Child Abuse

09/25/2023 by Angela Collette

Parents, Aunt Arrested After Infant Almost Dies From Over 50 Rat Bites

The parents of a six-month-old infant and the child’s aunt were charged in Evansville, Indiana, after police said that they found the baby inside the family’s “rodent-infested” home.

According to the arrest affidavit, Evansville Police Department officers responded to a 9-1-1 call on September 13^th when the child’s father, David Anthony Schonabaum, said that his six-month-old baby was found face down in his bassinet with wounds all over his face and body.

David and his wife Angel Schonabaum reported that the baby boy had more than 50 bites on his forehead, right cheek, and nose.

According to reports, there was a deep flesh wound on the child’s left ring finger that exposed bone. Bite marks ran down his right hand that stretched from his hand to his elbow.

Police documents also stated that all four of the child’s fingers and thumb on his right hand were “missing skin” on top, revealing the fingertip bones, with the index and pinky fingers displaying the worst wounds.

Hospital records that were released to the press asserted that the infant suffered a “near fatal event.”

The father of the child reportedly told authorities that their rat-infested house had already been professionally handled. He presented service records indicating that the residence was treated numerous times, beginning in the spring of 2023.

David also said that he lived in the home with his wife Angel and their three children. Delaina Thurman, Angel’s sister, and her two children also lived in the home.

Angel had reportedly checked herself into a mental health facility on September 10^th and she was released a day early on September 13^th, due to the incident involving her son.

According to the affidavits, the other children had notified a teacher at school earlier this month that mice had bitten their toes while they slept, which prompted the Department of Child Safety (DCS) to visit the residence a few days later.

However, Thurman claimed to the DCS official that the marks on her children’s toes were caused by “scratching on the bed frame.”

The Schonabaums also reportedly had two previous encounters with DCS.

David and Angel were charged with maltreatment back in December 2022 after their middle child was harmed due to “lack of care.” Later, in June 2023, DCS validated an accusation of physical abuse against David by the same child, who was 3-years-old at the time.

On Friday, Police Sergeant Anna Gray told reporters that the baby had been released from the hospital and was placed in foster care.

David, who is currently facing three counts of neglect of a dependent child violations, and his wife Angel, who is facing five, are currently being held on a $10,000 bond. Thurman, the aunt, is being held on a $2,500 bond.

Parents, Aunt Arrested After Infant Almost Dies From Over 50 Rat Bites

08/16/2023 by Angela Collette

Feminist medical school professor says trans kids identifying as ‘minotaurs’ are part of ‘gender revolution’

The ‘Minotaur’ is derived from Greek mythology. It had the body of a man and the head of a bull

A California hospital executive and professor claimed children can identify as a mythology-inspired creature and claimed that this category of children love mermaids, according to a presentation reviewed by Fox News Digital.

Diane Ehrensaft, a self-identified “feminist” who supports a “gender revolution,” is the director of mental health and chief psychologist at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital gender development center. She is also a professor at UCSF School of Medicine. The developmental and clinical psychologist specializes in pediatric “gender-affirmative care for transgender and gender-expansive patients.”

Her biography paged reflected that Ehrensaft focuses her research on how genders before puberty develop as well as the mental health effects of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, which are part of chemical sex changes, on children.

Ehrensaft made what some may consider fringe claims about gender ideology, including that kids can identify as “gender hybrids” which include a mythology-inspired creature called a “gender Minotaur,” and that kids can change their genders by season and can have different identities depending on their location.

According to Britannica, a “Minotaur” is derived from Greek mythology and was a creature which had the body of a man and the head of a bull.

“I totally agree we are in the midst of a gender revolution and the children are leading it. And it’s a wonderful thing to see. And it’s also humbling to know [children] know more than we do about this topic of being gender expansive,” she said during a 2018 talk at the San Francisco Public Library.

Ehrensaft believes the transgender revolution is the next phase of the 60s feminist movement, which featured challenging stereotypes about gender.

“Now, we’ve got genders moving boulders, and it makes a lot of people nervous,” she said.

Ehrensaft believes that transgenderism is derived by a “gender web” which is influenced by culture, upbringing and nature.

“Each person’s web will change over time as they age,” the event’s description said. “What’s Your Gender? Don’t answer until you hear all your options… Ehrensaft wants you to get off the binary measurement scale.”

She introduced language such as “genderfluid,” “non-binary” and “gender expansive.” She then predicted the language will evolve beyond that, and cited her conversation with a 7-year-old as proof that there can be “gender minotaurs” and hybrids.

“And as you know, language is political. So what’s good today will be politically incorrect tomorrow. So we’ll just keep changing as we go,” said Ehrensaft. “This is a whole group of kids you all should know about.”

“A boy… twirled [in my office]… and said to me, ‘You see, I’m a Prius… I’m a boy in the front, and I’m a girl in the back.”

“I started meeting a whole bunch of other gender hybrids. And so we have the gender Prius, we have a gender Minotaur,” she said. “And most of the kids who are gender minotaurs love mermaids. So make sure you have a lot of mermaid books. If you really you think about it, it works.”

https://www.foxnews.com/media/feminist-medical-school-professor-says-trans-kids-identifying-minotaurs-part-gender-revolution

08/09/2023 by Angela Collette

Vegan Mom Refuses to Kill Lice in Daughter’s Hair

A woman in Australia refused to rid her own child of parasitic head lice because she was vegan and expressed an aversion to killing anything living, her neighbor complained.

The disturbing revelation comes from an advice column that was published long ago by the country’s Nine.com outlet, but only recently resurfaced and attracted a lot of attention.

Every word of it reads as an example of child abuse and the delusions of those who refuse to consume animal products, citing their perceived moral or ethical questions about it.

Nine’s life coach Alexandra Carlton received a letter about this whack job of a mom.

“My seven-year-old daughter is best friends with the girl next door, whose family are vegan,” the letter stated. “That’s fine; we respect their choice and even make special food when little River comes to play. My problem is that recently this otherwise delightful child was at our house and scratching furiously … and I discovered she was crawling with head lice.”

The concerned mother made the other child’s vegan mom aware of the infection — only to find her parents were well aware her scalp was being feasted upon.

“My [neighbor] told me she was in the practice of combing the lice and nits into the garden where they had a chance of survival,” the concerned parent wrote. “My jaw hit the floor.”

She concluded, “I don’t want to separate the kids, but there’s no way ‘combing them into the garden’ is going to work (industrial-grade pesticide barely works), and I don’t want my daughter covered in vermin.”

As a father, I would have instantly severed ties with this child’s family and banned each of them from my property.

That decision might seem rash, but head lice are no joke.

“I hate to be the one to tell you this but your neighbor is a monster. Does this woman not realize that simply combing those poor lice off their supporting hairs is condemning them to a slow, parched death in the garden?

“Does she not stop to think of the microscopic amoeba she’s crushing each time she swipes through her daughter’s locks? As you read this, she’s probably swallowing ladlefuls of innocent bacteria while she drinks her raw kelp kombucha smoothie, Nitty, sending them to a sizzling demise in the pits of her stomach acid.”

Vegan Mom Refuses to Kill Lice in Daughter’s Hair – What She Does Instead Made Neighbor’s ‘Jaw Drop’

08/09/2023 by Angela Collette

Virginia 6-year-old’s chilling words after shooting 1st grade teacher

Newly unsealed search warrants reportedly reveal the shocking words a 6-year-old Virginia student allegedly uttered after brandishing a gun at school and shooting his teacher in the classroom.

“I shot that b—- dead,” the boy said on Jan. 6, 2023, just moments after the shooting, according to Amy Kovac, a reading specialist at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia. Kovac rushed into the classroom afterward and restrained the child until police arrived.

The unsealed warrants, reported by local news outlets Tuesday, described how Kovac had heard a gunshot and witnessed several children run out of the classroom.

Their teacher, 25-year-old Abigail Zwerner, also dashed out, bleeding from the hand and upper torso before she collapsed in the front office and was rushed to the hospital. The warrant says Kovac went into the classroom where she found the boy standing by his desk with the gun next to him on the floor.

“I did it,” the boy also said, according to Kovac. “I got my mom’s gun last night.”

Earlier in the day, two students had told Kovac they saw the boy with a gun in his backpack, the warrant says. Kovac and a school administrator are said to have searched the student’s backpack at recess but did not find the firearm inside at that time.

Zwerner’s legal team filed a $40 million lawsuit against the Newport News School Board and certain administrators in April.

Her lawyers contend that several school employees, including Zwerner herself, had warned administration before the shooting unfolded. When interviewed at the hospital after the shooting, Zwerner told investigators she had separated her first grade class into two groups after recess for a reading activity when the boy pulled out the gun.

“What are you doing with that?” the teacher said she asked, before the boy fired a shot at her.

The warrant says Zwerner told investigators there had been multiple “disciplinary incidents” involving the same student leading up to shooting. They involved physical violence and threats of violence, which had been reported to school administrators, the warrant adds.

Days after the shooting, investigators interviewed the boy’s former kindergarten teacher.

The retired Newport News elementary school teacher, who had been assigned to Richneck Elementary School, told police how she had been choked in September 2021 by the same boy said to have shot Zwerner. The warrant notes how limited school records pertaining to the boy obtained from Child Protective Services did not include any information about the alleged choking described by the kindergarten teacher, so it is possible that the incident and “possibly others were not readily provided by Newport News Public Schools.”

Though the boy has not been charged, his mother, Deja Taylor, faces two counts: felony child neglect and a misdemeanor count of leaving a firearm in a way that could endanger a child.

In lieu of a bench trial, a plea hearing is scheduled for Aug. 15. Taylor’s attorney, James Ellenson, has previously told WTKR that the boy’s mother was suffering from mental health issues following an ectopic pregnancy and a miscarriage.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/virginia-6-year-olds-chilling-words-shooting-first-grade-teacher-class-revealed-unsealed-docs

07/27/2023 by Angela Collette

Five-Year-Old on Cocaine Fatally Shoots 16-Month Baby on Marijuana

A five-year-old Indiana boy, allegedly high on cocaine, shot and killed his 16-month-old brother, who was allegedly high on marijuana, in March of this year.

The Daily Mail reported that 27-year-old Deonta Jermaine Johnson was in the apartment asleep when the five-year-old allegedly shot 16-month-old Isiah Johnson in the head.

CBS News noted that Johnson is the father of the deceased 16-month-old, not the five-year-old.

Initially, Johnson allegedly denied having a gun and claimed the 16-month-old had fallen or was otherwise injured by his brother. As police searched the apartment, they found a gun locked in a safe and another “in the drawer of a dresser,” according to the Daily Mail. Officers also discovered “93 fentanyl pills, marijuana, and drug paraphernalia inside the apartment.”

Prosecutors have since charged Johnson and 24-year-old Shatia Tiara Welch “with neglect and various drug charges.” Johnson also faces obstruction of justice charges for allegedly taking marijuana out of the apartment and hiding it in his car before officers arrived on the scene.

On April 15, 2023, the day of Isiah’s funeral, Welch posted on Facebook, “Today has been the hardest day of my life. HOW Tf do I say goodbye to my son my one-year-old baby? S*** so crazy I lost my best friend March 28th my life will NEVER be the same.”

https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2023/07/27/five-year-old-on-cocaine-fatally-shoots-16-month-old-on-marijuana/

07/22/2023 by Angela Collette

Detransitioned boy castrated by doctors warns kids about perils of gender ideology: ‘Patient for life’

Kobe said, ‘I was expecting it to help me help my mental health, and it didn’t do anything. I just wasted so much time, and all I did really was become a medical patient for life.’

A young male, who formerly identified as a trans woman, who was castrated and became a “patient for life” as part of “gender-affirming care,” wants to warn others not to follow in his footsteps. He discussed his story of resilience and learning to accept himself for who he is, for the first time, with Fox News Digital.

Kobe, whose name is being withheld for privacy reasons, had “checked every box for what they call a trans adolescent.” He was always “effeminate” and loved pink and playing with Barbies. If he had never been exposed to gender ideology, he says he probably “would have just stayed a feminine boy. And there’s nothing wrong with that.”

“I felt unlovable as an effeminate man in society and everything. A feminine boy, actually. I was never a man, I’m trying to reclaim my manhood now and everything. It’s hard. I have breasts, I have the hip development of a woman, because I started the estrogen young. I have no gonads. You know, it’s hard. My skull never really masculinized.”

Kobe, in retrospect, looks back at the medical interventions as a subconscious use of “self-harm.” During his early teenage years, he was struggling with internalized homophobia. “I mean, I saw it as a way out of my homosexuality, if that makes any sense.”

However, he didn’t realize these truths until he had his surgery.

“I was like, ‘Oh, wow, this is so great. I’m locked in my transition. . . . But then everything started to crack, and I couldn’t ignore the complications,” Kobe said. “I couldn’t ignore that I mutilated myself pretty much with the permission of a psychiatrist. It’s insane now, looking back. It’s just self-harm, you know.”

Kobe first encountered the idea of switching genders on YouTube.

“And I said, ‘Oh, you can do this.’ You know, I don’t have to be a gay guy. I don’t have to be an embarrassment. And all this horrible stuff that I thought about my homosexuality, and it was like a light bulb. It was like, ‘This is a way out,’” he said. “I thought it was.”

Kobe told his parents that he was transgender at age 11. At 13, Kobe said that older trans people online instructed him, as well as other kids, to “play the suicide card” in order to get chemical interventions.

“I started using, like, ‘the suicide tactics,’ because that’s what they are. That’s what they tell us all to do. . . . I don’t want to use the word ‘groom,’ but we are like taught. I guess the older trans people teach us to say that stuff to get the health care and everything. And I mean, there were times when I thought I was genuinely suicidal over gender dysphoria, but it was I think it was all just stuff that was in my head. I don’t think I would have ever been suicidal about being biologically male if I had never been exposed to that stuff.”

Kobe was started on puberty blockers around 13, and estrogen at 16, and later had castration surgery at 19.

“I was expecting it to help me help my mental health, and it didn’t do anything. I just wasted so much time, and all I did really was become a medical patient for life,” he said.

Kobe said his growth is “permanently stunted” because of puberty blockers, and has chronic pain in his spine as well.

“I need to get checked for osteoporosis, because I do have a pretty severe back pain just going up the spinal cord,” he shared.

Puberty blockers have been linked to issues with bone mineral density.

The blockers not only suppressed Kobe’s development but according to him “suppresses your life,” “your drive to do anything” and “your happiness.”

“I lost a lot of sexual function. I lost a lot of sensation down there,” Kobe added about the hormone treatments. “The mental stuff was really bad, but also like joint pain. It was just something near all the time. I was, like, aching and hurting.”

Regarding cross-sex hormones – estrogen – Kobe said it impacted his cognition. He becomes foggy in the middle of conversations. Even now that he has been off of it for a few months, he still feels those effects. During the interview, he apologized for losing his train of thought numerous times – attributing it to the estrogen he used to take.

“It was constant brain fog. I was psychotic at some point. A lot of men that I know who went through this hormone replacement therapy, it’s the exact same thing for them. Estrogen just makes them snap.”

Kobe also developed an eating disorder after taking the hormonal drugs because of the issues it caused on his metabolism.

“The way that your metabolism sinks when you go on drugs, it’s insane. I had such a hard time maintaining the weight and everything. It led me toward some really dangerous eating disorder behaviors and everything, which I also don’t think I would have ever gotten into if it wasn’t for the trans stuff. And not being able to keep the weight off with the blockers and stuff like that.”

He describes how his treating practitioners glamorized the idea of having surgery.

“The plan was always estrogen and then SRS (sex-reassignment surgery),” he said. SRS inverts male genitalia to create a neo-vagina, which must be dilated for the rest of a patient’s life.

The letter approving the surgery said hormone replacement therapy was successful for him, and that Kobe was happier and mentally stable.

“None of it was true. I wasn’t mentally stable. I hated myself. I wanted to die, and I just was constantly trying to become something that wasn’t. And it was awful. It was dissociating, it was terrible. But . . . and I’m sorry that – the estrogen – I lost my train of thought . . . .”

The surgery was scheduled but had to be canceled because of an insurance issue. So, Kobe opted for an orchiectomy procedure – the removal of the testes – as a “middle ground.” At the time, he viewed testosterone as a “poison” for his body.

“That’s how deluded my head was, that testosterone is poison, and it’s damaging and everything,” he said.

Kobe also recounts how he was told by medical professionals that the orchiectomy surgery would help him in the interim of getting SRS.

“It didn’t. Now I’m just sterile, and I don’t have an endocrine system, really. I mean, I do, but it doesn’t self-regulate and everything.”

Without gonads, Kobe will have to take testosterone artificially for the rest of his life, which he started doing recently.

Honestly, I feel alive again,” he said about being on testosterone. “I feel energetic. I feel confident. I just, I feel great. And it just goes to show that cross-sex hormones are bad. They’re just bad.”

He said that after getting the surgery, the area is still sore, and he experiences random sharp pains, especially when he is intimate. Kobe also described issues with urinating.

“I don’t think it’ll ever not be an issue,” he said. “I made the decision. I accept that and everything. It’s just something that I have to live with now.”

“I know now that so many people end up taking their own lives after the surgery. And honestly, if they had allowed to invert my genitalia into what looked like a female genitalia, I don’t think I would be here in a couple of years, honestly, because there’s no undoing that.”

Kobe had family acceptance and “passed” as a girl. However, after all the interventions, he was still unhappy.

“I just realized how insane it was. I mean, people were saying trans women get periods, [they] deserved to be in women’s sports, women’s locker rooms with their male genitalia just swinging out, that trans women deserve to be in women’s prison and stuff. I just saw that the rights of trans people were overtaking the rights of women, actual women. And I just couldn’t justify any of that,” he said.

As for what he plans to do in the future, Kobe loves science. He intends to pursue a career where he can care for animals.

“I’ll do biology, and then I’ll go for a year for zoology or something like that. I really want to work with endangered species and stuff like that. It’s just reconnecting with stuff that I used to enjoy before getting sucked into all of this. Because the time I lived as trans, I had no hobbies or interests – I had nothing, really. It was just becoming this caricature of a woman and everything that’s based around that.”

When asked about what he wants people to know about him, Kobe said, “I just want [people] to know that I am strong. I see myself as very strong for what I went through. I’m a pretty compassionate person. I do care about kids that are suffering with gender dysphoria and everything. And I think that they deserve help. But I don’t think that that helps.”

If you are having thoughts of suicide, call or text 988 to reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline or go to SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for a list of additional resources.

Child Abuse

The ‘Minotaur’ is derived from Greek mythology. It had the body of a man and the head of a bull

Kobe said, ‘I was expecting it to help me help my mental health, and it didn’t do anything. I just wasted so much time, and all I did really was become a medical patient for life.’

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