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PHOENIX – Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery announced the indictment of four relatives of 10-year-old Ame Deal on Wednesday. Deal died after being locked inside a plastic storage box. Ame’s cousins, John Allen and Samantha Allen, both 23-years-old, are charged with first degree murder, conspiracy to commit child abuse and multiple counts of child abuse.

The ages of consent in North America for sexual activity vary by jurisdiction. The age of consent in Canada is 16 and all US states set their limits between 16 and 18. The ages of consent in the countries of Central America range from 15 to 18. The age of consent in Mexico is complex. Typically, Mexican states have a “primary” age of consent (which may be as low as 12), and sexual conduct with persons below that age is always illegal. Sexual relations between adults and teenagers are left in a legal gray area: laws against adults “corrupting” minors may be used sometimes to punish such sexual encounters, as well as laws against engaging in sexual relations with “chaste and honest” teenage girls by means of “seduction”. These laws are situational and are subject to interpretation.

Scott County, Iowa- James Lester Rogers, a 25-year-old registered sex offender was arrested again Friday when police found him dressed up in a Cookie Monster outfit talking to children. According to the Smith County Sheriff’s Office, Rogers was handing out fliers and posing with children for pictures when police discovered him at the Mississippi Valley Fair dressed in a Cookie Monster costume.

The brutal murder of 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky has rocked the Orthodox Jewish community into finally acknowledging that it needs more oversight to protect its children. The fact that Leiby Kletzky was allegedly kidnapped, drugged, smothered, dismembered and killed by Levi Aron, a member of the Orthodox world, has forced the community to reevaluate just how effective its approach to child safeguarding is.

Eatonville – A veteran firefighter in the US, who was being investigated for sexual abuse of children, committed suicide and left a note expressing a fear of going to prison. Scott Hamrick, of Eatonville, Washington was being investigated for physical, sexual and emotional abuse of young female relatives.

HOUSTON — A man has been accused of sexually abusing a child, officials said.Bruce McMillian, 49, was charged with sexual assault, indecency with a child (including sexual contact) and continuous sex abuse of a child under 14.

PHOENIX — Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery says his office will seek the death penalty against a man charged in the death of a 4-year-old girl beaten in the bathroom of her home. Jose Luis Gonzalez-Dominguez, 21, is charged with first-degree murder and five counts of felony child abuse in the death of Anays “Annie” Carimbocas. His trial date has not been set.

A veteran Denver County sheriff’s deputy today was sentenced to 24 years in prison, according to the Denver District Attorney’s office. Mark Davis, 49, pleaded guilty earlier this year to child abuse and attempted sexual assault on a child involving two victims: a 12-year-old boy he abused between August 2002 and June 2006 and an 8-year-old boy abused between June 2010 and September 2010.

SALT LAKE CITY — A 22-year-old Kearns man has been sentenced to prison in connection with his 4-year-old daughter’s death. Third District Judge Robert Faust on Monday sentenced Clinton Hart to one to 15 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to felony charges of child abuse homicide and child abuse. Records show 4-year-old Vanessa Hart died June 13, 2010, after she was flown to a hospital with severe injuries to her abdomen and brain.

OREM, Utah — A man impersonating a police officer lured young girls into his home to video tape them while using his bathroom, according to police. David Morris Richards was arrested and sent to jail after a neighbor’s friend — who is associated with Bikers Against Child Abuse (BACA) — alerted police to suspicious activity. Richards reportedly lured girls to his home with candy, gave them juice and water to drink, and photographed and videotaped them while they used his bathroom.

A 67-year-old Victorian man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for systematically abusing four of his children. A County Court judge has described his offending as the worst she has ever seen. The truck driver, who cannot be named, pleaded guilty to 35 child sex offences, including incest, dating back to the early 1970s. The court heard there were hundreds of cases of abuse against his three stepchildren and biological daughter committed when they were as young as eight years old.

CANDLER, N.C.– A 4-year-old Buncombe County boy was legally drunk when he was beaten to death by someone who also broke the child’s ribs and teeth and bit him, according to an autopsy. A man who lived with his mother has been charged in his death. Trenton Michael Scott had a blood alcohol content of 0.12 percent, well above the legal limit for driving of 0.08 percent, according to the autopsy by a forensic pathologist at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. Dr. Patrick Lantz told the Asheville Citizen-Times that he believes Trent ingested the alcohol.

AKRON, Ohio — Authorities are expected to offer more details during a noon news conference Monday about a shooting spree in northeastern Ohio where a man gunned down seven people before he was killed by police. The shootings occurred shortly before 11 a.m. Sunday in Copley Township, about seven miles west of Akron, according to the Copley Police Department.