Society's Child

Catholic hospital chain beats malpractice suit by saying fetuses aren't people

David Edwards
Raw Story
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:10 UTC

A chain of Catholic Hospitals has beaten a malpractice lawsuit by saying that fetuses are not equivalent to human lives. According to the Colorado Independent, in the death of a 31-year-old woman carrying twin fetuses, Catholic Health Initiatives' attorneys argued that in cases of wrongful death, the term "person" only applies to individuals born alive, and not to those who die in utero.

Lori Stodghill was seven months pregnant with twin boys on the day she died. The Independent reported that on New Year's Day 2006 in Cañon City, Colorado, Stodghill was admitted to the Emergency Room at St. Thomas More Hospital complaining of nausea, vomiting and shortness of breath. She lost consciousness as she was being wheeled into an exam room and ER staff were unable to resuscitate her.

It was later found that a main artery supplying blood to her lungs was clogged, which led to a massive heart attack. Stodghill never woke up, dying an hour after her admission to St. Thomas. Her twins died in her womb.

Frantic ER personnel had paged Stodghill's doctor, obstetrician Pelham Staples, but the doctor never answered. A wrongful-death suit filed on the twins' behalf by Stodghill's husband, corrections officer Jeremy Stodghill, maintained that Staples should have made it to the hospital or ordered an emergency cesarian section by phone in order to save the 7-month-old fetuses.

Ontario toddler may have eaten glass in Subway sandwich

Lindsay Jolivet
Yahoo! Canada News - Daily Buzz
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:41 UTC

Would you like glass with that?

Subway restaurants have already incited the ire of customers this week after one of its subs didn't measure up to its footlong name. Now a customer in Peterborough, ON, is saying her sub contained pieces of glass that her toddler swallowed.

According to The Peterborough Examiner, Laura Clark bought her daughter a 6-inch turkey sub last week and when her daughter bit into it, she began to complain her mouth was hurting.

Aubrey, 3, had cuts inside her mouth, according to Clark, who reported the allegation to Subway's head office. She said her daughter also passed two pieces of glass the next day.

Las Vegas woman reportedly sues Match.com for $10M, claims site doesn't properly scan applicants

Fox News
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:00 UTC

A potentially perfect match almost cost Mary Kay Beckman her life.

FOX 5 KVVU reports that Beckman, of Las Vegas, is suing Match.com for $10 million, alleging that the dating website doesn't do enough to keep violent offenders off its site after she met a man who attempted to kill her.

"He broke into my garage," Beckman told the station. "When the police arrested him, he said he wasn't there to hurt me. He was there to kill me. His intent was to kill me that night."

Beckman said she had been using Match.com for two months when she met Wade Ridley in September 2010. After just eight days, Beckman ended the relationship, causing Ridley to turn violent. Later, in 2011, Ridley stabbed her 10 times with a butcher knife and stomped on her head when the knife broke.

The 50-year-old real estate agent and mother of two said the attack left her hospitalized for months. She endured three head surgeries and a seizure. While she was in the hospital, Beckman said Ridley killed an Arizona woman he met on the same website.

Restaurant customers refused service after making fun of child with Down Syndrome

Geoff Berg
Houston Chronicle
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:46 UTC

Michael Garcia has worked at Laurenzo's on Washington Avenue for two years. Because I've been eating there at least once a week for about a year, I've known him as the guy who always welcomed me with a surprisingly sincere smile and a handshake. I had no idea he was also a hero.

Another of Garcia's regulars, Kim Castillo and her family (including her five year old, Milo, who has Down Syndrome) were eating at Laurenzo's on Wednesday night. After the Castillos sat down, the people sitting next to them asked to be moved. Garcia moved them, and then he heard one of them say this:

Special needs children need to be special somewhere else.

Cannibal cop's online friend bragged of eating a 'black woman and a white child' and 'roasting whole pelvises'

Bruce Golding
NY Post
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:41 UTC

Prosecutors want jurors at the upcoming "cannibal cop" trial to learn about defendant Gilberto Valle's computer chats with an online pal who told him that the taste of human flesh "isn't quite like pork, but very meaty anyway."

Court papers say Valle's would-be dining partner -- who used the screen name "Moody Blues" -- boasted that he'd feasted previously on "a black woman and a white child."

"I've not had a young white woman. Looking forward to it," Moody Blues added.

Valle -- who said he hadn't eaten anyone before -- replied, "Excellent," according to the Manhattan federal court filing.

Prosecutors also cited the following exchange:

Moody Blues: "If we get someone...and we finish the meat early, would you go for another?"

Valle: "Yeah. I think we would have to give it time though."

Moody Blues: "Why? Go for a completely different type. I'd love to eat another child."

Five charged in brutal, deadly Philadelphia 'dungeon' scam

Dave Warner
Chicago Tribune
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:38 UTC

Five people are accused of imprisoning disabled adults in a Philadelphia basement to steal their Social Security checks, part of a pattern of terror that stretched over a decade and resulted in two deaths, a prosecutor said on Wednesday.

Each defendant in the so-called Philadelphia dungeon case faces life in prison, U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger said at a press conference to unveil the 196-count indictment.

The alleged ringleader, Linda Weston, 52, could also face the death penalty because she is charged with two counts of murder in aid of racketeering, Memeger said. At times she chained captives, or put drugs in their food to subdue them, while cashing their government payments.

The malnourished captives were discovered in October 2011 by a landlord during a routine check of the two-story apartment house in a working-class Philadelphia neighborhood.

Tennessee homecoming king nominees give crown to teen with genetic condition

Christina Ng
ABC News
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:35 UTC

© Courtesy Sara Sobleskey-Davis
High school junior Scotty Maloney was named homecoming king at Unionville Community High School in Unionville, Tenn.

Three Tennessee homecoming king nominees made a unanimous and touching decision that no matter who won, they would give the crown to a beloved student with a genetic condition.

Students Jesse Cooper, Drew Gibbs and Zeke Grissom were all nominated for homecoming king at Community High School's basketball homecoming ceremony.

The teens got together and decided that the winner would turn over the honor to junior Scotty Maloney, who has Williams Syndrome, a neurological disorder that inhibits learning and speech.

"I've been blessed with so many things," Cooper told ABC News' Nashville affiliate WKRN-TV. "I just wanted Scotty to experience something great in his high school days."

Villagers in the Solomon Islands kill dolphins in pay dispute

Vaimoana Tapaleao
The NZ Herald
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:29 UTC

© Solomon Star
The mass slaughter of the dolphins by hunters on Malaita Island has caused international condemnation and outrage.

Up to 900 dolphins have been killed by villagers in the Solomon Islands, who claim it was an act of retaliation for not being paid money they were promised.

The mass slaughter of the bottlenose dolphins has caused international condemnation and outrage. But those parties involved are putting the blame on each other; with villagers saying they were underpaid by the Earth Island Institute - an American-based group that works to conserve ecosystems around the world.

People from the village of Fanalei, on the island of Malaita, claim that the institute had made a deal to pay up to S$2.4 million ($400,000) to stop the killing of dolphins. However only S$700,000 had been received, villagers say.

The killing of dolphins is seen as a traditional practice on the island and provides meat and income for villagers. Dolphin teeth are also traditionally used to pay a bride's price.

Burger King drops Irish supplier after horse meat found in burgers

Raw Story
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:21 UTC

Burger King has ditched an Irish supplier of beef that is at the centre of a food scare after horse meat was discovered in beefburgers sold in Britain and Ireland, where it is deemed to be a taboo.

The US fast-food giant said Wednesday it has decided to replace all Silvercrest beef products in Britain and Ireland with those from another supplier.

"This is a voluntary and precautionary measure," Burger King said in a statement.

"We are working diligently to identify suppliers that can produce 100 percent pure Irish and British beef products that meet our high quality standards."

Mississippi's only abortion clinic faces closure in six weeks due to new state law

Karen McVeigh
Raw Story
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:19 UTC

Jackson clinic told it could be shut down in six weeks because it has failed to comply with controversial state legislation

Mississippi's only remaining abortion clinic, which won an eleventh-hour temporary reprieve from closure last summer, has been told it could be shut down in six weeks after it was found to be in violation of a restrictive new state law this month.

Time is now running out for the clinic, which is in the middle of a legal battle to prove the new law is unconstitutional.

The Jackson Women's Health Organisation, which has become a focus of the bitter fight for abortion rights across the nation, successfully won an injunction in July which allowed its medical staff time to try to comply with the law. But the injunction has run out, and, earlier this month, the facility's owners were told by officials from the Department of Health they were not in compliance with House Bill 1390, passed and signed by Republican legislators in April.

Mississippi lawmakers have openly stated that the legislation, which requires the clinic's doctors to gain admitting privileges at local hospitals, is aimed at closing JWHO and thus ending abortion in the state.

.. .. if it's on Katz's Court TV is an over propagandized ruse? or, (the late) H. Wayne the Carver, coroner?

Jibrish

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Jean Michel

It was probably vaccine hesitancy that killed the mammoths!

sbc

Parts shortages been happening for generations. For example how many spineless and brainless people ya know?

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Society's Child

Catholic hospital chain beats malpractice suit by saying fetuses aren't people

Ontario toddler may have eaten glass in Subway sandwich

Las Vegas woman reportedly sues Match.com for $10M, claims site doesn't properly scan applicants

Restaurant customers refused service after making fun of child with Down Syndrome

Cannibal cop's online friend bragged of eating a 'black woman and a white child' and 'roasting whole pelvises'

Five charged in brutal, deadly Philadelphia 'dungeon' scam

Tennessee homecoming king nominees give crown to teen with genetic condition

Villagers in the Solomon Islands kill dolphins in pay dispute

Burger King drops Irish supplier after horse meat found in burgers

Mississippi's only abortion clinic faces closure in six weeks due to new state law

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