MESA, AZ – A Mesa man has been arrested for allegedly beating his 4-year-old daughter in what police are calling one of the worst abuse cases they’ve ever seen.

George Kuykendall, 31, has been charged with 3 counts of child abuse in the beatings that happened over the weekend, according to police.

?Flint — The 24-year-old man accused of torturing and beating 4-year-old Dominick Calhoun to death was found competent to stand trial.

? Brandon Hayes, formerly of Argentine Township was in 67th District Court in Flint Tuesday morning for a competency hearing. Hayes is facing life in prison since he has been charged with nine felony counts, including torture, child abuse, murder and drug charges. He remains lodged in the Genesee County Jail.

?Hayes is accused of beating Dominick over several days, beginning on Thursday, April 8, through Sunday, April 11. Investigators on the case said Hayes allegedly beat the boy, as discipline, after he wet his pants while sitting on the living room sofa.

A day care owner accused of child abuse and involuntary manslaughter after a 16-month-old boy died from heat exposure last March pleaded guilty and will serve up to 20 months in prison.

Judy Alvis Harper, 60, entered the guilty plea with no plea arrangement Tuesday in Alamance County Superior Court. Judge Paul Gessner ordered her to a jail sentence of 16 to 20 months and two years of supervised probation.

Telling kids about sexual abuse: how young is too young?

I think that talking to our children about sexual abuse is one of the most unpleasant aspects of parenting. We don’t want to scare them, yet we must prepare them. We want to protect them from the horrors of molestation, yet even contemplating bringing up the subject can make us feel as if we’re stripping away the purity of their innocence.

Justin Barnes, 25, and Sara Turner, 26, of Clarksburg, are each facing four counts of child neglect resulting in injury and four counts of child abuse resulting in injury.

Information from the West Virginia Division of Health and Human resources say their 3-year-old daughter was found to have extensive bruises on her shoulder and legs and a broken wrist; their 2-year-old son had a broken leg, a head injury, hand and fingernail marks around and face injuries, and the 1-month-old girl had two broken ribs, which officials say are from two separate occasions.

SARASOTA COUNTY – The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office has arrested 24-year-old Tiffany Patrzykont of Nokomis and charged her with Child Abuse for Medical Neglect with Great Bodily Harm.

Detectives say Patrzykont failed to give medical staff accurate information to treat her 13-week-old son when she took him to Venice Regional Medical Center on May 16 and again on May 17. When the infant was finally transferred to All Children’s Hospital, doctors determined the infant had been deprived of oxygen and had been smothered.

LEXINGTON, N.C. – Two Lexington men have been charged with child abuse for an alleged incident involving a stun gun and two children.

According to police, Brent Rosard Kipp, 22, and Austin Cody Goodwin, 24, used a stun gun to intimidate two children who were with their mother when she visited the men’s Raeford Ave. home May 30.

Allegan County saw a spike in child abuse and neglect cases in 2009—an increase that is linked to the county’s increasing methamphetamine production.

Court administrator Michael Day presented the findings to Allegan County commissioners Thursday, May 20.

Day said the number of child abuse and neglect cases rose from 94 cases in 2008 to 179 cases in 2009, and that there was an approximately 300-percent increase since 2005.

The Search for Seven-year-old Kyron Horman continues this afternoon with a large compliment of Local, State, and Federal law enforcement officials along with search and rescue crews from all over the region.

At 12:00 p.m. Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office Captain Jason Gates gave a press conference where he talked about the ongoing investigation. In that conference Captain Gates appealed to the public to “keep the tips coming in”. He said, since Friday, there have been over 1,200 tips that investigators have received and are in the process of following up.

LEVEL 3 CHILD SEX OFFENDER ALERT: SPOKANE, Wash. – The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office is warning the public about a level 3 sex offender. He’s identified as 54-year-old Edwin Lloyd, a transient living in Spokane.A child rapist considered likely to reoffend is living as a transient in Spokane County, the sheriff’s office announce today.

Edwin L. Kedish, 54, served 80 months in prison after being convicted of third-degree rape of a child and first-degree child molestation in Pend Oreille County in 1996.

Delaware State Police troopers have arrested a Felton man in connection with a sexual assault.

The incident took place at 6:30 p.m. June 5 on Slaughter Neck Road, east of Herring Branch Road, Lincoln, said spokesman Sgt. Walter Newton. The victim said she was walking along the road when a man drove by in a pickup, got out, displayed a knife, and forced her into the truck. The man then drove to a remote location and sexually assaulted her, Newton said.

Danial Rinehart received life in prison plus 22 years today in Cass County Circuit Court on convictions of incest, felony murder, statutory rape and abandonment of a corpse.

A jury found him guilty April 20 in a trial that included his daughter’s testimony that he carried on an incestuous relationship with her that began when she was 5 years old and produced four babies.

Only one, a 4-year-old boy, survives.

LEXINGTON, NC–A 38-year-old man was charged with statutory rape after deputies investigated a report from a 17-year-old girl who said she had a sexual relationship with him in 2007.Jessie Lee Wall is facing four counts of statutory rape, four counts of statutory sex offense, two counts of taking indecent liberties with a child and committing a crime against nature in the incident which deputies said happened on Regan Road.

A man whose wife is accused of killing their children in Spain has appeared in court on child sex offences.

Martin Smith is charged with rape, attempted rape, gross indecency and indecent assault of a child under 16.

The charges are unrelated to those facing Lianne Smith, 43, being held in Barcelona on suspicion of murdering Rebecca, five, and 11-month-old Daniel.