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By Sandrea; MY GRIPE “IT’S hard watching a baby slowly die. He’s only five days old and you can see how hard his little chest is thumping. He seems to be fighting to stay alive. […] […]

The Taleban has reportedly hanged a seven-year-old boy in Afghanistan this week. The killing was an act of retribution, said The Times, as the boy had been accused of spying for US and NATO. He […] […]

A CHAIN-SMOKING Indonesian toddler has cut back to 15 cigarettes a day thanks to “therapy focused on playing”, a child welfare official said. Two-year-old Ardi Rizal shocked the world when a video of him smoking […] […]

Judge lifts publication ban on name of toddler who nearly died from drug mother gave him At the behest of a father, a judge has lifted a publication ban on the identity of a boy […] […]

WINNIPEG—Winnipeg police couldn’t say Friday whether a woman charged with stabbing her two children was suffering from postpartum depression, but they also weren’t ruling it out. “I’m a police officer, I’m not a health care […] […]

ABUJA, Nigeria—A Nigerian federal court will hear a case over whether the West African nation’s religious freedom and privacy laws allow a Muslim senator to marry a 13-year-old girl, the latest rift in a country […] […]

GOMA, CONGO An eight-year-old girl is asked what she remembers about her mother.  She squints as if to summon an image, then softly rubs her fingers along a visiting reporter’s arm and shakes her head.  […] […]

Police seize images of boys aged 5 to 12 A teacher was arrested at a Toronto junior school and is now facing child pornography charges after police raided a west-end home Tuesday. Stewart Adams, 46, […] […]

By Sandra: MY GRIPE Now this has got to be a joke.  There is no way that a child hardly out of nappies can be on the police wanted list. What is this world coming […] […]

She was acquitted in earlier trial after Crown abandoned case A woman who was once acquitted of concealing a dead baby has pleaded not guilty to charges of neglecting another infant and concealing its death. […] […]