At the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Inas Abu Maamar embraces the lifeless body of her 5-year-old niece Saly, who was killed in an Israeli strike
Taken on October 17, 2023
Photographer: Mohammed Salem
🔞Tonight (02/03/2024) in Odesa🇺🇦, russian fascists, inhumans, barbarians, terrorists, with the help of drones sent from Iran, killed 7 people, including a mother and her 3 a three-year-old boy.🤬
Three boys held for shooting and murdering a man during a holdup wait in police headquarters on June 16, 1935. From left are Frank D'Amato, 13, who allegedly did the shooting, Julius D'Amato, 11, and Libson Lawrence. 13.
Imagine having your child die in front of you and not being able to do anything about it. Imagine having to hold your child as she takes her last breath, her body riddled with bullets and having to comfort her. Imagine the very people (i.e., police) who are supposed to serve and protect, indiscriminately open fire on cars and kill your children. This is the reality of Iran. While we may be busy today shopping and enjoying year end sales. Soha’s family are mourning. They have no joy left, nothing to smile about. Their beautiful little girl was brutally murdered in front of them.
How many more children will have to die until @unicef speaks up? How many more have to die before the west cuts off diplomatic relations with the Islamic Republic, expelling IR diplomats and recalling western diplomats from Islamic Republic? Enough is enough.
In 1998, Jonesboro was a university town of around 52,000 residents, located on Crowley’s Ridge in Arkansas. It’s about 130 miles northeast of Little Rock. It’s slogan is: “People, Pride, Progress” it has quite historic significance, having 12 sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places. People are drawn to the area by the good schools, one of which was Westside Middle School.
The 24th of March, 1998, started out like a regular day for students at Westside Middle School, with the morning being an uneventful one. At around 12:30PM, the fire alarm inside the school began to ring. 11-year-old Whitney Irving had been in her sixth-grade class, and she was excited when she heard the fire alarm. It was a pleasant spring afternoon, and the fire drill was a welcome break from the mundane weekday.
All of the students were ushered outside into the schoolyard. Whitney was walking hand in hand with her best friend, 11-year-old Brittney Varner. As friends chatted amongst themselves, a large pop echoed in the air, followed by another and then another. Whitney turned to Brittney and asked: “What’s that noise?” She replied: “I don’t know. Whitney said that it sounded like a car backfiring
Excitement quivered in the air, as some children through that they were had been taken outside to watch an impromptu play from the drama students. They began clapping, unsure of what exactly they were witnessing. A couple of children thought the noises were simply construction noises. There was construction work being carried out nearby.
Within seconds, however, confusion turned to panic, when Principal Karen Curtner screamed at the children to get inside the gym. Amid the chaos, children were screaming and running to get inside the nearby gym. The loud popping sound continued, and with each pop the students heard, their fear escalated, as students around them began to fall to the floor.
This is the tragic story of the Westside Middle School Shooting. You can listen to episode 164 of Morbidology on all podcast platforms:
Mary Bell was released at the age of twenty three and was granted anonymity under the Mary Bell Order. This allowed her to change her name and start a new life.
As a young adult, Mary bore a daughter and led a quiet life. Until people took interest in her story, wondering Where is Mary Bell now? Tabloids & reporters began to follow Mary and her family trying their best to get an updated scoop.
The Guardian states, “The child killer Mary Bell was… in hiding after being hounded out of the seaside home where she had lived anonymously with her 14-year-old daughter.”
Much of the media frenzy stemmed from a 1998 biography called Cries Unheard: The Story of Mary Bell written by journalist, Gitta Sereny. Sereny received public criticism and backlash due to the fact that Mary Bell now received residuals from the book.
Sereny said, “I felt that I wanted to give her some of the money… because I could not use her, as everybody else has done.”
Bell’s profit created an uproar and opened old wounds for those related to the victims. People agreed Mary should not be allowed to receive money based on the murders she committed as a child.
A mother of the victim spoke out against Sereny & Bell in an interview with the Observer, “Mary Bell died when she left prison and took on a new identity. I thought of her as dead. I tried to have a decent life. I started to learn not to hate her because she had died and become someone else. Now Gitta Sereny has resurrected her. Why?”
Mary and her daughter moved from town to town, sometimes walking out with sheets over their head to escape publicity. The Mary Bell Order continued to protect the anonymity of her daughter and was eventually extended to her granddaughter. Their names will be protected for the duration of their lives.
Mary's mother and her life partner were not shy to give information to the press.
The Guardian says, "Bell's partner - a 40-year-old Geordie with a ponytail, tattoos and a lived-in look - certainly gave reporters value for money. Mary was the most gentle person he had ever met he loved her so much it hurt to be parted she had always wanted to work with children."
Born in the slums of the Old Town district of Harking City, the boy who would become The Puppeteer was the son of a toymaker who tried to bring as much joy to the poor children as possible. However, after his father was killed by loan sharks, the boy was moved from foster home to foster home, like a little toy that nobody wanted. After running away from a foster home at the age of 12, he ran back to his father's abandoned toy store and tried to relive his lost childhood. 20 years later, children started going missing from their homes and turning up dead on their parents' doorstep. The one thing linking all of them was their faces were sliced up to resemble puppets, and with a the phrase "Naughty Boy/Girl" carved into their chests. After a combined investigation by Black Streak and Carla Simmons, they discovered the place where the children were being taken: the abandoned toy store on Maple St. It turns out that the boy had some how attained superpowers, and had been kidnapping children and forcing them to play with him in his bedroom. If any of them refused, well you know what happened next. The superpower he'd gained was the ability to shoot strings out of his fingers that would attach themselves to the intended person. Once attached, he could wiggle around his fingers and control them like a puppet; hence the name "Puppeteer". Once he was captured by Black Streak and Carla Simmons, he was committed to the Belbridge Insane Asylum, and was nearly tortured to death by Dr. Franz Leiberman. He was unfortunately spared, and was later broken out and joined King Ace's gang.
A tribe of cannibals and child killers who know how to fight against the unarmed has spread all over the world like fleas and lice.
The moment when Hamas Politburo chief Haniyeh was told the news that Israel had killed his sons and grandsons. He was visiting a hospital in Doha where wounded Gazans were being treated.