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  • South African Woman Found Guilty Of Murdering Her Three Daughters In New Zealand

    South African Woman Found Guilty Of Murdering Her Three Daughters In New Zealand

    According to African News, A New Zealand jury on Wednesday found a south African woman guilty of murdering her three young daughters after rejecting her defense that she was so mentally ill at the time she couldn’t be held responsible.

    Lauren Dickason, 42, had earlier admitted killing her 2-year-old twin daughters Maya and Karla, and their 6-year-old sister Lianè, at their home in the town of Timaru nearly two years ago. She had pleaded not guilty to murder, arguing she was suffering severe depression that could be traced back to postpartum depression.

    Prosecutors acknowledged Dickason had suffered from depression but said it wasn’t enough to warrant a medical defense. They said she killed her children out of anger and resentment. They pointed to Dickason’s troubling phone messages and online history in the weeks before the killings, including comments about wanting to kill her children and Google searches for

    “most effective overdose in kids.”

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  • Five Young Siblings Die In Fiery New York Car Crash After Teen Driver Loses Control Of Vehicle

    Five Young Siblings Die In Fiery New York Car Crash After Teen Driver Loses Control Of Vehicle

    A car crashing into a tree in a metropolitan New York area resulted in the death of five children between the ages of 8 and 17, with only one survivor, USA Today reported.

    On Sunday morning, at around 12:20 A.M., a Nissan Rouge with six minors from Connecticut veered off the road, crashed into a tree, and caught fire. Four boys and one girl, including the 16-year-old driver, succumbed to their injuries. A 9-year-old, who had been sitting in the vehicle’s hatchback area, escaped from the back. He was taken to a nearby hospital, and is expected to fully recover.

    Matt Conway, a superintendent about 50 miles north of Scarsdale in Connecticut, says that all of the victims are from the same family. They had just moved to Connecticut from New York, and their father was in the process of enrolling them into the schools there.

    “It’s the unimaginable,” Conway said, according to the AP. “Having to now make arrangements for five of your children to be buried is a very difficult thing for anyone- one child, never mind five, that you’re going to have to now make arrangements for.”

  • Police Release Name Of 15-Year-Old Student Chased Down And Shot 10 Times

    Police Release Name Of 15-Year-Old Student Chased Down And Shot 10 Times

    An investigation in Philadelphia continues after the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old boy. According to CBS News, Neko Rivera has been identified as the 78th Philadelphia public school student to be shot, and the 17th student to be killed.

    On Monday, at around noon, Rivera was shot a total of ten times- five times in the torso and five times in the leg. He then was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he sadly succumbed to his wounds minutes later.

    Despite Rivera being enrolled as a freshman at Kensington High School, The shooting occurred just blocks away from Fels High School, which is 5.2 miles away. According to CBS News Philadelphia, a fight had occurred at Fels High School hours before the shooting, involving those who do not attend the school, causing a lockdown. Police have not determined if the two separate incidents are related, but the district is offering counseling to the students and staff at each of the two high schools.

    Authorities are now searching for at least three gunman who are accused of chasing Rivera through a housing complex prior to the attack. Their motive remains unknown, but police officials say they will begin the investigation by checking security footage throughout the neighborhood.

  • Three Georgia Teens Charged After 15-Year-Old Found Fatally Shot In Bed

    Three Georgia Teens Charged After 15-Year-Old Found Fatally Shot In Bed

    On February 21st, a Peachtree, Georgia woman was getting ready for work when she noticed the light in her daughter’s room was on earlier than usual. When she made her way into the bedroom, despite it being locked, she noticed that a window was open and that the blinds were “a mess.” According to the New York Post, she then discovered her 15-year-old, Madison Gesswein, in her bed “bleeding from her head.”

    While on the phone with dispatch, the panicked mother begins to perform CPR, telling them that “there’s a lot of blood” and that she “can’t get any response from her.” First responders arrive to the apartment complex less than five minutes later, and sadly pronounced Madison dead at the scene.

    “A final cause of death is pending determination by the medical examiner, but an injury to Madison’s head appears consistent with a gunshot wound,” police said.

    The following day, authorities arrested three 18-year-olds in connection to the murder. All three were described as “acquaintances of the victim.” Justus Smith, Jacobean Brown, and Yeshua Mathis, all from Fayetteville, were each charged with murder. A potential motive for the crime has not been revealed.

    “This was not a random act,” explained Assistant Police Chief Matt Myers. “They knew whose apartment they were at, and it was in some way related to matters between these individuals.”

  • 3-Year-Old Boy Finds Gun And Fatally Shoots Himself In The Face

    3-Year-Old Boy Finds Gun And Fatally Shoots Himself In The Face

    A community in Volusia County, Florida are grieving after a toddler tragically lost his life, after finding his father’s handgun, Ledger-Enquirer reported.

    On Wednesday, February 15th, a 3-year-old boy and his 7-year-old brother were left in the care of their 16-year-old sister as their parents went to a nearby grocery store. At 6:20 P.M., dispatchers received a phone call from the teenaged girl, who told them, “My brother shot himself and he’s not breathing.” Less than ten minutes later, a deputy from the Volusia County arrived and attempted life-saving measures as they waited for an ambulance arrived. At 7:03 P.M., after being transported to a hospital, the boy was pronounced dead.

    Officials say that the 3-year-old had wandered into his parents bedroom, had gotten into a nightstand, picked up the gun, turned it towards himself, and “shot himself point-blank range.” The boy’s father, who is an employee of the Florida Department of Corrections, told investigators that the firearm is usually kept in a bedroom safe, but was moved when the electronic lock had malfunctioned.

    Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood has stated that no charges have been filed for the incident. “I cannot imagine there’s anything in the law books that can punish that family more than what happened,” he explained in a media briefing the following day.

  • 12-Year-Old Girl In Custody After Fatally Stabbing 9-Year-Old Brother

    12-Year-Old Girl In Custody After Fatally Stabbing 9-Year-Old Brother

    Late Thursday night, officers in Tulsa, Oklahoma responded to a call about a stabbing. When they arrived to the apartment complex, paramedics were performing CPR on a 9-year-old boy. The child’s attacker was a 12-year-old girl and the victim’s sister, CNN has reported.

    “Officers learned the children’s parent was upstairs asleep when the 12-year-old daughter woke the parent up and said that she had stabbed her nine-year-old brother,” the Tulsa Police Department said in a news release.

    Though the victim was transported to a local hospital, and taken into surgery, he unfortunately succumbed to his wounds shortly after. The suspect has been taken into police custody and is currently being held at the Family Center for Juvenile Justice. The Tulsa Police Department Child Crisis Unit has been placed in charge of investigating the stabbing further.