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Month: February 2024

US librarian hides lifesaving phones in books for domestic violence victims

US librarian hides lifesaving phones in books for domestic violence victims

It's not every day a librarian takes a boxcutter to a book. But by doing so, Molly Riportella may be saving lives. "I usually try to like go a couple pages after a chapter begins," the Massachusetts librarian said, explaining what she why she was carefully hollowing out the books. Inside the rectangle-shaped holes within the pages, Riportella hides a prepaid mobile phone to be used by a victim of domestic violence. "The phone is a little sliver of hope and real chance to make contact with the outside world," Riportella said. "To talk to a lawyer or talk to an advocate who can get you the next steps to move on." The librarian came up with the idea two years ago when a friend told her they were in a controlling relationship where their pa...
Mother, daughter charged with attempted murder after frying pan attack

Mother, daughter charged with attempted murder after frying pan attack

Body camera footage captured the bloody aftermath of an attempted murder in January by a Tennessee mother and daughter, according to local authorities. The video shows a father and husband beaten and bloodied after his own wife and daughter beat him with a cast iron pan and tried to choke him with a belt, the Cheatham County Sheriff's Office said. On January 27, deputies responded to a suburb in Ashland City where the man had contacted a neighbour to call 911. The man told deputies he and his wife had been arguing and went to sleep. He was awakened by being hit on the head with the pan, according to a sheriff's office arrest affidavit. When he opened his eyes, he could see his daughter, Kelly Davis, 29, standing over him with the pan in hand, before she hit h...
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