FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Police in North Carolina say a man already accused of kidnapping a 5-year-old girl also raped and asphyxiated her.Authorities said Thursday night that first-degree murder and child rape charges are being filed against Mario McNeill, the man accused of taking Shaniya Davis from her Fayetteville home. Her body was found Monday after a search that lasted nearly a week. A search warrant says McNeill picked the girl up in front of the home and drove her to a hotel where she ... Read Full Story

WEST PALM BEACH, FL -- The top lawyers for Casey Anthony are pointing the finger at the man, they say, killed 2-year-old Caylee Anthony. Casey Anthony is charged with first degree murder in her daughter Caylee's death. Anthony's criminal defense attorneys, Jose Baez and Andrea Lyon, appeared exclusively on NBC's TODAY SHOW Friday to point the finger at Roy Kronk, the Orange County meter reader who called authorities a number of times over several months in 2008 to report a lead i... Read Full Story

The Operation Santa Programme will still operate but the generically-addressed letters to Santa at the North Pole will no longer be forwarded to the Alaskan town   Since the Operation Santa programme started in 1954, the service has been forwarding up to 150,000 letters addressed to "Santa Claus, North Pole" to volunteers in the small Alaskan town of North Pole every year. Replies come signed by a Santa elf and bear the all-important North Pole postmark. However, ... Read Full Story

MORE than 200 paedophiles who were grooming children for sex on the internet have been netted by cops after the biggest investigation of its kind in Scotland. The beasts used sites such as Bebo, Facebook and MSN to snare 150 kids, some as young as eight. And Central Scotland Police last night said the alarming results of Operation Defender should act as a wake-up call to parents across the country. Detective Chief Inspector Gordon Dawson warned: "The ultimate aim of these people is to meet... Read Full Story

The Supreme Court called for further hearings, the mother and an uncle of Joana Cipriano, who served 16 years in prison for co-authorship of the death and concealment of the child, disappeared the evening of September 12, 2004 in the village of Figueira (Faro), where the family lived. In a statement issued yesterday, the lawyer Marcos Aragão Correia, a defender of Leonor Cipriano, mother of Joan (then eight years), states that "the 5th Section of the Supreme Court initiated investigations of... Read Full Story

The woman from Bootle in Merseyside was last night charged with sexual offences involving a child and is due to appear in court tomorrow. She is the fourth woman to face charges in relation to the paedophile ring involving George, a 39-year-old mother-of-two who last month admitted a string of sexual crimes against children in her care. She used he mobile phone to take more than 150 obscene photographs of infants at Little Ted’s Day Nursery in Plymouth, and shared the imag... Read Full Story

 Almost 150 children and young people went missing without trace from local authority care homes last year, according to returns from local councils. Most were juvenile asylum seekers who had arrived in the UK alone.The pattern of disappearances suggests they were victims of trafficking operations and were eventually forced into marriage, domestic servitude or sexual exploitation in Britain, the Care Leavers' Association (CLA) warned. The organisation, which submitted freedom of inform... Read Full Story

The force monitored sites like Facebook during the operation More than 200 online predators and 150 child victims have been identified as part of an operation to uncover paedophile activity on the internet. Central Scotland Police said it had collected 2,000 e-mail addresses and 4,000 chat logs from sites like MSN, Facebook and Bebo during the operation. The operation led to arrests of men who targeted children as young as eight. The force said the numbers represented the tip of the ice... Read Full Story

For a little Angel This article is written in memory of little Shaniya Davis, the 5 year old little girl / angel from Fayetteville, N.C. whose life was tragically and horrifically taken by real life monsters who police investigators believe were sold little Shaniya by her mother for the purpose of being a sex slave, leaving her father, her family, friends and a united community to ask, “why?”. Shaniya’s mother, Ms. Antoinette Nicole Davis, was arrested on Saturday for the charges of human... Read Full Story

New poster unveiled to boost search NEW billboards have been erected to aid the on going search for missing Irish teenager Amy Fitzpatrick.  Funded by a family friend, an Irish businessman, the billboards – written in both Spanish and English – have been put up around Mijas Costa. Fitzpatrick, then aged 15, disappeared close to her home in the Riviera del Sol urbanisation more than 22 months ago on January 1 2008. Anyone with information should call 617561319.Fresh campaign to... Read Full Story