International Business News - Child http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Soldiers worked Saturday to rescue a 2-year-old boy trapped for more than 36 hours in a 150-foot-deep abandoned well in northern India. Rescuers said the boy, Sonu Kumar, had stopped responding to his parents' voices and feared he may have lost consciousness. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/149808-india-trapped-child.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081011/indian-army-works-to-rescue-boy-trapped-in-well.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081011/indian-army-works-to-rescue-boy-trapped-in-well.htm Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:52:29 EDT A federal judge rejected arguments Friday from a former civilian contractor in Iraq who said his sentence for possessing child pornography should be lighter to more closely align with what military personnel would face. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081010/iraq-contractor-gets-3-years-in-child-porn-case.htm Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:50:36 EDT A 4-year-old boy accidentally killed himself with his police-officer mother's gun as she dropped her children off at school, police said Thursday. The gun apparently fell between the two front seats of the car as the mother leaned over to comb her daughter's hair. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081009/4-year-old-kills-himself-with-mothers-police-gun.htm Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:46:24 EDT Rebel groups and government-armed militias using child soldiers in the Philippines and 16 other strife-torn countries face prosecution in the United States under a new U.S. law, a human rights group said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081008/us-law-hits-use-of-child-soldiers-in-philippines.htm Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:34:12 EDT A man was charged Tuesday in the strangling death of his 11-year-old stepsister who was starved by her parents and slept a locked room inside an upstate NY house filled with garbage and more than 100 cats, police said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081007/stepbrother-charged-in-upstate-ny-girls-slaying.htm Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:00:35 EDT A 10-year-old was driving up to 90 mph when he crashed a van carrying a man who told police he had drank at least 15 beers and a woman who was trying to swallow as many pills as she could when deputies arrived at the scene, Tennessee authorities said Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081007/police-10-year-old-driver-flips-van-in-tenn.htm Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:44:52 EDT Evangelist Tony Alamo left Arizona for Arkansas under the watch of federal marshals Monday, preparing to answer to charges that he took children across state lines to engage in sexual activity. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/feds-bringing-evangelist-alamo-back-to-arkansas.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:51:40 EDT The Supreme Court declined Wednesday to revisit its recent decision outlawing executions for people convicted of raping children. The unusual request, from Louisiana and the Bush administration, was based on the failure of anyone involved in the case to take into account a federal law from 2006 that authorizes the death penalty for members of the military who are convicted of child rape. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081001/high-court-rebuffs-louisiana-in-child-rape-case.htm Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:55:13 EDT Spanish police arrested 121 people in the country's biggest-ever crackdown on child pornography, seizing discs containing millions of video and photo files shared by a network that distributed them in 75 countries, authorities said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081001/spanish-police-arrest-121-in-child-porn-raids.htm Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:52:12 EDT Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Tuesday it has told suppliers to stop acquiring cotton from Uzbekistan to try and put an end to forced child labor in cotton harvesting. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080930/wal-mart-takes-action-on-uzbekistan-child-labor.htm Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:40:49 EDT A Denver woman who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the starvation death of a 7-year-old boy has been sentenced to 48 years in prison. Sarah Berry and her husband were supposed to be caring for Chandler Grafner when he died in May 2007. Authorities say Chandler was denied food and water and spent hours locked in a closet where he had to urinate and defecate. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080929/woman-gets-48-years-in-boys-starvation-death.htm Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:45:51 EDT Four girls taken from an evangelist's compound in southwest Arkansas will remain in state custody after their parents waived a probable-cause hearing, a state official said Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080929/4-girls-from-alamo-compound-to-stay-with-state.htm Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:56:14 EDT A New Jersey judge on Friday rejected a plea bargain that prosecutors reached with a man accused of trying to lure three young children into a specially rigged van filled with candy. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080926/judge-rejects-plea-deal-in-nj-child-luring-case.htm Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:30:31 EDT Congress is sending President Bush several bills that would tighten laws on child pornographers' use of the Internet. The House on Friday passed by 418-0 a measure clarifying that images obtained over the Internet were subject to federal interstate commerce laws. The bill was in response to a federal court ruling that prosecutors must show that images kept on a computer had crossed state lines. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080926/congress-sending-child-porno-bills-to-president.htm Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:12:35 EDT Moroccan authorities have ordered the closure of dozens of schools and a Web site run by a Muslim religious leader who argued that girls as young as 9 could marry, local media reported Friday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080926/moroccan-sheik-hushed-for-letting-9-year-olds-wed.htm Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:49:57 EDT Evangelist and convicted tax evader Tony Alamo waived his right to fight extradition to Arkansas after his arrest on charges that he took minors across state lines for sexual purposes. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080926/evangelist-alamo-faces-charges-in-child-sex-probe.htm Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:22:36 EDT FBI agents arrested evangelist and convicted tax evader Tony Alamo at an Arizona motel Thursday, alleging days after raiding the Arkansas headquarters of his ministry that he took minors across state lines for sexual purposes. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/138983-evangelist-child-porn.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080925/fbi-evangelist-alamo-arrested-in-child-sex-probe.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080925/fbi-evangelist-alamo-arrested-in-child-sex-probe.htm Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:42:12 EDT Six girls removed from an evangelical compound as part of an investigation into the possible sexual abuse of minors will remain in state custody for the near future, a state official said Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/137104-evangelist-child-porn.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080924/children-seized-in-ark-raid-to-remain-with-state.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080924/children-seized-in-ark-raid-to-remain-with-state.htm Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:23:18 EDT Long-stalled legislation making it easier to prosecute those engaged in child pornography cleared the Senate Tuesday. The voice vote on the child pornography measure and several other bills marked a momentary truce between Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., a fierce fiscal conservative known for holding up legislation, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080923/senate-passes-child-porn-bills.htm Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:15:33 EDT (Stations: Please substitute the following for V1129, slugged Bus Dumps Child, which moved at 9:10 a.m. Eastern time. The new version CORRECTS pronunciation of Bonilla.) http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080923/boy-5-dumped-by-school-bus-driver-in-nyc-streets.htm Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:13:04 EDT