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Girl, 8, fights would-be kidnapper who entered her bedroom wearing clown mask in middle of the night, cops say
Police in Colorado said an 8-year-old girl fought a would-be kidnapper who entered her bedroom wearing a clown mask in the middle of the night last week.
Sterling Police were called around 2:30 a.m. Oct. 15 to a home on Walnut Street for a reported home invasion and kidnapping attempt, KUSA-TV reported, citing an arrest affidavit.
The victim's mother told police the suspect was in her home the previous weekend to help install a washer and dryer.
The suspect entered the home sometime between 1 and 2 a.m., the station said, adding that police said the suspect likely entered and exited through the back door, which may have been unlocked.
The victim told police the suspect came into her room, put a blindfold over her face, and grabbed her out of bed, KUSA reported. The affidavit says she started fighting back, after which the suspect hit her on the head, leaving her unconscious, the station said.
When the victim woke up, she ran into her mother's room to tell her what happened, KUSA said.
The suspect was wearing a cloth clown mask during the assault, the station said, citing the affidavit. The mask, along with a pair of gloves, were left in the child's room, KUSA noted.
Police said the suspect also took the victim's phone, the station reported. The affidavit says location data from the phone was used to help identify the suspect, according to KUSA.
The suspect — 56-year-old Thomas Gallegos — lives in the neighborhood, the station said, citing the affidavit. The victim's mother told police the suspect was in her home the previous weekend to help install a washer and dryer, KUSA reported.
Gallegos was taken into custody Saturday on suspicion of the following charges, police told the station: first-degree burglary, second-degree attempted kidnapping, second-degree assault, third-degree assault, and child abuse.
The next court appearance for Gallegos is set for Nov. 4, KUSA said.
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10-year-old boy arrested for SnapChat threat to 'shoot up' high school, sheriff's office says
A 10-year-old Florida boy was arrested for a SnapChat threat to "shoot up" a high school, the Wakulla County Sheriff’s Office said.
A Wakulla High School student on Wednesday reported to school staff that he was in a SnapChat conversation with an unidentified person who stated he was going to "shoot up your school" and "It’s y'alls last day," officials said.
The school resource officer also on Thursday obtained an arrest warrant charging the juvenile with violation of Florida Statute 836: making a written or electronic threat to kill, do bodily injury, or conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism, officials said.
Wakulla High School is in Crawfordville, which is just over a half hour southwest of Tallahassee on the Florida panhandle.
With that, school staff around 4 p.m. told the school's resource officer about the threatening social media post, officials said, and the resource officer initiated a criminal investigation.
The Wakulla County Sheriff’s Office said it asked for assistance from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, and its Cyber Crime Unit, Counter Terrorism Unit, and Organized Crime Unit joined the investigation.
The agencies worked throughout Wednesday afternoon and evening and into Thursday's early morning hours to identify the source and location of the threat, officials said.
Florida Department of Law Enforcement agents and a school resource officer early Thursday morning "made contact with the subject who made the online threat at his residence" in Woodville in Leon County and interviewed him, officials said. Woodville is located approximately halfway between Crawfordville and Tallahassee.
The Wakulla County Sheriff’s Office said it told Wakulla County school officials that same morning that there was no imminent threat to the high school or any other district school and that the juvenile who had made the threat had been identified and would be charged.
The school resource officer also on Thursday obtained an arrest warrant charging the juvenile with violation of Florida Statute 836: making a written or electronic threat to kill, do bodily injury, or conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism, officials said.
That same day, the juvenile’s father turned him in, and the juvenile was taken into custody by authority of the arrest warrant, officials said.
Anything else?
Similar threats from juveniles have prompted another Florida sheriff to begin shaming the suspects on social media, NewsNation said.
More from the outlet:
Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood said he’s tired of the hoaxes targeting students, disrupting schools and sapping law enforcement resources. In social media posts, Chitwood has warned parents that if their kids are arrested for making threats, he’ll make sure the public knows.
Chitwood recently posted the full name and mug shot of an 11-year-old boy who allegedly threatened to carry out a school shooting. While many praised Chitwood online, the sheriff’s tactics sparked criticism from some who say the weight of the responsibility should fall on the boy’s parents.
Under Florida law, juvenile court records are generally exempt from public release — but not if the child is charged with a felony, as in this case.
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Homeless male wearing blonde wig, makeup, and pearls accused of trying to kidnap 11-year-old boy outside his home
A homeless male wearing a blonde wig, makeup, and pearls is accused of attempting to kidnap an 11-year-old boy outside of his Ohio home.
According to the Alliance Police Department, 39-year-old Joshua Freyermuth was arrested Sunday for attempting to kidnap the boy that same day.
'He kicked his heels off — my son said he had white high heels on — and then he took off running down the street.'
Freyermuth allegedly approached the child while he was outside his home in Alliance — roughly 30 miles southeast of Akron.
Freyermuth — who also goes by the name Vicky, according to the Daily Mail — was accused of attempting to lure the boy away from his property.
The police report stated that Freyermuth told the child, “I need to talk to you.”
WOIO-TV reported that the child refused, and Freyermuth attempted to grab the boy on South Webb Avenue.
The alleged victim said he was able to get away because the family's dog attacked the suspect.
"When he grabbed my son's arm, my dog attacked him, and then he stumbled back off the stairs," the child's father, Zachery Thurmond, told WOIO. "He kicked his heels off — my son said he had white high heels on — and then he took off running down the street."
The father said he chased after the male.
Alliance police said they had enough evidence to make an arrest.
Police also noted that there has been quite a reaction on social media. An Alliance police spokesperson said Freyermuth's arrest is "probably just as well for his safety" because of the number of people "who have decided they want to take this into their own hands."
However, Freyermuth has denied the allegations.
Still wearing his blonde wig during his arraignment Monday in Alliance Municipal Court on attempted kidnapping charges, Freyermuth told the judge, “I wasn’t even there. I didn’t try to kidnap anybody.”
The suspect said he has an alibi and that he was at a friend's house when the alleged attempted child abduction was said to have occurred.
Freyermuth's bond was set at $100,000, and he has been ordered to have no contact with the alleged victim.
Freyermuth also was arrested Friday on drug possession charges after police said they found methamphetamine in his car.
Police said they pulled Freyermuth over after they received reports of a suspect driving around trying to speak to children, according to the New York Post.
Freyermuth's mugshot for that arrest shows him wearing a different wig, and he was released on bond for that charge.
Police are still investigating the alleged incident.
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Heartbreaking: 10-year-old boy commits suicide after 2 years of relentless physical, verbal bullying
Sammy Teusch — a 10-year-old boy with a huge, infectious grin — was laid to rest this week in his hometown of Greenfield, Indiana.
Sammy's parents said he took his own life on the morning of May 5 — a heartbreaking end after two years of relentless verbal bullying that recently became physical and was just too much for him to bear.
The bullying mostly was over his glasses and his teeth.
'He was beat up on the school bus, and the kids broke his glasses and everything, and I called the school, and I'm like, "What are you doing about this? It keeps getting worse and worse and worse ..."'
"He was my little boy. He was my baby. He was the youngest one," Sammy's mom, Nichole Teusch, tearfully told WTHR-TV.
"I held him in my arms. I did the thing no father should ever have to do, and any time I close my eyes, it's all I can see," his dad, Sam Teusch, shared with the station though sobs.
Sammy's family told WTHR others bullied him right up to the night before his death, an ordeal that commenced last year in elementary school and continued this year at Greenfield Intermediate School.
"They were making fun of him for his glasses in the beginning, then on to make fun of his teeth," his dad noted to the station. "It went on for a long time."
Then the bullying got physical, WTHR said.
"He was beat up on the school bus, and the kids broke his glasses and everything, and I called the school, and I'm like, 'What are you doing about this? It keeps getting worse and worse and worse, and it's not getting any better. In fact, it's getting worse,'" Sammy's dad added to the station.
He added to WTHR that he contacted the school 20 times about the bullying: "They knew this was going on. They knew this was going on."
But district Superintendent Harold Olin told the station neither Sammy nor his parents ever submitted a bullying report, and while school administrators and a counselor had regular conversations with the family, he can't share the content of those conversations.
Sammy's family explained to WTHR that the bullying reached beyond the school and the bus and found its way to Snapchat, despite Sammy's parents granting him limited access to his phone.
"'I'm going to beat you up. I'm going to beat you up when you get to school.' Saying mean things about his [mom], which would really, really set him off," Sammy's dad recounted to the station.
Sadly, in spite of frequent reinforcement from those who love him, Sammy's family told WTHR he became withdrawn and stopped opening up. They told the station they believe Sammy's suicide was due to fear of going back to school following an incident in the restroom the prior week and the constant harassment.
Now there is a void in the Teusch home that can never be filled.
"I always tell the kids because Sammy and his sister went to bed first because they were younger, and telling them they had to brush their teeth to get ready for bed and having him not be there to hug before bed," Sammy's mom, inconsolable, shared with WTHR.
Word spread about Sammy after his death, and WTHR reported in a follow-up story that more than 100 motorcycle riders drove side-by-side down New Road in Greenfield to Brandywine Church for Sammy's services earlier this week.
The station said most of the motorcyclists didn't know Sammy — but were touched by his story.
In the church's auditorium, loved ones shared memories of Sammy, the station said, adding that afterward Sammy's relatives carried his casket out of the church and placed it into a hearse.
Everything culminated at Greenfield cemetery, where WTHR said Sammy is now at rest.
The station said Sammy's family and some of his classmates surrounded his casket as the pastor read a final prayer.
WTHR said a candlelight vigil is planned for Friday between 8 and 10 p.m. at Depot Park in Greenfield if weather permits.
Help in the face of bullying
The station noted the following resources if you or a child you know is being bullied:
The American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry has a full bullying resource center. Stomp Out Bullying has resources for parents of children who are being bullied.
Safekids.com has resources focused on cyberbulling, which can follow kids even outside of school.
If you or someone you know is contemplating suicide, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. It's available 24/7.
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Leftists tried to spin Dagny Benedict's suicide as the result of anti-LGBT bullying. The truth is far more tragic.
A so-called "nonbinary" teen died in Oklahoma last month after a fight at school. Activists seized upon the tragedy for political advantage, suggesting that Dagny Benedict was killed by anti-LGBT bullies or at the very least as the result of anti-LGBT bullying, smearing innocent teens in the process.
That narrative crumbled over time, although questions remained about Benedict's life and death.
New details have emerged, both in the Oklahoma medical examiner's full autopsy report this week and about her family, indicating not only that LGBT activists were entirely off the mark but that the truth is far worse than many had imagined.
The false narrative
Dagny Benedict was a 16-year-old sophomore at Owasso High School in Tulsa who allegedly identified as "nonbinary" and sometimes went by the name "Nex." She got into a fight with other students in the girls' washroom on Feb. 7. The next day she perished.
LGBT activists and other leftists seized upon the story of Benedict's demise to suggest that conservatives and other critics of gender ideology had cultivated an atmosphere in which it became acceptable to bully non-straight students; that Benedict had been attacked because of her so-called gender identity; and that the girl possibly even died from her injuries.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) managed to capture the narrative in a single tweet, writing, "Nex Benedict’s death from a brutal assault in their high school bathroom is outrageous and heartbreaking. The anti-trans fervor fueled by extreme Republicans across the country is having deadly consequences for our children. We must stand up against anti-trans hate."
Blaze News previously reported that Tori Cooper, a leading campaigner for the LGBT activist group Human Rights Campaign, specifically intimated that Benedict was attacked over her "nonbinary" identification.
Cooper also pinned blame on so-called "exremist anti-LGBTQ+ hate accounts, like online troll Chaya Raichik, the woman behind 'Libs of Tiktok'" for "perpetuating a vile and hateful narrative that is permitting these types of public attacks."
The false narrative surrounding the teen's death was embraced high and low, with even President Joe Biden entertaining the notion that her fate was linked to bullying, stating, "Bullying is hurtful and cruel, and no one should face the bullying that Nex did."
This preferred narrative began to collapse after bodycam footage released by the Owasso Police Department showed Benedict admitting that she was not the target of violence but rather the very person who started the Feb. 7 fight.
Benedict also says in the video that she started the altercation because her targets mocked how she laughed, saying nothing of any anti-LGBT hostilities.
The fight was also revealed not to have been what killed Benedict. Preliminary autopsy results noted that Benedict "did not die as a result of trauma."
The autopsy results
One week after Oklahoma prosecutors indicated they had found no basis on which to file charges in the death of the teen, the Oklahoma medical examiner released the full autopsy report regarding Benedict's death.
KTUL-TV reported that the report concluded that Benedict had killed herself by taking a lethal dose of two different medications: diphenhydramine, the allergy medication also known as Benadryl, and the anti-depressant fluoxetine, also known as Prozac. Apparently she had a "massive" amount of the allergy drug in her blood.
Forensic pathologist Daniel Schultz, the president of Final Diagnosis Inc. in Tampa, Florida, reviewed the findings and told KTUL, "There's no question this was an overdose by a combination of diphenhydramine and fluoxetine."
"Essentially the dose to do this in some ways implies intent," added Schultz. "This is not an accidental type of thing."
Traces of cough suppressant and the anti-psychotic drug quetiapine were also found in her blood.
The autopsy report further stated, "Past medical history included constipation, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, self-harm (cutting), chronic tobacco abuse, and chronic marijuana abuse. Handwritten notes that are suggestive of self-harm were found in the decedent's room by family and provided to law enforcement."
The pedophile father
Tulsa County District Attorney Stephen Kunzweiler revealed on March 21 that investigators discovered notes written by Benedict related to her suicide.
"The notes do not make any reference to the earlier fight or difficulties at school," wrote Kunzweiler. "The precise contents of the suicide note are a personal matter in which the family will have to address within the privacy of their own lives."
RedState highlighted there had been a possible hint about what Kunzweiler may have been referencing buried in a Feb. 21 Washington Post article. The article noted, "Nex's biological mother was among the mourners [at Benedict's funeral]; their father, who is in prison for abuse, was not."
Photojournalist and reporter Jeremy Lee Quinn pulled the thread earlier this month, writing, "Benedict was a survivor of child abuse."
Quinn referenced a Feb. 9 Facebook post from Benedict's aunt, who apparently wrote, "The details are still a ongoing investigation so we won't know until later but I will say justice will be served for the people that did this along side with her monster of a father who's already in prison."
The aunt said in another post, "yes [Benedict's father has] been in prison for molesting/raping his daughter. Got out on parole and was arrested yesterday."
Quinn wrote, "Nex's aunt 'disowned her brother' and posted publicly about the abuse following the passing of Nex, who Aunt Ashley says she only ever knew as Dagny."
The disowned brother, Benedict's father, is reportedly James Everette Hughes, a 39-year-old registered sex offender.
Court documents indicate Hughes raped his daughter, referred to in court documents as D.H., in 2017. His sex offender registration form indicates that Benedict was 9 when her father molested her over the course of months.
Sebastian County Sheriff's Office records indicate it wasn't until 2019 that Hughes was arrested in Arkansas for sexual assault of a child under the age of 14.
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RedState reported that one of the witnesses, the victim's grandmother Sue Benedict, later adopted the child.
Hughes ultimately pleaded guilty to sexual assault in the second degree and received five years in prison. He was arrested again by the Little Rock Police Department two weeks prior to Benedict's suicide for failing to register as a sex offender or reporting an address change.
The rapist who traumatized Benedict and apparently played a major factor in her tragic end will next appear in court in Pulaski County, Arkansas, on May 2.
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Maine Democrats push 'totalitarian' rebuild of defeated 'transgender trafficking bill' — with national implications
Democratic lawmakers in Maine attempted to pass a radical bill earlier this year that threatened to allow the state to seize custody of children whose parents — both in and outside Maine — refused them sex-change mutilations and other irreversible medical interventions.
Following a successful pressure campaign led by the parental rights advocacy group Courage Is a Habit and some mild Republican pushback, LD 1735, dubbed the "transgender trafficking bill" by critics, was killed in committee.
Maine Democrats are evidently not finished with their apparent attempts to break up families, shield sex-change surgeons from consequence, and altogether codify gender ideology in the state. In fact, they have doubled down, rolling some of the most consequential elements of LD 1735 into a new bill, Democratic state Rep. Anne Perry's LD 227.
A state committee will consider whether to advance LD 227 Thursday, affording critics just one more day to make their opposition known and potentially stop the initiative in its tracks.
Overview
Courage Is a Habit president Alvin Lui told Blaze News, "This is the nastiest bill I've ever seen. Even worse than anything that I've seen come out of California. I never thought I would say that."
LD 227 — referred to by Lui and other critics as the "Transgender Trafficker Protection Act" — would prohibit "interference" with abortions or sex-change mutilations, protect medical practitioners from lawsuits, and conceal the known whereabouts of interstate child runaways from their parents, among other things.
Already 16 state attorneys general have threatened action against Maine if the bill passes, noting in a March 11 letter to Maine Gov. Janet Mills that LD 227 "seeks to contravene the lawful policy choices of our States' citizens by imposing on the rest of the country Maine's views on hotly debated issues such as gender transition surgeries for children."
Extra to underscoring the federal implications and unconstitutional nature of the bill, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti and the other attorneys general suggested LD 227 is animated by a "totalitarian impulse to stifle dissent and oppress dissenters."
If passed and ratified, then the fates of LD 227 and the children it would victimize might ultimately be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. However, Courage Is a Habit has stressed that there is time left for Maine residents and other objectors to help sink it.
On Thursday, the following eight Democratic Maine lawmakers will determine whether to advance the bill in committee: Sens. Donna Bailey (D) and Cameron Reny (D), along with Reps. Poppy Arford (D), Anne Perry (D), Sally Cluchey (D), Anne-Marie Mastraccio (D), Kristi Michele Mathieson (D), and Jane Pringle (D).
Courage Is a Habit has created a simple form for individuals looking to share their thoughts about LD 227 with Maine lawmakers.
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'Transgender Trafficker Protection Act'
According to a recent draft of LD 227, the bill would apparently:
- codify the legal right to sex-change mutilations and abortions without stipulating any age or time limits;
- hinder efforts by states and persons to take legal action against health professionals involved in the facilitation or execution of sex-change medical interventions and abortions, apparently even in the case of medical malpractice;
- spare health care practitioners from professional discipline based on crimes, civil actions, or convictions in other states for sex-change or abortion-related actions deemed acceptable in Maine;
- authorize persons targeted with criminal or administrative action for their hand in "engaging in or for aiding and assisting legally protected health care activity" to "bring a civil action in this State for damages, punitive damages and equitable relief" — ostensibly meaning surgeons could sue detransitioners who bring malpractice suits;
- prevent Maine law enforcement from notifying the parents of those child runaways said to be pursuing abortions or sex changes;
- enable virtually any adult to take a child across state lines to Maine for "gender-affirming care" even if the child is not their own or "incapacitated"; and
- prevent the arrest of persons "if the arrest is related to criminal liability that is based on legally protected health care activity or aiding and assisting legally protected health care activity."
"It's everything that LD 1735 was supposed to be, except it adds a bunch of other things," Lui told Blaze News.
For instance, Lui indicated LD 277 forces insurance companies to cover all sex-change procedures, but not the health care needs of detransitioners or therapy to resolve existing comorbidities before taking sterilizing sex-change drugs. It also "adds in protection for the transgender traffickers."
"So if somebody's blue-haired liberal aunt or some neighbor takes a child over to Maine, [the state] won't contact the parents — which was in the original transgender trafficking bill," continued Lui. "But now ... the parents can't sue. They can't say, 'Wait a minute, that adult has kidnapped my child to Maine so that they could get a surgery.'"
Republican state Rep. Laurel Libby recently confirmed that the blue-haired aunt from Lui's hypothetical who takes her "niece from another state against the parents' wishes would be allowed to do that. And Maine law enforcement would have their hands tied. Maine judiciary would have their hands tied — would not be able to actually help return that child to their lawful parents."
Libby emphasized that LD 227 is the "worst bill [she] has ever seen come through the legislature."
"The worst bill I have ever seen." \n\nRep. Laurel Libby expertly destroys the left-wing narratives regarding the revamped Transgender Trafficking bill.— (@)
Federal implications and junk science
Attorney Joel Thornton, the COO and director of Advocacy for Child and Parental Rights Campaign, said LD 227 "is pretty outrageous as it extends the state's authority throughout the United States to protect what Maine is declaring to be the law in Maine, and effectively making it the law of the land to anyone who happens to be in Maine."
According to the letter from the opposed state attorneys general to Gov. Mills, "LD 227 not only purports to shield from liability those offering or aiding the provision of unlawful services to citizens located in our States — a provision Planned Parenthood asserts would 'safeguard' Maine providers and patients from 'out-of-state laws that ban or restrict care that is legal in Maine.'"
"The law also creates a private right of action for damages against law enforcement, prosecutors, and other officials in our States who are enforcing our own valid state laws, even laws whose constitutionality has been confirmed by federal appellate courts," continued the letter. "On top of that, LD 227 purports to block valid orders and judgments from our state courts enforcing laws upheld by federal appellate courts."
The attorneys general reduced Maine's proposed law as an unconstitutional and "novel effort at a state-sanctioned culture war litigation tourism."
Extra to likely running afoul of federal law, Lui highlighted how LD 227 relies on junk science, namely that given a gloss by the World Professional Association for Trangender Health.
The understanding of "gender-affirming health care" central to the legislation is, after all, defined in accordance with supposed expertise "in the field of gender-affirming care including in the Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People ... published by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health."
Blaze News recently noted that leaked internal documents reveal there are serious concerns behind closed doors at WPATH over the debilitating and potentially fatal side effects of sex-change procedures as well as over the inability for children to provide informed consent for so-called "gender-affirming care."
The pseudo-scientific nature of "gender-affirming care" has become all the more clear in recent months:
- England's National Health Service banned puberty blockers for minors, highlighting both their dangers and a dearth of evidence to support their efficacy.
- Finland's leading child psychiatrist Riittakerttu Kaltiala told her government that the vast majority of kids will grow out of the delusion that their gender and sex are misaligned.
- A massive Finnish studypublished in the esteemed quarterly journal BMJ Mental Health concluded that "medical gender reassignment does not have an impact on suicide risk."
Blaze News reached out to the sponsor of LD 277, Demoratic state Rep. Anne Perry, for comment. She did not, however, provide a response by deadline.
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Cops say mom entered school bus, got physical with 9-year-old, told her kid to beat up child; bullying reportedly an issue
Police in Georgia said a 28-year-old mother of four entered a school bus last week, made physical contact with a 9-year-old, and told her own kid to beat up another child.
What are the details?
Tenisha Barber told WSB-TV she was waiting for her child’s school bus to arrive when she saw Roshaunda Qualls get on the bus on Mount Zion Parkway in Clayton County last Thursday.
“She came up, and she got on the bus,” Barber added to the station.
Court documents say Qualls recklessly interfered with the operation of a school bus when she made intentional contact with the 9-year-old, WSB reported.
Barber told the station she doesn’t condone Qualls' actions but understands: “She was trying to defend her child 'cause her child was getting bullied."
However, another parent said Qualls’ child was doing the bullying, WSB reported.
A judge ordered Qualls and her child to stay away from the other child, the station said: “You’re not to enter a Clayton County school bus, particularly bus number 36."
One woman remarked to WSB: “It’s just crazy. Things are just getting more and more out of hand.”
New charges
Police arrested Qualls again after she bonded out on the initial charges, WSB reported in a separate story.
Officers said Qualls, 28, encouraged her child to beat another child on the bus, the station said, adding that the judge said Qualls used abusive language and attempted to strike a child with her right hand.
Police told WSB Qualls entered the school bus outside the Carrington Park apartments near Jonesboro and caused mayhem.
Now Qualls faces a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor in addition to her initial charges of battery, third-degree child cruelty, and disrupting the operation of a public school, the station said.
“When another child has been instigated by their parent to fight, I think that’s wrong because it’s not Christian-like,” one woman told WSB.
But the station added that Qualls’ attorney, Dennis Scheib, said during a hearing that the incident "wasn’t something [Qualls] started."
“She sees everybody fighting, and the door was closed," Scheib said, according to WSB. "So she got on there, and it was a mess."
After her first arrest last Thursday, Qualls — a mother of four — was released on a $7,000 bond, the station said. Following her second arrest, WSB said her attorney asked the judge for a $5,000 bond, but the judge set the bond at $10,000.
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Video: Female brutally beats up pair of women in store while crying little girl with attacker begs her to 'stop it!'
A female was caught on surveillance video brutally beating up a pair of women in an Omaha, Nebraska, convenience store recently while a crying little girl with the attacker begged her to "stop it!"
What are the details?
According to KETV-TV, the suspect who was wearing a brown coat entered the Mega Saver at 144th and Blondo Streets with a little girl just after 5 p.m. Feb. 16 and requested "an iPhone charger for a car."
The chargers were along the wall, the station said.
KETV said the suspect was there for a while, after which a conflict arose over buying the charger. "I'll pay for it, that's cool, but if it doesn't work in my car, can I return it?" she asked, according to the station.
There was a mix-up, and the female got upset, KETV said. "I feel like I'm being discriminated because y'all think I don't know what y'all saying, and that pisses me off," the female stated, according to the station.
KETV indicated that the suspect started swearing, which upset a couple of customers, and a yelling argument ensued — and the little girl in pink with the suspect started crying.
Soon the female suspect physically attacked one of the women, hitting her in the face at least three times.
The station said the suspect yelled profanities at the other customer. The suspect loudly asked, "You wanna get smacked, too?"
With that, the suspect slapped the retreating customer in the head from behind and then shoved her into a display, after which the victim fell the floor as items flew off shelves.
The suspect then walked over to the little girl, grabbed her hand, and appeared to begin to the leave the store — but she made a detour over to the victim she just knocked to floor and physically attacked her again.
As the crying little girl screamed for the suspect to "stop it!" the suspect attempted to stomp the victim who had raised up her foot up to protect herself — and then the suspect walked out the door with the little girl.
But it still wasn't over.
After placing the child in a car, the suspect actually came back into the store and went after the already beaten woman on the floor who yelled out, "Oh no! Here she comes again!"
The suspect replied over and over, "What'd you say? What'd you say?" as she hit and stomped and threw objects at the victim's head before finally leaving for good.
KETV said if you know the identity of the suspect, you can report it anonymously at Omaha Crime Stoppers at 402-444-STOP or online.
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'Here's an idea to bridge the divide on abortion': Ramaswamy suggests requiring men to financially support child and mother
Author and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has suggested that if a woman becomes pregnant and has a child, she should be able to legally require the father to fully financially support both her and the child until that child turns 18, provided that the man's fatherhood has been verified via a paternity test.
"Here's an idea to bridge the divide on abortion: codify sexual responsibility for *men* into the law. If a woman carries a child to term, she can automatically make the man fully $ responsible both for herself *and* for the child, if confirmed by paternity test. Should be an idea that both parties can agree on," Ramaswamy tweeted when sharing a video in which he discussed the idea during an appearance on "The Breakfast Club."
Elon Musk agreed with Ramaswamy, replying, "Yes."
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Ramaswamy has previously said that he believes "abortion is a form of murder" and that the issue should be decided by states, not the federal government.
Ramaswamy dropped out of the Republican presidential primary last week and endorsed former President Donald Trump. He came in a distant fourth place in the Iowa Republican presidential caucus, finishing behind Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley.
"The southern border disaster isn't the product of incompetence. It's the intended result of years of careful planning by the Democrat Party. Once you understand that, the situation makes a lot more sense & the solutions become much simpler," Ramaswamy asserted in another tweet.
"Correct," Musk replied.
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