NEWS-LEDGER ONLINE — MAY 14, 2013 – Former River City High School teacher and football coach Arturo Bustamante yesterday pleaded “no contest” to a misdemeanor count of “annoying or molesting a child.” The plea deal occurred on the first day of trial in which he faced three felony counts of molestation and several misdemeanor counts.. [...]

FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — APRIL 24, 2013 – The Yolo County Children’s Alliance & Child Abuse Prevention Council are sponsoring their annual Celebrity Fashion Show at 6 p.m. this Friday, at West Sacramento City Hall, 1110 West Capitol Avenue. For information, call (530) 757-5558 or visit www.yolokids.org To sponsor this event benefiting local children [...]

By Don Saylor, Chair of the Yolo County Children’s Alliance and Member of the Yolo County Board of Supervisors, District 2 Child abuse is a national tragedy. An estimated 3 million children are the victims of substantiated abuse or neglect each year in the United States. In California during 2012, nearly 500,000 children were referred [...]
NEWS-LEDGER EDITORIAL — FEB 13, 2013 – What can we all do to help West Sacramento’s schools? Well, one of the top strategic goals now being put forward by the local school board is to “foster a culture of high expectations.” And that is something that the City of West Sacramento, and the rest of [...]
NEWS-LEDGER ONLINE — OCT 26, 2012 – A pair of students from Southport Elementary School report that a suspicious man in a pickup truck may have been staring at them as they walked home from a school bus stop on Linden Road. The incident happened around 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, within a few blocks of [...]
FROM THE WEST SACRAMENTO NEWS-LEDGER – Every year, over a hundred children in Yolo County need foster homes to shelter them from abuse or neglect. Learn more about what it takes to be a foster parent. Attend a free session from 6-8 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 29, at the local library, 1212 Merkley Avenue. For [...]
WEST SACRAMENTO NEWS-LEDGER ONLINE — AUG 25, 2012 – Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig’s office announced that on August 24, Superior Court Judge Stephen Mock sentenced West Sacramento’s Dmitry Dudkin to 30 years to life in state prison for child molestation. Dudkin had previously been convicted of two counts of child molestation in this [...]


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