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Parents Of Slain DNC Staffer Sue Fox News Over Fake News Story
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Parents Of Slain DNC Staffer Sue Fox News Over Fake News Story
The parents of Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee staffer who was killed in 2016, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Fox News, one of its reporters and a network guest over a retracted story that connected their son’s death to a “baseless” conspiracy theory.
“No parent should ever have to live through what we have been forced to endure,” Joel and Mary Rich said in a statement following the suit’s filing in the Southern District of New York. “The pain and anguish that comes from seeing your murdered son’s life and legacy treated as a mere political football is beyond comprehension.”
The suit, first reported by ABC News, claims Fox News, investigative reporter Malia Zimmerman and network regular Ed Butowsky “intentionally exploited” Rich’s death “through lies, misrepresentations and half-truths.”
The suit also accuses Fox News of contacting Rich’s parents “under false pretenses” for the purposes of developing their “sham story.”
Reacting to the suit, Butowsky told ABC News that it was “one of the dumbest” things he’d ever seen.
“Nobody’s benefited from anything,” Butowsky said. “To file a lawsuit to say that anybody has benefited just smells weird.”
Fox News declined to comment, citing pending litigation.
Rich, 27, was killed in his Washington, D.C., neighborhood in July 2016 in what police said was a botched robbery. The crime remains unsolved.
In the weeks after the killing, a conspiracy theory began spreading on social media and far-right websites that Rich had leaked thousands of DNC emails to WikiLeaks.
In May 2017, Fox News published an article, written by Zimmerman, that repeated this false theory. The story, which suggested that Rich’s murder was somehow linked to the “leak,” was robustly promoted on the network by Sean Hannity and “Fox & Friends” co-host Steve Doocy.
After public backlash, Fox News retracted the story about a week later, and said the article “was not initially subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny.” The network neither apologized for the bogus story nor explained how it came to be published.
In their lawsuit, Rich’s parents describe the turmoil and “severe emotional harm” the story caused them. Both now struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder, the suit says, noting that for Rich’s mother, the experience of dealing with the false article was akin to “burying her son all over again.”
“Joel and Mary Rich have brought this case to hold [the defendants] accountable for their reprehensible actions,” the couple’s attorney Leonard Gail said in a statement. “Whether motivated by party politics, ratings, corporate profit or personal gain, we hope to help prevent this kind of malicious and reckless behavior in the future so that others can be spared the hell the Riches have had to endure.”
Rod Wheeler, a private investigator and Fox News contributor, sued Fox News in August, accusing the network of fabricating quotes attributed to him in the false leak story. Wheeler, who was approached by Butowsky and later hired by Rich’s parents to investigate their son’s slaying, also claimed that President Donald Trump had pressed for the article’s publication — a claim the White House denied.
Fox News filed a motion in September to move the suit to arbitration or have it dismissed.
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Image caption Andrew Moffat said the No Outsiders project was about community cohesion and learning to live in modern Britain
A primary school teacher says he has received threats from parents amid protests over teachings about LGBT rights and homophobia.
Demonstrations against the classes have been held outside Parkfield Community School in Alum Rock, Birmingham.
Assistant head Andrew Moffat, who is gay, said he had received “nasty emails” and threats, including one which warned he “wouldn’t last long”.
Protesters have accused him of promoting “personal beliefs”.
Chants of “say no to Moffat” were heard when about 100 people gathered outside the school for the latest protest.
About 741 pupils attend the school, rated “outstanding” by Ofsted, in the predominantly Muslim area.
Some parents at Parkfield are unhappy young children are being taught about same sex couples and the “gender identity” elements of the programme.
A petition against the teachings has now amassed more than 400 signatures.
Image caption About 100 people gathered outside the school gates for the latest demonstration
“I’ve had some nasty emails, I’ve had some comments on messenger,” said Mr Moffat, who was made an MBE for services to equality and diversity in education in 2017.
“I have felt very threatened… it’s been a challenging couple of weeks.
“However, what keeps me going is the support from the school which is absolutely brilliant, the DfE, Ofsted, the city council.
“There are lots of people recognising that this work is important and that’s what you have to hold on to.”
Image caption Parents tied signs to iron railings outside the primary school
The No Outsiders project was first created and piloted by Mr Moffat at the school in 2014 and aims to educate children to accept differences in society.
Dozens of schools across England now teach the same programme, he said.
Mr Moffat resigned from a previous teaching post after a row with Christian parents over teachings about challenging homophobia.
Protesters, who have held a number of demonstrations outside the school gates, claim he is “promoting… personal beliefs and convictions about universal acceptability of homosexuality as being normal and morally correct”.
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“We have no objection to the promotion of respectful treatment of all people”, a statement they handed in to the school says.
One mother, who asked not to be identified, said: “Everyone is different and we accept it.
“If it was in secondary school then fine, but my daughter is in Year 3. I just don’t agree with it at all.”
In a statement released after the latest protest, the school said it was “disappointed” but had no plans to change its teaching.
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Some migrant parents may not reunite with children for years, experts warn
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Some migrant parents may not reunite with children for years, experts warn
US likely to miss Thursday deadline to reunite 2,551 children with parents, due to disorganization, unclear rules and misinformation
Donald Trump may have put an end to his family separation policy last month, but some migrant parents may not reunite with their children for years, experts have warned, due to the many obstacles of rejoining children with their parents.
A district judge in California gave the government until Thursday to reunite 2,551 children, but with 1,012 people reunited as of Tuesday, it is not expected that it will meet the deadline.
Hundreds of mysteries linger in the governments count of separated families, which includes adults the government has deported without their children, people who have chosen to be deported while their children remain in the US and adults deemed unfit to be reunited with their children.
It is just so difficult, and there are so many different issues, said John Sandweg, the acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) from 2013 to 2014. When you have one parent in Central America with no money to hire lawyers and their kids are up in the US, it is going to be years if those families are reunited, if ever.
Before overseeing Ice, Sandweg was general counsel of the US Department of Homeland Security and helped craft the departments immigration, border security and law enforcement policies.
He, like attorneys and advocates who have been working to reunite families since before Trump ended his policy on 20 June, said it would be difficult to reunite children with the 463 parents the government said on Tuesday may not be in the US.
I would be very interested to see a year from now or two years from now how many of those deported parents are with their children, Sandweg said. I suspect it will be very few.
Andy, seven, originally from El Salvador, is reunited with his mother Arley, at Baltimore-Washington international airport, on 23 July. Photograph: Win McNamee/Getty Images
Mark Greenberg, who for three years led the health department agency tasked with caring for the forcibly separated children, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), said it is too early to say how long some families may be separated.
Hopefully that [prolonged separation] wont be the case, but the risk arises because there wasnt initial tracking to maintain a link between parents and their children, said Greenberg, now a fellow at the Immigration Policy Institute.
Greenberg, who in his role at the health department oversaw the program which matched children who crossed the border on their own with parents or other relatives, said there are many unanswered questions about the 914 parents the government has said are ineligible for reunification or not determined.
Health department guidelines specify that the agency may deny release of children to an adult sponsor, such as a parent or other relative, if that person has been convicted of serious crimes including violence, human trafficking or sex crimes.
But earlier this month, when the court ordered the reunification of children under five with their parents, the government said some parents would be denied because of DUI convictions. It raised concerns as to whether they are applying more stringent standards than they would normally apply in approving a sponsor for a child, Greenberg said.
There are also concerns about whether the parents who chose to be deported while their children remained in the US understood what they agreed to. Attorneys have said immigration officials mischaracterized information, told parents they would be reunited with their child if they agreed to be deported and had them sign paperwork they did not understand because they cannot read or write.
The multiple layers of coercion that the vast majority, if not all, of the separated parents that we met with in the El Paso area experienced, was truly astounding, said Katie Shepherd, national advocacy counsel at the Immigration Justice Campaign.
The makeshift system for reunifying families, meanwhile, has left lawyers and advocates scrambling to keep track of cases and ensure families are being treated fairly once they are brought back together.
Kids in Need of Defense (Kind) and other child welfare groups have dispatched advocates across the country to help separated children, but reunifications have been happening hastily. Advocates who have been working with children for weeks, and sometimes months, often lose track of them when children are abruptly removed from health department shelters and reunited with their parents, either inside detention centers or near where their parents were detained.
Overall our concern, even once reunified, is that these families are not going to get full and fair due process, Megan McKenna, Kinds senior director of communications and community engagement, said.
Royce Murray, policy director at American Immigration Council, has visited three detention centers in El Paso, Texas, that hold separated parents. She said reunifications are often happening in parking lots in the middle night and virtually all the adults are getting ankle monitors so Ice can track their location. But the parents are not always clear on what they must do to pursue their immigration case, so lawyers have been staking out detention center parking lots and bus stops hoping to help them.
Shalyn Fluharty, managing attorney at Dilley Pro Bono Project, which provides legal services to people at a family detention center in Texas, said the trauma has made it difficult to speak with parents about their options because the possibility of separation is too emotional. The children and parents completely crumble in tears, Fluharty said.
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Teacher Slammed by Parents for Doing Daily Bible Verse With KidsHer Response Is Perfect
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Smithville, a small town in Texas, is rallying around elementary school teacher Susan Schobel in support of the “daily Bible verse” routine her class performs.
Though it’s since been deleted, Schobel had posted a Facebook video in early November that displayed the kids of Brown Primary School reciting a Bible verse from Romans.
“Love from the center of who you are; don’t fake it. Run for dear life from evil; hold on for dear life to good,” they said aloud proudly, while gathered in a circle.
However, not everyone agreed with what Schobel calls the class’s “daily Bible verse”… especially the parents.
One parent declared the reading was “religious indoctrination” and “unconstitutional.”
“I don’t have anything against religion. I actually love Jesus. I love his teachings, his practices, and it’s been a big impact in my life, but I don’t believe that belongs in the public school system,” another parent, Charlie Lucko, told Fox 7 News.
The teacher has since received some severe backlash for sharing the video, but thankfully she’s part of a largely Christian community that is showing their support with “IStandwithSusan” t-shirts, accompanied by the Scripture verse Romans 12:9-10.
“In a place like this, where there is almost literally a church on every corner, it’s going to come out somehow,” said Hope Mosqueda. “Maybe not even trying intentionally to influence anyone.”
Host of Fox Nation’s “Starnes Country,” Todd Starnes, remarked that the parents opposing the Bible readings was “puzzling.” He questions why they would “object to their children learning to hate evil and do good” as we are a “nation founded on Judeo-Christian principles.”
According to religious liberty experts and lawyers, Schobel violated the 1963 Supreme Court ruling of Abington School District vs. Schempp. The ruling deemed prayer and Bible readings in public schools to be unconstitutional.
Even Cheryl Burns, Brown Primary School’s superintendent, says she recognizes her obligation to “maintain religious neutrality” in her school.
Schobel, however, seems undaunted by the negative attention she has received.
“If I get fired teaching my children about Jesus then I’m getting fired for a great reason!” she boldly wrote in a later post.
Well said, Ms. Schobel.
I pray that other teachers, like yourself, have the courage and audacity to proclaim the Good News of Jesus to this generation of children, no matter what the platform.
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Today, the education system and parents alike are putting more and more pressure on children to be straight-A honors students who excel in every aspect of life. The days of just allowing “kids to be kids” are done, and 15-year-old Thomas Kolding is living proof that the pressure is cracking our children.
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New Jersey police are now searching for the teen who disappeared last Tuesday after withdrawing $1,000 from his savings account and leaving a disturbing note stating that he did not want to be found. He also left without his cell phone, as reported by Crime Online.
The totally unexpected disappearance allegedly occurred right after the bright freshman boy who takes honors courses at Mountain Lakes High School got into an argument with his father, Nicolai Kolding, regarding his grades. Thomas’ parents feel that their son had “gotten too overwhelmed with school work” and thus decided to run away.
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The company has signed up 14 schools across Florida so far, who are charged $1,950 on an annual basis. While there is an opportunity to trial the software, there’s no free tier available.
“We want people who innovate and will champion the product – that’s where the annual fee comes in,” White explains. “We want to weed out the people who aren’t actually going to implement the product,” he adds.
Script currently has several deals in the works, and is expecting to have 60 schools signed up by the end of the school year.
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It’s a sad fact that this world is evidently so self-absorbed that we often don’t notice the strange behavior of our fellow citizens.
Too busy with our lives we don’t stop to investigate the bizarre actions of those within close proximity to us, from our neighbors to our own family and friends. After all, it’s hard to believe that those close to us are capable of atrocious crimes – despite copious amounts of warning signs. Take the cases of Jaycee Lee Dugard and Elizabeth Fritzl for example, both young girls were abducted and held hostage for a majority of their lives by crazed perverts (Fritzl was imprisoned in the basement of her own home by her father for 24 years, while 11-year-old Dugard was snatched from the street and kept captive for 18 years in a tent in her kidnappers backyard). In both cases, the girls were failed by those close to them who were ignorant of the unusual activity that hinted something wasn’t right. When both of those cases came to light, the world was appalled. How could nobody have noticed anything peculiar? Could they have been saved if a nosy neighbor had alerted the police? In the case of Elizabeth Fritzl, many thought it incomprehensible that her mother didn’t know her location. But, despite the private promises we made to ourselves after these stories broke to be more vigilant in society, another scandalous story has managed to emerge. On the morning of Sunday, January 14, police discovered 12 children shackled to their beds inside their family home in Perris, California. They’d been led to the scene by the children’s 17-year-old sibling who managed to escape the confines her bed and dial 911. Upon arrival, police found the “dirty” children malnourished and begging for food and water to soothe their “starving” stomachs. The children’s parents, 57-year-old David Allen Turpin and 49-year-old, Louise Anna Turpin, were arrested and swiftly charged with torture and child endangerment. They are currently being held at the Robert Presley Detention Center, east of Los Angeles, with bail having been set at $9 million. They are due to appear in court on Thursday. Meanwhile, the 13 children – aged between two and 29-years-old – were taken to hospital where they were treated by medical professionals who were horrified by their thin “dirty” frames and pale complexions. Neighbors of the family have now come forward to call them reclusive and unusual, with some even saying they had no idea children even lived in the home (despite there being 13 of them under one roof). “I didn’t know there were kids in the house. I had no idea this was going on,” said Andrew Santillan, who lives nearby. According to other neighbors, the children would “only come out at night” which led to them being dubbed the “vampire family” due to their “really, really pale” skin. Other neighbors have recounted interactions they had with the family for the hoards of reporters now stationed on their street. One recalled an occasion where he’d complimented the children on the Nativity scene that they were building outside the front of their house a few years ago, but rather than be flattered by the praise they were “weird about it.” Still, he thought nothing amiss. Similarly, another neighbor had witnessed the children digging for food in garbage bins, but rather than be alarmed she ignored them. “[They] looked like they were having fun like a regular family,” neighbor Nicole Gooding told CBS2. People have been left confused by the parent’s decision to imprison their own children, but some have hinted that it could have been caused by the family’s financial state which was in dire straits after the parents filed for bankruptcy in 2011 – despite David Turpin earning $140,000 a year as an engineer for a top defense contractor.
Peculiarly, the family took many vacations, often frequenting Disneyland. In addition, David and Louise renewed their wedding vows in 2016 during a ceremony in Las Vegas, complete with an Elvis impersonator, in which all 13 children appear to have been present. For those concerned that education authorities didn’t notice the children’s absence, it would appear that they were homeschooled by their father. According to their grandparents, who hadn’t seen them in five years or suspected anything was wrong, their father was “very strict” when it came to educating his children at his own ‘Sandcastle Day School’, where lessons would include the children memorizing passages from the Bible, and even the whole book. Despite six of the siblings being adults, they allowed their parents to dress them in identical outfits to their seven child siblings for apparent safety reasons. “They were very protective of the kids. This is a highly respectable family,” their grandmother told CNN. It appears that the older children were permitted to drive, with one neighbor having spotted one of the daughters arriving home only one month ago in a red Volkswagen. Outside the Turpin’s home sit four vehicles, including a mini-van. So it’s unclear as to why the children were chained up having evidently been allowed a certain amount of freedom. Although they were of an age where they could have left the care of their parents, the seven adults remained. But, now they are free after being discovered in a “foul-smelling room” by the cops in the family’s four-bedroom house in a well-to-do neighborhood. A neighbor who knew of the property was surprised that so many people could live inside. “Absolutely not. I would say a normal family, if they had six children, it could be adequate but 13? No. Absolutely not,” he told the Daily Mail when asked if a family of 15 could comfortably live inside. As the story develops, no doubt more details will come to light. In the meantime, we are glad that the children have been rescued and the parents reprimanded.
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Armed Police Rescue Unvaccinated 2-Year-Old Child From His Parents
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Armed Police Rescue Unvaccinated 2-Year-Old Child From His Parents

A video recently released by the Chandler Police Department in Arizona shows the moment an unvaccinated 2-year-old boy is rescued from his parents by a team of armed police officers.
The incident, which happened on February 25, saw officers arrive at the home of the boy, before being forced to break down the door to remove the child against his parents’ wishes.
The boy had become ill and was running a worrying fever, which his parents had taken him to the doctor for earlier that day. After the doctor saw the boy’s condition and temperature of 105°F, he believed he could be suffering from a “life-threatening condition” and urged the parents to take him to the hospital, NBC News reports. The mother had said that the child was unvaccinated, and the doctor feared it could be meningitis, which requires urgent medical treatment.
However, the parents returned home instead, fearing repercussions for not vaccinating their child. The doctor found out later that evening that they hadn’t made it to the emergency department, and rang the Department of Child Safety (DCS).
Police arrived on the scene and heard a child coughing, as well as other voices inside. The police had a court order for temporary custody of the boy, which can be obtained when there is an imminent risk of harm to a child.
After initially refusing to talk to the police, the parents told them in a phone call to go away and that the child was fine.
“After consultation with detectives from the Chandler Police Department’s Special Victims Unit, the residents were given a final opportunity to exit and take their child to the hospital,” the Chandler Police Department said in a statement.
“Upon their failure to do so, the front door was breached by patrol officers and the family members were called out of the residence.”
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The police entered with guns drawn and handcuffed the father, Brooks Bryce. Inside the home, the police found two more ill children (aged 4 and 6) who were also suffering similar symptoms including vomiting. They also found the home was in “total disarray” and the children’s bedroom was covered in “stains of unknown origin”, according to a police report seen by NBC News.
The Department of Child Safety also took temporary custody of the two additional children. Two were taken to the hospital by ambulance, whilst a third was taken by the DCS. The 2-year-old was admitted to hospital and later found to have RSV, AZ Central reports, a common virus that leads to cold-like symptoms in older children, but can be more serious in younger and more vulnerable children.
A lawyer for the parents told NBC in a statement that the parents have “a fundamental, Constitutionally protected right to the care, custody, and management of [their] Children. These rights do not evaporate simply because the Department of Child Safety believes they know better.”
The police department is seeking a charge of child abuse against both parents.
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Woman Wants Parents To Ask Their Babies For 'Consent' Before Changing Diapers
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Woman Wants Parents To Ask Their Babies For 'Consent' Before Changing Diapers
Teaching children from a young age about the importance of consent is, well, very important.
That said, many feel one woman is going way too far in trying to make this happen. Sexual consent expert Deanna Carson wants kids to understand what consent means as well, but she wants these types of lessons to start at an age when they can’t understand much of anything — when they’re still wearing diapers.
Now Carson is making headlines and creating quite the stir for what some are calling a crazy suggestion. She says parents should “ask” their baby’s permission before changing their diaper. Really.
Ask your baby's permission before changing diaper, says sexual consent expert Deanna Carson https://t.co/JY3e3UAvm3 pic.twitter.com/eb3tysQ5nj
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) May 10, 2018
Obviously, your first response, like many others, is that babies can’t understand a single word you say to them, let alone give consent.
“If you leave a space and wait for body language and wait to make eye-contact then you’re letting that child know that their response matters,” Deanne Carson said. https://t.co/euB8mbO5hJ
— Essential Baby (@essentialbaby) May 11, 2018
However, it became apparent that her real point wasn’t to elicit a response; rather, it is supposed to instill a sense in the child that their response is an important one and is supposed to give them a greater autonomy over their bodies when they’re older.
No, she’s saying you should ask the baby if it’s OK. To get kids used to the idea that their bodies are their own. “Deanne acknowledged babies would not be able to answer but said it’s still important.”
— John Bowman (@johnbowman) May 10, 2018
She is fairly stupid though. Because the nappy has to be changed no matter how the baby reacts, so if they react negatively, the message they’ll receive is that their consent is irrelevant. By this woman’s own logic, that is – which is bad logic.
— Ben Pobjie (@benpobjie) May 11, 2018
I see her point. But I’m not sure it actually helps parents with this idea if you train them to just ask in a rote way and yet do what they were going to anyway regardless of the response. Put the focus on areas of consent that are truly possible and meaningful.
— R. Mowat (@robinmowat) May 10, 2018
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My Parents Let Me In On The Terrifying Secret Thats Been Kept For Two Generations
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“Tommy knows that you pushed Hannah into the mud. If you don’t tell the truth, .”
“Daddy, I know Tommy is just a scarecrow! He’s not a real person!”
“You’d be surprised buddy. Now go wash up, we’ll talk more about this at dinner.”
It’s sort of funny, I can remember a conversation that I had when I was 10 so vividly, yet I nearly forget my keys every morning. Dad always knew that Tommy freaked me out, so he would refer to him in his punishments. Tommy wasn’t even our scarecrow at first. You see, he belonged to my grandparents. When my dad was seven, my grandparents took him on a trip to Italy. They stayed at a farm that was also a B&B. On their last day there, as “a gift for being such great guests,” the mother of the man who owned the farm gave my grandparents Tommy.
“He is more than a protector of the crops.” she told them.
This was a very nice gesture, but my dad grew up in the suburbs, which meant there were no crops to protect. So Tommy sat in the attic until Halloween came around every year.
When my dad turned 16, he began work as a farm hand at one of the largest farms in New York State. He rose through the ranks and eventually married the farmer’s daughter — my mom. Around the time my mom found out that she was pregnant with me (my parents were both 24), my pop-pop was dying. He held on so hard to see me born. He passed away when I was three months old, handing the farm and all of its business to my parents. We now grow tons of crops and we’re also involved in both the milk and meat businesses. And all the while, Tommy sat in our cornfield, protecting our crops.
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Son Planned Fake Robbery at Parents HomeAll Three Wound Up Dead
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Son Planned Fake Robbery at Parents HomeAll Three Wound Up Dead
It was so simple.
Matthew Lindquist, a 21-year-old Connecticut man, wanted to exchange his dads guns for drugs, so he came up with a plan to fake a robbery at his parents house, intending to blame it on two black guys, according to an arrest affidavit unsealed Tuesday. But the plot went horribly awryand Lindquist and his parents ended up dead.
It all began days before Christmas, when Lindquist made a deal with another man, Sergio Correa, promising to give him his dad's guns in exchange for drugs, according to the 17-page arrest affidavit. Together, the pair would fake the robbery, with Correa tying up Matthew to make it look real, the affidavit says.
If u pull up street from my house and give me a stack Ill show you right where safe is, Matthew Lindquist told Correa in a text on December 19, according to court records.
But moments before executing the plan, Lindquist got panicky and fidgety and tried to run away, Correas non-biological sister Ruth, who was with the two men that night and ultimately charged in the killings, told police.Thats when Sergio Correa hit Lindquist on the back of the head with a machetethen gave his knife to Ruth Correa, who told cops she stabbed Lindquist about 10 times, according to the affidavit. The duo went on to kill Kenneth and Janet Lindquist, steal their belongings, and burn their Griswold home to the ground, Ruth Correa told investigators in May.
Correa was arrested on May 12 and charged with murder, first-degree arson, home invasion, and first-degree robbery in a New London Superior Court, The Washington Post reported. The 23-year-old claimed that Sergio Correa, who has not been charged in the case, is to blame for most of the violence. Hes currently in prison for an unrelated probation violation, and his lawyer, William Gerace, maintains his 26-year-old client was not involved in the scheme, according to the Hartford Courant.
Ruth Correa told police that after stabbing Lindquist and leaving him for dead, they made their way into the house but were surprised by the presence of his 56-year-old father, Kenneth Lindquist. Sergio Correa quickly hit him with a baseball bat, Ruth Correa claimed in the affidavit. Janet, who was 61 years old, later approached them, but Ruth Correa took her to a bedroom, saying she did not have to see this, according to the affidavit.
Correa told investigators she began to loot the homewith her brother grabbing the gunsand took the items to the getaway car. During one of her trips back into the home, she witnessed Sergio Correa choking Janet Lindquist with a string or a rope until she stopped moving, the affidavit says. When Ruth Correa went back into the home a little later, Sergio was strangling the woman again with his foot pressed into her backand said he saw Lindquist trying to reach for her phone, the Post reported.
Before leaving, Sergio Correa lit an exercise ball on fire after directing his sister to pour flammable liquid throughout the home, according to the affidavit.
Ruth Correa told investigators she did not know Kenneth Lindquist was killed but saw his body in the hallway. Lindquist died of homicidal violence including multiple skull fractures and traumatic brain injuries, while Janet Lindquist died of homicidal violence including blunt impact injuries to the head, along with smoke injuries, according to the Courant.
Ruth is scheduled to appear in court on June 6, the Courant reported.
Friends and family of Matthew Lindquist said hed recently lost his job before his death and his dependency on drugs had caused conflict with his father. Two months earlier, Lindquist had a stint in rehab, his sister, Danielle T. Nichols, told authorities.
Sergio Correa has a history of arson and robbery: In 2008, he was arrested twice for "first-degree attempted robbery with a deadly weapon, first-degree assault, first-degree larceny, second-degree arson and criminal use of a weapon," according to the Courant.
According to the affidavit, Ruth Correa once confessed the details of a robbery-turned-arson to a security guard, telling him she has a thing of putting stuff in a guys drink, roofies them, gets them high, then takes their money and whatever she can get of value.
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Children and parents reported sex abuse for years in central Germany. Why did no one believe them?
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Children and parents reported sex abuse for years in central Germany. Why did no one believe them?
(CNN)Rumors had swirled around Andreas V. for years; locals whispered about his behavior with children, to whom he offered pony rides and quad bike tours.
Police in nearby Lippe say they believe Andreas V. abused dozens of children over decades, even using his six-year-old foster daughter as “bait” to lure in his young victims. In December, German police arrested Andreas V—German privacy law does not allow police to give the full names of suspects—and he remains in police custody, while the list of his alleged victims continues to grow.
His lawyer declined to comment on the allegations.
The story of Michaela
One alleged victim, who we’ll identify only as “Michaela” to protect her and her family’s privacy, said she first met Andreas V. 30 years ago when he was 16 and she was 9.
“My father had a camper with my grandparents at the camping site, adjacent to Andreas’ family van. We were there a lot. It was a real camping community. Like a big family,” she told CNN in a phone interview.
“My father allowed him to stay at our house and, for some reason, Andreas always slept in my room. That’s when he touched me for the first time.”
She says she was 11 when the abuse began.
“I told my father: ‘I don’t want Andreas to sleep with me because he touches me.’ But my dad said: ‘No, that’s not true. He would not do that.’ He just ignored me,” she told CNN, her voice breaking. “And if you are not believed as a child, you give up hope at that age of 16 or 17. So, I kept silent for all those years. I did not tell anyone.”
Michaela says her father has since been questioned by the police. Prosecutors have confirmed that the father of one victim had been questioned, but would not confirm if it was Michaela��s father. CNN’s attempts to contact him have not been successful.
German police believe Andreas V. went on to become the ringleader of a pedophile gang that used his family’s camper van as its base of operations for decades, abusing dozens of children and recording their crimes for profit on the dark web.
Authorities say they collected ten computers, nine mobile phones, more than 40 hard drives and more than 400 additional data carriers as evidence from Andreas V and two other men.
The case has scandalized the nation, especially after police recently admitted that some of the data confiscated as evidence has been “lost” while in police hands.
Germans are left wondering how both law enforcement and social services failed to stop the abuse, despite numerous red flags.
Hiding in plain sight
In November of last year, police received a report that Andreas V. had sexually abused a six-year old child who had gone to his home for a play-date with his foster-daughter; he was arrested several weeks later.
When investigators broke the lock on the camper van where he lived, they found a jumble of furniture and clothing, along with 15 terabytes of data stashed in various hiding places, including a USB stick embedded in the joint of a chair, police said in a press statement following the arrest.
Two other men, a 48-year old and a 33-year old, were arrested on suspicion of exchanging child pornography with Andreas V.
“The investigations so far give reason to fear that the perpetrators have committed more than 1,000 acts of abuse, going back to the year 2008,” police said in an initial statement.
“In addition to investigating allegations of serious sexual abuse, more lines of investigation have emerged including child pornography, extending to the internet. Furthermore, the offices responsible for child care in the district of Lippe are being investigated for possible criminal acts,” said the statement.
But that was only the beginning.
More cases come to light
Parents had tried to raise the alarm about Andreas V. before.
In 2016, a local father, Jens Ruzsitska, said he had seen Andreas V. groping children at a birthday party. Ruzsitska punched him and accused him of “feeling up” the children before storming out.
Police confirmed to CNN that Ruzsitska filed a police report of the incident at the time but say no further action was taken.
Asked why no action was taken back then, the local prosecutor told CNN: “All evidence is being pursed and taken seriously.”
Despite this allegation against him, Andreas V. was granted permission to become the guardian of a six-year-old foster daughter that same year.
The local Youth Welfare Office has now launched an investigation into how Andreas V. was allowed to become a foster parent.
When contacted by CNN, the Youth Welfare Office confirmed Andreas V. had been reported twice in 2016 for “possible child endangerment,” even as Andreas V was regularly being assessed by youth welfare officers. In October of that year, however, the youth welfare office found no evidence of child endangerment and granted him guardianship of the foster child.
However, District Administrator Tjark Bartels, who has responsibility for overseeing the Youth Welfare Office, told CNN there is now evidence that Andreas V.’s application to become a foster parent had been manipulated and “beautified.”
“An employee has admitted that he subsequently manipulated the files of the Youth Welfare Office, adding a note to complete the file,” Bartels said in a statement sent to CNN. Bartels would not clarify how the file had been manipulated, citing the ongoing investigation.
The employee has been suspended and is currently under investigation by the state prosecutor to find out what links, if any, he has to Andreas V.
Police now believe that Andreas V. not only abused the foster child he was supposed to look after, but that he also used her to lure other child victims.
According to investigators, there are at least 40 victims, aged four to 13 at the time of the abuse, including his foster daughter. Police have warned that the number of victims will likely rise as they continue to sift through his cache of recordings.
“This foster child was used as bait, to lure and attract other children,” said Roman von Alvenleben, a lawyer who represents the family of one 10-year old girl allegedly abused by Andreas V. “They got to know each other at birthday parties and play dates. That’s what my client’s mother did. She was not aware of what was really going on.”
Police lose evidence
As if failing to act on reports of child abuse wasn’t bad enough, now police have admitted that evidence — at least 155 CDs and DVDs confiscated from Andreas V.’s home — has been lost while in police custody. The material was kept in an aluminum suitcase and a black folder that was supposed to have been sealed as evidence. It was reported as missing weeks later.
The state prosecutor launched an investigation which he said “assumes the evidence cannot be found due to careless handling and that it was not stolen, although, such a possibility cannot be excluded.”
In a statement to the press, Lippe Police Chief Axel Lehman said the lost data amounted to only a small fraction of the evidence against Andreas V. and would not affect the prosecution case.
Still, he admitted, “These are blatant mistakes that have been made by police in Lippe. This stuns me and clearly it should not have happened. I express my apologies to all those who were affected.”
Parents lose trust in police
For Michaela, the lost evidence is only the latest breach of trust by police.
“I have had enough about the lies. The police. The youth welfare office. The evidence that suddenly goes missing.” She told CNN. “So many children suffered sexual abuse here — children who are now psychologically scarred, for the rest of their lives. I know because that’s what happened to me. That’s why I’m speaking up now.”
Her own painful experience seems to be part of a traumatic pattern that has unwittingly been repeated in her own family.
Last summer, she allowed her 16-year-old daughter to spend the weekend with other teenagers at the Luegde campsite, the community’s main summer retreat, on the condition that she stay well away from Andreas V.’s camper van.
Weeks later, her daughter broke down in tears and told her she had blacked out after drinking alcohol and woke up to find an adult man on top of her while another man watched.
Michaela says she immediately filed a police report and informed the Youth Welfare office but the case was dismissed for lack of evidence. In a letter seen by CNN, the local prosecutor informed Michaela and her daughter last year that “there is no evidence of rape by the accused,” adding that there was no evidence the teenager had either verbally or physically resisted the alleged assault.
“But does a girl fight back when she’s incapacitated?” asked Michaela. “When there are two men in the room? How is she supposed to fight back?”
It was only after Andreas V.’s arrest weeks later that Michaela discovered that the two men her daughter had identified had also been arrested and linked to Andreas V.’s alleged pedophile network.
Police have now reopened the case, but it has only fueled her anger and distrust of the police.
“We don’t know if the evidence police have — or whatever they lost — contains any pictures of my daughter,” Michaela told CNN. “Or even myself. It is a nerve-wracking situation. It could well be that they discovered evidence from all those years ago.”
Abuse on the dark web
Police are now investigating whether Andreas V. operated a business recording the abuse and selling videos of it on the dark web.
German prosecutors have just concluded the trial of several administrators of Elysium, one of the largest chat forums in the world for child abuse and pornography. Based in Germany, the site had racked up more than 110,000 users before it was shut down in 2017. Four men were convicted on various charges of child pornography and operating an illegal site, with each sentenced approximately to 10 years in prison.
For families of the Luegde victims, there are too many troubling questions that have not yet been answered, including whether their abuse was recorded on the videos and photographs now held by police.
“Why are CDs disappearing? Who was on those CDs? Is someone being protected? We have to ask these questions,” said lawyer Roman von Alvensleben.
“Fifteen terabytes of data were found, reportedly videos were sent out and possibly a business was operated. It must become clear who had access to that data and who else was involved. I suspect there are still many other connections,” von Alvensleben added.
A trial date for Andreas V. has not yet been set; the investigation continues to expand as new victims come forward, and investigators have warned that the number of victims is likely to rise.
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Parents' Harsh Warning About Anti-Vaxxer Neighbor Goes Viral
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Parents' Harsh Warning About Anti-Vaxxer Neighbor Goes Viral

Anti-vaxxers, or “pro-diseasers” as they are affectionately known on the Internet, have caused a lot of unnecessary pain and suffering, for their own children and others around them. With diseases that we’ve been close to eliminating seeing a resurgence, the World Health Organization have gone as far as naming them one of the biggest threats to health in 2019.
In Wisconsin, where opting out of vaccines for medical, religious, or personal reasons is legal, there is a particularly high rate of parents choosing not to protect their children from preventable diseases. Across the US, around 2 percent of kindergartners are unvaccinated, whereas in Wisconsin around 5 percent have not received vaccines, according to a CDC report last year.
Wanting to protect themselves, a group of “concerned moms” in Wisconsin sent a letter to their neighbors, warning them about one family in the neighborhood who refused vaccinations for their children.
In a letter that went viral on Reddit and Imgur, they write in strong language that people should avoid interacting with the anti-vaxxers for their own protection, and blames them for deaths around the US.
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Dear Resident, the letter reads.
Your neighbor does not believe in vaccinating herself or her family. This puts anyone at risk if they are medically fragile, immunocompromised, or out of date in their vaccinations. Please use caution when sharing work or personal space with this individual, eating foods prepared by this individual, or attending gatherings at this individual’s house if you or the people who are important to you fall into medically at-risk categories. The unvaccinated pose a unique threat to infants, who often don’t yet have a full course of vaccinations completed, and can quickly become deathly ill or die.
People who are unvaccinated have caused outbreaks in Arkansas, Oregon, Washington, California, New York, North Carolina, Michigan, Virginia, Texas, Kansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Florida, Minnesota, Colorado, and Pennsylvania, with more outbreaks expected. Nearly all outbreaks of disease were started by unvaccinated individuals, who pass along vaccine-preventable diseases to those without adequate protection.
People who don’t believe in vaccines often hold other views that are at odds with widely accepted facts related to science and medicine. Protect yourself, your family, and your community by using caution when interacting with these people. They have caused hundreds of thousands of vaccine-preventable diseases in recent years, costing several hundred million dollars around the globe, not including the costs associated with preventable deaths and disabilities. The outbreaks and subsequent deaths they cause are tracked here:
http://www.vaccineswork.org/vaccine-preventable-disease-outbreaks/
Thank you, and be safe.
Sincerely, Concerned Moms of Wisconsin
If you follow the link, it leads to a disease tracker that shows outbreaks of preventable diseases in your area over the recent years.
The letter received mixed reactions when it was widely seen on social media, with people believing the mothers did the right thing to protect themselves, their children and the children in their neighborhood, and others who thought they did the right thing but it was also kind of a dick move.
“Thanks, Concerned Moms of Wisconsin for I am a Concerned Child of Wisconsin,” one person wrote on Imgur, whilst another agreed “sometimes, public shaming is the right way to go.”
“The author of this letter is completely correct, has good reason to be concerned,” a critic chipped in. “And is also an asshole.”
Before long, Antivaxxers soon entered the conversation, to link to long-debunked myths that vaccines cause autism (they don’t), helpfully highlighting why the Wisconsin residents were angry enough to send the letter in the first place.
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