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  • July 2008

    • Jeffs, Sect Members Face Sex Charges

      newser  |  Houston Chronicle  |  Jul 22, 08 9:27 PM CDT

      Jeffs, Sect Members Face Sex Charges

      Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs and four members of the Texas ranch raided by authorities in April now face charges of sexually abusing girls under the age of 17, the Houston Chronicle reports. One of those indicted also is charged with bigamy, and a sixth person is accused of failure to report child abuse. A Texas grand jury handed down the charges today after two days of considering the state’s evidence. More »

    • Pope Apologizes for 'Evil' Clergy Sex Abuse

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jul 19, 08 6:15 AM CDT

      Pope Apologizes for 'Evil' Clergy Sex Abuse

      Pope Benedict XVI used unusually strong language today in condemning the sexual abuse of children by Australia's Catholic clergy, reports the AP. The pontiff said the clergy's "grave betrayal of trust" had damaged the Catholic church. "I am deeply sorry for the pain and suffering the victims have endured. I assure them as their pastor that I, too, share in their suffering," Benedict said during a mass in Sydney. "Those responsible for these evils must be brought to justice." More »

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      Australia  • Pope Benedict XVI  • child abuse  • sexual abuse  • clergy abuse scandal  • clergy  • Catholic church

    • Dad Caged Daughters While He Worked

      newser  |  Chicago Tribune  |  Jul 4, 08 3:05 AM CDT

      Dad Caged Daughters While He Worked

      An Illinois father has confessed to keeping his two young daughters locked in a cage in his truck while he worked, the Chicago Tribune reports. The trash and scrap-metal collector told police that he kept the girls, ages 2 and 5, locked up because he couldn't find a babysitter—and he didn't want them to run away. He was arrested after a woman heard one of the children sobbing. More »

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      Chicago  • child abuse  • social services  • child neglect  • foster homes

  • June 2008

    • Texas Kids Fed Pills in Forced 'Sex Shows'

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jun 23, 08 7:10 AM CDT

      Texas Kids Fed Pills in Forced 'Sex Shows'

      Four children, the youngest just 5 years old, were fed powerful painkillers they knew as "silly pills" and forced to perform sex shows for crowds in a small Texas town, AP reports. Locals had believed the site of the shows was just a swinger’s club. Six adults have been charged in the case, including a parent of children involved; two were convicted and another will be tried today. All three face life in prison. More »

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      Texas  • crime  • child abuse  • sexual abuse  • sexual assault  • Vicodin

    • Cannibal Family Ate Boy's Flesh

      newser  |  Sun (UK)  |  Jun 20, 08 11:35 AM CDT

      Cannibal Family Ate Boy's Flesh

      A family of Czech cannibals is on trial for hacking off pieces of a 7-year-old boy who survived the ghoulish abuse, the Sun reports. The horror unraveled last year when a neighbor’s baby monitor picked up images of the chained-up boy meant to be seen by the boy's mother. More »

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      torture  • child abuse  • cult  • Czech Republic  • Cannibal

    • Cops: Kids Fled Murray's 'Boozy' Ex

      newser  |  New York Post  |  Jun 10, 08 9:45 AM CDT

      Cops: Kids Fled Murray's 'Boozy' Ex

      Bill Murray's wife, who claims in their divorce that the actor is a violent alcoholic with cheating and sexual compulsions, had the police knocking on her door to investigate neighbors' complaints that she'd gotten “physical” with her children while drinking, the New York Post reports. Two of the couple’s children ran to a neighbor during the bizarre March incident. More »

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      South Carolina  • child abuse  • celebrity divorces  • alcohol abuse  • Bill Murray

  • May 2008

    • Sect Kids Should Go Home, Texas High Court Says

      newser  |  Dallas Morning News  |  May 29, 08 4:28 PM CDT

      Sect Kids Should Go Home, Texas High Court Says

      The Texas Supreme Court agreed today that children from a polygamist sect should be returned to their parents, reports the Dallas Morning News . They could be home within days. The ruling leaves state officials with few legal options, though they could try to retain custody of some of the more than 400 children in select cases. Justices chose not to review a lower-court ruling that said the state had no legal grounds to remove the kids. More »

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      Texas  • polygamy  • child abuse  • FLDS  • sect

    • Jeffs Photos Used to Bolster Custody Case

      newser  |  Salt Lake Tribune  |  May 29, 08 7:41 AM CDT

      Jeffs Photos Used to Bolster Custody Case

      It was an obvious stunt by Texas child services: entering photos of Warren Jeffs kissing two "child brides" in a custody hearing for a newborn. Reeling from an appeals court ruling that they failed to show that 450 children were at risk, officials wanted to hype the "pervasive" abuse at Yearning for Zion. No surprise. The surprise, writes Rebecca Walsh in the Salt Lake Tribune, was that the young parents whose newborn was at issue actually helped the state's case. More »

    • Report Bares Child Abuse by Peacekeepers

      newser  |  BBC  |  May 27, 08 5:07 AM CDT

      Report Bares Child Abuse by Peacekeepers

      A shocking number of children as young as 6 are being sexually abused by peacekeepers and aid workers sent to protect them, a top global charity has found. Children are “suffering sexual exploitation and abuse in silence,” fearful of speaking out, said a representative for Save the Children. An organization survey uncovered cases in Sudan, Haiti and the Ivory Coast—and recommended that an international watchdog be appointed to monitor the situation, the BBC reports. More »

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      United Nations  • child abuse  • sexual abuse  • relief  • peacekeeping force  • Save the Children

    • Germany Seizes 'eBay Baby'

      newser  |  BBC  |  May 24, 08 6:53 PM CDT

      Germany Seizes 'eBay Baby'

      Germany has taken a seven-month-old baby from his parents after they tried to sell him on eBay, the BBC reports. The yet-unnamed child was advertised as “nearly-new” and had a starting price of one euro. “It was only a joke,” the child’s mother said. “I just wanted to see if someone would make an offer.” More »

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      Germany  • eBay  • parenting  • baby  • child abuse  • social services

    • Hard Choice for Polygamy Moms: Your Cult or Your Kids

      newser  |  Dallas Morning News  |  May 15, 08 4:30 AM CDT

      Hard Choice for Polygamy Moms: Your Cult or Your Kids

      Mothers from the Yearning for Zion polygamist compound in Texas may have to distance themselves from their religion—or face not getting their children back, the Dallas Morning News reports. Texas officials have prepared a list of goals the women need to work toward to prove they can provide a home free from the risk of child sexual abuse—and the guidelines may be unworkable under the sect's communal living arrangements. More »

    • Fritzl Family Paints Plea for Normalcy

      newser  |  Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  May 14, 08 11:50 AM CDT

      Fritzl Family Paints Plea for Normalcy

      Josef Fritzl’s family has broken its silence, the Daily Telegraph reports, with a hand-painted sign hung in a window of their Austrian home. The family thanks the public for its support: “We hope that there will be a time when we can return to normal life,” it says, in text surrounded by rainbows and handprints with messages from family members. More »

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      child abuse  • Josef Fritzl  • Austria  • incest  • Amstetten, Austria  • Kerstin Fritzl  • Rosemarie Fritzl

    • Mom, Kids Lived With Corpse of Woman, 90

      newser  |  The Wisconsin State Journal  |  May 10, 08 10:09 AM CDT

      Mom, Kids Lived With Corpse of Woman, 90

      A  woman and her self-proclaimed "bishop" have been arrested after cops found the decomposing corpse of a 90-year-old woman on a toilet in the house she shared with her two kids, the Wisconsin State Journal reports. The woman said the bishop of her tiny religious group told her her God would bring the corpse back to life if she prayed hard enough. More »

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      child abuse  • Wisconsin  • cult  • corpse

    • 'I Am No Monster': Fritzl

      newser  |  Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  May 7, 08 11:37 AM CDT

      'I Am No Monster': Fritzl

      Josef Fritzl complained today about receiving bad press since admitting to keeping an incestuous second family locked in his Austrian cellar, the Telegraph reports. "I am no monster," Fritzl said through his lawyer, calling his treatment “unfair” and calling the media's narrative “entirely one-dimensional” because it neglected the fact that he kept his dungeon family alive for over 20 years. More »

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      child abuse  • Josef Fritzl  • sexual abuse  • Austria  • incest  • Amstetten, Austria  • Kerstin Fritzl  • prosecutors

    • Police Think Dungeon Dad Raped Granddaughter

      newser  |  Daily Mail (UK)  |  May 6, 08 10:42 AM CDT

      Police Think Dungeon Dad Raped Granddaughter

      Josef Fritzl might not have stopped at raping his daughter, Austrian police now say, fearing now that Fritzl raped granddaughter Kerstin, the oldest incest child born in his cellar dungeon, the Daily Mail reports. But police aren't able to question the 19-year-old because she is still in an induced coma, though she is now stable and expected to live. More »

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      rape  • child abuse  • Josef Fritzl  • Austria  • incest  • Elisabeth Fritzl  • Amstetten, Austria  • Kerstin Fritzl

    • Cops Launch Global Hunt for Pedophile

      newser  |  BBC  |  May 6, 08 8:29 AM CDT

      Cops Launch Global Hunt for Pedophile

      Interpol has launched a worldwide appeal for help in tracking down a man suspected of sexually abusing young boys, the BBC reports. Pictures of the man abusing boys 6 to 10 years old in Southeast Asia were found on the hard drive of a convicted pedophile in Norway. Police think the images date from around 2000-01. A similar appeal last year led to the quick arrest of another high-profile suspect. More »

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      child abuse  • sexual abuse  • pedophile  • Interpol

    • Polygamy Hubby Tallies 21 Wives

      newser  |  CNN  |  May 6, 08 6:18 AM CDT

      Polygamy Hubby Tallies 21 Wives

      A husband in the Texas polygamist ranch where children were seized to protect them from suspected child abuse has 36 kids and 21 wives—with the youngest 43 years his junior, reports CNN. The information on the 67-year-old member—whose youngest child is 6 months old—is included on a "bishop's list" of families kept by the sect. The "bishop" is believed to be leader Warren Jeffs, serving time as an accomplice to child rape. More »

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      rape  • polygamy  • child abuse  • Yearning for Zion ranch  • Warren Jeffs  • child rape  • Eldorado

    • Dungeon Daughter Will Probably Die

      newser  |  Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  May 2, 08 9:31 AM CDT

      Dungeon Daughter Will Probably Die

      Kerstin Fritzl, the eldest of Josef Fritzl’s “downstairs family,” has slipped into a coma from which she is unlikely to recover, the Daily Telegraph reports. “She is suffering from multiple organ failure,” said a hospital spokesman. “That means her chances of survival are very low.” Police say they will consider bringing murder charges against Fritzl if the girl dies. More »

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      child abuse  • Josef Fritzl  • Austria  • Amstetten, Austria  • Kerstin Fritzl  • coma  • child neglect

  • April 2008

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