New Hampshire
Mom’s chilling final words to husband revealed before teen brother-in-law killed her, kids: docs
A New Hampshire mom sent her husband a message minutes before her teen brother-in-law allegedly shot her and her two young sons to death.
Prosecutors revealed 25-year-old Kassandra Sweeney’s final words to Sean Sweeney in court papers filed last week in the Aug. 3, 2022, triple murder in Northfield.
The couple exchanged Snapchat videos and messages, including of their young sons, Benjamin, 4, and 23-month-old Mason.
“I hope they make you laugh,” she wrote at 10:49 a.m., which investigators believe was her final message to Sean. Less than 10 minutes later, she and the boys were each dead from a single gunshot wound to the head.
The details were in a motion filed by the New Hampshire State Attorney’s Office asking that the 17-year-old accused killer, Eric Sweeney, continue to be held without bail, which a judge granted.
The 10-page document revealed more information about the horrific slayings than prosecutors or police have disclosed since Eric, then 16, was arrested the day of the crime.
Eric had been living with his older brother Sean, 26, and his family in their rural home in picturesque Merrimack County, but tensions began to mount.
Sean called the police in June and reported that his brother had stolen his Honda Civic.
He called again on July 22 and said that his brother was “making strange comments and had hidden multiple weapons around the home.”
He told officers he was “concerned for the safety of his small children,” according to the document.
The brothers were barely speaking, and Sean grew so worried he installed a lock on the door to his master bedroom.
He and his wife wanted Eric out of their home and had begun taking steps to have him removed, according to the filing.
On Aug. 3, Eric allegedly snapped. He removed one of Sean’s two guns, a .40 Taurus handgun, from a locked safe, then allegedly gunned down his nephews and sister-in-law in the kitchen of the three-bedroom home.
Prosecutors didn’t say in what order the victims were killed, but a witness heard the screams of children shortly before Eric fled the home, suggesting their mother was shot first.
Kassandra was struck once in her right eyebrow, and both boys were shot in the crown of their heads.
Sean, who drove an oil delivery truck at the time, was on his route when Eric called from Kassandra’s iPhone and claimed “someone broke in and killed them all.”
Shortly after police arrived, Sean pulled up, followed by Eric behind the wheel of Kassandra’s silver Ford F-150.
In an interview with investigators, Eric said he was in the basement when he heard something break, then a “deep, male voice yelling followed by multiple ‘pops.’”
He told police he crept upstairs and “stepped over Kassandra and Mason’s bodies” to exit the house, the motion says.
Although tree workers were at the end of the driveway, he didn’t ask them to call for help.
He allegedly tossed the weapon from the driver’s side window on I-93 before returning to the house, according to the Merrimack Superior Court filing.
A tree worker told police he heard “what he believed was screaming or yelling of young children” at the home shortly before he reported seeing Eric leave the property in Kassandra’s F-150.
He had to remove traffic cones placed at the end of the driveway to allow him to exit and saw him return in the same truck after police arrived, the document says.
Eric, who is being tried as an adult, has been indicted on three counts of first-degree murder and one count of falsifying physical evidence, according to court records.
New Hampshire
New Hampshire Senate passes bill that would prohibit trans athletes' inclusion with gender identity
The New Hampshire senate has passed a bill that would place limitations on transgender athletes.
The bill would ban transgender athletes in grades 5-12 from teams that align with their gender identity.
Supporters of the legislation said they wanted to protect girls from being injured by larger and stronger transgender athletes.
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A bill passed in New Hampshire that would ban trans athletes in grades 5-12 from participating with their gender identity. (Fox News)
“When we talk about fairness and rights, we can’t cover every circumstance. And so in a very narrow way that I think to most of us is very clear, biological boys have an advantage over biological girls,” said Senate President Jeb Bradley, a Republican from Wolfeboro. “We’ll never be able to legislate total fairness. But what we can’t do is create rights for one at the expense of another.”
Meanwhile, Democrats who opposed the bill said it was based on fear mongering. Sen. Debra Altschiller, a Democrat from Stratham, said there are only five transgender girls in New Hampshire who are athletes.
“Those five girls are not a threat. They are the threatened,” she said. “While this gesture of protection may seem valiant, we say, ‘No thank you.’ If you really want to protect girls, protect the marginalized transgender girls.”
The passing of the bill comes a couple weeks after Arkansas governor Sarah Sanders signed an executive order in response to President Biden’s new Title IX regulations that added protections for transgender athletes. Sanders said she had been “appalled” by the “attack on common sense.”
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At least 20 states have approved a version of a blanket ban on transgender athletes playing on K-12 and collegiate sports teams statewide, but a Biden administration rule to forbid such outright bans is set to take effect this year after multiple delays and much pushback.
In New Hampshire, the Senate previously passed a bill that would have banned transgender girls from participating on sports teams at both the high school and college levels, but the House defeated it earlier this month.
Senate President Jeb Bradley, R-Wolfboro, presides over the Senate on May 15. (Margie Cullen / USA TODAY NETWORK)
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Six states sued the Department of Education due to the overhaul of Title IX. Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti and Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman announced Tuesday that they are leading the charge.
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New Hampshire
New Hampshire day care workers sprinkled melatonin in children’s food unbeknownst to parents, police say
A New Hampshire day care owner and three of her employees are facing child endangerment charges for allegedly spiking kids’ food with melatonin without their parents’ knowledge or consent. (Manchester Police Department)
The owner and three workers at a New Hampshire day care are facing charges after they sprinkled melatonin in the food of children they were responsible for.
Sally Dreckmann, 52, the day care owner; and her employees Traci Innie, 51; Kaitlin Filardo, 23; and Jessica Foster, 23, all of Manchester, were charged with 10 counts of endangering the welfare of a child, the Manchester Police Department said.
Authorities said that children’s food that was provided by the in-house day care was being sprinkled with melatonin without their parent’s knowledge or consent.
Melatonin is a sleep-aid and is generally safe to use short-term, according to the Mayo Clinic.
“This is an over-the-counter drug that can be given as a sleep aid, but for it to be given to children without the knowledge or consent of the parents, it’s very concerning,” Heather Hamel, a spokesperson for the Manchester Police Department, told WDHD.
The arrests came following a lengthy investigation after authorities were alerted of “unsafe practices” in Nov. 2023 at the day care.
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President Joe Biden is heading to Boston next week after he makes a stop in New Hampshire, the White House said according to multiple reports.
On Tuesday, Biden is expected to hold an official White House event in Merrimack, N.H., before he travels down to Boston, WCVB-TV reported citing the White House. It will be his second trip to New Hampshire this year after he was in the Granite State in March.
The last time he was in Boston, back in December, Biden appeared at a James Taylor benefit concert where funds went to the Biden Victory Fund. He attended several fundraisers, including one where he suggested the nation is at a “real inflection point in history,” hinting at the election and the likelihood of facing former President Donald Trump again in November.
“Because this time we’re running against an election denier-in-chief. Trump is not even hiding the ball anymore,” Biden said, according to a pool report. “He’s simply not hiding the ball. He’s telling us what he wants to do. He’s proud to say he killed Roe v. Wade by the [U.S. Supreme] court he appointed.
“He’s running again to get rid of the Affordable Care Act,” Biden continued. “I could go on. But let’s be clear about the side — what’s at stake in 2024: Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans are determined to destroy American democracy.”
Then-Republican National Committee Chairperson Ronna McDaniel slammed Biden at the time for getting “cozy” with “his elite donors.”
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