A Colombian soldier is suspected of sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl on October 2, in the Arauca department, close to the site where three children were killed earlier this month, Caracol Radio reported Thursday. The girl’s description of the assailant reportedly resembles a soldier of the 5th Brigade who was stationed in the area. The suspected man had been absent from the military camp for several hours when both offenses occurred, according to interviews and statements from several soldiers.

A Lafayette father arrested Thursday on suspicion of causing the injuries that killed his 10-week-old son told authorities that he squeezed, threw and shook the infant “pretty good and pretty hard” in an attempt to revive him when he stopped breathing. But investigators suspect Joaquin Campos, 21, abused his son, Lyon Campos, before he became unresponsive, according to an arrest report made public Friday.

A doctor told investigators that Campos has “given no explanation for why Lyon would stop breathing,” according to the report. The doctor from Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center said Campos “is giving a backwards story and that the shaking preceded the stop in breathing.”

A new study has found that victims of child abuse, who blame themselves and their families for their situation, experience higher rates of post-traumatic stress disorder. These victims usually try to sleep more than usual, avoid thinking on the problem, or resort to alcohol and drug abuse. This is one of the conclusions drawn from a research conducted by David Cantsn Cortis at the Department of Evolutionary and Educational Psychology of the University of Granada, and led by professors Fernando Justicia Justicia and Josi Cantsn Duarte.

THE trial of a man accused of assaulting a child has been told the youngster’s injuries resembled that of a car crash victim. The child suffered swelling of the brain and internal head bleeding after allegedly being attacked by 25-year-old Christopher David Newton in Barrow. The evidence was given by radiologist Dr Winston St Clair Forbes yesterday at Newton’s trial at Preston Crown Court. Dr Forbes, who helped treat the youngster at Manchester Royal Children’s Hospital, said: “These were absolutely serious injuries and the abnormal swelling would be considered, in my experience, as life threatening.

A 4-year-old Brooklyn girl who weighed 18 pounds when she was found dead last month had toxic levels of antihistamines in her system, the city’s chief medical examiner’s office said on Friday in ruling the death a homicide. The office said the girl, Marchella Pierce, died of “child abuse syndrome with acute drug poisoning, blunt impact injuries, malnutrition and dehydration,” according to a statement issued by the office.

The drugs found in her body were diphenhydramine and desloratadine, said Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner’s office. Each drug is marketed under many names, including Benadryl for diphenhydramine and Clarinex for desloratadine. The term child abuse syndrome means that the abuse occurred over a period of time and was not a one-time occurrence, Ms. Borakove said.

Evansville, IN – A toddler girl was seen in the hospital early Friday morning suffering from second- and third-degree burns to her face, neck and shoulders, and according to police, her mother’s boyfriend is responsible for the injuries. Authorities claim 28-year-old Kyle Hankins poured boiling water on the child’s face as she slept. The child’s mother, Krystal Lockridge, told police Kyle showed up at her apartment at about 10:00 Thursday evening – the couple spent about an hour together before Krystal fell asleep with her other two children. At about 2:00 a.m., she woke to the sound of 2-year-old Kayleigh screaming. Krystal said she found her daughter sitting in a chair in the living room with burns on her face.

Anytime a child has an accident, it’s tragic. Having your child get hurt any day of the year would be horrible but the last thing that you want to happen is for your child to be hurt on a holiday, like Halloween! It would forever live in the minds of the child and family, ruining that special time of year.Everyone wants to have a safe and happy Halloween for themselves, their guests and their children. Using safety tips and some common sense can help you make the most of your Halloween season, keeping it as enjoyable for your kids as it is for you! There are lots of simple ways to keep your child safe at Halloween, when accidents and injuries are more likely to occur.

A pedophile former priest who fled to the United States in 1985 has been jailed for 21 years for campaign of sexual abuse against young boys in the west Midlands which began in the 1950s. A jury at Birmingham Crown Court deliberated for around six hours before unanimously convicting 73-year-old James Robinson, who was extradited from California last year to face trial. The former Roman Catholic priest, who worked in the Black Country, Staffordshire, Birmingham and Coventry after being ordained in 1971, simply stared at the jury foreman as he was found guilty of 21 sexual offences.

SUFFOLK —A Suffolk woman has been arrested and charged with aggravated assault and felony child abuse after her 6-week-old son was found to have multiple broken bones. Danielle Lynn Holland, a 21-year-old woman with four children, is being held at Western Tidewater Regional Jail. Child Protective Services is investigating, and city spokeswoman Debbie George said the other three children have been removed from the residence.

Las Vegas, NV – The skeletal remains found by hunters in Louisiana earlier this month have been identified as those of a 12-year-old girl from Las Vegas missing since September. Lexis Kaye Roberts was last seen with her mother, 31-year-old Suellen Roberts, and her boyfriend of two months, 53-year-old Thomas Steven Sanders. They had taken a Labor Day road trip to Arizona to visit the Bearizona Wildlife Park in Arizona. Police know that the trio made it there as they signed into their hotel room and surveillance footage captures them entering the wildlife park.

LAS CRUCES – A 38-year-old Doña Ana man made his first appearance in federal court Tuesday to face accusations of making and trafficking in child pornography. If convicted, Juan Larry Barela Jr. faces between five years and life in prison and a lifetime of supervised release. Barela’s alleged online activity was discovered the morning of July 25 by New Mexico State Police Online Predator Unit officers, who are able to track the trading of child pornography by looking for unique and unchangeable digital signatures associated with known images and movies of child sex abuse.

Colorado Springs police said a man sexually assaulted a 3-year-old girl, and now they are asking for your help.Police said 22-year-old Wilson Chilel-Lopez sexually assaulted the girl Monday at an apartment complex near Chapel Hills Mall. Now police are worried Lopez may have been preying on the children at the complex for a while. Police wont release a lot of details about the case, but they hope more victims come forward so they can add them to the charges against Lopez. “We do have reason to believe he could have other victims out there,” Colorado Springs Police Sgt. Steve Noblitt said.

A South Florida Catholic School may have to pay for the sins of one of its former employees after a mom filed a lawsuit claiming sexual abuse of her son. The unnamed woman claims Miguel Leonardo Cala, a former music and preschool teacher at St. Andrews Catholic School in Coral Springs, fondled her child during private music lessons for almost a year from 2009 until August. Cala, 37, worked at the school for 10 years. The lawsuit claims the music teacher used his position at the parish to gain his victims’ parents’ trust and then sexual abused them. The lawsuit also names the church and the Archdiocese of Miami.

A Stanley man facing charges that he sexually abused children from two separate families is now facing a new allegation that he assaulted another child. William R. Starck, 27, was charged Friday with first degree sexual assault of a child for allegedly having sexual contact with a child who was age three at the time, in April 2010. The charge is based on an investigation by the Chippewa Valley Child Advocacy Center in Eau Claire, which interviewed the child on Oct. 12. The child described Strack displaying his genitals to the child and having the child touch them.