WATERTOWN, NY – Watertown-based State Police arrested Imann K. Edwards of Evans Mills on child abuse charges today.

The Fort Drum soldier was charged with 3rd-Degree Assault and Endangering the Welfare of a Child. Police allege that sometime between April 17th and May 5th of this year, Edwards assaulted her 13-year-old stepson causing physical injury.

OKEECHOBEE COUNTY, FL – Deputy Sarah Green is a mother and grandmother, so she’ll never forget that moment on April 21st. Green had been sent to do a welfare check on 2-year old Lilly Harden.

Someone opened the door of their trailer on Highway 98 and told Green the little girl and her mother weren’t home.

GENESEE CO. — Police say 4-year-old Dominick Calhoun endured days of torture before his death in April. Now, his family is taking action to save other children from a similar fate.

The child did not die quietly. His mother, 25-year-old Corrine Baker, says she yelled for help as her boyfriend, 24 year old Brandon Hayes, beat her and her child for several days.

A man accused of abusing his infant son admitted to breaking the child’s jaw, arm and a rib in three separate incidents, police say.
Brian James Linsinbigler, 26, of 311 S.E. 8th St., was arrested by Gainesville police on Tuesday afternoon and charged with three counts of aggravated child abuse causing disfigurement to his 5-month-old son.

(Reuters) – A Catholic diocese in eastern Spain said Tuesday one of its monks is suspected of abusing a child and asked for the family’s forgiveness, the first such abuse charge to become public in Spain.

The diocese of Segorbe-Castellon said in a statement the monk was from the Order of “Los Carmelitas Descalzos” and his superiors had taken action against him.

As part of our ongoing investigation into domestic violence, this week, we look at the issue of child abuse.

The term child abuse itself is often a non-descript term as so many issues fall under the term. FindLaw.com reports that child abuse is broadly defined, in many states, as any type of cruelty inflicted upon a child, including mental abuse, physical harm, neglect, and sexual abuse or exploitation. Specific crimes charged in instances of child abuse can include assault and battery.

Over three million reports of child abuse are made every year in the United States; however, those reports can include multiple children. In 2007, (the most recent national numbers available), approximately 5.8 million children were involved in an estimated 3.2 million child abuse reports and allegations.

According to the Bullying Information Center, bullying victims often attempt to mask what’s going on and display symptoms, including depression, anxiety, safety concerns, sadness, aggression, academic issues, low self-esteem, deficits in peer relations and substance abuse. Other possible warning signs include numerous lost belongings, frequent injuries or damage to clothes or property, spends time primarily with younger students, avoids recess before, during and/or after school, arrives to school late or just at the starting bell, appears to be alone most of the time at school, obtains an excessive or insufficient amount of sleep and complains of headaches, stomachaches, etc.

You really can save the life of a child, or protect them from lasting physical and psychological damage, by being able to recognize the signs of abuse and knowing what to do about it. I’ve dedicated my career to protecting children, first as a detective working child abuse cases, and now as the sheriff of Clackamas County.

MORE charges were brought in the investigation into a suspected Merseyside and Manchester paedophile ring.

Bolton man John Hawley, 37, of Boundary Street, Halliwell, was charged with five counts of raping a girl younger than 13 in a joint investigation by Merseyside and Manchester Police.

MISSOULA — A 71-year-old Missoula man accused of having sex with a 4-year-old girl under his supervision has pleaded not guilty to a felony count of rape.

Albert Elmer Gaub was arraigned in District Court on Tuesday and remains at the Missoula County jail on $250,000 bail. If convicted, he faces between four and 100 years in prison.

31-year-old Toby Patrick Cundiff, of New Holland, is locked up in Lancaster County Prison in lieu of $400,000 bail for allegedly raping a 7-year-old child.

According to the East Lampeter Township Police Department, Cundiff was charged with repeatedly raping and sexually assaulting the child between June of 2005 and November of 2009.

OKEECHOBEE – Sheriff’s deputies very candidly told me today that this case has brought them to tears.

Tonight Lilly is fighting for her life at St Mary’s hospital while her mother and a live-in boyfriend are facing serious child abuse charges.

CALVERT – A police officer in Calvert is in the middle of a child abuse investigation spanning two counties.

On Tuesday, Calvert mayor Marcus Greaves met with News Channel 25 to express his shock at hearing the news that his newest officer was wanted in Falls County.

Fresno Police say a mother stabbed her 3 year old son as many as 20 times and threw him down a flight of stairs. It happened around 4pm at the Pleasant Village apartments in west central Fresno.