CHESTER, Pa. — A young mother is facing child endangerment charges after a photograph showing a child bound to a chair with duct tape was found in the internet. The photo shows child wearing only a diaper, its arms and legs affixed to the chair and its mouth covered by silver tape. 21-year-old Caira Ferguson admits she is the woman in the photo and that the child is hers, but denies posting the picture online. The image, given to WPVI-TV in Philadelphia, PA by the Chester Township Police Department, had a previously created credit to the website mediatakeout.com.

Got An Angry Kid? Parenting Spike, A Seriously Difficult Child is the result of 20 years of experience training parents to manage seriously out-of-control children. It is a case study of a typically oppositional boy. It shows parents, through the quot;P.A.C.T.” program, “Parenting Angry Children and Teens” that there is abundant reason for hope. If parents follow directions closely, they will probably be rewarded with a much calmer household. P.A.C.T.’s approach is novel: it trains the parent instead of the child, regardless of the child’s psychiatric diagnosis. Most parents assume the child should be the target of intervention.

Anyone suspected that a child is being abused should report it to their state child abuse hotline or call the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline (1-800-4-A-CHILD). Visiting a state’s child abuse website will also help you learn about mandatory child abuse reporting laws that you may be subject to. Also remember that if you think that a child is in immediate danger from child abuse or neglect, then you should call 911.

A man labelled the “German Fritzl” has admitted fathering seven of his stepdaughter’s children but denied repeatedly raping her and two of his other children over more than 20 years. The man, a 48-year-old known simply as Detlef S because of Germany’s strict privacy laws, is standing trial at a court in Koblenz charged with 350 crimes of sexual abuse dating from autumn 1987 up to summer last year.

A Reno man has been arrested and charged with battering and strangling his girlfriend’s four-year-old child. On Feb. 11, Reno Police Department patrol officers were called to an area hospital for a four-year-old child that had injuries that were consistent with Child Abuse. Sex Crimes/Child Abuse Unit detectives also responded and determined that the child’s mother’s boyfriend, Clayton Whittaker, 21, had battered and strangled the child.

Mount Clemens, MI— Two 4-year-olds killed by their grandmothers — one drowned in a bathtub, another strangled. A 3-year-old boy stabbed to death in a brutal attack by his mother’s fiance. A 2-year-old girl sexually assaulted and murdered by her stepmother. Authorities allege the disturbing scenarios are reality in Macomb County and among at least 10 abusive crimes involving children ages 6 and younger in less than two years.

A search of a missing schoolgirl’s laptop sparked a major child abuse operation that has netted 240 online predators to date. Arrests have been made in 15 different countries after what began as a simple missing person’s inquiry. Police investigating the 13-year-old’s disappearance found she received 76 sexual emails from men over the course of just one month. She was traced within hours but her laptop held the key to tracking down hundreds of offenders.

One in four people in the UK, aged between 18 and 24, claims to have experienced severe violence, sexual abuse or neglect as a child, says the children’s charity the NSPCC. The study also says a million secondary school pupils have faced “severe maltreatment” during childhood. Children in poorer households and those in homes with separated parents are significantly more likely to face violence and abuse, says the charity.

EUROPE–The EU has taken a step towards common rules for cracking down on those who sexually abuse children and post images of the abuse on the internet. A committee of Euro MPs backed an EU draft directive calling for child abuse images to be removed at source. Where removal is impossible – for example, because web pages are hosted outside the EU – then the abuse images may be blocked by national authorities. MEPs aim to adopt the new rules later this year, after further negotiations.

Tokyo, Japan– She is a precocious little girl, in pigtails and rainbow rimmed glasses, all spark and determination. The 11- year-old attacks origami with the mission to build a flying bird. Creating an object of beauty contrasts with the ugliness this child has suffered at the hands of her own parents. The director of Nonohana-No-ie orphanage nods at us, signaling this girl is one of the of abused children who reside at this protective facility. Seventy percent of the children here, between the ages of 2 and 18, are victims of abuse and neglect so severe the police removed them from their parents’ custody.

Sharon Broadhead, whose three children and a friend died in a mobile home fire in Pahrump last week, was arrested Saturday on man­slaughter and child abuse charges, the Nye County Sheriff’s Office announced. Broadhead, 29, was booked on $35,000 bail. She faces four counts of manslaughter and three counts of child abuse by neglect causing death, and is expected to make an initial court appearance Monday.

BROCKTON, Mass. – Someone digging through a dumpster made a gruesome discovery Sunday night when they found the dead body of a young woman inside it. Police arrived after the person called 911 anonymously to report their find and found the body of 25-year-old Maria Avelina Palaguachi-Cela inside the dumpster. Tragically, after doing a little more digging inside the trash bin, they also found the body of her 2-year-old son, Brian Palaguachi.

Lynn Haven, FL —- A. Crawford Mosley High School band director, Jamie Birdwell, 37, has been charged with four counts of exhibiting obscene material to a child. The hands-on (cos he can’t keep his hands off) band director has long been pestering male students for nude photos, especially close ups, and having them strip. Birdwell told his victims that they were like “sons” to him.

COMPTON– A 22-year-old gang member was convicted Monday in the 2009 murder of a star Narbonne High School football player. Arlon Watson, of Compton, was found guilty of first-degree murder 18-year-old Dannie Farber Jr., as well as other gun and gang charges, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office. Watson was arrested Jan. 27 on outstanding warrants by Los Angeles County sheriff’s homicide detectives. He was later charged in the May 24, 2009 killing of Farber.