Teens

A Georgia teen has been arrested and charged with child cruelty after a video of him launching an infant across the room was reported to police.

The video posted on YouTube shows the teenage boy putting a baby on one side of a large, inflatable pillow on the floor.

The boy then jumps on the pillow and the baby flies several feet across the room before landing on the floor and crying.

The 16-year-old Lee County boy was arrested Tuesday after a school teacher saw the video and called the sheriff’s office. The boy’s name was not released because of his age.

Adding a “bear element” definitely would add some interest to the Tour de France.

A 14-year-old girl riding in a 24-hour mountain bike race was attacked by a bear in the middle of the night and severely injured, but was able to make a brief emergency phone call that resulted in her rescue.

The girl suffered head, neck, torso and leg wounds.

She underwent surgery and was in critical condition at Providence Alaska Medical Centre, police said.

The attack occurred along a trail in a 24-hour race organised by the Arctic Bicycle Club in Bicentennial Park.

Rescuers had to hike in more than 3km to reach the girl.

A Florida teen wrestled with an alligator and lost during a late night swim in a canal.

Kasey Edwards, 18, of Okeechobee, Fla., lost his left arm after grappling with the 11-foot long alligator in a canal at 2 a.m. Sunday.

“I felt something lock down and had the sensation of needle nose pliers, just a gigantic set of them, clamping down,” Edwards told FOX affiliate WFLX-TV.

Edwards admits he and his friends were drinking before he decided to jump in the 25-foot-deep canal in Nubbin Slough in Okeechobee County.

“I’ve heard different rumors of what was involved and there were no drugs involved, no dare, nobody pushed me in or something,” Edwards told WFLX-TV.

Teenagers, a day off of school, sex, drugs and loitering — what could possibly go wrong?

LOS ANGELES — Two teenage boys have been arrested in connection with the alleged sexual assault of at least one of three girls who passed out at a San Fernado Valley park, police said.

A 16-year-old boy and a 15-year-old boy were arrested Friday after police interviewed several students believed to be at Mason Park in Chatsworth around the time the high school freshmen girls were there on Thursday. The older teen was booked on suspicion of sexual battery and the younger boy was booked on suspicion of sexual assault on a victim incapable of defending herself, Detective Mike Fesperman said.

Investigators believe the girls — one found unconscious in the men’s bathroom, and the others near picnic tables — were drugged, but they also may have been drinking.

An East Baltimore family is suing a juvenile offenders school for negligence and wrongful death after there 17-year-old son died there last year.

The amount requested in compensatory damages… represents every minute that Isaiah Simmons, who died January 2007 at Bowling Brook Preparatory School, suffered from physical restraint “that caused his slow, agonizing and excruciating death,” said Steven H. Heisler, the family attorney, during a news conference at his Baltimore law offices this morning. On some counts, the suit calls for an additional $207 million in punitive damages.

Simmons, 17, lost consciousness while counselors at the privately run school in Keymar pinned him facedown to the ground, restraining him for about three hours.

“This incident simply should have never happened, and should never happen again,” said Heisler, who sat in front of several members of the Simmons family, including the teen’s sisters, mother and 3-year-old daughter.

A teenager in Florida alleging she was raped is airing her plight on YouTube, after she didn’t see justice done in the court system.

“Hi, my name is Crystal … I need some help. I didn’t want to do it this way, but it’s the only way I know that’s going to work, that someone out there in the world is gonna listen to me.”

The teen, whom CNN interviewed but is not identifying by her last name, is among dozens of young people who are turning to social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace to talk about sexual assault.

For an online generation, the Web offers what traditional counseling does not. It’s a chance to communicate without having to face someone or fear their judgment. Some people are seeking legal advice and medical information, and many younger victims believe they can warn others about their accused attacker, counselors say.

Our Thin Mints habit probably put her over the top. And apparently she’s a fan as well:

And now, with 17,323 boxes sold under her name, [15-year-old Dearborn girl Jennifer Sharpe] is believed to have sold more cookies in a single season than anyone in the U.S. ever has, according to Girl Scout officials who’ve planned a ceremony in her honor today.

Jennifer, a fan of the Thin Mints, used a retail-inspired strategy. She set up shop in a church parking lot from 3 to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday. On Sundays, she sold cookies outside an auto parts store from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

“When I was young, I knocked on doors,” said Jennifer, in her 10th year of Scouting. “Now that I’m older, I get too many rejections face to face. People don’t want to buy from a 15-year-old.”

Thinking back on our own misguided youth, we may have had some incidences involving hairspray and a lighter. Fortunately we managed to escape without injury, unlike a boy in Milwaukee, Wisconsin:

A 14-year-old boy was transported to Aurora Medical Center Saturday with burns on more than a quarter of his body after a blowtorch game with another teenage boy, according to Capt. Mark Rusboldt of the Manitowoc Fire Department.

The injured boy, who was not identified, was later sent to Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital in Milwaukee, Rusboldt said.

“Dude.”

“What?”

“You know what would be FREAKIN’ AWESOME? If we dug up a grave and turned the skull into a bong!”

“WHOOOOOOO!”

Three teenagers were arrested after two of them told police they dug up a secluded grave north of Houston, removed the skull from the coffin and converted it into a marijuana bong.

Police found a grave in the city of Humble that had been disturbed, but were still investigating the rest of the teens’ story, Houston police Sgt. John Chomiak said.

Kevin Wade Jones, 17, and Matthew Richard Gonzalez, 17, both of Kingwood, were arrested Wednesday night and were being held on misdemeanor charges of abuse of a corpse, Chomiak said. The juvenile was referred to the Harris County juvenile justice system.

Having a blood-alcohol content of 0.578 is an insane level for an adult, much less a 15-year-old girl.

Rohnert Park police say the 15-year-old girl’s blood-alcohol content was 0.578 — seven times the level for drunken driving — when she was hospitalized over the weekend.

A police spokesman says after being taken by ambulance to a hospital Friday night, doctors feared she would not live through the night.

Police say the girl had been at party at a home with a group of friends, with no adults present.

A unique device designed to prevent teenagers from loitering is causing quite a stir. The “Mosquito” emits a high pitch frequency that only teenagers and young adults can hear. Does it work on younger children, too? Seems like a great way to get our kids out of the house and outside to play…

The high-frequency sound has been likened to fingernails dragged across a chalkboard or a pesky mosquito buzzing in your ear. It can be heard by most people in their teens and early 20s who still have sensitive hair cells in their inner ears. Whether you can hear the noise depends on how much your hearing has deteriorated — how loud you blast your iPod, for example, could potentially affect your ability to detect it.

The device has already roiled civil liberties groups in countries where it’s already in use, including England, Australia and Scotland. England’s government-appointed Children’s Commission proposed a ban. They describe it as a weapon that infringes on the basic rights of young people, and claim it could even have unknown long-term health effects.

Not to get all judgmental, but how on earth does a mother not notice when their young teen is getting completely hammered on a daily basis?

She started drinking heavily at the age of 12. And by the time she was 14, Natasha Farnham was told by shocked doctors that she was the youngest patient they had ever seen with liver failure caused by alcohol abuse.

She was drinking up to six bottles of wine a day - and now, at 18, she has been warned that if she drinks again she will die.

Her descent into a life of ruined health and petty crime again illustrates the perils of cheap alcohol and the culture of binge-drinking that grips Britain.

The teenager wants to tell her story to warn others of the dangers.

In this day where it takes about two minutes to upload racy videos or photos and email a link out to a gazillion people, is anyone else out there petrified that your kid will do something really stupid that could cause some long lasting consequences for them or others? The internet is a double-edged sword…

Horrified relatives of the 15-year-old girl called New South Wales police after becoming aware she had been filmed and the footage had been sent to dozens of classmates at Woonona High School.

Police visited the school last week and questioned a number of students, The Daily Telegraph reported.

But detectives were thwarted from proceeding because students had deleted the footage from their phones after being addressed by the principal.

The girl told police the act had been consensual and she did not wish to file a complaint.