Elmira, N.Y. – Minors who’ve fallen victim to sexual abuse could see the time limits to file their civil suits become longer. New York State law makers say they’re going to push for a bill to extend that limit by five years. The current statute of limitation in New York for bringing civil claims for child sex abuse is five years after the incident has been reported to police or five years after the victim turns 18.

FREDERICKSBURG, Ohio—Members of a close knit Amish community gathered Saturday night to mourn the death of a 15-year-old girl, who was shot to death under circumstances that are shrouded in mystery. David Zuercher, a friend of the family of 15-year-old Rachel Yoder, told Fox 8 News, “Just total disbelief and shock. I just couldn’t believe it. I thought it was a joke, that it was not so.”

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A St. Petersburg woman has been arrested after her toddler reportedly wandered into traffic while she was panhandling. The St. Petersburg Times ( http://bit.ly/tXsClj) reports Bridgette Patricia Baldyga was arrested Thursday and charged with child abuse and possession of a controlled substance.

Giants linebacker Michael Boley is being investigated on accusations that he has abused his 5-year-old son, according to his lawyer. The claims against Boley, a seven-year veteran of the N.F.L., stem from a contested child support case he has been involved in with the mother of the child. Boley’s Atlanta-based lawyer, Randall M. Kessler, said in a telephone interview Saturday that the accusations were initially raised in June but that the child’s mother opted not to enter them into the record during a child support trial.

Marlon Iverzander Lopez is wanted in connection with allegations of continual sexual abuse of six children over a span of several years, beginning in approximately 1997. A state arrest warrant was initially issued on September 28, 2002, by the Riverside Superior Court in California after Lopez was charged with 30 counts of lewd or lascivious acts with a child. He was located and arrested on March 12, 2005; however, after posting bond, Lopez failed to appear for subsequent court dates. A second arrest warrant was issued in Riverside Superior Court on August 15, 2005. Lopez was charged federally with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution and a warrant for his arrest was issued by the United States District Court, Central District of California, on July 17, 2006.

Launched in March of 1998, the CyberTipline offers a means of reporting incidents of child sexual
exploitation including the possession, manufacture, and/or distribution of child pornography; online enticement;
child prostitution; child sex tourism; extrafamilial child sexual molestation; unsolicited obscene material sent to a
child; and misleading domain names, words, or digital images. The CyberTipline is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a
week.

AMSTERDAM — Police arrested 112 people in 22 countries after a yearlong investigation into child pornography, Europol said Friday, warning that technology is making combating the spread of child abuse images ever more difficult. The operation targeted people sharing “the most extreme forms of video material,” including images of babies and toddlers being sexually abused or raped, the European police coordination agency said.

OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma prosecutor said Friday he “fully expects” more young victims to emerge in the case of a former third-grade teacher accused of making child pornography involving her students and sharing it online with a retired college professor in Pennsylvania. Former McLoud school teacher Kimberly Ann Crain, 48, and retired Pennsylvania professor of early childhood development Gary Doby, 65, were charged Thursday in the case in which prosecutors allege Crain took photographs of as many as 14 young girls while they were changing in her classroom and at her home and shared them with Doby.

When Steven Stanbary, a reputed white separatist, went on a deadly rampage last week, he was on the verge of being arrested for child rape charges, authorities have revealed. The Washington man allegedly shot his wife and her twin sister to death before setting his home on fire in a standoff with authorities in Washougal, turning it into a mini-war zone on Dec. 7.

Richard Watrous, 87, remembers pulling out of the driveway in 1931 and waving to his 4-year-old sister, Doris. He didn’t think he would have wait eight decades to see her again, WMTW reports. After their mother died suddenly, the brother and sister were sent to live in separate homes. The two searched for one another through the years, but it wasn’t until last summer that Doris Petre finally found her brother while searching online. She uncovered that her long-lost sibling lived just a short ride from her Maine home.

GREENVILLE — A Greenville photographer who regularly attends youth sporting events in Clark and Floyd counties was arrested Tuesday afternoon on child pornography charges. Stephen J. Brockman, 48, was charged Tuesday morning in Harrison County Superior Court with nine counts of class D felony possession of child pornography. He was taken into custody shortly after an arrest warrant was issued.

Every state has laws requiring some adults to alert authorities when they suspect a child has been abused or neglected. This chart shows which types of adults are specifically required to report, and whether failing to report abuse is a crime. Laws that could punish doctors, teachers and other adults for keeping silent when they suspect a child has been abused have gone largely unenforced over the past decade. Those state laws require people who work closely with children to alert police or child-welfare investigators anytime they so much as suspect a child has been abused. Yet a USA TODAY examination of police and court records from across the USA found that a combination of infrequent enforcement and small penalties means adults often have little to fear from concealing abuse.

Thousands of children suffered sexual abuse in Dutch Catholic institutions, and church officials failed to adequately address the abuse or help the victims, according to a long-awaited investigation released on Friday. The report by an independent commission said Catholic officials failed to tackle the widespread abuse “to prevent scandals”. The suspected number of abuse victims who spent some of their youth in church institutions is between likely lies 10,000 and 20,000, according to a summary of the report.

DAVENPORT, Iowa—A 10-year-old girl refused to go home on her school bus and stayed behind to tell a teacher about years of molestation at the hands of her mother’s boyfriend, to save her little sisters from ongoing abuse. ”I didn’t want them to get hurt anymore or bad things to happen to me, again”, the 10-year-old victim said. She says she told her mother about the abuse for two years, but her pleas for help were ignored.