A bond has been set for a step-mother accused of sexually abusing and killing a Mid-Michigan two year old. Renee King has been charged in the death of two year old Lily Furneaux. At first, a judge set no bond but has changed that to a million dollar bond. Lily died in November of last year.

HAMPTON — Hampton police have opened a child abuse investigation into an 11-month-old baby brought into the hospital Saturday with life-threatening injuries. Police responded to a home on Canavan Drive at 6:53 p.m. Saturday after getting a 911 call of an unconscious female infant, said Hampton police spokesman Cpl. Jason K. Price.

LOUISVILLE, KY – A Louisville man is facing criminal abuse charges after investigators say he burned a four-year-old child on purpose. Metro Police say 23-year-old Ramon Buchanan was babysitting the child for his girlfriend at the time of the abuse. According to police, Buchanan burned the child’s bottom with a cigarette because he claimed the child was misbehaving.

A former Calgary scout leader who admitted to running a brothel for pedophiles in Thailand has been sentenced in New Jersey to 25 years in prison. The federal judge on Monday said it was unlikely that John Wrenshall — who had also been convicted of sexual assault involving members of a Calgary boys’ choir in the 1990s — would overcome his desire to molest children.

Police in the state of New Hampshire have arrested a Pelham man on charges that he sexually assaulted a young child over a 5 year period. Robert Kreisz, 37, is accused of assaulting the victim beginning when she was just 6 years old.

CHULA VISTA, Calif. — A two-and-a-half-year old toddler was slammed into the pavement by his grandmother, who then picked him up and slapped him several times in the parking lot of a convenience store, police alleged. Several witnesses called Chula Vista police Saturday afternoon to report that they saw a woman in the parking lot of a 7-Eleven lose control after she and her grandson got off a bus and the youngster ran from her in the lot. Witnesses said the woman picked up the child, threw him down on the ground, then picked him up and slapped him several times, Lt. Dan Hardman said.

SAN DIEGO — Police Monday arrested the mother of a 9-year-old girl who died two weeks ago from traumatic injuries. Crystal Cardenas, 25, was taken into custody at about 10:30 a.m. as she was walking in Spring Valley, authorities said. She will be booked at Las Colinas Women’s Detention facility on one count of murder, they said.

TOLEDO, OH– A former Toledo priest defrocked for allegedly molesting boys has resurfaced as an organist at a Detroit-area parish. The discovery has enraged local church anti-abuse advocates who say church administrations in Toledo and Detroit aren’t doing enough to protect children. Claudia Vercellotti, a member of SNAP, the Support Network for those Abused by Priests, says this most recent case raises questions about whether the church is doing anything to keep child molesters out.

GOLDEN GATE ESTATES — A 60-year-old elementary school volunteer who was arrested in mid-January on charges that he molested a student at Highlands Elementary School was accused Friday of sexually abusing at least six more children in Immokalee schools and in his home. Several of the children told investigators that Robert G. Alter, of the 1000 block of Port Orange Way, gave them money and candy to keep quiet.

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A four-year-old girl drank herself to death after police believe she was plied with alcohol by her father. Authorities in Georgia said the toddler died from ‘extreme’ alcohol poisoning. Her father and aunt were arrested and charged with murder after shocked doctors revealed the girl’s cause of death.

In the USA today grandparents have no legal rights to have any contact with a child once parental rights have been terminated. In fact, the law specifically states that if the parental rights are removed, the rights of the grandparents are removed along with them. This leaves many children raised by their grandparents from infancy, with no legal grandparents or any other relative with any rights to bring them up. One brave and determined grandparent from South Carolina, John Schafer, has decided that this is one law that must be changed. Outraged by the way loving grandparents are treated, he has single-handedly taken on the South Carolina State Representatives and Senators. Taking remarkable steps, he has began to make changes that could effectively change the way we view adoption forever.

A young girl in need of a stable home. A forceful foster parent. A lack of oversight. It was a recipe for disaster… Bound in duct tape in a tipped-over high chair, 5-year-old Logan Marr died 10 years ago Monday in an unfinished Chelsea basement. The girl was in the state’s protective care system at the time, and her death sent shock waves — and spurred reform — throughout the state Department of Health and Human Services.

Five people have been charged in connection with abuse of a 17-year-old developmentally disabled girl at a Palatka group home. Police said part of that abuse at the O’Carroll Homes included burning the 17-year-old girl on her legs and ankles with a clothes iron, reports WJXT News in Jacksonville. Police said Kavarus Bellamy, 21, an employee at the home, intentionally burned the girl on Jan. 3. Investigators said Jolissia Battles, another employee, sprayed a chemical in the teen’s face, and Devin Wesley, a former employee and visitor to the facility, held the teen while she was burned.