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Woman found not guilty of child abuse in scalding case

By Jim Kasuba
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Sixth-grader brings $20,000 to school

By David Komer
The News-Herald

WYANDOTTE The mother of two young children who suffered scalded feet after standing in steaming hot water Nov. 7 has been acquitted of two counts of second-degree child abuse. During a March 1 bench trial, Wayne County Circuit Judge Richard Skutt found Erica Anne Bohn, 25, not guilty of the charges. We decline to comment on the verdict in the Bohn

case, said Maria Miller, director of communications for the Wayne County Prosecutors Office. Bohn and Brandon Edward Bohn Soules, 29, are the parents of a 4-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son. The charges stem from an incident at a residence in the 300 block of Kings Highway that was shared by the couple and the childrens maternal

grandparents. Fire Department paramedics, who arrived first, said the childrens feet had been burned by hot bath water. They added that the parents appeared to be under the influence of narcotics. Police arrived shortly thereafter and concurred. The grandfather told authorities he found the children screaming and cry-

ing as they huddled together in the bathtub, with Soules sitting on the toilet unresponsive and not doing anything to help them. He said he didnt know where Bohn was. Bohn told police she was getting the children clothes out of a closet when she heard them screaming. When an officer asked why she didnt check on the children after hearing this, she reportedly said she thought her 2-year-old son might have bumped his head on something.

TAYLOR A student came to school with $20,000 in her backpack Monday morning. The sixth-grade girl, who attends the Sixth Grade Academy, 13500 Pine, showed up with the large sum of cash, Police Chief Mary Sclabassi said. The school called police after discovering the money. Officers were sent to the school and brought the cash back to the police station. Investigators are talking with the parents to find out more, Sclabassi said. It is certainly very unusual, she said. (The school) and our officers are looking into it. Contact Staff Writer David Komer at 1-734-246-0866 or dkomer@heritage.com. The children were taken to Childrens Hospital of Michigan in Detroit, where they were treated and released. Soules was arrested Dec. 4 and Bohn was arrested Dec. 5 after the prosecutors office issued warrants on the child abuse charges.
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Lincoln Park graduates life ended by drunken driver in Texas
By Jackie Harrison-Martin
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Sierra Club les lawsuit RODGERS CHEVROLET against DTE Energy BEATS ALL
By Alan Burdziak
The News-Herald

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RIVER ROUGE The Sierra Clubs Michigan chapter announced the filing of a lawsuit yesterday in on Allen Rd. at West Rd. U.S. District Court against Woodhaven DTE Energy, alleging there have been a combined 1,499 1-734-676-9600 www.rodgerschevrolet.com violations of the federal Chevy Runs Clean Air Act at four area Deep power plants between January 2007 and June 30, 2012. Public data on opacity measurements at the four plants Belle River and St. Clair power plants in St. Clair County and the Trenton Channel and River Rouge power plants Downriver form the crux of the Sierra Clubs allegations. DTE Energy is required by law to submit the data to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. Opacity is the measurement of the transparency of emissions from smokestacks at the plants. The more opaque the emissions, the more pollutants they have. The Sierra Club says opacity rates, which are mandated to be a six-minute average of 20 percent except for one six-minute average of up to 27 percent, are too high on a regular basis. Because of these violations, the complaint alleges, an unlawful amount of particulate matter, sulfur and nitrogen oxide, mercury and other pollutants is expelled into the atmosphere, contributing to health
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SAN ANGELO, TEXAS When representatives of the U.S. Marine Corps knocked on Don Di Pietros door in Wyandotte early Sunday morning, he relived a nightmare. The first time that happened, he was told his brother, Robert, a 24year-old Army specialist, had been killed in Vietnam. This time, he was told that his son, who had been rising through the ranks as a Marine stationed in Texas, had been killed. Donald Di Pietro, 28, a Lincoln Park High School graduate, died at about 7:30 p.m. Saturday after the motorcycle he was driving collided

Staff Sgt. Donald Di Pietro, a Lincoln Park High School graduate, was killed Saturday in San Angelo, Texas, while riding his motorcycle. He was stationed at Goodfellow Air Force Base. with a pickup truck. The driver of the pickup, Malcolm McBurnett, was charged with intoxication manslaughter with a vehicle, according to reports published in the Standard Times in San Angelo. Fighting through tears, his father said he knew his son was gone as soon as he opened his door. It was like deja vu from this, he said, pointing to a newspaper article about his brother, Another GI dies in Vietnam, sitting on a table in front of him. Di Pietro, in disbelief that he is talking about his son in the past tense, is devastated by the fact that his son had been in the Marine Corps going on nine years and had everything to live for when his life was cut short, and it involved a man who was awaiting trial on a charge of driving while intoxicated three or more times. Military personnel told Di Pietro that his son had been promoted to staff sergeant, but he died before the announcement was made.
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