NEWS: Giant Billboard Bell Over I-44 Will Ring When A Child Gets Last Chemo Treatment

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Children surviving cancer who mark their last day of chemotherapy by ringing the bell at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, can also now ring a giant bell on the billboard over Interstate 44.

NEWS: Giant Billboard Bell Over I-44 Will Ring When A Child Gets Last Chemo Treatment

The 12-foot-tall metal bell was installed last Wednesday on the billboard near Big Bend Boulevard.

A 12-foot-tall bell was installed Wednesday over Interstate 44 at Big Bend Boulevard. The bell will ring every time a child completes chemotherapy at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.

When a child completes cancer treatment at St. Louis Children’s, the staffs shall use an app on their phone to trigger the bell, which will have speakers so passersby can hear the sound of it.

A 12-foot-tall bell was installed Wednesday over Interstate 44 at Big Bend Boulevard. The bell will ring every time a child completes chemotherapy at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.

About five to 10 children a month complete their chemotherapy and celebrate with the bell-ringing.

The child was allegedly subjected to sexual abuse ever since she was only 3 years old and it reportedly lasted until March 2016.

NEWS: Florida Couple Arrested After Allegedly Prostituting Young Girl For 13 Years In Exchange For Drugs

Celeste Chambers of Tallahassee, Fla. and her boyfriend, Kevin Wyatt, were both arrested last week as Gasden County fugitives, according to the Miami Herald.

Wyatt was arrested on Sunday afternoon after he was found hiding in a boathouse next to the East River in Florida, according to the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page. Prior to his arrest, he was wanted on five warrants, including sex-trafficking.

Chambers, who was initially arrested in June 2017 but was later released, was arrested again last Wednesday after the Gasden County Sheriff’s Office issued multiple warrants for her arrest. These warrants included two counts of sexual abuse, one for lewd and lascivious behavior, and another for child cruelty, reported WTXL-Channel 27.

Chamber’s arrest came after the Gadsden County Sheriff’s Office led a multi-jurisdictional investigation into the Chambers in March of last year, WTXL-Channel 27 reported.

Since her arrest, she had pleaded not guilty to all the charges made against her, including sexual battery on a child under 12 by an adult, child abuse, and human trafficking by a parent, legal guardian or custodian, among others, according to the Miami Herald. Wyatt is now facing similar charges.

Chambers was slated to face trial in early January.

Approximately 74 foster children are missing in the state were revealed by the companies running the foster care system in Kansas (to the shock of lawmakers)

Breaking News: More Than 70 Foster Kids Are Missing In Kansas—And Lawmakers Just Found Out

Three sisters from their Tonganoxie foster home have been missing since August 26. In the report of The Kansas City Star told that the state politicians were equally outraged that Kansas Department of Children and Families (DCF) Secretary Phyllis Gilmore was apparently unaware about that.

The revelation was brought by KAKE. They finally pointed out at a meeting of the Child Care Task Force, a group aimed at holding DCF responsible.

State Sen. Laura Kelly said she asked the agency about missing sisters Emily, 15, Aimee, 14, and Christin Utter, 12, and they knew nothing, according to The Star.
“I am flabbergasted,” Kelly told the journalist. “I used to work in this world years and years ago and I understand that where you have teenagers, you will have runners, and they will go and they will do this kind of stuff.”

“But the fact that the person in charge of the wards of the state has no idea that these kids are missing from her custody is just astounding to me.”

38 children are missing from the program was revealed by KVC Kansas, a foster care servicer. Another company, Saint Francis Community Services, claimed 36 are unaccounted for.
“That is very disturbing. I’m actually appalled by hearing that, but it doesn’
t surprise me hearing that at all,” state Sen. Oletha Faust-Goudeau told KAKE.
She said that using servicers makes it harder to request accountability.
Kelly asked Tuesday about Utter sisters’ case after The Star published a article about their disappearance. Tonganoxie Police Lt. Jarrod Gill said the girls were possibly having trouble at home. However, he said there is no evidence that the sisters were being abused. The girls are supposed to have run away from the home of their adopted parent and great-aunt, Debbie Miller, in late August.

“We just want them to know that we love them, that we just want them to come home,” Miller said. “And it doesn’t matter what’s happened. We can work through whatever we need [to].”
Gill said he thought the girls were getting support from one or more persons.

In response to the backlash, DCF released a statement Wednesday that highlighted procedures on how to report a missing foster child, which can be read below,
“We want to assure the public that protocols are in place, and have been for many years, to ensure that when children run away from their foster care placement, every effort is made to locate them and return them to a safe and appropriate foster care home or facility,” DCF Secretary Gilmore said.