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Cheerleading coach accused of sexual assault

Monday, May 5th, 2008

A cheerleading coach in Naperville, Illinois has been charged with multiple counts of sexual assault to a girl he was coaching in 2006, who was 13 at the time.

Bradley Abrahams, 28, of the 4000 block of Gabrielle Drive, Aurora, is charged with five counts of criminal sexual assault. Abrahams surrendered to Naperville police Monday and was released after posting $100,000 bail, police said.

He is co-owner of ICE Athletics Cheer and Dance on Ambassador Drive in Naperville, where the alleged incidents occurred. A spokesman for the gym said Abrahams has had no contact with children at the gym since the girl’s parents reported the allegations to police in July.

Teenager suffers critical injury in highway shooting

Monday, May 5th, 2008

This seems like a case of some serious road rage. What the hell is wrong with people?

A teenage girl remained in critical condition Monday after being shot in the head by someone in another vehicle over the weekend, Washington County authorities said.

Nicole Sell, 16, of Slinger, was being treated at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Wauwatosa, Sheriff Dale Schmidt said in a news release.

Sell was one of three people riding in a vehicle in the town of Addison on Saturday night, deputies said. A second vehicle passed the first about 11 p.m. and one or more occupants fired multiple shots into Sell’s vehicle, authorities said.

Day out for girl with rare skin condition

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Alice Tyson, a 3-year-old in the U.K., has a rare condition that only affects one in a million people. It’s called Xeroderma Pigmentosum, which causes her skin to be permanently damaged and increases her risk of skin cancer if she is exposed to sunlight.

The little girl spends much of her time confined to the darkness of the family sitting room.

So dermatology nurse at the Cumberland Infirmary, Julie Bowman, decided the youngster more than deserved a grand day out.

She hit the phonebook and got in touch with businesses all over the city calling on them to pledge a treat for Alice.

She said: “A lot of local people have been so interested in Alice and I thought the family deserved something nice.

U.S. kids prescribed anti-psychotic meds 6 times more than U.K.

Monday, May 5th, 2008

So the question, as the article states, is “does it mean U.S. kids are being over-treated? Or that U.K. children are being under-treated”?

Experts say that’s almost beside the point, because use is rising on both sides of the Atlantic. And with scant long-term safety data, it’s likely the drugs are being over-prescribed for both U.S. and U.K. children, research suggests.

Among the most commonly used drugs were those to treat autism and hyperactivity.

In the U.K. study, anti-psychotics were prescribed for 595 children at a rate of less than four per 10,000 children in 1992. By 2005, 2,917 children were prescribed the drugs at a rate of seven per 10,000 — a near-doubling, said lead author Fariz Rani, a researcher at the University of London’s pharmacy school.

Couple left baby in car to watch Kentucky Derby

Monday, May 5th, 2008

A couple in Southampton, New York are being charged with child endangerment for leaving their 2-month-old in the car while they went into an OTB to watch the Kentucky Derby. And the brainiac mom can’t figure out that she did anything wrong:

Krystal Rose Downes, later told officers she thought her infant was safe enough because the car’s heat was on. She said she hadn’t endangered the baby “because after all, she didn’t leave the baby out in the cold,” and “she made sure she left the vehicle running so the heat could be kept on,” police told Newsday newspaper.

Teen and 39-year-old wife want baby back

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Lisa Clark, 39, and Adrian Gonzalez, 17, are trying to get the baby back that the two had conceived when Gonzalez was only 14. Clark spent a couple years in prison over the affair — but oddly not because of the age difference, but rather because she helped Gonzalez escape from a group home. So much for rehabilitation. Isn’t she violating parole or something?

A hearing is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. in Douglas County Superior Court regarding the custody of 2-year-old Skye Cobain Gonzalez, the couple’s son they conceived when father Adrian Gonzalez was 14 years old. After the couple rushed to marry, Lisa Clark Gonzalez delivered the baby in February 2006 while in custody in Hall County.

The couple now lives with a friend near Gwinnett Place Mall.

The baby lives with Angela Perkins, a one-time friend and co-worker of Lisa Clark Gonzales, according to court records. Perkins cared for the child while Lisa served time at Metro State Prison for helping her husband escape a group home, according to an agreement included in the court file. The document is signed by Perkins, Lisa Clark Gonzalez and Adrian Gonzalez.

But Perkins now claims Lisa and Adrian are unfit parents and is seeking full custody, according to the documents. Lisa Clark Gonzalez has said Perkins brought the child to see his mother in prison a couple of times. The last time she saw the baby was on his first birthday in February 2007, she said.

“Skye Cobain”?! Obviously the teen got to pick the name.

Boy drowns in grandparent’s pool

Monday, May 5th, 2008

An Indiana toddler that had been reported missing has been found drowned in his grandparent’s swimming pool. He was at the bottom of the pool, which is probably why he was not noticed right away.

Caidyn Bugby was playing outside at his grandparent’s Anderson home Sunday as they did yard work.

Madison County Sheriff’s Department Maj. Brian Bell says the grandparents called police to report the boy missing. Officers found the boy at the bottom of the family’s in-ground swimming pool.

Emergency personnel spent about 40 minutes trying to resuscitate the boy.

Babies found dead in freezer, mother arrested

Monday, May 5th, 2008

German police have arrested a woman when three infants were found in a basement freezer. The woman is apparently the mother of the three babies. WTF?

Police made the grisly find Sunday night in the town of Wenden, near Olpe, in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia, after receiving a tip from one of the woman’s three grown children, officials said.

The three infants are believed to have been born alive, said Johannes Daheim, spokesman for prosecutors investigating the case. Authorities were awaiting autopsy results to determine for sure how they died, he said.

The 44-year-old woman, who name was not released, was taken into custody on suspicion that she killed the children.

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