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After rushing from a house after gunshots were fired, the family noticed a wound on their baby’s head, possibly caused from a shot the pierced a wall of the home.

The baby was taken to Johns Hopkins Children’s Center for an examination. Harris said the child’s injury might have been caused by his head striking something in the house while he was being rushed outside and not by a bullet.

“We’re waiting on a doctor’s examination to determine the cause of the infant’s injury,” Harris said.

Two young men were taken into custody shortly after the shots were fired and were being interviewed at the Southeastern District, Harris said.

Philadelphia police made a gruesome discovery, and they think it might solve the case of a baby that went missing in Baltimore two years ago.

Several weeks ago, Baltimore police received a tip alleging that an 18-month-old child had been killed in the city and taken elsewhere, police said. A follow-up investigation led police to Philadelphia.

Detectives with the Philadelphia and Baltimore police departments searched a rowhouse in the southern part of the city and found what could be human remains in a suitcase, according to Sterling Clifford, a Baltimore police spokesman.

Clifford said police investigators were waiting for results of an autopsy to determine whether the remains are human and, if so, how the child died.

He said detectives know the identity of the child that was reportedly killed and that they are working to identify the remains that were removed from the South Philadelphia rowhouse.

Wow, given the gazillions of babies that have been born in the United States, to be able to say that your birth is only one of 100 documented cases is pretty significant.

A 32-year-old mother from Belcamp gave birth in January to quadruplets — and three of the four boys are identical. The parents and the boys plan to introduce themselves at a news conference Friday.

The boys were born 11 weeks premature at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center in Towson.

Hospital officials said there are fewer than 100 documented cases of “identical triplets plus one” in the United States.

Even without the extra baby, identical triplets are rare, although how rare is difficult to say. Multiple births, however, are more common since the advent of fertility drugs and in vitro fertilization, which was used to conceive the triplets born at GBMC.

The inner old man in us at first said, “You get those little skateboarding punks, officer!” But then we read the “deets”, as the cool kids say, and checked out the video of the incident that recently surfaced on YouTube, and it seems he might have stepped a bit over the line:

The video shows Officer Salvatore Rivieri approach the kids at the Inner Harbor of Baltimore, the area where they apparently were skateboarding. The kids tell Rivieri they didn’t know they couldn’t skateboard there.

“You back-talk me, I’m not your father,” Rivieri says. “You hear me? I’m not your father. You give that attitude to your father. You give it to me, I’ll smack you upside the head. Shut your mouth, I’m talking.”

In the video, after Rivieri pushes the kid on the ground, he takes his skateboard and puts it in his patrol vehicle.

The video in question is below:

A 15 year old, who had a reportedly contentious relationship with his father, was charged with shooting him to death, along with his mother and two younger brothers in a Baltimore suburb.

This snotty, privileged anger management deficient teen will be charged as an adult, as he very well should be.

Nicholas Waggoner Browning was charged with four counts of first-degree murder in the slayings of his father, John Browning, 45; his mother Tamara, 44; and his brothers Gregory, 13, and Benjamin, 11. He was charged as an adult.

Browning was arrested at 1:05 a.m. Sunday after he admitted to the killings, Baltimore County Police spokesman Bill Toohey said.

The teen had not been getting along with his father, police said in a news release. On Friday night, he went into the house after other family members were asleep and shot each of them using his father’s handgun, which was in the house, police said.

A woman who punished a 9 year old boy by making him sit in a bathtub while she poured boiling water on him, to the point where he will require physical therapy and skin grafts and a host of reconstructive surgery, also making the boy clean the kitchen after she burned him. The youngster said his feet were too blistered to clean, and then she threatened to beat him if he didn’t clean and finally took the poor child to the hospital after enduring 4 days of excruciating pain, will get only 6 months in jail and will most likely get her child back.

Let it be known, that Shamia Lawson did these things. She lives in Baltimore.

Let is also be known, the Judge who thought the child abuse wasn’t a big deal and who most likely sees children as less valuable than a dog, and that their suffering is inconsequential, is Circuit Judge John M Glynn.

Perhaps, if it were his own child, this may have turned out differently. Nobody will ever know why the Judge decided that this child’s torture doesn’t matter and why his sympathy lies with a brutal child abuser. Perhaps he identified with her sadistic enjoyment of torturing the innocent child.

Everyone ought to be ashamed that this Judge is part of the system that is supposed to hand down punishments to those that hurt people. Everyone ought to be ashamed who elected this Judge and most of all, this Judge ought to be ashamed of himself.

At yesterday’s sentencing hearing, Drake repeated some of the saddest details.
She said Lawson “forced [the boy] into a tub of water and poured five pots of boiling water into the tub. … She pushed him into the water and threatened to beat him with a belt if he got out.”

When the boy emerged, Lawson ordered him to clean the kitchen, but he said his blistered feet hurt too much. “So what?” was her response, Drake said.

Four days later, Lawson took the badly injured child to Howard County General Hospital and gave fake names. She “told different and convoluted lies” to hospital workers and to police, said Drake, who called Lawson “a talented liar.”

Shanda R. Harris, the mother of an 11-year-old boy who police say was killed by a convicted sex offender, pleaded guilty in Baltimore Circuit Court yesterday to knowingly allowing the man to baby-sit her son.