A two-year-old boy has accidentally shot his mother with a gun he found when reaching into her handbag in the US state of Idaho. The woman, named by the local sheriff’s office as Veronica Rutledge, 29, was shot in a Wal-Mart store in Hayden, a town in Idaho’s northern panhandle. The store closed after the…
Australian Mother Charged with Murder of 8 Children
Australian authorities have charged Mersane Warria, a woman in the northern city of Cairns with the murder of seven of her children and her niece. The 37-year old was charged while in hospital where she is being treated under guard for self-inflicted knife wounds, police say. Post-mortem examinations are being carried out to determine the…
A Tribute To First Lady’s Mother
She was one woman whose love for children was not only legendary but simply unquantifiable. In fact, nothing best encapsulates this more than the role she played in the upbringing of Patience Jonathan, Nigeria’s first lady. Indeed, the late Charity Iwari-Oba, foster mother of Patience came into the first lady’s life at a time she…