Parents of 7-year-old killed while walking home from store charged for leaving him unattended

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Parents of 7-year-old killed while walking home from store charged for leaving him unattended​

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Patrick Reilly
Published June 3, 2025, 7:32 a.m. ET
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The parents of a 7-year-old boy who was fatally struck by a car in North Carolina have been charged with involuntary manslaughter for letting him and his brother walk home alone from a grocery store.

Little Legend Jenkins was with his 10-year-old brother in Gastonia last Tuesday when he ran into traffic and was hit by a jeep driven by a 76-year-old woman, according to the Gastonia Police Department.

His mom, Jessica Ivey, told WSCOC it was the first time she had allowed her sons to walk to the nearby grocery store.

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Legend Jenkins was killed on Tuesday after darting out into traffic as he was walking home from the grocery store with his older brother.Family handout
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Prosecutors say the parents are guilty of involuntary manslaughter and child neglect.WSOC-TV

Ivey and the boys’ father, Samuele Jenkins, were arrested Thursday and each charged with involuntary manslaughter and child neglect, both felonies.

They were denied permission to attend their son’s funeral, instead getting slapped with a $1.5 million bond, the highest possible.

“While the Gastonia Police Department offers its deepest sympathies to the family for the heartbreaking loss of their child, the investigation revealed that the children involved were unsupervised at the time the boy stepped into traffic,” police said in a statement.

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“In such cases, adults must be held accountable for their responsibilities to ensure a safe environment for their children.”

The driver will not face any charges as police found no evidence of speeding or wrongdoing on her part.
A witness to the deadly crash, Summer Williams, said the boy was hit after darting out into the street as his brother tried to hold him back. She immediately stopped her car and held the dying boy in her arms.

“Even at night, I still see his face,” the witness recalled.

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Jessica Jenkins said it was the first time she had allowed her sons to walk to the nearby grocery store by themselves.Gaston County Sheriffs Office
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Sameule Jenkins and his wife were charged with involuntary manslaughter and child neglectGaston County Sheriffs Office
She said she tried to comfort the 7-year-old as they waited for responders to arrive.

“Just letting him know that somebody was there and he wasn’t alone. ‘Stay with us, sweetheart. You’re going to be all right. Stay with us,’” Williams said.

 

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2-year-old boy is swept away on luggage conveyor belt at Newark Airport in latest terror at beleaguered travel hub​

By
Daryl Khan
Published June 3, 2025, 1:04 a.m. ET
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A 2-year-old boy vanished from his mom’s sight at Newark Liberty International Airport and was swept away on a baggage conveyor belt in a scary trip, adding to the list of troubling incidents that have plagued the travel hub.

The Staten Island toddler climbed onto the ankle-high conveyor belt where passengers drop off their luggage before takeoff, while his mother was busy rebooking a flight with a JetBlue employee in Terminal A last Wednesday, Pix 11 reported.

The child rode on the belt, which carried him away and dropped him down a chute into the luggage screening area on the lower level of the terminal.

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The tot was carried away from his terrified mom and dropped down a chute into the terminal’s luggage screening area.Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Post
A pair of nearby Port Authority officers heard what happened and leaped into action to track the toddler down, Port Authority Police PBA president Frank Conti told Pix 11.


“The two cops were able to move fast into the system, which was vital,” Conti told the news station. “There was a split in the belts. One officer went toward one direction, one toward the other direction.”

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One of the cops found the toddler — unharmed — near an X-ray machine and scooped him up before he went into it.

While the child was brought to safety and flew to Tampa, Florida, with his family for vacation after the hair-raising ordeal, most news coming out of the beleaguered airport in recent months has not had a happy ending.

Newark Airport has been described as a “delay-plagued hellhole” for a slew of problems, including unprecedented backups on the tarmac, a glut of cancellations, the possible spread of an infectious disease, ongoing construction, FAA controllers walking off the job and terrifying blackouts of its control towers.

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Newark Liberty International Airport with the New York City skyline in the background.AP
The situation at the travel hub got so bad that one federal air safety employee warned the public not to fly out of the embattled airport, warning that it’s “not safe.”

And on April 28, air traffic controllers were left without radar and communications for 90 horrifying seconds, resulting in a domino effect that delayed thousands of flights. At least five air traffic controllers took a 45-day trauma leave because the scare rattled them so much. A similar blackout occurred in November last year.

Two weeks ago, New Jersey health officials sounded the alarm about a potential measles outbreak when an infected individual traveled through the airport’s Terminal B.

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Massive delays and safety concerns have plagued Newark Liberty International Airport this year.Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Post
Even the solutions offered up for the airport’s chaos come with a new set of headaches.

Experts suggested slashing daily flights — limiting options for travelers — as soon as possible, since the airport can’t handle the volume.

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“I don’t see a near-term immediate everything-gets-better [solution],” ex-Federal Aviation Administration Safety Team member Kyle Bailey told The Post. “They simply need to permanently reduce daily flights into the airport, permanently combined with using bigger planes.”

“So there is not a silver bullet,” he added.

 

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Damn, that's fucked up.

Her crime was having a kid w/ a black dude. She's getting the black folks treatment based on that alone. No way they'd charge them if the guy was white.