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...recent filing of a wrongful-death civil suit to a district court in Florida, Harvard Medical School Psychiatry Professor Harold J. Bursztajn stated that CNN reporter Nancy Grace may have contributed to the suicide of Melinda Duckett, the mother of a 2-year-old who went missing...
...opinion he provided to the U.S. District Court in Ocala, Fla., Bursztajn referred to Grace’s interview with Duckett at the time as “apparently unanticipated public humiliation... contributing to the cause of her suicide...
According to the court filing, Bursztajn said that “the timing [of Duckett’s suicide] is consistent with an increased sense of despair following the interview and a fear of the effects of its broadcast.” He wrote that this led him to the preliminary conclusion that Grace may have contributed to the cause of Duckett’s suicide...
According to The Orlando Sentinel, Grace has denied in court records that she mentally abused Duckett during the interview...
Outsiders know relatively little about al-Shabab - Arabic for "the youth," also spelled al-Shabbab. The group is believed to have formed in mid-2004 as the military wing of the Islamic Court Union, a radical group that controlled much of Somalia before being ousted by the Ethiopian army in a U.S.-backed invasion in 2006. (Somalia has been without a strong central government since dictator Mohamed Siad Barre was overthrown by warlords in 1991. Conflict in the Horn of Africa nation - one of the world's most lawless - has killed more than 19,000 people in the past three...