It’s the headline du jour whenever a horrific case emerges of a mother killing her kids, as Lashanda Armstrong did when she piled her children into her minivan and drove straight into the frigid Hudson River. Our shock at such stories is, of course, understandable: They seem to go against everything we intuitively feel about the mother-child bond. But mothers kill their children in this country much more often than most people would realize by simply reading the headlines; by conservative estimates it happens every few days, at least 100 times a year.

Broomfield, CO—- An Adams County School District employee was arrested by Thornton Police and charged after images and videos of child porn were found on his personal computer. Brandon Leyte, 19, was employed as an after-school counselor for Meridian Elementary School’s before and after school enrichment (BASE) program. His Facebook, now private, stated that was working with special needs children.

Dreamcatchers Talk Radio is proud to announce two new co-hosts Trina Davidson and Star Myers. The nightly talk show is dedicated to speaking out against and educating the public on Child Abuse and Domestic Violence. Davidson and Myers are both mothers and dedicated volunteers of the 501 (c) 3 non-profit child abuse and neglect awareness organization, Dreamcatchers for Abused Children.

OAK HARBOR, Ohio — A man who recently told a relative he was having marital problems called 911 and informed a dispatcher that he had fatally shot his wife and three young children and was getting ready to kill himself, too, authorities and his grandmother said Saturday. The 911 call came in just after midnight, the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Department said, and deputies arrived within minutes at the white-sided, two-story farmhouse in Oak Harbor, about 25 miles southeast of Toledo. They didn’t enter the home until two hours later, after they’d tried to contact the people inside by phone and through a loudspeaker.

For most children, home is a safe haven. For abused children, home can be a place of danger.Growing up as a victim of abuse can cause profound psychological, behavioral and physical consequences. Severity depends on the conditions of abuse — age of the child, their developmental status at the time of the abuse, frequency of abuse and type: physical, sexual, emotional or neglect.

BOISE, Idaho — State officials say newly released data show a spike in the number of severe child abuse cases last year, at a time when many families were suffering from the effects of the recession. The number of cases of life-threatening injury suffered by children increased by 9 percent, with the biggest leap coming from the state’s southwest, according to a report Tuesday by the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. The data tracked a 15 percent increase in the Nampa/Caldwell area and a 13 percent spike in Boise compared to 2009.

Two West Palm Beach-area parents, in separate incidents, are facing aggravated child abuse charges for allegedly striking their children in an effort to discipline them. Ismmale Petit-Frere, 39, of suburban West Palm Beach, was arrested by the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday after a deputy concluded that she had burned her 14-year-old daughter with an iron and hit her with a belt, leaving permanent marks on her body, according to the arrest report.

Nineteen-year-old Keith Randulich was sentenced today to 40 years in prison for stabbing to death his 4-year-old sister with a steak knife in the basement of their Mokena home. The sentence was less than the life term prosecutors had requested for Randulich, a former Lincoln Way East honor student who said he killed his half-sister the night of May 22, 2009, claiming he wanted to spare her from being molested by a relative.

Authorities are looking for 20-year-old Holly Bobo, a west Tennessee woman who was last seen being dragged from her home by a man dressed in camouflage. Investigators believe Bobo may have been abducted in a home invasion on Wednesday. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says that her 25-year-old brother told investigators that he saw the man dragging his sister across the carport at her family home and toward a wooded area. Officials ask that if you see Holly or anything suspicious contact the TBI at 1-800-TBI-FIND.

BELLEVILLE, Ill — A St. Louis area school district says a special education teacher was suspended for making students remove their underwear to solve a feces mystery. A letter informed parents this week the teacher found feces on a classroom floor at Webster Elementary School in Belleville March 30.

(CBS/AP) FORT WORTH, Texas – Authorities in a rural North Texas community are investigating the slayings of an infant and toddler whose father, Gabriel Armandariz, sent his ex-girlfriend a cell-phone picture that appeared to show the younger child dead, according to two of the mother’s friends. Armandariz, 28, remained jailed Friday on a capital murder charge and $1.5 million bond. The children’s bodies were found early Thursday in Graham, about 75 miles northwest of Fort Worth, after a 10-hour search prompted by a family member concerned for their welfare, police said.

CHEYENNE — Nearly 250 pinwheels spun fiercely on the east lawn of the Wyoming Capitol in Wednesday’s brisk morning breeze. Each blue-and-silver flash sparked a reminder of what the simple toys represent — three children victimized in Wyoming last year. In total, 735 children were victims of child abuse in 2010. Nearly 450 of those cases were substantiated in Wyoming courts.

Harrisburg, Pa. -A Harrisburg man will spend decades behind bars for murdering a nine-month-old boy. Prosecutors said the baby’s mom has been supporting her son’s killer, and that she made it quite clear at Thursday’s sentencing hearing. A judge sentenced Christopher Scott to 30 to 60 years in jail. Prosecutors had been seeking the death penalty, but instead offered Scott a plea deal.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City, Mo., mother stabbed her 8-year-old son Tuesday morning and claimed that “God made me do it,” according to Kansas City police.A probable cause statement said that Peggy Ross, 33, is charged with second-degree assault and first-degree endangering the welfare of a child, after police said she stabbed her 8-year-old son as he lay in his grandmother’s bed.