An Easley man charged in the death of his girlfriend’s 7-month-old baby pleaded guilty to a lesser charge on Monday, as the family of the child spoke out on his behalf.Kevin Bryan Adam, of Piedmont, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the death of Braydon Alexander Odell.

A mother was arrested after police received a tip-off she was selling sex with her six-year-old daughter to strangers in return for drugs. The 35-year-old, from Jacksonville Beach, Georgia, was arrested and charged with child neglect after a homeless man told police he had been to the house to use drugs and witnessed the sexual abuse.

Orange City, FL – Stephanie Cobb, a 26-year-old former teacher at University High School in Volusia County was jailed Wednesday after she allegedly had an ongoing sexual relationship with a student. According to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office, an investigation began last December after authorities received an anonymous cell phone call from a woman who told deputies that a teenager she knew was acting suicidal.

HERMITAGE, Mo. — A Hickory County jury convicted a man from Strafford for raping a 2-year-old girl. Marlin Lane faces a prison sentence between 10 and 30 years (life) without chance of parole when he’s sentenced in May for first-degree statutory sodomy. The jury issued the verdict on Friday. The case was moved here from Webster County to try to ensure a fair outcome. The charge was filed last year, about two years after investigators believe the abuse occurred.

UPPER WEST SIDE –It is a centuries-old religious circumcision ritual used by the ultra-orthodox called a metzitzah b’peh and it’s being blamed for the death of a 2-week-old baby boy in Brooklyn last September and that has many rabbis and mohels, who perform similar circumsions, upset. “Across the board, the infection rate for circumcisions is less than one half of one percent, ” said Cantor Philip Sherman, a certified mohel. “This is part of the anti-religious, anti-circumcision trend.”

LONG BRANCH, N.J. –It’s a story that has parents saying what the heck is going on in my kid’s school. Four little boys headed for a bathroom break at the Gregory Elementary School In Long Branch, NJ run into two maintenance workers, who allegedly tie them up and gag them with tape, then capture the whole thing on a cell phone camera. And incredibly these guys are still collecting a paycheck.

DAHAB, EGYPT – MILLIONS of people around the world were left stunned when a video of Lena Fokina doing ‘baby yoga’ broke on the internet. The 51-year-old Russian was filmed spinning and flipping babies above her head and behind her back in such an outlandish fashion that several websites banned the footage for glorifying what to many would be considered child abuse. In fact, the moves were so shocking that most conceded they were being performed on a doll as no sane person would consider them acceptable. However, we tracked Lena down to a seminar called “Parenting the Deliberate Way” in Dahab, Egypt, where parents from across Europe were paying her to perform the same moves on their infants, some just a few months old. But Lena, who is a qualified PE teacher in her native Russia, insists the practice is totally safe and actually beneficial to children.

LANSING, MI— A new call-in system for reporting abuse and neglect debuts Monday in Michigan, another step toward compliance with a court-ordered mandate for the state to improve conditions for children needing protective services. The new system establishes a single phone number statewide for reporting abuse or neglect related to children and adults. The number will be staffed around-the-clock, including weekends and holidays. Decisions on whether to investigate a child abuse case are expected to be made on the spot, no matter what time of day or night, before being directly referred to county-level child protective services staff.

CHILD MOLESTER: A little girl is attacked by a child molester while cutting through a back alley. This segment was taken from Episode 107 which aired October 17, 1989 on CBS. However, this segment was not seen on the original broadcast because the episode was interrupted by coverage of the Loma Pietra earthquake.

The very laws being pushed by politicians are not working, will not work to prevent crime or protect anybody. They are human rights violations and unconstitutional. Any good, decent lawyer could see that. So where are those who claim to be constitutional experts and defend human/civil rights?

The FBI was alerting the public Thursday about a fugitive wanted on five counts of child rape who may be in Los Angeles. The bureau is offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of John Joseph Hartin, a Dorchester, Mass., resident who has been on the run for 18 years. He has family and friends in Los Angeles, the FBI said.

A 3-year-old girl from America’s northernmost community died and her younger sister suffered hypothermia after their mother and her boyfriend locked the girls inside a bedroom with a window open to temperatures of 30 degrees below zero because the girls had wet their beds, authorities said. The mother, 28-year-old elementary teacher Esther G. Edwards-Gust, was apparently on the lam Saturday, a day after she and her boyfriend, 29-year-old Richard Tilden Jr., were indicted in the child’s death. Tilden was in custody.

A Cobb County middle school principal and counselor were arrested for allegedly failing to report a student’s abuse claims to police. Jerry Wright Dority, who was principal at Tapp Middle School in Powder Springs, and a counselor, Yatta Lynnette Collins, were both arrested Thursday morning and booked into the Cobb County jail, booking records show. The two have been placed on administrative leave, a school district spokesman said.

The evidence is mounting on the devastating affects of childhood abuse and neglect. In a newly released report the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the average cost to someone who experiences maltreatment as a child — defined as physical abuse, psychological abuse, sexual abuse or neglect — is $210,012 over the course of a lifetime. According to the report, the figure represents the combined costs of child welfare, special education, criminal justice expenses, medical care and lost productivity as an adult.