EUREKA, Calif.—A former pastor previously accused of molesting a 13-year-old girl in his care has pleaded not guilty to sex abuse charges involving a second child in Northern California. Dino Cardelli, 49, entered his plea Wednesday after being charged with three additional counts of committing lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14, the Eureka Times-Standard reported. The widower and foster parent already was charged with recurring sexual abuse of a girl who lived with him. In that case, he pleaded not guilty to four counts of child molestation.

SOUTH LOS ANGELES — Two men are wanted in the attack and rape of a teenage girl who was walking home from a festival this summer. Around 7:00 p.m. on August 11, a teenage girl was walking home from a festival at Jim Gilliam Park when she noticed two men were following her and she ran, said Los Angeles Police Department officials.
Police say the first suspect caught the girl and grabbed her from behind, choking her while the second suspect fondled her breasts.

A 13-month old boy critically injured last week in an intentional scalding reportedly by his mother and her boyfriend died at 2 a.m. today in a Shreveport hospital. Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office spokesman Lt. Ryan Turner confirmed the baby’s death this morning and said investigators are going to the LSU Regional Burn Center in Shreveport today to speak with doctors and medical personnel. The Sheriff’s Office will work with the 16th Judicial District Attorney’s Office after interviews are complete to “determine what the next course of action will be,” Turner said. Deputies were called to a local hospital on the afternoon of Sept. 21 in response to a baby whose skin was covered in burns, Turner said.

MILWAUKEE – A toddler was to be buried Friday morning after the child’s mother and her boyfriend were charged with the toddler’s death. A First Degree Reckless Homicide charge was filed Thursday against Jeremy Johnson. Johnson, of Milwaukee, threw Mattasia Bowie into a wall because she wouldn’t stop crying. The child suffered severe head injuries and later died at the hospital.

A mother and her two children were found killed in a Vadnais Heights apartment late Wednesday, and the woman’s husband — and father of the children — has confessed, the Ramsey County sheriff said today. The man has been identified as Justus Ogendi Kebabe, 43, Sheriff Bob Fletcher said today at a briefing. The couple’s 3-year-old child was found safe with Kebabe. The names of the deceased have not been released but that information is expected this afternoon. The children were 9 and 12 years old, Fletcher said.

Robert Farquharson, who murdered his three sons by driving them into a dam on Father’s Day, will be sentenced on Friday. Robert Farquharson, 41, was found guilty in July of the murders of Jai, 10, Tyler, 7, and Bailey, 2, in September 2005. Farquharson was returning home from an access visit with the boys when he drove his car off the Princes Highway near Winchelsea, in the state’s southwest, and into the deep, dark dam. He swam to shore, leaving the boys to drown in the car.

ALBANY, GA (WALB) – Two young children are dead after a domestic violence case quickly escalated to a double murder suicide in Colquitt County. Around 10:30 Monday night the Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office says Kejie McDougald shot his child and stepchild, ages eight and fifteen, before turning the gun and killing himself at 178 Cool Breeze Drive, just outside of Moultrie. The Sheriff tells us the call originally came in as a domestic violence case. Angela McDougald called 911 from a neighbor’s house after her and her husband got into a physical fight in which she was injured. When deputies went inside her house to find Mr. McDougald, they found him and the two children dead with gunshot wounds.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A Columbus mother is found guilty and sentenced Wednesday after her 4-year-old son, who suffered from developmental disabilities, died at the hands of her husband in March. Nikkie Reeves, 23, was found guilty on one count of involuntary manslaughter and one count of endangering children in connection with the murder of her son, Lawrence King III, 4. Lawrence suffered from developmental disabilities. Nikkie was sentenced to 15 years in prison in Judge Lynch’s Franklin County common pleas courtroom.

What is school bullying?
Bullying includes a wide variety of behaviors, but all involve a person or a group repeatedly trying to harm someone who is weaker or more vulnerable. It can involve direct attacks (such as hitting, threatening or intimidating, maliciously teasing and taunting, name-calling, making sexual remarks, and stealing or damaging belongings) or more subtle, indirect attacks (such as spreading rumors or encouraging others to reject or exclude someone).

How common is teen bullying?
Almost 30 percent of teens in the United States (or over 5.7 million) are estimated to be involved in school bullying as either a bully, a target of teen bullying, or both. In a recent national survey of students in grades 6 to 10, 13 percent reported bullying others, 11 percent reported being the target of school bullies, and another 6 percent said they bullied others and were bullied themselves.

One shaken baby in four dies. Some studies estimate that 15% of children’s deaths are due to battering or shaking, and an additional 15% are possible cases of shaking. Of the 37 children that died in Florida in 1995-96 13 died from a combination of Shaken Baby Syndrome/ Head Trauma. Of the thousands that survive death, serious injury usually occurs. “SBS” victims range in age from a few days to a few months old; the average is six months.

A De Soto woman who’s accused of starving her son in an attic was charged Wednesday with trying to kill the boy, ending her request for lower bond. Before the hearing began, prosecutors added a charge of attempted second-degree murder against Rachel Perez, 27. They also expanded the charges of child abuse and aggravated child endangerment, which she already faced, to cover more than two years instead of just one day. Perez is accused of keeping her 6-year-old son, who has Down syndrome, in the cramped, unfinished attic of her small duplex.

On September 21, 2010 the Austin Police Department Child Abuse Unit received a call stating that a child had been molested by a friend’s father while she was being homeschooled at a home school co-op during 2007 and 2008. On Wednesday, October 13, 2010 Richard “Rick” Charles Sweeten was arrested by the APD Fugitive Apprehension Unit for Sexual Assault of a Child, 2nd Degree Felony related to APD incident 10-5051474.

For many years Sweeten has been involved in a home school co-op and has had access to many children. The APD Child Abuse Unit is seeking the public’s assistance in locating any other potential victims who may have visited, attended and/or been homeschooled at his residence.

NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – A coach with the North Providence East Little League is facing child abuse charges. Our news partners at The Providence Journal reports 38-year-old Patrick Picard is free on $20,000 personal recognizance, after being charged with abusing his 9-year-old son on October 6th. Picard is accused of throwing the boy across a room, causing him to land face-first against the leg of a piano bench.

HICKORY, N.C. (CBS/AP) The investigation into Zahra Baker, the hearing-impaired10-year-old North Carolina girl who was reported missing Saturday, is now a homicide investigation, Hickory Police Chief Tom Adkins announced Tuesday. PICTURES: Zahra Baker Missing

Adkins said that Zahra’s stepmother, Elisa Baker, confessed to investigators that she wrote the ransom note found at the scene that asked for $1 million and then asked for an attorney. Elisa Baker originally told police that she last saw Zahra, who also suffered from bone cancer and had a prosthetic leg, sleeping in her bed around 2:30 a.m. Saturday morning, three hours before a brush fire in the backyard of the family home was reported. Hours after the fire Adam Baker called police to report Zahra missing.