Leading Cause of Deaths in Children in 2020 Was Guns
For decades, the leading cause of death for children and teens were car accidents and then drug overdoses.
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Record Number of Migrant Children Stuck in CBP Facilities, Waiting for Shelter Space
A record number of unaccompanied migrant children are stuck in CBP facilities intended to briefly hold adult men.
James Comey: ‘I Am Disgusted. I Am Horrified.’
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Fired FBI Director James Comey, in Ireland to promote his book, “A Higher Loyalty,’ said in Dublin he was ashamed. “I am ashamed of the way my country has acted with respect of those children,” Comey said Friday in Dublin, according to the Irish Times. “I am disgusted, I am horrified, I…
4-Day FBI Sweep Rescues 84 Minors, 120 Adults in Sex Trafficking Ring
A four-day nationwide sweep aimed combating sex trafficking to the rescue of 84 minors and the arrest of 120 people, according to the FBI.
Judge Tentatively Approves $1M Settlement to Children in Border Patrol Lawsuit
Seven years of litigation may finally be over after a San Diego federal judge tentatively approved a $1 million settlement to the children of a Mexican man who was fatally beaten and shot with a Taser at a California port of entry.
Smuggler Forced Guatemalan Children into Hard Labor at U.S. Chicken Factories
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Arnold Castillo-Serrano promised Guatemalan parents that a happy life awaited their children in the United States as he charged upwards of $15,000 to smuggle the young people to America. But what awaited the children was something far from happiness, according to the FBI. The bureau said children were smuggled across the…
Border Patrol Rescues Abandoned 2-Year-Old Girl Smuggled into U.S.
Smugglers left behind a 2-year-old girl in Granjeno, Texas, where she was wearing a T-shirt with a phone number on it.
Lead Poisoning in Flint and Future Crime Statistics
By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com In the plethora of political finger pointing and civil and criminal investigations, as well as the avalanche of media reports on the lead contamination crisis in Flint, Michigan, one aspect of the debacle has been barely mentioned—the effect of lead poisoning of children on crime rates in future years. The only…