46 h. ago South Carolina lawmaker awaiting trial on child sex abuse material charges resigns from office

A Republican lawmaker in South Carolina has resigned from the House while awaiting trial on charges of distributing child sexual abuse material

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58 h. ago Influencer's son, 3, drowns in pool as husband 'makes bet on basketball game'

Brady Kiser, the husband of popular TikTok influencer Emilie Kiser, left his three-year-old son, Trigger, outside playing while he watched a basketball game, according to a police report

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3 d. ago Internet star's husband let son, 3, drown in pool 'after taking his eye off him for NINE minutes to watch basketball game he had bet $25 on'

The new details emerged in a police report surrounding the death of Emilie and Brady Kiser's three-year-old son, Trigg, who died after falling into a pool at the family's home.

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5 d. ago Florida charter school teacher arrested for ‘hurling a shoe at a misbehaving student’

Sandra Marta Colombo was arrested on a charge of child abuse with no great bodily harm.

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6 d. ago Las Vegas ‘supermom’ associated with popular parenting Facebook group indicted on child sex abuse charges

Christiann Ault has been charged with two felony counts of lewdness with a child and one felony count of child abuse, neglect or endangerment.

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3 w. ago Goethe immortalised the shaming of German women 200 years ago – we’re still at it | Fatma Aydemir

Abortion is criminalised and stigmatised – and now the right has found a new female scapegoat in its US-style war on bodily autonomyEvery nation has literary classics that shape its cultural identity. Germans have Faust, Goethe’s play about the successful but dissatisfied scientist Dr Heinrich Faust, who makes a deal with the devil. Faust has been performed, referenced and read in schools for more than two centuries now. Interestingly, the most tragic character in this tragedy is not the protagonist, but his “love interest”, Gretchen – a teenage girl groomed by the old man, impregnated and socially ostracised. Her solution? She drowns her “illegitimate” newborn child, accepts her death penalty and rejects Faust’s offer to save her from prison. In God’s mercy, the Christian girl seeks salvation and off goes Faust with the devil to new adventures in Faust, Part Two.What would Gretchen do today, I wonder. Her fate is not only a result of sexual abuse and an inherently misogynistic mora...

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4 w. ago Emilie Kiser’s husband could face child abuse charges over child’s drowning death

Investigators have recommended a Class 4 felony child abuse charge against the TikTok star’s husband Brady Kiser

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