slaying of John Ashfield in 1993, Austin Allan Hughes appeared in the Port Macquarie Local Court after police alleged he had driven one of his girlfriend’s children to an airport unsupervised on at least three occasions.

The life of an innocent toddler, Ummul-Khairu Mohammed, was cut short in Minna, the Niger State capital, at the weekend by unknown persons suspected to be ritualists. The brutal murder of the child has however thrown the residents of the area into confusion and apprehension. Fear-that is the word that now pervades the Kafin Tela/Tunga area of Minna, Niger State. The people of the area can no longer sleep with their eyes closed since last week when men suspected to be ritualists invaded the area, snatched a two-year-old girl, beheaded her and disappeared into thin air before the neighbors got wind of what had happened.

An 18-year-old youth has been sentenced to ten years in jail for raping a five-month-old girl with the court expressing anguish at the “ghastly and inhuman act” of the convict. Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Kamini Lau said the case “where the five-month-old girl was subjected to unwanted physical contact by a perverted male adult, was a glaring example of the growing menace of sexual abuse of young children.” The court sent north-west Delhi resident Sonu to jail for raping the infant, who was also his distant relative.

Sex offenders will face tougher checks, ministers announced today – after the Mail revealed more than 850 are on the run from the police. The Home Office will close a string of loopholes in the official register of sex criminals – including one which allowed offenders to register their address as a park bench. Homeless sex offenders who did not have a permanent address were able to nominate a public place where they slept as their home and keep it for an entire year.

TUSTIN, CA– Police arrested a 23-year-old Anaheim man with a juvenile history of sex offenses Friday afternoon after a 13-year-old boy reported being sodomized in the men’s room of the Orange County Public Library in Tustin. The boy fled the library to a police station across the street to report the alleged attack, police told the Los Angeles Times. Police took the boy to a hospital for treatment and he was later released to his family.

SAN FRANCISCO —A former East Bay college professor was sentenced in federal court in San Francisco to 37 years and six months in prison for sexually abusing an infant in Missouri in 2009. Kenneth Kyle, 47, of San Francisco, was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White after he pleaded guilty to a charge of crossing state lines to engage in aggravated sexual abuse of a child. The victim, who lived with her mother near St. Louis, was 5-months-old when the abuse began in August 2009, according to court papers filed by prosecutors. U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag said Kyle admitted during the guilty plea that the sexual abuse lasted for several months.

Members of the clergy, school teachers and health professionals are among those already required by state law to report suspected child abuse or neglect. But in light of the sexual abuse scandal at Penn State University, that list will grow. Under Senate Bill 161, camp counselors or employees, coaches or volunteers at entities that provide activities for youth or children and commercial film or photo processors who have “reasonable cause” to suspect child abuse are required to report their suspicions within 48 hours. Delegate Meshea Poore, D-Kanawha, said supervisors must be advised of any suspected abuse or neglect.

Preliminary reports are that 37-year-old Guadalupe Gutierrez-Juarez is likely illegal, so my post will be much decried by people who will say I’m a racist and that it doesn’t matter where Gutierrez-Juarez was from in the first place. Aside from the fact that had our border been secure he’d never had access to the victim I would put forward that if a person comes from a country where children as young as twelve are allowed to “consent” to sex (like Mexico for example) it is reasonable to expect that without pressure to assimilate that person may well begin violating children.

FEDERAL police have detected an increase in the number of pedophiles using online video streaming to watch child abuse as it occurs. Most of the children being exploited live overseas, but Australian children have also been victims of this new method for distributing images of sexual abuse. Assistant Commissioner Neil Gaughan, head of the Australian Federal Police’s high-tech crime operations, said the police worked with a variety of internet service providers to block the distribution of child pornography over the net.

Efrain Bernal, of East Hemet, faces six felony charges of abusing girls under age 14 and under age 10. Prosecutors charged a Hemet man with six felonies after three young girls accused him of molesting them as part of a religious ceremony. Efrain Bernal, 41, pleaded not guilty to the charges Friday afternoon in a French Valley courtroom. He could face life in prison if convicted of molesting multiple victims.