Children

Nelsondra Watson, 43, pleaded guilty to just three counts of adulteration of a food or liquid, while the other charges against her were dismissed. A judge then issued her sentence of five years supervised probation, commencing September 10 A Tennessee mother who pleaded guilty to trying to poison her children with a deadly cocktail of medicines has been spared jail time, following an impassioned plea from her victims. Nelsondra Watson, 43, was accused of trying to kill her three children – two adults and one minor – on the night of April 8, 2018, by slipping them a mixture of NyQuil and the anti-depressant Lexapro. Watson had then planned to die by suicide. She ‘waited up all night for her children to die,’ but when they did not, Watson called her doctor, who then called police. The mother was arrested soon after and charged with three counts of attempted first-degree murder, reckless endangerment, child abuse, and food adulteration. But on Tuesday, Watson … [Read more...] about Mother, 43, who tried to kill her three children by poisoning them with a lethal mixture of Lexapro and NyQuil, then waited all night for them to die is SPARED jail after her kids’ impassioned plea to the judge

Prince William and Kate Middleton have taken a second short haul flight on a budget airline in a week.The royal couple and their children flew from Aberdeen to Norwich at 2.40pm yesterday as they returned from visiting the Queen at Balmoral, they touched down in Norfolk just 50 minutes later, at 3.30pm. The trip is believed to have cost £365 for the whole family and comes amid a row over Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's four gas-guzzling trips on private jets in just 11 days.  The Duke and Duchess of Sussex flew from London to Ibiza and back before making a return trip to Nice earlier this month, fuelling claims they were contributing to climate change. In new pictures, Kate sports a green dress as she holds onto baby Louis, 16 months, while William holds the hands of Charlotte, four, and, George, six. Adorable Prince George was seen bounding up steps to board the plane, as little sister Princess Charlotte trailed behind.The future King and his … [Read more...] about Kate and William catch budget flight back from Scottish holiday with their children after earning praise for shunning private jets favoured by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

Children in Syria have been tortured, maimed and sexually abused by Bashar al-Assad's forces and recruited for combat by the rebels fighting to topple him during the country's conflict of almost three years, a new UN report says. The report, which highlights the treatment of children in the conflict from the beginning of the uprising against the president in March 2011 until 15 November 2013, was released this week to the security council and posted on the UN website on Tuesday. The report cites the UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, saying that Syrian children were subjected to "unspeakable suffering" during that time. Ban urged Syria's warring sides to "take, without delay, all measures to protect and uphold the rights of all children in Syria". The uprising against Assad's rule began with largely peaceful protests in 2011 but evolved into a bloody civil war that has killed more than 130,000 people, according to activists. Millions of Syrians have been driven from their homes, … [Read more...] about Syria children maimed and tortured by Assad forces, says UN report

NHS psychologists are 'over-diagnosing' children with gender dysphoria over fears staff will be branded transphobic if they don't, it has emerged. Ex-clinicians fear scores of youngsters could unnecessarily be being put on puberty-blocking drugs that warp their hormones every year. The concerns were raised by six psychologists who have resigned from London's children's gender-identity service in the past three years. They all claimed they were under such immense pressure they could not properly assess patients, in what they fear may be a 'medical scandal'. One of them has admitted that looking back, they may not have given hormone-warping drugs to all of the children they diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Thirty-five psychologists have resigned from London's Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust since 2016. Data shows the number of children treated at the service has exploded by more than thirty times in the space of a decade. … [Read more...] about NHS psychologists are over-diagnosing gender dysphoria in children as young as THREE ‘because staff are scared of being branded transphobic’

The Duchess of Cornwall threw open the doors to her Clarence House home in London today and invited a group of extra-special children to decorate her Christmas tree. Camilla, 72, was hosting her annual party for seriously and terminally ill children from two charities she supports - Helen & Douglas House and Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity - and the youngsters couldn't have had a more magical time. Not only were there decorations to hang and a festive feast to consume, the royal had even invited two of Santa's reindeer to meet the children - Dancer and Blitzen - and got the giggles when Dancer decided to make a break for freedom in the gardens and trampled a box hedge. Camilla looked festive in a red Bruce Oldfield dress and  black knee high boots, adding a cape to shield herself from the wintry temperatures. The Duchess of Cornwall threw open the doors to her Clarence House home in London today and invited a group of extra-special children to meet Santa's reindeer … [Read more...] about Camilla’s Christmas cheer! Duchess invites terminally ill children into her Clarence House home to help decorate the tree – and they even meet Santa’s reindeer