Woman found holding her own eyeballs across from South Carolina church
ANDERSON, S.C. – Horrified churchgoers called 911 Tuesday after a woman tore out her own eyes with her hands, according to WYFF.
“It was across the street, and I could see blood, and could her screaming and I realized something was wrong,” Elizabeth Hiott, who had been working at the South Main Chapel and Mercy Center, told the TV station. “I immediately called 911 and it almost felt like the 911 dispatcher didn’t even believe me. That’s how crazy it was.”
Despite a conflicting report from the Associated Press, Lt. Bowland with the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that both eyes were removed, not just one. WYFF reports that after witnesses called 911, the woman, who had been kneeling next to some railroad tracks, ripped out the second eye.
“She didn’t injure anybody, but it took several people to subdue her enough to get her on a stretcher,” Bowland said.
Medical workers rushed the woman to an area hospital by helicopter.
Hiott said she had seen the woman at church before, but not regularly.
The woman is on a respirator but is in stable condition, according to WYFF
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Black History Month Day 4: Rosa Parks
When you think of historical black figures I’m sure there is one that definitely comes to mind; Rosa Parks.
Born on February 4th, 1913, Rosa Parks set off a chain reaction which led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The incident occurred on December 1st 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white man and sit in the back. This resulted in her getting arrested. On December 5th she was put on trial and was ordered to pay a $10 fine and a $4 court fee.
It was also during this time that the bus boycott took place. After seeing as how the bus system was losing money, they officially ended the boycott which in turn allowed African Americans to sit in any area of the bus as they pleased.
However despite her brave act, Rosa Parks’ like in the south still wasn’t easy. She lost her job and her husband was also fired from his job. With no other choice, they packed up and moved to Detroit.
in 1987, Parks founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development. This organization runs “Pathways to Freedom” bus tours, introducing young people to important civil rights and Underground Railroad sites throughout the country.
Along with the institute, Parks received many accolades during her lifetime, including the Spingarn Medal, the NAACP’s highest award, and the prestigious Martin Luther King Jr. Award.
She passed away on October 24, 2005 and was buried in the Detroit cemetery mausoleum which was then named after.
Black History Month Day 3: Harlem Renaissance
As we continue to celebrate Black History Month, I would like to type about a very important of our History pertaining to the arts; the Harlem Renaissance.
What started out as a huge migration up north, eventually turned into one the greatest displays for African American culture. The Harlem Renaissance was gone to many different black writers, musicians, artists, poets and many more.
Poets like Langston Hughes, Claude McKay and Jean Toomer were some of the famous poets of this time period for their unique style of poetry. Jazz Music also played major role in the shape of the Renaissance. Harlem’s Cottom Club had talent such as Duke Ellington and singers like Bettsie Ross, and another famous jazz Musician Louis Armstrong.
This time period was a definite game changer in not just African American History and culture but American culture as a whole.
Teacher allegedly groped teen, asked him to ‘send nudes’
A teacher in Georgia was arrested after allegedly groping a 15-year-old student and telling the boy via Snapchat to “send nudes,” authorities said.
Ryan Harvey, a 24-year-old former orchestra teacher at Woodland High School in Stockbridge, was arrested Sunday on several charges, including aggravated child molestation, sexual battery and solicitation of sodomy, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
The alleged victim told deputies from the Henry County Sheriff’s Office that Harvey told him in early September that he was the “only 15-year-old that I would ever f—k with,” according to a sheriff’s incident report.
The alleged advances continued the following month, as the teen told authorities that Harvey would occasionally send him videos of him driving or doing other mundane activities on Snapchat. The teen said Harvey also sent him an image with a heart emoji with a caption that read: “send nudes.”
The teen said Harvey then sent another message saying “that wasn’t for you” before sending yet another that read, “That WAS for you.”
Harvey also asked the boy to stay after school on one occasion to “do the thing” while making a gesture implying oral sex and then sent the teen a photo of himself in November wearing nothing but pink underwear while standing in a bathroom. Later that month, Harvey groped the teen on two occasions, according to the incident report.
Harvey, who was placed on administrative leave after an investigation was launched in November, resigned last month, just weeks before his arrest. He remains in custody without bail at the Henry County Jail and is due to return to court on March 6, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
One parent of a student at the school, meanwhile, said he’s now worried about his son.
“I heard about it this morning and my first instinct was to worry about the welfare of my son,” Darrell Pierce told WXIA. “Because if somebody’s like that around the school and they’re doing what they’re doing with children, then you know, my son could have been involved.”
Harvey, who graduated from the school in 2012, said he was “pretty nervous” to return to his alma mater to teach since he was “not too far removed from my students in age,” he said in 2016.
“Eventually, I want to be a professional orchestra conductor,” Harvey told the Henry Herald. “Having a music education background will definitely help me in the professional conducting world. It’s an out-there idea but one day, I want to conduct for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra or New York Philharmonic.”
via: https://nypost.com/2018/02/07/teacher-allegedly-groped-teen-asked-him-to-send-nudes/
Moms claim daycare workers waxed their kids’ eyebrows
A hairy mystery is unfolding in Washington state, where a pair of distressed moms claim a daycare center waxed their children’s eyebrows.
One of the moms told local outlets she noticed her 2-year-old daughter, Lilayiah, was missing a patch of hair and had reddened skin when she picked her up last week.
“I knew she was missing her patch of hair because she has a unibrow and she was born like that,” Alyssa Salgado, 19, told WLTX News.
“She had a couple of tears in her eyes,” she added.
The concerned mom reached out to the nursery, run by the Boys and Girls Club of Benton and Franklin counties on the Columbia Basin College campus in Pasco.
She also spoke with other moms, including Glenda Maria Cruz, who said her toddler son’s unibrow was plucked the same day.
“I tried to touch his face. He doesn’t let me touch his face. He says, ‘No, no, stop,’ and it hurts me because that’s my baby,” said Cruz.
The moms, who said the center’s director scoffed at their concerns, filed a report with police Monday, KNDO reported.
Officials with the Washington State Department of Early Learning, which licenses the daycare, visited Monday and said their investigation would likely take about 30 days.
The Boys and Girls Club said in a statement that it would cooperate in the probe.
“I hope they figure out who did that to my daughter,” Salgado said.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/02/07/moms-claim-daycare-workers-are-waxing-kids-eyebrows/
Black Lives Matter leader shot dead
The Black Lives Matter leader known for diving over a barrier to snatch a Confederate flag from a protester on live TV last year was shot dead in New Orleans, police said.
Muhiyidin Elamin Moye, who went by Muhiyidin d’Baha, was found dead Tuesday morning after being shot in the thigh while riding his bicycle, the Advocate reported.
New Orleans police spokesman Beau Tidwell said no information about a potential motive or suspects was immediately available.
D’Baha, 32, moved to South Carolina from Poughkeepsie, NY, when he was 13 and was in the Big Easy on a personal trip, his niece Camille Weaver told the Post and Courier.
“He loved Charleston and loved fighting for what’s right,” she said. “I’ve never met anyone more committed and hardworking than him. He was an asset to the Charleston community and will be greatly missed.”
The activist drew national attention last February when he was arrested for jumping over a barricade in an attempt to grab a Confederate flag away from a demonstrator at the College of Charleston.
Members of the South Carolina Secessionist Party had gathered to protest a lecture by activist Bree Newsome, who famously climbed the South Carolina capitol flagpole to remove its Confederate flag in 2015.
D’Baha was slapped with disorderly conduct charges as a result of the incident, which was caught on air.
“Not another generation of people are going to be intimidated by this flag,” he told the Washington Post after the incident, adding he’d tried to wrestle the flag away to “help them understand what it is to meet a real resistance, to meet people that aren’t scared.”
In the hopes of bringing d’Baha’s body back to Charleston for a funeral, his niece started a GoFundMe drive that had raised almost double its $7,500 goal by Wednesday.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/02/07/black-lives-matter-leader-shot-dead/
Man Charged With Dismembering Wife in Pasadena, Transporting Remains on Metro Train Before Burning Them in Cypress Park (Video)
The dismembered body found set on fire in Cypress Park belonged to a homeless woman who was allegedly killed by her husband in Pasadena then transported to northeast Los Angeles on a Metro train, police said Tuesday.
Valentino Gutierrez, 56, has been charged with felony counts of murder and arson in connection with the grisly homicide, the L.A. County District Attorney’s Office said.
Los Angeles police investigators revealed new details about the case they called “particularly disturbing” in an afternoon press conference.
The victim was identified as 31-year-old Tiana Alfred, though her remains have not yet been positively identified by coroner’s officials due to their condition, according to Capt. William Hayes.
She was Gutierrez’s wife, and both lived in a homeless shelter on Raymond Avenue in Pasadena at the time of the crime, Hayes said.
Alfred’s remains were found burning in a Home Depot parking lot last week, on Feb. 1.
Investigators believe she was killed late at night on Jan. 31 in an abandoned restaurant in on Arroyo Parkway in Pasadena that had been closed for some time.
Detectives have not recovered a weapon and said they are still unsure how exactly Alfred was killed. Hayes said the condition of her remains indicates “an awful lot of effort and determination.”
Forensic evidence was recovered from the restaurant scene, but officials did not disclose what it consisted of.
Gutierrez is accused of then loading her body parts into a suitcase and taking a Metro Gold Line train from Pasadena to the Lincoln/Cypress station shortly after midnight. Although other people were riding the train at the time, investigators said Gutierrez did not have contact with them.
He then allegedly took the suitcase to the Home Depot on the 2000 block of North Figueroa and set it ablaze. Firefighters responded to the scene — reported as a garbage fire — around 1:30 a.m. and discovered the human remains after the flames were extinguished.
Surveillance video and police bloodhounds were used to link Gutierrez to the homicide, according to LAPD Chief of Detectives Justin Eisenberg.
He was arrested last Friday and is being held on $2 million bail at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility near downtown L.A., police confirmed.
Eisenberg described Gutierrez as a “career criminal” and said he had prior convictions involving sexual battery, domestic violence, felony battery, narcotics, burglary, robbery, possession of a deadly weapon and negligent discharge of a firearm.
Gutierrez could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted on the charges, DA’s officials said.
Officials believe there is no further danger to the public. “This was definitely an individual he knew,” and not a random incident, Hayes said.
The Pasadena Police Department also issued a statement Tuesday stressing that “Pasadena continues to be a safe community.”
The department said it had responded to abandoned restaurant near the intersection of California Boulevard and Arroyo Parkway three times last year for “homeless-related concerns.”
Mom says teen’s hair was chopped off as punishment; 2 firefighters under investigation (Video)
HASKINS, Ohio – Two volunteer firefighters are on leave after an Ohio family dispute about a child’s haircut resulted in investigations, according to the fire chief.
It stems from a now-viral Facebook post by the girl’s mother, according to WJW, which infers her daughter’s long hair was cut dramatically short as a possible punishment for getting highlights on her birthday.
“This is what my daughter looked like Sunday when I took her home and the other two pics is what happened today before she was brought to me… all over me having highlights put in her hair for her birthday!” the teen’s mother posted on Facebook Jan. 31.
According to Haskins Police Chief Colby Carroll, they, along with Wood County Children’s Services, are investigating a potential child abuse complaint. Carroll says the girl’s mother alleges the child’s stepmother and father, who are firefighters, ordered the haircut as punishment.
“I’ve been doing this since ’92 and I’ve never had a case I would say that’s like this,” said Carroll. “Mom was upset with how her child was being cared for — lack of better terms.”
Middleton Township Fire Chief Steve Asmus says the firefighters will remain on leave pending the outcome of the investigations. Asmus, who would not name the individuals involved, says they have been on the staff for around two years and he has never received a complaint regarding their work.
No charges have been filed against either party as of Monday evening. WJW reached out to the woman who issued the complaint but did not receive a response.
Mother accused of giving birth at McDonald’s, telling police she ‘found’ newborn baby (Video)
NORFOLK, Va. — A Virginia mother is accused of lying to hospital workers about giving birth to a baby at a McDonald’s and claiming she “found” the newborn inside the restaurant, WTKR reports.
Nicole Jones, 23, told medical staff at a hospital she found the baby while eating at McDonald’s, according to court records.
Hospital officials told police the baby had depressed body temperature, was in critical respiratory arrest and his umbilical cord had been cut but not clamped which resulted in significant blood loss.
Jones said she called 911 after she “found” the baby but was told it would be “a while” before an officer could respond so she took the baby to a local hospital.
Police went to Jones’ home and found blood, a medical kit and a one-year-old boy who was crying. During an interview with police, Jones admitted to giving birth to the baby.
Court records indicate Jones used her phone to search “safe home births” and “water births.” She also searched for safe haven options in Virginia.
Jones is being held without bond, according to WTKR.
Report: Yale Dental Students, Staff Took Selfie With Severed Heads
Dental school grad students and a University of Connecticut orthodontics professor took a selfie “with two severed heads used for medical research at a training workshop at Yale University” in 2017, the Associated Press reportedon Monday.
According to the AP report, the students nabbed the selfies during the DePuy Synthes Future Leaders Workshop, “which focused on dental-related facial deformities”:
The Associated Press obtained a copy of the photo from a person who received it through a private group chat. That person, who demanded anonymity because of potential harm to their career, said the person who took the selfie would not give the AP permission to publish it for fear of being expelled.
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In the photo, [UConn Health orthodontics director and visiting Yale professor Dr. Flavio Uribe] and several graduate students are looking at the camera, while others continue to work. All are wearing surgical masks. The two severed heads are on tables, face up.
The AP added that Uribe said the photo was taken so quickly he was unaware it captured the two heads, which he was using to show the students proper placement of screws. However, a Yale spokesman told the news agency signs are posted noting the laboratory’s no-photography policy, as well as that the incident “was disturbing and an inexcusable deviation from anything Yale would expect to occur.”
Training with actual dead bodies is a critical part of medical training, as well as a somewhat morbid rite of passage at medical schools. This kind of story pops up every so often and usually comes with consequences for the personnel involved, including an alleged wave of corpse photos and videos from medical institutions making their way online in 2010, something that’s never reallystopped happening.
Today the trend is (slowly) moving towards expensive synthetic cadavers like the $95,000 SynDaver Patient, which can be remote controlled to rehearse crisis scenarios like heart attacks and boasts fake organs, muscle tissue, and blood. Advancements over the past few years have made it possible to convincingly imitate many different types of human tissue, per Smithsonian, from “subcutaneous fat to rectus femoris muscle.” Taking a selfie with one of those is probably not going to get anyone in trouble with an ethics board, though some medical professionals think they’re a long way away from replacing hands-on experience with actual cadavers.
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