Kim Zolciak’s son undergoes surgery after dog attack
Kim Zolciak’s 4-year-old son, Kash Biermann, was attacked by a dog on Saturday.
“I don’t know where to start,” the reality star shared in a lengthy Instagram note posted Sunday afternoon. “The last 14hrs of our lives has been a living nightmare.”
“My sweet @kashbiermann was bit by a dog and had very traumatic injuries,” the star explained. “I’ve never prayed so hard, or been so scared in my life. My husband, our daughters, Kj, Tracey, his nanny, Michael Beck and everyone close to us all pulled together and held each other up.”
Zolciak, 38, says Kash underwent a long surgery and the family is now praying for a speedy recovery. She also posted a snap of Kash resting in a hospital bed covered with an animal-print blanket while his father, Kroy Biermann, holds his hand and strokes his head.
Because of the circumstances, the former “Real Housewives of Atlanta” fixture will not attend Sunday night’s taping of “Watch What Happens Live” in New York City.
“Will do my best to make it up very soon! Thank you for all your prayers and most importantly thank you God for your protection,” she added. “A very special thank you to my incredible medical team! A few days in the hospital and we will be back home.”
It’s unclear what type of dog attacked Kash or where the incident took place.
A request for comment from Zolciak’s team wasn’t immediately returned.
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10 year old autistic boy in FL arrested for felony battery against a teacher
When John Haygood, a 10-year-old boy with autism, was arrested last week at a school in Florida, he kept repeating that he didn’t know what was happening, as seen in shaky cellphone video taken by his mother.
“I don’t know what’s going on. I don’t understand,” he cried out. In the video, his hands are cuffed as two officers escort him to the back seat of a police car.
His mother, Luanne Haygood, followed behind them while recording the incident on her phone. In the video, John appears distraught, and yells some profanities.
Luanne is heard in the video speaking to the officers, “Excuse me, do you have any paperwork or anything you can say to me?”
John, a student at Okeechobee Achievement Academy in Okeechobee, Florida, was arrested at the school last week for felony battery against a teacher in an October incident, allegedly punching and kicking his teacher, which left scratches and marks, according to an incident report from the Okeechobee County Sheriff’s Office.
The incident occurred after John was being disruptive in class, throwing paper balls around the classroom and hitting other students, the report said. His teacher asked him to go to time out. When John refused, the teacher attempted to remove him, and that’s when John attacked, the report said.
The report also noted that John had allegedly made threats to kill the teacher in a previous incident. On November 1, the teacher requested to pursue criminal charges since John “had been given plenty of opportunities to change his behavior and has not,” the report said.
Autism spectrum disorder is a neurological and developmental disorder that affects how a person behaves and interacts with others, communicates, and learns. Many people with autism, for instance, are hypersensitive to and dislike being touched, as well as might be upset by a slight change in a routine.
In October, John was expelled from the Academy and has been completing his schoolwork from home since then, according to CNN affiliate WPBF. Last Wednesday, he returned to the Academy to take a standardized test, but was handcuffed and transported to a juvenile detention center, where he spent the night.
The next day, John appeared in court on charges of assaulting his teacher, was then released, and is now scheduled to appear in court again on May 11, WPBF reported.
CNN contacted Luanne Haygood about the incident and subsequent arrest, but has not heard back at time of publication.
“I know what happened six months ago,” Luanne told WPBF when her son was released, admitting that she knew her son had an incident with a school staff member. But she added that she was never warned of any warrants for his arrest or imminent problems with law enforcement.
“I never seen an arrest report, I never saw the charges I just know what was told that he may or may not press charges,” she said.
On Tuesday, Luanne posted to her Facebook page that she obtained copies of police records for John.
The school district sent the following statement to CNN in response to John’s arrest:
“It has been district procedure to invite students in to take the Florida Standards Assessment. The district would not invite someone to one of our campuses for the sole purpose to arrest. The district routinely assists students by providing services from our board certified behavioral analyst, licensed mental health counselors, school social workers, and psychologists.
“As a team, these individuals develop interventions, conduct assessments, and offer support both at school and in the home in order to assist students and families.
“The district is unable to provide specific information as to both current and past incidents regarding this or any other student due to educational laws and rules. It is our hope that we can continue to work with all families to help their students improve both behaviorally and academically.”
Ann Abramowitz, a professor of psychology at Emory University in Atlanta, with no firsthand knowledge of the situation, said the sequence of events didn’t provide her with enough information to comment on John’s incident. However, various students with autism tend to benefit from certain types of carefully planned disciplinary strategies, compared to other types of discipline.
Those strategies include maintaining a calm and orderly environment, maintaining a schedule for the student, and preventing any outbursts of distress, anger or aggression, she said.
“Keep kids engaged to prevent outbursts, because once outbursts occur, they can be very challenging to manage and can lead to situations where it exceeds the school’s capacity to manage the behavior,” Abramowitz said, adding that “I can’t really think where being put in handcuffs would be helpful to a child, and of course it just seems intuitively obvious that it could be traumatic.”
American Airlines flight attendant accused of whacking mom with stroller
A woman was thrown off a plane Friday night — after a flight attendant allegedly whacked her with her baby’s stroller.
The American Airlines plane was at the gate in San Francisco’s airport when the encounter took place. The woman is seen on the video crying afterward.
Fellow passenger, Surain Adyanthaya, posted it online with the caption:
“OMG. Flight attendant violently took a stroller from a lady with a baby on my flight, hitting her and just missing the baby. Then he tried to fight a passenger who stood up for her.’’
“Then he tried to fight a passenger who stood up for her.’’
An airline employee boards and talk to the man who stood up for her. Her defender says, “you do that to me and I’ll knock you flat. You almost hurt a baby.’’ The employee replies, “stay out of it.’’
The woman and her kids are escorted off the plane, but the flight attendant is allowed to board.
American issued a press release saying, “What we see on this video does not reflect our values or how we care for our customers.’’
The airline upgraded the woman to first class and put her on another flight. It added the employee was “removed from duty.’’
This incident followed a similar confrontation Apr. 9 on a United Airlines plane in Chicago, when airline employes physically manhandled a doctor off the plane after he refused to give up his seat. He was left bloody with several injuries.
Neighbor Allegedly ‘Euthanized’ Phoenix Family’s Wounded Dog With Sledgehammer
A Phoenix man allegedly “euthanized” his neighbor’s wounded pit bull with a sledgehammer after the dog was hit by two cars over the weekend, according to a witness.
Jessica Headly told KNXV the injured dog, a pit bull named Beau, tried to get home after being struck by the cars.
“She was able to crawl to the porch. She wasn’t yelping but she was panting hard,” Headly said.
That’s when a neighbor came over with a sledgehammer, Headly told KNXV.
“I was like, what are you doing,” Headly said. “You can’t do that. I’m going to take the dog to the vet. Let me handle it.”
But the man told her the dog was suffering and then hit Beau twice on her head, killing the animal.
“That’s the last thing she saw is some stranger with a sledgehammer. That’s horrible,” Headly said.
Beau’s owner, Jesse Garcia, was not home at the time.
“I wish he would’ve thought twice about what he did to our dog,” Jesse Garcia said.
The man who struck Beau declined to comment, KNXV reported.
Police did go to the home Sunday night, but no arrests were made and no citations were issued, according to KNXV.
Utah Principal Placed on Leave After Student Forced to Sit Naked as Punishment
The Salt Lake City School District has placed Edison Elementary Principal Laurie Lacy on leave, and police have launched an investigation, following an incident that police said ended with a Utah department of children and family services getting involved.
The Salt Lake City Police Department and the school district would not give exact details of the incident, but a source close to the situation told KTLA sister station KSTU in Salt Lake City that Lacy told a student to pull his pants down in her office as a punishment.
Detective Greg Wilking with Salt Lake City Police said the incident took place on April 7.
The source told KSTU that a teacher brought the student, a refugee they thought to be in the first grade, to Lacy’s office after the student kept pulling his pants down during school.
Lacy told the student to take his pants off in her office, the source said.
The student had no underwear on, the source explained, and Lacy forced him to sit half-naked in a chair in the corner of her office.
At least a few teachers were in the office during the situation and witnessed it happen, said the source. The person wasn’t sure how long the student sat in the chair without pants on.
Det. Wilking said the school district and DCFS reported the incident to police on April 12. He said Special Victims Unit detectives are investigating the case, because it’s somewhat sexual in nature and involves a young boy.
Because the case is in such an early stage, he wouldn’t comment further.
Jason Olsen from the Salt Lake School District, sent KSTU this statement:
“The district was made aware of the allegations involving the principal at Edison Elementary several days ago and immediately started a comprehensive investigation, including placing the principal on leave. We are also fully cooperating with police in their investigation.”
Whittier Bus Driver Was Distracted by Sexual Encounter When He Left a Disabled Teen to Die
A Whittier bus driver who is serving a two-year prison term for the death of a 19-year-old student with autism left the boy behind on a bus in the hot sun because he was distracted by an affair with a fellow bus driver, lawyers for the teen’s family say.
Text message records show Armando Abel Ramirez, 37, was corresponding with another bus driver to arrange to have sex on Sept. 11, 2015, when he failed to ensure all students had exited his bus for school on one of the hottest days of the year, according to laywer Robert Glassman.
Sierra Adult School student Hun Joon “Paul” Lee’s dead body was found lying in the aisle of the bus hours later, after his mother became worried when he didn’t return from school at his usual time. The school told Eun Ha Lee her son had been absent that day, despite the fact that she boarded him on a bus at 8 a.m.
He was pronounced dead at 4:33 p.m., Whittier police said.
Paul had the mental capacity of a 3-year-old and was nonverbal, his mother said, meaning he would have been unable to cry for help.
In a 2015 interview with KTLA, Lee questioned how he could’ve been left behind, as she said there were only three other students on the bus that morning.
“I feel like, we are nothing,” she said. “They killed my son. Technically, they killed my son.”
On May 15 the student’s family will face Pupil Transportation, the company that operated the bus, in court. Ramirez has already been sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to one felony count of dependent adult abuse.
Ramirez was a substitute driver and was working a split shift on the day of Paul’s death, the L.A. County District Attorney’s officials said while sentencing Ramirez in January.
He did not check the back of the bus to ensure no students were left behind before his morning shift ended, prosecutors said.
Glassman, the Lee family’s attorney, said he’s uncovered new evidence that shows Ramirez had been in a rush to leave the bus and meet up with his coworker.
“He took his attention away from Paul and onto his phone, onto those text messages and onto sex — rushed away from work to go have sex,” Glassman told KTLA. “With these text messages we can cross-reference the time on the text messages with the time the bus pulled up in front of the school and we can see that he was texting at the exact moment that he was supposed to be off-boarding Paul.”
Lawyers for Pupil Transportation declined to comment until after court proceedings.
Teens threw house party after killing grandparents
A Georgia teen accused in the brutal slaying of her grandparents earlier this month partied with her boyfriend in their house while the bodies began to rot, according to officials.
Police said that Cassandra Bjorge, 17, and her boyfriend Johnny Rider, 19, sealed the doors and windows to contain the stench of the decomposing bodies so they could throw a party at the home in Lawrenceville, Georgia.
The teen girl’s grandparents, Randall and Wendy Bjorge, both 63, had been dead for a week before their bodies were discovered during a wellness check on April 8, news station WXIA reported.
Bjorge and Rider were both charged with murder and aggravated assault in the deaths of the elderly couple. The teens allegedly slashed their throats, as well as kicked, beat and used a tire iron on the pair, according to the the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The 17-year-old appeared at a preliminary hearing Wednesday, where she reportedly confessed to stabbing her grandparents.
“This is a very unique and disturbing case on so many levels and detectives are still exploring motive,” Gwinnett County police officer Deon Washington told the Gwinnett Daily Post. “We may never find a scenario that makes sense to a reasonable person.”
via: http://nypost.com/2017/04/19/teens-threw-party-in-house-after-killing-grandparents-cops/
Mother burns son, 9, with iron for not showing her his school work, cops say
Pembroke Pines woman used a hot iron to burn the chest of her 9-year-old son because he failed to show her his school work, according to police.
Tamecha Jean, 32, was arrested Monday on suspicion of committing aggravated child abuse. Broward Judge Christopher Pole ordered Jean to be released on her own recognizance and to wear an ankle monitor as her case proceeds.
An anonymous tip to an abuse hotline brought Pembroke Pines investigators to Jean’s home in the 2300 block of Northwest 96th Terrace, police Capt. Al Xiques said.
Though the alleged child abuse happened in February, two scars on the boy’s chest were evidence of violence, as was the child’s statements to police, according to a report. There were no prior reports of child abuse at that address, Xiques said.
Jean is accused of placing the iron on the center of the boy’s chest and left nipple. A quarter-sized mark in the shape of the tip of an iron and a second, one-inch long scar that may have been from the edge of an iron was on the nipple, police said.
Jean told investigators that while using a belt to spank the boy, he may have burned himself because he moves around a lot while being spanked, the police report said.
The iron was in her hand but was unplugged when she began disciplining him, she told police. She said it may have burned him but she was not sure; she did not intend to burn him and he didn’t tell her he was burned, according to the police report.
“In this case, the mother intentionally and maliciously inflicted injury upon the child as a form of discipline,” Xiques said during a news conference Tuesday outside police headquarters on Pines Boulevard. “That’s just outrageous, to use a hot iron as a type of punishment. It seems more like a form of torture.”
Pembroke Pines police learned of the abuse tip Monday from the Broward Sheriff’s Child Protective Investigations Section, a contractor for the Florida Department of Children and Families, and acted upon it immediately, Xiques said.
Since Feb. 17, the case has been investigated by BSO and another law enforcement agency, according to DCF spokeswoman Paige Patterson-Hughes.
When it was determined Pembroke Pines police had jurisdiction, they became involved on Monday, she said.
“The child was safely placed elsewhere as the investigation began in February,” said Patterson-Hughes. “He was not left in an unsafe situation.”
Citing confidentiality, she said she was not allowed to say exactly when he was removed from the home.
“Investigators have to make a determination how the alleged abuse occurred, whether there was abuse, neglect or abandonment,” Patterson-Hughes said.
Jean is also the mother of a 2-year-old and a 16-year-old. After a shelter hearing Tuesday, the three children were placed in state-licensed foster care. Jean will be allowed to see the two children who were not injured during supervised visits, Patterson-Hughes said.
The police captain emphasized the need for people to report instances of violence toward children.
“Had not someone come forward we would have never known about it,” Xiques said. “Anyone with information regarding a child who may be victimized or has been victimized, please contact police.”
The Florida Department of Children and Families’ child abuse hotline is 1-800-962-2873.
MAN HID MOTHER’S BODY PARTS IN REFRIGERATOR, COURT DOCUMENTS SAY
A Hawaii man accused of killing his mother months ago stuffed her dismembered body parts in seven plastic bags in the kitchen freezer of the Waikiki apartment they shared, according to court documents made public Monday.
Yu Wei Gong has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of Liu Yun Gong.
He called 911 on April 11 and said: “‘I killed my Mom,'” according to a detective’s affidavit supporting an arrest warrant. When officers arrived and could not find the woman, Gong told them she was “in the fridge,” the complaint said.
An officer found what appeared to be body parts.
“Another covered object in the freezer felt to a different officer like a human leg and foot,” the complaint said.
Yu Wei Gong didn’t speak or enter a plea during a brief court appearance Monday. Deputy Public Defender Diamond Grace requested a Mandarin interpreter for his preliminary hearing, scheduled for Wednesday. He remained in custody with bail set at $2 million.
Grace didn’t immediately return a phone message seeking comment after the hearing.
Authorities say Yu Wei Gong told officers that he accidentally killed his mother in September after she became angry when the 26-year-old said he wanted to work instead of going to school.
Deputy Medical Examiner Dr. Rachel Lange determined Liu Yun Gong had suffered blunt force injuries to the head, the complaint said. Her identity was confirmed by comparing fingerprints to those on file under her Hawaii driver’s license.
The manager of the apartment building where they lived told police he had not seen the man’s mother since before Christmas, the complaint said.
It said Liu Yun Gong did not show up for work on Aug. 21, 2016. When a supervisor called her phone, it went unanswered. Yu Wei Gong called the supervisor the next day, saying his mother was on another Hawaiian island and had left her phone at home.
Three women watched the hearing and said outside court they wanted to support Gong spiritually because he had attended their church.
Gong and his mother, who they knew by different names, attended Waipahu United Church of Christ, said former pastor Norma Desaegher.
“He has nobody. No family as far as we can tell,” she said, adding that it’s been several years since she last saw him. “We wanted to give him that spiritual support.”
Gong moved to Hawaii from China when he was 19, after his mother married an active church parishioner she met online, the women said. Mother and son stopped going to church after the man died in 2014.
The women said Gong took English classes at the church and moved with his mother and step-father to Waikiki so she could pursue a massage business.
“We just wanted people to know they were a good family” Desaegher said.