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61 year old David Miller was executed in Tennessee in the electric chair. He beat a 23 year old woman to  death in 1981, and waited on death row for 36 years. His last words were "Beats being on death row."

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Tennessee has executed its longest-serving death row inmate, who became the second person put to death in the state's electric chair in just over a month. Corrections officials say David Earl Miller, 61, was pronounced dead at 7:25 p.m. Thursday at a Nashville maximum-security prison.

Miller was convicted of killing 23-year-old Lee Standifer in 1981 in Knoxville. Standifer was a mentally disabled woman who had been on a date with Miller the night she was repeatedly beaten, stabbed and dragged into some woods.

Miller spent 36 years on Tennessee's death row, the longest of any inmate.

Both Miller and Edmund Zagorski before him chose the electric chair over lethal injection, a process proponents said would be painless and humane.

But the inmates argued in court that Tennessee's current midazolam-based method causes a prolonged and torturous death. They pointed to the August execution of Billy Ray Irick, which took around 20 minutes and during which he coughed and huffed before turning a dark purple.

Their case was thrown out, largely because a judge said they failed to prove a more humane alternative was available. Zagorski was executed Nov. 1. Gov. Bill Haslam declined Thursday to intervene in Miller's execution.

Moments before the execution, Miller was asked if he wanted to say anything, but his reply was not understandable. He was asked again and his attorney clarified that he was saying, "Beats being on death row."

Wearing a cream-colored jumpsuit, Miller was dripping with water from the sponges that were applied to his head. Before the shroud was placed over Miller's head, he faced the media witnesses and looked down. Two jolts of electricity were administered, causing his muscles to clench. Blinds were lowered and he was pronounced dead minutes later.

In recent decades, states have moved away from the electric chair, and no state now uses electrocution as its main execution method, said Robert Dunham. Dunham is the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, which doesn't take a stand on the death penalty but is critical of its application.

Georgia and Nebraska courts both have ruled the electric chair unconstitutional, and about two decades ago it looked as though the U.S. Supreme Court would weigh in on the issue. It agreed to hear a case out of Florida after a series of botched executions there. But Florida adopted lethal injection, and the case was dropped.

Dunham said he wasn't aware of any state other than Tennessee where inmates were choosing electrocution over lethal injection.

In Tennessee, inmates whose crimes were committed before 1999 can chose electrocution over lethal injection.

Prior to Zagorski's execution, the builder of Tennessee's electric chair had warned that it could malfunction, but Zagorski's and Miller's executions appeared to be carried out without incident. Miller's death was only the third time Tennessee had put an inmate to death in the electric chair since 1960.

The courts said Miller couldn't challenge the constitutionality of the electric chair because he chose it, even though his attorneys argued the choice was coerced by the threat of something even worse.

Miller was convicted of killing 23-year-old Lee Standifer in 1981 in Knoxville. Standifer was a mentally disabled woman who had been on a date with Miller the night she was repeatedly beaten, stabbed and dragged into some woods.

Miller spent 36 years on Tennessee's death row, the longest of any inmate.

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Tennessee electrocutes inmate David Earl Miller for 1981 slaying of mentally disabled woman

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Tennessee has executed its longest-serving death row inmate, who became the second person put to death in the state's electric chair in just over a month. Corrections officials say David Earl Miller, 61, was pronounced dead at 7:25 p.m. Thursday at a Nashville maximum-security prison.

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A 27-year-old pregnant woman detained by police due to a custody dispute was forced to give birth while handcuffed and shackled to a New York City hospital bed after officers refused to remove her restraints, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday.

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A 27-year-old pregnant woman detained by police due to a custody dispute was forced to give birth while handcuffed and shackled to a New York City hospital bed after officers refused to remove her restraints, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday.

The woman, only identified as Jane Doe, was reportedly already in labor when cops took her out of a Bronx holding cell and brought her to nearby Montefiore Medical Center -- where police officers handcuffed and shackled her to a bed. Doctors told officers keeping a pregnant woman tied to the bed was illegal in New York, but officers insisted the department's code required her to be restrained and superceded state law, The New York Times reported, citing the lawsuit.

The woman suffered excruciating pain during labor, and the officers eventually yielded and removed some of her restraints -- but she still had her right hand cuffed to the bed when her baby was delivered, the lawsuit states. The 27-year-old called the entire experience humiliating and traumatizing, according to The New York Times.

"I haven't made sense of it myself and I'm not ready to explain it to my child," she said in an affidavit, according to the newspaper.

The woman is seeking damages stemming from the officers' alleged violations of her civil rights and she wants the NYPD to update their policies on shackling a pregnant woman in custody. A spokesman for the city's Law Department told The New York Times the agency was examining the allegations.

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says restraining a mother with shackles and handcuffs puts the health of the woman -- and the baby -- at risk

"When you have something as gender-specific as pregnancy, it reminds you of how flawed the system is and how ill-prepared it is to take care of pregnant people and the reproductive health needs of women in general," Carolyn Sufrin, who works as a medical anthropologist and OB-GYN at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, told NPR. "They're, if at all, an afterthought."

The First Step Act, a bipartisan criminal justice bill set to be voted on in Congress, would ban shackling pregnant women in federal prisons.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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A 27-year-old pregnant woman detained by police due to a custody dispute was forced to give birth while handcuffed and shackled to a New York City hospital bed after officers refused to remove her restraints, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday.

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A Boston Firefighter wanted to spread holiday spirit by dressing up as an elf and have a pillow fight with random people in the streets of Boston

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A firefighter dressed up like Buddy the Elf and started pillow fights with strangers in Boston - and their reactions are priceless.

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Former MLB players, Luis Valbuena and Jose Castillo, were killed in a car accident in Venezuela after the car hit a rock and ran off the road. Former Arizona Diamondbacks infielder Carlos Rivero was driving the car but he survived.

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Former Los Angeles Angels player Luis Valbuena and former journeyman infielder Jose Castillo were killed in a car accident Thursday in Venezuela.

"We are saddened by the tragic news that Luis Valbuena and former major leaguer Jose Castillo have died in a car accident," Major League Baseball said in a tweet.

Valbuena, 33, and Castillo, 37, were playing in a Venezuelan winter baseball league and were teammates on the Cardenales de Lara, according to the Athletic.

The pair were in a car when their vehicle hit a rock and veered off the road, the Orange County Register reported. Former Arizona Diamondbacks infielder Carlos Rivero was driving the car and survived the accident.

"We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of former Angel Luis Valbuena and former MLB infielder José Castillo. Our thoughts and prayers are with their loved ones during this time of grief," the Angels said in a tweet.

Valbuena played 11 seasons in the majors, beginning his career in 2008 with the Seattle Mariners. He played for the Cleveland Indians, Chicago Cubs, Houston Astros and the Angels along the way. He last played for the Angels during the 2018 season, but was released in August. He recorded a .226 batting average with 114 home runs and 367 RBI during his career.

Castillo played five seasons in the majors - from 2004 to 2008. He started his career with the Pittsburgh Pirates and then moved onto the San Francisco Giants before finishing with the Astros. He recorded a .254 batting average with 39 home runs and 218 RBI during his career.

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Former MLB players Luis Valbuena, Jose Castillo killed in car crash in Venezuela

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Former Los Angeles Angels player Luis Valbuena and former journeyman infielder Jose Castillo were killed in a car accident Thursday in Venezuela. "We are saddened by the tragic news that Luis Valbuena and former major leaguer Jose Castillo have died in a car accident," Major League Baseball said in a tweet.

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The number of traffic-related deaths reached a high of 1.35 million in 2016, according to the 2018 Global Status Report on Road Safety, released by the World Health Organization on Friday. It has also moved up to the eighth leading cause of death for people of all ages, ahead of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis.

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Traffic accidents are eighth leading cause of death globally, according to WHO

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A report shows that traffic-related deaths are now the eighth leading cause of deaths globally, especially in low-income countries. Traffic laws are changing to help combat this.

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In New York City, a man was ordering a bagel and yelled "Make my cinnamon toasted raisin bagel with bacon, egg and cheese -- right now!" Then he began to attack the man who was making other peoples bagels with food.

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New Yorkers don't mess around when it comes to their bagels.

The NYPD is searching for a man who went on a violent tirade at a deli in Brooklyn while ordering a bagel sandwich early Sunday morning.

The customer was apparently angry that his carbohydrate-heavy meal was not ready fast enough, ABC New York station WABC reported.

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"Make my cinnamon toasted raisin bagel with bacon, egg and cheese -- right now!" the man screamed at the deli worker while banging on the glass case enclosing other deli essentials, video taken by a witness shows.

The suspect then attacked the deli employee, throwing food and other items at him, WABC reported. The victim, who suffered some bruising and swelling, told police that the man was drunk.

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New Yorkers don't mess around when it comes to their bagels. The NYPD is searching for a man who went on a violent tirade at a deli in Brooklyn while ordering a bagel sandwich early Sunday morning. The customer was apparently angry that his carbohydrate-heavy meal was not ready fast enough, ABC New York station WABC reported.

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A teacher is arrested after a video shows her cutting off a students hair while singing the national anthem. When the students came into class that day she was holding scissors and told them that it was haircut day. She told a student to come and sit in a chair at the front of the classroom, the boy reluctantly sat down and she began cutting his hair.They don't know what caused this but she had had experienced another breakdown earlier this week.

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A California high school teacher is behind bars after video surfaced Wednesday showing her forcibly cutting off a student's hair while singing the national anthem.

A video obtained by ABC television station KFSN shows Margaret Gieszinger, a teacher at University Preparatory High School on the campus of College of the Sequoias Community College in Visalia, holding a pair of scissors in one hand as she points to a chair at the front of her classroom and urges a male student to sit down.

The footage shows Gieszinger grab a hold of the the boy's short hair as he reluctantly takes a seat and his classmates watch in disbelief. She then shears off a chunk of his hair and tosses it over her shoulder, all while belting out "The Star-Spangled Banner."

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The video continues to show Gieszinger walk to the back of the classroom, where she grabs a hold of a girl's long tresses while raising the scissors in the air and snipping the blades. The student manages to escape unscathed as the rest of the class runs out of the room in horror.

Students told KFSN that Gieszinger entered the class that morning with the scissors in her hand and declared that it was "haircut day."

One student, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told KFSN that after the incident he ran to the school's main office for help.

"We think she's going to try to be funny and be like, 'Oh, did you really think I was going to cut his hair?' But she did cut a hair off, and she started singing the 'Star Spangled Banner' and she was singing it really loudly as she ceremoniously tossed a chunk of hair behind her," the student said. "I hope I never have to see her at the school again because I know for a fact I can never see her as a respectable authority figure in my life."

Students told KFSN that they don't know what caused Gieszinger to behave in such a way, but noted that she had experienced another breakdown earlier in the week.

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The College of the Sequoias District Police Department arrested Gieszinger, 52, on suspicion of felony child endangerment. She is being held at Tulare County's Bob Wiley Detention Facility on $100,000 bail, according to inmate records. It was not immediately known if she has obtained an attorney.

Gieszinger is scheduled to appear in court Friday.

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Tulare County Superintendent of Schools Jim Vidak, whose office oversees the high school, said Gieszinger was "promptly removed" from her classroom after the "disturbing" incident and will not be returning.

"The staff at University Preparatory High School and the administration at the Tulare County Office of Education are deeply concerned for the students who were subjected to the disturbing behavior in Margaret Gieszinger's class yesterday morning," Vidak said in a statement Thursday. "We are reviewing all available information and will take the most severe employment action appropriate."

A "highly-qualified" substitute teacher will take over Gieszinger's class for the rest of the semester as the school looks for a permanent replacement, according to Vidak.

"To support all students on the UPHS campus today, we have sent top counselors from our mental health services program," the superintendent said. "They will continue to be available to the students as long as necessary."

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A California high school teacher is behind bars after video surfaced Wednesday showing her forcibly cutting off a student's hair while singing the national anthem.

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Chinese police destroyed $87.5 million worth of counterfeit shows after a year long investigation. Police were told in 2015 that fake converses were being produced and sold. They discovered hundreds of people working in a factory producing the fake shoes and set up an operation in 2016. The operation resulted in 4 people being arrested. Five more factories were eventually discovered and 7 more people were arrested.

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A Washington teen plead guilty to planning a mass shooting this week after originally pleading not guilty. Joshua O'Connor was arrested back in February after his own grandmother turned him into the police after discovery a journal with a detailed plan to commit a mass murder at Aces High School. Ak-47s and grenades were found in his position. He also planned to do this and was arrested just hours after the Parkland Shooting in Florida.

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The Washington state teen who garnered national headlines after being turned in by his own grandmother over plans to commit a mass school shooting pleaded guilty to the charges on Thursday.

Joshua O'Connor pleaded not guilty to the charges when he was arrested in February, but submitted a new plea Thursday after coming to an agreement over the charges, according to Seattle ABC affiliate KOMO.

He has been in custody since his arrest on Feb. 14, the same day as the Parkland school massacre, held on $5 million bond.

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O'Connor pleaded guilty to three charges on Thursday: first-degree attempted murder, first-degree robbery with a firearm and possession of explosive device. As part of the plea agreement, the prosecutor agreed to drop a weapons allegation on the attempted murder charge, according to KOMO.

"We do believe that it was important for Mr. O'Connor to take responsibility for what he did and be held legally accountable for the steps that he took," said Andrew Alsdorf, Snohomish County deputy prosecutor.

The 18-year-old could face up to 28 years in prison when he faces sentencing in February 2019.

O'Connor's grandmother, Catherine O'Connor, called police in February after discovering her grandson's journal, which outlined a plot to carry out a shooting at Aces Alternative High School in Everett, Washington.

ABC News obtained a 911 call from Catherine O'Connor alerting police to the shooting plot.

"What I'm reporting is I'm finding journal entries from my grandson," Catherine O'Connor told the operator. "And he's planning on having a mass shooting at one of the high schools."

At the time, KOMO obtained court documents detailing his violent journal entries.

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"I need to make this shooting/bombing ... infamous," the student wrote, according to the court documents. "I need to get the biggest fatality number I possibly can. I need to make this count. ... I'm learning from past shooters/bombers mistakes, so I don't make the same ones."

When police responded to the house, they found an AK-47 and grenades, police said.

The armed robbery charge O'Connor pleaded guilty to stemmed from robbing a convenience store prior to the arrest for planning the school shooting.

O'Connor was arrested just hours after Nikolas Cruz allegedly opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 17 students and teachers.

ABC News' Courtney Han contributed to this report.

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Massive riots in Greece have started due to a fatal police shooting that killed a 15 year old girl ten years ago. The anniversary caused violent riots. Rioters are using firebombs, rocks and fireworks to fight the police and police have been using water cannons, tear gas and stun grenades.

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Greek authorities say more than 100 people were detained during rioting in Athens and the northern city of Thessaloniki following events marking the 10th anniversary of the fatal police shooting of a teenager.

Police said Friday that 66 people were detained in Athens during the violence that began Thursday afternoon, with 13 of those arrested.

Another 15 people were arrested in Thessaloniki after 52 people who had been detained.

In Athens, protesters had set up burning barricades and pelted police with firebombs, rocks and fireworks, with police responding with tear gas, stun grenades and a water cannon.

The Dec. 6, 2008 death of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos sparked the worst rioting Greece had seen in decades, with the violence spreading to cities across the country for two weeks.

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Greek authorities say more than 100 people were detained during rioting in Athens and the northern city of Thessaloniki following events marking the 10th anniversary of the fatal police shooting of a teenager. Police said Friday that 66 people were detained in Athens during the violence...

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In 1949 a woman gave birth to a girl and when she asked to see the baby the hospital informed her that her baby had died from being underweight. Later on in there lives her daughter was given to an orphanage and then later adopted. Years later after the woman had lost her adoptive parents and even her married into parents her son had decided to help her by giving her a dna ancestry test and finding her late cousin. After reconnecting with her cousin she told her her moms name and she said yes thats my aunt and shes still alive.

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88-year-old mother reunites with daughter she thought had died at birth 69 years ago

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Since she was just a little girl, Connie Moultroup has had the same Christmas wish every year: to meet her biological mother. This week -- after 69 long years -- she finally did, all thanks to a DNA ancestry kit.

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A sales representative was found dead in a Maryland model home. The police say it is evidence from a homicide. The police reported that an arrest has been made, but they have not released the details yet.

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A sales representative was found dead in a Maryland model home this week and police say evidence at the scene indicates it was a homicide.

Officers responding to a 911 call found the victim "suffering from apparent trauma" in a "model home/home sales center" in Hanover, Maryland, at about 5 p.m. Wednesday, the Anne Arundel County Police Department said in a statement.

Medical personnel responded and tried to provide aid, but the victim was pronounced dead, police said.

Police identified the man as Steven Bernard Wilson, 33, of Annapolis. He was a sales and marketing representative working out of the model home, police said.

Additional details were not immediately available, however police said an arrest has been made and that more details would be shared with the public during a news conference Friday, The Capital Gazette reported.

The Capital Gazette said Wilson is survived by his wife and two children.

"Several searches were conducted of the model home, surrounding areas with the assistance of Air and K-9 Units," police said in a statement Thursday. "An area canvass of the neighborhood was done and detectives were able to identify multiple pieces of evidence."

Anyone with information is urged to call the Anne Arundel County Homicide Unit at 410-222-4731.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

ABC News' Dee Carden and Amanda Maile contributed to this report.

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A sales representative was found dead in a Maryland model home this week and police say evidence at the scene indicates it was a homicide. Officers responding to a 911 call found the victim "suffering from apparent trauma" in a "model home/home sales center" in Hanover, Maryland, at about 5 p.m.

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A teacher cut a students' hair with no apparent motive. She did it out of random and is now facing charges.

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A California high school teacher is behind bars after video surfaced Wednesday showing her forcibly cutting off a student's hair while singing the national anthem.

A video obtained by ABC television station KFSN shows Margaret Gieszinger, a teacher at University Preparatory High School on the campus of College of the Sequoias Community College in Visalia, holding a pair of scissors in one hand as she points to a chair at the front of her classroom and urges a male student to sit down.

The footage shows Gieszinger grab a hold of the the boy's short hair as he reluctantly takes a seat and his classmates watch in disbelief. She then shears off a chunk of his hair and tosses it over her shoulder, all while belting out "The Star-Spangled Banner."

KFSN

The video continues to show Gieszinger walk to the back of the classroom, where she grabs a hold of a girl's long tresses while raising the scissors in the air and snipping the blades. The student manages to escape unscathed as the rest of the class runs out of the room in horror.

Students told KFSN that Gieszinger entered the class that morning with the scissors in her hand and declared that it was "haircut day."

One student, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told KFSN that after the incident he ran to the school's main office for help.

"We think she's going to try to be funny and be like, 'Oh, did you really think I was going to cut his hair?' But she did cut a hair off, and she started singing the 'Star Spangled Banner' and she was singing it really loudly as she ceremoniously tossed a chunk of hair behind her," the student said. "I hope I never have to see her at the school again because I know for a fact I can never see her as a respectable authority figure in my life."

Students told KFSN that they don't know what caused Gieszinger to behave in such a way, but noted that she had experienced another breakdown earlier in the week.

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The College of the Sequoias District Police Department arrested Gieszinger, 52, on suspicion of felony child endangerment. She is being held at Tulare County's Bob Wiley Detention Facility on $100,000 bail, according to inmate records. It was not immediately known if she has obtained an attorney.

Gieszinger is scheduled to appear in court Friday.

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Tulare County Superintendent of Schools Jim Vidak, whose office oversees the high school, said Gieszinger was "promptly removed" from her classroom after the "disturbing" incident and will not be returning.

"The staff at University Preparatory High School and the administration at the Tulare County Office of Education are deeply concerned for the students who were subjected to the disturbing behavior in Margaret Gieszinger's class yesterday morning," Vidak said in a statement Thursday. "We are reviewing all available information and will take the most severe employment action appropriate."

A "highly-qualified" substitute teacher will take over Gieszinger's class for the rest of the semester as the school looks for a permanent replacement, according to Vidak.

"To support all students on the UPHS campus today, we have sent top counselors from our mental health services program," the superintendent said. "They will continue to be available to the students as long as necessary."

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A California high school teacher is behind bars after video surfaced Wednesday showing her forcibly cutting off a student's hair while singing the national anthem.

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A strange smell leads to the discovery of a woman's torso in a mans basement in Michigan. Another person living in the home went to the basement to investigate a strange smell and found a tarp covered with blood. Responding officers then found the body part underneath. There was a search on the house which lead to the discovery of body parts upstairs as well The owner. of the apartment is now being held on a $750,000 bond.

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A foul stench led to the discovery of a woman's torso in the basement of a Grand Rapids, Mich., home last weekend, according to court records revealed this week.

A tenant of the home called authorities after going into the basement to "investigate a strange smell," and found a bag or tarp covered with blood, the Detroit Free Press reported.

Responding officers discovered the remains of an unidentified woman underneath, police said.
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Authorities then obtained a search warrant and found other body parts in the upstairs apartment of a man identified in the report as 29-year-old James Chance. Grand Rapids Police detective Erika Fannon said the body parts were "suspected to have belonged to the torso located in the basement."

She said investigators had determined the suspect "was with a female acquaintance two days prior and that the female acquaintance was since reported as a missing person and she had not to this date been located."

Police are investigating whether it's the body of a Kalamazoo-area woman who was traveling to Grand Rapids and was last seen on Nov. 29.
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Chance was taken into custody and charged with mutilation of a dead body and concealing the death of an individual with bond set at $750,000, the report said. Given his past criminal history and multiple probation violations, he was charged with being a four-time habitual offender, Fox 17 reported.

Police on Wednesday searched the home of Chance's parents in Holland, Mich., about 35 minutes southwest of Grand Rapids, according to the station.

Chance's next court appearance for a probable cause conference is scheduled for later this month. Authorities said identifying the victim "will take a little bit of extra time."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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A foul stench led to the discovery of a woman's torso in the basement of a Grand Rapids, Mich., home last weekend, according to court records revealed this week. A tenant of the home called authorities after going into the basement to "investigate a strange smell," and found a bag or tarp covered with blood, the Detroit Free Press reported.

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Kevin Hart stepped down from the opportunity of hosting the Oscars. Kevin Hart was facing opposition from the LGBTQ community because of some "potentially sensitive" comments that he made.

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Kevin Hart is out as Oscars host.

The comedian decided to step down as host of the 2019 Oscars, a position he was named to just days earlier, after homophobic tweets from eight years ago re-emerged on Thursday. He said earlier in the day on Thursday that he had "evolved" in his views.

In a post on Instagram at about 11 p.m. Eastern time, Hart said he got a call from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and was asked to apologize for his prior tweets, or step down as host. He would officially confirm is exit on Twitter an hour later.

"Kevin Hart, apologize for your tweets of old, or we're going to have to move on," Hart relayed about the call in the Instagram post.

He said he told the Academy he refused to apologize.

"I've moved on," he said in the Instagram video. "I'm in a completely different place in my life.

"The reason why I've passed is that I've addressed it several times," he continued. "This is not the first time this has come up. I've addressed it. I've spoken on it. I've said where the rights and wrongs were. I've said who I am now versus who I was then."

An hour later he officially stepped down in a post on Twitter.

Hart wrote on Twitter, "I have made the choice to step down from hosting this year's Oscars ... this is because I do not want to be a distraction on a night that should be celebrated by so many amazing talented artists." He also apologized for "hurting people."

I have made the choice to step down from hosting this year's Oscar's....this is because I do not want to be a distraction on a night that should be celebrated by so many amazing talented artists. I sincerely apologize to the LGBTQ community for my insensitive words from my past.
- Kevin Hart (@KevinHart4real) December 7, 2018

I'm sorry that I hurt people.. I am evolving and want to continue to do so. My goal is to bring people together not tear us apart. Much love & appreciation to the Academy. I hope we can meet again.
- Kevin Hart (@KevinHart4real) December 7, 2018

Hart has enjoyed tremendous success at the box office in recent years. He's been in five movies since 2013 that have grossed at least $95 million in the U.S.: "This is the End," "Ride Along," "Central Intelligence," "The Secret Life of Pets" and "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle." "Jumanji," in which he starred alongside Dwayne Johnson, was a massive success, totaling just over $400 million in the U.S. and nearly $1 billion worldwide.

His latest film, "Night School," which he also wrote and produced, was a success as well, drawing $77 million at the box office since its release in September.

He is currently in Australia as part of his "Irresponsible" comedy tour.

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Kevin Hart is out as Oscars host. The comedian decided to step down as host of the 2019 Oscars, a position he was named to just days earlier, after homophobic tweets from eight years ago re-emerged on Thursday. He said earlier in the day on Thursday that he had "evolved" in his views.

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An American priest has been arrested after being accused of sexually abusing multiple young boys while he was doing missionary work

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An American priest has been arrested after being accused of sexually abusing multiple young boys while he was doing missionary work in the Philippines.

Now U.S. authorities are calling for the public's help in determining whether or not he had any victims stateside.

Rev. Kenneth Hendricks is in custody of police authorities in Manila now, and is facing federal charges in Ohio where he maintains a residence.

Ben Glassman, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, said that the case started when two Filipino boys reported alleged abuse to local authorities, prompting an investigation and subsequent accusations from other boys.

Glassman said that the accusers "told fairly similar stories."

"Each of these victims got to know Father Hendricks through the course of his official work as a priest... he befriended them, he would invite them to his residence, often to take a bath or shower. That interaction would proceed to kissing... fondle their genitals... [and] ultimately have oral or anal sex with the victims," Glassman said.

Steve Francis, the special agent in charge from U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations, noted that five accusers are included in the affidavit but there are five others who have made claims against Hendricks that are being investigated currently.

"It's horrifying," Glassman said. "It is horrible, horrible abusive conduct. It is grooming children, young children who are interested in being involved in church activities and taking those kids and sexually abusing them."

Hendricks is currently in custody in the Philippines and it is unclear if he has legal representation. Glassman said that the details of a possible extradition to the U.S. are being worked out in conjunction with Filipino authorities.

The Archdiocese of Cincinnati stressed their distance from the priest, releasing a statement that notes that Hendricks "is not nor has ever been a priest of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati."

It's horrifying. It is horrible, horrible abusive conduct. It is grooming children, young children who are interested in being involved in church activities and taking those kids and sexually abusing them.

"To the best of our knowledge, he was ordained to the priesthood in the Philippines to serve in a diocese there. He has never had any assignment with the Archdiocese of Cincinnati," the statement reads.

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Mike Schafer, the director of communications for the archdiocese, noted that Hendricks was listed on the archdiocese's website as part of his missionary work.

"Like dozens of other missionaries from southwest Ohio, Father Hendricks did receive financial support from time to time from our missions office," Schafer said.

We want to make sure if Father Hendricks committed sexual abuse of children here...that we can get them the proper treatment and counseling and we can hold him accountable.

Glassman stressed that they were detailing the allegations against Hendricks in order to spread the word and see if there are any possible victims or witnesses in the U.S.

"We want to make sure if Father Hendricks committed sexual abuse of children here... that we can get them the proper treatment and counseling and we can hold him accountable," he said.

Hendricks' arrest is the latest in a string of investigations into allegedly abusive priests. Just last week, police searched the offices of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston in connection to an arrested priest in Texas. The archdiocese released a statement at the time saying they continue "to cooperate, as we have since the outset, with this process"

There are now at least 16 jurisdictions across the country that have launched investigations into clerical sex abuse following the release of a Pennsylvania grand jury report detailing the alleged cover-up of decades of abuse by hundreds of Catholic priests.

Investigations have already been launched by officials in Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia and the District of Columbia -- as well as the Archdiocese of Anchorage in Alaska -- with officials in several other states telling ABC News their offices were reviewing their options and considering taking similar action.

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American priest facing 'horrifying' sex abuse charges in Philippines

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An American priest has been arrested after being accused of sexually abusing multiple young boys while he was doing missionary work in the Philippines. Now U.S. authorities are calling for the public's help in determining whether or not he had any victims stateside. Rev. Kenneth Hendricks is in...

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Rachel Knappier almost lost her top lip after getting botox injections at a party with her friends. Rachel claims she was just trying to even out a permanent bump on her lip that she got as a child from running into a fire door. At the party, Rachel said the beautician didn't require her to sign any consent forms which she now realizes should've been a red flag, later finding out the beautician had been in prison the previous year.

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When Rachael Knappier went to a "Botox party" at a friend's home at the end of August, she planned to indulge in a shot of the wrinkle eraser in her forehead and a glass of fizz with her pals.

But, after a few glasses of Prosecco, she also agreed to have lip fillers.

What she didn't bank on was the beautician injecting the filler into an artery, which caused her lips to swell massively.

In fact, the complications were so serious that she almost lost her top lip.

"My friend had raved about this beautician and how great she was so I decided to go ahead," Knappier said.

The 29-year-old had previously visited a local, highly-qualified, aesthetics nurse for Botox and a small dose of filler in her top lip to even out a permanent bump, a legacy of a fire door hitting her face as a teenager.

Even though her lip filler was due a top-up, Knappier hadn't intended getting it done at the party. But that's before the booze was uncorked.

Botox parties, which offer cheap beauty treatments as you relax with friends, are a growing trend in the UK. It's now estimated that more than a million Botox procedures are performed each year in the UK and that number is rising.

Lip fillers alone cost an average of £300 (approx. $380) in a clinic, but Knappier, who works for a law firm, had fillers and Botox for around £220 (approx. $280) at the party.
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"There was fizz and cake and it was a bit of a conveyor belt with girls sitting in the kitchen waiting their turn with local anesthetic cream on their faces," Knappier, of Leicestershire, said. "The beautician - who I assumed at the time was a nurse - didn't ask me to sign any consent forms so alarm bells should have rung. But being at a party with friends took away all the seriousness of having filler injected into my face."

"She noticed the bump on my lip when she was doing my Botox and said she could inject a bit of filler for me if I wanted her to," she said. "To be fair, she told me to go and have a think about it in the kitchen but she'd found my weakness. My lip is the one thing that really bothers me about my appearance."

Knappier was given numbing cream to use on her lips before she hopped onto the bed where the beautician told her she was using a brand of filler called Teosyal, though it later transpired she'd used a different make entirely.

"One injection upwards towards my nose was very painful," Knappier remembered. "Within a few hours I began to feel unwell, my lips swelled like nothing I'd ever seen before and the pressure was unbearable."

Panic stricken, she called the beautician - who Knappier has since discovered was released from prison earlier this year - who then Facetimed her to look at her lips.

"She was visibly shocked, clamped her hands over her mouth, told me I was having an allergic reaction and that I needed to take an antihistamine and get to A&E," she said. "At A&E they tested me for anaphylactic shock but three medics concluded I wasn't having an allergic reaction and told me to go back to the beautician for treatment to dissolve the fillers."

After leaving A&E Knappier's top lip split. She called her mom who suggested she contact The Consultant Clinic in London (who she followed on social media) for help.

"The owner told me I needed to get to London immediately and that she'd have an emergency doctor waiting for me," Knappier said. "She said that, based on looking at my pictures, her medical team suspected vascular occlusion, meaning that the filler had been injected into an artery and could lead to necrosis - death of soft tissue. I honestly thought I was going to die."

Due to the pain in her lips and the severity of the pressure, she contacted a local aesthetic nurse who injected her with antihistamine medication to attempt to reduce the swelling and pressure.

A couple of days later, Knappier then had several doses of dissolving agent injected into her lips at the Consultant Clinic.

"It was so painful, that my mum, who was sitting upstairs in a waiting room, could hear my screams," she said.

Within 72 hours of the emergency dissolving treatment, Knappier's swelling began to subside and, three months on, her lips are almost back to normal.

"I would never go near a Botox party again. I'm cross that I didn't do my research and just assumed that everyone who injects Botox and fillers has been to medical school," she said. "I could have had the same reaction to the filler with a doctor but the difference is that they would have known what to do to treat it. The combination of the party atmosphere, my own naivety and the beautician's lack of training meant I could have lost my lip."

She then contacted Antonia Mariconda, founder of the Safety in Beauty campaign, who said Knappier's botched lip fillers were one of the worst cases she's seen.

"We urge ladies to please do their research and only entrust these invasive aesthetic procedures to experienced medical professionals," Mariconda said. "We are calling for the government to ban non-health care professionals from carrying out these seriously risky procedures and met with Theresa May earlier this year. It's time to clean out the cosmetic cowboys."

General physician and cosmetic doctor Jane Leonard offers aesthetic treatments at clinics in London and Cheshire and says many women approach her having had a bad experience at a Botox bash.

"I only see these people when things have gone wrong. If you inject something into someone's lips or face you have to know anatomically where you're putting it, which a beautician isn't going to know," Leonard said. "And a short course on how to give Botox and fillers isn't going to teach you that."

"The second problem is the quality of the products they're using, which is the biggest divide between doctors and dentists administering Botox and fillers and beauticians doing it for £50 in a salon or at a party," Leonard said. "If something goes wrong, we know what a vascular problem or an infection looks like and can act quickly to treat it but a beautician won't."

"There are two problems that I commonly see in women who've had treatment at a party - either they are dissatisfied with the results such as lumpiness in the filler or drooping from Botox, or they have a medical issue such as a blockage in the blood supply in the face, which is an emergency," she said.
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Unfortunately, because the aesthetics industry remains unregulated it attracts unscrupulous profiteers with no medical training to cope with complications which may arise.

Nikki Milovanovic is a spokeswoman for the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) and says it's a serious problem.

"Botox can only be injected by a prescribing clinician or under their supervision as it's a prescription only medicine, but the problem is that many unscrupulous practitioners can get hold of Botox - or counterfeit products - online, and then administer it in non-clinical settings, anywhere from parties to 'pop-ups' and pub car parks," she explained.

"Almost anyone can take qualification courses required to inject dermal fillers, which can be as short as half a day," Leonard said. "But fillers are unregulated so there's nothing stopping people from using the public as guinea pigs. Often the person administering injections is unable to recognize complications, let alone treat them."

A recent poll of BAAPS members revealed that 40 percent of them have seen an alarming increase in problems with unregulated facial injectables (dermal fillers) over the last five years, which would have been avoided if fillers were available on prescription only.
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Woman nearly lost top lip after getting botched fillers at 'Botox' party

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When Rachael Knappier went to a "Botox party" at a friend's home at the end of August, she planned to indulge in a shot of the wrinkle eraser in her forehead and a glass of fizz with her pals. But, after a few glasses of Prosecco, she also agreed to have lip fillers.

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College quarterback Kyler Murray won the Davey O'Brien Award. Murray has been drafted by the Oakland Athletics ( a MLB team) and will play next year. Whether he plays in the NFL is the question.

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Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray won the Davey O'Brien Award as the nation's top quarterback on Thursday night to open the College Football Awards show in Atlanta.

Murray, who plans to focus on baseball in the future, had a 96.0 quarterback rating, the highest in the Football Bowl Subdivision in at least the past 15 years, and was responsible for 51 touchdowns, tied with Ohio State quarterback Dwayne Haskins for the most in FBS. He is on pace to become the first FBS starting quarterback to average at least 300 passing yards per game and 60 rushing yards per game.

Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa received the Walter Camp Award on Thursday night as the top player in college football.

Kyler Murray is The Associated Press' college football Player of the Year, the second straight Oklahoma quarterback and fifth overall to win the award since it was established in 1998.

He beat out Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa and Washington State's Gardner Minshew II for the award.

Earlier in the day, the Walter Camp Award for best player went to Tagovailoa, while Murray won the Associated Press' Player of the Year -- setting up a showdown for Saturday night when those two players and Haskins contend for the Heisman Trophy.

The last five winners of the Walter Camp have gone on to win the Heisman, but only five Heisman winners have failed to win AP Player of the Year since the award started in 1998.

Murray's Davey O'Brien marked the sixth time an Oklahoma QB claimed the honor, after Baker Mayfield -- who won last year -- Sam Bradford in 2008, Jason White in both 2003 and 2004 and Billy Sims in 1978. The five different quarterbacks snaps a tie with BYU for the most by any school.

Jim Thorpe Award: Georgia's Deandre Baker received the award for outstanding defensive back. Named to the All-SEC first team by both the AP and coaches, he had two interceptions and nine passes broken up.

Doak Walker Award: Jonathan Taylor became the fourth Wisconsin player to be named the nation's top running back after Ron Dayne in 1999, Montee Ball in 2012 and Melvin Gordon in 2014. He leads the FBS with 1,989 yards and has rushed for 100 yards in 11 of 12 games this season.

Lou Groza Award: Syracuse'sAndre Szmyt was named the top placekicker after leading the FBS with 28 field goals, three more than any other player and setting a school record with 141 points. He is the first Syracuse player to win the award, and the first from the ACC since Florida State's Roberto Aguayo in 2013.

Peter Mortell Award: The honor of the best holder went to the outspoken Mac Loudermilk of UCF, who also serves as the unbeaten Knights' punter, and called himself "an all-around athlete, really," in accepting the award via a taped video.

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Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray won the Davey O'Brien Award as the nation's top quarterback on Thursday night to open the College Football Awards show in Atlanta. Murray, who plans to focus on baseball in the future, had a 96.0 quarterback rating, the highest in the Football Bowl Subdivision in at least the past 15 years, and was responsible for 51 touchdowns, tied with Ohio State quarterback Dwayne Haskins for the most in FBS.

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Genevieve gave birth to her daughter in 1949 and was told that her daughter hadn't survived. The doctors lied to her because she wasn't married. 69 years later her daughter got a DNA kit and found Genevieve and the two reunited.

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88-year-old mother reunites with daughter she thought had died at birth 69 years ago

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Since she was just a little girl, Connie Moultroup has had the same Christmas wish every year: to meet her biological mother. This week -- after 69 long years -- she finally did, all thanks to a DNA ancestry kit.

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A big snow storm is set to blanket the south. The snow will reach Texas, the Carolina's, and other states.

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snow to blanket the south this weekend in major winter storm - cnn

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Snow to blanket the South this weekend in major winter storm

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A significant winter storm will take shape beginning Friday over the Southern Plains and Texas, then spread this weekend through the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic.

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French teacher Peter Vlaming ,from West Point High School, was fired for refusing to call a female-to-male transgender student by their preferred pronoun. He said that religious reasons kept him from referring to the student as male. He agreed to use the student’s new male name, but he tried to avoid using any pronouns when referring to the student.

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A Virginia high school teacher was fired for transgender discrimination on Thursday after he refused to use a student's preferred pronoun, officials said.

Officials at West Point High School, about 40 miles east of Richmond, cited nondiscrimination and anti-harassment policies when it terminated French teacher Peter Vlaming over his refusal to call a female-to-male transgender student by their preferred pronoun, according to a statement.

"After thoughtful deliberation, the School Board voted to support the superintendent's recommendation," the school's board wrote in a statement. "The School Board has adopted policies and tonight we upheld these policies."

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Board members said it wouldn't comment further due to "the potential for future litigation," according to the statement.

Vlaming said religious reasons prevented him from referring to the student as male. He agreed to use the student's new male name, but he tried to avoid using any pronouns -- he or him, and she or her -- when referring to the student.

An online petition in support of Vlaming, titled "Don't terminate Mr. Vlaming," acquired more than 1,000 signatures, according to Richmond ABC affiliate WRIC.

The petition quotes Vlaming saying: "I won't use male pronouns with a female student that now identifies as a male though I did agree to use the new masculine name but avoid female pronouns."

"Administration is requiring that I use masculine pronouns in any and every context at school," Vlaming said. "I was informed that any further instances of using female pronouns would be grounds for termination."

The West Point School Board voted unanimously to terminate Vlaming. Superintendent Laura Abel said she agreed with the decision.

"As detailed during the course of the public hearing, Mr. Vlaming was recommended for termination due to insubordination through his repeated refusal to comply with directives made to him by multiple West Point Public Schools administrators," Abel said in a statement. "As superintendent, it is my responsibility to enforce board policy, and due to Mr. Vlaming's non-compliance I therefore recommended termination."

The school also held a public hearing on the matter which featured testimony from the school's principal, Jonathan Hochman, who claimed Vlaming told him that he liked and missed "the female version of the student."

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A Virginia high school teacher was fired for transgender discrimination on Thursday after he refused to use a student's preferred pronoun, officials said. Officials at West Point High School, about 40 miles east of Richmond, cited nondiscrimination and anti-harassment policies when it terminated French teacher Peter Vlaming over his refusal to call a female-to-male transgender student by their preferred pronoun, according to a statement.

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A woman identified as Jane Joe, who was detained by the police, was handcuffed to her hospital bed and forced to give birth. Jane was reportedly already in labor when cops took her out of her holding cell in the Bronx to the nearby medical center where they shackled her to her hospital bed. Doctors told the police that it was illegal to keep a woman tied to a bed but the officers insisted it was their departments code. A lawsuit is currently pending.

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A 27-year-old pregnant woman detained by police due to a custody dispute was forced to give birth while handcuffed and shackled to a New York City hospital bed after officers refused to remove her restraints, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday.

The woman, only identified as Jane Doe, was reportedly already in labor when cops took her out of a Bronx holding cell and brought her to nearby Montefiore Medical Center -- where police officers handcuffed and shackled her to a bed. Doctors told officers keeping a pregnant woman tied to the bed was illegal in New York, but officers insisted the department's code required her to be restrained and superceded state law, The New York Times reported, citing the lawsuit.

The woman suffered excruciating pain during labor, and the officers eventually yielded and removed some of her restraints -- but she still had her right hand cuffed to the bed when her baby was delivered, the lawsuit states. The 27-year-old called the entire experience humiliating and traumatizing, according to The New York Times.

"I haven't made sense of it myself and I'm not ready to explain it to my child," she said in an affidavit, according to the newspaper.

The woman is seeking damages stemming from the officers' alleged violations of her civil rights and she wants the NYPD to update their policies on shackling a pregnant woman in custody. A spokesman for the city's Law Department told The New York Times the agency was examining the allegations.

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says restraining a mother with shackles and handcuffs puts the health of the woman -- and the baby -- at risk

"When you have something as gender-specific as pregnancy, it reminds you of how flawed the system is and how ill-prepared it is to take care of pregnant people and the reproductive health needs of women in general," Carolyn Sufrin, who works as a medical anthropologist and OB-GYN at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, told NPR. "They're, if at all, an afterthought."

The First Step Act, a bipartisan criminal justice bill set to be voted on in Congress, would ban shackling pregnant women in federal prisons.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Woman says NYPD officers forced her to give birth while shackled to a bed

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A 27-year-old pregnant woman detained by police due to a custody dispute was forced to give birth while handcuffed and shackled to a New York City hospital bed after officers refused to remove her restraints, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday.