A teacher who put a “shocking” child sex abuse video on a memory stick was caught after it was found by his pupils at a £1,200-a-term private school.

Robin Taylor, 41, of Swansea, had images ranging up to the most serious “level five” stored on the device.

BERLIN — A German bishop accused of beating children decades ago when he was a priest has offered his resignation to Pope Benedict XVI, the diocese in Augsburg said Thursday.

The accused man, Bishop Walter Mixa, was one of the church’s most prominent and outspoken conservatives in Germany, and he aggressively defended himself for weeks against charges of physically abusing children in a Bavarian orphanage.

I didn’t hear who made the statement but a newscaster on TV reported this was the strongest language used to date in regards to the child sex abuse scandal plaguing the Catholic Church. Now there’s a good idea.

Child abuse is not a new phenomenon. The practice of exploiting children for the benefit of adults, in a wide variety of forms, has been going on forever. In all of history, all over the world, children have been used for work, for testing and experimentation, for sex, for profit, for recreation, as currency, for just about anything you can think of and then some.

CHICAGO– Neighbors are in shock after a shooting rampage in Chicago’s Marquette Park neighborhood left a woman and three children dead overnight. Two others were hospitalized. Family and friends held a candlelight vigil Wednesday night in front of the house where the tragedy took place.

WYLIE — As hundreds of people gathered in Wylie to remember a nameless child, a team of investigators and child advocates made a direct appeal to the boy’s family to come forward.

No one knows who the boy’s parents are — or if they are even from North Texas.

Waco, Texas- Here on DD alone , we see way too many sperm donors and not enough fathers. On Tuesday, Jason Allen was at his father’s home when he became upset about having to pay child support for his 3-year old son. Allen suddenly grabbed the child by the throat and started choking him. He then threw the boy down on a sofa and the boy began crying.

HARRISONVILLE, Mo. – A jury on Tuesday convicted a U.S. man of raping his daughter and murdering one of the four children he fathered with her by not seeking medical treatment for the sick boy before he died.

The 47-year-old man, who is not being named by The Associated Press to protect the identity of his daughter, a sexual abuse victim, sat motionless as the verdicts were read. He was found guilty of all the charges against him, including second-degree murder, second-degree rape, two counts of incest and two counts of abandonment of a corpse.

A registered sex offender released from prison last month was arrested Wednesday on child pornography offenses. New Castle County police charged Gary L. Devito, 34, of the first block of Castle Run Drive in Bear, with 10 counts of dealing in child pornography.

D’IBERVILLE — Police officials said a man charged with felony child abuse told detectives he used a “baby belt” to punish his 2-year-old child.

The girl was treated at a hospital Tuesday night after an apparent beating, said D’Iberville Police Capt. Keith Davis. Police took William Curtis Jones III, 28, into custody at his apartment on Mallett Road.

PHOENIX – A man and a woman are arrested and face child abuse charges involving their infant.

Latovia Jones, 18, and Zachary Michael Wilson, 21, were both arrested for alleged child abuse involving their 4-month old baby girl.

A pair of 17-year-olds from Lincolnton face charges in what investigators say was a child abuse case involving a 2-month-old girl. The infant had a broken leg, deputies say.

The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office said it has charged Samantha Michelle Goodnight, 17, and Kevin Aeljandro Rodriquez in the case. Each has a listed address of English Oak Road in Lincolnton, the sheriff’s office said.

A 14-month old baby is dead tonight after police say the infant was severely injured from child abuse. No one has been arrested in the case but police do say that they don’t believe the suspect was a stranger to the child.

Deryun Wilson suffered head trauma and significant brain damage and that’s what police say killed the infant.

PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) – Grade-school visitors touring the Multnomah County Circuit Court were quickly shooed out of Judge John Wittmayer’s courtroom after chaperones realized their charges were listening to testimony in the $25 million punitive damages phase of a sex abuse trial against the Boy Scouts of America. Witnesses on Wednesday defended the Scouts’ efforts to train adult leaders to recognize and prevent child sex abuse, and why they did not use their extensive collection of records of abuse to warn parents.

The child abuse scandal that has engulfed the Vatican intensified on Thursday after two more bishops offered to resign and the leaders of 5m Catholics in England and Wales issued the strongest admission of guilt yet to emerge from the church.