LAKEWOOD, CO — Police are defending their use of pepper spray on an 8-year-old boy who was throwing a tantrum at school. Police were called to the school after teachers say Aidan Elliot had been spitting and cursing at them.
He was also allegedly trying to stab them with a piece of wood trim he had broken off the wall, according to local TV station KUSA-TV.

PARAMUS, N.J.—A school administrator and a teacher at Paramus Catholic High School are being charged with having sex with female students during a class trip to Europe, officials announced Wednesday. According to Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli, the staffers identified as 27-year-old Michael Sumulikoski and 31-year-old Artur Sopel were arrested and charged following a month long investigation which uncovered the inappropriate sexual conduct involving four female students.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The man extradited to Florida for writing, publishing and selling a controversial book considered a “how-to” for pedophiles pleaded no contest to criminal charges in exchange for two years’ probation, authorities said Thursday. Phillip Greaves was arrested in his home state of Colorado in December and extradited to Polk County, Florida. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said at the time his detectives were able to establish jurisdiction in the case by conducting an undercover operation, buying a copy of the book “The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover’s Code of Conduct,” through the mail.

AZUSA– A man who volunteered at a high school in Azusa has been arrested for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old student, police said. 23-year-old Eric Doung faces felony sex charges, according to Azusa police. Doung is scheduled to be arraigned at the Pomona courthouse on Thursday.

(CNN) — Thursday’s massacre of 11 students at a Brazilian school could have been even worse, were it not for the heroic actions of a military policeman, according to a statement from the Rio de Janeiro state governor’s office. Third Sgt. Marcio Alexandre Alves, 38, and a colleague raced to the Municipal School Tasso da Silveira in Realengo after they were approached by a student two blocks away from the school, who asked them for help, the governor’s office said.

Melissa Owens speaks to the Florence Rotary Club on Monday at the Marriott Shoals Conference Center in Florence. Owens discussed her troubled upbringing as a victim of abuse and her conviction to serve as an advocate for survivors. She details her story in her book, “Redemption: Missy’s Story.”

(MEMPHIS, TN) — Memphis Police Officer Mutima Winters is due in court Monday to face a charge of Aggravated Child Abuse. Officer Winters, who is assigned to the Old Allen Station, has been relieved of duty pending the outcome of the investigation. She’s been on the force since December, 2008. She is currently out on bond.

ATHENS COUNTY, Ohio — Trust betrayed in a sacred environment — that’s what two families are dealing with Monday after their little boys were raped at a church conference. It was a statewide church convention in Ohio, sponsored by a local church in Albany at the town’s community center. But, what started out as a weekend of church fun, fellowship and family, ended in violence, deviance and innocence lost forever.

HERNANDO, MS – A Mid-South preacher facing child porn charges. Hernando Police say Eddie Prince downloaded porn on a public library computer. This may only be the beginning for Prince.

Police say more charges are possible in Edward Prince’s case. They took computers from his home and church when they arrested him Friday night. Now, they’re investigating to see if any more child porn can be found.

Delaware—- A 20-year-old Milford man came under investigation for child pornography after a referral from the Pennsylvania Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force to the Delaware Child Predator Task Force. Eric R. Aldrich has been charged with 27 counts of dealing in child pornography after search warrant was executed at his residence. Numerous images were found on multiple computers and other ditigal media. He is now being held in the Sussex Correctional Institute on a $270,000 secured bail.

BOSTON, MA– Former Christ the King men’s basketball coach Bob Oliva finally admitted to accusations of molesting his players, pleading guilty Monday in a Boston courtroom. Oliva will receive five years of probation after pleading guilty to sexually abusing a then fourteen-year-old player, James Carlino, in Boston during the summer of 1976.

A new L.A. County report on the deaths of children who come into contact with its foster care system is, in one sense, depressingly unsurprising. It highlights with startling precision the short, brutal lives that so many of this county’s young people endure. Year after year, tens of thousands of children fall under the scrutiny of the Department of Children and Family Services — some glancingly or peripherally, others in more sustained ways — and 200 or so of those children die annually, victims of accidents, natural causes or, too often, suicide or murder.

UT Medical Center has confirmed to 10 News that Mary Baker, the grandmother of eight-year-old Dylan Akers, died Sunday. Baker is accused of killing Akers in a murder-suicide Saturday night at convenience store in North Knoxville. A store worker found the eight-year-old Akers shot and killed inside the Kenjo Market bathroom Saturday night. Baker was also in the bathroom with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, but was still alive when emergency crews arrived and transported her to UT Medical Center.

Baldwinsville – A Baldwinsville man is facing rape and other charges after having intercourse and sexual contact with a minor on multiple occasions, according to State Police. Robert Hogan, 68, of Legacy Drive is charged with first degree rape, sexual abuse, and endangering the welfare of a child.