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Toddler Crashes Jeep, Runs Home to Watch Cartoons

3-year-old knocked Jeep Wranger out of gear, police say

(Newser) - Another reason toddlers need guardians: A 3-year-old in Myrtle Creek, Oregon, climbed into his aunt's Jeep Wrangler on Tuesday night and drove it through an intersection into a house, KPTV reports. Earlier on, a police officer had spotted the boy playing by himself in the parked Jeep and woke...

An Unusual Murder Charge After Toddler Dies in Hot Car

Georgia man forgot to drop son at day care

(Newser) - A father in Georgia has been charged with not only child cruelty but murder after his 22-month-old son died in a hot SUV while he was at work. Police say Justin Ross Harris, 33, left his son Cooper strapped in a car seat for seven hours on Wednesday, when temperatures...

Town Unites to Save 'Miracle' Toddler

2-year-old who almost drowned has 'excellent prognosis'

(Newser) - A toddler tumbled into a Utah river and was underwater for some 20 minutes before she was pulled out. At first, health workers didn't think she'd survive a day, a neighbor says; the next day, doctors feared a brain injury. But 2-year-old Avery Allen's MRI looks normal,...

Police Drug Raid Puts Toddler In a Coma

They chucked a flash bang grenade into his playpen

(Newser) - A Georgia toddler is in a medically induced coma with only a 50/50 shot at survival after police threw a "flash bang" grenade into his playpen during a drug raid. Police had a no-knock warrant for the Atlanta home, after a confidential informant said he'd bought methamphetamine there....

Toddler Falls 11 Stories, Somehow Survives

'Miracle baby' remains in hospital, but without brain injury

(Newser) - Doctors in Minneapolis are calling 15-month-old Musa Dayib the "miracle baby," reports the Star Tribune , and for good reason: The infant fell from his family's 11th-story balcony and survived. In fact, he was still conscious when his panicked father, Guled Ahmed, ran down the stairs to tend...

'Swearing Toddler' Can Stay With Mom: Judge

ACLU cites racism in police handling of case

(Newser) - A toddler who attracted national attention for his swearing in an online video will stay with his mom—at 17, also a minor—after both were placed in custody. The two will be cared for in the same foster home, CNN reports, following an Omaha juvenile court judge’s ruling....

Racist Baby Slapper Gets Eight Months in Prison

It turns out Joe Rickey Hundley has a very sad story

(Newser) - A federal judge today sentenced a man to eight months in federal prison for slapping a toddler on an Atlanta-bound flight. Joe Rickey Hundley pleaded guilty to simple assault in October as part of a deal with prosecutors. He was accused of hitting a 19-month-old boy under his eye while...

Car Skids Off Snowy Road, Finds Missing Toddler

3-year-old had wandered nearly 2 miles from home

(Newser) - A car accident turned out to be very lucky in Sweden yesterday: Police officers accidentally skidded off a snowy road into a ditch, only to discover a missing 2-year-old girl, the Local reports. They heard the barefoot, lightly-dressed toddler crying; she had wandered off while playing with her sister three...

Mom Gets 99 Years for Gluing Tot's Hands

Elizabeth Escalona sentenced for beating her toddler

(Newser) - A Dallas woman who beat her 2-year-old daughter and glued the toddler's hands to a wall because she was struggling with potty training was sentenced today to 99 years in prison. Family members in the courtroom sobbed loudly as the judge announced Elizabeth Escalona's punishment. Escalona pleaded guilty...

For Toddlers, More TV Means Wider Waist


 For Toddlers, 
 More TV Means 
 Wider Waist 
study says
Jul 16, 2012 3:04 PM CDT

For Toddlers, More TV Means Wider Waist

Extra hour per week adds half-millimeter: study

(Newser) - There's an unsurprising but stark link between kids' TV watching and the distance around their middles, a new study suggests. Researchers find that, among 2- to 4-year-olds, every additional hour of television per week translates into almost an extra .02 inches of waistline. Kids who watched 8.82 hours...

Toddler Ejected From SUV in Police Chase ... Is Fine

Vehicle was fleeing authorities in Lubbock, Texas

(Newser) - In a frightening and miraculous scene caught on tape, a toddler is ejected from an SUV as it does a barrel roll. The 18-month-old girl lands on the road and then picks herself up and starts walking back to the car. Thankfully, she did not suffer any major injuries, reports...

Mom Charged With Pepper Spraying Baby

Accidentally...

(Newser) - Your Honor, it's really not as bad as it sounds. Or so might go the defense of Janee Young, who is charged with pepper-spraying her infant son in the face. But it seems that Young isn't just another case of a bad parent taking out anger on an...

Tot Beats Tot at Nursery School

Accused attacker, 2, is 'too young for criminal responsibility,' say Brit cops

(Newser) - A 2-year-old girl apparently viciously beat another toddler at a British pre-school, leaving the victim bruised and cut, reports the BBC . The 3-year-old victim "had gashes to her lips and a terrible black eye," her mom told the Daily Mail . " Katie looked like she had been in...

Dopey Dad Dropped Joint in Tot's Lunchbox: Police

Aghast preschool teachers call police, he's busted

(Newser) - How dopey was dad? So dopey he accidentally dropped his joint into his toddler son's lunchbox as he was packing it up, Connecticut police report. The marijuana was discovered by aghast preschool teachers, who promptly called the cops, authorities said. The toddler's parents agreed to a search of...

Girl, 2, Saves Mom&#39;s Life
 Girl, 2, Saves Mom's Life 
Oct 25, 2011 12:24 PM CDT

Girl, 2, Saves Mom's Life

Lia Vega calls grandma when mom collapses

(Newser) - Lia Vega’s mother, Larissa Taylor, never taught the 2-year-old girl how to use a phone. But when Taylor collapsed Thursday, little Lia picked up the phone, called her grandmother, and said, “My mom fell down,” grandma Bobbie Gonzalez recalls to KTRK-TV . “I said, 'Let me...

Mom Pushing Stroller Killed by California Train

But Susan Dibene manages to push her daughter to safety

(Newser) - A Southern California mom struggling with a stroller over tracks was killed by a train, but first managed to push her 2-year-old daughter to safety. Susan Dibene, 33, was pushing the stroller along a sidewalk near the tracks when she attempted to cross as the guardrail of the Metrolink train...

Boy, 12, Charged in Beating Death of Toddler Half Brother

Mom faces charges for covering up attack

(Newser) - A 12-year-old Florida boy has been charged in the vicious beating death of his 2-year-old half-brother. David Galarriago died two days after he was hospitalized with a severe skull fracture and facial bruising. Big brother Cristian Fernandez admitted beating the toddler, and said he also broke the little boy's...

Tot Plunges 4 Stories—Into Tourist's Arms

'Not a scratch' on her after Orlando fall: mom

(Newser) - A 16-month-old girl who plummeted from a fourth-story balcony at an Econo Lodge in Orlando was caught midair by a bystander—a British tourist who saw her dangling from a railing, the BBC reports. Doctors say baby Jah-Nea Myles is doing fine, though she was taken to a hospital after...

Preschool Sued for Ruining Tot's Ivy League Chances

$19K preschool 'just one big playroom'

(Newser) - A Manhattan mom is suing a preschool for scotching her 4-year-old daughter's chances of getting into an Ivy League university. The mother complains that the $19,000-a-year York Avenue Preschool failed to prepare the toddler for a test used for admission at top private elementary schools and sometimes put her...

Tot Rescued From Toy Vending Machine

2-year-old crawls inside grab claw game

(Newser) - A Pennsylvania mom wisely decided to call in emergency services instead of trying her luck with the controls after her 2-year-old got stuck inside a grab-claw vending machine with the other toy prizes. Firefighters were able to free the girl—who had apparently climbed into the chute where prizes are...

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