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Murdered 16 year old’s case under investigation

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Police are not releasing the details of how or why a 16 year old Woodrow Wilson High School was killed in her house last Thursday. Foul play is suspected.

Anybody our there have any theories?

Meghan got out of school early Thursday after an exam. She chatted with her next-door neighbor about school around 11:20 a.m.

“She seemed fine,” Andrea Warren, who lent the Woodrow Wilson High School sophomore a package of macaroni and cheese for lunch, recalled earlier Friday.

It was about 4 p.m. Thursday when Meghan’s stepfather returned to the family’s home and found her lifeless body. He called 911. Paramedics pronounced her dead. Police say it’s a homicide.

Portsmouth police released scant details about the case and would not reveal anything about the scene in the house. As of late Friday, police also announced no arrests and would not say how she died. Neither would the medical examiner’s office, which referred requests for information about her cause of death to the police. A police spokeswoman on Friday did not respond to several phone messages.

Investigators remained on the scene Friday.

Choking boy saved by police

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

A good piece of news for once, as police officers and family save a 12 year old boy who was choking on a piece of bread.

“It’s just a great thing,” said Thomas Reese, the boy’s uncle.

Police said Michael was heading out the door around 7:15 a.m. when his mother reminded him to eat breakfast and he grabbed a piece of bread.

When he started choking, his mother, Nancy Conklin, called out for help. Her brother, Reese, said Michael couldn’t breath or respond to them, and that his jaw was clenched.

Reese started to perform the Heimlich maneuver and was able to open his nephew’s jaw. When Officers Victor Perez and Vincent Sorrentino arrived at the home, Reese said they helped lay the boy on the floor.

Perez said he also performed the Heimlich maneuver on the child and was able to dislodge the food from the boy’s throat.

Hospital sued over baby switch

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

As unfortunate as this case is, the mix-up lasted approximately 90 minutes when two infants were accidentally switched while being circumsized. In fact, it only lasted a few hours.

Now the parents are suing the hospital for $50,000. MT is skeptical and isn’t sure if an hour or two of holding someone else’s baby is worth $50,000. The parents claim they’re doing it so that the hospital puts policies in place to ensure this doesn’t happen again. This was an honest, one in a million(s) mistake and the hospital took quick measures to right the situation. MT thinks this may just have presented itself as an opportunity for these parents to make a little cash.

But in fact, hospital workers had inadvertently switched the babies.

They sent Bathon home with Hopkins’ son, leaving 17-year-old Hopkins in her hospital room, worried about her son’s whereabouts, attorney John Womick said Friday after suing on the women’s behalf in Williamson County Court.

“Kassie, she’s having trouble communicating how she feels,” Womick said Friday. “All she can do pretty much is cry. She’s now paranoid. She’s very concerned about something happening to her baby.”

The hospital realized the mix-up and called Bathon at home the same day, March 28, and left a message on her answering machine asking her to return to Marion to retrieve her real son, Womick said.

Womick said he wants the court to require the hospital to investigate what led to the switch and take steps to make sure it does not happen again. The lawsuits seek monetary damages of more than $50,000 for each woman and a jury trial.