Posted by Sandra On December - 14 - 2012Comments Off on Man Injures 22 Children
Man stabs 22 children at China primary school
A man stabbed 22 primary school students in a knife attack in China on Friday, officials said, the latest in a series of assaults. The attacker “has been detained”, said a spokesman for the Guangshan county government in the central province of Henan, where the stabbing happened. “Twenty-two elementary school students were stabbed, so was an adult villager” but none of the victims died, the official, who declined to give his name, told AFP. READ MORE HERE
Posted by Sandra On December - 14 - 2012Comments Off on Talking to Kids About Shootings
How to speak to your kids about the shootings at CT elementary school
Another horrific tragedy. Another day when parents wonder what to say to their kids. Another day to hope that their family — and their young one’s innocence — can be protected. How should parents respond to their children’s questions about the shootings at a Connecticut elementary school on Friday? “Definitely allow your children to express their feelings and their fears,” said Elizabeth Weingart, a licensed clinical social worker in Edmond, Okla., “because you don’t want that bottled up.” READ MORE HERE
To guide parents through difficult discussions about school violence, the National Mental Health Association offers the following suggestions:
Encourage children to talk about their concerns and to express their feelings. Some children may be hesitant to initiate such conversation, so you may want to prompt them by asking if they feel safe at school. When talking with younger children remember to talk on their level. For example, they may not understand the term “violence” but can talk to you about being afraid or a classmate who is mean to them.
Talk honestly about your own feelings regarding school violence. It is important for children to recognize they are not dealing with their fears alone.
Validate the child’s feelings. Do not minimize a child’s concerns. Let him/her know that serious school violence is not common, which is why these incidents attract so much media attention. Stress that schools are safe places. In fact, recent studies have shown that schools are more secure now than ever before.
Empower children to take action regarding school safety. Encourage them to report specific incidents (such as bullying, threats or talk of suicide) and to develop problem solving and conflict resolution skills. Encourage older children to actively participate in student-run anti-violence programs.
Discuss the safety procedures that are in place at your child’s school. Explain why visitors sign in at the principal’s office or certain doors remain locked during the school day. Help your child understand that such precautions are in place to ensure his or her safety and stress the importance of adhering to school rules and policies.
Create safety plans with your child. Help identify which adults (a friendly secretary, trusted teacher or approachable administrator) your child can talk to if they feel threatened at school. Also ensure that your child knows how to reach you (or another family member or friend) in case of crisis during the school day. Remind your child that they can talk to you anytime they feel threatened.
Recognize behavior that may indicate your child is concerned about returning to school. Younger children may react to school violence by not wanting to attend school or participate in school-based activities. Teens and adolescents may minimize their concerns outwardly, but may become argumentative, withdrawn, or allow their school performance to decline.
Keep the dialogue going and make school safety a common topic in family discussions rather than just a response to an immediate crisis. Open dialogue will encourage children to share their concerns.
Seek help when necessary. If you are worried about a child’s reaction or have ongoing concerns about his/her behavior or emotions, contact a mental health professional at school or at your community mental health center.
Posted by Sandra On December - 14 - 2012Comments Off on Mass School Shooting: 28 Dead
BREAKING NEWS: Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut: 28 killed including 20 children
NEWTOWN, Conn. – An official with knowledge of a shooting at a Connecticut elementary school says 28 people are dead, including 20 children. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is still under way. The gunman is reportedly dead. The shooting sent frightened students into the parking lot. READ MORE HERE
The one known shooter was 24, carrying four weapons and wearing black clothing and a bullet proof vest. He is dead, authorities told ABC News. Police continue to investigate if there was a second shooter involved. CBS reports that a student’s father was the shooter.
More than two dozen people, mostly elementary school children, were shot and killed at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school this morning, federal and state sources tell ABC News. The massacre involved two gunmen and prompted the town of Newtown to lock down all of its schools and draw SWAT teams to the school, authorities said today. One shooter is dead and a manhunt is on for a second gunman. Police are searching cars. One shooter was described as a 24-year-old armed with four weapons and wearing a bullet vest, sources told ABC News. READ MORE HERE
A young girl cries following a shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., about 60 miles (96 kilometers) northeast of New York City, Friday, Dec. 14, 2012. A gunman entered the school Friday morning and killed at least 26 people, including 20 young children. / Melanie Stengel,AP Photo/The New Haven
At least 26 people were killed in a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, a law enforcement official said. The gunman, a 20-year-old from Connecticut, is dead Photos from the scene
As the story of the tragic shooting unfolds, many people are pondering: Why has there been so much violence in the U.S. lately, and what can be done to stop it?
Principal Dawn Hochsprung, killed in Friday’s shooting at her Connecticut elementary school, recently installed a new security system to ensure student safety.
School shootings such as the one at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, may have long-lasting consequences, but with proper support, many children are able to move on, experts say.
Residents of Newtown, Connecticut, took to social media Friday to share their fear, shock and horror over the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Learn more about school violence in the U.S. with our interactive timeline of incidents of random violence at elementary, middle and high schools since 1927.
Most of those killed in the attack were first-graders
Eighteen females and seven males were killed in the attack. Sixteen of the children were 6 years old, while four were 7.
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20 Children:
Charlotte Bacon, 6
Daniel Barden, 7
Olivia Engel, 6
Josephine Gay, 7
Ana M. Marquez-Greene, 6
Dylan Hockley, 6
Madeleine F. Hsu, 6
Catherine V. Hubbard, 6
Chase Kowalski, 7
Jesse Lewis, 6
James Mattioli, 6
Grace McDonnell, 7
Emilie Parker, 6
Jack Pinto, 6
Noah Pozner, 6
Caroline Previdi, 6
Jessica Rekos, 6
Avielle Richman, 6
Benjamin Wheeler, 6
Allison N. Wyatt, 6
Six adults
Rachel Davino, 29
Dawn Hochsprung, 47, principal
Anne Marie Murphy, 52, special education teacher
Lauren Rousseau, 30, teacher
Mary Sherlach, 56, school psychologist
Victoria Soto, 27, first grade teacher
Posted by Sandra On December - 10 - 2012Comments Off on Secret Files Exposing Priests’ Child Abuse May go Public
Explosive documents buried for decades may be revealed after judge rules on priests’ bid to keep papers under wraps
Secret files detailing allegations of child sex abuse which have been kept under wraps for decades by Roman Catholic authorities in Los Angeles may be made public. A judge will hear final objections from accused priests who want the documents kept under lock and key. The papers are believed to contain thousands of pages on abusive clerics. READ MORE HERE
Posted by Sandra On December - 10 - 2012Comments Off on Child Predator Protection Bill
The Child Protection Act
President Obama on Friday signed into law a bill aimed at fighting child pornography, sexual predators and human trafficking. The Child Protection Act increases the penalties for child pornography, protects child witnesses and gives U.S. marshals new powers to obtain time-sensitive documents involved in the cases. In addition, the law extends federal funding for regional Internet task forces that focus on cyber-crimes. READ MORE HERE
Posted by Sandra On December - 10 - 2012Comments Off on Mother Killed 4-MO Baby While High On Drugs
A mother who was high on a cocktail of drugs and alcohol killed her four-month-old son when she knocked a large television on to his head, a court has heard. Preston Crown Court was told that Natalie McMillan, 25, from Burnley in Lancashire had taken a mixture of heroin and Valium and was in no fit state to look after her son Kian when the incident happened. The youngster suffered ‘catastrophic’ brain injuries the day after the television toppled from a cupboard while he was resting on a mat on the floor of the family home last December. READ MORE HERE
Posted by Sandra On December - 10 - 2012Comments Off on Child Murderer Gets 80-Years
Tumlin Found Guilty Of Several Charges In Death Of His Young Son; Faces “Very Lengthy” Prison Sentence
A Criminal Court jury on Thursday afternoon convicted Reginald Tumlin of criminally negligent homicide, aggravated child neglect and two counts of child abuse. He avoided a life sentence for a conviction of felony murder, but he still is facing extensive prison time at a later sentencing hearing. Tumlin has numerous prior felony convictions. If he is adjudged a “career offender” he would be facing 60 years at 60 percent before parole consideration. READ MORE HERE
Posted by Sandra On December - 9 - 2012Comments Off on Indian Reservation Shooting Ramage
Suspect dead after killing spree on California Indian reservation
PORTERVILLE, Calif. – Authorities in California have confirmed a fifth death in a shooting of tribal members on an Indian reservation. Tulare County sheriff’s spokeswoman Chris Douglass says Sunday that an 8-year-old girl is among four family members killed by her father. She was identified as Alyssa Celaya. Authorities say 31-year-old Hector Celaya also killed his mother and her two brothers and wounded Alyssa’s brother and sister, then died in a shootout with police. READ MORE HERE
(Reuters) – The man suspected of a shooting rampage in California at the Tule River Indian Reservation in which three people were killed and three others wounded, including two young daughters of the suspect, has died, county officials said on Sunday. READ MORE HERE
Posted by Sandra On December - 9 - 2012Comments Off on School Abuse Causing Alarm
SALT LAKE CITY — A former charter school principal was arrested and charged Monday after reportedly admitting to FBI investigators that he had sexually abused “several young boys over the past 35 years,” according to a police affidavit filed in court. That same day, Stephen Paul Niedzwiecki, a former Kaysville basketball coach a science teacher, was arrested and later charged after allegedly engaging in a sexually abusive relationship with a 14-year-old student. READ MORE HERE
Posted by Sandra On December - 9 - 2012Comments Off on Stepfather Faces Death Penalty
Stepfather faces death penalty for murder of boy, 4, found buried on mountain trail with face smashed in by hammer
A man is facing the death penalty for the murder of his stepson after the child suffered severe abuse. Nathan Sloop, 34, is charged with aggravated murder over the death of four-year-old Ethan Stacy in 2010. Sloop reportedly told police that he had smashed the boy’s face and teeth with a hammer to conceal his identity before burying his body off a mountain trail. The boy died after prolonged beatings, being burned, drugged and starved, authorities said. He was also locked up and left alone by his mother 29-year-old Stephanie Sloop and her husband at their home in Layton, Utah. READ MORE HERE
Posted by Sandra On December - 9 - 2012Comments Off on Pedophile Sentenced to LIFE
A pedophile who took a 12-year-old girl he was abusing to a notorious dogging site to be raped by another man has been jailed for life. Michael Gwyther, 44, repeatedly raped the youngster and took her to an open-air sex site where he offered to share her with other men. Swindon Crown Court heard Gwyther’s campaign of abuse only came to light when parents of two other girls aged 14 and 15 who he was grooming found out and contacted police. Officers found indecent pictures and an explicit video of the 12-year-old on his phone when they arrested him at his home in Easterton, Wiltshire. READ MORE HERE
Posted by Sandra On December - 9 - 2012Comments Off on True Story: “I Divorced My Own Father”
We’ve all disagreed with our parents at some point, but when Lucy Baxter was pushed too far by her father’s behavior, she took extreme action
I am a brand-new divorcée. Devastated, relieved, somewhat confused. But there’s no ex-husband involved: instead, I have cut my father out of my life, told him our relationship is over and, figuratively speaking, delivered him his decree absolute. At the age of 46 I have ‘divorced’ my Dad. It’s one of the ultimate taboos – deliberately cutting off all contact with a parent. ‘I think most people do not realize how irrationally loyal they are to their parents,’ says clinical psychologist and writer Oliver James (author of How Not To F*** Them Up). ‘Small children love their parents unconditionally and have a strong impulse to protect them from criticism. I remember interviewing [the murderer] Fred West’s daughter Anne Marie, and even though she had been treated about as badly as a child can be by a parent, she was still sticking up for him.’ So there is an inborn instinct that, however badly a parent behaves towards us, we should forgive them. READ MORE HERE
Posted by Sandra On December - 9 - 2012Comments Off on Jerry Sandusky Being Treated as “Worst of the Worst” In Prison
Serial child sex offender Jerry Sandusky lives under tight restrictions in prison for his own safety, it has been revealed. The former Penn State coach is on hard routine after he asked for more prison privileges and then received threats from inmates. ‘He is being housed in the appropriate facility in order to assure his safety,’ said Susan McNaughton, press secretary for the Pennsylvania state Department of Corrections. READ MORE HERE
Posted by Sandra On December - 9 - 2012Comments Off on Three Children Sexually Abused By Adoptive Father
The rape of three young boys by their adoptive father has placed the Ohio adoption agency that placed the boys under increased scrutiny. After Kenneth Brandt, of Troy, Ohio, pleaded guilty to raping three boys he adopted from the ACTION, Inc agency, the shocking crime triggered an investigation of the agency, uncovering some unsettling lapses in procedure. READ MORE HERE
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