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A new study is now linking physical punishment with mental health disorders.  Canadian researchers found that when a child received physical punishment such as slapping, pushing, and hitting, even without neglect or abuse they were likely to experience mood disorders, anxiety, substance abuse, and personality disorders. Many parents argue that they were spanked and came […]

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Click here to hear the TJMS on the James Fortune case. — According to the "Houston Chronicle," gospel singer James Fortune is being sued for physical child abuse of his then 4-year-old stepson. According to a civil lawsuit, Fortune is being sued for $5 million after burning 50% of his stepson's body and leaving him […]

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Two little girls in a Kansas City apartment complex had perfectly braided hair, neighbors said Sunday, and were clean, happy and, if anything, "spoiled." But the girls, ages 2 and 8, had a secret: a 10-year-old sister who weighed just 32 pounds when she was freed Friday from a locked […]

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Attorneys for a Roman Catholic church official convicted of child endangerment are asking a judge to release him on house arrest. Monsignor William Lynn was found guilty of child endangerment Friday, making him the first U.S. church official branded a felon for covering up abuse claims. His lawyers filed a motion Monday […]

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A severely malnourished 10-year-old Kansas City girl who was found locked in a closet remained hospitalized Monday and likely faces an extended recovery after an initial "failure to thrive" diagnosis, experts said. Police found the 32-pound girl Friday after responding to a call from a child abuse hotline. She was […]

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BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — As jurors deliberated for more than eight hours on charges Jerry Sandusky sexually abused 10 boys over a 15-year period, new accusations of abuse were leveled against the former Penn State assistant coach by a pair of new accusers, including his adopted son. Just a few hours into deliberations, Matt Sandusky […]

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BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — The judge overseeing Jerry Sandusky's child sex abuse trial has thrown out three of the 51 charges in the case, leaving the former Penn State assistant football coach facing 48 counts. Judge John Cleland has dismissed two counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse related to the alleged sexual abuse of an […]

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BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — Jerry Sandusky's lawyers finished putting on their case Wednesday without calling the former Penn State assistant football coach to the stand to rebut child sex abuse allegations that could put him in prison for the rest of his life. The sudden end to the defense's presentation came on the seventh day […]

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BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — A man testified Thursday that Jerry Sandusky called himself the "tickle monster" and embraced the then-11-year-old boy in a Penn State shower in 1998, an encounter that prompted an investigation but ultimately ended without any charges being filed. The then-district attorney's decision not to bring charges against the Penn State assistant […]

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BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — A day after hearing graphic details of alleged sexual encounters between former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky and a then-teenage boy, the jury in his high-profile child sex-abuse case is expected to hear from another accuser. Testimony was resuming Tuesday morning, and the accuser identified in a scathing grand […]

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BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — Despite his repeated efforts to delay it, Jerry Sandusky's child molestation trial was set to begin with the start of jury selection, as prosecutors and his defense lawyers choose 12 people from the area around Penn State to decide his guilt or innocence. Sandusky's lawyer said the 68-year-old, who gained fame […]

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A Florida mom was arrested on child abuse charges for choking her daughter’s online bully. Debbie Piscitella said the boy’s comments on Facebook about her daughter went too far. “The boy tells my daughter that she is a fat f*****g whale and didn’t deserve to live because she is so nasty that he wouldn’t even […]