84 m. ago Girl, 14, who died on children's mental health ward when Ghanaian agency worker with a fake ID left her unsupervised was unlawfully killed, inquest rules

Ruth Szymankiewicz, who was being treated for an eating disorder at Huntercombe Hospital in Berkshire, was under strict one-to-one observation when the staff member for her walked away.

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68 h. ago Woman arrested after dumping a dead baby inside a hearse at a funeral home, cops say

A worker at the funeral home mistook the child’s remains for a doll before making the grisly discovery

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5 d. ago Married care worker guilty of inciting boy at children's home into sexual relationship

Lindy Leah 'fell in love' with a teenage boy living at the children’s home where she worked as deputy manager.

Society

8 d. ago Hospital worker tears up as she recalls death of girl, 14, left alone on ward

Ruth Szymankiewicz died after she was left unsupervised at a children’s mental health hospital by an inexperienced agency worker.

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9 d. ago Care worker had sexual relationship with boy at children's home she 'fell in love' with, donning skimpy outfits and letting him sleep in her bed, court hears

Lindy Leah, 44, 'fell in love' with a teenage patient having been assigned as his key worker, it was revealed at Liverpool Crown Court on Monday. She had 'denied any improper behaviour'.

Society

9 d. ago Teen 'caught in care worker's bed' at children's home as she gives brazen reason

Lindy Leah gave a brazen excuse for her involvement with the boy.

Society

4 w. ago Humble peasants or an odyssey of sex and death? The Millet masterpiece that electrified modern art

Van Gogh saw compassion for the rural worker; Dalí saw phalluses and a child’s grave. As The Angelus comes to the UK, our critic celebrates a painting so deep it could even induce hallucinationsIt was Salvador Dalí who turned a small, intense rural scene called The Angelus, painted by Jean-François Millet in 1857-59 and hugely popular in its day, into a totem of modern art.In the original, a pious peasant couple have heard the Angelus bell from a distant church, the Catholic call to prayer, and paused their work digging potatoes to lower their heads and pray. But from Dalí’s writings, we know he saw far more in the painting, from obscene sex to family tragedy. In one of his many versions of it, Atavism at Twilight, the couple sprout agricultural implements from their bodies. In his surreal drawings these good country people become mouldering, mummified husks, or are transformed into fossils by time and sadness. Now that the original painting is being lent by the Musée d’Orsay to the...

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4 w. ago Mum catches out DNA lab worker who tried to help her child's father get out of £94k in maintenance payments

Lab worker Robert Patel provided a saliva sample, forged a doctor's signature and used an official stamp after being asked to skew the test results.

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