Actor, Acting Coach Charged in Alleged Sex Assault of Teen

A Southern California actor, director and acting coach was arrested and has been charged in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl over a span of 11 months, officials said Thursday. Actor Cameron Thor is accused of sexually assaulting the girl from April 2008 to March 2009. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Special Victims Bureau confirmed that Thor, who was arrested on Tuesday, was arraigned in court Thursday and charged in connection with sex crimes with a child under 14 years of age, kidnap, robbery, rape, and sexual penetration. After consulting with the girl about acting classes, he allegedly drove the girl to a secluded area in Agoura Hills and sexually assaulted her, officials said. Thor was being held on $2.6 million bail. NBC4 has attempted to contact the acting school for a statement but has not received a reponse. Thor's websites and Twitter account were down Thursday night. Los Angeles County jail records indicate Thor is scheduled for a June 19 court appearance. It was not immediately clear whether has obtained an attorney to represent him in the case. Thor has acted the movies "Jurassic Park," "A Few Good Men," and "Hook," and the TV show "Star Trek: The Next Generation." He played Lewis Dodgson, who made a deal to purchase dinosaur embryos, in "Jurassic Park."

Twitter driving couples towards infidelity, break-ups

Have you noticed a drastic change in the behaviour of your hubby towards you since the day he joined Twitter? It is time to take cognizance of how much time he is spending on the micro-blogging site. According to new research, active users of social networking who are in a romantic relationship may find that Twitter-related conflicts cause relationship problems that can become serious enough to result in infidelity or divorce. To reach this conclusion, researchers from University of Missouri-Columbia evaluated the amount of time a person spends on Twitter. They looked at how much conflict arose between couples as a result of active Twitter usage and whether negative relationship outcomes were associated with active Twitter use and Twitter-related conflict. "The idea was to characterise the relationship between active Twitter use, Twitter-related conflict and negative relationship outcomes," said Russell Clayton from University of Missouri-Columbia. Clayton found that active Twitter use and Twitter-related conflict were positively associated with an increase in emotional and physical cheating, break-up and divorce. These outcomes, however, were not impacted by length of romantic relationship. "Since much of the social networking research is in its infancy, we do not know if other media, such as Instagram will also impact relationships in a negative way," said Brenda K Wiederhold, editor-in-chief at Interactive Media Institute, San Diego, California. With more than 554 million active users, Twitter is one of the most popular social networking sites. The study appeared in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. http://media2.intoday.in/wonderwoman/images/stories//January2014/fighting-couple_070314053645.jpg