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Times are tight, but there certainly have to be better options than breaking into a home and holding a gun to a baby’s head.

The victims said three men wearing masks and carrying guns burst into their home in the 16900 block of Bay Avenue in Montverde at 12:33 a.m., Lake County Sheriff’s Office records show. The men threatened and pistol-whipped residents Anthony Kemp, 25, and Candy Richardson, 20.

The couple told investigators they became terrified when one of the suspects held a gun to the side of their 1-year-old baby girl’s head.

“If they didn’t give them money, they were going to shoot the child,” Cpl. James Vachon of the sheriff’s office said.

Awww, looks like Casey Anthony is screwed. A Grand Jury is convening next week which may bring down charges of murder or manslaughter. Perhaps little Caylee Anthony may see some justice served yet.

ORLANDO, FLA. — Casey Anthony could soon face a homicide charge in connection with the disappearance of her daughter, according to broadcast reports in Orlando.

The state attorney’s office plans to present its case next to a grand jury next week, according to the reports from Orlando TV station Local 6. From there, it will be the job of the grand jury to determine if the evidence is strong enough to warrant prosecution.

The reports indicate that it is not known if the state will seek murder or manslaughter charges.

The 13-year-old girl who died in a horrific school bus crash in Orlando, Florida has been identified as Frances Margay Schee.

The truck driver that has been accused of slamming into a school bus and killing a thirteen year old girl has had 15 moving violations since May 2005.

Reinaldo Gonzalez of Orlando is being cooperative and has admitted to talking on his cell phone, moments before the deadly crash.

Some Gonzalez’s previous violations include improper display of tags, no proof of CMV insurance, illegal window tint, inadequate tire-tread depth, and driver’s record duty status not current.

Well, this kid has a bright future ahead of him. An 11-year-old in Orlando, Florida is being accused of holding up a local Walgreen’s using a pair of realistic looking BB guns. We guess that’s the silver lining, that he wasn’t able to get his hands on actual guns.

The incident started around 3:30am Monday when the youngster entered the Walgreen’s. Police said the boy was able to make it out of the store with a backpack with an undisclosed amount of cash.

Officers were able to locate and arrest the child approximately five minutes after the robbery occurred.

Orlando Police said the boy did not steal any prescription drugs or medication; only cash.

Also, WTF is an 11-year-old doing out at 3:30 in the morning?!

Well, if you must crash your car into a building, we guess one that has paramedics inside is the best option.

A baby is safe after his father crashed the family car into a central Florida fire station.

Fire rescue spokesman John Mulhall says the car crossed the front lawn early Wednesday morning and drove into the front of Station 51 in Orlando.

The 5-month-old baby was in a car seat and not injured. The father also wasn’t injured.

We tend to agree that if you leave a loaded handgun where a young child can get it, that certainly constitutes “child neglect”.

[Tracey] DeCarr said she kept the handgun in her nightstand to protect herself and her son.

“He goes through my stuff all the time in the morning, like a normal child, and he found that,” DeCarr said. “He took it back to his room because he knew he was not supposed to be playing with that and that’s where it happened, in his bedroom.”

DeCarr insisted the gun was not loaded.

Volusia County Sheriff’s Department spokesperson Brandon Haught said there was a bullet in the chamber and the toddler may have been trying to drop another bullet down the gun’s muzzle.

“It definitely could have been a whole lot worse,” Haught said. “This child was just playing with a gun, just pointing it in the wrong direction. It could have been a whole lot worse.”

We hate lines. Seriously hate them. We will avoid them at all costs, even going so far as to take days off work to head to popular attractions and avoid the crowds. Rainy day at the zoo! Love it, no lines! So we sympathize with Victoria Walker, who also apparently hates waiting in line. But see, Victoria, we just grind our teeth and bear it, we don’t go ape on our fellow people in the queue!

Aimee Krause says Victoria Walker accused her of cutting into the line at the Mad Tea Cup ride last year at Disney World, MyFOXOrlando reports.

Walker, an Alabama native, could face 15 years behind bars if convicted of battery with a deadly weapon.

Krause has now filed additional charges claiming her children were also attacked.

“She came from behind just screaming,” Krause told MyFOXOrlando. “Next thing I knew she kicked me in my left leg, threw me to the ground and at that point I was pinned between the teacup and the saucer and she continued to beat up on my body.”

A boy at the Meadowbrook Middle School in Orlando, Florida hid behind a bookcase in his classroom, urinated into his teacher’s lunch box, closed it, and gave it back to her. School officials think that perhaps the boy took the teacher’s joke to its literal conclusion. We don’t think that teacher will be too quick with the jesting going forward. We also think she might be in the market for a new lunch box.

The teacher, Jameeka Chambers, was put on paid leave Tuesday while district administrators continue investigating what happened in her classroom last week.

Based on statements from other students in the class, school officials think that when the boy asked to go the restroom on Thursday, Chambers told him to hold it or use her lunchbox. The boy then took the lunchbox, hid behind a bookcase, urinated in it and returned it to the teacher, said Frank Kruppenbacher, attorney for the Orange County School Board.

“I think we clearly know she didn’t tell him, ‘Go pee in this box,’ in the sense of going to go do that,” Kruppenbacher said. “That’s beyond our comprehension.”

Now, our kids can get just as unruly as the next, and we’ll admit we’ve daydreamed about some creative punishments for the little buggers — locking them in the garage, throwing them in an alligator pit, running them through the car wash… the difference is that these are fantasy stress relievers, we don’t actually do it.

A Florida mother caught on tape using a pressurized hose at a car wash to discipline her toddler daughter could end up in hot water after police meet Friday to consider filing child endangerment charges.

“She appeared [to be] a parent who thought she was disciplining her child for acting up. It’s a unique form of punishment that I don’t think anyone has ever seen,” Commander Matt Irwin of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said Friday on TODAY. “It’s not acceptable in my mind.”

The incident began on Feb. 24 when a white Hyundai Elantra pulled into a self-service bay at the Magical Car Wash in Orlando…

Police later determined that the toddler’s mother, who is 22 and five months pregnant, pulled into the car wash for the sole purpose of hosing down her daughter — possibly for wetting herself in the backseat of the car.

At the end of the surveillance tape of the incident, which police seized as potential evidence, the woman is seen stripping her daughter’s soaked clothes off and wrapping her up in a towel.

The woman has since turned herself into police. She has not been publicly identified.

Delores Henderson, a 55-year-old woman in Cocoa, Florida near Orlando, has been arrested for repeatedly hitting her 2-year-old grandson and slamming his stroller into the curb as they walked down the street:

“People driving in the area of Dixon at this boulevard were witnessing this woman hitting this child,” Barbara Matthews with Cocoa police said.

The incident occurred at the intersection of Fiske and Dixon Boulevard in Cocoa.

Police arrived after being contacted by witnesses. Police said the beatings didn’t stop, even after Henderson dumped the boy out of his stroller and on to the concrete.

“As he drove up, he saw her hitting the child in the head. She was slapping him with her open hand,” Matthews said. “The officer described it as looking like a rag doll. She threw him back in the stroller and started to hit him again.”

Henderson gave no reason why she went completely mental on the kid. No mention of the boy’s parents, either — but with a mom like that, it would be difficult to be a well-rounded mother or father yourself.

Congratulations, Larry Patterson of Orlando, Florida, you’re our Douche of the Day™! You would not be douche award worthy if you were only driving around with your kid in a stolen vehicle. No, you excelled by then getting into a high speed chase with police, crashing the car, then running off leaving your baby in the backseat! And then, to make you the clear cut winner, the infant wasn’t even strapped in properly!

Orlando Police attempted to pull over Larry Patterson in downtown Orlando Wednesday night. But as they did so, Patterson sped away, running a red light and crashing into another car.

After the accident, Patterson left his car and ran away on foot. Police discovered Patterson’s infant daughter near the car’s back windshield, where she had landed after the accident propelled her out of her car seat.

The baby’s injuries are not life-threatening. Police report her mother came to the scene shortly afterward to be with her child.

Larry Patterson, ladies and gentlemen, Minor Topics’ Douche of the Day™!

A 17 month old boy who had cooking oil, heated in a frying pan, poured on his genitals as well as beaten to the point of sustaining spinal injuries is recovering, but the extent of his injuries and whether or not he’ll be able to walk again have not yet been reported.

Perhaps the boyfriend and the mother don’t know what it feels like to be punched in the stomach by someone 15X bigger than you and have frying grease poured on their genitals and a hair-dryer used to burn off their skin, so I recommend that they find out. If it’s good enough for their baby, surely it’s good enough for them.

We are failing in protecting our most vulnerable. I don’t know what can be done, if anything, but it seems like this happens far, far too often. Once is too much.

And of course! — It happened in Florida. Surprise. Surprise.

The mother of an Apopka toddler severely burned and beaten was arrested today on one count of child neglect, police said.

Marlita S. Stokes, 23, was at work when her boyfriend Darlanne Toussaint, 24, used his fist to smash the 17-month-old’s chest and back, and a blow dryer to burn the child’s skin. The boy who suffered second-degree burns on his genitals, back, chest and head, is in stable condition at Florida Hospital Orlando this morning.

Toussaint was baby-sitting girlfriend Marlita Stokes’ two children at the couple’s home in the 1900 block of Nicole Lee Circle when the incident occurred Thursday morning, police said. The other child was not hurt.

See. This is why I don’t ride roller coasters…

ORLANDO Fla.-Around 1 PM Tuesday the Orange County Sheriff’s Office responded to 3281 Sherberth Road in reference to a man who died after riding the Mt. Everest Rollercoaster at Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom.

Jeffery Reed, 44, of Navarre, Florida appeared to be unconscious and unresponsive at the conclusion of the ride when the cars stopped at the attraction’s unloading area.

Mickey Mouse…Goofy…Donald Duck…semi-automatic hand guns. It’s all good…

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35, Orlando) — A 63 year old woman from Pennsylvania was arrested on Sunday after attempting to enter Walt Disney World with a loaded handgun. Walt Disney World security personnel discovered a silver color, Beretta .32 caliber semi-automatic handgun during a routine safety check as the woman was attempting to enter the park with other family members.