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Child Rape

Parents say developmentally disabled girl should have been escorted to bus on day she was taken.

Houston high school blamed in rape of special needs child

Ryan Korsgard, KPRC
VIDEO - When a 16-year-old girl attended Sam Houston High School in Houston, Texas a teacher's assistant made sure she got between classes and on and off of the school bus safely...
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This photo provided by the Greene County Sheriff's Department shows Jeffrey Allen Dickson. Dickson was found guilty of child kidnapping, forcible rape and forcible sodomy in the April 5, 2008 attack on a 7-year-old girl. But new evidence unearthed by Dickson's state-appointed appeals court lawyer and reviewed as part of a five-month Associated Press investigation suggests that a rush to judgment could have caused police and prosecutors to target the wrong man. He is scheduled to argue his appeal on Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012, in Springfield, Mo. (AP Photo/Greene County Sheriff's Department via The News-Leader)

Evidence questioned in Missouri child rape case

Alan Scher Zagier, Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) - The crime was brutal: a 7-year-old girl choked, raped and forced to smoke drugs before she was left for dead in a fire set by her attacker. Somehow, she survived. Firefighters founder her at dawn, stumbling through the street and wearing just one shoe...
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Anita Ellis wipes away tears. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Michael Paulsen)

Another defendent sentenced in rape 11-year-old Texas girl

Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press
LIBERTY, Texas (AP) - One of six men who have pleaded guilty in the repeated sexual assault of a young southeast Texas girl over a three-month period in late 2010 was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison, the term he agreed to in his deal with prosecutors...
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This undated booking photo provided by the Liberty County Sheriff's Department in Liberty, Texas, shows Eric McGowen. Opening statements were scheduled to begin Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012, in Liberty in a trial for McGowen, who is charged with aggravated sexual assault of an 11-year-old girl in 2010 in Cleveland, Texas. (AP Photo/Courtesy the Liberty County Sheriff's Department)

US marshals capture man who fled Texas rape trial

Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press
HOUSTON (AP) - A man who fled his trial a day before being convicted in the repeated group sexual assault of an 11-year-old Texas girl was captured Tuesday, according to the U.S. Marshals Service...
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This undated booking photo provided by the Liberty County Sheriff's Department in Liberty, Texas, shows Eric McGowen. Opening statements were scheduled to begin Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012, in Liberty in a trial for McGowen, who is charged with aggravated sexual assault of an 11-year-old girl in 2010 in Cleveland, Texas. (AP Photo/Courtesy the Liberty County Sheriff's Department)

Defendant still on the lam in 11-year-old girl rape case

Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press
LIBERTY, Texas (AP) - Eric McGowen didn't show up a day after skipping out during a break in proceedings Wednesday, which was the first day of testimony...
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This undated booking photo provided by the Liberty County Sheriff's Department in Liberty, Texas, shows Eric McGowen. Opening statements were scheduled to begin Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012, in Liberty in a trial for McGowen, who is charged with aggravated sexual assault of an 11-year-old girl in 2010 in Cleveland, Texas. (AP Photo/Courtesy the Liberty County Sheriff's Department)

Suspect escapes during Texas 11-year-old girl rape trial

Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press
LIBERTY, Texas (AP) - One of more than a dozen men and boys accused in the repeated rape of an 11-year-old Texas girl escaped from the courthouse during a break in his trial after the child tearfully testified and jurors watched a video showing one of the alleged assault...
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Prosecutors offer plea deals in NJ child rape case

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TRENTON, New Jersey (AP) - The offers come eight months after Trenton police accused a 15-year-old girl of pimping her 7-year-old stepsister at a party and watching as she was raped...
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