For a little girl who spent this weekend lying in a Massachusetts hospital, the debate over illegal immigration isn’t about race or politics. It’s about life and death. Four-year-old Heidi was brutally raped on Saturday. Now she’s listed in “serious” condition at Baystate Medical Center.

If it takes an entire village to raise a child, it also takes an entire village to prevent child abuse.

That is a lesson we might take from the brief and tragic life of Prhaze Galvan, a 3-year-old Kimball Township child who died Jan. 15 after months of cruel and systematic abuse.

A St. Clair County, MI jury needed only 2 hours Wednesday to convict the child’s father and stepmother of torture, first-degree child abuse and felony murder.

OGLE COUNTY (WREX) – An Oregon father gets probation and jail time after pleading guilty to child abuse.

Thomas Miatke, 22, will spend 180 days in jail and will be on probation for four years. He’s also not allowed to see his child.

THE Church of England has paid damages to a woman who claims she was forcibly drugged and sexually abused whilst in the care of a church-run children’s home.

Teresa Cooper, who now lives near Chelmsford in Essex, has spent the last 18 years trying to expose the sexual and physical abuse that her and other girls suffered at Kendall House children’s home in Pelham Road, Gravesend, throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

A chaplain with Bishop McGuiness High School turned himself in today on charges that he sexually abused a 14-year-old boy more than three decades ago at a Catholic church in Albemarle. Father Joseph Kelleher, 82, of 1525 Wood St. is charged with one count of indecent liberties with a child. He was released on a $5,000 bond and his first court date is scheduled for Aug. 9, according to Albemarle Police Chief Ronnie Michael.

Berkeley County, SC – The Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office has charged a man and his girlfriend with homicide by child abuse in the death of a toddler whose body was found encased in concrete in a trash bin. This comes after investigators were led to the bin in Bowman Wednesday, after interviewing Williams and Trotman about the disappearance of 2-year-old, Rodricus Williams.

Vatican City, July 9 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The head of the Catholic Church – Vatican says that they would revise the rules on child sex abuse. The church will introduce penalties for child pornography by the church’s priests. The announcement was made on Thursday at the Vatican City. The church has come under intense criticism for child abuse by its priests. Abuse has been reported in Europe, America and South America.

MISSING: This case has gone cold and the Hamilton Ontario, Canada Police are asking for the public’s help. Please take a peek at the flier!!! Do you recognize this boy?

Computers, laptops and hard drives have been seized by detectives as part of a crackdown on possession of indecent images of children in Cambridgeshire. During this week’s operation, 12 warrants were executed at properties in the Cambridge, Peterborough and Huntingdonshire areas.

Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and the state’s child advocate, Jeanne Milstein, say child abuse and neglect cases are slipping through the bureaucratic cracks at the state’s schools. Their proof: hundreds of examples in a 66-page report they released Thursday.

One case outlines a teacher and women’s basketball coach at Southington High School allegedly having inappropriate behavior with female athletes. Another: a teacher accused of slapping her disabled student’s hands and making another stand in the rain with no coat.

BELOIT (WKOW) — A 10-year-old babysitter accused of child abuse appeared in Rock County court as a prosecutor alleged the girl threw a toddler in her care into a bathtub and smashed the child’s head on a concrete floor. Hours after the four foot, eighty pound girl was charged as a juvenile with intentional physical abuse of a child, Beloit police officials said the 23-month-old victim’s mother, Stephanie Schober was arrested for child neglect.

Young women are poisoning their babies and condemning them to a lifetime of learning disabilities by binge drinking in pregnancy, a government adviser has warned. Professor Barry Carpenter said Britain was facing unprecedented rise in the number of children born with learning disabilities – and boozy young mothers-to-be were largely to blame.

LOUISIANA, Mo. — A man suspected in the abduction of a 4-year-old Missouri girl, who was later found safe, shot himself Wednesday when approached by authorities, police said. St. Louis County Police said in a news release that the man was approached in the city of Hawk Point, which is about halfway between the Mississippi River town where Alisa Maier was taken from her front yard Monday night and the St. Louis suburb where she was found wandering around a car wash late Tuesday about 70 miles away.

A GP who examined Baby P on at least 15 occasions became the first medical professional to be found guilty today of missing a series of opportunities to save his life. Dr Jerome Ikwueke, 63, faces being struck off for failing to notice the extensive injuries Peter Connelly suffered from horrific abuse. The Nigerian doctor was found guilty of a ‘serious breach’ of professional duty and of allowing his conduct to fall below the standard expected of a competent GP, the General Medical Council ruled today.