Boston Blotter: Mother Attacks 2-Year-Old With Scissors

-- A Gardner woman allegedly attacked her 2-year-old daughter with a pair of scissors and tried to strangle her to death before being stopped by a passerby last night. [Herald]

-- A Woburn girls basketball coach was indicted on charges that he raped two of his players and videotaped the attacks. [Globe]

-- A New Bedford child rapist was given a life sentence for a January 2008 attack at the New Bedford Public Library. [Globe]

-- Not only are break-ins on the rise in Brookline, but you also run the risk of being robbed at knifepoint. It's a rough town. [UHub, Brookline TAB]

-- What is it that keeps bringing Somerville prostitutes back to Cummings Street? Somerville undercover cops busted two naked alleged prostitutes at the La Quinta Inn on Cummings Street last week. [Somerville Journal]

All charges alleged until proven under law.