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In October in Modesto, California, Kelli Pratt, 45, was arrested after she allegedly held down her 65-year-old husband and bit him over 20 times, tearing out chunks of flesh, because he was too ill and tired to have sex with her; infections in the wounds killed him six days later. Pratt suffers from multiple sclerosis and sometimes uses a wheelchair; her husband had been in the hospital for diabetes a week before the attack. According to an officer who was present when Pratt was videotaped in custody, “She refused to wash up, so she basically looks like a vampire with blood all over her face and teeth.”
In August 19-year-old Cherise Mosley sued the Aaron Family Planning Clinic in Houston, seeking damages for an abortion it provided her when she was 17. Mosley admits she used a fake ID to persuade the clinic she was over 18, specifically because she did not want her parents notified. But she now regrets the abortion and claims the clinic should have realized she was lying and contacted her family; she believes her parents would have offered to help her keep the child.
Update
Researchers writing in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine reported that covering a wart with duct tape for six days at a time works better than the standard freezing treatment….German engineer Matthias Knigge said he has built a desk with an air bag, for office workers in need of a quick nap….And in Marietta, Georgia, a cattle truck crashed, killing nine cows (and the driver) and injuring four others so badly they had to be euthanized; the sixteen surviving animals were loaded onto another truck and continued on to the slaughterhouse.
