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Secret Service to fight school violence
NEW YORK - The Secret Service is moving into a new domain: the nation's
schools. The agency will complete a project this fall on how to identify
children who might turn violent. Agents from the Secret Service's National
Threat Assessment Center have examined about 40 recent school shootings and
interviewed several of the perpetrators. But a former president of the
National Association of School Psychologists, Kevin Dwyer, questioned
whether the Secret Service could effectively shift its focus from adult
crime to student behavior. "If they all worked together to get rid of guns,
we'd be better off," he said.
Children blamed in boy's smothering
BLYTHE, Calif. - A little boy was smothered with a bed pillow by his
6-year-old sister and 5-year-old cousin, and investigators said the death
was intentional, but the girls will not be charged in the death.
Three-year-old Damien Stiffler was killed when the other children he was
playing with at his grandmother's home last weekend tackled him and covered
his head with a pillow. One girl sat on the pillow while the other sat on
the little boy's legs until he stopped moving. The boy's father, Gerald
Stiffler, arrived at the home to find Damien motionless in the yard and
tried to revive him. While interviews with the girls have shown they
intended to kill the boy, said Sgt. Mark Lohman, they cannot be charged with
a crime under California law because they are younger than 14.
Secret Service to fight school violence
NEW YORK - The Secret Service is moving into a new domain: the nation's
schools. The agency will complete a project this fall on how to identify
children who might turn violent. Agents from the Secret Service's National
Threat Assessment Center have examined about 40 recent school shootings and
interviewed several of the perpetrators. But a former president of the
National Association of School Psychologists, Kevin Dwyer, questioned
whether the Secret Service could effectively shift its focus from adult
crime to student behavior. "If they all worked together to get rid of guns,
we'd be better off," he said.
Children blamed in boy's smothering
BLYTHE, Calif. - A little boy was smothered with a bed pillow by his
6-year-old sister and 5-year-old cousin, and investigators said the death
was intentional, but the girls will not be charged in the death.
Three-year-old Damien Stiffler was killed when the other children he was
playing with at his grandmother's home last weekend tackled him and covered
his head with a pillow. One girl sat on the pillow while the other sat on
the little boy's legs until he stopped moving. The boy's father, Gerald
Stiffler, arrived at the home to find Damien motionless in the yard and
tried to revive him. While interviews with the girls have shown they
intended to kill the boy, said Sgt. Mark Lohman, they cannot be charged with
a crime under California law because they are younger than 14.