Trial resumes in Del. girl's alleged waterboarding

Defense attorneys will continue their cross-examination of a Delaware woman whose longtime companion, a former pediatrician, is accused of repeatedly waterboarding her daughter by holding the child's head under a running faucet. Pauline Morse faces further questioning Friday by attorneys for 60-year-old Melvin Morse, who is accused of endangerment and assault and could get more than 20 years in prison if convicted.

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The baby's 18-year-old mother called 911 after waking about 4:30 a.m. Thursday to find that her son, Kayden Powell, was missing from his bassinette in a room where she was sleeping at a home in Beloit, authorities said.

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Amber Alert issued for 2 Pa. children

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The Pennsylvania State Police issued an Amber Child Abduction Alert and said Erielys Ahorrio, 3, and John Ahorrio, 4, a were abducted from a home in Lancaster City, Pennsylvania by Eddie Ahorrio Jr., 23, and Eddie Ahoriio. Sr., 47 at 7:30 p.m. after an altercation.

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The autopsy states that the girl had moved to Tennessee to live with her father about three months before her death. The move was prompted by allegations of neglect at her previous home.

A pediatric check-up about three months before her death had shown no significant problems. She was taken to an outpatient clinic about a month before her death for excessive thirst, urination and eating, but nothing was found to be wrong with her.

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Authorities said Cruz used an AR-15 rifle — a semi-automatic assault-style rifle that has been used in numerous other mass shootings — in the shooting. Described by former classmates as “loner,” Cruz is an orphaned teenager whose mother died in November 2017, according to The Sun-Sentinel. His mother and her husband, who died years ago, according to the paper, had adopted Cruz and his biological brother. The two boys had then moved in with a family friend, an attorney for the family told the Associated Press.

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The deranged 19-year-old accused of the worst school shooting since the Sandy Hook massacre may have been sent over the edge when his single mom died of complications from the flu in November, family said....

He and younger brother Zachary were adopted as infants by Roger and Lynda Cruz, but Roger died from a heart attack a decade ago, leaving Lynda to raise the boys herself, according to family....

She recalled how Nikolas once sicced his dog on a neighbor’s pig — and how Lynda tried to discipline the boy but may have fallen short.

“He sent over his dog . . . to try to attack them,” Kumbatovic said. “Lynda dealt with it like most parents did. She was probably too good to him.”

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Lynda and her husband, who died of a heart attack several years ago, adopted Cruz and his biological brother, Zachary, after the couple moved from Long Island in New York to Broward County. Cruz was an infant when he was adopted. It's unclear if he was adopted from the U.S. or aboard.

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