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Three children died after they were found unconscious early Monday at Brighton Boardwalk in Coney Island, New York, in a possible drowning. Officers first received a call from the concerned family relative around 1:40 am Monday, and were told that the mother may have drowned the three children, NBC News reported. Authorities later visited a local apartment complex, where they encountered a man who claimed to be the children’s father and expressed similar concerns to the other family member, the outlet continued. The mother was found on the boardwalk, barefoot and soaking wet, with some family but not her children,...

As best I can tell: Mom (a real prize) needs to borrow money/gas card from the kid in order to get to work Stepdad (also a real prize) later tries to intervene on mom's behalf The 16 year-old kid is the only adult in this household. All in all, not pretty. Severe pottymouth warning.

The mother of a famous Vietnamese model poured boiling cooking oil over her daughter's face, severely disfiguring her, because she felt spurned, police said today. Pham Thi Hanh, 49, was arrested in the southern metropolis Ho Chi Minh City shortly after tipping a cooking pot of hot vegetable oil over her 22-year-old daughter Vo Thi Thu Tram while she was sleeping. Tram was in bed alone in her apartment at the time of Sunday's attack. According to the city's police newspaper, Hanh told police her actions were prompted by anger over her daughter ignoring her once she married a foreigner...