LYON, France — International police agency Interpol on Monday urged Internet users to help track down hundreds of fugitives wanted for murder, rape, child sexual abuse and other serious crimes.

The round-up operation was launched on May 3 targeting 450 people either convicted or suspected of serious offences and wanted by, or believed to be located in, 29 countries.

More than 100 fugitives have already been arrested or located worldwide, the agency based in the French city of Lyon said in a statement.

New York (CNN) — Her mother named the little girl Nevaeh, “heaven” spelled backwards. Jennifer Buchanan says her daughter always was a little bit of heaven to her.

Nevaeh Buchanan was 5 when she was kidnapped on May 24 last year; her body was found in a shallow grave on June 4.

A fisherman found Nevaeh’s body along the bank of the River Raisin near Monroe, Michigan, about 10 miles from the apartment she shared with her mother and grandmother.

Given the shocking number of India’s children facing molestation over 53 per cent of the under-18 population, according to an estimate a strong law for tackling child sexual abuse has been long overdue.

Existing laws dealing with sexual offences do not specifically address sexual abuse of children. Legally, only rape and sodomy can lead to criminal conviction. Anything less than rape amounts to ‘outraging the modesty’ of the victim. The draft Protection of Children from Sexual Assault Bill, 2010, aims at recognising the broad range of sexual abuses which children may be subjected to.

WORCESTER – A former day care worker from Leominster who claimed in his journal that he molested dozens of children has been sentenced to up to 45 years in prison.

Juan Nazario was sentenced Thursday in Worcester Superior Court after pleading guilty to multiple charges, including 10 counts of child rape.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – One man is under arrest, accused of raping his 4-year old family member. The little girl is now hospitalized at Baystate Medical Center with what police describe to be serious but non life-threatening injuries.

Detective Mike Chapin told 22News the victim was sexually assaulted at her home at 693 Carew Street sometime Saturday evening.

After a wave of child rapes in the past two years, top national police officials yesterday decided to set up separate task forces in police precincts throughout the country to handle such crimes.

“All officers in command should make the prevention of child sex abuse top priority,” said Commissioner General Kang Hee-rak during an unprecedented, five-hour conference, which was called to discuss the child rapes and other recent incidents that have damaged the police’s reputation, including allegations that five Yangcheon police officers tortured suspects during police investigations. It also discussed the internal division within the police chain of command that started when a former senior superintendent demanded Kang step down for poor management.

TRANSYLVANIA, N.C. —

Terrance Deron Lewis, 43, of Pisgah Forest, faces one felony count of child abuse inflicting serious injury, according to deputies.

The investigation began after Lewis and the 5-month-old’s mother took the baby to Transylvania Regional Hospital.

FOUR counts of rape and four separate counts of child abuse charges were filed in court against a man, who allegedly sexually abused two young girls.

The suspect’s identity is withheld since his alleged victims were relatives of his live-in partner.

The victims were cousins.

A primary school assistant who was caught with more than 21,000 indecent images of children has been jailed for seven years and 10 months.

Syd Beg admitted downloading the images at his home in Glasgow’s Maryhill area between January 2000 and January 2010.

OCEAN PINES — A Bishopville teenager faces child abuse charges after an Ocean Pines mother allegedly recorded the teen’s attacks on her daughter on videotape.

Bishopville resident Carleigh Renee Kufchak, 19, has been charged with first- and second-degree child abuse, second-degree assault and reckless endangerment after a June 25 incident with a blind 8-year-old girl she was baby-sitting.

Four Americans, nabbed in a two-year investigation into an international online child pornography ring, were sentenced in federal court in Indiana Friday, according to the federal Department of Justice.
Michael Barrata, 49, of Sacramento, CA, Scott Van Dorp, 51, of Nashville, IN, William Watkins, 39, of Lake Worth, FL, and March Beren Reeder, 33, of Harrisburg, PA, were part of a sophisticated, password-protected Internet bulletin board group, which allowed members to meet like-minded individuals with a sexualized interest in children, to discuss that interest and to trade images of child pornography, authorities said.

Of all the ways that child abuse impacts society – from dysfunctional individuals; to families falling apart – it goes without question that child abuse impacts our legislation. As primitive cultures evolve and recognize that the well-being of children is important, they come to create laws concerning children. Above and beyond all the harm that children endure, it is these laws that somehow impact us the most.

BOULDER – Former Rocky Mountain High School counselor Brad Boda was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections after pleading guilty to two counts of sexual abuse on a child.

Boda in April pleaded guilty to molesting children when he was a church counselor in Longmont in the late 1990s and early 2000s. “These children have suffered for 16 years,” Judge Gwyneth Whalen said in pronouncing the sentence.

Workshop facilitator Jinaki Flint explains that more than 85 percent of child sexual abuse comes at the hands of someone the child knows—not a stranger.

A sexual predator may be close by. “People who abuse look and act just like anyone else,” said Paula Sellars, narrator of Stewards of Children, a video component for the Darkness to Light Workshop, presented June 28 by Georgia Center for Child Advocacy at the DeKalb County Crime Prevention Tour at Charles Drew Charter School in East Lake.