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CORRECTS SENTENCE TO UP TO 30 YEARS, NOT 60 YEARS - Defendant Ruby Franke looks on during court Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, in St. George, Utah. Franke, a Utah mother of six who gave parenting advice to millions via a once-popular a YouTube channel, shared a tearful apology to her children for physically and emotionally abusing them before a judge sentenced her to serve up to 30 years in prison, due to a Utah state law that caps the sentence duration for consecutive penalties. (Sheldon Demke/St. George News via AP, Pool)

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YouTube mom Ruby Franke apologizes at sentencing in child abuse case
By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM - Associated Press
Tue,02/20/24-11:25AM , 160 Reads
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Ruby Franke, a Utah mother of six who gave parenting advice to millions via a once-popular a YouTube channel, shared a tearful apology to her children for physically and emotionally abusing them before a judge delivered a sentence that could put her in prison for years, if not decades.
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A Davis School District bus sits at the Bus Farm in Farmington, Utah, in this undated photo. A Black woman hired by the northern Utah school district to investigate racial harassment complaints a year after a 10-year-old Black student died by suicide says that she, too, experienced discrimination from district officials. Joscelin Thomas, a former coordinator in the Davis School District's equal opportunity office, alleges in a federal lawsuit that district administrators treated her “as if she were stupid," accused her of having a substandard work ethic and denied her training and mentorship opportunities that were offered to her white colleagues. (Matt Gade/The Deseret News via AP, file)

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A woman was hired to investigate racial harassment after a suicide. Then she encountered it herself
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Thu,01/11/24-7:03PM , 79 Reads
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Black woman hired by a northern Utah school district to investigate racial harassment complaints the year after a 10-year-old Black student died by suicide says that she, too, experienced discrimination from district officials.
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Callum Bradford rows during a club team practice at Jordan Lake, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023, in Apex, N.C. Bradford, a transgender teen from Chapel Hill needed mental health care after overdosing on prescription drugs. He was about to be transferred to another hospital due to a significant bed shortage. A North Carolina hospital network is referring transgender psychiatric patients to treatment facilities that do not align with their gender identities. Though UNC Hospitals policy discourages the practice, administrators say a massive bed shortage is forcing them to make tough decisions. (AP Photo/Erik Verduzco)

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For transgender youth in crisis, hospitals sometimes compound the trauma
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Thu,12/28/23-11:25PM , 82 Reads
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Four days of waiting in UNC Hospitals’ psychiatric emergency room left Callum Bradford desperate for an answer to one key question.

With knots in his stomach, the transgender teen asked: “Will I be placed in a girls’ unit?”

Yes.
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Callum Bradford rows during a club team practice at Jordan Lake, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023, in Apex, N.C. Bradford, a transgender teen from Chapel Hill needed mental health care after overdosing on prescription drugs. He was about to be transferred to another hospital due to a significant bed shortage. A North Carolina hospital network is referring transgender psychiatric patients to treatment facilities that do not align with their gender identities. Though UNC Hospitals policy discourages the practice, administrators say a massive bed shortage is forcing them to make tough decisions. (AP Photo/Erik Verduzco)

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For transgender youth in crisis, hospitals sometimes compound the trauma
By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM - Associated Press
Thu,12/28/23-11:24PM , 97 Reads
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Four days of waiting under the flickering fluorescent lights of UNC Hospitals' emergency room left Callum Bradford desperate for an answer to one key question.
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