Teacher sex abuse scars family, town
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They've learned to watch their older daughter for any sign that something's wrong. She cuts her long, blond hair and dyes it jet black. And they worry. Her father picks up a book she's been reading, "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy, and skims it for clues.
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By Christine Armario, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Sep. 11--Edith Lilie and her sons could only watch as their family's Middle Island paint store went up in flames.   For 54 years, Ben's Paint Station had been the sustenance of her father, then her own family and now her sons.
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Since their home was torched six weeks ago, Peter Monderu's six children sleep tangled like puppies on the cold ground. His 9-year-old girl bears the scars of a horrific arson attack on a church, and his fearful wife startles awake at the least sound.
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CHICAGO, Oct. 4 -- After a spate of bloody schoolhouse attacks in the past month, school districts around the country are reviewing their emergency plans. Some are looking for ways to tighten security even as they acknowledge the limits on their ability to stop a determined killer.
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The family of a teacher slain nearly 11 years ago and prosecutors asked a judge Monday to keep her secretly recorded pleas for her life from being played aloud during the trial of her accused killer.
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WINNIPEG (CP) - A 12-year-old girl is trying to recover from a six-month nightmare during which police say the child's aunt and common-law husband drugged her, sexually assaulted her and threatened to kill her if she reported the abuse.
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A school holds special assemblies to comfort pupils after four girls were badly burned in a house fire.
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Children who grow up with alcoholic parents bear emotional, behavioural and mental scars, experts say.
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A RECORD $US100 million ($129 million) clergy sex abuse settlement between the Californian Catholic Diocese of Orange and 87 plaintiffs has brought some relief to families.
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Roman Catholic dioceses nationwide have taught more than 6 million children to protect themselves from sexual predators and have conducted 1.6 million background checks on workers in response to the clergy sex abuse crisis, according to a new report.
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Â· Family describe man who killed wife as tortured soul Â· Husband had been treated for mental illness
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Â· Traditional owners protest at government crackdown Â· Police sent in after report of rampant child sex abuse
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As the people of Beslan struggle with their grief, the schoolhouse where their children died has become a place of echoes and memories.
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One family's struggle with their son's behavioural problems in mainstream schools.
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Tears yesterday rolled down the eyes of thousands at Kololo Airstrip as a young girl told the story of her headmaster, who raped her three times and infected her with Aids.
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For parents, the list of those arrested in Australia&#39;s biggest child pornography bust makes sobering reading. Teachers, doctors, health workers, police officers and the owner of three Melbourne
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The state has long suffered the highest sexual assault rate in the nation, and the problem is worst in rural areas, according to a report released Tuesday