#dead child

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Aww, what a cute sticker shee- wait a moment.

huh..?

HUH?!

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Dead Child - "Sweet Chariot" 

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Former K-9 Kills 3-Year-Old Daughter of Police Chief in Deadly Attack

Burlington, Colo., Police Chief Nathan Hill was housing the German Shepherd at his residence in Kit Carson after the K-9 program in another

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Parents are charged after their son, 7, is struck dead in a car accident

Gastonia, N.C., police charged the parents with involuntary manslaughter charges after allowing the victim and his brother to walk home alon

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Dead Child - "Sweet Chariot"

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'Measles Are Good For You' Say Parents Whose Kid Died Because Of Measles

They claim it prevents cancer, which it very much does not.

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4-Year-Old Fla. Boy Fatally Shoots Himself After Finding Gun in Parents' Car: Police

Chosen Morris had gotten into the car before his parents and allegedly found a gun under the driver's seat.

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Spirits

He wore a noose around his neck, crying at the weight of it. It dragged behind him and chafed under his chin, his little hands grasping at rope as thick as his wrists.

His name was Benjamin, she discovered. She didn't know how long he'd been dead, but he told her he was six. "It's heavy, it won't come off." He begged anyone he saw to help him with the rope, but she'd only ever seen one other person react: another lost soul. Like the living, she said nothing to him, but she gave him such a withering glare that he retreated nonetheless.

She wished she could touch the dead. She's have taken that woman by the shoulder and shaken her for being so heartless to a crying child. But the dead woman drifted away until she shimmered into nothingness, leaving Benjamin mewling at the side of the road. And Benjamin couldn't be touched either, or the rope would have been lifted long ago.

"I'm not supposed to touch it." Benjamin had been following her for three years before volunteering this information. "I pulled the end and it fell, it hurt my head." Dumb luck? Was that really where the noose came from? Benjamin hadn't put his head through it intentionally - he had pulled someone else's death on himself, believing it was a normal rope dangling from the loft, that it would uncoil just like any rope he'd been told not to touch before then.

But that meant he hadn't died of hanging. He apologized endlessly for touching the rope, once he'd admitted doing so. Finally, another year later, he provided the final piece of the puzzle: "And I fell off his back, and he got surprised and stepped on me… nobody would help me take the rope off after."

She led him to the edge of town, to the remnants of a long-abandoned barn, where horses who were not there pawed at the ground. A pale woman lifted the noose off of Benjamin's shoulders, and together they waved farewell.