Tag Archives: For The Children

Tweet referencing Pink’s song ‘Timebomb’ gets teen arrested at concert

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“A 16-year-old boy was arrested at a Pink concert in Australia over the weekend after he tweeted a reference to the singer’s ‘Timebomb’ song. According to The Age, the teen was attending the U.S. pop star’s concert at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on Sunday when he tried to express his excitement in a way that authorities did not find amusing. In an interview with 10 News, the boy said that that arena staff used the photo on his Twitter profile to track him down out of the crowd of 12,000 people. The boy now faces charges of being a public nuisance.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/08/tweet-referencing-pinks-song-timebomb-gets-teen-arrested-at-concert/

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Rape and sexual assault run rampant in juvenile justice system: Justice Department survey

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“Hundreds of teen-agers are raped or sexually assaulted during their stays in the country’s juvenile detention facilities, and many of them are victimized repeatedly, according to a U.S. Department of Justice survey.  The teens are most often assaulted by staff members working at the facilities, and fully 20 percent of those victimized by the men and women charged with protecting and counseling them said they had been violated on more than 10 occasions.  The Justice Department survey involved more than 8,500 boys and girls. In all, 1,720 of those surveyed reported being sexually assaulted.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/06/rape-and-sexual-assault-run-rampant-in-juvenile-justice-system-justice-department-survey/

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Belgian diplomat booted from NY golf club, treated like ‘terrorists’ over wife’s breast-feeding

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“Minutes later, the Greenburgh Police Department arrived. Detective Scott Harding allegedly yelled, ‘Close the doors!’ and two other diners were told to leave the terrace. ‘He was walking as if he was acting in a Western movie,’ Neijens said. ‘He had one hand on his gun, one hand on his Taser.’ Neijens said the officer warned the couple they were trespassing and said some people at the club thought they were terrorists because of their black backpack. When Remans, on the verge of tears, questioned why terrorists would breast-feed at a ritzy club, the cop allegedly replied, ‘In Sri Lanka, babies are used by terrorists.'”

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/mom_terror_bust_n1BftwpraCJSSBW1xjf2aO

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Tobacco Speakeasy: Prohibition Lite Is Making RYO Cigarettes All the Rage

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“A month ago, I was sitting with some college students for lunch. After we ate, two of them took out loose-leaf tobacco and rolling papers, with filters and all. They started rolling cigarettes at the table. In some way, it looked more like poverty than a charming anachronism. Puzzled, I asked why they were doing this. The answer was what I feared: Thanks to taxes, no student can really afford pre-rolled cigarettes anymore. You can avoid those taxes by rolling your own for a fraction of the price. And so it has come to be. Students are equipping dorm rooms with rolling machines. Kids carry pouches and filters. It strikes me as very strange, like a reversal of time.”

http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/tobacco-speakeasy

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Italy bans sale of electronic cigarettes to minors

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“Italy banned the sale of electronic cigarettes containing nicotine to minors on Thursday and forbid their use in schools, amid criticism from a consumer watchdog that the move did not go far enough. Italian consumer association Codacons criticised the new law as ‘utterly insufficient’.  ‘E-cigarettes should be banned in all public places, just like normal cigarettes. It’s not clear why the ministry believes they are dangerous, and therefore should be banned in schools, but not in other places open to the public,’ Codacons president Carlo Rienzi said.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/27/italy-bans-sale-of-electronic-cigarettes-to-minors/

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European Union ministers back ban on menthol cigarettes

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“European Union health ministers on Friday approved plans to ban menthol and other flavoured cigarettes as part of a crackdown on youth smoking. The proposed legislation must now be voted on by the European parliament. Irish Health Minister James Reilly, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, said it was a ‘a huge step forward in the fight against tobacco use’.  EU Health Commissioner Tonio Borg, himself a former smoker, said he believed the ban could be in place within three years.  They also agreed to force tobacco companies to cover 65 percent of cigarette packets with health warnings and gruesome pictures.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/21/european-union-ministers-back-ban-on-menthol-cigarettes/

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Homicide convictions upheld for faith-healer parents whose daughter died

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“Wisconsin and more than a dozen other states have protections in place to keep parents who choose prayer over medical attention from being charged with child abuse. The Neumanns’ attorneys maintain that the law protects parents up through the creation of a potentially lethal situation, making the line where faith-healer parents cross over into criminal liability a blurry one.  An Neumann family attorney told the AP that the couple is ‘devastated’ by the decision.  ‘They’re still mourning the loss of this child,’ said Dale Neumann’s defense lawyer Steven L. Miller. ‘From their perspective they felt they were acting in a legal manner.'”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/03/wisconsin-court-upholds-homicide-conviction-for-faith-healer-parents-who-let-daughter-die/

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NJ Supreme Court Rules State Can Seek Custody Of Child Without Evidence Of Abuse

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“The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled this week that authorities can seek custody of a child, even where there’s no evidence of abuse or neglect. The case involved a divorced Camden County mother of 9-year-old twin girls.  In 2007, she asked New Jersey’s Division of Child Protection and Permanency for help, claiming she was unable to care for the girls who had psychological and developmental disabilities and needed to be placed in residential care. ‘You can turn to the Division for help, but it may come with a cost,’ says Diana Autin, executive director of Statewide Parent Advocacy Network of New Jersey.”

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2013/06/14/nj-supreme-court-rules-state-can-seek-custody-of-child-without-evidence-of-abuse/

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Teen Jailed For Facebook Comment Beaten Up Behind Bars

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“The family of Justin Carter, the 19-year-old Texas gamer who made offensive Facebook comments that landed him in jail, is working with new urgency to get his $500,000 bail reduced because they say he’s getting beat up behind bars. ‘Without getting into the really nasty details, he’s had concussions, black eyes, moved four times from base for his own protection,’ says Carter’s father, Jack. ‘He’s been put in solitary confinement, nude, for days on end because he’s depressed. All of this is extremely traumatic to this kid. This is a horrible experience.’ Carter has been in jail since his arrest in February.”

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/07/03/198129617/teen-jailed-for-facebook-comment-reportedly-beat-up-behind-bars

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The Great Obamacare Intergenerational Swindle

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“Will we be able to talk healthy young Americans into buying medical insurance that costs seven times what it would in a free market in order to subsidize our increasingly expensive health care? Or will we have to sic IRS enforcers on them for selfishly taking advantage of the law’s pre-existing condition protections to get care at someone else’s expense in case of serious illness? It’s a tough sell, but take heart, fellow Boomers. We’ve been preparing our children for community servitude for years. Why else did we feed them a steady diet of social consciousness, while preaching that it takes a village from the day we dumped them in daycare? Now, it’s time for them to pay up.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/billfrezza/2013/07/02/the-great-obamacare-intergenerational-swindle/

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