MURFREESBORO — Police have charged two residents with five counts of aggravated child abuse recently after they discovered five children living in “unsanitary living conditions” at an undisclosed home while assisting paramedics on an emergency call. Kirkland Mack Dunston, 29, and Makayla Latoshya Krantz, 21, have been charged in the case. Their relationship to the children and to each other is not known as that information is blacked out on the police report.

Twitter’s child protection policies are lagging behind other social networking websites, a watchdog has warned. The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop) has urged Twitter to address its fears that some pedophiles use the site to discuss abuse and link to pornographic images. Twitter said safety was a high priority and it acted immediately on complaints of inappropriate behavior.

Parents today are faced with the challenge of trying to protect their children from sexual dangers all around us. These dangers include Internet pornography and sexual predators both online and in person, as well as other children who are acting out sexually. It takes skillful, proactive parenting to protect children from sexual dangers while allowing them to develop a normal, healthy sexuality. Without such proactive parenting, children can be exposed to pornography and sexual abuse, which can lead to sexual, emotional, and behavioral problems that can last a lifetime.

A Doraville child photographer was arrested after police allegedly discovered extensive videos and photos of children being sexually abused on his computer. Still, DeKalb County police aren’t sure if the 37-year-old man is responsible for producing any of the images. Mr. Benjamin Miller, who was in jail on $50,000 bond, had his first court appearance on Friday for sexual exploitation of children, the police spokeswoman Ms. Mekka Parish said.

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As a teenage star Corey Feldman starred in some classic movies and became an eighties Hollywood icon. But on film sets such as The Goonies, Stand By me and The Lost Boys he claims to have been sexually abused by pedophiles. The Dancing On Ice star admits he was preyed on by many men and he plans to reveal the names of two Hollywood perverts in a tell all book.

A 15-year-old Afghan girl who was tortured for months after her arranged marriage has spoken out for the first time since her rescue, saying she hopes her husband and his family are jailed for her abuse. Sahar Gul became the bruised and bloodied face of women’s rights in Afghanistan after she was rescued in late December when an uncle called police. Speaking in an interview on Saturday from a hospital in Kabul, Gul blamed her husband, his parents and his sister for her ordeal.

NEW YORK — Recent high-profile cases of child sex abuse have roused national revulsion against the adults who perpetrated them. Rarely mentioned is the sobering statistic that more than one-third of the sexual abuse of America’s children is committed by other minors. For many of the therapists and attorneys who deal with them, these juvenile offenders pose a profoundly complicated challenge for the child-protection and criminal justice systems. It’s a diverse group that defies stereotypes, encompassing a minority of youths who represent a threat of long-term danger to others and a majority who are responsive to treatment and unlikely to reoffend.

SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Court of Appeals has refused to dismiss charges against a couple accused of killing their baby in 2006 by sleeping with him – their second child to die in bed with them. The Salt Lake Tribune reports the judges sided with a lower court in a pair of opinions released Friday concerning the death of 3-month-old Kayson Merrill. The infant died while in bed between his father, Trevor Merrill, and mother, Echo Nielsen, of South Jordan.

SAN BERNARDINO, CA — Prosecutors have filed charges against a Colton Unified School District custodian accused of sending a link to a pornographic website to a student using a social networking site. Steven Llamas, 30, of Loma Linda, is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in San Bernardino Superior Court on charges of distributing pornographic material to a minor. He is in custody at West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga. His bail is set at $25,000.

Ugly Ted may not be your typical looking teddy bear, but with a beautiful inner soul and lovable heart, he is as adorable and desirable as any of the other teddies out there. Ugly Ted is truly tired of being bullied, harassed and made to feel lonely. While other “prettier” teddy bears are treated with love and respect, Ugly Ted can only dream of feeling accepted and being apart of a family.

On Sunday, January 8th, @ 2pm, Dreamcatchers Talk Radio will sit down one-on-one with the author of “Stolen Innocence” and “Living for Today,” Erin Merryn. Erin is well known for her crusade to get “Erin’s Law” passed. This law is intended to prevent child sexual abuse by having schools educating children on sexual abuse in a child friendly manner. Governor Quinn signed “Erin’s Law” on February 14, 2011.

St. Louis – A St. Louis man was charged with 17 child sex abuse crimes and two drug crimes Friday. George Geyer, 46, was charged with four counts of statutory sodomy, two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor under the age of 14, two counts of abuse of a child, two counts of sexual misconduct, one count of child molestation, six counts of possession of child pornography, one count of possession of up to 35 grams of marijuana, and one count of unlawful use of drug paraphernalia.

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday expanded the FBI’s more than eight-decade-old definition of rape to count men as victims for the first time and to drop the requirement that victims must have physically resisted their attackers. The new definition will increase the number of people counted as rape victims in FBI statistics, but it will not change federal or state laws or alter charges or prosecutions. It’s an important shift because lawmakers and policymakers use crime statistics to allocate money and other resources for prevention and victim assistance.