ROGERSVILLE — A 3-year-old child who suffered a fractured skull and broken collarbone in August, allegedly at the hands of her mother’s boyfriend, has permanent brain damage, according to court testimony Monday. A preliminary hearing was held Monday in Hawkins County Sessions Court for Jonathan Jesse Aaron Light, 21, 6742 Carters Valley Road, Lot 6, Church Hill, who is charged with one count of aggravated child abuse.

The annual report compiled by the Florida Child Abuse Death Review Committee is always grim reading. But the information is important. The committee’s scope does not include all child fatalities in Florida — just those reported to the state abuse hotline and verified as maltreatment, including neglect and abuse. Nearly 200 cases met those parameters in 2009 (the latest available figures).

JERUSALEM– A self-proclaimed rabbi who severely beat eight children was sentenced to 24 years in prison by a Jerusalem court Monday. Elior Chen was convicted in December of beating the victims with clubs and hammers, kicking them in the head, shaking, burning and handcuffing them, and depriving them of food and sleep, Haaretz reported.

On February 15, detectives with the Charles County Sheriff’s Office, Criminal Investigations Division, arrested Samuel Ceveris Glass, Jr., 73, of Waldorf, in connection with multiple sexual child abuse charges stemming from incidents that date back to the 1970’s and continued for decades afterwards. The abuse was reported to the Sheriff’s Office in January 2011.

LEE COUNTY: Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers has added a man accused of child abuse to their 10 Most Wanted list. Eric Leigh Harder is accused of beating a 2-year-old and a 3-year-old left in his care in 2004. When the mothers of the two young children returned, they found both children had bruising on their backs and buttocks. The 2-year-old had a cut from either an extension cord, wire or clothes hanger, according to deputies.

SUFFOLK–A 27-year-old woman was charged with child abuse in the belt beating of her 9-year-old boy. Police arrested Anita D. Scott on Monday and charged her with domestic assault, felony child abuse and neglect, child cruelty and abuse, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and obstructing justice.

DETROIT — A Michigan man posed as a psychologist and persuaded mothers across the country to sexually assault their children as a form of therapy, then send him the images of the attacks, authorities said Monday. Since authorities arrested him in October, seven children were rescued and at least three mothers have been arrested. Prosecutors say all of the children are now safe.

Markham, Ill. – A 13-year-old south suburban boy was routinely chained to a dryer as his father and his girlfriend slept, after being beaten by the adults with everything from bamboo scratchers to yard sticks to a broken ax handle, prosecutors allege. Hugo Dominguez, 38, of 444 N. Park Dr. in Glenwood was charged Thursday with one count of aggravated domestic battery. His girlfriend Mary Ramirez, 38, of the same address, is charged with one count of unlawful restraint.

DELTA – A Delta man is being held on suspicion of multiple sex offenses. Roberto Vicencio-Miramontes, 28, was arrested Thursday for allegedly sexually assaulting the same girl 234 times. He is the second Delta man in a month to be accused of hundreds of sex offenses; last week, police arrested Jeffrey Bigham on suspicion of more than 800 sex offenses. Vicencio is accused of sexually touching the same girl at least three times a week, for more than a year. The alleged abuse began when she was in sixth grade, and sometimes occurred in the girl’s bed, as her younger sister slept.

California—Police arrested two University Of California Santa Cruz students after conducting a child pornography sting. Jonathan Tolentino, 28, turned himself in and presented a letter of apology admitting he had been watching child porn. I’m sure his lawyer appreciated that. His computer contained approximately 300 videos featuring children ages 3 to 13.

BENSON, N.C. –A Johnston County father has been arrested and charged for allegedly using fishing line to sew up a wound on his son’s head. Johnathan Ashley Avery, 31, of Benson, N.C., was arrested on Friday and charged with felony child abuse.

“Bringing Adam Home” by Les Standiford (with retired Miami Beach Detective Sgt. Joe Matthews) brings back all the horror of the infamous 1981 abduction, rape and murder by decapitation of 6-year-old Adam Walsh. Regrettably, it delivers that horror in merciless and diabolical detail.

The Catholic Church of Sweden confirms three priests are believed to have sexually abused children over the span of 30 years.

* Swede charged for sex crimes against 13 girls (7 Feb 11)
* Paedophile boasts of bribing himself free (11 Aug 10)
* Sweden probes webcam paedophile suspect (17 Jan 10)

It is reported that the paedophile priests, one of whom is dead, sexually abused a collective of five children between 1940 and 1970, thus falling under that statute of limitation.

Stockholm Bishop Anders Arborelius said Saturday there could “be no redemption” for the three.

A 29-year-old Phoenix man was arrested Friday morning on suspicion of sexually assaulting his children and stepchildren and forcing them to take drugs, Phoenix police said. Police believe the man’s two daughters, stepdaughter and stepson were victims of abuse, Phoenix police Sgt. Steve Martos said. Police believe the abuse took place between 2004 and 2010, when the children ranged in age from 5 to 13 years old.