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A Bridgeport, Connecticut kindergarten teacher found herself in hot water after being accused of making a 5-year-old eat food out of a garbage can. The student had thrown away his cafeteria lunch, and apparently the teacher doesn’t take too kindly to wasting food. She was arrested and charged by police with risk of injury to a minor — which, come on, that’s a bit of a reach, no?

A Durham, Connecticut woman has been charged by police of breastfeeding her baby while intoxicated, something that we didn’t even know was illegal.

Wonder where the breastfeeding advocates stand on this issue.

An 8-year-old Connecticut boy is dead after accidentally shooting himself with an Uzi machine gun while using it at a gun show. Who the hell would let a kid that young handle such a weapon?

The boy, identified as Christopher Bizilj, was firing the Uzi when he lost control, forcing it upwards and back, causing him to shoot himself in the head, said Westfield Police Lt. Hipolito Nunez. Bizilj of Ashford, Conn., was under the supervision of a certified instructor at the gun expo at the Westfield Sportman’s Club when he was shot.

The annual machine gun show is advertised as a free-for-all for gun enthusiasts, and has created discord among some club members, said longtime club member Bob Greenleaf.

“To let an 8-year-old boy fire an Uzi is the height of stupidity,” said Greenleaf.

A man in Vernon, Connecticut is being charged with forcing 3 young children to whomp on each other with whiffle ball bats, then beating them himself. His fiancee, the mother of the children, has also been charged.

A Rockville man who police say urged three children to beat one another with plastic baseball bats, then allegedly beat them himself afterward, remained jailed Tuesday after his arraignment in Superior Court on a host of child abuse charges.

Christopher Dubay, 24, of 105B High St., was held on $150,000 bail and ordered by Judge Carl J. Schuman to have no contact with the three children, as well as a fourth. The children, ages 6, 4, 2 and 1, lived with Dubay and his fiancee, Krystal R. Burgess, 24. Burgess is the mother of the four. Dubay is the father of the youngest two.

Burgess was ordered held on $35,000 bail on charges that she failed to get medical attention for the children and tried to hide them from state Department of Children and Families investigators.

An infant and six other young people were shot when gun violence broke out after the West Indian Pride Parade in Hartford, Connecticut. What the hell? Apparently everyone doesn’t love a parade.

Police have identified the seven victims of a shooting following a weekend parade in Hartford as mostly children and teens.

The victims ranged in age from 15 months to 21-years-old, police said.

Police had originally said that three people had been taken into custody in connection with the shootings. However, Hartford police said on Sunday that no arrests had been made.

As if it isn’t bad enough to be driving around with your 2-year-old not in a car seat, one brainiac then even let her kid stick her head out of the sunroof.

Deborah Devino is charged with reckless endangerment and operating a motor vehicle with a child unrestrained.

Police say a witness saw Devino get gas at a station on Rubber Avenue and drive away with the toddler standing in the car. The witness wrote down Devino’s license plate number and called police.

Police say Devino told them she allows her daughter to stand and put her head out of the sunroof because she likes to look at the sky.

A woman in Hartford, Connecticut has pleaded guilty to stabbing her three children as they were sleeping. Well, thank you for doing the right thing and saving us a court trial to lock your psycho ass up.

The 2-year-old twins and their infant brother were critically injured in the November 2006 incident, but they recovered and now live with their paternal grandmother.

Their mother, Carmela Ortiz, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Hartford Superior Court to three counts of attempted murder and assault. Prosecutors say she repeatedly stabbed them with a kitchen knife, then tried to kill herself.

Let’s hope this Connecticut teen wasn’t practicing for later in life when he uses a high powered rifle instead.

From a third-floor window across the street from the CVS Pharmacy on Boston Post Road, a 14-year-old boy last month opened fire with a paint ball gun, striking vehicles in the drugstore’s parking lot.

“He just started firing at random parked cars,” police Chief Thomas A. Terribile said. “What was not known was that someone was sitting in one of the cars.”

That someone was a 1-year-old girl who was being fed by her mother. The orange paint ball struck the child’s face. She was not seriously wounded but suffered a welt on the side of her face. Guilford paramedics treated the infant at the scene.

These stories seem to be more and more common. They really demonstrate the need for parents to teach their kids responsible use of the internet, and how easily a small incident can blow up to something that may affect them for years to come.

A 12-year-old Westport girl has been charged with distributing a nude photo of a classmate to fellow students.

The investigation began on May 12 when the incident was reported to Westport police after word circulated throughout Coleytown Middle School that a nude snapshot was taken during a video chat and distributed to others.

The girl is being referred to Juvenile Court in Norwalk on a charge of second-degree breach of peace, which involves the distribution of offensive and indecent material. Her name is not being released because of her age.

And who says we have an overly litigious society? Pshaw.

A Mahopac mom filed a $100 claim against Norwalk, saying her family outing was ruined when her toddler stepped in dog poop.

Kelly DeBrocky said she had to throw out her toddler’s soiled shoes after the 1-year-old boy stepped in dog feces outside the city-owned Maritime Garage, ruining her family’s visit to the nearby Maritime Aquarium.

M. Jeffry Spahr, the attorney for the city of Norwalk, said the official response is that her claim is denied and in his words, “poop happens.”

ZING!

We’ll be the first to admit we don’t have the patience for this kind of indulgence. That jersey would have been conveniently “lost” after the first month. And was this kid home schooled? We would have thought peer pressure would have made him shed his prized possession a long time ago.

David Witthoft finally shunned his Brett Favre jersey for a red shirt for the first time in 1,581 days.

The 12-year-old Ridgefield, Conn. boy wore the No. 4 jersey every day since receiving it as a gift for Christmas in 2003.

David’s father, Chuck Witthoft, says Monday that his son’s last day wearing the jersey was April 23 on his 12th birthday. Witthoft conceded his son was starting to become more concerned about his appearance after the jersey barely came down to his belt line.

Sure, they have a gigantic salad bar and all, but we don’t recommend Ruby Tuesday as an appropriate place to abandon your child.

According to police, employees of the restaurant at 50 Shunpike Road called police after they found the infant alone in a booth in the dining area. Police eventually were able to locate the father, Andrew Yu, 32, of Hemlock Court. Police would not say where they found Yu or how long he was away from the infant.

Yu was charged with leaving a child unsupervised in a place of public accommodation. He was released from police custody after posting a $500 non-surety bond, meaning he did not have to put up any cash or other collateral. Yu is scheduled to appear Tuesday at Middletown Superior Court.

We bet this guy blames the dog when he farts, too.

An East Haven man has been charged with shoplifting after he allegedly tried to blame his toddler son with the theft.

Twenty-nine-year-old Louis Fallon was nabbed at a handicrafts shop at the Westfield Connecticut Post Mall Wednesday

The charges involve a wooden box worth $32.95 in a bag attached to the rear of the 23-month-old child’s stroller.

Fallon allegedly told police the child swiped it without his knowledge. But police say it would have been physically impossible for the toddler to lift the box.

Maybe we should start giving teachers hazard pay. The latest story of a student allegedly run amok comes from Milford, Connecticut, where one classroom had a hot-head teacher — and no, we don’t mean he had a bad temper:

Milford officials have expelled a Jonathan Law High School student accused of lighting her science teacher’s hair on fire during class.

Police say the girl was arrested after she ignited the ponytail of George Lardas with a lighter.

A police spokesman says Lardas did not require medical attention, but his hair was singed.

We would recommend Mr. Lardas cut off his ponytail to avoid such further incidents, as well as a visit from the fashion police.