Thursday, December 13, 2012
A Wakefield man and tutor who faces numerous child sex charges was a Level 1 sex offender.
On Thursday afternoon, news spread quickly through the region about the indictment of a Wakefield couple for numerous charges stemming from an illegal day care operation where graphic child sexual abuse occurred. The Middlesex County District Attorney's office alleges that at least 13 children were abused while under the care of John Burbine, 49, at the Waterfall Education Center, which offered tutoring and day care. Burbine was a level 1 sex offender, which means he had been convicted of a sex-related crime but was deemed least likely to re-offend. Sex offenders are classified according to the degree of dangerousness they pose to the public and their likelihood to re-offend. A Level 1 offender has been classified as a “low risk.” A Level…
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Some Rhode Island students were made to leave a homecoming dance early after protesting their school's "no-grinding" policy.
A Rhode Island high school is under scrutiny after administrators cut short a homecoming dance this weekend. Middletown High School dismissed students from the dance early because of "unsafe behavior by students who did not agree with the no-grinding rule as outlined in the Middletown High School handbook," the district announced in a statement Sunday. The school handbook, reported Middletown Patch, includes a "no-grinding policy," which notes that "sexually explicit dancing will not be tolerated." According to Middletown Patch, the DJ told some students they were not allowed to make song requests and that he only played music they could not dance to. Eventually, the students sat on the floor in protest and began to chant expletives. The …
Saturday, September 1, 2012
What did you think of Ann Romney and Chris Christie's reportedly conflicting messages this week?
The day after Mitt Romney's wife and New Jersey's Republican governor gave back-to-back speeches at the Republican National Convention earlier this week, at least one website drew attention to their respective remarks. In a "mash up," of the two speeches, BuzzFeed.com contrasts Ann Romney's "warm love," comments versus the "tough love," stance Chris Christie takes in his speech. "These two speeches...were not meant to be back-to-back," wrote a BuzzFeed reporter. Romney's speech had been scheduled for Monday, but was postponed to Tuesday when Monday's Convention activities were scratched due to the threat of Tropical Storm/Hurricane Isaac. Romney said she wanted to talk about "the love we share for those Americans...who are going through …
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