Articles labeled: Massachusetts

On January 11, 2008, Marcelle “Marci” Thibault of Bellingham, Mass., walked across I-495 with her niece and nephew, and all three were killed when struck by oncoming traffic. After a week of speculation and the family trying to make sense of this tragedy, the Middlesex District Attorney announced the result of his office’s investigation today, and they have ruled the case a murder/suicide:

“Based on our investigation, we believe Ms. Thibault took her niece and nephew and walked with them into oncoming traffic on Rte. 495, tragically resulting in the deaths of the two young children while taking her own life in the process,” said Leone. “The facts of this matter make it a truly heart-wrenching case, with troubling and very difficult findings.”

Through the DA’s office, the family has released this statement:

“This is a time of terrible tragedy for our families. We love Marci, Kaleigh, and Shane and we miss them very much. We ask everyone to join us in prayer for their souls, and to help us get through this most difficult period of our lives. We ask that the media respect our privacy and allow us the time to grieve and heal as we mourn our great loss.”

UPDATE: tragedy now ruled a murder/suicide

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A woman and her niece and nephew crossed a busy highway in Boston and were run over by two separate cars.

The whole situation is so bizarre. First, the woman had pulled over because she was driving on the wrong side of the road, and then proceeds to walk into traffic with the 4 and 5 year old. Makes me think that maybe alcohol was involved??

Poor babies. Their aunt should have made every possible attempt to keep them safe but instead, lead them to an agonizing death.

Marcelle Thibault, 39, of Bellingham, Mass., was driving in the wrong direction on the highway when she drove her 2003 Lincoln on to the grassy shoulder of the road, state police said. Thibault was traveling southbound in the northbound section of the road.

Thibault then got out of the car with the 4-year-old boy and 5-year-old girl who were traveling with her.
Police did not offer an explanation for what happened next.

Thibault and the two children walked out into the middle of the road, police said, where they were hit by two cars. All three were taken to hospitals and pronounced dead.

UPDATE: The district attorney has ruled this case a murder/suicide.

A prank call to a residential, special needs school in MA, asking the school to give two teens electro-therapy, resulted in the teens being shocked with no valid order to do so.

It’s hard to believe that ANY child would be subjected to this, let alone a special needs child. This country is so messed up. We let Pedophiles out of jail after serving only a few months, yet allow a school to electrocute Autistic kids at the drop of a prank call.

BOSTON — State officials are investigating complaints that staff at a special needs residential school gave at least two teenagers unnecessary electric shock treatments after receiving a prank phone call from someone pretending to be from the office of the school’s founder.

Initial investigations showed that a former student at the Judge Rotenberg Education Center allegedly called in orders for electric shock treatments on Aug. 26 and officials at the school self-reported the prank call and unnecessary treatments the day after they occurred, Cindy Campbell, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Early Education and Care, said Monday.

Well, at least she wasn’t successful.

And, unlike most cases in which the mother tries to kill her children, at least this mother wasn’t selfish enough to try to spare her own life claiming that she was doing her children a favor as in the case of so many other sociopathic mothers . I hope those kids aren’t forced into a relationship with their mother, mandated through the court system, if they don’t wish to have contact with someone that tried to murder them .

TAUNTON, Mass. — A Taunton mother stabbed her two children early Tuesday morning, then herself and the children’s grandmother may have prevented a greater tragedy, police said.

Sandra Meninno, 39, stabbed her children, ages 10 and 12, before stabbing herself. She was then disarmed by her 64-year-old mother, according to police.

Drugged out “father” bites his 22 month old’s lip completely off. The damage to his lip was so bad, it could not be re-attached. Imagine the PAIN that little baby suffered and why? Why? Why? Why???

LOWELL, Mass. — A 26-year-old Lowell, Mass., man faces child abuse charges for biting off his 22-month-old son’s bottom lip, police said.

Thy Chan, 26, was arrested after the Sunday incident, reported WCVB-TV in Boston.

Police Superintendent Kenneth Lavallee told The Lowell Sun that officers were called to a Lowell apartment after someone called 911 to report that the child’s lip had been bitten off.

Responding officers found the child covered in blood, but found his bottom lip, which they gave to paramedics who rushed the boy to the hospital. Doctors at Children’s Hospital in Boston attempted to reattach the lip.

The Boy Scouts did the right thing. They asked permission to set up donation boxes to collect money for care packages to send to our troops. Some asshole complained that it was a political message (Really???) and the donation boxes were immediately taken down.

Let the karma police bless this stupid town.

Big-hearted Boy Scouts collecting donations for care packages for U.S. troops are still scratching their heads after being sent packing from polling stations when Cambridge officials ruled their generous effort “political.”

“We just wanted to make a lot of troops happy,” said Scout Patrick O’Connor, 16. “I was devastated that someone would think to take (the donation boxes) out,” he said.

O’Connor of West Cambridge was one of the Scouts who wanted to collect toiletries, magazines, candy and other items for care packages after one of his relatives was injured in an IED explosion while serving in Iraq.

Salem Witch Trials anyone?:

“The sixth grade reads an average of 7.5 books each with many students in double digits,” says a note on the class page. “Of course, Harry Potter was a popular choice.”

But last month, students found that their favorite series had “disapparated” from the school library, after St. Joseph’s pastor, the Rev. Ron Barker, removed the books, declaring that the themes of witchcraft and sorcery were inappropriate for a Catholic school.

“He said that he thought most children were strong enough to resist the temptation,” said one mother who asked that her name not be used because she did not want her family to be singled out. “But he said it’s his job to protect the weak and the strong.”

In one of the most selfish and cruel acts imaginable, a father shoots his children’s mother, right in front of them, and then kills himself. One child was found with so much blood on him that the police thought that he had been shot too:

Francisco Santiago, 44, shot and killed his girlfriend Flora Acosta, 39, and then turned the gun on himself in their Willoughby Street home, police said. Both died of wounds to the head from a small-caliber handgun.

Before the shooting, police said, Santiago sent their 10-year-old son upstairs to his aunt’s home, but a daughter, 8, and a teenage son with autism remained in the apartment.