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A private swimming pool booted a camp class consisting of many minority students when they allegedly heard complaints from club members about sharing the pool with black and Hispanic children. In an ironic twist, the manager of the pool was allegedly a Barack Obama campaign manager in the state of Pennsylvania.

I’m shocked that this kind of thing still goes on. I really hoped and thought we were past this kind of gross discrimination. It’s so wrong on so many levels. Those poor kids.

The Creative Steps camp in northeast Philadelphia had paid $1,950 for 65 children to go each Monday afternoon this summer to The Valley Club in Huntingdon Valley. But after the first outing on June 29, the money was refunded with no explanation.

Camp director Alethea Wright said Thursday that while at the club, some black and Hispanic children reported hearing racial comments.

A 3-year-old Pittsburgh boy was beat up so badly that he’s now in critical condition. The boy’s mother, a mere 19 years old, has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child after the “man”, Ryan Brothers, that she was shacking up with was charged with aggravated assault in the child’s beating. Brothers told cops that he did commit “various aspects of the abuse.”

A boy accused of shooting and killing his father’s fiancee allegedly did so with a shotgun given to him by dad as a Christmas present. Stick with the Wii next time!

Little Adolf Hitler and his idiotic parents came to national attention last month when ShopRite refused to make a cake bearing his name. Now it’s being reported that little Adolf has been taken from his parents’ home, along with his sisters Aryan Nation and Honszlynn Hinler Jeanine Campbell.

A couple in Easton, Pennsylvania are upset after the local grocery store refused to put “Happy Birthday, Adolf Hitler” on a cake. And why would they have wanted them to do that? Because that’s the name of their 3 year old boy.

Heath Campbell, who is 35, said in an interview Tuesday that people should look forward, not back, and accept change.

“They need to accept a name. A name’s a name. The kid isn’t going to grow up and do what [Hitler] did,” he said.

After ShopRite refused the request for the cake as inappropriate, the Campbells got a cake decorated at a Wal-Mart in Pennsylvania, Deborah Campbell said.

The Campbells two younger children are named JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell (somehow a tribute to Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler) — but don’t think there’s any hidden meaning there, oh, no. The Campbells just wanted to be “unique” — surely it’s not a reflection on any viewpoints they might hold. They’re just setting these kids up for success, huh?

Authorities have removed three children — an infant, a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old — from a house in Carlisle, Pennsylvania that they say was unfit for humans.

The children are in the care of Cumberland County Children and Youth while their mother, Shawnta M. Moody, 25, faces criminal charges after being accused of risking her children’s health in the filthy Carlisle home, authorities said.

As flies crawl over the surface of stained walls and dirt-crusted carpets in the now-empty house at 150 South Bedford Street, evidence of the children’s foul surroundings was piled in a pick-up truck in front of the home this morning.

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.