Parents of a newborn baby have been charged with murder after their two-week old was found dead and stuffed into a duffel bag in Georgia woods. Caliyah McNabb was reported missing on 7 October last year and her body found the next day wrapped in a T-shirt, blanket and draw string bag in a wooded area of Covington, Newport County. An autopsy determined Caliyah died from blunt force trauma to the head. Her parents - Christopher McNabb and Courtney Bell - told officials their daughter was fine when they fed and changed her but hours later noticed she was missing when they went into her bedroom. "A 15-day-old child obviously didn't leave by themselves,' Newton County Sheriff's Deputy Captain Keith Crum later said. Police arrested McNabb, 27, in October and held him in jail without bail on an outstanding burglary warrant. After further investigations by detectives McNabb was indicted by a grand jury on eight counts including murder, felony murder, murder in the second degree and … [Read more...] about Parents arrested after newborn dead baby found stuffed into duffel bag
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Mandy Rhodes: If parents fear ministers are meddling, politicians need to tread far more lightly
Register for our free newsletter ALISON Thewliss is hardly a politician you could accuse of hyperbole. She has most notably exposed the cruelty behind the Tories’ so-called rape clause, campaigned on breastfeeding and helped push the whole debate around the inhumanity of period poverty to the fore. And the SNP MP has done so calmly and deftly, without resorting to hysteria and with the best interests of women and children at the heart of all she says and does. So when some papers splashed with headlines saying the Glasgow MP wanted to ban tickling, you would have been right to raise a sceptical eyebrow. What in fact Thewliss had raised during an important parliamentary debate in Westminster on sexual harassment and bullying in schools was a practical and matter-of-fact way of introducing young children to the idea of consent. Learning through play is an easy lesson to absorb so if a child asks you to stop tickling them, then stop. What Thewliss had not bargained for was the … [Read more...] about Mandy Rhodes: If parents fear ministers are meddling, politicians need to tread far more lightly
Heartbroken parents reveal the devastating moment they told doctors to stop resuscitating their baby
DISTRAUGHT parents have revealed the heartbreaking moment they told medics to stop resuscitating their dying son on New Year's Eve.Jordan Phipps says his world was "torn apart" after his 13-month-old lad Kodi suffered a catastrophic seizure caused by Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD).Kodi was born one month premature in November 2016 and often had up to 40 seizures a day.The poor lad even once suffered 137 in one 24 hour period.Jordan and Kodi's mum Sara Hiscox, 26, have told of how they doctors to cease resuscitation attempts as their boy passed away on New Year's Eve.Jordan from Rhymney, Gwent told Wales Online: “Normally after a seizure he would cry, but after he came out of it we noticed his eyes were not looking the same and then we phoned the paramedics.”Kodi was rushed into hospital where doctors attempted to resuscitate him.The said: “They tried but his vitals just kept dropping. I said to my partner we need to hold his hands and we just said … [Read more...] about Heartbroken parents reveal the devastating moment they told doctors to stop resuscitating their baby
Comedian and writer Shappi Khorsandi, 44, chats parenting, the school run and her one unbreakable life rule
COMEDIAN and writer Shappi Khorsandi, 44, chats parenting, the school run and her one unbreakable life rule.The I'm a Celebrity star utilises her everyday experiences in her routines and she will ALWAYS be at the school gate at 3pm. My four-year-old daughter Genevieve wakes me up at 6am.She climbs into my bed every morning and I’ll cuddle her for as long as she can bear it.By 7am I’m up making packed lunches for both Genevieve and my son Cassius, who’s 10.I’m a single mum, but my mornings run fairly smoothly because I have a live-in au pair who helps out, too.At 8.30am we’ll jump into the car for the school run.By the time I’ve finished nattering at the gates with all the mums, it’s 9am, so I’ll go for a quick jog in the park near my house in west London. Writing takes up most of my day.I’ll have a huge bowl of porridge for breakfast, then I’ll start working on either a column or an article for one of the newspapers.If I … [Read more...] about Comedian and writer Shappi Khorsandi, 44, chats parenting, the school run and her one unbreakable life rule
“It tore our world apart”: Parents reveal heartbreaking moment they told doctors to stop resuscitating dying toddler
Grieving parents have revealed the devastating moment they told doctors to stop resuscitating their sick son who died on New Year's Eve. Dad Jordan Phipps said the death of his 13-month-old boy Kodi 'tore our world apart' after he suffered a traumatic seizure caused by the rare Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD). Kodi, who was born one month premature in November 2016, often suffered up to 40 seizures a day and had 137 once within 24 hours. He died in hospital on New Year's Eve after Jordan and mum Sara Hiscox told doctors to stop re resuscitation attempts. Mr Phipps, 37, from Rhymney, Wales, said the heartbreaking moment was "the hardest decision I have ever made in my life". He said: “He stayed in hospital for one or two days because the doctors noticed his breathing was a bit off. “He came home and a few days after he developed a nystagmus where his eyes would start shaking. “The doctors said that was because he was born premature, but we thought something was not … [Read more...] about “It tore our world apart”: Parents reveal heartbreaking moment they told doctors to stop resuscitating dying toddler