LOS ANGELES ( KTLA) — A 21-year old father has been booked on suspicion of murder after slamming his truck into a home, killing his ex-girlfriend and their newborn daughter. Authorities say 21-year-old Eduardo Villareal was treated for minor injuries Monday and was booked after being released from a hospital. The crash was reported just before midnight in the 400 block of N. Mott Street. Investigators say about 14 people were inside the home at the time of the incident, possibly for a Halloween get-together. A white Cadillac Escalade pickup, driven by Villarreal, slammed into the house, landing in the mother’s bedroom, officials said.

LOS ANGELES ( KTLA) — A 5-year-old boy who was shot in the backyard of a South Los Angeles home with family members has died. Family members say Aaron Shannon, Jr. was taken off life support and died at about 10 p.m. Monday night. The boy was shot around 2 p.m. Sunday in the 1000 block of E. 84th Street as he was getting ready for a Halloween party, according to LAPD homicide detectives. He even posed for pictures in his ‘Spiderman’ costume.

COSTA MESA (KTLA) — A man accused of trying to unzip a teenager’s pants aboard an Orange County bus last week is believed to have targeted at least two other teenagers. 55-year-old Herath Premaratnea was taken into custody as he exited a bus at the corner of Harbor Boulevard and Wilson Street on Oct. 28, just hours after officials released images caught on bus surveillance cameras. Premaratnea is suspected of being involved in at least two incidents that happened Monday aboard the OCTA bus traveling near Ave and 18th St. in Costa Mesa about 5:40 p.m.

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) — Reality star Shane Sparks has been ordered to stand trial on eight sex counts involving an underage girl in the 1990s. Melvin Shane Sparks, 40, is charged with six counts of a lewd act on a child and two counts of oral copulation of a person under 16. He was arrested at his Studio City home on December 18 and was released the following day. The criminal complaint alleged that the crimes occurred between July 1994 and April 1997. Sparks was arrested Dec. 18 at his Studio City home and he was released on $590,000 bail.

Case closed doesn’t mean lesson learned.

When AWOL sex offenders are nabbed for failing to register their location, they often go back to doing exactly what they did before being caught. They continue to not register. A review of noncompliant sex offender files from the U.S. Marshals Service, the lead federal agency helping state and local cops locate the fugitives, shows that 1,400 offenders were arrested numerous times or for multiple outstanding warrants. To be sure, many if not most sex offenders comply with the reporting requirements and residency restrictions a growing number of states are placing on the convicts. But many don’t, and a review of their arrest records highlights the slice of sex offenders who persistently evade law enforcement.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A 43-year-old registered sex offender is in custody in Sioux Falls after his arrest on suspicion of rape and manufacturing child pornography. According to a Sioux Falls Police Department news release, officers took a report of possible child pornography at a home in the central part of the city Sunday. Sandor Czekus was arrested after detectives served a search warrant and conducted interviews.

EUGENE, Ore. –Police accuse Chad Gerald Schacht, who teaches at a Springfield middle school and coaches at a Eugene high school, of sexually abusing a 15-year-old student . Schacht, 40, is a teacher at Agnes Stewert Middle School. But it was his activities as a cross country coach at Sheldon High which sparked an investigation by the Violent Crimes Unit of the Eugene Police Department. Staffers at Sheldon received information about the alleged abuse, and reported it to police.

A HAWARDEN man has admitted making and distributing indecent images of children. Defendant Robert Timothy Kelly, 23, of Braeside Avenue, faced a total of 21 charges when he appeared at Mold Crown Court on Friday. He admitted 13 charges of making images by downloading them off the internet. Kelly also admitted one charge of possessing 14,225 still images of child sex abuse and 81 videos; possessing an item of extreme porn involving sex acts between a person and a horse and five charges of distributing images.

Rape against minors, particularly girls below 10 years of age, is on the rise. Activists working on the issue of child abuse feel that in 80 per cent of cases, trusted and people in power are the ones responsible for abusing the small girls in their custody. They feel that only stringent punishment will reduce these growing instances. The report is published by the state Criminal Investigation Department (CID) about crime trends in the state. It shows that in 2008, 118 rape cases were reported wherein the victims were below 10 years of age. Last year, the number of such cases went up to 131.

A MAN from Ramsgate who fled justice after committing a string of vile sex crimes against young girls has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Ian Duncan McLeod-McLean, 48, fled the country after he was charged by police but on October 29 he sentenced to 12 years in prison at Maidstone Crown Court. McLeod-McLean, previously of Monkton Street, was due to stand trial in May 2008, but went to Sierra Leone, where he slept rough for two years as an illegal immigrant. Police finally caught him after he contracted a serious bout of malaria and was hospitalised. When it was discovered he was an illegal immigrant and wanted by UK police, authorities sprang into action and he was deported back to the UK where he was arrested upon arrival at London Heathrow. McLeod-McLean had admitted 20 counts of sexual abuse at an earlier hearing on September 30.

Increasing concerns about teenagers’ safety on popular social networking sites like Facebook have prompted SafetyWeb.com, the leading Web-based Internet monitoring software for parents, to introduce the new “Find Help” application on Facebook: http://apps.facebook.com/findhelp/. It’s the first online help tool of its kind that enables teens using Facebook to quickly report any violation to Facebook officials, while also connecting to the leading safety and crisis support organizations related to cyberbullying, child exploitation, suicide and depression, child abuse, runaways, drug abuse, hate issues, alcohol abuse, and LGBTQ issues.

A pervert going through a sex change says he downloaded 14,000 child abuse images to find out what it is like to grow up as a girl. Graham Newley has legally changed his name to Gillian Rebecca and lived as a woman since 2000. His lawyer said the 52-year-old “had got to the point of pre-operative assessment for full transgender surgery to change her from a male to a female”. Newley was arrested after more than 14,000 images were found on a laptop at his home in Darnley Road, Strood, last October.

The coroner in the Kahui inquest has expressed amazement about the number of suspected child abuse cases reported to Child, Youth and Family. “This coroner was astounded to read that in the last year there were 110,000 notifications. That’s unbelievable, isn’t it?” Garry Evans asked Children’s Commissioner John Angus yesterday. Dr Angus said reports of child abuse to Child, Youth and Family had risen rapidly in the past few years, because of greater public awareness and a shift in police practice, reflecting a new understanding of harm done to children in cases of abuse.

PHOENIX – Phoenix police charged a 24-year-old man with murder after a two-year-old child was pronounced dead Saturday night as a result of his abusive behavior, officials said. Authorities responded to a report of a child not breathing around 9 p.m. near 83rd Avenue and Indian School Road, said Sgt. Steve Martos with the Phoenix Police Department. “It’s just sad,” said neighbor Brenda Witzman. “I’m a mom of four myself. I can’t understand why people would want to hurt an innocent child like that.” Fire personnel transported the two-year-old boy to a local hospital where medical staff declared the boy deceased, Martos said.