Pampers new device sends you a notification when your kid has a dirty diaper
LAS VEGAS (KTLA) – Lumi by Pampers is a smart sensor that attaches to your infant’s diaper and sends you a notification when they go to the bathroom.
Pampers showed off the sensor – which also tracks sleep – at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week.
Lumi by Pampers is described on the company’s website as “the world’s first all-in-one connected care system that helps parents track day-to-day developments, and monitor their baby, 24/7, so they can see emerging patterns and establish a suitable routine.”
The Lumi system uses an HD night vision camera capable of monitoring temperature and humidity, the baby sensor and an app to compile the data for parents.
The product is already available online; see the Lumi by Pampers page for more information.
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An 11-year-old in Mexico told some of his classmates ‘today is the day.’ Then he opened fire
A teacher was killed and six other people injured when an 11-year-old student opened fire Friday at a private school in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila, officials said.
The shooter, a sixth-grader armed with two guns, also died, said Adelaido Flores, the regional coordinator for public safety in Coahuila, near the Texas border.
Coahuila Gov. Miguel Angel Riquelme told reporters that classmates said the boy was generally well behaved but voiced a strange warning before his rampage on Friday.
“He told some classmates, ‘Today is the day,’ ” Riquelme said.
Shortly after 8 a.m., the student asked to use the restroom. After about 15 minutes, the teacher went to look for him and found him leaving the restroom with weapons in hand, the governor said.
Riquelme said authorities believe the boy was influenced by the video game Natural Selection, a first-person shooting game. He said the boy was wearing a undershirt emblazoned with the game’s name.
“He had mentioned the video game, which I believe he tried to recreate today,” the governor said.
The website for Natural Selection 2 bills it as “an immersive, multiplayer shooter that pits aliens against humans in a strategic and action-packed struggle for survival.”
Unknown Worlds Entertainment, which manufacture the game, did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
Anxious relatives arrived at the school to pick up students after the incident, news footage from affiliate TV Azteca showed.
The shooting occurred at the Cervantes de Torreón School in the industrial city of Torreón, the city’s mayor, Jorge Zermeño Infante, told reporters.
Preliminary reports were that the student entered the school and fired at a teacher before apparently shooting himself, the mayor said.
Four of the wounded were taken to a nearby hospital, he said. Their condition was unknown.
The school, in a Facebook post, said a teacher and a student died in the shooting. Additionally, five students and a teacher were wounded, the post said.
“We never would have imagined that a situation like this could occur in our society,” the post said, adding that school officials were cooperating with the authorities.
The private school serves students from kindergarten through high school, according to its website. Enrollment was more than 1,900 students in 2016, the site states.
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Las Vegas man accused of planning high school attack sentenced to boot camp
LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — A Las Vegas man accused of planning a shooting at a local high school at the beginning of the school year was sentenced to boot camp Wednesday.
Cody Pomeroy, 18, was ordered to attend boot camp Jan. 8 after he allegedly planned to “shoot up” Desert Oasis High School with a current student, court documents show.
According to his arrest report, Pomeroy was working at a McDonald’s on Aug. 16, 2019 on the 6900 block of Blue Diamond Road, and spoke to the assistant manager about how he and a current student at Desert Oasis planned a school shooting.
Police also found components of an explosive device in Pomeroy’s home, the report said.
The student Pomeroy made plans with was also an employee of the McDonald’s. According to the arrest report, Pomeroy graduated from Desert Oasis in 2018.
Pomeroy was arrested on Aug. 20, 2019. Once he completes boot camp, Pomeroy was set to appear in court again Aug. 31, 2020.
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Oregon woman sues church for reporting her husband’s sex abuse confession to the police
(CNN) — An Oregon woman whose husband is in prison for sexually abusing a child is suing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints for reporting his confession to state authorities.
In the lawsuit, Kristine Johnson said her husband confessed his sexual abuse to clergy as required by church rules. That confession was passed along to state authorities, forming the basis of their investigation, she says.
She filed the lawsuit in Marion County Circuit Court last week and seeks $9.5 million for loss of income, emotional distress and her family’s loss of her husband’s companionship. The lawsuit, which argues the church went against its own policy that considers confessions confidential, also seeks an additional $40,000 for his criminal defense.
Couple followed church rules, wife says
In 2016, the lawsuit states, plaintiff Kristine Johnson learned that her husband, Timothy Johnson, had engaged in inappropriate conduct with an underage girl.
“In response to that, plaintiff Kristine Johnson and Timothy Johnson followed the rules and scriptures of the church, which … requires and admonish church members to ‘confess their sins unto the brethren before the Lord,'” the lawsuit says.
But the church failed to advise the couple that if he followed the guidance and confessed his sins, it would report him to state authorities. The church should have warned her husband that his confession would not stay private, the lawsuit says.
Timothy Samuel Johnson, 47, was arrested in 2017 and is serving 15 years in prison in Pendleton, Oregon, for abusing an underage girl, according to the state Department of Corrections.
Church stands by its decision
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints said it considers protecting victims a top priority, and has a 24-hour help line to report abuse.
“The church teaches that leaders and members should fulfill all legal obligations to report abuse to civil authorities,” church spokesman Eric Hawkins said in a statement.
Oregon is one of 28 states that considers clergy among professionals mandated by law to report known or suspected instances of child abuse or neglect. But that law makes some exceptions, and statutes in some states specify circumstances under which a communication is “privileged” or allowed to remain confidential.
Christine Bartholomew, an associate professor at the University at Buffalo School of Law, told The Oregonian that the lawsuit could have dire consequences.
“If successful, this litigation would push courts and these religious organizations toward less transparency than more,” Bartholomew said. “And you have to wonder if that would create the environment where abuse can really fester.”
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Pregnant teacher loses unborn child in a crash 30 minutes after her baby shower
(CNN) — Mashayla Harper was nearly killed on her way home from her baby shower after what police say was a hit-and-run. Her unborn child didn’t survive.
A service for her unborn daughter was held Wednesday, but she was unable to attend because she has been in the hospital since Saturday’s crash.
Harper was 36 weeks pregnant, according to CNN affiliate WDAM.
“That was very emotional. We were looking forward to [the baby] being here. She was going to be a spoiled baby,” Harper’s father, Maurice Pruitt Sr., told CNN Wednesday.
Thirty minutes after her baby shower in Jones County, Mississippi, Pruitt says he received a hysterical phone call from Mashayla’s mother, Chandra Harper. She had been driving about six or seven cars behind her 24-year-old daughter when traffic suddenly stopped. She asked someone what happened up ahead and a driver told her a pregnant woman had just got into a car accident.
Pruitt says Chandra instantly knew it was her daughter. She found Mashayla on the ground in front of her car. Pruitt says they are unsure how she got there, but the driver’s door was missing due to the accident.
The driver of the vehicle that hit the fourth-grade math teacher fled the scene, but was apprehended late Saturday night, Pruitt told CNN.
James Gilbert, 35, was arrested and charged with leaving the scene of an accident with injuries, according to WDAM. It is unclear if he has legal representation.
CNN has reached out to the Jones County Sheriff’s Office, but has not heard back.
She’s a ‘strong woman’
Harper was taken to South Central Regional Medical Center, according to WDAM.
Her father tells CNN that doctors informed the immediate family that her unborn child had died 45 minutes later.
Doctors told the family Harper had suffered severe trauma, including abdominal, knee and leg injuries. Pruitt said doctors didn’t think she was going to survive the surgeries and that she was revived at least once, calling Harper a “strong woman.”
Following surgery Saturday night, she was put on life support and was finally taken off Monday afternoon. Pruitt says while she is in and out of sleep, Mashyala kept asking her mother about the baby. He says Chandra was unsure how to tell her daughter about the baby’s passing lest her blood pressure would rise. Eventually the family told her Monday evening.
He says his daughter is recovering pretty quickly. “She went from being on life support on Saturday to being in her own [hospital] room today.”
“The better [Mashayla] gets the better everybody will get. I got her to smile last night,” Pruitt said.
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Man makes food, takes a nap during Taco Bell burglary
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (CBS46/Meredith) — Georgia police are searching for a man who prepared food and napped during a burglary at a fast food restaurant on Christmas morning.
According to the Gwinnet Police Department, the man entered through the drive-thru window at Taco Bell on Sugarloaf Parkway in Lawrenceville around midnight.
He can be seen on surveillance video using the the fryers to make a meal. He eats, then goes on to take a nap on the restaurant floor.
About three hours later, the suspect steals a laptop and tablet.
Police said the suspect is a black man, wearing black sweatpants, a black hooded sweatshirt and black sneakers.
Anyone with information should call GCPD detectives at 770-513-5300 or call Crime Stoppers at 404-577-TIPS. Callers can remain anonymous.
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Parents say man is posting photos of their children on Facebook with sexually explicit captions
CAHOKIA, Ill. (KMOV.com) — The disturbing actions of a Metro East man has parents in Cahokia on edge, after photos of their children began appearing on Facebook with sexually graphic captions. They also say the man began messaging the children on the social media platform describing his desire for sex.
“It’s a sexual assault. He may not be physically touching these kids yet, but the things he’s said to them has taken something from them,” said the mother of one victim, who requested anonymity. “It’s an assault. It’s not a physical, it’s an emotional one.”
What appears to be happening is that the man is copying the pictures of these children from Facebook and reposting them.
At least one of the children targeted by the man is younger than 10 years old.
The images, private messages and even voicemails sent to the children are too explicit and too graphic to show here.
“Sick and twisted doesn’t even cover what he’s doing to these children and what he’s saying about them,” said the mother.
People in the community know who the man is and at least one family has filed stalking and no-contact orders against him.
One mother said her then-13-year-old daughter was best friends with the man’s daughter. Now she is 15 and having nightmares about him.
“Not every night, but I do wake up in the middle of the night,” the girl said. “One night I caught myself saying, ‘Mom, help me.’”
News 4 went to the man’s home but he did not answer the door.
After multiple requests for information from police, we have confirmed Dupo and Cahokia police are investigating. Cahokia has been monitoring this since 2018.
Parents in the community say the man has already done unspeakable damage.
“You’re a piece of s**t. You were trusted with these kids. You have ruined these children. You have tortured them with your words,” said one mother. “They have to live with it. I hope you rot in hell.”
Scott Granneman, Adjunct Professor at Washington University in St. Louis says what the man is doing appalling.
“What he has done to the photos is vile,” said Granneman. “That said, this does seem pretty darn close to skirting the edge of child pornography. Not because the photos themselves are wrong, but because he’s clearly added a sexualized element on top of these photos with his text and writings.”
He said even if the man sends private messages there could be consequences.
“If he’s sending direct messages then I presume he could be charged with harassment,” said Granneman.
Granneman said if someone posts an image of you or a family member they got from your page, you can send a DMCA takedown notice to Facebook and let them know the images are yours and somebody else is using them without your permission and you demand them take them down.
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Florida woman accused of throwing bucket of human feces at landlord
OSTEEN, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman tossed a bucket of human feces at her landlord and somehow ended up with dried excrement smeared all over her own face, authorities said.
Joanne Mercader, 59, initially told deputies that her landlord first assaulted her with excrement, according to an arrest report from the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office.
“She took the poop and she rubbed it on my face,” Mercader told the deputy. A deputy’s body camera showed her face covered with dried human waste. Mercader’s landlord, a woman who was not identified, had wet feces on her face, the report said.
“She’s dripping with it,” the deputy said.
Mercader eventually told deputies that she had intended to toss a bucket of water on the landlord, whose name was redacted from the arrest report, but she got confused and threw the bucket of feces at her.
Mercader told deputies she knew the landlord would be angry, so she ran into the bathroom, where the landlord spread excrement on her face.
The deputy said Mercader’s story still didn’t add up.
The landlord told deputies she was met with the bucket of feces in her face when she opened the door Saturday after no one answered. She said she had prearranged the visit to Mercader’s home to look at several broken items.
The deputy is heard on video saying, “There is poop everywhere.”
“It’s a really crappy situation,” the deputy said. His supervisor paused, then replied: “Yeah. Do the right thing.”
Mercader is charged with battery on a person over the age of 65. Jail records didn’t list a lawyer who could speak on her behalf.
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Florida Woman Gives Birth to 2 Sets of Twins in 2019: ‘I Feel Like I Hit the Twin Lottery’
Doctors told a Florida woman she had a better chance of winning the lottery than of giving birth to two sets of twins in the same year.
But Alexzandria Wolliston said she won the jackpot with the births of Mark and Malakhi in March and Kaylen and Kaleb in December.
“Oh, yes, I feel like I hit the twin lottery,” Wolliston told WPTV.
The tired mom says her 3-year-old daughter helped her prepare for the double dose of twins.
“She was actually worse than them. so she was like having two babies in one,” Wolliston said.
Two months after the first set of twins arrived, Wolliston said she learned about the second set. They were born in West Palm Beach on Dec. 27. Wolliston said Kaleb was dismissed from the hospital on Monday and she’s hoping to bring Kaylen home soon.
She said she recently learned that both of her grandmothers lost twin boys at birth, which makes her believe her four babies are a blessing from above.
“I always say that I feel like my grandmothers gave me their kids because two sets of twins and their twins passed away,” she said. “I feel like they just sent them down for me.”
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Cardi B Slams Trump, Announces Filing for Nigerian Citizenship
Cardi B’s announcement that she wants to seek Nigerian citizenship has set off a Twitter feud between her West African fans in friendly rivals Nigeria and Ghana.
The Grammy-winning rapper visited both countries last month on her African tour.
Her announcement in a tweet on Friday criticized the U.S. airstrike in Iraq that killed Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani and sent Middle East tensions soaring.
“Its sad this man is putting Americans live in danger. Dumbest move Trump did till date … I’m filing for my Nigerian citizenship,” she tweeted.
Many in West Africa saw her tweet as proof that she preferred Nigeria
Ghanaians were quick to point out the pitfalls of living in Africa’s most populous nation, where traffic jams and power cuts are more visible than opulent nightclubs and luxury hotels.
“Hope you have a generator to power your house (because) they don’t have light but we do,” one user tweeted, adding an emoticon of a Ghana flag.
Some fans in Ghana expressed concern for her safety, warning about the Nigeria-based Islamic extremist group Boko Haram.
But most Nigerian fans were quick to offer up a passport exchange, underscoring the mix of pride and confusion that the 27-year-old star would prefer Nigeria to America.
This week she asked fans to weigh in on whether her Nigerian name should be CHIOMA B or Cadijat.
Cardi B, who was born Belcalis Almanzar, is of Afro-Caribbean descent, tracing her roots to Trinidad and the Dominican Republic.
It was not immediately clear how the rapper might acquire citizenship in Nigeria, though a number of celebrities have recently been given honorary citizenship in other African countries.
British actor Idris Elba now has a passport from Sierra Leone, his late father’s birthplace. And fellow rapper Ludacris recently acquired citizenship in Gabon after marrying a woman from the Central African nation.
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