On Wednesday, April 28, 2010, staff members at Margaret Brent Middle School were contacted by parents of a former student concerned that a staff member at MBMS was involved in an inappropriate relationship with their daughter. School staff immediately initiated an investigation and notified the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office of the allegations. The staff member, Mr. Jason Paul Hollinger, was placed on administrative leave on April 28, 2010, by the Superintendent of Schools.

A 5-week-old Monroe girl reportedly is clinging to life after suffering severe injuries that police believe could have resulted from child abuse.

No arrests have been made but a second child living in the family home has been removed and placed in foster care. On Monday, officials with the Monroe County family court began legal proceedings to determine the future welfare of the children.

Pleasant Grove police say Jason Bradley Garner raped the girl 20 times at his girlfriend’s home.

“This took place within about a five-month time period,” said Pleasant Grove police Capt. Michael Smith.

Smith says Garner would wait for his girlfriend to go upstairs or downstairs, and then molest the girl. The teen’s mom didn’t know anything until the girl couldn’t stand it anymore and told her.

Thomas Jefferson Race pleaded guilty to three counts of forcible sodomy in Charlottesville Circuit Court today, but estimates that his victims could number as many as 37 over 18 years.

Race, 34, was arrested March 24, 2009, after his first victim, then a five-year-old boy, told police 20 years later of his babysitter’s brutal assaults.

She was a local girl, Julia Connors, 12, a student at PS 4 and a Confirmation candidate at Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church.

Her slaying was a pathological slaughter. She had been stripped and raped, and her tiny body – 5 feet and 70 pounds – had been treated like a pin cushion, stabbed more than 40 times.

Speaking out for the first time since his arrest, Roman Polanski yesterday said prosecutors only want to serve him “on a platter to the media.”

Polanski, who is under house arrest in his Alpine Swiss chalet (above), condemned the United States’ effort to extradite him over a 33-year-old sex-assault arrest, laying out his case for an online magazine run by one of his staunchest supporters, French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy.

Gary, IN – Last Wednesday, Leon Walker spent the final hours of his short life begging his daddy to untie the electrical cord binding his wrists. He promised to be a good boy if he was just let loose – his fingers were turning blue. The vile piece of fucking shit who dares call himself a father didn’t untie the boy. Instead, when it appeared as if Leon was trying to remove the cords himself, Burns beat the life out of the child with a belt and his fists, breaking the child’s neck in the process. Leon was just 5 – today would have been his 6th birthday.

Why? What could a child possibly do to deserve such a brutal end?

Indiana–Two Cromwell boys, ages 12 & 15, will be tried as adults in the premeditated murder of the older teen’s step father.

Police say 15-year-old Colt Lundy and 12-year-old Paul Gringerich, murdered 49-year-old Phillip Danner last week as a third suspect, 12-year-old Chase Williams stood watch.

The Vatican on Saturday ordered the overhaul of one of the Catholic Church’s largest and most influential organizations following an investigation into decades of sexual abuse by the group’s founder and systematic efforts to cover it up.

Mexican-born Father Marcial Maciel engaged in “very serious and objectively immoral behavior,” the Vatican said — including fathering at least one child and sexually molesting boys and seminarians. The abuse dates to the 1950s and continued into the 1990s.

A controversial bill that would have extended the statute of limitations in child sexual abuse cases was officially withdrawn Friday, ending an emotional debate at the state Capitol for this year.

The measure’s chief proponents couldn’t get enough support in the House of Representatives and the Senate for the second straight year, although they promised that they will try again next year.

Kara Penn said she thought she heard news reports Friday that her 3-week-old son was killed by his father.

Jordan Krichten, now 1, looked healthy and happy the same day as he chewed on a set of car keys in the company of his mother and his grandmother, Julie Vance.

The family’s picture is not that rosy, Penn said.

Police arrested a 28-year-old mother after her child died from alleged child abuse.Police were called to 3004 Southwest 60th Street on April 30 in response to an unresponsive 1-year-old boy.

The Montana U.S. Attorney’s Office has a message to those who sexually assault children on Indian reservations: You will be prosecuted.

Gerhard Curtis Stern, a 33-year-old Ashland resident, was sentenced last fall to 40 years in federal prison for assaulting a child on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. A jury found Stern guilty of aggravated sexual assault for engaging in sex acts with a 4-year-old child over seven months. The FBI investigated after the child told a school nurse Stern had touched her inappropriately.

Child abuse is a difficult topic to talk. Child sexual abuse is even harder to acknowledge.

Often, adults ask me if children lie about being sexually abused. It is not easy to believe that a person could harm a child in such a way. Children do not lie about sexual abuse. Statistics show that children are truthful 99.5 percent of the time. Because children disclose abuse in a variety of different ways, this often can be misunderstood and interpreted that the child is being untruthful.