WTF is going on in the world?

These yarns are on News.com.au today:

A TEENAGER has reportedly shown up at a police station in Japan carrying a severed head and saying he killed his mother

A HOUSTON woman who claimed her baby son's genitals were severed in an attack by the family dog appeared in court today charged with injuring her child.

I mean sweet Jesus. This stuff is nuts. Who goes around severing bits of their relatives? And while it is clear what happens now to the Japanese mother, what happens to the American boy who has had his life ruined? I can't even begin to imagine what happens from here. Or how he will grow up. What he will feel. It's awful. Too terrible.