These are true stories of child abuse.
I got them out of various newspapers all over the world.
My heart breaks for the pain and suffering these children
went thru, I dont understand how anyone could ever hurt a child.
but everyday, babies are being abused, neglected, even murdered.
PLEASE HELP TO SAVE A CHILD TODAY.
MAKE THAT PHONE CALL.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- A sobbing mother pleaded guilty Monday to
murdering her six children, ages 5 to 11, in what her attorney
said was a fit of suicidal
distress.
``I strangled their necks,'' said Khoua Her, a Laotian-born
Hmong woman who spoke through an interpreter as Ramsey
County prosecutor Chris Wilton asked her to describe the Sept. 3 killings.
Each of the six times she was asked whether she
intended to kill her victim, she replied: ``Yes.''Shesaid the children were
outside playing on the evening
of the murders. She called them in one by one and tied a piece of black
cloth around their necks.

Tuesday, WRAL-TV5 reported on 4-year-old CoryMcLauchlin,
whose adopted mother stands accused of beating him to death
with a computer keyboard in their Fayetteville home. Some say people at
Cumberland County Social Services knew Cory was in danger,
but didn't remove him from the house.
Two months before Cory died, Cumberland County Social Services took
his older brother, Michael, out of the house because, they say, his mother
forced him to drink rubbing alcohol.

When Fayetteville Police picked up a teenager wandering the interstate,
they soon realized they had a runaway on their hands. But, detectives say
a closer look revealed what the 17-year-old was running from - a history
of abuse.
"The child was beaten with
a belt, extension cords. He was burned with a hair dryer. It's just a
severe case of child abuse and very brutal."
But neighbors report hearing about one violent incident involving an errand.
"She told him to go to the store, and then she punched him on the porch,"
neighbor Donya Hostler said. "He ran to the store and ran back home."

A man convicted of sexually abusing three

siblings again proclaimed his innocence before he was sentenced to 18 years in prison. A Middlesex County judge yesterday called the testimony against Dana Dennis very compelling. Two of the victims are 7 and 8year-old girls and another is a 14-year-old boy. Dennis agreed earlier to plead ``no'' contest to three charges of aggravated sexual battery. He said he was innocent but that theevidence might be enough to convict him. A forensic psychologist said in court that Dennis has a long-standing interest sexual interest in children. He said there was a 25 percent chance that Dennis would be re-arrested for a sexoffense in five years. The psychologist claimed Dennis isn't a candidate for treatment
because Dennis didn't admit to doing anything wrong.

A 10-month-old boy is listed in serious condition at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center,

where he is suffering from shaken baby syndrome. Cumberland County spokesman Stephen McLamb said the infant has severe brain injury, some internal injury, as well as other injuries. Investigators believe the babysitter, 29-year-old Karen Roberts, inflicted the injuries. She is now facing felony child abuse charges. Roberts is out of jail after posting a $10,000 bond. But investigators say
she faces up to two years in prison IF convicted.

A self-proclaimed Raleigh evangelist

charged with child abuse is in a Florida jail. Police say 36-year-old Howard Hunichen beat a baby so badly he nearly killed him. Hunichen calls himself a "lover of all mankind," but police say the man of God committed a heinous crime against a 7-month-old child."The baby has several fractures, brain injuries and received an injury last Friday that caused cardiac arrest,"
the babies parents, Robert and Lisa Fortner, are in jail,
charged with child abuse.

   Four-year-old Miranda Nicole Lopez had been repeatedly beaten, sexually abused and injected with large amounts of cocaine before she died March 6 of injuries to her head, authorities said.
   But Child Protective Services investigators didn't take action after looking into her family situation shortly before her death
A Nueces County grand jury on Thursday indicted Miranda's stepfather, 18-year-old Richard Vasquez Jr., on a charge of capital murder. He is accused of beating the child about the head and smashing her head against a solid object.
   Nueces County Medical Examiner Dr. Lloyd White said an autopsy of Miranda's body revealed injuries consistent with sexual abuse, and bruising on her body indicated she had been beaten on other occasions before she was killed by the blows to her head.

A soldier and his wife are accused of harnessing their 5-year-old son to a piece of furniture by tying boot laces around his neck while they left their Savannah apartment.

An exterminator found the boy Tuesday during a routine visit to the family's resident at Tabby Villa Apartments on Waters Avenue. Two boot laces had been tied together to form a rope, one end of which was tied around the boy's neck and the other around a nightstand, police said.

Police estimate he had been tied up for several hours.

Two other children also were living with the couple -- a 10-year-old and an infant. The 5-year-old was the biological son of Jason Tellez, but not his wife. All three children are in protective custody, Ramsey said.

A 19-year-old man was charged with fracturing the skull of his 1-month-old son and causing internal bleeding, police said.

Shawn A. Newsom was charged late Tuesday with aggravated battery, child abuse and domestic violence after investigators interviewed him for the third time about the child's injuries.

A mother left her newborn daughter in a crawl space overnight to hide it from her boyfriend, police say.

The next day she took the day-old baby, who had turned blue from the cold and lack of oxygen, to a local hospital and tried to give her away, says police detective Mike Fleaner.

Wooster told Fleaner she delivered the baby at home on the evening of March 4, then wrapped her in towels and put her in the crawl space under the house before her boyfriend came home at 10:30 p.m.

Wooster showed up the following day at Columbia Horizon Medical Center with the baby, Fleaner said. She approached several people saying she wanted to find parents for the child, he said.

''The baby was blue,'' Fleaner said. The child's temperature was dangerously low and she was having trouble breathing.

Wooster is free on $5,000 bond. The baby is doing well in foster care, said Jenny Stephens of the Department of Human Services.

A 70-year-old woman who admitted she smothered eight of her babies decades ago will be spared jail on the condition that she help researchers learn more about why new mothers sometimes kill their newborns. Marie Noe pleaded guilty Monday to killing the children between 1949 and 1968. She was sentenced to 20 years' probation.

A Frostburg, Md., man accused of killing two of his children for $190,000 in life insurance money was found guilty Thursday in the 1987 smothering death of his 5-month-old son. Wilson received $150,000 in life insurance benefits after the baby's death. The death of the two-month-old girl was reclassified in 1998 as probable suffocation by undetermined means. Wilson received $40,000 from life insurance policies he purchased from two different companies within six weeks of her birth.

Wayne County Family Charged in Newborn's Death Deputies say the boy's birth and death apparently happened in a public restroom at Herman Park in Goldsboro. Long is accused of killing the child by cutting off his airway. Eight days later her brother, Glyn Long, and her boyfriend, Chad Sutton,allegedly buried the baby off Rayner Mill Road near Grantham. Investigators found the body in a makeshift grave after an extensive search.

Fayetteville police arrested Jimmy Tyrone Baldwin for the death of an 18-month-old girl left in his care. the girl died from blunt force trauma to the abdomen.

A baby left to die on the side of a Cumberland County road has been laid to rest. Earlier this month, the newborn was found in a ditch along Canady Pond Road. Investigators believe someone threw the baby out of a car window. Autopsy results revealed the child died of trauma, internal injuries and exposure.

A woman and her boyfriend face murder charges in the beating death of the woman's 4-month-old son. Police confirm that Department of Social Services workers had investigated the home recently and had discovered abuse, but returned the child to his mother. Now police have arrested 21-year-old Veronica Cerra Reyes and 23-year-old Juan Daniel Delgado. They have been charged with second-degree murder in the death of Reyes' baby, Rolondo Enrique Reyes. the baby died Tuesday of severe brain damage. couple is also being questioned about possible abuse of the baby's 2-year-old sibling.

A Siler City woman faces charges in court Monday for allegedly killing her 6-month-old daughter. An autopsy showed the baby suffered head trauma and was abused.

Anthony Tyrone Bennett, 27, now faces one count of felony child abuse and one count of murder, in connection with the death of 2-year-old Devon Hunter. An autopsy showed he had several broken bones and brain damage.

Keturah Reece choked her 8-year-old to death last fall. Reece says demons told her to do it.

A seven-week-old girl died early this morning at the UNC Burn Center in Chapel Hill. Investigators say they intend to charge the baby's mother with murder. Johnson claims the baby was burned when she briefly left her in a tub of running water at their Durham home.

A VIRGINIA COUPLE HAS BEEN HIT WITH THE MAXIMUM, 50 YEAR SENTENCE FOR KILLING THEIR 4 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER. ANNIE LEFTWICH WAS SUFFOCATED IN MAY OF LAST YEAR WITH A GAG PLACED IN HER MOUTH. BEFORE SHE DIED, ANNIE WAS ALSO FORCED TO LIE ON A URINE SOAKED MATRESS ON A BROKEN BABY BED. SHE WAS COVERED FROM HEAD TO FOOT WITH BRUISES AND SUFFERED PUNCTURE WOUNDS.

Grandview boy`s parents leave their 10 year old with his aunt and uncle,who banished him to the basement as punishment for bad behavior. the boy was in the basement for about 48 hours with no food, water, or a bed. Police said he had a metal bed pan to use to relieve himself. he had also been abused.

31-year-old Charles L. Hunt IV,is charged with assaulting his wife, Barbara
Hunt, with his hand and foot in the spring of 1994, hitting her in
the face in December 1994, in January 1995 and again in
December 1995; throwing or pushing his 15-month-old son,
Charles, to the ground in December 1994; shaking his 12-month
old son, Victor, and causing his head to hit a hard object causing
serious injury in November 1995 and again in December 1995; and
violently shaking his 1-month-old son Jeremiah and striking his
head against a hard object in December 1995. Finally, he is
charged with attempting to intimidate a witness who was involved
with his children's being removed from his custody and who was
expected to testify against him.

Quentin Magee, 8
The cause of his death in 1995 was ruled to be an overdose
of his seizure medication. Investigations by an
attendance teacher or child welfare official were
never requested, even though Quentin had
been absent for 37 days the the previous schools year and school employees had noticed his
emaciated condition just before his death

Justina Morales, 9
Her year long absence from the school system was discovered
only after her mother's former boyfriend was accused
of killing her in 1995.

Nadine Lockwood, 4
Her mother was charged in 1996 with starving her to death.
Nadine's four older siblings had missed hundreds of school days as well as required
medical exams and immunizations, but their absences were never
reported to the state abusehot line.The attendance teacher
in the community school district where the family lived
admitted that he falsified reports and he was dismissed.

Unidentified student, 7
Milagros Mota and her boyfriend were arrested last year
after bruises and burns were discovered on her daughter,
whose name was withheld by authorities. School employees
had observed signs of abuse at least six times before
the state hotline was finally notified.

Sabrina Green, 9
her sister and her sister's husband were charged last year
with killing Sabrina, whose body was found covered with bruises and burns and was missing
a thumb. She had missed months of school in 1997, but school officials admitted they had
failed to investigate her absence.

THIS IS WHAT CHILDREN ARE SAYING ABOUT BEING ABUSED:
#1 My father was very violent. He used to hold you down,
he used to hit first and ask questions later. He was
violent to all three of us but I was the only one he
used to sexually abuse.

#2 My brother was in a position of authority,
my mother worked and he was responsible for looking
after us. He would bring his friends around to abuse us.

#3 I remember being too scared to go out to the toilet
because it meant going past where Dad was sitting watching
television and I knew that he would follow me out. So I would
either wet the bed or use the wash basin in the bathroom.

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