Las Cruces Police have charged Diana Atima Goenaga, 17, of the 1100 block of Monte Vista Avenue, with one count of child abuse causing death or great bodily harm. Goenaga was arrested Monday evening and is being held without bond at the El Paso County Detention Center. Goenaga’s 2-month-old daughter, Jade remains on life support with what’s commonly referred to as shaken baby syndrome. Jade is at Las Palmas Medical Center in El Paso, where she has been since Sunday afternoon. Police detectives learned that on Wednesday, the baby’s 23-year-old father arrived at the couple’s apartment and noticed Jade was unresponsive and limp. The couple began to drive Jade to a Las Cruces hospital but, according to statements made to detectives, the baby appeared to regain consciousness so they returned home.

Child abuse and neglect leaves its victims with lasting damage: In Louisiana 27 children are victimized every day, and their plight is reason enough to invest in prevention. But New Orleans Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas, District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro and Sheriff Marlin Gusman offered another strong reason to protect at-risk children: doing so could prevent them from turning to crime as adults. The three are urging Gov. Bobby Jindal and state lawmakers to continue funding an abuse prevention program that provides visits by trained nurses to at-risk families and to seek new federal funding for those services.

Sunyani, Nov. 10, GNA – A 10- year national project to empower stakeholders to prevent child abuse, would be launched at Odumase in the Sunyani West District of the Brong Ahafo Region on Thursday November 11. The “Ghana Child Abuse Prevention Programme” (G-CAPP) is an initiative of the Global Media Foundation (GLOMEF), a Sunyani-based human rights media foundation. A statement signed by Mr Michael Boateng, Communication Director of GLOMEF and made available to the Ghana News Agency in Sunyani on Tuesday said the main goal of G-CAPP is to create public awareness on child abuse.

SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) – An Oviedo woman and her boyfriend were arrested Tuesday and charged with child abuse following the death of her 3-year-old daughter over the weekend. Investigators from the Oviedo Police Department say on Saturday evening the girl’s mother, Crystal Nicole Aday, 26, and her boyfriend, Issac J. Burt, 45, found her on the bathroom floor unresponsive and transported her to South Seminole Hospital in Longwood. She was pronounced dead on arrival and Longwood Police responded to the hospital and then contacted Oviedo Police who started an investigation.

Effinham, Illinois– Lester Griffin, a 24-year-old Indiana man was convicted of murder Thursday after he allegedly punched a hole into a 3-year-old child’s heart. Effingham County jurors deliberated for less than three hours before returning eight guilty verdicts in the murder of 3-year-old Dylan Helmey. Eight guilty verdicts because of the hell the child endured in the final two hours of his life, according to police.

Prosecutors say Griffin was at home watching his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son in June, 2009, when Griffin punched the toddler so hard in the chest, the blow ripped a hole in his heart. Bruising on the boy’s chest reportedly showed a knuckle pattern allegedly caused by Griffin. A medical examiner testified that the child had endured 70 injuries that occurred within two hours of his death. The boy also reportedly had other injuries that were in different stages of healing including recently broken ribs and a black eye. Griffin earlier told investigators during a taped interview that he assaulted the toddler after discovering he and another child had gotten into his compact disk collection.

“The last two hours of that little boy’s life were spent being brutalized by that man,” said prosecutors. “Not only did he cause 70 injuries and the blow to the chest, he let him lay there and die.”

Norwalk, Connecticut – Terrence Crawford, a 17-year-old Norwalk teen, was jailed after he allegedly beat and repeatedly stabbed his girlfriend after she informed him he had gotten her pregnant. According to Norwalk police, Crawford and a friend reportedly attacked his 16-year-old girlfriend in the woods near Clay Street in South Norwalk. He and his accomplice then dragged the girl off and left her lying on the ground, bleeding. Neighbors witnessed the teens dragging the screaming girl and contacted authorities.

Tulsa, OK — Meredith Howard, a teacher’s aide at the John Knox Child Development Center, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with two counts of felony child abuse by injury for two separate incidents that occurred at two separate day care facilities more than two years apart. According to police, Howard has been on administrative leave since Thursday after being accused of digitally penetrating the vagina of a 19-month-old child at John Knox. Howard told police the child began squirming during a diaper change, and well…she may have accidentally slipped the kid a knuckle.

WASHINGTON — After a six-day hiatus, the Chandra Levy murder trial is scheduled to resume, and jurors will likely hear testimony from prison inmates who say Ingmar Guandique confessed to killing her. Guandique, a Salvadoran immigrant, is charged with the murder and attempted sexual assault of Levy in 2001. The Washington intern’s disappearance became international news after she was romantically linked with then-California Rep. Gary Condit, D-Calif. He was once the main suspect, but police no longer believe he was involved.

PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. — Schools in the nation’s sixth-largest school district were on lockdown Wednesday, and police in bullet-proof vests guarded at least some entrances after authorities said an unidentified woman called a radio station, saying her husband might go to a school and start shooting. Pembroke Pines Police Capt. Daniel Rakofsky said an earlier e-mail to the radio station, maybe from the man in question, said “something big was going to happen,” possibly at a post office or a school. Schools in Pembroke Pines, a suburb of Fort Lauderdale, were initially placed on lockdown as a precaution. The lockdown was then extended to all 300 Broward County schools. The county has nearly 257,000 students.

San Antonio, TX – Police say 28-year-old Leonard Ortiz is being held on $100,000 bond after a woman reportedly caught him in the act of molesting her 7-year-old daughter. The woman told police she was showering Saturday afternoon, when she popped out of the bathroom to retrieve a bottle of shampoo. It was then, she said, that she happened to see Ortiz laying on top of her child. She ordered him off the kiddo and asked if he had been having sex with the child. Ortiz denied having sexual intercourse with the girl, but admitted to “rubbing against” her on at least two occasions. According to the child, though, it went much further than a dry hump and it has been a somewhat regular occurrence over the past two years.

MOUNT PLEASANT MILLS, PA – The parents of a 14-year-old who committed suicide last week say it was the end result of the bullying he suffered at school and now they want to make other parents aware of it. Last Friday, Brandon Bitner left his home in the middle of the night, walked six miles and stepped into the path of a tractor trailer. Britner left a note to his parents asking that they find the strength not to let this happen to anyone else. His mother says Brandon suffered verbal abuse at school where he targeted for his emo lifestyle and soft-spoken manner. She blames the school for not stopping it.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Been a while since necrophilia has been a tag on D’D, but Louisville police have arrested a man they say murdered a missing teen, then had sex with his corpse. The family of 18-year-old Andrew Compton reported him missing on Oct 30th after he had not been seen or heard from in two days. His parents would find out that on the day he disappeared, he had used his computer to communicate with 40-year-old Gregory O’Bryan. Police questioned O’Bryan who admitted he had met with Compton and that they’d had sex at O’Bryan’s apartment.

LOS ANGELES ( KTLA) — An 18-year-old woman is being questioned by police after her newborn baby was found dead inside a trash can. The baby boy’s body was found around 7 p.m. Monday inside a wastebasket at a home in the 4500 block of Simpson Avenue, officials said. The woman gave birth last Friday, according to LAPD Lt. John Romero. Officers were called to investigate after the woman received treatment at a local hospital without a baby, Romero said.

ONTARIO, Calif. (KTLA) — A Roman Catholic priest accused of felony sex crimes against a 12-year-old boy has been bailed out by a group of parishioners who believe in his innocence. Jose Alejandro Castillo pleaded not guilty Tuesday to seven counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under age 14 and one count of forcible lewd and lascivious acts with a child under age 14. The 57-year-old pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Ontario — known as “Father Alex” — was arrested Monday at his home.