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A terrified 3-year-old girl was left stranded in the lobby of a Chinatown building after her mother angrily told her, "Go away! I don't want you anymore!" police and witnesses said yesterday. Little Angelina Chen was seen running after her mother, weeping and desperately calling, "Mommy! Mommy!" as her mother walked off, witnesses told The Post. Police arrested the woman, Jin Lin, 32, of Queens, hours after witnesses said she left the child in an office building near the corner of Market and Division streets. She was charged with abandonment of a child and endangering the welfare of child. But...

Germans panic and dump their cats as Serbia joins the bird flu list Disease/Infection News Published: Sunday, 5-Mar-2006 Printer Friendly Email to a Friend According to an animal welfare society in Germany, hundreds of cats are being left at animal shelters following the disclosure earlier in the week that a cat on the island of Ruegen had died from the deadly bird flu. The charity says they are examining the abandoned cats for any sign of illness including bird flu. German veterinary authorities confirmed last week that a dead cat found on the Baltic island of Ruegen had been infected...

A Newport News, Va., woman is facing charges including felony child neglect after police said she abandoned her 4-year-old son and struck him with her car Tuesday night on the Beltway in Falls Church. Virginia State Police said Channoah Alece Green, 22, left her son along the heavily traveled interstate when she became upset with him. She also faces a felony hit-and-run charge related to the incident; police said she hit her son with the car when he tried to climb back inside. "Apparently, as she pulled away, she actually struck her own child and knocked him to the ground,"...

FORT WORTH - Four children were taken into protective custody Tuesday morning after they were found alone in a filthy apartment without electricity or edible food, police said. Lt. Dean Sullivan said Fort Worth police were dispatched to the Woodland Oaks Apartments at 1401 Morrison Drive about 9:30 a.m. on a report by a resident that four children, ages 2, 5, 10 and 13, had been abandoned inside one of the apartments. There, police found the children living in an unsuitable living condition without electricity or edible food, Sullivan said. There was rotting food throughout the apartment. He said the...

TOKYO (AFP) - As Japan produces fewer children and more retirees, toymakers are designing new dolls designed not for the young but for the lonely elderly -- companions which can sleep next to them and offer caring words they may never hear otherwise. Talking toys have become such a hit that some elderly people have embraced them as substitutes for the children who have grown old and deserted entire neighborhoods in the rapidly greying country. The Yumel doll, which looks like a baby boy and has a vocabulary of 1,200 phrases, is billed as a "healing partner" for the elderly...

Where has the VA gone to? I mean the viable, the dependable, the ...old VA! When I went in the service in "75", we were guaranteed certain things upon entering the service, I.E.: Dental coverage (Service Related)! Now we don't even get this. I understand by heresy, that there are now many inconsistencies, in the system (VA). How can I align myself with the people who now protest these new changes? Is there a "Chat Forum", either in here, or outside of this site, that I can turn to to reply to and reflect upon? I understand that the republican...

WHEN Chloe Riley, 14, arrived home from school to find her mother had walked out and left her to fend for herself, she set out to do just that. For a fortnight she carried on as normal, keeping up her schoolwork and telling no one that her mother, Stephanie, an IT teacher, had disappeared. But when she returned home to find the locks changed, she had to accept that she had been abandoned. Her mother had cancelled the tenancy on the council house they had shared in the Wirral and moved in with her lover. For two months the girl...

For years, they followed the rules as best they could, attending Mass at least once a week, teaching religious education, helping in the office or the rectory. But for weeks now, in a quiet but extraordinary uprising against the church authority they had been taught to respect, hundreds of Catholics in eight communities in and around Boston have been occupying churches the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston is attempting to close. They have taken over the roles formerly administered by priests and paid church employees, doing everything from leading worship to cleaning buildings. One major thing they cannot do, consecrate the...

Girl let out of criminal custody Farmworker who abandoned baby in toilet held for immigration By GEORGE B. SANCHEZ Herald Salinas Bureau The young Oaxacan woman accused of abandoning her newborn outside Soledad is now being held for immigration officials after a judge released her from local criminal proceedings. An immigration hold was placed on the woman when she was booked into Juvenile Hall in June after being arrested on charges of attempted murder and child abandonment, said Mike McNews, Monterey County probation services manager. The woman has since turned 18. On Thursday, the court ordered her released from custody...

A 2-year-old boy died of heat exhaustion in Healdsburg on Thursday after his allegedly intoxicated mother left him and his 4-year-old brother in a locked van in 90-degree heat for about eight hours, police said. The mother of Liam Paulsen, 35-year-old Rena Corban, apparently began drinking in the morning and passed out on a couch when she returned home around 10 a.m. after running errands with the children, according to Healdsburg police Sgt. Toni Pinochi.

HURST - Crime scene investigators Wednesday combed through a car and a house on Louella Drive looking for clues leading to the mother of a newborn boy found inside a trash bin last week. A tip and witness statements led them to a 24-year-old woman who lives at the house, police said. The team of investigators arrived about 2 p.m. at the spacious 1-story brick house in the 400 block of Louella Drive. The house is about four blocks southwest of where the baby was found Friday morning inside two plastic bags. The baby, temporarily named John Doe, remained in...

Texas Legal FReepers, I need your help. In very brief: my grandfather's second wife (of around five years; they're in their early 90s) has more or less abandoned him. She misrepresented herself as quite well-off, and after they were married, come to find out she's not all that moneyed. That wouldn't be a problem, except she's bankrupted him. My grandfather retired from Shell in 1976, and between his pension and his investments, he saved up a VERY nice nest egg for him and my grandmother. After she left us and he remarried, everyone thought they'd live inside their income just...

DANBURY, Conn. (AP) _ An 18-year-old mother who gave birth to a baby boy in the bathroom of her father's Brookfield diner and dumped the infant in the garbage has been sentenced to four years in prison. Teresa Perez of Danbury was sentenced by Judge Patrick Carroll in Danbury Superior Court on Thursday. The baby, named Christopher, was born Nov. 23. An employee emptying the trash found the infant several hours after his birth. The child barely survived the incident. His temperature had dropped to 85 degrees and he was treated for hypothermia at Danbury Hospital. He now lives with...