Michigan teen held captive inside make shift torture chamber for 4 years

| April 19th, 2013

A 15-year-old boy was found on Thursday, after he reportedly had been held captive by his mother and her boyfriend for at least four years inside a makeshift attic room in Michigan. The boy’s mother, Susan Bardo, 46, and boyfriend, Carl Pellinen, were arrested on Thursday, charged with torture, child abuse and sexual assault. According ... read more »

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| April 18th, 2013

The cover of TIME magazine’s May 2013 digital edition, covering the Boston Marathon bombing, has drawn criticism and analysis from other media sources such as the Christian Science Monitor and the Huffington Post on Thursday. The cover shows a toddler boy, frightened, crying and bloody with the headline, “Tragedy in Boston.” The cover photo is for TIME’s May ... read more »

| April 17th, 2013

A Texas first grade teacher at a private school in Humble is being accused of inappropriately touching one of her students, but claims the charge is false because she doesn’t like black people. The 7-year-old accuser is believed to be African American. The teacher, Irene Esther Stokes, 61, was charged with child indecency on April ... read more »

| April 17th, 2013

The body of a newborn infant was allegedly discovered by a Minn. laundry service, who claimed the body fell out of a bed sheet on Tuesday morning as they prepared a load of laundry. The laundry service says they informed the hospital, who immediately sent medical personnel to retrieve the body. St. Paul police were called after ... read more »

| April 16th, 2013

Among eyewitness spectators of the terrorist bombing at the Boston Marathon on Monday, were several families of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre victims who were killed in a shooting massacre at their elementary school in Newtown, Conn., in December. The Boston Marathon, which started out with a 26 second moment of silence to honor the ... read more »

| April 16th, 2013

A young boy who was killed on Monday from a terrorist explosion just moments after he greeted his father who had just crossed the finish line after completing the 26 mile run at the Boston Marathon, has been identified. The boy’s name is Martin Richard, 8-years-old, from Dorchester, Mass.. The youngster has been described as ... read more »

| April 16th, 2013

Many children are among those gravely injured in Monday’s Boston Marathon bombing. Eight children were transported to local Boston hospitals after two bombs went off several feet from the finish line as runners were closing in on finishing the 26 miles race at approximately 2:57 pm. One child, an 8-year-old boy, was killed in the ... read more »

| April 10th, 2013

A 14-year-old girl in Upper Merion Township, Pa., fell to her death on Tuesday night when she reportedly fell out her apartment window. Investigators are not sure how the girl fell, but believe she purposely climbed out of the window, but fell by accident. The victim landed on a cement parking garage below her building. ... read more »

| April 9th, 2013

A 2-year-old toddler boy was found on Sunday, standing in the middle of Hastings, Minn., intersection, barefoot and holding two bottles of Mikes Hard Lemonade alcoholic beverages. The baby’s father was charged with child endangerment on Tuesday after police were called to the scene, but were unable to locate the youngster’s parents. Two-and-half hours after ... read more »

| April 3rd, 2013

A young Tenn., girl has missed an extraordinary amount of school this year because her elementary school principal keeps sending her home based on allegations that the girl is “emitting a foul odor.” Since the beginning of the 2012-2013 school year, the second grader has been sent home a total of 24 times. The school claims they had no choice as ... read more »

| April 3rd, 2013

A 7-year-old Catawba County, N.C., boy has been charged with two felonies which could result in forcing the youngster to perform hundreds of hours of community service if he’s convicted. The boy’s mother, Cherry Robbins, told My Fox 8 that she was shocked to learn that her little boy may be a felon after a ... read more »

| March 29th, 2013

A mother who was called to come in and meet with her son’s principal on Wednesday after her son got in trouble, walked into the school office and slapped another child after she mistook the boy for her son. Tyshekka Collier, 36, reportedly realized her mistake after she smacked the unidentified middle school child and then apologized. ... read more »

| March 29th, 2013

An Akron, Ohio, mother has filed a lawsuit on Wednesday, accusing local police of breaking her 13-year-old daughter’s arm. The lawsuit asks for a million dollars in punitive damages and $75,000 in compensatory damages. The lawsuit also alleged that the Akron Police Department tried to cover up the incident in a department wide conspiracy. The ... read more »

| March 27th, 2013

Sean Penn’s 19-year-old son, Hopper, was heard using derogatory and racist slurs towards some paparazzi on Tuesday. The incident happened in Beverly Hills, as Hopper (named after Dennis Hopper) followed his father into a meeting inside a hotel and was met by paparazzi from Splash News. Hopper reportedly became hostile when the cameramen started snapping ... read more »

| March 27th, 2013

A 4-year-old Union, New Jersey, boy was found emaciated and nearly starved in the apartment he shared with his mother on Tuesday after police found him alone, living with his mother’s dead body for days. Police were notified by a building janitor, who called police after noticing a foul odor coming from the apartment. Police ... read more »