Word of the Day: Tutelary.

adjective
1. Serving as a protector, guardian, or patron.
2. Relating to protection or a guardian.

Example Sentences.
1. "The state police provided tutelary services to the former governor."
2. "Adam's aunt was a tutelary presence in his childhood."
3. The guards are tutelary figures at the historic castle, even though no royalty lives there today."

Word Origin.
Latin, early 17th century

This word comes from the late Latin "tutelarius," meaning "a guardian," originally from the Latin "tutela," meaning "protection, watching." Theological history is filled with tutelary deities, who were deemed guardians of everything from a specific location or person to occupations.

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'They watched her die': Teen dies hours after arriving at juvenile detention center in front of employees who did nothing, lawsuit says.



Elbert Shaw Regional Youth Detention Center in Dalton, Georgia . Alexis Marie Sluder.

A 16-year-old runaway died after overdosing on methamphetamine in a youth detention center in Georgia hours after she was arrested, and authorities did nothing as they watched her convulse, writhe in pain and cry for help until it was too late, her family alleges in a lawsuit filed this week.

Alexis Marie Sluder died in 2022 at the Elbert Shaw Regional Youth Detention Center in Dalton, according to the lawsuit filed on Tuesday in a federal court in Georgia. Dalton is about 90 miles north of Atlanta.

“Instead of monitoring her health and safety, they watched her die,” said Sam Harton, the family’s lawyer, in a news conference . “No one even picked up the phone to call 911 until after Alexis stopped breathing.”

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The lawsuit names five Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice employees as defendants, including an officer, a cadet, a sergeant, a nurse, and the facility’s director. It also names Augusta University, the medical and mental health services provider for juvenile detainees at the facility.

In a statement , the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice said it “is committed to the well-being and safety of the individuals entrusted to our care. We remain deeply saddened by this tragic incident and continue to hold heartfelt thoughts and prayers for the family of the deceased.”

A media representative for Augusta University did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The events leading to Sluder’s death began after her arrest for possession of methamphetamine and shoplifting on Aug. 26, 2022, court documents said. She was issued a ticket and jailed before being transferred to Elbert, where she was booked at 9 p.m.

Upon booking, Gilmer County Sgt. Sharon Ellis “failed to note that methamphetamine or any other foreign substance was found on Alexis Sluder’s person,” even though she had noted she saw a white substance on the police vehicle seat next to Sluder earlier, the lawsuit said.

Notes in her medical screening indicated Sluder had “medical problems,” had previously been hospitalized, and was taking medication. Sluder had depression, bipolar anxiety, and schizophrenia, the lawsuit said.

In her mental health screening, when asked why she was at the facility, Sluder said, “because I ran away.” She also said she had attempted suicide, had recently been sexually abused, had been hospitalized for an overdose the previous month and “sometimes sees shadow people that are not there,” court documents said. Her answers warranted four “Warning” and four “Caution” notations.

Sluder’s answers about drug and alcohol use were “explicitly excluded from the ‘Warning’ and ‘Caution’ totals,” court documents said.

Sluder told authorities that just before she was about to be arrested before arriving at the facility, she “ate the meth she had on her when the cops came and she realized she might be going to jail” and “she had taken other unknown items earlier in the day as she felt suicidal over the last 3 weeks and currently feels this way,” court documents said.

Ellis declined to take her to the hospital, saying she wasn’t permitted to because she had already released her into the custody of the state of Georgia, “so she no longer had jurisdiction to transport Alexis Sluder,” court documents said.

Instead, Sluder was placed in a room equipped with a live video feed where she could be constantly monitored.

In her cell, Sluder began to suffer a medical emergency. She convulsed, writhed in pain, thrashed about, sweated profusely, and breathed heavily. The overdose symptoms lasted over four hours, court documents said.

Despite an employee, Rebecka Phillips, being with Sluder the entire time, a second employee, Maveis Brooks, being with her intermittently, and Cadet Russell Ballard watching via the video feed from a control room, no one did anything, the lawsuit alleges.

During the final two hours of the medical emergency, Sluder lay on the ground, nearly motionless. At one point, Sluder even reached out and grasped toward the ankle of Phillips, who stood over her, watched, and did nothing to help her, court documents said.

At another point, Sluder turned to the camera and said, “Someone please help me. I took something,” the lawsuit alleges.

The defendants talked about the girl’s condition but didn’t act, saying they did not have enough officers on staff to take her to a hospital without violating a policy, court documents said.

“There is no policy set forth by the State of Georgia, the Department of Justice, and the Dalton RYDC preventing State employees from calling 9-1-1 or another emergency medical services to transport juveniles to the hospital in a medical emergency,” the lawsuit said. “Alexis Sluder was not suspected of a violent crime. Alexis Sluder was not arrested for a violent crime. There was no legitimate penological interest in keeping Alexis Sluder from going to the hospital.”

At 3:12 a.m. on Aug. 27, 2022, Phillips advised over the radio that Sluder “was not breathing properly,” the lawsuit said.

Brooks went to the cell, assessed Sluder and advised Ballard in the control room to call 911.

“Soon after Sergeant Maveis Brooks advised Defendant Cadet Ballard to call 9-1-1, Alexis Sluder stopped breathing,” court documents said.

The 911 call was made, and Brooks and Phillips began lifesaving measures, but Sluder was pronounced dead from methamphetamine toxicity at 4:26 a.m. on Aug. 27, 2022, court documents said.

The five employees were terminated from their jobs stemming from the death. They were indicted on charges of cruelty to children a year later, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a statement . Their cases are pending.

The parents have shared their pain over the death of their daughter, who once won an award for “Prettiest Smile,” enjoyed playing softball and was set to graduate from Gilmer High School this year. Instead, her school reserved a seat for her at the ceremony on May 24, where she graduated posthumously.

“I didn’t get to watch her pick out her first car, go to the prom, or graduate this past year with her friends,” her mother, Melanie Hogan Sluder, said in a statement . “I am lost without her, and not a minute goes by that I don’t think about her and what she would be doing.”

1918 Nebraska serial killer poisons her first victim.

Della Sorenson kills the first of her seven victims in rural Nebraska by poisoning her sister-in-law’s infant daughter, Viola Cooper. Over the next seven years, friends, relatives, and acquaintances of Sorenson died under mysterious circumstances before anyone finally realized that it had to be more than a coincidence.

Two years after little Viola met her demise, Wilhelmina Weldam, Sorenson’s mother-in-law, was poisoned. Sorenson then went after her own family, killing her daughter, Minnie, and husband, Joe, over a two-week period in September.

Waiting only four months before marrying again, Sorenson then settled in Dannebrog, Neb. In August 1922, her former sister-in-law came to visit with another infant, four-month-old Clifford. Just as she had done with Viola, Sorenson poisoned the poor child with a piece of candy. The unfortunate Mrs. Cooper, still oblivious to what was happening, came back again in October to visit with yet another child. This time, Sorenson’s poison didn’t work.

Early in 1923, Sorenson killed her own daughter, Delia, on her first birthday. When Sorenson’s friend brought her infant daughter for a visit only a week later, the tiny infant was also poisoned. After an attempt on Sorenson’s second husband’s life left him sick–but not dead–authorities began to think that there might be a connection between these series of deaths.

Finally, in 1925, Sorenson was arrested when she made an unsuccessful attempt at killing two children in the neighborhood with poisoned cookies. She confessed to the crimes, saying, “I like to attend funerals. I’m happy when someone is dying.” Sentiments like this convinced doctors that Sorenson was schizophrenic, and she was committed to the state mental asylum.

Word of the Day: Howbeit.

ADVERB
1. Nevertheless; however.

Example Sentences.
1. "Our time in the Bahamas was relaxing, howbeit too short."
2. "I've never been to Spain before; howbeit, I know a lot about the culture."
3. "Lourdes had never written a haiku; howbeit, her first attempt was impressive."

Word Origin.
English, late 15th century

You can think of "howbeit" as a sort of hybrid of two other words: "however" and "albeit." All three words are synonyms and can be used as conjunctions, but each choice might add a slightly different tone to your statement.

Word of the Day: Precatory.

ADJECTIVE
1. Relating to or expressing a wish or request.
2. (In a will) Expressing a wish or intention of the testator.

Example Sentences.
1. "The precatory letter requested donations for a worthy cause."
2. "Our school dress code is precatory and isn't strictly enforced."
3. "Anne's grandmother's will contained the precatory hope that Anne would inherit her porcelain collection."

Word Origin.
Latin, mid-17th century.

This word comes from the late Latin "precatorius," which stems from "precat-," meaning "prayed." As children, many of us may have made some precatory statements while gazing up at the stars.

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Word of the Day: Synecdoche.

NOUN
1. A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in "Cleveland won by six runs" ("Cleveland" meaning "Cleveland's baseball team").

Example Sentences.
1. "The team's full name is the Jacksonville Jaguars, but they are often referred to by the synecdoche 'the Jaguars.'"
2. "The tourism campaign pushed for 'Maple Town' to be the synecdoche for the village best known for its maple syrup festival."
3. "'I need new wheels to get to work,' Josephine said, using a synecdoche for a car to describe her need for transportation."

Word Origin.
Late Middle English, 1350s

“Synecdoche” appeared in Late Middle English, but it comes to us via Latin from the Greek word “sunekdokhē” — a combination of the words “sun” (“together”) and “ekdekhesthai” (“to take up”). It’s a figure of speech in which a part (perhaps a nickname) represents a whole (a more formal name), or a whole (referring to a larger body in general) represents a part (an individual). Referring to the United States as “America” or saying a statement has been put out by “the company” when it was actually shared by a single spokesperson are both everyday examples of synecdoche.

Word of the Day: Crepitate

VERB 1. Make a crackling sound.

Example Sentences.
1. "The fallen leaves crepitate under Samuel's feet as he runs through the woods."
2. "I could practically hear electricity crepitating beneath my fingers when I touched the plasma ball at the science museum."
3. "Lisa relished how the fire crepitated as more logs were thrown on."

Word Origin.
Latin, early 17th century

When "crepitate" was first used in the early 17th century, it meant "to break wind." That embarrassing meaning has since disappeared, but the roots remain the same: The word comes from the Latin "crepitat-" ("crackled, rustled"), which in turn developed from the Latin verbs "crepitare" and "crepare" ("to rattle").

Word of the Day: Skeuomorph

NOUN 1. An object or feature which imitates the design of a similar artifact made from another material.
2. (Computing) An element of a graphical user interface which mimics a physical object.

Example Sentences.
"The museum had several skeuomorphs of original Bronze Age weaponry."
"The calendar skeuomorph continually updates to show the correct date."
"Allegra uses a paper skeuomorph to model her sewing projects before she begins cutting fabric."

Word Origin.
Greek, late 19th century

"Skeuomorph" comes from the Greek words "skeuos" ("container, implement") and "morphē" ("form"). The most modern usage of this word shows up in app design. Apple has incorporated skeuomorphs into much of the iPhone interface — the Notes app is represented by a skeuomorph of a notepad, and the timer is a skeuomorph of a clock, for example. ...