Florida Couple Accused of Child Torture Held in Utah
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A fugitive Florida couple accused of  beating and chaining five children, pulling out their toenails  with pliers and starving them, were caught in Utah, a sheriff's  deputy said on Saturday.
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Detainees at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were shackled to the floor in fetal positions for more than 24 hours at a time, left without food and water, and allowed to defecate on themselves, an FBI agent who said he witnessed such abuse reported in a memo to supervisors, according to documents released yesterday.
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ST. GEORGE, Utah  - A fundamentalist Mormon who married his 14-year-old cousin cried on Wednesday and said he felt "really bad" about the end of their relationship at the center of a trial highlighting a breakaway sect that practices polygamy.
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ST. GEORGE, Utah  - The leader of the largest U.S. polygamist sect who arranged a marriage between a 14-year-old girl and her 19-year-old cousin, told the girl it was her religious duty to give herself "mind, body and soul" to her husband, a Utah court heard on Thursday.
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A man was arraigned Sunday on child abuse charges in the beating of his girlfriend's 2-year-old son that was captured on a convenience store surveillance tape.
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A woman who authorities say ran a Web site that published graphic fictional tales about the torture and sexual abuse of children has been indicted on federal obscenity charges.
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Some of the six suspects accused in the imprisonment and torture of a young black woman have extensive criminal histories, West Virginia court records show.
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The Justice Department invoked a 12-year-old federal anti-torture statute for the first time yesterday, indicting the son of former Liberian president Charles Taylor in connection with the alleged use of a hot iron, scalding water and an electrical device to shock and burn an ally of his father's...
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NORWALK, Ohio, Feb. 15 -- A couple who forced some of their 11 adopted, special-needs children to sleep in cages were sentenced Thursday to two years in prison for endangerment and abuse,  after emotional statements in which the parents said  they were  trying to keep the youngsters  safe.
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By Madeline Baro Diaz, Jerome Burdi, Jennifer Gollan and Juan Ortega, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Jun. 3--The message was clear: No child molesters allowed.   The 2005 rape and murder of a 9-year-old Central Florida girl at the hands of a convicted sex offender shocked the nation.
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A fourth defendant has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the suspected torture of a young black woman who authorities say was held captive last summer for days.
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A Maine couple accused of tying up their 19-year-old daughter, throwing her in their car and driving her out of state to get an abortion were upset because the baby's father is black, a Maine sheriff said Tuesday.
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ORLANDO, Florida  - A U.S. astronaut was accused on Tuesday of trying to kidnap and kill a rival for the affections of a male astronaut after she drove 950 miles wearing diapers to confront the woman.
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Three adults and a 15-year-old girl were charged Wednesday in connection with two shocking discoveries police made when they found a missing 2-year-old: a severely burned and blood-streaked 11-year-old boy, and the body of his mother, buried in the back yard.
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An American held in Hong Kong on allegations that he raped his underage daughter and posted video footage of it on the Internet has been returned to the United States, federal authorities said Thursday.
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Detectives in the US have arrested a 12-year-old girl and her 10-year-old sister for allegedly abducting their neighbour's one-year-old son and demanding a $200,000 (Â£100,000) ransom.
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Faced with allegations of torturing their own children, John and Linda Dollar skipped a hearing with child welfare workers, piled into their Lexus sport utility vehicle and left central Florida. Now the two sit in jail in the 2,000-person town of Monticello, Utah, awaiting extradition on Florida warrants of felony aggravated child abuse.