As a Math teacher at the St. Francis High School in California, military veteran from the Vietnam war Jim O’Connor is nothing short of intimidating to his students.
His class of 32 teenage boys are constantly kept on their toes. He takes no nonsense from anyone, with his strictness earning him their fearful respect.
Having never had a wife or children, O’Connor was the last person any of these students expected would know about love and compassion. Read the full story here ▶
According to parents Cristina and Blaize, their baby girl, Ayla, was reportedly born with a rare ailment known as a “permanent grin”.
The doctors reportedly told the parents that their daughter was born with Bilateral Macrostomia, an extremely uncommon disorder in which the corners of the mouth do not correctly fuse together while the infant is still in the womb.
This caused Ayla to be born with an abnormally large mouth. Bilateral Microstomia is exceedingly unusual and affects just one side of the mouth but in Ayla’s case, it has affected both sides of her mouth. Read the full story here ▶
Megan Shufflebarger and her children were shopping at a Target store for Kinley’s birthday in Lafayette, Indiana.
While Kinley started to state all the things that she wanted, a teenager had overheard her conversation and walked up to her.
He then asked her which doll she preferred so Kinley simply pointed to her favourite one.He took the doll she had pointed to and walked to the cashier while Megan stayed put. Read the full story here ▶
In Utah, Jeannine Cherilynn Isom is a mother, not a dentist, but, she decided that her seven-year-old son needed to have some teeth extracted.
Why, we don’t know, again, she isn’t a dentist. But, Isom took her son to a Walmart bought a pair of needle nose pliers and a hand sanitizer.
Isom then took her son into the bathroom and plucked out two of his teeth – in the bathroom at a Walmart! Police Sgt. Cameron Paul said that Isom removed her son’s two front teeth. Read the full story here ▶
Local boy was walking by Lake Kurtna Matasjarv in Estonia when he noticed tracks leading into the lake, but not coming out anywhere.
The lake was too small for boating or anything like that and located in the middle of nowhere. He knew that there was no good reason for those tracks being there which heightened his curiosity.
For two months, he saw air bubbles emerging from this lake. After some investigation, a team started to probe deeper into the mysterious clues surrounding the lake. Read the full story here ▶
Four teenagers in Canada made a decision that saved a little girl. They saw that she was being dragged by a man who said he was her father.
The young girl was inebriated at the time while being pulled through a parking garage.The teens noticed that the little girl appeared to be being pulled against her will as her body was limp.
She was also not struggling like someone might be if they were being pulled by someone else. The boys were riding on skateboards around the parking lot one evening. Read the full story here ▶
It already is a heartbreaking situation to lose a child, no matter the case. It is even worse when the loss of your child was the result of events that occurred without rhyme or reason, that there was nothing you could do about it.
It must be unimaginable, then, to lose both your children one after another as a result of circumstances beyond your control.
Truly, no parent should ever have to find themselves easily outliving their child. Just a few weeks ago, the Allens had to do something that should be unthinkable for any parent – they had to bury their son, Brody Allen. Read the full story here ▶
A father committed suicide after he received a letter demanding he pay nearly $17,000 in child support for his son.
When he received the order, Ian Sandywell, 45, texted his son Ben, 22, “Delete me out of your life please. I’m going to hang myself.”
When Sandywell’s wife Jo-ann Balsamo came home from work hours later, she discovered his body hanging in the garage, reported the Mirror.
Balsamo said he had called her at 12:30 p.m. asking about the child support. Read the full story here ▶
Two teenagers are facing charges after allegedly faked kidnapping in shopping mall in Georgia. They recorded the whole process, wanted to elaborate the staged kidnapping afterwards and the reason behind is bizarre.
Multiple 911 calls were received in minutes, all of them reporting possible abduction in a shopping mall.
Many witnesses saw young girl with her hands tied and covering over her head on the parking lot in front of a shopping mall. According to the witnesses the girl was forced to enter a parked vehicle. Read the full story here ▶
With nothing more than a generic letter from her therapist, a woman’s “emotional support” dog was allowed into an airport without a crate. Soon after, a mother filed a $1.1-million lawsuit accusing the creature of mauling her 5-year-old daughter.
While waiting for their Alaska Airlines flight to Texas, Mirna Gonzales was waiting with her three children at Portland International Airport when she and her oldest daughter decided to get a coffee.
As such, she left her 13-year-old son to look after her 5-year-old daughter, Gabriella Gonzales. What ensued was every parent’s nightmare. Read the full story here ▶