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Boy, 5, blew £60,000 at shops A five-year-old boy went on a £60,000 shopping spree after finding a fortune in cash in his dad's safe. The boy took a gang of friends to a shopping mall and blew the lot on clothes, toys, bicycles, sweets, computers and games. His father Slobodan Markovic, a Serbian businessman, kept the money in a safe at home, only realised what had happened when his son and his friends came home with dozens of shopping bags.

"I couldn't believe that our son has to pay child support to his abuser."I've previously discussed cases where boys who have been statutorily raped by older women are forced to pay child support to their rapists. Here's a new one, from Ohio. From Boy's parents sue to get his baby from mom, 21 (Columbus Dispatch, 8/16/08): LANCASTER, Ohio --- A Pickerington couple and their son are fighting for custody of a baby born to a Lancaster woman charged with having unlawful sex with the boy, who was 15 at the time of conception. A paternity test shows that the teen...

Cadaver Dogs Records Requested By Attorney ORLANDO, Fla. -- Cell phone calls made in a span of several hours by the mother of a missing Orlando girl could help detectives determine where the woman was in the days after her daughter was last seen. Casey Anthony's cell phone records from June 16 -- the day investigators believe something may have happened to her daughter Caylee -- show she made nearly a dozen calls in less than five hours, records obtained by Fox News Channel showed. Anthony called her mother seven times, her dad once, her boyfriend and two other friends,...

<p>Missing Florida 3-year-old Caylee Marie Anthony might have died accidentally on or around June 16, according to police. Orange County detectives told FOX News on Wednesday that they are looking at several theories as to what may have befallen the little girl, among them the accidental death hypothesis.</p>

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A source inside the Orange County Sheriff's Office shared a new theory in the Caylee Anthony disappearance on Tuesday. At the center of the theory is the possibility that the missing toddler is dead. Authorities at the Orange County Sheriff's Office said they're focusing on three key dates in their investigation. Members of the Anthony family said they refuse to believe the theory that Caylee died, but there are many people who think it is a possibility. "I think it was accidental, and I think her mom tried to cover it up, and it kind of blew...

KNOXVILLE, TN (WOFL FOX 35, Orlando) -- DNA samples taken from Casey Anthony's car are still undergoing analysis, but FOX 35 can confirm that forensic anthropologists from the University of Tennessee have now been called in to test air samples from the vehicle. Anthony, 22, is being held on over half-a-million dollar bond after investigators said she lied to them and did not report daughter Caylee Marie Anthony missing for more than a month. Last week, she was formally charged with child neglect, a felony, and making false statements to law enforcement officers, a misdemeanor. Sheriff's deputies testified that her...

The jailed mother of a missing Orlando toddler reportedly told her father during a jailhouse visit that the girl will be home by her third birthday next week. "Dad, she's close," Casey Anthony, 22, told her father, George Anthony, during a jailhouse visit on Sunday, according to MyFOXOrlando.com. "Dad, she's close." Anthony said he's convinced Caylee Marie Anthony is still alive and indicated that his daughter sobbing during their visit, saying that she wants to be there for the girl's birthday on Aug. 9, MyFOXOrlando.com reported.

A 23-year-old father was booked into jail under suspicion of second-degree child abuse after leaving his son in his car while he watched the midnight showing of "The Dark Knight." David Farnham of Salt Lake City left his 2-year-old son inside his car in the parking lot of the Century 16 Theaters at 125 E. 3300 South on Saturday night. An onlooker walking by the car at 1:22 a.m. on Sunday saw the baby inside the vehicle crying and sweating profusely, said detective Gary Keller with the South Salt Lake City Police Department. Farnham rolled the windows up in the...

CHICAGO — A gust of wind blew a 2-year-old in a stroller into Lake Michigan, where the boy remained submerged for at least 15 minutes before being pulled out unconscious but alive. The child's grandfather, who had been pushing the stroller on the lakeside Friday afternoon, jumped into the harbor to try to save the boy, the Chicago Fire Department said. Witnesses said the frantic grandfather struggled in the frigid water, just off a 70-foot long pier, pointing a few feet away and shouting, "Child! Child!" "He was just moaning in the breakwater, crying," said

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. -- A couple arguing about which gang their 4-year-old toddler should join caused a public disturbance that resulted in the father's arrest, Commerce City police said Thursday, reported KMGH-TV in Denver. His girlfriend told police that they had been arguing about the upbringing of their son and which gang he should belong to. The teen mother, who is black, told authorities she is a member of the Crips, police said. Manzanares is Hispanic and belongs to the Westside Ballers gang, the woman told police.

Police move a suspect believed to have tossed a toddler from the H1 pedestrian overpass off Magellan St. in the lower Punchbowl area of Honolulu Thursday Jan. 17, 2008 The man in hospital scrubs threw the toddler like a doll from a pedestrian overpass to the freeway humming with traffic. The 2½-year-old boy fell 30 feet to the asphalt and was pronounced dead at the scene. The horrifying incident Thursday on the highway cutting through the heart of the city shocked Honolulu residents, causing panicked parents to phone day care centers to check on their children. Police arrested a...

PHOENIX — The mother of a 17-month-old boy found dead after he was left unattended inside a hot car for at least seven hours in a north Phoenix Hooters restaurant was arrested on one felony count of negligent homicide. Police say the woman, Ashly Duchene, 22, left her son in her car when she arrived at the north Phoenix Hooters restaurant where she works at about 10 a.m. Tuesday. When she returned to the car after her shift at nearly 5 p.m., her son was dead. Efforts to revive the boy by witnesses, officers and firefighters were unsuccessful. Police Sgt....

GOLDEN, B.C. – Rescuers who helped find a 3-year-old girl alive in the crumpled wreckage of an airplane in the rugged British Columbia mountains say they knew she was OK when she cried for her teddy bear. The girl, Kate Williams, miraculously survived the crash on Sunday because she was strapped into a child's car seat, said Mike Plonka, a member of Golden's search-and-rescue team. Her pilot grandfather, Allen D. Williams, 65, and Steven T. Sutton, died in the accident. The plane was found nose down and flipped over in the icy water on the edge of a riverbank. "What...

PHOENIX — Officers responding to a report of an exorcism on a young girl found her grandfather choking her and used stun guns to subdue the man, who later died, authorities said Sunday. The 3-year-old girl and her mother, who was also in the room during the struggle between 49-year-old Ronald Marquez and officers, were hospitalized, police said. Their condition was unavailable. The relative who called police said an exorcism had also been attempted Thursday. "The purpose was to release demons from this very young child," Sgt. Joel Tranter said. Officers arrived at the house Saturday and entered when they...

ATLANTA - A woman said she and her toddler son were kicked off a plane after she refused a flight attendant's request to medicate her son to get him to quiet down and stop saying "Bye bye, plane."

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A man has been arrested in the beating death of a passenger who'd been riding in a car that struck a toddler in Austin, Texas. Golden Gloves boxer Kurtiss Colvin has been charged with felony manslaughter and theft and a misdemeanor count of assault. He is being held on $215,000 bond. Last month, David Morales died trying to protect the driver of the car he had been riding in. The driver had struck a 2-year-old boy after dropping Morales off. Though the child was not seriously injured, several people attacked the driver, and Morales tried to...

Bark helps save lost toddler Toddler Connor Cummings wandered away from his rural home Friday night, gone suddenly into the surrounding woods. More than 300 people on foot, all-terrain vehicles and in helicopters scoured the dense brush for two miles around the Granville County house, about 50 miles north of Raleigh. But hearts grew heavier as night fell, thunderstorms raged and another day passed. It was about 8:30 p.m. Saturday when family friend Steve Brewer, picking through the forest on horseback after more than 24 hours in search, heard a bark. "It's just like one of those Lassie stories," he...

ANTIOCH – Kim Mayorga was confused when her 2-year-old started making funny faces and pushing away the apple juice he had ordered at Applebee's. The explanation came when she opened the lid of the sippy cup and was hit by the smell of tequila and Triple Sec. The restaurant staff accidentally gave Julian Mayorga a margarita Monday. He grew drowsy and started vomiting a few hours later and was rushed to the hospital. “I wasn't going to make a big deal about it,” the mother told the Contra Costa Times on Thursday, “but then he got sick.” The apple juice...

ROMANCE, Ark. - An 18-month-old boy died Wednesday of suspected heat exposure after he climbed into a dishwasher that started running, police said. Authorities are still investigating, but said it appeared the boy's death was accidental. "This is probably the hardest, most emotional scene that these investigators will ever work," said Chief Deputy Jeremy Clark of the White County sheriff's office. Blake Kurck was found dead in his home near the White County town of Romance at about 1 p.m. Wednesday, the sheriff's office said. The boy's 13-year-old brother found him inside the appliance, which was running, authorities said. "The...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska - A toddler knew to call 911 when his mother collapsed and lost consciousness, thanks to a children's book his grandmother had sent several months earlier. Tony Sharpe was home in North Pole with his mother, Courtenay, on April 10, when she blacked out during a gall bladder attack. The four-year-old went to the phone and reached the North Star Volunteer Fire Department by dialing the emergency number. He told a dispatcher: "Mommy is sick. Mommy needs an ambulance. Mommy fell over. She is sleeping," according to a recording of the call. "Can you call the ambulance?" he...

NEW ORLEANS, LA -- Louisiana pawnshop manager Dan Reese said he never thought he'd see a diaper-clad 2-year-old holding an AK-47. But that's exactly what happened inside BJ's Pawn Shop, Reese said. The toddler's father gave him the gun and proceeded to show the child how to hold, load and operate it. "He's telling the boy, 'This is how you hold it, like this. Anybody in front of you, you can mow them down. Kill everybody, soldier, because daddy's going to buy you this chopper,' repeating it over and over," Reese said. The store's surveillance video also shows the father...

CAMP TAJI, Iraq, March. 2, 2007 — Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldiers assisted in the medical evacuation of a two-year-old Iraqi girl March 1 after she fell from a truck near the city of Mushada, Iraq. Troopers from Company B, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment were on a patrol when they came upon a wounded child and her father, who told the soldiers his daughter had fallen from the vehicle. The soldiers immediately called for an urgent medical evacuation. Shortly afterward, the girl and her father were airlifted to the 28th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad, where the girl underwent...

TOWSON, Md. A Maryland woman is being held on two (m) million dollars' bail after police say she rammed her pickup truck into a boy being pushed in a stroller. Police say Lazara Arellano De Hogue dragged the child for three-quarters of a mile, killing him. De Hogue is been charged with hit and run, and police say additional charges are pending. Authorities say De Hogue slammed her Dodge Ram into three-year-old Elijah Cozart and his grandmother on a busy street in Towson Friday afternoon. Police say the stroller became trapped in the undercarriage of the truck, but that De...

A Houston-area family was mourning the death of their 4-old-son who was killed by two pit bulls that attacked as he was playing with his 2-year-old brother. Pedro Rios died of his injuries Tuesday afternoon in a mobile home park east of Houston, the Houston Chronicle reported Wednesday. He and his brother were playing when the dogs approached. The younger boy managed to escape. The boys' mother heard screams and raced to the boy and tried pulling the dogs off but they wouldn't let go until lights and sirens of sheriff's deputies' cars startled them, the report said. Deputies killed...

Police are searching for two men who carajcked a family's SUV overnight and then ran over the family's toddler as they took off, according to television news reports this morning. The theft happened on Jensen near Sadler in northeast Houston as the father pulled into a car wash parking lot to use a payphone. He was then approached by two men, who demanded money and then the family's SUV. The suspects allegedly told everyone to get out of the car, including three young children. Police told television reporters that the child was run over in the confusion. The toddler was...

A toddler will be scarred for life after being attacked by a neighbour's kelpie cross, prompting her plastic surgeon to warn about the unpredictability of dogs, even family pets. "The family and the child were familiar with the dog and the reason that it's scary is that dogs can behave unpredictably, even a supposedly friendly dog," said Dr Hassall, a member of the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons. "The scars left by these injuries are permanent. There's a life-long reminder now that this child's been attacked by a dog. The toddler's mother was distracted with another one of her children...

WASHINGTON - Oops, the scientist dropped his clothespin. Not to worry — a wobbly toddler raced to help, eagerly handing it back. The simple experiment shows the capacity for altruism emerges as early as 18 months of age. Toddlers' endearing desire to help out actually signals fairly sophisticated brain development, and is a trait of interest to anthropologists trying to tease out the evolutionary roots of altruism and cooperation. Psychology researcher Felix Warneken performed a series of ordinary tasks in front of toddlers, such as hanging towels with clothespins or stacking books. Sometimes he "struggled" with the tasks; sometimes he...

OK, FreepPeeps! Need emergency help with 26 mo. old boy who does not want to wear any heavy shirts, pants or jackets. I know there are some sympathetic parents out there, pleez help a fellow freep parent on suggestions. It's not that he just doesn't like it, it's the stubbornness that goes along. I know, the nanny jokes will ensure, but that's ok. He makes himself sick crying and they eyes and nose run all over the place like his jacket or pants are holy water to a vampire ;-) when we try to get him used to these things...

Divers went back into the Grand Calumet River in Gary this morning, searching for a 2-year-old girl who was ejected from a sport-utility vehicle Wednesday night when the SUV struck a guardrail, WGN-Ch. 9 reported. The child, Jatama Greene of Gary, was not in a child-restraining seat and was wearing only a seat belt when the SUV driven by her mother crashed shortly before 9 p.m. Wednesday on the Cline Avenue exit ramp from the Indiana Toll Road, authorities said. Jatama was thrown from the vehicle and fell 40 feet into the river, WGN reported. "We have a witness who...

Northwest Side man charged in online sex sting Wednesday, July 06, 2005 Kirk D . Richards THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH A man who wants to be a Clinton Township trustee had his 22-month-old son with him when he showed up at a Butler County skating rink intending to meet a teenage girl for sex, police said. Mark A. Hill, of 1765 Gerrard Ave., was arrested Saturday in the parking lot of Skateway Roller Rink in Trenton, Police Chief Rodney D. Hale said. He had been led there by investigators posing on the Internet as a 14-year-old girl. The Northwest Side man...

NEW ORLEANS, La. (May 17, 2005) -- A district Marine was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal for his role in the recent rescue of a choking toddler. Staff Sgt. Brian C. Stirrat was spending a quiet weekend afternoon in his townhouse when he was startled by frantic screams from his neighbor, Letecia Santos. "She said my son is choking, my son is choking, please help me," explained the 26-year-old canvassing recruiter assigned to Recruiting Station Oklahoma City, Recruiting Sub-station Wichita, Kan. Stirrat quickly leapt over the barrier between the two apartments and assessed the situation. He discovered...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A 2-year-old Albuquerque girl mauled by three pit bulls remains in critical condition at University of New Mexico Hospital on Wednesday. On Tuesday, three pit bulls mauled the girl at her home, right in front of her mother. Her family said the girl underwent surgery in the afternoon. Doctors shaved her head to stitch her skull wounds, and a plastic surgeon worked on her face scratches. The toddler's mother feels it was her fault. Police say no charges have been filed and the investigation is ongoing. The district attorney's office is looking into whether a crime was...

Police say a Cincinnati man raped a 3-year-old girl and broadcast it live on the Internet, according to Cincinnati TV station WLWT. Paul A. Kraft was arrested Tuesday night and charged with two counts of rape and one count of pandering sexually oriented material involving a minor Kraft, 31, is being held in the Hamilton County Justice Center. His bond was set Wednesday at $750,000. Kraft faces up to 28 years in prison if convicted. A tip from the Secret Service to the Regional Electronic and Computer Investigations Unit resulted in Kraft's arrest, according to the Hamilton County Sheriff's...

ANDERSON, Ind. -- Police, firefighters and area residents searched an Indiana neighborhood for two hours Tuesday night before finding a 2-year-old girl sound asleep in her bed, hidden under a pile of clothes. The girl's mother called police to report that one of her five children was missing. Officers searched the house, then put out an alert when they didn't find the girl. About two hours later, when detectives went back to the house to talk to the mother, they searched again and found the girl. Police said Child Protective Services has been called to the house twice before after...

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Decmeber 12th, 2004, 5:45 p.m.) -- The search for an 18-month-old girl has ended in tragedy. Police discovered the body of Kaylynn Gaddie early Sunday morning four days after she went missing. Now, the boyfriend of the baby's mother is charged with killing her. WAVE 3's Frances Kuo has the story. Kaylynn Gaddie only lived for a year and a half. Her young life ended with what the coroner says was a blunt force trauma to the head. "I never in my wildest dreams thought that Shawn would hurt that baby like that ... never," said James Barr,...

NAGAOKA, Japan (Oct. 27) - A 2-year-old boy was rescued Wednesday after surviving for four days buried in a landslide from the powerful quake that ravaged northern Japan over the weekend. Rescuers also pulled Yuta Minagawa's mother, Takako Minagawa, 39, from the wreckage, but doctors later announced she had died. A daughter, 3-year-old Mayu, was still buried and her condition was uncertain. The family's white van was swept away in a wave of boulders and earth that pulverized the hillside road they were on when a 6.8-magnitude quake ripped across rural Niigata prefecture on Saturday, killing at least 31 people....

BERLIN (AFP) - German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder confirmed that he and his wife have adopted a child, reported to be a girl from a Russian orphanage, but called on the media to respect his family's privacy. "I can confirm that we have adopted a child," he told reporters in Berlin. The head of Schroeder's Social Democrats party in his homestate of Lower Saxony, Wolfgang Juettner, said on Monday that the first couple had claimed custody of the girl, named Victoria, from Saint Petersburg. Schroeder's wife, former journalist Doris Schroeder-Koepf, has a 13-year-old daughter named Klara from a previous relationship with...

Little Johnny Edwards meets the Republicans

Somewhere in Germany is a baby Superman, born in Berlin with bulging arm and leg muscles. Not yet 5, he can hold seven-pound weights with arms extended, something many adults cannot do. He has muscles twice the size of other kids his age and half their body fat. DNA testing showed why: The boy has a genetic mutation that boosts muscle growth. The discovery, reported in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, represents the first documented human case of such a mutation. Many scientists believe the find could eventually lead to drugs for treating people with muscular dystrophy and other...

BOULDER CANYON -- Will Pearson has a nose for the news. He's a great fan of Wolf Blitzer and Bill O'Reilly. Will Pearson is 2-years-old. Ask him who is running for president in 2004, and he blurts out a list, "Kucinich, Lieberman, Kerry, Clark, Dean, Edwards, Braun, Sharp, Gephardt... ha, ha," he giggled. He quickly added that some of those candidates (Braun, Gephardt and now Lieberman) are out of the race. "I scream because I get so excited," Will said as he pointed to the television menu items corresponding to news programs coming up on several channels. On Saturday mornings...

<p>State police say 2-year-old boy apparently put his little brother in tub of White County house.</p> <p>Indiana State Police in Lafayette are investigating the death of a 1-year-old boy from Monon who was found with second degree burns inside a bathtub at his home.</p>

Girl unconscious for two days after puncture wound THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KULM, N.D. - A 2-year-old girl is recovering after her skull was pierced by the antler of a deer that ran into her family's vehicle, her mother says. ''Weeks ago, we were standing over her bed not knowing if she was going to live,'' said McKenzie Giesler's mother, Carrie. The Gieslers - Carrie and Gary and three of their six children, McKenzie, 5-year-old Allison and 6-month-old Madison - were traveling to Jamestown on Dec. 14 when their sport utility vehicle was hit by a deer on U.S. Highway 281....

Determining at what point life begins in the womb. To resolve the issue, then, let us take a look at life as it is born into the world. The new baby, most of the time, is said to be "alive," depending upon various and sundry "vital- signs, "Vital" from "vivus" being LAtin for "life, living." Yet, we do not conclude that the baby "became" alive at the moment of birth, for then we must concern ourselves with the prebirth "kicking" of the babe in the womb. Is it alive? Or is it just "thinking about life to come? ("For lo,...

The father of a Wichita girl who died in July is now charged in her death. Prosecutors charged William Dillman after his daughter died, after being left inside a hot SUV for more than eight hours. Dillman did not appear in court in person. He is charged with one count of endangering a child, which is a misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail and/or a fine. Deputy Chief District Attorney Kim Parker says, "Abuse of a child requires intentional action toward a child. Endangering a child can be based upon situations that are unreasonable." Intent is the...

MOUNT HOLLY, N.J. (AP) - A woman accused of leaving her 22-month-old grandson to die inside a burning vehicle was charged with endangering the welfare of a child. Police said 41-year-old Pamela Dreadin was driving in a rural area around 3 a.m. Sunday when her Ford Bronco ran off the road and a fire started in the engine compartment. Dreadin went to a house nearby to call for help but did not mention that her grandson, Michael Malinowski, was in the car until 10 minutes later, when a police officer arrived, authorities said. By the time rescue crews arrived, the...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A 2-year-old girl survived on ketchup, mustard and dried pasta for nearly three weeks after she was left home alone while her mother served time in jail.

GRESHAM, Ore. - Gresham police were investigating the electrocution death of a two-year old boy on Monday evening, authorities said. The boy was electrocuted while playing outside his family's apartment near 162nd and Burnside, Officer Grant McCormick said. The incident happened about 5:45 p.m. McCormick said the boy had been playing outside the apartment, which is attached to the El Porvenir Market, when he somehow got ahold of a live appliance wire and put the wire into his mouth. The child was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said. The boy's identity was not immediately...

<p>BEIJING (AP) A 1-year-old girl who was born with three legs and abandoned by her parents on a Beijing street is to undergo surgery to remove the extra limb, state media and a doctor said Thursday.</p> <p>Doctors at Dongzhimen Hospital in the Chinese capital plan to study the limb for 20 days before operating, a doctor in the hospital's orthopedics department told The Associated Press.</p>

<p>A San Mateo County judge on Friday ordered a Taiwanese candy manufacturer to pay $50 million to a Texas couple whose 21-month-old son died after choking on the company's gel candy.</p> <p>The judgment came just two months after the same manufacturer, Sheng Hsiang Jen Foods Co., was hit with a $16.7 million judgment by a Santa Clara jury following the death of an 11-year-old San Jose girl.</p>

A two-year-old girl is the only survivor of a plane crash that killed 105 passengers and 11 crew shortly after take off in Sudan. The plane had just left Port Sudan airport on the Red Sea for a pre-dawn internal flight to the country's capital Khartoum. The toddler has been named as Lena Abdallah. It is not known whether her parents were on board. The pilot of the Boeing 737 reported trouble and tried to turn back. But flight SD 39 crashed in an uninhabited area just three miles away from the airport. Funeral preparations Government spokesman Salah Ali Ahmed...