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This undated photo provided by Chuck and Judy Cox shows them with their grandsons, Charlie, left, and Braden, right. Charlie and Braden were killed along with their father, Josh Powell, on Sunday in what police said was an intentional fire set by Powell. The Coxes are the parents of Powell's wife, Susan, who has been missing since 2009. (AP Photo/Courtesy Chuck and Judy Cox)

'Pinwheel vigil' for Powell boys today in Ogden

Last updated Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 5:26pm

OGDEN -- Prevent Child Abuse Utah is holding a Community Pinwheel Vigil for the Powell boys at 4 p.m. today (Thursday) in the Municipal Gardens Playground.

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With portraits of school children behind him, Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent John Deasy takes his seat following a closed-door meeting of the Board of Education in downtown Los Angeles Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. Prosecutors have filed a lewd-acts complaint against the second of two teachers removed from a Los Angeles-area elementary school, and the Board voted to fire him in the closed-door meeting. On Monday night Deasy said that more than 120 staff members at Miramonte Elementary School — everyone from the principal and teachers to the cafeteria workers — were being replaced because a full investigation of the allegations will be disruptive and staffers will require support to get through the scandal. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Distrubing letters from teacher's aide to pupil being investigated

Dalina Castellanos, Howard Blume Los Angeles Times

Last updated Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 10:28am

LOS ANGELES -- In June 2009, the mother of a fourth-grader made a discovery that is now the latest incident under investigation at Miramonte Elementary School: a teacher's aide was allegedly writing love letters to her 11-year-old son.

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Suspect charged with child abuse

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 10:06pm

OGDEN -- A 37-year-old Ogden man has been charged with attempted aggravated murder and child abuse after doctors said a 9-month-old boy suffered multiple skull fractures, both new and healing.

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Second LA teacher charged with lewd acts on a child

Richard Winton Los Angeles Times

Last updated Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 5:42pm

LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles County district attorney's office announced Tuesday that Miramonte Elementary School teacher Martin Bernard Springer will face charges after his arrest last week for allegedly fondling two girls at the school.

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Man charged in Ogden with trying to kill 9-month-old boy

Staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 1:23pm

OGDEN — Police have arrested Apolinar Flores, 37, on suspicion of aggravated attempted murder and second degree child abuse.

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This 2003 photo provided by Flor Cervantes shows former Miramontes Elementary teacher Mark Berndt with her sister, Angelica Zuniga, then a third-grader, at the school in Los Angeles. Angelica Zuniga, 16, now a high school junior, said Berndt, who is suspected of taking bondage-style photographs of children in his class, never asked her or others to do anything strange or to play any inappropriate games. (AP Photo/Flor Cervantes)

Accusations made against second teacher at school of alleged lewd acts

Greg Risling The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, February 3, 2012 - 9:27am

LOS ANGELES -- A second teacher has been removed from a classroom at Miramonte Elementary School, where a teacher this week was charged with photographing children for sexual thrills, authorities said Friday.

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Kai Lundstroem Pedersen, convicted sex predator.

Sex predator who terrorized girl on Facebook gets 30-year sentence

Mark Morris Kansas City Star

Last updated Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 5:36pm

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A relentless Danish sex predator who used Facebook to stalk and threaten an 11-year-old Missouri girl likely will spend the rest of his life in a U.S. prison.

Kai Lundstroem Pedersen, 61, whose own lawyer described his crimes as "horrific" and "unspeakable," was sentenced to 30 years in prison for using multiple aliases and online accounts to extort the Buchanan County girl into making child pornography.

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In this undated police booking photo released by the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department shows former Los Angeles teacher Mark Berndt, 61, who was arrested for felony molestation of 23 kids after photos surfaced. Berndt been charged with committing lewd acts with 23 boys and girls ages 7 to 10. AP Photo/ Los Angeles Sheriff's Department)

Teacher accused of outrageous lewd acts was previously investigated

Howard Blume, Richard Winton Los Angeles Times

Last updated Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 5:15pm

LOS ANGELES -- A veteran Los Angeles teacher charged this week with lewd acts on 23 children was also investigated in 1994 after a girl reported that he tried to fondle her, sheriff's officials said.

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(ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner) North Ogden Police Chief Polo Afuvai speaks in Ogden on Tuesday.

Charges filed against couple in teen's death

Michael McFall Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 10:33am

OGDEN -- Alexis Rasmussen died of a drug overdose late Sept. 10 or early Sept. 11 in the home of Eric and Dea Millerberg where she was baby-sitting.

The overdose was not intentional, rather the reckless result of child abuse, Weber County Attorney Dee Smith said at a Tuesday afternoon news conference.

After a four-month investigation, Eric Millerberg was charged Tuesday with child abuse homicide and three other felonies in the death of the North Ogden teen.

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Mark Berndt, 61, was arrested Monday at his Torrance home and remained jailed Tuesday on $2.3 million bail.

Ex-teacher charged with molesting 23 children for bondage photos

Robert Jablon The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 10:37am

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles elementary school teacher bound and gagged nearly two dozen children, put cockroaches on some of their faces and posed in photos with them, possibly inside a classroom, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Tuesday.

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Police: Woods Cross mom made son run alongside moving car

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, January 27, 2012 - 10:56am

WOODS CROSS -- A Woods Cross woman may face charges after police say she made her 9-year-old son run alongside the moving car she was driving.

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Letters offer kinder portrait of man

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, January 22, 2012 - 8:46pm

OGDEN -- In a rare outpouring of support, nine family members and friends have written letters to the judge on behalf of Robert Glen Abbott, who is charged with child abuse homicide in the death of his stepdaughter.

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Child abuse case against Layton woman to move forward

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, January 20, 2012 - 10:30pm

FARMINGTON -- A case against a 23-year-old Layton woman charged with child abuse will go forward, after a judge ruled there was sufficient evidence.

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Father who threw 7-year-old son overboard pleads guilty

Nicole Santa Cruz Los Angeles Times

Last updated Monday, January 9, 2012 - 5:39pm

SANTA ANA, Calif. -- A father who threw his 7-year-old son off a harbor cruise boat into Newport Harbor was convicted Monday of felony child abuse and a misdemeanor count of resisting an officer.

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The opening of the new Davis County Children's Justice Center in Farmington has been delayed a week because of audio/visual technology problems. The center is expected to open its doors on Jan. 3. (KERA WILLIAMS/ Standard-Examiner)

Audio/visual woes delay opening of Davis children's justice center

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, December 29, 2011 - 9:39pm

FARMINGTON -- The $1.5 million Davis County Children's Justice Center in Farmington officially becomes operational Tuesday, almost another week behind schedule.