Counter Pedophilia Investigate Unit

Children have a right to be safe and live free from abuse and neglect. When a concern of abuse or neglect is determined, families are supported through activities that promote positive child development and assure safety of the children.

Children are entitled to enduring nurturing relationships that provide a sense of family, stability and belonging.

Children’s Division is involved with many families for a variety of reasons. (more…)

Figures released by the NSPCC suggest that people are waiting over a month to report concerns over suspected child abuse.

Out of a record number of 45,000 calls in 2011 to the NSPCC over half, 56%, had waited more than a month and more than one in four, 27% had waited six months.

The “Helpline highlight: a year in review,” report also found that contacts to the NSPCC had increased by 29% on the previous year, with a doubling of calls about abuse over the past five years. (more…)

Institute teaches families, picks up Nevada work for national organization

UNLV’s Nevada Institute for Children’s Research and Policy (NICRP) is working to gain national accreditation for its chapter of Prevent Child Abuse America (PCA).

PCA is a national organization that helps prevent child abuse nationwide. The organization has chapters in 47 states.

UNLV PCA is in the process of forming an official chapter in Nevada. (more…)

OSAGE COUNTY, Okla. — An Osage County couple is facing a number of child abuse charges.

Aubrey Stuart Thomas, 58, and Laura Thomas, 47, were arrested after an investigation found four children in the home were malnourished, forced to eat bread soaked in dish soap and other abuses.

Deputies arrested the couple Friday at a home west of Sperry. (more…)

A Homestead woman was charged with child abuse on her younger sister Wednesday after police say she cut the younger girl’s hands.

Magdalena Matias-Pedro, 23, was arrested Tuesday on child abuse charges on her 9-year-old sister, according to a Homestead Police report.

According to the report, on May 3, 2011, officers responded to a call referencing child abuse from a counselor at Redondo Elementary.

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JACKSON COUNTY, MS (WLOX) – A Jackson County woman who crashed her car into a utility pole so hard it snapped in half is lucky to be alive. And so is the four-year-old she had with her in the front seat.

Jackson County Sheriff’s investigators said the accident happened Friday near the waste water treatment plant on Seaman Road. When deputies arrived, they found the driver, Brandy Foreman, under the influence of narcotics. They said Foreman drove her Ford Probe off the road and struck a utility pole, snapping it from its base. (more…)

Horry County police charged a Conway man in connection with a child abuse investigation launched Thursday.

Police were called after employees at an unnamed county middle school learned from students about a possible child abuse incident, according to a press release. As a result of the investigation, Horry County Police arrested Brentton Matthew Wheeler, 35, of Conway.

He was charged with abuse/to Inflict great bodily injury upon a child. (more…)

-Teenager told court she had sex with taxi driver ‘about 10 times’ before she was 16
-11 men are accused of being part of a child sexual exploitation ring

A member of an alleged child abuse ring told his teenage victims to supply him with even ‘younger girls’, a court heard today.

The witness, who cannot be identified, was giving evidence in the trial of 11 men accused of being part of a sexual exploitation ring operating in and around Rochdale, Greater Manchester, in 2008 and 2009. (more…)

SHELBY — A 2-year-old girl was taken to the hospital with injuries to her head and face last month, and now her mother faces felony child abuse charges, according to Shelby police.

According to a police report, Ashley Diaz-Serpas, 25, of 505 W. Warren St., called 911 on Jan. 23 to report that her 2-year-old daughter had fallen the day before and her head was swelling. (more…)

PHOENIX — Christopher Alan Carlson’s 9-year-old grandson says he and his two brothers were kicked during scorching hikes into the Grand Canyon last summer and that his grandfather also hit him in the face, causing a nose bleed.

The boy’s statements in Carlson’s trial were the first he’s made publicly about the charges against his grandfather, who faces six counts of felony child abuse. (more…)