Mother accused of giving birth at McDonald’s, telling police she ‘found’ newborn baby (Video)
NORFOLK, Va. — A Virginia mother is accused of lying to hospital workers about giving birth to a baby at a McDonald’s and claiming she “found” the newborn inside the restaurant, WTKR reports.
Nicole Jones, 23, told medical staff at a hospital she found the baby while eating at McDonald’s, according to court records.
Hospital officials told police the baby had depressed body temperature, was in critical respiratory arrest and his umbilical cord had been cut but not clamped which resulted in significant blood loss.
Jones said she called 911 after she “found” the baby but was told it would be “a while” before an officer could respond so she took the baby to a local hospital.
Police went to Jones’ home and found blood, a medical kit and a one-year-old boy who was crying. During an interview with police, Jones admitted to giving birth to the baby.
Court records indicate Jones used her phone to search “safe home births” and “water births.” She also searched for safe haven options in Virginia.
Jones is being held without bond, according to WTKR.
Report: Yale Dental Students, Staff Took Selfie With Severed Heads
Dental school grad students and a University of Connecticut orthodontics professor took a selfie “with two severed heads used for medical research at a training workshop at Yale University” in 2017, the Associated Press reportedon Monday.
According to the AP report, the students nabbed the selfies during the DePuy Synthes Future Leaders Workshop, “which focused on dental-related facial deformities”:
The Associated Press obtained a copy of the photo from a person who received it through a private group chat. That person, who demanded anonymity because of potential harm to their career, said the person who took the selfie would not give the AP permission to publish it for fear of being expelled.
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In the photo, [UConn Health orthodontics director and visiting Yale professor Dr. Flavio Uribe] and several graduate students are looking at the camera, while others continue to work. All are wearing surgical masks. The two severed heads are on tables, face up.
The AP added that Uribe said the photo was taken so quickly he was unaware it captured the two heads, which he was using to show the students proper placement of screws. However, a Yale spokesman told the news agency signs are posted noting the laboratory’s no-photography policy, as well as that the incident “was disturbing and an inexcusable deviation from anything Yale would expect to occur.”
Training with actual dead bodies is a critical part of medical training, as well as a somewhat morbid rite of passage at medical schools. This kind of story pops up every so often and usually comes with consequences for the personnel involved, including an alleged wave of corpse photos and videos from medical institutions making their way online in 2010, something that’s never reallystopped happening.
Today the trend is (slowly) moving towards expensive synthetic cadavers like the $95,000 SynDaver Patient, which can be remote controlled to rehearse crisis scenarios like heart attacks and boasts fake organs, muscle tissue, and blood. Advancements over the past few years have made it possible to convincingly imitate many different types of human tissue, per Smithsonian, from “subcutaneous fat to rectus femoris muscle.” Taking a selfie with one of those is probably not going to get anyone in trouble with an ethics board, though some medical professionals think they’re a long way away from replacing hands-on experience with actual cadavers.
Article via: https://gizmodo.com/report-yale-dental-students-staff-took-selfies-with-s-1822753127
Fake doctor accused of infecting 21 people with HIV
LUCKNOW, India — An Indian health official says a fake doctor treating poor villagers for colds, coughs and diarrhea has infected at least 21 of them with HIV by using contaminated syringes and needles.
Sushil Choudhury, the official, says police are looking for Rajendra Yadav, who has fled Bangarmau, a small town in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
The villagers say they rarely saw him changing the needles. Choudhury said Tuesday that probably led to the spread of HIV.
With India’s health care system facing a massive shortage of doctors and hospitals, millions of poor people seek fake doctors for cheap treatment.
India had 2.1 million people living with HIV at the end of 2016, according to UNAIDS.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/02/06/fake-doctor-accused-of-infecting-21-people-with-hiv/
Toddler dies on front porch in freezing weather
AKRON, Ohio — Police in Akron, Ohio are investigating the death of a 2-year-old girl who was found out in the cold on her front porch.
The frantic mother called 911 after discovering her 2-year-old unresponsive. The girl was taken to Akron Children’s Hospital where she died.
The temperature for much of Friday remained in the teens.
“You’re gonna carefully tilt the head back, you’re gonna pinch her nose closed and completely cover her mouth with your mouth and blow two regular breaths into the lungs,” says a dispatcher on the 911 call.
Police were called to the apartment around 3:30 p.m. on Friday. The mother told the 911 dispatcher she found her daughter ‘frozen’ outside.
“I cried because I just don’t understand how a 2-year-old could be outside and you not know,” neighbor Crystal Lucas told WJW.
Lucas says the woman who lives in the apartment kept to herself and had two children, the 2-year-old girl and a boy. She was surprised when police officers knocked on her door.
“It was freezing and that was my biggest worry when the cops came, when they started asking about the kids, they didn’t divulge what was really going on, but when he asked about the kids, obviously something was going on and I was worried,” Lucas said.
Neighbors say they would occasionally hear people arguing outside of the apartment. Lucas says she has seen both children outside alone before.
“I’ve had to take the baby home because she’ll be outside playing…it was a few times that I had to take both of her kids home,” she said.
No one answered the door when WJW went to the apartment.
“It’s just a very sad situation, it literally broke my heart,” said Lucas.
Police are not releasing the toddler’s name, but say they are still investigating. The Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office will be conducting an autopsy.
via: http://pix11.com/2018/02/05/ohio-toddler-dies-on-front-porch-in-freezing-weather/
Parents told 13-year-old son he had brain cancer in scheme to raise cash
FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. — Authorities say a Florida couple lied to their 13-year-old son about having brain cancer so they could use his fictitious illness to raise money for nonexistent medical expenses.
The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office says on social media that 34-year-old Ginny Long and 47-year-old Robert Long were arrested Thursday and charged with one count of child abuse and nine counts of fraud.
Detectives say the Longs set up a T-shirt fundraiser for the boy at his school last May and shared the bogus cancer diagnosis on their Facebook accounts. A GoFundMe site was also set up for the boy. The sheriff’s office didn’t say how much money was raised.
The sheriff’s office began investigating in November, after school resource officers began to suspect the boy was being exploited.
Jail records didn’t list attorneys for the Longs.
Black History Month Day 2: William Wells Brown
In our second day of Black History Month, is like to introduce, William Wells Brown, said to be the first African American novelist of many different literatures.
Born to a white father and enslaved mother, Brown picked up many trades of growing up in slavery before escaping in 1834. He settled in Ohio where he had given himself the surname Wells Brown out of respect of the Quaker family that took him in.
He later married and moved to New York where he gave lectures about his time in slavery for the Anti-Slavery Society and was a speaker for women’s rights as well.
In 1845 he wrote his first book Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Written by Himself. The success of this novel eventually led to him traveling to Europe between 1849 and 1854. During that time he delivered over a thousand speeches. After his travels he then wrote Three Years In Europe, and Clotel which are recognized as the first novels being written by an African American as well as his play The Escape was the first play written by an African American.
Years later after his success he would settle in Boston until his death in 1884.
Father-daughter couple arrested for incest after having love child
A 42-year-old North Carolina man and his 20-year-old daughter have been arrested on incest charges after having a love child last year–and reportedly getting married.
Steven Pladl, 42, of Knightdale, and Katie Pladl, 20, were arrested Jan. 27, WNCN-TV reported, citing “warrants.” They have also been charged with adultery and contributing to delinquency. The maximum sentence for the incest charge is 10 years in prison.
The child, a boy, was born in September, the station reported.
Steven Pladl was released on a $1 million bond. Katie Pladl’s bond is also $1 million but as of last week she was still being held in a North Carolina jail. They appeared in court last week.
The charges were brought in Virginia where authorities believe the relationship began.
The station reported that Pladl gave up Katie for adoption when she was an infant.
They reunited in 2016 when she tracked him down through social media.
At the time, according to the station, Pladl was living outside Richmond with his wife, Katie’s mother, and their two children, girls who would have been Katie’s sisters.
Katie moved into the home, the station reported.
Subsequently, Pladl and his wife legally separated in November 2016 and began living apart.
She told authorities that just before she moved out he would sleep on the floor in Katie’s room, the station reported.
Online records show the wife filed for divorce in March 2017 and obtained a divorce decree three months later.
The ex-wife learned Katie was pregnant last May, the station reported.
Eight days later child welfare workers in Virginia began conducting interviews, according to the station. They interviewed the two older children who said they had been told their father fathered Katie’s baby.
The warrants show that Steven Pladl told his other children to call Katie their step-mom, the station reported.
Police in suburban Richmond issued arrest warrants for Steven Pladl and Katie last November.
The ex-wife told Richmond’s WTVR-TV that her former husband and Katie married in Maryland and then moved to North Carolina.
She believes her ex-husband brainwashed and manipulated Katie, the station reported.
“This is a pretty unique set of facts I would say,” the station’s legal analyst Todd Stone said.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/02/04/father-daughter-couple-arrested-for-incest-after-having-love-child/
Black History Month Day 1: Langston Hughes
It’s that time of year again as we celebrate Black History Month, and just like last year we celebrate the first day by honoring Langston Hughes on his birthday February 1st.
Have a sit down and listen to one his very inspiring poems, Dreams.
Ammo seller to Las Vegas killer arrested on federal charge
Douglas Haig, an Arizona man who says he sold tracer ammunition to the gunman in October’s Las Vegas massacre, was arrested Friday on a charge of conspiring to manufacture and sell another type of ammunition — armor-piercing bullets — in violation of federal law.
HIV-positive man arrested, another man wanted in kidnap, rape of 12 year-old boy
BROOKHAVEN, Ga. — One man is in custody and police are searching for another accused in the kidnapping and rape of a 12 year-old boy at a Brookhaven apartment complex.
Kevin Walker, 46, was arrested around 1 p.m. on Sunday at the complex, located on the 2700 block of Buford Highway. Another suspect, 38 year-old Kelvin Armstrong, is still being sought by police.
According to the Brookhaven Police Department, Walker and Armstrong are accused of grabbing the boy from behind and dragging him into an apartment unit at the complex. Once inside, police say the men held the boy against his will and raped him.
Walker was quickly taken into custody following the incident while Armstrong remains on the loose. Walker is facing charges of possession of meth, aggravated sodomy, aggravated sexual battery, reckless conduct, kidnapping, aggravated child molestation, enticing a child for indecent purposes and first-degree cruelty to children.
Armstrong is described as a black male standing about 5’11” tall and weighing around 160 pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes. He’s wanted on charges of aggravated sodomy, aggravated child molestation and first-degree cruelty to children.
If you have any information on Armstrong’s whereabouts, you’re asked to contact Brookhaven Police at 404-637-0610.