A 22-year-old man is being charged in the savage killing of a mom and daughter in Las Vegas after a week-long man hunt. Bryan Clay is alleged to have bludgeoned to death 10-year-old Karla Martinez and her mother, Ignacia Martinez at their Robin Street home last Saturday, in an apparent random crime. Karla’s father, Arturo Martinez, 39, was critically injured in the bludgeoning attack and remains in hospital with head injuries.

Delhi dangerous – not only for a woman returning alone from a night shift, as the euphemism goes, but more so for children. As many as 14 kids go missing in the Capital daily, which is an alarming eight per cent of the national total for such cases. Released for the first time and disclosed in Parliament, the Union home ministry’s data says 5,111 children disappeared from the city last year.

A man who had such a horrible childhood that he was invited to the White House as a symbol of young victims will now go to prison for trying to kill a 10-year-old girl. Adam Croote, 23, of Albany, New York, was sentenced on Friday to at least 25 years behind bars for raping and choking the girl he had been babysitting. As a child, Croote was a poster child for missing children, which led him to meet President Bill Clinton in 1996 at age seven.

A video that a school in Massachusetts has fought in court for years to keep under wraps was played in public for the first time this week, revealing the torture of a disabled boy through the use of repeated electric shocks. The Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) in Caton, Massachusetts has for years been pushing back against allegations of flippant use of electric shocks and other abuses against its special-needs students, and it had managed to keep video central to a case brought by one former student’s mother under wraps. Now, the public knows why.

LONG BEACH– The body of a 9-year-old girl was found in Long Beach on Saturday. Police said a young girl was found dead with lacerations to her chest. A man with self-inflicted lacerations was transported to a nearby hospital. The two people involved were a parent and a child, police said. They were believed to be residents of Long Beach.

An English foster mother claims to have fallen in love with her own charge. Jane Riches, 57, had intercourse with her foster son on his sixteenth birthday. According to Daily Mail, Jane Riches, 57, from Drewsteignton, Devon, confessed to one charge of indecent assault.

ONAWA, Iowa — A western Iowa woman accused of drowning her 15-month-old son has been formally charged with first-degree murder. The Monona County Attorney’s Office filed the charge against Ashley Cameron, 24, of Onawa on Thursday. She is scheduled to be arraigned May 14.

PHILADELPHIA — A young man told a jury in a criminal priest-abuse case Wednesday that he was sexually assaulted as an altar boy by two Philadelphia priests and that he soon turned to drugs for relief. The witness, a policeman’s son, said he started smoking marijuana the summer he turned 11 to deal with the abuse, and has since tried drug treatment 23 times to battle addictions to heroin, painkillers and other drugs.

The shamed council boss at the centre of the Baby P case has presided over another child abuse scandal, it emerged yesterday. A damning report into the horrific neglect of ten children in Haringey, North London, blamed ‘wholly dysfunctional’ management at the council department meant to protect them – led by Sharon Shoesmith.

WOODLAND PARK — A Passaic County police officer sent a 12-year-old girl explicit photos of himself in uniform and tried to set up a sexual encounter with her, days after meeting the girl while assisting her family in an unrelated police matter, authorities said today. Woodland Park Police Officer Steven Vigorito Jr. pleaded not guilty in Superior Court in Paterson to charges ranging from attempted aggravated sexual assault to luring and enticing a child.

The girl, and her 11-year-old brother, suffered a horrific catalog of abuse that included regular beatings with sticks and belts. he had such irredeemably rotten teeth by the end of the ordeal that she still has problems eating, nearly four years on. Even when the boy, who had also been suffering from an untreated ear infection, asked his mother why she was hurting them, she callously replied: ‘Because I feel like it.’

HUNTINGTON BEACH — A 30-year old man has been found guilty of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 7-year old developmentally disabled girl. Daniel Vlas Flores, 30, was convicted of kidnapping to commit a sexual offense, sexual intercourse, sodomy and sexual penetration of a child 10 years old or younger, according to the Orange County district attorney’s office.

James Speidel, a 36-year-old Nike executive, cut the gas line outside his home, filling it with natural gas, in an attempt to blow it up with his sleeping wife and children inside. According to The Daily Mail, Speidel’s wife, Laura, 38, smelled the gas in the middle of the night and rushed herself and the four children out of the house.

A Ohio woman who was charged for dressing up as a teenage boy in order to have sex with girls is going back to jail. Patricia Dye, 32, a sex offender who was arrested in 2010 for dressing up as a boy and tricking a 16-year-old girl into having sex with her, is going back to jail because she failed to notify the Butler County sheriff about her move to California.