Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
A 10-year-old in California decided to tell the police all about his mom’s To Live and Die in L.A. remake. (Are we the only one that remembers that movie? God, we’re old.)
On June 25, Jessie Reed’s son told a deputy that his mother used a computer to erase faces on identification cards and make fake money in her home, according to a search warrant. The boy does not live with his mother who resides in the 400 block of Crawford Street.
The son took copies of the money and gave them to a deputy, the search warrant said. He said Reed also has a machine that can identify if a driver’s license is legitimate.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
This is the second boy to lose an arm from an alligator bite in less than a month. Alligators, you’re on notice!
An alligator has bitten off an 11-year-old boy’s arm in Louisiana, sheriff’s deputies say.
Devin Funck was playing in a neighborhood pond in a subdivision about 20 miles northeast of New Orleans when the alligator pulled him under, deputies say. The alligator was described as between 10 and 12 feet long.
Relatives told The Times-Picayune that he managed to free himself. He was airlifted to a hospital, where his condition was not available.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Some hardcore therapy is in this kid’s future, that’s for sure.
A 3-year-old boy watched as his father killed his mother and then turned the gun on himself, deputies told KPRC Local 2.
Harris County sheriff’s deputies said the murder-suicide took place in front of a home on Duncannon Drive in the Woodforest neighborhood in northeast Harris County at about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Casey Pelfrey’s 21-year-old boyfriend showed up unexpectedly at the home where she was living with relatives, officials said.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Perhaps this young man wasn’t ready to become a father. You think?
Robby J. Guppy, 17, of 604 E. Broadway, was charged with felony and misdemeanor assault counts and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor, police said.
The charges stem from incidents Friday and Saturday. Police said the toddler would not stop crying, so Guppy punched and slapped her in the face and body. Guppy also “intentionally burned” the girl with a lighted cigarette, causing second-degree burns to her left hand and left ear lobe, police said.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
A couple in Anaheim, California are being accused of torturing their two children.
Authorities say Kimberly Quebe, 48, and John Quebe, 47, were arrested last week on 62 felony charges, including false imprisonment by violence, child abuse and torture. They could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted.
The couple have a 15-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son.
Orange County district attorney spokeswoman Farrah Emani says the Quebes are accused of often tying up the children to punish them for minor issues. The children have been taken into protective custody.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
We don’t know which is more unbelievable — that there was a 1,000 pound pig running around Alabama, or that the 11-year-old that hunted it is now getting death threats.
When a 1,000-pound wild hog was shot last year in Alabama, 11-year-old hunter Jamison Stone couldn’t have been happier. But his prize photos of the 9-foot-long boar have continued to cause a stink, one the Stone family can’t seem to shake.
The backlash has only grown worse, with one group calling for the hunters’ prosecution.
“It is unbelievable what my family has been through over the past year,” Mike Stone, Jamison’s father, told the Birmingham News. “It has taken 10 years off my life.”
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Two things we never thought would go together — “pregnant” and “prostitution ring”. WTF? Takes all kinds, we guess.
Two women were charged with prostitution in Camden County on Thursday after they were arrested in a sting operation at a Lake Ozark hotel last week.
Two other women were also arrested, and three of the women are pregnant. Alexandra Wells and Allysia Waldrop were both charged on Thursday. Waldrop is pregnant, but is not known if Wells is also.
The undercover bust went down at a Lake Ozark area hotel after the sheriff’s department received several reports that pregnant women were advertising prostitution on an internet advertising site.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
A 12-year-old who got lost while hiking in the Blue Mountains of Washington State has been found in a vacant cabin.
Trisha Patterson of Camas was found Wednesday morning by ground searchers about 10 miles east of Walla Walla.
Blue Mountain Television reports she was checked by medics at a fire station at Dixie and reunited with her mother.
Trisha had became separated from her family during a hike Tuesday evening near her grandfather’s cabin.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
A 19-year-old who grabbed a child on an outing to a suburban Chicago mall has been found not guilty because he doesn’t have the mental capacity to understand his crime.
Arthur Robinzine, 19, of the 800 block of South Wolcott Avenue has been in the custody of the Illinois Department of Human Services since January.
After Robinzine was arrested Dec. 6 for grabbing a 4-year-old Elgin boy from Spring Hill Mall, he was charged with attempted aggravated kidnapping and other crimes.
Robinzine was tackled by a chaperon and a cell phone company employee who worked at the shopping center. The boy was not injured.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
A 13-year-old boy in Compton, California has pleaded not guilty in the shooting death of his 8-year-old cousin.
Prosecutors say the boy opened fire July 23 into an apartment courtyard in an apparent gang retaliation shooting. A stray bullet struck and killed Jasmine Sanders while she played with friends in South Los Angeles.
The boy’s mother, grandmother and an uncle were in court Wednesday but did not talk to reporters. The boy’s name has not been released because he is a minor.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Personally we like to go alone to crack deals — 2-year-olds just slow you down.
An Englewood man who allegedly brought his toddler son on a crack-cocaine buy earlier this month has been arrested for various drug offenses, according to the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies arrested Douglas Sterrett, 48, in the parking lot of the Outback Steakhouse late Tuesday.
Sterrett sold a bag of crack cocaine to the detective on July 21, at a vacant neighborhood in northwest Port Charlotte, according to sheriff’s reports. That’s when investigators said he brought the unexpected tiny witness.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
New photos have surfaced that show Casey Anthony — mother of missing girl Caylee Anthony — looking less than distraught as she whooped it up in a local nightclub. These details were released on a recent airing of Fox’s “On the Record” show with Greta Van Susteren. Here’s part of the transcript:
But first up tonight, “On the Record” obtains shocking new photos of Casey Anthony partying at a club days after she says her daughter went missing. Casey is behind bars tonight, a person of interest in what police say may be the homicide of her little daughter, Caylee. Casey claims she left her daughter with a baby-sitter on June 9, and that when she returned to pick her up, little Caylee was gone.
It took five weeks before the child was reported missing, and now we know what Casey Anthony was doing for part of that time, these pictures taken at a club on June 20, while Casey says she was conducting her own search for her daughter.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
A Parkland, Washington man is going to court after police arrested him in the death of his girlfriend’s 1-year-old daughter.
Pierce County sheriff’s deputies arrested the 23-year-old Parkland man Tuesday for investigation. Spokesman Ed Troyer says the baby was found dead Friday in her crib.
The man said he was baby-sitting the girl when she fell off a couch. The mother was at work at the time.
Troyer told the Tacoma News Tribune the autopsy showed the baby had skull fractures and blunt force trauma to the body.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
A 2-month-old infant was mauled and killed in his home. Police are unsure whether it was the family’s Labrador puppy or a small pug that killed the boy, though we would put our money on the Lab — not that we don’t like Labs, just that we’ve never heard of a pug attacking anybody.
Tulsa Animal Shelter manager Jean Letcher confirmed the Lab was euthanized at the request of police.
Willingham said the baby’s mother and grandmother were home at the time, but nobody was in the room when the attack occurred. He said the child was left in a swing.
The child’s body was taken to the Medical Examiner’s office.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
We can’t believe such a law is even necessary — it’s like Congress forbidding food manufacturers to use rat poison. It seems like it’s something that goes without saying…
Congressional negotiators agreed yesterday to a ban on a family of toxins found in children’s products, handing a major victory to parents and health experts who have been clamoring for the government to remove harmful chemicals from toys.
The ban, which would take effect in six months, would have significant implications for U.S. consumers, whose homes are filled with hundreds of plastic products designed for children that may be causing dangerous health effects.
The rare action by Congress reflects a growing body of scientific research showing that children ingest the toxins by acts as simple as chewing on a rubber duck. Used for decades in plastic production, the chemicals are now thought to act as hormones and cause reproductive problems, especially in boys.
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