Teen s cancer battle: Matapihi community rallies to help family of Innocence Henry
5 May, 2021 06:00 PM
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Rebecca Ngatai-Henry and Harry Henry. Photo / George Novak Cancer is a horrible thing for your child to get.
Those are the words of Matapihi mum Rebecca Ngatai-Henry after watching her 14-year-old daughter fight cancer for more than four months. In December, Innocence Henry described by her mum as strong and caring with a love of baking was diagnosed with Ewing s sarcoma, a rare type of cancer that occurs in bones or the surrounding soft tissue.
Since January, the teenager has had fortnightly chemotherapy treatments at Starship Children s Hospital in Auckland. Last month one of her toes was amputated in a bid to arrest the disease.
(CNN) Calls to a major child abuse hotline increased in the early months of the pandemic, new research has revealed. The findings add fuel to worries that hidden child abuse may have been a consequence of school closings and lockdown measures due to the novel coronavirus.
Researchers assessed calls and texts to the national child abuse hotline Childhelp from March to May 2020 and compared them to the same period in 2019. The team found a 13.75% increase in total inquiries to the hotline from 2019 to 2020, according to the study published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics Monday. We hypothesize that there was an increase in calls and texts to the hotline overall due to an increase in child and caregiver distress and potential child maltreatment amid the stressors of the pandemic, said study author Dr. Robin Ortiz, national clinician scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and the Children s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Paul Torres Jimenez De La Cuesta, 29, from Imperial Beach, s expected to be sentenced on June 28 for distributing images of minors engaged in sexually explicit.
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