The parents of an eight-year-old boy let him die in agony from a treatable cancer because they were too busy lying in bed taking drugs, it emerged today. Monica Hussing, 37, and William Robinson Sr., 40, were jailed for eight years in Ohio yesterday after pleading guilty to denying their son Willie medical treatment for Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The appalling tale of neglect unfolded as the court heard that Willie had suffered for more than two years with pain and swollen neck glands which grew eventually to the size of a softball. But despite the boy pleading for help, his parents failed to do anything. Cuyahoga County Judge Michael Astrab compared the autopsy photo of Willie’s emaciated body to that of a concentration camp victim.

Mount Clemens— The last time Lauren Furneaux saw her 2-year-old daughter, the tearful toddler was being handed off to her father in the parking lot of a gas station. Hours later, Lily Lynette Furneaux-Wolfenbarger was dead, and her stepmother, Renee Marie King, is on trial for felony murder, charged with fatally beating the girl. During testimony Thursday in Macomb County Circuit Court before Judge Diane M. Druzinski, Furneaux recounted her last moments with her daughter Nov. 20, 2010, and how she noticed injuries to the girl earlier that month.

In BROKEN CHILD, I tried to depict how the complex and cumulative effects of child abuse, neglect, and trauma can lead to mental illness and violent or anti-social behavior. The message of BROKEN CHILD, to me, is a stark reality; that when children become emotionally or psychologically damaged that the damage is very hard to undo. no matter what the therapy or how skilled the therapist. So the lesson of the BROKEN CHILD is prevention and early intervention.

In 2003, Thomas Emil Sliwinski was charged with criminal endangerment for having sex without consent with his young stepdaughter. He pled guilty to this charge and the plea agreement required Sliwinski to attend sex offender treatment. He was also charged with tampering with physical evidence after it was learned that he had destroyed evidence and Sliwinski was convicted of this charge. Sliwinski was given a five-year suspended sentence for both of these convictions.

Jesse Smith, the 15-month-old who police said was assaulted by his father on Monday in Glens Falls, died late Wednesday and a grand jury will consider upgraded homicide charges against his father. The Glens Falls Police Department and Warren County District Attorney’s Office said Thursday that the toddler died at 6:09 p.m. Wednesday. He had been on life support at Albany Medical Center since late Monday, with family members saying he was given little chance of survival after suffering severe head injuries. Police said his skull was fractured in two places.

SHEBOYGAN, WI – A little Sheboygan boy has died as a result of a child abuse incident which occurred last weekend. And, 28 year old Joshua Keenan of Sheboygan, the boy’s mother’s boyfriend, is facing up to 25 years in prison on 2nd degree reckless homicide charges.

22-year-old Diana Ochoa was booked into the Fresno County Jail and is facing child abuse charges. The woman was wandering the streets near the intersection of Fresno and Herndon, with her two-year-old niece. Both were naked and covered in blood. Before the violence, Ochoa went into this insurance office apparently disturbed. “She came in and said that ‘I cannot take care of this child, I’m unfit to take care of this child,’ ” said Kiera Pippen. When she tried to get help, Ochoa left. According to Police, Ochoa then stripped off the little girls clothes and her own and started beating the child.

LAS CRUCES, N.M. —A mother accused of killing her daughter in 2010 is claiming she was insane, according to defense attorney Gary Mitchell. Jessica Barron was 27 years old at the time she was charged with beating her 5-year-old daughter Angel Jemenez to death in June 2010. Angel had broken bones and bruises all over her body when she was first brought to the hospital and died of internal bleeding because of her injuries.

A newborn died after he was left in the care of his homeless, alcoholic mother by social workers, a damning report has revealed. Social workers from Southend Council found the 34-day-old baby dead on a sofa next to his mother, who had ‘consumed a large amount of alcohol the night before his death’, the review said. The infant – known only as Baby Robert – was only discovered by social workers from Southend Council following a tip-off by a member of the public three days earlier.

ANDERSON COUNTY, SC – Police say a mother is facing charges after her sick baby was taken to an emergency room where nurses found maggots in the infant’s diaper and the baby tested positive for drug exposure. According to a Honea Path Police Department report, Michelle Butler, 20, had taken her baby to someone else’s apartment, and that person told her to get medical attention for the baby, who appeared to have a fever and was pulling at his ears. The other person, whose name and relationship has not been released, gave the baby Tylenol, and told Butler to call a doctor several times.

The torture they endured at the hands of armed kidnappers was worse than death, Rubens Morais said Wednesday as he testified against one of the men suspected of terrorizing his family in a November 2009 home invasion. Morais said the gunmen played Russian roulette, pulling the trigger and causing the empty chamber to click while they pressed it against the head of his 5-year-old son.

Roger Alan Giese is wanted for his alleged involvement in sexual activity with a 13-year-old boy in Buena Park, California. In 1998, when Giese was a choir director, he met the victim and befriended his family. Giese was able to move into the victim’s home and the sex acts allegedly took place until 2002. Giese was arrested in 2002, but he was released on bond pending trial. From 2002 until 2007, Giese appeared in court as scheduled. However, Giese failed to appear for his pre-trial motions hearing on March 12, 2007, and the next day, he failed to appear for jury selection.

Current estimates indicate that as many as 10 million children per year may witness or be victims of violence in their homes1 or that children in communities across the United States are witness to violence at alarmingly high rates. A public health problem of tremendous proportions, childhood exposure to violence (CEV) has a devastating impact on children’s development, affecting emotional growth, cognitive development, physical health and school performance. CEV has been significantly linked with increased depression, anxiety, anger, and alcohol and drug abuse, and with decreased academic achievement.

A stepfather who admitted repeatedly punching, suffocating, dropping and kicking his wife’s two-year-old daughter has been sentenced to up to 20 years in jail. Brandon Bishop, 25, was given ten to 20 years in prison for the lengthy assaults on two-year-old Kamryn Hummel who he believed was a spoiled princess and ‘needed to be toughened up’. In a video played for the court, Bishop showed a police detective how he kicked, punched, choked and dropped the girl after picking her up by her hair at the family’s home in Allentown, Pennsylvania.