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A mother of four from Florida who suffers a rare heritable Crouzon Syndrome which makes her have abnormal faces was bullied online after revealing one of her family photos.
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Bobbie-Jo Theriault, 43, got a rare genetic deformity and had inherited to her four children, who three of them are triplets, to have the illness. The syndrome causes their head to become misshapen and their eyes protrude more than the generals do.
The mother posted a family photo and was used by a Facebook page with the vicious caption, "When you don't learn from your mistakes."
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Bobbie-Jo described the post was "cruel, hurtful and disgusting" to her since the people who used the photo didn't know the story of her family and kids. She knew the post when her husband Fredrick, 47, said his friend contacted him to tell they had seen it.
She also condemned trolls who she described "hiding behind their keyboards" and worried that her kids were old enough to use social media.
"I do worry as my kids get older and they start using social media more. I would ask these people what is wrong with them. Seriously. These are just children they are mocking," said Bobbie-Jo.
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When talking about the post, she said, "What gives them the right to go out and do hurtful things like this? I don't know what's happened to the page or the meme. A lot of my friends reported it too."
The mother said that she had no idea her babies would be in danger of having a life-threatening form of Crouzon. She also shared the experience she was teased by schoolmates because of her protruding eyes, but she believed it made her a stronger person and better to help her kids.
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"Children are going to be children. Bullying is everywhere no matter who are. All three of the triplets will probably come across somebody who is going to bother them. But if they do get called names they will have me to help them," she added.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida businessman already charged with kidnapping his estranged wife in Spain is facing new U.S. charges that he killed her.
A federal grand jury in South Florida on Wednesday charged David Knezevich in a superseding indictment with kidnapping resulting in death, foreign domestic violence resulting in death and foreign murder of a U.S. national. If convicted, he faces the possibility of the death penalty.
Last June, he pleaded not guilty to kidnapping his 40-year-old wife, Ana Hedao Knezevich, who went missing in a case that has drawn international media attention. Knezevich, 36, was jailed without bond.
His lead attorney, Jayne Weintraub, said Thursday that he planned to plead not guilty at an arraignment hearing next week.
“It is a desperate attempt by the government to charge everything possible and see what sticks!” Weintraub said in an email. “There is no evidence that David Knezevich kidnapped or murdered his wife.”
Ana Knezevich disappeared from her Madrid apartment on Feb. 2, five weeks after she had moved there. Her body still hasn't been found.
A man in a motorcycle helmet was seen sneaking into her Madrid apartment building and disabling a security camera by spray painting its lens. The man was later seen wheeling out a suitcase. Ana Knezevich is about 4 feet, 11 inches tall (1.5 meters) and 100 pounds (45 kilograms), according to her driver’s license.
Prosecutors say they have strong evidence Knezevich was the man in the helmet. They say he flew to Turkey from Miami six days before Ana’s disappearance, then immediately traveled to his native Serbia where he rented a Peugeot automobile.
On Feb. 2, security video showed him 1,600 miles (2,600 kilometers) from Serbia in a Madrid hardware store using cash to buy duct tape and the same brand of spray paint the man in the motorcycle helmet used on the security camera, according to prosecutors.
When Knezevich returned the Peugeot to the rental agency five weeks later, it had been driven 4,800 miles (7,700 kilometers), its windows had been tinted, two identifying stickers had been removed and there was evidence its license plate had been removed and then put back, prosecutors said.
The couple was in the middle of a contentious divorce while fighting over millions of dollars in properties, according to prosecutors. They have been married for 13 years.
At a hearing earlier this year, Weintraub questioned the government's evidence. The defense attorney disputed the government's contention that Knezevich had sold off some of the properties so that he would have money to flee the United States. Weintraub also said the split was amicable and the financial arrangements were being worked out.
FILE - This undated photo provided by U.S. Attorney's Office, Miami shows David Knezevich, a Florida man charged with his wife's disappearance from her Spain apartment. (U.S. Attorney's Office, Miami via AP, File)
FILE - A missing poster for Colombian-born, American Ana Maria Knezevich Henao is displayed on a streetlight in Madrid, Spain, on Feb. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)
