Mom accused of pouring water on sleeping baby’s face as “Payback for waking me up all kinda times of da night.”
SUMTER COUNTY, S.C. – A South Carolina mother has been charged over a video that shows her pouring water on the face of a sleeping baby, according to the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office.
Caitlyn Alyse Hardy, 33, faces a charge of cruelty to children after authorities say she doused the 9-month-old girl with a bottle of water twice, causing the infant to wake up coughing.
The sheriff’s office says she recorded the incident and posted it on her Facebook page. According to WIS News, the post was captioned: “Payback for waking me up all kinda times of da night.”
Sumter County deputies arrested Hardy Wednesday after issuing a warrant accusing Hardy of “ill treatment, unnecessary pain and suffering, and/or deprivation of necessary sustenance.” The sheriff’s office called video of the incident “disturbing.”
The sheriff’s office says they’ve notified the Sumter County Department of Social Services “for the benefit and safety of all children in this home.”
“The charges against this defendant will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law,” Sheriff Anthony Dennis said.
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Mom charged with murder after falling asleep in car with 2 girls who later died
LIBERTY, Mo. – A Missouri mother has been indicted on murder and several other charges after she allegedly fell asleep in her vehicle last summer with her two young daughters, who later died, according to WDAF.
Jenna Boedecker, 30, has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder, four counts of child endangerment, one count of third-degree domestic assault, one count of armed criminal action and one count of first-degree property damage.
Court documents released in July say Boedecker told investigators she put the two girls, 2-year-old Ireland Ribando and 7-week-old Goodknight Ribando, in her Jeep Patriot sometime overnight between July 3 and 4. She said she didn’t want them to hear her and her husband argue.
Boedecker told police the Jeep had very little gas in it, less than a sixteenth of a tank, according to court documents.
At some point, Boedecker said she fell asleep in the vehicle. When she woke up on July 4, she found her two girls unresponsive.
The Clay County mom told officials she took her daughters to a neighbor’s home for help and tried to revive them. When first-responders arrived at the home, the little girls were pronounced dead.
Court documents detailing the two girls’ official causes of death weren’t immediately available Tuesday.
Boedecker remains in custody on a $500,000 bond.
The 30-year-old mom was originally charged with domestic assault, armed criminal action and property damage in July. Those charges stem from the fight with her husband the night of July 3. Boedecker allegedly threw a brick at her husband and rammed the truck he was driving with her Jeep.
Search warrants released in July revealed that a child services investigator responded to the Clay County home on the morning of July 4.
The investigator told police on July 3, the agency received a hotline call around 11 p.m. It was classified as an “assessment,” which are typically addressed during business hours.
So the child services worker “put it off until the morning,” the search warrant says.
The investigator said he went to Boedecker’s home around 9:30 a.m. July 4 and saw a silver SUV in the driveway. He said the vehicle’s rear lights were on, but he thought they were just left on by accident.
The child services investigator told police, when he pulled his vehicle in behind the SUV, he didn’t see anyone inside. When he got out of his car, he didn’t look inside the car as he walked around it. The investigator said he heard the engine running but didn’t hear the fan for the air conditioning.
He told police if someone had been sitting upright in the car, he would have seen them. But he said he might not have seen children in the back or an adult if they were slumped over.
The man said he knocked on the family’s home three times but didn’t get a response, so he went back to his car and later left. His entire visit lasted no longer than five minutes, court documents say.
‘I’m going to watch’: Niece tried to kill aunt by driving until oxygen tank ran out
OLD FORGE, Pa. – A Pennsylvania woman allegedly tried to kill her elderly aunt, who is dependent on oxygen, by suffocating her back in November – now, arrest documents reveal disturbing new details in the case, according to WNEP.
Investigators say Carrie Trowbridge, of Old Forge, kept her aunt, Josephine Delucia, in a car for hours with a tank that would only last one hour and told her she was going to watch her die.
Police say Trowbridge would have benefitted financially from her aunt’s death.
According to police paperwork, Delucia wanted Trowbridge to bring her to the PNC Bank in Dupont to check her bank statements. She told police she hadn’t been receiving her mail and wanted to check the balance of her bank accounts.
Instead, investigators say on that day in November, Trowbridge kept her aunt in a car for eight to 10 hours with only enough oxygen to last one hour. Court papers say she kept the windows shut and pinched her aunt’s nose closed while driving.
That court paperwork says Trowbridge told her aunt, “I have your statements in my purse. You think I’m stealing your money? You’re going to die today old woman, and I’m going to watch you!”
Delucia told police she made several attempts to escape but was forced to stay in the car. At one point, she pretended to be dead, and Trowbridge brought her back to their home.
“How can you do that to your own relative? I mean, it is very sad. I mean, she’s dying for money that bad she has to kill her aunt,” said Tina Rutcavage of Tunkhannock.
“That is one of the worst things I’ve probably ever heard in my life. That’s terrible. No money should be worth somebody’s life,” said Dan Coffey, of Lake Ariel.
Since that drive, court documents indicate Delucia discovered $15,000 missing from her bank account. Not only that, but Delucia told police she found out that Trowbridge opened up a credit card in her name without her authorization. She has removed her niece as a beneficiary and went to police, leading to the arrest.
Trowbridge is locked up, facing attempted homicide, forgery, and reckless endangerment, as well as a long list of other charges in Lackawanna County.
Delucia is staying with other family members.
James Ingram, Grammy-winning R&B singer, dead at 66
James Ingram, the Grammy-winning singer who launched multiple hits on the R&B and pop charts and earned two Oscar nominations for his songwriting, has died, according to a close associate. He was 66.
Debbie Allen, an actress-choreographer and frequent collaborator with Ingram, announced his death on Twitter on Tuesday. Attempts by The Associated Press to confirm his death with Ingram’s family or representatives have been unsuccessful.
Ingram was born February 16, 1952 in Akron, Ohio.
He appeared on Quincy Jones’ 1981 album, “The Dude,” which earned him three Grammy nominations and one win for best R&B male vocal performance for “One Hundred Ways.”
In a statement Tuesday, Jones called Ingram his “baby brother.”
“With that soulful, whisky sounding voice, James Ingram was simply magical … every beautiful note that James sang pierced your essence and comfortably made itself at home,” Jones said. “But it was really no surprise because James was a beautiful human being, with a heart the size of the moon. James Ingram was, and always will be, beyond compare.”
In 1983 Ingram released his debut album, “It’s Your Night,” which included the hit “Yah Mo Be There.” The song, which featured Michael McDonald, became a Top 20 hit on the Billboard pop charts and won the Grammy for best R&B performance by a duo or group with vocal.
James Ingram, the Grammy-winning singer who launched multiple hits on the R&B and pop charts and earned two Oscar nominations for his songwriting, has died, according to a close associate. He was 66.
Debbie Allen, an actress-choreographer and frequent collaborator with Ingram, announced his death on Twitter on Tuesday. Attempts by The Associated Press to confirm his death with Ingram’s family or representatives have been unsuccessful.
Ingram was born February 16, 1952 in Akron, Ohio.
He appeared on Quincy Jones’ 1981 album, “The Dude,” which earned him three Grammy nominations and one win for best R&B male vocal performance for “One Hundred Ways.”
In a statement Tuesday, Jones called Ingram his “baby brother.”
“With that soulful, whisky sounding voice, James Ingram was simply magical … every beautiful note that James sang pierced your essence and comfortably made itself at home,” Jones said. “But it was really no surprise because James was a beautiful human being, with a heart the size of the moon. James Ingram was, and always will be, beyond compare.”
In 1983 Ingram released his debut album, “It’s Your Night,” which included the hit “Yah Mo Be There.” The song, which featured Michael McDonald, became a Top 20 hit on the Billboard pop charts and won the Grammy for best R&B performance by a duo or group with vocal.
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James Ingram
Ingram also reached the top of the pop charts twice with the songs “I Don’t Have the Heart” and “Baby, Come to Me,” a duet with Patti Austin. “Somewhere Out There,” Ingram’s collaboration with Linda Ronstadt from the 1986 film “An American Tail,” reached No. 2 on the pop charts.
Ingram was also a talented songwriter: Alongside Jones, he co-wrote Michael Jackson’s “P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing),” earning him a Grammy nomination for best R&B song. Ingram scored Oscar nominations for best original song with “The Day I Fall In Love” from “Beethoven’s 2nd” and “Look What Love Has Done” from “Junior.”
Both tracks also competed for best original song at the Golden Globes.
Michael Jackson’s Brother Responds to Shocking New Allegations: “Leave Us Alone”
Article via VanityFair
The documentary Leaving Neverland, about two men who say Jackson abused them when they were children, stunned audiences at the Sundance Film Festival premiere last week.
Hours after filmmaker Dan Reed debuted his shocking documentaryLeaving Neverland—a film that details abuse allegedly committed by Michael Jackson—at the Sundance Film Festival last week, the late musician’s family released a strongly worded statement, deriding the project as “tabloid character assassination.” On Wednesday, as disturbing details contained in the film continued to circulate across the Internet, a Jackson family member offered the first televised interview in response to the documentary’s claims from accusers Wade Robson and James Safechuck.
Jackson’s brother Jermaine began his nearly 10-minute interview on Good Morning Britain by not stating whether he has actually seen the four-hour documentary—which contains such distressing allegations that the film festival reportedly had mental-health professionals available to counsel audience members, just in case. Instead, Jermaine produced a page of notes from his jacket pocket and shakily outlined Robson’s previous defense of Michael Jackson, and other arguments the Jackson estate made in its initial statement. (As Vanity Fair’s Nicole Sperlingreported from Sundance, both Robson and Safechuck did initially defend Jackson when other young men accused him of molestation in 1993: “Neither man was able to admit that the sexual relationship they each say they shared with Jackson was abuse until they became fathers, and the weight of their secrets proved overbearing.”)
When Good Morning Britain co-host Piers Morgan countered with purported evidence that Jackson may have molested children—citing Jackson’s multi-million-dollar settlements with accusers and sleepovers Jackson hosted at his Neverland Ranch—Jermaine interjected to argue, “Those were slumber parties, and what they didn’t tell you was that there were little girls there, even with their parents, their uncles . . . they were watching movies.”
“How sure can you be, Jermaine, that Michael was completely innocent?” Morgan pressed.
“Piers, I’m 1,000 percent sure, because Michael was tried by a jury and . . . he was acquitted on all of this,” Jermaine responded. “Our family is tired. Let this man rest. He did a lot for the world. Let him rest. I’ll just say this: there is no truth to this documentary.”
Growing emotional as Morgan continued with more questions, Jermaine begged, “Leave us alone. Leave him alone. Let him rest—please. Let him rest. He deserves to rest.”
During a Q&A at the Sundance Film Festival, Robson revealed that he wasn’t particularly comfortable sharing the documentary with his own family members.
“I was really scared for my mother to see [Leaving Neverland],”said Robson. “Each of us watched it by ourselves, and there are things that I said, things my brother said, that have never been communicated within the family dynamic. It was an intense experience for them. My hope is that while this is not the usual way to healing—for a movie that goes out to the world—hopefully this can open new doors for them. This is an important story to tell.”
The documentary will air on HBO this spring in a two-part series.
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Nick Cannon stepping in for Wendy Williams
Article via CNN
Nick Cannon will temporarily sub for an ailing Wendy Williams on her talk show.
“The Wendy Williams Show” announced Tuesday on their official Instagram account that Cannon will guest-host for part of next week.
“Friend to the show and host of Fox’s The Masked Singer and MTV’s Wild n’ Out, @nickcannon will be guest hosting The Wendy Williams Show on Monday, February 4th, Tuesday, February 5th & Wednesday, February 6th,” the post read. “The new hour long episodes will include Wendy’s staple Hot Topics segment, ‘Ask Wendy,’ celebrity interviews and more!”
Williams shared last year that she was struggles with Graves’ disease, an autoimmune condition that affects the thyroid. She took a break from her show last February as a result. Williams continues to deal with medical challenges related to her condition and is also recovering from a fractured shoulder, according to her show team.
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Ariana Grande’s New Kanji Tattoo Is An Unfortunate Mistake
Article via kotaku.com
To celebrate her newest single “7 Rings,” pop star Ariana Grande got a kanji tattoo. Unfortunately, it’s wrong.
Grande posted a photo of her tattoo. In Japanese, it reads, 七輪 (shichirin). You can see the pic photo (via Grande’s official Japanese Twitter), which has since been deleted from her Instagram.
The kanji character 七 means “seven,” while 輪 means “hoop,” “circle,” “ring,” or “wheel.” However, when you put them together, the meaning is different! 七輪 (shichirin) is a “small charcoal grill” and not “seven rings,” which is written differently in Japanese.
Here is a shichirin:
A Google image search for 七輪 brings up these pics:
The most unfortunate thing of all is that Grande has people in Japan operating a Twitter account for her (next time ask them to check stuff!) and the video for “7 Rings” has the proper Japanese.
In the video, it’s correctly written as 七つの指輪 (nanantsu no yubiwa) or “seven rings.” It’s a shame she didn’t show that text to her tattooer.
How did this tattoo mistake happen? In a now deleted reply, Grande wrote, that she “left out ‘つの指’ which should have gone in between,” thus shortening the correct 七つの指輪 (seven rings) to 七輪 (small charcoal grill.” Whoops!
Continuing, she wrote that “it hurt like fuck” and “still looks tight,” adding that, she “wouldn’t have lasted one more symbol.” But those symbols have significance and unfortunately here, they totally changed the meaning of this tattoo.
Tyson recalls chicken nuggets over rubber contamination
Article via CBSNews
Tyson Foods is recalling more than 36,000 pounds of chicken nuggets because they may be contaminated with small pieces of rubber.
The U.S. Agriculture Department says there were consumer complaints about extraneous material in 5-pound packages of Tyson White Meat Panko Chicken Nuggets. There are no confirmed reports of adverse reactions.
“A small number of consumers contacted the company to say they had found small pieces of soft, blue plastic in the nuggets, prompting the company to issue the recall,” Tyson said in a statement.
It added that the pieces were found “in a very small number of packages” and that no injuries had been reported.
Tyson said the nuggets were shipped to “club store distribution centers in Arizona, California, Illinois, New Jersey and Utah.”
The packages have a best if used by date of Nov. 26, 2019 and the case code 3308SDL03. The establishment core P-13556 is inside the USDA inspection mark.
The nuggets should be thrown out or returned to the place of purchase.
Boy calls 911 for help with his math homework — and gets it
She’s ready for any emergency — even a math meltdown!
A 911 dispatcher in Indiana sprang to the rescue when a boy called, frantically needing help with his mind-numbing math homework, according to NBC News.
“I had a really bad day, and, I just don’t know,” the unnamed kid told Antonia Bundy, who works for the Lafayette Police, on Jan. 14.
Instead of blowing him off, Bundy asked him how she could help.
“What happened at school that made you have a bad day?” she said, according to a tape of the call, cited by the station.
“I just have tons of homework,” he said. One of the math problems — which centered on fractions — was “so hard,” he said.
When the dispatcher walked him through how to solve it, he thanked her, and apologized.
“I’m sorry for calling you, but I really needed help,” the boy said.
Lafayette Police Sgt. Matt Gard later said it had been a slow day.
“[Dispatchers] do receive some oddball requests,” he said. “But this situation of calling asking for homework help — I’ve been in law enforcement for 13 years and I don’t know I’ve ever heard of this happening.” He called her a “dedicated” worker with a big heart.
The only minus? There are better places to call for help with math, he said.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/01/28/boy-calls-911-for-help-with-his-math-homework-and-gets-it/
photo credit: 911 dispatcher Antonia Bundy Facebook