Boy accidentally shoots, kills 12-year-old sister while playing with gun
HORN LAKE, Miss. — A Mississippi family is grieving over another child lost to an accidental shooting. In fact, it’s the fifth accidental shooting involving a child in the Mid-South since May 1, according to Everytown for Gun Safety, which tracks these type of accidents.
Horn Lake Police confirmed a 12-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his sister, also 12, on Monday. The shooting happened inside of a home on Conrail Circle.
“Her brother, who’s also approximately 12 years old, had been playing with a gun and a round was fired. It went through his hand and hit his sister,” Deputy Chief Scott Brown said.
A neighbor who lives across the street told WREG she knows the family, including the little girl who died. The neighbor, who didn’t want to be identified, says they have several children, and usually an older teenage sibling watches them. She said she assumed that was the case Monday.
Police said the kids were inside the home without any adults when the incident happened.
“You have working parents in the area. You have parents that have to work long hours to provide and make it for their children,” the neighbor said.
She said she didn’t want to shame the grieving parents, but hopes this is a lesson for others.
“If you have little ones in the home that are mobile, put (the firearms) away in a safe or get a gun lock. Keep the guns out of the kids’ reach.”
Police haven’t said who the gun belongs to and say they haven’t ruled out charges, though they say they won’t release the victim’s name out of respect for the family.
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Tennessee man secretly lived in family’s attic, snuck into 14-year-old girl’s room at night
A Tennessee man accused of secretly living in a family’s attic and sneaking into their 14-year-old daughter’s room at night was arrested after the girl’s mother reportedly discovered him earlier this month.
Matthew Castro, 18, was taken into custody at the house in Mount Juliet, a city roughly 20 miles east of Nashville, WSMV reported.
The girl’s mother reportedly said she came home and saw Castro standing at the top of the staircase. Despite her telling him to leave, Castro allegedly ran into the attic and refused to come out. Police reportedly had to be called in order to get Castro to vacate the space.
Officials said Castro had been living in the attic of the house in Wilson County, and coming down at night “through a door in the girl’s bedroom closet,” according to WZTV.
Investigators said that, just a few weeks ago, they warned Castro to stay away from the teen girl after the pair tried to run away together.
Castro’s mother told WSMV the 14-year-old would often call her son over to her home to talk about her emotions. She added Castro, who was charged with trespassing, has mental health issues.
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School aide resigns after telling noisy students they could be ‘picking cotton’ instead
An Oregon school district employee has resigned after reprimanding a noisy group of students, telling them they were lucky they weren’t “picking cotton,” officials said.
The unidentified North Clackamas School District instructional assistant made the remark on May 31 to the group of students at Linwood Elementary School in Milwaukie.
One parent of a girl in the group — who were mostly children of color, according to the mother — had previously called for the female worker to be fired.
“It was just really devastating,” Syreeta Spencer told KGW earlier this month.
Spencer said the employee made the comment as she monitored students at lunch and recess. Spencer’s 11-year-old biracial daughter, Jasmyn, told the station she felt “sad and targeted” after the incident.
“The teacher was like, ‘You’re lucky I’m not making you pick cotton and clean my house and stuff like that,’” the girl recalled.
The school’s principal told parents in a letter that the instructional assistant who made the “inappropriate racialized comments” was no longer employed by the district. She had been placed on leave days after the incident.
“We know and understand that the impact of words spoken can be hurtful for our students and that was the case in this situation,” read the letter, which was obtained by KGW. “I deeply regret this impact and will continue to work with our students and school community to make sure they are heard and feel supported.”
Attempts to reach Spencer on Wednesday were unsuccessful, but she told The Oregonian she hopes a school-hosted symposium on issues relating to minority students will better address the woman’s comments rather than a statement confirming she was fired.
“It’s so much deeper than that,” Spencer told the newspaper. “I was hoping this would bring up dialogue and some empathy. I don’t know why felt comfortable saying that in the first place.”
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Mom left baby to die in scorching car while she took a nap
A 3-month-old Kansas girl died after hours inside a sweltering car while her mother was home napping, according to reports — marking the 11th tragedy of its kind this year.
The 44-year-old mom returned from a Saturday morning baby shower to her home outside Rose Hill — about 20 miles southeast of Wichita — and headed inside to lay down, apparently forgetting the youngest of her six kids in the car, according to ABC affiliate KAKE-TV.
“She’d been up some of the night before off and on. Don’t know if it was the children or for what reason, but she felt like she needed a nap,” Butler County Sheriff Kelly Herzet told the outlet. “She laid down about 12:30 p.m., and slept until about 4:00.”
When she awoke, the mom — who has not been publicly named — raced outside, but it was too late.
The infant was unresponsive in the back of the car, and was pronounced dead at the scene.
“It is a tragedy,” said Herzet. “A 3-month-old child dying, whether it be in the hands of a perpetrator or in a car, is still a child.”
An autopsy is scheduled to determine precisely how the child died, and the sheriff’s office is investigating.
The tot is already the 11th child to die inside a hot car in 2019, following a record high of 52 such deaths in 2018, according to advocacy group Kids and Cars.
The latest death comes less than a week after 11-month-old Joseline Eichelberger died after being left inside a scorching car for at least 15 hours.
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A Texas mom says she was kicked out of a city pool for breastfeeding her baby
(CNN) — A group of moms held a “nurse-in” at a Texas swimming pool to support a woman who says she was kicked out for breastfeeding her baby.
Misty Daugereaux was at the Nessler Park Family Aquatic Center in Texas City on Sunday when her 10-month-old needed to eat.
She said she was discreetly nursing her son when a lifeguard and a manager approached and told her it was against the pool’s rules.
“She [the manager] said you need to cover up or leave,” Daugereaux told CNN affiliate KTRK. “She gave me the ultimatum. And I said, ‘Well, you show me in your policy where I need to cover up and I’ll leave.’ And, she was telling me that it was not right, that I needed to cover up. It was their policy. And I said, ‘Well, you can go call whoever you need to call, but I’m not leaving for breastfeeding my son.'”
Police were called and Daugereaux, who was there with her nephew and two sons, was asked to leave the pool. Texas City is in southeast Texas, near Galveston.
“I walked out feeling defeated because I couldn’t … stand my ground,” she said.
The Texas City police department posted footage from the responding officer’s body camera on its Facebook page.
Texas law says that “a mother is entitled to breast-feed her baby in any location in which the mother is authorized to be.”
City officials promised to review their policies and procedures in a statement issued Monday.
“We, the City of Texas City are reviewing the nursing concerns raised at the Nessler Pool and how it was addressed by our staff. We apologize to Misty Daugereaux as it is clear she was offended by how she was treated at our City Facility. City policies and procedures will be reviewed and revised as deemed necessary. Any deficiencies regarding our employee’s actions will be addressed with further training,” the statement said.
About a half-dozen women and their young children participated in a protest Monday to express their right to breastfeed wherever they need to. Daugereaux told KTRK that most of the moms were from a Galveston County breastfeeding support group.
She also said she would continue to nurse her son in public when he gets hungry.
A similar incident happened last July in Mora, Minnesota, where two mothers were asked to leave a public pool for breastfeeding their children. More than a dozen moms staged a “nurse-in” protest at the pool a few days later.
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Couple accused of selling $425,000 worth of stolen baby formula
CHANDLER, AZ (3TV/CBS5) — Chandler police have arrested a husband and wife accused of buying stolen baby formula and then selling it for a profit.
Police first became aware of the couple’s alleged activities back in September of 2018.
They say 46-year-old Rafid Khoshi and his wife, 43-year-old Manal Sulaiman, were purchasing stolen baby formula from so-called “boosters,” or people who steal products intending to resell them.
Police say those “boosters” would shoplift baby formula from various grocery stores and big box stores around the Valley, and then sell it to Khoshi and Manal for 30 to 50 cents on the dollar.
Khoshi and Sulaiman would then ship the stolen baby formula from their Chandler home to El Cajon, California, and sell it to a local distributor for a profit, according to police.
Chandler police say Khoshi and Sulaiman recruited just over a dozen regular boosters from OfferUp.
The boosters reportedly supplied the couple with roughly 2,000 cans a month of brand-name baby formula, like Enfamil and Similac.
Police say one booster alone, 31-year-old Jesus Tirado Lara, sold more than $46,000 worth of product to Khoshi and Sulaiman. Lara was arrested for his alleged role in this crime spree in December of 2018.
Another booster was an undercover Chandler detective.
During the undercover portion of this investigation, investigators made 12 separate transactions with Khoshi. The last sale consisted of an entire pallet of baby formula valued at over $15,000.
In all, detectives conclude Khoshi and Sulaiman shipped more than 25,000 cans of baby formula to California. That equates to around $425,000 in value.
On May 23, 2019, Khoshi and Sulaiman were arrested for their alleged involvement in these crimes.
Khoshi was booked into the Maricopa County Jail on 12 counts of trafficking in stolen property, 12 counts of theft, one count of conspiracy, one count of fraudulent schemes, one count of participating in a criminal syndicate and one count of illegal control of an enterprise.
Sulaiman was booked on two counts of trafficking in stolen property, two counts of theft, one count of conspiracy, one count of fraudulent schemes, one count of participating in a criminal syndicate, and one count of illegal control of an enterprise.
Along with Khoshi, Sulaiman, and Lara, detectives made 13 additional arrests during this investigation. These arrests were made up of the majority of the boosters who allegedly supplied Khoshi and Sulaiman with product.
“This investigation was one of our largest organized retail theft cases in terms of size and scope. The financial losses to the victims were great and so was the reach this criminal enterprise had in the community. I commend our Property Crimes detectives for their relentless pursuit to bring this investigation to a successful conclusion,” said Chandler Police Chief Sean Duggan.
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Teen blames laced marijuana for bizarre behavior after throwing baby across parking lot, attacking cars
EDMOND, Okla. – A teenager arrested after he allegedly attacked a baby outside of an Edmond supermarket blames the entire hallucination on laced marijuana.
A calm evening trip to the Crest Foods grocery store quickly turned into panic when the teenager began beating on customer’s moving cars.
“He literally just picked up the car seat and threw it with the baby in it,” a 911 caller said. “You could hear the baby screaming.”
A mother rushed over to her 1-year-old son after he was slammed onto the cement.
“Because the car seat bar was up, it protected him,” the mother told 911.
The 17-year-old even tried to bend a parking sign in half with his bare hands.
“There is very erratic behavior going on,” Jenny Wagnon from the Edmond Police Department told KFOR.
The suspect then allegedly “exposed himself” and “flipped people off” before stripping off his clothes and running through oncoming traffic into a nearby neighborhood.
“He jumped on my hood and he kicked the grill on my truck when he jumped off,” a 911 caller said.
Jack Powell saw the entire thing, telling KFOR the teen demanded weapons from neighbors.
“He was asking the guy to go get him a knife,” Powell said. “I guess he wanted to fight the people that were chasing him down the street.”
Officers were hot on the teen’s trail when they found him lying in a driveway and a fight broke out.
Finally in handcuffs, the 17-year-old told paramedics he smoked marijuana earlier that day and believed it may have been laced with acid or PCP.
A similar incident between Edmond Police and a teenage suspect played out just a little more than a month ago.
Isaiah Lewis was shot and killed by officers after running through backyards naked and breaking into a stranger’s home.
Toxicology reports are not yet released in that case, and police aren’t saying if the two incidents are related – but they are asking for the public’s help.
“What we have been doing in this investigation is trying to figure out who is distributing this marijuana laced with another drug,” Wagnon said.
The two officers were treated for minor injuries.
The teen was arrested on multiple charges including aggravated assault and battery, assault on a police officer, indecent exposure, public intoxication, and malicious injury or destruction of property.
Police worry the laced drug is being sold on their streets; they want to find it as soon as possible.
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Woman Pays Her Way Through College By Selling Videos Of Her Sneezing
College is expensive. Sometimes working at the local Fuddruckers doesn’t pay the bills so you’ve got to get creative with your side hustle. One entrepreneurial young woman has found a way to make some decent coin in her spare time and it’s nothing to sneeze at.
Abi Haywood is a fine art foundation student at Leeds Arts University and she makes a handsome wage by sneezing. Really. Abi knows something we don’t because she is making hundreds of dollars by having guys pay her for the privilege of watching her sneeze. Really.
Abi uses the aptly-named moniker “Snotty Bitch” for her online personality that gets paid for sternutation. Abi started selling sneezing vids in January and by March she had made over $750, more than what she made from her part-time job. What was Sneezy of the Seven Dwarfs doing in the mines getting black lung, he could have been making a killing just by sneezing.
For Abi, allergy season is like Christmas for her as men drop hundreds of dollars on videos of her sneezing. Average videos cost $30, but the sneeze queen can make over $100 for ONE custom sneezing video. Gesundheit. Imagine being able to monetize having the flu?
Now Abi is a sneezing pro with her own tricks up her sleeve to encourage sneezing. She has a tool that she puts up her nose to stimulate sneezing. Soon enough she’s swimming in snot and cash. In one video, Abi sneezed 11 times in five minutes. In another one, she sneezed 37 times in three hours. Cash money.
Good luck fellas in your pursuit of a snot-soaked female, the Mucus Queen is yours.
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Former Stanford sailing coach gets one day in prison in college cheating scandal
John Vandermoer is the first person to be sentenced in the sprawling cheating scandal.
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BOSTON — Stanford University’s former sailing coach avoided significant prison time and was sentenced Wednesday to just one day behind bars for his role in a massive college admissions scandal.
John Vandemoer was the first person to be sentenced in the sweeping corruption scandal that exposed the sophisticated network of college admissions ringleader William Rick Singer, who helped children of well-heeled clients cheat their way into elite universities.
U.S. District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel sided with defense lawyers who said their client should not get more than the one day, which the judge dismissed as time served. The government had asked the judge to sentence Vandemoer to 13 months in prison.
Before Wednesday, Vandemoer had already pleaded guilty to one count of racketeering conspiracy for accepting $610,000 in bribes that all went into the school’s sailing program. The money did not directly line Vandemoer’s pockets, the judge and lawyers on both sides agreed.
“From what I know about the other cases, there is an agreement that Vandemoer is probably the least culpable of all the defendants in all of these cases,” Zobel said. “All the money he got went directly to the sailing program.”
In court on Wednesday, Vandemoer’s voice choked with emotion as he apologized for his actions.
“I want to be seen as someone who takes responsibility for mistakes,” he said. “I want to tell you how I intend to live from this point forward. I will never again lose sight of my values.”
Outside court, Vandemoer said he regrets how he “brought a cloud” over Stanford.
“Mistakes are never felt by just yourself, this mistake impacted the people I love and admire in my life,” he said.
“Stanford is a place that I love … I have brought a cloud over Stanford, the amazing students, athletes, coaches and alumni. I have let you down and that devastates me. I have so much respect for all of you and never wanted to let you down, but I did. I will carry this with me for the rest of my life.”
Singer was among several college sports coaches caught up in the sweeping federal probe dubbed, “Operation Varsity Blues.” The scandal netted Oscar-nominated actress Felicity Huffman and “Full House” star Lori Loughlin.
Vandemoer received two separate payments of $500,000 and $110,000 and was promised a third of $160,000 between fall 2016 and October 2018 on behalf of the Stanford sailing program to falsely represent that three clients of Singer’s were elite sailors — and thus deserving of special admission to the private school, according to court documents.
Recruited athletes generally receive much more favorable consideration, even at elite campuses like Stanford.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Rosen pleaded with Judge Zobel to send Vandemoer to prison and send a message about the case.
“The sentence that you impose will set the tone moving forward,” Rosen said.
The prosecutor added: “This case goes far beyond John Vandemoer. The damage on Stanford goes much further. The actions undermine the confidence in the college admissions process.”
The defense asked for leniency, arguing that the money Vandemoer received didn’t go into his pocket, but instead went to a fund that supported Stanford’s sailing program.
“It cannot be overstated: all parties agree that Mr. Vandemoer did not personally profit from the scheme,” defense lawyer Robert Fisher wrote in his sentencing memo to the court. “Mr. Singer sent Mr. Vandemoer money, and he consistently turned that money over to Stanford.”
And in court on Wednesday, Fisher reiterated that his client wasn’t motivated by personal monetary gain.
“My client did not benefit from these actions,” Fisher told the judge. “This is a man whose heart was in the right place.”
Zobel also sentenced Vandemoer to two years of supervised release and six months of home confinement. The former coach was also fined $10,000.
“I am aware that these are serious offenses,” Zobel said. “I find it hard in this case that Vandemoer should go to jail for more than a year.”
Of the three students whose parents tried to bribe their way into Stanford, none them actually benefited from Singer and Vandemoer’s scheme.
The first one’s fake sailing application came too late in the recruiting season and “the student was later admitted to Stanford through the regular application process,” according to prosecutors.
The next two opted to go to Brown University and Vanderbilt University, despite Vandemoer’s help.
Vandemoer was fired by Stanford on March 12, hours after federal prosecutors unsealed indictments.
“Although Mr. Vandemoer’s conduct resulted in donations to the Stanford sailing team, Stanford views those funds as tainted,” according to a victim impact statement written to Judge Zobel by Stanford’s general counsel, Debra Zumwalt. “Stanford takes no position regarding any specific sentence that this Court may impose.”
The scandal gained international headlines when Loughlin and Huffman were indicted.
Loughlin and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, have pleaded not guilty to charges that they paid $500,000 to help their two daughters get into the University of Southern California.
The private Los Angeles school has vowed to take a closer look at its admissions policies in the scandal’s wake.
Huffman has already pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud. Prosecutors said the “Desperate Housewives” actress spent $15,000 to have wrong answers corrected on daughter Sofia Grace Macy’s SAT. She will be sentenced on Sept. 13.