| 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,.
| Source:
NYT
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| April 16, 2007 | - An explosion near a Shiite shrine in Karbala killed 16 children.
| Source:
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
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| 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.
| Source:
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.
| Source:
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.”
| Source:
Times Online
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| December 15, 2005 | -
EBay was selling 85 toys a minute.
| Source:
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
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| 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.
| Source:
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
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| 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
|
| 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.
| Source:
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
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| 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
|
| 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
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| 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
|
| 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
|
| 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.
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| 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.
| |
| 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 Sha
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