Finn McConnell, a 15-month-old baby in Puyallup, Washington, has a very rare form of cancer, Opsoclonus Myoclonus Syndrome, which causes antibodies to mistake the brain for a cancerous tumor creating a situation where one’s “own body [attacks the] brain.”

Last December, Finn’s mother took him to the hospital after he began to act funny.

“We had noticed that he had stopped talking. He was having more difficulty crawling. His balance was off and he would wake up absolutely just screaming, probably five to six times a night,” said mother Theresa McConnell.

She thought he had an ear infection. But the doctor’s diagnosis was much more grim than she ever imagined.

“He says ‘I think he has a tumor in the brain,’” she said. “Of course our hearts just drop. You don’t want to get that kind of news.”

Finn was admitted to the hospital for a series of tests.

An MRI revealed that Finn’s tumor was not in his brain, but in his chest.

While we agree on some level and don’t think the kid needs jail time, something needs to be done. Because if you have a 10-year-old girl beating up another kid so badly cops label it “aggravated assault”, there’s nowhere to go but down unless she gets some intervention.

A 10-year-old girl accused of brutally attacking another girl on a playground is too emotionally immature to understand the criminal charges against her and they should be dismissed, a public defender said.

The 10-year-old and another girl, 11, face charges including aggravated assault for the attack on another 10-year-old girl in an elementary school playground the evening of April 3. The girls are accused of stomping on the victim and breaking her hip, police said.

Erie County Public Defender Tony Logue says he will ask a Juvenile Court judge to dismiss criminal charges against the 10-year-old girl.

“How can my attorney effectively communicate with his clients given the client’s chronological age versus emotional age?” Logue said.

Fellow Navy seamen Corey Alan Bryant and Heaven Kristina Smith have been charged in the death of their baby, Miracle Grace. Miracle’s twin sister, Heaven L. Bryant is in the hospital. Smith was charged with one count of murder, and both her and Bryant were charged with two felony counts of neglect, as the infants were apparently just ignored by the couple:

Both children were taken to Bon Secours DePaul Medical Center on Tuesday, where Miracle Grace died about 9:30 a.m. police said.

The medical examiner determined the death to be a homicide, police said.

The cause was medical and nutritional neglect, said Donna Price, spokeswoman for the medical examiner’s office.

The remaining twin has been transferred to Portsmouth Naval Medical Center.

Both parents appeared early Wednesday in Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court. They are being held without bond, according to Amanda Howie, spokeswoman for the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office. They indicated they intend to hire attorneys and are due back in court April 30.