MILWAUKEE – A toddler was to be buried Friday morning after the child’s mother and her boyfriend were charged with the toddler’s death. A First Degree Reckless Homicide charge was filed Thursday against Jeremy Johnson. Johnson, of Milwaukee, threw Mattasia Bowie into a wall because she wouldn’t stop crying.  The child suffered severe head injuries and later died at the hospital.

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A mother and her two children were found killed in a Vadnais Heights apartment late Wednesday, and the woman’s husband — and father of the children — has confessed, the Ramsey County sheriff said today. The man has been identified as Justus Ogendi Kebabe, 43, Sheriff Bob Fletcher said today at a briefing. The couple’s 3-year-old child was found safe with Kebabe. The names of the deceased have not been released but that information is expected this afternoon. The children were 9 and 12 years old, Fletcher said.

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Friday sentence for Farquharson

Robert Farquharson, who murdered his three sons by driving them into a dam on Father’s Day, will be sentenced on Friday. Robert Farquharson, 41, was found guilty in July of the murders of Jai, 10, Tyler, 7, and Bailey, 2, in September 2005. Farquharson was returning home from an access visit with the boys when he drove his car off the Princes Highway near Winchelsea, in the state’s southwest, and into the deep, dark dam. He swam to shore, leaving the boys to drown in the car.

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ALBANY,  GA (WALB) – Two young children are dead after a domestic violence case quickly escalated to a double murder suicide in Colquitt County. Around 10:30 Monday night the Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office says Kejie McDougald shot his child and stepchild, ages eight and fifteen, before turning the gun and killing himself at 178 Cool Breeze Drive, just outside of Moultrie. The Sheriff tells us the call originally came in as a domestic violence case. Angela McDougald called 911 from a neighbor’s house after her and her husband got into a physical fight in which she was injured. When deputies went inside her house to find Mr. McDougald, they found him and the two children dead with gunshot wounds.

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What is school bullying?
Bullying includes a wide variety of behaviors, but all involve a person or a group repeatedly trying to harm someone who is weaker or more vulnerable. It can involve direct attacks (such as hitting, threatening or intimidating, maliciously teasing and taunting, name-calling, making sexual remarks, and stealing or damaging belongings) or more subtle, indirect attacks (such as spreading rumors or encouraging others to reject or exclude someone).

How common is teen bullying?
Almost 30 percent of teens in the United States (or over 5.7 million) are estimated to be involved in school bullying as either a bully, a target of teen bullying, or both. In a recent national survey of students in grades 6 to 10, 13 percent reported bullying others, 11 percent reported being the target of school bullies, and another 6 percent said they bullied others and were bullied themselves.

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Shaken Baby Syndrome Statistics

• One shaken baby in four dies.
  Some studies estimate that 15% of children’s deaths are due to battering or shaking, and an additional 15% are possible cases of shaking.
• Of the 37 children that died in Florida in 1995-96 13 died from a combination of Shaken Baby Syndrome/ Head Trauma.
• Of the thousands that survive death, serious injury usually occurs.
  “SBS” victims range in age from a few days to a few months old; the average is six months.
• More than 60% of the victims of Shaken Baby Syndrome are male.
• Almost 80% of the perpetrators of Shaken Baby Syndrome are male

These Shaken Baby Syndrome Statistics are scarry, at best. Please help us spread the word about Shaken Baby Syndrome.

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On September 21, 2010 the Austin Police Department Child Abuse Unit received a call stating that a child had been molested by a friend’s father while she was being homeschooled at a home school co-op during 2007 and 2008. On Wednesday, October 13, 2010 Richard “Rick” Charles Sweeten was arrested by the APD Fugitive Apprehension Unit for Sexual Assault of a Child, 2nd Degree Felony related to APD incident 10-5051474.

For many years Sweeten has been involved in a home school co-op and has had access to many children. The APD Child Abuse Unit is seeking the public’s assistance in locating any other potential victims who may have visited, attended and/or been homeschooled at his residence.

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NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – A coach with the North Providence East Little League is facing child abuse charges. Our news partners at The Providence Journal reports 38-year-old Patrick Picard is free on $20,000 personal recognizance, after being charged with abusing his 9-year-old son on October 6th. Picard is accused of throwing the boy across a room, causing him to land face-first against the leg of a piano bench.

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HICKORY, N.C. (CBS/AP) The investigation into Zahra Baker, the hearing-impaired10-year-old North Carolina girl who was reported missing Saturday, is now a homicide investigation, Hickory Police Chief Tom Adkins announced Tuesday. PICTURES: Zahra Baker Missing

Adkins said that Zahra’s stepmother, Elisa Baker, confessed to investigators that she wrote the ransom note found at the scene that asked for $1 million and then asked for an attorney. Elisa Baker originally told police that she last saw Zahra, who also suffered from bone cancer and had a prosthetic leg, sleeping in her bed around 2:30 a.m. Saturday morning, three hours before a brush fire in the backyard of the family home was reported. Hours after the fire Adam Baker called police to report Zahra missing.

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MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee County medical examiners office ruled Wednesday that Mattasia Bowie, 3, died from blunt force injuries to her head.The 3-year-old girl died in Milwaukee earlier this month.It said methadone intoxication also contributed to the girl’s death this month in Milwaukee.Her mother has been charged with child neglect, and her mother’s boyfriend has been charged with child abuse.

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CEDAR CITY — An infant police say was shaken and critically injured by his father — now a convicted felon — died two weeks ago after several months on life support. The death occurred just one day after another Cedar City child died from what police believe is another incidence of child abuse.

The (now) 11-month-old child was just a few months old when his grandmother found him not breathing at his father’s Cedar City residence. Police were contacted after she took him to Valley View Medical Center on Dec. 18, with severe internal injuries, which medical experts later concluded was consistent with shaken baby syndrome, according to court documents.

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