June 2007 A Virginian teen who was fishing with his brother, was struck by lightning and killed after getting caught in a thunderstorm. Jeremy Mosebrook, 14, and his 16 year old brother left their fishing poles at the pond as the storm moved in over them. But they could not get to safety soon enough. Jeremy was struck by a bolt of lightning as the brothers ran through an open hayfield to find shelter. Efforts to revive the boy proved … Continue reading →
6-6-07 A 5-year-old girl from Grand Junction, Colorado, was killed on Wednesday, while she was sitting unrestrained on the lap of the front seat passenger of a car driven by her father. He made a left turn into oncoming traffic on U.S. 50, colliding with a van, according to the Colorado state patrol. The child, Elizabeth Hatch, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. The passenger, 24 year old Jennifer Scarbrough, also of Grand Junction, later died from … Continue reading →
May 24, 2007 A ten-year-old girl claimed she was approached by a stranger while playing tag with friends in her Pueblo, Colorado neighborhood. The incident happened at around 6:45 P.M., near East Seventh Street and Iola Avenue. The girl said a white man with shoulder-length black hair pulled up and asked her if she needed a ride. The girl said no, but before driving off, the man then prodded, “Are you sure? I’ll give you $100 dollars?” The girl told … Continue reading →
5-22-07 The mother of a baby who received serious burns after being microwaved by her father, told a Houston television station, KHOU, that Satan was to blame for her husbands actions. Maurie Mauldin, 20, stated that the devil “saw my husband as a threat” due to the fact that he was trying to become a preacher. The baby girl was released from the hospital after 11 days. She had received the burns after being placed in the microwave oven of … Continue reading →
5-10-07 On the first day of a program in Japan offering an anonymous drop box for unwanted babies, a father stunned people by leaving his 3-year-old child at the ‘baby drop.’ The Roman Catholic-run Jikei hospital in the southern city of Kumamoto, started the program known as “stork’s cradle,” to discourage abortions and the abandonment of children in unsafe public places. According to reports, the boy (believed to be three years of age) said he “came with daddy” and was … Continue reading →
5-12-07 A 2-year-old boy fell 12 feet from the balcony of a second floor apartment building at around 8:00 in the evening. Police investigated the incident and determined it to be accidental. Luckily, he was treated only for minor injuries and released.
Continue reading →5-11-07 A six-year-old girl died while reaching for scissors that were on top of a refrigerator in her Verona Beach, N.Y. home. The child fell from a chair she was using to reach the scissors, and ended up stabbing herself in the neck with the blades. She was standing on a wheeled, office style chair, when it moved from underneath her, causing her to loose her balance. The girl had been retrieving the pair of scissors to cut out gum … Continue reading →
12-28-07 As a parent, you tell your kids a lot of things. But have you ever told them it’s not a good idea to stick screwdrivers through their brains? If you’re anything like the rest of us, you probably never thought such a thing was necessary. Apparently it is, as one Arizona mother found out, after her 2-year-old daughter apparently shoved a screwdriver into her own eye. It took doctors two hours to remove the instrument, which had entered the … Continue reading →
May 2007 A 2-year-old was taken off of life support, after suffering injuries he received with his day care provider. Vicki Leigh Chiles was being held without bail on a complaint of first degree murder. Chjiles told police the boy would not be quiet for nap time, so she used tape to silence him, according to an arrest report. It is believed the 2-year-old had his hands bound and his mouth covered with masking tape. Chiles was the only worker … Continue reading →
4-20-2007 Twenty-six-year-old Heather Nicole Berg, the mother of a kindergartner at Church Hill Elementary School, was charged with assault for allegedly pointing a cap-gun at kids in her child’s kindergarten class. She was also banned from the school for a year. The incident happened on a Tuesday, just one day after the deadly shootings at Virginia Tech. Heather was in the classroom to pay for an upcoming field trip. Witnesses report that she pulled the gun out of her purse … Continue reading →