Orlando (CNN) — Caylee Anthony’s grandmother gave jurors in her daughter’s capital murder trial a detailed glimpse of her efforts to connect with the 2-year-old girl in the weeks following her disappearance, recounting reason after reason her daughter gave for keeping the toddler away from home for nearly a month.

The 19-year-old, from Torquay in Devon, is facing 13 charges at Exeter Crown Court following his exploitation of at least eight girls.Vulnerable teens were targeted on Facebook and then plied with alcohol and drugs, before being subjected to sexual abuse. The court heard how the gang had been well-known in the city among homeless children.

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A woman whose boyfriend has been charged with last November’s beating death of her 18-month-old son has been given a suspended sentence in connection with the incident. Lolita Marshall, 31, took an Alford plea of guilty to the charge of attempted child abuse and neglect with substantial bodily harm in the death of her son, Larry Boyd, on Nov. 1, 2010.

SILVER CITY – An Arenas Valley man will spend 11 years in prison following a plea agreement on charges of criminal sexual contact and child abuse that could have sent him to prison for 36 years. Larry Bledsoe, 55, pleaded guilty to three counts of criminal sexual contact with a minor under the age of 13, a third-degree felony, and two counts of abuse of a child, second offense, a second-degree felony in connection to an incident in March 2010 during which he abused a 3-month old male infant.

GLENVILLE — Police have arrested the supervisor of a child abuse hotline for allegedly selling marijuana out of her home with three children, all under the age of 6, living at the residence. Glenville police charged Kristen Trapalis, 29, and Richard Dickenson, 39, with endangering the welfare of a child and criminal possession of marijuana after police found four pounds of the drug in the couple’s kitchen, living room and a safe inside their home at 604 S. Holmes St.

The Florida Department of Children and Families began issuing layoff notices Thursday to nearly 500 employees — a move officials said would save taxpayers $48 million while preserving the agency’s protection and care of abused and neglected kids. The layoffs are a result of budget cuts passed by the Florida Legislature and signed into law Thursday by Gov. Rick Scott. They come as the department has faced sharp criticism for its handling of the Barahona case in south Florida.

JOHNSON COUNTY, KANSAS—Rachel Perez was sentenced to 102 months in prison Thursday in Johnson County District Court after her son was found locked in her attic. Perez pled guilty to aggravated endangering of a child, felony child abuse, and she pled “no contest” to attempted second degree murder.

The Saskatchewan ICE (Internet Child Exploitation) Unit has charged seven men from across the province with possession and distribution of child pornography. This comes after the unit began an investigation into online activities of child abuse images in the province. Police executed nine search warrants between February 1 and April 21 at several locations, including Saskatoon, Regina, Moose Jaw, Raymore and Churchbridge.

West Yorkshire has been uncovered as a regional hotspot for child abuse, the YEP can reveal. More than 1,200 sex offences against children and young people were reported to West Yorkshire Police in just one year. At least 86 of those victims were aged four and under and 73 known suspects were under the age of 18. The statistics – which were recorded between 2009 and 2010 – show that 379 children aged between five and 11 were victims of sexual abuse in the county.

LANCASTER, S.C. — A Lancaster woman is charged with letting her son drown in a bathtub.Yasika Patterson, 25, is in jail, charged with homicide by child abuse.Her 18-month-old son, Randell McIlwain, was found dead on May 19 in the family’s home on Pinta Drive, south of Lancaster.

SAN FRANCISCO—A former California college professor has been convicted of sexually abusing a child. Kenneth Kyle pleaded guilty on Thursday in federal court in San Francisco to crossing state lines in August 2009 to have sexual contact with a minor. Authorities say Kyle and 21-year-old Tessa Van Vlerah of Ballwin, Mo. took photos while sexually abusing a 13-month-old girl during Kyle’s visits to the St. Louis area.

A Polk County sheriff’s deputy filmed herself strapping naked children to a desk and spanking them with sex toys, then sent the videos to a boyfriend she met on a fetish website, investigators said. On Thursday, 45-year-old Robin Leigh Pagoria was charged with aggravated child abuse, production of child pornography, promotion of child pornography and possession of child pornography. According to an arrest report, the two children, described only as girls between the ages of 10 and 18, described in graphic detail multiple spanking sessions.

Harlan County, KY—- A Loyall pastor has been arrested and charged second-degree rape, first-degree sexual abuse and two counts of second-degree sodomy involving a minor under the age of 14. Jeremy D. Caraway, 36, a pastor at the Loyall Church of God, was perp walked from his home on Sunday after an investigation by the Kentucky State police. He is alleged to have had sex with the young female member of his congregation. The arrest warrant states that they had sex in his church.