SAN ANTONIO — A Texas couple has been sentenced to prison for causing massive brain injury to their roommate’s 2-year-old daughter, officials said. Hermes Vasquez, 26, received 35 years in prison as part of a plea agreement and his estranged wife, Lyzette Vasquez, 22, was sentenced to 20 years, the San Antonio Express-News reported Tuesday.

DES MOINES—Chances are you’ve seen them rumbling down the streets of the metro. They go by names like Hoss, wWolfman and Psycho. But this is no ordinary biker gang. This is BACA—bikers against child abuse– and they are the keepers of the children. “These children have been through something that they didn’t deserve. That they didn’t have coming.” says BACA Central Iowa Chapter President “A-Train, “We want them to know that they are loved and they are cared about…just because”

Recently, I was at a public park with my two-year-old, when I overheard a woman say to her teenage daughter, “Shut up, or I’ll punch you in the mouth.” On another recent occasion, I was at a playground with my son when I saw a mother hit her toddler on the hand because she had put rocks in her mouth.

WARREN, MI (WXYZ) – A 42-year-old woman is under arrest after allegedly molesting a young boy she was supposed to be caring for till his Mother returned home.

LAS VEGAS — Details of a gruesome crime that claimed the life of a 15-year-old girl are being revealed in the arrest report of the 19-year-old suspect who is accused of raping and killing the girl. Javier Righetti is facing charges of murder, kidnapping, sexual assault and robbery in the death of high school freshman Alyssa Otremba.

A newly released police report shows the extent of child sexual abuse perpetrated against the three women of the piano group The 5 Browns went far beyond the three counts their father, Keith Brown, went to prison for. The report and court documents detail abuses that happened over a span of at least eight years, hundreds of times for at least one of the daughters, and across state lines. Keith Brown exchanged emails about the abuse with his daughters before they went to police, the report stated.

Like many young victims at the time, Mr Tait had no professional support and was too ashamed to tell his parents. The perpetrator died shortly afterwards but his actions had a cancerous effect on David’s family life, alienating him from his parents.

A woman accused of slaying her goddaughter with a green metal pipe told police earlier this month she didn’t do it. And the woman, Mariann Harris, 23, is expected to make that claim again when she is arraigned Thursday in Clark County District Court. “She will plead not guilty,” Deputy Public Defender Scott Coffee said today.

A woman convicted in July of murdering her 16-month-old daughter is pregnant with another child. The fact that Jennifer Hannah is pregnant and married were surprises revealed Friday at a sentencing hearing in Davidson County Criminal Court. Hannah’s own attorney, Patrick McNally, did not know.

MOUNT CLEMENS, MI- A 28-year-old Macomb County man was being held Tuesday on a $1 million bond on charges that he sexually assaulted and impregnated a girlfriend’s 11-year-old daughter. Trevaun Brooks was arraigned in Mount Clemens District Court on first-degree and second-degree criminal sexual conduct charges.

PHOENIX – A father was arrested after admitting to throwing his infant daughter to the ground, causing several fractures on the child’s arm. Detectives were called by staff at Good Samaritan Hospital after Samuel Herrera, 21, took his infant daughter Audrina Herrera to the hospital with a broken arm.

BANNING, CA — Police say a 2-year-old has been found in a closet at the scene of a triple homicide in Banning. Police say three bodies, two of them the child’s parents, were discovered round noon at a home on the corner of Phillips and Williams streets.

Anthony Alvarez, a 40-year-old former assistant principal at Arvada High School, was arrested after his wife discovered sexually explicit messages he exchanged with a 15-year-old high school student on Facebook and forced her husband to turn himself in, according to the Arvada police arrest affidavit. Alvarez was arrested on charges of sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust.

Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) is a rare disorder and is frequently over diagnosed. In fact, in the year 2000 (MPD) is no longer a working diagnosis. It has been changed to Dissociative Identity Disorder. Dissociative Disorder is the presence of two or more personalities. These personalites cannot recall specific information about themselves. There can be florid psychosis,delusions and hallucinations. It is common for self injurious behavior to occur, angry outbursts and suicidal gestures. Loss of childhood memories are common. A past history of severe trauma as a child usually helps confirm the diagnosis.