DENVER – A Colorado man convicted of kidnapping a toddler from a couple he was staying with in California and sexually abusing the child to produce pornography that he shared online was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday, prosecutors said. A federal jury found Shawn McCormack, 31, of Colorado Springs guilty on four counts of sexual exploitation of a child and two counts of kidnapping during a four-day trial in Fresno, California, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement. Senior U.S. District Court Judge Anthony W. Ishii presided over those proceedings in April, and on Tuesday he imposed the sentence on McCormack, the statement said.

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — North Charleston police have charged a man with murder after they say he stabbed his pregnant girlfriend to death Saturday night. Malakia Lasha Frazier, 26, of North Charleston died at MUSC just before midnight Saturday from multiple stab wounds, Charleston County Deputy Coroner Dottie Lindsay said. Authorities said her child was born during an emergency delivery and is in intensive care. Ricky Short, 26, is charged with murder, attempted murder of their unborn child and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime.

GEORGIA – Authorities in Georgia said a mother admitted to drowning her two children Tuesday. Savannah-Chatham Metro Police said Jokeera Morgan, 26, called 911 shortly before 12:38 p.m. ET and said she drowned her two daughters, 18 months old and 8 months old, at her Savannah home. Officers gave the girls CPR, but the children were pronounced dead on arrival at an area hospital, police said.

WHITE COUNTY, Indiana — A former pastor accused of child molestation was sentenced in a White County courtroom Friday. James Crawn, 46, pleaded guilty in August to a count of child molestation, a Class A felony. Crawn is a former pastor at Faith Baptist Church in Idaville. He was arrested in late April and charged with two counts of child molestation, as well as child seduction and sexual misconduct with a minor.

A former Mrs. Orange County was charged today with using a 4-year-old relative to make child pornography and selling it to a Marine stationed in Southern California, authorities said. Meghan Breanna Alt, 25, of Irvine, being held on $100,000 bail, was charged with a count of possession and control of child pornography and three counts of lewd acts on a child younger than 14, all felonies. She also faces a sentencing enhancement allegation of substantial sexual conduct with a child.

A substitute teacher in New Port Richey was arrested Friday accused of molesting two children more than 50 times. Roy Wingo, 68, appeared in court on Saturday. He’s been charged with lewd and lascivious molestation and lewd and lascivious battery. Pasco County deputies said the victims were between the ages of 11 and 15, and 8 and 9 during the alleged molestation.

CORTLAND, Ohio – A Trumbull County man was found guilty Friday on four counts of rape against a young girl. The jury handed down their decision Friday in the case against Frank Arcuri, 35, of Cortland. Arcuri was arrested at his Frostwood Drive home in April on rape charges. According to Bazetta Police, the Cortland man committed crimes against an 8-year-old girl, beginning in 2013 and lasting through earlier this year.

MACON, Georgia – Bibb sheriff’s deputies are searching for an accused child molester and rapist. According to the sheriff’s office, investigators have arrest warrants out for 24-year-old Arthur Martrell McDowell. He’s wanted for aggravated child molestation and statutory rape involving a 14-year-old girl. Investigators tell 41NBC the incidents happened in July and August of this year at an undisclosed location in Bibb County.

An increasing number of child abuse cases involving accusations of witchcraft and exorcism are being reported to police. In one incident, a boy of nine was called a “devil child” and thrown out of his home by his parents, detectives revealed. A specialist unit in London recorded 46 alleged crimes linked to faith last year- more than double the number in 2013, an investigation found. Project Violet, the specialist faith-based abuse team within the Metropolitan Police Service, has identified 60 incidents so far in 2015. The figures relate to crime reports flagged as involving abuse linked to faith or belief, and many of the cases involve children.

A Newhall man was sentenced to 50 years to life in state prison Tuesday for murdering his 19-day-old daughter in January, officials said. Matthew Brendan Warner, 30, killed his daughter, Ellorah Rose Warner, at their home while the baby’s mother was at work on Jan. 23, prosecutors said. Warner then claimed the baby had been kidnapped, which prompted a large-scale search operation for the newborn. Before the search for the child began, neighbors said they had seen Warner walk outside the couple’s home carrying a bundle while the baby’s mother was at work.

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – The victims of a Florida woman who allegedly killed her own children are said to have told their mother how much they loved her before they died. Jessica McCarty, 33, told police officers that she didn’t deserve to live after the alleged deed, for which she faces the death penalty and three first-degree murder charges in Brevard County. Police say that Lacey McCarty, 7, was drowned in a bathtub, and that her brothers Phillip McCarty, 6, and Christopher Swist, five months, were strangled with cords around their necks. New court documents, including handwritten notes from the officers who arrested her after she tried to take her own life with a knife, reveal what she said in the aftermath of the killings in March.

Golf superstar Jason Day has revealed his father physically beat him when he was a child. While Day’s troubles through poverty and the loss of his father when he was 12 have long been part of the 27-year-old Queenslander’s inspiring narrative, he had kept the violence private. Day has spoken of physical altercations with Alvin Day who he says was a ‘violent alcoholic’. ‘I remember once shooting a (poor) score, and he goes, ‘You’re going to get it in the parking lot’,’ Day told GOLF writer Cameron Morfit.

DELHI – Seema Shukla’s (named changed) tears can’t stop flowing as she squats on the floor of the gynaecological department at Safdarjung Hospital. Hair dishevelled, clad in a shabby saree, she keeps passing out even as a woman councillor holds her tight, trying to console her. Seema’s four-year-old daughter was brutally gang-raped by at least two men, and her entire body slashed with a knife on Friday evening near her home in Keshav Puram, northwest Delhi.

ARIZONA – Boone County prosecutors said two people charged with child abuse admitted to taking out their rage out on a seven-week-old and 14-month-old multiple times. Rachel Clayton and Steven Simmons are now in jail, and newly-released court documents reveal gruesome details. Investigators said Rachel Clayton and Steven Simmons lived in a trailer in Omaha, Arkansas, without running water or electricity. They said the two repeatedly abused two babies: one just 14-months-old and the other just seven-weeks-old.