A Massachusetts middle school student who <a href="https://adfmedialegalfiles.blob.core.windows.net/files/MorrisonComplaint.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued his school and his town</a> after he was sent home for wearing a shirt emblazoned with the message, “There are only two genders” hit a roadblock in his attempt to express his views on the school campus.
On Wednesday, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts in Boston <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/court-denies-massachusetts-7th-grader-free-speech-request-following-legal-battle-two-genders-shirt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denied</a> Liam Morrison’s attorneys&#8217; request to suspend the school from barring the boy from expressing his views about gender before a final decision was made by the court.
“We were asking for an immediate order so that he could express himself for the rest of the school year,” Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) legal counsel Logan Spena stated. “Liam’s suing for the right to do what every other student in his school currently has the right to do, which is respectfully express their own view on a matter of enormous public concern. What is the relationship between sex and gender?”
Morrison, 12, had informed the Middleborough School Council in late April that his father had to pick him up from John T. Nichols Jr. Middle School on March 21 because he refused to change his t-shirt.
“I never thought that the shirt I wore to school on March 21 would lead me to speak with you today,” Liam began. “On that Tuesday morning, I was taken out of gym class to sit down with two adults for what turned out to be a very uncomfortable talk. I was told that people were complaining about the words on my shirt and the shirt was making some students feel unsafe.”
“I was told that I would need to remove my shirt before I could return to class,&#8221; he said. &#8220;When I nicely told them that I didn&#8217;t want to do that, they called my father. Thankfully, my dad, supportive of my decisions, came to pick me up.”
“What did my shirt say?” he asked. “Five simple words: ‘There are only two genders.’ Nothing harmful. Nothing threatening. Just a statement I believe to be a fact.”
“I have been told that my shirt was targeting a protected class,” he said. “Who is this protected class? Are their feelings more important than my rights? I don&#8217;t complain when I see Pride flags and diversity posters hung throughout the school. Do you know why? Because others have a right to their beliefs just as I do.”
In an email, Middleborough Public Schools Superintendent Carolyn Lyons <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/7th-grade-student-fights-back-school-told-him-change-there-are-only-two-genders-shirt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Liam violated the school dress code <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/middle-school-banned-boy-from-wearing-two-genders-shirt-family-prepares-to-sue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">because</a> the &#8220;content of Liam’s shirt targeted students of a protected class; namely in the area of gender identity.&#8221;
Liam came back to school wearing another shirt that read, &#8220;There are censored genders,&#8221; but school personnel told him to remove that shirt as well, he said.
“The school has other rules on what students can wear that it is allowed to enforce,&#8221; Spena said. “Liam&#8217;s not asking to literally wear whatever he wants, but he is asking to do what other students are already allowed to do, which is express their view on this topic in a non-disruptive manner. No matter what you think about the gender issue, it&#8217;s pretty remarkable that a school can punish a student for protesting censorship in America today.”
Mairead Elordi contributed to this article.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-boy-12-tells-school-board-he-was-sent-home-over-t-shirt-saying-there-are-only-2-genders">WATCH: Boy, 12, Tells School Board He Was Sent Home Over T-Shirt Saying &#8216;There Are Only 2 Genders&#8217;</a>

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The family of a 7th grade boy is preparing to sue his Massachusetts middle school for banning him from wearing a shirt that said, &#8220;There are only two genders.&#8221;
The Morrison family plans to file a lawsuit against Nichols Middle School for allegedly violating their son Liam’s First Amendment rights.
Nichols Middle School is part of the Middleborough Public Schools district about halfway between Boston and Cape Cod.
Liam, 12, said he was told to remove his &#8220;two genders&#8221; shirt almost immediately when he arrived at school.
In an email, Middleborough Public Schools Superintendent Carolyn Lyons <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/7th-grade-student-fights-back-school-told-him-change-there-are-only-two-genders-shirt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Liam violated the school dress code because the &#8220;content of Liam’s shirt targeted students of a protected class; namely in the area of gender identity.&#8221;
Liam came back to school wearing another shirt that read, &#8220;There are censored genders,&#8221; but school personnel told him to remove that shirt as well, he said.
&#8220;I&#8217;m just voicing my opinion about a statement that I believe to be true. And I feel like some people may think that I&#8217;m imposing hate speech, even though it&#8217;s not directed towards anyone,&#8221; Liam said.
The middle school&#8217;s lawyers <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/7th-grade-student-fights-back-school-told-him-change-there-are-only-two-genders-shirt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the family&#8217;s attorneys with Massachusetts Family Institute (MFI) that the school planned to continue to &#8220;prohibit the wearing of a T-shirt by Liam Morrison or anyone else which is likely to be considered discriminatory, harassing and/or bullying to others including those who are gender nonconforming by suggesting that their sexual orientation, gender identity or expression does not exist or is invalid.&#8221;
Sam Whiting, a staff attorney for MFI, said he expects the Morrison family to prevail.
&#8220;We believe that we&#8217;re going to get a win on this. I mean, I really can&#8217;t think of a better fact pattern to vindicate a student&#8217;s First Amendment rights,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/family-pursues-legal-action-school-censored-son-only-two-genders-shirt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Whiting.
&#8220;Liam did everything correct in this situation. He hasn&#8217;t disrupted anything. He hasn&#8217;t harassed anyone. And yet they&#8217;re still censoring him just because they don&#8217;t like what his shirt had to say. And that&#8217;s made even more obvious by the fact that they made him take off a censored version of the shirt,&#8221; Whiting said.
Whiting said Nichols Middle School censored Liam because of his &#8220;political and cultural viewpoint&#8221; on an issue that is the subject of &#8220;widespread debate right now in the public square.&#8221;
The next step is a summons to federal court, the family&#8217;s lawyer said.
The 7th grader said his classmates has been extremely supportive, and no student told him his shirt offended them.
&#8220;Everyone in my homeroom and everyone in my gym class had supported what I had done,&#8221; Liam said.
He encouraged others to be vocal about their beliefs as well.
&#8220;Always fight for what you believe in and, well, never let anyone stop you from believing really,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/family-pursues-legal-action-school-censored-son-only-two-genders-shirt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;To be honest, in the place that we live, or in the time that we live, there are a lot of people that try and make it so that you&#8217;re not allowed to believe what you can. But, it&#8217;s being taken away from us. And being able to speak up not just about your own &#8230; being able to voice your opinion.&#8221;

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The transgender-identifying child of Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA) has been dealt a year of probation after being charged with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/non-binary-son-of-top-democratic-lawmaker-arrested-during-far-left-riot-against-police" target="_blank" rel="noopener">assaulting a police officer</a>, vandalizing a monument, and other crimes during a Boston Common protest in January.
Under the terms of the deal, Jared &#8220;Riley&#8221; Dowell must perform 30 hours of community service, write an apology to the officer who was struck, and pay Boston back the cost of cleaning up the graffiti, <a href="https://whdh.com/news/rep-katherine-clarks-daughter-sentenced-to-probation-after-arrest-at-protest/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to 7News Boston WHDH</a>.
Boston police <a href="https://bpdnews.com/news/2023/1/22/tmn87xossij9grhs7vwb79ankv7c3u" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> in late January that a suspect, identified then as 23-year-old Jared Dowell, had been arrested after officers said they saw Dowell defacing the Parkman Bandstand Monument by spray-painting it with “NO COP CITY” and &#8220;ACAB&#8221; — an acronym for &#8220;All Cops Are B******s.&#8221;
The protest was taking place amid <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/35-arrested-in-fiery-atlanta-police-training-site-protest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">demonstrations</a> in Georgia around the construction area of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, which critics have dubbed “Cop City,&#8221; and following the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/law-enforcement-george-floyd-vienna-climate-and-environment-forests-21a4ed944c898d316db5872d87cea440" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shooting death</a> of activist Manuel “Tortuguita&#8221; Esteban Paez Terán.
&#8220;During the arrest of Jared Dowell, a group of about 20 protesters began to surround officers while screaming profanities though megaphones on the public street causing traffic to come to a standstill,&#8221; Boston police said. &#8220;While interfering with the arrest of Jared Dowell, an officer was hit in the face and could be seen bleeding from the nose and mouth.&#8221;
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Clark, who is now the House minority whip, took office in 2013. Upon being sworn in a decade ago, Clark thanked her husband Rodney, and her three children, including Jared, a <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?316734-5/swearing-representative-katherine-clark" target="_blank" rel="noopener">C-SPAN video</a> shows. In 2021, Clark shared a photo in a tweet recognizing Riley and International Non-Binary People&#8217;s Day.
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Every person should be celebrated and free to live safely, regardless of their gender expression. Today, Riley and I are celebrating <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/InternationalNonBinaryPeoplesDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#InternationalNonBinaryPeoplesDay</a> with a reminder that inclusivity and acceptance make our entire community stronger. We see you. <a href="https://t.co/tyrygsAPaf">pic.twitter.com/tyrygsAPaf</a>
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&#8220;Last night, my daughter was arrested in Boston, Massachusetts. I love Riley, and this is a very difficult time in the cycle of joy and pain in parenting,&#8221; Clark <a href="https://twitter.com/WhipKClark/status/1617292265738702849" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> in January. &#8220;This will be evaluated by the legal system, and I am confident in that process.&#8221;

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A Massachusetts middle school student challenged his town’s school board after he was sent home  school for wearing a shirt emblazoned with the message, “There are only two genders.”
Liam Morrison, 12, told the Middleborough School Council that his father had to pick him up from John T. Nichols Jr. Middle School on March 21 because he refused to change his t-shirt.
“I never thought that the shirt I wore to school on March 21 would lead me to speak with you today,” Liam began. “On that Tuesday morning, I was taken out of gym class to sit down with two adults for what turned out to be a very uncomfortable talk. I was told that people were complaining about the words on my shirt and the shirt was making some students feel unsafe.”
The boy said the adults&#8217; assurances he was not in trouble did little to calm his fears.
“I was told that I would need to remove my shirt before I could return to class,&#8221; he said. &#8220;When I nicely told them that I didn&#8217;t want to do that, they called my father. Thankfully, my dad, supportive of my decisions, came to pick me up.”
Liam told the council his shirt more no profaner hateful message.
“What did my shirt say?” he asked. “Five simple words: ‘There are only two genders.’ Nothing harmful. Nothing threatening. Just a statement I believe to be a fact.”
“I have been told that my shirt was targeting a protected class,” he said. “Who is this protected class? Are their feelings more important than my rights? I don&#8217;t complain when I see Pride flags and diversity posters hung throughout the school. Do you know why? Because others have a right to their beliefs just as I do.”
Liam said no one had complained to him about the shirt before he was pulled aside.
“Actually, just the opposite,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Several kids told me that they supported my actions and that they wanted one, too.”
“I was told that my shirt was a disruption in learning,” he continued. “No one got up and stormed out of class. No one burst into tears. I&#8217;m sure I would have noticed if they had.”
School officials concerned about disruptions should focus on unruly behavior, not slogans on shirts, he said.
“I experience disruptions to my learning every day,” Liam said. “Kids acting out in class are a disruption, yet nothing is done. Why do the rules apply to one and yet not another? I feel like these adults were telling me that it wasn’t okay to have an opposing view.”
“I have learned a lot from this experience; I learned that a lot of other students share my view; I learned that adults don’t always do the right thing or make the right decisions,” he declared. “I know that I have a right to wear the shirt with those five words; even at 12 years old I have my own political opinions and I have a right to express those opinions. Even at school, this right is called the First Amendment to the Constitution.”
“My hope in being here tonight is to bring the school committee’s attention to this issue; I hope that you will speak up for the rest of us so that we can express ourselves without being pulled out of class. Next time it might not only be me; it might be more students that decide to speak out,” he concluded.
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Federal and State authorities have arrested a prolific <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/car-thefts-in-america-reach-highest-level-in-over-a-decade-analysis-finds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">car theft</a> gang in Massachusetts.
The U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts announced the arrests on Wednesday. Seven individuals were arrested for allegedly stealing the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/milwaukee-has-a-car-theft-epidemic-the-city-is-suing-car-makers-claiming-their-cars-are-too-easy-to-steal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">catalytic converters</a> from some 470 cars between 2022 and 2023. According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office, the thieves were extremely skilled and were able to extract the part from the cars in less than a minute in most cases.
“The members of this criminal network arrested today, under the cloak of darkness, traveled throughout our state cutting valuable catalytic converters from vehicles owned by unsuspecting citizens and businesses,&#8221; Massachusetts State Police Interim Col. John Mawn Jr. said in a statement via the <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/04/13/massachusetts-men-with-speed-of-nascar-pit-crew-allegedly-stole-470-catalytic-converters-worth-2-million/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a>. &#8220;Their criminal acts violated the security and rights of vehicle owners, necessitated costly repairs, and interfered with commercial operations of business owners and the daily lives of numerous victims.”
According to the <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/seven-arrested-stealing-catalytic-converters-over-470-vehicles-and-targeting-atms-and" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a>, law enforcement officials from Massachusetts and New Hampshire identified a maroon Acura SUV which was involved in several catalytic converter thefts. Authorities also identified at least two suspects. The suspects targeted residential and commercial vehicles; the thieves were skilled, and using jacks and power tools, were able to cut away the part from the underside of a car. They then placed the parts in the back of the Acura and moved on.
The thieves were reportedly able to make off with the catalytic converters within a minute in most cases. At a <a href="https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/7-mass-men-accused-stealing-2m-catalytic-converters-vehicles-across-new-england/VSHYGKQC4ZCTHMI75AMO6XK24A/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press conference</a> Wednesday, U.S. Attorney Rachel Rollins played surveillance video of the incidents. &#8220;Like a NASCAR pit crew, these videos depict the skill and speed with which these individuals could jack up a vehicle and cut the catalytic converter out,&#8221; Rollins said.
According to the report, the maroon Acura belonged to the crew leader, who planned and participated in each theft. It is alleged that he committed these crimes on a full-time basis, working multiple nights per week for more than eight hours per night. Altogether, the ring was responsible for the thefts of at least 471 catalytic converters across Massachusetts and New Hampshire in 2022 and 2023 alone. It is alleged that on multiple nights, they targeted more than 10 vehicles in a single night; in one night, they committed 26 thefts.
The thieves then sold them to a chop-shopper who accumulated stolen catalytic converters from multiple theft crews and in turn, sold them to scrap dealers throughout the Northeast, including several dealers who have since been charged for transportation of stolen property and money laundering. Catalytic converters reduce pollutant gases from car engines into safe emissions using chemical reactions. The catalysts for the chemical reactions include precious metals like palladium, platinum, and rhodium; they are extremely rare and more valuable per ounce than gold. Stealing a catalytic converter also renders the vehicle inoperable, both mechanically and legally.
The thieves are also alleged to have conspired to steal from ATMs of banks in Massachusetts on three separate occasions in December 2022. They are also alleged to have burglarized two New Hampshire jewelry stores in January 2023.
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The thieves are charged with conspiracy to transport stolen property in interstate commerce, which carries a five-year prison term, three years supervised release and a $250,000 fine; interstate transportation of stolen property, which carries a 10-year prison term, supervised release, and another $250,000 fine; conspiracy to commit bank theft, which also carries five years in prison, supervised release, and a $250,000 fine; bank theft, which carries 10 years, supervised release, and a $250,000 fine; and conspiracy to commit money laundering, which carries a 20-year prison term and a $500,000 fine.

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Federal agents reportedly stormed the wrong <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/boston" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boston</a> hotel room and interrogated an unassuming man late Tuesday.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI</a>&#8216;s Boston Division was &#8220;assisting&#8221; the Department of Defense in a &#8220;training exercise at a hotel in Boston to simulate a situation their personnel might encounter in a deployed environment,&#8221; according to a statement from the bureau.
At approximately 10 p.m., the FBI said agents were &#8220;mistakenly sent to the wrong room and detained an individual, not the intended role player&#8221; in a fluke blamed on &#8220;inaccurate information.&#8221;
Sources told local <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/revere-hotel-boston-fbi-botched-training-cheryl-fiandaca-wbz/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CBS affiliate WBZ-TV</a> that agents woke up the man — identified as a Delta Air Lines pilot — handcuffed him, interrogated him for close to an hour, and put him in the shower on the 15th floor of the Revere Hotel.
The FBI said nobody was injured in the mix-up.
&#8220;The Boston Police Department was called and responded to the scene to confirm that this was indeed a training exercise,&#8221; the FBI added. &#8220;Safety is always a priority of the FBI, and our law enforcement partners, and we take these incidents very seriously. The Boston Division is reviewing the incident with DOD for further action as deemed appropriate.&#8221;
Lt. Col. Mike Burns, who is with U.S. Army Special Operations Command, expressed the DoD&#8217;s <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/05/us/fbi-us-army-personnel-raid-wrong-room-hotel-guest/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;deepest apologies&#8221;</a> to the man.
“The training was meant to enhance soldiers’ skills to operate in realistic and unfamiliar environments. The training team, unfortunately, entered the wrong room and detained an individual unaffiliated with the exercise,” he said in a statement <a href="https://apnews.com/article/defense-department-training-exercise-fbi-b65acf90207aaf0f973bed41f86e3e13" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported by The Associated Press</a>.
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Delta Air Lines said in a statement that it was &#8220;looking into reports of an alleged incident in Boston that may involve Delta people&#8221; and had &#8220;nothing further to share at this time other than to reaffirm our commitment to ensuring the safety and well-being of our people.&#8221;

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A Massachusetts school district superintendent finalist claimed committee members rescinded an offer to hire him after he addressed two female officials as &#8220;ladies&#8221; in an email.
According to local media, Vito Perrone received an offer as the head of Easthampton Public Schools on March 24 until the School Committee revoked the proposal on the grounds of using a so-called &#8220;microaggression&#8221; in an email sent to the members.
Perrone said he sent an email making three separate requests to Chairperson Cynthia Kwiecinski and executive assistant to the committee Suzanne Colby about his offer. At the top of the email, Perrone said he wrote &#8216;ladies, which he then claimed Kwiecinski allegedly called a microaggression, saying &#8220;the fact that he didn&#8217;t know that as an educator was a problem.&#8221;
&#8220;I was shocked,&#8221; Peronne told <a href="https://www.gazettenet.com/Easthampton-School-Committee-superintendent-search-50473440">The Daily Hampshire Gazette</a>. &#8220;I grew up in a time when &#8216;ladies&#8217; and &#8216;gentlemen&#8217; was a sign of respect. I didn&#8217;t intend to insult anyone.&#8221;
Perrone told <a href="https://www.westernmassnews.com/2023/04/02/easthampton-superintendent-candidate-offer-revoked-after-addressing-school-committee-ladies/">Western Mass News</a> that Kwiecinski and Colby felt &#8220;insulted by the address.&#8221;
&#8220;And I said, well, I grew up in a time — the sixties, seventies — when ladies and gentlemen was a term of respect,&#8221; said Perrone. &#8220;That&#8217;s how I intended it, and I didn&#8217;t mean to insult you and was basically told my apology didn&#8217;t mean anything, and they were going to rescind the offer.&#8221;
Perrone requested to negotiate a higher salary and more sick days after comparing it to his current salary as an interim superintendent for the West Springfield school district, which was around $14,000 more than the East Hampton Public Schools offer.
&#8220;This job was not about the money for me,&#8221; he told the Gazette. &#8220;I honestly felt like I was coming home to Easthampton. I coached football here. I was principal here when we built the school. I have such wonderful memories … I was excited to come back.&#8221;
Kwiecinski told the Gazette she could not address administrative matters when asked for comment.
Marin Goldstein, a School Committee member, told the Gazette that executive session meetings are confidential.
Perrone contacted the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents, who informed him nothing could be done, considering he never formally signed a contract with the district.
&#8220;Honestly, I am truly, truly disappointed that I won&#8217;t be in Easthampton in that building,&#8221; Perrone told the Gazette. &#8220;I&#8217;m just sad.&#8221;

Superintendent Finalist Says Massachusetts School District Reverses Offer After Addressing Two Female Officials As ‘Ladies’ In Email

Superintendent Finalist Says Massachusetts School District Reverses Offer After Addressing Two Female Officials As 'Ladies' In Email

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A resident doctor who was training in family medicine not only had an alleged huge cache of child porn, but he also allegedly recorded children <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/15/doctor-bradford-ferrick-accused-of-possessing-child-porn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as young as 6 years old</a> using a camera hidden in a bracelet as he examined them.
Dr. Bradford David Ferrick, 32, of Amherst, Massachusetts, was ordered held without bail on Tuesday. He had been completing his medical residency at Baystate Franklin Family Medicine since last summer.
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“I can think of no greater fear as a parent or guardian than potential harm coming to your child. Today we allege that this doctor, who held a position of trust with access to children, maintained child sexual abuse material,” U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins stated.
The first incident that led to the discovery of Ferrick’s alleged depravity came when police in Winchester, where Ferrick’s parents live, reviewed three cyber tips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children; those tips suggested a Google account was uploading child pornography. Files had been uploaded to an IP address in the Syracuse, New York, area; Ferrick was attending the University of New York Upstate Medical University there.
More tips reportedly found illicit material uploaded at an IP address connected to Ferrick’s parents’ home. Investigators searching the home found 61 electronic devices, including hidden camera systems and memory cards holding “thousands of images and videos” purportedly showing child pornography, The Boston Globe <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/15/metro/resident-doctor-accused-child-pornography-possession-ordered-held-without-bail-federal-court/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The affidavit for Ferrick stated that he had purchased “numerous hidden camera devices.”
Federal investigators said they found a hidden camera in a bathroom of a house belonging to Ferrick’s relatives, who have two toddlers; the camera was designed to masquerade as a wall outlet. The box for the camera was found at Ferrick&#8217;s parents&#8217; house.
One recording of Ferrick reportedly showed him discussing a young boy’s genitals with the boy&#8217;s mother.
Federal authorities have created a <a href="https://forms.fbi.gov/seeking-victim-information-in-bradford-ferrick-investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">page</a> for people who think Ferrick may have targeted their children. The page lists five facilities where such an incident might have occurred: Upstate University Hospital, Upstate Galisano Children Hospital, Baystate Medical Center Department of  Family Medicine-Baystate Franklin Family Medicine, Baystate Medical Center Department of Pediatrics, and Baystate Medical Center Department of Emergency Medicine-Pediatric Emergency Medicine.
Chalonda James, speaking for Baystate Health, stated, “We cannot comment on pending criminal charges. Ferrick has been on unpaid administrative leave from Baystate Franklin Medical Center since mid-February. We are cooperating with law enforcement authorities as they proceed with their investigation.”

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A Massachusetts high school boy competed with the girls’ track and field team and helped them win the state’s indoor track and field championship in February in yet another example of males competing against females due to transgender identity.
Junior Chloe Barnes of Brookline High School <a href="https://v5.airtableusercontent.com/v1/15/15/1678888800000/G2vkhiSjj3FfsRVxrT4_zQ/wbvUCxdzb19rzXQaWlb2ixUJlxjmjTdfso5loQa3IKSr9ix4NNV-skYa_aD01AIj59CSPKx1gHpBrblpLx1yguw6XkAtRTtaNCxWZZNbCI0/QBqjDTJ9nA5A6uVCOBtwCZewVaE3nbGDrDTvfYXjCLc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">finished fourth</a> in the 55-yard hurdles at the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) Division 1 indoor track and field championship, accumulating five points for his team.
Brookline won the title by 12 points over second-place finisher Newton North. At the meet, which took place on February 19, only the top eight runners from the preliminaries advanced to the finals. Shayla Quill, a senior from Andover, placed ninth, meaning that she missed out on advancing while Barnes placed third in the preliminary race.
“Deal with it,&#8221; Barnes <a href="https://thecypressonline.com/45648/showcase/transgender-athletes-reflect-on-their-experiences-with-track-teams/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in 2022, reacting to those critical of the role of trans-identifying athletes on athletic teams. &#8220;Just deal with it.&#8221;
Girls track and field coach Lee Eddy has championed Barnes and a girl who wants to compete as a boy but preferred to remain anonymous, saying, “We have all kinds of different people on the team with different characters, different types of people. [X] and Chloe just kind of added to the potpourri of what we have and they blend in like everybody else does in terms of being themselves, and they’re allowed to be themselves. I think it’s great and I think they’re great. I think actually we learn a lot from each other and I learn a lot from them.”
The Brookline School Committee Policy Review Subcommittee wrote in 2019, “Students who are transgender may participate in accordance with the gender identity they consistently assert at school. Interscholastic athletic activities are addressed through the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association Gender Identity Policy (MIAA) clarification.”
The MIAA <a href="https://miaa.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/MIAA_Handbook21_23_O.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">handbook</a> states, “Students are entitled to be accepted by their schools as the gender with which they identify across all school programs. This means that athletic opportunities must be afforded to students in accordance with their identified gender, not necessarily their birth-assigned gender.”
“Blanket prohibitions based on gender should be avoided,” the handbook continues. “The MIAA case in 1979 and D.M. case decided by the 8th Circuit Court show that when an athletic association has a blanket prohibition of boys playing on girls teams such rules were overly broad and not sufficiently tailored to the interest in advancing gender equity in school based athletic programs.”

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/national-archives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Archives</a> told Congress its staff obtained nine boxes of materials from the Boston office of a personal attorney to President Joe Biden.
<a href="https://www.grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2023-03-07_nara_to_grassley_johnson_biden_records.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A letter</a> sent to a pair of Republican senators this week reportedly divulges new details about the inquiry into Biden&#8217;s handling of government documents, specifically about Patrick Moore, the attorney identified as the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-attorney-interviewed-by-feds-in-docs-review-but-no-302-summary-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one who initially found</a> classified materials while packing up the president&#8217;s former think tank office in early November.
&#8220;When NARA [National Archives and Records Administration] contacted President Biden’s personal counsel on November 3, 2022, to arrange to pick up boxes from the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C., they informed NARA that Mr. Moore had moved other boxes from the Penn Biden Center to Mr. Moore’s law firm in Boston,&#8221; Acting Archivist of the United States Debra Steidel Wall wrote in the letter dated Tuesday.
Wall divulged that the National Archives was informed Biden’s counsel began their review of the materials in the Penn Biden Center in October 2022 — earlier than previously known — and had moved some boxes to Boston at some point afterwards.
&#8220;NARA staff retrieved nine boxes from Mr. Moore’s Boston office&#8221; at the request of the Justice Department on November 9 and these boxes were secured in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, Wall wrote. It is not clear whether there is any classified materials in these boxes, as Wall noted that her agency &#8220;has not reviewed the contents of the boxes found at Mr. Moore’s Boston office.&#8221;
The letter is addressed to Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Johnson (R-WI), who have written to Wall <a href="https://www.grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/johnson_grassley_to_national_archives__records_administration_biden_records.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seeking more information</a> <a href="https://www.grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/grassley_johnson_to_national_archives_and_records_administration_-_biden_records_followup.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">about the discovery of documents</a> marked classified dating back to Biden&#8217;s time as vice president and U.S. senator at multiple locations.
The documents controversy dates back to early November, when Biden’s attorneys found about 10 records marked classified while clearing out Biden’s office at the Penn Biden Center, according to his legal team. However, the discovery was not revealed to the public <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-center-classified-documents/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">until CBS News broke the story</a> of an inquiry by U.S. Attorney John Lausch. After the revelation, Biden <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/us/politics/biden-documents-classified-foreign-countries.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said his team</a> immediately contacted the National Archives to turn over the materials.
Following the initial review by Lausch, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed former U.S. Attorney Robert Hur as special counsel to examine whether “any person or entity violated the law in connection with this matter.”
Moore spoke with a team led by Lausch during the initial review of the president’s handling of documents, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/17/politics/patrick-moore-attorney-interviewed-biden-classified-documents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sources told CNN</a>. A Freedom of Information Act request revealed emails showing Moore in contact with the National Archives about picking up boxes of materials from his office on November 9, however the number of boxes were not clear at the time the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/biden-boxes-boston-office" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Examiner reported about it last month</a>,
FBI searches for documents have taken place at Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, his beach house in Rehoboth, Delaware, and the Penn Biden Center, a think tank located in Washington, D.C., which have turned up more materials of interest to investigators. Biden’s personal attorneys and the White House have insisted throughout the process that they are cooperating with the National Archives and Justice Department.
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Classified documents have also been found in the homes of former President Donald Trump, who is facing an investigation by a separate special counsel, and former Vice President Mike Pence, prompting the National Archives to call on other former presidents and vice presidents to check for such materials.
Sen. Mark Warner, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, warned U.S. intelligence community leaders on Wednesday that a lack of transparency to Congress about the documents might jeopardize the Biden administration&#8217;s efforts to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-asks-congress-to-reauthorize-fisa-surveillance-powers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">renew a surveillance law this year</a>. “This trust relationship has to go two ways,&#8221; <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/08/warner-administration-classified-docs-biden-00086107" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he said</a>.

Nine Boxes Of Docs Taken From Biden Attorney’s Office In Boston

Nine Boxes Of Docs Taken From Biden Attorney's Office In Boston

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I call my youngest sibling with special needs “little brother,” but if Michael Hugo, the defamed Democratic chairman of the Framingham City Council in Massachusetts were in my shoes, he’d probably just call him a “<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/massachusetts-democrat-told-step-down-abortion-comments-leave-parents-irate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">budget constraint</a>” — at least that’s what his recent comments imply.
At an earlier Framingham City Council meeting, Hugo <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnypost.com%2F2023%2F02%2F24%2Fmassachusettes-dem-michael-hugo-denounced-for-abortion-comments%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7Ckhamrick%40studentsforlife.org%7C9a84c1e688bf47ce23e608db1b51a36f%7Cb3f92ab929b141449c57d11e0e7a368a%7C0%7C0%7C638133809724856794%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=1cUR4MdDKN8iuz8CarAWRwVBVabzFUGZ%2FUFBfS1dkHI%3D&amp;reserved=0">voiced complaints</a> about the cost burden of special education for children with disabilities who were not aborted. His comments were met with backlash from both sides of the political aisle and families with special needs children. Hugo issued a <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.metrowestdailynews.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Flocal%2F2023%2F02%2F20%2Fframingham-ma-hugo-apologizes-special-ed-cost-comments%2F69916662007%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7Ckhamrick%40studentsforlife.org%7C9a84c1e688bf47ce23e608db1b51a36f%7Cb3f92ab929b141449c57d11e0e7a368a%7C0%7C0%7C638133809724856794%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=YGrH%2FWEJhHwfkTkMiolgdffPLbSMnhiXy7959wbKMK4%3D&amp;reserved=0">public apology</a> 10 days after the event, attempting to backpedal his ableist stance by apologizing and calling his comments “offensive and hurtful.” 
It wasn’t enough, however, and Hugo was forced to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/massachusetts-democrat-resigns-following-backlash-comments-abortion-special-needs-children">step down</a> from his position. 
I have serious ideological disagreements with this discriminatory, pro-abortion agenda — but to me, this goes beyond that. It’s personal.
When Hugo began his comments by criticizing the life-saving work of pregnancy resource centers (PRCs), he doubted the integrity of PRCS sonographers by claiming they would misdiagnose defects by “proclaiming that it is a beautiful child living inside the mother.”
My own little brother, Nicholas, was a beautiful child living inside my mother when she received news of a fetal abnormality at a 37-week ultrasound. The doctors noticed that my brother had a mass on his head, thinking it was a blood clot. It turned out to be a rare brain tumor. 
For abortion supporters such as Michael Hugo, this would be the perfect time to pressure a mother into abortion. Thankfully, my mom was 37 weeks pregnant in a conservative state, and she wholly believed in the dignity of her child’s life. However, the violence of abortion is often what follows a fetal diagnosis. As an example, an estimated <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fobgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com%2Fdoi%2Ffull%2F10.1002%2Fpd.2910&amp;data=05%7C01%7Ckhamrick%40studentsforlife.org%7C9a84c1e688bf47ce23e608db1b51a36f%7Cb3f92ab929b141449c57d11e0e7a368a%7C0%7C0%7C638133809725013043%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=xfHBC5SFJn9JDj4HzbE8f%2Bk0aVnTuK5PLU72u6NeuD8%3D&amp;reserved=0">60 – 90%</a> of children diagnosed with Down Syndrome in the womb are aborted in the United States in comparison to <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.guttmacher.org%2Ffact-sheet%2Finduced-abortion-united-states&amp;data=05%7C01%7Ckhamrick%40studentsforlife.org%7C9a84c1e688bf47ce23e608db1b51a36f%7Cb3f92ab929b141449c57d11e0e7a368a%7C0%7C0%7C638133809725013043%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=hX6ThFhikx%2BhGA4JFZAeg2y7oLbCjvJU9LvPkS3fIC0%3D&amp;reserved=0">18% of all pregnancies</a> ending in abortion.
I recently held a sign at the 2023 March for Life in Washington, D.C., that said, “A Diagnosis Should Not be a Death Sentence” in response to the alarmingly high rate of abortions due to fetal diagnosis. And while it doesn&#8217;t change the morality of the issue, many of these diagnoses are often wrong, as <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2022%2F01%2F01%2Fupshot%2Fpregnancy-birth-genetic-testing.html&amp;data=05%7C01%7Ckhamrick%40studentsforlife.org%7C9a84c1e688bf47ce23e608db1b51a36f%7Cb3f92ab929b141449c57d11e0e7a368a%7C0%7C0%7C638133809725013043%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=po8gihKHALRXdVr0tgHD18j7OVCZUM5%2F%2BldVs%2F0cCqI%3D&amp;reserved=0">The New York Times has reported</a> that 85% of positive results on common prenatal tests are incorrect.
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Ableism clearly starts in the womb for abortion supporters — but it doesn’t end there.
Moments after Nicholas’ birth, a neonatologist at the hospital told my mom that her newborn’s life would “not be worth much.” He claimed Nicholas would “be a vegetable,” and it would be unlikely that Nicholas would walk, talk, or keep up with his peers.
Nicholas is now a healthy 12-year-old boy who runs, talks up a storm, swims competitively, and loves his trampoline — although to be clear, his life would still be equally valuable even if the neonatologist had been correct.
Yes, he lives his life daily with special needs. He receives specialized medical treatment, as well as educational and developmental support from a reading specialist, an occupational therapist, and other special services. His life is different in many ways from mine, but that doesn’t mean his life isn’t worth living.
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However, Hugo views these “special services” designed to help my brother as too costly. As he said, “Our school budget will have to absorb the cost of a child in special education, supplying lots and lots of special services to children, who were born with the defect.”
His statement reduces my brother to a financial strain because of a “defect.” It’s really a heartless stance and denies the resilience of children with special needs like Nicholas. They truly defy the odds by surviving diagnoses, countless surgeries, and treatments.
I am disgusted by Hugo’s stance, but I can’t say I’m surprised. It’s perfectly in alignment with the beliefs of Margaret Sanger, founder of the leading abortion vendor in America, Planned Parenthood.
A little more than a century ago, <a href="https://www.jcrtl.org/planned-parenthoods-margaret-sanger.html">Sanger wrote sentiments</a> similar to Hugo, saying: “No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.”
Eugenics was on the rise in Sanger&#8217;s day, and it is here today — Planned Parenthoods are tucked into suburbs across America doing the work she championed: ending the life of minority groups, those with intellectual disabilities, and even those with physical abnormalities.
Democrats like Hugo need to get their facts straight. They cannot be the party of diversity while supporting the eradication of minority groups through eugenics. They cannot be the party of equality while discriminating against special needs students because of expenses. They cannot be the party of inclusion when they directly and intentionally exclude an entire group of human beings — the pre-born — from the fundamental and constitutional right to life.
Thankfully, Hugo finally did step down after publicly supporting pre-born children losing their lives. Nevertheless, my prayer is that any American who doesn’t know where they stand on abortion will lose any last shred of respect they may have for the “pro-choice” argument. At the end of the day, it’s just pro-discrimination.
Anna Young is a Student Spokeswoman with Students for Life of America and an undergraduate student at Concordia University Wisconsin.
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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