BAKERSFIELD, CA — A transient could be responsible for kidnapping and raping a 6-year-old girl. The Kern County Sheriff’s Office released a composite image of the suspect late Monday. The reported abduction allegedly happened that afternoon as the child played in her yard near the area of Buckley Avenue and Garber Way, near East Panama Lane and South Union Avenue in southeast Bakersfield. “We are getting tips and we’re following up on those tips,” sheriff’s spokesman Ray Pruitt told Eyewitness News Tuesday afternoon. Officers flooded the area all day, talking to people and handing out fliers with the sketch.

New York police pepper-sprayed a woman and her family—including a five-month-old and two-year-old—after accusing her of trying to get on the subway without paying, a lawsuit picked up by the Courthouse News Service claims. Marilyn Taylor says she was getting on the subway with her four- and two-year-olds, five-month-old, and their father on Aug. 9; she took a stroller through a service entrance, which police took to mean she was skipping the fare, the complaint says. They stopped her, and then the “aggressiveness” began, according to the filing.

The estranged wife of a National Guardsman died with her two children. Authorities from Zimmerman, MN, suspect that 35-year-old Stephanie Shields took the life of her two young children before taking her own, sometime this past weekend.

A Stevens County, Washington, judge has deemed two boys, aged 10 and 11, competent enough to stand trial for conspiracy. According to SkyNews, the boys had plotted to kill a female classmate, along with other children, with a knife and a semi-automatic pistol, which one boy stole from his older brother.

LOS ANGELES, CA — A transient with a long criminal record is being sought in the kidnapping of a 10-year-old girl who was snatched from her San Fernando Valley home before dawn last week and abandoned hours later in front of a hospital. Police identified Tobias Dustin Summers, 30, as a suspect Saturday, but they couldn’t elaborate on the motive or what led them to him. They also don’t know if the girl was targeted. “We have no information that the family knew this individual or that the individual knew any members of the family,” Los Angeles Police Deputy Chief Kirk Albanese said. About 40 detectives have been investigating since the girl was abducted from her home at around 3 a.m. Wednesday.

A man believed to be the father of a three-year-old girl who was allegedly murdered by her aunt’s boyfriend has been retrained in court as he yelled expletives while coming face-to-face with the killer. As the judge ruled on bond for Jessie Rodriguez in Leighton Criminal Courthouse, Illinois, the man stood up and shouted: ‘That’s horses****! There should be no bail!’ As deputies ordered him to be quiet, the man continued: ‘You make sure they f*** the s*** out of him! Gouge his eyeballs!’ Several deputies pinned the man, who has not been identified, to the ground as he continued to scream for ‘my baby’, Gina Presley, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

Almost one in five high school boys has been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as well as 11 per cent of school age children overall, according to new research. Data compiled by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and published in the New York Times found a staggering rise in the number of diagnoses over the last ten years. It raises the specter of thousands of children being placed on stimulant drugs like Adderal or Ritalin and questions whether diagnosis numbers are out of proportion to reality.

Sesame Street puppeteer Kevin Clash is facing a fifth lawsuit from a young man alleging sexual abuse. Kevin Kiadii was just 16 when he alleges that the so-called voice of Elmo ‘groomed and co-erced him into sexual contact’, including full penetration, at his Manhattan home. Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, Mr Kiadii’s attorney Jeff Herman revealed his intention to file the suit. He said: ‘By standing up now my client is standing up for his 16-year-old self. He wasn’t able to consent. He was a compliant victim and today he feels totally preyed upon and taken advantage of.’

4-year-old Buddy Cook died at his adoptive parents home, and now police and ChildProtective Services are beginning to rule the cause of death to be malnutrition and dehydration and are investigating the parents, David and Angel Cook. The Star-Telegram reports that Buddy never had it easy, coming from an abusive family, giving him post-traumatic distress disorder, attachment disorder, and a sexually transmitted disease.

Sex offences linked to Facebook or Twitter users have rocketed in the last four years, a Mirror investigation reveals. And in an another alarming trend, pedophiles are increasingly logging on to the social networking sites to target children. A total of 1,642 cases since 2009 have been reported to police where the sites played a part in the commission or aftermath of a crime. Statistics obtained under freedom of information laws show the number has more than quadrupled from 139 four years ago to 614 last year.

A household-name celebrity was arrested on suspicion of sexual offences by Jimmy Savile cops yesterday. The 82-year-old, who has not been named, was quizzed under caution by Met Police detectives and bailed until May pending further inquiries. He is one of 11 people arrested as part of Operation Yewtree into alleged offending by the former disc jockey and Jim’ll Fix It star and “others”. The spokesman said the man was interviewed under caution on November 29 last year, five days after a search warrant was executed at an address in Berkshire.

Six men have been arrested and almost 50 alleged victims of rape, abuse and sex slavery aged as young as 12. Police believe they have smashed what could be Britain’s biggest child-sex ring. Six men have been arrested so far and officers have identified almost 50 alleged victims of rape, abuse and sex slavery aged as young as 12. Detectives fear those numbers could easily reach more than 100 in a case potentially bigger than the Rochdale grooming scandal. The men suspected of carrying out the abuse are of various nationalities, a source said.

This is the first view inside the most gruesome building at a notorious boys reform school in Florida. The mausoleum-like building known as the ‘White House’ at the Dozier School housed nine barren cubicles where boys accused of rule breaking were held. Cameras were briefly given access before the whole site is declared a crime scene and they captured a series of chilling and eerie images. Former students spoke out several years ago with horror stories of sexual abuse and frequent beatings in the White House, at the school in the Florida Panhandle city of Marianna. MyFoxOrlando showed disturbing footage from inside the prison-like building. One room has a bloody handprint smeared on the painted walls and a number of other stains.

A father pleads guilty to killing his three young daughters. Aaron Schaffhausen, 35, changed his pleas Thursday to guilty but insane in the killings of his three young daughters last summer in Wisconsin. With the plea change, prosecutors won’t have to prove Schaffhausen killed his daughters and or that he tried to set fire to their River Falls home last July.