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Mother Arrested After Kids Panhandled
Thursday, April 5, 2007 5:48 PM EDT
The Associated Press
By VERENA DOBNIK
NEW YORK (AP) _ Police say an unemployed suburban mother of five found a quick way to make ends meet: turning her children into panhandlers.
Antoinette Jones, 37, pleaded not guilty to endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor, at an arraignment Tuesday in Yonkers, a New York City suburb. A judge issued an order that bars her from her five children, and released her without bail.
It was not immediately known where the children were placed. Police said the case was referred to Child Protective Services, but agency officials declined to comment.
Police said they discovered the panhandling when Jones' 11-year-old son was reported missing at a Pathmark supermarket Monday night.
When police arrived, Jones' 18-year-old daughter told them that her mother had made them walk several miles from their home to the supermarket, where they were told to stand outside and beg for money, police said.
The boy returned to the store several hours later; police didn't know where he had gone.
The 18-year-old told police her mother frequently forced the children to beg at stores, saying they often picked up $30 to $40 at a time.
Jones and her daughter were taken to the police precinct, where the mother was arrested. She told police she was on public assistance.
Jones' attorney, Joseph Cosgrove of Hartsdale, declined to comment.
and this ....
Japanese Police Probe Decomposing Bodies
Wednesday, April 4, 2007 4:19 PM EDT
The Associated Press
TOKYO (AP) _ Police in western Japan are investigating five badly decomposed human bodies found lying in a house, apparently because of a belief in resurrection, officials and a news report said Wednesday.
Police in the Fukuoka prefecture (state) city of Omuta discovered the bodies on Tuesday at the home of Shigeo Nagae, city official Hirohisa Tanaka said.
They were sent to investigate after a welfare worker alerted the city that he had been unable to contact Nagae for a long time, Tanaka said.
Police official Goichi Tokunaga said investigators were questioning relatives, neighbors and others and attempting to establish the identities of the corpses. They had not yet been able to determine the ages or genders of the deceased, he added, while refusing to offer further details.
Kyodo News agency, citing unidentified investigators, said the bodies are believed to be those of Nagae, born in 1908, his wife Fumiko, born in 1915, and their two daughters and a son.
Nagae's eldest son told investigators Wednesday he laid the bodies out in accordance with his parents' beliefs in resurrection, Kyodo said.
"I always heard my parents say ever since I was a child that 'people always come back to life even once they die.' I have kept their last wish and laid their bodies to rest in their rooms after they died," Kyodo said the son told investigators.
The son and two other daughters reportedly told investigators the five family members died four to 20 years ago, Kyodo said.
Mother Arrested After Kids Panhandled
Thursday, April 5, 2007 5:48 PM EDT
The Associated Press
By VERENA DOBNIK
NEW YORK (AP) _ Police say an unemployed suburban mother of five found a quick way to make ends meet: turning her children into panhandlers.
Antoinette Jones, 37, pleaded not guilty to endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor, at an arraignment Tuesday in Yonkers, a New York City suburb. A judge issued an order that bars her from her five children, and released her without bail.
It was not immediately known where the children were placed. Police said the case was referred to Child Protective Services, but agency officials declined to comment.
Police said they discovered the panhandling when Jones' 11-year-old son was reported missing at a Pathmark supermarket Monday night.
When police arrived, Jones' 18-year-old daughter told them that her mother had made them walk several miles from their home to the supermarket, where they were told to stand outside and beg for money, police said.
The boy returned to the store several hours later; police didn't know where he had gone.
The 18-year-old told police her mother frequently forced the children to beg at stores, saying they often picked up $30 to $40 at a time.
Jones and her daughter were taken to the police precinct, where the mother was arrested. She told police she was on public assistance.
Jones' attorney, Joseph Cosgrove of Hartsdale, declined to comment.
and this ....
Japanese Police Probe Decomposing Bodies
Wednesday, April 4, 2007 4:19 PM EDT
The Associated Press
TOKYO (AP) _ Police in western Japan are investigating five badly decomposed human bodies found lying in a house, apparently because of a belief in resurrection, officials and a news report said Wednesday.
Police in the Fukuoka prefecture (state) city of Omuta discovered the bodies on Tuesday at the home of Shigeo Nagae, city official Hirohisa Tanaka said.
They were sent to investigate after a welfare worker alerted the city that he had been unable to contact Nagae for a long time, Tanaka said.
Police official Goichi Tokunaga said investigators were questioning relatives, neighbors and others and attempting to establish the identities of the corpses. They had not yet been able to determine the ages or genders of the deceased, he added, while refusing to offer further details.
Kyodo News agency, citing unidentified investigators, said the bodies are believed to be those of Nagae, born in 1908, his wife Fumiko, born in 1915, and their two daughters and a son.
Nagae's eldest son told investigators Wednesday he laid the bodies out in accordance with his parents' beliefs in resurrection, Kyodo said.
"I always heard my parents say ever since I was a child that 'people always come back to life even once they die.' I have kept their last wish and laid their bodies to rest in their rooms after they died," Kyodo said the son told investigators.
The son and two other daughters reportedly told investigators the five family members died four to 20 years ago, Kyodo said.
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