Mom thinks dog is lost, only to find him napping with her toddler

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Monica Pop
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That dogs and tiny humans make best of friends is something we all know. These furry creatures always make sure their human siblings are happy and laughing and would do everything in their power to keep them safe and sound at all times.

There are also those parents who don’t want pets around the house, and it’s pity they are not really aware what their children are missing. Growing around a dog gives kids the feeling of protection and they learn how to be loving and responsible.

When a mom named Kristin Leigh Rhynehart introduced her newborn baby to her rescue dog Raven, she knew the two would fit just perfectly, but she never expected for Raven to fall in love with baby Addison so much and to never ever leave her side.

Raven was adopted nearly ten years ago and he made this family’s life better than ever.

One day, as the baby was in her room sound asleep, Kristin though it would be a great opportunity for her to spend some fun time with the dog, but to her surprise, Raven was nowhere to be found.

Kristen panicked and checked all the rooms once again before she went outside looking for the dog. She then got back in the house and realized there was one room she didn’t look Raven at; her baby’s room.

Once she opened the door, she stumbled upon the cutest sight ever. Raven was lying next to Addison, covered in blankets. He casually lifted his head and when he saw it was Kristin who was at the door, he simply continued napping next to his favorite human.

Kristin felt overjoyed as she was now more certain than ever that Raven was the perfect protector.

“Ten years ago I left a rescue with this little guy and I often wonder… who rescued who? I gave him a home, but he gave me so, so much more.” Kristin said.

Thankfully, she put everything on tape and people fell in love with what they had to see. The video has been seen more than 10 million times, and everyone agrees that dogs really are the best creatures God has ever created.

Six siblings get adopted together after spending 1,640 days in foster care

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Monica Pop
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Because of one reason or another, a lot of children end up being part of the foster care system. A lot of them go from one family to another before being adopted, if that ever happens.

When siblings are placed in foster care, they are likely to be separated because the people who look for a child to foster or adopt usually ask for a single kid only. Sadly, it means that some of these brothers and sister only get to reunite once they leave the system. For others, that never happens.

Carlos, 14, Guadalupe, 13, Maria, 12, Selena, 10, Nasa, 9, and Max, 7, had a rough start early in life.

Left to fend for themselves, and being in the system, these siblings’ future was uncertain. They didn’t want to get separated, but that wasn’t the choice they could make for themselves.

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However, their life changed for the better when they least expected after a couple, Steve and Rob Anderson-McLean, stumbled upon a photo of this cute family of six.

Speaking to Today, Rob recalled: “We saw their picture and fell in love. So many sibling groups are broken up because people just want to adopt the younger children. Steve and I knew these guys needed to be together.” Luckily, that’s exactly what happened. In 2018, all the six siblings got a home without having to be parted from one another.

“After the first week they were asking if they could stay forever. We took them to the park and to the zoo. We played in the yard. That was all new to them. Having fun was new to them,” Steve shared with Today.

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Time passed by, and the kids started feeling like home. In the meantime, the adoption process was ongoing and everyone was hoping that the family will stay together forever.

Luckily, that’s exactly what happened. The adoption was officialized in 2019, and those witnessing the moment at the court shed tears of joy for the new family. “The kids felt this huge sense of relief. They had been let down by adults so many times in their life, and were nervous it wasn’t going to happen,” Steve said.

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The kids couldn’t believe they were officially adopted. Steve recalled that one night, 7-year-old Max went to his room and wanted to make sure that they couldn’t possibly be unadopted. Steve assured him that they were now their children and no one could ever separate them.

We are so happy for this incredible family. We don’t get to read stories this uplifting every day, so make sure you share this one with your loved ones.

Woman who was sexually abused for years by her mother, brother, and stepfather was forced to dig her baby’s body from the grave to get justice

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Monica Pop
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Some people’s life journey is so sad and full of obstacles and difficulties that we can’t help but shed a tear or two when hearing what they had to put up with and what they had to endure.

Maureen Wood, who is now married and a mother of five, has a chilling story to share.

The horror she suffered is unthinkable. She was only eight years old when her life changed completely. She remembers the day when she was for the first time abused by her older brother. It was a day like any other. The family was outside having a water fight when Maureen went inside the house to change her clothes. It was then that her brother entered the bathroom and started touching her. Although she was young, she knew what he did was terribly wrong, but she didn’t have the courage to speak out.

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The abuse continued, and one day, around a year after it started, Maureen’s stepfather walked in to see her brother abusing her. “I felt relieved – because I thought he would stop it. I thought he would look after me,” Maureen recalled, as per The Mirror. Sadly, things turned even worse as the stepfather started abusing her too.

When her mother learned what was going on, Maureen, who was 10 at that point, believed her struggles would end. “I hoped against hope that my mum might step in and help me. But she walked into my bedroom and called me a ‘little wh**e.'”

The cruel mother became part of the abuse herself.

“They used to make me sleep in their bed, between them, and they took it in turns to abuse me. My mum helped to get me ready for when my step-dad would rape me,” Maureen said, as per The Mirror.

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At the age of 13, Maureen got pregnant with her brother’s baby. She was still just a girl, and her mom only cared about what people would say in case they learned her daughter was carrying a child.

Maureen gave birth to a baby boy, Christopher, who only lived for a month.

“I adored him with all of my heart and for the first time in my life, I felt what love was.”

“When he died, I felt like my life had ended, my world had finished. He was the only person I truly loved,” Maureen told The Mirror. “It was raining the day we buried him. I felt like the heavens were crying with me and I just wanted to die.”

After Christopher’s death, Maureen’s brother and mother stopped abusing her, but she was still a victim of her step-father until she ran away from home when she turned 16.

It took Maureen years to find the courage to share her story and seek justice for everything she had to endure. At the age of 37, she went to court. However, she was asked for a proof, so this brave woman was forced to dig up her late baby’s body to be examined. The DNA sample showed that Maureen’s brother was indeed Christopher’s father. “It was almost as if Christopher was watching over me, helping my court case. He was – and still is – my guardian angel,” Maureen said.

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Maureen got to see her brother sentenced to two years in jail, while her mother and her step-father were jailed for nine years and sixteen years respectively.

The chilling story was shared in Maureen’s book A Family Secret: My Shocking True Story of Surviving.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, now 51-year-old Maureen said that writing the book helped her close that chapter of her life and encouraged her to move forward.

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“You have given me the world with your love” – Actor Pierce Brosnan posts tribute to his mother May on her 89th birthday

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Monica Pop
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When we speak of Hollywood actors who can brag not only with a very successful career, but great looks too, we can’t help but think of one and only Pierce Brosnan. This incredible man, who is one of our favorite 007 agents, is still as attractive as he was back in the day.

Brosnan is loved by millions not only because of his success, but also for being a family man.

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Recently, he congratulated his mom May Smith on her 89th birthday with a touching message. “Happy 89th birthday to my darling Mother May. You have given me the world with your love. All my love in return.”

The relationship between Brosnan and his mother was quite complex when he was still a child, but he describes her choices as brave and as the only right thing she could do for her and his well-being, referring to her decision to leave him with his grandparents to raise him while she moved from Ireland to England to work as a nurse.

According to the actor, his mother didn’t have it easy after her husband, Brosnan’s father, left her when the actor was still just a baby. She only visited Brosnan once or twice a year for the first ten years of his life. But after that, he went to live with her in London and the two became very close. In fact, they have nurtured that relationship until this day.

“To be Catholic in the ’50s, and to be Irish Catholic in the ’50s, and have a marriage which was not there, a father who was not there, consequently, the mother, the wife suffered greatly,” the actor told Cigar Aficionado in 1997.

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Brosnan rose to fame with the number of movies he starred in, including the legendary agent James Bond, whom he played from 1995 to 2002. His first 007 movie was Golden Eye, which was a huge success. Other prominent movies Brosnan was part of are The Thomas Crown Affair, Mrs. Doubtfire, The World’s End, Mamma Mia!, and a lot more.

One of his future projects that we are eager to see him in is the upcoming film Black Adam where Brosnan plays the role of Doctor Fate and stares opposite Dwayne Johnson.

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Brosnan’s first wife, Cassandra Harris, passed away in 1991. Some ten years later, he married his current wife Keely Shaye Smith with whom he has children Paris Brosnan and Dylan Brosnan. The actor has children Charlotte, Sean, and Christopher with late wife Cassandra.

Brosnan and Keely never miss a chance to show their love for another, whether through touching and beautiful photos they share or the sweet messages they devote to one another.

Soldier takes her own life after Army fails to handle the sexual assault she suffered

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Monica Pop
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The life of soldier Morgan Robinson whose only dream was to serve the country and be part of the military ended way too soon because of the sexual assault she endured during deployment.

Today, her grieving mother, Debbie, is looking for the answers and asks for those responsible to be punished for forcing her daughter into taking her own life.

Megan was looking forward to her first deployment in Kuwait as she knew she would serve her country, but the joy was soon replaced with agony. “When she was in Kuwait, she was sexually assaulted and continually harassed by one of her superiors,” Debbie said. Morgan reported the abuse, but the Army remained both blind and deaf.

After Kuwait, Morgan was sent to Afghanistan. There, she undergone another abuse. This time, she was gang-raped by a group of soldiers and was again left traumatized.

“She was very scared. Because they threatened her, number one. And number two, she knew that it wouldn’t go anywhere. Nothing happened in Kuwait with the sexual assault and the harassment, so why would they do something, you know, in Afghanistan?” mother Debbie explained.

Not being able to cope with the emotional agony she suffered as a result of the abuse, Morgan killed herself. “You pray that it — that’s not how it’s going to end up,” mom Debbie said. “It wasn’t a matter of ‘if.’ It was a matter of ‘when.’”

After an investigation was launched, Debbie got a copy of it. “I just didn’t understand how they could actually stand there and look me in the eyes, and hand that to me,” she said of the heavily redacted pages.

She then noticed one of the passages read, “Sergeant Robinson suffered sexual, physical, and psychological trauma while deployed. The sequela of this trauma was a factor in her death.”

Debbie knows things could take a different turn if only the Army did something after her daughter’s reports. But they stayed silent and let her life end. “The military. The way they did not handle what happened,” the grieving mother said. “They can’t police their self. How can you investigate yourself? You can’t.”

The failure to handle Morgan’s sexual abuse led to a young life being taken away. “And to think that that’s what took her life. That’s what broke her. They wanted her body. And they took her soul.”

Take a look at Debbie’s emotional interview in the video below.

Mother and daughter die at the scene after their vehicle plummets 70-feet to the ground from ocean cliff

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Monica Pop
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A mother and daughter lost their lives after the SUV they were driving ended up plunging off of a cliff in Bodega Bay. The vehicle plummeted 70 feet to the ground as other drivers witnessed the horrific incident taking place.

The two women were identified as Maria Teixeira, 64, who worked as a lead custodian at Montevideo Elementary, and Elizabeth Correia, 41, who was a teacher of 16 years at the Lydiksen Elementary School in Pleasanton.

According to the report the California Highway Patrol has released, the mother, Teixeria, was the one driving the vehicle. According to witnesses, the SUV collided with a log barrier at the parking lot after which it didn’t slow down or stop.

Both women were pronounced dead at the scene.

Teixeira’s son, and Correia’s brother, Tim Correia, took to Facebook to express his grief over the devastating loss he suffered. “There is a hole in my heart that will never be filled now. I’m so grateful for them and the time we shared. They will forever be part of me. I love you mom and sis,” he wrote, as reported by People.

An investigation regarding the cause of the fatal crash is still ongoing.

Rest in peace. Our hearts go out to the grieving family.

Couple leaves 16-week-old twins locked up for four days so they could go party – one baby dies, the other fights for life

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Monica Pop
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Not everyone deserves to be a parent. Some people are so careless when it comes to their children that the little ones end up being severely neglected and not cared for properly.

Sadly, such was the case with two 16-week-old twins from Russia whose parents locked them up and left them alone for four days so that they could go out and party. The friends of 23-year-old Margarita Yanayeva and 35-year-old Alexey were surprised to see them out partying during lockdown drinking binge and wondered who was taking care of the little ones, to what the parents responded that the twins were in the hospital being treated for coronavirus.

A source said, “In the course of four days they were not feeding the children, and did not arrange alternative care for them,” as reported by the Daily Mail. “Instead, they ‘subjected them to hunger, did not ensure hygiene, leaving the minors in a socially dangerous state.” They didn’t even bother to check on their children, neither they put any effort in finding someone who could take care of them while they were having fun.

The babies were only discovered after the grandmother tried contacting the parents but failed to reach them. She knew the area of Vilyuchinsk was under lockdown but she still decided to go and see if everything was fine as she was concerned for the safety of the family.

When she entered the apartment, she was left in shock and immediately alerted the police. The babies were in a very bad condition and were immediately rushed to a hospital in Russia’s Kamchatka region.

Sadly, one of the babies, the boy, was so emaciated that he passed away while the baby girl is fighting for her life. The cruel parents have been charged with murder and face up to 20 years in prison if found guilty.

Father is left fighting for his life after being attacked by his son’s bullies on Easter Sunday

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Monica Pop
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The worst thing about bullying is that it is very likely to affect the victim’s self-esteem for life. One doesn’t get away from the trauma of being bullied easily, and that is why we should do all in our power to prevent it from happening. Parents need to teach their children what’s right and what’s wrong from very early age and make sure they understand that bullying is part of the latter.

One father is left fighting for his life after he got attacked by the bullies who were throwing his 11-year-old son on the ground at Longcroft Park, Worthing, West Sussex, on Easter Sunday. The father tried defending his boy, but he ended up being a victim himself. The injuries he sustained were so severe that no one knows for sure what the extent of the damage would be when and if he wakes up.

Currently, 46-year-old Alan Willson, a care home worker, is in a coma in Royal Sussex County Hospital. As reported by The Sun, Alan suffered brain damage, lung trauma, broken bones, and fractured spine.

He is described by his family as the most genuine and most kind person there is.

Alan’s 25-year-old daughter Beckie took to Facebook to write how she feels regarding the tragic incident.

“I just wish I could just see you dad and tell you its going to be okay. Please dad fight for your f*****g life you are such a strong, caring man who has brought us kids up and loved us like we are your own. You have so much life left to live and a granddaughter who needs to grow up with her nan-dad. I wish I could just hold your hand but unfortunately Covid has decided that for us. You can do this dad.”

Five teenagers, aged 14 and 15, were arrested, but were released with bail just few hours later, which caused rage at the members of the community. The attackers are charged with attempted murder and grievous bodily harm with intent.

According to Alan’s wife, as well as the police, Alan was hit with hard objects multiple times while his son watched in horror. He had undergone a brain surgery.

“The assault and the build up to it occurred in a public park in daylight, so it was likely that other people would have witnessed the assault or the suspects running from the scene,” Inspector Simon Dunn, who is leading the investigation for Sussex Police, said.

“I am keen to hear from anyone who has information but is yet to come forward.”

A fundraising page has been set up to help Alan’s fight. You can donate here.

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