LAS CRUCES, N.M.- Las Cruces Police are looking for a 60-year-old Las Cruces man who has two arrest warrants for sexually assaulting a teenager and threatening to call immigration authorities if the girl acknowledged the abuse. Javier Mendez, 60, is charged with three counts of criminal sexual penetration of a child, and one count each of intimidation of a witness and stalking. Mendez is believed to still be in the Las Cruces area but he has family in El Paso, and could be in that city.

Twilight hunk Kellan Lutz has opened up about the bullying hell he suffered as a child in the hope his story will help others get the help they need to combat cruel tormentors. The actor was teased mercilessly by classmates because he had big ears; they dubbed him Dumbo after the Disney cartoon character. He admits turning to his older siblings for help was not an option – because they also terrorised him.

Before he beat to death his 8-week-old daughter, an Easton man with a history of child abuse had taken the steps the system asked of him. Joseph A. Urquia had completed anger management and parenting classes, and followed the directions of his Northampton County caseworkers. Just the day before Urquia stuck baby Joselynn Urquia “at least twice” in the head, he’d gone to a health clinic where he received family therapy.

DETROIT, MI–(WXYZ) – Police are looking for two little boys that went missing from their home in Southwest Detroit. It’s possible they have been kidnapped. The father, Charlie Edwards, believes they were taken by a woman named “Brianna” that he recently met online.

VANCOUVER — The RCMP is investigating allegations that at least 30 girls, aged 12 to 17, were sent from the Mormon community in Bountiful, B.C., to Texas as child brides. Police have been investigating since February this year, the RCMP said in a statement Thursday night. The allegations relate to events that may have occurred at least a decade ago but also as late as 2005 or early 2006, the RCMP said.

Former child-star Corey Feldman is making some shocking claims in a new interview with ABC’s Nightline. The 40-year-old actor, who starred in hit films in the 1980s like “The Goonies” and “Stand By Me,” told Nightline that the biggest threat to children in show business is something that just isn’t talked about — pedophilia. “I can tell you that the number one problem in Hollywood was, and is, and always will be pedophilia. That’s the biggest problem for children in this industry… it’s all done under the radar. It’s the big secret,” he said.

DES MOINES, Iowa — Police said a 48-year-old man has been charged with trying to lure a 13-year-old girl into a Des Moines alley. Polk County jail records indicate that Robert Harding, of Des Moines, is being held on two charges: enticing a minor under 16 and a parole violation.

SANTA ANA– A Santa Ana man charged in the beating death of an 18-month-old girl has been indicted on new child abuse charges dating back to 2009. Juan Carlos Aguilar, 25, has been indicted on one felony count of murder, one felony count of assault on child with force likely to produce great bodily injury resulting in death, and two felony counts of child abuse.

SAN ANTONIO — A University investigation uncovers a dark reality in San Antonio: domestic child sex trafficking. Experts say it’s happening all around us, behind closed doors. A group of UTSA students in the Department of Social Work just finished a 10 week investigation. They found there’s a huge at-risk population for minor sex trafficking in San Antonio, and the number of victims is largely underreported.

Child predators know dissociation. Most of the world does not. Shouldn’t we be learning so we can effectively attack organized pedophilia and help survivors to heal? What you don’t know about dissociation hurts our children, re-victimizes adult survivors of long-term childhood abuse, and greatly hinders our ability as a society to get at the core of organized pedophilia to stop it.

Christopher Thomas was 13-months-old when he died at the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin on November 11, 2008, only a day after sustaining yet another beating from his aunt and foster caregiver, Crystal Keith, now 25. But the issues that led to the infant’s untimely and violent death began months earlier and ultimately involved the torture of his 2-year-old baby sister. Both children, it turned out, were taken from their biological mother’s home in March 2008 by caseworkers from the Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare and placed in Keith’s home.

From time to time the unthinkable happens: children kill. Some decide to murder members of their own family in spite of their seemingly normal upbringing. Others do so because their upbringing was far from normal – often including beatings and abuse. Then there are misguided children who, from the sheer desire to kill, go on murder sprees ending the lives of purely innocent victims. Children are supposed to be innocent and pure; without malice, contempt, sinister anger, or desires to kill, yet every year many commit horrific crimes. Here are Ten of the Most Evil Children in History, with number One exclusively dedicated to one foul group. The age limit for this list is 17 years.

A South Korean SBS TV documentary team accuses Chinese pharmaceutical companies of selling dead baby pills as stamina boosters. The team reveals that the truth behind the dead baby pill is horrific and disturbing. Chinese hospitals and abortion clinics that are connected to the business immediately notify pharmaceutical companies when a baby dies, mostly because of a still birth or an abortion.

Contrary to popular belief, sex-based crimes are among the most frequently committed offenses (we know this from the National Crime Victimization Surveys over time). However, because victims are often unable or unwilling to report such a crime (or even old enough to realize that a crime was committed against them), it remains one of the most UNDER-reported person to person crimes.