On Children Whose Murders Don’t Make The News : Discovery News

 

Twelve days ago, America experienced one of the worst school shootings in history. Twenty children and six adults were killed when Adam Lanza burst into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut and opened fire with guns and rifles.

The massacre shocked the world and caused the country to ask how and why it happened.The children of Sandy Hook are the highest-profile murder victims, but they are not the only ones.

According to figures released by UNICEF, over the past decade more than 20,000 American children have been killed in their own homes by family members.

America has the worst record of child abuse in the industrialized world, and more children die each week in America than died in the school shooting on that day: Twenty children died on Dec. 14, and it, quite rightly, outraged the world.

Twenty-seven children died the week before and the week after and nobody noticed. Americans and the news media pay little attention to children murdered every day across the country.

A small sample of children killed or nearly killed by parents making news in the weeks before and after the Sandy Hook killings:

Camilia Terry of Cleveland was arrested for killing her three-year-old son Emilliano; she claimed he’d been kidnapped but after his body was found in a trash bag at a landfill, her story changed.

Nicole Fitzgerald of Baltimore stabbed her two-year-old son to death. Jennifer Lynn Emerick of Huron, Michigan, suffocated her 23-month-old son.

Jessica Elizabeth Rhodes of Pennsylvania beat and shook her 14-month-old son so badly it nearly killed him; he suffered brain bleeding and swelling, and eye hemorrhaging.

Kristine Davis of New Hampshire poisoned her seven-month-old son. Veronica Herrera of Boise, Idaho, killed her 2-year-old daughter and burned her body in a barrel in the back yard of her home.

Lashay Patterson and her live-in boyfriend, both of Philadelphia, beat and burned her five-year-old son to death.

via On Children Whose Murders Don’t Make The News : Discovery News.

Gadget store heist: Mom made me do it | Technically Incorrect – CNET News

Moms can dominate their sons sometimes.

They see in their little boys something they possibly didn’t see in their own husbands — obedience, perhaps.

I foray into psychological waters only because of a fascinating legal case involving a heist at the PC World store in Kingston, U.K.

It seems that gunmen allegedly marauded in, pointed fake Uzis at the staff, and stole 38,000 British pounds (around $61,000). However, in the midst of their bravado, they started arguing about whether to steal some laptops, too, and ran away separately.

Police managed to track down one of the robbers, Michael Ward, after a few days. He was said by the police to be “not a deep thinker.” Soon, it transpired that he and his accomplice had enjoyed inside help, according to authorities.

It came from 22-year-old Anthony Bradley. He had recruited Ward and another man.

Bradley’s defense was startlingly human, however.

It amounted to: “My mom made me do it.”

Mina Bradley also worked at PC World, a computer superstore chain in the U.K. She was the assistant manager. It was she who had given the robbers vital security details that allowed them to gain access, steal the cash, and frighten the staff.

She insisted that it was nothing to do with her, until she heard that her own son was going to offer testimony that, well, it was all her idea.

Mina Bradley got seven years, her son only three.

via Gadget store heist: Mom made me do it | Technically Incorrect – CNET News.

THE WEEKLY VICE: Cynthia Gonzalez Gave Her Daughter A Severe Beating For Christmas – Child Now Permanently Impaired

Longview, TX (The Weekly Vice) – Cynthia Gonzalez, a 26-year-old Texas woman was jailed Friday after she allegedly fractured her toddler daughter’s skull while knocking her teeth out.

According to police, an investigation was launched Dec. 26 after a 2-year-old girl child arrived to Longview Hospital with a fractured skull, several punched out teeth, multiple bruises and bleeding on the brain.

Several family witnesses told detectives that Gonzales routinely punched the toddler in the face when she would cry or vomit.

One of Gonzalez’ children told detectives that her mother stated that she wanted to sell the toddler to someone else so she wouldn’t have to care for her anymore.

Two children also told detectives that Gonzalez refused to take the injured child to a hospital until the family had finished eating and opened presents.

Gonzalez told detectives that the child was injured after falling out of bed, however, a medical evaluation confirmed that the child’s injuries were inconsistent with Gonzalez’ explanation.

Gonzalez was booked into the Gregg County Jail on a charge of injury to a child with serious bodily injury. She remains in jailed in lieu of $100,000 bond.

via THE WEEKLY VICE: Cynthia Gonzalez Gave Her Daughter A Severe Beating For Christmas – Child Now Permanently Impaired.

THE WEEKLY VICE: Judge Orders Father/Daughter Couple To End Their Incestuous Relationship

Dunedin, New Zealand (The Weekly Vice) – A 32-year-old father from New Zealand and his 18-year-old daughter have been ordered by a judge to end their incestuous relationship after the couple had a child together and insisted they were in love with one another.

The unnamed couple, who pleaded guilty to one count of incest last June, appeared in Dunedin District Court on Tuesday for sentencing.

According to prosecutors, the father began an incestuous relationship with his daughter when she turned 16. The couple, who have lived together as “man and wife” for about two years, have a 1-year-old child together.

The teenager told the court that she was in love with her father and considered him to be her husband.

According to court records, the man’s daughter was conceived during an incestuous relationship that he had with his foster mother. The alleged mother/son relationship took place when the father was 13-years-old and his foster mother was 30-years-old.

via THE WEEKLY VICE: Judge Orders Father/Daughter Couple To End Their Incestuous Relationship.

THE WEEKLY VICE: Jeffrey Reynolds – Charged With Cutting Baby Out Of Wife’s Womb, Stabbing Infant To Death

Walker, Louisiana The Weekly Vice – Jeffery Reynolds, a 31-year-old Walker man was jailed Tuesday after he allegedly used a knife to cut out his wife’s unborn baby before stabbing the infant to death.According to the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office, deputies were dispatched to the couple’s home at around 11:15 a.m. after receiving an emergency call.When officers arrived on the scene, they found a 28-year-old pregnant woman who had been stabbed in the abdomen with a knife or another sharp object before her unborn child was cut out of her womb.Investigators say the victim, who was 7-and-a-half months pregnant, was rushed to a local hospital, where she is now listed in stable condition. The baby, however, was also stabbed and did not survive the assault.

via THE WEEKLY VICE: Jeffrey Reynolds – Charged With Cutting Baby Out Of Wife’s Womb, Stabbing Infant To Death.

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Most of you are aware of Pop’s long-standing affair with photography, specifically with the creation of art by someone with so little artistic talent in any other medium.

What only a few of you are aware of is the fact that Pop is also a semi-retired bench technician.

Bench techs (Fixers) are the electronic technicians who troubleshoot and repair the hardware that comes into the shop.

This means that in the days of the TV shop, when people actually repaired their gadgets and electronics (before the current “everything’s disposable” mentality took over), this is the work that I did.

As a bench-tech for a TV shop in Brooklyn my day was filled with dead-set televisions, stereos with blown fuses, CB radios that had been hit with spilled coffee, and the occasional house-call to troubleshoot the console that dad kicked when his team lost.

Electronic devices have of course evolved since then, and while most TV repair shops have faded away, the need to repair the more expensive gadgets is still prevalent.

via Stran Photography.

Digital Photography: from Start to Sell! by J Poprox Stran

Digital Photography: from Start to Sell! by J Poprox Stran.