MELBOURNE, Aug. 27 (UPI) — A British man has been sentenced to four years in prison for publishing up to 100,000 pictures of sexual child abuse on Facebook, officials say.

Ian Green, 45, used the Internet social networking site to swap child pornography with people in the United States, Australia and Canada, the Melbourne Herald-Sun reported Friday.

Corporal punishment. Now that’s one nasty, knee jerk, flashpoint of a topic. It’s maligned by many and praised by others. It’s even been known to ruin a few marriages.

I am relatively new to parenting, having been a mom for all of 19 months; therefore, I haven’t encountered a situation that would call for me to haul off and hit my child. But when it comes to discipline, there are two things I know for sure, and a couple of other things I’m not so sure about. One, spanking a child without them understanding why you’re doing so is abusive. And two, slapping a child across the face — especially a toddler — is parenting by humiliation.

A Chandler man has been arrested on charges of child abuse after police said he put his 7-month-old son in the freezer and forgot about him.

When interviewed, Chance Kracke told police he was high on methamphetamine when he went into the kitchen to make himself some food, according to the police report. Kracke told police he put his son in the freezer because the kitchen floor was too dirty to place him on it.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A letter of apology Jeannine Campbell read to the family of the boy she was seen abusing on a nannycam did not sway a judge from sentencing the 53-year-old woman to eight years in prison and seven additional years of probation.

A Fort Collins woman worked as a Poudre School District bus aide for two months after being charged with child abuse because PSD officials didn’t find out about the case against her until June – after her conviction.

Under PSD guidelines, parents are to be notified “when a current or former employee is arrested or has charges brought against him or her because of alleged misconduct with a student or other minor.” Green was a floating bus aide who worked out of PSD’s south bus terminal.

ANTIOCH — A man suspected of inflicting a serious brain injury on his girlfriend’s 4-year-old son has been arrested after fleeing the area, police said.

Investigators found Aaron Handy, 28, of Antioch, at a home in Stockton on Wednesday, five days after he was identified as a suspect, said Lt. Leonard Orman. He was taken to West County Jail in Richmond on suspicion of felony child abuse, and is being held on $100,000 bail.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — A Pennsylvania couple secretly videotaped a Roman Catholic priest having sex with their 18-year-old daughter in the basement of their home and are now suing, saying he got her pregnant.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Berks County Court, alleges that the Rev. Luis A. Bonilla Margarito carried on a sexual relationship with the teen while he was the chaplain of Reading Central Catholic High School and she was a senior there.

GREAT BEND, Kan. – Last Saturday, the parents of 14-year-old Alicia DeBolt contacted police when she did not arrive home in time for her midnight curfew. When they had last seen her, she was leaving for a party in the company of a 19-year-old man. On Tuesday, charred remains were found behind some gravel piles at a paving company five miles away from the city.

IRON RIDGE, Wis. – Taylor Becker,4, was with her parents visiting family friends when she was attacked by a 5-year-old Boxer named Rocky. She had been playing in the backyard of the home alone with the dog that was tied to a pole on a leash and chain. No one knows what happened to trigger Rocky, but investigators believe the dog slipped out of its leash and then attacked the girl. A neighbor saw the attack from the roadway and ran to the family’s front door, telling them to call 911.

A BRITISH paedophile was unmasked today as the mastermind behind a global child pornography ring that swapped as many as 100,000 indecent images over Facebook.

Ian Green, 45, used the social networking site to share vile photos with others in the US, Australia, and Canada.

The unemployed man brazenly posted images of child abuse on his wall and exchanged others via the site’s email system.

A 37-year-old Austin man plead guilty to 13 counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and five counts of sexual assault of a child in District Judge Jack Robison’s court in Hays County.

Hays County Officials said Jimmy Duran Lopez began the abuse when the child was 8, and the abuse continued for six years.

Caledonia, Mississippi (The Weekly Vice) – Angela Marie Shoemake, a 41-year-old Mississippi woman was jailed last week after she allegedly took pornographic images of her own two sons with plans to send them to a man over the Internet.

According to the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office, Shoemake was arrested after her boyfriend found explicit photographs of her 8 and 6-year-old sons on her computer.

Lancaster, WI – After a three-month investigation by the Grant County Sheriff’s Office and the Department of Social Services, two brothers have been slapped with numerous sexual assault charges that include bestiality and incest. Police believe the two have sexually assaulted at least six family members and multiple barnyard animals. The human victims range in age from 5 to 16. The barnyard victims? A cow and a horse. Wow. These guys really covered all the bases, huh?

MENTOR, Ohio – It didn’t take long before another Walmart groping story to make headlines, this one from Ohio involving a man accused of groping two girls, ages 7 and 10. During some back to school shopping on Monday, a 7-year-old girl was with her father when she felt a man swipe his hand across her butt. She told her father she watched the man do the same thing to a 10-year-old girl in the store.