Archive for September, 2008
Monday, September 29th, 2008
A Maryland woman has admitted that the bodies found by police in a freezer in her home are the bodies of two of her adopted children.
Renee Bowman, 43, said the bodies of her daughters, born in 1997 and 1999, had been in the freezer since February, said Lt. Bobby Jones of the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office.
In February, she moved to Lusby, in Calvert County, from Rockville, in Montgomery County, Jones added.
An autopsy is slated for Tuesday. Any decisions on charges would be made by the Montgomery County state’s attorney’s office, Jones said.
Bowman adopted the children in 2004, police said.
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
An Indiana dad decided not to wait for police when he found a naked man in his 17-year-old daughter’s bedroom.
Police responding to a call from the city’s northwest side about 3:20 a.m. found 64-year-old Robert McNally on the hallway floor with his arm around the neck of 52-year-old David T. Meyers, who was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police spokesman Sgt. Matthew Mount said Meyers had a heart condition and may have had a heart attack. An autopsy was planned.
Police said Meyers was naked except for a mask and latex gloves and had entered the home through a window near the girl’s bedroom with rope, condoms and a knife. He was familiar with the home’s layout because it belonged to a relative, police said.
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Michael Hernandez was 14-years-old in 2004 when he lured a friend into a school bathroom and stabbed him to death. Now 18, Hernandez has been convicted of first degree murder. Some mental health experts are calling Hernandez a “wannabe serial killer”.
The defense argued Hernandez was insane and not criminally responsible for luring Jaime Gough into the bathroom at Miami’s Southwood Middle School, then slitting his throat and stabbing him at least 42 times.
But prosecutors said he was a smart student who wore a windbreaker and latex gloves for the attack in an effort to keep blood off his clothes.
When the verdict was read, Hernandez showed no reaction but was nervously moving his foot under the defense table.
His mother, Kathy, held her head in her hands and openly wept when she heard the guilty verdict. She left the courtroom without talking to reporters.
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
A man in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin has been charged with buying his 4-year-old a beer during the county fair. Why no charges were brought against the person that actually sold the man two beers, especially after he acknowledged that one was for his son, we don’t know. Oh wait, yes we do — Wisconsin has an asinine law that allows parents to legally serve their kids booze. It looks like the letter of that law is about to be tested.
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Wow, the douchebags are out in full force. Just moments after we posted a story about a boy who had his wheelchair stolen, we stumbled on this:
Malicious thieves reportedly broke into the Georgia home of a 10-year-old cancer patient and stole his new puppy.
Even worse is that detectives think the culprits know Ryan Morgan and are aware that he is sick, according to Channel 11 Alive News in Atlanta.
Ryan was diagnosed with neuroblastoma four years ago and has been battling the illness since then, the station reported.
For his 10th birthday in July, his parents bought him a miniature dachshund to cheer him up. He named her Dixie.
“Whenever I went to the hospital or something, I would always think of her, and it would make me happier,” Ryan told the station. “I really like her. She’s cute.”
Anyone that can help the cops find these asshats and get Ryan’s dog back should call the Barrow County Sheriff’s Department at (770) 307-3084.
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
A 6-year-old boy with cerebral palsy had his $5,000 specialized wheelchair stolen by the two worst people in the world. Thankfully, there’s some actual humanity left in the universe.
But when word broke about the Slaughters’ plight at the Country Club Hills City Council meeting Monday evening, Mayor Dwight Welch and the city’s aldermen took up the cause. Welch pledged $1,000 toward a replacement chair if the insurance company would not cover the loss, and he urged the city to set up a fund for the family where others could contribute.
By Wednesday afternoon, city officials said they were flooded with calls for donations from all over the Chicago area. Some offered cash, and others wanted to donate wheelchairs. RehabTECH, the Wisconsin company that built D.J.’s chair almost three years ago, delivered a temporary replacement suited to his specifications Wednesday night. “People have just been incredibly generous,” Country Club Hills spokeswoman Wanda Comein said. “It’s a bad story turned good.”
By the way, DJ Slaughter is our new official nightclub name.
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
A family is suing the famous Disneyland amusement park, saying that a dog the park had in their petting zoo attacked their then 2-year-old daughter. Side note: that sounds like a pretty lame ass petting zoo.
The suit filed Tuesday in Orange County Superior Court says the dog, a German shepherd-Labrador retriever mix, attacked 2-year-old Lena Dickerson on Oct. 3, 2006, biting her several times on the face and leaving her permanently scarred.
A Disneyland employee adopted the 6-year-old dog named Hemmingway from the Orange County Animal Shelter and brought it to the theme park two weeks before the attack. The dog was placed on a box in the Big Thunder petting zoo while a park employee held its leash and invited children to pet it, the suit says.
Lena had been petting the dog with her two siblings for several minutes and was saying goodbye when it lunged at her, the suit says.
The shelter had called the dog “not very social” and said it had a history of aggression, the lawsuit claims.
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
We’ve heard of people abandoning their pets in these hard economic times, but this is ridiculous.
Two more children have been left at hospitals since a father dropped off his nine children at Creighton University Medical Center Wednesday night.
The state’s Department of Health and Human Services confirmed that an 8-year-old boy was taken to Immanuel Hospital at 5 p.m. and an 11-year-old boy was taken to the same hospital at 8:30 p.m.
One of the boys was placed in foster care and the other is still at the hospital undergoing evaluation.
This brings the total number of children left at Omaha hospitals during the past 24 hours to 11.
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
How anyone can ascertain what was going on through an animal’s mind is beyond us. It seems like a bit of a stretch to try and put an answer of “why” to a tragic scenario. Sometimes a dog just acts like a dog.
A newborn baby has died in northeast Ohio after being attacked by the family dog as she was lying in a bassinet, police said.
The 3-day-old girl suffered bite marks and scratches and was pronounced dead Monday at Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital, Warren Township Police Lt. Don Bishop said. Police believe the husky mistook the child for a stuffed animal.
Bishop said the infant’s father left the room briefly and discovered the attack when he returned.
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
The 13-year-old girl who died in a horrific school bus crash in Orlando, Florida has been identified as Frances Margay Schee.
The truck driver that has been accused of slamming into a school bus and killing a thirteen year old girl has had 15 moving violations since May 2005.
Reinaldo Gonzalez of Orlando is being cooperative and has admitted to talking on his cell phone, moments before the deadly crash.
Some Gonzalez’s previous violations include improper display of tags, no proof of CMV insurance, illegal window tint, inadequate tire-tread depth, and driver’s record duty status not current.
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Hey, kids, from now on when you see weird stuff lying on the ground, LEAVE IT THERE.
Four Texas elementary school students are being tested for HIV and other blood-borne diseases after a student found a heroin needle at recess and poked herself and three other students.
The student at Allison Elementary School in East Austin found the needle Monday afternoon at recess in a park restroom, MyFOXAustin.com reports. Thinking it was fake, she poked herself and three others before school officials found the needle.
Just the thought of someone had a needle in their arm,” said Theresa Garcia, the mother of a 6-year-old who was poked. “My daughter got pricked with it, who knows what could be on it.”
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Hmm, maybe the MacGuyver approach is the way to finally reduce the cost of health care.
IT costs as little as $2 and until now has been considered little more than a toy, but a simple ping-pong ball is keeping liver transplant patient Mackenzie Argaet alive.
In a world first, a Sydney surgeon has used the radical method in a transplant operation, which has won him international accolades.
Dr Albert Shun, from The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, used the unorthodox approach when confronted with a medical problem while operating on the two-year-old.
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Keep your arms, legs, and jump ropes inside the vehicle at all times.
A 6-year-old girl is recovering after surgeons reattached her left hand, severed when it was caught in a loop of jump rope that had snagged on the axle of her mother’s car.
Erica Rix underwent 10 hours of surgery after the accident in early September and spent nine days in intensive care before returning home.
Erica was playing with a jump rope in the back seat of her mother’s car and let one end of the rope out the window to flutter in the wind.
“I wanted to see it go up and down because I thought I was going to fly,” she said Tuesday on NBC’s “Today.”
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
The boy shot by his father two weeks ago, has died from his injuries.
The Cook County Medical Examiner’s office says Anthony Marchan died Tuesday at Mount Sinai Hospital.
Police Officer Dannie Marchan also killed his daughter, 7-year-old Alizay, before turning the gun on himself Sept. 15.
Chicago police have said the shootings at Marchan’s home stemmed from a domestic dispute between the officer and the children’s mother.
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
This certainly gives one pause. Who would have thought that a toddler could drown in a cooler?
Police say the boy’s father fell asleep late this morning with the boy in the house. When the father awoke at about 11:48 a.m., the child was not in sight.
Police say the boy apparently had fallen head first into an 18-inch square cooler filled with water and ice and a few bottles of beer. The water level was above the tops of the beer bottles and extremely cold.
Police say it appeared the child was unable to get himself out of the cooler and drowned. When the father found the child, he was unresponsive.
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