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29 March 2024

Crazy World: Baby sold 10 times in two years

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CHINA: A toddler who was sold 10 times by human traffickers is finally back with his father at home.

The infant had gone missing in 2010 and has been found after almost two years. The child is three years old now, reports China Daily.

The child's mother is mentally unstable and she was pursuaded to give up her child with the promise of a job. After she gave her child away, she never got a job. The man who took the child from the mother sold it to another man for ($1,900) to another man.

Investigating agency found that the child changed greedy hands at least 10 times and he was sold for a higher price every time.

A few of those who were involved in trafficking the child were caught and jailed for between two and seven years.

 

Mom drinks concentrated vinegar in horrific home abortion

BRITAIN: A mother-of-five researched online on ways to carry out self-abortion at home. Catherine Furey, 38, was pregnant with her sixth child, reports Daily Mail.

The woman drank a bottle of industrial-strength vinegar. Then reacted intensely to the concentrated acid-like liquid that is used in chip shops. She was rushed to the hospital where she died as a result of drinking the toxic liquid.

 

Indian techie found dead in car with seatbelt fastened

INDIA: An engineering professional was found dead in his car in the Indian IT city of Bangalore. His head was covered with a plastic bag and his body was wrapped in cellophane tape even as his seatbealt was fastened, reports news agency Press Trust of India.

The man who hails from Kozhikode in Kerala was an Hewlett Packard employee.

Police is investigating the death and his colleagues were being questioned initially to get some details about his regular movements.

 

Now a social network for the dying

LONDON: Here's an application that will give those on their death beds something to look forward to. White Lotus Corporation, a software development company has come up with a new app known as "My Last Wish" which will help the dying meet others who have similar aspirations from the time they have left on this planet, reports news agency IANS.

"A social networking application to make friendship with those unknown people from corners of the world with different ethnicity, culture, traditions, value systems, life style and much more - but having only one thing in common and that is the 'Last Wish'," the website says about itself.

The network provides a 'Last Wish Wall' where users can post their wish list and share it with others.

 

'Psycho' son dresses up as dead mother

NEW YORK: A man has been sentenced to more than 13 years behind bars for a bizarre real estate fraud where he dressed up like his dead mother to renew a driver's licence under her name.

Thomas Parkin was convicted May 3 on charges including grand larceny and mortgage fraud.

Prosecutors say Parkin's mother died in 2003 and the building she owned was sold at a foreclosure auction. Parkin pretended his dead mother was still alive to file a false lawsuit against the new owners.

Prosecutors argued he collected $44,000 in social security checks belonging to his mom, doctored her death certificate and went to the department of motor vehicles dressed as her so he could get a renewed licence.

"He said he’s not Norman Bates," reported Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes.

But detectives say that Parkin sounded undeniably Batesian when he insisted to them that it would be wrong to accuse him of impersonating his mother because he had actually become her at the moment of her demise in 2003.

“I held my mother when she was dying and breathed in her last breath, so I am my mother,” Parkin told detectives. (AP)