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Drug Abuse In Baby Boomers Rising - Transworld News

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 12:26 PM PDT

Baltimore Dads Create Baby Seat - WJZ

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 02:35 PM PDT

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) ― The challenge for many new parents is figuring out how to get things done around the house while their new baby rests in a safe place.

As Mike Schuh reports, two new dads teamed up to answer that question and grow a business at the same time.

It's 7 a.m. and Meg Fox is heading off to work. Sawyer, six-months-old, is turned over to Daddy.

James works at home. Once Sawyer showed up, James realized to get any work done, he needed to find a safe and comfy place for Sawyer nearby.

He and another dad, Mike Pearson, designed the Snoogie Seat.

The baby sits in a foam donut with a built-in head rest and a carry handle when empty. 

"We didn't try to reinvent the wheel. We just wanted to improve upon it by 15-20 percent," Pearson said. "This is a little more comfy for the baby, easier for the parent. It's lightweight, easier to carry around, easy to care for in the wash. It cleans up in a few seconds."

The fact that two dads came up with this has turned out to be a sales tool. Though something like this seems obvious, they have a patent pending.

"The Snoogie Seat is the only baby pillow that provides total support for head, neck and body," Pearson said.

This weekend at a trade show in Atlanta, a sales rep signed on to get the seat sold in more stores.

Grandparents and baby shower friends have been the biggest buyers so far.

What are the most frequently asked questions?

"Do you make an adult size and can we get it in football colors?" Pearson said.

The Snoogie Seat is $49 and can be found in about 20 stores in the Baltimore, Annapolis and D.C. area. The dads say most people buy them directly at their Web site.

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Montcalm grandmother charged with meth in baby's diaper working on ... - Grand Rapids Press

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 12:26 PM PDT

by John Agar | The Grand Rapids

Update: Katrina Compo says she's 'hurt and mad' at her mother for allegedly placing meth in son's diaper

STANTON -- A grandmother from Sidney arrested earlier this month on meth charges -- as well as child abuse after police say a baggie of meth fell out of her 1-year-old grandson's diaper -- is working on a plea deal with prosecutors.

Lorri Lynn Compo, 38, waived her preliminary hearing in Montcalm County District Court Tuesday, allowing her to preserve the deal that attorneys are negotiating.

Prosecutors likely will drop two charges against Compo if she pleads guilty to possessing methamphetamine, maintaining a drug house and a misdemeanor charge of fourth-degree child abuse for the drugs authorities say was found in the baby's diaper.

Police have not said why they believe Compo, the baby's maternal grandmother, placed the drugs in Steven Rish Jr.'s diaper, but have said it could have been dangerous.

The child's paternal grandmother, who now has temporary custody of Steven, found the baggie the same night police raided the home where Compo and her boyfriend, Roman Sobie, 56, lived.

Steven tested negative for drugs at the hospital after the raid.

Child Protective Services removed the baby from the care of his mother, Katrina Compo, 19, after the raid at the Derby Road home. Katrina Compo and her son had lived there with her mother.

No charges have been filed against Katrina Compo, who told police she did not know about the meth. She continues to have supervised visitation with her son.

Police say a traffic stop outside Greenville, with meth found in the vehicle, led them to the Sidney home. Officers made five arrests and said meth was being made in a van outside the home. Police found some finished meth inside the home.

Also arrested were a 45-year-old Muir man, an 18-year-old Ionia woman and a 39-year-old Ionia man.

Sobie is charged with possession of narcotics, maintaining a drug house and providing chemicals or lab equipment to another person.

The felony drug charges carry a sentence of up to 20 years in prison.

E-mail John Agar: jagar@grpress.com



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Mom accused of killing newborn child - Cincinnati.com

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 02:35 PM PDT

HAMILTON Baby Israel Santos was just 35 days old when he died of a crushed skull, allegedly at the hands of his 25-year-old mother, who had claimed he was missing.

Even worse, the baby also had a broken arm, was malnourished and had been left in the trash.

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In this job, you think youve heard it all. Then along comes a case that really shocks you, like this one, Butler County Prosecutor Robin Piper said. How do you not feel the instinct to care for a baby?...And then to have the babys own natural, blood mother snuff out that babys life with all the callousness of stepping on an ant or something? You just cant wrap your head around it.

Coroner Richard Burkhardt ruled the babys death a homicide.

The babys mother, Asuncion Avila-Villa, has been charged with murder, abuse of a corpse, child endangering and tampering with evidence.

Avila-Villa was jailed Tuesday on the charges relating to Israels death. She will appear in Hamilton Municipal Court for a bond hearing Wednesday.

Piper said he will ask a grand jury to consider indicting Avila-Villa on a charge that could bring the death penalty. Under Ohio law, killing an infant is one criterion for imposing a possible death sentence.

The case could be the first of its kind in decades in Butler County. Piper, a prosecutor for about 25 years, cannot recall another time when a Butler County mother has been accused of fatally beating her own infant.

Across the nation, when children are killed, parents or stepparents are most often the killers. From 1976-2005, 31 percent of homicides of children 5 and younger were committed by fathers; 29 percent by mothers, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. About 3 percent were killed by strangers.

In 2005, 525 children under age 5 were homicide victims in the U.S.; Butler County typically sees one every year or two. And when they do happen, they hit hard on virtually everyone from neighbors to seasoned investigators.

Its sickening to review the 911 tape, knowing the real outcome here, said Police Chief Neil Ferdelman. Its difficult for even veteran investigators to stomach this kind of conduct.

On Shuler Avenue, the lower-income neighborhood where Avila-Villa lived in a large, run-down brick building, neighbors were surprised to learn that a female even lived there, said Terri Kersbergen.

All we ever saw was guys coming in and out of there, Kersbergen said.

As a mother of a 13-year-old son, Kersbergen found the alleged crimes unfathomable. A mother carries a baby for nine months and then turns around and kills it? That hurts.

As for Avila-Villa, Kersbergen said: I hope they fry her.

Avila-Villa has a history of drug and other minor offenses but no prior record of violence, police say. She is listed as a laborer on a police report, although no one was able to say where she worked.

Two of Avila-Villas five children live with relatives in Texas. Two others plus Israel lived with her, Piper said. Israels father is a teenager, although Avila-Villa told authorities he is 21. The countys Children Services agency is arranging for care of Israels two siblings.

Avila-Villa is a native of Mexico. Authorities gave conflicting information as to whether she has legal immigration status.

Events leading to the charges against Avila-Villa began Monday morning.

She called 911 about 11:50 a.m. that day and told a dispatcher that one of her ex-boyfriends, who also is the father of the baby, took the child on Sunday.

He has our son and I havent seen him since last night, she said.

The child, however, may have been dead one to two days by the time police found his body early Tuesday, investigators say.

Police say Avila-Villa fabricated the whole story about the childs disappearance, and the babys father is not considered a suspect in the childs death.

After Avila-Villas 911 call, detectives interviewed people throughout the night Monday and into the early morning hours Tuesday.

To look for clues, officers took trash from the alley behind the womans apartment on Shuler Avenue, and transported it to the police station. As they sorted through it around 4:30 a.m. Tuesday, investigators found the baby in a plastic garbage bag.
Officers called the Butler County Coroners Office.

Coroner Richard Burkhardt said Israel weighed only 9 pounds, just an ounce more than when he was born at Fort Hamilton Hospital.

Burkhardt said he would expect a baby who weighed 8 pounds, 15 ounces at birth to weigh about 11 to 12 pounds at a month old.

Burkhardt wouldnt say whether they know if a weapon had been used or what type of force could have inflicted the injuries.

In sum, Piper said: This offense is just horribly unexplainable.



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Three women nabbed for stealing two baby girls - Times of India

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 02:14 PM PDT

AHMEDABAD: Fact can often be stranger than fiction. And here is one such case. Two girls in their 20s have been arrested and another detained by the Navrangpura police on charges of abducting two baby girls, allegedly to give them to a childless couple.

"Gunwant Thakkar, a trader and resident from Vejalpur had applied at a local orphanage to adopt a girl child. Two women then approached him claiming to be from the orphanage and offered him a baby girl for adoption. However, when he demanded legal documents, the girls told him that they would return with them soon. Thakkar kept the baby on this assurance," said a Navrangpura police station official.

On August 21, the girls returned, but only to take the baby back. They promised they would soon return with proper documents. The girls returned at 3.15 am the next day.

"The woman called Thakkar down from his apartment. When Thakkar came down, he saw the baby girl lying unattended on a bench in the apartment campus. This however was not the same girl that he had been given earlier. Baffled, when called up the police, two girls, who had masked their faces with dupatta, suddenly surfaced and took the baby away on a scooter. They apparently returned the baby to her parents, on the footpath the next morning," said the official.

The cops started tracking the telephone number from which Thakkar had got calls from the women and caught up with Darshana Patel, a resident of Shahibaug. Following this Thakkar's niece, Shreya from Vadaj and another girl Aarti Patel were arrested. They told the police that their friend, Rina Rana, had entrusted her daughter in their care since she was busy hunting for jobs after getting divorced.

"Strangely, Shreya told them about Thakkar's story and handed over the baby to him. However, when Rina asked for her baby and threatened to call the police, they got the girl back. This angered Thakkar. To pacify him, they abducted the baby girl from Ashram Road. When Thakkar started calling the police, they panicked, took the girl and returned her to her home - by the roadside - on August 21 morning," said DA Desai, inspector of Navrangpura police station.



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