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THE CASE OF THE DRUNK SCHOOL BUS DRIVER: WHAT DO YOU THINK?

June 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Chicago’s Breaking News Center blog reports that a school bus driver with three times the legal limit of alcohol in her system was allowed to complete her hour-plus route with 50 kids onboard because a supervisor said federal regulations prohibited him from stopping the driver without “actual knowledge” she was intoxicated.

According to the Chicago Sun Times, the 54-year-old driver for the school district of Mount Prospect, a suburb of Chicago, “had quaffed several vodka and orange juice drinks” and “reeked of liquor.” A co-worker who smelled alcohol on the driver before she started her route waited an hour to inform a supervisor. The supervisor caught up with the bus and boarded it, but since he “could not detect any signs that she was intoxicated” let her keep driving. He followed behind in his car and called police. More than fifteen minutes later, police pulled over the bus and arrested the driver—after the last child had been dropped off.

Mount Prospect School District officials said their hands were tied by federal rules limiting when supervisors can test employees for alcohol abuse. “It’s such a delicate decision, to make an accusation of this nature against somebody,” schools superintendant Elaine Aumiller told NBC Chicago. “You have to have compelling evidence that it is there, and it wasn’t.”

Tell us what you think: Are there cases in which following the letter of the law is irresponsible?

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A FUTURE FOR UGANDAS AIDS ORPHANS

June 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Visiting his former village in rural Uganda, Jackson Kaguri was the epitome of a success story.

He had escaped poverty, earned a college degree and moved to America, where he studied at an Ivy League school and planned to put a down payment on a house in Indiana. He’d often come back to Uganda, passing out school supplies to children.

But on one particular trip home in 2001, he realized he had to do more.

“We woke up in the morning, and grandmothers had lined up all around the house, stretching way back. … The whole village had gathered,” Kaguri said. “All these women walked miles and miles. It was huge.”

UNICEF estimates that 1.2 million children in Uganda have lost one or both parents to AIDS-related illnesses, and Kaguri said it’s often grandmothers who have to pick up the slack.

“You see the grandmothers over and over whose own children have died and left them,” he said. “Some of them have up to 14 (grandchildren) to raise in their homes. Sometimes the child has HIV/AIDS, they need medication. The grandmother needs food. They need a house. And nothing is there.”

The grandmothers who gathered in Kaguri’s childhood village begged Kaguri to help them. And he felt an obligation to give more than just pens, pencils and paper.

Grandmothers in Jackson Kaguri\'s former village urged him to do more to help. He didn\'t want to let them down.
Grandmothers in Jackson Kaguri’s former village urged him to do more to help. He didn’t want to let them down.

“These are women who had seen me grow up in the village,” he said. “They carried me when I was hurt, they prayed for me when I was away studying. What was I supposed to do?”

Knowing that education had been so key to his success, Kaguri and his wife decided to use their life savings to start a free school in the village. They purchased two acres of land and built the Nyaka School, brick by brick, with the help of local volunteers. When the school officially launched on January 2, 2003, 56 AIDS orphans were the first students.

“We provide them uniforms. We provide them pencils. We give them shoes,” said Kaguri, 41. “Everything we give … is to try and eliminate as many obstacles as possible, so children can be successful and focus on education.”

Early on, it was noticed that many children in the school were falling asleep because of hunger and malnutrition. So the school began providing students two meals a day. There is also a medical clinic on site.

Meanwhile, Kaguri continued to raise money for the project while he worked full time in the United States. When he learned that a child had walked more than 30 miles to attend the school, he started a second school, the Kutamba School, in the village of Nyakishenyi.

Today, between the two schools, there are 587 students — kindergarten through 12th grade — receiving a free education and health care. Nearly all of them have lost either one or both parents to AIDS-related illnesses.

The issue hits especially close to home for Kaguri, who has lost his brother, one of his sisters and a 3-year-old nephew to the disease.

Kaguri says he felt fortunate to have the financial means to help his brother’s children financially, but in many similar cases, children end up homeless.

Kaguri, 41, runs his organization out of Michigan, but he travels to Uganda about three times a year.
Kaguri, 41, runs his organization out of Michigan, but he travels to Uganda about three times a year.

“Many of them are on the streets in Kampala eating from the dust bins,” Kaguri said. “You see all these street children because they have no one to help them.”

It’s these children Kaguri says he thinks about as he raises funds and awareness for his schools.

“(We) take care of nearly 600 children in school,” he said. “That leaves all these children who are walking around without an opportunity to get an education, to get health care, to get a meal to eat or even to get somebody to say, ‘I love you.’ ”

Of the students at his schools, Kaguri estimates that 65% of them are being raised by their grandmothers, many of whom are often without adequate health care, finances or basic housing. So in 2008, he started a program that offers support and education to the nearly 7,000 area grandmothers who are raising their grandchildren.

The program teaches the women practical life skills, offering advice on parenting, grief management, basic medical care, gardening and business development.

Kaguri says that by giving grandmothers access to microfunds, allowing them to start small businesses and make money, more children have access to an education. And by giving seeds to the grandmothers to grow, more children have access to food.

Grandmothers “are the pillars in the society, holding the society together,” he said. “They are unsung heroes that people don’t recognize.”

Every grandmother in the program, Kaguri said, has received some form of training or household equipment to improve their life. And his organization has also opened a library, started a gardening program and installed a clean-water system to benefit the entire village.

Kaguri, whose organization is based in Michigan and is funded by individual donations and private foundations, spends much of his time fundraising, speaking and raising awareness. He travels to Uganda about three times a year.

He hopes this younger generation will lift the country out of poverty and create a better future for their families and communities. He says he dreams about building a school in every district in Uganda.

“I want to be an uncle for many so we can create other children who would be successful and do great things,” he said. “It’s giving them a hand up, just holding somebody’s hand, trying to get (them) out of the pigeonhole they are in. …

“I feel humbled looking in the faces of the children smiling, focused on what their dreams are going to be.”

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WANETTA GIBSON: THE TRUE FACE OF EVIL

May 28, 2012 By 27 Comments

In 2002, when she was just 15, Wanetta Gibson (left), told police that NFL hopeful Brian Banks (right) dragged her across their school campus and raped her. Brian was arrested, tried and locked up. He spent more than five years in prison and another five years on parole. He had to register as a sex offender and was still wearing an ankle monitor until Thursday May 24th when he was exonerated after Wanetta admitted she lied about the kidnapping and rape.

While Brian was locked up, Wanetta’s family successfully sued the school district, claiming it had failed to adequately protect her. The school paid the family $1.5 million.

After ten years of torture for Brian, Wanetta eventually admitted in a videotaped interview with a private investigator that Brian never raped her. But then she was very concerned about the huge pay out her family received. “I will go through with helping you, but … all that money they gave us, I mean me, I don’t want to have to pay that back,” Gibson said on tape. She later refused to repeat her story to prosecutors, but her videotaped confession was enough to exonerate Brian.

A young athlete’s dream of a pro football career was rekindled on Thursday when his conviction for raping a high school classmate was thrown out after his accuser admitted the attack never happened.

Over the cheers of his family and supporters, Brian Banks, 26, called it “the best day of my life, by far.”“If I can do this, I can get through anything,” he told The Daily just after leaving a Long Beach, Calif., courtroom. “This was my hardest part, and, as they say, good things go to people who hustle while they wait.”

In a strange twist, Banks got the chance to clear his name in February 2011 when his accuser contacted him through Facebook and asked him to “let bygones be bygones.” Wanetta Gibson later admitted on tape that Banks had never raped her, setting the stage for yesterday’s dramatic reversal.

When the judge agreed to throw out his conviction on Thursday, Banks lowered his head and wept.

Later, the burly onetime linebacker said he had left behind anger but had not lost his ambition to play in the NFL. “I knew by hanging onto bitterness, it would keep me strangled,” he said.

It was unclear on Thursday whether Banks’ accuser would face any charges. She did not attend Thursday’s hearing and efforts to reach her for comment were unsuccessful. In a videotaped interview with a private investigator, Gibson admitted repeatedly that the rape and kidnapping story was fabricated. She also voiced concern about a payout — $1.5 million — she received from the Long Beach school district while Banks was in prison.

“I will go through with helping you, but … all that money they gave us, I mean me, I don’t want to have to pay that back,” Gibson said on tape. She later refused to repeat her story to prosecutors, according to court documents filed by Banks’ attorney.

In 2002, Banks was a 17-year-old senior at Long Beach Polytechnic High School with big dreams. The school’s legendary athletic program has spawned dozens of pro sports careers, and was once named the best in the country by Sports Illustrated. A standout linebacker and special teams player, Banks was headed to the University of Southern California on a full scholarship after being heavily recruited by other powerhouse programs.

But his hopes appeared to come to an end in July 2002 after Banks and a 15-year-old Gibson ducked into a school stairway to make out. They did not have sex, but the girl later claimed Banks dragged her across campus and raped her.

The story didn’t hold water, said Banks’ attorney. Gibson gave varying locations for the alleged attack. No DNA was found. Also, how was she dragged across campus in broad daylight without anyone seeing them? Despite the lack of evidence, prosecutors offered Banks a difficult choice: Take a plea in hopes of a short sentence, or face a sentence of 41 years to life.

Banks said he agreed to plead no contest after his lawyer said a jury would see “a big black teenager, and you’re automatically going to be assumed guilty.”

While Banks was behind bars, Gibson’s family successfully sued the school district, claiming it had failed to adequately protect her. The school paid the family $1.5 million, according to Gibson.

Banks said he was shocked when she contacted him online. He was even more surprised when she agreed to speak with him and a private investigator face-to-face, and then admitted fabricating the tale.

“The case was built on nothing,” said Banks’ attorney, Justin Brooks, director of the California Innocence Project. “He took the plea because he was scared and facing 40 years in prison, and his lawyer was telling him to take it.”

Brooks said Gibson admitted she became upset during the encounter when Banks “said something obnoxious to her, and she stormed out and called it rape, and it just snowballed from there.”

Late last year, Banks began an intense workout regime with professional trainers in hopes of getting a try-out with a professional football team. All the while, he had to wear a plastic monitor strapped to one ankle.

“Every day I wake up, I put an extra sock on my GPS to keep it nice and snug and keep it from flying around while I work out,” he said. Brooks said they hoped to have it removed late yesterday.

Banks said he would continue to train. His dream tryout: “The team that wants to give me a chance.”

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BABY I’M COMING HOME

June 8, 2011 By 4 Comments

I woke up this morning after just four hours of sleep, maybe less, still nursing a massive head cold. My nostrils felt like some someone jammed two massive earplugs in them. My head felt like twice its normal size. They leaked all night long. My nostrils are extremely raw from blowing them all night. I knew my flight was leaving at 12.30, but I still hadn’t packed. I stumbled off the mattress, went to the kitchen, drank some water and took some white pill that Maduka said would make me feel better. Then I started packing.

I wanted to go home, but I didn’t want to leave. I didn’t want to leave Mom, Maduka, Samantha, Oge and Kobe. I didn’t want to leave Agnes, Neville, Angel, Neugent and Allethea. I went over to Ogbogu’s house after going to the London College of Fashion (LCF)’s fashion show. We go there late and the kids were asleep, but I didn’t want to leave London without saying goodbye, so I woke them up. It was a bit sad. We laughed together. We hugged and I kissed them. I miss them already.

As I sit here on the plane, waiting to take off, I feel slightly numb.

I’M GOING HOME

I’ve been away for so long. What will change in my life? I have learned so much on this journey. I wish I learned under different circumstances, but unfortunately life doesn’t work that way. It will definitely impact my life for as long as I live. It will impact my life in America for sure. I will work hard and play hard. Everybody says this but I will live everyday like it’s my last.

THE GYM!!!

 I’ve been away from you from you for so long. Since I got to London, I’ve eaten terribly and worked out sparingly. There were too many drinks guzzled. I inhaled way too much pounded yam, garri and Jolof rice. I haven’t seen my abs in weeks. All that will change soon because BABY I’M COMING HOME!!

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