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Mother Who Leaves Children in Car Faces Felony Charges

A recent case has been sweeping Arizona news feeds for a while now. A mother who left her children in the car while doing a job interview is facing felony child abuse charges. While anyone in Arizona could tell you the very real dangers of leaving young children or pets in a hot car, the […]

Injuries Lead to Changes in How Child Seats are Evaluated

There are certain things in life that you want to know are undeniably true. Among those is certainly the notion that your child’s safety seat is in fact safe. However, in recent years there have been a number of recalls due to unsafe child seats (which had previously been classified as safe), and as such, […]

Bullying Being Done Increasingly Online

Bullying has attracted a massive amount of media attention lately, and for good reason. Children and adolescents are especially vulnerable to psychological and sociological pressure, and at a time when they should feel perfectly safe and nurtured, they are being abused and threatened. It seems like bullying is getting harder and harder to detect and […]

Can Shopping Carts Be Safe?

Walking through a grocery store, one of the most common things you’ll see is a young child sitting in a shopping cart’s safety seat, being guided around by a parent. While many millions of dollars have gone into designing shopping carts to be safe for children, the truth is that they can still be dangerous […]

Dog Breed Doesn’t Correlate to Dog Bites, Some Say

Dog bites and dog attacks can be very serious and even fatal. It has been a popular myth for a long time that certain breeds are more prone to biting than others. If you were to ask individuals what they thought the most dangerous breeds were, they would likely mention breeds like Pit Bull, Doberman, […]

Thousands of Child Abuse Cases Have Gone Uninvestigated

According to a homicide detective working with the Arizona Child Welfare Agency has uncovered a disturbing trend in case files: Thousands of them, spanning all different types of cases, have been notated “N.I.” which stands for not investigated. All in all, there have been 6,554 such cases found so far, and all of them were […]

Angelcare Baby Monitors Recalled

A baby monitor, also known as a baby alarm, is a radio system used to remotely listen to sounds of an infant or child. The monitor, which is equipped with a microphone, is placed near the child and then transmits the sounds to a receiver unit with a speaker which is placed near the parent […]

Keams Canyon Football Player Dies After Tackle

A highly controversial subject in the news today is that of youth sport-related concussions. Research has shown that athletes between the ages of sixteen and nineteen sustain approximately thirty percent of all sports-related concussions and that the rate of concussions in high school athletes has increased by sixteen percent in the past decade. Reducing the […]

Mesa Daycare Worker Booked for Child Abuse

There are times when those we trust to care for our children not only fall short in their duties, but actually abuse or mistreat our children and violate our trust. Unfortunately, instances of caregivers violating our trust happen frequently as illustrated by a recent case in a Mesa daycare. Mesa Police Department officers responded to […]

Toddler Dies After Head-on Collision

A three-year-old boy died earlier this month as a result of critical injuries received following a head-on collision in Phoenix on October 12. Phoenix Police say 19-year-old Edgar Martinez tried to pass a vehicle near 31st Avenue and Acoma Drive while traveling at a high rate of speed on Saturday, October 12. While attempting to […]

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