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File-This undated file photo provided by the Long Beach, Calif., Police Department shows Claude Foulk, the former director of a mental health hospital who was charged with molesting his foster child is also accused of abusing another of his foster children decades earlier. The adopted son of Foulk, said at his trial on Friday in emotional testimony that his father is a monster who abused him for more than a decade and destroyed his life, forcing him to flee home at age 21. (AP Photo/Long Beach Police Department,File) (AP)

Convicted sex predator sentenced to 248 years

Gillian Flaccus
FILE -This May 2010 file photo shows Zahra Clare Baker, 10, getting a hearing aid during an event at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Hickory, N.C. Elisa Baker , stepmother of Zahra Clare Baker, was indicted Monday, Feb. 21, 2011 on a second-degree murder charge in Zahra Clare Baker's death. Elisa Baker had previously been charged with obstructing justice in the investigation of Zahra Baker's death. The 10-year-old was reported missing in October, and police later found her remains in different locations in western North Carolina. (AP Photo/The Independent Tribune, James Nix, File) (AP)

Stepmother indicted on death of disabled girl

Mike Baker, Mitch Weiss
Maksim Gelman, of Brooklyn, who is accused of going on a 28-hour stabbing rampage through New York City, center, is lead by officers outside the 61st Precinct in the Brooklyn borough of New York Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/David Karp) (AP)

Colleen Long
FILE - This Feb. 6, 2008 photo shows, The 5 Browns, left to right, Deondra, Gregory, Derirae, Melody and Ryan in Alpine, Utah. The parents of the 5 Browns, Keith and Lisa Brown, were seriously injured when the car they were in plunged 300 feet off of Little Cottonwood Canyon Road into the creek late Monday, Feb. 14, 2011. Keith Brown, father of the members of group The 5 Browns, was charged Feb. 10 with one first-degree felony count of sodomy on a child and two second-degree felony counts of sexual abuse of a child, according to Fourth District Court records obtained Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011. The records don't identify any victim by name or indicate the relationship between Keith Brown and the alleged victims. Kimball Thomson, a spokesman for The 5 Browns, said the charges involve Brown's daughters and group members Desirae, Deondra and Melody, who are now adults. He declined to release further information on the women. A court hearing had been scheduled for Brown, 55, on Thursday, but it was postponed after the car crash. (AP Photo/Deseret News, Jason Olson) (AP)

Brown pleads guilty to sexually abusing daughters

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Governor outraged by response to abortion scandal

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The house in the Brooklyn borough of New York where Maksim Gelman lived and where police say he killed his stepfather on Friday morning, Saturday, Feb. 12, 2011. The 23-year-old Brooklyn man was in custody Saturday after a 28-hour stabbing rampage that took the lives of his stepfather, his ex-girlfriend and her mother, and led to a nightlong manhunt across New York City, police said. Authorities said Gelman also hijacked a car, stabbing and wounding the driver and fatally hitting a pedestrian. (AP Photo/David Karp) (AP)

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U.S. high school students shot to death in Mexico

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Christof Scheurer, spealer of the public prosecutor's office, right, speaks, while Gabriele Berger, the head of Bern police's special investigations unit, listens at a press conference in Bern Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. A 54-year-old man has admitted sexually abusing more than 100 mentally disabled children and adults in care homes in Switzerland and Germany during almost three decades, in what Swiss police described Tuesday as an unprecedented case. The abuse took place in nine different care homes where the unidentified man had worked as a therapist since 1982, police in the canton (state) of Bern said. The head of Bern police's special investigations unit, Gabriele Berger, told a news conference in Bern that the evidence against the man includes photos and hours of video recording the abuse. (AP Photo/Keystone/Peter Schneider) (AP)

Swiss police identify 122 victims in sexual abuse

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Model pleads not guilty in corkscrew castration

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In this Friday, Jan. 28, 2011 photo, a Tampa Police officer escorts Julie Powers Schenecker to Orient Road Jail on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011 in Tampa, Fla. Police said Julie Powers Schenecker admitted to killing her teenage daughter and son after officers found her covered in blood on the back porch of her home Friday morning, police spokeswoman Laura McElroy said. Schenecker's mother had called police from Texas because she was unable to reach the 50-year-old woman, whom she said was depressed and had been complaining about her children. (AP Photo/St. Petersburg Times, Bryan Thomas) TAMPA OUT; USA TODAY OUT; HERNANDO TODAY OUT; CITRUS COUNTY CHRONICLE OUT; NO MAGS; NO SALES (AP)

Mom, alleged killer of kids, had been using drugs

Tamara Lush, Mitch Stacy
San Quentin Death Chamber

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A heavily armed SWAT team member walks away from the scene where three officers were shot Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 in south St. Petersburg, Fla. Police say a gunman suspected of killing two Florida police officers and wounding a U.S. marshal during a shootout has been found dead. St. Petersburg Police spokesman Michael Puetz says the suspect was found dead when officers went into the home Monday afternoon, about six hours after the shootout. Puetz said officers originally went to the home to arrest 39-year-old Hydra Lacy Jr. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara) (AP)

Police under siege: Gunfire increases on the job

Amy Steinberg
Swat team members stack their gear after the suspect in the shooting of three law enforcement officers was found dead Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 in south St. Petersburg, Fla. Police say a gunman suspected of killing two Florida police officers and wounding a U.S. marshal during a shootout has been found dead. St. Petersburg Police spokesman Michael Puetz says the suspect was found dead when officers went into the home Monday afternoon, about six hours after the shootout. Puetz said officers originally went to the home to arrest 39-year-old Hydra Lacy Jr. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara) (AP)

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(from left) Chief Matthew Nestor, Lt. William Moyer and Officer Jason Hayes.

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Officers killed in Miami shooting

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Northeast overrun by mobsters

Tom Hays
In this artist rendering, Jared Lee Loughner makes his first court appearance at the Sandra Day O'Connor United States Courthouse in Phoenix, Ariz., Monday, Jan. 10, 2011. Loughner appeared in federal court on charges he tried to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in a shooting rampage that left six people dead. (AP Photo/Bill Robles) (AP)

Federal grand jury indicts Jared Lee Loughner

Bob Christie
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FILE - This Feb. 23, 2010 file photo, shows the Women's Medical Society in Philadelphia. Abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, who catered to minorities, immigrants and poor women at the Women's Medical Society, was charged Wednesday Jan. 19, 2011, with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive and then killed with scissors, prosecutors said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) (AP)

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A young girl walks by abandoned buildings in Camden, New Jersey.

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