MOBILE, Alabama – Mobile police are looking for two children who were reported missing after a man in Louisville, Kentucky told police the kids were dead. Natalie Deblase, 5, and Jonathan Deblase, 3, were last seen in Mobile more than four months ago, but police have not been able to account for their whereabouts since then. The children were listed as residents at the Peach Place Extended Stay Inn on Jeff Hamilton Road in West Mobile along with John Deblase, 27, and Heather Leavell-Keaton, 22. The family moved out of the apartment on July 23 and left a forwarding address in Rome, Georgia. Management at the apartment complex remember seeing the little girl, but tell News Five they do not remember ever seeing the boy.

NEWTON –In court documents that were unsealed Tuesday, it was revealed that Zahra Clare Baker was likely dismembered in the bathtub of the Baker house in Hickory. Zahra’s stepmother, Elisa Baker, has been assigned prominent defense attorney Lisa Dubs. The Oct. 27 search warrant states Elisa gave information to police through Dubs relating to the investigation. This includes that “the body of Zahra Baker was dismembered. That blood, body fluids and pieces of bone may be located in the drain trap of the bathtub.”

SALT LAKE CITY —Elizabeth Smart, visibly upset, stormed out of the courtroom Wednesday at the trial of her accused kidnapper. Smart left the courtroom during the testimony of Dr. Paul Whitehead, a forensic psychiatrist at the state mental hospital who treated Brian David Mitchell from 2005 to 2008. Whitehead, who is a witness for the defense, testified about Mitchell seeking to have children with Smart. Mitchell, 57, was back in the courtroom this morning after suffering an apparent seizure Tuesday. The homeless street preacher is accused of kidnapping then-14-year-old Elizabeth Smart from her bedroom back in 2002. Now 23, she testified that she was held captive for nine months and raped nearly every day.

The two St. Paul moms often traded off baby-sitting each other’s children. But the favor turned tragic for a 4-year-old girl who told her mother the other woman’s boyfriend had raped her. Fahid Nazir, 29, of Columbia Heights was charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct in the Sept. 14 incident. Based on a criminal complaint filed Monday and made public Tuesday in Ramsey County District Court, the child’s mother notified police after the girl returned to her own apartment, where her mother had been making lunch.

Hickory, NC – Just when you think the Zahra Baker story couldn’t possibly get any worse than it already is, I just read over at CNN that the little girl may have been raped prior to her death. Search warrants obtained by the Hickory, North Carolina, police were released on Tuesday and the details they contain are absolutely horrifying. In them, a tipster told police that Zahra had been at a North Carolina home with two men who both raped Zahra. One of the men was an acquaintance of Zahra’s stepmother, Elise Baker. The men supposedly said they did not kill Zahra, but may have hit her in the head and that she had blood on her private area and legs.

SAN FERNANDO ( KTLA) — A teacher at Hillcrest Christian school in Granada Hills accused of having sex with a student appeared in court Monday on a 20-count criminal complaint. Mark Stephen Hubbard, 51, is charged with 16 counts of oral copulation of a person under 18, three counts of unlawful sexual intercourse and one count of sodomy of a person under 18. Hubbard appeared for arraignment at San Fernando Superior Court, but his arraignment was postponed until Dec. 13. His bail has been set at $1 million.

SAN FRANCISCO — Two years to the day after it was shot, surveillance video of an emaciated teenager begging for help inside a Tracy gym is now being seen by the public after prosecutors released it this week. The video – recorded Dec. 1, 2008 – shows then-16-year-old Kyle Ramirez wearing only boxer shorts and a shackle across his ankle as he enters the gym to ask for help. He then disappears briefly before he’s covered by a towel and led away from the desk area by a staff member.

McLEAN, Va. — A grandmother threw her 2½-year-old granddaughter several stories to her death from a walkway at a shopping mall after a family outing, police said Tuesday. Carmela Dela Rosa, 50, of Fairfax was arrested and charged Tuesday with murder, said prosecutor Ian Rodway, the chief deputy Commonwealth’s attorney. The child, Angelyn Ogdoc, died in a hospital after plunging to the pavement Monday night. She fell from a walkway linking the mall’s third floor to the parking garage’s sixth floor at Tysons Corner Center in Fairfax, a Washington suburb in Virginia.

MORENCI, Mich. — The father of three young brothers who have been missing since Thanksgiving was charged with their kidnapping on Tuesday, hours after police said it’s unlikely the boys will be found alive. John Skelton, 39, was arrested by FBI agents after his release from a medical facility in Lucas County, Ohio, where he had been being treated since attempting to hang himself on Friday. Skelton was charged in Lenawee County, Mich., across the state border, with three counts of parental kidnapping, Morenci Police Chief Larry Weeks said during a brief news conference.

The Council of Europe has launched a new Underwear Rule campaign to help combat sexual violence against children and improve international cooperation on prosecuting offenders. The Underwear Rule, aimed at teaching children aged four to seven about their rights to set limits and speak out against abuse, is being promoted through a TV spot, a children’s book, poster campaigns and a website. The spot features a green cartoon child who gives permission to a large, brightly-coloured hand to pat him on the head and tickle him, but reacts angrily when the hand asks if it can touch him inside his underwear.

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) – Statistics in South Carolina seem to support research showing parallels between rising unemployment and child abuse. The Greenville News reported Monday that Boston University researchers examining 18 years of data found that for every 1 percent increase in unemployment, child mistreatment reports one year later increased by at least .5 per 1,000 children. South Carolina’s Department of Social Services investigated nearly 19,000 cases over the last fiscal year, an increase of almost 7 percent. The number of proven cases rose nearly 3 percent to nearly 7,000.

Rosemont, IL — Here’s a horrific case of child abuse that’ll knock your ass right out of the holiday spirit. A 33-year-old man is in jail on $200,000 bond after being charged with submerging his 17-month-old stepson’s face in scalding water, causing second-degree burns. After doing a bit of heroin and getting into an argument with his wife, police say Santiago R. Minjarez got aggravated at his stepson’s crying after the boy’s mother left the house. He admitted to holding the kid upside down by his legs, one of them still in a cast from a previous injury, and placing his head in the hot water running from a bathtub faucet.

HAWTHORNE ( KTLA) — The family of a 10 year old girl who died Saturday under mysterious circumstances spoke out Sunday to KTLA. Amanda Cooper’s aunt says the little girl was diagnosed with a terminal disease and had only a short time to live. The aunt, who wished to remain anonymous, said the family was stunned by allegations that Amanda may have been sexually abused. “If there’s anything, we want to know. That’s why we want to be left alone because we want the police to do their job. Of course we’re worried about that. Just the thought of it sickens me,” the aunt told KTLA.

A teenage girl was being held on bail Saturday after pleading not guilty to charges stemming from her boyfriend’s son’s death on Staten Island. Cynthia Dubois, 18, was charged with reckless assault of a child and child endangerment, after police say she shook 15-month-old Josiah Taylor and did not get him immediate medical help. Bail was set at $100,000. The suspect’s mother said Dubois was babysitting the child.