Bakersfield, CA – Aimee Archer called 911 Tuesday night and told a dispatcher her 4-year-old child had been the victim of a hit-and-run. When officers arrived on scene, Archer reportedly told them her child, angry because she wasn’t getting fast food that night, bolted out of the car and ran into the street where she was hit by a car. “I ran into the middle of the street and I got my baby and I put her into the car,” Archer said in an interview with KGET.

Logan, UT – In October 2009, after a fight with her husband, Reggie Ann Peck attempted to kill her two young daughters by slipping the antidepressant drug Trazadone into their bottles. Fortunately, the girls didn’t ingest enough of the drug to suffer any ill effects. Reggie was arrested and charged with surreptitious administering of certain substance, assault, and domestic violence in the presence of a child. (The assault and DV charges stem from the fight with the husband). In January, Reggie entered a plea in abeyance through a mental health court – if she complied with terms of her probation, the charges would be dismissed.

VANCOUVER, B.C — Two men have been arrested for their involvement in a brutal gang rape of a 16-year-old girl who was photographed and posted on Facebook and YouTube, Royal Canadian police.

The 16-year old girl was drugged with a date rape drug, possibly GHB, and sexually assaulted by five to seven men, according to RCMP Supt. Dave Walsh. It happened in a field outside a “another Night in Bangkok” rave last weekend east of Vancouver, .

ATLANTA — A fourth young male member of Bishop Eddie Long’s megachurch says the prominent pastor coerced him into a sexual relationship. Attorney B.J. Bernstein says she is filing a lawsuit Friday on behalf of a member of New Birth Charlotte. New Birth Charlotte is a satellite church run by Long in Charlotte, N.C. The man met Long in May 2005.

PLACERVILLE, Calif. — A judge has suspended criminal proceedings against the man accused of kidnapping and raping Jaycee Dugard over concerns about his mental state. El Dorado County Superior Court Judge Douglas Phimister made the decision Friday after a short pretrial hearing for Phillip Garrido. Phimister said he had concerns about Garrido’s mental competency to stand trial on 29 counts of kidnapping, rape and false imprisonment in the 1991 disappearance of Dugard.

SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — An 11-year-old baby sitter is being held on warrants charging her with felony murder and child cruelty in the death of a 2-year-old girl. Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard is trying to determine how to proceed in the case against the baby sitter in the death of Zyda White.

Elmhurst, IL – Sandra Clanton, 39, was standing in the kitchen with her daughter and 9-month-old grandson on September 11, when she completely and utterly lost her shit. Police say she suddenly grabbed her infant grandson and smashed his head into the kitchen sink before slashing his face with a butcher knife. The baby’s mother was able to wrestle the child away from Clanton and another person in the home subdued her and called 911. Clanton later told officers she believed the baby was the Antichrist.

ATLANTA — Attorneys representing two men who say a prominent pastor of a 25,000-member megachurch near Atlanta coerced them into a sexual relationship have filed a third lawsuit on behalf of another young male member of his church.

Attorney B.J. Bernstein said Wednesday the allegations in the lawsuit are similar to the previous civil complaints filed late Tuesday. The complaints were filed in DeKalb County State Court against Bishop Eddie Long. The Associated Press generally does not identify people who say they were victims of sexual impropriety.

A Damascus woman who secretly married a man accused of sexually abusing her daughter pleaded guilty Monday to hindering prosecution and first-degree criminal mistreatment.

Barbara Lynn Whitehead, 41, was sentenced by Clackamas County Circuit Court Judge Douglas V. Van Dyk to 18 months in prison. Her husband, Don Edward Smock Jr., is in jail awaiting trial on 45 felony counts of encouraging child sex abuse and other sex crimes. Whitehead was tearful during her court appearance. Her grade-school age daughter and a younger sibling are in protective custody.

SPOKANE — Spokane Police arrested a former volunteer for a Spokane daycare who admitted to inappropriately touching and fondling a child.

Spokane Police arrested Eugene Wright, 64, Monday afternoon for First Degree Child Rape and First Degree Child Molestation. Police say Wright admitted during an interview with detectives to touching and fondling a 5-year-old girl at the Big Foot Head Start Childcare Center on August 12.

GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. — A Marietta couple is facing multiple charges in connection with the sexual and physical abuse of four young girls, deputies said.

Greenville County Sheriff’s Office Sex Crime investigators said that Gary Reese Thompson is charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct with minor under 11, unlawful neglect of a child and disseminating obscene material to a minor under 12.

CLEVELAND, OH – Andreia Huffman and Jason Dunikowski were sentenced Tuesday for abusing two of their nine children. Huffman received 34 years in prison. Dunikowski was slapped with 26 years.

Over a period of at least 6 months during each day from 7:00 am to 11:00 pm, Huffman and Dunikowski forced their 8-year-old son to stand facing the wall with his hands clasped behind his head as a form of punishment. While standing facing the wall, Huffman repeatedly pushed her son’s face through the wall of the house. The victim suffered broken noses. Each night, the defendants hogged tied the victim’s feet and hands with duct tape and then tied him to the living room coffee table.

(Sept. 22) — An Indianapolis woman who’s been charged in the deaths of her two young children allegedly locked her five kids in a closet for 10 hours before the two perished.

That’s according to a police report released Tuesday that accuses Edyan Farah, 28, of dragging a bed up against the closet to block it shut, then leaving to visit a neighbor. Investigators are awaiting results of a toxicology report, but believe the two children — a 5-year-old girl and her 3-year-old brother — died Sunday of asphyxiation. Details were reported by several news agencies.

The children were trapped in a closet about 6 feet by 18 inches for more than 10 hours, and one of the surviving siblings told police they’d been crammed in there before.

(CNN) — Hours after a North Carolina police chief issued a tearful plea for help in locating a registered sex offender suspected in the death of his 23-year-old daughter, the man was arrested in upstate New York, authorities said Monday.

Michael Neal Harvey, 34, was arrested without incident by FBI agents and U.S. marshals in Niagara Falls, New York, on Monday morning in connection with the death of Valerie Hamilton, according to a statement issued by Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina, police. Detectives from Charlotte were on the way to New York to interview Harvey and “work on the extradition process,” the statement said.