Are  you listening to me? Didn't I just tell you to get your coat? Helloooo! It's cold out there ....

GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, Michigan -- A township Cub Scout leader allegedly sexually assaulted several children, watched them have sexual intercourse with each other and photographed them, according to the Genesee County prosecutor.

Police allege Charles J. Phillips sexually assaulted young neighbors and friends of his family, said Prosecutor David Leyton. The victims, six boys and a girl, range in age from 9 to 13.  See more at:

FLINT, Michigan -- It was only 10 seconds.

In October, police testified in Genesee County Circuit Court that Paul D. Powell II, 17, shook his 8-month-old daughter Takyra Rene Banks "for a period of about 10 seconds" because she would not stop crying. Powell is now awaiting trial for murder and first-degree child abuse in the July 17th death.

The Washington Post

Saturday, November 8, 2008

Tens of thousands of children in foster care nationwide grow older each year waiting to be adopted, yet a government agency has found that there are far more women seeking to adopt children than there are children awaiting adoption.  So why aren't the laws of supply and demand working in U.S. Adoptions?

FLINT, Michigan -- There are no bars thick enough
and no padlocks strong enough to keep children from loving their moms,
even if their moms are in jail.   "Children
love their mothers unconditionally," said Shirley Cochran, director of
Motherly Intercession, a Flint nonprofit organization that helps  the
children of incarcerated parents.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Dozens of juveniles have been freed from forced prostitution by a nationwide operation that resulted in the arrests of hundreds of other people, the FBI announced Monday. 

In the three-day operation, which began Thursday night, the FBI, along with local and state law enforcement agencies, took the 46 girls and one boy -- all of them U.S. citizens ages 13 to 17 -- into protective custody.

A new study by researchers with Kaiser Permanente Northern California suggests a simple strategy for reducing the risk of sudden death of infants in their sleep: turning on a fan at night.

(CNN) -- Frustrated parents are dumping their teenagers at Nebraska hospitals -- even crossing state lines to do it -- and the state Legislature has scheduled a special hearing to try to stem the tide.

Nebraska's "safe haven" law, intended to allow parents to anonymously hand over an infant to a hospital without being prosecuted, isn't working out as planned.

Mothers play an important role in determining how much fathers get involved in taking care of their infants, new research finds. See

http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/gatekeep.htm

FLINT, Michigan -- A former Flint elementary school teacher accused of having sex with a 12-year-old student won't see any jail time or even have to pay bond -- at least for the time being.

Allanah Benton-Wells, 42, was arraigned Tuesday on two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, a felony punishable by up to life in prison, for allegedly having sex with a sixth-grade boy when she was supposed to be helping him with his homework.