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Mother Drowns Kids In A Bathtub

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An Arizona mother with a history of mental illness was arrested for drowning her twin sons, both two years old, in a bathtub.  She was also in the process of trying to drown a 3-year-old relative when the boy’s mother stumbled upon what was going on and manged to fight her off.  He survived. The woman, 22-year-old Mireya Lopez, has a history of mental illness.  she was diagnosed with schizophrenia and was on 8 different types of medication.  The Doctors … Continue reading →

Chronic Tardiness … The Teacher Version

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In New Brunswick, New Jersey, a state arbitrator ruled that an elementary school math teacher who has been chronically late to his job can non the less keep it. Arnold Anderson was reportedly late at least 46 times this past school year, and 65 times the year before, which prompted Roosevelt Elementary School to seek his dismissal. To put this in perspective, a typical school year is no more than 150 days of actual education at most, which means he’s … Continue reading →

How NOT to Boost A Safe

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They say crime doesn’t pay, and in many cases this is true. For example, studies have shown that drug dealers earn less per hour than McDonald’s workers unless they happen to be at the upper echelon of the trade. (Its that allure of hitting the “Big Time” that draws people in) So perhaps no case serves as a better example of this concept that the story we’re about to discuss. Recently there was an incident where3 friends decided to steal … Continue reading →

Babysitter Defends Boy From Viscous Dog Attack

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In Genesee, Colorado, a local babysitter, Sharon Molloy, is being called a hero after she defends 3-year-old Jack Melichar for a savage dog attack. When two black dogs showed up on the family deck, Sharon and the boys, Jack and his 8-year-old brother went out to shoo the dogs home.  Like any exuberant 3-year-old, Jack was running.  One of the dogs then attacked him. Sharon began trying to pull the dog off him, and it turned on her. Two neighbors … Continue reading →

Girl Swallowed by the Earth in Neighbor’s Backyard

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On one sunny Saturday in June, a mother and her daughter played tag in the front yard of their home in Hackettstown, New Jersey.  With her mother Marlen close behind, Alyson Machigua giggled as she ran into the back yard of an elderly neighbor. When she was about halfway across the neighbor’s yard the toddler suddenly disappeared.  It was as though she had been swallowed by the earth.  The girl had fallen into a hole that was later found to … Continue reading →

Leaving Your Kid in the Park

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Lord knows that parents could use a break from time to time. A little me-time away from the kids. But one Philadelphia mother took this idea to a whole new extreme. She wanted to visit her boyfriend in Maryland, and apparently was having trouble finding anyone to look after her special needs child. So she took her quadriplegic son into the woods of a local park and dumped him there, where he spent 5 days alone in the forest. (She … Continue reading →

Gun-toting Grandpa

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There’s some things that should go without saying: don’t put rattlesnakes in the baby’s crib, put the handguns away when you play with your grand-kids.  A man in New Castle, Indiana, needs to be reminded of this.  The 76-year-old grandfather faces a felony charge of illegally pointing a firearm, stemming from an incident where he allegedly engaged in shenanigance with his grandson while holding a loaded weapon.

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Medical Marijuana at School

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In Mapleshade, New Jersey, a family is suing the Mapleshade School District for not allowing their epileptic daughter to use medicinal marijuana at school.  A lower-court ruliing sided with the district, saying state law does not allow medicinal marijuana on school grounds.  The family of 16-year-old Genny Barbour is appealing to Federal Court.

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Man Kidnaps Kids to Teach Parents a Lesson

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In Fairbanks, Alaska, a man has been arrested and charged with kidnapping two sisters in order to teach the parents a lesson on what can happen when you let your kids out alone.  According to police reports, 40-year-old Michael Bowen Jr. became agitated that the girls were riding bikes by themselves, so he lured them away and snatched the girls because he “wanted to scare the parents.” This type of thing happens more often than you might think.  Just in … Continue reading →

Four Police Officers Charged With Child Abuse

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In San Louis Obispo, California, four police officers were recently charged with physically and emotionally abusing the children they worked with at the Leadership Empowerment Discipline boot camp, a program for at risk youth.  It’s not surprising at all to learn that abuse was going on in such a place — many (if not most of these troubled teen rehabilitation programs are little more than child abuse packaged as tough love helping, and the horror stories and streams of deaths … Continue reading →