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Man gets 9 years for shaking baby Child has not fully recovered from injuries suffered in 2012 incident By CHELSEA McDOUGALL cmcdougall@shawmedia.com
Alvin D. Santiago, 30, of Cary, will serve more than 4 years in prison.
WOODSTOCK – Outside the courtroom, James Greve said he wished his daughter’s former caregiver had been given the same sentence the baby had. Alvin D. Santiago, 30, on Thursday was sentenced to nine
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years in prison for shaking Tegan Greve so violently that she required brain surgery. The child was 2 months old at the time. With day-for-day credit, Santiago will serve about four and a half years behind bars. But for baby Tegan, it will be at least five more years of doc-
tors visits, medical tests and medication. Even then, James Greve said, whether she will fully recover remains unknown. “He got a lesser sentence than my daughter,” James Greve said after an emotional sentencing hearing that included statements from he and wife, Rachel Greve, and tearful testimony from San-
tiago and his family members. Santiago was caring for Tegan Greve in August 2012, along with four other infants, including his own. Santiago later told police that Tegan was particularly fussy that day. In a moment of frustration, he snapped, held the baby in outstretched arms and shook her, prosecutors have
said. The injuries Tegan Greve sustained were discovered that September when she was rushed to the hospital for emergency brain surgery to cure bleeding in her brain. She also required surgery on hemorrhaging retinas.
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Has respect left the classroom?
By MARY CLARE JALONICK The Associated Press WASHINGTON – The number of U.S. farms is declining even as the value of their crops and livestock has increased over the past five years, a government census of American agriculture released Thursday says. The survey, taken every five years, shows there were a total of 2.1 million farms By the the United numbers in States in 2012, down a little • The avermore than 4 age age of a percent from U.S. farmer is 2007. That fol58.3 years. lows a long• A third of term trend of farmers were declining numolder than 65 bers of farms. in 2012. Also, farmers are getting older – the average age was 58.3 years. But Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack points to a bright spot: a small rise in the number of farmers between 25 and 34 years old. Vilsack says the boost in the number of younger farmers is partly because of increased interest and government support for locally grown foods and a thriving export market. Many younger farmers work at smaller operations, where the boom in the farm economy and a rising consumer interest in where food is grown have helped them. That boom has been good to all of farm country: According
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Woodstock North’s Shane Lenczewski, 15, speaks about bullying to seventh-graders during an assembly Tuesday at Northwood Middle School in Woodstock for a D-200 program called “Choose Respect.” Seven students from Woodstock North promoted healthy relationships among teens and spoke about issues they have overcome. By SHAWN SHINNEMAN sshinneman@shawmedia.com A new poll says Americans think respect has left the schools, but local teachers and administrators say scholarly relationships are shifting – not deteriorating. Only 31 percent of Americans believe students respect teachers today, compared to about 80 percent who say students respected teachers when they were in school, according to a Harris Poll conduct-
Local educators say relationships at school are changing, not worsening ed late last year. The survey found many Americans think respect has deflated from other relationships, too – between teachers, parents and administrators. But Kris LeMoine, a biology teacher at Crystal Lake Central
High School, said she hasn’t seen the respect leave the classroom in her 19 years of teaching. The teacher-student relationship is different than in past generations, she said. Not worse. “I think a lot of the respect is maybe more genuine than it used
to be,” LeMoine said. She suggested the changing nature of certain relationships might come off negatively – as the decline of respect – to some. “You don’t smack kids in the hand with a ruler,” LeMoine said. “Years and years ago, there was that fear.” Vicki Larson, principal of Dean Street Elementary School in Woodstock, agreed the level of respect
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OFF-SITE MCC EXPANSION UNLIKELY An off-site facility to house expanded health science and fitness programs at McHenry County College has been effectively eliminated as trustees look to push past sticking points that have kept the proposed $20 million-plus project in neutral for months. Chairman Ron Parrish was the lone holdout on ruling out an off-site expansion. For more, see page B1.
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