REDLANDS, CA — A man has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping a 4-year-old girl who was found naked inside his apartment in Redlands. The girl’s father made the shocking discovery at the Los Arboles complex in the 900 block of Pine Avenue around 7:30 p.m. Monday. The father went looking for the child — who had been playing — and found both her and the suspect undressed.

WASHINGTON — Ben Barnhard finally had reason to be optimistic this summer: The 13-year-old shed more than 100 pounds at a rigorous weight-loss academy, a proud achievement for a boy who had endured classmates’ taunts about his obesity and who had sought solace in the quiet of his bedroom, with his pet black cat and the intricate origami designs he created. But one month before school was to start for the special-needs teen, his mother, psychiatrist Margaret Jensvold, shot him in the head, then killed herself. Officers found their bodies on Aug. 2 in the bedrooms of their home in Kensington, Md., an upper-middle class Washington suburb. They also found a note.

Dreamcatchers for Abused Children is pleased to announce their newest sponsor Nashville singing sensation Curtis Braly, and the release of his newest single on August 13, 2011, “Caylee’s Eyes.” Since the end of the Casey Anthony Trial many movements have been put into action, hoping to enforce stricter laws and harsher punishments for people who are charge and convicted of child abuse, child neglect and child homicide, a worldwide epidemic, rapidly growing throughout our great nation.

The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network is the nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization. RAINN operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1.800.656.HOPE and the National Sexual Assault Online Hotline at rainn.org, and publicizes the hotlines’ free, confidential services; educates the public about sexual violence; and leads national efforts to prevent sexual violence, improve services to victims and ensure that rapists are brought to justice.

Child’s abductor has already spent 28 years of his life in prison.

TYRONE – A Greene County man abducted a 6-year-old Saturday afternoon, police allege. Dennis J. Stehley, 57, snatched the girl from a residence on the 1000 block Jefferson Avenue at about 3:15 p.m. and took the girl to a wooded area off Kettle Road in Tyrone Township, police said in court documents filed by Tyrone Borough Police late Saturday.

A former Bulloch County middle school teacher has been indicted on charges she had a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old student. The Statesboro Herald reports that 35-year-old Amy Bass Jackson is charged with eight separate counts, including statutory rape, aggravate child molestation, unlawful disposition of material to minors and child exploitation. Jackson has been in jail since she was arrested July 27.

GRANITEVILLE, N.Y.—A Staten Island man who brutally beat his then-9 year old son, stripping him naked, burning his hands and then throwing him into a kitchen oven, will serve just four months in jail on weekends for the attack. James Moss was facing seven years in prison, after pleading guilty to second degree assault, but instead was given a lenient sentence after the victim himself, now 11-years-old, asked the judge for mercy.

In 2008, 10-year-old Seth Ireland of Fresno was beaten by his mother’s boyfriend and later died of his injuries. Assembly Democrat Henry T. Perea responded with a demand that the state audit his county’s child protective services agency plus three others in California, including the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services. There is little point now in arguing whether Perea was merely playing to his Fresno constituents or genuinely seeking constructive change. One way or the other, the audit is on, and if conducted properly it can give the public and county governments valuable information about the performance of four of the state’s child welfare agencies.

Since their 2-year-old granddaughter, Addison Grace Lanham, died on July 21, Scott and Paula Bridges have wondered what the next day will hold. They went from a life outside the spotlight to being thrust into the middle of a story that has tore at the hearts of countless people and left the community with many unanswered questions. Why did a little girl have to die from an infection that is easily treatable? Why didn’t Addison’s mother take her to a doctor or a hospital? How did the child end up with a broken leg and other wounds on her body before she died? And, the biggest question of all: did the Gaston Department of Social Services drop the ball by not intervening quickly enough after getting at least six calls from family members warning that the girl’s mother had placed her in harm’s way by living in the same place with a registered sex offender?

DENVER – A mother and her girlfriend accused in the death of a baby faced a judge Saturday. Denver Police arrested the women after 10-month old Adam Gonzales was found dead in his home in northwest Denver Friday morning. Amanda Lujan, 24, and her girlfriend, 23-year-old Frances Garcia were advised of the charges against them in a Denver courtroom this morning.

A fugitive sex offender wanted for questioning in the disappearance of a nursing school beauty has been caught, police said. Victor George Wall, 43, was convicted of molesting a child in Washington State more than two decades ago. He was arrested Thursday at his girlfriend’s home in Duluth, MN.

In a major escalation, a Philadelphia judge has ordered former Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua to testify in court in September about what he knows about child sex abuse cases in his archdiocese. Irish American Monsignor William Lynn (60) who was Secretary for the Clergy, is facing trial on child endangerment charges arising out of transferring priests who later abused.

A man accused of attempting to castrate his girlfriend’s 11-year-old son was convicted on multiple charges Friday and is facing at least 33 years in prison. According to the Cumberland County District Attorney’s Office, Todd Louis Lanford, 36, of the 2400 block of Cleveland Avenue, was found guilty by a jury of attempted malicious castration of privy member, several counts of felony child abuse, several counts of felony assault, felony child abuse, assault by strangulation, communicating threats, first degree sex offense and taking indecent liberties with a minor.

ASHEVILLE— Firefighters broke through a window to rescue a 2-month-old girl locked inside a hot car Saturday, police said. Police charged the child’s mother, 29-year-old Jennifer Knox, of Arden, with child abuse. Social workers will meet with the mother, Lt. Wallace Welch said in a statement released late Saturday night.