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7 students get home detention for beating 13-year-old girl unconscious on the way to her first day at school!
Sitting across from their parents or guardians, five girls and two boys faced a judge Saturday afternoon, a day after they were arrested by Marion County sheriff’s deputies for the severe beating of a 13-year-old girl on a school bus that left the girl hospitalized…
Authorities said the injured child was beaten multiple times and was treated at the hospital for a concussion, muscle spasms and a serious head bruise.
Inside the makeshift courtroom at the Marion County Jail, Assistant State Attorney John Zaleskie asked Judge Frances King to detain the youths due to what the prosecutor described as “extreme violence” and injuries suffered by the victim until their arraignment.
King decided to release the seven — who the prosecutor said had no prior arrests — to their parents/guardians and place them on home detention.
While on home detention, the youths have to abide by certain rules, such as no contact with each other or with the victim…
All eight juveniles, including the victim, attend Liberty Middle School.
According to sheriff’s deputies, the beating occurred on the school bus around 7:30 a.m. on the way to school. Authorities said there were approximately 74 children on the bus…
Unable to stop the fight, the driver drove to an elementary school and reported the incident to school officials, who called police…
All of the juveniles were arrested and charged with felony battery and disorderly conduct.
RTFA for the details of each stupid, egregious excuse offered for this criminal behavior.
Society says such behavior is OK. It’s normal behavior on TV programs approved by their parents. Only sex and swearing aren’t family values – and the sex is mostly OK, too. Violence, assault, might makes right are all perfectly acceptable to American morality.
Certainly, the parents bear no responsibility. Right? The judge obviously feels that to be the case.
All you need is love – and 20,000 people!
On a sunny day on the outskirts of Shanghai on Sunday, 20,000 hopeful, curious and in some cases desperate Chinese gathered for the world’s largest dating event.
But it would be misjudging the mood to say love was in the air. Instead, in a business convention centre, a stream of pragmatic men and women briskly exchanged vital statistics and contact details…
Like New York or London, Shanghai has become a city of career-obsessed workaholics, the organisers said, leaving many people with little time to find their perfect match. So 40 of the city’s dating agencies decided to hold Shanghai’s first “Marriage and Love Expo”, to a dramatic response.
Just over 10,000 tickets for the event were officially sold, but Shu Xin, one of the organisers, claimed that 20,000 people had visited yesterday and 18,500 on Saturday…
At least a third of the attendees were parents, either chaperoning their children, acting as go-betweens for the more bashful, or brokering deals with other parents for arranged romances…
The attendees, meanwhile, had some very rigid ideas about what they were looking for. Men said they wanted a “kind-hearted” wife, not too beautiful and flighty, but modest and homely. The “minimum requirement” for the women meanwhile was straight-forward: a man with his own house, and preferably also a car…
The government has tinkered with the law to try to dissuade women from marrying for money, rather than love, but there was little sign yesterday that the message had sunk in.
For many couples, the money for the house and car comes from the parents, giving those wandering yesterday’s fair plenty of influence when it comes to picking their in-laws.
Pretty scary. The parents for sure. Marriage culture in China is still obviously having a rough time breaking away from the past.
We went through the same thing in the West – several centuries ago. I don’t envy the current generation in China the struggle on this question.
Sex education begins to stir in Chinese elementary schools
Appreciating the feel of weight shift during pregnancy
Daylife/Getty Images used by permission
China has long been considered a conservative country where talking about sex is taboo, especially to children.
But things have started to change — slowly.
A report in a local Beijing newspaper about a new sex education textbook for elementary school students — some as young as six-years old — has triggered a heated debate in cyberspace and beyond. The Beijing Times, a popular local tabloid, reported that the textbook, “The Steps of Growth”, explains the concept of sexual intercourse with images and illustrations that some people consider too explicit and graphic…
Some experts in the field even weighed in on the debate. “The content of this text book is not consistent with the children’s cognitive capability of this age,” said Hu Ping, a sex education expert who owns a studio in Shenzhen, southern China, where she gives classes to young students about sex and health…
In contrast, some parents are comfortable with the textbook. “It’s better to teach it to the children earlier than later. The kids nowadays know everything anyway,” said Li Yan, a father with a seven-year-old son.
Education authorities in China’s capital deny the book is a formal textbook to be taught in all the local elementary schools. They say it is only an experiment in some schools.
Nevertheless, in a faxed statement to CNN, they said, “it’s very important to carry out health education, including sex education, to elementary and middle school students.”
RTFA. Looks like the program – as it is implemented – will be more inclusive and broad-based than in parts of the world where religious fears are included in on decisions like this. Maybe not. Maybe the conservative traditions leftover from the Confucianist past will get in the way as thoroughly as might some fundamentalist church.
It still makes me chuckle at how parts of the world dig in their heels and reject knowledge for ideological reasons. My family introduced a book called “The Stork Didn’t Bring You” into my elementary school about a jillion years ago. They went the route of the PTA; but, in fact, there were progressive teachers in our hard-as-nails factory town who were ready and able to ease the door open to sex education.
Except for some raving and ranting at the big Roman Catholic church a mile down the road – it was easy as pie.
Kids get to play with rifle: 5-year-old kills 4-year-old
The Victoria County [Texas] Sheriff’s Office continues to investigate the shooting death of a 4-year-old Victoria boy late Wednesday night.
The boy, whose name has not been released, was fatally shot in the abdomen by a 5-year-old sibling who was playing with a bolt action rifle in the back room of their home, Chief Deputy Terry Simons of the Victoria County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday.
The call came in at 10 p.m. from a home on Farm-to-Market Road 444, just south of Telferner, Simons said.
The parents were at the home at the time of the shooting, but the sheriff’s office is investigating to determine why the boy and his sibling were left unsupervised, Simons said…
The boy’s parents drove him to the Telferner Grocery and Market to meet with paramedics, who then rushed the boy to Citizens Medical Center.
The boy was pronounced dead at 10:31 p.m., Simons said.
Too sad. I think I’ll leave thoughts and comments up to you.
Teacher writes novels on her own time – parents whine
Parental complaints have led Midd-West School District officials to investigate a veteran high school teacher who writes erotic romance novels under a pen name.
The teacher, Judy Buranich, of Selinsgrove, has taught at Midd-West for 33 years. Under the pen name Judy Mays, she has been writing novels for a number of those years. Her books include liaisons involving werewolves, aliens and vampires and can be found in the Romance section at Waldenbooks.
On her website, she refers to herself as “a mild-mannered tenth grade English teacher in a small public high school.”
Wesley Knapp, superintendent of the Midd-West School District, said he has received a few complaints…Knapp said he has told those making complaints “that we’d look into it.”
He declined to discuss the matter further. “When it’s a personnel matter, I can’t comment,” he said.
Deanna Stepp, mother of a district student, said: “We are not questioning Mrs. Buranich’s teaching credentials. We are not even questioning her ability as a writer … . What we’re questioning is that the two jobs are not compatible with one another…”
One of the usual crap excuses offered for censorship and blacklisting.
Writing as Mays on Facebook on April 22, Buranich said, “The world is full of idiots…”
Meanwhile, a Facebook page titled “Support Judy Mays (Mrs. Buranich)” hit 88 likes by Wednesday afternoon. Almost 6,000 likes by Thursday afternoon.
One of the whiners says kids at the school figured out Ms. Buranich was Judy Mays – and concludes she must be infecting their brains. History tells us that louts ready to blacklist people for talking about sex are the ones most in need of counseling on the topic. Parents who are astounded at kids smart enough to play detective should be kept away from curricula and teachers altogether.
Hopefully, Mrs. Stepp and Mrs. Apple will find a helpful local group for therapy and leave the school, the students and Judy Buranich to continue their normal daily activities.
Parents, don’t dress your girls like tramps!
I saw someone at the airport the other day who really caught my eye.
Her beautiful, long blond hair was braided back a la Bo Derek in the movie “10″ (or for the younger set, Christina Aguilera during her “Xtina” phase). Her lips were pink and shiny from the gloss, and her earrings dangled playfully from her lobes.
You can tell she had been vacationing somewhere warm, because you could see her deep tan around her midriff thanks to the halter top and the tight sweatpants that rested just a little low on her waist. The icing on the cake? The word “Juicy” was written on her backside.
Yeah, that 8-year-old girl was something to see alright. … I hope her parents are proud. Their daughter was the sexiest girl in the terminal, and she’s not even in middle school yet.
Abercrombie & Fitch came under fire this spring for introducing the “Ashley,” a push-up bra for girls who normally are too young to have anything to push up. Originally it was marketed for girls as young as 7, but after public outcry, it raised its intended audience to the wise old age of 12. I wonder how do people initiate a conversation in the office about the undeveloped chest of elementary school girls without someone nearby thinking they’re pedophiles?
What kind of PowerPoint presentation was shown to the Abercrombie executives that persuaded them to green light such a product?
That there was a demand to make little girls hot?
Dependent on prescription drugs – before they are born
Administering methadone to a 4-week-old infant
As prescription drug abuse ravages communities across the country, doctors are confronting an emerging challenge: newborns dependent on painkillers…Infants…have to stay in the hospital for weeks while they are weaned off the drugs, taxing neonatal units and driving the cost of their medical care into the tens of thousands of dollars.
Like the cocaine-exposed babies of the 1980s, those born dependent on prescription opiates — narcotics that contain opium or its derivatives — are entering a world in which little is known about the long-term effects on their development. Few doctors are even willing to treat pregnant opiate addicts, and there is no universally accepted standard of care for their babies, partly because of the difficulty of conducting research on pregnant women and newborns.
Those who do treat pregnant addicts face a jarring ethical quandary: they must weigh whether the harm inflicted by exposing a fetus to powerful drugs, albeit under medical supervision, is justifiable.
“I’ve had pharmacies that have just called back and said: ‘This lady’s pregnant. Why do you want me to fill this scrip? I can’t do that,’ ” said Dr. Craig Smith, a family practitioner in Bridgton, Me. “But when you stop and think about what actually happens during withdrawal and how violent it can be, that would certainly be not in the baby’s best interest…”
There are no national figures that document the extent of the problem, but interviews with doctors, researchers, social workers and women who abused painkillers while pregnant suggest that it has grown rapidly, especially in rural regions, where officials say such abuse is most common…
RTFA. Please. This is an addictive disaster that is not slowing down in the least.
9-year-old refused simple operation – dies as time runs out
Ila with her parents – in November
A nine-year-old East Timorese girl, Ila Amaral, has died because no Australian hospital would give her a life-saving operation.
For more than 12 months Dan Murphy, a doctor who runs a clinic for the poor in Dili, tried to convince Australian hospitals to accept her for surgery to correct her defective mitral heart valve.
“I blame myself first – I was unable to find the words to make things move for her,” Dr Murphy told the Herald by telephone from the Bairo Pite Clinic, where Ila died last week.
A Victorian cardiologist, Noel Bayley, examined Ila in Dili in November. He said she needed open heart surgery. A cardiac team from Sydney had offered to travel to East Timor to perform the operation but permission to use local facilities was refused by Timorese authorities.
Dr Murphy appealed to the US Navy to be allowed to use one of the 12 operating rooms on the hospital ship USN Mercy when it was in Dili late last year but that was also refused.
“The navy people didn’t want to allow the operation … because of the negative publicity if it didn’t go well and she died,” he said.
After failing to get a hospital in Australia to accept Ila, Dr Murphy appealed to others in the US and then a small cardiac hospital that is opening in Vietnam.
“All in all. a massive effort for something ridiculously simple as correcting a small girl’s problem failed,” he said…
Thousands of Australians donated to a fund to pay for the surgery; but, no hospital in Oz could – or would – shortcut the red tape standing in the way of her operation. The government was no help. Hospital administrators were no help.
Ila Amarai has died.
11-year-olds with a pellet gun rob an 8-year-old
Not the same kids. I hope.
Armed robbery charges were sought Tuesday against two 11-year-old Detroit boys accused of holding up an 8-year-old boy in Center Line with a plastic pellet gun built like a semiautomatic pistol.
The 8-year-old was walking with a cell phone in his neighborhood along Van Dyke Avenue, south of 10 Mile Road at about 4 p.m. Saturday when the two older boys rode up on bicycles, said John Riley, Center Line Public Safety Director. One boy demanded the cell phone. The other held the replica pellet gun — which fires hard plastic pellets — to the younger boy’s head, he said…
The younger boy gave them the phone, then ran to a nearby pizza place for help. A pizza store supervisor called police, who spotted the older boys and gave chase. The two 11-year-olds dumped the bikes, which reportedly were not theirs, and attempted to run away, but were arrested a short time later, Riley said…
None of the boys is being identified because they are minors.
“We’re going to follow through with charges,” Riley said, adding that a petition to prosecute the 11-year-olds in Macomb County Juvenile Court was submitted Tuesday.
Riley said the pair likely will end up in the Wayne County juvenile justice system because they live in Detroit..
Nothing in the article about the parents of the young villains.
I don’t know what questions to ask. Don’t their parents care what they’re doing? Do they have any adults actually responsible for teaching appropriate behavior? Didn’t daddy have a real gun they could have borrowed?
Woman gets one year for robbing the dead
A 30-year-old woman who pleaded no contest with her boyfriend to burglarizing the home of a Sonoma Valley family killed in a car crash was sentenced…to a year in the county jail.
Amber True of Redwood City also received five years’ probation for the Nov. 30 break-in at the home of John and Susan Maloney, who died along with their children, Aiden, 8, and Grace, 5, when they were struck by a teen motorist on Highway 37 three days earlier.
Judge Arthur Wick rejected a plea from prosecutors for a six-year state prison term, saying there was no evidence True and boyfriend Michael Gutierrez, 27, knew why the house was empty before they crept in through a doggy door…
Earlier this month, Wicked handed down an eight-year prison sentence for Guitierrez, a longtime drug user with a criminal record that dates back more than half his lifetime. Gutierrez was charged with committing the burglary while on probation for another felony…
Prosecutor Mike Li argued her recent sobriety should not be a factor in determining a sentence for the crime, which he said caused a great hardship for surviving family members.
Also, he questioned how True and Gutierrez could not have seen memorial bouquets and cards scattered around the house. Li said “it was highly improbable that they did not know something was amiss.”
Throw away the key.
