Two northern Arizona parents were arrested after photos of their young children allegedly being abused were posted on Facebook. An anonymous Facebook user reportedly alerted authorities on Wednesday after seeing two children, an infant and a toddler, bound with duct tape around their wrists and ankles in photos posted to the social networking site.

The Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website (NSOPW), coordinated by the U.S. Department of Justice, is a cooperative effort between jurisdictions hosting public sex offender registries (“Jurisdictions”) and the federal government and is offered free of charge to the public. These Jurisdictions include the 50 states, U.S. Territories, the District of Columbia, and participating tribes. The Website provides an advanced search tool that allows a user to submit a single national query to obtain information about sex offenders; a listing of public registry Web sites by state, territory, and tribe; and information on sexual abuse education and prevention.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. — A missing 9-year-old Indiana girl has been found dead, and the neighbor who was watching her before she disappeared was arrested on a murder charge Monday night, authorities said. The body of Aliahna Lemmon was found in northeast Indiana’s Allen County, where her family lived in a mobile home park, but investigators aren’t saying where the remains were found, sheriff’s spokesman Cpl. Jeremy Tinkel said.

UPDATES!!! STATE COLLEGE, PA – In a massive shakeup, Penn State football coach Joe Paterno and school president Graham Spanier were fired Wednesday night by the board of trustees amid the growing furor over how the school handled child sex abuse allegations against an assistant coach. The longtime coach, the winningest in major college football, was ousted at the end of day that began with his announcement to retire at end of the season, his 46th. It was not to be.

A video given to the BBC shows the extent of the injuries suffered by a 15 year-old Afghan child bride who was locked up and tortured by her husband. The girl was left starving after being detained by him and his family for several months. The case came to light this week when police rescued the teenager, Sahar Gul, who had been locked up in the basement of her in-laws’ house. Police say that she had had her nails and clumps of hair pulled out. In addition they say she had chunks of flesh cut out with pliers.

RIVIERA BEACH — A Riviera Beach mother was arrested Tuesday after allegedy beating her 3-year-old son with a belt, bruising the child’s buttocks and right leg. Quanteria Harris, 28, is being held at the Palm Beach County Jail on a charge of child abuse. According to the probable-cause affidavit, Riviera Beach police learned of the incident from the state Department of Children and Families investigation. The state had received a request from Riviera Beach Head Start to investigate the alleged abuse.

A “DEPRAVED” former police inspector who led a double life encouraging internet paedophiles to sexually assault children has been jailed for 30 months. Geraint Lloyd Evans, 48, was suspended and later sacked by South Wales Police after he admitted the charge against him. The former inspector, who formerly lived at Purdey Close in Barry and Coychurch in Bridgend, was a highly respected officer, commended for bravery.

Two Dutch priests suspected of child sex abuse have been suspended from Saint Lucas parish, which comprises several Roman Catholic churches in a large rural area of the eastern Netherlands. On Thursday, the archdiocese of Utrecht announced that, as well as Father Bert Sturkenboom, a second priest from Saint Lucas had been suspended following allegations of child sexual abuse. The priest, who conducted services in the church at Putten, had been suspended from his duties for some time, according to the archdiocese.

If, as you were going about your shopping one day, you encountered a young man wheeling a stroller containing what appeared to be a wailing baby and saw that man yell angrily at the baby and violently jerk the stroller around, how would you respond? Most of us probably hope we would intercede in some way, stopping what appeared to be abusive behavior toward a helpless infant. But if we did do that, we would apparently be unlike a host of people who actually did encounter such a man recently in a crowded New York City store and park. What did those people do as the angry young man hollered “shut up” and stronger invective at what appeared to be an uncontrollably crying baby?

AN IRISH priest responsible for what is believed to be one of the largest ever settlements in a clerical child sex abuse case in the State has been deported to England from Brazil, where he had spent the past eight years. Fr Peter Kennedy (72), a priest with the St Patrick’s Missionary Society at Kiltegan, Co Wicklow, faces child abuse allegations from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s.

We fear them. We have nightmares about our kids being their victims. We need to know who and where they are so we can monitor them and protect ourselves. They are the predators among us, the child molesters who make headlines almost every day. To protect your family from them, you need solid information.

ALBANY — A 44-year-old woman stole her 3-year-old grandson’s Christmas gifts and sold them for crack while she was supposed to be baby-sitting him, police said. Andrea Ocasio was arrested early Saturday after her son came home at 3 a.m. to his North Lake Avenue apartment and found the door wide open. The 3-year-old was asleep on a couch by himself, Christmas presents were missing and Ocasio, who was supposed to be watching the boy, was gone.

TORONTO—Police are urging a mother wanted in connection to a child abuse investigation to turn herself in. The 28-year-old woman is wanted on a charge of failing to provide the necessities of life to her seven-year-old daughter, who’s currently in hospital with serious injuries. Authorities announced on Wednesday that they were searching for Aela Medas and believed she was with her other, nine-year-old daughter. On Thursday police said they’d located the second child in good condition at a home in the Don Mills and Sheppard area, but continue to search for the mother.

According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, there are 739,853 registered sex offenders in the United States. The center, which tracks missing children and helps apprehend those who may have taken them, considers state sex offender registries “our best resource” to tracking down fugitives, says Kristen Anderson, director of case analysis. With sex offender registries likely to keep expanding, legislators are trying to balance the need to protect the public from genuine predators with a growing awareness that many less-serious offenders, including those with no history of sexual crimes, are being swept into the net. But legislators remain reluctant to pass bills that could be seen as helpful to sex offenders, says Mary Sue Molnar, head of Texas Voices, an organization that lobbies for laws that would allow less-serious offenders to petition the courts to have their names removed from public registries.