LYNN – A Lynn man is behind bars after he was allegedly caught photographing his uncle’s 4-year-old daughter in the nude. Carlos Filiberto Orozco, 28, of 262 South Common St., #1, was charged with rape of a child with force, indecent assault and battery on a child under the age of 14, posing a child for sexual photographs and possession of child pornography. He was arraigned Monday at Lynn District Court by Judge Dominic Paratore and was ordered held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing on Sept. 7.

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Hey you guys? Uh, this is a little awkward but just in case you have any 41-year-old male friends who’ve disappeared in Sweden recently, they might have been arrested on charges of rape, statutory sodomy, attempted sexual exploitation of a child and sexual misconduct – all involving a 14-year-old girl. Just in case you hear any crazy rumors.

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OCEAN PINES — Police charged an Ocean Pines man with child abuse and several sex offenses after an incident this spring involving a four-year-old Salisbury girl. Daniel Alan Kerstetter, 24, was charged with second-degree child abuse, second-degree assault, second-degree sex offense, third-degree sex offense and fourth-degree sex offense after the four-year-old recently told her parents that he had tried to make her perform oral sex.

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LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles County officials aren’t following a state law that requires them to publicly disclose child fatalities resulting from abuse or neglect, according to an independent audit released Monday. The audit by the County Office of Independent Review found violations involving dozens of child fatalities, County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky said.

Germany’s Catholic Church unveiled on Tuesday tougher guidelines on investigating and preventing child sex abuse that it hopes will stop a repeat of the hugely damaging scandals of this year.

“The dreadful findings and experiences of recent months have shown us that the (previous) guidelines of 2002 were imprecise in some areas,” said Stephan Ackermann, bishop of Trier, as he presented the new rules.

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CHICAGO — Police are investigating allegations that a 3-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by a 12-year-old boy on a school bus. The incident, part of which was captured by bus surveillance-cameras, allegedly happened Friday afternoon. The 12-year-old was taken into custody Sunday evening, according to Gurnee police.

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Jacksonville nanny caught on camera swatting, slapping and kicking an 11-month-old boy has been sentenced to eight years in prison. A Duval County judge sentenced 53-year-old Jeannine Marie Campbell on Friday.

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Child sexual abuse has been reported up to 80,000 times a year, but the number of unreported instances is far greater, because the children are afraid to tell anyone what has happened, and the legal procedure for validating an episode is difficult. The problem should be identified, the abuse stopped, and the child should receive professional help. The long-term emotional and psychological damage of sexual abuse can be devastating to the child.

Child sexual abuse can take place within the family, by a parent, step-parent, sibling or other relative; or outside the home, for example, by a friend, neighbor, child care person, teacher, or stranger. When sexual abuse has occurred, a child can develop a variety of distressing feelings, thoughts and behaviors.

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The odds a child will be a victim of neglect in a year are 1 in 136.4—it is the most common type of child abuse, more than four times likelier than the next-most common, physical abuse.

The CDC estimates that in 2008 more than 772,000 children were victims of maltreatment in the US—about one in every 97 children. Seventy-one percent of those victims suffered some form of neglect, whether it was parental absence, malnourishment, lack of supervision, dangerous or inadequate living conditions, insufficient education or emotional support, or any combination thereof—and more.

For some unfortunate children, neglect is the lesser evil. Every year, some children are tallied more than once by the CDC because, in addition to being neglected, many are also actively abused. In 2008, 1 in 601.4 children were victims of physical abuse, 1 in 1,064 of sexual abuse, and 1 in 1,333 of emotional abuse.

Most child maltreatment comes not from strangers or even acquaintances, but from family. In 2008, 80.1% of those maltreating children were their parents, and an additional 6.5% were relatives. In cases of child maltreatment, neglect and abuse alike, fewer than 1 in 4 will be removed from a home by Child Protective Services in a year—in 2008, 1 in 4.78 victims of child maltreatment were removed from their home by CPS.

Plenty of children aren’t so lucky. They can wait to grow up, hope for circumstances to change, ask or pray for help, or run away—as Oprah Winfrey did after a half-decade of sexual abuse.

All maltreated children, rescued or not, are at increased risk for physical and psychological problems, including depression, anxiety, PTSD, self-harm, suicidal tendencies, aggression, and substance abuse.

Or worse. Of the three quarters of a million maltreated children in the US, 1,740 of them, or 1 in every 335.4 , died from it in 2008.

Nearly twice as many people under 20 die from maltreatment than they do from drowning.

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http://www.bookofodds.com/Relationships-Society/Articles/A0873-Child-Abuse

A 19-year-old Dallas mother couldn’t get her infant son to be quiet. So, police say, she bit him all over his body. Danielle Patrice Lewis faces a felony charge of injury to a child. She was being held at the Dallas County Jail in lieu of $15,000 bail Friday.

According to police documents, Lewis took her 5-week-old son to Children’s Medical Center Dallas on Aug. 17 about 9 p.m. The boy was treated there for “human bite wounds to both shoulders, upper back, middle back, left buttocks and left thigh.”