A Church Hill man is behind bars tonight after trying to get a prostitute to have sex with both him and a minor. Johnson City police arrested 30 year-old William Taylor Friday night after he went to a local hotel in hopes of soliciting a prostitute to perform sex on both he and a 12 year old child. Neighbor Danny Hall says he had no idea that his neighbor, Taylor, was a sex offender.

Police have arrested a Shelby man accused of raping a child in South Carolina. Carson Lee Curtis Jr., 20, of the 500 block of Booker Street, is being held on a magistrate’s order for a fugitive on a charge of forcible rape of a juvenile. The alleged offense happened in August 2007 in Spartanburg County, S.C., according to charging documents.

While I was out at the NORML Conference, this bombshell of a story exploded in Oklahoma: OKLAHOMA CITY — Converting marijuana to hashish could land Oklahomans a life prison sentence under a bill approved in the Oklahoma Senate. Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs spokesman Mark Woodward said the goal of the bill is to “send a message” that illegal drugs won’t be tolerated in Oklahoma. Conviction of a first offense of cooking hashish would result in a prison sentence from two years to life in prison. Sentences would be doubled under a second offense, and those convicted would not be eligible for a suspended sentence or probation.

New Delhi: Serial or child rapists should be castrated – this is what Additional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau recommended as she heard a case where a 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her stepfather for four years. “The Indian legislatures are yet to take notice of this alarming situation and address the issue with all seriousness by exploring the possibility of alternative sentences of surgical castration or chemical castration, particularly in cases of minors, serial offenders and child molesters,” she said.

Melissa Owens’ childhood was riddled with abuse of every kind. But today, at 35, she’s done with the title of “victim.” Owens spoke Friday at the Child Abuse Prevention Service Providers Conference, sharing her personal story of sexual, physical, mental and emotional abuse from two alcohol- and drug-addicted parents.

She locked herself and her three small children in the bathroom all night, waking the neighbors with their screaming. She covered the windows with blankets and barricaded the door with furniture to stop intruders she believed would kill her.If the truth were laid bare, Gatluak Jerweng believes everyone would see he tried desperately to save his kids from their seriously mentally ill mother.

BREAKING NEWS: Deputies find body of young child buried near home of couple accused of child abuse. GLOUCESTER — It looked like a fairly tranquil scene on a sunny Friday afternoon — a blue-and-white single-wide mobile home with an American flag on the porch. The grass surrounding it was neatly trimmed with pink spring flowers in bloom. But inside the residence at Waterview Mobile Home Park on Thursday night, the Gloucester Sheriff’s Department discovered a 5- to 6-year-old girl imprisoned in a crib that had been modified to form a cage. The girl was “extremely malnourished and suffering from severe starvation,” according to the Gloucester County Sheriff’s Office. She was “covered in feces and in the nude.” A piece of wood kept the girl in her prison, according to a news release.

Under the current state law, most victims do not have access to civil protection orders unless their assailant is someone with whom they have an existing intimate relationship, they have reported the attack and the case is being pursued for criminal prosecution. If Senate Bill 58, The Sexual Violence Protection Act, is passed, that will change. Sexual violence affects everyone regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, ability and sexual orientation. Nearly 20 percent of the U.S. population has experienced some form of sexual violence ranging from rape and child sexual abuse to human trafficking and sexual harassment.

WAVERLY, Ohio — A former Pike County sheriff’s deputy is indicted on five felony charges in connection with a child who was younger than 10. Clyde Franklin Sanders Jr. was indicted on two kidnapping charges, one gross sexual imposition charge, and one endangering children charge. Sanders was the chief deputy under former Pike County Sheriff Larry Travis.

GLOUCESTER — Investigators in Gloucester took a girl from a residence on Thursday night after finding her emaciated and being kept in a crib that had been modified to form a cage. The girl, who police believe is 5 or 6 years old, was removed from the residence on Carrie Lane in Hayes. Lt. Scott Little of the Gloucester Police Department said in a prepared statement the girl was “extremely malnourished and suffering from severe starvation.”

Massachusetts ranks No. 1 nationally for the highest rate of child abuse — mostly involving neglect — a ranking that officials say derives from the state’s strict reporting laws. Massachusetts had the highest rate of child abuse of any state in federal fiscal 2009, the latest year for which statistics are available, as well as in 2007 and 2008. Also, Massachusetts ranked second among the 50 states in 2004 through 2006, according to a report from the U.S. Administration for Children and Families.

MURRIETA, CA– Authorities say a choir director at a Temecula church — who was previously convicted of a sex crime — has been arrested on accusations of raping a 16-year-old girl. On Monday, the teen told police that her church choir director sexually assaulted her on two separate occasions at his home in Murrieta, according to Murrieta Police Department officials.

RIVERSIDE — A 40-year old woman could spend the rest of her life in prison for the brutal beating and stabbing death of her toddler son. Lori Burchett was convicted in February of first-degree murder and assault following the 2009 stabbing death of her son, 17-month-old Garrison Burchett.

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