Deepika Parmar, who threw her month-old daughter to her death at KEM Hospital in October, was granted bail by the sessions court on Monday. Bail was granted against a surety of Rs 15,000 on humanitarian grounds. According to the police, on October 26, they had found Parmar’s child in the gutter outside a toilet at the hospital. They alleged Parmar had thrown her child out of the toilet window.

TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Philippines — A five-year old girl was raped and killed in Leyte town on Christmas Day and a man who was recently released from jail on probation and also the drinking partner of the child’s father, was arrested for the crime. The suspect, Fernando Regoño, was arrested hours after the discovery of the child’s body, Inspector Miguelito Bocade, chief of police of MacArthur town, said on Monday. Bocade said the child’s body was found in a grassy portion in Barangay (village) Danao, the village where both the victim and the suspect resided. The suspect was released on probation last November 26 for a homicide case.

On Dec. 15 at approximately 8:51 p.m. the West Monroe Police Department began investigating a reported rape of a 15-year-old juvenile. The suspect, Enrique S. Velazquez, is wanted for questioning in his involvement in sex crimes involving a 15-year-old juvenile occurring between January and September of this year. The suspect should be driving a 2007 Nissan Titan silver & black in color. The truck has a cross on the front and back windshield with the vehicle displaying Louisiana License Plate # X582701.

Authorities in Louisiana are searching for a child rape suspect. On Dec. 15 at approximately 8:51 p.m. the West Monroe Police Department began investigating a reported rape of a 15-year-old juvenile. The suspect, Enrique S. Velazquez, is wanted for questioning in his involvement in sex crimes involving a 15-year-old juvenile occurring between January and September of this year. The suspect should be driving a 2007 Nissan Titan silver & black in color. The truck has a cross on the front and back windshield with the vehicle displaying Louisiana License Plate # X582701.

ELTON – The stepfather and mother of an 8-year-old child were arrested here Monday on charges of aggravated rape and aiding in the crime. Elton Police (EPD) Sgt. Miguel LaFleur said Wednesday that on Saturday, Dec. 18, EPD received a report of child molestation. The complainant claimed an 8-year-old reported inappropriate behavior by her stepfather and mother, Elton residents Michele “Mike” Trouvè, 54, and his wife, Joni L. Trouvè, 30.

CLIFTON, N.J. — A search was underway in New Jersey for a man accused of raping a 12-year-old girl. According to police, 20-year-old Leonardo Quintero met the young girl online. He reportedly lured her to his 19-year-old friend’s house in Clifton last friday. Once there, police said, Quintero raped the girl while his friend videotaped the act with his cell phone camera.

Waltham —District Attorney Gerry Leone has issued an arrest warrant for a 35-year-old Waltham fugitive on child rape charges, said Cara O’Brien, a spokeswoman at Leone’s office. Authorities say Marvin Espinoza, of 44 Harvard St., raped a 13-year-old girl more than once. A grand jury indicted Espinoza on Dec. 7, on charges of forcible rape of a child, indecent assault and battery on a child under the age of 14 (3 counts), and indecent assault and battery on a person over the age of 14, according to O’Brien. The Middlesex County Sheriff’s Office Metropolitan Law Enforcement Council have Espinoza on their list of “Most Wanted” suspects for the alleged rapes. Waltham police referred the case to Leone’s office in May, O’Brien said.

Children are the future and it is the responsibility of adults to protect them and ensure that they get the best footing in life. Unfortunately this is not always the case in many nations around the world – including our own! This list looks at ten of the worst situations that children today are forced to face. It is hard to believe that these situations still occur, but learning about them is a good way to start trying to help.

CHILD neglect can be just as harmful to children’s cognitive development as physical and sexual abuse, a new study shows. But child protection authorities do not treat neglect with the same urgency as other forms of child maltreatment. The study of almost 4000 children aged 14 revealed that those with a history of reported abuse or neglect scored on average three IQ points lower than children who had not been maltreated. And the children who had been neglected did just as poorly as children with a history of physical or sexual abuse.

An 18-month-old girl critically injured this week in an alleged child abuse incident inside a Fond du Lac area home died on Thursday. Fond du Lac County Medical Examiner Dr. Douglas Kelley confirmed Thursday afternoon that Chloe Gessner died at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Tyler J. Jackson, the man arrested in connection with injuries to the child, appeared in Fond du Lac County Circuit Court on Thursday for a bail hearing. Circuit Court Judge Robert Wirtz set bail at $200,000.

Lauderdale County Sheriff Billy Sollie said deputies arrived to 788 Murphy Road just before 4:30 p.m. Thursday. A man who lived in the house found the bodies of a man, woman, and two children, and called for help. Later Thursday evening, Lauderdale County coroner, Clayton Cobler, confirmed what was suspected, that the case was a triple murder suicide. “An adult male who lives at this residence arrived home this afternoon and found the four individuals inside the home. All appeared to have been shot,” said Sollie. “There is a weapon inside the house that we have recovered, and it will be processed as part of the evidence.” The man and woman were the parents of the two children, ages 4 and 5, but Sollie said the couple was not married to each other.

A deranged dad took his infant son hostage and torched the family Christmas tree during a wild standoff with Brooklyn cops, police said today. The baby’s arm was broken and cut badly during the incident, but he will be OK. The father, Trevor Mann, 26, was being held in the psych ward at Kings County Hospital after being hit with along list of charges including felony assault, assaulting a cop, arson and resisting arrest.

Two people have been arrested in the death of a 3-year-old Gothenburg girl. Gothenburg police chief Randy Olson says 27-year-old Doris Herrin and 24-year-old Adam Jesseph face charges of child abuse resulting in death. Herrin is the mother of Misty Herrin, who died last week. Jesseph is the mother’s boyfriend. Police say Misty was unresponsive when she was taken to a Gothenburg hospital on Tuesday afternoon. She was then flown to a Kearney hospital, where she underwent surgery for a brain injury. She died Wednesday. Court documents indicate the girl was shaken.

Each time we report on a child who has fallen victim to abuse or neglect, it’s difficult. But it’s a reality that occurs far too often across the country, throughout the state, and right here in Northeast Indiana. Some startling statistics from the Indiana Department of Child Services indicated that more often than not, parents are the abusers in these cases. In Indiana in 2008, of 2,361 physical abuse cases, the mother was the abuser in 750 of those cases and the father in 810 cases. Of 17,742 neglect cases, the mother was the perpetrator 10,396 times and the father 4,172 times.

Over the river and through the body scanner to Grandmother’s house we go! What a fun, new twist on traveling with the kids this year. And you thought getting them to take their shoes off and let Bunky the Bear go through the dark tunnel was hard. For this holiday season, parents get to choose between a scanner that will generate portraits of your kids looking like nude ghosts and, according to some reports, give off questionable levels of radiation, or they can take the little ones for a rubber-glove pat down that will upend years of stranger-danger training.