Student, 13, accused of putting toilet water in child’s bottle
VINELAND, N.J. — Police say a middle school student in New Jersey poured toilet water into another child’s water bottle.
Vineland police say the child drank from the bottle.
Authorities have charged the 13-year-old student with aggravated assault and tampering with a food product.
The teen was turned over to the custody of a guardian pending additional court hearings.
The student’s name was not released because the student is a minor.
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Ohio High School Plans to Drug-Test All Students at Least Once a Year
In an effort to discourage drug use and vaping, a Catholic high school in Ohio has announced plans to begin testing its students for drugs and nicotine, joining what education professionals are calling a growing trend.
Administrators at Stephen T. Badin High School in Hamilton, Ohio, said in a letter to parents this week that the drug-testing program, which they said had been shaped over the course of two years with help from the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, would go into effect in January.
Students will be tested at least once a year for illicit drugs, alcohol, nicotine and other banned substances, the school said in the letter. There is no maximum number of times a student may be tested.
“The impact of drug use on young students and their families is staggering and our community is not immune to this issue,” the letter said, adding that testing would encourage students not to do drugs.
Students are required to consent to the testing as a condition of their enrollment at the school, and potential consequences for violating the drug policy include suspension and expulsion, the letter said. Under the new guidelines, a first positive drug test alone would not necessarily result in disciplinary action, provided there are no other violations of the policy, like rules against intoxication during school hours or possession of drugs on campus. But a comprehensive intervention plan would be put into place after a second positive test, and expulsion might be recommended after a third.
Badin High School, which is about 25 miles north of Cincinnati and has a coeducational enrollment of 622 students, did not respond to a request for comment this past week, but a spokeswoman for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati said in a statement that decisions about drug-testing policies were made at the local level.
“The individual school administration and board decide if drug testing is a policy they want to enact,” the spokeswoman, Jennifer Schack, said on Thursday.
Private schools have control over their enrollments, David Bloomfield, an education law professor at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, said in an interview. “The school seems largely within its rights to come up with this policy,” he said.
But there may be potential legal concerns if the school is found to disproportionately test one group of students over another, he noted, possibly bringing about “arbitrary enforcement and harassment.”
“The well-known public school standard for a search is reasonable suspicion; here it’s just suspicion,” Bloomfield said. “That could be a whim or a hunch, without any real tangible basis.”
Marginalized students may be affected most by the policy, he said, adding, “That could be a legal problem when it’s discriminatory enforcement.”
The debate about whether schools can test their pupils for drugs dates back to before 2002, the year the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the random drug testing of public school students. The 5-4 decision expanded an earlier ruling that endorsed drug testing for student athletes.
The case made national headlines after an Oklahoma school district required students who engaged in “competitive” extracurricular activities — such as the future homemakers’ club, cheerleading and choir — to undergo random drug testing. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in his opinion that the district’s drug-testing program was “entirely reasonable” because of the “nationwide epidemic of drug use” among school-age children.
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study from 2016 said more than 37% of school districts had adopted a drug-testing policy. There seems to be an increase in similar programs across the country, Cindy Huang, assistant professor of counseling psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University, said in an interview.
The research to prove if drug testing is beneficial to students is mixed, according to Huang. “There’s really no clear indication that implementing mandatory drug testing will directly lead to better and reduced substance abuse rates,” she said.
Parents across the country should not be concerned if their school begins a drug-testing program if it is “properly planned and then implemented,” Huang said. In such cases, she said, it has the potential to work as prevention.
She added that parents should be asking detailed questions about what happens if a child tests positive, whether testing will truly be conducted at random and in such a way that does not target specific children, and whether there will be programs in addition to drug testing that will promote awareness of substance use.
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
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New Jersey police have had it with the Popeyes chicken sandwich
The Popeyes chicken sandwich has been an agent of chaos in an already chaotic year. It has been the purported cause of food fights, fistfights, a car wreck, a threatened shooting, and a
stabbing. It could be argued that if people are going to act like
assholes, they are going to act like assholes whether there’s a chicken
sandwich around or not. But it can be proven that the
drive-thru at a certain Popeyes in Rutherford, New Jersey, is causing
traffic jams on Route 17, and police have decided they can take action,
and that they will.
And so an electronic sign has been posted outside Popeyes that reads, “A sandwich isn’t worth a ticket. Do not delay traffic.”
Very simple, very straightforward. I, personally, appreciate the sternness of it. Rutherford’s police chief, John Russo, elaborated further in a statement obtained by News 12 New Jersey: “What we are seeing is people waiting an extraordinary amount of time on both drive-thrus to get a sandwich or coffee without consideration for those vehicles not trying to get into the establishments.” Russo recommended that people park their cars and actually go inside the Popeyes for their sandwich.
Neither Russo nor the police department would tell the TV station if any tickets had been issued to people desperate for chicken sandwiches.
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A Colorado day care hid children behind a ‘false wall,’ police say
A Colorado day care used a “false wall” to hide 26 children under the age of 3 in a basement, police said, concealing the fact it had too many children in its care.Officers went to Play Mountain Place in Colorado Springs Wednesday after complaints about overcrowding there when they found the children along with two adults behind the false wall. The day care had a licensed capacity of six children, according to May 2019 data on the Colorado Department of Human Services website.
The department immediately suspended the day care’s license while it investigates, the agency said in a statement.
Police didn’t immediately find any children when they first arrived at the day care, the Colorado Springs Police Department said in a statement. They contacted owner Carla Faith, who lives on the property, and she “refused to cooperate” with the officers, police said. But police could hear children in her home, and while investigating, they found a false wall leading to the basement.
“Officers immediately began working with DHS to release the children back to their parents,” the police department said.The state Department of Human Services received the complaint Wednesday and enlisted police help in carrying out the welfare check, the department said in a statement.
Three day care workers were initially arrested for “misdemeanor child abuse relating to neglect,” police said, but detectives canceled the charges “pending further investigation.”
“I’m really hoping nothing more nefarious has been going on and that in fact, it is an overcrowding issue which is bad enough as it is,” a parent told CNN affiliate KKTV. “Miss Carla seems like such a nice person and she’s always been so accommodating and perhaps she has a hard time saying no. I don’t know, I’m just going to have to chalk it up to that.”
Faith was not arrested at the scene, police said, “as detectives pursue appropriate charges.”CNN is reaching out to Faith for comment.
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‘Put him on a diet and Go Away!’: Texas mom finds rude note in 5-year-old’s lunchbox from daycare worker
(CNN) — A Texas mother is outraged after she put a sweet note in her five-year-old son’s lunchbox, only to get a nasty note from a daycare employee in return.
The incident has led to a firing.
The mother, identified only as Francesca, said her son has been going to Rocking Horse Day Care in Kingwood for three years and has never had any problems.
Francesca said she recently made healthy changes to her son’s lunch and wrote a note for extra support. The note in his lunchbox asked workers to “please tell my son that his mommy loves him so much and that I’m thinking about him.”
That same note came back in the lunchbox that evening and had something new written at the bottom: “No! Put him on a diet & go away.”
Francesca alerted the day care, who then investigated and told her the employee never intended for her to see what was written.Click to find out more about a new promotionDon’t miss this content from our sponsor
A director at the center said the employee admitted to writing the message and was fired.
In the meantime, Francesca said she is going to find another daycare for her son.
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9-Year-Old Boy Shoots 3 Classmates With BB Gun at Elementary School in Pasadena
Three children suffered minor injuries after their 9-year-old classmate shot them with a BB gun at an elementary school in Pasadena, officials said Friday.
The boy brought the air gun to Washington Elementary STEM Magnet and shot three classmates between ages 9 and 12 at the playground on Thursday morning, Pasadena police Lt. Kim Smith said.
The three were not seriously hurt, the lieutenant said.
Officers spoke with the 9-year-old boy, who was never arrested, Smith noted. She said the department will pass along the case to the District Attorney’s Office.
The child’s motive was unclear, Smith added.
The Pasadena Unified School District said it has launched an investigation into the incident and is cooperating with police, who have “increased visibility around the campus.”
Counselors are also available to students, and the school is “implementing an enhanced awareness of safety by both students and staff, and encourage everyone that if they see something to say something to an adult on campus immediately,” a statement from the School District said.
“The student will be subject to appropriate discipline,” the statement noted.
The incident happened the day when officials said a 16-year-old student brought a .45-caliber semi-automatic pistol to a high school in Santa Clarita, killing two of his classmates and injuring three others.
KTLA’s Alexis Lewis contributed to this report.
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Doctor scarred girl’s face during laser treatment to remove birthmark
A 6-year-old girl’s face was permanently scarred by a University of Minnesota doctor during a laser procedure to remove a birthmark, a new lawsuit claims.
The girl’s mother, Kasey Bernu, told the Star Tribune that she wants “accountability” after Dr. Kristen Hook’s inexperience while using a laser in 2017 left her daughter with several circular open wounds that stretch along the left side of her face from around her nose to near her ear.
“We’re bringing this lawsuit in large part because we do not want to see another child or family suffer the way my daughter and family has,” Bernu said in a statement.
The family’s lawsuit — filed Wednesday in Hennepin County District Court — named Hook and University of Minnesota Physicians as defendants.
Attorney Jeff Storms, who is representing Bernu in the malpractice suit, said her daughter still has clearly visible injuries nearly two years after the procedure at the University of Minnesota Medical Center.
“She still has very serious pocking and deep scarring on her face,” Storms told The Post on Friday. “And they’re going to be permanent.”
To make matters worse, the girl must wait “several years” before she can even consider surgical treatments to reduce or remove the scarring altogether, Storms said.
The girl, who lives in Minnesota’s Crow Wing County, is now 7 or 8 years old, the attorney said. She was born with a “port-wine stain,” a reddish birthmark that her family began treating shortly after her birth, the lawsuit claims.
Hook failed to disclose her inexperience using an “extremely powerful” laser — one that was more robust than the previous device used to treat the girl. She also gave the girl’s family “improper wound care” over the phone after her injuries developed, the suit claims.
Hook, who specializes in pediatric dermatology, couldn’t be reached for comment, and the University of Minnesota Physicians declined to comment, citing pending litigation, the Star Tribune reports.
The lawsuit seeks damages in excess of $50,000, Storms said.
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Man pretended to be handicapped to trick home care workers into changing his diaper
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — A New Orleans man has been arrested for pretending to be handicapped in order to have home health care workers change his adult diaper.
Twenty-nine-year-old Rutledge Deas, who also goes by “Rory,” created multiple social media posts for home health care workers.
Deas would specify in the ads that the services would be for his 18-year-old mentally and physically handicapped brother, “Cory.”
Deas would then pose as “Cory” and pretend to be handicapped while the nurses changed his adult diaper, a process Deas used to “obtain sexual arousal,” according to the Louisiana State Police.
Home healthcare workers became suspicious of the scheme on at least 10 separate occasions.
Deas was arrested at his home without incident and charged with 10 counts of sexual battery and human trafficking (labor), and one count of possession of a schedule II controlled dangerous substance.
The investigation remains ongoing, and additional victims are anticipated.
Anyone suspected of being a victim of Deas is urged to contact LSP Detectives at (504) 310-7000.
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Uber driver admits to smoking meth and marijuana before picking up passenger
OHNSON COUNTY, Ind. (WXIN) – An Indianapolis Uber driver was arrested and accused of OWI and meth possession while working.
The Johnson County Prosecutor’s Office charged 56-year-old Mark Allen Atchison with possession of methamphetamine, possession of drug paraphernalia, and operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated.
On November 10, an officer with the New Whiteland Police Department pulled Atchison over for speeding on U.S. 31 in New Whiteland.
The officer reported the smell of burnt marijuana coming from the vehicle and asked Atchison and his passenger to provide identification.
Atchison’s backseat passenger told the officer she did not have her identification, adding that Atchison was her Uber driver, which he confirmed.
The officers asked Atchison about the marijuana smell, and he said someone had been smoking in his car earlier in the day, documents say. When the officer said he was going to conduct a search of the car, and he asked Atchison if he would find anything, Atchison allegedly told the officer there was a meth pipe in his car.
Officers said they found various containers with a white crystal-like substance, white powder residue, and green residue. They also found various devices believed to be drug paraphernalia.
Police say Atchison admitted to smoking meth and marijuana approximately 90 minutes before the officer stopped him.
After conducting field sobriety tests and submitting to a blood draw, the officer arrested Atchison.
“The purpose of ride sharing is to avoid this exact scenario. I take a dim view of when someone is being responsible and doing the right thing and then endangered by someone else’s actions,” said Prosecutor Joe Villanueva.
Meth possession is a level 6 felony and has a sentencing range of six months to 2 1/2 years with a presumptive sentence of 1 year and a fine of up to $10,000.
The other charges are class C misdemeanors, and have a sentencing range of 0 to 60 days and a fine of up to $500.
An Uber spokesperson issued this statement:
“We have a zero-tolerance policy for any alcohol or drugs on the app, which all drivers agree to when they sign up. After becoming aware of this report, this individual’s access has been removed from the app.”
Uber’s policy states if you suspect your driver to be under the influence you should cancel the ride and ask to get out. It says to call 911 and report them to Uber.
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Arizona Cop Violently Attacks A Black Teen With No Arms Or Legs The teen has been charged
Disturbing video has surfaced of a Pima County deputy brutally attacking a 15-year-old quadruple amputee in Arizona. The child has no arms and legs and he has been arrested and charged along with his 16-year-old friend who recorded the horrific video.
Local news outlet KOLD reported the incident happened in September (the exact date of the video is not clear) while the 15-year-old was living in a group home. He reportedly got upset with a staff member and knocked over a garbage can. The police were called and an unidentified (social media will surely change that) deputy arrived on the scene. The eight-minute video shows him screaming and cursing at the child and eventually wrestling him to the floor.
Both teenagers were arrested on disorderly conduct charges.
Joel Feinman, the Pima County Public Defender, condemned the officers involved.
“Men with badges should not be acting this way,” he said. “Men and women who do act this way should not have badges and guns.”
Social media has been outraged by the story.
“Man with no arms or legs gets the police called on him for KICKING over a trash can,” one person tweeted.
Another user said, “Is no one off limits? This deputy would have got jumped for this now we just accept it. Cops are literally murdering black citizens in cold blood, they are beating toddlers up, wheelchair bound citizens, aushwitz survivors, punching pregnant women and we are just taking it. Why?”
One comment called for the employee who called the police to lose his or her job.
“Give the details of the worker,” the comment said. “They need to be fired. No more working with teens. Or anyone in need of help. Go work at McDonald’s.”
The video is deeply disturbing and we can only hope the police officer will be held accountable. However, Arizona is known for rewarding its aggressive police. In May of 2018, Robert Johnson was in the lobby of an apartment complex in Mesa and was pummeled by police. However, it was ultimately ruled that the officers involved were justified in the brutal beating that was caught on camera.
With that said, there is still hope for justice. The Phoenix Police Department recently fired an officer who threatened to shoot a Black family over a doll. It took five months for that cop to be terminated, though.
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