Court told parents hit boy, 3, with bamboo sticks to drive out demons. More details emerged today of the attempt by the parents of a three-year-old southwest Harris County boy to remove demons from his body.

Save the Children UK tells the popular pop singer Madonna to rethink her desire to adopt another child. The child safety charity says the international adoption is not a norm and promotes children being abducted from their homes or abandoned by their parents.

Each year, unintentional poisonings from consumer products commonly found in the home kill about 30 children and prompt more than 2 million calls to the nation's poison control centers. More than 90% of these calls involve poisonings in the home. On average, each year an estimated 80,000 children are treated in hospital emergency departments for unintentional poisonings.

German police say a gunman has been killed following a shooting spree that began at a Winnenden school near Stuttgart and left 15 people dead.

A four-year-old California girl was killed after her 15-month-old brother switched on a washing machine that she had climbed into, local media said on Wednesday.

Yesterday 2 babies and a woman were stabbed to death in a daycare center in Dendermonde, Belgium. 8 other children between 6 months and 3 years old were severely wounded as well. Witnesses say the killer, a 20 year old man, walked into the daycare center and started attacking children immediately. The killer escaped but was caught by the police an hour later.

A Victorian couple in Australia have appeared in court in far north Queensland after allegedly giving their baby daughter the illegal drug ecstasy.

My heart goes out to the family of John Travolta for the loss of his son Jett Travolta. Reuters and other news outlets are reporting that actor John Travolata's 16-year-old son, Jett, has died, reportedly from a seizure, while on vacation the family in the Bahamas. Jett apparently had a history of seizures. Our prayers to up for this family at this terribly sad time in their lives.

Chinese Melamine scandal is far more widespread than thought as the reports show that close to 300,000 thousand children have suffered from it.

A man has abandoned his nine children at a hospital emergency room in Nebraska, but will not be prosecuted under Nebraska state law.

"Bullies, once thought to be insecure attention seekers, more often are some of the most popular kids in school," says Worthington. “In many cases they have heightened social skills and know how to use their personality to get others to go along with their behavior.’’

Wal-Mart, Toys "R" Us, Kmart, Target and others start Simplicity bassinet recall due to serious infant safety reasons. Simplicity also has initiated the recall of bassinets, and CPSC urges stop of the the above-mentioned bassinet use.