12-YEAR-OLD GIRL FACING CRIMINAL CHARGES FOR USING EMOJIS

The 12-year-old from Fairfax, Va., has been charged with threatening her school after police said she posted a message on Instagram in December laden with gun, bomb and knife emojis. It read in part:

As emoji and their relative the emoticon have rocketed from web slang to the unofficial language of the Internet age, the case is one of a growing number where authorities contend the cartoonish symbols have been used to stalk, harass, threaten or defame people. And that has left the police and courts wrestling with how to treat a newly popular idiom many still dimly grasp.

http://www.infowars.com/12-year-old-girl-facing-criminal-charges-for-using-emoji/

Mexican soldier shoots one-year-old American girl at US border

 A US toddler has been shot in the back by Mexican army personnel after her family’s car apparently drove between a military patrol and a vehicle carrying suspects, say officials in the border state of Tamaulipas.

Guadalupe Salinas, the head of the federal prosecutors’ office in the state, said on Wednesday that another girl in the car was grazed by a bullet and a woman suffered slight wounds from bullet or glass fragments.

Salinas said Wednesday the injuries of the 20-month-old girl aren’t life-threatening. She is being treated in San Antonio, Texas.

The woman is the mother of one of the girls. The US citizens were apparently visiting relatives in Tamaulipas last week.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/29/mexican-soldier-shoots-one-year-old-american-girl