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Daily Mail
21 hours ago
- Daily Mail
Mom, 35, whacks teen girl with a Stanley Cup at school gates as victim says 'I thought I was going to die'
A New York teenager has said she was left traumatized after allegedly being hit over the head with a metal Stanley Cup by another girl's mom at her school. Madison Evans, 14, said she is now 'shaking all the time' after the attack left her with 17 stitches - and admits she may never use the brand again because of the distress. 'I can't even look at those cups anymore. Every time I see one, it just brings it all back,' she told the New York Post. The teen said the incident unfolded around 11am Tuesday as she was leaving Brentwood High School in Long Island and was approached by two girls who had issues with her cousin, but who she has never met before. She said the girls began bullying her because of her association with her cousin, and footage from outside the school showed the girls arguing back-and-forth. As one of the girls was held back by a security guard, Toni Monroe, 35, the mother of one of the girls, entered the spat. Monroe was heard telling her daughter to 'give me your Stanley', taking the large metal cup from her hands and confronting Madison with it. The footage allegedly showed Monroe bashing the 14-year-old over the head with the cup multiple times as her daughter also joined in. New York teenager Madison Evans, 14, says she has been left traumatized after allegedly being hit over the head with a metal Stanley cup by another girl's mom at her school The incident unfolded around 11am Tuesday as the teen was leaving Brentwood High School in Long Island, with footage showing two teens confronting Madison before Toni Monroe, 35, the mother of one of the girls, entered the spat Witnesses told the Post that Monroe then tried to run away after allegedly attacking the teen, but was stopped by a security guard. Monroe was arrested by the police in the parking lot and charged with assault. She was released without bail but was ordered to be fitted with an ankle monitor and barred from contacting Madison. Madison said the attack left her with blood streaming down her face, and said she was so shaken from the incident she 'thought (she) was going to die.' The teen said she initially thought Monroe was another girl at the school, admitting she was 'shocked' to find out it was allegedly a mother at the school. 'I thought it was another student, but then when I looked at her, she had a tattoo,' she continued. 'Then I just kept trying to defend myself.' Shameakca Forney, Madison's guardian, said the video was hard to believe as she condemned Monroe's alleged attack. 'If you're going to let the kids fight, then let the kids fight — kids will be kids, we've all done it growing up — but you don't jump in and fight kids,' Forney said. Monroe claimed in court that she was at the school to complain about her own daughter being bullied. But Madison's family told the Post that there was no excuse for the adult to have allegedly attacked the teen. 'As a mom you're supposed to diffuse the situation and take your daughter away to see what's going on instead of attacking a kid with a cup,' said Madison's cousin, Tyleen Smith. Brentwood schools Superintendent Wanda Ortiz-Rivera said in a statement after the footage circulated across social media that the incident was 'unacceptable.' 'The safety and well-being of our students is always our highest priority,' she said. 'This type of behavior will not be tolerated in our schools.'
Yahoo
a day ago
- Yahoo
Mother Charged After 14-Year-Old Girl Was Struck ‘Multiple Times' with Stanley Cup in Attack Outside Summer School
The incident occurred at Brentwood High School in Long Island on Tuesday, Aug. 12 NEED TO KNOW Brentwood High School student Madison Evans was injured in an altercation on Tuesday, Aug. 12 According to the Suffolk County police, the 14-year-old was struck "multiple times" with a water bottle amid an altercation with a 15-year-old student Toni Monroe, who is the mother of the 15-year-old, was arraigned in court on Aug. 13, having been charged in connection with the assault A mother has been charged with assault after she allegedly hit and injured a teenager with a Stanley Cup at a school in New York. Toni Monroe, 35, allegedly struck a 14-year-old girl 'multiple times' with a water bottle during an altercation between the student and her 15-year-old daughter on Aug. 12 at Brentwood High School in Long Island, the Suffolk County police said in a news release. Police stated that the 14-year-old student was exiting the school when she and a 15-year-old girl exchanged words at around 11 a.m. local time. Monroe, who is the mother of the 15-year-old, then allegedly struck the 14-year-old several times with a metal water bottle before a security guard broke up the altercation. A short time later, the mother was arrested in the parking lot, according to the police news release. The injured 14-year-old was transported to a local hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. The injured teenager has been identified as Brentwood High School student Madison Evans, per ABC 7 New York. In footage obtained by the outlet, two teenage girls are seen in a heated exchange at the school, before an individual believed to be Monroe is heard telling one of the girls, who appears to be her daughter, 'Give me your Stanley.' She then seems to strike the other girl repeatedly with the Stanley Cup, as she is heard screaming. Evans received a bloody gash on her forehead in the alleged attack, which required 17 stitches, per ABC 7 New York 'She threw a punch, I threw a punch back and we started fighting and her mom just came in and started beating me with the cup,' Evans said, per NBC New York. 'Next thing you know, I get pushed into the school and I saw blood dripping … I saw blood all over my hands.' Monroe was charged with assault in the second degree and endangering the welfare of a child following the incident. Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up for for breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases. At her arraignment in court on Aug. 13, Monroe's lawyer claimed that she was at the school at the time to attend a meeting about her daughter being bullied, per ABC 7 New York. The lawyer also denied that Monroe punched the girl, alleging that Evans attacked her daughter first. Monroe was released after the arraignment with supervision and signed an order of protection to stay away from Evans, according to the outlet. "We are aware of the incident that occurred yesterday during dismissal involving two students and a parent," Brentwood High School said in a statement on Aug. 13, per News 12 Long Island. "The safety and well-being of our students is always our highest priority, and this type of behavior is unacceptable and will not be tolerated in our schools." PEOPLE has reached out to Brentwood High School for comment. Read the original article on People
Yahoo
a day ago
- Yahoo
Mother Charged After 14-Year-Old Girl Was Struck ‘Multiple Times' with Stanley Cup in Attack Outside Summer School
The incident occurred at Brentwood High School in Long Island on Tuesday, Aug. 12 NEED TO KNOW Brentwood High School student Madison Evans was injured in an altercation on Tuesday, Aug. 12 According to the Suffolk County police, the 14-year-old was struck "multiple times" with a water bottle amid an altercation with a 15-year-old student Toni Monroe, who is the mother of the 15-year-old, was arraigned in court on Aug. 13, having been charged in connection with the assault A mother has been charged with assault after she allegedly hit and injured a teenager with a Stanley Cup at a school in New York. Toni Monroe, 35, allegedly struck a 14-year-old girl 'multiple times' with a water bottle during an altercation between the student and her 15-year-old daughter on Aug. 12 at Brentwood High School in Long Island, the Suffolk County police said in a news release. Police stated that the 14-year-old student was exiting the school when she and a 15-year-old girl exchanged words at around 11 a.m. local time. Monroe, who is the mother of the 15-year-old, then allegedly struck the 14-year-old several times with a metal water bottle before a security guard broke up the altercation. A short time later, the mother was arrested in the parking lot, according to the police news release. The injured 14-year-old was transported to a local hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. The injured teenager has been identified as Brentwood High School student Madison Evans, per ABC 7 New York. In footage obtained by the outlet, two teenage girls are seen in a heated exchange at the school, before an individual believed to be Monroe is heard telling one of the girls, who appears to be her daughter, 'Give me your Stanley.' She then seems to strike the other girl repeatedly with the Stanley Cup, as she is heard screaming. Evans received a bloody gash on her forehead in the alleged attack, which required 17 stitches, per ABC 7 New York 'She threw a punch, I threw a punch back and we started fighting and her mom just came in and started beating me with the cup,' Evans said, per NBC New York. 'Next thing you know, I get pushed into the school and I saw blood dripping … I saw blood all over my hands.' Monroe was charged with assault in the second degree and endangering the welfare of a child following the incident. Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up for for breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases. At her arraignment in court on Aug. 13, Monroe's lawyer claimed that she was at the school at the time to attend a meeting about her daughter being bullied, per ABC 7 New York. The lawyer also denied that Monroe punched the girl, alleging that Evans attacked her daughter first. Monroe was released after the arraignment with supervision and signed an order of protection to stay away from Evans, according to the outlet. "We are aware of the incident that occurred yesterday during dismissal involving two students and a parent," Brentwood High School said in a statement on Aug. 13, per News 12 Long Island. "The safety and well-being of our students is always our highest priority, and this type of behavior is unacceptable and will not be tolerated in our schools." PEOPLE has reached out to Brentwood High School for comment. Read the original article on People
Yahoo
24-03-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Researchers search for more precise ways to measure pain
Madison Evans was 16 when she first felt the sharp pain in her lower pelvis, pain that radiated through her back and grew so severe that some days she could not get out of bed. Pain relievers 'couldn't touch it,' she said. 'Sports, social events, whatever was on the calendar had to be cleared.' The pediatricians Evans visited during her adolescence in Severna Park, Maryland, never asked her to rate the pain. Instead they told her, 'The cramps are bad when you're young' and, 'You'll grow out of it,' then prescribed the ineffective pills. Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. She did not grow out of the pain; it continued for almost 15 years. Relief only came at age 30 when a doctor listened to her descriptions of the pain and diagnosed endometriosis, a chronic condition that affects 1 in 10 women of childbearing age. Measuring pain, one of the most fundamental tasks in medicine, remains one of the least precise, a shortcoming that helped fuel the nation's opioid crisis. In an era of genomic medicine and artificial intelligence, doctors still ask patients to rate their pain from 0 to 10 or, in the case of very young children, with cartoon faces, ranging from smiley to frowny. Studies have shown that these efforts are undermined by biases that have led the medical community to consistently underestimate the pain of women and minorities, especially Black Americans. But researchers are now on a quest to find objective biological indicators of pain that will enable doctors to quantify it as they do heart rate and blood pressure. The wave of research into these indicators, known as biomarkers, carries implications for the nearly 1 in 4 Americans who live with chronic pain. It may also speak for infants and others who are unable to tell doctors what they feel. Scientists hope to identify biomarkers among the proteins, hormones and metabolites that have been linked to pain. One researcher has been developing a way to measure the pain sensations transmitted by nerve fibers in the body. Doctors said the ability to measure pain using these markers would improve the accuracy of diagnoses and help determine how effective medications are in easing their patients' suffering. An accurate objective pain measure could also wind up saving the health-care system money, said Julia Finkel, an anesthesiologist at Children's National Hospital in Washington, who is hoping to develop the first device to determine both the type and intensity of pain. 'You get it right the first time instead of this empirical, trial-and-error approach,' Finkel said. 'The current standard of care is that we ask the patient a bunch of questions; laboratory data is drawn. They get back to you next week. Then that next visit, which is the following month, based on what we saw in the labs, then we'll escalate the dose, or decrease the dose or change the drug.' In 2010, the National Academy of Sciences put the annual cost of chronic pain at between $560 billion and $635 billion - up to $300 billion of that in direct health-care costs and up to $110 billion in missed time at work. Finding an objective measure of pain could also topple the barrier of doubt that sometimes stands between doctors and their patients, a problem Gissel Moralescasco ran into when she was 8. A doctor had asked her to rate the pain that spread from her stomach through her entire body on a scale of 0 to 10, with 10 being the most severe. 'Ten,' she said, without hesitation. 'Are you sure?' the doctor asked. 'Ten is really bad.' Two months later, a different doctor spent almost a day examining Moralescasco and running through tests before diagnosing the D.C. resident with lupus. 'Wow,' the doctor told her. 'Now I understand.' Although pain is sometimes called the fifth vital sign after temperature, pulse, respiration and blood pressure, its complexity often goes unappreciated. 'When patients are told that the pain is all in their head, the implication is that it's imagined, but the irony is that [is] sort of right,' said Adam Kepecs, a professor of neuroscience and psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis. 'The pain only exists in your brain. It's neural activity, which is why it's invisible and uniquely personal. But it's still real.' Kepecs and a colleague have a $3.4 million federal grant to develop a blood test that can measure pain in women who, like Evans, have endometriosis, which stems from the growth of tissue similar to the lining of the uterus but in the pelvic area outside the uterus. 'By comparing blood samples from the same individual at different times, when they experience high pain versus no pain, we can identify molecules specifically linked to pain,' Kepecs said. At Children's National Hospital, Finkel has an $8 million grant from the same federal program funding Kepecs's project. In about two months, she plans to start clinical trials of the tool she has dubbed the Nociometer. The name is a nod to the term nociception, the detection of pain. The Nociometer stimulates the patient's three main sensory and pain nerve fibers - found in skin, muscles, joints and some organs - without actually causing pain. Instead, the device sends a tiny electrical current through a probe, usually attached to the patient's finger or toe. The three fibers each transmit a different kind of sensation: temperature and slow-burning pain; sharp, localized pain; and touch and pressure. Using a handheld instrument, the doctor then examines the dilation of the patient's pupil in response to the electrical current. The pupil is connected to the pain processing centers of the brain that receive information from the three nerve fiber types. Finkel's Nociometer measures and compares the relative sensitivity of each type and uses the information to determine the kind of pain and its intensity. The clinical trials will test the device's accuracy in measuring pain associated with different conditions, including pediatric acute postoperative pain, lupus (an example of inflammatory pain) and carpal tunnel syndrome (an example of neuropathic pain, which arises from damage or dysfunction of the nervous system, rather than from damage to tissue). Another study will evaluate people without pain, though 'they're hard to find,' Finkel said. The Nociometer would not replace the self-reported pain scales that doctors use, but rather add clarity. 'Well, you said 'I'm in pain.' I don't doubt that,' Finkel explained. 'In order to be most effective, I need to know why; what are the underpinnings of why you feel this way. Different components impact one's perception of pain. Depression can exacerbate it. Happiness can mitigate it.' One problem with using pain scales alone is that they're imprecise and vulnerable to manipulation. Craving medication, some patients overrate their pain; others, fearing they'll be viewed as overly sensitive, downgrade their pain. 'You don't want to leave people in terrible pain, but the problem we got into is that that seemed to translate into large amounts of opioids being prescribed,' said David Clark, a professor of anesthesiology, perioperative and pain medicine at Stanford Medicine, an academic medical center that is part of the university. Clark said doctors try to go beyond the self-reported scales by asking specific questions: How does the pain interfere with the things you want to do? Can you work? Can you take care of your kids? Is the pain interfering with sleep? Still, health-care professionals struggle with their biases, and with the significant challenge of determining pain in newborns and young children who cannot communicate. 'There is a huge need, really, for objective biomarkers to assess pain in these vulnerable populations,' said Neha Santucci, director of the chronic abdominal pain program at Cincinnati Children's hospital. Since infants cannot talk, Santucci said, 'we go by more of their behavior. Crying is a sign of being in discomfort, but babies cry. Crying is their primary language. A baby crying does not necessarily mean pain. They might be crying because they're hungry. They may be crying because they need a diaper change.' Kevin Jackson, Finkel's partner in the company AlgometRx, which will produce the Nociometer, said they hope the device will receive approvals and be ready for clinical use within about five years. Although the cost has not been decided, Jackson said it will probably be between $10,000 and $15,000. 'We do envision it being a ubiquitous tool,' he said. The projects involving Finkel and Kepecs are among four aimed at developing ways to measure pain, all funded with grants from the Department of Health and Human Services' Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health. Another recipient, Tufts University biomedical engineering professor Sameer Sonkusale, is using a $3 million grant to develop a patch containing microneedles that is placed against the skin. The microneedles would take samples of interstitial fluid, the watery substance found between cells and tissues in the body. Doctors would peel the patch off after 35 to 40 minutes and insert it into a reader that would search for molecules such as hormones, metabolites and cytokines (small proteins important in cell signaling), Sonkusale said. The patches, he said, should be ready for human testing within six months. 'The whole project rests on the premise that there's no one biomarker of pain,' he said. 'We are looking for a panel [of different biomarkers].' The fourth project is led by Wei Gao, a professor of medical engineering at the California Institute of Technology, who received a $3 million grant to develop a 'wearable' pain tool that would measure pain through proteins, hormones and metabolites found in sweat. It might be a ring or a device worn around the wrist like the Fitbit, which tracks a person's fitness. 'A lot of biomarkers associated with pain can be identified in blood,' he said. 'But taking a blood draw at home would not be practical.' That's why, Gao said, 'we are looking at what's in the sweat.' The as-yet-unnamed device can actually induce sweat, even while the wearer is sleeping. Gao said it would consist of a disposable patch costing less than $1 that would collect the sweat and a reusable reader that costs between $10 and $20. Evans, the woman with endometriosis, who now lives in St. Louis, said the ability to measure pain through methods like the blood test being developed for her condition will have profound implications for patients. 'I think if the blood test had existed 15 years ago,' she said, 'I would have essentially gotten those 15 years of my life back.' Related Content The Wright brothers invented the airplane, right? Not if you're in Brazil. The loneliest people (and places) in America From polarizing to beloved, George Foreman sold us on his authentic self
