Family devastated by report mom slashed kids' throats - Boston Herald

By Matt Stout
Monday, March 19, 2012 - Updated 52 minutes ago

A Salem mother is facing gruesome assault accusations after officials say she slashed the throats of her two children and then set her apartment on fire, horrific charges that a family member called “devastating.”

“I can’t speak right, I’m too discombobulated,” Deborah Cox, the aunt of 25-year-old Tanicia Goodwin, said by phone this morning. Goodwin is expected to be arraigned today in Salem District Court on two counts of assault with intent to murder, two counts assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and arson, according to the Essex District Attorney’s Office.

Cox said she hadn’t spoken with Goodwin since December, but said through tears that she’s usually “very connected” to her niece.

“It’s surprising ... especially when you have family you can call,” she said. “I have no idea what happened. I know it was a flash on the news and everybody is calling me.”

Firefighters responded shortly before 9 p.m., yesterday to a seventh-floor fire at a Pope Street apartment complex, where they found the two children, 3 and 8 years old, with life-threatening injuries, one inside the burning apartment and the second in an adjacent apartment, according to a Salem Fire Department release.

The two children were in critical condition at Children’s Hospital in Boston, authorities said. Cox said she had spoken with hospital staff this morning, but “they don’t know when they’re going to let me see them.”

The blaze, which jakes extinguished within 15 minutes, displaced 50 people, though officials with the Salem fire department and the state fire marshal’s office are still investigating the cause.

Material from the Associated Press was used in this report.

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Family devastated by report mom slashed kids' throats - Boston Herald

By Matt Stout
Monday, March 19, 2012 - Updated 41 minutes ago

A Salem mother is facing gruesome assault accusations after officials say she slashed the throats of her two children and then set her apartment on fire, horrific charges that a family member called “devastating.”

“I can’t speak right, I’m too discombobulated,” Deborah Cox, the aunt of 25-year-old Tanicia Goodwin, said by phone this morning. Goodwin is expected to be arraigned today in Salem District Court on two counts of assault with intent to murder, two counts assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and arson, according to the Essex District Attorney’s Office.

Cox said she hadn’t spoken with Goodwin since December, but said through tears that she’s usually “very connected” to her niece.

“It’s surprising ... especially when you have family you can call,” she said. “I have no idea what happened. I know it was a flash on the news and everybody is calling me.”

Firefighters responded shortly before 9 p.m., yesterday to a seventh-floor fire at a Pope Street apartment complex, where they found the two children, 3 and 8 years old, with life-threatening injuries, one inside the burning apartment and the second in an adjacent apartment, according to a Salem Fire Department release.

The two children were in critical condition at Children’s Hospital in Boston, authorities said. Cox said she had spoken with hospital staff this morning, but “they don’t know when they’re going to let me see them.”

The blaze, which jakes extinguished within 15 minutes, displaced 50 people, though officials with the Salem fire department and the state fire marshal’s office are still investigating the cause.

Material from the Associated Press was used in this report.

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Southie’s Green Day The Salem Heights Apartments on Pope Street in Salem is where a mother is alleged to have slashed the throats of her two young children before lighting a fire in her seventh floor unit.

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VikiLeaks creator summoned to testify - Calgary Herald

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The former Liberal party staffer who created the Vi-kileaks30 Twitter account is being summoned to appear before a Commons committee this week after he didn't show up to testify Tuesday.

The House of Commons ethics committee voted be-hind closed doors to summon Adam Carroll to appear before the committee on Thursday, and only a doctor's note will get him off the hook.

Carroll was expected to testify before the commit-tee on Tuesday about his use of House of Commons resources to run the VikiLeaks account that tweeted unflattering details about Public Safety Minister Vic Toews' personal past.

However, a letter from Car-roll's lawyer to the committee said Carroll was not well enough to testify.

Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro, who has led the charge to have Carroll testify, said the summons could only be set aside if Carroll's doctor said his health prevented him from appearing.

The decision to bring Car-roll before the committee took place in secret, after Conservatives on the committee used their majority to debate be-hind closed doors.

Carroll created the Twitter account after Toews suggested that opposing Bill C-30 was akin to siding with child pornographers. He then began tweeting portions of Toews' divorce proceedings.

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