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Vol. 45, No. 191
Questions linger as Moss faces sentencing By Joshua Sharpe
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LAWRENCEVILLE — Robin Moss looked at her son and saw a man possessed. It was late 2013, about a month after Eman Moss entered the Gwinnett County jail, charged with a crime so cruel and stun-
ning the a trash can mother and set it worried on fire, she would hoping hurt the she’d burn boy if she to ashes. visited It was sooner. already Eman Moss Emani Moss The police intersaid Eman Moss and his national news, stirring wife starved his 10-year- disgust from countless old daughter, Emani, onlookers. stuffed her gaunt body in Now the man sat on the
other side of a sheet of glass in a jailhouse jumpsuit, begging apologies. “Mommy, I’m sorry, I’m so sorry,” Robin Moss recalls him saying. “This is not what I wanted, and I know right now you want to just kill me. I know right now I have broken your heart.” Robin Moss stared at him, searching his face,
those vacant eyes, for something familiar. She saw evil, a demon, she says — not her only son. Worse, Moss says she didn’t believe he was truly remorseful. A mother knows. A year and a half later, Eman Moss is still saying he’s sorry. He pleaded guilty
to murder in June and agreed to testify against Emani’s stepmother, Tiffany Moss, who prosecutors believe played the most active role as the child wilted away in their Lawrenceville apartment. For his guilty plea, he got out of the possibility of the death penalty.
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GCPS, cops enhancing school safety By Keith Farner keith.farner@gwinnettdailypost.com
Dr. Vlad Stanescu helps students with a problem during a class in the anatomy lab at the Georgia Campus of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in Suwanee. (File Photo)
Decade of doctors PCOM celebrates 10 years of medical education By Keith Farner
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SUWANEE — With her personal family background including a doctor who practiced using osteopathic principles, Lisa Ditomaso took a logical approach when she pursued a career in medicine. A 2008 graduate of Grayson High School, Ditomaso earned a biology degree from the University of North Georgia and earlier this week was measured for her white coat during orientation at the Georgia Campus of the Philadelphia Campus of Osteopathic Medicine. A first-year doctor of osteopathic medicine student, Ditomaso said some of the same things that the 84 students who helped open the campus in 2005 did about the profession. Some of the core beliefs of osteopathic doctors are they look for the root cause of the issue and not immediately prescribe a
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First-year doctor of osteopathic medicine student Sahar Rahim practices a technique with Ga.-PCOM professor Michael Lee last week during a Basic Life Support practice session last week. (Staff Photo: Keith Farner)
medication or surgery. Instead, they consider if lifestyle changes could improve the ailment. “I’ve never heard a bad thing ever said about a DO, which I think says a ton about the practice,” she said. “That’s the way
that I think about medicine and that’s the way that I’d rather function and if I’d rather see a DO, then wouldn’t I want to become the doctor that I’d rather see? … To go see a doctor, I don’t want a medication or a surgery, I want
them to tell me what’s causing the problem.” The school was opened as a way to close a shortage of doctors in the state and the Southeast, especially in the area of primary care. The school has made strides in that area, with about 500 graduates who have gone into completing residency in all specialities of medicine. The school has more than 1,000 students and close to 140 faculty and staff members. The campus offers doctoral degrees in osteopathic medicine and pharmacy and the master’s degree in biomedical sciences. It recently began accepting applications for a physician assistant program slated to begin on campus in June 2016. If distance campus See PCOM, Page 3A
LAWRENCEVILLE — When it comes to school safety, timing saves lives. While local police agencies and public schools across Gwinnett have maintained ongoing partnerships, they trumpeted a new system on Thursday morning to bolster their response. “What this does is enhances our ability to dispatch them faster,” said Brett West, assistant MORE ONLINE chief Visit gwinnettdailypost.com of the for a photo gallery. Gwinnett County Police Department. “We get that immediate notification, know exactly where it is, we can get assets rolling that way immediately while taking those calls.” A new emergency notification system, which is live in all schools in Gwinnett and Buford Schools, and a visitor management system in all GCPS elementary and middle schools and Buford City’s four schools are designed to accelerate public safety response in an active threat situation. It is not for help if someone is hurt or there is an unruly parent or student. A button located in the front office area triggers the response. Front office personnel have been trained and will advise the rest of the school when and how to use — and when not to use — the system. “This is for an active situation when there’s a possibility of severe injuries,” Gwinnett Schools Police Chief Wayne Rikard said. “We try to tell them, ‘When this button gets pushed, there’s police on the way, and they’re not coming to just do a report.’” West said there are protocols in place
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Gwinnett County 911 Center Communications Supervisor Nita Brannen conducts a demonstration Thursday morning of a public safety emergency notification system for public schools in the county. (Staff Photo: Keith Farner)
Snellville woman arrested for leaving baby in car at Sam’s Club By Danielle Ryan
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A Snellville woman was arrested Sunday after a passerby discovered that she had locked her infant in her vehicle while doing her grocery shopping. The temperature topped 90 degrees Sunday after-
noon when officers were dispatched to the Sam’s Club on Scenic Highway Slava to check on Bothwell a report of a child locked in a vehicle, according to a report by
Snellville police. A witness allegedly saw a young woman exit the vehicle and go into the store, leaving her baby strapped into its car seat in the back of the vehicle. When the witness noticed the baby was still in the vehicle after she had finished her shopping some 20 minutes later, she called 911.
In her statement to the police, the witness said that the vehicle had initially been running with the air on but had turned off after several minutes. When police arrived they discovered the child in the back seat of the vehicle and asked an employee in the Sam’s Club to page the owner of the vehicle.
A woman matching the description given to police by the witness came forward and police asked if she had left her child in her car. The woman, Slava Bothwell, stated that she had left the car running and that she had only gone inside to pick up a few items. The child was unharmed, but police arrested Bothwell
for reckless conduct. She was allowed to call her husband and a friend to come get the child before she was handcuffed and taken to Snellville police headquarters for processing. Bothwell was then transported to Gwinnett County Detention Center, where she was released on bail early the next morning.
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