ANDALUSIA, AL (WAFF) – Two people are in jail in South Alabama on charges of torture and willful abuse of a child. The suspects are each being held in the Covington County Jail on a $250,000 bond.

CHINO HILLS –Two children have been found dead in a ravine near Butterfield Ranch in Chino Hills. Neighbors in the 6200 block of Mystic Canyon Dr. say they heard gunshots just before noon and called 911, according to San Bernardino County Sheriff’s spokesperson Cindy Beavers.

WASHINGTON — Portable baby recliners that are supposed to help fussy babies sleep better are being recalled after the death of an infant. The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall Monday of 30,000 Nap Nanny recliners made by Baby Matters LLC of Berwyn, Pa.

RIMROCK, Az — A massive search is underway for a 2-year-old boy who disappeared while camping with a family that was preparing to adopt him. Syler Newton was last seen shortly after midnight Saturday, sleeping in a tent with the family at the Beaver Creek Campgrounds.

PORTLAND, Ore. — The mother of an Oregon boy missing for 53 days tearfully told her son not to give up hope, while investigators doubled the reward for information leading to his whereabouts.

The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Department says “significant progress” is being made in the search for 7-year-old Kyron Horman but declines to offer details.

DALLAS — A Texas man has been sentenced to 99 years in prison for starving three children locked in a Dallas hotel bathroom for up to nine months.

A Dallas County jury sentenced 38-year-old Alfred Santiago on Tuesday, hours after finding him guilty of injury to a child and continuous sexual abuse.

TITUSVILLE, FL — A Florida man sentenced to 315 years for child molesting has been set free after less than two decades.

52-year-old Thomas Spioch was convicted in 1997 of molesting a 14-year-old boy and trying to hire a hit-man to kill seven witnesses at his trial.

Weatherford, OK – If you click over to Gabrielle Silcott’s Facebook profile, you will see that she references her ‘great bf’ a couple of times. Judging by the day her relationship status changed, she and Jason Ferguson have been together for nearly three weeks now – plenty of time for the ‘great bf’ to torture and hospitalize her 22-month-old daughter. And Gabrielle reportedly stood by and did nothing while her daughter was being beaten senseless.

Spokane, WA – Police began looking into Pamela Ortega’s online shenanigans back in April after a tipster in Europe contacted the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and said the woman offered her young daughter to him for sex. It gets worse. Ortega is accused of molesting her own two children, an 8-year-old girl and a 6-year-old boy, and a neighbor’s 2-week-old infant, and broadcasting it live via web cam.

Report: Child neglect, abuse on the rise – Latest DSS figures show 30 percent jump

SHELBY — Within one year, confirmed cases of child abuse and neglect jumped 30 percent in Cleveland County, according to figures recently released by the Department of Social Services. For fiscal year 2009, there were more than 360 substantiated cases, the majority being neglect-related issues.

BIRMINGHAM, AL (WBRC) – An Indiana woman has been arrested in Birmingham in connection with the death of her two-month-old daughter.

The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department, in a statement Monday to FOX6 News, said Whitney Wilson, 23, of Avon, Ind., had been charged with child abuse. Investigators said the charges were filed after deputies were called to Children’s Hospital in Birmingham Sunday by hospital staff. They found Wilson’s two-month-old baby, Cadence Davidson, on life support. Doctors told them the child had a skull fracture, a fractured femur and healing rib fractures. The child was taken off of life support Monday morning and died.

(CBS) Spanking certainly smarts – but could it cause a heart attack?

That’s what a provocative new study from Canada seems to suggest. It linked childhood physical abuse with a significantly higher risk for heart disease in adulthood.

EDINBURG, Texas — A jury has found a south Texas man guilty of capital murder for beheading his common-law wife’s three children in 2003.

The Hidalgo County jury deliberated for about three hours Monday before returning its verdict.

Cleveland, OH – Not much on this one, but according to police, witnesses called 911 late Sunday night after seeing someone abandon a 4-year-old boy at the intersection of Cedar Avenue and East 28th. Officers arrived on scene and transported the child to family services. After talking with the kid awhile, police were led to his home, which, by the way, was nearly 8 miles away from the location where he had been found.