John Llewellyn Jones, 65-years of age, was vacationing along the coast when a seagull showed up and knocked over his bag of french fries.
Jones, whom is definitely old enough to know better, reacted to this offense by grasping the waterfowl by its legs and repeatedly slamming the poor creature until it was barely alive.
And it was done in full view of small children no less, who broke into tears upon seeing the poor animal being brutalized. 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 ▶
Although it goes largely unacknowledged, there truly is so much work involved in becoming a parent.
Just trying to get pregnant alone can be a real struggle for couples who have to deal with various health issues or complications.
And that’s without taking into account the difficulty of pregnancy and the subsequent childbirth!
So it is without a doubt an event of much relief and joy when you finally have your newborn child safe and sound in your arms.
Even better when they are healthy and happy!
As you cradle them against your body, they act as a very real, very physical reminder that all that hard work you had put into your pregnancy has paid off.
So when something happens to them, it becomes a bit of a nightmare.
Jennifer Melton is a new mother from Tennessee.
She had just given to a healthy newborn son, Nate, the day before.
Her childbirth had gone smoothly, and all was well.
When the nurses came to take her son for his routine physical, she had no problem handing over her baby boy.
Nothing could have possibly gone wrong here, all the baby was expected to undergo was some blood tests and weighing.
In the meantime, Melton was instructed to rest for a few hours.
As previously discussed with her nurses, Melton was later given her son back, right on schedule.
But then the nurse mentioned something in the passing that sent the new mother’s alarm bells ringing – a procedure performed by the doctors.
Melton was shocked, as she had not been informed about her son needing any medical procedure at all.
Upon questioning, the nurse had then explained to her about the supposed “tongue clipping” procedure that Melton’s son had just undergone.
What had happened was that the doctors had performed a surgical operation called frenulectomy, wherein they removed the piece of tissue that connects the tongue to the floor of the mouth.
Unfortunately, this was not something Nate needed.
As soon as she heard about this procedure in full detail, Melton was naturally horrified.
She then quickly examined her son’s mouth to see what damage had been done to her newborn child.
There, she saw the underside of his tongue was covered in bloody spots.
The sight of this made Melton instantly break down into tears.
As it turns out, there was another baby who was meant to undergo the surgical operation.
Unfortunately, there was a mixup – doctors had requested the nurses to bring in the wrong infant.
After that, they had proceeded to perform an unnecessary surgery on a baby that was only a day old.
Since then, Melton has taken to sharing her story with other parents in any way possible.
Calling the experience “her worst nightmare”, she hopes that informing others and arming them with the knowledge that this is a possibility will prevent new parents from having to endure a similar fate.
With any luck, this story will raise awareness over this sort of mishap and encourage all involved in everything baby-related to be much more careful.
All of us need to feel safe and protected, to have our physical requirements for food, clothing, warmth, healthcare met. All children can be vulnerable sometimes, and as a parent it is only natural to worry about their safety.
But, unfortunately, this was not the case with this 12-year-old girl, who was not identified due to her age. The 12-year-old girl become pregnant after she was reportedly trafficked then sold into a forced marriage.
She was confirmed to be three months pregnant after being taken to the a hospital accompanied by two adults. Read the full story here ▶
Police officials said the 22-year-old suspect, later identified as Anthony, was taken into custody and later charged with aggravated child abuse and aggravated neglect of a child in the toddler’s brutal death.
Prosecutors say the young man reportedly killed his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son to death. The suspect reportedly beat the little boy to death with a toy.
Police officials said the dispatcher received a 911 call reporting an unresponsive 2-year-old boy at a residence. The first responders located the child, who was not breathing and was bleding from the mouth. Read the full story here ▶
Almost four months after a botched police raid left a homeowner and a police officer with gunshot wounds — and the homeowner’s dog dead at the hands of the police — the DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office hasn’t released any new information on the investigation.
The case drew widespread condemnation and headlines when DeKalb County sheriff’s deputies walked into the wrong house, guns drawn, after getting a 911 call about a burglary.
Inside, 36-year-old homeowner Chris McKinley was watching a movie with his wife, Leah, and 1-year-old son when police entered through an unlocked back door, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Police claim they announced themselves, but in interviews afterward, McKinley said the deputies did not give any warning. When McKinley heard his dog barking, he got up to see what was happening and walked to the rear of the house, where police shot him and his dog, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
“I hear Leah screaming, I see Chris walking out, ‘They just shot me, they just shot me, and they killed my dog,’” Tama Colson, a neighbor who was returning home from an evening walk when she stumbled into the chaotic scene, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
For their part, police blamed the original 911 caller and the dispatcher for the incident.
“Are we perfect?” DeKalb Director of Public Safety Cedric Alexander asked, reports the Journal-Constitution. “Absolutely not. But when we find a mistake, we own it. We own the fact that we were at the wrong house. We didn’t hide it. We didn’t mismanage it. We were at the wrong location based on information that was given to us.”
In the initial police version of events, McKinley “burst out of a closed door with a pit bull that charged at the officers,” according to a police report cited by WSB-TV.
McKinley’s attorney, Jeff Brickman, flatly denied the police report, which was written in language that seemed to absolve the deputies from any wrongdoing. The dog was a boxer, Brickman told WSB-TV.
“Chris McKinley didn’t burst out of any closed door,” Brickman said. “He doesn’t have a pit bull.”
McKinley was shot once in the leg, while Officer Travis Jones was shot in the hip.
Since the incident, Jones and his two fellow officers — Timothy Hardin and Quhanna Lloyd — have been on paid administrative leave.
Authorities urged calm in interviews with Atlanta-area media in September and October, asking the public to withhold judgment until the investigation is complete, but DeKalb County District Attorney Robert James has not issued any new information on the case, as of Dec. 14, nor has he given any indication when the investigation will be completed.
The unfortunate mother, Heather, said that she lost her young son and has since been working hard to share her important message with all parents.
Heather shared her story on her social media account under the heading “The Blue Stain”. As you read it for yourself, you quickly understand why it is pulling at so many people’s heartstrings.
One day, the mother was picking up some slime off the floor that her daughter had dropped. It’s then that everything became obvious to her.
Her daughter had done her best to clean up the stain left by the slime, but Heather naturally had to get in there too and help. She was, as natural for any parent, annoyed by the situation. But as she began muttering under her breath, she suddenly remembered a different stain. A stain from 14 years prior. At that time, Heather had of two-year old triplets as well as a four year old little boy. She did not have her daughter yet. On this particular evening, she was struggling to get her 4 active boys into bed. With four young children in the house, life was nothing but a tornado of activity and non-stop chaos. She spent most of the time chasing her kids — often feeling like she was facing the potential of a third world war. “My hands were full, but so was my heart.” As night drew near that evening 14 years ago, she recalled the struggle of feeding and bathing all four boys, all the while cleaning up after the usual mess.
The children had music blasting and ran around singing and dancing, full of energy as usual. This would be the last time in a while that this kind of atmosphere would prevail in the house… for several reasons. Amidst the chaos and her struggle to get the boys in bed, she looked down at the carpet and saw a large ink-blue stain. One of the triplets, Jacob, stood nearby, broken pen in hand — the ink had spread all over the carpet. It was also all over his pajamas, his body and more or less everything else in the room! “We had only lived in this house for six months and now the carpet was completely ruined. We scrubbed that stain for an hour that night, but yet it remained.”
The stain continued to get on her nerves and she was annoyed at it every time she saw it. “It made me feel angry and it made me feel like such a failure for leaving out the pen where my young son could reach it. That blue stain was just a big fat negative in my life. I hated it,” Heather says. But as her frustration over the stain continued to grow, suddenly, it all went away, in a single, life-changing moment. The little boy who had broken the pen that day was soon diagnosed with cancer. And two years following the heart-shattering news, Jacob was gone. As Jacob went to heaven, the blue stain remained. “It was still there . . . and now . . . it was a constant reminder of my son. It was a constant reminder of my frustration over something so trivial . . . something so unimportant in the scheme of life.” Heather now wants mothers everywhere to realize that young children will of course always make a mess. Raising young children can be incredibly frustrating and as they get older, a parent faces new trials and challenges. For Heather, the blue stain is now a constant reminder that life with children can be messy, but is so worth living.
The subjects of reincarnation and what happens after death are hotly debated. Some people believe that nothing happens when we die, others believe in heaven and hell, and still others believe in the concept of reincarnation – that we come back in another form after we die.
For the Druze people in the Middle East, reincarnation is very much a part of their beliefs and practices. It is customary for elders to take a child to the home of his previous life if he remembers it, and they believe that birthmarks are related to past-life deaths.
So when a three-year-old boy in the Golan Heights region near the border of Syria and Israel told his parents he had been murdered in a previous life, they didn’t discount his story. Read the full story here ▶
Robert and Joanne Forster got married and quickly realized that they would probably never have their own family sadly.
In 2006, before he even met Joanne, Robert suffered from non-Hodgkin lymphoma and by the grace of God and medicine he beat it, thanks to life-saving chemotherapy treatments.
But just two years later, Joanne was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma and had to go through similar treatments.In both cases, the need to begin chemo immediately was so serious that neither Robert nor Joanne had any time at all to freeze sperm or eggs for the future. Read the full story here ▶
If you’ve ever lost your wallet or a purse, it is a horrible experience.You feel so vulnerable knowing that someone else has access to all your personal information including your driver’s license, your health insurance card, credit cards – not to mention all the cash you had in there.
So when Shelia Spencer noticed that her wristlet was missing, she started to panic, as most people would.
The wallet, which hung from her wrist from a small leather strap, held her personal information, nearly $300 cash, and her smartphone. As you can imagine, Shelia was mortified that someone had her stuff and was going to do who-knows-what with it. Read the full story here ▶