Man Returns Home, Finds Stranger and Kids Living There
Kent Foster says he knew something was wrong the instant he returned to his house in Union, South Carolina, last week.
A dog he’d never seen before was in his yard — and a car seat was barricading his front door, he told local Fox affiliate WHNS.
He wasn’t sure what was going on. Then he heard a baby cry.
Moments later, a woman he was unfamiliar with poked her head out the door and asked, “What are you doing at my house?” Foster said.
“I said, ‘Excuse me?’ I said, ‘I live here.’”
Standing outside his house while the woman remained inside with the door shut, Foster immediately called 911.
When police arrived, the woman opened the door and said, “Can I help you?” Foster recalled.
He replied to the woman, “Yeah, the first thing you can do is leave my house.”
The length of time from which Foster had been away from the house was not immediately clear, Union Public Safety Captain Kevin Powers tells PEOPLE.
The woman, identified by police as Savannah Rhinehart, 25, left the house – wearing Foster’s wife’s clothes from head to toe, he said. Two children came out wearing his children’s clothing.
The dog he saw had urinated in the house and the family that had allegedly moved into his clean home had trashed it, he said, even eating his food.
After being taken to the hospital to be evaluated, Rhinehart was arrested and charged with burglary, neglect of a child and petty larceny, Powers tells PEOPLE.
Authorities do not know exactly why she allegedly moved into the home or chose that house.
“I spoke to the officer who responded who said that in her mind she thought she lived there,” Powers tells PEOPLE.
Rhinehart’s two children were placed in emergency protective custody, he says.
Foster said he still cannot believe someone actually moved into his house while he was gone.
“I feel violated,” he tells WHNS. “I feel extremely violated.”
Rhinehart has not yet entered a plea. It is unclear whether she had retained an attorney to speak on her behalf.
Sex Offender Arrested After Trying to Use Cookies to Lure Underage Girls Into Van at Central Valley Park
A sex offender was arrested after allegedly trying to use cookies to lure teens into his van at a public park across the street from a high school in the Central Valley, officials said Friday.
Officers made contact with Ronald Gene Thomas, 61, after receiving a 911 call reporting someone bothering juveniles at Veterans Park in Porterville just before 5 p.m. Tuesday, Porterville police said in a news release.
The town is in an agricultural area 50 miles north of Bakersfield.
The caller told authorities the suspicious man was making contact with youth near a UH-1 “Huey” helicopter that’s part of a Vietnam War memorial at the park on Henderson Avenue, across the street from Monache High School.
Officers who responded made contact with two girls, ages 13 and 15, who said Thomas had been annoying them and pointed out the white van he was sitting in, police said.
Witnesses told officials Thomas had been whistling at and trying to lure or contact several underage girls in the area.
Officers found Thomas in his van and noticed two chocolate chip cookies were sitting on the windshield, positioned so they could only be grabbed from outside the vehicle, authorities said.
Upon further investigation, police determined that Thomas had been ordered to register as a sex offender following a previous conviction of lewd and lascivious acts with a minor under 14 years of age in Arkansas.
Thomas was subsequently arrested and booked on suspicion of annoying or molesting a child and two offenses related to his status as a sex offender: failure to change registration address and failure to notify of transient status.
Police said Thomas had been registered locally but failed to let authorities know he had become homeless, which is a violation.
The suspect was scheduled to appear in court on Feb. 28, inmate records show.
Police ask anyone who may have had questionable contact with Thomas to contact Detective Orlando Ortiz at 559-782-7400.
Mother says suspect arrested for killing her son mourned with her at her home
EMPORIA, Va. – Police shocked the mother of a man murdered on Valentine’s Day when they told her a 15-year-old boy, who she said mourned with her, had been arrested for the crime, according to WTVR.
Police said 20-year-old Jaquan Crumpler was found shot to death in his bedroom at around 9:30 p.m. Feb. 14.
Officials said days of investigating and interviewing some of the same friends over and over developed enough probable cause for a search warrant.
Emporia Police arrested a 15-year-old boy for first-degree murder Thursday night.
“He came over here after my son passed every day and grieved with us,” LaToia Crumple said. “He told me it would be OK – and the whole time I’m standing next to my son’s killer.”
Crumple said the arrest of her son’s killer reignited the heartache.
“They knew each other, they hung with each other,” Crumple said. “He used to always say, ‘You can’t trust nobody.'”
Emporia Police Chief Ricky Pinksaw said he can’t wrap his mind around the violence.
“It’s really hard to make sense out of nonsense, and for an individual to perpetrate the act that he did on the victim and then to go back and grieve with family makes no sense to me,” Pinksaw said.
The teen is being held at a juvenile detention facility.
Chicago mother says son attempted to take his own life after persistent bullying
CHICAGO — An 11-year-old boy is on life support after attempting suicide. His mother said he was bullied at his Chicago Public School, and authorities allegedly did nothing to help, the family told WGN.
Jamari Dent is a student at Carter G Woodson Middle School. According to his family, Jamari attempted to take his own life Monday. His younger sister found him and yelled for their mother, Tianna Black.
“I ran to his room and he was on his knees with sheet wrapped around his neck and gone already,” Black said.
Black said she performed CPR until paramedics arrived.
She said her son, who has a learning disability, was the victim of bulling from both students and teachers. She said her son was called “stupid, dumb and retarded.”
Black said the bullying went on for more than a year, and despite going to Woodson principal Tamara Littlejohn, nothing changed.
“My son told me he wished he died four months ago,” Black said. “He’s tired of the teachers messing with him.”
Black met with the school administration Friday.
In statement CPS said:
This is a horrible tragedy, and the thoughts and prayers of the Chicago Public Schools community are with Jamari and his loved ones. The allegations that have been made are highly concerning, and the district is conducting a full investigation.
Community activist Ja’Mal Green is helping the family and was with them Friday.
“We conditionally have to get to the point where families have to suffer for something to be done,” he said. “Jamari is on life support for extensive brain damage because he tried to attempt suicide. Jamari was jumped by several students in a gym room a month ago. (He) was bullied and taunted by teachers as well as students.”
Another mother of a Woodson student said she has complained about bullying at the school.
After meeting with the school, Black said her children will be transferred to a new school.
“If they would have nipped this in the bud when I came up here it wouldn’t have gotten this far,” Black said.
If you or someone you know is struggling, there is help. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is answering calls 24-7, with free and confidential support for those in distress. The number is 1-800-273-8255. The lifeline can also connect you with resources for loved ones and best practices for professionals.
Mother took children from school for fake appointment before shooting them
SOLON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The Michigan mother who shot her three children in a wooded area unexpectedly picked them up from school on the day of their deaths, investigators told WXMI.
Kent County Sheriff’s Office detectives said Aubrianne Moore showed up at the children’s school in the middle of the day to pick them up, saying they had a doctor’s appointment. Investigators determined this to be fake.
Authorities said the 28-year-old mother took her children to lunch and then went to a wooded area behind a home Monday. Once there, authorities said she took the children into the woods one at a time and shot them with a bolt-action hunting rifle.
After the children were shot, Moore put them in her car and drove them to her boyfriend’s home, where she shot herself, authorities said.
Moore’s boyfriend found the bodies of 6-year-old Cassidy Rodery, 8-year-old Kyrie Rodery and his daughter, 2-year-old Alaina Rau, inside the vehicle in his home’s driveway over an hour later. Moore’s body was found just outside the vehicle, authorities said.
According to court documents, a social worker recommended Moore receive mental health treatment in September after exhibiting strange behavior.
A petition for mental health treatment filed in Newaygo County Probate Court said Moore wasn’t eating because she thought her food was contaminated, she was keeping her kids home from school because her TV said there would be a school bus crash, and she was staying awake at night out of fear burglars would break into her home.
Court documents show Moore was diagnosed with “unspecified schizophrenia” and had an inability to understand her need for treatment.
Moore was recommended to receive 60 days of in-patient treatment at Forest View Hospital in Grand Rapids. She was discharged on deferral status Sept. 28.
Authorities said Moore was also making statements on social media that indicated she thought her children were in danger. Investigators suspect that may have led to Monday’s shooting.
Memorial services have been set for the children.
A private family service will be held for the Roderys on Saturday. A service has not yet been set for Alaina. Service plans are still pending for Moore.
Father arrested for killing 2-year-old girl with a hammer
ORANGE, Texas (AP) — A Southeast Texas man accused of bludgeoning his 2-year-old daughter to death with a hammer was naked and blood-stained when he told police officers he had killed the toddler, according to an affidavit.
An officer’s body camera captured 26-year-old Yovahnis Roque confessing Tuesday in the death of his child at their home in Orange, near the Louisiana border, according to the police affidavit. Roque was arrested and charged with capital murder .
Roque lived with his mother at the house and it was she who found the girl’s body and called police.
Officers found Roque “completely covered in blood” and discovered the girl’s body in a closet, the affidavit says. Orange police Capt. Robert Enmon has described it as the most horrific crime he’s dealt with in his 29-year career, calling it “the crime scene of nightmares.”
In court Wednesday, a judge was explaining the capital murder charge when Roque exclaimed: “The government made me do it.”
He was ordered to be held on $2 million bond in the Orange County jail. Online jail records don’t show whether he has an attorney to speak on his behalf.
Enmon said Thursday that authorities investigated a disturbance at the house several months earlier, but that the call didn’t appear to involve the child.
A friend of the suspect, Abner Santiago, told the Beaumont Enterprise that he received a series of messages from Roque on Tuesday, including one in which he told his friend to start digging because there was going to be “an all-out war.”
“He was messaging me weird coded messages about the world ending,” Santiago said. “He wasn’t like this before when I knew him back in Miami.”
The girl was just weeks old in 2016 when her mother, Rachel Foster, was struck and killed by an impaired driver, according to WTVJ-TV in Miami-Dade County. Roque was seriously injured in the wreck.
Foster’s mother, Delia Foster, told the station that the death of her daughter, and now the killing of her granddaughter, brings “a complete emptiness. And it’s just so gloomy and so devastating.”
Man charged after grandma dies; bed filled with maggots
MELBOURNE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man has been charged after his 87-year-old grandmother died and authorities say her bed was filled with live maggots.
Brevard County Sheriff’s deputies say Allen Arias brought an unresponsive Anita Arias to the hospital last month. The woman was covered in bed sores and some were infested with maggots.
A search warrant of the home revealed frozen dinners and dirty diapers stacked up and blood and feces stains on the bed and walls. Authorities said they also found full prescription bottles for Anita Arias who suffered from dementia. Authorities said she was in fair health when Allen Arias brought her home from a rehabilitation center in December.
An autopsy showed she died of dehydration and emaciation and that her blood sugar was as high as could be measured.
Florida Today reports Arias was charged Thursday with aggravated manslaughter of an elderly person.
Mom discovers daughter bought robot to do her homework, destroys it
We’ve gone from the days of “The dog ate my homework” to “The robot did my homework for me.”
According to a report from a Chinese newspaper, a young schoolgirl there recently spent the 800 yuan (equivalent to about $120) that she’d saved from Lunar New Year presents to buy herself a robot — one that she didn’t buy because it looked cool or she just likes robots.
Rather, she had a specific purpose in mind for the machine — doing her handwriting homework assignments for her, the kind that are common in China and involve writing down phrases from textbooks that help with learning the Chinese language and characters.
According to the South China Morning Post, the girl’s mother discovered the robot while she was cleaning her daughter’s room. And, predictably, she smashed it to teach the girl a lesson.
The mom apparently realized something was possibly amiss when her daughter was able to complete all her homework in just two days, with neat penmanship, despite also juggling festivities and travel that seemed to leave little time to get the work done.
The news about the young girl’s inventiveness actually sparked a flood of sympathetic comments from Chinese social media users.
“Give her a break, how meaningful is copying anyway?” one commenter noted on Weibo, the popular social media platform in China, per the New York Times.
“Proficiently reading and writing in Chinese requires knowing thousands of characters,” the newspaper continued. Copying them in repeated exercises is a steppingstone in Chinese education to learning how to freely write them — and students are also sometimes asked to transcribe a literary text from memory, according to the Times.
It’s tedious work, though, which explains why the girl turned to her robot for help.
It’s also not just students in China sometimes turning to these stylus-gripping robots.
The South China Morning Post found one teacher who acknowledged using one of these robots herself for lesson preparations.
Interestingly, she’d spent a week writing 6,000 Chinese characters to create her own font, but she said nobody could tell the difference between the robot’s writing style and her own.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/02/22/mom-discovers-daughter-bought-robot-to-do-her-homework-destroys-it/
Tamera Mowry Drinks Sister Tia’s Breast Milk After Falling Ill, Hoping It Will Cure Her Sickness
Article via People
Tamera Mowry-Housley is relying on Tia Mowry-Hardrict to get better — but not in the way you might think!
After Tamera, 40, recently came down with an illness and desperately searched for remedies, she finally turned to her twin sister.
Instead of suggestions for medicine or herbal remedies, Tia provided Tamera with some breast milk as she had just read an article suggesting it can be beneficial for adults.
While the thought of drinking a woman’s breast milk isn’t most people’s go to when they aren’t well, The Real host had nothing but praise for her sister’s secretions.
Recording a video on her Instagram, Tamera held a coffee cup filled with the milk and declared it the “best milk” she’s ever tried, and claimed she was already on the mend.
“Oh my gosh, Tia, this is amazing,” Tamera said in the clip as she held up the cup of liquid. “Your breast milk is the best milk I’ve ever tried in my life, oh my god.”
She also captioned the video, which altered her face and voice through a silly filter, with, “Well, I do feel better ??♀️”
Meanwhile, Tia — who welcomed her daughter in May last year — found humor in the situation and posted the video of her sick sister on her Instagram, as well.
“Soooo, my sister is desperate for some healing,” she wrote. “She’s sicky poo and I sent her an article on how breast milk has healing properties and was okay with drinking my #breastmilk.”
“Ps, she’s had some before and I mean, she’s my twin,” she added. “Here’s what she had to say.”
Though Tamera was a fan of the breast milk, many experts have advised against adults drinking breast milk, as well as consuming milk from donors who sell it online, as it poses a major risk to people’s health.
The American Pregnancy Association says that breast milk for newborns contains the “perfect combination of proteins, fats, vitamins and carbohydrates” which is essential for their development. Adults, however, break down those nutritional aspects differently than babies, CBS News reported.
In addition, human breast milk can contain dangerous impurities, such as infectious diseases including hepatitis, HIV and syphilis, and bacterial food-borne illnesses if the milk is not properly sanitized and/or stored, CBS News said.
Elisa Zied, a registered dietitian nutritionist in New York, also echoed those sentiments.
“Human breast milk [is] designed to nourish babies — not grown [adults],” Zied told Today. “Bottom line: I find the idea of an adult using human breast milk for health benefits unsubstantiated by science.”
For those who are purchasing breast milk from donors online, they run another risk of ingesting whatever prescription drugs, illicit drugs, alcohol, and food the mother had consumed, according to Dr. Sarah Steele of Queen Mary University of London, who co-authored an editorial in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.
“Human breast milk is not delivering the nutritional benefit it touts online,” Steele told CBS News.
Tia welcomed her daughter Cairo Tiahna with husband Cory Hardrict on May 5 and has been soaking up every moment of motherhood since.
In August, Tia told PEOPLE that motherhood has strengthened her relationship with her twin sister, who also has 6-year-old son Aden John Tanner and 3-year-old daughter Ariah Talea with husband Adam Housley.
“Our lives are very busy. She lives up north and I live in Southern California. But what’s so amazing is how our children are what really, really brings us closer together,” she said. “It is the most beautiful thing to see.”
“When you see the kids play together it’s just so amazing and beautiful,” she continued. “It makes me realize how blessed we really are.”
“No matter how busy we get or how we have our separate lives with our separate families, we have children that really bring us together,” Tia explained. “The kids are so close and get a long so well. They act more like siblings.”
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Dr. Phil sued by former guest
Article via PageSix
Dr. Phil and a former guest are at odds over residual paychecks.
The talk show host is being sued for $10,000 by Josie Goldberg for her appearances on a 2010 episode aptly titled, “Spoiled and Entitled,” and a 2011 episode titled, “Smart Women, Dumb Choices?,” The Blast reports. She also claimed that she appeared on a 2014 episode featuring the best guests from the show, followed by a 2017 episode checking in on her.
Goldberg alleged that as a SAG/AFTRA performer, she is owed an estimated $10,000 from the episodes as her appearances have continued to generate revenue for the show.
Dr. Phil’s wife, Robin McGraw, is also listed in the suit as Goldberg claimed that Robin laughed at her and gave a “thumbs up” in response to a guest’s comments about Goldberg on the show. As a result, she claims that people have not wanted to work with her and wants $10,000.
A rep for Dr. Phil did not get back to us.