Counter Pedophilia Investigate Unit

The total lifetime estimated financial costs associated with just one year of confirmed cases of child maltreatment (physical abuse, sexual abuse, psychological abuse and neglect) is approximately $124 billion.

Atlanta, GA – infoZine – The report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, published in Child Abuse and Neglect, The International Journal, looked at confirmed child maltreatment cases, 1,740 fatal and 579,000 non–fatal, for a 12–month period. (more…)

Mark Berndt appeared in court today on charges that he committed lewd acts on 23 boys and girls, ages 6 to 10, between 2008 and 2010. The Miramonte third grade school teacher was arrested Monday at his home in Torrance and is being held on $23 million bail.

His alleged crimes include gagging students aged 7 to 10 with tape, putting 3-inch long Madagascar cockroaches on their faces and in their mouths and forcing them to taste semen. (more…)

It would allow people to challenge their inclusion on the state list after as few as five years.

A bill reforming due-process rights for people placed on Iowa’s child abuse registry advanced out of a House subcommittee on Thursday.

But changes are still on the table for the legislation, which has taken shape through an unusually cooperative process on what had been a sharply contentious issue. (more…)

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek disability groups expressed anger Monday at a government decision to expand a list of state-recognized disability categories to include pedophiles, exhibitionists and kleptomaniacs.

The National Confederation of Disabled People called the action “incomprehensible,” and said pedophiles are now awarded a higher government disability pay than some people who have received organ transplants. (more…)

A Maori health researcher says reducing Maori child abuse will require tackling poverty and racial discrimination.

Dr Fiona Cram, in a report published today by the Families Commission, says family poverty is “the major contributing risk factor for children” – and Maori children are twice as likely as European children to live in poverty.

Families Commission chairman Carl Davidson said Dr Cram had “a particular perspective on Maori children in care” which the commission did not necessarily share. (more…)

The trend runs contrary to figures in Southwest Florida and throughout the state.

After mopping the floors one morning just over a year ago, a Hendry County mother of five left the bucket of water in the garage, out of reach of her 1-year-old daughter. When the older children came home from school, she asked her 8-year-old to watch the baby as she cleaned.

Maybe 10 minutes later, she checked in. The toddler was gone and the garage door was open.

She peered in the garage and saw her daughter’s feet sticking out of the bucket. (more…)

The government of Greece is catching flack over its decision to add some questionable categories to its list of recognized disabilities.

As reported by the Associated Press, disability groups in the country were especially outraged over the government’s decision to add pedophiles to its list of those the state recognizes as disabled individuals.

Among the other “disabled” categories added to the list were exhibitionists, kleptomaniacs, pyromaniacs, compulsive gamblers, fetishists, and sadomasochists. (more…)

INDIGENOUS children are being neglected and their rights abused because the nation and Aboriginal advocates are obsessed with having a “rights” debate that does not have kids at the centre, according to a prominent Aboriginal leader.

Outraged by the dehydration death of an eight-year-old Aboriginal girl in a West Australian desert on Tuesday, Hannah McGlade, West Australian Aboriginal Family Law Services chief executive, told The Australian we were spending too much time as a nation debating rights and constitutional change instead of Aboriginal children’s safety. (more…)

Director of National Council for the Child presents President Shimon Peres with almanac on living conditions of Israel’s

“We don’t invest enough in the prevention or treatment of child abuse,” Dr. Yitzchak Kadman, Executive Director of the National Council for the Child told President Shimon Peres on Wednesday.

Kadman was at the President’s residence to present Peres with the first copy of the 2011 edition of the almanac on ‘Children in Israel’ which had been published for the twentieth consecutive year. (more…)

A mother punched her nine-year-old daughter so hard that the woman broke bones in her hand.

The punch was one of many incidents heard in the Auckland District Court today as Judge Brooke Gibson sentenced the 31-year-old mother to seven and-a-half years in prison with a minimum non-parole period of five years.

“It was sustained abuse, amounting to torture,” Judge Gibson said. The woman, who has name suppression to protect the identity of her children, had previously pleaded guilty to 25 charges. One of them was for assaulting the girl’s eight year-old brother. (more…)