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Child Deaths Couple 'Had Split'
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Child Deaths Couple 'Had Split'
A man held on suspicion of murdering his two children was estranged from his wife, police have said.
Theo Molemohi, aged two, and his sister Yolande Molemohi, aged four, were found unconscious by their mother at a flat in Whalley Range, Manchester.
Attempts were made to resuscitate the pair on Wednesday morning but they died in hospital later. Post-mortem examinations are being carried out.
Their 37-year-old father is being held on suspicion of murder in hospital.
Det Supt Geoff Wessell, of Greater Manchester Police (GMP), said the couple were estranged.
'Traumatic scene'
The children spent the weekend with their father and were being visited by their mother on Wednesday morning.
"This is a quite horrendous incident for the family and for the officers who attended," said the detective.
"What I can say is that no other person is being sought in connection with this incident at this time.
"That male remains in custody and is due to be interviewed later today."
Det Spt Geoff Wessell: "This is a quite horrendous incident for the family"
The father lived in Lansbury House, the three-storey block where the children were found, which is managed by Contour Housing.
The block is on a street in Whalley Range, a suburb two miles south of the city centre.
The housing association said it was co-operating with the police and a spokesman offered his condolences to the family of the children.
Mr Wessell said the children's mother, believed to be studying for a PhD, was "extremely distressed" and is being comforted by specialist family liaison officers.
"They [the children] were found in a bedroom with the father there next to them. He lived at the address," he added.
"She had gone back for clothes and let herself in and was confronted by this traumatic scene."
The detective said the couple, who moved to the UK from either South Africa or Zimbabwe in 2003, had some previous contact with agencies in the city.
But although they were not known to police it is not clear which agencies they were known to, he added.
Forensic science investigators remained at the scene throughout the day examining the ground floor flat and part of the gardens outside its patio door.
The results of post-mortem examinations to establish the cause of the children's deaths are expected to be released later.
Cas Page, headteacher at Our Lady's RC Primary School, said four-year-old Yolanda Molemohi was a "lovely, happy, bubbly little girl with such a wonderful smile who was loved by everyone in school".
Source: BBC News
No commentsDrink And Drugs a Leading Cause Of Youth Deaths
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Drink And Drugs a Leading Cause Of Youth Deaths
Sarah Boseley, health editor
Drink And Drugs a Leading Cause Of Youth Deaths
Sarah Boseley, health editor The deaths of more than 3,000 young people in the UK every year could be prevented and many are precipitated by Britain's drink and drugsculture, a leading child health expert claims.
"Britain has much higher rates of alcoholand drug misuse than many other high income countries," said Russell Viner, from the Institute of Child Health, in London, one of the authors of a global study on the scale and causes of adolescent deaths published today by the Lancet medical journal.The most common cause of deaths in the UK among people aged 10-24 is traffic accidents, which account for 30% of male deaths and 17% of female deaths.
The next biggest killers of boys and young men are suicide (10%) and cancer (10%), followed by other non-intentional injuries (9%) and violence (7%). The main killers of girls and young women after traffic accidents are cancer (17%), other non-intentional injuries (7%), suicide (6%) and violence (5%).
"Four out of five deaths are entirely preventable," said Viner. "Injuries are non-random preventable events."Contrary to "perceptions in the British press about gun deaths [and] knife crime", violence is not a leading cause of teenage mortality in the UK, and is a far less significant issue than in the US and some other countries. "Compared to other high-income countries, we're doing pretty well," Viner said. But he said that the alcohol problem in Britain was "pre-eminent in Europe".
He said: "Alcohol control is going to be a key element of the reduction of unintentional and intentional injuries in young people."Viner added: "We need a change in perspective. In Britain, young people are vilified.
They are seen as dangerous, seen as a potentially antisocial element, and there is fear of young people and that needs to change."Although Britain's adolescent death rate is low compared with that of most countries, its morbidity rates the long-term damage done not only by alcohol but also by obesity are high.In a commentary with the study, Robert Blum, of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg school of public health, in Baltimore, says that 75% of all deaths in the second decade of life are preventable.
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Baby Girl Found Abandoned In Bushes
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Baby Girl Found Abandoned In Bushes
Police are searching for the mother of a newborn baby found abandoned in bushes.
The little girl, believed to be only two days old, was discovered inside a pink and white canvas bag, wrapped in a grey cardigan by a woman in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.
The infant - named Rosie by medical staff who are now looking after her - was found with her umbilical cord still attached.
She was taken to Wycombe General Hospital after police were called just after 5pm on Tuesday to a spot of open ground on Oxford Road, about 50 metres from a new Sainsbury's store.
She is being cared for in hospital where Thames Valley Police said she was "safe and well".
Officers are now looking for Rosie's mother who they say could require medical treatment.
Det Sgt Robin Hughes said: "Our primary concern is for the health of Rosie's mother.
"We urgently want her to come forward or at least seek treatment, as she could suffer medical complications which are potentially very dangerous.
"The umbilical cord was still attached when the child was found, so this would not have been a medically supervised birth."
Anyone with information is asked to contact High Wycombe Police Station on 0845 8 505 505 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
Source: Press Assoc
1 Year Old Pregnant With Baby
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1 Year Old Pregnant With Baby
{sidebar id=11 align=right}BEIJING- CHINESE doctors were shocked when they discovered a one-year-old girl was carrying a baby in her stomach.
According to media outlets on Wednesday, Kang Mengru, 1, worried her parents and doctors after her belly became grossly enlarged.
After a CT scan was done, the doctors were amazed to discover a fetus inside the little girl’s stomach. The fetus is believed to be Mengru’s parasitic twin, the result of one twin embryo not fully separating from the other.
Source:globalgrind.com
65 Year-Old American Defiles Seven Children
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65 Year-Old American Defiles Seven Children
A 65-year-old American retired teacher accused of having unnatural canal knowledge of seven minors, was on Monday remanded in prison custody by the Tema Circuit Court '
Patrick Kent Labash, who pleaded not guilty to one count of having unnatural canal knowledge and seven counts of defiling the victims, would re-appear in court on September 22, 2009.
The prosecution told the court presided over by Mrs Lorinda Owusu that the Regional Director of the Department of Women and Children's Affairs, Accra Secretariat, was the complainant in the case.
Police Chief Inspector Matilda Tetteh said on August 25, the complainant held a sensitization programme on the Domestic Violence Act (Act 732), at Adjomanikope, where the accused person resides. Chief Inspector Tetteh said during the programme, information reached the complainant that Labash had been luring children, both boys and girls between the ages three and 12 years with food, candies and movies into his room.
The prosecution said in the room, Labash made the victims to suck his erected manhood, discharged semen into their mouths and forced them to swallow it while recording it on video.
Chief Inspector Tetteh further said Labash was arrested at a residence numbering ADJ 118 at Adjomanikope on August 29, 2009 after the complainant had reported the matter to the Tema Police Regional Command. She said at the house, the police found and seized a computer, a cell phone, pen drive, digital camera and other recording gadgets containing pornographic materials of him and the victims.
The prosecution showed printed copies of the pornographic materials to the presiding judge.
Chief Inspector Tetteh said while Labash denied the accusation, the victims confirmed it and narrated their ordeal to the Police during interrogation.
Credit GNA/Ghana