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NY Mother Who Drowned 3 Kids Pleads Mentally Ill

A woman who drowned her three young children in a bathtub, and tried twice to commit suicide, entered a plea Monday that will send her to a psychiatric facility rather than prison, possibly for the rest of her life.
Leatrice Brewer, 28, pleaded "not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect" after psychiatrists determined she suffered a "major depressive disorder" and believed she killed the children to save them from the potentially fatal effects of voodoo.
The case drew attention to Nassau County's social services agency, whose caseworkers visited Brewer's apartment two days before the killings and found no one home, but neglected to schedule an immediate follow-up visit. Two social workers were later suspended.
Brewer faced three murder counts in the Feb. 24, 2008, deaths. She had told authorities she slashed 6-year-old daughter Jewell in the throat before drowning her, and then drowned the little girl's half-brothers: 5-year-old Michael Demesyeux and 18-month-old Innocent Demesyeux.

The plea did not sit well with the father of the two young boys, who is suing county officials over the deaths. Innocent Demesyeux said in a statement that Brewer's guilt or innocence "should be decided by regular people on a jury and not by lawyers and politicians."
But other relatives agreed that a mental hospital was the appropriate destination for the troubled woman. more

Grandmother just don't look like they used too?

Grandmothers just don't look like they used too!

When I was a kid and heard grandmother I thought of a older woman who was in her late fifty's early sixty's. They were settled and the main focus of their attention was their grandchildern. Their loving soul were filled with wisdom and understanding. They were church going folks who never did any wrong, except maybe cuss a little!

Now as an adult I am shocked at how grandmothers look today! Forget the vivid image of big mama and now lets drop the age limit down to early thirty's and try not to look too surprised!

I am sure the question would come up how can this be? Lets roll back the clock so to speak and see if you can visualuize this image of a young girl who was pregnant at 12 or had a baby at 12!

Now fast forward 18 years later and her son or daughter has just had a baby, wala!

Some guys did not like you looking at their mothers, now in society grand mothers are sexy fit and trim!

So how do you think guys feel when you are not only looking at their mother but also looking at their grandmother? With the intent to get with them?

The ability to be compasionate understanding and patient goes out the door when grandma has to rush out the door to go to work... The younger generation of grandma are not as dependable either, how can you ask them to sit at home and watch your kids when they are out trying to get their grove on and the last thing that they want to do is baby sit?

What makes the situation totally unique, is that when this woman is in her late 50's that she could be a great-grand?

I guess its not that hard to see that woman are not looking like grandma's at 30!!!

Yea, they are not looking like grandma's, anymore...

How often do you go to the bathroom?

How often do I go to the bathroom? once a day? After hearing about people who don't go for days, but sometimes weeks, is incredible! I thought that was insane to know that a person keeps that toxic waste in there body was days, and in some case weeks... Would you believe that if you eat 3 times a day that you should go three times a day? Don't freak, it may be meant for you to go once a day.
So this is a simple thing that you could do: eat vegertables and fruits, cut down on your intake of sugar and eat portions of food.

make sure you have at least 5 servings of fruits and vegetables everyday. Replace refined grain products with whole grain products, for example, replace white bread with whole wheat bread. Be sure you drinks plenty of water and goes easy on milk. Sixteen ounces of milk per day is plenty. Avoid eating dried fruits, and don't consume drinks and pop. Make sure you are active for at least 1 hour per day in short periods distributed throughout the day. All of these strategies will naturally increase fiber in you diet, promote bowel activity, and avoid constipating processes, such as too little exercise, too little water, and too much milk. It's also a good idea to just sit on the toilet after every meal to take advantage of the natural help of the gastrocolonic reflex that leads to stooling after eating.


What Your Bowel Movements Are Telling You About Your Health

Hard and dry:
The amount of time it takes for the food you eat to make its way through the gastro-intestinal system and exit into the toilet will have an impact on the consistency of your stool. “Intestinal transit averages 40 to 45 hours from when you eat to when it comes out,” says Foxx-Orenstein. If it stays in the GI tract for longer than that, fluid is re-absorbed into the body and the stool becomes harder and dryer. Certain medications—like blood pressure drugs, antidepressants and histamines—can slow down the GI tract.

Constipation:

Which has a myriad of causes, will lead to harder, drier stools (since you’re going less often, your stool will stall in the system and the fluid re-absorbed). For some people, a diet high in dairy can be a cause of constipation, so if you are experiencing problems going (and have dry, hard-to-pass stool when you do finally go), it is worth reducing your dairy intake for a week or two to see if that helps. And being dehydrated can also lead to this problem because if the body is lacking in water, it will draw it—and conserve it—from wherever it can find it.

Little lumps:
“An ideal stool looks like a torpedo—it should be large, soft, fluffy and easy to pass,” says Foxx-Orenstein. But when conditions are less than ideal, the stool may become more like little deer pellets. Again, transit time may be part of the issue because slow-moving stool will lose fluid, making them less fluffy and lumpier. A lack of fiber in the diet may also to be to blame. Beware if you’re following a weight-loss plan (such as Atkins) that focuses on increasing protein and decreasing carbohydrates, since that can leave you with a diet that’s low in fiber. And since fiber holds on to fluid, a lack of it will lead to harder, pellet-like poops that may be more difficult to pass.

Too liquid:
Your body secretes about eight liters of fluid during the course of a day—from the stomach, salivary glands and pancreas—to help your food get broken down and make its way through the digestive system. Under normal, healthy conditions, the majority of that fluid is absorbed along the way, resulting in those sought-after soft, fluffy stools. But if food passes through too quickly, there isn’t enough time for all of that liquid to absorb, and the stool emerges in a too-soft state. The reasons for such super-quick transit could include a sudden increase in fiber in the diet, or a bacterial or viral infection. “When there is an infection, the body produces toxins which cause water to be released,” says Dr. Michael Farber, director of the Executive Health Program at Hackensack University Medical Center. “Things move through very quickly through your system because the body wants to get rid of them.”

Pencil thin:
Thin may be the preferable state for many things—figures, cell phones, television screens—but when it comes to bowel movements, thin is definitely not a good thing. Specifically, thin stools could be an indicator of colon cancer, or its precursor, polyps in the colon. “Whenever you have mass in the colon that creates blockage, anything that needs to be pushed past that mass will become thinner,” Farber says. “If you are seeing thin stools on a consistent basis, that it something you should have looked at by your doctor.”

Looking pale or gray:
Normal stool can come in a range of colors (influenced by what you eat and what medications you take, among other factors). But if your stool has an unhealthy hue, particularly if it’s pale or grayish in tone, you could have problems somewhere along your digestive tract. The liver excretes bile to help break down fats in the food you eat, and that bile also adds color to the stool. But if there’s a blockage in the liver—or in the tubes through which the bile travels—the stool might take on a too-pale appearance. Also, if you are suffering from a pancreatic disorder, the stool might look gray because it will be lacking the color imbued by the digestive enzymes produced in that organ.

Inmate used hacksaw and bedsheets to escape jail

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- An inmate who escaped from the Mesa County jail in September did so by cutting a hole in the roof of the exercise yard with hacksaw blades and shimmying down the side of the building on bed sheets he had tied together, according to an arrest affidavit unsealed late Wednesday.
Shane Johnson, 41, was awaiting sentencing on burglary and auto theft convictions when he escaped.
The affidavit says it took him about two minutes to climb down the side of the jail and jump into a vehicle that was waiting for him behind the building.
Prosecutors allege Johnson’s wife, Marilynne Johnson, was driving the getaway car.
The Johnsons were arrested Jan. 10 in Baja California, Mexico.
Shane Johnson remains in custody in Mexico on suspicion of burglarizing homes there. Marilynne Johnson, 47, is in the Mesa County jail on $100,000 bond on suspicion of aiding her husband’s escape.
Another inmate, Rodney Price, also has been charged with helping Shane Johnson escape. He remains in custody on unrelated charges.
The details of Johnson’s escape were contained in an arrest affidavit for his wife.
The document says detention staff believe Shane Johnson received two hacksaw blades in an envelope that was mailed to him in jail.
The envelope, which contained a hidden compartment, was found in Johnson’s cell after his escape. The package listed a return address in Colorado Springs; however, it wasn’t clear from the affidavit whether investigators know who sent it.
The affidavit said Shane Johnson used the blades to cut a hole in a portion of steel mesh roof in the jail’s exercise yard. Video then shows him climbing down the side of the building late at night.
Mesa County Sheriff Stan Hilkey said the jail has since undergone a complete audit, and improvements have been made, including a new covering on the exercise yard and razor wire on the fence around the building. more

LAPD Hunting 2 Suspects Who Set Exotic Dancer on Fire

Police in Los Angeles are searching for a man and a woman who they say set an exotic nightclub dancer on fire, leaving her clinging to life.
The woman was meeting the two acquaintances about at 1:30 a.m outside the Babes & Beer nightclub in the Tarzana area of the San Fernando Valley when they doused her with some type of flammable liquid and set her on fire, police said. She then ran back inside the bar where other patrons came to her aid.
The attackers, Rianne Celine Theriault-Odom, 27, and Nathaniel Marquis Petrillo, 22, were frequent patrons of the club and positively identified by witnesses, police spokesman Richard French said.
Deputy Police Chief Michael Moore said the dancer is in grave condition.
"Given the condition of this victim, they may be responsible for ultimately her murder,"Moore said at a news conference Thursday. "This is a terrible, terrible attack."
The victim is a 27-year-old mother of two young children, Moore said.
The nightclub's Web site advertises "intimate dining" and "seductive nightlife." A message left on the club's answering machine was not immediately returned.

Angry doctor threw baby, staff claim

AN ANGRY doctor allegedly threw a baby and twisted its arm and an elderly patient was left to die in a hall way at Bundaberg Hospital, staff claim.Three hospital staff have sought whistleblower protection after detailing allegations of gross medical neglect and incompetence, overcrowding, bullying, intimidation and cover-ups to the Crime and Misconduct Commission. A highly qualified nurse who spoke to The Courier-Mail told how she was repeatedly made to falsify records to hide lengthy waiting times in the emergency department. She said triage cases were improperly and dangerously downgraded because of understaffing. She said a troubled teenager who waited five hours without seeing a doctor ran away and slashed her wrists. And a doctor said he was too busy to see a boy who had been stabbed in the leg in a suspected child abuse case. The cases are among 100 serious and minor procedural errors on the hospital's prime reporting database. Dismissed as a troublemaker and frustrated at the lack of response, the nurse and two others took complaints to Burnett MP Rob Messenger, who first raised allegations against the hospital in Parliament in 2005. "They have made allegations which lead me to reasonably suspect misconduct by a number of public officials," Mr Messenger said. He called for an inquiry, saying it was clear patients and employees of Bundaberg Hospital were "in continuing danger of physical and psychological danger". The CMC was told the doctor threw the baby on its back and twisted its arm after angrily shouting, "Keep him still". It is believed the child suffered bruising but was not seriously hurt. The elderly man who died on the trolley was refused acute care after his triage rating was downgraded. "Good nurses and doctors and administration officers who work miracles every day are being placed under unbelievable pressure by a government that won't properly resource staff," Mr Messenger said. He said the $41.1million upgrade promised by the Beattie-Bligh governments had not happened. "They have spent $8.6 million and instead of the 30 extra beds promised, we got five. There is clear evidence of understaffing and underfunding." more