Esther L. Wiggins - Cause a child to be abandoned abroad

This is a photograph I recently found of the woman who is responsible for what happened to my daughter.She took my child from me, after believing all the lied my ex told her. As a result, he abandoned my daughter...

Woman Charged with statutory rape

A 31 year old woman arrested and charged with statutory rape of a 13 year old male. Investigation began after school officials overheard a conversation between the minor and other students. According to Picayune Item a Purvis, Ms woman has been arrested and charged for...

When government fails – gravestone lost

Living in the Washington DC metro, I have been following a story that began about the top two heads of Arlington National Cemetery resigning or being fired after more than 20 years on the job because 1) they lost...

Education is Neglected in India, Yet their Youth Will Lead World?

In India, schooling ranges from advanced degrees in colleges, to children being forced to study in one-room schools with no drinking water or toilets.  In Daliganj, an area of India, there is a school where this is just the case. This school is not new.  It has been around...

Amanda Brumfield, Daughter Of Billy Bob Thornton, Arrested

Amanda Brumfield, the twenty-nine year old daughter of American actor Billy Bob Thornton, has been arrested in Florida on Friday. She is facing charges of neglect that has led to the death of an infant whom she was babysitting in October of last year. Brumfield did not call...

Murray abused and dying.

If Murray was a person he would be suffering decades of abuse, misuse, neglect and the perpetrators would be behind bars for a lifetime. Murray is however a River system running down the Eastern side of Australia....

Ringing for Attention at Restaurants?

In Food outshines service at Cetrella (SF Chronicle, October 15), Michael Bauer asks "What is it about empty restaurants that cultivates poor service? It seems like every time I go into a dining room with a sea of open tables, service is erratic". I think there are more...

Dad gets 18 months for forcing girl to kill cat

"MUNCIE, Indiana (AP) -- A man was sentenced to 18 months in prison after admitting that he forced his 7-year-old daughter to kill the family cat by holding a knife in her hand and making her stab the pet. "I am extremely sorry for what I did," Danield J. Collins said during...

Source: Trace of human remains detected in Florida mom's car

"(CNN) -- Investigators have found chemical evidence of human decomposition in the trunk of the car connected to Florida mother Casey Anthony, a law enforcement source said Wednesday. ...

Parts of Detroit's Old City Hall Tossed Aside

Photos taken in 2002 at public event at a Detroit city-owned historic site. These are all parts of a tower that stood atop the 1868 Detroit City Hall (which was unwisely demolished to make way for the Kennedy...

Finnish Children Eat Alone,Travel Alone & Wake Up Alone Say Child Welfare Ref...

The Mannerheim League for Child Welfare (MLL) have today drawn attention to the ever-increasing isolation of the Finnish child.   "Parents seem to neglect their children more and more. Even very small...

Man jailed for mocking dying toddler David Mamo

"AN Adelaide man who cruelly mocked dying toddler David Mamo has been jailed for more than 11 years - but no one will ever face justice for the boy's murder. David John Partridge, 30, taunted the three-year...

The Exiles: Film about Native Americans Exiled in Their Own Land Revived

Sherman Alexie, who can be a real hoot, has some poignant things to say about this film revival."THE Exiles,” a film about American Indians living on the edge of downtown Los Angeles in the 1950s, is both a chronicle and a casualty of neglect: a movie about a forsaken...

Tiffany Hirst: the toddler left to die alone and unloved

"In a case of neglect that resulted in the death of Tiffany Hirst, 3, a court was told yesterday how passers-by used to see the gaunt face of the toddler staring through the window of her mother’s squalid flat."...

US May Withdraw Navy Aid Mission from Burma

The US Navy may remove its ships from Myanmar's coast as the military junta continues to stonewall aid efforts."Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday he will make a decision within "a matter of days" to...

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