Thursday, April 5, 2012

What's in The News Today

A ghost ship from Japan's tsunami is spotted in Canada. The U.S. Coast has deployed a ship to sink the fishing vessel from Japan's coast last year. The crew will attempt to sink the ship with a 25-millimeter cannon. The vessel is a rusted trawler (fishing vessel). Japan identified the ship and it was used for catching squid. The trawler was spotted near British Columbia by Canadian military air patrol.

CNN U.S. (April 5, 2012). U.S. Coast Guard to sink Japanese boat washed away by tsunami. Retrieved April 5, 2012, from  http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/05/us/japan-tsunami-ship/index.html?hpt=hp_t2


A father snaps after being accused of child abuse killing his wife and himself. William O'Shell went on a killing rampage when he was accused of abusing his 3-month-old daughter "Alyssa." The child was put into foster care because x-rays revealed she had 11 broken bones and doctors just assumed that she was beaten. On the same day of the murder-suicide a doctor at Colorado Children's Hospital suspected another cause for the broken bones. Alyssa had a rare genetic disease spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) that caused her broken bones. Alyssa died on October 28, 2008 from muscular atrophy. Alyssa's maternal grandparents stated  "the tragedy could have been prevented and 4 years later their lawsuits have been unsuccessful and that they didn't care about the money, but just wanted someone to say this was wrong and things need to be changed." The parents of Alyssa pleaded with the doctors to check for something else that caused Alyssa's pain and fractures, but they didn't,  and called in social services. The doctors didn't bother looking for other causes of her injuries and they didn't perform a thorough evaluation of the child's health. The foster parents took Aylssa to the Children's Hospital because she was failing to thrive and that is when the doctors found classic signs of SMA: turned in thumb, bell shaped stomach, frog legs and labored breathing and struggled to hold her head. . They ordered genetic testing and it revealed  SMA, but no one informed the parents of their findings. Two weeks later a social worker called Alyssa's parents lawyer to tell them the test results, but the parents were already dead for two weeks. The grandparent Paul Cuin also stated "William and Tiffany O'Shell lost all hope of ever getting back Alyssa and that William feared going to prison and never seeing his wife and daughter again."

James. S. (April 4, 2012). Rare Disease Mimics Child Abuse and Tears Family Apart. abc. Good Mornng America. Retrieved April 5, 2012, fromhttp://gma.yahoo.com/rare-disease-mimics-child-abuse-tears-family-apart-210441467--abc-news-health.html

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