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When parents welcome a baby in a hospital, they generally know the staff are competent and will give their child the best care. In this case, a careless nurse was the cause of a baby needing to have his leg amputated.

Two nurses were found responsible for the negligence and were fired by the hospital. The Deputy Director of the hospital extended his apologies for the incident, with the hospital offering to pay some of the baby’s medical expenses.

The family has yet to accept that offer, however. The baby’s grandmother was understandably worried about the child’s future, commenting: “The baby has become disabled just four days after birth. Read the full story here ▶

Prosecutors said that the defendants, Patricia and Matthew, were sentenced to 2,340 years in jail and people are still saying that wasn’t enough time after what they did.

The then 34-year-old Patricia was sentenced to 1,590 years in prison and her 42-year-old husband, Matthew, to 750 years in prison. The government had requested those sentences, the maximums possible. As U.S. District Judge Coogler stated: ”

I have actually been on the bench considering that 1998, and this is the worst case I have actually personally handled, consisting of murders. You robbed this kid of her youth and her soul, and an optimal sentence is proper.” Read the full story here ▶

With the weather only getting hotter and hotter as climate change takes a firm hold of global temperatures, it becomes an increasingly pressing matter to keep an eye on your children, especially in the car.

As it stands, far too many young children die more often than necessary from being left in hot cars – this year alone already sees the death of 37 children from heat stroke this way.

There’s now yet another tragic death to the list – an 11-year-old girl from the Long Island community, who was forgotten on a 92-degrees Fahrenheit day in the car parked in her family’s own driveway. Read the full story here ▶