A 7-year-old Saudi Arabian boy had his arms severed in a farming accident, and unfortunately they could not be saved. The reason is that medical care where he lives is woefully inadequate.

Al-Ashdaf Muhammad Al-Sharari’s arms were severed by the irrigation machine at a farm in Al-Jouf three weeks ago. The two hospitals he stayed at near his home lacked proper facilities and specialists to treat Al-Ashdaf’s condition.

He was recently transferred to King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh where he is in stable condition.

However, surgeons at King Faisal said the inadequate medical treatment that Al-Ashdaf received right after the hospital has made it impossible for the boy to have his arms reattached because another infection would likely develop.

Finally some good news to report for once. A 7-year-old from Houston, Texas was reported missing Monday evening and his family went on a frantic search. The boy showed up safe to school this morning — apparently he decided to have an impromptu sleepover at a friend’s house. We’re guessing there’s not going to be any sleepovers again any time soon, if he even gets to see past the outside of his room for putting his family through that kind of worry…

Police and volunteers had been searching for Cesar Guerra since he was reported missing Monday evening after going out to ride his bike. He had last been seen in the 11000 block of Woodshadows.

The boy’s aunt, Monica Jimenez, went to Whittier Elementary School this morning in case he showed up — and he did.

A 5-year-old girl has a disease that is so rare, only 200 people in the world have been diagnosed with it. It’s called Leukodystrophy, a “congenital hypomyelination”, and it’s a neurological disease that actually attacks the white matter in the brain.

This makes it difficult for Lexi [Drumm]’s brain to communicate with other parts of her body, Drumm told the newspaper.

Lexi was born healthy and could even walk and talk up until she was 14-months-old. That’s when she had a seizure and “everything deteriorated from then on,” Drumm said.

Now the disease has started attacking white matter on Lexi’s brain stem and she is unable to move her head and eyes. She can still control her smile.

“I could be in the worst mood possible, and that little smile can still perk me up,” Drumm said.

An alarming new study shows that the number of pregnant women with pre-existing diabetes has increased more than 100% in the last 7 years. The condition causes a risk to both the mother and baby:

Expectant mothers who don’t control their diabetes face an increased risk of miscarriage and stillbirth. Their babies have a higher chance of being born with birth defects.

“These are high-risk pregnancies,” said Dr. Florence Brown, an expert on pregnancy and diabetes. “All women with pre-existing diabetes need to plan their pregnancies.”

Brown is co-director of the Joslin-Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center diabetes and pregnancy program in Boston. She had no role in the study, which was done by researchers at Kaiser Permanente, a California-based health care provider.

A 7-year-old from Long Island, New York is in a coma after being struck by a car after he had made a purchase from an ice cream truck. We had a near miss ourselves as kids chasing after those siren song chimes, so we know how this can happen.

Javier Reyes remains in critical condition at Stony Brook University Medical Center.

The boy’s stepfather tells Newsday in Monday editions that doctors noted the boy’s brain was swelling and that they intended to keep him sedated for 48 to 72 more hours.

The stepfather says Reyes was at his East Patchogue home Sunday when he ran out the door to chase after the ice cream truck before his mother could stop him. He was struck as he stepped from behind the truck. Police say it was an accident.

At least nine of the children taken from Warren Jeff’s polygamist sect have needed hospital care since taken into protective custody, and the children’s mothers are none too happy that they have not been informed of why, or how their kids are doing.

“We can’t seem to get anyone on the phone with authority to make that happen and the mothers don’t even know the seriousness of the situation,” said Amanda Chisholm, a TRLA attorney.

The legal aid society, which represents 48 mothers, said one 2-year-old child lost a severe amount of weight while staying at the San Angelo Coliseum.

TRLA said the organization was told two days ago that the child was in shock and lethargic, but has received no new information since then about where the child is or regarding her current health situation.

The mother is not being allowed to be with this child or her other nursing children, Chisholm said.

Miley Cyrus, pop sensation and star of the Disney Channel show Hannah Montana, says she’s embarrassed about provocative photos taken by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair. Here’s one of the photos Miley is obviously referring to, which shows her topless with a sheet covering her chest. We certainly wouldn’t be too thrilled with our 15-year-old daughter posing for a photo like that… Better keep an eye on that one, Billy Ray!

“I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be ‘artistic’ and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed,” Cyrus said in a statement her publicist released. “I never intended for any of this to happen and I apologize to my fans, who I care so deeply about.”

The 15-year-old Cyrus, daughter of country music star Billy Ray Cyrus, stars as an ordinary teenager with a double life as a rock star on the Disney Channel’s “Hannah Montana.” The channel says “Hannah Montana” is the top-rated cable television show for children aged 6 to 14, reaching more than 164 million viewers around the world.

Nice damage control there, Hannah!

Man, oh, man, this 7 year old’s bottom is probably bright red after his little 8 minute excursion in his Grannie’s SUV….

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., April 26 (UPI) — A 7-year-old Florida boy on an 8-minute joyride in grandma’s sport utility vehicle left a trail of broken mail boxes and bent fenders in his wake, police say.

It all started, police said, when the boy took the keys to the SUV, climbed aboard and took off. Onlookers noticed the vehicle being driven erratically by “a small person,” city police Officer Ellen Lovejoy told the Post.

After taking out a couple of mail boxes, the boy veered into a crowded Costco parking lot, hitting two parked cars, police said. Undeterred, he continued on, hitting two moving vehicles.

Another defenseless toddler dies at the hands of a loser “boyfriend”.

Seriously, when are single moms going to wake up and smell some self respect and dignity while putting their children first? Is sex and a the prospect of a partner, any partner, so important that they’re willing to allow these loser men to beat their babies to death. I hope the loss and suffering was worth the cheap sex and companionship of a psycho loser.

Citrus deputies said that Shands officials said the boy “suffered severe head trauma, a brain stem injury and massive retinal hemorrhaging.”

Spagnolo, who is unemployed and lives in a garage at a friend’s home, told investigators he baby-sits for Sheppard, who lives in Ocala. He said he and Andrew sleep in the same bed.

An Austrian woman, now 42, was found in an Austrian cellar where she had been locked up and raped over the course of 24 years. The woman was the daughter of her abuser. Seven children were fathered as a result, although other pregnancies or babies may not have survived.

This is not the first time an Austrain female was found hostage in Austria. Last year Natascha Kampusch was found after being held in a bunker for 8 years, and snatched by a pedophile. Vienna has long been a safe haven for many pedophile rings. Recent busts have exposed these rings and cracked down on this phenomenon.

Police in Austria have freed a woman who was allegedly locked in an underground dungeon and abused by her father for 24 years.

The woman, named as Elisabeth Fritzl, 42, is believed to have been sexually abused and beaten by her father, 73, since 1984, as he kept her hostage in a cellar beneath his house in a village near the town of Amstetten in Lower Austria.

Police suspect that the man - who has not been named for legal reasons - fathered his daughter’s four children, the oldest of whom is 19.

An 18 year old teenager, shot and killed his entire family. The most heartbreaking was the report that his 14 year old brother tried to hide behind a clothes dryer, but was eventually found by the gun toting murderer and subsequently shot and killed.

What a jerk.

EASLEY, S.C. (AP) — An 18-year-old man gunned down his father, stepmother and two siblings at the home they shared in suburban South Carolina, authorities said Saturday.

Nathaniel Dickson, 18, was arrested 8:30 p.m. Saturday at a home in Belton about 20 miles from where the bodies of his family members were found, Anderson County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Susann Griffin said. He was charged with four counts of murder.

Less than 12 hours earlier, a 911 call led paramedics to find the father dead in the yard. Inside the home they found the other three victims, all shot to death.

We used to live in an apartment building where the landlord seemed even more paranoid about our child falling out a window than we were. And for good reason.

Police in Oakland County’s Waterford Township are investigating the death of a 4-year-old who fell from a second-story window of his home and landed on his head.

They said the boy fell in a subdivision near Cass Lake. That’s about 25 miles northwest of Detroit. He fell Wednesday evening and died early Thursday.

Authorities said the boy’s mother was home when he apparently pushed through a window screen.

Jerry Jones, who plead guilty to murdering three relatives and his 10-month-old daughter, admitted he killed the baby out of revenge:

GBI agent James Harris said he questioned Jones at a hospital two days after his arrest. At the time, Jones was unable to talk because of a self-inflicted gunshot wound and wrote down brief responses.

Harris said that when asked if he committed the killings, Jones wrote “Yes, uh huh.”

When asked why he killed the infant, Harris said Jones wrote “revenge” across the page.

The Blaylocks, who were shot, were the mother and stepfather of Melissa Peeler, Jones’ ex-girlfriend. Bradley and the infant were strangled with a cord.

And one official is blaming abortion. But we’re not even that clear on the argument — we think he’s saying that because there are more abortions, there are less unwanted kids to be put up for adoption, but that’s a bad thing and a moral dilemma? Can someone clue us in on the downside here?

[Jackson Carlaw, Tory public-health spokesman] has queried if the 1967 Abortion Act is linked to the fall in adoptions. There has been a 750 per cent increase in abortions in Scotland since 1968, from 1,537 to 13,081 in 2006. But experts dismissed this as too simplistic an explanation.

“I’m not issuing a moralising polemic against the principle of abortion,” said Mr Carlaw. “I am merely analysing the trends that have followed the passing of the Abortion Act, seeking to bring them to public attention and hoping to encourage public debate about whether we are comfortable with the direction in which we are heading.

“It seems to me that, however worthy, sex education has failed. I would argue that there should be a fresh public discussion.”

Note to criminals — do not bring your 1-month-old son with you when you’re being chased by the cops, he’ll only slow you down.

Timothy Hartford Jr., 38, and Ashley Smith, 26, are suspects in the Thursday shooting deaths of a man and woman in Winston-Salem, N.C., police said. The victims were a 77-year-old Meals on Wheels volunteer and a man she was serving lunch. Another volunteer, the dead woman’s husband, was wounded.

The suspects’ 1-month-old son was with them during the chase and ensuing standoff and was taken into the custody of child protective services. He was not injured, Virginia State Police Sgt. Michelle Cotten said.

A state police officer saw Hartford and Smith’s vehicle in Suffolk at about 2 a.m. Friday and attempted to stop it. Smith drove on and police pursued the vehicle into Norfolk and used road spikes to shred its tires, officials said.

The couple pulled into a shopping mall parking garage and were negotiating with police, but didn’t surrender until about five hours later.