Mother webcast sex acts with toddler

(CBC) A judge in Windsor, Ont., is deciding how to sentence a woman who repeatedly sexually assaulted her two-year-old son while live-streaming the acts on the internet.

... Justice DeMarco heard how in those clips the mother is seen trying to force the toddler to perform sexual acts both on himself and her. In some of the images, the woman involves her pet pit bull terrier in the acts. In others, the little boy is heard using sexually explicit language with his mother. Police also found graphic photographs and video on the woman's cellphone.

Moms with big broods less likely to commit suicide

(Canwest) The more children a mother has, the less likely she is to take her own life, according to a new study that appears to confirm what sociologist Emile Durkheim postulated more than a century ago.

The Taiwanese study published yesterday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal looked at more than 1.2 million women over 20 years.

It found a 39-per-cent decrease in suicide mortality among those with two children and a 60-per-cent decrease among women with three or more compared to those with just one child.

French man arrested in Thunder Bay for trying to buy a child

(National Post) THUNDER BAY, Ont. -- A French citizen faces possible deportation after being arrested in Thunder Bay on U.S. charges that include trying to buy a child online.

Patrick Molesti, 56, was arrested Friday, said Chris Adams, of the Thunder Bay Police.

Dead babies wash up on Chinese beach

(Telegraph) Two mortuary workers were detained and two senior hospital staff were sacked in eastern China after the bodies of at least 21 infants and foetuses were found in a river.

Authorities were quoted by Beijing News saying the corpses could have been those of aborted foetuses or babies who had died of illness. They were found on the outskirts of the city of Jining.

Lawsuit claims Boy Scouts coverup of sex abuse

The Boy Scouts of America has long kept an extensive archive of secret documents that chronicle the sexual abuse of young boys by Scout leaders over the years.

The "perversion files," a nickname the Boy Scouts are said to have used for the documents, have rarely been seen by the public, but that could change in the coming weeks in a Portland, Ore., courtroom.

The attorney for a man who was allegedly molested in the 1980s by a Scout leader has obtained about 1,000 Boy Scouts sex files and is expected to release some of them at a trial that began Wednesday. The lawyer says the files show the organization has covered up abuse for decades.

Son Files Harassment Charges Against Mother for Facebook Posts

(KATV) Denise New's 16 year old son filed charges against her last month and requested a no contact order after he claims she posted slanderous entries about him on the social networking site. New says she was just trying to monitor what he was posting.

... (Denise New, Arkadelphia) "I read things on his Facebook about how he had gone to Hot Springs one night and was driving 95 m.p.h. home because he was upset with a girl and it was his friend that called me and told me about all this that prompted me to even actually start really going through his Facebook to see what was going on."

Yemen child bride 'bleeds to death'

(BBC) A 13-year-old Yemeni girl has died of internal bleeding three days after being married, rights groups say.

The girl, said to have been married to a man in his 20s, died in the west of the country last week, the Arab Sisters Forum (Saf) rights group said.

A medical report by the hospital where she was treated said she had suffered a tear to her genitals and severe bleeding after intercourse, the group said.

Retailer pulls girls’ padded bikini bra

LONDON - A major British clothing retailer withdrew a children's bathing suit from sale Wednesday after a front-page tabloid story criticized the store for selling padded bras on bikinis aimed at 7-year-olds.

 

The bikinis also angered children's advocates and top candidates in Britain's upcoming national election, who say it was yet another product that sexualizes children and encourages them to grow up too fast...

 

The retailer acted within hours of a front-page article in The Sun denouncing the product as a "paedo (pedophile) bikini." Politicians swiftly joined the clamor.

Police: Man tortured 4-year-old to death for wetting his pants

(CNN) -- A Michigan man could face life in prison after he allegedly tortured and ultimately killed his girlfriend's 4-year-old son last week for wetting his pants, prosecutors say.

Brandon Joshua-Frederick Hayes, 24, "systematically beat" Dominick Calhoun, 4, "pummeling [him] with fists and kicking him" on his arms, legs and genitalia, Genesee County prosecutor David Leyton told CNN.

U.S. man charged with tossing baby onto highway

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a California man pulled his infant daughter out of his car and threw her more than 20 feet into the lanes of highway.

... Prosecutors say 23-year-old Erik Johnston was driving his car when he became angry, pulled over, grabbed his daughter by the arm and threw her. He faces charges of domestic battery, child endangerment and false imprisonment.

Game in secondary school gets five pregnant

(Polskie Radio) Five young teenagers got pregnant after playing games with their school mates from a lower secondary school in the town of Ostroda, northern Poland.

Students, aged 14-15, played a game called “the sun” or “a star”. “Girls lay on the floor in a circle with their heads together and eyes closed and boys copulate with them, taking turns. The winner was the boy who managed to finish the intercourse last,” one of the students revealed.

Boy, 8, used BBQ fork to kill dog: SPCA

(CBC) An eight-year-old boy in central Newfoundland has admitted to using a barbecue fork to beat a neighbour's dog to death, in an incident that the SPCA said is exceptionally disturbing.

The boy, a resident of Stoneville, admitted to killing the dog after his neighbours found their pet Pomeranian dead on the morning of June 4.

... Pet owner Norman Hodder said he went to speak with the boy's father.

"I must say, he was reasonable," he told CBC News. "He said he felt bad over it ... but he said he couldn't do anything with him."

 

Abusive mother of 8 jailed for 4 years

(CBC) A Montreal mother of eight has been sentenced to four years in prison for assaulting five of her children.

In the 44-year-old woman's case, court was told the beatings began after each of her children, who are from seven different fathers, turned five.

The 44-year-old used wet rags to hit the younger ones and sawed off hockey sticks against the older ones.

Police: Calif couple tried to sell baby at Walmart

SALINAS, Calif. – A California couple faces child endangerment charges after police say they tried to sell their 6-month-old baby for $25 outside a Walmart store.

 

Salinas police spokesman, Officer Lalo Villegas, said Thursday that Patrick Fousek, 38, and Samantha Tomasini, 20, were arrested early Wednesday, hours after Fousek allegedly approached two women outside Walmart and asked if they'd like to purchase his child.

 

The women initially thought Fousek was joking, but when he became persistent, they became suspicious and reported it to police, Villegas said.