Please note this is just what a quick search brought up reported in the news today. There is nothing special about today.

Mother jailed for ‘cruel, horrible’ abuse
A Brisbane mother has been jailed for the “cruel, disgraceful and horrible” abuse of her baby son.

The 34-year-old woman, who cannot be named, was this morning sentenced to 16 months’ jail after she pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm and six counts of assaulting her son.

Brisbane District Court was told the mother digitally penetrated the boy a number of times during a 14-month period between 2005 and 2006, causing bleeding, for which she would later take him to a hospital.

She continued the acts while her son was in a hospital bed.

The abuse was eventually uncovered by medical staff who noted the boy was “less traumatised when the mother went away”.

The court was told the boy, now aged five, has no control over his bowel motions, though it was not certain his condition would be permanent.

Mother rammed police officer with 5 year old daughter in car.

Seattle.

A 28-year-old Auburn woman is facing felony charges following allegations that she hit a police officer with her car while fleeing a fireworks stand while her young daughter was in her car.

At midnight July 5, several police officers contacted Eve Nicole Blake near a row of fireworks stands in the 2600 block of Auburn Way South.

According to charging documents, Muckleshoot Indian Tribe security had noticed that Blake was obviously drunk and walking toward her car with her child in tow.

Confronted by police, Blake said she was walking home but returned to her car after officers moved on, an Auburn detective told the court. Alerted by security, the officers rushed to Blake’s Dodge Durango and tried to stop her from driving away.

Blake accelerated, pinning an officer between her car and a parked golf cart, according to charging documents. Driving with her child in the car, the allegations state, Blake forced a second officer and several bystanders to dive out of her way as she sped from the parking lot.

Aimee L. Sword gets prison for sex with her son
Oakland USA
A Waterford mother will spend at least nine years in prison for having sex with the 14-year-old son she gave up for adoption when he was a few days old.

Sword received yearly updates and pictures from the boy’s adoptive family in Grand Rapids, Ribitwer said. But when she didn’t get a picture when the boy turned 14, she contacted him online through a social networking site.

Originally charged with four counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, the former Macy’s makeup counter clerk pleaded guilty to having sex with the boy once. Investigators said she had sex with the teen in a Grand Rapids hotel and also at homes in Waterford in 2008.

Home alone.
Romania
POLICE in Romania say that four children in a northern village have apparently died from asphyxiation after they were playing in a vat of flour.

Police from Suceava county said that the mother of the children left her children aged three to eight years old at home in the village of Ghemenea to go shopping late yesterday with an older child.

Police said the youngsters were in the flour vat. They entered the vat and the lid shut.

Mum gets 10 months jail.
Singapore
On March 4, the 26-year-old woman got upset when her second daughter, aged three, said she wanted to return to the care of her grandmother.

The mother then filled a small cup with hot water and poured it over the girl’s head. She asked if the girl still wanted to live with her grandmother. When the girl said “yes”, the mother poured more hot water on the child.

The mother did this several times for about 15 minutes. By then, the skin on the girl’s face and upper body had begun to peel off.

The woman telephoned her husband and lied that she had accidentally knocked over a kettle, which splashed hot water on the girl. The father rushed home from work and took the girl to a general practitioner.

It was not the first time that the mother had inflicted physical pain on the girl.

Last March, she had caned the girl several times on her upper and lower limbs.

Disabled Woman Left in 100 Degree Room Dies; Mother, Sister Charged

{I looked up a convertor. 100F = 38C}
USA
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (CBS/AP) Northern New Jersey police have charged the mother and sister of a bedridden, disabled woman with neglect after she was found dead inside their dirty, roach-infested Jersey City home.

The 33-year-old victim was Wendy Garland according to The Jersey Journal, who had cerebral palsy and Down syndrome.

She was found Thursday around 12:30 p.m., her eyes open in an unventilated room where the temperature had reached a scorching 100 degrees.

Helene Hutchinson, the victim’s 45-year-old sister and Florence Garland, the victim’s 78-year-old mother, served as Garland’s primary caregivers.

Police said Hutchinson’s home reeked of urine and was reportedly swarming with roaches, flying insects, and spoiled food, said local station WPIX.

According to WPIX, neither woman called 911 for nearly two hours so they could move the victim’s body to the front door – away from her vile living conditions – before paramedics arrived.

AUSTRALIA
In Western Australia a mother failed to negotiate a bend and drove her car into a tree. A 2 year old boy was trapped in the car and died at the scene.

Mother, 19, charged with assault of former spouse.
Canada
TORONTO – Toronto police say a stabbing suspect has been charged, and a seven-month-old child they were concerned about is safe.

Police had been searching for a suspect after a 19-year-old woman allegedly stabbed her former common-law husband on July 10 around 8:50 p.m.

Pregnant women who drink alcohol may reduce the sperm count of sons
Denmark.
Men whose mothers drank the most had sperm counts a third lower on average than those whose mothers hardly drank in pregnancy or completely abstained.

It is too early to say whether a mother’s alcohol consumption directly harms her son’s future sperm count, but the finding might go some way towards explaining why sperm quality has declined in recent decades.