Preteen sisters accused in kidnapping
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Detectives arrested a 12-year-old girl and her 10-year-old sister for allegedly abducting their neighbor's 1-year-old son and demanding $200,000 for his return.
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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. -- Three years after a South Florida girl disappeared, the two women responsible for taking care of her were arrested Wednesday.
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Girls at a Mississippi detention center were sometimes shackled for 12 hours a day and subjected to "horrendous physical and sexual abuse," a youth advocacy group claims in a federal lawsuit.
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A Florida couple accused of torturing and starving five adopted children &#151; including pulling out their toenails and subjecting them to electric shocks &#151; were captured Friday in southeastern Utah after police tracked them through their cell phones, officials said.
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Two people arrested in an international investigation into child abuse pictures are to appear in court.
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A 12-year-old girl set fire to her sleeping mother's bed and took off in the family car to fake the abduction of herself and her two younger siblings, police said.
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Police arrested two 19-year-old girls and a bank teller in a brazen robbery in which two young women disguised in sunglasses were caught on videotape laughing as they held up a bank branch.
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Competency hearings are scheduled to begin today for the man accused of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart. Brian David Mitchell and his wife Wanda Barzee are accused of kidnapping the teen in 2002 and keeping her for nine months.
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Three teenagers are accused in connection with the death of a student missing in Bedfordshire.
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Eight terror suspects accused of planning a kidnapping were arrested in pre-dawn raids Wednesday, police said.Comment
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Here's an up-to-the-minute round-up from Europe of what has been doing in the ongoing potboiler regarding the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the missing 3-year-old girl who allegedly was kidnapped from her room at a Portuguese vacation resort in May. Should you have had your head buried in the sand during the past few months or were abducted by aliens, first the background: Madeleine's parents, Gerry and Kate McCann had allegedly put all of their children to bed in a room at the Portuguese vacation village and were "relaxing with friends" over a few drinks at a tapas bar close to their room. Yes, the children were alone, unsupervised, but "being checked up on regularly" by their doting Doctor-parents. Varying accounts exist of how much alcohol was consumed during the evening. At the last bed-check, allegedly around 10 pm, Mrs. McCann allegedly discovered Maddie to be missing. Early reports indicated she returned to the tapas bar shouting hysterically "They've taken her, they've taken her." A massive month-long manhunt ensured and failed to turn up any clue of the little girl, despite leads pouring in, sightings of her in places as far away as Belgium. Vowing not to leave Portugal until Maddie was returned to them, the McCanns fled Portugal for the safety of Britain last week when Portuguese authorities stopped just shy of directly accusing the couple of having either accidentally or purposely killed their daughter and covered up the toddler's death with a fake abduction story. Since then, the accusations have been flying, tensions mounting and tempers here on Topix in the various fora running hot and heavy. And now, as a public service from Europe, a round-up of the latest headlines concerning the disappearance/death/kidnapping/murder/story of Madeleine McCann, age 3... (more) *********************************************
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MIAMI, Fla. -- Miami-Dade County Police announced new charges Wednesday for two women in connection with a young girl who has been missing for more than three years.
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Police charged a Maine couple on Monday   of kidnapping their pregnant 19-year-old daughter, who was   bound with rope and duct tape and bundled into her parents' car   to force her to have an emergency abortion.
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NEW DELHI: Police have rescued a 12-year-old girl who was kidnapped five years ago when she was just seven and fed hormones to prepare her for prostitution, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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A 39-year-old woman is arrested on suspicion of murder after the bodies of two teenage girls are found in a house.
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Â· Children among captives forced to work for no payÂ· Local officials accused of colluding with traffickers
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A 15-year-old girl missing for nearly a year was found Wednesday locked in a small hidden room under the staircase of a couple's home, police said. Two people who live at the home in West Hartford, Connecticut, were arrested. The girl probably was not kept in the secret room at all times, police said, but could not have unlocked the room from the inside. Based on her pale complexion, police speculated that she never went outside.