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Camden, the county seat of Benton County, Tennessee, sits on the de facto border of West and Middle Tennessee.

Benton County, which sits directly adjacent to the Tennessee River, is a major destination for duck hunting for Tennesseeans, Kentuckians, and people from even farther away.

One idea that is popular among hunters is that they should strive to kill animals as humanely as possible. something that Camden’s duck hunters share.

Although hunting is so popular in Camden, the aforementioned humane values obviously aren’t present in everybody who lives there.

Cody Shay Townsend, a resident of Camden, Tennessee, was arrested by the Benton County Sheriff Department late last week after being charged with counts of burglary, trespassing, and animal cruelty.

According to the Benton County Sheriff Department, Townsend shared with the officer who responded to onlookers’ calls that he was on a “mission from God … to kill all things evil.”

Whether Townsend suffers from a mental health condition that causes grandiose thoughts, paranoia, and psychosis, was under the influence of psychoactive substances, or both isn’t clear.

However, the Benton County Sheriff Department did share that some people who stay awake on stimulants, namely methamphetamine, for days at a time sometimes experience psychosis to the extent that Townsend was likely experiencing as a result of sleep deprivation mixing with the hallucinatory effects of amphetamine and methamphetamine binges.

Cody Townsend is currently being held by the Benton County Sheriff Department on a $25,000 bond.

He has been jailed by the county’s officials since his arrest last week.

According to eyewitness reports of Townsend’s behavior, the incident started after he ventured onto a neighbor’s yard where a stump was being burned.

Townsend then took the neighbor’s fuel can and thoroughly soaked the neighbor’s dog with gasoline.

Next, Townsend picked the dog up and threw it onto the neighbor’s burning stump.

Although the dog, named Sissy, survived the attacks from Townsend, its owners decided to put the dog down because it was in constant pain as a result of the first- and second-degree burns.

Sissy also suffered extensive cranial bruising and was cut deeply on the top of its head.

A Lower Southampton, Pennsylvania, man faces charges of sexual assault against an underage girl who was allegedly gifted to him by her parents.

The former Amish couple were experiencing a financial hardship and went to 52-year-old Lee Kaplan for help, police said, the Bucks County Courier Times reports. They then gave him their 14-year-old daughter.

The girl, now 18, told police that Kaplan is the father of her two children, ages 6 months and 3 years. Read the full story here ▶

According to the Associated Press, Wayne Sperling pleaded guilty to keeping his young children in a filthy home and faces up to seven years in prison when he is sentenced on December 30.

Last October, the boys, ages two and six, were removed from the home when an emergency room doctor suspected abuse after the youngest had to be transported to the hospital for a cut on his forehead.

Sperling, his wife and the boys lived in an apartment filled with cat feces and flies, authorities said. The children were malnourished and could only communicate in grunts when they were found. Read the full story here ▶

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 ▶

The 67-year-old farmer said that he has finally decided to stop producing children with his twelve wives after he has amassed a large family that includes one hundred-two children and five hundred sixty-eight grandchildren.

According to the farmer, he has made the best decision for himself, his wives, and his children by deciding to stop producing more babies. And now, he decided to share this reason with the rest of the world.

Because he is allowed to keep more than one wife, he married twelve women and began producing children with them to grow his family and make it one of the largest in the entire world. Read the full story here ▶

The internet has been obsessed with optical illusions lately. Case in point- the dress phenomenon that took the world by storm a few years ago.

Now there’s another photograph that’s confusing people around the world and making them second-guess themselves.

The photo, posted to Instagram by an artist from Switzerland by the name of Tiziana Vergari, shows several girls sitting on a bench with their backs against the wall.

Each girl is clad in a gray dress with their brown locks down in a casual style.

At first glance, it appears there are thirteen girls in the picture.

However, upon closer inspection you can tell that many of the girls look alike.

In fact, it looks like two girls repeated over and over again.

Vergari, who submitted the photograph as part of a weekend contest on Instagram called #Whpidentity, cleared up the confusion with a comment to a perplexed follower.

Responding to @erin.thehuman, Vergari replied, “One think it sure, that I only have two daughter.”

Although it looks like there are thirteen girls in the astounding photograph, there are actually one two.

Vergari had taken her daughters out for a shopping trip and snapped the picture as they were both seated on a bench surrounded by mirrors.

The mirrors created the odd visual effect that has so many wondering how many girls are actually in the photo.

Vergari’s photograph generated so much buzz on social media that she was nominated for a Shorty Award for Instagram Photo of the Year.

How she managed to capture such an incredible photograph shows how much talent this Swiss photographer possesses.

The astonishing image certainly fulfills the definition of an optical illusion as it continues to deceive the eyes of many into thinking there are more than just two girls in the picture.

In Highlands Ranch, Colorado, a neighborhood has been left shaken after quite the disturbing situation unfolded.

In fact, one particular woman was left screaming in horror after making an unexpected find in her own backyard.An unidentified individual was walking around the neighborhood when she walked past her home and saw something odd.

However, after taking a closer look, she was left screaming in horror as she made an unexpected find in her backyard. In fact, it was so disturbing, police were immediately called to the scene. Read the full story here ▶

Down Syndrome is a type of intellectual disability that is caused by a malfunction in the human genome, specifically the 21st chromosome.

People who suffer from Down Syndrome usually aren’t able to live as independently as their counterparts of average mental capability are.

Freia David, who died earlier this week at the age of 55, was a longtime employee McDonald’s. As a matter of fact, Ms. David worked for McDonald’s for roughly 32 years.

Even more interestingly, Freia David only worked in one restaurant throughout her entire career with McDonald’s, which was located in Needham.

Ms. David had been retired from her long-held job at that Needham McDonald’s fast food restaurant for just about three years at the time of her death.

CBS Boston, a local news channel that generally covers local news in Boston, Massachusetts, has previously done a story on Ms. Freia, during which reporters shared that Freia David was also the most friendly employee there.

Further, she was generally more willing to talk than the remainder of her counterparts at the Needham McDonald’s.

The Boston Globe, a newspaper that is located in none other than Boston, Massachusetts, also published an obituary for Ms. Freia David, which, in part, recognized the fact that she was able to work just as well as anybody else without letting her Down Syndrome get in the way.

Freia David first got her job at the Needham McDonald’s 35 years ago, in 1984.

Ms. David was given the job through a program that places employees who are disabled intellectually at jobs that they will be able to manage.

The name of the program through which Ms. Freia David found employment was called the Charles River Center’s job placement program.

Ms. David actually lived at the Charles River Center in Needham in the three-odd years since she had retired from her job at McDonald’s.

She was found there at the time of her death.

The Charles River Center, believe it or not, worked with Freia David as one of its initial interactions with people who needed work but were intellectually disabled.

A service for Ms. Freia David is slated to be held on June 18, 2019, in Needham at the George F. Doherty & Son’s Funeral Home 30 minutes prior to noon.