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In a victory for the LAPD and a crushing loss for a mother, a judge threw out the case of a woman who was suing police for killing her toddler with a stray bullet during a hostage showdown. This is a very complicated case, and I’m surprised it was decided so quickly.
On the day her daughter was killed, Lorena Lopez remembers that she begged police to negotiate with the gunman who was holding her daughter hostage, rather than shooting. Continue reading »
New moms often complain nobody ever tells them the bad parts of pregnancy, childbirth and the 18+ years thereafter.
Instead, the freshly pregnant find out about things like meconium aspiration only after they’ve pushed out a baby who is quickly whisked away to the NICU.
Or that it’s completely within the realm of possibility that her beautiful new baby will incessantly cry for the first three months of its life.
Or that her beautiful new baby will someday develop a condition that not even the experts can identify.
Or that one day she may actually call her 8-year-old son an asshole — and not feel all that bad about it. Continue reading »
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