14-year-old mom charged in murder of baby boy in NJ
HIGHLAND PARK, NJ — Police arrested and charged a 14-year-old mom in the death of her newborn baby boy, whose body was found outside of a Highland Park home on Monday, officials with the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office said.
The baby’s death is being investigated by the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office and the Highland Park Police Department.
His mother is from Highland Park. Her identity is being withheld because of her age. She was charged in a juvenile complaint with murder in the first degree.
Officials said she “caused the death of her newborn baby boy,” but did not immediately offer any additional details.
An autopsy by the Middlesex County Medical Examiner will be scheduled.
The baby’s death is the second in New Jersey in the last week. A baby was found dead in a suitcase left near PATH tracks in Jersey City on April 11.
Police also found a baby boy alive in a duffel bag in Trenton on Sunday. Officials are asking for the public’s help to find the baby’s family.
via: http://pix11.com/2018/04/16/newborns-body-found-in-highland-park/
Instagram model destroys eyes in cosmetic surgery gone wrong – changing eye color from brown to light grey
Nadinne Bruna, a 32-year-old Instagram model who has more than a million followers, has the eyesight of a 90-year-old after undergoing a controversial procedure: She had silicone implanted in her peepers to change her eye color from brown to light gray.
“Before this surgery, my eyes were completely healthy,” Bruna, who’s based in Miami, tells South West News Service. “My pupils, they can’t adjust to light anymore, so I’m very photosensitive now too. This surgery completely f–ked up my life.”
Retinal implants are illegal to perform in the United States and not approved by the FDA. Ophthalmologists say that they can cause irreparable damage.
“The implants interfere with normal fluid leaving the eyes, which causes scarring, increases pressure and damages the nerves permanently,” Dr. Richard Rose, retina surgeon at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, tells The Post. And he’s heard of Americans going to Central and South America to have the procedure. “There are definitely some patients I’ve seen that do OK with them, but I’ve also seen some real disasters.”
It was a risk that Bruna was willing to take. In September 2016, she flew to Bogota, Colombia, to have the procedure, where she was charged a discounted rate of $3,000 in exchange for posting her results on Instagram.
But the procedure damaged her optic nerves, and she ended up with glaucoma, an incurable eye condition that can gradually cause blindness. On top of that, her eyes were constantly red and itchy for a year, and she had to stop booking modeling jobs because of her condition.
“I make most of my money through my Instagram account and I couldn’t do photo shoots,” she says. “I’ve been living on my savings.”
She had the implants removed in Miami in September, but the damage was already done.
“Nadinne’s eye problems are something she will have to deal with for the rest of her life. She’s never going to be done with it,” ophthalmologist Dr. Ranya Habash, who performed the implant-removal surgery on Bruna at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, tells the Daily Mail.
Dr. Eugenio Cabrera, the Colombian doctor who performed the surgery, did not comment on the procedure.
If you want to switch up your eye color without destroying your vision, Rose suggests colored contact lenses.
“They’re safe, approved and you can take them out,” Rose says.
Ultimately, the surgical nightmare was a learning moment for Bruna.
“I was completely stupid. I trusted the wrong person,” she says. “I don’t think surgeries are bad. I just didn’t know the risks and I made a mistake by not doing my research.”
via: https://nypost.com/2018/04/12/instagram-model-destroys-eyes-in-cosmetic-surgery-gone-wrong/
Substitute teacher ran ‘fight club’ during math class
MONTVILLE, Conn. – A former substitute teacher was arrested Thursday for starting a “fight club” at a Connecticut high school, according to police.
Instead of supervising Montville High School students as they studied, 23-year-old Ryan Fish is accused of encouraging students in his class to fight while others watched.
Fish was arraigned in Norwich Superior Court Thursday on four counts of second-degree reckless endangerment, two counts of risk of injury to a minor and one count of breach of peace, according to the Hartford Courant.
“I didn’t realize what was happening at the time,” said Ryan Fish. “I didn’t have the training to know what was going on.”
State police believe otherwise.
“He’s not a certified teacher,” said Montville Resident State Trooper Sargent Mark Juhola. “It bothers me that so many teachers work so hard to get where they are and that this wasn’t a teacher but he was in that role.”
Juhola said Fish oversaw at least three scheduled fights last October involving five male students ages 14 to 16 .
Montville police began investigating after an injured student told a social worker he’d been beaten and robbed at school.
Police said cellphone video shows Fish encouraging the students and moving items out of the way so the teenagers could continue fighting.
After being confronted about the fighting on October 10th, 2017, police said Fish told the principal that “boys will be boys.”
Montville Public Schools Superintendent Brian Levesque fired Fish later that day.
But Sgt. Juhola said school officials never contacted police and only acknowledged the incident during the police investigation.
“Anytime a student is put in any type of injurious situation they need to contact the police department,” Juhola said.
Fish told WTIC that he was wrong, and was just trying to be friends with the students.
“I am so sorry…To be perfectly honest I was just trying to reach the kids. I thought these kids were just being rambunctious I just thought they needed an out.”
Students also told police Fish allowed them to draw lewd photos on the classroom board and admitted to doing drugs.
Fish was released on a promise to appear and is due back in court on May 8th.
via: http://pix11.com/2018/04/12/substitute-teacher-ran-fight-club-during-math-class-police-say/
Man charged with incest kills 3, including daughter and their baby, before turning gun on himself
NEW MILFORD, Conn. — A man accused of impregnating his biological daughter allegedly killed her, their infant son, and her adoptive father before turning the gun on himself in an apparent murder-suicide spanning three states, including New York, according to his defense attorney.
Steven Walter Pladl, 42, and Katie Rose Pladl, 20, were charged with incest after Katie gave birth to their son in September 2017.
On Thursday, officers found the first body at 106 Earlston Court in North Carolina, where 7-month-old Bennett Pladl was discovered dead around 9 a.m. Police made the grisly find while performing a welfare check, according to Knightdale Chief of Police Lawrence Capps.
Then, police found a man and a woman shot to death in a pickup truck in New Milford, Connecticut, after a passerby reported the shooting, according to WTIC. The victims were identified as Katie Pladl and her adoptive father, 56-year-old Anthony Fusco, Capps said at a press conference Thursday.
Steven Pladl was found dead just miles away in Dover, New York, in a light blue mini-van with North Carolina registration. According to Lieutenant Larry Ash, spokesperson for New Milford Police, they found the murder suspect with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Investigators are working to establish a timeline of events.
The relationship between Pladl and Katie began when they met as adults. He and former wife, Alyssa, gave birth to Katie 20 years ago, when Alyssa was 17 years old.
Alyssa and Pladl, who was 22 at the time, opted to put the baby up for adoption. Eighteen years later, Katie located her biological parents on social media — who lived in Henrico County, Va. She later moved in with them, and called the pair mom and dad, WTVR reported.
Before Katie moved into Alyssa and Pladl’s Virginia home, she lived in New York with her adoptive parents, Kelly and Anthony Fusco. Katie, an artist, said in her online portfolio that she planned to attend Dutchess Community College in August 2016 and focus in online advertising.
But instead, she moved to Virginia and a short while later, Alyssa and Pladl separated with the intent to divorce.
Alyssa said she had no idea about the sexual relationship between Pladl and Katie until she read one of her other daughter’s journals where she found drawings of a pregnant Katie, WTVR reported. She also said her daughter had written that Pladl was making her call Katie her step-mom.
“There are no words to describe the sense of betrayal and disgust I’m feeling,” she told DailyMailTV. “I waited 18 long years to have a relationship with my daughter – and now he’s completely destroyed it.”
Alyssa later took out protective orders against Pladl, so he could not go near her or their two younger daughters. She said she believed Pladl brainwashed and manipulated Katie.
Pladl and Katie reportedly married in July 2017 and their son was born a few months later, in September. The arrest warrant indicated that the couple intended to marry after he was divorced in June 2017 and online pictures were captioned as wedding photos between the couple.
“I too have seen postings that they were married, my guess would be that it would not be legal under North Carolina or Virginia law for two people who are biologically related to get married,” Friedman said.
In addition to the incest charge, Steven and Katie were charged with two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
On March 16, Pladl, who was released on an amended bond by Henrico County Judge Stewart Williams, was not allowed contact with Katie Pladl or his two children who live in Henrico. As a condition of his bond, he could no longer reside at the 106 Earlston Court home he shared with Katie, where the infant was found dead Thursday.
Katie, age 20, was also previously jailed in Henrico after the couple was extradited to Virginia. She was released on Feb. 28, with a $12,000 secured bond and ordered to avoid contact with Pladl. The conditions of her release were that she must reside with her adoptive parents, who live in New York, and was allowed to travel outside of state.
“My understanding is that when Katie Pladl and Steven Pladl were arrested, that my client’s mother moved into that house to take care of their biological son,” said Rick A. Friedman II, the Chesterfield defense attorney who was represented Steven Pladl.
He believed that Pladl’s mother was going to continue to reside with the minor child. North Carolina authorities said that she contacted police for the welfare check Thursday, the morning after Pladl picked up his son from her care.
“If any judge or any prosecutor or defense attorney involved in any of these cases believed that the Pladl child would be in harm’s way, there would not have been any bond,” Friedman said. “The professionals care too much about children.”
Mom arrested for leaving her three young children home alone for weekend trip to Texas
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – An Oklahoma City mother is accused of leaving her three young kids home alone while she went on a trip to Texas to meet a man.
“It’s not even worth it. Your kids should be your first priority,” neighbor De’Votnay Linzy told KFOR.
A police report says Shelly Harjo allegedly left her three children, ages 3, 4, and 11, home alone for the weekend, and that her priority was getting to Texas.
“She had been left there apparently for several days. All they had to eat was old pizza that had been purchased before the mom left town,” said MSgt. Gary Knight.
Knight said the 11-year-old child called police Monday because she thought her mom was missing. Harjo left for Texas on Friday and was supposed to return Sunday.
“She indicated to the daughter that she was going to Texas to get some money,” Knight said.
Linzy says it’s a poor excuse to leave your kids home alone.
“These kids are very precious and you shouldn’t leave the bigger one to watch the little ones, or the little ones to watch the big ones,” she said.
Police arrived to the south side apartment and gave the kids something to eat while notifying DHS.
“It was at that point the mother actually showed back up there at the residence,” said Knight.
Harjo told DHS officials that her friend was supposed to watch the kids that weekend and never showed up.
Limzy said leaving her kids alone is never an option.
“Not even out of town or even to the store,” she said.
The kids were placed in DHS custody. The children told officers they lived in the apartment for a month and haven’t been enrolled in school yet.
Harjo was arrested on child neglect charges.
Mariah Carey reveals she has bipolar disorder
NEW YORK — Mariah Carey revealed Wednesday she has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
The singer discussed her diagnosis in an exclusive interview with People magazine, and tweeted about the experience early Wednesday, saying she is “grateful to be sharing this part of my journey.”
In an abbreviated version of the interview posted on People.com, Carey says she was diagnosed with bipolar II in 2001 after she was hospitalized for a physical and mental breakdown.
Bipolar II disorder involves periods of depression and hypomania, the latter being a less severe version of mania, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Symptoms of mania can include feeling energetic, creative and euphoric, according to the nonprofit organization Help Guide. People experiencing hypomania may experience similar feelings, which can result in poor or harmful decision making, but can often carry on with their daily lives. Both mania and hypomania, however, may be followed up by severe depressive episodes.
Carey told People:
“For a long time I thought I had a severe sleep disorder. … But it wasn’t normal insomnia and I wasn’t lying awake counting sheep. I was working and working and working … I was irritable and in constant fear of letting people down. It turns out that I was experiencing a form of mania. Eventually I would just hit a wall. I guess my depressive episodes were characterized by having very low energy. I would feel so lonely and sad — even guilty that I wasn’t doing what I needed to be doing for my career.”
The New York-born artist has won a slew of awards over the course of her 30-year career, including five Grammys, and has released 14 albums and appeared in more than a dozen movies.
She has 6-year-old twins who she co-parents with her ex-husband, fellow artist Nick Cannon.
via: http://pix11.com/2018/04/11/mariah-carey-reveals-battle-with-bipolar-disorder/
What RUINED Nickelodeon ?
Original YouTube post August 19, 2016
Yes Nick has become to corporate as with our other child hood cable networks! If you love cartoons and anime check out Saberspark. He gives an in depth look at who,what, when and how about our favorite cartoons and networks that aired them!
Cops release suspect sketch in unsolved 1987 murder of young couple
Tanya Van Cuylenborg, 18 (L) Jay Cook, 20 (R) 1987 photo
EVERETT, Wash. – Investigators are hoping new sketches based on the latest DNA technology will provide a breakthrough in the unsolved 1987 murders of a young Canadian couple in Washington state.
Tanya Van Cuylenborg, 18, and Jay Cook, 20, were found dead in two separate locations in Western Washington after they failed to return home from a visit to the Seattle area more than 30 years ago. Several promising leads in the case over the years have failed to pan out, and the young couple’s killer has never been caught.
But now investigators with the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office are hoping a series of three portraits of the suspect created with snapshot DNA phenotyping will provide a long-sought break in the case.
Sketch based on DNA evidence evidence shows sketch of suspected killer at different ages. (Photo Snochmish County sheriffs office )
In a Wednesday news conference, sheriff’s officials said they hope the portraits, which show the suspect at three different ages – 25, 45 and 65 – will help solve the murder. They said the suspect’s hair could have been longer and he may have been slimmer or chubbier than shown.
According to police, Van Cuylenborg and Cook left their Victoria, B.C., homes on Nov. 18, 1987, for an overnight trip to Seattle. They were driving a brown 1977 Ford van, and took the ferry across the Strait of Juan de Fuca to Port Angeles.
The purpose of the trip was to buy furnace parts for Cooks’ family business. The couple planned to sleep in the van in Seattle’s SoDo district overnight, purchase the furnace parts the next morning and then travel back to Canada.
After arriving in Washington state, Van Cuylenborg and Cook drove the van to Bremerton and took the ferry to Seattle. They were never seen alive again after that.
When the couple failed to return home, their families filed a missing persons report two days later.
On Nov. 24, a man walking on an isolated road in Skagit County discovered Van Cuylenborg’s half-naked body in a roadside ditch along Carsons Creek Road between Old Highway 99 and Prairie Road. She had been sexually assaulted, bound with plastic ties and shot in the back of the head with a .380 caliber bullet.
On Nov. 25, Van Cuylenborg’s wallet and keys, along with a pair of surgical gloves and a half-empty box of .380 ammunition, were found discarded under the back porch of a tavern in Bellingham.
The locked van was found about a block east of the tavern, next to the Greyhound bus station. Inside the van were plastic ties of the same type used to bind Van Cuylenborg and plastic gloves. A witness said the van had been parked there since Nov. 21.
Cook’s battered body was found on Nov. 26 – Thanksgiving Day – under a tattered blue blanket by the side of the High Bridge on Crescent Lake Road about three-quarters of a mile west of the Washington State Reformatory’s Honor Farm near Monroe in Snohomish County. He had been beaten and strangled, and the same type of plastic ties were found there.
“The person who did this camed prepared to do a brutal crime,” said Snohomish County Cold Case Detective Jim Scharf.
The police were able to obtain the suspect’s DNA from the van, although there has been no match on any criminal database.
Investigators believe that the couple met their killer on one of the ferries, most likely the Bremerton-Seattle ferry, and offered him a ride when reaching Seattle.
In the months after the murders, both victims’ families received a series of taunting greeting cards featuring descriptions of the murders. The cards were postmarked from Seattle, Los Angeles and New York, and were written by the same person.
Scharf said several items belonging to the victims have never been found, including a green canvas backpack and a black jacket belonging to Cook and a Minolta Model x700 35-mm camera with serial number 2067048 belonging to Van Cuylenborg.
Over the years, police have had some promising leads in the case.
– In 1990, a lens from Van Cuylenborg’s missing camera was found in a Portland, Ore., pawn shop, but it could not be linked to a suspect.
– In 2000, police suspected Spokane serial killer Robert Yates might be behind their deaths. But he was later cleared.
– In 2010, it was announced that the writer of the greeting cards may have been found, but later confirmed that he was not the killer and had no connection to the crime.
Scharf said investigators have never given up hope of solving the case because “we do have DNA evidence that will identify the killer.”
“We believe someone out there knows something that will helkp us solve this horrible crime,” he said, adding that the smallest detail could be important.
A $50,000 reward has been offered for information that would solve the case, if provided by Dec. 31. A tip line has been set up at 425-388-3845.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee over his handling of user data.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee over his handling of user data. This comes less than 24 hours after a grueling testimony before the Senate where several Senators attacked Facebook for failing to protect user information. Via USA TODAY FB PAGE
Guy orders 1’000 McDonald’s Happy Meals to feed the homeless!
That’s what’s up!! Here’s a feel good story for a Wednesday !
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