Teen girl says father threatened her with 'honor killing' before allegedly trying to strangle her outside Washington state HS



A teen girl said her father threatened her with an "honor killing" before allegedly trying to strangle her outside a Washington state high school.

It all went down outside Timberline High in Lacey on Oct. 18, KOMO-TV reported. Lacey is a few minutes east of Olympia and just over an hour southwest of Seattle.

The girl’s mother, Zahraa Ali, also was grabbing at her daughter and choking her, KOMO said, citing court documents. Investigators told the station the girl’s father also punched her boyfriend.

The 17-year-old victim told investigators her father's "honor killing" threat came after she refused to go to another country for an arranged marriage with an older man, KOMO said, citing court records.

The station noted that she reportedly went to her school for help, which led to the confrontation outside the school.

Josh Wagner told KOMO he was driving with his family near the high school when he noticed what he thought was a group of kids fighting. But as Wagner jumped in to break it up, the station said he realized it was a man choking a girl.

“The dad was on his back, and his daughter was on top of him, and he had her in a choke hold,” Wagner explained to KOMO.

He added to the station that "it was pretty angering. I didn't know what was going on, why it was happening. All the kids were screaming, yelling.”

Court records state Ihsan Ali was choking his 17-year-old daughter “to the point where she had lost consciousness” as other students, including the girl’s boyfriend, tried to pull her away, KOMO reported.

“What I saw was the adult male had the teenager in a headlock, choking her from the back, so I removed his arm from her, and then she got up and ran with another kid, who [I] come to find out was her boyfriend, and she was the daughter of the adult male,” Wagner added to the station. “So then I just held him on the ground 'til the police arrived, and then [they] handcuffed him and searched him and then moved him to the police car.”

The girl’s mother, Zahraa Ali, also was grabbing at her daughter and choking her, KOMO said, citing court documents. Investigators told the station the girl’s father also punched her boyfriend.

Victor Barnes — whose son was one of the students trying to stop the attack — told the station that the girl's father punched his son "in the face" and then tried "to kill his daughter."

The girl soon got away and ran into the school screaming, “My dad was trying to kill me, he was trying to kill me,” which prompted a lockdown as school staff blocked the girl’s parents from getting to her, KOMO said, citing court documents.

The girl's parents were arrested and are facing criminal charges, including assault, attempted murder, and attempted kidnapping, the station said.

'A lot of these stories exist, a lot of these stories are out here, some aren’t able to be heard for whatever reason.'

The parents appeared in court Wednesday, the Chronicle reported — which then added the following additional details about the incident:

Court papers indicate the victim ran away from home the day before the attack and went to Timberline High School, where she was a former student, seeking help from staff. A counselor was assisting her with finding a room at Safe Haven and the victim planned to take a city bus there after school got out but was allegedly pulled off the bus by her father.

The mother's bail is set at $500,000; the father's bail is set at $1 million, the Chronicle noted, adding that both parents are in custody at the Thurston County jail. Their next hearing is scheduled for 9 a.m. Dec. 4, the paper added.

“This isn’t right, and the more we continue to allow these types of actions to take place in a society where ... the climate is what it is right now, post-election, there's just no place for that type of activity anywhere,” Barnes told KOMO.

He added to the station that "a lot of these stories exist, a lot of these stories are out here, some aren’t able to be heard for whatever reason. I just want people to be aware these stories do exist.”

Barnes also told KOMO that issues with the Ali family had been going on for months — and a prior physical incident forced a temporary protection order against the mother, Zarhaa Ali. The station said court records indicate she also was banned from stepping upon school property after the prior incident.

KOMO reached out to the Department of Children, Youth, and Families to see if the agency is investigating the Ali family, but the station said it was told child welfare records are confidential.

You can view a video report here about the incident.

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'They're giving them drugs': Parents accuse preschool teachers of giving their kids 'sleepy stickers'



A group of parents accused teachers within Texas' Spring Independent School District of giving their preschool-age children "sleepy stickers" — apparently body-worn patches that release melatonin and other substances.

Lisa Luviano told WKRC-TV her daughter first brought the sleep patches to her attention last month.

'We did say we wanted to file criminal charges if this is something that is true.'

"The sticker makes me fall asleep," four-year-old Layne reportedly told Luviano.

Luviano told the news outlet that her daughter arrived home from school one day and showed her parents the patch, which she was still wearing at the time.

"She kind of pulled up her little shorts and said, 'Mom, look, this is my sleeping sticker.' And I was like, the what?" Luviano said.

The concerned mother told KTRK-TV that her girl said her teacher gave her the stickers "for sleeping time."

Layne's father, Joseph, stated that he suspected something was wrong when his daughter was not falling asleep at night.

He told WKRC, "Two o'clock in the morning, I hear some noise in the room, and I go over there, and she's still up."

The day after Layne came home and showed her parents the patch, Lisa went to the school and filed a report.

"We did say we wanted to file criminal charges if this is something that is true," Lisa told KTRK.

Lisa also took a photograph of the purple and blue sleep patch — which includes illustrations of a moon, clouds, and stars — and sent the image to other parents in Layne's class.

Melissa Gilford, whose child attends the same school as Layne, stated that her daughter recognized the patch from Luviano's photo.

"I showed it to my 4-year-old, and she said, 'Yes, that's the sleepy sticker,'" Gilford told WKRC.

After researching the patch online, Gilford discovered that it contains melatonin and other substances she was unfamiliar with.

Najala Abdullah, another parent, explained that her 4-year-old son also received the stickers while in class.

Abdullah said, "They're giving them drugs to make them sleep, to keep them quiet."

She noted that her son recently stopped eating and was returning home from school with untouched lunches.

"Every night, my son will come home. He's staying up. He's not sleeping," she told KTRK.

Abdullah also filed a report with the school as well as Child Protective Services.

Spring ISD issued a Tuesday statement to KTRK saying two of its teachers were placed on leave as police investigated the matter.

"Spring ISD is aware of allegations that two staff members at Northgate Crossing Elementary School allegedly administered sleeping supplements to students on Sept. 24. These staff members were immediately removed from the classroom and placed on administrative leave pending an ongoing investigation by the Spring ISD Police Department. The district takes every allegation of educator misconduct seriously and will take all necessary measures to ensure that our students are educated in a safe and nurturing environment," the district stated.

You can view a video report here about the controversy.

Last December a Spring ISD staff member was placed on administrative leave after allegedly giving melatonin gummies to students.

Anything else?

Melatonin, which is sold as an over-the-counter nutritional supplement, is not regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

According to Children's Health, there are no extensive studies on the appropriate dosage for children. However, Michelle Caraballo, M.D., a Pediatric Pulmonologist and Sleep Medicine Specialist at Children's Health and Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern, recommends one to three milligrams for toddlers and preschool-age children.

The Sleep Foundation recommends just one to two milligrams for children around 5 years old and up to three for children 6 to 12.

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Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, has a knack not only for peddling falsehoods but for supporting ruinous policies, identitarian programming, and radical politicians.

Weingarten fought, for instance, to keep schools from reopening in-person learning in 2020, helping to put kids years behind academically and to drive up mental illness, suicide, obesity, and diminished immune systems among American children. She has suggested that parental resistance to leftist curricula "is the way in which wars start" and has likened parental rights advocates to segregationists. Weingarten has also campaigned against arming teachers despite the deterrent it might serve regarding school shootings.

Fully aware of Weingarten's history of radicalism, former Trump Education Secretary Betsy DeVos expressed concern this week upon seeing how excited the AFT boss was over Kamala Harris' choice of running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D).

In a video posted by the AFT to social media Tuesday, Weingarten gleefully states, "My phone has been going crazy because we just heard Tim Walz is Kamala Harris' choice for vice president! We're so excited."

"He's a teacher. He's a union member. We have known him for years as a social studies teacher, as a vet, as a union member, as a congressman, as a governor," continued Weingarten. "It is such a great day for America that we're going to have Kamala Harris and Tim Walz on a ticket for the future, for freedom, for opportunity, for America, for Americans' families. I'm sorry, I'm just so, so excited."

Weingarten also tweeted, "As Governor his record has been exemplary including record funding for public education, protecting reproductive rights, expanding collective bargaining, access to affordable childcare & paid family and medical leave. @KamalaHarris made a great choice!"

DeVos responded, "Anyone who makes Randi this excited is a 5-alarm fire for parents and students."

Weingarten's excitement appears to be fed by an understanding that Walz is a kindred spirit.

Besides also having an apparently loose relationship with the truth, Walz has advanced various leftist policies and initiatives affecting schools and children.

Harris' running mate earned himself the nickname "Tampon Tim" for ratifying legislation last year requiring public schools to provide tampons and pads "to all menstruating students in restrooms regularly used by students in grades 4 to 12."

Although state Republicans, cognizant of the fact that only girls and women menstruate, sought to limit the offerings to girls' bathrooms, Walz and his Democratic comrades ultimately got their way such that tampons are now available in the boys' bathrooms as well.

'The future starts here — and we are not going back.'

Walz passed a law in May prohibiting K-12 schools, colleges, and public libraries from complying with book-removal requests, thereby ensuring LGBT propaganda and other content thought inappropriate by parents could remain accessible by students.

Although there was apparently no scientific evidence to support masking children, Walz nevertheless required that kids as young as 5 keep their faces masked at school and on buses — at least in those months where he was permitting them and their families to leave their homes.

In terms of older students, Walz has also ensured that illegal aliens will be able to take advantage of his state's tuition-free college program.

Weingarten indicated in a statement that her apparently ideologically uniform union will easily transition from support for President Joe Biden to support for Harris and will campaign to keep Trump out of the White House.

"AFT's 1.8 million members will stand with Walz and Harris over the next 12 weeks as they campaign to realize the promise and potential of America," said Weingarten. "The future starts here — and we are not going back."

The National Education Association — America's other major radical teachers' union that supports abortion; amnesty for illegal aliens; gun bans; race-based admissions and hiring; LGBTQ activist-dictated pronoun use; statehood for the District of Columbia; making race the crux of all educational considerations; and BLM — has also endorsed Walz.

NEA president Becky Pringle stated, "The 3-million members of the NEA will show their power by turning out, volunteering and making their voices heard because we know that electing Kamala Harris and Tim Walz is the only way we can take America forward."

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