Lyons, NY — The constipated looking douchebag you see to the left is 30-year-old Aaron Iacono – his ugly mug is staring back at you today because police say he injured his 10-month-old daughter by holding her head and face under a running bathtub faucet on at least two separate occasions. Police allege that on November 30, Iacono held the baby girl’s head and face under a stream of cold water in the bathtub for approximately five minutes, causing her stomach to fill with water. He repeated the act in the bathroom sink three times, hitting her head on the faucet in the process. He then reportedly threw the child to the ground.

GULFPORT, MS — They made an arrest in the beating death of 15-year-old Taylor Adams yesterday. Yesterday afternoon police named a neighbor, 27-year-old Earnest Joseph III, as a suspect and that he was on the run. A short time later, with the help of the U.S. Marshals Service, Joseph was apprehended Wednesday night in Gulfport, Mississippi after a brief chase. Adams was found beaten to death in her bedroom when her mother returned home from work early Sunday morning. Investigators had determined that she had been killed between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. but didn’t initially report how they came up with that timeline. I read somewhere else they were basing that off of her last activity on Facebook.

VANCLEAVE, Miss. — An Alabama man charged with murdering his two young children allowed the kids’ stepmother to torture them by binding the little boy and girl with duct tape, stuffing one in a suitcase and forcing the other to stand in a corner all night, according to arrest warrants. John DeBlase, 27, is charged with two counts of murder, child abuse and corpse abuse. Scattered bones and a skull found in the woods of rural Mississippi on Wednesday are believed to be the remains of his 3-year-old son Chase. Authorities are still searching for the remains of 5-year-old Natalie DeBlase.

LOS ANGELES ( KTLA) — A 2 1/2-year-old boy abducted from a park in Los Angeles has been found safe and a woman accused of kidnapping him is in custody. Police say Ocean Bippy Wilson was found in Long Beach with his biological mother Thursday. The boy disappeared from MacArthur Park Wednesday afternoon after he was last seen with 21-year-old Bianca Simone Jackson, who is dating the boy’s father. Jackson was taken into custody.

A 19-year-old Missouri man was arrested after driving 560 miles to Winthrop Harbor twice in three days in an attempt to have sex with a 13-year-old girl, police said. Patrick R. Tullis of Independence, Mo., is charged with indecent solicitation of a minor and unlawful possession of child pornography, but additional charges are expected after a forensic investigation of his computer is complete, authorities said. The girls mother became alarmed after reading Facebook messages between her daughter and the man, who tried to lure her by posing as a guitarist in a rock band, Winthrop Harbor Detective Chris Willets said.

STORRS, Conn. (CBS) – He’s a former Chicago high school player who made it onto a major college football program. But that career may have ended before it really started. CBS 2?s Pamela Jones reports. Greg McKee, 18, is facing obscenity and child pornography charges in Connecticut. Game video from YouTube shows him pushing back defenders.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A 101-year-old pedophile who was New York’s oldest state prison inmate has died. Corrections officials say Theodore Sypnier of Buffalo died of natural causes at 12:23 a.m. Tuesday. The Buffalo News reports Sypnier was taken to the Coxsackie Correctional Facility’s regional medical unit when his health began to fail last week. He’d been housed at Groveland Correctional Facility. Authorities say Sypnier molested children as young as 4 years old for decades in Buffalo and later in the Town of Tonawanda. He was released from prison in 2008 after serving time on a 1999 conviction for molesting two young sisters but was returned in April after violating his parole by skipping sex offender classes.

Authorities said skeletal remains found Wednesday morning near Vancleave, Mississippi are believed to be those of 3-year-old Jonathan Chase DeBlase, an Alabama boy missing since March. Jackson County, Mississippi, Sheriff Mike Byrd said, “It was the father who gave us the general area.” He said, “He wasn’t real sure exactly where he was. He claimed he had taken a lot of sleeping pills and didn’t quite remember exactly where he was.” “We’re very certain” the remains are that of the missing boy, Byrd said. “We’re just thankful that we found this little boy. Nothing’s left but just the skeletal remains.”

AUSTRALIA–Child abuse remains prevalent, even today. The question remains: how prevalent? The social stigma around child abuse means that it gets swept under the carpet time and again. We know how many cases of abuse are being reported and how many cases are substantiated each year. However, it is impossible to know how many children are being abused every day but are too afraid to say anything. In response to the growing awareness around child abuse, several laws have been set in place to protect children from further abuse. In every state in Australia mandatory reporting laws have been introduced (Higgins, Bromfield, & Richardson, 2007). These laws mandate that professionals who work with children are legally obliged to make a report about any child they suspect is in danger of abuse. These laws differ state-by-state, but are in place Australia-wide in some form. In spite of mandatory reporting laws, statistics suggest that child abuse remains prevalent.

Accused killer Renee King on Tuesday begged a magistrate to be allowed to attend the funeral service scheduled today for the 2-year-old stepdaughter she is accused of sexually assaulting and beating to death. “I swear to God on my life I didn’t do this,” a sobbing King said. “I just want to be able to see my husband and my kids and be with them through this hard time (today) for my stepdaughter’s burial. I’m accused of doing something I never would have done.”

BEDFORD, Pa. — An evangelist has been ordered to stand trial on charges he raped an 11-year-old girl while in Bedford County for a revival meeting.The Rev. Walter Donald Bradshaw, 61, of Lexington, N.C., has pleaded not guilty to charges including rape of a child and involuntary deviate sexual intercourse. Bradshaw was arrested last month after the girl reported the incident to an adult. The girl’s 51-year-old mother, who is from Bedford County, was also ordered to stand trial after Wednesday’s preliminary hearing and remains jailed.The mother was charged with sexual exploitation of children, unlawful contact with a minor, endangering the welfare of children, criminal solicitation to commit perjury and corruption of minors.

“I’d wake up at 5; I’d be outside by 5:30,” says Brittney, 19. “I would just wait and see what happened, whether it’d be in the streets or whether I’d be on the Internet. And then I won’t be able to come back inside until like 2 o’clock in the morning, so I’d get only, like, three hours of rest.” Brittney, a former sex worker, agreed to share her story under the condition that her real name not be used. She’s a native of Oakland, Calif., and only recently out of what’s called “the game.” Less than a year ago, Brittney was being forced to work as a prostitute on the Internet and on the streets of Oakland.

On Monday, Newport News police arrested a minister accused of sexually assaulting a child over an eight-year period, beginning when she was 10. Edwin Benjamin Rosette Sr., 57, of Dutchess Lane, is charged with one count of rape. In a rather disturbing twist, in addition to being a minister, Rosette told police that he is also works as a counselor for rape victims and juveniles.

Asked to investigate the roots of child abuse, a group of social engineers focused not on its causes but its prevention.

No one wants to be anywhere near the phrase “child abuse.” Parents flee from programs that would tar them as “high risk.” Teachers and child care providers fear the mistrust that comes with any hint they might call Child Protective Services. Those services don’t receive children until it’s too late to prevent abuse. And the public numbs to PSAs with warnings like, “Every 10 seconds, another child is abused in America …” (which is, unfortunately, about right).