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positive actions are happening to improve the well-being and safety of young people living in Southern California despite the misguided intentions of some of the region's political and law enforcement leaders. Officials announced that they have just finished a crackdown across a multi-county area on suspected child predators and others intent on committing crimes against minors: The effort, dubbed “Operation Spring Cleaning,” was led by the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Regional ICAC Task Force, which is comprised of five counties — Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara, and Ventura. ... The operation took place from...

Two American Women were arrested in California at a Border Patrol traffic checkpoint for smuggling two children from Mexico. Child trafficking is suspected.

For one Colorado father, something felt off with the family investigator working on his case case. He filed a complaint with the state.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Police shut down one of the largest paedophile networks in the world last month in an operation spanning 35 countries, the EU's law enforcement agency Europol said on Wednesday. Europol said 79 suspects had been arrested for sharing and distributing child sexual abuse material on a platform known as Kidflix. Some of those arrested are suspected of having abused children themselves, it said.

When a Kansas child complained to the babysitter of a monster under the bed, she wanted to prove to the child no one was there. But there was. ... Barton County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were sent to a home near Great Bend at about 10:30 p.m. Monday ... “Upon arrival the deputies contacted the victim who stated she was babysitting children at the residence. When putting the children to bed, one child complained there was a ‘monster’ under their bed,” .. “When the victim attempted to show the child there was nothing under the bed, she came face-to-face with a...

Democrats kneeled, eulogized, and cried for a violent criminal who died during an arrest.They refused to stand for Laken Riley.

An Arizona tattoo artist has been slammed after inking a nine-year-old girl who asked for a portrait of Donald Trump on her neck. An artist at the Black Onyx Empire Tattoo shop in Yuma shared on his Instagram that the girl had traveled to Arizona with her parents to get the ink of the president-elect. But the artist, who shared video of the inking process, said he convinced her to do a 'more patriotic tattoo' instead - of a US flag on her arm, as first reported by Arizona's Family. 'Told her in a year if she still wanted the...

Adam Stafford King, the Elburn veterinarian charged with possessing child pornography, has filed a 32-page brief in federal court seeking the overturn of a federal judge’s decision to hold him in pre-trial detention. King, 39, was arrested March 22 at his home in Elburn after an investigation allegedly found that he had sent sexually explicit images and videos of children being sexually abused to a man in New York. A criminal complaint filed in federal court also alleges that King told the same person that he planned to sexually abuse his newborn son when he returned home with him from...

RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif. — A 46-year-old man faces charges of trying to meet a child for sex acts after a “sting” operation organized by youths, California sheriff’s officials reported. Deputies received a tip that a man was meeting with a child for sex acts at Nicolas Road Park in Temecula at 4:25 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. When deputies arrived, they found about 20 juveniles recording the encounter, the sheriff’s office said. The sheriff’s office confirmed in an email to McClatchy News that the youths had organized their own undercover operation....

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed that bird flu was found in a child in California, according to a press release issued Friday. The case is the first reported infection in a child in the U.S., according to the release. It was detected through influenza testing and reported to the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) through influenza surveillance, the release noted. This case marks 55 total cases reported in the U.S. this year, with 29 of them being in California, the release said. The release said that after initial testing, there were low levels of viral...

A six-year-old who had been locked in a laundromat dryer was found crying and shaking by Texas cops after he was placed there by three adults as punishment. Horrified by-standers called police after they watched the boy be locked in the dryer for more than five minutes at Hi Tek Washateria in Houston. It's unclear how everyone involved is related, but three adults and one child had been at the laundromat on Nov. 11 when the boy became upset after losing a bag of potato chips, according to the local constable. To punish him, Haven Duncan, 18, placed the boy...

A mother-of-four was handcuffed in front of her children and hauled off to jail after she allowed her 11-year-old son to walk less than a mile into a small town. Brittany Patterson went to drive her eldest son to a medical appointment on October 30, 11-year-old Soren, was supposed to tag along - but was not around when it was time to leave She had figured he was simply playing in the woods or visiting his grandmother, Patterson told the outlet, noting that her father lives with them and her mother and sisters live just two minutes away. But it...

KAPOLEI (Hawaii News Now) -- The race for the White House is reaching local classrooms and one lesson has some parents raising their eyebrows. The controversy is over a two-page document that was handed out to classrooms at Kapolei Middle School. It broke down where the U.S. presidential candidates — Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican former President Donald Trump — stand on the issues. The state Department of Education confirms the document was put together by a group of teachers at the school who simplified the information in a candidate comparison article in the New York Times. The...

A heroic 13-year-old girl 'made every effort possible' to save a one-year-old boy from a pit bull but tragically was unable prevent his death. Jiryiah Johnson was supposed to be in the care of his babysitter, Heather Rodriguez, 36, when her pit bulls mauled him inside her Converse, Texas home on Monday. Rodriguez had left the child alone with her teenage daughter and the three violent dogs. When the dogs started to attack the baby, the teenager desperately tried to protect him but ended up in a 'tug-of-war for the baby' with one of the dogs, Bexar County Sheriff Javier...

Rosie O’Donnell’s daughter Chelsea Belle O’Donnell was arrested for child neglect and possession of drugs after police reportedly found her 11-month-old son near a meth pipe last month. The 27-year-old was charged on Sept. 17 with four felony counts of maintaining a drug trafficking place, child neglect, possession of methamphetamine and THC, the latter of which is commonly found in cannabis, according to court docs obtained by In Touch Friday. She was reportedly also hit with two misdemeanors: disorderly conduct/domestic abuse and possession of illegally obtained prescription drugs.

Skeletal remains discovered by a deer hunter in Wisconsin last weekend have been positively identified as Elijah Vue, a three-year-old who went missing from his mother’s boyfriend’s home in February. The remains — a skull and multiple bones — were found on private property in Two Rivers by “a person getting his land ready for the hunting season,” Two Rivers Police Chief Ben Meinnert said during a press conference Friday. The land was near the Girl Scout Camp Manitou property, and the body parts were found in a heavily wooded area with thick underbrush, Meinnert said. “This location is just...

An aggressive otter pulled a young child off a dock and dragged them underwater at a marina in Washington, officials said. The attack happened at about 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 12 at the Bremerton Marina, the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife said in a news release. A family was walking down the dock when the animal appeared and pulled the child underwater for a few moments, officials said. The mom reached into the water to rescue her child and was bitten on the arm by the attacking otter, officials said. She was able to get her child to safety,...

Republican pollster Frank Luntz said early Friday that if he was to give advice to former President Trump, he would tell him “to stop behaving like a petulant child.” “If I were advising him, which I am not, I would look him straight in the eye and say, ‘Sir, you need to shut up. You need to stop behaving like a petulant child, and start focusing on what the American people want, in a way that they want to hear it,’” Luntz said on “CNN This Morning” with anchor Kasie Hunt. Republicans have pushed Trump to focus on policy differences...

ALBANY (WBNG) -- Governor Kathy Hochul announced Tuesday that around $350 million is supplemental payments to low and moderate-income families statewide through the Empire State Child Credit program. Hochul’s office said more than 1 million families will receive this financial assistance without any need to apply, as each eligible family will receive a direct payment of up to $330 per child. The Empire State Child Credit is a refundable tax credit for income-qualified New Yorkers with children. Hochul and the State Legislature expanded the Empire State Child Credit to include children under 4 years old which benefits an estimated 600,000...

A military family who lost custody of their autistic son after they refused to transition his gender are suing a major DC hospital. The family said their boy had never shown any desire to become a girl until, at 16, he was hospitalized for self-harming after a bitter breakup with his girlfriend in 2021. Staff at Children's National Hospital informed the family that he wanted to be female and should be referred to using she/her pronouns going forward, the suit claims. His army veteran parents, from Prince George County in Maryland, rejected the suggestion, saying their son was 'impressionable' due...