South Africa headmaster charged for sending boy into pit toilet to retrieve phone
17 Mar, 2021 08:18 PM
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Pit latrines at a school in Ghoboshiyane, South Africa. A headmaster has been arrested and charged with child abuse after lowering an 11-year-old into a latrine to search for his cellphone. Photo / AP
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By: Mogomotsi Magome, Associated Press
A school headmaster in South Africa has been charged with child abuse after lowering an 11-year-old student into a pit toilet to search for the official s cellphone, according to local news reports.
The headmaster of Luthuthu Junior Secondary School in the Eastern Cape province, Lubeko Mgandela, appeared in court and was released on bail Wednesday.
A woman who received a single dose of Moderna s coronavirus vaccine while pregnant recently gave birth to the first-known baby born with COVID-19 antibodies after maternal vaccinations in Florida, according to a study shared in a preprint server.
While this finding has yet to undergo peer review and full publication in a legitimate journal, it could mean immunity against the COVID-19 illness might carry over multiple generations through pregnancy, via the Moderna vaccine.
A US woman gave birth to a vigorous, healthy baby girl with COVID-19 antibodies
The mother who is a frontline healthcare worker was given her initial dose of the Moderna vaccine in January, while 36 weeks pregnant. Her baby girl was born in a vigorous, healthy condition three weeks after vaccination. When researchers analyzed her blood via the baby s umbilical cord, they found that antibodies were detected . at time of delivery, read the paper. Thus, there is potential for protection and infection ri
Updated: 3:59 PM EDT Mar 17, 2021 The Maryland Zoo s 6-week-old sitatunga calf born in February ventured out Wednesday in the sitatunga habitat for the first time.June was born at the zoo on Feb. 4. She ventured out in the sitatunga habitat for the first time along with her mother, Cricket, who tried to stay close to her very energetic little offspring. June explored the yard with leaps and bounds, zoo officials said.Guests will be able to see June and Cricket in the yard adjacent to the tortoise habitat as weather permits.The sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekii) is a species of antelope native to Central Africa. They live in swamps, marshes and flood plains. Outside of protected areas, sitatunga are vulnerable to over-hunting and habitat loss, as people drain and develop swamp land. Currently, sitatunga are not classified as threatened or endangered.There are 10 animals in the Maryland Zoo s sitatunga herd, including Cricket, which can be found in two habitats along the boardwa
Homeland Security head rejects GOP claims of border ‘crisis’ as Biden warns migrants, ‘Don’t come’ Published 4 days ago
Department of Homeland Security officers wait for the arrival of migrant children and teenagers from the southern border of the United States at the site of a temporary holding facility that opened Sunday, March 14, 2021 south of Midland, Texas. (Eli Hartman/Odessa American via AP)
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Print article WASHINGTON The head of the Department of Homeland Security pushed back Wednesday against Republican criticism of the Biden administration’s border policies, refusing to say that the surge of migrant children entering the United States is a “crisis.”
WOLF POINT, Mont. - A Wolf Point man pleaded guilty to assault charges after an infant was flown from Wolf Point to a hospital in Billings with life-threatening injuries.
According to a release from the Department of Justice, Charles Connor Clark, 27, is accused of injuring an infant on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. Clark pleaded guilty to assault resulting in serious bodily injury as charged in a superseding information.Â
In court documents filed in the case, the government claimed that in November 2017, the FBI was notified of an infant who had been flown from Wolf Point to a hospital in Billings.