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Twenty-eight year old convicted sex offender Timothy Card was sentenced to 180 years for abusing a young boy. (credit: Fort Worth Police Department)

Convicted Sex Offender Sentenced To 180 Years

A 28-year-old convicted sex offender was sentenced to 180 years in prison for sexually abusing a young boy whose family had befriended him.

2013/05/06

Donation Account Set Up For Children of Slain Bedford Mother

The family of a mother who was murdered in her own home, allegedly by her ex-boyfriend, is speaking out for the first time since the attack.

2013/05/03

Cedric Ricks (credit: Garvin County Jail)

Protective Order Against Bedford Stabbing Suspect Expired

The suspect in a double murder of a mother and her 8 year-old refused extradition from Oklahoma and will remain in an Oklahoma jail until Texas authorities obtain a warrant from Governor Rick Perry.

2013/05/02

Erica Moore enters the courtroom for her trial. Moore has been accused of beating her son after finding him engaged in a homosexual act with a relative. (credit: Chuck Schechner/KRLD)

Mom Going To Trial For Whipping Son For Homosexual Act

A Forest Hill mother is in court today for a pre-trial hearing on a family assault case. Erica Moore is the woman who admitted beating her son with an electrical cord for engaging in a homosexual act.

CBSDFW.COM–2013/04/30

A man uses a computer. (credit: Oleg Nikishin/Getty Images)

The Face Of Online Sexual Predators

The state’s Cyber Crimes Unit observed National Child Abuse Prevention Month after a year that landed 36 suspected online sex predators and child pornographers in jail.

2013/04/29

April Chavunne Brown (credit: Tarrant County District Attorney's Office)

Mom Sentenced For Brutally Beating Daughter

A jury in Tarrant County on Thursday took about two hours to convict a mother of beating one of her kids, leaving the 6-year-old child blind and developmentally disabled.

2013/04/12

Former youth pastor Joshua Douglas Earls is charged with two counts of Indecency with a Child by Contact. (credit: Garland Police Dept.)

Former Youth Pastor Faces Indecency With A Child Charges

A former North Texas youth pastor has been accused of having improper contact with at least two children. Garland police arrested Joshua Earls earlier this week.

CBSDFW.COM–2013/04/12

Child Abuse Awarness In Tarrant County

Imagine 5,598 children standing all in one place; now imagine each and every one is a victim of child abuse in Tarrant County alone. That’s the point a display at TCU wants to drive home. With 5,598 pinwheels, one for each child abused in Tarrant county in 2012.

2013/04/09