Police take DNA of 27 primary children a week: Nearly 54,000 under 18s were swabbed for database during 2012
By Jack Doyle | Daily Mail Police collect a DNA sample from a child every ten minutes, it emerged last night. Officers took nearly 54,000 swabs of genetic material from under 18s last year. On average, 27 primary school children had their DNA taken by the police every week to put on the national database. The figures were [...]
Read More →UK Rights groups: Military must stop recruiting minors
ENCA British human rights campaigners say Britain’s military is wasting up to £94 million a year training recruits who are minors and should end the practice. Britain is the only member of the European Union and the only permanent member of the United Nations Security Council that allows military recruitment from the age of 16. [...]
Read More →Children die in the Land of the Free Colt
By Svetlana Smetanina | Pravda.ru The American Children’s Defense Fund has prepared a report that contains shocking statistics of child mortality caused by firearms. Over the past 30 years in the United States nearly 120,000 children were killed as a result of weapons use, which is more than the number of American soldiers killed in Vietnam, [...]
Read More →Skin Cancer on the Rise in U.S. Kids
By Crystal Phend | Medpage Today Malignant melanoma in childhood has been gradually rising, though it’s still rare, a population-based study affirmed. Incidence among white children in the U.S. rose by an average 2% per year since 1973 to reach 6.0 per million in 2009, Kimberly Johnson, MPH, PhD, of Washington University in St. Louis, and [...]
Read More →With Police in Schools, More Children in Court
NY Times As school districts across the country consider placing more police officers in schools, youth advocates and judges are raising alarm about what they have seen in the schools where officers are already stationed: a surge in criminal charges against children for misbehavior that many believe is better handled in the principal’s office. Since [...]
Read More →US priests removed over child rape
Three American priests have been permanently removed from public ministry over allegations of sexual abuse and misconduct involving minors.
Read More →Massachusetts middle schoolers denied lunch over debt
Students in Attleboro, Massachusetts were denied lunch this week if they had even five cents of debt on their accounts.
Read More →BB Gun Felony Charges for Teen
BB gun felony charges: A teenager was arrested for allegedly shooting at an officer with a BB gun. He was charged with felony assault and related charges.
Read More →Are You A Teenager Who Reads News Online? According to the Justice Department, You May Be a Criminal
By Dave Maass and Trevor Timm | EFF During his first term, President Barack Obama declared October 2009 to be “National Information Literacy Awareness Month,” emphasizing that, for students, learning to navigate the online world is as important a skill as reading, writing and arithmetic. It was a move that echoed his predecessor’s strong support of global [...]
Read More →Fukushima Radioactive Fallout in California and Alaska: Health Impacts on American Children
By John Upton | Global Research Fallout from that Fukushima meltdow? It’s not just the Japanese who are suffering, though their plight is obviously the worst. Radioactive isotopes blasted from the failed reactors may have given kids born in Hawaii and along the American West Coast health disorders which, if left untreated, can lead to permanent mental and physical handicaps. [...]
Read More →1 in 50 School-Aged Children in U.S. Has Autism
By Steven Reinberg | WebMD The number of children in the United States with autism spectrum disorder has jumped dramatically since 2007, federal health officials reported Wednesday. As of 2012, one in 50 kids between the ages of 6 and 17 has some form of autism, compared with one in 88 only five years earlier, according to the U.S. [...]
Read More →US may test anthrax jabs on children
TON The anthrax vaccine has been given to adults thought to be at risk of exposure to biological weapons. A US presidential commission has paved the way for testing an anthrax vaccine on children, prompting criticism that participants would be “guinea pigs”. But the bioethical issues report said researchers would have to overcome many hurdles [...]
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