Ralph Wrecks The Internet: Wreck It Ralph 2 Trailer
Here’s a teaser for the upcoming sequel to Wreck It Ralph!
PA – Starving kids were eating paint off the walls to survive. Parents Plead Guilty
The children were so hungry they were peeling paint off the walls to eat.
And, a Dauphin County prosecutor said Thursday, two of those three children would have died of starvation within a week had they not been rescued from the bedroom where they were imprisoned.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Jennifer Gettle painted that horrific picture as the couple responsible for caring for those kids, Joshua and Brandi Weyant, entered guilty pleas that will guarantee them prison stays of at least a decade each.
The Halifax Township couple entered those pleas 14 months after state police, acting on an anonymous tip about a sickly child, raided their house of horrors in the 1000 block of North River Road.
Both Weyants pleaded guilty to multiple charges of aggravated assault, conspiracy, false imprisonment, unlawful restraint, and child endangerment.
Gettle said their plea deals require county Judge Scott A. Evans to impose minimum sentences of at least 10 years in state prison. Evans has the leeway, however, to send each of the Weyants to prison for up to 20 to 40 years, the prosecutor said,
Evans is to sentence the couple in May.
Joshua Weyant, 34, also pleaded no contest to unrelated charges of indecent assault and corruption of minors. In that case, he was accused of molesting a pre-teen girl from 2013-15, Gettle said.
Neither of the Weyants said anything other than “yes,” as they stood before Evans with attorneys – Chief Deputy Public Defender Deanna Muller for Joshua and Bryan Depowell for Brandi, 39, whose voice was barely audible as she pleaded guilty.
The charges against the Weyants stem from the December 2016 visit of police and Children & Youth Services workers to their home in response to the anonymous tip.
Gettle said investigators found the children in a bare, unheated bedroom without any beds or other furniture, no toys and no sign that they were getting anything to eat. The paint was peeled from the walls for as high as the kids could reach, she said, and the children were eating it “to try to survive,” Gettle said.
She said the children, ages 6, 5 and 4, told police they were imprisoned in the room for trying to steal food. They said the Weyants weren’t feeding them.
The children were rushed to Penn State Hershey Medical Center, where experts determined two of them were within a week of dying from malnutrition, the prosecutor said. Investigators said none of the children weighed more than 28 pounds, well below healthy weight for their ages.
Although the Weyants were responsible for caring for the children, they are not their biological parents, investigators determined. Police said it appears 10 people were living in the Halifax Township house.
Investigators said they believe the Weyants conspired to starve the children because Joshua no longer wanted them.
Gettle said the children are now in foster care.
via: http://www.pennlive.com/news/2018/02/starving_kids_were_eating_pain.html
Teacher accused of choking 12-year-old student in dispute over school dance
PLAINS TOWNSHIP — A Pennsylvania teacher faces charges of strangulation and harassment for allegedly choking a 12-year-old student, according to WNEP.
The incident reportedly happened earlier this month, and charges were filed Monday against Brian Fischer, a teacher at Solomon-Plains Educational Complex, part of the Wilkes-Barre Area School District.
Standing with his mother Crystal, Keyon Mutua told WNEP he had an argument with Fischer on Feb. 9 inside the cafeteria at Solomon-Plains Educational Complex, shortly before he turned 13.
Court papers show Mutua had been suspended from school for using foul language and wasn’t allowed to attend a dance later that night. He wanted to get back the $30 he paid for the dance, but Fischer wouldn’t return the money.
“The first time I was like calmly asking him for my money and the second time, not the third time I asked him,” said Mutua. “I yelled at him, so he decided to lean forward and put his hands around my neck.”
Mutua says Fischer grabbed him by the neck with both hands, choking him for a few seconds.
“I was surprised he leaped at me like that for, like, just yelling at him,” said Mutua.
According to court papers, the principal and school resource officer had to separate Mutua and Fischer, who later said the middle schooler had “entered his space” and made the 57-year-old feel threatened, according to the Times Leader. Fischer claimed he only put his hands on the boys shoulders.
“They did call me the day of the incident, and what was explained to me was he had to use force for my son,” said Crystal Mutua. “So I found myself apologizing to him.”
But the school resource officer told the court the choking was caught on the school’s security cameras.
He said the video showed that Mutua was not aggressive toward Fischer and that the teacher acted out, seemingly unprovoked.
“When I saw this video my stomach hurt, really, really bad, like really bad because that’s a child. This is your role model. This is somebody they look up to. This is the person who is supposed to assist him going forward,” said Crystal.
Fischer is now charged with harassment and a misdemeanor charge of strangulation.
WNEP tried to reach him, but no one answered the door at his home in Mountain Top.
“You just took my son back five steps with trust of the system, with trust of the school system. I was hurt. I was really, really hurt,” said Crystal.
Brian Fischer is now suspended from his $86,000 teaching job without pay, according to the paper.
He has a court appearance set for April 3.
Nevada police say woman went to school playground with ax, threatened to kill everyone
A woman in Nevada who reportedly carried a pickaxe as she shouted threats at a playground where hundreds of children were playing has been arrested.
Kisstal Killough, 33, was allegedly carrying the hand tool and screaming threats as she climbed a chain link fence around noon on Tuesday to enter the Tom Williams Elementary School playground in North Las Vegas, Fox 5 Las Vegas reported.
A public information officer with the North Las Vegas Police Department said there were 200 children on the playground during the incident, in which Killough was shouting she was going to murder everyone, according to KSNV.
When officers reportedly arrived one minute later, Killough jumped off the fence, dropped the pickaxe and surrendered peacefully.
Killough, according to police, was mentally impaired during the incident — possibly under the influence of drugs.
In a letter sent home to parents, school Principal Kristie Cole said that Killough “did not harm anyone or cause any damage to the school,” and was reported to police after staff and students noticed her.
Arrest records show Killough was taken into custody on charges of assault with a deadly weapon, trespass, nuisance and loitering on school property.
Black History Month Part 12: “Chasing Shadows” By Etta Moten Barnett
On this day of Black History Month we have a song from Etta Moten Barnett entitled, Chasing Shadows. Enjoy!
Black History Month Part 11: Voting Rights Act of 1965
As we push forward with Black History Month, I’d would like to discuss an important event in our history. That important event is the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Around the time of 1965 the fight for equal voting rights had been going strong. On March 7, 1965, an event known as “Bloody Sunday occured. State troopers went to peaceful protestors and caused an unprovoked attack on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.
In response to the event, President Johnson called for a voting rights legislation. Hearings began on the bill that would later become the Voting Rights Act. The hearings showed that the Justice Department’s efforts to eliminate discriminatory election practices by litigation on a case-by-case basis had been unsuccessful in opening up the registration process. The Act was enacted on August 6, 1965.
However while this is a great achievement, it still needs to be voted on every few years or so which is why it is important to know your voting laws, especially in the African American community.
Black History Month Part 10: Sojouner Truth
On this day in Black History Month, I give you the life and history of Sojouner Truth.
Black History Month Part 9: Guion Bluford
As we continue into Black History Month, I’d like to show an interview from Guion Bluford, the first African American in space.
Trump Re-Election Campaign Emails Photo of Florida Shooting Survivor, Asks for Money
President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign used a photo of a survivor of the Parkland, Florida, shooting in an email Saturday that asks its recipients to donate money to the campaign.
The email contains a photo of 17-year-old Madeleine Wilford in a hospital bed surrounded by her family, Trump and the first lady. The President visited Wilford on February 16, two days after the attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, which left 17 dead.
“The nation has turned its attention to the senseless school shooting in Parkland, Florida,” the email reads.
“Trump is taking steps toward banning gun bump stocks and strengthening background checks for gun purchasers,” it says. “The President has made his intent very clear: ‘making our schools and our children safer will be our top priority.’”
Near the end of the message, there’s a link to the campaign’s donations page.
The campaign did not immediately return CNN’s request for comment.
Trump previously used the photo in an Instagram post uploaded on the same day as the hospital visit.