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LITTLETON, N.H. -- A Littleton teenager charged with soliciting sex over the Internet faces new charges involving his pet dog.

Ryan Taber, 17, turned himself in to police on Tuesday, the day after police removed the dog from his home.

He was charged with cruelty to animals after police said they found a large number of pornographic pictures involving the dog on the teen's computer.

He also was charged with computer pornography for 39 images that appeared to feature children.

The godmother of the 3-year-old boy whose lifeless body was discovered in her Brooklyn apartment was arrested along with her boyfriend Saturday for allegedly torturing the child she was supposed to protect.

Nymeen Cheatham, 30, and Lemar Martin, 25, were charged with assault and endangering the welfare of a child Saturday and could face more serious charges - including murder, police said.

The medical examiner completed the autopsy on Kyle Smith's 28-pound body and determined he died of "multiple blunt impact injuries with soft tissue hemorrhages all over the body," a spokeswoman said.

She said she could not be more specific because it might interfere with the investigation.

The suspects were surrounded by two dozen neighbors screaming obscenities at them Saturday afternoon as they were led out of the 81st Precinct stationhouse to be taken to Central Booking.

Cops said three domestic incident reports had been filed at Cheatham's home from Dec. 11 to Jan. 2 - but none of them led to an arrest. The NYPD did not release details of those reports Saturday.

Cheatham apparently took custody of Kyle 18 months ago after a judge ordered the child be taken from his crack addict mother.

Neighbors said Cheatham and Martin frequently screamed at the boy, whose body was covered with bruises, rope burns and cigarette burns when paramedics found him in a Patchen Ave. apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Friday afternoon.

Investigators said that doctors at Interfaith Medical Center - where Kyle was pronounced dead on arrival - said the child had a broken leg and had been sodomized with a stick before he died.

FORT WORTH, Texas — A father sodomized his 18-year-old stepson to avenge the teenager's alleged rape of the man's 8-year-old daughter, police said.

The father, 32, turned himself into to authorities on Friday and was released from jail Saturday after posting a $17,500 bond. He faces a charge of aggravated sexual assault.

The stepson was arrested Jan. 2 and charged with suspicion of aggravated sexual assault. Police say the father caught him assaulting his daughter, and a subsequent examination at a hospital revealed the girl had been sodomized.

When the stepson was arrested, the man warned his wife not to get the teenager out of jail. She posted bond for the teen's release. When he called home Jan. 3 after getting released, the father took the call and picked him up, police said.

Instead of taking the teenager home, the Arlington man drove to an abandoned house in Fort Worth, beat his stepson with a baseball bat and sodomized him with a metal tool, police said.