Judge Mary Morrissey in the Circuit Civil Court today approved a €15,000 settlement offer for a 13-year-old Cork schoolgirl who was injured when a Ryanair plane suddenly depressurized on its way to Croatia. Barrister James Daly told the court that as a result of a sudden depressurization of the passenger cabin oxygen masks were deployed […]
Using social media, an Opa-locka man coerced Palm Beach and Broward 15-year-olds into letting him commit statutory rape, got one of the two girls to let him record it on video and sell the videos for him. The above violations were chronicled in 26-year-old Malik Atkinson’s guilty plea to two counts of online solicitation of […]
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A girl who was seized from her school along with hundreds others during a raid by extremists ten years ago in northeastern Nigeria has been rescued together with her three children, the Nigerian army said Thursday. Lydia Simon, who is five months pregnant, was rescued by Nigerian troops in the Gwoza […]
An Indian schoolgirl who escaped destitution to become a poster-child at Wimbledon after starring in an Oscar-winning documentary is back in poverty and lives in a house with no door. Pinki Sonkar, who at five years old starred in the acclaimed film, Smile Pinki, about her life-changing surgery for a cleft lip, enjoyed a spell […]
The Metropolitan Police have said arrangements have started to return a lost sim card and mobile phone that belonged a schoolgirl who killed herself after she was bullied. Mia Janin, a 14-year-old Year 10 pupil at Jewish Free School (JFS) in Kenton, north-west London, died on March 12th 2021. The Met said after the investigation […]
A girl and a boy who murdered teenager Brianna Ghey in England have been jailed for life and given minimum terms of 22 and 20 years before parole. Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe, both 16, carried out the “disturbing” plan to murder Brianna, 16, in a “frenzied and ferocious” knife attack. The judge said the […]
The girl and boy in the UK who murdered teenager Brianna Ghey can be named for the first time as 16-year-olds Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe. The killers, both 15 at the time, had been found guilty of the “disturbing” plan to murder Brianna (16) in a “frenzied and ferocious” knife attack. Anxious and vulnerable, […]
The mother of a teenage girl whose lung was punctured as she was repeatedly stabbed has called for an overhaul of the justice system after the attacker walked free from court. Talseem Mulhall’s daughter Tiana was told she was “lucky to be alive” by a doctor after the attack in which a pair of scissors […]