On Sunday, eight-year-old Ashwath Kaushik from Singapore smashed the record to become the youngest player ever to defeat a grandmaster in classical chess. (TarjeiJS, Chess.com, February 20, 2024)
Police in Senatobia, Mississippi, arrested a third grader who urinated outside his mother’s car in August. The child’s mother, Latonya Eason, was in a meeting in a nearby building when an officer came inside and told her that he’d seen her son relieving himself. Eason told HuffPost she then went outside to ask her son why he’d done that, and his sister replied that a bathroom hadn’t been available. (Phillip Jackson, Huffpost, December 14, 2023)
Eric English, who is from Fredericton, Canada, but has since moved to Scottsdale, Arizona, has a strong social media following, a stream of sponsorship deals, and his own website where gym goers can view his successful fitness plan. ( Ellen Coughlan, Daily Mail, October 24, 2023)
Louis Lappe hit a walk-off homer and California beat Curacao 6-5 in the Little League World Series championship on Sunday, despite giving up a four-run lead. (SETH ENGLE, , August 27, 2023)
Salvador Rios, 14, took his own life on August 15 after a social media post allegedly launched a homophobic attack and shared private information about him. Hope Sloop, Daily Mail, August 27, 2023)
Pople often get frightened at the smallest things and call the police, and this is precisely what happened to an 11-year-old child- who later turned out to be a genius. This child, Seth, saw his neighbors calling the police and never lost his cool. (Mayukh Saha , MSN, July 14, 2023)
A young black boy has made an impassioned speech about racism at an Oregon city council meeting after he experienced discrimination at school. Gavin Alston, 10, bravely spoke up in the room full of adults and told council members how unfair it was that kids called him a 'monkey' and the N-word in his fourth grade class. (Claudia Aoraha, Daily Mail, June 16, 2023)
A 13-year-old in Ohio has died after “he took a bunch of Benadryl,” trying a dangerous TikTok challenge that’s circulating online, according to a CNN affiliate and a GoFundMe account from his family. (Michelle Watson and Carma Hassan, CNN, April 19, 2023)
A North Carolina teacher stepped down after a sixth-grade student sent his mother a selfie showing him with tape covering his mouth because he was being too chatty in class — and his shocked parent is now seeking answers over the incident that left her child feeling “humiliated.” (David Propper, New York Post, March 23, 2023)
Jeremy Diaz was hospitalized September 11 after suffering skull fractures and brain swelling during an early morning attack, sheriff’s deputies say. Neighbor Daniel Logan hit Jeremy and Logan’s mother with a baseball bat after entering the Diaz home, according to a probable cause affidavit filed by a Williamson County Sheriff’s Office detective. (Steve Almasy and Joe Sutton, CNN, November 16, 2023)
Stolz, 13, died in September 2019 days after being punched in the head from behind by a 14-year-old boy and subsequently hitting his head against a pillar at Landmark Middle School in Moreno Valley, California. (Joe Hutchison, Daily Mail, September 14, 2023)
A white apartment complex manager has been arrested after shocking video showed her slapping and pouring soda on black children using the facility's pool. Kim Jennings, 62, of Greensboro, North Carolina was taken into custody by police on August 3 after they were called to the Sedgefield Garden Apartments for reports of an assault. (Hope Sloop, Daily Mail, August 10, 2023)
Chad Doerman, 32, is under arrest and charged with three counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of his sons ages 3, 4 and 7. Doerman is being held without bond at the Clermont County Jail and will be arraigned in court Friday morning. (Quinlan Bentley, Cincinnati Enquirer, June 15, 2023)
A Florida boy who drowned in a bathtub in April allegedly had food withheld and was locked in a dog cage by his mom and her husband who are now charged with child abuse. (Hope Sloop, Daily Mail, June 14, 2023)
pair of “shady” teenagers sank to a new low when they looted an 8-year-old Upper West Side boy’s sidewalk lemonade stand, police said. ( Doree Lewak, Joe Marino and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon, New York Post, June 8, 2023)
A mother says bullies assaulted her 13-year-old son in a middle school bathroom after months of racist and anti-LGBTQ+ slurs. School and legal officials near Allendale-Fairfax Middle School in South Carolina have been unhelpful, she adds. Now, she’s rallying community attention while pursuing charges against the students involved.( Daniel Villarreal, LGBTQ Nation, Febuary 13, 2023)
A young boy died after his adoptive parents subjected the 4-year-old to a series of sickening abuse, including an amateur exorcism, according to court records. (David Propper, NY Post, January 27, 2023 )
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