The key witness who led to the naming of Christian Brueckner as the prime suspect in the disappearance of 3-year-old Madeleine McCann could now face allegations of perjury.
Helge Büsching claimed that Brueckner confessed to kidnapping the little girl from a resort in Portugal back in 2007, the New Zealand Herald <a href="https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/madeleine-mccann-case-hits-stumbling-block-main-witness-faces-possible-perjury-charge/ZEPX6SUWM5BXJNPH6ORQGOYPQM/">reported</a>. Büsching claimed that Brueckner said it was “odd that she didn’t scream,” while the two discussed the girl’s disappearance.
In 2020, Büsching was asked what he thought of Brueckner, responding: “One word. Guilty.” At that time, Büsching also told investigators that he had stolen videotapes from Brueckner that allegedly showed numerous crimes. Even though the tapes have never been found, Büsching’s claim about these tapes led to Bruekner being jailed for seven years for allegedly raping and sexually assaulting two women.
Büsching claimed the tapes had been left in a caravan, but in January 2023, he changed his story and claimed they were not left in a caravan, but on a rural property where he used to live with another witness.
The change in statements, however, has led to Brueckner’s attorney, Friedrich Fülscher, attacking Büsching’s credibility. The allegations from Fülscher could lead to a perjury charge for Büsching.
“As a witness, this man is completely unbelievable,” Fülscher said, according to the Herald.
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Fülscher is seeking to suspend Brueckner’s rape sentence and request a retrial.
German prosecutor Hans-Christian Wolters, who is handling the case against Brueckner for the disappearance of McCann, must now weigh Büsching’s credibility.
Madeleine McCann was 3 years old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/unsolved-the-disappearance-of-madeleine-mccann" target="_blank" rel="noopener">when she disappeared</a> from her bed in an apartment her family rented while on vacation in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in 2007. She would be 20 years old today.
The McCann family — parents Gerry and Kate along with Madeleine and her twin siblings, who were 2 years old – was on vacation with seven friends, now known as the Tapas Seven, along with their children.
On the morning of May 3, 2007, the children played at the resort’s Kids’ Club before joining their parents at the pool, after which they returned to the Kids’ Club until Kate took them back to their apartment. Kate and Gerry put their children to bed before joining their friends at the resort’s tapas restaurant, located across the pool from the apartments where they were all staying.
The adults took turns checking on the children, with Kate completing her own check on the children around 10 p.m. and found her daughter missing. She quickly searched the apartment before running back to the restaurant screaming, “Madeleine’s gone! Someone’s taken her!”
By 10:10, a member of the Tapas Seven told the resort’s reception desk to call the police, and by 10:30, the resort began its missing child search protocol, which involved 60 staff members and guests searching the premises until 4:30 in the morning.
Madeleine has never been found.
The most significant break in the case came in 2020, when police named Brueckner as a suspect.
Jim Gamble, a former British police officer who in 2010 led an official review of McCann’s disappearance, said in April 2022 that phone data put Brueckner near the scene of the crime within a 30-minute timeframe. Brueckner had also allegedly stolen from vacation homes in the area, with children’s clothing reportedly found in his vehicle.
Brueckner, however, denies any involvement in Madeleine’s disappearance.

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A 12-year-old hostage whose father was shot in front of his eyes by Hamas in the October 7 massacre was reportedly forced to watch videos of the massacre during his harrowing 51 days as a Hamas hostage.
In Kibbutz Nir Oz, Eitan Yahalomi was frightened by the Hamas rockets that were fired as the massacre began. Eitan Yahalomi’s father, Ohad, tried to prevent Hamas terrorists from entering the family’s safe room and engaged in a gun battle with them; the terrorists <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/27/world/middleeast/israel-hostage-release-monday.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shot him in the arm and leg</a> before seizing Eitan’s mother, Bat-Sheva, Eitan, his 10-year-old sister Yael and 1-year-old sister Liel. Eitan was <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/taken-captive-ohad-yahalomi-and-son-eitan-12-captured-separately/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">taken</a> on one moped by terrorists; his mother and sisters were taken on another. His mother and her two daughters escaped and hid in a field. Ohad was later seized and taken to Gaza.
Speaking to France’s BFM TV, Eitan’s aunt, Devora Cohen stated, “It turns out that Eitan experienced horrible things there. They forced him to watch the movie of the horrors, things no one would want to see. They made him watch it.”
“We are speaking about the movie of the horrors from October 7, correct?” the interviewer asked.
“Yes, yes,” Cohen responded. “The entire movie. Every time one of the children there cried, they threatened him with a gun to silence him. And when he arrived in Gaza, the residents, everyone, hit him. He is a 12-year-old child. We’re talking about a 12-year-old child.”
“Did you expect such horrors, that he would tell you indescribable things, like what you just shared?” she was asked.
“In all honesty, I didn’t expect,” Cohen answered. “Maybe I am naive. But I wanted to hope they were treating him well. Turns out, no. They are monsters.”
“We waited all day,” she said of Eitan’s release. “We were so happy. But now that I know this, I’m worried. I’m worried. His father is still there. And there are 160 more who haven’t returned. That’s a lot. Imagine, 160 people. &#8230; How can you feel well after you experience something like that? I’m going to see him and give him a big hug. We have a long way ahead of us.”
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“Was Eitan hit by the people there?” the interviewer asked again later.
“Yes, yes, when he arrived in Gaza, they hit him. All the people from the area he entered Gaza hit him. He’s only a child,” Cohen reiterated.
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Eitan&#39;s aunt relates to the French TV how the kid was treated as a hostage in Gaza. &quot;(Hamas) are monsters&quot;, Deborah Cohen adds.
La tante d&#39;Eitan raconte comment il a été traité à Gaza. &quot;Ce (le Hamas) sont des monstres&quot;, Deborah Cohen ajoute. <a href="https://t.co/inwPFkUMxJ">pic.twitter.com/inwPFkUMxJ</a>
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Despite the Left pretending to “follow the science,” the abortion lobby hasn’t kept theirs up to date. Spurning medical research from the last several decades — which is meant to both improve standard care practices for physicians and inform policymakers — abortion supporters are sticking with the science of the 1970s. As they refuse to develop their talking points past those used to get Roe v. Wade through the federal court system, the abortion industry is propagating misinformation and harming patients through a lack of informed consent.
The <a href="https://www.acog.org/advocacy/facts-are-important/gestational-development-capacity-for-pain" target="_blank" rel="noopener">American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)</a> is a particular perpetrator of this.
While the organization is meant to lead medical experts in maternal-fetal care, ACOG states, “The science conclusively establishes that a human fetus does not have the capacity to experience pain until after at least 24–25 weeks [about five and a half months].” In the same breath, however, they also maintain that “facts are important.” Which one is it exactly? Because their former claim fails to recognize the most recent developments in our understanding of fetal pain.
While there does seem to be a real consensus that fetal pain begins at 20 weeks at the very latest, some publications (including <a href="https://jme.bmj.com/content/46/1/3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one written by Drs. Derbyshire and Bockmann</a> in 2020) demonstrate the high likelihood that fetal pain is possible <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8935428/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as early as 12 weeks</a>.
In studying fetal development, we know the <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8935428/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">physiological pain system</a> (the cortical subplate and thalamus) is present by 12 weeks, but to study whether the preborn child actually feels pain via the developed structures this early would violate bioethical practice not only in the possible infliction of pain upon the fetus but in the invasive nature of the research upon the mother. Consequently, this is really the closest we are able to ethically get at this time.
Unfortunately, when major medical organizations like ACOG deny such research, their misinformation affects both abortion legislation and the advancement and practice of fetal surgery. While some fetal surgeries are performed <a href="https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/24945-fetal-surgery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as early as 16 weeks</a>, the myth that the preborn child cannot feel pain until 24 weeks can lead to physicians feeling they do not need to provide fetal analgesia. Even if the data on fetal pain was not as clear as it is, morality should encourage medical professionals to err on the side of caution rather than to unwittingly do harm.
But fetal pain is not the only misinformed science propagated by the abortion lobby.
Further along in pregnancy, when discussing fetal viability, abortion supporters work even harder to push the extreme and outdated viability limits under Roe, ignoring their (now reversed) victory in Planned Parenthood v. Casey which <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/505/833/#tab-opinion-1959105" target="_blank" rel="noopener">at least acknowledged the relativity of viability</a> to our society’s ability to advance medical technologies.
As an example, the academic spin room of the abortion lobby, the Guttmacher Institute, “updated” their <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/state-policies-later-abortions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">definition of viability</a> in August 2022, stating, “A fetus generally reaches viability between 24 and 28 weeks LMP (gestational age).”
This definition could only be considered up-to-date if it was made in 1973. It’s half a century later, however, and as previously noted, viability is not a fixed gestational time point.
The Casey opinion notes fetal viability to be <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/505/833/#tab-opinion-1959105" target="_blank" rel="noopener">28 weeks when Roe was passed down</a> in 1973, but even the pro-abortion American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) now notes the window of “periviability” where there is a chance of survival after preterm birth as early as <a href="https://www.acog.org/advocacy/facts-are-important/understanding-and-navigating-viability#:~:text=Later%20in%20pregnancy%2C%20a%20clinician,6%20days%20of%20a%20pregnancy." target="_blank" rel="noopener">20 weeks to 25 weeks and 6 days </a>gestation due to recent advances in the field. In fact, the <a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-breakout/world-record-for-premature-birth-goes-to-alabama-baby-born-19-weeks-early/#:~:text=Nov%2011%202021-,World%20Record%20For%20Premature%20Birth%20Goes%20To%20Alabama%20Baby%20Born,only%20132%20days%20of%20gestation." target="_blank" rel="noopener">earliest premature baby to survive</a> was born at 21 weeks and 1 day.
Though viability can be a helpful tool in medicine, the legal application of viability is nothing but discriminatory. It assumes viability to be central to what determines human value, but placing any qualification on humanity creates a hierarchical and systematic oppression of the group lacking the quality&#8230;in this case, the previable preborn child.
Pro-life physicians and research professionals must continue to prioritize gaining a deeper knowledge of life in the womb for the sake of defending vulnerable preborn children from the weaponization of outdated science. It’s time the abortion lobby was pulled forward into the twenty-first century and forced to acknowledge the scientific developments that have led to our modern understanding of the preborn human as a unique, whole, and valued second patient during pregnancy.
Let’s stop stealing from the 1970s; abortion supporters, give them their science back.
Gavin Oxley is Students for Life of America’s lead operations supervisor and medical/law coordinator, as well as the founder/CEO of Future Medical Professionals for Life.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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An adult male guest at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/disneyland-will-host-first-ever-pride-nite-during-after-dark-series" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Disneyland</a> was arrested on Sunday after he stripped down fully naked and caused havoc in the California park during the Thanksgiving holiday — boarding a boat on the &#8220;It&#8217;s A Small World&#8221; ride before he was apprehended and removed from the property.
Anaheim Police Department spokesperson Jonathan McClintock told <a href="https://people.com/man-arrested-for-stripping-nude-on-disneyland-s-it-s-a-small-world-ride-8406844" target="_blank" rel="noopener">People magazine</a> that officers &#8220;responded to Disneyland to assist Disney security with a guest who removed his clothes and was naked in or near the &#8216;It&#8217;s a Small World&#8217; attraction.&#8221;
&#8220;Upon officers&#8217; arrival, they arrested a 26-year-old man for indecent exposure and for being under the influence of a controlled substance,&#8221; McClintock added, noting that the guest was taken to a nearby hospital as a precaution.
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A 26-year-old man was arrested at Disneyland after stripping down on the It&#8217;s A Small World ride. Police say he was taken into custody on suspicion of indecent exposure and being under the influence of a controlled substance. <a href="https://t.co/toRd8WRNrt">pic.twitter.com/toRd8WRNrt</a>
— CBS News (@CBSNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1729243702378238403?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
One Disneyland Resort representative told <a href="https://deadline.com/2023/11/disneyland-park-guest-arrested-stripping-off-clothes-its-a-small-world-ride-1235637920/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deadline</a> that the guest got off the attraction while it was in motion and said that once park operators became aware of the situation, they stopped the ride.
Various <a href="https://x.com/BreitbartNews/status/1729213311202267218?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">clips</a> later surfaced on social media of the fully naked man. In one <a href="https://x.com/AshleyEsqueda/status/1728898239905276376?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> he&#8217;s seen walking around in the water near the attraction.
In <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0H_TRNy4uP/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">another</a> video, he had on what appeared to be a pair of shorts and was off the ride touching the animatronics as a women&#8217;s voice — fellow guest Maegan Carmona — could be overheard pleading with him to stop.
&#8220;We noticed he started climbing onto the different parts of the ride, and we noticed that he was undressed,&#8221; Carmona told <a href="https://ew.com/disneyland-small-world-naked-rider-8406696" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Entertainment Weekly.</a>
&#8220;He just looked out of it,&#8221; she added.  &#8220;He just didn&#8217;t look like he knew where he was. He looked worried. My friends and I had seen him, and it looked like he was going to jump on us.&#8221;
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Carmona said one Disneyland employee cast member &#8220;got [the streaker] to sit down for a minute,&#8221; but &#8220;after that he continued walking in the opposite direction, behind us. Once he got to a different part of the ride, he ended up walking into the water and started drinking the water, and ran off toward the entrance of the ride.&#8221;
In October, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/disney-world-theme-park-will-issue-pronoun-pins-to-janitorial-staff-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Disney World</a> guest decided to break the rules and jumped feet first into the World Showcase Lagoon at Epcot before Disney security got to him, <a href="https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/epcot-jump-world-showcase-lagoon-video" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox 35 News</a> reported.

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The children’s hospital that was ordered to pay a family hundreds of millions of dollars for reporting a mother for child abuse is seeking a new trial.
Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida, was found liable in a massive medical malpractice lawsuit that was featured in the Netflix documentary “Take Care of Maya.” The hospital is now requesting a new trial, saying one of the jurors acted improperly, WWSB <a href="https://www.mysuncoast.com/2023/11/24/john-hopkins-hospital-objects-payout-claims-juror-misconduct-files-motion-new-trial/?outputType=amp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The hospital filed a motion claiming that juror No. 1’s wife repeatedly posted on social media about the case, and accused the woman of giving her husband information that was not allowed to be presented at trial. The hospital also claims that juror No. 1 frequently posted in a “Take Care of Maya” Facebook group, in which he provided information that was not presented to him at trial.
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Attorneys for Johns Hopkins say the verdict, which ordered the hospital to pay more than $260 million to the family of Maya Kowalski, is now tainted. If a judge agrees with the hospital, the original verdict could be vacated and a new trial ordered.
The hospital has denied that it acted improperly when caring for Maya.
Maya, now 17, was 10 when she was admitted to the children’s hospital after years of suffering from a rare medical condition. The civil trial related to the actions of Johns Hopkins in 2016 when staff reported Maya’s parents to children’s services. They believed Maya’s mother, Beata, was suffering from Munchausen syndrome by proxy and exaggerated her daughter’s illness to get attention from healthcare workers.
Beata committed suicide and, shortly after, Maya was released from the hospital and allowed to return home to her family. The family sued on seven claims, and Johns Hopkins was found liable for falsely imprisoning Maya, fraudulently billing her family, and causing them emotional distress. The jury further found that social worker Catherine Bedy had battered Maya and that Dr. Sally Smith medically neglected the girl, who was 10 when she was admitted to Johns Hopkins, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/take-care-maya-trial-kowalski-family-awarded-176m-medical-abuse-case-drove-mother-suicide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Following the verdict, Maya filed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/take-care-of-maya-update-maya-kowalski-now-suing-childrens-hospital-for-sexual-assault" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a second lawsuit</a> against the hospital, alleging she was sexually assaulted during her stay in 2016.
The allegations first came up during the first civil trial, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune <a href="https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/courts/2023/09/29/attorney-for-kowalski-family-discloses-possible-sexual-abuse-allegations/70996162007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, noting that Maya claimed she was in a situation with a man in a white lab coat that may be sexual abuse. Maya said she reported the incident to a hospital psychologist.
“She reported it but nothing was done. Nothing was done to make sure that I was safe and secure in that place,” Kowalski said. “I just decided that well, since it wasn’t taken seriously there, It’s not going to be taken seriously anywhere else.”
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Maya and her attorney, Greg Anderson, have filed a criminal complaint with police and a lawsuit regarding the incident.
“I am claiming that there was sexual abuse. It’s something that I was quite quiet about for a couple of years because I was worried it wasn’t going to be taken seriously,” Maya <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/maya-kowalski-files-sexual-assault-complaint-against-childrens-hospital-after-lawsuit-win.amp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News’ Martha MacCallum last Thursday.
Ethen Shapiro, an attorney from Hill Ward Henderson who represented the hospital in the first civil trial, told Fox News in a statement that Maya’s “allegations originally arose during trial and were not admitted into the case.”
“As soon as the hospital became aware of the allegations, and in accordance with their policies, they immediately initiated an internal investigation and contacted law enforcement last month,” Shapiro told the outlet. “Federal privacy laws restrict Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital from sharing more, but the hospital takes allegations of this nature very seriously and always puts the safety of their patients above all else.”

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Former child star <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/natalie-portman">Natalie Portman</a> said she doesn’t think children should work in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hollywood">Hollywood</a>, citing potential dangers as one reason why.
“I would not encourage young people to go into this. I don’t mean ever; I mean as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/children">children</a>,” Portman told <a href="https://variety.com/2023/film/awards/natalie-portman-may-december-todd-haynes-1235806035/">Variety</a> during a recent interview.
“I feel it was almost an accident of luck that I was not harmed, also combined with very overprotective, wonderful parents,” the 42-year-old Academy Award winner continued. “You don’t like it when you’re a kid, and you’re grateful for it when you’re an adult. I’ve heard too many bad stories to think that any children should be part of it.”
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The mother of two said it comes down to the fact that kids should spend their childhood doing regular kid things. “Ultimately, I don’t believe that kids should work,” Portman added. “I think kids should play and go to school.”
The actress launched her acting career at the age of 12 when she starred in the action film “Léon: The Professional” (1994). Portman reached superstar status for her portrayal of Padmé Amidala in “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace” (1999).
Portman won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2010 for her work in the psychological thriller “Black Swan.”
The Israeli-born star previously described being “sexualized” in Hollywood from a young age.
She told Dax Shepard during a 2020 episode of “Armchair Expert” that being on the set of “Leon” at 12 “didn’t allow the full expression of who I was at that time.” 
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“Being sexualized as a child took away from my own sexuality because it made me afraid,” Portman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/natalie-portman-reflects-on-being-sexualized-as-a-teenager-it-made-me-afraid">said at the time</a>.
The “Thor” actress said some people “had this impression of me that I was super-serious and prude and conservative as I got older.”
“I consciously cultivated that because it was a way to make me feel safe. If someone respects you, they’re not going to objectify you,” Portman said. “At that age you do have your own sexuality, and you do have your own desire and you do want to explore things … but you don’t feel safe necessarily. You build these fortresses.”

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Retired NFL quarterback <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/devout-christian-nfl-qb-philip-rivers-shocks-amanda-prestigiacomo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Philip Rivers</a> and his wife are celebrating the miracle of life once again &#8212; for a tenth time, actually.
The 8-time pro-bowl pick and his wife Tiffany welcomed baby number ten, a son named Andrew Joseph Rivers, earlier this month.
“It’s awesome. Tiffany is awesome,” Rivers <a href="https://www.al.com/highschoolsports/2023/11/longtime-nfl-qb-philip-rivers-wife-tiffany-welcome-10th-child-its-awesome.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> AL.com. “It doesn’t matter if it’s the first child or the 10th child. It’s an awesome miracle every time. Everyone is home now, and everyone is good.”
Rivers, a practicing Catholic, said both his mother and father come from large families. “We thought we would be the third generation of nine, but we decided to go double digits – or I should say we didn’t decide it. God decided,” the former QB said.
Since retiring from the NFL in 2021, Rivers has taken on the role as a high school football coach, following in the footsteps of his own father. One of Rivers&#8217; sons, Gunner, is just a freshman, but the starting QB at the school, St. Michael Catholic High.
Baby Andrew waited until the team&#8217;s off week to be born, Rivers quipped.
“We pulled into Volanta Park about 6 p.m. and Tiff called and said things were picking up,” he recalled, referring to a game. “I’m like, ‘You’ve got to be kidding.’ About 6:50, she called and said everything was good, and we got through the game.&#8221;
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&#8220;We are thankful and blessed,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I’m thankful it happened during our off week. I guess [Andrew] knew we had to get past T.R. Miller.”
Rivers is loving coaching high school ball, saying during the interview that he has no plans on leaving for a higher level.
“I think I would have gone right into it had that been what I wanted to do. But really, I’ve longed to coach my boys and these other 15-18 year-old boys since I was 25,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I’m good right here.”
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Though, playing in the NFL was his &#8220;childhood dream,&#8221; the QB said in his retirement speech, which notably referenced his Christian faith and God.
“Every year, January 20th is a special and emotional day. It is St. Sebastian’s Feast day, the day I played in the AFC championship without an ACL, and now the day that after 17 seasons, I’m announcing my retirement from the National Football League,” the athlete <a href="https://www.colts.com/news/retirement-philip-rivers-statement-17-nfl-seasons-san-diego-chargers-2020-season" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at the time. “Thank you, God, for allowing me to live out my childhood dream of playing quarterback in the NFL.”
Rivers spoke openly about his faith during his NFL career. In 2017, for example, he discussed how he made his faith his &#8220;own&#8221; when he went away to college.
“My faith has always been very important to me,” he said. “When I went to college is really when it became my own. I had to get up out of that dorm room and go to church, go to mass on Sunday. That’s when I took ownership of my faith.”
“I think that the center of our marriage and the foundation of our relationship was on Jesus,” Rivers continued. “That is why it’s worked to this point.”
“I hope that God has used me to touch one of you in your faith journey with Jesus,” he added.
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The former editor-in-chief of the left-leaning news website The Recount is facing child pornography charges.
Slade Sohmer, 44, was charged in Massachusetts with possessing and disseminating “hundreds of child pornography images and videos,” The Berkshire Eagle <a href="https://www.berkshireeagle.com/crime/slade-sohmer-editor-the-recount-otis-resident-charged-possessing-disseminating-child-pornography/article_71904d80-8245-11ee-8ac7-8382ee1ffe75.html">reported</a>.
Sohmer was editor-in-chief of The Recount until just last month. He was <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/slade-sohmer-the-recount-editor-in-chief-child-pornography-arrest/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dismissed</a> from the role around the same time the Berkshire District Attorney began investigating the child pornography allegations. He “is no longer editor-in-chief” of the site “following a company restructure exercise in early October to focus on our editorial and commercial plans,” a spokesperson for The Recount’s parent company The News Movement, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/11/14/media/ex-editor-in-chief-of-the-recount-charged-with-child-pornography/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the New York Post.
Sohmer was arrested on Friday at his home in Otis, about 30 miles west of Springfield, and he was released Monday on $100,000 bail.
He has pleaded not guilty to two counts of possession of child pornography and two counts of dissemination of child pornography. The possession charge carries a minimum sentence of five years in state prison, and the dissemination charge carries a 10-year minimum sentence.
Sohmer&#8217;s arrest comes after law enforcement obtained a search warrant and confiscated his electronic devices several weeks ago. The child pornography case is one of the most “egregious” Assistant District Attorney Marianne Shelvey said she has encountered.
Sohmer&#8217;s phone allegedly stored pornographic videos showing boys believed to be as young as three, according to court documents cited by The Berkshire Eagle. More than 1,300 images of child pornography were allegedly <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/slade-sohmer-the-recount-editor-in-chief-child-pornography-arrest/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a>.
Authorities also discovered texts allegedly sent by Sohmer discussing how to kidnap and rape a child, a detail Shelvey said adds “a level of extreme cruelty.”
Authorities received a tip about Sohmer involving someone sending a suspicious video on Snapchat in late September of last year. The National Center for Missing &amp; Exploited Children reportedly alerted the Massachusetts State Police Cyber Crime Unit about the disturbing video.
The video allegedly showed a boy around 11 years old, according to court documents cited by The Berkshire Eagle, and authorities traced the video to an IP address allegedly connected to Sohmer&#8217;s home internet account.
Previously, Sohmer also worked as a camp counselor for Camp Power, a nonprofit <a href="http://www.camppower.org/#home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">that</a> “provides kids from New York City’s most underfunded and underserved neighborhoods with freedom and encouragement that are often lacking in their communities back in the city,” his LinkedIn profile <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/slade-sohmer-56433b151/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shows</a>.
He has also worked for SiriusXM Radio, Mic, and several other places, according to his LinkedIn.
Sohmer is <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/slade-sohmer-the-recount-editor-in-chief-child-pornography-arrest/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scheduled</a> to appear in court on December 21.

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A mother and her former live-in boyfriend have been arrested after the remains of a 5-year-old girl found encased in concrete in 1988 were identified.
Evelyn Odom, 56, and Ulyster Sanders, 61, were arrested and charged with felony murder, cruelty to children in the first degree, aggravated battery – family violence, concealing the death of another person, and conspiracy to commit concealing the death of another person, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) said in <a href="https://gbi.georgia.gov/press-releases/2023-11-13/gbi-identifies-1988-ware-county-baby-jane-doe-arrests-2-her-death" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a press release</a>.
On December 21, 1988, road workers found the remains of a 5-year-old girl encased in concrete and left inside an old television cabinet, HuffPost <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mother-boyfriend-accused-1988-death-unidentified-5-year-old-georgia_n_655264fce4b0373d70b31c98" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Investigators tried to identify the child at the time using available forensic testing and reaching out to local organizations, along with seeking the public’s help through the media, but for 35 years, the girl’s identity remained unknown.
In 2019, GBI agents started to look into whether it was possible to identify the young girl using genealogy, which has helped identify victims – and criminals – in the past. Genealogy services were able to identify a family tree from the Albany, New York, area. They also received a tip from someone following a 2022 story on the anniversary of the child’s death, which led to the victim being identified as Kenyatta “KeKe” Odom. The tipster thought she could identify KeKe&#8217;s mother as the alleged killer, after Odom told the woman that KeKe had left to live with her father back in 1988.
Further investigation led investigators to KeKe’s mother, Evelyn Odom, and Sanders, her live-in boyfriend at the time of the murder. Odom and Sanders allegedly submerged parts of KeKe’s body in hot water, which killed her and disfigured her legs and feet, according to an indictment obtained by HuffPost. The couple allegedly then dumped the child’s body in an “undeveloped location” in order to conceal it.
GBI Special Agent in Charge Jason Seacrist said at a press conference on Monday that KeKe’s remains had been wrapped in a blanket and stuffed in a duffel bag that was then encased in concrete and placed inside a TV cabinet.
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“Baby Jane Doe is no longer unnamed, is no longer unknown,” Seacrist said at the press conference, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/child-death-cold-case-georgia-35-years-95da74f8bb1307e81c023119447265cf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the Associated Press</a>. “The baby that was thrown out into a trash pile has been identified, and we’re working to bring justice to her.”

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A jury in Florida has found a children’s hospital liable in a lawsuit brought by the family featured in the Netflix documentary, “Take Care of Maya.”
Maya Kowalski, 17, and her family sued Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital alleging false imprisonment, battery, medical negligence, fraudulent billing, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and wrongful death. A jury determined Thursday that the hospital is liable for Maya’s mother, Beata, committing suicide due to the hospital’s report, Fox 13 <a href="https://www.fox13news.com/news/take-care-of-maya-trial-jury-reaches-verdict-in-220m-case-against-johns-hopkins-all-childrens-hospital" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The trial relates to the actions of Johns Hopkins in 2016 when staff reported Maya’s parents to children’s services. They believed Maya’s mother, Beata, was suffering from Munchausen by proxy and exaggerated her daughter’s illness to get attention from healthcare workers. Beata committed suicide and, shortly after, Maya was released from the hospital and allowed to return home to her family. The family sued on seven claims, and Johns Hopkins was found liable for falsely imprisoning Maya, fraudulently billing her family, and causing them emotional distress. The jury further found that social worker Catherine Bedy had battered Maya and that Dr. Sally Smith medically neglected the girl, who was 10 when she was admitted to Johns Hopkins, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/take-care-maya-trial-kowalski-family-awarded-176m-medical-abuse-case-drove-mother-suicide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
After finding the hospital liable, the jury determined it owed the Kowalski family $211 million in damages, <a href="https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2023/11/09/all-childrens-st-petersburg-maya-netflix-damages/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Tampa Bay Times.
Howard Hunter, who represented the hospital at the trial, released a statement saying the hospital plans to appeal the jury’s decision.
“We thank the jury for their time and attention during this trial and intend to pursue an appeal based on clear and prejudicial errors throughout the trial and deliberate conduct by plaintiff’s counsel that misled the jury,” the statement said. “The evidence clearly showed that Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital followed Florida’s mandatory reporting law in reporting suspected child abuse and, when those suspicions were confirmed by the district court, fully complied with Department of Children and Families (DCF) and court orders.”
Maya was just nine years old when she started having asthma attacks and headaches. Her symptoms soon evolved to include lesions on her arms and legs, and cramping in her feet, which began to curl so she couldn’t walk without assistance. Her parents, Jack and Beata, took her to doctors to find out what was wrong with their daughter, with at least one physician thinking the girl’s condition was all in her head.
“But Maya would be crying 24/7,” Jack, 61, <a href="https://people.com/take-care-of-maya-munchausen-by-proxy-accusation-maya-kowalski-mom-death-by-suicide-7509016" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> People Magazine in June. “We knew she wasn’t faking.”
Finally, the Kowalskis found Dr. Anthony Kirkpatrick, who evaluated Maya and diagnosed her with a rare disorder known as Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, an impairment of the nervous system that increases pain sensations – meaning even the slightest stimulus could cause severe pain to Maya. Kirkpatrick treated Maya and found that the only thing that worked for her condition was monthly infusions of the powerful anesthetic ketamine, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune <a href="https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/venice/2019/01/27/doctors-suspicion-tears-apart-venice-family/986798007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> back in 2019.
There are critics of the diagnosis and treatment since doctors don’t know what causes CRPS or exactly how to treat it, but the ketamine injections allowed Maya to return to life as an ordinary young girl.
All Children’s Hospital contends that it acted in Maya’s best interest by weaning her off medications and following the orders it received from the Department of Children and Families (DCF) after reporting suspected child abuse.
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DCF required the hospital to keep Maya separated from her mother for 87 days.
Maya’s father, Jack, testified earlier this month that he and his family were told they would be arrested if they removed Maya from the hospital, Fox 13 <a href="https://www.fox13news.com/news/take-care-of-maya-trial-maya-to-testify-in-220-million-case-against-all-childrens-hospital" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Beata, a registered nurse who escaped communist-era Poland, eventually committed suicide, believing that doing so would lead the court to return Maya to her family’s custody.
Just days after Beata took her own life, the case against the Kowalskis was dropped and Maya was allowed to leave the hospital – after keeping her for three months under a court-ordered separation that only allowed Beata to speak to Maya on the phone with someone listening in. Their devastating phone calls can be heard in the Netflix documentary.
If you are having thoughts of suicide, call or text 988 to reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline or go to <a href="http://speakingofsuicide.com/resources" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources</a> for a list of additional resources.

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The family of a child with a rare illness is suing a children’s hospital that secretly recorded them in a failed attempt to prove abuse.
Madison Meyer, 20, grew up with a mysterious illness that was first diagnosed as a connective tissue disorder, but when treatment failed and her health continued to decline, her parents, Bill Meyer and Dana Gascay, took her to numerous doctors across the country searching for answers, KPBS <a href="https://www.kpbs.org/news/health/2023/11/07/san-diego-rady-childrens-hospital-surveilled-teen-parents-failed-attempt-abuse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The family is now suing Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego, California, after staff allegedly filmed the family to prove Meyer’s condition wasn’t real.
Meyer’s illness resulted in numerous broken bones, dislocated joints, and chronic pain. She had multiple surgeries to correct these issues, but her family didn’t know what was causing them.
“To say we were concerned is an understatement,” Gascay said. “Obviously, as a parent, you hate standing by and seeing your child suffer,” Gascay told KPBS.
In 2019, Meyer’s doctors transferred her to Rady Children’s Hospital so she could receive care around the clock. Her parents were by her side the entire time, cleaning and bathing her and taking turns sleeping on a bed they cobbled together in Meyer’s hospital room.
The family is suing the hospital, saying that during that time – and unbeknownst to them – staffers secretly recorded the family 24/7, searching for signs of abuse. In court documents reviewed by KPBS, hospital employees admit to the surveillance.
Meyer’s family says in their lawsuit that the hospital didn’t have a search warrant for the surveillance and didn’t catch any signs of abuse. The family is suing the hospital, San Diego County, and individual employees, arguing the family’s privacy rights were violated.
“This was just beyond a horrific violation,” Gascay told KPBS. “You feel violated and dirty, because somebody&#8217;s there watching everything that you do.”
The hospital suspected that one or both of Meyer’s parents suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, in which a parent or guardian fakes or exaggerates illnesses and injuries in their child to receive attention from medical professionals.
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A San Diego County Superior Court commissioner reportedly said that the surveillance against the Meyer family was “unbelievable” and an “insensitive invasion of privacy,” according to the lawsuit.
The hospital did not comment on the specifics of the case.
“At Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, our top priority is providing the highest level of care to our patients and families,” the hospital said in a statement to the outlet. “The hospital does not comment generally on pending litigation and cannot comment specifically on this case due to patient privacy protections under federal and state law.”
San Diego County spokesman Michael Workman told KPBS that “social workers and medical professionals are required by law to report and investigate suspected child abuse.” He added that “no county employees were involved in the decision to surveil plaintiffs’ daughter’s hospital room.”
Dr. Shalon Nienow, Rady’s division director of child abuse pediatrics, said that she spoke to the county’s main child abuse investigator throughout the investigation into the alleged abuse.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kim-kardashian">Kim Kardashian</a> said her 10-year-old daughter <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/children">North</a> prefers a simpler existence with her father, musician <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kanye-west">Kanye West</a>.
The 43-year-old reality star made the revelation during the newest episode of the Hulu series “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/reality-tv">The Kardashians</a>,” which premiered Thursday, per <a href="https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiamh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmVvbmxpbmUuY29tL25ld3MvMTM4ODc4Ny93aHkta2ltLWthcmRhc2hpYW4tc2F5cy1ub3J0aC13ZXN0LXByZWZlcnMtbGl2aW5nLXdpdGgtZGFkLWthbnllLXdlc3TSAQA?hl=en-US&amp;gl=US&amp;ceid=US%3Aen">E! News</a>. 
&#8220;North will go to her dad&#8217;s [West] and she [will say], &#8216;Dad&#8217;s is the best. He has it all figured out. He doesn&#8217;t have a nanny or a chef or security. He lives in an apartment,'&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Kim</a> said in a joint confessional with her sister Kourtney Kardashian.
&#8220;And she will start crying, &#8216;Why don&#8217;t you have an apartment? I can&#8217;t believe we don&#8217;t have an apartment.'&#8221;
Kourtney, who has three children (Mason, 13, Penelope, 11, and Reign, 8) with her ex-boyfriend Scott Disick, said she’s had similar experiences with her kids.
&#8220;They do that at Scott&#8217;s, too. Like, &#8216;Dad has the best house. Your house sucks. He has the best house, it is not super big. The vibes are better,'&#8221; Kourtney lamented. &#8220;I feel like everything falls on the parent that is more involved.&#8221;
&#8220;They make their own food. That is amazing that you make Ramen,&#8221; Kim joked about her ex’s culinary skills. Kourtney replied, &#8220;You boil water and pour it onto some noodles.&#8221;
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Kim and West split in February 2021 and have had a rocky time co-parenting, with some fights playing out across the headlines. The former couple had four children together: North, plus Saint, 7, Chicago, 5, and Psalm, 4.
The SKIMS founder said part of her problem is having very high standards for fatherhood and what she wants for her children. 
“I had the best dad,” Kim said during a December 2022 podcast appearance, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/co-parenting-its-really-fing-hard-kim-kardashian-admits-kids-need-two-parents">reported</a>. “It’s hard. S*** like co-parenting, it’s really f***ing hard.”
“But I had the best dad,” she said again through her tears. “And I had the best memories and the greatest experience and that’s all I want for my kids. As long as they can have that, that’s what I would want for them.”
During the same conversation, Kim said she’ll “do anything to keep their lives as normal as possible.”
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