“Des Moines baby sitter charged in infant's injury - Globe Gazette” plus 4 more |
- Des Moines baby sitter charged in infant's injury - Globe Gazette
- Couple lend special care to infant graves in West Hanover - Patriot-News
- Desperate Search for Tennessee Baby Allegedly Kidnapped by Fake ... - FOX News
- Fort Worth Father Convicted Over Starved Baby - CBS 11 News
- Expert: Tenn. baby abduction ploy used before - MSNBC
| Des Moines baby sitter charged in infant's injury - Globe Gazette Posted: 02 Oct 2009 03:49 AM PDT globegazette.com Privacy Policy: (hide) Welcome to the web sites of the Globe Gazette, a media company located in eastern Iowa. We believe in your right to know what information is collected during your visit to our web sites and how the information is used and safeguarded. Information Gathered by Voluntary Submission The information you supply will help us to offer you more personalized features, to tailor our sites to your interests and make them more useful to you. The more you tell us about yourself, the more value we can offer you. Supplying such information is entirely voluntary. But if you don't supply the information we need, we may be unable to provide you with services we make available to other visitors to our sites. Of course, even if you want to remain completely anonymous, you're still free to take advantage of the wealth of content available on our sites without registration. Information Automatically Gathered About All Visitors Our web servers automatically collect limited information about your computer's connection to the Internet, including your IP address but not the e-mail address, when you visit our sites. Your IP address does not identify you personally. We use this information to deliver our web pages to you upon request, to tailor our sites to the interests of our users, and to measure traffic within our sites. To help make our sites more responsive to the needs of our visitors, we may utilize a standard feature of browser software, called a "cookie". The cookie doesn't actually identify the visitor, just the computer that a visitor uses to access our site. A cookie can't read data off your hard drive. Our advertisers or content partners may also assign their own cookies to your browser, a process that we cannot control. We use cookies to help us tailor our site to your needs, to deliver a better, more personalized service. It is a cookie, for example, that allows us to deliver your personalized stock quotes each time you visit a site. Information Shared With Other Organizations Special Attention to Children A final note: The Web is an evolving medium. If we need to change our privacy policy at some point in the future, we'll post the changes before they take effect. Of course, our use of information gathered while the current policy is in effect will always be consistent with the current policy, even if we change that policy later.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Couple lend special care to infant graves in West Hanover - Patriot-News Posted: 02 Oct 2009 09:11 AM PDT By BARBARA MILLER, The Patriot-NewsOctober 02, 2009, 12:13PMAn Elmo with angel wings holds a poem to read at the grave of a baby buried recently in Resurrection Cemetery in West Hanover Township. Placed nearby is a tiny toy truck.It's the special touch of Marilyn Guzy of Lower Paxton Township, who for the past two years has decorated and cared for the 140 graves in the infant section of the cemetery with her husband, Dennis. Marilyn collects tiny stuffed animals, small plaques with prayers, angel wings to take to the section. The area is decorated for each season and holidays. Dennis even brings a mower and lawn equipment to take care of the grass and leaves between the narrow rows. They began caring for the section after they buried Dennis' 15-year-old son in the cemetery two years ago. "I would always see the babies' graves were empty," Marilyn said, adding that decorating the section helped the couple heal from their own loss. "I think it touches a lot of the hearts of parents who come back," said Ed Scholly, cemetery director. "These people are very kind. They've put in time and kind of adopted this section, and if there's any way we can support them, we do." The cemetery, owned by the Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg, allows babies to be buried free of charge in the infant section. Marilyn said they know a few of the families that have children buried in the plot, but most they don't. "We're noticing a whole lot of people stopping by since we decorated. We want people to know the babies are loved," Marilyn said.
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| Desperate Search for Tennessee Baby Allegedly Kidnapped by Fake ... - FOX News Posted: 02 Oct 2009 10:37 AM PDT NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Just a week after Yair Anthony Carillo was born, police in Tennessee were looking for the snatched infant and his abductor with growing concern. The chubby baby with a thick mane of black hair was taken from his home Tuesday, just four days after he was born to 30-year-old Maria Gurrolla. She says a heavyset white woman with blonde hair arrived at her home south of Nashville posing as an immigration agent, attacked her with a kitchen knife, then took the boy, who turned a week old Friday. Her 3-year-old daughter was left in the home unharmed. Police say they are getting tips and leads every hour, but concern for his safety grows with each passing day. "We don't know that the person who took the child knows how to take care of an infant," said police spokesman Don Aaron. Gurrolla has said the woman did not mention wanting to take the baby. "She said she was an immigration officer and she was there to arrest her," said Gurrolla's cousin, serving as interpreter. Gurrolla suffered several stab wounds to her neck and chest. She was released from the hospital Thursday. Officers have canvassed the neighborhood of single-family brick homes, hoping to find witnesses or clues. A crime scene analyst has been to the home looking for evidence that could lead to the suspect. Police said they have a sketch based on Gurrolla's description but aren't yet ready to release it to the public. "Law enforcement has absolutely 100 percent hope that this child will be safely recovered," said Kristin Helm, a spokeswoman for the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. Gurrolla said she did not see the woman take the baby because she ran to a neighbor's home for help. That neighbor, Eric Peterson, told The Associated Press that Gurrolla banged on his door and was "covered from her head to her toe with blood," with gashes on her neck and upper chest. She pleaded with him to rescue her children from the "lady in the kitchen" who had a butcher knife. He went to the home a few doors down and saw a woman speeding away. He brought Gurrolla's daughter back safely to his house, but found no baby. Metro Nashville Police have released a surveillance photo of a Kia Spectra that parked next to Gurrolla at a nearby Walmart shortly before the baby was taken and may have followed her out of the parking lot. Gurrolla is a Latina. Police said they do not know why her family was targeted, and advocates were worried that the city's Hispanic population can be preyed upon by those claiming to be authorities. Police said they think she has been in Nashville about 10 years, but it isn't clear if she is an immigrant or a citizen. Her family has declined to talk about the issue, and police spokesman Don Aaron said her citizenship was not significant to the investigation. Immigrants must be taught to trust U.S. law enforcement and criminals can take advantage of their fears of deportation or police, said Yuri Cunza, president of Nashville Area Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and publisher of La Noticia, a Spanish language newspaper in Nashville. "I am really concerned about the possibility of newborn babies and Hispanic women can be targeted because of a level of vulnerability," Cunza said. A similar case targeted a Latino family in Nashville in 2005. Christina Delarosa Sanchez pleaded guilty to the murder of Hilda Griselda Gutierrez and her 3-year-old daughter in a foiled plot to steal the woman's infant son.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Fort Worth Father Convicted Over Starved Baby - CBS 11 News Posted: 02 Oct 2009 05:22 AM PDT Fort Worth Father Convicted Over Starved Baby
A judge in December is expected to sentence 38-year-old Michael Anthony Foster. A Tarrant County jury on Thursday convicted Foster of causing serious bodily injury to a child by failing to feed him and provide medical care. The penalty range is probation to life in prison. The boy's mother, Melisa Marez, is also charged with injuring the baby, named Euphrates. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports Merez, who in 2008 was ruled incompetent for trial, is expected in court Monday. A neighbor in 2007 called 911 to report the malnourished child. The boy, who was placed with Child Protective Services, has recovered and has been adopted. (© 2009 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Expert: Tenn. baby abduction ploy used before - MSNBC Posted: 02 Oct 2009 12:46 PM PDT NASHVILLE, Tenn. - As authorities searched for a newborn whose mom says he was kidnapped by a woman posing as an immigration agent, a missing child expert said similar ploys have been used in other abductions. Yair Anthony Carillo was taken from his home Tuesday, just four days after he was born to 30-year-old Maria Gurrolla. She says a heavyset white woman with blonde hair arrived at her home posing as an immigration agent, attacked her with a knife, then took the boy. Cathy Nahirny, a senior analyst for infant abduction cases at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, said Friday there have been at least two other recent cases where an abductor used the same ploy. "We need to get the word out to our immigrant communities," Nahirny said. "Anybody that claims they are from federal law enforcement agencies, you have the right and you should ask for photo identification." Immigrant families targeted She was arrested a day later and turned the baby over to authorities. Nahirny said immigrant families have been targets of child abductions because of the assumption they will not tell police. Gurrolla is Latina but her immigration status isn't clear. She was stabbed several times in the neck and chest and was released from the hospital Thursday. Nahirny said the profile of an infant abductor is typically a woman who may be married or living with someone and may be faking a pregnancy in a desperate attempt to improve her relationship. Up until the 1990s, most infant abductions occurred in hospitals, but with improved security in maternity wards, it has become more common for infants to be abducted from homes, she said. "When an incident like this happens in the home setting, the chance of violence increases," she said. About 30 percent of the time, that violence is directed at the mother. Deadly encounters In 2005, the Nashville mother of a newborn and her 3-year-old daughter were killed by a woman trying to steal the baby after finding the family through a food stamp office. Abductors can also use birth announcements or lawn signs that indicate a baby has been born recently to find victims. Nahirny said the risk was small but parents should be aware. There was a sign at Gurrolla's home, but police haven't yet determined if the abduction was related to it. Typically the abductor does not harm the infant. "In their mind, that's their baby now," she said. 'We need people to step up' "We need people to step up," she said. "An investigation runs cold if they are not getting new information to follow up on." Police say they are getting tips and leads every hour, but concern for the baby's safety grows with each passing day. "We don't know that the person who took the child knows how to take care of an infant," said police spokesman Don Aaron.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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