SANTA MONICA, CA – The gunman who killed four people in a shooting rampage in Santa Monica before he was slain by police at a community college in the California seaside town was once a student there and had a brush with the law several years ago as a teenager, police said on Saturday. Santa Monica Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks also revealed that several students at the college survived Friday’s shootings by hiding in an interior room of the library and piling up heavy objects against the door as the gunman fired through the walls at them. Seabrooks detailed how the gunman, after killing two people identified by a law enforcement source as his father and brother and apparently setting their house on fire, went on to carjack a woman’s automobile, ordering her at gunpoint to drive him from place to place as he fired at other individuals.

On the morning of June 5, a Jiaxing city Haining county netizen reported that a mother prepared to commit suicide after slashing her son’s neck only to have the perceptive son, in order to save his mother, ignore his own injury, get up, and try to wrestle the knife away from his mother. During the struggle for the knife, the son’s hands were cut by the sharp knife. Perhaps as a result of love reawakening reason, the mother subsequently called the police. At present, after emergency medical treatment and surgery, both mother and son are out of life-threatening danger.

It is not known what caused the massive brawl. Cell phone videos recorded the huge fight that occurred on the last day of school at Proviso East High School in Maywood, Illinois in which as many as 300 students took part and which required the Sheriff’s office and 40 officers from neighboring towns to handle; at least ten students were arrested — one handling a knife — and three were hospitalized.

A mother committed an unimaginable crime. Kimberlynn Bolanos, 21, is facing a first-degree murder charge after she brutally stabbed her 5-month-old son Issac to death. Bolanos is currently in jail held with no bond after police had to break down a hotel bathroom door with an axe to get to her and the infant she murdered. She had been staying at a hotel with Issac. Her boyfriend, also allegedly the father of the child, had visited them off and on during their stay, reports CBS Chicago.

A group of alleged thugs are behind bars after they attempted to have sex with two underage girls, record it on video and then put evidence of the alleged crime on the Internet, where one of the girls’ teachers at an Oregon junior high school saw it and reported it to authorities. The video of the two girls – one of whom was a 12-year-old seventh-grader at Centennial Middle School in Portland – found its way to the Facebook pages of students at another middle school within the same district, where a social media-savvy teacher spotted it on one of his student’s Facebook pages, recognized one of the girls as an underage student and told the school’s principal. It didn’t take long for authorities to identify the adult men in the video, one of whom is a known gang member with the ‘Unthank Park Hustlers.’

A mother already charged with selling her toddler to a man who used her to make child pornography has been accused of doing the same with another daughter. The Gary woman, 24, was charged in March for selling her 18-month-old daughter for an undisclosed sum to Christopher Bour, 39, allegedly knowing she would be used in porn films. However an indictment filed on Wednesday against the mother adds a second count of selling a child and permitting her to participate in pornography.

A teacher who downloaded child porn has been allowed to resume his career by the Department for Education. Geoffrey Bettley, 36, was sacked, given a police caution and ordered to sign the Sex Offenders’ Register after admitting viewing sickening images over several years. But a professional conduct panel said the married RE teacher could return to the classroom because of his ‘excellent teaching’. A senior official, acting on behalf of Education Secretary Michael Gove, rubber-stamped the decision, saying there was a ‘need to be proportionate and to act in the public interest’.

Cyber-bullying 101: How to Recognize, Prevent and Deal With It Lawmakers in Florida have taken steps to strengthen their already-stringent rules against cyberbullying. The Florida House of Representatives passed a bill that prohibits harassment of students or teachers through the use of computers on- or off-campus. It also increases the authority school officials have to […]

STARKE, Fla. – A convicted child molester condemned for the 1990 rape and murder of a 10-year-old Florida girl has been executed at the Florida State Prison. Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s office said 56-year-old inmate Elmer Carroll was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. Wednesday at the prison in Starke. Carroll had been convicted of first-degree murder and sexual battery in the rape and strangling death of Christine McGowan. The girl lived with her family next door to a halfway house for homeless men where Carroll was staying in Apopka.

The Dodge City Police Department is asking for the public’s help in locating a man wanted for the rape of a child. Officers are searching for 50-year-old Hugo Baeza for rape and aggravated indecent liberties with a child. Baeza is described as a Hispanic man, 5 feet, 10 inches tall, weighs approximately 225 pounds and has brown eyes and gray hair. He may be driving a black 1991 Dodge truck with Kansas tag 774CLR or a green 2000 Dodge Grand Caravan with Kansas tag 328BNX. Anyone with information on Baeza’s whereabouts is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (620) 227-STOP or (877) 424-4414, or call the Dodge City Police Department at (620) 225-8128.

Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins had his day in court today, after being formally charged with 32 counts including sexual offenses against children. The singer denied any involvement in all counts and plead not guilty. According to reports from local media, the 35-year-old performer had an hour-long hearing at the Cardiff Crown Court this morning where he made a statement through his attorneys.

In the United States alone, 20 percent of parents never supervise their child’s online activities, according to the District Attorney Report in San Diego County. After the age of 14, a reported 71% of parents stop monitoring their child’s Internet use entirely. These numbers are alarming, considering the Internet commonly exposes children to sexual predators and cyber-bullying. It’s time to understand how the world has changed and why parents must adapt their parenting techniques in order to protect their families.

A former Coronation Street actor ‘used his status’ to ‘flatter and gain the trust’ of a 14-year-old boy whom he went on to indecently assault on a number of occasions, a court heard today. Andrew Lancel, 42, best known for his role as Frank Foster in the ITV soap, is accused of six counts of indecent assault of a child under the age of 16. The charges relate to one male victim and the offending allegedly took place between 1993 and 1994 when he was aged 14 and 15, Liverpool Crown Court heard. It allegedly occurred before the actor joined Coronation Street in 2010.

Different forms of childhood abuse increase the risk for mental illness as well as sexual dysfunction in adulthood, but little has been known about how that happens. An international team of researchers, including the Miller School’s Charles B. Nemeroff, M.D., Ph.D., Leonard M. Miller Professor and Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, has discovered a neural basis for this association. The study, published in the June 1 issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, shows that sexually abused and emotionally mistreated children exhibit specific and differential changes in the architecture of their brain that reflect the nature of the mistreatment.