Heroes – 4-Year-Old Boy Drowns After HE SAVES LIFE Of 3-Year-Old Girl Who Fell Into Pool

The parents of Xander Vento, the little boy who nearly drowned saving another child at a neighborhood pool far North Fort Worth earlier this week, says they are taking their son off of life support.

Cris and Misty Vento released the following statement Thursday:

"We’ve made the extremely difficult decision to remove our precious son Xander from life support. We send heartfelt thanks to all of you who kept our family in your thoughts and prayers; we’re appreciative of your love and support.

We in some way hope our son’s life serves as an inspiration. He was the angel in the pool who sacrificed himself to save another. And now he continues to give as an organ donor. We were blessed to have such a kind and caring boy as Xander who set an example for all of us and even now he will be saving lives by giving of himself."

Xander, 4, held a struggling 3-year-old girl above the water and nearly drowned in the process. After he was pulled from the water, he was hospitalized and fell into a coma.

On Thursday, his parents decided to remove him from life support and donate his organs.

- RIP to Xander -

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Parents jailed after their 18-month-old daughter Kayla died after they left her strapped in car seat inside boiling house

 

 September 3, 2012

The parents of an 18-month-old girl who died after left strapped in a car seat in a hot room for several hours have been sentenced to time behind bars.

Authorities say Kimberly and Jacob Taschler’s daughter Kayla died after left without food or water for 16 hours in their Palmerton, 

Pennsylvania home in 2010.

A judge on Thursday sentenced Kimberly Taschler, 30, to 14 months to 3 1/2 years in prison while her husband, 36, was sentenced to 11 months to two years.

Both parents cried in Carbon County court on Thursday. Kimberly Taschler said she was overwhelmed at the time of the baby's death and didn't seek proper help. 

Authorities had alleged that the Taschlers had long neglected Kayla even before her death in January. 

She was found weighing just 13lbs when her mother brought her to Palmerton Hospital. Police believe she had been dead for several hours before arriving.

In July of this year prosecutors said that Kayla had missed doctors' appointments, had suffered excessive weight and muscle loss and was not properly provided with fluids and food.

 In court Jacob Tashler said he loves all his children, having two others who are currently in foster care since Kayla's death.

 

Prosecutors say the mother received a longer sentence because she was home when the baby died and was her primary caretaker.

Both pleaded guilty to charges in July - Jacob Tashler to endangering the welfare of a child and Kimberly Tashler to involuntary manslaughter and endangering the welfare of a child.

Source: dailymail.co.uk

Little Girl Stands Outside Classroom Window Every Day

 

Seeing the child’s longing, I can’t stop the tears from flowing down my face. What kind of society is this, that would let such little child suffer such unfairness and discrimination? In China, the education system has never been fair. Talk about human rights are all lies...

This story was posted to on October 14th 2008. Someone reported that a pupil at the Binhe Road Primary School in Dengfeng City [in Henan province] has been standing outside the classroom to listen to lessons for over 20 days, suspecting that the teacher was punishing the student.

 After hearing the class bell ring, the students entered the classroom one by one. However, under the classroom window for Class 1-3, a little girl carrying a backpack said goodbye to the schoolmates who talk to her. She grabbed the steel bar of the window with both hands and looked into the classroom uninterrupted. After reporter’s inquiry, the little girl is called Guo Xiaoxiao (name changed), from Wangzhuang Village nearby / of Dengfeng City, and 6-years-old this year. She used to attend class in this room but, for reasons unknown, she was kicked out of class. Not wanting to leave the school and still wanting to study, she could only stand under the window to listen to the lessons.

 When Xiaoxiao’s father Guo Zhanchao arrived shortly later, seeing his daughter standing outside the window listening to class, he was unable to hold back his sobs. He told (to the reporter) that he pedals three-wheel carts (carrying goods) for a living. Originally, he knew the Binhe Road School Headmaster Zhao. 

At the start of the school year, unable to find a school that would admit his child, he borrowed and gathered 500 RMB and gave it to Headmaster Zhao. Mr Zhao immediately agreed to admit Guo Xiaoxiao to the school, but later Mr Zhao delayed and delayed until the afternoon of September 10th when Mr Guo’s daughter was finally assigned to Class 1-3. 

But good things do not last; on September 18th, the daughter who had been attending school for only a few days said to her father while crying that the teacher would no longer let her into class, and that she could only stand outside the window to listen to lessons. Soon after, Guo Zhanchao went almost daily to the school to see the headmaster, but Headmaster Zhao only agreed to return the money and did not plan on arranging Guo Xiaoxiao to attend school.

Guo Zhanchao said with tears, “I suffered my whole life because I don’t have an education, and today can only depend on pedaling a three-wheel cart to raise my family with difficulty. I just want my daughter to learn some knowledge, so she can have a happy life later.”

Mr Zhao, headmaster of Binhe Road Primary School, commented on the incident saying that he is unfairly blamed. He said Guo Zhanchao and him knew each other from before, that he did indeed receive the 500 RMB money that Guo forcefully left in his office, but he later returned the money to Guo. 

Regarding letting Guo Xiaoxiao’s attend school, he can only feel sorry for their family’s situation, but could not arrange for her to attend school simply because they gave him a gift. Later, he could not do anything against the exclusion of Xiaoxiao. “That was handled in accordance to the relevant regulations of the Department of Education. She is the child of a peasant who migrated to the city for work, not a pupil of this area.”

 Source : chinasmack.com