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CBS News
3 days ago
- CBS News
Mom demands change after 5-year-old son wanders off from Fairfield school
A Fairfield mother said her worst nightmare was realized Wednesday when she went to pick up her child from his first day at Cleo Gordon Elementary School, and to her surprise, he was not there. Corinna Goode-Lavern says her 5-year-old son Tristan was not among the group of students waiting for their parents when she pulled in to pick him up. The children were not behind the gate, but standing on the parking lot sidewalk with their teacher. "It's scary to know our littles aren't safe at school," Goode-Lavern said. She says the teacher told her they did not know where her son was and would have to check the cameras to see if he even walked out with them. Goode-Lavern says she started frantically searching for her son across the school's campus with help from one of the front office workers. After having no luck finding him, Goode-Lavern turned her attention to the busy E. Tabor Avenue just in front of the school. "I actually had a panic attack in the car searching for him. My thoughts were, my son is gone forever. Where could he have gone? A five-year-old wandering, someone is going to pick him up or worse, someone is going to hit him," Goode-Lavern said. She called her husband in a panic. As it turns out, Goode-Lavern says that Tristan got scared while waiting for her to pick him up. He walked away from the pickup line and all the way home, a 12-minute walk. While she was driving through the neighborhood, a familiar face brought good news. "My local mailman actually stopped me and said, 'Hey, I seen your child walking, he is safe on your porch.' My son walked 8 long blocks across 7 streets alone as a 5-year-old. And nobody knew," she said. "When I got to him and he was crying, he said, 'Mommy, I looked both ways before I crossed.' " Goode-Lavern says the mailman made sure her son Tristan sat on the front porch and opened his lunch box to get him a snack. While he was running his route he was keeping an eye on the child, about to call 911. "I was like, 'I appreciate you so much. You made sure my son was safe and nobody else could do that for us,' " Goode-Lavern said. She said she confronted the district on Thursday, demanding change and ultimately pulled her child from the school. She feels there was not enough urgency by the staff or her child's teacher when it was discovered he was missing. Tristan will start at a different school within the district on Monday, but Goode-Lavern says she is working to get him moved out of the district entirely. In a statement, Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District leaders told CBS13: "Students' safety and well-being is always our top priority. We are aware of the incident involving a kindergarten student at Cleo Gordon on the first day of school. While the student was safely reunited with their family, this should not have occurred. District officials met with the family to discuss the incident. The school reviewed the circumstances and immediately updated its dismissal procedures, providing additional guidance for staff to reinforce protocols. We are taking this matter very seriously. Out of respect for the privacy of the student and family, we cannot provide any more details at this time." When asked what changes exactly were being implemented, the district gave this response: "Cleo Gordon Elementary has refined its dismissal procedures for kindergarten students to further support an orderly and safe end to the school day. Staff continue to use clipboards to confirm authorized pick-up, and now students remain behind the gates with staff until their guardian arrives. Parents and guardians park and meet students at the gates, rather than having the kindergarteners walk out to the pick-up area. These updates build on existing safety practices for our youngest learners."
Daily Mail
31-07-2025
- Health
- Daily Mail
Family of boy, five, who died after being sent home from hospital because of bed shortages say new report has 'not brought closure'
A new report into the death of a five-year-old boy after he was sent home from A&E has concluded that his mother's instinct that her child was unwell was 'repeatedly not addressed across services'. Yusuf Mahmud Nazir died on November 23, 2022, eight days after he was seen at Rotherham Hospital and sent home with antibiotics. A report into Yusuf's case in October 2023, by independent consultants and published by NHS South Yorkshire, found his care was appropriate and 'an admission was not clinically required', but this was rejected by his family. Yusuf's uncle Zaheer Ahmed has always said they were told 'there are no beds and not enough doctors' in the emergency department, and that Yusuf should have been admitted and given intravenous antibiotics in Rotherham. A new report published on Thursday by NHS England said in its conclusions: 'Our primary finding is that the parental concerns, particularly the mother's instinct that her child was unwell, were repeatedly not addressed across services. 'A reliance on clinical metrics over caregiver insight caused distress for the family. 'This led to a lack of shared decision-making and there was limited evidence of collaborative discussions with Yusuf's family around clinical decisions, leading to a sense of exclusion and reduced trust in care plans.' Yusuf, who had asthma, was taken to the GP with a sore throat and feeling unwell on November 15. He was prescribed antibiotics by an advanced nurse practitioner. Later that evening, his parents took him to Rotherham Hospital urgent & emergency care centre (UECC) where he was seen in the early hours of the morning after a six-hour wait. Yusuf was discharged with a diagnosis of severe tonsillitis and an extended prescription of antibiotics. Two days later Yusuf was given further antibiotics by his GP for a possible chest infection, but his family became so concerned they called an ambulance and insisted the paramedics take him to Sheffield Children's Hospital rather than Rotherham. Yusuf was admitted to the intensive care unit on November 21 but developed multi-organ failure and suffered several cardiac arrests which he did not survive. The 2023 report said there was only one doctor in the paediatric UECC on November 15 and, after midnight, that medic was responsible for covering adults and children. It added that the doctor who saw Yusuf is an experienced UECC doctor who would not have needed to refer to a paediatrician to admit him.
Yahoo
31-07-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Report into death of boy sent home from A&E says family's instinct not addressed
A new report into the death of a five-year-old boy after he was sent home from A&E has concluded that his mother's instinct that her child was unwell was 'repeatedly not addressed across services'. Yusuf Mahmud Nazir died on November 23 2022, eight days after he was seen at Rotherham Hospital and sent home with antibiotics. A report into Yusuf's case in October 2023, by independent consultants and published by NHS South Yorkshire, found his care was appropriate and 'an admission was not clinically required', but this was rejected by his family. Yusuf's uncle Zaheer Ahmed has always said they were told 'there are no beds and not enough doctors' in the emergency department, and that Yusuf should have been admitted and given intravenous antibiotics in Rotherham. A new report published on Thursday by NHS England said in its conclusions: 'Our primary finding is that the parental concerns, particularly the mother's instinct that her child was unwell, were repeatedly not addressed across services. 'A reliance on clinical metrics over caregiver insight caused distress for the family. 'This led to a lack of shared decision-making and there was limited evidence of collaborative discussions with Yusuf's family around clinical decisions, leading to a sense of exclusion and reduced trust in care plans.' Yusuf, who had asthma, was taken to the GP with a sore throat and feeling unwell on November 15. He was prescribed antibiotics by an advanced nurse practitioner. Later that evening, his parents took him to Rotherham Hospital urgent & emergency care centre (UECC) where he was seen in the early hours of the morning after a six-hour wait. Yusuf was discharged with a diagnosis of severe tonsillitis and an extended prescription of antibiotics. Two days later Yusuf was given further antibiotics by his GP for a possible chest infection, but his family became so concerned they called an ambulance and insisted the paramedics take him to Sheffield Children's Hospital rather than Rotherham. Yusuf was admitted to the intensive care unit on November 21 but developed multi-organ failure and suffered several cardiac arrests which he did not survive. The 2023 report said there was only one doctor in the paediatric UECC on November 15 and, after midnight, that medic was responsible for covering adults and children. It added that the doctor who saw Yusuf is an experienced UECC doctor who would not have needed to refer to a paediatrician to admit him.
Malay Mail
01-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Malay Mail
Fahmi: MCMC to call up TikTok over ‘PK Battle' trend, after concerned parents decry trend's wastefulness, expense
BUKIT MERTAJAM, July 1 — The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) will meet with TikTok's management to seek clarification following growing parental concerns over the popular PK Battle or Personal Knockout Battle trend among the app's young users. Communications Minister Datuk Fahmi Fadzil said the ministry is taking the matter seriously, particularly regarding reports of children spending large sums of money on in-app gifts simply to participate in the trend. He said an official directive was issued yesterday morning, and the ministry expects TikTok representatives to respond soon, no later than this week. 'This issue has been reported by the media, and we are taking it seriously. Since TikTok has obtained its operating licence here, they need to come forward to provide an explanation and state what steps can be taken to resolve this problem,' he told a press conference after visiting the Kubang Semang National Information Dissemination Centre (NADI) here today. Also present were Communications Ministry secretary-general Datuk Mohamad Fauzi Md Isa and Information Department director-general Julina Johan. Fahmi also stressed that the government is committed to protecting minors from inappropriate content on social media platforms. 'That is why we have consistently said that children under 13 should not have accounts on TikTok, Instagram, or any other social media platform. They are highly impressionable and can easily be drawn into trends like PK Battle without understanding the consequences,' he said. On May 28, a non-governmental organisation, Pertubuhan Damai Revolusi Masyarakat, submitted a memorandum to Istana Negara urging royal intervention to ban the PK Battle feature in Malaysia. The group also called on the government to consider the request, arguing that the trend undermines social values and promotes cyberbullying and humiliation. On another development, Fahmi said that efforts to establish the Malaysian Media Council (MMM) are ongoing, though certain financial processes may take time. He said he had tasked Mohamad Fauzi with identifying the most effective mechanisms to ensure the smooth disbursement of funds to the council, even under the newly enforced law, MMM will also be able to source funding from any legal channel. 'I hope that within the next one to two months, we'll be able to hold at least a few preliminary meetings. However, within six months of its formation, the council's founding board must conduct a selection process to appoint the office bearers,' he said. According to Fahmi, the government has yet to hold detailed discussions on the matter so as to give the founding board space to assess several key issues. A formal dialogue may be held in the coming weeks, he said. The establishment of MMM was made possible after the Malaysian Media Council Bill was passed by the Dewan Rakyat on Feb 26 and the Dewan Negara on March 19, before it received the royal assent and subsequently gazetted. Fahmi announced the law's enforcement beginning June 14, in conjunction with the 2025 National Journalists' Day (HAWANA) celebrations, and described it as a landmark media reform that will significantly benefit journalists and media professionals across the country. — Bernama
CTV News
26-06-2025
- CTV News
5-year-old's mother calls alleged assault at daycare in Alberta ‘gutting'
Kristen Savoie is pictured with her son in a supplied photo. (Source: Kristen Savoie) It was April 3, 2025, when a five-year-old boy went to his mom with allegations he'd been choked at his Sherwood Park daycare. He didn't say why, he just came home and told me that my teacher grabbed my throat today," said the boy's mother, Kristen Savoie. 'When I said can you show me, he gave me the motion of someone choking him, and said that he couldn't breathe.' Savoie said it happened at Emerald Park Daycare – a place her son attended for about five months. 'It's gutting,' she said, adding she felt a range of emotions from anxiety and guilt to mistrust. 'You think that you are doing the right thing and you're paying for a reputable daycare,' Savoie said. Emerald Park Daycare Emerald Park Daycare in Sherwood Park in July 2024. (Google Street View) She said she contacted the RCMP as well as other parents whose children attended the same daycare. 'I actually didn't tell them what happened to my son,' said Savoie, 'And all of these children came back and told their parents the exact same thing, that they were being slapped in the face, in the head and in the back,' she said. Savoie said she and the other parents pulled their kids from the daycare and went to the RCMP. She returned to the daycare the next day to retrieve an item her son had left and said she was surprised to see the accused employee was still working there. 'In that moment I refused to leave the daycare until she was removed,' she said. Strathcona County RCMP are investigating. 'To date, five victims between the ages of five and eight years old have been identified,' police said in a news release issued on Monday. The alleged assaults are said to have happened between March 17 and April 3, 2025. Police said there were no serious injuries reported or need for medical attention. Navam Sharma, 21, of Edmonton was charged with five counts of assault. Navam Sharma An undated photo of Navam Sharma. (Source: LinkedIn) CTV News Edmonton has reached out to Emerald Daycare on several occasions about the allegations without success. Another parent provided a letter to CTV News Edmonton they said was sent a week and a half after the initial incident was reported. It stated the staff member was given a leave of absence and people should avoid passing judgement since the allegations are unproven. Police confirm a week into the investigation Sharma was put on administrative leave until her arrest. They could not confirm the status of her employment with the daycare since. Sharma has been released on conditions – the allegations against her have not yet been tested in court. Her next appearance is July 9, 2025. Savoie has since found a new dayhome for her son and said the incident has given her a new perspective. 'Even if you think everything is okay and you think you trust the people watching your child, just ask the questions,' she said. With files from CTV News Edmonton's Nicole Weisberg
