Another Baby Left With Boyfriend Tragedy

It is another verse of the same song that seems to be playing everywhere. The twenty year old mother of a fourteen month old little girl went to work and left the child with her twenty-one year old boy friend who lived with them. When she came back to the couple’s apartment from her job, she discovered that the child was unconscious. She summoned help in the apartment complex and someone administered CPR to the child. It was too late. The child was dead when they arrived at a local hospital. Upon examining the baby, medical personnel noticed unusual swelling … Continue reading

Berkeley Breathed – Crime Fighter?

When I was in college, cartoonist Berkeley Breathed was my favorite. I absolutely loved his “Bloom County” comic strip. Opus – the lovable penguin, Bill the Cat – too ugly to die, Milo Bloom – the brainy ten year old, and Steve Dallas – the former frat boy were among the great characters in that comic strip. It ran from 1980 until 1989. Now, the Pulitzer Prize winning Breathed is trying to help authorities track down a killer from almost 30 years ago. Breathed was a student at the University of Texas, Austin when Michael Cahill was slain in 1979. … Continue reading

The Violence to Young Children Continues

It’s getting so bad that I do not want to read the latest news. A mother left her two year old girl and an almost one year old boy with her boyfriend. He had agreed to bring them to meet her in the store parking lot where she was employed when she got off work. When they picked her up, the mother apparently realized that the little girl was seriously injured. They took her to a local hospital. The hospital immediately “life flighted” her to a trauma center where she died that evening. The cause of death was a brain … Continue reading