Articles labeled: Pennsylvania

A woman and her two children were found dead in their Marianna, Pennsylvania home, and now the police are looking for the woman’s husband.

The bodies of 22-year-old Ashley Guarino, her 2-year-old daughter and 11-month-old son were found by relatives at about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, authorities said. Washington County Coroner Tim Warco said they were suffocated but gave no details.

State police issued a bulletin for the woman’s husband, Orlando Maurice Guarino, 38. He was not charged with any crime, but police said they wanted to question him.

Orlando and Ashley Guarino had separated recently, and she had obtained an order of protection against him last month in Washington County court, authorities said.

A group of six teenage boys allegedly got a little more than Xbox and ghost stories when they had a sleepover. Police have charged the host mom’s friend with statutory sexual assault.

Authorities said the teens, ages 14 to 16, were attending a sleepover at [Lynn] Long’s Lower Makefield home when [Angela] Honeycutt, a mother of two young children, allegedly had sex with a 14-year-old and performed sex acts with a 15-year-old. Long allegedly watched, listened and instructed the teens not to say anything.

In addition to the alleged sexual assault, detectives said Honeycutt exposed her breasts to the teens; open-mouth kissed some of the minors, entered a shower with a juvenile and engaged conversation of a sexual nature.

“What is so particularly outrageous about this is the violation of trust,” said Lower Makefield Twp. Police Chief Ken Coluzzi.

A 2-year-old who wandered away from his family during a picnic at their church was found later floating in a nearby pool.

According to the Coroner’s Office, the toddler was attending a picnic at the First Christian Church in Perry Township with his family when he wandered off.

The toddler was then found unresponsive in a pool about 100 yards away.

Southwest Ambulance responded to the scene and preformed CPR.

The baby boy was then transported to Monongahela Valley Hospital were he was pronounced dead.

Two moms whose house burned down, killing 5 children inside, are being held responsible for the deaths because they left the children alone while they went out drinking at a bar.

After more than an hour of heart-wrenching testimony, Allegheny County Judge David Cashman said that the women’s crime of leaving the children in the care of two 8-year-old boys should not go unpunished.

“You traded the lives of five children for a couple of beers,” Cashman said. “These children were placed in harm’s way because you decided it was time to party. … This deserves punishment.”

[Shakita] Mangham and [Furaha] Love, who pleaded no contest in February to charges of involuntary manslaughter, were taken from the courtroom in handcuffs. Their jail terms will be followed by five years of probation.

Wow, one can only imagine how bad the sexual abuse was if a 13-year-old girl felt the only way to end it was to blast her father in the face with a 12-gauge shotgun.

The girl was 13 when she shot Matthew Booth Sr., 34, on July 30 in the squalid home they shared in Elizabeth Township, a rural suburb about 20 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Nightingale and the girl told authorities Booth had abused her since she was about 7.

The girl at first told police two masked men shot her father while ransacking their house, but soon after confessed to shooting him.

Allegheny County prosecutors initially charged her as an adult with criminal homicide, but agreed to move the case to juvenile court in August after District Attorney Stephen Zappala Jr. toured the home and described the living conditions as “incredible.”

An Allegheny County Health Department report showed the home had major health code violations, including no furnace or bathroom sink, holes in walls, a leaky ceiling, and flea infestation from neglected pets, including dogs, cats and rabbits. Much of the furniture was broken and police said the home smelled of animal waste.

While we agree on some level and don’t think the kid needs jail time, something needs to be done. Because if you have a 10-year-old girl beating up another kid so badly cops label it “aggravated assault”, there’s nowhere to go but down unless she gets some intervention.

A 10-year-old girl accused of brutally attacking another girl on a playground is too emotionally immature to understand the criminal charges against her and they should be dismissed, a public defender said.

The 10-year-old and another girl, 11, face charges including aggravated assault for the attack on another 10-year-old girl in an elementary school playground the evening of April 3. The girls are accused of stomping on the victim and breaking her hip, police said.

Erie County Public Defender Tony Logue says he will ask a Juvenile Court judge to dismiss criminal charges against the 10-year-old girl.

“How can my attorney effectively communicate with his clients given the client’s chronological age versus emotional age?” Logue said.

Many of us have probably sent our children off to school when we knew deep down that perhaps they might be a wee bit too sick to attend. We’ve even heard from one friend who admitted to dosing her son with an ample amount of ibuprofen hoping to keep his low grade fever down until the final bell rang. We understand when both parents work, and a loss of a day’s wages means a lot when you’re living paycheck to paycheck, but sometimes you have to suck it up and keep the young ones at home — like, say, WHEN THEY ARE INFESTED WITH LICE.

A woman was charged with endangering her children after she sent them to school with lice, despite being warned that they could not attend class.

Nicole Lynn Holmes, 27, was in jail Wednesday and awaiting a preliminary hearing on Friday. Belle Vernon Area School District in Fayette County contacted police, alleging that Holmes was neglecting her two children, according to court records.

The allegations followed several warnings about the children’s lice infestation.

A devastating fire on Sunday at a row house in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania killed 4 children and severely burned at least one other person. A woman and 5 children lived in the house — the oldest managed to escape by jumping out a second story window.

The 4:30 a.m. fire destroyed the middle of three row houses, though the others were also damaged. Each home was occupied, but officials did not immediately know how many people were inside or how many escaped.

The four dead children included two boys, ages 11 and 13, and two girls, ages 5 and 7, Northampton County Coroner Zachary Lysek said. Lysek did not release the names of the victims.

Hector Lugo, 27, who lives three doors away, was awakened by the sound of the woman screaming “Help! Help! My kids are inside.” He saw the teenager on fire jump from the window and watched as firefighters doused the flames from him, he said.

We have a fourth-grader of our own, and as we sit here trying to maintain our sanity while he’s home for a snow day, we can perhaps understand how dealing with a room full of them day after day can make you snap.

So maybe it’s not such a surprise that Susan Romanyszyn, a fourth-grade teacher in Warminster, Pennsylvania (a suburb of Philadelphia) is being accused by police for issuing threats against Longstreth Elementary School, where she works. They say she left disturbing drawings around the school, as well as a makeshift pipe bomb and nails in the teacher parking lot.

Romanyszyn was charged in connection with a series of threats made against Longstreth that had students, teachers and parents on edge for weeks.

Police said the threats left at the school included references to bombs and quotes such as “Die Today, Kill Em All, You Won’t Catch Me I Have A Gun, You’re So Stupid I Have To Kill You And I Won’t Stop Til You All Die.”

Romanyszyn has been teaching here for several years, sources said. She has been on a leave of absence since late October.

Congratulations Jeremy Smith, of Somerset, Pennsylvania, you’re our “Douche of the Day”!

Smith, 31, has probably been a douche his entire adult life, but there’s one recent act that compelled us to bestow him with this coveted title — he beat up an 11-year-old baby! During an altercation with the child’s grandmother, Smith managed to fracture the baby’s arm, leg, skull and nose. He’s been sitting in jail since New Year’s Day for the assault on the woman, but the child’s injuries were just discovered when the infant was brought to the hospital for a different medical issue.

So, for beating up babies and grandmothers, give a hand to Jeremy Smith — Minor Topic’s “Douche of the Day”!

A teacher from Elmira, New York has been arrested for public lewdness after he did some naughty things at a local rest stop:

Police say Chris A. Troncone, 40, of Lawrenceville, Pa., exposed himself, committed a lewd act and made obscene comments in the presence of a rest area attendant while inside the men’s room at the rest area. The attendant said at least one other person entered the rest room but left quickly while Troncone allegedly was engaged in the lewd behavior.

Troncone, who is a first-grade teacher at Diven Elementary School in Elmira, has been suspended pending the outcome of the police investigation, Elmira City School District spokesperson Kristin Butler said.

Gotta watch out at those rest areas and forest preserves! And yes, the teacher has been suspended, but his firing is not a sure thing even if he is found guilty:

Letters from Superintendent Dr. Raymond Bryant are being sent home with all Diven students Wednesday explaining that Troncone was arrested off of school property for an incident that did not involve children. The letter also says that administrators have no reason to believe Troncone has done anything in the classroom to cause concern.

And here we were chastising Utah for having to pass a law to get pervy teachers out of the classroom. Sorry, Dr. Bryant, but while we agree with you up to a point in terms of private sector jobs, Troncone’s unfettered access to children requires a person of the utmost character. Certain behaviors a teacher engages in off of school property absolutely reflects on their worthiness of being in the classroom (and lest you think we’re prudes, we don’t think, say, racy pics on MySpace is an actionable offense).

Holy crap! What would you do if you awoke to a BEAR in your tent? I’d be throwing out candy and whipping it as far as I could.

This boy is very, very lucky…

ALBRIGHTSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — The state Game Commission is setting traps in Hickory Run State Park after a bear bit a 12-year-old camping with his Boy Scout troop.

The bear entered the boy’s tent Sunday night and bit down on his sleeping bag, probably trying to get candy bars and cereal hidden there, but bit the boy instead, Tim Conway, a game commission spokesman, said Tuesday.

9k a month to torture children? Would I be accused of being master of the obvious if I said that somebody really dropped the ball on this one?

Wonder if this is one of the cases of a social worker being paid off? Whatever it is, it’s absolutely disgusting.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Five children and two disabled women were locked in a basement cell, fed meager food and rarely allowed to bathe, by a couple facing criminal charges over their care, authorities said.

The couple were paid $9,000 a month to care for the seven.

The unlit 4-foot-by-5-foot cinderblock cell was called the “toy room,” according to a police affidavit.

What a primo jerk…

Erie police charged a former Mercyhurst College volleyball player on Tuesday with killing the baby she secretly gave birth to in her on-campus apartment bathroom.

Teri Rhodes, 18, faces several criminal charges, including homicide and concealing the death of a child. The sophomore from Commerce, Mich., apparently hid her pregnancy from friends and teammates and passed a sports physical that cleared her to play volleyball just two days before she gave birth, police said.