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‘She won’t admit to anything’: Police arrest babysitter after toddler entrusted to her care found horrifically brutalized

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A Colorado mother entrusted her 2-year-old son to the care of a babysitter with whom she was on friendly terms in early September. A few hours later, Stefanie Reichert learned via text message that her baby boy, Giovanni, “had gone lifeless after a bath.” When the mother arrived at the hospital, she couldn’t believe the extent of Giovanni’s injuries.

The babysitter, McKinley Slone Hernandez, 25, was arrested Friday on a charge of felony child abuse.

While Hernandez has reportedly admitted to being impaired on the night in question, she has not yet accounted for why the toddler’s entire body was covered with bruises, why his brain was bleeding, and why his eyes were swollen shut.

“She won’t admit to anything,” Reichert
told KDVR-TV. “All she’s said is she was drinking, and he got hurt in her care.”

Reichert said that Hernandez was a friend of hers who had on previous occasions watched her son as well as other children at an unlicensed child care facility at her home.

The mother figured Sept. 1 would similarly go smoothly. However, just hours into the evening, she “received a text message from the suspect saying I needed to rush to St. Anthony’s Hospital because my son had gone lifeless after a bath.”

Giovanni had been airlifted to the hospital to undergo a series of life-saving surgeries.

“Once I saw him and all the 50 doctors standing around him, I had to leave the room because it was the worst thing I’ve ever seen in my life,” said Reichert.

The mother
told KUSA-TV that doctors had to remove a part of her son’s skull due to bleeding on the brain. Mortifying photographs of the boy’s injuries show a sickle-shaped scar across the child’s shaved head.

According to a GoFundMe page created to help with the boy’s medical expenses, Giovanni was intubated and sedated early on so that his brain could recover.

After several operations and weeks at spent at the hospital, Reichert indicated on Sept. 20, “Giovanni has been beating all odds! … The power of prayer is a real thing and we are just so blessed to be this far and so soon!”

This week, Reichert noted that a Thanksgiving procedure fusing Giovanni’s skull back together had been successful. While the boy can be seen in recent pictures wide-eyed and alert, he still requires additional surgeries and faces a difficult uphill battle toward recovery.

While the nature of Giovanni’s injuries is unmistakable, it’s not clear precisely how the damage was inflicted or why.

“I make up scenarios in my head all the time for the injuries he sustained, so I wish I knew,” Reichert told KDVR.

The Thanksgiving arrest of Hernandez brought the family some solace, but Reichert doesn’t think the felony child abuse charge goes far enough to address the harm caused.

“I feel so relieved, but I also feel like she should be charged with more. I feel like it’s attempted murder, she almost killed my child,” said the mother.

Hernandez is being held on a $100,000 cash bond. She was still in custody as of Monday and is due in Jefferson County Court on Dec. 20.

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Irish police launch hate speech investigation into Conor McGregor after he condemned stabbing of schoolchildren

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Irish police have launched an investigation into former two-division UFC champion Conor McGregor after he expressed outrage over the vicious Nov. 23 stabbing of three young children and their caregiver outside a primary school in Dublin.

According to the Sunday Times, assistant Garda Commissioner Justin Kelly is leading an Irish police investigation into whether McGregor has disseminated online hate speech.

What’s the background?

Two little girls, ages 5 and 6, a 5-year-old boy, and the children’s caregiver, a woman in her 30s, were stabbed by a suspect
allegedly of Algerian origin outside Dublin primary school Gaelscoil Cholaiste Mhuire around 1:30 p.m. on Thursday.

Eyewitness Siobhán Kearney
told the Irish Times she had heard “screaming” and “spotted a guy with a stabbing motion across the road.”

“So I took across the road and there was fellas there and they pulled the guy off the children. There was a good few kids,” said Kearney.

Caio Benício, a courier and father of two who happened to be motoring through the area on a moped at the time, noticed the attack under way, dismounted, and cracked the suspect over the head with his motorcycle helmet.

The 50-year-old suspect, whom Blaze News
previously reported was arrested and deemed a “person of interest” by police, reportedly was left injured after passersby intervened.

According to the Times, the suspect arrived in Ireland in 2003 demanding asylum. His application was rejected and officials ordered his deportation, but he successfully challenged his removal and won residency rights. The suspect was arrested for possession of a knife last May.

Supt. Liam Geraghty claimed Thursday that investigators were “satisfied there is no terrorist link,”
reported the Guardian.

The 5-year-old girl the attacker repeatedly stabbed in the chest was still fighting for her life in a hospital with “catastrophic” injuries as of Saturday,
reported the Independent.

The 6-year-old female victim remains in a hospital but is said to have suffered less serious injuries. The boy, age 5, was released from the hospital late last week.

The caregiver said to have used her body to shield the children during the savage attack was reportedly still in serious condition over the weekend, receiving treatment for multiple stab wounds to her abdomen and chest at Mater Hospital.

Fighting Irish

The attack sparked outrage across the Emerald Isle. In Dublin, rioters sparred with police and set numerous vehicles ablaze, including a bus and a tram.

Amidst the riots, police commissioner Drew Harris described the hooligans as a “complete lunatic faction driven by far-right ideology.”

Irish justice minister Helen McEntee said that “the scenes we are witnessing this evening in our city centre cannot and will not be tolerated. A thuggish and manipulative element must not be allowed to use an appalling tragedy to wreak havoc.”

McEntee stressed that police would scour around 6,000 of surveillance footage in hopes of identifying more outraged Irishmen to arrest. Forty-eight arrests had been made as of Sunday.

Irish President Michael Higgins expressed sympathy for the injured children and condemned the use of the attack “by groups with an agenda that attacks the principle of social inclusion.”

Fighting words

McGregor did not mince words when responding online to news of the attack on Thursday but made clear he did not support the riots.

“Innocent children ruthlessly stabbed by a mentally deranged non-national in Dublin, Ireland today,” he
wrote just hours after the attack.

“There is grave danger among us in Ireland that should never be here in the first place, and there has been zero action done to support the public in any way, shape or form with this frightening fact,” continued McGregor. “Make change or make way. Ireland for the victory. God bless those attacked today, we pray.”

“Absolutely horrific scenes all day, my stomach is churning. With no action being taken at all during these ever more frequent events, like literally zero action taken whatsoever, how do we expect an end to this?” the fighter
tweeted in another instance to his 10.3 million followers. “We need reform. WE NEED ACTION!”

His coach John Kavanagh later posed the question on X, “So what should happen with this demented scumbag who attacked women and kids today?”

McGregor wrote back, “Torture and death.”

Following the Thursday night riots, the fighter
made clear he did not condone “any attacks on our first responders in their line of duty” or the “looting and the damaging of shops.”

The Sunday Times reported that Micheál Martin, Irish deputy prime minister, called McGregor’s remarks “disgraceful.”

“Isolated voices like that and voices that essentially are inciting hate and to some degree incitement is unacceptable,” said Martin.

McGregor responded, “Blame anyone but themselves. Typical. Worthless you are Michaél. Worthless and spineless!”

Irish Labour Party politician Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
told the Irish Sun, “You have shock jock people online whipping it up and you have online platforms purporting to be mainstream media outlets whipping it up, Conor McGregor whipping it up – it doesn’t help.”

Ríordáin added, “They all have to – I think – account for their actions and for their words.”

The Telegraph indicated that leftist politician and Prime Minister Leo Varadkar would not comment directly on McGregor’s remarks but stressed that new hate-speech laws should be implemented.

Although the timing of the investigation suggests McGregor’s most recent comments are at issue, the mixed martial arts star has also ruffled leftist feathers in recent weeks with his criticism online of unchecked immigration and Irish politicians’ various failings.

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40% of Americans dread walking alone at night; fear of being murdered nears record-high

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The percentage of Americans afraid of taking an evening stroll alone in their own neighborhood has skyrocketed, reaching a three-decade high.

A new Gallup
poll conducted last month found that 40% of 1,009 adult respondents fear walking alone at night within a mile of their homes. This was true of 53% of women and 26% of men.

Beside gender, another apparent correlate concerning fear was wealth. Whereas 49% of those making less than $40,000 admitted being fearful of ambling around at night, 39% of those making $40,000 to $99,999 and 31% of those banking over $100,000 expressed similar concern.

The last time dread was this high was in 1993 when America’s violent crime rate was 741.1 (per 100,000 inhabitants).
According to the FBI, the forcible rape rate for that year was 41.1; the robbery rate was 256; the aggravated assault rate was 440.5; the property crime rate was 4,740; the burglary rate was 1,099.7; the larceny-theft rate was 3,033.9; and the motor vehicle theft rate was 606.3.

The violent crime rate
dropped precipitously to 380.7 in 2022 — a year where 47.7% of crimes took place at home and 20% took place on a street, highway, alley or sidewalk. 44% of perpetrators were white; 43% were black; 1.4% were American Indian or Alaska native; less than 1% were Asian; and nearly 10% were marked “unknown.”

Fearful particulars

The latest Gallup poll revealed that falling prey to identity theft was the most common crime concern, with 72% of respondents indicating they frequently or occasionally worry about it.

50% indicated they worried about having their car broken into, which makes sense granted motor vehicle theft offenses jumped to a 13-year high in 2022. 44% said they worried about their home being burglarized when they were out and 37% expressed concern about getting mugged.

The fear of being murdered is at a near-record high. Morbid fears began to jump in 2020, rising from 17% that year to 29% in 2022. This year, 28% of American adults surveyed suggested they frequently or occasionally worried about becoming a murder victim.

The FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program
put the murder rate at 6.3 per 100,000 people last year, just slightly lower than in 2021, which saw the highest rate in 23 years.

Bound by concern

For some Americans, it appears these fears can be greatly limiting and possibly even debilitating.

28% of all respondents indicated that fear of crime has prevented them from going to social events like concerts or fairs as well as from talking to strangers.

45% of women told pollsters that fear of crime prevents them from taking walks, jogging, or running alone near their homes. 36% indicated fear of crime precluded them from driving around various parts of their towns or cities.

Gallup
also found that 63% of Americans say crime is an extremely or very serious problem — an increase of almost 10 points since 2021 and the highest it has been since the polling outfit began asking in 2000.

77% of Americans said there is more crime across the nation than there was a year ago, and 55% said the same about crime in their area.

These responses do not appear to be based simply on speculation.

17% of respondents indicated they were the victim of a crime over the past 12 months, which could mean anything from rape and assault to being mugged. 28% indicated a member of their household had been victimized.

There is a significant partisan skew to the perception of increased crime across the United States. 58% of Democrats said there was more crime this year than in 2022. 78% of independents and 92% of Republicans indicated there had been an increase.

The polling outfit noted that despite what the FBI data and Bureau of Justice Statistics National Crime Victimization survey say, “Gallup trends indicate there has been an increase in crime victimization since 2020, according to Americans’ reports of their own experiences in the past year.”

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Dutch ‘anti-globalist’ politician viciously attacked 2 days before election

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The self-described “anti-globalist” leader of a Dutch populist party was assaulted two days ahead of the country’s general election.

Thierry Baudet, the 40-year-old leader of the Forum for Democracy party, was at an election meeting in a Groningen cafe when a teen smashed him over the head with a beer bottle.

According to the party, the populist leader was “hit on the back of the head with a beer bottle and was also hit on the edge of his temple just next to his eye,” and a security guard was also injured. Baudet was taken to a hospital, where he was treated by a trauma surgeon.

Footage of the incident shows an individual sneak up on Baudet, smash the former academic repeatedly in the head, then get tackled by security.

Following the attack, Baudet
told the Dutch newspaper De Andere Krant that Antifa should be placed on the terror list.

“Now that it has become known that Antifa has claimed responsibility for the attack on me, we want Antifa to be immediately placed on the terror list. According to the [Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service], the greatest danger to our democracy is the so-called ‘anti-institutional extremism’, while left-wing activism is
dismissed as a playful phenomenon,” said Baudet.

Police spokesman Thijs de Jong suggested the attacker has been arrested and his motive is presently under investigation,
reported the Washington Post.

Outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte
wrote on X that it was “totally unacceptable that Thierry Baudet has been attacked again. I said it before and I’ll repeat it now: stay away from politicians.”

Last month, Baudet was attacked by another radical while on his way to speak at a conservative event at Ghent University in Belgium. The attacker of Ukrainian origin, whom Belgian police
indicated will be prosecuted for “intentional assault and battery,” reportedly said “no to fascism, no to Putinism,” after slugging Baudet over the head with a weighty umbrella.

Extra to his criticism of globalism, mass immigration, LGBT activism, the European Union, and NATO, Baudet has proven a controversial figure over his
apparent refusal to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine and corresponding suggestion that the conflict is the fault of the West.

Baudet said Tuesday he and his team are “working very had behind the scenes to analyze how this could happen a second time, and what we should do about it,” reported the NL Times.

“They say three times is a charm, but I’ll skip that,” he added.

A Monday night poll indicated that the Forum for Democracy party, polling at 2%, stands to possibly take five seats in the 150-seat lower house of the Dutch Parliament. Rutte’s VVD party, now led by Turkish-Kurdish refugee Dilan Yeşilgöz, is leading in the polls with 18%, reported Politico.

The right-wing populist Party for Freedom, run by Islam critic Geert Wilders, has seen significant gains in the polls in recent weeks and now sits at 16%, tied with the leftist GorenLinks-PvdA coalition.

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CNN host says the quiet part out loud about violent left-wing protest outside DNC HQ — then she tries to retract it

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CNN worked hard on Thursday to dispel comparison between Jan. 6 and a violent clash between anti-Israel protesters outside the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters.

Late Wednesday, the Capitol Police confronted violent protesters outside the DNC’s HQ in Washington, D.C. The situation was particularly tense because top members of the Democratic Party, some of whom receive a 24-hour security detail from the Capitol Police, were inside the building at the time. Multiple police officers were injured in the violence, which the Capitol Police confirmed was violent and more resembled a riot.

Reacting to the incident on CNN, network anchor Dana Bash compared scenes from the violence to Jan. 6 — before immediately trying to retract the comparison.

“That is quite an image. We haven’t seen an image like that since January 6,” Bash said of images from the violence plastered on the screen.

“Totally different topic, totally different kind of people. I mean, I don’t want to at all compare the sort of substance of it,” Bash backtracked, “but the idea that there was violence and that there were Capitol Police officers actually hurt there.”

CNN political analyst Laura Barrón-López agreed with Bash but also took great pains to emphasize the “key differences” between the two events.

“I believe there were about six Capitol Police officers that were injured, according to the Capitol Police that put out that report last night,” Barrón-López said. “There are key differences. I wouldn’t compare it to January 6, but it was a clash, and the protesters, or the ralliers, were standing outside and blocking the entryways and the exitways ,and that’s why police confronted them and tried to get them to move because people couldn’t exit or enter the building —”

“And not just people, like the most senior House Democrats,” Bash pointed out.

At least one House Democrat would agree with the comparison. That lawmaker, who was not identified, told Axios that Wednesday’s violence “scared me more than Jan. 6.”

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