Jeeze, well here's the hat-trick for the day, although it's an older story with the newer development of charges.
Mothers of 5 Children Killed in House Fire to be Charged
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The two mothers of five children who died in a house fire had left the kids alone while they had a beer at a bar, the attorney for one woman said Wednesday.
Both women will be charged, authorities said.
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Originally there was allegedly a 15 year old girl watching the kids. But she couldn't be found. That was because, as they authorities had suspected, she didn't exist.
This, unfortunately, isn't very uncommon either. One horrifying thing I learned in police academy during the domestic violence unit was a trend that started in the Chicago area.
They noticed admission of children to hospitals on Friday nights would increase steeply. It turned out, parents would slip dish washing detergent into their kids food on Friday so they could be admitted under Uncle Sam's dollar to the hospital (fever, diarrhea, nausea, etc). The kids would remain in hospital care for the weekend allowing the parents to go out to the clubs and parties, then they'd pick their kids up on Sunday "good as new" (if you can be after being poisoned). If I ever caught someone doing that to their kid, the next time anyone saw them they'd be a sun-bleached skeleton in the Nevada desert.