New Delaware laws increase regulations on sex abuse
Nine-bill package passed in response to Bradley

DOVER — Gov. Jack Markell on Wednesday signed into law a nine-bill package crafted as the state’s response to the case of accused pedophile Dr. Earl B. Bradley — and repeated failures to halt what prosecutors say was a 15-year string of abuse.

ERWIN — A Unicoi man is facing child abuse and animal cruelty charges following his Tuesday arrest for allegedly striking one of his girlfriend’s children, duct taping her dog’s legs to its body, and rubbing the buttocks of the dog on the faces of her children.

Robert E. Hensley, 29, 3206 Unicoi Drive Lot No. 2, Unicoi, was charged with two counts of aggravated child abuse and neglect and one count of cruelty to animals.

JONESBOROUGH, Tenn.—A Jonesborough woman who fled the area early last month has been arrested today, according to reports from the Washington County Sheriff’s Department.

Tammy Tilson Elliott, 37, of 3636 Cherokee Road in Jonesborough, was arrested with the help of the United States Marshall Service.

A 19-year-old woman is under arrest after hospital officials reported to law enforcement, that a 6-week-old infant was suffering from suspicious injuries.

Rocio Ochoa Silva, was arrested on Wednesday by Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Detectives after Silva’s child was admitted to the emergency room at Cottage Hospital with severe head injuries.

A dangerous paedophile at the centre of an international child sex abuse ring has been jailed for a minimum of seven years for raping a 10-year-old boy.

Gareth Hulme, from Manchester, was given an indeterminate sentence for various sex offences, including two counts of rape against a child.

The 25-year-old attacked the boy on successive nights at a festival in Cheshire last summer, luring him away to walk his dog in woods.

Hulme, who worked as a security guard, also lurked internet chatrooms to groom other victims.

A 90-year-old Australian man has been arrested in Thailand and charged with raping and sexually abusing four young sisters, one of them as young as five, police said.

Officers said Karl Joseph Kraus allegedly lured the children, now aged seven to 14, to his home with imported chocolates and English lessons. The alleged abuse started two years ago.

LAS VEGAS (CBS/KLAS) Police arrested a Las Vegas man on child abuse charges Monday for allegedly kicking and hitting his 4-month-old son before putting him in the freezer while the mother was away, said CBS affiliate KLAS.

Randy Thomsen, 25, told police his son Alexander fell off the couch May 27, causing head injuries. According to KLAS, when the mother, Mayra Meza-Irra, took the child for medical care almost a week later, doctors determined the boy had sustained a fractured skull and broken ribs — severe injuries for a fall. Medical specialists concluded that the child suffered from four rib fractures, and possibly a fifth, inconsistent with Alexander falling off the couch.

OWEN SOUND, Ont. — A 68-year-old Grey-Bruce man who forced his young stepchildren to live in a “dungeon” beneath the carport floor for about three years and sexually and physically abused them was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

The shocking details of the man’s crimes between May 2004 and June 2007 were contained in a Superior Court of Justice decision released Monday, following a jury trial last winter.

Two more men filed lawsuits today against the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, alleging a former Hastings priest sexually abused them when they were in grade school, their attorney said.

One boy told his Guardian Angels school principal in Hastings that the Rev. Thomas Stitts was abusing him, said Patrick Noaker of Jeff Anderson and Associates. He was about 10 at the time. It was about 1967.

TROUBLED pop star BRITNEY SPEARS faces a probe into allegations that she abused her two young sons.

Social workers will quiz her over claims she beat one with a belt and gave both food they were allergic to – making them violently ill.

19-year-old John McGurl has pleaded guilty to sexual abuse involving children that lived just down the street from him.

Police say McGurl abused several children in the Parkway Village Neighborhood near Germantown last summer.

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WARNING – Disturbing content. Testimony in the preliminary hearing of Brandon Hayes, charged in the murder of child.

Editor’s note: The following article contains graphic descriptions of violence and abuse that many readers are likely to find disturbing. Reader discretion is advised. An 8-year-old boy testified Monday that his mother’s boyfriend abused him and his 4-year-old brother almost since the day they moved in with the former Tyrone Township man.

Most detectives get into the industry to solve burglaries, homicides and other major crimes, but recently, Benson Police Detective Brian Williams’ caseload has been filled with sexual assault crimes against children.

Some of these crimes involve a parent or grandparent having sex with their daughters and granddaughters. Others are even more alarming, as social networking and texting allows predators to find young victims and manipulate them into having sex.

A Florida teacher convicted of having sex with two of her students, was called a sexual predator today by a judge who sentenced her to 10 years in prison.
Stephanie Ragusa, wearing an orange jumpsuit, cried at one point during her sentencing hearing, but nodded her head in approval as Circuit Judge Chet Tharpe also imposed five years of sexual offender probation on the 31-year-old defendant.