While bounce houses are popular for children’s birthday parties, they have led to a soaring number of injuries among children. Kids often overcrowd bounce houses and when jumping up and down, land on or crash into one another, causing serious injury. While in bounce houses, children are often flung into…
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Newborn Found Dead Aboard Cruise Ship, FBI Opens Investigation
A newborn baby was found dead aboard Carnival Cruise Line’s The Dream cruise ship when the shop returned to Port Canaveral this past weekend. The FBI has undertaken an investigation as to what led to the child’s death. On Saturday, the FBI’s Evidence Response Team went about the ship to…
Eight Children Hospitalized After Ellenton Bus Crash
Early Monday morning, eight children were injured in a school bus accident while on their way to school. The students were heading to Virgil Mills Elementary School when a Ford Focus collided with the bus. Of the fifty-nine students aboard the bus, eight were taken to local hospitals. Seven were…
Twenty-Three Passengers Injured When Bus Overturns
Twenty-three passengers were injured when their tour bus crashed in New Jersey on Saturday. Five of those who were sent to the hospital in critical condition have since been released. Three others in critical condition have been upgraded to fair condition. Two of the victims are children, state police have…
Florida Children Being Sent To Adult Nursing Homes, Federal Government Threatens Legal Action Against State
Federal investigators have threatened legal action against Florida health officials if they do not work to resolve allegations that “children with disabilities are being sent to adult nursing homes unnecessarily.” The U.S. Department of Justice sent a letter to Florida officials saying that the state is violating the federal Americans…
Broward Daycare Worker Charged For Boy’s Death
Four-year-old Jordan Coleman died because his babysitter left him asleep in the backseat of a hot SUV. On the day of his death, Jordan and seven other children from his daycare center, 3C Day Academy, were taken on a fun outing to the community pool in Lauderdale Lakes and to…
Jury Awards $7.8 Million After Doctors Fail To Diagnose Flesh-Eating Bacteria
Imagine taking your child to the emergency room to treat a cut and leaving days later with your child suffering from brain damage. One family’s nightmare came true when they took their twelve-year-old son, Jonathan, to Dyersburg Regional Medical Center to treat a cut he received when he fell on…
Four Year Old Dies In Backseat Of Hot Car While At Sunrise Daycare
Jordan Coleman, also known as JoJo, had turned four years old last week. On Wednesday, his mother sent him off to 3C’s Day Academy. He never returned home. Now his family is planning a funeral instead of a birthday party. JoJo had fallen asleep in the back of a Toyota…
Ten Dead in Twenty Four Hours in Miami-Dade County
In one of the deadliest nights in South Florida history, ten people and an unborn child were killed in motor vehicle accidents within a 24-hour span of time. The most horrific of the deadly crashes involved a head-on collision on the Gratigny Expressway, which left four people dead after the…
Pompano Beach Child Remains In Critical Condition After Being Struck By Car
Six-year-old Robert Glover Jr. lays in critical condition at Broward General Medical Center after being hit by a car as he was riding his scooter down the street. Marcus Permenter, 28, ran a stop sign and crashed into Chiledric Jacques’ 1991 Toyota Camry. Permenter’s car struck the young boy, a…