Shocking incident from Pennsylvania leaves witnesses stunned as young mother throws 1 year old from bridge then jumps in the water.
A baby and his mother have been pulled out from a river after the mother tried to kill herself and her child.

A woman of 19 years old tried to commit suicide by throwing herself from a bridge into a river from Pennsylvania. But before she tried to take way her own life, the woman who is also a mother, wanted to kill her baby as well, and she threw him off the bridge.
The event took place Sunday around noon on the Hamilton Street bridge from Allentown, Pennsylvania.

The entire incident was witnessed by people who were in the area at that time and told police officials that the woman was pushing her baby of just 1 year old in a stroller. All of the sudden she stopped in the middle of the bridge, grabbed the baby and threw him into the river. Few seconds after that, she climbed over the railing and jumped inside the shallow water.

After the arrival of the police, they managed to locate the baby in a matter of minutes. Rescue teams found the body of the baby at several hundred yards downstream and managed to perform CPR. The mother of the child was found under the bridge unconscious and in serious condition.

Two police officers identified as Joseph Iannetta and John Leonard, entered the river and were able to rescue the baby from the water. If they wouldn’t have done CPR on the spot the baby wouldn’t have made it, explained William Reinik the police captain from Allentown.

Both the baby and the mother survived and although doctors have declared that they were in critical conditions, they are expected to make it, stated police reports. The fact that both of them survived can be called a miracle as they had fallen from a height of 52 foot.
The mother and the child are presently treated at the Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest.

For the moment, the woman’s identity is not known and police are looking at the incident as an attempt of murder and suicide.
The investigation on the case is ongoing and it is not yet known if charges will be filed against the criminal mother. No one knows for now what prompted the young mother to kill her own baby and herself.

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Some universities from the United States are adopting modern and new admission approaches. From the fall of 2015 Smith University will accept transgendered women.

Smith College is among the schools that welcome female transgender students. The renowned women only university, will start accepting applicants who are transgender persons who see themselves as women starting with the fall of 2015, announced the school’s board.

Smith College has joined the list of schools embracing gender equality by welcoming female transgender applicants. It seems that he main reason which lead the board to make this decision was to encourage the understanding of female identity that keeps evolving in society.

The way Smith university sees its own values, is shows it its commitment to be opened to diversity, to respect the dignity of every single person and to educate women to become leaders in all the fields of the society, explained the president of the university, Kathleen McCartney.

With this new policy, Smith if giving transgendered women equal opportunities and perspectives. The decision has been debated for over a year between committee members, small group discussions with faculty members.The board has also asked for the opinion and input of students from around the globe.

People were also given the option of people giving their opinion online in which were involved almost 2,000 students, parents, friends and employees of the university.

However, the university will not accept students that were born in a female body but have chosen to become a male.The one applying for a place at Smith have to pick female as their gender for them to be considered eligible for a place.

Students who are transitioning during their years at Smith, will not be affected by the situation. On their website it is stated that once a student gets admitted into this university, she will have the complete support of the institution.This statement referred also to men wanting to become females.

Smith university has been involved in a tense situation in 2013 when it refused the admission of a transgendered student called Calliope Wong for the reason that she was not recognised as a female by the law of Connecticut. Wong managed to obtain a petition of 4,000 signatures from people supporting her and Smith had to review its admission rules and requirements.Wong has been admitted and is studying at the University of Connecticut.

With this new approach Smith is another university from the United States that include transgender women in their admission rules.
The first university to adopt this policy was Mills College from Oakland, California and the next ones were Mount Holyoke, Bryn Mawr, Simmons and Wellesley.
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Sexual education needs to be taken to the next level in American high schools as new Chlamydia outbreak has set off in West Texas High school.

A high school from West Texas is dealing with a Chlamydia outbreak after a large number of students have been tested positive with the sexually transmitted disease.

Parents and teachers have been summoned for a meeting with health officials to discuss the situation.

Officials will focus on the sex education program of the school and will stress on the fact that there has been an alarming increase in sexually transmitted diseases among high school students in certain schools from Texas.
The high number of infected students has alarmed authorities. Crane High School has around 300 students and in the past weeks has been dealing with 20 cases of Chlamydia, stated local reports.

School representatives have emailed parents(of high school students) and informed them on the problem the school is facing, respectively the Chlamydia outbreak. Even if it has been confirmed that only high school students were involved in the issue, emails have been sent also to parents who have children in junior high.

This is a situation happening in every town and this is why parents need to be informed on what’s going on and educate their children in having protected and safe sex. Since the matter is growing and has become news subject it means that it is pretty serious, stated one of the parents.

Chlamydia is a curable sexually transmitted disease but if left untreated it can have negative effects on the female reproductive system.

Chlamydia is caused by a bacteria called Chlamydia trachomatis which spreads trough unprotected sexual intercourse and oral sex. Individuals who were infected with the disease and got treated can still can infected again.

There are many who live with the disease without knowing they have it, since it doesn’t have concrete symptoms or signs. Statistics have shown that 50% of the infected men and 75% of the infected women have do not display signs of the disease.

Chlamydia and gonorrhea are most spread among teenagers with ages between 15 and 19 years old, them being the group with the highest rate of these sexually transmitted diseases in the United States.

In 2013 there were reported up to 548,000 cases of high school students infected with Chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis. Eight out of a total of 11 states rated with the highest STD rates were in the south of the country, stated reports from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Chlamydia outbreak from the Crane high school was not a particular case. For the past years syphilis occurrence in Dallas County Schools has went up with 31% and in April there has been reported a large number of Chlamydia infection in El Paso which affected a variety of age groups.

Light cases of Chlamydia can be cured by following a treatment with antibiotics prescribed by the doctor. However, if dealing with a more severe case of the disease people might end up in the hospital on intravenous and pain medication.
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Man with previous record for kidnaping his wife has been accused again as woman claims to have been kept locked inside a box for four months.

A woman from Sedalia, Missouri claims that she had been kept hostage inside a wooden box for the past four months.

Thursday night a woman whose name has been kept hidden for safety reasons, escaped from her home and rushed to the house of her neighbours. There she told them that she has to dial 911 and call the police.

The 38 year old woman, sounded hysterical when she talked to the police but she managed to cool down when the officers arrived at the house. She told them that she was kept hostage by a man, stated John Begonia, police chief of Sedalia.

The woman explained officials that occasionally she was being locked inside a wooden box by her boyfriend, inside their home. There were times when they would leave the house in public and would encounter different people, like their families. It appears that the woman was telling the truth as her description matched what they encountered inside their residence.

When officers arrived at the location(after obtaining a search warrant) they indeed found a wooden box which purpose seemed to be exactly the one claimed by the woman. The man was not to be found, explained detective Josh Howell.

Police is looking for the suspect who has been identified as James Barton Horn of 47 years old. Horn’s vehicle was found in the south of the town later that night but no signs of him. Chief Begonia has stated that the department from Sedalia was collaborating with federal officials for the investigation. Horn might be facing charges of sexual assault and felonious restraint.

Federal court records from Mississippi have shown in 1997 the suspect pleaded guilty for kidnapping and abducting his wife which he had divorced. He received a sentence of almost 13 years in prison to which was added a five years administered release. In 2012 his probation jurisdiction was relocated to Missouri.

According to the police, the relationship of the two appears to have started from a mutual consent but it arrived to become a relationship where the woman was held against her own will. No police records have been shown to have declared the woman missing.

Neighbours reported that there were times when they would see the couple outside the house and the woman was indeed talking to other people but it was obvious the situation was controlled by the man.

Presently the woman is safe and is in a good state given what she went trough for the past months, explained detective Howell.
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