Counter Pedophilia Investigate Unit

Dauphin County’s Chief Prosecutor of child abuse cases is speaking out about what he thinks Pennsylvania needs to change.

His testimony came before the newly created Task Force on Child Protection. The Governor created the task force following lawmaker’s reactions to soft laws they say were exposed following the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.

Sean McCormack is specifically talking about our state’s reporting laws, and how the penalty needs to match the crime. (more…)

As Bollywood actor Aamir Khan’s TV show ‘Satyamev Jayate’ hit the chord with masses right from the onset, a city-based NGO has claimed to have received 12 fresh cases in related issues in the last three days.

Following the telecast of the second episode of the show on child sex abuse on May 13, the city office of Childline has suddenly received two cases related to sexual abuse and others of children being beaten up by their parents and relatives, NGO director Archana Sahay told PTI today. (more…)

GURGAON: Following the summons of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), top officials of Haryana appeared before the commission on Monday to discuss the issue of alarming rise in the cases of sexual abuse of children in the state.

Sources informed that senior officials who were at the meet included the financial commissioner and principal secretary of women and child development department, the Haryana DGP, and the deputy commissioners as well as senior police officials from Gurgaon, Rohtak and Faridabad. NCPCR chairperson Shantha Sinha and other members were also present in the meeting. (more…)

An investigation has been launched by police and council bosses after a father and son sexually abused two young children placed in the family’s care.

The men were jailed yesterday at Leeds Crown Court after both pleaded guilty to systematically attacking the youngsters.

Now police and social services bosses are trying to establish whether any other children looked after by the family might have fallen prey to the men. (more…)

A 19-year-old man was arrested on child abuse charges after police obtained a video which allegedly showed him beating up two teens in the street.

Baron Ewing and another man, Jaraun Jarvis, from Orange County, are suspected of punching several teens on Kentwood Circle near Forest City Road earlier this month.

The incident was recorded with a cell phone camera and the video was posted to YouTube, investigators said. (more…)

Nasser Sharmain trusted The Al Helal Centre in Amman and admitted his 15-year-old son Ahmad. However, when he made a surprise visit, he was shocked when he saw his son.

“His arm was broken. His finger was broken. His ear, his nose, his chin was all covered with blood,” he says.“…And then I caught him and when I get angry I’m a disaster. And then I covered him and went on top of him and then I kept jumping on him. And then I didn’t feel him breathing anymore and I thought he was dead. After that he went to sleep.” (more…)

Adam Mayes, the man accused of kidnapping and murdering Jo Ann Bain and her daughter Adrienne, and committing suicide when police caught him with Bain’s two other daughters, was investigated for child sex abuse in 2010.

According to records from Madison County Sheriff’s Office in Jackson, Tenn., Adam Mayes was accused of child abuse and possessing child pornography. A family member claimed to have seen Mayes nude as he shaved the legs of a nude 7-year-old girl. (more…)

VATICAN CITY—Cases of clerical child abuse in the ultra-conservative Legionaries of Christ movement dating back decades have been reported to the Vatican, spokesman Federico Lombardi said Friday.

Informed sources said that the Vatican was investigating seven priests from the movement, whose late founder Father Marcial Maciel was accused of having an illegitimate daughter and abusing eight seminarians. (more…)

It is hard to detect and substantiate emotional abuse of female child because of many reasons, including a clear lack of an accepted and consistent definition and least importance of the subject matter in feudal and patriarchal societies.

It is widely recognized that verbal abuse of girl child is much prevalent and occurs in a range of relationships and social settings, all around the world. However, the intensity of such phenomenon is much higher in poor and developing countries, such as Pakistan. (more…)

Sarah Benjamin is an Angelo State University nursing student.

SAN ANGELO, Texas — On Feb. 6, the Houston Chronicle published an article stating that Darrell Prince-Tico Mitchell, 19, had been arrested for alleged child abuse by the Houston police.

Mitchell was accused of immersing his son under a running shower head, growling at him, squeezing the 1-year-old and biting his chest. Fearing for the well-being of the child, Mitchell’s neighbor called the police. (more…)