| March 9, 2009 | - Neighbors and counselors of Lexie Agyepong-Glover, a 13-year-old Virginia
girl who was killed by her foster mother, said that in the past two years they had repeatedly called police to report the child's abuse but nothing was ever done. People recalled Lexie wandering the streets dressed in a barbecue-grill cover, trying to board her school bus wearing only her underwear, and being driven away from school in the trunk of her mother's car. “Lexie walks right over, climbs in that trunk,” Brenda Taylor, Lexie's school-bus driver, said. “She did not hesitate, like she had been doing it every day.”
| Source:
Washington Post
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| July 14, 2007 | - Police recovered a seven-week-old boy from the middle of a road in Ohio, where his naked mother had placed him in order to appease Satan.
| Source:
WLWT
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| June 19, 2007 | - Seven children were killed during a coalition-led airstrike in Afghanistan,.
- Seven children were killed during a coalition-led airstrike in Afghanistan,.
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NYT
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| April 16, 2007 | - An explosion near a Shiite shrine in Karbala killed 16 children.
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AP via Tehran Times
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| April 3, 2007 | - The market price for children in India slipped below that of buffalo.
| Source:
Reuters
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| November 21, 2006 | -
British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced that state-sponsored supernannies would be dispatched to deal with the United Kingdom's problem children. “Life isn't normal if you've got 12-year-olds out every night,” said Mr. Blair, “drinking and creating nuisance on the street with their parents not knowing or even caring.”
| Source:
Guardian
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| November 1, 2006 | -
Japanese law enforcement arrested a fetishist who had filled a warehouse with 5,000 pairs of stolen children's shoes.
| Source:
Mianichi Daily News
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| October 5, 2006 | - Further allegations emerged regarding the behavior of recently-resigned Congressman Mark Foley (R., Fla.) with underage pages. “He didn't want to talk about politics,” said one former page. “He wanted to talk about sex or my penis.” Congressman Jim Kolbe (R., Ariz.) said that he had confronted Foley over inappropriate contact with pages as early as 2000, and House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert vowed not to resign over the scandal.
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ABC News
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| September 25, 2006 | - An appeals court ruled that a Montana mother who gave bong hits to her baby daughter should not have to spend five years in jail.
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| September 3, 2006 | - A British professor announced that five-year-old girls were worried about their weight.
| Source:
AFP via Breitbart
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| August 2, 2006 | - The London School of Economics determined that good-looking couples are 36 percent more likely than their ugly counterparts to have female
offspring.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| July 21, 2006 | - An American scientist claimed that parrots are as intelligent as five-year-old children.
| Source:
ABC (Australia)
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| July 21, 2006 | - Hillary Clinton warned that advertisers may attempt to place mind-controlling computer chips in the brains of children.
| Source:
Daily News via Google News
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| July 12, 2006 | - In Australia
scientists found that mothers are less revolted by the smell of their child's feces than they are by the feces of other children.
| Source:
Live Science
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| July 6, 2006 | -
Iraqi prime minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki denounced the immunity of American soldiers in Iraq in connection with the rape and murder of a teenage girl and three of her relatives, including another child. Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said that there was no apparent connection between the rape-and-murder case and the killings of two soldiers from the unit under investigation.
| Source:
Detroit Free Press
|
| June 18, 2006 | - In India an autopsy determined that the rogue elephant known as Master Killer died from multiple organ failure. “I had lost my two children,” said the elephant's distraught trainer. “But when I discovered this naughty tusker . . . I thought, 'Here's a newborn that will help me forget my own loss.'”
| Source:
The Peninsula
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| April 17, 2006 | - In Purcell, Oklahoma, a man named Kevin Ray Underwood was arrested for killing a 10-year-old girl named Jamie Rose Bolin. “I chopped her up,” he told police. “Regarding a potential motive,” said a police chief, “this appears to have been part of a plan to kidnap a person, rape them, torture them, kill them, cut off their head, drain the body of blood, rape the corpse, eat the corpse, then dispose of the organs and bones.” The police also announced that they had removed skewers and a meat tenderizer from Underwood's apartment.
| Source:
Winston-Salem Journal
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| April 13, 2006 | - Some Iraqis were changing their names to avoid being identified as either Sunni or Shiite. “[I] don't want my children to die,” said the Shiite father of Ali, Hassan, and Fatima, “just because of their names.”
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| April 3, 2006 | - Scientists in Michigan determined that children behave better after their tonsils are removed.
| Source:
Forbes
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| March 16, 2006 | - At least 2.5 million American children were taking antipsychotic drugs.
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MSNBC
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| March 5, 2006 | - In Nassau County, New York, a newborn baby was run over by several different vehicles; its sex and race could not be determined.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| February 17, 2006 | - In Harare, Zimbabwe, twenty newborn babies and fetuses were being pulled from the sewers each week.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| February 7, 2006 | - A Florida man named Frank Feldmann broke into a lighthouse and tied himself to its lightning rod in order to raise awareness for children. Police had difficulty communicating with Feldmann due to heavy winds and his tiger costume.
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Local6.com
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| December 19, 2005 | -
British scientists discovered that little girls like to torture their Barbie dolls by scalping, decapitating, burning, breaking, and microwaving them. “Girls,” explained a researcher, “feel violence and hatred towards their Barbie.”
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Times Online
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| December 15, 2005 | -
EBay was selling 85 toys a minute.
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Click2Houston.com
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| October 25, 2005 | - In Maryland the first kill of bear season was credited to Sierra Stiles, an eight-year-old girl, who shot a 211-pound bear twice in the chest with a .243-caliber rifle. “They won't eat now,” Sierra said of bears. “They won't eat a thing.”
| Source:
The Washington Post
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| October 20, 2005 | -
Babies were up for auction on eBay's Chinese subsidiary, Eachnet. Boys were going for $3,450, while girls cost $1,603.
| Source:
BBC News
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| August 13, 2005 | - A study found that 1 in 25 fathers was unknowingly raising another man's child, a situation referred to as “paternal discrepancy.”
| Source:
LATimes.com
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| August 4, 2005 | - In Los Angeles, cocaine was found in the bloodstream of a toddler who died when her father used her as a shield in a shootout with police.
| Source:
AZCentral.com
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| July 23, 2005 | - The Pentagon was stalling to avoid the release of more photographs and videos from Abu Ghraib prison. The videos are said to show young boys shrieking as they are anally
raped.
| Source:
Editor & Publisher
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| July 14, 2005 | - A study found that the blood of newborn babies contained an average of two hundred industrial chemicals and pollutants including pesticides, perfluorochemicals, and waste from burning garbage.
| Source:
Body Burden
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| July 8, 2005 | - A man was arrested for paying children to yell at him because he is fat.
| Source:
The Salt Lake Tribune
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| July 8, 2005 | - Four teenagers were charged with urinating into the holy water at the Saint Pius X church in Rochester, New York.
| Source:
The Pittsburgh Channel
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| May 31, 2005 | - In New York City, a nine-year-old girl
stabbed an eleven-year-old girl named Queen Washington to death. The girls were fighting over a pink rubber ball.
| Source:
New York Daily News
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| April 30, 2005 | - The state court of Florida blocked a thirteen-year-old girl from having an abortion. “Why can't I make my own decision?” the girl asked a judge. “I don't know,” the judge answered.
| Source 1:
BBC News
Source 2:
Sun-Sentinel.com
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| April 21, 2005 | - In Tehran, around 400 Iranians signed up to become suicide bombers. “As a Muslim, it is my duty,” said a mother of two, “to sacrifice my life for oppressed Palestinian
children.”
| Source:
Reuters
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| April 20, 2005 | -
Texas legislators were considering a bill that would ban gay people from taking in foster children.
| Source:
USA Today
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| April 15, 2005 | - After returning to Afghanistan from the United States, where he underwent heart surgery, an Afghan toddler died.
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 12, 2005 | - Researchers found that parents tend to take better care of their better-looking children.
| Source:
EurekAlert!
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| April 10, 2005 | - The EPA decided to cancel a study of the effects of pesticides on infants.
| Source:
Salt Lake Tribune
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| April 10, 2005 | - The United Arab Emirates tested prototypes of robotic camel jockeys, which will replace child camel jockeys.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| April 1, 2005 | - A former policeman was arrested for flying to Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, in order to molest
boys.
| Source:
Sign On San Diego
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| March 30, 2005 | - A Minnesota man threw a toddler at a policeman.
| Source:
WCCO
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| March 29, 2005 | - The Boy Scouts' Director of Programming was arrested on child
pornography charges.
| Source:
CNN.com
|
| March 29, 2005 | - A huge naked screaming Wisconsin man was shot as he threatened his equally naked children with scissors.
| Source:
JSOnline
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| March 18, 2005 | - Police in Florida arrested a five-year-old girl at her kindergarten, binding her hands with plastic ties and placing handcuffs around her ankles. The girl, who weighs forty pounds, was upset about some jelly beans. “They set my baby up,” said her mother.
| Source:
AP
|
| March 11, 2005 | - Paul Schaefer, a former member of the Luftwaffe who emigrated to Chile, founded a cult, provided torture facilities for Pinochet, and molested many children, was captured in Argentina.
| Source:
Inter-press Service News Agency
|
| March 11, 2005 | - It was revealed that the United States had held children as young as eleven years old at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| March 9, 2005 | - A badly prepared snack killed twenty-seven children in the Philippines.
| Source:
ABC13
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| March 7, 2005 | - An Arizona ice-cream-truck driver who raped and impregnated a nine-year-old girl was sentenced to life in prison.
| Source:
KPHO
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| March 3, 2005 | - A 13-pound, 13-ounce baby boy was born in Britain; the boy's mother credited the boy's size to her steady diet of cockles, herring, mussels, and crab claws, provided by her fishmonger husband.
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News & Star
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| March 3, 2005 | -
Microsoft was developing a teddy bear with a rotating head that will watch little children,
| Source:
AP
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| March 2, 2005 | - A toddler in Deer Park, Texas, drowned in a dirty swimming pool.
| Source:
Click2Houston
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| March 2, 2005 | - A toddler in Nebraska strangled himself with an automatic car window as his mother's boyfriend played soccer nearby.
| Source:
The Omaha Channel
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| March 2, 2005 | - In Bangladesh, four infants were on trial for looting, with bail set at fifty dollars per infant.
| Source:
BBC News
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| March 2, 2005 | -
Jack Nicklaus's
toddler grandson drowned in a hot tub.
| Source:
SFGate
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| March 2, 2005 | - A toddler was swept away in the Rio Grande as his parents tried to cross into Texas from Mexico.
| Source:
Houston Chronicle
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| March 2, 2005 | - A toddler was lost in the Alabama woods; police, firemen, and family friends searched for him in vain. Finally, he was rescued by a three-legged dog.
| Source:
NBC 13
|
| February 24, 2005 | - An Illinois court ruled that a man could sue his ex-lover for using his sperm, acquired via oral sex, to impregnate herself.
| Source:
Chicago Sun-Times
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| February 23, 2005 | - An Orangeburg, New York, man beat his toddler daughter to death for refusing a peanut-butter sandwich.
| Source:
The WGAL Channel
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| February 22, 2005 | -
UNICEF reported that 180 million children aged five to seventeen are forced into the “worst forms” of labor, including the sex and slave trades.
| Source:
HindustanTimes.com
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| February 21, 2005 | - A poll found that 57 percent of parents would not like their children to grow up to be president.
| Source:
Chicago Sun-Times
|
| February 19, 2005 | - In Egypt, a team of thirteen doctors removed a second, “parasitic” head from a baby girl.
| Source:
Reuters
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| February 15, 2005 | - The Ugandan army admitted that it had recruited eight hundred child soldiers who had escaped from serving in the opposition Lord's Resistance Army.
| Source:
BBC News
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| February 13, 2005 | -
Alan Keyes disowned his daughter and threw her out of his house because she is a lesbian.
| Source:
Washington Post
|
| January 31, 2005 | - succeeded in carrying out nine suicide bombings, one of which was performed by a handicapped child.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| January 14, 2005 | - A four-legged, anus-less, double-penised baby was born in Nigeria.
| Source:
news.xinhuanet.com
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| January 12, 2005 | - E! Television and Britain's BSkyB announced plans to broadcast 30-minute dramatizations of Michael Jackson's child
molestation
trial, based on the testimony from the previous day, in order to get around a ban on cameras in the courtroom.
| Source:
Reuters
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| January 11, 2005 | - The parents of a baby born on January 6, and officially named the 1.3 billionth citizen of China, turned down sponsorship deals from diaper makers. “Zhang Yichi is too young, and too many commercial activities will have negative impact on the boy's healthy growth,” said Zhang Tong, the boy's father.
| Source:
China Daily
|
| January 7, 2005 | - Andrea Yates's conviction for murdering her five children was overturned because an expert witness didn't watch enough television.
| Source:
National Public Radio
|
| October 29, 2004 | - New research found that it is better to be bullied for the first time as a young child than as an adolescent.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| October 13, 2004 | - Police in Burlington, Ontario, were searching for someone who glued shards of glass to playground equipment.
| Source:
CBC News
|
| October 2, 2004 | - A Muslim schoolgirl in France shaved her head to protest the ban on Islamic head scarves.
| Source:
Reuters
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| September 30, 2004 | - In Baghdad, suicide bombs killed dozens of children who were gathering to receive candy from U.S. soldiers.
| Source:
BBC
|
| September 30, 2004 | -
Iraqi
schoolchildren were still waiting to start school, which has remained closed because of the ongoing civil war.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 6, 2004 | -
Argentine researchers discovered that smoking and drinking are bad for men's semen.
| Source:
Reuters
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| September 5, 2004 | -
Chechen militants took more than 1,000 children and adults hostage at a school in southern Russia, though the Russian government lied at first and claimed that there were only 354 hostages; at least 338 died, half of whom were children, when security forces stormed the school.
| Source:
Washington Post, Reuters
|
| September 3, 2004 | - The Food and Drug Administration was trying to decide whether it's ethical to give children
amphetamines as part of a study.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| August 19, 2004 | -
Children living next to gas stations, a French study found, are four times more likely to develop leukemia.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| July 6, 2004 | - The British House of Lords voted to limit the right of parents to spank their children.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| June 17, 2004 | - A remote-controlled roadside bomb in Kunduz hit a NATO vehicle, killing four people, including two schoolchildren.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| June 5, 2004 | - Colombian police arrested a woman for drugging a pregnant mother and kidnapping her unborn child, whom she cut out of the mother's womb with a kitchen knife.
| Source:
BBC
|
| May 27, 2004 | - and police in Philadelphia found some children playing with a bazooka.
| Source:
WPVI TV Philadelphia
|
| April 30, 2004 | -
Child abductions were on the rise in Afghanistan, and the United Nations was having a hard time recruiting peacekeepers for its mission in Haiti.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| April 22, 2004 | -
Suicide attacks continued; in Basra dozens of people were killed, including more than 20 children who were on their way to school.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| April 20, 2004 | - Dozens of Chinese babies died of malnutrition after they were fed counterfeit formula.
| Source:
BBC
|
| April 17, 2004 | - Al Jazeera broadcast a videotape showing an American soldier who was captured west of Baghdad. "I came to Iraq to liberate it," said Pfc. Keith M. Maupin. "But I didn't want to come here because I wanted to be with my son."
| Source:
New York Times
|
| April 16, 2004 | - The FDA admitted that it refused to permit its lead expert on the subject to testify publicly that antidepressant drugs cause children to become suicidal.
| Source:
New York Times
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| April 15, 2004 | -
Mattel and Tek Nek Toys International recalled thousands of Batman cars and trucks after dozens of children were hurt playing with them; one child died.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| April 11, 2004 | -
Children in Flint, Michigan, found two loaded pistols during an Easter egg hunt.
| Source:
Flint Journal
|
| April 9, 2004 | - Florida police arrested a nine-year-old girl for stealing a black-and-white bunny rabbit named Oreo.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| April 5, 2004 | - A new study found that toddlers who watch too much television are more likely to have a hard time concentrating by age seven.
| Source:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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| April 2, 2004 | - President Bush signed a law making it a crime to harm a fetus while committing another crime.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| April 2, 2004 | - A study found that preschoolers are the fastest growing market for antidepressant drugs.
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Express Scripts
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| April 1, 2004 | - Two street children in Zimbabwe were arrested after they stole 100 million Zimbabwe dollars (about $23,000) and bought food, clothing, and household goods for other street children.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| March 28, 2004 | - People in Angola were beating and torturing their own children because they believe them to be sorcerers.
| Source:
Chicago Tribune
|
| March 10, 2004 | - A study found that teenagers who vow to remain virgins were almost as likely to catch a venereal disease as normal teens.
| Source:
Guardian
|
| March 7, 2004 | -
Iraqis were demanding to know the whereabouts and condition of more than 10,000 men and boys (ages 11 to 75) who are being detained by American forces.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| March 5, 2004 | -
British
children found a three-headed frog with six legs.
| Source:
BBC
|
| February 17, 2004 | - It was reported that 4,450 Roman Catholic priests have been accused of sexually abusing
children since 1950.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| February 12, 2004 | - The U.S. infant-mortality rate was up.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| February 9, 2004 | - A two-headed baby died after doctors removed its "parasitic head."
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| February 7, 2004 | -
Israel attempted the assassination of an Islamic Jihad leader by firing a missile at his car in Gaza City but succeeded only in killing an aide and a 14-year-old bystander.
| Source:
BBC
|
| February 5, 2004 | - Police in Peru said that a decapitated baby boy found near Lake Titicaca, on a hill surrounded with flowers, liquor, and blood, might have been sacrificed to a pre-Colombian earth god.
| Source:
Guardian
|
| January 30, 2004 | - The United States released three teenagers from the Guantánamo Bay prison camp.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| January 2, 2004 | - A new study found that CAT scans might permanently damage young children's brains.
| Source:
Guardian
|
| January 2, 2004 | - including several Air France flights between Paris and Los Angeles that were called off because of mistaken identities: six passengers, including a five-year-old and an elderly Chinese woman, had names similar to terrorism suspects.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| December 28, 2003 | -
Michael Jackson said that when he was a boy he slept with grown men many times, and he complained that the police had locked him in a room that had "doo doo" all over the walls.
| Source:
CBS News
|
| December 26, 2003 | - A Swedish
mother was arrested for trying to bake her five-month-old baby.
| Source:
Sydney Morning Herald
|
| December 24, 2003 | - Princess Anne's English bull terrier Dotty mauled Pharos, Queen Elizabeth's favorite corgi, which had to be put down as a result; the princess was convicted last year under the Dangerous Dogs Act after Dotty attacked two children in a park.
| Source:
BBC
|
| December 14, 2003 | - Lightning struck a church in Swaziland and killed a priest, five children, and three others.
| Source:
News.com.au
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| December 10, 2003 | - U.S. forces killed six children in Afghanistan, along with two adults, just four days after nine children were killed during another air strike. A military spokesman admitted that "such mistakes" might hurt America's reputation in the area.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| December 7, 2003 | - A United States airstrike near Kabul failed to kill its Taliban target ("a known terrorist") but did kill nine young children who were playing ball inside the wall of their family compound. Their hats and shoes were scattered all over a bloody field.
| Source:
Los Angeles Times
|
| December 2, 2003 | -
Israeli soldiers killed a young boy and three Hamas members in Ramallah.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| November 10, 2003 | - One in seven American
schoolchildren was found to be at risk of heart disease.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| November 10, 2003 | - A suicide car bombing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killed 17 people, including 5 children, in a housing compound inhabited by foreign workers. Al Qaeda was blamed for the attack.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| November 6, 2003 | -
President Bush, surrounded by ten smiling white men in dark suits, signed a bill outlawing the rare abortion procedure known as "intact dilation and extraction." He said that America "owes its children a different and better welcome."
| Source:
New York Times
|
| October 30, 2003 | - Shropshire lads were warned by British police to stop throwing eggs or face prosecution; parents were asked to keep a close watch on the household egg supply, and police cautioned shopkeepers to be suspicious of egg-buying children.
| Source:
BBC
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| October 13, 2003 | -
Israel raided the Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and left 1,240 Palestinians homeless after demolishing up to 120 houses; Israeli officials said they had destroyed three tunnels used to smuggle weapons from Egypt. Eight Palestinians were killed in the operation, including two children.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| October 5, 2003 | -
Islamic Jihad took responsibility for a suicide attack in Haifa, Israel, that killed at least 19 people, including several children.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| October 1, 2003 | - Laura Bush told the Russians that American children's books teach children to be good Americans and that her children used to enjoy acting out "Hop on Pop" by Dr. Seuss.
| Source:
Reuters
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| September 25, 2003 | - The recording industry let it be known that it was promoting a "stealing is bad" curriculum for the nation's schools that will include classes on the history of copyright and games such as Starving Artist, a role-playing game in which children pretend to be musicians who no longer receive royalties because their work has been copied on the Internet.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 11, 2003 | - A suicide bomber struck in Kurdish Iraq, killing one child and wounding about 50 people.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 11, 2003 | - A leading British fertility expert called for more research on some in vitro techniques and accused doctors of experimenting on children.
| Source:
BBC
|
| August 28, 2003 | - In Nigeria, the young mother who was sentenced to death by stoning for having a child out of wedlock begged for mercy as she nursed her baby in court; her lawyers argued that the child was conceived while the mother was married and that under Islamic Law a baby can gestate in its mother's womb for five years.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| August 21, 2003 | - Palestinians and Israelis were slaughtering one another again.
A Hamas suicide bomber blew up a bus in Jerusalem, killing 20 people, six of whom were children, and wounding many more.
One nine-year-old boy who survived was blown out of the bus and landed on some dead babies.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 5, 2003 | -
Arnold Schwarzenegger appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and announced his candidacy for governor in the California recall election; other candidates include the former child-actor Gary Coleman, the pornographer Larry Flynt, a porn star named Mary Carey, and Arianna Huffington, a newspaper columnist.
“This is America,” said Carey.
“I am just as dignified as Arnold Schwarzenegger, and I can speak English.”
| Source:
CNN.com
|
| August 1, 2003 | - The Vatican issued an edict calling homosexual unions "evil" and describing adoption of children by gay couples as "doing violence."
| Source:
Guardian
|
| July 11, 2003 | - Mrs. Bush read a book about Clifford the big red dog to some HIV-infected children in Uganda; the children responded with a song: "AIDS has no mercy to the youth," they sang. "We all die young."
| Source:
Reuters
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| July 8, 2003 | - Americans were spritzing their offspring with "ChildCalm," a spray that purports to mollify unruly children.
| Source:
Charlotte Observer
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| July 5, 2003 | - A primary school in China was fining children five yuan per incident for farting in class.
| Source:
Undernews
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| July 3, 2003 | - A group of children in Oslo, Norway, found a human skull in their kindergarten's sandbox.
| Source:
Nettavisen
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| June 11, 2003 | - Frank Luntz, the Republican pollster, said that it doesn't matter whether WMD are found, "because the rationale for the war changed. Americans like a good picture. And one photograph of an Iraqi
child kissing a U.S. soldier is more powerful than two months of debate on the floor of Congress."
| Source:
Washington Post
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| June 5, 2003 | - Elsewhere, in the West Bank, Israeli forces shot a seven-year-old
Palestinian girl in the abdomen.
| Source:
Guardian
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| June 4, 2003 | -
Tom DeLay, the House Majority Leader, killed a Democratic attempt to extend a new tax credit to 6.5 million low-income families who were left out of President Bush's latest tax cut.
"There are a lot of things that are more important than that," DeLay said.
"To me, it's a little difficult to give tax relief to people that don't pay income tax."
| Source:
New York Times
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| May 29, 2003 | - It was discovered that families earning between $10,500 and $26,625 a year will not receive the new increase in the child tax credit.
| Source:
New York Times
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| May 28, 2003 | -
Schoolchildren in Akron, Ohio, will be fingerprinted so that they can be identified in school lunch lines.
| Source:
Beacon Journal
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| May 2, 2003 | -
UNICEF reported that since the beginning of the second Palestinian intifada 92 Israeli and 436 Palestinian children have been killed.
| |
| April 29, 2003 | -
“On principle, we don't want the United Nations running around Iraq.” Hans Blix, the U.N.
weapons inspector, pointed out that “We found as little, but with less cost.” Military officials admitted that they were holding children in the high-security prison for terrorists at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, even though they have not been accused of any offense, and said that they would be detained “until we ensure that they're no longer a threat to the United States.” A Florida mother said she accidentally stabbed her 19-year-old son in the buttocks with a 12-inch knife when he wouldn't get out of bed for work.
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| April 29, 2003 | -
National SpankOut Day was marked by parents who refrained from hitting their children for a day.
| |
| April 29, 2003 | -
Dozens of children in Pennsylvania were hospitalized after a chemical plant released a sticky cloud of glue into the air.
| |
| April 15, 2003 | -
Mexican authorities arrested 42 police officers for selling drugs to school children.
| |
| April 15, 2003 | -
More than 3,000 children in northern China were sick from drinking poison soy milk; three children died and several were blinded by the milk, which turned their eyes, noses, and mouths black and blue. The cause of the poisoning was unknown.
| |
| April 8, 2003 | -
American troops opened fire on a civilian van at a checkpoint and killed seven women and children.
Military officials said that the van had failed to stop when ordered to do so and that the shooting was justified.
| |
| April 1, 2003 | -
Lt. General William Wallace, commander of Army forces in the Persian Gulf, said that “the enemy we're fighting is a bit different than the one we war gamed against.” American and British casualties were heavier than expected, and soldiers said they were having a hard time distinguishing Iraqi forces from civilians. “It's not pretty,” said one marine. “It's not surgical. You try to limit collateral damage, but they want to fight. Now it's just smash-mouth football.” The bombing of Baghdad continued; one reporter described seeing a severed hand, a pile of brains, and the remains of a mother and her three small children who were burned alive in their car after two American missiles landed in a crowded market.
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| April 1, 2003 | -
Thousands of Muslims from all over the world were traveling to Iraq to fight against the American invasion; an Iraqi general claimed to have 4,000 volunteer suicide bombers from 23 Arab countries.
“This is a war for oil and Zionism,” said an Egyptian student volunteer.
“I want to help Iraqis, not Saddam.
I know I might die.
I don't want to kill people but I will if I have to, to protect people like those children with their heads missing.”
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| April 1, 2003 | -
Israeli troops killed several Palestinian children.
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| March 25, 2003 | -
“This military action cannot be justified in any way,” said President Vladimir Putin of Russia, and Gerhard Schroeder of Germany observed that the president's decision meant “certain death to thousands of innocent men, women, and children.” Pope John Paul II said that the invasion of Iraq “threatened the destiny of humanity.” The United States Congress quickly voted to endorse the president's declaration of war.
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| March 25, 2003 | -
American networks offered few images of dead civilians, refugees, or young Iraqi
children with burned faces.
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| March 25, 2003 | -
Israeli schoolchildren took their gas masks to school.
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| March 18, 2003 | -
Three young children were found beheaded in Brownsville, Texas, and their parents were charged with murder.
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| March 11, 2003 | -
A Palestinian suicide bomber blew up a bus in Haifa, Israel, killing 15 people, including young children on their way home from school.
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| March 11, 2003 | -
The United States Supreme Court ruled that it is not cruel and unusual punishment to put a man in prison for 50 years for stealing a couple of videotapes for his children.
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| February 25, 2003 | -
The Nicaraguan government was trying to decide whether to force a pregnant nine-year-old girl to carry her baby to term; “I don't want to share my toys with other children,” said the girl, who was raped and has requested an abortion. I take care of my toys.”
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| February 18, 2003 | -
In Colorado Springs, police fired tear gas into a crowd of protesters, even though children were in the adjacent playground.
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| February 4, 2003 | -
The space shuttle Columbia broke apart while entering the upper atmosphere, scattering debris and the remains of seven astronauts over east Texas and Louisiana; three young children in Plainview, Texas, found a charred leg; a man in Hemphill found a torso and a skull along a rural highway. Fragments of the shuttle were offered for sale on eBay within a few hours.
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| January 28, 2003 | -
Six men being held on immigration charges by the American government went on a hunger strike to protest their detention; several of the men said they simply wanted to be able to hug their children during visits.
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| January 28, 2003 | -
An American official said that Libya's election as chairman of the United Nations Human Rights Commission was “regrettable.” Children from single-parent homes are more likely to go crazy, a Swedish study found.
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| January 21, 2003 | -
Orthodox prelates in Cyprus called for a ban of the latest Harry Potter movie because it promotes wizardry and casts a demonic spell on children.
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| January 7, 2003 | -
Prozac was approved for children.
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| December 31, 2002 | -
Gunmen in Mogadishu, Somalia, attacked a schoolbus and killed five children.
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| December 17, 2002 | -
A British vicar told a church full of young children that Santa was dead and that reindeer would burst into flames if they traveled fast enough to deliver presents to children all over the world.
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| December 17, 2002 | -
The British government proposed fining the parents of children who play hooky.
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| December 3, 2002 | -
People who believe that vaccines caused their children's autism were also somewhat curious.
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| November 19, 2002 | -
The pope addressed Italy's parliament for the first time and urged Italians to have more children; a fugitive mobster was so moved by the pope's words that he turned himself in.
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| November 12, 2002 | -
A large study of Danish children determined that the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine does not cause autism.
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| October 22, 2002 | -
relief agency for Palestinian refugees, denounced the attack: “This is another case of disproportionate force being used against civilian targets, including schools full of children.” Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said that the Israeli army “has the highest level of morality in the world.” The last inhabitants of Khirbat Yanun, a Palestinian village in the West Bank, fled their homes because of a steady campaign of violence (gunfire, vandalism, stone-throwing, physical assault) from neighboring Jewish settlers.
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| October 22, 2002 | -
A woman in South Dakota gave birth to her own grandchildren.
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| October 15, 2002 | -
The Washington sniper continued to shoot people and broadened his targets to include children, and he left a tarot “death card” at the scene of one shooting on which he wrote: “Dear Policeman, I am God.” The American Tarot Association posted a list of “fast facts” on its website about the death card and said that the killer obviously knows nothing at all about tarot.
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| October 8, 2002 | -
Britain ordered warplanes into the London skies to escort a flight from Baltimore after an eavesdropping passenger overheard the words “planning for six months” but not the words “family reunion.” A mob of children in Milwaukee beat a man to death.
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| October 1, 2002 | -
Nepal banned child abuse and legalized abortion.
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| October 1, 2002 | -
As far as I'm concerned, these people are child-killers.” Amnesty International reported that 236 Palestinian and 61 Israeli children have been killed in the fighting since September 2000.
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| September 24, 2002 | -
The New England Journal of Medicine published a study concluding that an overly clean household environment can lead to allergies and asthma in children.
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| September 24, 2002 | -
A bomb, apparently set by Jewish terrorists, exploded in a Palestinian elementary school shortly before recess, injuring several children.
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| September 24, 2002 | -
Hundreds of people, mostly schoolchildren, were sickened and dozens died in Tangshan, China, from eating food from a snack-bar that had been laced with rat poison by a competitor.
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| September 3, 2002 | -
Gen. Dan Halutz, the commander of the air force, said the following in an interview: “Is there a situation in which it is legitimate to hit a terrorist when you know that it will carry the price of harming civilians? The answer is affirmative.” He continued: “I'm very sorry about innocent children who are killed, but whoever goes out to kill children in Israel has to take into account that children may be killed around him.”
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| September 3, 2002 | -
Forty-nine percent of Americans, a new poll found, think that the First Amendment “goes too far.” The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate banned news photographers from taking pictures of children carrying weapons.
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| August 27, 2002 | -
Children in Malaysia were skipping school after sightings of “hungry, headless ghosts” that coincided with the Hungry Ghost festival, held to raise awareness that spirits from hell roam the earth during August.
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| August 27, 2002 | -
A mother from the town of Brilliant, Ohio, was arrested for allowing her three children to get sunburned.
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| August 27, 2002 | -
Children were being killed in Swaziland so that their bodies could be used in good-luck potions by candidates preparing for upcoming elections.
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| August 13, 2002 | -
In Berkeley, California, 1,130 mothers nursed their children together at the Berkeley Community Theater and set a world record for suckling; the previous record was held by 767 mothers in Australia.
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| August 6, 2002 | -
Jewish settlers ran amok in Hebron and killed a Palestinian child.
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| August 6, 2002 | -
A bomb blew up a commuter bus in Galilee, killing nine people; five more Israelis were killed in other attacks the same day, all of which were said to be in retaliation for the assassination last week of a Hamas leader in which 14 other Palestinians, including nine children, were killed.
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| August 6, 2002 | -
A French pornographer who also writes children's novels attacked the proposed ban: “Porn is one of the fruits of the youth uprising of May 1968,” he wrote, “and it is a precious cultural asset.” The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, defying the Bush Administration, approved the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
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| July 30, 2002 | -
Israel used an American-made F-16 to drop a one-ton laser-guided bomb on a densely populated residential area in Gaza City, killing a prominent Hamas leader and 14 others, nine of them children.
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| July 30, 2002 | -
Before the operation, the boys were treated to a party complete with cakes and a band playing children's music.
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| July 30, 2002 | -
A pet-shop employee in Pennsylvania stomped a kitten to death in front of the children who were waiting to buy it.
The man, who was sentenced to 100 hours of service to the community, claimed the kitten was biting him.
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| June 25, 2002 | -
The Court offered little guidance for determining what constitutes “retarded.” After a series of Palestinian suicide attacks, including an attack on a home in Itamar, a Jewish settlement near Nablus, in which a mother and her three children were murdered, Israel's security cabinet voted to seize the entire West Bank.
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| June 25, 2002 | -
Israeli troops killed three young children and an old man when they shelled the central market in Jenin.
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| June 18, 2002 | -
The Roman Catholic diocese of Brooklyn denied John Gotti a public funeral mass because of concerns that crowds of onlookers “would take away from the decorum.” In Dallas, Texas, a council of Roman Catholic bishops decided to remove any priest from the ministry who has ever abused a child.
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| June 4, 2002 | -
A federal appeals court struck down the Children's Internet Protection Act of 2001, which requires libraries to use filtering software to prevent minors from viewing pornography and other harmful material, because the technology blocks too much information that is neither obscene nor dangerous and thus violates the First Amendment.
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| May 21, 2002 | -
A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded market in Netanya, Israel, killing two and wounding at least 50 people, including a number of young children.
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| May 21, 2002 | -
India expelled Pakistan's ambassador in retaliation for a terrorist attack that killed 32 people, mostly women and children.
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| May 14, 2002 | -
A 13-year-old girl from Bolivia named Gabriela Azurdy Arrieta opened the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Children. “We want a world fit for children,” she said in her speech, “because a world fit for us is a world fit for everyone.” The United States, the Vatican, and several Arab countries disrupted the proceedings by pushing anti-abortion and sexual abstinence agendas.
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| May 14, 2002 | -
The U.S. blocked a United Nations statement calling for a ban on the execution of children, a provision of the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child, which only the United States and Somalia have failed to ratify.
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| May 14, 2002 | -
Cardinal Bernard F. Law was deposed in Boston by lawyers for 86 people who say they were sexually molested by the Rev. John J. Geoghan, whom the Catholic Church moved from one parish to another even though he was a known pedophile. When Law was asked whether he was aware that Geoghan was a child molester when he was placed in the parish of one of the victims, Law replied: “I was aware that there was involvement because, because of the, of having removed him out of one parish and putting him between assignments before sending him back to another, and then necessitating a letter that would not have been necessary unless there had been a problem.”
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| May 7, 2002 | -
Padshah Khan Zadran, an Afghan warlord who has received American support and whose brother is a minister in the national government, fired 200 rockets into Gardez, killing 25 people, mostly women and children.
Zadran was mad at the people there and recently said he would “kill them all: men, women, children, even the chickens.” America regained its seat on the United Nations Human Rights Commission.
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| May 7, 2002 | -
Police arrested the Rev. Paul R. Shanley, an open advocate of “man-boy love” who has been accused of molesting many children during his 30-year ministry in Boston, for child rape.
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| May 7, 2002 | -
A judge in Los Angeles ordered R.J. Reynolds Tobacco to pay a $14.8 million fine for distributing more than 100,000 free packs of cigarettes on public grounds where children were present.
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| April 30, 2002 | -
The Pope apologized to victims of pedophile priests and said there was no place in the Church for priests who abuse children, but he also noted that the power of Christian conversion must not be underestimated. American cardinals indicated that they definitely wanted to have a way to get rid of “notorious” pedophiles but that pedophiles who were not “notorious” might be dealt with in some other way. Cardinal Francis George of Chicago said he thought “zero-tolerance” policies were potentially unjust and that bishops should have “a little more wiggle room.”
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| April 30, 2002 | -
Twelve women and children were killed in Karachi when a bomb blew up in a mosque.
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| April 30, 2002 | -
California's state assembly was considering legislation to limit the weight of school textbooks because of concerns about small children carrying heavy backpacks.
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| April 9, 2002 | -
Israel's transportation minister proposed deporting the parents, brothers, sisters, wives, and children of suicide bombers.
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| April 9, 2002 | -
Michigan's 1897 law banning “indecent, immoral, obscene, vulgar, or insulting language” in the presence of women and children was struck down by an appeals court because it was too vague.
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| April 9, 2002 | -
The Roman Catholic church agreed to pay $1.2 million to a woman in Los Angeles who was sexually abused by a priest when she was a teenager; in New York a priest was charged with raping a child.
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| April 9, 2002 | -
A lawyer in Florida filed suit against the pope, claiming that the Vatican had helped cover up for child molesters.
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| April 2, 2002 | -
The group also said that nearly half the country's children are malnourished.
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| March 26, 2002 | -
Andrea Yates, the Texas woman who drowned all five of her children in a bathtub, was sentenced to life in prison; her family blamed her husband for not being more attentive to her postpartum psychosis, and her husband blamed the medical establishment. He was said to be considering legal action, noting that the doctor who treated his wife two days before the killings is “a trained professional who's supposed to be able to recognize these kinds of things. I'm not. I'm just a guy.”
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| March 19, 2002 | -
In the meantime, a special envoy was sent to Israel to make peace between Ariel Sharon and Yasir Arafat after a week of suicide bombings and other violence in which scores were killed, including a Palestinian woman and her four children when a bomb exploded near their donkey cart.
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| March 19, 2002 | -
President Bush announced his goal to double the size of the Peace Corps over the next five years, and to send volunteers “to nations, particularly Muslim nations, that don't understand America . . . They don't understand our compassion.” The Pentagon acknowledged that American fighter jets had attacked a vehicle in eastern Afghanistan, killing 14 men, women, and children, though the United States could not say whether the victims were civilians or even whether they were Afghans.
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| March 12, 2002 | -
Wonder Bread settled a lawsuit with the Federal Trade Commission and agreed to stop claiming that its bread makes children's minds work better and improves their memories.
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| March 12, 2002 | -
Starving Afghans were said to be selling their children for food.
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| March 12, 2002 | -
The Roman Catholic bishop of Palm Beach, Florida, resigned after he was exposed as a child molester.
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| March 5, 2002 | - Palestinians and Israelis continued to butcher one another: children and pregnant women figured prominently among the casualties.
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| March 5, 2002 | -
A Muslim mob set a train on fire that was carrying Hindu pilgrims, killing 58, mostly women and children. The next day, Hindu mobs ran amok and killed more than 60 Muslims, burning several families alive in their homes. By the end of the week, about 400 people were dead.
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| February 12, 2002 | -
Australia's Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission condemned conditions at concentration camps in the South Australian desert where refugees, including hundreds of children, have been detained.
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| February 12, 2002 | -
Many children there have gone on hunger strikes, with some sewing their lips shut, to protest their prolonged confinement.
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| February 12, 2002 | -
Others have cut themselves or swallowed shampoo; one child carved the word “freedom” into his arm.
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| February 12, 2002 | -
Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia got into an argument with Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill over who came from the poorer family.
It was determined that both men used outhouses as children.
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| February 5, 2002 | -
Secretary of Health Tommy Thompson broadened the government's eligibility definition for the Children's Health Insurance Program to include fetuses; reproductive-rights activists immediately denounced the new policy.
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| January 29, 2002 | -
Mike Tyson, the convicted rapist, took a bite out of Lennox Lewis's leg after the two boxers got into a fight at a news conference to promote their upcoming fight in Las Vegas; Tyson had previously threatened to eat Lewis's children.
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| January 22, 2002 | -
President Bush's spokesman said that schoolchildren would again be permitted to tour the White House.
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| January 22, 2002 | -
The ex-wife of Kirk Kerkorian, the billionaire, asked a court in Los Angeles for $320,000 a month in child support, which includes $144,000 for travel, $14,000 for parties and play dates, $7,000 for charity, $1,000 for toys, and $436 for the care of the 3-year-old's pet bunny rabbit.
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| January 22, 2002 | -
Seventeen percent of British schoolchildren are unable to identify common fruits and vegetables, a poll found.
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| January 1, 2002 | -
Afghan villagers were still digging through rubble looking for their dead children.
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| January 1, 2002 | -
Prime Minister Hun Sen of Cambodia expanded his crackdown on vice by declaring war on karaoke: “If we know of any karaoke parlor still open,” he told the military, “go to close it immediately and take tanks to knock it down.” President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa called for an end to child rape.
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| December 11, 2001 | -
Afghan refugees, particularly children, were dying in great numbers; Uzbekistan finally agreed to allow humanitarian aid to cross its border at the “Friendship Bridge.” The CIA asked Pakistan for help in finding Osama bin Laden, whose mother told a Saudi newspaper that she was disappointed in her son.
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| December 11, 2001 | - Believing that his penis was a “cobra” driving him to sin, a Filipino farmer lopped it off with his machete and cast it away. “He wanted to be nailed to a coconut tree,” his mother reported. Doctors reconstructed the penis, though at considerably shorter length, and said the man would still be able to have children.
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| November 27, 2001 | - A new study confirmed that abuse of stimulants used to treat attention-deficit disorder, such as Ritalin, was rampant among children and teens. “People don't realize what these drugs are,” one scientist said. “The similarities between them and cocaine are much greater than the differences.”
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| November 27, 2001 | - Several children in Afghanistan were injured and killed when they picked up remnants of American cluster bombs, which did precisely what they were designed to do.
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| November 20, 2001 | -
Schoolchildren in India
voted overwhelmingly to name a white tiger cub in the Lucknow Zoo Osama bin Laden; Hitler was another popular choice.
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| November 13, 2001 | - A couple in Colorado who because of their religious beliefs allowed their 13-year-old daughter to die of diabetes and gangrene without medical treatment were sentenced to 20 months' probation and 1,300 hours of community service. They were also required to provide medical insurance for their remaining 12 children.
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| November 6, 2001 | - Reporters visited the village of Chowkar-Karez in Afghanistan where a man named Mehmood moved his family to keep them safe from the American bombs: “I brought my family here for safety,” he said, “and now there are 19 dead, including my wife, my two children, my brother, sister, sister-in-law, nieces, nephews, my uncle.” United States forces apparently thought the refugees were Taliban soldiers.
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| October 30, 2001 | -
President Bush said the bill would protect constitutional rights while “preventing more atrocities in the hands of the evil ones.” American planes again bombed and this time destroyed the Red Cross complex in Kabul. One plane that had been ordered to bomb the complex missed and instead hit a residential neighborhood. Another American bomb killed seven children who were sitting at home having breakfast.
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| October 23, 2001 | -
President Bush, who has taken to using the phrase “the Bush doctrine” to describe his war on terrorism, collected $1 donations from American schoolchildren to help feed starving Afghan refugee children. He praised a young girl from Virginia who raised $45 by feeding chickens.
“One way to fight evil is to fight it with kindness and love and compassion,” he said.
“Winter arrives early in Afghanistan.
It's cold, really cold, and the children need warm clothing and they need medicines.
And thanks to the American children, fewer children in Afghanistan will suffer this winter.” That day, at least one American bomb landed in the Red Cross compound in Kabul, setting several warehouses on fire.
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| October 23, 2001 | - Dutch police
arrested Bert and Ernie in front of a hundred children at a fair in Bergen op Zoom because the actors wearing the costumes were violating Sesame Street's intellectual property rights.
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| October 23, 2001 | - An Australian woman, a professional butcher, was convicted of killing her lover, boiling his head and body parts with some vegetables, and serving the stew to his children.
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| October 23, 2001 | - There were fewer children in San Francisco.
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| October 16, 2001 | - Jean Ziegler, the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food, said the food drop was “totally catastrophic for humanitarian aid” because it links such aid with military operations; he also warned that the indiscriminate “snowdropping” of food could lead hungry children into mine fields.
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| October 16, 2001 | - Thousands of children in public and private schools across the country simultaneously pledged allegiance to the flag of the United States of America in what might have been the largest mass recitation in history outside the People's Republic of China.
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| September 25, 2001 | - Another disabled child won a lawsuit against doctors in France based on the argument that she should have been aborted.
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| September 11, 2001 | - One million British
schoolchildren jumped in unison for a minute in a failed attempt to create a minor earthquake.
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| August 28, 2001 | - Potato Head, a gift from their sister city in Rhode Island; the $6,000 present was part of the tourist board's campaign to position the state as “the birthplace of fun.” The metal tail-fin of a high-speed missile dropped from an F-16 fighter jet into a residential neighborhood in Florida, landing within ten feet of two children playing there.
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| August 28, 2001 | - The federal government was investigating Johns Hopkins University for its experiment a few years ago in which healthy children were recruited to live in houses with varying degrees of lead contamination.
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| August 21, 2001 | - A giant sea turtle that was being tracked via satellite by thousands of schoolchildren was barbecued and eaten at a fiesta in a Mexican village.
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| August 14, 2001 | -
The Day My Bum Went Psycho, a children's book by Andy Griffiths, was removed from a literacy campaign by Australian
education officials, who said that the book, which includes a character called the Great Unwiped Bum, was inappropriate. “It's just a piece of nonsense to entertain children,” the author told reporters. “It's just that bums are attempting to take over the world.”
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| August 14, 2001 | -
Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in a Sbarro restaurant in downtown Jerusalem; at least 18 people, including 6 children, were killed.
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| July 31, 2001 | - The United States decided not to sign a new anti-germ-warfare treaty, bringing to at least five the number of international agreements the U.S. has rejected in recent years, including the Kyoto Protocol, the Landmine Convention, the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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| July 31, 2001 | - A survey found that children today are more spoiled than they used to be.
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| July 17, 2001 | - A French court upheld a “right not to be born” and awarded damages to the families of three children who would have been aborted if doctors had detected their deformities.
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| July 17, 2001 | - A “deadbeat dad” in Wisconsin was told to stop fathering children or go to jail.
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| July 10, 2001 | - The Bush Administration drafted a new policy that would let states define unborn children as persons eligible for medical coverage.
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| July 3, 2001 | -
Scientists found that dairy cows produced more milk while listening to REM's “Everybody Hurts” or the Pastoral Symphony by Beethoven than when listening to “Back in the USSR” by the Beatles or Wonderstuff's “Size of a Cow.” Ireland announced that thousands of children in 1973 received a livestock vaccine (Tribovax) instead of a human one (Trivax) for diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis.
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| July 3, 2001 | -
Children were starving in Sierra Leone.
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| June 26, 2001 | - A 16-month-old toddler was found dead in an apartment in Switzerland three weeks after her mother was taken into custody by police; authorities believe the child survived for about ten days, perhaps by drinking water from the toilet.
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| June 26, 2001 | - A Houston woman drowned her five children in a bathtub; the seven-year-old tried to run away, but she caught him.
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| June 26, 2001 | - A 62-year-old French mother who gave birth last month announced that the child's father was her brother, who in 1992 blinded himself with a self-inflicted shotgun blast to the face.
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| June 26, 2001 | - A new study claimed that one fifth of all children who use the Internet are solicited for sex at one time or another.
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| June 5, 2001 | - The warden of the Washington, D.C., city jail and three other officers were fired after some children who were touring the jail were strip-searched by prison guards.
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| June 5, 2001 | - Billy Barnes, an eight-year-old Canadian boy who was suspended from school for pointing a chicken finger at another child and saying “Bang,” was declared innocent by his local school board.
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| May 29, 2001 | - A Manhattan judge ordered Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to keep his mistress out of Gracie Mansion and away from his children; the judge also criticized the mayor for harming his children by allowing his lawyer to use language such as “uncaring mother” and “howling like a stuck pig” to describe his wife, Donna Hanover.
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| May 22, 2001 | - One in ten British
children was found to be carrying antibiotic-resistant microbes.
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| May 15, 2001 | - A German
researcher found that tall men have more children than short men; they also have more wives, because they are more likely to get divorced and their second wives are likely to be younger.
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| May 8, 2001 | - Up to thirty such children have been bred using a fertility treatment that accidentally resulted in babies with three genetic parents.
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| May 8, 2001 | - Colorado's governor signed a law banning bullying in the schools; a similar measure was being blocked in the Washington State legislature because conservative Christians were concerned that the anti-bullying law would prevent children from persecuting homosexuals.
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| May 1, 2001 | - Former senator Bob Kerry admitted that in 1969 he led a Navy Seals commando unit that slaughtered at least 13 unarmed women and children.
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| May 1, 2001 | - A live-in caretaker in Everett, Washington, was charged with murder for paying her 13-year-old daughter and four other teenagers to kill her client's son, 64, with baseball bats; her 11- and 7-year-old children helped her clean up the house afterwards; the 89-year-old client, a mute Alzheimer's patient, was neglected and survived by eating newspapers.
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| April 24, 2001 | -
Singapore was paying cash to couples who have second and third children as part of its “Baby Bonus Scheme” to reverse its falling birthrate; a local newspaper printed instructions for having sex in the back seat of a car.
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| April 17, 2001 | -
Police near Savannah, Georgia, raided the homes of 11 middle-school
children and discovered firearms, satanic and Nazi posters, and bomb recipes, but no bombs.
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| April 17, 2001 | -
Sudan flogged 53 Christians, including four women and two children, for rioting.
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| April 17, 2001 | - A new report claimed that older fathers are more likely to sire schizophrenic children.
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| April 3, 2001 | -
Saudi Arabia banned Pokémon because it has “possessed the minds” of children and “promotes Zionism.”
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| March 27, 2001 | - An analysis of budget documents revealed that President Bush plans to cut child-care programs and programs that help abused children.
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| March 20, 2001 | -
Chinese prime minister Zhu Rongji apologized for the school explosion that killed 38 young children who were making fireworks.
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| March 13, 2001 | - Forty-one young children in China who were busy making firecrackers to raise money for their school were blown to bits when their gunpowder exploded and destroyed their school.
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| March 6, 2001 | - Sir Richard Doll, the British epidemiologist who discovered the link between smoking and lung cancer, has concluded that it is true: children (and possibly adults) who live near electrical power lines are more likely to get leukemia.
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| February 27, 2001 | - Nine hundred and eight Iraqi Kurds, including 300 children, were abandoned by smugglers in a freighter off the French Riviera after the boat ran aground; the Kurds made it safely to shore and were taken into custody by immigration officials.
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| February 20, 2001 | - A Virginia state senator complained that “spineless pinkos” in the House of Delegates education committee were ruining his efforts to require that public school children recite the pledge of allegiance every morning.
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| February 20, 2001 | -
Islamic rebels in Algeria murdered three men, twelve women, and twelve children in their homes; a new book published in France claims that similar attacks have been carried out by soldiers disguised as rebels.
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| February 6, 2001 | - A crazed man attacked a kindergarten in Pennsylvania with a machete, injuring five children, a teacher, and the school principal.
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| February 6, 2001 | - Four elementary students in Louisiana were strip-searched by a principal who was looking, unsuccessfully, for $20 that had been stolen; a memo was later issued advising that strip-searches of students was a “no-no.” A man in Maldonado, Uruguay, crucified himself to protest violence against children, which he blamed on a “lack of true love.” Newspapers continued to publish righteous editorials condemning the Grammy Award nomination of Eminem, a rapper whose songs are as popular as they are violent.
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| January 30, 2001 | - Authorities in Great Falls, Montana, were prosecuting a child molester who was accused of making “little boy stew” and then feeding it to neighbors.
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| January 30, 2001 | -
Congo's president Laurent Kabila was buried; he was killed by his bodyguards, all of whom were recruited by Kabila as children when he was a rebel commander. They said they did it “because of suffering.” Johnny and Luther Htoo, a pair of twin boys who until last week were the leaders of the Burmese rebel group God's Army, admitted that they did not have magic powers or an invisible army under their command; Luther told a reporter that he just wanted “to live as a family” with his parents.
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| January 23, 2001 | - South Carolina Governor Jim Hodges was upset that prison inmates, including child-killer Susan Smith, who were supposed to be doing chores at his home were instead having sex there; the prisoners assured investigators that they did not have sex while Hodges' children were at home.
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| January 16, 2001 | -
Leaders of the Jewish Reform movement recommended that parents remove their children from the Boy Scouts because the Scouts continue to insist on banning homosexuals—this despite the traditional schoolyard opinion that Boy Scouts are somehow inherently gay.
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| January 2, 2001 | -
Russian women were not getting married and having children because too many Russian men were not earning enough money; the
New York Times considered this to be yet another example of “freedom's toll.” A woman succeeded in introducing DNA evidence of infidelity into a divorce proceeding, a first.
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| December 26, 2000 | -
Congress passed the Children's
Internet Protection Act, which will require all schools and libraries that receive federal funds for Internet access to install filtering software; civil-liberties groups were concerned that this would prevent minors from accessing porn sites.
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| December 19, 2000 | -
Slobodan Milosevic was interviewed on Yugoslav television: “I can sleep peacefully,” he said, “and my conscience is completely clear.” Chile's former dictator General Augusto Pinochet was spending peaceful days at his country house, strolling in the garden, playing with his grandchildren.
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| December 5, 2000 | - Holland legalized the killing of terminally ill patients by doctors; a provision that would have allowed children to choose death was withdrawn.
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| November 28, 2000 | -
Terrorists bombed a school
bus filled with children of Israeli settlers; two adults were killed and several children were dismembered.
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| November 28, 2000 | -
Israeli
defense forces responded to terrorist
attacks with bombs of their own, killing several adults and dismembering at least one child.
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| November 28, 2000 | - Teachers in Chicago were issuing report cards judging the quality of the parenting received by schoolchildren.
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| November 14, 2000 | - After spending time in the custody of child welfare authorities, a three-year-old toddler weighing 120 pounds was returned to her parents in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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| November 7, 2000 | - A fifteen-year-old boy with a loaded 9mm pistol took a pregnant teacher and eighteen other children hostage in a Dallas school; police saved the day.
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| October 24, 2000 | - A new study found that children whose mothers received opiates or barbiturates during childbirth were up to five times more likely to abuse drugs later on.
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| October 24, 2000 | - The Most Reverend John Ward, Archbishop of Cardiff, was being urged to resign by other British
Catholic officials for having ordained a known pedophile who subsequently abused at least two young boys. The priest, Joseph Jordan, was also accused of attempting to pervert the course of justice by hiding a computer containing child
pornography from investigators.
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| October 17, 2000 | -
German researchers discovered that shy parents tend to breed shy children.
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| October 10, 2000 | - The Mid-East peace process continued as Israeli soldiers killed 84 Palestinians, including over a dozen children, in violence that followed a visit to the Dome of the Rock by Likud leader Ariel Sharon; two Israeli soldiers and two settlers were killed in the fighting.
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| October 3, 2000 | -
Canadian
police discovered organs in a warehouse that were taken from two dead children by Dick van Velzen, a pathologist who previously removed and kept the organs of 850 children without permission in Britain; last year authorities discovered that Dr. van Velzen's previous employer in Liverpool had a huge stockpile of children's organs, including a collection of 2,080 hearts.
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| October 3, 2000 | - An Italian
television station broadcast selections from child
pornography videos after investigators, in an Internet sting operation, arrested eight Italian perverts.
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| September 26, 2000 | - The New York City Board of Education unveiled a plan to distribute 750,000 laptops to every child in the system above grade 3; the plan, which would cost $900 million dollars, would be underwritten by technology companies wishing to expand their markets and by selling advertising on a special Web portal for students.
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| September 19, 2000 | - The Bush campaign was preoccupied with a controversy over a negative ad that was said to contain subliminal messages; Governor Bush denied that the flashing word “rats” was “subliminable.” Lawsuits were filed against the makers of Ritalin; lawyers claimed that the company was conspiring to expand the market for the stimulant, which is used to treat hyperactivity in children, beyond its legitimate use.
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| September 12, 2000 | - Louisiana agreed to stop placing children in private prisons where they were routinely beaten and neglected.
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| September 12, 2000 | - Bureau of Indian Affairs director Kevin Gover apologized to American Indians for “the decimation of the mighty bison herds, the use of the poison alcohol to destroy mind and body, and the cowardly killing of women and children.”
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| September 12, 2000 | - American children were being injured by scooters in alarming numbers.
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| September 5, 2000 | - The IRS ruled that the parents of a child who has been kidnapped may continue to take a deduction for the first year the child is missing, but not thereafter.
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| September 5, 2000 | - JonBenet Ramsey's parents were questioned again by police in the continuing investigation of the child beauty queen's 1996 murder.
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| August 29, 2000 | - Thomas Lavery, the father of several spelling-bee champions, was indicted for abusing his children when they failed to win spelling contests.
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| August 22, 2000 | - Hasbro, Inc., the toy manufacturer, announced a recall of 420,000 Busy Poppin' Pals due to small springs that can break loose and choke young children.
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| August 22, 2000 | - Colombian troops attacked and killed a group of eight- to ten-year-old children who were on a school hike.
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| August 15, 2000 | - The Archdiocese of Guatemala issued a report on the abduction of children during the country's 36-year civil war; it found that most of the abductions were carried out by government security forces.
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| August 1, 2000 | - Over fifty multinational corporations, many of whom have been criticized for using sweatshop and child
labor in poor countries, signed a global compact to end the use of sweatshop and child labor in poor countries.
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