Cousin tried to save toddler

http://www.projo.com/news/content/BUNNELL_TRIAL_13_05-13-08_84A491A_v47.3577925....

01:00 AM EDT on Tuesday, May 13, 2008

By John Castellucci

Journal Staff Writer

PROVIDENCE –– The night 3-year-old Thomas J. “T.J.” Wright was beaten to
death, a relative tried desperately to save him, only to have T.J.’s
foster mother snatch the child from his arms and curse him for dialing 911.

Jose A. Santiago said that, when he handed Katherine Bunnell the
cordless telephone, she hung up rather than stay on the line with the
911 operator and walk him through the procedure for CPR.

Instead of being grateful about the call, “it was more like she was
angry,” Santiago said.

“Why, why did I do that?” he said, describing her reaction.

“To me, it felt like disbelief.”

Santiago offered the testimony yesterday, at Bunnell’s trial on murder
charges in Superior Court.

Texas Shame
by BigJolly | 05/13/2008 3:56 pm

http://lonestartimes.com/2008/05/13/texas-shame/

Pregnant adult women held in captivity until childbirth so that the
state can take possession of the baby. Think this can’t happen in the
US? In Texas? Think again.

Texas Child Protective Services said today at a custody hearing for
a child born to one of the YFZ Ranch children that the agency no longer
believes the mother is a minor.

Today’s custody hearing was continued to Friday to allow attorneys
to prepare. The mother will need a new attorney because the attorneys
representing her also are representing other minors and were concerned
about conflicts of interest.

Knowing full well that this mother is an adult, what will the state
attempt to do when the hearing resumes?

When the hearing resumes, state officials said, they will continue
to seek custody of the infant.

George Bush called Hu, ...to express sympathy for the Chinese people
who suffered huge losses at the massive quake.
Is he sincere or just shed crocodile tears ?

When Bush talked about Tibet, Hu shut him up...telling him
curtly...Tibet is China's internal affairs.
Hu told him...to butt out.

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90883/6409946.html

Foster child death is 4th in 5 months
Investigators are awaiting results of tests to find out what killed
infant girl
By Tim Evans
Posted: May 10, 2008

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080510/LOCAL18/805100477

The Indiana Department of Child Services is investigating the death of a
Marion County infant who died in foster care.

Seven-week-old Destiny Linden, who died April 28 at Riley Hospital for
Children, is at least the fourth child under DCS supervision to die
within the past five months in Marion County.

Susan Tielking, spokeswoman for the department, said the agency has
opened an investigation into the death.

She also confirmed DCS had an open case involving Destiny at the time of
her death but said she could not provide any details of that case
because of state confidentiality requirements.

FLDS mom speaks out after giving birth in Austin

http://www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=8319273

AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) -- A woman who gave birth in Austin Monday
described her living conditions after being removed from a West Texas
polygamist compound.

Louisa Jessop and her husband, Dan, describe their family as normal.
There is one husband, one wife and three children. They said what's
happening to them is egregious, because Louisa Jessop has been separated
from two of her children and must live with her newborn, alone and afraid.

The South Austin motel where Dan Jessop is staying is a far cry from his
former life on the secluded Yearning for Zion Ranch in Eldorado.

"Everybody there has a strong interest in each other and everybody's
children," Dan Jessop said. "Out here nobody cares at all from one
family to the next."

Yet the father of three said he hopes he'll be proven wrong as he
appeals to judges in Austin to keep his family together.

His 4-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son are staying at a shelter in
Austin while his wife and newborn stay at another.

"Fritz Fink" wrote in message
news:EFtWj.264$Pr1.151@trndny03...

Federal authorities charged that a methamphetamine laboratory was operating
at the nation's largest kosher slaughterhouse and that employees carried
weapons to work.

The charges were among the most explosive details to emerge following the
massive raid Monday at Agriprocessors in Postville, Iowa.

In a 60-page application for a search warrant, federal agents revealed
details of their six-month probe of Agriprocessors. The investigation
involved 12 federal agencies, including the Drug Enforcement Administration,
the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the departments of labor and
agriculture.

According to the application, a former plant supervisor told investigators
that some 80 percent of the workforce was illegal. They included rabbis
responsible for kosher supervision, who the source believed entered the
United States from Canada without proper immigration documents. The source
did not provide evidence for his suspicion about the rabbis.

The source also claimed to have confronted a human resources manager with
Social Security cards from three employees that had the same number. The
manager laughed when the matter was raised, the source said.

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/108541.html

It's Plain Wrong
By:David J. Willmott Sr.
05/07/2008

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19669552&BRD=1776&PAG=461&dept_id=602485&rfi...

Texas is a long way from New York. We don't live there and we are not
ruled by the government but we are appalled by the obvious violation of
our Constitution.

There is a religious sect known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints, a breakaway sect from the Mormon Church.
The sect has been growing; it occupies a huge compound and is basically
a self-contained community. The sect is believed to allow men to have
multiple wives. Polygamy was outlawed during the 1800s.
In early April, a Texas social service agency received an anonymous
telephone call from a 16-year-old female who alleged she was being kept
against her will in the compound and had one child and was pregnant with
another.