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    PROVO (KSL) — Dalton Gibbs’ father said he was “the joy of our home,” and was full of enthusiasm. He made everyone, whether nine or 90, feel like a best friend.

“His death has left an agonizing void, it’s been excruciating,” Tyler Gibbs said. “Every moment is now shrouded in sorrow due to his absence, we miss him every day.”

He stood next to his wife on Wednesday while he spoke at the Provo courthouse at the sentencing for George Parker Hunter, 81, who was driving a truck when he hit Gibbs’ son in a Pleasant Grove crosswalk, killing the 9-year-old, and then continued driving to the Spanish Fork Fairgrounds. Tyler Gibbs said his son was riding his bike home from school on April 29, 2025 and was hit while in a crosswalk near their home.

“It is impossible to adequately measure or quantify in a few short minutes what Dalton brought to our lives or how deeply his loss has shattered our family and broken our hearts,” he told the judge.

Tyler Gibbs spoke about calling his wife who was out of town to let her know about Dalton’s death, he said “it took all our effort to just breathe.” Not long after, his wife said “we need to pray for that man,” referring to Hunter.

The father said no legal sentence could bring true justice, but “one day justice will be served and we will see our sweet Dalton again.”

The 9-year-old’s family requested that Hunter not be sent to prison, and because of that request, the judge agreed to suspend the statutory prison sentence of zero to five years in prison when accepting Hunter’s guilty plea to leaving the scene of an accident, a third-degree felony, and negligent homicide, a class A misdemeanor. Instead, 4th District Judge Roger Griffin ordered Hunter to spend 75 days in jail, with credit for any good time, and spend three years on probation.

The judge called it a “horribly tragic” case.

“My best goes to your family over the coming weeks, months and years. This will be difficult,” Griffin said to Dalton’s family before issuing the sentence.

To Hunter, the judge said, “I appreciate that you’ve taken responsibility for these actions, but the tragedy you’ve caused is incomprehensible.”

The man’s attorney, James Wright, said Hunter was not impaired, and had never used any controlled substance. Wright said his client may not have still been capable of driving, especially large vehicles, while aging.

He asked the judge to remember the life Hunter has led, saying he is a military veteran and retired school teacher. Now, the man thinks about the death he caused “all day long, every day.”

“This is something … he did not plan — to be spending his golden years in this way with dealing with these emotions and the feelings of regret and guilt,” the attorney said.

According to Wright, his client always wanted to take responsibility and not cause any additional harm to the family.

Deputy Utah County attorney Mikelle Daugherty said the tragedy has ripple effects, causing suffering not just to family but to people who saw what happened or came to the scene and stayed with Dalton, who have been significantly impacted even though they did not know him.

Tyler Gibbs said his son was the seventh of seven children; five of them were present in the courtroom, while another is beginning service as a missionary. Their natural instinct would be to want Hunter to suffer, like they do, he said, but “by the grace of God” the family was able to avoid that. He said they don’t want to perpetuate their pain, and cannot imagine inflicting the same intense pain on others.

“As a family, we are choosing forgiveness above vengeance, because that is where freedom comes. We are placing our trust in God and praying for healing,” the father said.

Hunter was initially charged with manslaughter, a second-degree felony, and leaving the scene of an accident involving death, a third-degree felony. The manslaughter charge was reduced as part of a plea deal.

Charging documents said at least two witnesses were honking and waving trying to get Hunter to stop, and Dalton was dragged about 50 feet. When he was later found, Hunter said he knew he had hit a bicycle, but did not think there was a child on it.

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    IRVINE, Calif. (KABC) — A nanny for an Irvine family is facing several counts of child abuse after she was captured on video repeatedly striking and “violently shaking” a young baby over several weeks, prosecutors announced Wednesday.

Iara Dossantos Bomfim, 29, fled to Brazil in July after the baby’s mother discovered the alleged abuse recorded on the family’s nanny cam, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.

“On July 11, 2026, the baby’s mother checked her nanny cam footage after she heard her three-month-old son scream and went into the nursery to see if he was ok. Bomfim assured her everything was fine, but when the baby’s mother reviewed the nanny cam footage she saw Bomfim sitting on a yoga ball and violently bouncing the baby as his head and neck bounced back and forth and side to side. Bomfim is then seen punching the baby in the back of the head with a closed fist,” the D.A.’s office said in a press release.

The footage allegedly shows Bomfim “violently punching, hitting and shaking the baby” starting June 17, when the baby was just 2 months and 10 days old. The alleged abuse continued until he was just over 3 months old.

She was arrested Friday after returning from Brazil and was attempting to set up another account on Care.com to advertise her nanny services, prosecutors said.

She has been charged with 10 felony counts of child abuse.

Bomfim has pleaded not guilty and is being held on $500,000 bail. If convicted on all counts, she faces a maximum sentence of 18 years in state prison.

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    BOSTON (WCVB) — Attorneys for Patrick Clancy, the husband of Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury, Massachusetts, mother accused of killing her three children, appeared in court for a hearing Wednesday to decide if his wrongful death lawsuit can proceed.

Patrick Clancy is suing his wife’s medical providers, claiming they overmedicated her while she was suffering from postpartum depression.

His attorneys said Lindsay Clancy could take the stand to say she told the health providers she had homicidal ideation.

“We believe that Lindsay Clancy, once her Fifth Amendment issues are resolved one way or the other, will testify that she told these defendants explicitly that she had homicidal ideation,” attorney Howard Cooper said.

However, Lindsay Clancy’s attorney Kevin Reddington said his client, “never indicated that she intended to testify in Mr. Clancy’s lawsuit. Mr. Clancy’s counsel does not speak for Lindsay Clancy.”

On Wednesday, the healthcare professionals being sued asked the judge to dismiss the case.

Lawyers for those professionals said Lindsay never communicated an explicit threat to kill or injure her children, so it’s unfair to hold those doctors accountable.

No immediate decision on the motion was made on Wednesday. Patrick Clancy did not appear in court.

Lindsay Clancy was indicted on three counts each of murder and strangulation in the 2023 deaths of her 5-year-old daughter Cora, 3-year-old son Dawson and 7-month-old son Callan.

Clancy, 36, admitted to killing her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan — at their Duxbury home on Jan. 24, 2023. Her defense argued she was not criminally responsible because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time of the killings.

A mistrial was declared Sept. 4 after jurors told the judge they were hopelessly deadlocked, with an 11-1 split in favor of acquittal after seven days of deliberations. Patrick Clancy was the first witness to testify in her trial.

Patrick Clancy’s lawsuit against Dr. Jennifer A. Tufts, nurse Rebecca H. Jollotta, Aster Mental Health Inc. and South Shore Health System, Inc. alleges their negligent treatment of Lindsay Clancy “resulted in tragedy, namely, allegations that Lindsay took the lives of her children.”

The lawsuit alleges that the defendants failed to properly monitor and treat Lindsay Clancy’s mental health condition and said they failed to coordinate care between multiple treating clinicians, regularly meeting with Lindsay Clancy over video conference rather than in person and having some appointments that were only 17 minutes long.

Plymouth County prosecutors filed a 30-page motion Wednesday asking a judge to throw out Lindsay Clancy attorney’s request to dismiss the charges. Attorney Kevin Reddington argued a retrial would amount to double jeopardy, due to a lone holdout juror.

In a separate lawsuit, Lindsay Clancy’s attorneys have continued to pursue a civil case against her doctors and the hospitals that treated her.

Her lawsuit, which was filed in January, alleges a “catastrophic failure” of multiple medical providers in diagnosing and treating her psychiatric condition.

Two of the defendants named in Clancy’s lawsuit, Dr. Jennifer Tufts and Nurse Practitioner Rebecca Jollotta, both testified during the criminal trial.

According to Lindsay Clancy’s lawsuit, the medical professionals failed to diagnose her properly with bipolar disorder and instead prescribed treatments that “exacerbated her condition and precipitated a severe psychotic break.”

The lawsuit alleges that the medications contributed to a state of psychosis in which Lindsay Clancy hallucinated that she was hearing commands from a man’s voice and could only observe her body’s actions.

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    BOSTON (WCVB) — A new surgical implant tested in Boston is giving hope to patients with macular telangiectasia, or MacTel, a rare eye disease that impairs central vision and makes it difficult to see details.

Heather Harris-Keddy, a patient living with MacTel, said the disease has affected her vision dramatically over time.

“If I close this eye, all I’m seeing is your hair and the walls around you,” said Heather Harris-Keddy, a patient living with the disease for more than 20 years. “I can’t see your face.”

She said she noticed changes in her right eye first, then later in her left.

“And I was always doing this — like, can I see today?” Harris-Keddy said, holding her hand over one eye.

MacTel affects the macula, which is a round area at the back of the eyeball, in the center of the retina.

“The macula is what’s responsible for fine, detailed vision — watching television, looking at faces, and especially reading,” said Dr. Dean Eliott, director emeritus for the retina service at Mass Eye and Ear.

He has treated several cases of MacTel, despite its rarity.

“It starts out by causing some blurry vision, a few little small blind spots right around the center of vision,” Eliott said.

Until recently, there was no treatment for the disease.

“People who had it were severely debilitated,” Eliott said. “I mean, they had significant problems with their central vision, and most progressed to a point where they couldn’t read. They had extreme difficulty watching television and seeing faces.”

Harris-Keddy adapted to the changes as best she could.

“I have magnifying glasses around the house to make sure that I can read directions on boxes and stuff like that,” she said.

But Harris-Keddy worried about the day her central vision would be gone for good.

“And you know, I won’t be able to see again or drive again,” she said. “My whole life will change. My husband’s life will change because I will be more of a burden.”

Her hope came in the form of a tiny implant called ENCELTO, which is the size of a single grain of rice.

Inserted into the eye, the implant generates and delivers proteins that the macula needs to function properly.

“The implant is like science fiction,” Eliott said. “It is actually really hard to believe that this was developed.”

Eliott participated in the clinical trials, which showed that while the implant cannot restore lost vision, it can significantly slow or even stop the gradual loss of central vision.

Last year, the Food and Drug Administration approved the device for patients like Harris-Keddy, who became the first person to receive it at Mass Eye and Ear.

“It’s a very expensive device,” Eliott said. “It’s about $250,000, but it protects someone’s eyesight for life.”

Harris-Keddy said she is grateful — and relieved — to have it now while she still has some vision.

“At least we were able to stop it,” she said.

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    LYNNFIELD, Massachusetts (WCVB) — A tractor-trailer rollover caused a significant mess Wednesday afternoon in Lynnfield, Massachusetts.

Sky5 flew over the scene along Salem Street and saw a broken utility pole, with part of the pole left dangling from the wires. Scrap metal and debris from the overturned truck was spilled across a front lawn.

“The truck looked like it hit the tree and rolled over, and the powerlines spanned, and I saw some sparks and smoke,” a witness said. “He just flipped over the pole.”

The crash occurred around 12:30 p.m. According to police, the driver was able to climb out of the wreck on his own.

Police said the driver was taken to an area hospital while the crash remains under investigation.

The roadway was closed to traffic for hours as crews worked to flip the truck upright, and power was out in the area. Power was restored Wednesday night.

Steve Rizzo could see the wreck from his front porch.

“When they lifted it, it was kind of shocking how much debris there was,” he said.

Rizzo watched as crews cleaned up the mess, and said there’s a sharp turn in the road right where the crash happened.

“And I think a lot of drivers that are not familiar with it, may underestimate how sharp the turn is,” Rizzo said. “So I think speed was probably a factor here.”

Investigators are working to determine the cause of the crash.

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    PELL CITY, Alabama (WVTM) — A man pleaded guilty to an ATM jackpotting conspiracy in Pell City and to possessing child sexual abuse material found during the investigation.

Rodner Josue Centeno Moreno, 22, a Venezuelan national, entered the pleas in separate but related cases, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Alabama said Wednesday.

The investigation began early June 14, when a Pell City police officer saw an SUV parked in front of a bank ATM. The officer turned around to return to the ATM and found it open, with the SUV gone.

Investigators determined the ATM had been breached through “jackpotting,” a scheme that involves breaking into an ATM’s computer compartment so it can be operated without authorization, according to plea agreements.

Officers later found the SUV abandoned in the bank parking lot. A search turned up tools, gloves, cash, a cellphone and a wallet containing multiple bank cards and a temporary driver’s license in Moreno’s name, with an address in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

Later that day, Moreno contacted the Murfreesboro Police Department to turn himself in for attempting to rob the ATM, according to the plea agreements. Murfreesboro officers went to his residence and took him into custody.

On June 15, Pell City officers traveled to Murfreesboro to serve arrest warrants for Moreno. After his arrest, investigators searched his iPhone and found dozens of files containing child sexual abuse material, prosecutors said.

Deiber Jorhen Castillo Rodriguez, 26, a Venezuelan citizen and the driver of the SUV, was charged with conspiracy and attempting to access a protected computer in furtherance of fraud. He had not been arrested as of Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

“The defendant’s guilty pleas reflect the seriousness of two distinct crimes – ATM jackpotting, which threatens the security of our financial institutions, and the possession of child sexual abuse material, which compounds the harm the victims have suffered,” U.S. Attorney Phillip W. Williams Jr. said. “We remain committed to holding offenders accountable and protecting both the security of our communities and the most vulnerable among us – our children.”

Moreno remains in the St. Clair County jail without bond.

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    OCEANO, California (KABC) — A large shark was spotted swimming near surfers off the coast of Oceano in San Luis Obispo County on Wednesday morning, video shows.

The footage shows the shark swimming close to multiple surfers in the water.

At one point, the shark splashes a surfer with its tail before making a sharp U-turn and swimming away.

The shark was described as 12 to 15 feet long.

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