NEW YORK – A man claiming to be the son of the founder of a once-influential Roman Catholic religious order, and accused his father of repeatedly molesting him.

In a lawsuit, Jose Raul Gonzalez, 30, accused the late Rev. Marcial Maciel of abuse beginning at age 7.

Gonzalez said Maciel led a double life, explaining his long absences from the family by saying he was a CIA agent and oil executive.

Los Angeles – I would have used one our really lame headlines like “THE DEL TACO MASSACRE!” like we usually do with stories like this, but CBS news beat me to it. The massacre they are referring to happened on Saturday afternoon when Jimmy Schlager walked inside a California Del Taco and opened fire on his 29-year-old stepdaughter and her family. Schlager murdered her husband, Alex Trujillo, and her 6-year-old son Adrian. He shot her 10 times and her other 5-year-old son twice but miraculously, they are both currently alive. They have undergone surgery at the hospital where their conditions have improved.

SPRING HILL, Fla. – Neighbors describe the house where 21-year-old Stanley Eckard and his family lived as the “rowdy” house of the neighborhood. Loud fighting, visits by police, stuff like that. On Friday Stanley’s 19-year-old brother, Sean Eckard, went missing. Later that night, his mother observed something that helped pinpoint his whereabouts.

Monday, four people, including Sheri Lynn Davis from the Jamie’s House Charter School in Texas were charged with injury to a child; the videotaped incident occurred April 29 and has been under investigation ever since.

Monday, Sheri Lynn Davis was charged with injury to a child by the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, and other authorities at the school who knew of or watch the alleged crime occur were also charged. Gabriel Hahn Moseley (a teacher), David Leonard Jones (the principal), and Ollie Williams Hilliard (superintendent) were charged with failure to report child abuse, according to MSNBC.

At the closing Mass of the Year for Priests, referring to the fact that, in this very year of joy for the sacrament of the priesthood, the sins of priests had come to light, particularly the abuse of the little ones, Pope Benedict XVI made a very significant declaration.

It reflects his determination to address everything related to child abuse by priests with all the courage that it requires.

The Holy Father said: “We insistently beg forgiveness from God and from the persons involved, while promising to do everything possible to ensure that such abuse will never occur again; and that in admitting men to priestly ministry and in their formation we will do everything we can to weigh the authenticity of their vocation and make every effort to accompany priests along their journey.”

Internet crimes against children will be the subject of SOS’ first Child Abuse Prevention Summit scheduled from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on July 15 in the Flint Hills Technical College.

Sgt. Chet Pinkston of the Wichita Missing and Exploited Children Unit and the Emporia Area Multi-Disciplinary Team will be the presenters for the summit.

Pinkson, with 20 years of law-enforcement experience, also is a member of the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. He will provide an overview of both organizations, as well as internet safety and social media.

MEDFORD, Ore. — Dozens of people attended a silent vigil in Downtown Medford Monday evening for a 2-year-old girl who was assaulted and later died.

Her mother’s boyfriend is suspected of causing her death.

29-year-old Benjamin George was charged with first-degree assault June 12th. Three days later the toddler, Kacy, died from internal brain injuries at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital in Portland.

MARK COLVIN: On the third anniversary of the Northern Territory Intervention, the Territory’s child protection system has admitted that it can’t deal with the growing number of children needing help.
The intervention was launched in the Northern Territory’s Indigenous communities to protect children from abuse.

A new Federal Government report card shows that since the intervention began reports of child abuse and neglect have more than doubled. It’s a rise that the Government puts down to an increased police presence in the bush and better relations between Aboriginal people and police.

But what happens to the children who are the victims of abuse and neglect?

Sara Everingham reports…

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. (CBS/WTEV) Parents of a 10-year-old Florida boy are charged with child abuse after police found the boy, who was reported missing, under a bathroom sink, according to CBS affiliate WTEV.

The Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office said Thomas Anthony Boone, 38, and Kimberly Sue Boone, 39, each face three counts of aggravated child abuse for intentionally torturing, cruelly punishing and unlawfully holding the child captive, reported ABC’s WZVN.

DONA ANA COUNTY, N.M. — Dona Ana County officials are investigating an incident where a 5-year-old child was taken to an El Paso hospital with multiple injuries and unconscious.

Investigators were called out to Providence Hospital around 2 p.m. Sunday.

Red flags

Potential red flags that Lauren McConniel was being abused were presented to Ball Memorial Hospital, Southway Urgent Care Center, St. Vincent Randolph Hospital and Meridian Services during multiple visits between Nov. 19 and March 2. They included:

CONCORD, N.H. —
A New Hampshire sex offender on probation is asking the state’s highest court to allow him to go to church with a chaperone.

The case of Jonathan Perfetto marks the first time the New Hampshire Supreme Court is being asked to rule whether a probation condition that effectively bars church attendance violates constitutional rights to religious freedom.

When most of us think of female genital mutilation, we probably think of faraway places. Well, peel off those blinders. In 1997, our very own Department of Health and Human Services estimated that 168,000 girls and women living in the United States had been or were at risk of being subjected to some form of the abhorrent practice known as female genital mutilation (FGM).

Jonathan Perfetto, a repeat sex offender, left prison eight days ago. He’s living in a Concord parking garage and spending his days at the city library. He never finished sex offender treatment in prison, and he has no one supervising him.

Perfetto’s biggest fear, he says, is that he’s going to reoffend. His measure of success isn’t reassuring. “I haven’t bought pornography yet, and I’ve been out (of prison) almost a week,” he said yesterday.