Investigators say 54 year old Marcus Blanchard of West Palm Beach had a dirty little secret. They say he was molesting a half dozen kids his girlfriend was supposed to be babysitting in her home.
She never got a county day care license, even though records show she was warned in the past she needed one.
“Any child care in this county requires a licensure. Even if you have just one child? Even one child,” said Courtney Shippey with the Palm Beach Read the rest of this entry »

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A package of measures to boost child health and learning in the early years is to be unveiled by ministers.
The Child Health Strategy is expected to promise a boost in health visitor numbers as well as expanding a free school meals pilot across England.
A programme of intensive one-to-one work with new parents will also be extended to tackle health inequalities.
Campaigners said the focus was welcome, but large investment was essential if the Read the rest of this entry »

SAN JOSE, Calif.—An 51-year-old administrator at a Bay Area children’s hospital has pleaded guilty to transmitting and possessing child pornography.
Thomas Edward Green Jr., of San Jose, pleaded guilty to two felony counts Monday in U.S. District Court in San Jose. Green is the director of the patient financial services department for the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford.
Prosecutors say Green admitted that he sent at least Read the rest of this entry »

Could our mother’s diet at the time we are conceived set the course for our future health? This intriguing question is at the heart of a new study based on an “experiment of nature” being conducted by Wellcome Trust-funded researchers. We inherit our DNA – the genetic blueprint that determines our make-up – from our parents: 50% of our DNA from our mothers and 50% from our fathers.
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Published January 2, 2009
TEXAS CITY — A 22-year-old woman was charged Friday with leaving her 2-year-old daughter locked in her car in the parking lot of a bar while she was inside drinking.
It was one of two child endangerment cases Texas City police investigated during the New Years holiday.
Officers were called to the Scruples bar in the 2300 block of Palmer Highway about 12:15 a.m. Friday on a report of an intoxicated woman causing a Read the rest of this entry »

It looks like chaos, but that’s what dodgeball is all about. Add in a lot of fun and more than a dozen players and you’ve got a pickup game of dodgeball at the 12th Street Gym in Philadelphia. Both men and women play and there are no holds barred.
Lenny Malcolm dropped in for a quick game.
“It stings a little bit but when you’re having so much fun the sting goes away very fast,” he said.
This gym class flashback is a calorie killer, CBS station Read the rest of this entry »

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OLYMPIA, Wash. — The state’s family and children’s ombudsman says its office has responded to a record number of complaints about the state Department of Social and Health Services.
In a 102-page report issued this week, Mary Meinig, director of the Office of Family and Children’s Ombudsman, said there were a “higher percentage of agency violations in 2008 than in any previous year.”
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A 12-year-old Boston Latin Academy student died over the weekend from complications of the flu, Boston school and public health officials confirmed yesterday, one of only a handful of deaths nationwide so far this flu season.
Hunter Pope was a seventh-grader at the school, according to a statement from the city’s school system. He is the first Massachusetts child known to have died of the flu this winter.
Dr. Anita Barry, director of the infectious Read the rest of this entry »

The grants are the result of a collaboration with the Georgia Office of Highway Safety to cut fatalities on state highways.
“A child under age eight has more than a two times greater risk of dying in a motor vehicle crash if that child is not secured in an appropriate child safety seat,” said Dodi Slaughter, RN, Child Passenger Safety Coordinator. “Our program partners with several other community agencies including the Lamar County School Read the rest of this entry »