Ensley Elementary employee arrested on child cruelty charges
ECSO: child beaten, given prescription drugs

Updated: Friday, 21 Dec 2012, 11:27 AM CST
Published : Friday, 21 Dec 2012, 11:05 AM CST

Cory Pippin
PENSACOLA, Fla. (WALA) - The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office arrested a library assistant at Ensley Elementary School on the job for domestic violence charges against a child.

Ensley Elementary School worker faces abuse charges
Woman charged with torturing daughter
9:50 PM, Dec 20, 2012 | Comments

Written by
Erin Kourkounis

A part-time Ensley Elementary School employee was arrested Thursday on child-abuse charges alleging she treated her adoptive daughter like a prisoner and overmedicated her to retain control at their home.

For Immediate Release

Contact:
December 19, 2012 DUSM Gale Manning (662) 816-3013 (English);
DUSM David Dominguez (213) 798-6446 (Spanish);
USMS Command Center 1 (800) 336-0102

U.S. Marshals Searching for Fugitive Couple Wanted for Toddler Death, Child Neglect, Animal Cruelty

Washington – The U.S. Marshals are asking for the public’s help in finding a couple who have been on the run for more than three years after they were charged with manslaughter in New Albany, Miss., in the death of their 2-year-old adopted daughter.

Posted on Monday, 12.17.12

Legal guardian: Lover tied up Rilya, confined her to laundry room

BY DAVID OVALLE
DOVALLE@MIAMIHERALD.COM
For months, an increasingly exasperated Geralyn Graham kept little Rilya Wilson confined in the laundry room of her Kendall home, sometimes for days, the woman’s ex-lover testified Monday.

Monday, Dec. 17, 2012 | Posted: 5:46 p.m. Monday, Dec. 17, 2012
60 years for Troy adoptive father, child rapist

By Mark Gokavi
Staff Writer

MIAMI COUNTY — A Troy father was sentenced Monday to at least 60 years in prison after pleading guilty to six counts of raping his two adopted sons and a third boy he was in the process of adopting.

Missing Fla. foster child's custodian feared worst
By By CURT ANDERSON | Associated Press – 2 hrs 42 mins ago

MIAMI (AP) — The legal custodian of missing foster child Rilya Wilson testified Monday that she suspected the worst when the girl abruptly disappeared in late 2000 but did not contact police or child welfare officials because she was afraid of taking the blame.

Trial set for Ankeny parents accused of locking kids in basement
11:56 PM, Dec 14, 2012

Written by
Regina Zilbermints

A Polk County judge has set a trial date for the Ankeny couple accused of locking their adopted children in the basement.

Paul Drake, 45, and JoAnn Drake, 44, were both charged with two counts of neglect or abandonment of a dependent person, a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison, and two counts of false imprisonment, a misdemeanor.

The trial is set for Feb. 13.

Mistrial denied in missing Fla. foster child case

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MIAMI -- A judge has denied a mistrial in the case of a woman charged with killing missing South Florida foster child Rilya Wilson.

Attorneys for 66-year-old Geralyn Graham took exception Thursday with a prosecutor's question to a detective asking if police checked out whether "little green men" from space may have abducted 4-year-old Rilya. Circuit Judge Marisa Tinkler Mendez called the question inappropriate but denied the mistrial motion.

Testimony then resumed.

State trooper accused of failing to report father's alleged child abuse
Published: December 12, 2012 Updated 50 minutes ago

By ADAM LYNN — Staff writer

Pierce County prosecutors have charged a Washington State Patrol trooper with two counts of failing to comply with mandatory reporting laws, alleging he waited more than three weeks to report child-abuse allegations against his father.

Justin Hamrick, 25, has been summoned to Superior Court on Christmas Eve for arraignment.

Prosecutors play 2002 ABC interview with woman in Rilya Wilson case

Geralyn Graham, on Good Morning America one decade ago, insisted the state’s welfare agency took the missing girl.

BY DAVID OVALLE
DOVALLE@MIAMIHERALD.COM
Jurors in the Rilya Wilson trial got to hear directly from accused killer Geralyn Graham on Wednesday - in the form of a May 2002 national television news interview.

BABY GIRL DIES AFTER ABUSE FROM FOSTER DAD JH 12/11/12

POLICE ARRESTED A FORT BRAGG MAN YESTERDAY, FOR ALLEGED PHYSICAL ABUSE OF A 5 MONTH OLD BABY GIRL WHO DIED JUST OVER A WEEK AGO.

38 YEAR OLD WILSON LEE TUBBS III, ALSO KNOWN AS JOSH TUBBS, TOOK THE BABY TO THE HOSPITAL LATE ON DECEMBER 2, TELLING STAFF THAT THE BABY HAD FALLEN FROM A CHANGING TABLE ONTO THE HARD WOOD FLOOR.

THE CHILD WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE OAKLAND CHILDRENS HOSPITAL, WHERE A DOCTOR, A CHILD ABUSE SPECIALIST, TOLD POLICE THAT SHE BELIEVES THE INJURIES WERE NOT FROM A FALL, BUT FROM ABUSE.

Russians say they’ll name their Magnitsky-retaliation law after baby who died in a hot car in Va.
Posted by Will Englund on December 11, 2012 at 9:10 am

Detective: no clues in national hunt for Fla. girl

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BY CURT ANDERSON
AP LEGAL AFFAIRS WRITER

MIAMI -- A nationwide dragnet launched in 2002 for a missing Florida foster child turned up no trace and also nothing to back up her caretaker's claims that a state worker had taken the girl for mental tests months earlier, a police detective testified Tuesday in the caretaker's murder trial.

Magnitsky List Counterpart to Stress Adoption Deaths
11 December 2012 | Issue 5033
By Alec Luhn

A United Russia lawmaker on Tuesday proposed that legislation in response to the U.S. Magnitsky Act be named in honor of a Russian toddler who died in the care of an American adoptive parent.

The bill, which imposes economic and visa sanctions on Americans accused of violating Russians' human rights, is expected to go into force on Jan. 1.

Originally published Tuesday, December 11, 2012 at 6:37 PM

DSHS settles Tacoma foster children's abuse case for $11 million
A lawsuit that had been scheduled to go to trial in federal court early next year has been resolved, with the state agreeing to pay $11 million. The suit was filed against the Department of Social and Health Services by six former foster children who were sexually and physically abused in a Tacoma home.

By Christine Clarridge
Seattle Times staff reporter