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A Wheaton woman was allowed Tuesday to see and hold her 7-week-old son for the first time since she allegedly abandoned him in a neighbor's backyard shortly after his birth.

Nunu Sung's reunion with the infant, named Joshua by hospital caregivers, took place in a conference room at the DuPage County Courthouse in Wheaton. Sung, 24, held and hugged the baby for about five minutes, under the supervision of a guardian appointed by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, officials said.

Earlier in Juvenile Court, DuPage County Judge C. Stanley Austin granted Sung visitation rights to see the boy, provided the circumstances are approved by DCFS.

Sung is charged with child endangerment and obstruction of justice after allegedly lying to Wheaton police about the birth of the child. She has been out of the DuPage County Jail on $50,000 bail for several weeks.

After her arrest, Sung told police she had no emotional attachment to the child, prosecutors said. But her attorneys have said several times since that she has a desire to see her son, who is now in a foster home.

"Hopefully this is the first step of many" visits, Assistant Public Defender Jeff York said. "She wants to see her son."

Assistant State's Atty. Augusta Clarke told the judge Tuesday that repeated efforts to contact the Texas man that Sung claims is the father have been fruitless.

Austin ordered that the man have no contact with the child, unless a judge approves it.

Austin also was told that a comprehensive mental health examination of Sung hasn't been completed.

Also Tuesday, DuPage County Judge Blanche Hill Fawell, a criminal court judge, rejected prosecutors' attempt to have Sung's bail increased to $100,000 from $50,000 and for her to be placed on home confinement.

Prosecutors said she tampered with her electronic ankle bracelet, but Sung denied the claim.

Joshua was found June 12 unclothed behind bushes outside a garage in the 800 block of East Michigan Street, steps from the apartment complex in which Sung, an immigrant from Myanmar, lived with her cousin, prosecutors said. The baby was found by neighbors.

Relatives reported her missing after she failed to return from a walk late June 11. Wheaton police found her in her apartment cleaning herself and her clothes when they investigated the incident June 12, officials said.

TORONTO - Tori Stafford's father said he will begin his fundraising bike ride across the country Wednesday in memory of his murdered daughter.

Rodney Stafford said he plans to leave Woodstock, Ont. in the morning from the church parking lot where hundreds gathered at a memorial in June for the eight-year-old who disappeared in April.

Stafford said he is making the 3,400-kilometre journey to Edmonton to raise funds for Child Find Ontario. ``I don't care how long it takes me I am going to make this trek,'' Stafford said Tuesday.

The little girl was last seen April 8 when video surveillance footage caught her walking away from her school with a woman.

Ontario Provincial Police discovered her remains in a secluded farmers field Northwest of Guelph, Ont. on July 19.

He said his sister has planned a fundraiser upon his arrival in Edmonton in about a month from now. The pair will then travel to Jasper, Alta. to release a purple balloon on a mountain the eight-year-old once visited.

Stafford said his family held a private funeral for his daughter Friday and her remains were buried just outside Woodstock.

There will never be total closure but there is a lot more now that we know she is home,'' Stafford said.

Terri-Lynne McClintic, 19, and Michael Rafferty, 28, both from Woodstock, have each been charged with first-degree murder.

On March 3rd, 2009 six year old Aniysah was taken from her mother’s arms and thrown into a legal shuffle of unaccountability, instability and discrimination. There were no records verifying that she would be taken to a safe living environment or that she was enrolled in school. Questions about her health and well-being went unanswered. That was 150 days ago. To date, Aniysah remains lost in the legal system. A system where black and brown children go missing everyday. A system where black mothers like Aniysah’s are often left to fend for themselves in a brutal, dogged battle just to make sure their children are safe.

It’s time to hold the legal system accountable. Document the Silence asks that you join them in the “Where’s Aniysah?” campaign by posting information about this case on your blogs, online social networks and throughout your community. You can find out more about this campaign to
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Days I birthed children, and a day I bid one farewell.

Days I wept and regretted and pleaded and days I rejoiced.

A day the idea of a holiday, with one less child child, one less ticket, one less suitcase, would have sent me plummeting into missing and yearning and bitter hatred for the life I’ve been dealt. But time is truly a gift and there did come a day where we began to imagine just that. And then a day we did it. We packed our bags, got on a plane and took our smaller, once broken family on holiday.

The planning of our trip to the US was much the same as we do everything in our household..without too much planning. We like the spontaneous.

Saying that, no doubt we each had a hazy vision beforehand of what we believed the trip would hold for us. The boys vision included Legoland as a main feature, Ivy was fixated on the tea cup ride at Disney, Crayton wanted to just live like a local. Me, of course I imagined the afternoon light and the shopping but more than any of that, I imagined heart mending. I wanted to believe that it would be okay to go away, to laugh, to explore and just be together, without the what if’s and the should be’s and the yearning for different. In the weeks before we left, I imagined it over and over..the hazy scene of the five of us playing at the beach with nothing more than simple happiness. How I hoped.

And you know, looking back, we got just that. The vacation of a lifetime spent doing not very much at all. My best memories of the last two months involve the simplest of things.. beach days, trips to the store, just driving around and discovering together..absorbing a time where I can say I was genuinely happy with my husband and three children.

It feels like such a huge gift we’ve been given, to not acknowledge it would seem wrong but while I want to share the joy of this time, it’s still not easy to write that. I’m torn between wanting to always declare my endless missing of Ava. I fear implying that the grief is no longer there.. the
need remains to make sure her life and memory and place in our family still matter, every single day. It’s a strange mix of gratitude and serenity and fear and it makes me marvel at how life ebbs and flows. How things do change, no matter how certain you are they won’t.

Fifteen years ago, I could not have imagined finding and marrying my soulmate.

Ten years ago, I could not have imagined four children.

Five years ago, I could not have imagined my daughter was about to celebrate one of only three birthdays.

Two years ago, I could not have imagined ever laughing again. Or dreaming. Or going on holiday.

Yet I did. My certainty wasn’t very certain at all.

I’ve always said holidays are only good in plans and memories, the daily reality never quite lives up. I was wrong.. the reality of our simple, happy

days spent together these past two months are literally a hazy, hopeful dream come true.

Here’s to heart mending. And my beautiful Ava.

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Police investigating the disappearance of an Idaho boy missing for a week said Friday they are afraid the child may have been the victim of a tragedy.

Boise authorities told reporters that there are "suspicious circumstances" surrounding 8-year-old Robert Manwill's disappearance.

"Robert may be injured or be the victim of a tragic event," said Boise Police Chief Jim Kerns at a brief Friday press conference. "But he is still missing."

Earlier this week, news emerged that Robert's mother is on probation for fracturing the skull of the missing boy's infant half brother, who was removed from her custody by the state.

Robert was last seen near the Boise apartment of his mother, Melissa Scott Jenkins. Police detectives, FBI agents and more than 100 volunteers have searched extensively, but haven't found him.

Boise police have previously said there is no evidence of foul play in the disappearance of Robert, and that the family is cooperating fully.

The missing boy's father, Charles Manwill, has had custody of him since 2008. Jenkins has visitation rights, and the boy was visiting her the night he disappeared.

Court records show a history of family tragedies involving children.

Jenkins pleaded guilty in March to a misdemeanor charge of injury to a child following an October 2008 incident that fractured her infant son's skull, according to The Idaho Statesman.

Court records say Jenkins "did willfully inflict" the injury to her other son "by striking the child's head on a surface, causing a fracture to the child's skull," on Oct. 19, 2008. She was sentenced to 29 days of work release, fined $75.50 and put on probation for two years.

The child is the son of Jenkins' boyfriend, Daniel Edward Ehrlick, and was in the care of the state Department of Health and Welfare through at least February, according to court documents. The agency on Wednesday would not release his whereabouts, citing policy.

Jenkins has a third child, a 2 1/2-year-old daughter, fathered by a third man, who has custody of her. Jenkins has visitation rights. Ehrlick, who has been convicted of burglary, battery and possession of drug paraphernalia, is banned from being alone with the girl, but court documents don't say why.

In another case, Charles Manwill's wife, Silke Fatma Manwill, stabbed their 4-year-old son, Michael, in the chest in 1993, killing him. She was sentenced to federal prison after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter, and was released in 2002.

Meanwhile, Jenkins has declined to comment on her son Robert's disappearance.

"We are a joined family at this time in this crisis," said Trisha Burrill, Robert Manwill's aunt. "We are acting as one, with one goal in mind. To bring Robert back."

A search for a missing New York Mills boy ended with the 7-year-old safely in his parents’ arms Monday.

The boy was playing outside the Parkview Apartments with his younger brother. When it was time for the boy to come in his father couldn’t find him outside where the boy had been playing. After searching the area, Jeff Randall told his wife to call 9-1-1 and report their son missing.

About a half hour after the search began the boy was home safely.

The New York Mills Police Department took the call from dispatch and Chief Jason Hoaby responded to the apartments, gathered the basic information and boy’s description, and conducted an initial search in the immediate area of the boy’s home. Greg Seim and Ryan Brasel from the Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office also responded and met with the family. NYM Fire Department members were then dispatched to join law enforcement in the search.

“We first were amazed at the quick response, not only by the police but everyone involved,” Jeff Randall said Monday in an email to the New York Mills Herald.

With the boy still missing, neighbors and others stopped to offer assistance.

Hoaby contacted the Cenex C-Store to provide information on the missing boy and was told a boy matching the description was at the store earlier wanting to buy a flashlight. Law enforcement, along with a neighbor responding to help, went to the C-Store to investigate and a man working on one of the semi-tractor trailers reportedly saw the boy in one of the truck cabs. The truck was not occupied by anyone else at the time and the boy was returned to his parents.

Jeff Randall and his wife Teresa Randall, are thankful to all those who helped in this situation he described as how their world went from “normal to complete terror.” “For a small town, this is one of the best I’ve seen when it comes to helping others,” Randall said. “We are both amazed at the quick response and the town’s efforts to find a small child that no one knew.

“In our society and our world today you do not often hear about compassion and people getting together for one common goal, but when you see it with your own eyes it makes you realize how great New York Mills is and how compassionate we can be in a small town.”

An Amber Alert was not issued in Monday’s incident. In the event of a child reported missing the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is notified, and if the situation meets certain criteria an Amber Alert may be issued, this according to Hoaby.