Articles labeled: tennessee

Toonces has a new friend. A dog in Maryville, Tennessee somehow managed to put the family van in drive, hit the gas, and ran over a 5-year-old. Silly mutt, you have a dog license not a driver’s license!

“I heard the engine running, and I turned around to look, and I just remember screaming, ‘No!’” Kalli’s mother, Keyna Sipe said.

While the Sipe family loaded their blue van with some scrap wood in the family’s backyard, Widget, the family mutt, made a run toward the running Dodge Caravan. The driver’s door was open.

“The dog jumped in, landed on the gas, the car door knocked Kalli down, and the van tire drove completely over her body,” Sipe said. “It rolled from here, completely down her chest.”

Kalli’s grandfather was also hit. He was sitting on a lawn chair when the car backed up and knocked him over. Wednesday, he was fine.

The child suffered some bad bruises, but she’s going to be O.K.

Seems like there was a bit of bad behavior on a Friday night off campus, a teacher caught wind of it, and instead of contacting the kids’ parents school officials decided to issue their own punishment. And Travis McGaha of the Seymour Herald — who seems to have a bit of a Libertarian bent — is none too happy about it:

One of the parents contacted an attorney who agreed that the school had violated due process rights by not informing the parent about the appellate process or her rights to have the action reviewed by a higher commission within the school system.

The mother, upon hearing this explanation, was shocked to find that the school could possibly administer stigmatizing punishments so easily for off-campus offenses with the only actionable response being expensive litigation.

Far from a school administration executing punishment in place of a parent who is hours away (by horseback or foot, I might add) to maintain good order, the school executed the over-reactive punishment even though the parent was less than 2 minutes away by automobile.

Even though the children apologized up front and were not disruptive towards the class, the teacher, the school nor the school system, their honesty and good order was met not only with verbal reprimand but by bullish interrogation by the resource officer as well as threats of further citation.

Police are claiming that a 10-year-old girl in Franklin, Tennessee tried to rob a Mapco Express late Monday night. The youngster made an interesting weapon choice:

[The store clerk] said he wasn’t sure what the girl wanted until she threw a rock that struck him in the chest. The rock was all she was armed with. The clerk said he was so stunned that the girl had to ask the clerk three times for the money.

“At that time, the clerk said, ‘You need to leave the store,’ and came around the counter toward the front of the store. At that time, the child ran out,” said Franklin Police Detective David Dixon.

It was the first attempted robbery at the busy Mapco, which is located just off Interstate 65.

The clerk said the main reason he called police was because he was worried about the young girl being out so late and trying to rob a store.

Uh, yeah, a note to everyone out there — if a 4th grader tries to hold up a convenience store, it’s probably a good idea to call the cops so maybe they can have a word with mom and dad.

Charlris Fleming, a 6-year-old in Frayser, Tennessee, which is just outside of Memphis, fatally shot himself in the eye while playing with a handgun which accidentally discharged. His uncle, Jerome Black, is facing criminal charges for bringing the gun into the house and hiding it in an insanely stupid place:

Police say Jerome Black has admitted bringing a gun into the Greenbriar apartment in Frayser. He reportedly said he hid the loaded handgun under a couch cusion (sic).

Charlris and a seven-year-old were playing with the gun in a bedroom. The revolver went off and Charlris was shot in the face. Neighbors say the victim’s mother, Black and a third adult were in a separate room.

Paramedics rushed the boy to Le Bonheur Childrens’ Medical Center. He died while in the hospital.

“It’s devastating,” said Susan Helms of Le Bonheur. “This was a preventable tragedy, this did not have to happen.”

According to Helms, last year the hospital treated 50 kids for gunshot wounds. That’s nearly one child every week.

Memphis, Tennessee police responded to a call at a home on Monday night and found a massacre scene — 2 children and 4 adults were found dead, and 3 children were injured. It appears as if the crime had taken place as early as Saturday. One can only imagine the horror of those children having to fight to survive for 2 days amongst all the carnage.

“I heard about six or seven shots [Saturday night],” said Wayne Bolden, a landscaper who said he lives across the street from the home where the killings occurred. “I did not call the police because you always hear shooting in this neighborhood. Now I wish I would have called.”

He said he did not see any movement at the home the next day — the two cars, a van and a passenger car, never moved.

Monday he saw many police cars at the home and heard about the killings, he said.

Memphis Fire Department spokeswoman Melanie Young said firefighters responded to a 911 call at a home at 6:11 p.m. Monday and found the bodies and wounded children.

A 7-year-old boy, a 10-month-old girl and a 4-year-old whose gender wasn’t immediately known were taken to Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center.

Can you think of a worse lesson to teach your 12 year old?…how to decapitate the body of her dead mother?

A 12-year-old girl told police her father, James Hawkins, forced her to help dump her mother’s body in DeSoto County in Tennessee. Hawkins is charged with killing and dismembering Charlene Gaither, MyFOXMemphis reports.

Hawkins’ daughter also told investigators that she witnessed her father killing her mother. A police affidavit says the girl, whose name was not released, claimed she “watched dad kill mom.”

At least one child, age 11, was killed along with her parents in Arkansas from trauma as a tornado hit their home. So far, death totals are at least 44.

ATKINS, Arkansas — Authorities went door-to-door early Wednesday searching for more victims of deadly tornadoes that ripped the roof off a shopping mall, pummeled mobile homes and blew apart warehouses as they tore across four states. At least 44 people were reported dead throughout the South.

The victims included 24 people in Tennessee, 13 in Arkansas, and seven in Kentucky, emergency officials said. Among those killed were Arkansas parents who died with their 11-year-old in Atkins, about 60 miles northwest of Little Rock.

A stray bullet hit an 11 year old girl in Tennessee, out of nowhere, while she was horseback riding.

Scary!

LEBANON, Tenn. — A day of horseback riding turned painful for a local girl when she was hit by a bullet.

Allie Nadeau, 11, is alive, but her mother said she is angry and determined the same thing won’t happen again to her daughter or anyone else.

Tonya Nadeau said she got a call saying that her daughter had been shot at the neighborhood stables.

A mother who was supposed to be enjoying her visitation with her 4 year old and 7 year old, instead decides that she’d rather go out and party on New Years Eve than be a parent and that selfish neglect and piss-poor excuse for a human being (let alone a “mother”) came home to two dead little boys, who suffered in a fire in her absence. What a POS.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A mother whose two sons died in a fire while she was out celebrating New Year’s has been charged with criminally negligent homicide, police said.

Romello Winters, 4 and Christian Griffen, 7, appeared to have been alone in their apartment for several hours before firefighters responded to a call early New Year’s Day at the two-story wood frame building.

The blaze was brought under control in about a half-hour, and the boys died later at a hospital. The cause of the fire had not been determined.

Note to self: stay away from “Rural Tennessee”. Just when you think the news cannot disgust you further…

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A rural Tennessee father is accused of raping his two teenage daughters and using electric dog collars to establish dominance over them, authorities said Tuesday.

The charges against the 37-year-old man and his 35-year-old wife were referred to a grand jury on Tuesday in Tazewell, which is in rural Claiborne County near the Kentucky border.

The man is charged with aggravated child abuse and two counts of rape. His wife, who prosecutors say knew about the use of dog collars but not the alleged sexual assaults, is charged with aggravated child abuse and failure to report child abuse.

Prosecutors said more charges could be handed down when the grand jury convenes Dec. 3.

Whenever my 4 year says he’s going to go to the store and I ask him, “Oh, yeah? How ya gonna get there?”, I’d better start taking him more seriously…

A Robertson County school bus driver found a naked 28-month old boy standing on the edge of Pinson Road off Highway 76E between White House and Springfield around 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 19.

The child’s mother, Kresta Warner, 30, was arrested by the Robertson County Sheriff Department. She was charged with child abuse and neglect.

“She couldn’t explain why she never called. The child had wandered nearly a half-mile from home across property that had several ponds.”