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“The Ethan Stacy 2nd Annual School Supply Drive” will be held in August in Salt Lake City, Utah. Please visit http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ride-the-Brainwave/200456766662941 on Facebook to learn more about this event. Thank you!

Wilbur K. Sexton of Wright City was charged May 23 with first-degree child molestation and child kidnapping. A 66-year-old Wright City man has been charged with child molestation and kidnapping. Wilbur K. Sexton, of the 17000 block of Park Drive, was charged May 23 with first-degree child molestation and child kidnapping. Both charges are felonies. He was being held in Warren County jail in lieu of $100,000 cash-only bond.

PHOENIX – Phoenix Police have arrested a 39-year-old man who they say molested at least 4 children over a period of 17 years. The victims, some of them now grown men and women, were 7 and 8 years old at the time the crimes started. They only recently came forward to report the sex abuse to police. The fourth victim is current, and she is 8 years old, police say.

CHANDLER, Ariz. – Police have released video of a Chandler woman after investigators say she stole some items from a Walmart, and ended up facing several other charges after surveillance video caught her committing even more crimes. A Walmart at Arizona Avenue and the Loop 202 in Chandler shows surveillance video that police say is 23-year-old Nicci Paige Rounsaville. She has a child in her arms as she is shoplifting.

Latisha Lawson, 31, forced her two-year-old son Jezaih to drink a vile mixture of olive oil and vinegar as part of a ritual to drive the devil from his body. As he choked on the liquid she held her hand over his mouth to stop him vomiting and crushed his neck. Jurors heard Lawson had wanted to drive a demon named as “Marzon” from her son’s body.

We may never know what the state’s child welfare workers did for 8-year-old Christiana Glenn, or if they could have saved her. The abused Irvington girl’s death has opened an investigation into the actions of the state’s Division of Youth and Family Services, but the results are usually not made public. Cecilia Zalkind spent a dozen years working with the state’s child welfare agency, before joining the nonprofit Advocates for Children of New Jersey.

LEWES — On a congested stretch of Coastal Highway, drivers by the dozens whiz past the lot of abandoned buildings.If they know to look, and if they choose to look, they see boards covering the windows, vines creeping up the walls. The signs of decay accentuate the unsettling appearance of Earl B. Bradley’s former office.

ALMOST 300 reports of children at risk of abuse in the Northern Territory have not been investigated, despite an independent inquiry last year slamming authorities for allowing a backlog of cases that included a baby who later died. Just eight months after the NT Department of Children and Families was ordered to never allow a repeat of the backlog, it has confirmed there are 290 complaints of suspected child abuse it has yet to begin investigating.

FARMINGTON, Utah—Family and friends of Ethan Stacy helped organize a walk against child abuse Saturday in Davis County just over a year after the four-year-old boy’s body was found in Weber County. Blue and white handheld windmills symbolizing support for victims of child abuse were left near the Davis County Jail where Ethan’s mother Stephanie Sloop and step-father Nathan Sloop are incarcerated while waiting for their trial for allegedly torturing and killing Ethan then burying his disfigured remains in Ogden Canyon.

Campbell police are searching for a 35-year-old man they believe severely abused his ex-girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter. The 15-year-old son of the man, identified as George Rodriguez, found the girl rolled up in a carpet in Rodriguez’s garage at his home in the 1300 block of Pollard Road two weeks ago, police Capt. Charley Adams said. The child is now in protective custody.

Last month, law enforcement officers led by the FBI busted a large, multi-gang prostitution ring in Oceanside. Manolo Guillen, the founder and director of the ACTION Network, said this is not an isolated incident in San Diego County, during a presentation about human trafficking Wednesday at Santee United Methodist.

FOUR VICTIMS of child abuse have seen the man responsible jailed more than 40 years after he committed the offences. John Hall was just 12 when he indecently assaulted his victims, who were all under the age of 11 at the time. Now 57, Hall was jailed for three-and-a-half-years after his victims contacted police last year.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Stephen Huggins, 24, and Candice Barnes, 28, both of Cleveland, were arraigned this week on charges of endangering children, felonious assault and intimidation of a crime victim in the beatings of two, pre-teen children. They are in the Cuyahoga County Jail on $250,000 bond each.