August 07, 2003
Durban - A pack of dogs was found eating a new-born baby girl in bushes by the roadside at Ntuzuma location near Kwa-Mashu on Thursday. Inspector Michael Read said the incident was reported to police at 09:30 by residents of the location who found torn up parts of the baby being mauled by dogs. The head was missing and only the torso, hands and legs were found. Police were investigating the incident to determine whether the body had been buried and dug up by the dogs or whether the new-born baby had been deliberately thrown to the dogs to eat
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05:20 PM
The Villanova University professor charged with killing her infant daughter made her first appearance in a Minnesota court yesterday, as about two dozen colleagues gathered for a private prayer service on campus. Mine Ener, 38, is accused of cutting her 6-month-old daughter's throat in her parents' home in St. Paul on Monday. Ener told police that had been suffering from postpartum depression and that she could no longer bear to see her child, Raya Donagi, suffer from Down syndrome.
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05:18 PM
MINNEAPOLIS - Experts say a mother charged in the killing of her infant daughter faces an uphill battle if she chooses to use postpartum depression as the basis for an insanity defense. It's difficult in any state for mothers to win with that defense, but it's especially difficult to win in Minnesota. It says only people who do not know right from wrong or who do not understand the nature of their acts can be found not guilty by reason of mental illness.
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05:17 PM
RAVENNA - At best, the misdemeanor trial of 29-year-old Catherine Nicole Donkers is likely to go down in history as a little out of the ordinary. In a packed courtroom Wednesday morning Portage County Municipal Judge Donald H. Martell ruled that the woman's husband, Brad L. Barnhill, 46, cannot act as her lawyer or substitute for her as the defendant in the case. Donkers, who was arrested May 8 after she admitted breast-feeding her infant daughter while driving on the Ohio Turnpike, had cited the couple's religious beliefs in trying to convince the judge that only her husband could answer for her public acts.
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05:15 PM
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11:36 AM
About 15 pro-lifers with the California Life Coalition picketed Hillary Clinton at a book signing event at a swank La Jolla (San Diego) bookstore. Clinton fans began lining up the night before for their opportunity to purchase Clinton's book, Living History. By the time pro-lifers arrived, the crowed had swelled to over 300 and quickly surpassed 1,000 by mid-morning. Pro-lifers had no sooner gotten across the street, lined with satellite trucks, before being surrounded by media. Within moments of displaying large graphic signs of aborted babies in the first trimester, Clinton supporters surrounded the pro-lifers and began shoving and covering their signs.
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10:12 AM
SALEM, Indiana -- The city and members of an anti-abortion group have settled a lawsuit questioning the constitutionality of an ordinance that regulates where and when groups can hold protests. The law, which was scheduled to go into effect July 8, would have required protesters to pay a $100 fee four weeks before a scheduled rally. City officials say the catalyst for the ordinance was John Lewis and his Old Paths Baptist Church in Campbellsburg. The group is known for picketing with signs depicting aborted fetuses and rants against homosexuals. Seven people associated with Lewis’ church have been arrested on charges related to picketing and preaching.
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10:11 AM
At 20 months old, Jaidyn James is a curly-haired cutie with bright blue eyes and an infectious smile. But if her mother's ex-boss had his way, the playful toddler might never have been born, according to a federal lawsuit that alleges Jennifer James, 24, was fired from a Long Island brewery because she refused to have an abortion.
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10:09 AM
Prosecutors offered Scott Peterson a deal less than a month after his wife disappeared: If he led them to her body, they would not seek the death penalty against him, according to newly filed defense documents.
The alleged deal, offered through Peterson's attorney, would have come as police were publicly refusing to name Peterson as a suspect or rule him out in the disappearance of his wife, Laci.
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09:59 AM
PHILADELPHIA -- A wide range of women battle depression after giving birth. Only a tiny segment suffer something far worse - postpartum psychosis. Women with this rare, little-understood psychiatric disorder have delusions, hallucinations and lose touch with reality, sometimes with heartbreaking consequences. Psychotherapist Karen Kleiman, founder and head of The Postpartum Stress Center in Rosemont, Pa., said, "I haven't evaluated her, but from my experience and what I'm hearing, it's more characteristic of psychotic behavior than postpartum depression.
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09:36 AM
As Italian scientists succeed in creating the world's first horse clone, researchers in the UK are concerned about the impact of such techniques on the future health of clones. Researchers in Cambridge have found new evidence that the process of creating an animal clone damages the genetic mechanisms that enable it to develop normally. The discovery explains why it takes hundreds of attempts to create a healthy animal.
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08:28 AM
WICHITA FALLS -- A mechanic is suing a clinic and two doctors, claiming they removed his penis and testicles without consulting him after they mistakenly thought he had cancer. Hurshell Ralls, 67, seeks an unspecified amount in his negligence lawsuit filed against the Clinics of North Texas in Wichita Falls, Dr. John Stephen Dryden and Dr. Farid G. Khoury. The civil case is set for trial Aug. 25. Ralls, who said he had a normal sex life with his wife before the 1999 amputation, said he remains angry with his doctors. "I don't think they should have played God, myself," Ralls said Wednesday. "I'd love to have had a second opinion."
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06:54 AM
A FORMER Veterans Affairs hospital nurse in the US who was accused of killing 10 patients walked free after prosecutors said tests that led to the charges were flawed. Richard Williams was released from the county jail overnight after Boone County Prosecutor Kevin Crane asked that the charges be dismissed.
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05:47 AM