A PEDOPHILE jailed 12 years ago for trying to buy a child to abuse has been arrested hours after being freed – while targeting new victims. We can reveal how Alistair Findlay, 51, was released from prison on parole – despite planning to pay desperate drug addicts to allow him to abuse their children. Our shocking investigation reveals how the dangerous pervert wanted to identify vulnerable girls as young as 10 when he was freed.

RICHMOND – Beginning July 1, sexually abused children will have up to 20 years after their 18th birthday to file a sexual abuse claim in civil court. Currently, such children have only two years after reaching 18 to seek civil sanctions against their abusers. They will get more time under Senate Bill 1145 and House Bill 1476, which Gov. Bob McDonnell has signed into law.

MEMPHIS, TN – – A McDonald’s manager was recently caught on camera beating a teenage employee. Jerelle Gray said he still has headaches and memory loss from the beating in February. “When he hit me, it was kind of like I could feel everything happening,” said Gray. “But it was kind of like I was trapped inside my own body.”

BRIDGEPORT—Police said a 20-year-old father grabbed his 10-month-old son by the hair and punched him in the face. Kevin Graciano, of Marion Street, apparently grew angry with his son because his crying was keeping him awake Wednesday night, police said. After he allegedly punched the infant, Graciano threw the child’s car seat at his wife, police said. He then drove the baby and his mother to her home. Graciano and the woman no longer live together.

Portland, OR—- With inspiration from reading her Bible and watching a couple of YouTube videos for good measure, Keemonta Peterson, 29, decided her son needed to be circumcised. In a Do-It-Yourself gone horribly wrong, she used a box cutter and a pair of pliers and proceeded to remove her infant’s foreskin.

A surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital is being investigated over claims of child abuse. The allegations against Philipp Bonhoeffer, a world-renowned cardiologist, relate to his time working for a charity in Africa. He was suspended two years ago but the case has only just come to light. The hospital has set up a helpline for parents of children he has treated.

CRESTVIEW — A Crestview couple was arrested March 11 on charges of six counts of child neglect without great harm and five counts of misdemeanor animal abuse. According to an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s report, 35-year-old Timothy Duane Barnhill and 31-year-old Misty Dawn Barnhill were being investigated for possible child abuse.

STILLWATER, Okla. — A 20-year-old Stillwater man has been charged with felony child abuse for allegedly burning his 3-month-old son with a hair dryer. Maurice Wilson was arrested Wednesday and charged Thursday in Payne County District Court. He’s being held in the Payne County Jail on $100,000 bond. Court records do not list an attorney for him.

COLLIER COUNTY: A woman grabbed two children while they were playing with their mother at a Collier County beach Wednesday, and claimed the kids were hers, according to a sheriff’s office report. The mother and her three children were playing in the Gulf at Clam Pass Beach while the children’s father was on shore, not far away.

A Vernal foster mother has been charged with witness tampering and failing to report child abuse after police say her son raped a 16-year-old girl living in the home. Nola K. Fortine, 66, found her son in bed with the teen girl on the morning of Jan. 2 but did not report the incident and later coached the girl about what to say if she were questioned, the Uintah Basin Standard reports.

EatSmart recently hosted a contest via Facebook to let their fans pick the Charity of the Month for April. Using Random.org, DreamCatchers For Abused Children was selected. EatSmart Products is focused on making a difference in 2011 by donating all proceeds generated from the Amazon Associates referral program to a different charity each month. For each transaction made on the site, 7% of the purchase price is donated directly to charities in need, both locally and nationally. March was run the same way, the winner being the Leukemia and Lymphoma Socierty. February’s proceeds are going to the American Heart Association and January 2011 was sent to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

COPPERAS COVE — Crossroads High School students received a lecture Tuesday from a Fort Hood presentation educator and a fellow student about child abuse prevention. “I think it went very well. … They were very engaged,” said Sharon Jones, a presentation educator working with the Army Community Services Family Advocacy program who conducted the interactive lecture for the students. Jones spoke to the students mostly about Shaken Baby Syndrome.

Provo • A 38-year-old man who has been convicted of raping a teenager in Washington and still faces 20 new child sex abuse counts in Utah County was released from custody Thursday. State Fourth District Judge James Taylor said he has no legal basis to hold Lonnie Hyrum Johnson. The judge had previously found Johnson was incompetent to stand trial, with no likelihood of restoration, based on doctors’ reports.

Surprise, Arizona – Sylvia Aranda, a 37-year-old Arizona woman was jailed Friday after she allegedly ran over her 17-year-old daughter following an argument. According to Surprise police, officers were dispatched after a witness called 911 to report that a woman had just struck her daughter with a car.