McAllen, TX – EMT’s responded to Hector Castro’s apartment Saturday evening after receiving a call about a child who had choked on a screw. There was little anyone could do for his toddler stepdaughter – she was dead when emergency personnel arrived. The 2-year-old did have a screw in her throat, but an initial examination of her body revealed the item had absolutely nothing to do with her death – she had been beaten and suffocated.

A bill to force convicted child sex offenders to undergo chemical castration will be put to a vote at the Legislation and Judiciary Committee of the National Assembly today, lawmakers said yesterday.

The legislation’s move came after a recent series of sexual assaults on underage victims, including one in Seoul on Saturday, triggered public fear of child molesters.

A CHILD rapist with a horrific 36-year record has vanished and is posing “significant risk”, police warned yesterday.
William Paden, 56, is wanted for recall to jail after he quit his registered address in Blackpool.

The paedophile has 19 sexual convictions dating back to 1974, including rape, indecently assaulting a girl, assault with intent to rape and inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.

The Senate Democratic Majority passed some of the strongest laws in the country making those responsible for the intentional death of a child punishable to the very fullest extent of the law th life without the opportunity for parole.

(Media-Newswire.com) – The Senate Democratic Majority passed some of the strongest laws in the country making those responsible for the intentional death of a child punishable to the very fullest extent of the law – life without the opportunity for parole.

The Majority’s legislation, the Child Protection Act of 2010 ( S7705/Hassell-Thompson ) establishes the class A-I felony of aggravated murder of a child; under this charge the sentence is life imprisonment without parole. Aggravated murder includes:

A 42-year-old Tega Cay woman has been charged with unlawful conduct toward a child after her stepdaughter accused her of beating her, according to a Tega Cay Police report.

The victim, a 14-year-old girl, told police her stepmother beat her with a belt on the arms, face and neck, according to the report. The girl called police after the alleged incident on June 22. The Fort Mill Times is not reporting the woman’s name to protect the victim’s identity.

The father of a 14-month-old baby in Denver has been jailed as a child-abuse suspect after his son died Friday at Lutheran Medical Center.

Police were called about 1 p.m. after an ambulance arrived at the hospital. The father reported that his son had fallen out of his crib, but by the time the ambulance arrived at the emergency room, the baby’s heart had stopped beating, a hospital spokeswoman said.

A local attorney is facing charges of child abuse and domestic battery following an altercation that took place outside his home Saturday evening.
Law enforcement officials were called to the Silver Springs home of James and Dawn Tarquin, where an eyewitness said an argument between the couple turned violent.

According to the eyewitness, James Tarquin slapped his wife, threw her onto the driveway, and held her down so she could not get up. The 24-year-old eyewitness told deputies he was forced to pull Tarquin off his wife, and restrain him by punching him twice until he left his residence in his vehicle.

A man who has a history of battery arrests has been charged with the murder of a 17-month-old South Side baby boy who died of multiple blunt force trauma early Saturday in the South Shore neighborhood.

The suspect has also been charged with abusing the boy’s 3-year-old brother.

Houston nurse Abigail Young went on trial today on charges she failed to prevent the death of her 4-year-old daughter whose body was battered with 80 bruises, had a severed pancreas and a fractured skull.

There were also indications that the girl had been sexually abused.

Young, 34, faces up to life in prison if convicted on the one count of injury to a child by omission. Jury selection began today in Young’s unusual case.

THE resignation of a church-appointed child abuse commission in Belgium has left the Vatican reeling from widening pedophile scandals.

A war of words broke out between the Vatican and Brussels after the Pope condemned as deplorable the seizure by police of the commission’s files, and the detention of nine bishops for an entire day last week.

Pope Benedict XVI spoke out again yesterday, warning an Austrian cardinal against repeating accusations that a senior Italian cardinal covered up child abuse claims at the highest level.

WASHINGTON — Deaths of infants and toddlers trapped inside hot automobiles have mounted in recent weeks, prompting warnings from the government and safety groups at the start of summer.

A researcher says 18 children have died of hyperthermia since the beginning of this year, eight of them reported since June 13.

BIG SPRINGS, Neb. — A truck driver has been charged with abducting an 8-year-old California girl from a travel center in western Nebraska.

The State Patrol says 45-year-old William J. Buckner, of Clifton Springs, N.Y., was booked into the Garden County jail Thursday on charges of kidnapping, sexual assault and transporting a minor across state lines.

GREENVILLE, Pa. – Michael Rabold, 24, and Royanne Darr, 22, have been charged with the death of their 2-month-old son. On the night of his death, Isaac was having problems breathing. Heeding the advice of his mother, Rabold took Isaac outside where the temperature was in the 30s.

A Cowlitz County judge ruled Thursday that a former Longview man convicted of raping a 13-year-old girl can have contact with his daughter after the state Court of Appeals demanded clarification on the matter earlier this year.

The Washington State Court of Appeals said in January that the Cowlitz County Prosecutor’s office had not established whether Chad Anthony Lehman, who pleaded guilty to second-degree rape of a child in 2003, poses a danger to his daughter, who now is around 11 years old.