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Utah Little League World Series baseball player in coma after fall from bed

A Little League World Series player is in a medically induced coma following emergency surgery after he hit his head falling from a bunk bed in Williamsport, Pa.
(Justin Tasch, New York Post, August 16, 2022 )

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• 'I'm scaring kids straight': Florida sheriff who perp walked 10-year-old boy for joking about buying AR-15s after Texas shooting has done the same to at least eight other kids under the age of 18

The Florida sheriff whose detectives perp-walked a 10-year-old boy and published his mugshot for allegedly threatening a mass shooting at his elementary school says the public disgrace is scaring kids straight.'The vast majority of parents come forward and tell me: "Thank you for doing that. My child is now afraid of the consequences,"' Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno told DailyMail.com on Tuesday. 'It is changing the way we behave. It’s changing the way children think.'Marceno, who touts himself as the state's 'law and order sheriff,' made an example of Daniel Issac Marquez, 10, after he sent a slew of text messages featuring pictures of assault style rifles and a written threat that said 'get ready.'
(Natasha Anderson, Daily Mail, May 31, 2022 )

• Influential conservative activist claims schools are teaching kids how to be furries

An internet troll complained that Redditors didn't fall for their "furries in school" hoax. Two week later, Chaya Raichik fell for it.
(Alex Bollinger, LGBTQ Nation, April 29, 2022 )

• Stranger Dangers: The Right’s History of Turning Child Abuse Into a Political Weapon

At some point between the ’80s and now, leaving children unattended in public became unthinkable. To let children as old as, say, 10 walk by themselves became grounds to investigate parents for neglect.
(Ali Breland, MotherJones, March 28, 2022 )

• Philippine leader approves bill raising sex consent age from 12 to 16

MANILA – Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has signed into law a bill that raises the minimum age of sexual consent from 12 to 16, his office said on Monday...
(By Reuters, The New York Post, US, March 7, 2022 )

• How furries fought back against a mayor who demanded the library remove its LGBTQ books

When a bigoted Mississippi mayor recently threatened to pull funding from a local library unless they removed their LGBTQ books, an online group of furries responded by raising tens of thousands for the library.
(By LGBTQ Nation, US, February 3, 2022 )

• SUNY professor under review after video emerges of him supporting pedophilia

State University of New York at Fredonia professor is under investigation by the school after videos emerged of him defending pedophilia and insisting it wasn’t “obvious” to him why it was wrong, according to a report.
(Yaron Steinbuch, NY Post, US, February 2, 2022 )

• 9-Year-Olds Are Being Forced to Register as Sex Offenders. That Might Finally Change.

In the United States, up to 70 percent of sexual offenses against children are perpetrated by other children, typically a slightly older relative or playmate who offends in the context of ignorance, impulsivity, and convenience, not predation. Many states subject these kids to the same criminal consequences as adults who have been convicted of sex crimes; the most impactful of which can be registration and public notification, which typically lasts for decades or life, depending upon the conviction or adjudication offense.
( Elizabeth Letourneau and Luke Malone, Slate, US, February 1, 2022 )

• Conservatives Are Banning Books From Schools While Whining About 'Cancel Culture

When a publisher stops printing an old Dr. Seuss book nobody read because it contained harmful racial stereotypes, Fox News and the entire Republican party lose their minds over “cancel culture.”
(Ryan Grenoble, Huffpost, US, January 28, 2022 )