Mom allegedly tries to drown daughters at Manhattan shelter, blames bad marijuana
EAST HARLEM, Manhattan — A 35-year-old mom allegedly tried to drown her daughters inside an East Harlem shelter on Tuesday morning, police said.
Security at the East River Family Shelter found the 15-month-old girl and 6-year-old girl after Keyshana Mims allegedly ran through the shelter naked, yelling that her daughters were dying, officials said. The older girl told officers their mom held them under water.
Neither girl was seriously harmed.
Mims claimed to be on bad marijuana, an NYPD spokesperson said. She was taken to a local hospital for a psychological evaluation. Mims had since been arrested and charged with attempted murder.
PIX11 has reached out to the New York City Administration for Children’s Services for comment.
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11-month-old found dead in Saint Louis county car was there for about 16 hours
CALVERTON PARK, Mo. (KMOV.com) – Police are investigating after an infant was found dead in a car in Calverton Park Sunday.
Police said the infant was found in a vehicle on the 100 block of Anistasia Drive about 5:00 p.m. According to authorities, the 11-month-old Joseline Eichelberger was in the hot car for about 16 hours.
“I feel like a piece of my heart is gone because she was a part of me,” said Joseline’s cousin Lilly Bellfield.
No one is currently in custody but police said they have spoken with two persons of interest.
A family friend says the parents are devastated.
“You have two young parents. One telling one to get the child and other telling the other..you know mistakes are made,” said family friend Barbara Beckett. “it’s a nightmare, they are traumatized. They can’t stop crying.”
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Mother arrested for locking young children in room alone to go to bar
CLEVELAND – Police body camera footage shows a heart-wrenching scene inside a Cleveland home after police got a call who could hear non-stop crying coming from multiple children.
Their mother, Liz Yomaris Torres Rivera, faces charges for child endangering.
The video, obtained by sister station WJW, shows responding officers kick in the front door and look around, with no immediate sign of children. They keep investigating, hear crying inside the apartment and eventually find three children, ages 2,3 and 5, locked in a room.
Soon after that, the children’s mother walks in and asks, “What’s up?”
An officer stops her from going into the room where the children are, says, “You weren’t worried about the kids when you locked ‘em in the bedroom and you took off, were you?”
He continues, “Smell like you’ve been drinking. Coming from a bar. Where were you at? Benny’s?”
The mother answers, “Yeah.”
A WJW news crew went to the house to try to speak with Rivera, only to find that the landlord had kicked her out. A note said the property had been damaged. Police said they found garbage, bugs, a nasty smell, and it “felt about 90 to 95 degrees inside.”
Now, the Cuyahoga County Department of Children and Family Services also has an open case with the mother. Officials says the children are currently with a relative.
WJW reports that she plans to plead not guilty.
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School apologizes after boy with autism given ‘most annoying’ award
GARY, Ind. – An Indiana father says he was “blindsided” after a teacher gave his 11-year-old son, who has autism, an award for “most annoying male.”
“We just weren’t expecting it,” dad Rick Castejon told the The Times of Northwest Indiana. “As a principal or teacher, you should never let this happen to any student.”
Castejon said a special education teacher at Bailly Preparatory Academy in Gary handed out the awards in May during an annual end-of-year ceremony and luncheon for fifth-graders.
The Times reported that the parents attending the event at a Golden Corral restaurant became silent as the boy received the trophy.
Castejon told the paper he tried to leave the engraved trophy on a table, but the unidentified female teacher reminded him not to forget it, and acted like it was all in fun.
He said his son is non-verbal, sometimes rocks back and forth and is prone to becoming emotional. Castejon says he now sees the school’s calls during the academic year, asking how to handle his son, in a different light.
Castejon and his family are moving before the next school year begins, but he told The Times he’s speaking up so other families don’t go through a similar experience in Gary.
Peter Morikis, an emergency manager with the Gary Community School Corp., told The Times in a statement that they don’t condone the behavior and “extend our deepest apologies to the impacted student, the family and anyone else who takes offense to this unfortunate occurrence.
“Just because they have special needs doesn’t mean they don’t have feelings,” Castejon said.
The Times is considering filing a Freedom of Information Act request to find out what disciplinary measures are taken against the teacher.
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Man steals over $2,000 from mosque donation box in the Bronx
CONCOURSE, the Bronx — Cops are searching for the man who took thousands from a Bronx mosque during Ramadan, police said.
It happened on May 21 around 6 a.m. at the Masjid Nur Al Islam Mosque along Sherman Avenue in the Concourse section of the Bronx.
The man entered the mosque and removed a donation box from the location, police said.
The donation box contained about $2,200 in cash, cops said.
Submit tips to police by calling Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), visiting www.nypdcrimestoppers.com, or texting 274637 (CRIMES) then entering TIP577. Spanish-speaking callers are asked to dial 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
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Alabama lawmakers pass bill requiring chemical castration of child molesters
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Lawmakers in Alabama have passed a bill that would require the chemical castration of people convicted of a sex crime against a child under the age of 13, according to WIAT.
If Gov. Kay Ivey signs the bill, it would require offenders aged 21 and older to be chemically castrated before leaving prison.
The bill, known as HB 379, was introduced by Republican State Rep Steve Hurst of Calhoun County, which is in the northeast part of the state.
“I had people call me in the past when I introduced it and said, ‘Don’t you think this is inhumane?’ I asked them, ‘What’s more inhumane than when you take a little infant child and you sexually molest that infant child when the child cannot defend themselves or get away, and they have to go through all the things they have to go through?’ If you want to talk about inhumane, that’s inhumane,” Hurst told WIAT.
Hurst said he hopes the bill will reduce the number of sex crimes against children by encouraging potential offenders to think twice.
“If we do something of this nature, it would deter something like this happening again in Alabama and maybe reduce the numbers,” Hurst told WIAT.
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Taco Bell customer calls police after restaurant runs out of taco shells
SLIDELL, La. — A Taco Bell in Louisiana ran out of taco shells Monday, which was emergency enough for one customer to call police.
Police in Slidell say someone called to complain that the Taco Bell on Gause Boulevard had run out of both hard and soft taco shells.
“While this is truly a travesty, the police can’t do anything about this,” the department wrote on its Facebook page, calling it a “we can’t make this stuff up” story.
While there was no word on the status of taco shells at the Louisiana location, Slidell police said they hoped the situation would be resolved in time for Taco Tuesday.
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Youtuber Kanghua Ren, was sentenced Friday in Barcelona after filming himself offering a homeless man an Oreo cookie filled with toothpaste
A YouTube prankster in Spain has been sentenced to 15 months in prison and given a $22,300 fine after filming himself offering a homeless man an Oreo cookie that was filled with toothpaste rather than creme.
Kanghua Ren, who is known as ReSet online, was sentenced Friday after a Barcelona court found him to have violated the moral integrity of his prank victim two years ago, Spanish news media reported.
The court also ordered Ren’s YouTube and other social media channels to be shut down for five years.
Ren, 21, is unlikely to actually serve time behind bars because Spanish law usually allows suspension of sentences of less than two years for first-time nonviolent offenders.
In early 2017, Ren filmed himself replacing the filling inside Oreo cookies with toothpaste in response to a prank challenge by one of his over a million followers. The then-19-year-old gave the cookies and 20 euros to a middle-aged homeless Romanian man, who vomited after eating the cookie, according to Spanish newspaper El País.
In the video, which has since been removed from YouTube, Ren said he “may have gone a bit far” but said “this will help clean his teeth ― I don’t think he has cleaned them since he became poor.”
Ren reportedly told the court that the video was just a bad joke and that he pulled the prank just to entertain his followers. But the judge said Ren earned more than 2,000 euros from ad revenue generated by the video, one of many he filmed in response to prank challenges from his followers, according to Spanish news media.
“This was not an isolated act,” judge Rosa Aragonés ruled in the verdict published Friday, which said Ren also showed “cruel behaviors” toward “vulnerable victims.”
The YouTube star was born in China and has lived in Barcelona since he was a child, according to El País.
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Strict Abortion Law Forced Woman to Give Birth to Baby Without a Brain or Skull, Knowing It Would Die
An abortion provider has spoken of treating a woman who was forced to give birth to a baby she knew would die as she wasn’t allowed access to an abortion.
In an essay entitled “The Myth of Choice,” published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, an anonymous doctor wrote of a patient whose fetus had no brain or no skull, but only a stem.
“This condition has no survivors. None,” the doctor wrote.
The pregnant woman was unable to visit the doctor sooner as she didn’t have a car and her partner—the baby’s father—worked long hours as a cash-paid laborer.
Using an interpreter, the doctor told the woman of her fetus’ fatal condition.
“You wait for the patient to break the silence,” the essay reads. “The baby’s heartbeat trots through the monitors while you softly hold her gaze. Her eyes plead with you. End it. You talk to the obstetricians, because eventually it will end. But nobody will do it. Not in this state. Not in this hospital. And so, the mother goes home, pregnant and grieving.”
A few days later, the mother returned to the hospital miscarrying, and had to give birth to a fetus she and doctors knew would die shortly after.
The baby is born with no skull, eyes like gumballs too big for their sockets. Alive, briefly. It hurts to look,” the physician detailed.
“Some of the nurses need you to fix it, to save this baby with the magic of medicine. You remind them that he is very premature, that he has no brain, that he cannot survive. This is not an ambiguous diagnosis.”
The doctor encouraged the mother to hold her newborn child, but she refused “because once seen it cannot be unseen” and she didn’t want to form a bond.
“Gently, the baby dies. He is warm, whole, and not alone,” the doctor wrote. “There are no doughnuts at the nurses’ station that night as this young mother is wheeled to a room in the back corner of labor and delivery, away from the other mothers and their pink, crying babies.”
This is not the first time the doctor has had to care for a woman “whose wishes were warped by politics.” The doctor went on to describe how money is too often spent on attempting to save babies born with fatal diagnoses who go on to die as expected.
“You’ve enabled false hopes, not for cures but for time to bond, hope, and heal. It is the parents you are healing. The hope’s false. All these children died in the end,” the essay concluded.
The essay has been published as a wave of anti-abortion laws have been passed in U.S. states. On Thursday, Louisiana became the latest in a string of states cutting back access to abortion, when its Governor signed a bill restricting the procedure after what has been dubbed a “fetal heartbeat” can be detected. This is generally at six weeks, before most women know they are pregnant. It is the fifth state to pass a so-called heartbeat law, following Georgia, Kentucky, Ohio and Mississippi.
However, Dr. Jennifer Kerns, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of California San Francisco, recently told Newsweek the use of the term “heartbeat” is intentionally misleading in order to invoke an emotional response.
“It’s used to distract people from the actual intention [of legislators], which is essentially to ban abortion outright,” said Kerns.
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Texas Man had “father-son” talk before stabbing son to death
A Deer Park, Texas man was arrested and charged this weekend after he shot his son, then proceeded to have a “father-son” chat before fatally stabbing him, according to police.
At around 11 a.m. on Sunday, Deer Park police responded to a domestic disturbance call near Meadowlark Street. Upon arrival, authorities found a male — identified as 27-year-old Sherman Palmer Fricks Jr. — with several injuries. Police immediately performed CPR on the victim before transporting him to Bayshore Hospital. Fricks Jr. was later pronounced dead at the medical facility.
Sherman Shirley Fricks Sr. — Fricks Jr.’s 68-year-old father — allegedly shot his son repeatedly, before he proceeded to have a “father-son” chat with him for roughly 20 minutes, according to ABC-13. Following their conversation, Fricks Sr. fatally stabbed his son multiple times “without provocation” in the chest area, police said.
Authorities arrested Fricks Sr. and charged him with first-degree felony murder in the death of his son. During Fricks Sr.’s probable cause hearing on Monday, prosecutors asserted that the alleged murder occurred because he was worn down by his son’s attitude. Fricks Sr. “stated that he had called law enforcement on [his son] in the past, but they were never able to fix it,” a prosecutor said, according to the Houston Chronicle. “So today, he decided to fix it.”
Fricks Sr. visited a local electronics store with Fricks Jr. on Saturday after his son’s phone broke. Prosecutors said Fricks Jr., who was sitting in the car’s back seat behind his father’s girlfriend, started kicking the seat in front of him on the ride to the store.
The next day, Fricks Sr. reportedly waited for his son around lunchtime at home with a .380 pistol while he was out picking up fast food.
When Fricks Jr. returned, his father asked what he had ordered. He responded with a “smart” comment, according to prosecutors. Fricks Sr. “stated that he was prepared to shoot [his son] in the back, and that was his plan,” prosecutors added. “He stated [his son] made the smart remark and turned to him. [Fricks Sr.] just started shooting him until nothing else came out of the handgun.”
After realizing his son was still alive, Fricks Sr. allegedly proceeded to engage him in a “father-son” conversation which lasted approximately 20 minutes. The conversation ended when Fricks Jr. reached for his father’s arm, prompting Fricks Sr. to stab him multiple times with a kitchen knife.
If convicted, Fricks Sr. faces a possible life sentence. His bail has been set at $60,000.
Deer Park, a Texas city located within the Houston metropolitan area, has a crime rate — 16 per one thousand residents — near the average for all cities and towns in America, according to Neighborhood Scout. Approximately 47 percent of Texas communities have a higher crime rate than Deer Park, whose roughly 34,000 residents have a 1 in 63 chance of becoming a victim of crime in the area
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