Thursday, January 8, 2009
Baby thrown in Trash at Hospital
Police in New Jersey have been searching garbage dumps looking for the body of a baby. Now, the search for the remains of a Jersey City baby has moved to Kentucky, but police fear that the corpse has already been incinerated.
Police have been looking for the body of Bashere Davon Moyd Jr. since Jan. 2, when the baby was discovered missing from a hospital morgue. Christ Hospital officials have not said where the body may have gone, but police say it appears it was thrown away with the hospital’s trash sometime between Dec. 21 and Jan. 2, The Associated Press is reporting.
Jersey City
police chief Thomas Comey said in a statement posted Tuesday night on the department’s Web site that police were searching a landfill in Ashland, Ky., where the waste may have been transferred. But Comey was also fearful that the waste was sent elsewhere and may have already been incinerated.
EnviroSolutions vice president Charles B. Fromm said there is no incinerator at the Big Run Landfill.
The baby was delivered on Dec. 21. The 26-year-old mother, Kalynn Moore, of Jersey City, describes the incident as a terribly painful one, and said that the child was born alive but with a weak hearbeat. She said her son died about 20 minutes later as doctors tried to save him. But hospital officials say the baby was stillborn.
Moore’s lawyer, Michael Anise, said a death certificate and medical records from the hospital say the baby was stillborn, however, Anise said he is still reviewing it.
“The doctor’s notes that states it was lifeless,” Anise said Wednesday. “That is not our main focus as much as the fact that we had a baby’s body here.”
Whether the child was stillborn is an important legal distinction because New Jersey law does not recognize stillborn children as humans.
Anise, who has said that a lawsuit is likely, maintains there is no reason for the body of a fetus to have been thrown into the trash. Anise said the body was discovered missing when a funeral home worker went to pick it up from the morgue. He said a morgue employee was able to find the tags that were affixed to the baby’s shirt and blanket when he was taken to the morgue.
He had also requested surveillance video from the hospital hoping it may have shown what happened to the remains. But Wednesday, he said hospital officials told him that the tapes from cameras in the area had been reused, according to the AP.
Police have been looking for the body of Bashere Davon Moyd Jr. since Jan. 2, when the baby was discovered missing from a hospital morgue. Christ Hospital officials have not said where the body may have gone, but police say it appears it was thrown away with the hospital’s trash sometime between Dec. 21 and Jan. 2, The Associated Press is reporting.
Jersey City
police chief Thomas Comey said in a statement posted Tuesday night on the department’s Web site that police were searching a landfill in Ashland, Ky., where the waste may have been transferred. But Comey was also fearful that the waste was sent elsewhere and may have already been incinerated.
EnviroSolutions vice president Charles B. Fromm said there is no incinerator at the Big Run Landfill.
The baby was delivered on Dec. 21. The 26-year-old mother, Kalynn Moore, of Jersey City, describes the incident as a terribly painful one, and said that the child was born alive but with a weak hearbeat. She said her son died about 20 minutes later as doctors tried to save him. But hospital officials say the baby was stillborn.
Moore’s lawyer, Michael Anise, said a death certificate and medical records from the hospital say the baby was stillborn, however, Anise said he is still reviewing it.
“The doctor’s notes that states it was lifeless,” Anise said Wednesday. “That is not our main focus as much as the fact that we had a baby’s body here.”
Whether the child was stillborn is an important legal distinction because New Jersey law does not recognize stillborn children as humans.
Anise, who has said that a lawsuit is likely, maintains there is no reason for the body of a fetus to have been thrown into the trash. Anise said the body was discovered missing when a funeral home worker went to pick it up from the morgue. He said a morgue employee was able to find the tags that were affixed to the baby’s shirt and blanket when he was taken to the morgue.
He had also requested surveillance video from the hospital hoping it may have shown what happened to the remains. But Wednesday, he said hospital officials told him that the tapes from cameras in the area had been reused, according to the AP.
Someone needs Anger Management!
JACKSON, Ohio – Police say an angry 4-year-old Ohio boy grabbed a gun from a closet and shot his baby sitter. Nathan Beavers, 18, was hospitalized Sunday with minor wounds to his arm and side after the shotgun attack. Police say another teen was also injured.
Witnesses told police the child was angry because Beavers accidentally stepped on his foot. Beavers was watching the child at a mobile home in Jackson with several other teenagers and several other children.
Jackson County Sheriff John Shashteen says authorities are investigating. The child has not been charged.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Bronx mugger gets what he deserve
Julio Diaz has a daily routine. Every night, the 31-year-old social worker ends his hour-long subway commute to the Bronx one stop early, just so he can eat at his favorite diner.
But one night last month, as Diaz stepped off the No. 6 train and onto a nearly empty platform, his evening took an unexpected turn.
He was walking toward the stairs when a teenage boy approached and pulled out a knife.
"He wants my money, so I just gave him my wallet and told him, 'Here you go,'" Diaz says.
As the teen began to walk away, Diaz told him, "Hey, wait a minute. You forgot something. If you're going to be robbing people for the rest of the night, you might as well take my coat to keep you warm."
The would-be robber looked at his would-be victim, "like what's going on here?" Diaz says. "He asked me, 'Why are you doing this?'"
Diaz replied: "If you're willing to risk your freedom for a few dollars, then I guess you must really need the money. I mean, all I wanted to do was get dinner and if you really want to join me ... hey, you're more than welcome.
"You know, I just felt maybe he really needs help," Diaz says.
Diaz says he and the teen went into the diner and sat in a booth.
"The manager comes by, the dishwashers come by, the waiters come by to say hi," Diaz says. "The kid was like, 'You know everybody here. Do you own this place?'"
"No, I just eat here a lot," Diaz says he told the teen. "He says, 'But you're even nice to the dishwasher.'"
Diaz replied, "Well, haven't you been taught you should be nice to everybody?"
"Yea, but I didn't think people actually behaved that way," the teen said.
Diaz asked him what he wanted out of life. "He just had almost a sad face," Diaz says.
The teen couldn't answer Diaz — or he didn't want to.
When the bill arrived, Diaz told the teen, "Look, I guess you're going to have to pay for this bill 'cause you have my money and I can't pay for this. So if you give me my wallet back, I'll gladly treat you."
The teen "didn't even think about it" and returned the wallet, Diaz says. "I gave him $20 ... I figure maybe it'll help him. I don't know."
Diaz says he asked for something in return — the teen's knife — "and he gave it to me."
Afterward, when Diaz told his mother what happened, she said, "You're the type of kid that if someone asked you for the time, you gave them your watch."
"I figure, you know, if you treat people right, you can only hope that they treat you right. It's as simple as it gets in this complicated world."
Night owls and people who sleep sleep sleep
1 // You may need more sleep than you think.
Research by Henry Ford Hospital Sleep Disorders Center found that people who slept eight hours and then claimed they were "well rested" actually performed better and were more alert if they slept another two hours. That figures. Until the invention of the lightbulb (damn you, Edison!), the average person slumbered 10 hours a night.
2 // Night owls are more creative.
Artists, writers, and coders typically fire on all cylinders by crashing near dawn and awakening at the crack of noon. In one study, "evening people" almost universally slam-dunked a standardized creativity test. Their early-bird brethren struggled for passing scores.
3 // Rising early is stressful.
The stress hormone cortisol peaks in your blood around 7 am. So if you get up then, you may experience tension. Grab some extra Zs! You'll wake up feeling less like Bert, more like Ernie.
Time Warner avoids blackout
LOS ANGELES - Time Warner Cable Inc. said it reached a deal Thursday with Viacom Inc. on carriage fees, avoiding a blackout of 19 cable channels including MTV and Comedy Central.
The two sides, citing disagreement over fee hikes, had threatened a damaging blackout at midnight Eastern time that would have cut off shows such as "SpongeBob SquarePants" and "The Colbert Report" to about 15.7 million subscribers.
Shortly after agreeing to extend a midnight deadline by an hour, Time Warner Cable spokesman Alex Dudley said the sides agreed on a new contract.
The two sides, citing disagreement over fee hikes, had threatened a damaging blackout at midnight Eastern time that would have cut off shows such as "SpongeBob SquarePants" and "The Colbert Report" to about 15.7 million subscribers.
Shortly after agreeing to extend a midnight deadline by an hour, Time Warner Cable spokesman Alex Dudley said the sides agreed on a new contract.
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