I exaggerate just a tad.
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This is just horrible:
Danny, who wore a Boy Scout shirt and a sturdy helmet, had been sitting on his skateboard, his presence concealed by a hedge that runs up to the driveway. He was dragging sneakers to slow down at the driveway, but scooted a bit farther than he intended, and the Honda Pilot was on him before he could avoid it.
Danny was under the car in a flash. His skateboard, knocked out from under him, rolled down the hill toward Palisades Drive.
It was Thursday afternoon, Sept. 20, a beautiful day clouded by this sudden intersection of random events involving people who had never met each other.
"Danny!" called the youngster's mother, Carole.
She hadn't seen the contact and was filled with dread at his disappearance and the sense that something horrible was happening. The car proceeded down the hill, and now Carole White could hear a child's screams.
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Pope Benedict XVI has high approval ratings, but not as high as his rock star predecessor. He has some work to do in that regard when he travels the U.S. next year.
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An arrest has been made in connection with that horrible Nye County, Nevada, sex abuse case.
Just awful.
Here's more:
It was also Boruchowitz who met with the mother of the child who was assaulted.
"The mother was crying, very distraught over what happened to her child," the detective said. "But she was also very grateful. She realizes that it's always better to find out that something has happened and to cope with that. Otherwise, she knew this could happen again because of the man involved. She did not know this had happened."
Stiles was a friend of the child's family, police said.
Boruchowitz said the 7-year-old girl, who was believed to be about 3 at the time of the attack, seemed to be in good spirits.
"She liked playing with my police stuff and I played with her toys," he said.
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