Mummified cat found in raided Toronto Humane Society building: Officials

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HEADLINE: Mummified cat found in raided Toronto Humane Society building: Officials
SOURCE LINK: http://www.canada.com/news/Mummified+found+raided+Toronto+Humane+Society+building+Officials/2277918/story.html
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TORONTO — Investigators said Friday they had found a mummified cat in the ceiling of the Toronto Humane Society offices.

The cat was found in a live trap, meant as a humane method of catching an animal, but it had apparently never been checked.

"It sent chills down my spine," said Kevin Strooband, an Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals investigator. He met reporters Friday outside the humane society office as he gave media tours of the facility, a day after its top officials and board of directors were charged with animal cruelty offences.

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HEADLINE: Family Sues After Dad's Body Falls From Broken Casket
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,577286,00.html
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PHOENIX — A suburban Phoenix family is suing after their father's body slipped from a shattered casket when it was dropped into a grave during a burial ceremony.

Lawsuits filed by the wife, children and two dozen family members of 50-year-old Robert Gowdy Sr. claim a strap on a casket-lowering device snapped as family was gathered around a grave last year, dropping Gowdy's coffin and breaking it open.

The lawsuit against the city of Mesa and its workers, the funeral home, casket company and device-maker says Gowdy's body had to be pulled from the grave by two family members after cemetery workers ran away.

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HEADLINE: Shock therapy for teenagers
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26412182-421,00.html
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ELECTRIC shock therapy is being used on deeply troubled Victorian teenagers in a last-ditch bid to cure their mental illness.
Documents obtained under Freedom of Information legislation reveal that eight juveniles and a further 107 young adults were given controversial electro-convulsive treatment in 2007-08.

The therapy has split the medical community, with some experts claiming it could harm children.

The revelations have put more pressure on Community Services Minister Lisa Neville, who is facing repeated calls for her resignation amid a continuing crisis in the state's child protection system.

She insists the use of electric shocks to the brains of children was heavily regulated.

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HEADLINE: Police: Dad Doing Errand Locked Kids in Trunk
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,577129,00.html?test=latestnews
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FALL RIVER, Mass. — Massachusetts police say a man locked his two young sons in the trunk of his car while he ran an errand.

Fall River police say Michael Monahan put his kids, ages 3 and 6, in the trunk of his Pontiac Trans Am for several minutes Tuesday morning while he went inside a sailing shop.

According to court records, Monahan told investigators the boys like to play in the trunk.

The 35-year-old Monahan pleaded not guilty Wednesday to assault and reckless endangerment of a child. He was released on cash bail.

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