#child endangerment /

[sm-baby]

Has anyone seen my son?

[odinsblog]

More than 300 children, including two 10-year-olds, were found working at McDonald's restaurants across Kentucky and several other states in violation of federal labor laws, the Labor Department said Tuesday.

In one case, investigators found two 10-year-olds were working unpaid and until as late as 2 a.m. at one McDonald's restaurant in Louisville operated by Bauer Food LLC, which is based in Louisville, the department said in a news release.

The two children prepared and distributed food orders, cleaned the store, worked at the drive-thru window and operated a register, investigators found. One of them was also allowed to operate a deep fryer, a task prohibited for workers under the age of 16 under federal law.

Most of the restaurants, 45 of the 62, were in Kentucky, according to data released by the department.

The revelation was part of an investigation into the child labor law violations in the Southeast. The agency also found three franchisees that own more than 60 McDonald's locations in Kentucky, Indiana, Maryland and Ohio, "employed 305 children to work more than the legally permitted hours and perform tasks prohibited by law for young workers" the Labor Department said in a statement.

The franchisees, Bauer Food, Archways Richwood and Bell Restaurant Group, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. CNN has also reached out to McDonald's for comment.

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[terrell8799]

!PSA *Pedophilia* Hello to everyone in the 9-1-1 fandom please report these accounts immediately to get them taken down!!

they have ao3 accounts in which they make sick shit about Chris, jee, and adults! And they're here on tumbler to talk about it with others pedos/ taking ideas to make more pedo fics from anonymous users!

I'll also link their ao3 pages so you can see and report those!

https://archiveofourown.org/users/rylivered/works

https://archiveofourown.org/users/kinen88/works

PLEASE share & report help get rid of them!

[witchofthesouls]

Look at these three:

It's from that TFP barbarians/city-dwellers twist on a really out there verse where Others from Earth managed to make Cybertron a home AU I was talking about.

D-16 here is doing his best to get these two acclimated to Neocybex, both the Common and Ilmentite (a dialect that's utilized by deep underground miners). He has treats hidden in his hands if they can get specific glyphs right. Scraplet/Orion is very much motivated by food. Juno is highly motivated to get the language down so she can wholly curse the mecha that stole her away and be understood by everyone.

Because D-16 no longer has companions his age, he latched onto the two little 'newcomers.' as they're the only ones that can venture out and do their part to help the cohort. He's happily 'mentoring' as he mimicking what the adults do for the fresh newbuilds. The adults around him think it's both cute and disheartening as no one has the spark to tell D-16 that there's a really high probability that those two won't make it (Spoilers: they do.) as sparklings that get sold to the mines typically have issues that surface-dwellers refuse to take.

Although Orion is the oldest of the three, D-16 had more consistent meals and the protection of an adult cohort to ensure he was able to develop normally. While Orion is shorter and less ornate due to delays, he has a far greater tolerance for different fuels, denta capable of crushing rocks, talons on agile hands, and very advanced sensory systems. Hence why his audials and antenna are detailed. Right now, he's pinging and listening around them in case anything (or one) tries to sneak behind them. That box is his best friend as Orion can't believe these mecha just try to throw away decent food! (It's a disposal crate meant that's currently meant for minerals. And yes, Orion sleeps curled up to it.)

Juno (a June Darby that descended from a Cybertron/Earth hybrid) is fretted upon by the adult miners around her. Because of her heritage, her armature is relatively weak, and those 'thin' robes are a part of it. Unlike a usual Cybertronian sparkling that can not remove their armature until a later stage in adolescence, her kind can due to their extended duration of frame development and constant manipulation due to a cross of Earth shapeshifters/humans and Cybertronians over the generations. (Their communities developed a strange relationship between wearable clothes and their natural-born armature.) The mask is part of her tribe's way of life. Less about hiding identity and more to help the young tap into latent abilities by drawing on the blank slate to invoke simple spells or transformations. That blank mask with those empty and dark optic holes creeped out many until she took it off. Nor does she have a 'proper' helm as she has an exposed mess of thin cabling that she can control. She has them tucked away in low buns whenever she needs to follow D-16 or his parent's cohort out of the Den. D-16 likes poking them since he never seen anything like that in his life. Despite her small stature and dainty appearance, she's a little menace that's currently full of rage and would absolutely bite the throats out of the mecha that stole her.

The harness she has isn't from her tribe but from the Snatchers. It's actually a specialized inhibitor and a tracker. The raiding caravan was hoping for the nearby Wilders to launch a rescue so they could track exactly where the main of the communities since young creatures, practitioners, and Seekerkin would fetch the highest credits and prizes from high rollers and the elite. Since her robes have sigils and runes carved inside to hide her and she lacks a T-cog, she was sold to the Tarn's mines as she seemingly had none of the 'exotic' and powerful abilities of the Wilders.

Some little extra details:

The boys are far more dirty since Juno has some sigils to keep herself clean for longer periods of time

D-16 is playing 'I spy'

Those blocky thick stripes on D-16 are harzard stripes and doubles as a unique identifier to his creators' cohort in case anything happens since D-16 doesn't count as a full person yet

The miners are trying to figure out how to keep it on Juno

Orion has it on his back

The box in Orion's hands has two Cybertronian scripts. The top is Common Neocybex (TFOne glyphs), which reads DISPO. Shorthand for disposal. It reads left to right. The other is the written version of Ilmentite (glyphs from Gen 1 comic and Transformers video games). It actually skips vowels and reads top-down. It's cut off, but it says MINERALS.

Orion's antenna and audials make subtly clicks and can move independently.

[hussyknee]

I want to say that being a Swiftie is its own punishment, but a whole horde of them have caught COVID from her concerts and are calling it the "Eras Tour hangover". Literal plague rats.

And yes this goes for every fucking celebrity putting their fans lives in danger to line their pockets. None of them have spoken up for any of the genocides going on or shown donations to them. Y'all are laying your lives on the line for people who can't even tunnel underneath the bar of basic human decency when it's already in hell.

Edit: when I tell you none of you motherfuckers should spawn

This child is going to die because her mother cares more about that greedy climate criminal's superspreader event than helping her recover.

[aita-blorbos]

AITA for helping my daughter bond with her dog?

Ever since my (50M) wife passed away a few years ago, it's just been me, my daughter (5F, lets call her N) and the family dog. She's a well behaved child, although unfortunately I haven't been able to spend much time playing with her due to my demanding government job. As a result of this, N has grown very attached to the dog.

For some context, I'm known in my field for having done something no one else could years ago. My job's been putting more and more pressure on me to recreate that success ever since but I've never been able to again, and recently I've been told I'd lose my job if I could not recreate the results. As you can tell, this has been weighing down on me but thankfully my job sent over some teens (lets call them E and A) who needed my help and didn't mind looking after my daughter so I was able to focus more on work. They were getting along really well and got rather close even.

It all came to a head when I found the solution to my problem. My little girl's always wanted to help out her papa and has been begging to recently so I decided, why not? And with her help, I was finally, finally able to recreate the results that would save my job. She and the dog has been invaluable to my 'research' and now they're closer then ever. E and A did not react well to this, even though they should understand the importance of our work more than anyone, and E nearly beat me to death. So tell me, am I really the asshole in this situation for trying to keep my job?

[ravenroseglaive]

‘Liberation Day’ Is Looking More Like a Disaster

[freepalestinebastard]

[theartofeverything]

Wanderer’s Odyssey

Part 1: Thesis

I want to write a story about my time in the gulf, about the pounding of the waves, the chorus of whistling ghosts, the way all my senses blurred into one while buried under piles of tackle in the hull for long dark hours. It’s a place my mind always comes back to. I can feel the spray on my face, the boat pitching beneath my feet.

I’m not sure how though. How do I translate the epic scale of its residence in my mind to a plot with beginning, middle, and end? It's a story of survival, but not of heroism. There were no dragons slain, no mountain tops reached. It's a story of strength and perseverance, ingenuity and adventure into the unknown, horror and wonder, hatred and joy. But it is not one of agency.

There was never a choice made at the crossroads that led the story down a new path. It wasn’t a river winding its way between hills and forests, under bridges and over falls. It was an ocean with ouroborous currents. The storms were not battles we chose to fight. There was no escaping when they struck. You just had to hold on with every ounce of strength in your trembling limbs. And eventually they passed. Not because we defeated them. Not because we learned some valuable truth. Because it was never about us.

People like to personify storms with words like ‘raging’ or ‘punishing’. I don’t think those people have ever seen the heart of one. They’re not vindictive. They’re not even malicious. They are simply forces of profound apathy.

Part 2

[aita-blorbos]

AITA for punting a toddler into the sun?

(Canon compliant fan fiction written right here, right now)

So this pink toddler I constantly get crushed by decided to eat my cake and then take a nap in my throne. So I punted him into the sun.

Turns out, he survived, big shocker, and after a sequence of 6-8 worlds full of wacky e10+ hyjinks and comic violence, he came to my front door and beat me up.

But he totally ate my cake first! Just ignore that I got the cake by stealing it from him...

[gothamnewsnetwork-official]

Opinion Hour - Vigilantism; family business or child endangerment?

The opinions voiced in this article may not align with the views of this journal

Regarding a (piece) published by this journal yesterday evening we felt the need to further expand on the topic of children in Vigilantism and many points brought up by none other than our resident billionaire himself, Bruce Wayne, in (response) to said article.

We would like to once again reiterate that Vigilantism is no place for children, be it a ‘family business’ or not, and we find Mr. Wayne’s comparison of the two to be, frankly, appalling.

Though Vigilantes deserve to have normal lives outside of their work, association with the civilian identity of a Vigilante, even with the danger that comes with it, is not an appropriate reason to enlist a child into fighting crime.

We fully support training the children of vigilantes in order to defend themselves, the issue is that in most instances this leads to the children becoming Vigilantes as well, usually at an age far younger than most find acceptable.

Bringing a child into Vigilantism, be it a family business or not, is putting that child at risk of injury, trauma, and death, there is no way to deny that. Due to this fact, we stand by our prior stance of child-heroes being victims of child abuse.

All children deserve a safe environment to live and grow, and while that is incredibly difficult to achieve, especially in a city like Gotham, further endangering them under the pretence of protection is a very serious offence and something we believe classifies as manipulation and child exploitation.

Obviously this varies case to case, but in the situation of someone like Batman who seems to be unable to go a week without a child sidekick, one has to ask if he can truly be considered good if they have not found a third option to the dilemma Mr. Wayne thinks to have only two.

Sincerely,

L. Constant - Collective

What are your thoughts on the topic? Let us know (here)

Gotham Reports is certified in unbiased, reliable, and fair reporting

[fluffywing-e-tarot]

Help Your Nephew (fanfic idea)

Yuan is in a dark place. They took his ribbon. He is cold. All he can think of is his Father's desperate call of his name.

The premise of this is Lan Yuan is identified as the Last Wen of during a discussion conference. While he's a child.

He is arrested. Taunted and striped of the Lan direct Family identifiers. His cloud ribbon and outer robes.

Xichen was delayed in a negotiation turned bad Night Hunt not able to arrive for the conference. Thus Wangji not only had to attend but also bring his son along. The only people he trusts are his brother and a mother of a boy Yuan has gotten close to.

Yuan is not only hurt in front of him. Wangji was restrained while it happens.

As much as he dislikes Jiang Wanyin for allegedly killing Wei Ying. Wangji figures that Jiang Wanyin would be easier to convince than the Nie. And with the Elders in attendance with him sabotaging Wangji's efforts of rescuing his son.

The line that finaly convinces Jiang Wanyin. To help

"Yuan is Wei Ying's son he raised in the Burial Mounds."

Jiang Chaing is a raging ball when Lan Wangji finishes. They aggressively oppose the execution of a child who's only chime is his Birth name of Wen.

Once Yuan is revealed to be a child. Nie Mungjue is absolutely in agreement.

In the end Lan Yuan now has an uncle in Jiang Chaing and visits Lotus pere with his Cousin Jin Ling in the Summers.

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[fringeclan-rebirth]

This is the longest leaf-bare ever 😂 I can't wait to draw new-leaf again. Even if I've been really enjoying all the blue hues 💙