Kings County woman faces felony child abuse - Abc Local Web
26 May 2012, 12:40 am
HANFORD, Calif. (KFSN) -- A South Valley mother accused of abusing her four adopted children for years is now in the Kings County jail. Neighbors along the quiet rural street south of Hanford say they often heard screams coming from the yellow house.

child maltreatment is a public health and moral concern - Examiner
25 May 2012, 3:28 pm
Millions of children around the world are exposed to emotional, physical, sexual and violent behavior.   The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that more than 53,000 children are murdered each year.   children around the globe are ...

child sex trafficking - Atlanta's dirty little secret - Examiner
25 May 2012, 2:45 pm
Do an online search to find information about child prostitution and sex trafficking in Atlanta, and it’s not easy to find anything being reported by the big news outlets. Yet, Atlanta leads the pack in child prostitution and sex trafficking ...

Tide to change Pods lid over child safety concerns - YAHOO!
25 May 2012, 1:41 pm
(Reuters) - After at least one child was hospitalized for swallowing its prettily packaged detergent, Procter & Gamble Co said on Friday it will make Tide Pods more difficult to open. A double latch will be put on the lid of Tide Pods tubs and should be in ...

Compassionate Use of Pluristem's PLX Cells Saves the Life of a child After Bone Marrow Transplantation Failure - Yahoo Finance
25 May 2012, 10:42 am
HAIFA, Israel, May 9, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pluristem Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq:PSTI - News) (TASE:PLTR) today announced that a seven year-old girl suffering from an aplastic bone marrow whose condition was rapidly deteriorating is now ...

Aborted child Born Alive, Left to Die; Obama Was Okay With That - LifeNews.com
24 May 2012, 7:54 pm
In Vietnam, a family is distraught because their child was born alive, covered in blankets by the hospital, and left to die. In a twisted scenario where one bad decision led to even worse results, the parents had been convinced to abort their ...

Senior U.S. priest defends response to child sex abuse complaint - YAHOO!
24 May 2012, 4:41 pm
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A senior church official on Thursday defended his response to a child abuse victim who was told that a predator priest could not be punished because he had sex with women too and therefore was "not a pure pedophile." Under intense ...

FEATURE-child addicts at heart of Indonesia anti-smoking suit - Reuters
24 May 2012, 2:22 am
KARAWANG GIRANG, Indonesia May 24 (Reuters) - Anti-tobacco advocates in Indonesia plan to file a class action lawsuit this month using cases of child addicts in the hope of forcing tougher regulations on a society where one in three people smokes.

Richmond man sentenced on child molestation charges - Palladium-Item
23 May 2012, 6:58 pm
A Richmond man was sentenced Thursday to 34 years in prison after entering a mercy plea earlier this month to charges of child molesting and child exploitation. Joseph L. Ward, 29, of 28 N. 17th St. in Richmond was arrested in March and charged ...