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INDIANAPOLIS - Police say Andrew Conley identified himself with a television serial killer.

The 17-year-old told investigators strangling his 10-year-old little brother satisfied a craving like a hungry person eating a hamburger.

The Indiana teen told investigators his brothers last words were "Andrew, stop."

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NEW YORK - According to crime statistics from the Department of Justice, 67 percent of sexual assault victims in 2008 were juveniles and an astonishing 93 percent of these victims knew their attackers. When Robin Sax worked as a deputy district attorney for Los Angeles County specializing in sex crimes against children, she personally reviewed at least five new cases every day.

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HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. - When Jamar Pinkney Sr. heard his 15-year-old son, Jamar Pinkney Jr., had sexual contact with a 3-year-old girl, he made the teen strip at gunpoint, marched him to a vacant lot and shot him to death despite pleas from the boy and his mother, a relative said.

Michigan authorities filed a first-degree murder charge Wednesday against the 37-year-old father in the shooting death Monday of Jamar Pinkney Jr. in the Detroit enclave of Highland Park.

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NEWARK, N.J. - A small-time actor and former children's entertainer who was known for playing Santa Claus was sentenced Monday to nearly 20 years in prison for his role in an international sex tourism ring that preyed on young children.

Wayne Nelson Corliss, whose 2008 arrest was the culmination of an international manhunt, had admitted traveling to Thailand three times between 2000 and 2002 to have sex with at least two boys, ages 6 and 9.

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LEXINGTON, Mo. - Police investigating a western Missouri family accused of sexually abusing children are now searching a family property for dead bodies. They are also looking for buried glass jars, which the alleged victims say contain notes documenting their sexual abuse years ago.

Lafayette County Sheriff Kerrick Alumbaugh said there has been an indication of "body or bodies in numerous locations," although he would not say whose bodies they might be.

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LOUISVILLE - A decade ago, Mark Hourigan was convicted of sexually abusing an 11-year-old boy in central Kentucky. Now, he is a tiny church's newest minister, who is also a "gifted music leader" and popular among its three dozen members.

Long before Hourigan joined the flock at the City of Refuge Worship Center in Louisville, he served a five-year sentence in prison and the 41-year-old was placed on Kentucky's sex offender registry for the rest of his life.

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ZURICH - Roman Polanski may be used to a free-wheeling movie-making lifestyle, but for the next few weeks at least, Swiss authorities have no intention of letting him leave prison.

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LOS ANGELES - A surprise arrest at the Zurich airport, detention at the hands of Swiss authorities, and a high-profile extradition process that could take weeks or months. The irony is that for Roman Polanski, the acclaimed director accused of child rape three decades ago, this latest ordeal could lead to the one thing he's lacked since: his freedom.

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NEWBERRY, S.C. - A South Carolina man was recovering in a Columbia hospital Wednesday after a weekend attack by his own children, who say he molested his grandchildren.

Newberry Police Chief Jackie Swindler said the 54-year-old man is still recovering and has yet not been charged. Newberry County sheriff's deputies say he will face charges involving criminal sexual conduct with a minor and a lewd act on a child.

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PHOENIX - They are 9-year-old boys, charged with raping an 8-year old girl – an alleged attack that has raised international tensions. The two boys, the youngest of four accused in the July 16 incident, were ordered Wednesday to remain in juvenile detention with restricted visitors, as Liberia's deputy ambassador to the U.S. arrived in Phoenix, AZ., hoping to speak to them.

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