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WTXF Fox 29 News At 10 October 6, 2015

Neighbors had to step in to safe him. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser leave at Police Headquarters tonight. First, dave, how is that little boy . Reporter iain, the last word from the family was that he was in Critical Condition under going a cat scan at saint christophers hospital. As we said, the driver of that car did stop be get out to check out boy. He was immediately attacked by two to three men. Police tonight are looking for those men they say the driver may have also been robbed. Seen a little boy flying up going underneath the car. Reporter neighbors were in shock after police say a threeyearold boy stepped out into the street on wagner avenue between these two parked cars. Threeyearold male darted out between two park cars. Subsequently struck bite vehicle and knocked under the red suv over there. Reporter police say the driver stayed at the scene and got out of the his car to check on the boy who neighbors identified as dough nel banks. When police say the crowd turned on the driver. He was assaulted by several of the male spectators who were going on police rifle. Captain brown says another group of neighbors rescued the driver from the angry crowd and called police. This contributes to why sometimes people dont stop because theyre scared. In this case this was an accident he did the right thing and stopped but was assaulterr assaulterred. He was shooken um. He was really shooken um. He was scared. I guess, you know, little boy was real little. I didnt really see him. Im sorry. Neighbors say the usually boy plays outside while his mother watches. The child was taken to einstein in Critical Condition and then transferred to saint christophers. Im feeling her pain. She was heart broken. Reporter neighbors Say Something needs to be done by speeding cars on this street. The speed limit is posted at 25 miles an hour. Speeds down here every day. Like a runway to them. Second hitandrun on this block. The first one wasnt that bad. They go here day and night as fast as they possibly can. East and west. Its ridiculous. Reporter the driver was escorted from the scene by accident investigators and questioned. No charges have been filed tonight. Family members who remain behind at the scene did not want to talk to us on camera. Lucy . Dave, prayers to that little boy. A driver is dead tonight after crashing into a septa bus. Sky fox over the scene on are a rat street and frankford right around 8 30 tonight. Police tell when you say the bus stopped at a stop sign the other driver rear ended it. That driver died at a hospital. 19 people on the bus including the driver went to hospitals with minor injuries. A local man accused of lying about being a pastor to steal almost 200 grand. This is previous mug shot of 52yearold mark post stelle tell he went to Cash Checking store and present add refund check from peco for more than 180,000 made out local church. Us Attorneys Office says he pretended to be a pastor Witness Church of jesus cite of ladder day saints f convicted he faces 20 years in prison and 250,000 fine. This Chester County woman accused of a crime hard for most parents to even imagine. Police say she injec injected hn freer queen old daughter way heroin and another teen. Its a crime prosecutors can only describe as incredibly sad. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell talk to the District Attorney. Hes live in west chester. Chris . Reporter thats right, lucy. Police here in Chester County could hardly believe it themselves. A mother supposed to be protec protecting her children is charged tonight with helping her teenaged daughter get high on heroin. For a mom to do thats out of control. Reporter Chester County residents cant believe what police say went on inside this west colwyn township home. A mother accused of shooting up her 14yearold daughter with heroin. She actually was shooting them up. She was tying off their arms with string to raise up the veins and then injecting the heroin into their veins. Report roar Chester County District Attorney tom hogan says, 34yearold jessica lynn riffe not only bought heroin but helped her daughter an 16yearold friend feed their addictions. Her boyfriend jamison burn was also arrested on drug charges. Anybody to be helping someone that age do hard drugs like that its sad. It really is sad. Reporter police say the woman shot up and snorted the drugs with her daughter and friend several times in september. But it wasnt until a welfare call came to police asking to check on the home in rural Chester County. Thats when they say the teens admitted to police what was going on. Try to protect your kids you dont try to hurt them. Reporter parents we spoke with say they cant imagine how a mother could be accused of such a crime. I could not imagine anybody doing that to your child. Bad enough for your child but your child unbelievable. Really shows us exactly how far the her row wip epidemic is infiltrating into all levels of society. Reporter now shes being held on 50,000 cash bail. As for those teenagers, they are in the custody of Family Members tonight. They will not be charged. Iain. Chris, thank you. On your radar get ready for a chilly morning. Heres live look from wilmington tonight after gorgeous fall afternoon. Youll need a jacket to start it day tomorrow, kathy. Already a chill out there now, iain. Ultimate doppler showing the skies clearing even down the shore. Clear sky and light or no wind that is the perfect combination for chilly weather. Look at these numbers. Wake up to 41 in the poconos. Well wake up to 45 in allentown and in philadelphia we will only wake up to 51 degrees. Start off the day at 7 00 a. M. At 54 degrees in the city. By 9 00 still in the 50s at least we have the sunshine wine the noon hour warming fast with temperatures in the mid 60s. Coming up were talking about a major warm up in that seven day forecast. Not feeling like fall. Ill have that later in the broadcast. All right. Kathy. The jersey shore took beating this past weekend. Sky fox over North Wildwood today. Wind gusts and high surf causing severe beach erosion in cape may and atlantic counties. Plans are now in the works since self beach towns to replenish dunes. The rain finally stopped in South Carolina but the governor says the state is not out of the woods yet. A solid week of rainfall has caused deadly flooding and swollen dams are still in danger of bursting. Crews conducted search and rescue operations in the air all weekend pulling families stranded by rising water to safety. On the ground, drivers had to be helped from stalled cars on flooded streets at least 12 people have been killed. About 40,000 people in columbia do not have Safe Drinking Water tonight. Developing to night, in vermont, seven people are recovering from injuries after an amtrak train careened off the tracks this morning in the town of northfield. The train had 98 people on board. It was on its way to washington, d. C. Officials say the hit some rocks and fallen on to the track sending the train cars down a steep embankment. Vermonts governor says once those rocks were on the tracks, the conductor could not have done much to prevent the wreck. The National Transportation safety board is investigating the derailment. University officials and students breathing a sigh of relief tonight after a threat posted online appears to have been just that, the fbi and atf put out a warning after anonymous threat target add school in the philadelphia area. The alleged violence was planned for 2 00 this afternoon. No specific school was targeted but that did not stop campuses throughout the area from beefing up patrols today. When i spoke witness atf over the weekend, they didnt think it was credible. However, in the aftermath of oregon, obviously, you know, we wanted to make sure we took appropriate steps. Commissioner ramsay adds that students and Staff Members should always be onley look out if you see something, Say Something. The woman responsible for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a fiveyearold girl will spend at least the next 40 years behind bars. The case stunned our area in 2013. Fox 29s bruce gordon was in the courtroom for todays sentenci sentencing. I can tell you that they believe the justice was done today. Reporter the words of family attorney tom klein as the now eightyearold girl left the criminal justice zen with her mother. Little girl had just given a victim impact statement to the judge in this case. Saying of her attacker christina regusters, i think what she did to me was wrong. I think she shouldnt dobb it to anyone else. She has been horribly physically and emotionally damaged yet she testified in front of a judge in a packed courtroom today, remarkablely an in a fashion that just is unparallel oh my eyes. Reporter this grainy january 2013 Security Camera footage those regusters snatching the victim from her West Philadelphia public school. After faking her way past security and a substitute teacher. Regift boss later sexually assault the girl who was found the next day wandering half naked in a nearby playground. It was the victim herself who broke the case. Leading police to the house where she had been held. Notable for the parrot, the little girl remembered a talking bird inside. From the moment regusters was arrested, she claimed she was not alone in the scheme. In fact, she told her victim there were others involved including an unnamed man responsible for the Sexual Assault. That debate continued through sentencing. I dont think the evidence even shows that she did this by herself. I think the evidence is clear that there was somebody else involved in this case. We have absolute follow evidence to suggest that anybody else was involved in this case from the very beginning. We believe that the mentions of other names were the defendant trying to mislead a small child, and we are completely confident that the so person involved in these crimes has now been convicted and sentenced and will be in custody for most of rest of her life. Reporter prosecutors told me they do not know what regusters mow tough may have been for the crime. Of course they didnt need one to gain a convict. They do know she was employed at after School Daycare the little girl attended. The defense will appeal the sentence. In the newsroom, im Bruce Gordon Fox 29 news. A former top lawyer for attorney general Kathleen Kane office is suing her. James barber filed a federal suit today claiming kane fired him in retaliation for grand jury testimony that helped bring charges against her. Cane can is charged with releasing grand jury information and then lying to consist up. She denies any wrongdoing. Kane office says shale review the lawsuit. We showed you this last week. A couple of thieves rolling off a stolen refrigerator in south philly. Police say they caught them. Where officers found that fridge hidden in plain sight. And. Heard a big bang. I was run through the house calling my son name and he wasnt answering. I like, oh, lord. A car crashes into her teens bedroom while hes fast as asleep. A little girl suffering from a condition so rare doctors dont know what to do. Just listen. Could you imagine . Sneezing thousands of times a day. Even got her kicked out of school. One thing experts say could be starting these sneeze attacks. You dont see this very oft often. A moose on the run sprinterring through a neighborhood and this only goes crazier. What the animal does next to lose the crew on his tail. Attempted sexual altss leaves a bucks county woman terrified but determined to warn other women that her attacker is still on the loose. The victim says she was grabbed from behind near an apartment complex in levittown last night. She talked to fox 29s Shawnette Wilson this evening about what happened. The false Township Police theyre investigating and that is where shawnette is life. Shawnette . Reporter well, lucy, the victim says that she actually noticed this man standing nearby as she walked from the car to the apartment but she says she never expected what was about to happen until it was too late. Its emotional thing to go through. You always have, you know, thinking about it constantly not i havent thought about anything else since it happened. Reporter this woman is haunted by the attempted Sexual Assault she suffered at the hands of a man she says snuck up behind and grabbed her. Im not going to lime i was terrified. Reporter were not showing the victim face to protect her. She says it happened last night just after 9 00 near one of the parking lots ofville laugh of pembrook apartments. The on mill creek road in levittown. I was fight fog my life. She and a friend had just come back from the store but she stopped to look for something inside her purse while her friend continued walking. Thats when the attacker grabbed her and tried to rip off her clothes. He ended up pick mowing up and threw me down so hard on the ground and threw me between two bushes and it was so dark that i new nobody was going to see me. And, um, i screamed one time and he smacked me in my face. Reporter she says her friend heard her screaming and came running back. Scaring off the attacker. False Township Police say the suspect was wearing a dark colored baggy hooded sweatshirt possibly with a logo on the back and dark pants. Victim says she wants others to know what happened. She hopes someone can help identify him. I want people to take this seriously, and i want people to know that this guy is still out here. Reporter and app management also sent email out to residents alerting them of what happened. Iain . Shawnette, thank you. Fox 29 investigates has learn fugitive unit for a south Jersey Community on the look for a troubled bankruptcy attorney on the lamb. His name is philip dingwater. Fox 29 investigates reported back in may he took his clients money but never did the legal work. He was supposed to show up at a meeting with prosecutors but never did. He was his mug shot has been posted online and theyre on the hunt for philip drink water. One big pharmacy chain is selling a drug over the counter proving to save lives. But that decision has a lot of people upset. Fox 29 weekends Bill Anderson breaks down the controversial announcement by cvs. Reporter . Nearly 45,000 people die every year in the United States from drug overdoses. Many from opioids such as heroin in somewhat controversial move, cvs is announced theyre now sell anti overdose drug narcan or know locks zone in their stores without a prescription. Critics say that giving an anti overdose drug to addicts will be like a crutch allowing them to try more with no near fear of consequence. Carol, whos son is a recovering addict said the critics they just dont understand. Its a medicine that saves life. If somebody was having a seizure and they needed an epi penn from bee sting or whatever and you give it to them, would you just not give it to them because that was a crutch . Reporter carols own experience with her son led her to start the Addict Support Group angels in motion and they interact with addicts tail daily they carry the drug and said if you understand addiction, the crutch argument just doesnt make any sense. Narcan puts you in withdrawal. They dont want to be in withdrawal this is not a drug theyre saying this is great drug. Now we can get high. Theyre not. Cvs told me via email that the drug will not generally be stocked in the store but you can come in, tell them that you want it, and then pick it up the next day. Something carol tells me that any family dealing with addiction should definitely do. They need to get educated on this medicine and learn that this this is a med sip that saves lives if youre Family Member somebody with opiate or heroin addiction please go out and get narcan. Keep it in your mouse house. Even with the overwhelming Health Benefit that we talk about critics say prescription free availability goes too far. Of course, we want to hear what our viewers think. Leave your comments on our fox 29 Facebook Page or tweet us at fox 29 philly. In the newsroom im Bill Anderson, fox 29 news. Well get a lot of comments on that. Absolutely. Nothing like giving back in a small way to the men and women who put their lives on the line for their nation. Were think mind local world war ii veterans took a trip of a lifetime to the nationals capital. This was the groups largest undertaking yet. Free bus trip to Arlington National cemetery and major war memorial courtesy of packs casino. They were honored fallen comrades honored for military service when they returned home it was to crowd hundreds for heroes welcome home. Join us friday as we absolute the troops. Its mill tar day here on fox 29. Come on down to fourth and mark. Well shut down the and tire street throw a block party to honor men and women who serve our country, this friday octob october 9th to 47 is to 10 00 a. M. Car show turns terrifying when a porsche goes out of control crashing into a crowd. He look like an ordinary customer snaking sneak inside a fast food joint police say youre wrong. Whats happening just feet away that has investigators on the hunt. A new way to hit your neighborhood wawa. How you can save serious cash the neck time you fill up that tank of yours. Now with tomorrows traffic heres bob kelly. Good evening, everybody. After all that rain over the weekend the crews are getting back at it later on tonight into early tomorrow. The inner drive of the roosevelt boulevard will be closed between ryan and woodward. Actually all this week. Th

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