Florida shooting: 2 killed, as many as 17 injured at Club Blu nightclub in Fort
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angelburst29
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Another Florida shooting: this incident is really strange?
Florida Cop Kills Woman In Training Exercise to Show Police Restraint
http://time.com/4446230/florida-punta-gorda-librarian-shot/?xid=homepage
A Florida police officer shot an elderly woman Tuesday night during a training seminar, in what officials are calling an accident.
Mary Knowlton, 73, was at a citizen police academy at the Punta Gorda, Fla. police station when she was shot during a two-hour long course, according to the Washington Post.
Officers chose Knowlton to role-play a lethal force scenario, intended to demonstrate police judgement in pulling the trigger, when she was shot with an officer’s loaded gun. Knowlton was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Punta Gorda Police Chief Tom Lewis called the incident a “horrible accident,” and that there was no word as to why the officer was carrying live ammunition. “Our entire police department and all of our city leaders are absolutely devastated for everyone involved in this unimaginable event,” Lewis said, according to the Post. “I am asking that if you pray, you pray for Mary’s husband and family and for all of the officers and witnesses involved in this incident.”
Family Mourns Elderly Woman Accidentally Shot by Cop
http://time.com/4446605/mary-knowlton-florida-punta-gorda-police-shooting/?xid=homepage
Family members of the 73-year-old woman who was accidentally shot dead by a Florida cop during a civilian police academy course are grappling with how such a “senseless” tragedy could have happened, the woman’s son said.
The police chief told reporters that Mary Knowlton and another volunteer were chosen to participate in the lethal force simulation. Her son said several people in the class were stunned when the officer’s gun fired and Mary Knowlton fell to the floor. “She goes down and no one knows if she’s pretending. Then they flipped her over, and she had a big hole in her chest and a bullet in her shoulder,” said Steve Knowlton, 50.
The woman’s husband of 55 years, Gary Knowlton, was “just in shock” as officials rushed to give her CPR before taking her to a hospital. He called his son to break the news.
“That moment has changed my life forever now,” Steve Knowlton said. “My dad witnessed a horrible thing. This is the kind of thing some people don’t come back from. But we’re going to lift each other up.”
Florida Cop Kills Woman In Training Exercise to Show Police Restraint
http://time.com/4446230/florida-punta-gorda-librarian-shot/?xid=homepage
A Florida police officer shot an elderly woman Tuesday night during a training seminar, in what officials are calling an accident.
Mary Knowlton, 73, was at a citizen police academy at the Punta Gorda, Fla. police station when she was shot during a two-hour long course, according to the Washington Post.
Officers chose Knowlton to role-play a lethal force scenario, intended to demonstrate police judgement in pulling the trigger, when she was shot with an officer’s loaded gun. Knowlton was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Punta Gorda Police Chief Tom Lewis called the incident a “horrible accident,” and that there was no word as to why the officer was carrying live ammunition. “Our entire police department and all of our city leaders are absolutely devastated for everyone involved in this unimaginable event,” Lewis said, according to the Post. “I am asking that if you pray, you pray for Mary’s husband and family and for all of the officers and witnesses involved in this incident.”
Family Mourns Elderly Woman Accidentally Shot by Cop
http://time.com/4446605/mary-knowlton-florida-punta-gorda-police-shooting/?xid=homepage
Family members of the 73-year-old woman who was accidentally shot dead by a Florida cop during a civilian police academy course are grappling with how such a “senseless” tragedy could have happened, the woman’s son said.
The police chief told reporters that Mary Knowlton and another volunteer were chosen to participate in the lethal force simulation. Her son said several people in the class were stunned when the officer’s gun fired and Mary Knowlton fell to the floor. “She goes down and no one knows if she’s pretending. Then they flipped her over, and she had a big hole in her chest and a bullet in her shoulder,” said Steve Knowlton, 50.
The woman’s husband of 55 years, Gary Knowlton, was “just in shock” as officials rushed to give her CPR before taking her to a hospital. He called his son to break the news.
“That moment has changed my life forever now,” Steve Knowlton said. “My dad witnessed a horrible thing. This is the kind of thing some people don’t come back from. But we’re going to lift each other up.”
Moonbird
Jedi
Punta Gorda, FL is about 20 miles north of where I live. Here is the report from our local TV news station with video of the Punta Gorda police chief's statement to the press on Tuesday night. A very sad story.
http://www.winknews.com/2016/08/09/developing-pgpd-reports-incident-at-citizens-academy/
Woman killed in Punta Gorda police gun demonstration
August 9, 2016 9:46 PM EDT
PUNTA GORDA, Fla. – A 73-year-old woman was shot and killed by a police officer in front of about 34 people Tuesday evening during a live gun demonstration just before 7 p.m. on Tuesday at police headquarters, the department said.
Mary Knowlton was one of two Citizen Police Academy students chosen to participate in a “shoot/don’t shoot” role-playing situation, Punta Gorda police said. The demonstration was supposed to instruct the class about making decisions “using simulated lethal force,” according to Chief Thomas Lewis.
Knowlton was “mistakenly struck” with a live round during the lesson’s “first scenario,” the department said.
She was rushed from the police department to Lee Memorial Hospital where she was pronounced dead, PGPD said.
http://www.winknews.com/2016/08/09/developing-pgpd-reports-incident-at-citizens-academy/
Woman killed in Punta Gorda police gun demonstration
August 9, 2016 9:46 PM EDT
PUNTA GORDA, Fla. – A 73-year-old woman was shot and killed by a police officer in front of about 34 people Tuesday evening during a live gun demonstration just before 7 p.m. on Tuesday at police headquarters, the department said.
Mary Knowlton was one of two Citizen Police Academy students chosen to participate in a “shoot/don’t shoot” role-playing situation, Punta Gorda police said. The demonstration was supposed to instruct the class about making decisions “using simulated lethal force,” according to Chief Thomas Lewis.
Knowlton was “mistakenly struck” with a live round during the lesson’s “first scenario,” the department said.
She was rushed from the police department to Lee Memorial Hospital where she was pronounced dead, PGPD said.
Not to make light of this incident, but I found it ironic how it was supposed to demonstrate police judgement in pulling the trigger - cuz that's exactly what they did when considered in context of all the "judgement" they demonstrate killing unarmed citizens left and right. It's like our collective consciousness is trying to send a loud and clear message that just can't get any louder.
It's the wild wild east. Fifty or one hundred which is it, is a big discrepancy.
7 people shot at Eureka Gardens complex
http://www.news4jax.com/news/local/jacksonville/six-people-shot-at-eureka-gardens-on-westside
Police search for 3 possible shooters
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Posted: 4:35 AM, August 08, 2016
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.
Jax Sheriff's Office
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@JSOPIO
https://twitter.com/JSOPIO/status/762620424656130048
2:06 PM - 8 Aug 2016 Video
WJXT News4Jax
http://interactive.tegna-media.com/video/embed/embed.html?id=2325219&type=video&title=Security%20concerns%20at%20Eureka%20Gardens&site=77&playerid=6918249996581&dfpid=32805352&dfpposition=Video_prestream_external
100 rounds (foul language alert)
_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HPcAvIbNsk
7 people shot at Eureka Gardens complex
http://www.news4jax.com/news/local/jacksonville/six-people-shot-at-eureka-gardens-on-westside
Police search for 3 possible shooters
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Posted: 4:35 AM, August 08, 2016
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.
Jax Sheriff's Office
✔
@JSOPIO
https://twitter.com/JSOPIO/status/762620424656130048
2:06 PM - 8 Aug 2016 Video
WJXT News4Jax
http://interactive.tegna-media.com/video/embed/embed.html?id=2325219&type=video&title=Security%20concerns%20at%20Eureka%20Gardens&site=77&playerid=6918249996581&dfpid=32805352&dfpposition=Video_prestream_external
100 rounds (foul language alert)
_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HPcAvIbNsk
angelburst29
The Living Force
Moonbird said:
Thanks for Posting a Local Report, Moonbird.
The reports state two were chosen for the demonstration - I can't imagine what that other person is going through "emotionally" since the accident?
angelburst29
The Living Force
Largo, Florida - This isn't a shooting but another senseless death. There is so much out of sync with this situation, I had to read the report "twice" to make any sense out of it? The report is about a 62-year-old woman/mother who was arrested after her 6-year-old son - kills a 2-week-old sister.
Sheriff: Mother Arrested after Six Year Old Beats Newborn Sister to Death (Video)
http://wnep.com/2016/08/12/sheriff-mother-arrested-after-6-year-old-beats-newborn-to-death/
Police arrested a 62-year-old Florida woman in the violent death of a newborn girl — allegedly at the hands of the woman’s 6-year-old son.
Kathleen Marie Steele faces charges of aggravated manslaughter in the death of her 13-day-old daughter, also named Kathleen Steele. Steele gave birth to the little girl after being artificially inseminated with preserved sperm from her husband, who died of cancer in 2011.
Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri spoke for more than 30 minutes Thursday, calling the case “one of the worst things” he’d ever seen.
On Monday afternoon, Steele went to get her cracked cellphone fixed and left little Kathleen and her two boys, ages 3 and 6, inside the car — with the windows rolled up and doors locked, Gualteri said. Surveillance video showed Steele didn’t leave the business for more than 30 minutes.
When Kathleen began screaming and crying inside the car, “the 6-year-old removed (her) from the car seat and began flipping her multiple times back and forth, dropping her on the floor, slamming her head against the ceiling, striking her in the face.”
The boy put Kathleen back into the car seat, and when her mother returned to the car, the boy told Steele, “It’s serious,” Gualtieri said. Instead of going to the hospital, however, Steele went to a car rental business to extend the contract for the van she was renting.
Roughly two hours later, after returning to the hotel where the family was staying, Steele called a neighbor who works as a nurse for help, according to the sheriff’s office. At that point, the baby was blue and cold to the touch.
“The skull was cracked in numerous places, described as probably mush … one of the worst things that I’ve ever seen,” Gaultieri said.
Kathleen was rushed to St. Petersburg General Hospital where she was pronounced dead.
The 6-year-old later admitted to pummeling the little girl, according to Gualtieri, but he won’t be charged because of his age. The boy is now in the custody of Florida’s Department of Children and Families.
Gualtieri said Steele was “ill-equipped to have a baby” and said police had been called numerous times by people concerned for her children.
“By numerous witness accounts, Kathleen Steel was an inattentive parent and (the two boys) were largely unsupervised and had very serious behavior injuries.”
Pinellas sheriff: 2-week-old infant beaten to death by 6-year-old brother
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/pinellas-sheriff-to-release-details-about-killing-of-2-week-old-infant/2289143
Kathleen Steele, 62, loaded her three young children into a minivan on Monday afternoon and drove to a cellphone repair shop in St. Petersburg.
When she got there, she rolled up the windows, turned off the engine, locked the doors and left the children: a 6-year-old boy, his 3-year-old brother and their baby sister, born 13 days earlier.
The infant never made it out alive.
The 6-year-old brother brutally tossed and pummeled his baby sister, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said, while the mother left them alone in the minivan for at least 38 minutes.
Kathleen Bridget Steele was pronounced dead Monday evening at St. Petersburg General Hospital. But investigators believe the infant died hours before that, in the minivan.
"It was one of the worst things I've ever seen," Gualtieri said at a news conference on Thursday.
Just before he spoke, the mother was arrested on a charge of aggravated manslaughter of a child. In 2009, Steele and her husband, Philip, appeared in an episode of the reality show I'm Pregnant and 55 Years Old.
"I'm Kathleen, I'm pregnant and I'm 55," she declared at the start of the show.
Her husband died of cancer in 2011 at the age of 66. The sheriff said the two youngest children were born as a result of artificial insemination, using the dead husband's frozen sperm.
Steele was raising the three young children herself. But even before her baby girl died less than two weeks after she was born, the sheriff said, there were already concerns for her kids' wellbeing.
• • •
Deputies said Steele took her newborn to a St. Petersburg pediatrician at 11 a.m. Monday. She said the baby wasn't eating properly. The doctor found nothing medically wrong, and later noted there were no signs of trauma or bruising.
Then the mother drove to the cellphone store and walked in at 1:50 p.m. Left inside the minivan, the sheriff said the 6-year-old later told investigators the baby started fussing, and the boy wanted to calm her down. He lifted the infant out of her car seat and said he tried to mimic how his mother would calm the baby.
But what the boy ended up doing, was repeatedly slamming the baby's head into the minivan's ceiling, dropping her on the floor, flipping the baby over and over and pummeling her, deputies said.
"The baby was beaten and traumatized," Gualtieri said. "There was gross swelling in her face. Her skull was cracked in numerous places.
"It was one of the worst things I've ever seen, especially (for) a 13-day-old. Her face had just been pummeled."
When Steele returned to the minivan, deputies said, the 6-year-old tried to tell her something was wrong with his sister. "It's serious," the boy said.
The mother disregarded him, the sheriff said. She stopped at another business, then drove to their rented home in North Reddington Beach. That's when the mother first noticed the infant's injuries, deputies said.
"I'm telling you this kid's face was a mess," Gualtieri said. "There's no mistaking the condition this baby was in."
But the mother didn't call 911 right away.
"Instead of calling 911, Steele called a neighbor, a nurse," Gualtieri said. "(The nurse) recognized the infant was deceased."
The nurse performed CPR until paramedics arrived. Deputies were called to the home at 356 Bath Club Drive N at about 4:30 p.m. The baby was rushed to the hospital.
Investigators interviewed the mother Monday night. The sheriff said during the first hour, Steele never asked about her baby girl. She seemed "aloof" and said this:
"I guess I have to plan a funeral."
• • •
During the investigation, Gualtieri said the 6-year-old used a doll to demonstrate what he had done to his sister.
He punched the doll, flipped it around and threw it up in the air. He admitted that he slammed the infant to the ground and struck her several times, leaving her beaten and bruised.
"Sometimes people make very big mistakes," the boy told investigators.
The Sheriff's Office said "the infant sustained severe head trauma that included extensive bruising and multiple skull fractures."
While the baby died at the hands of her 6-year-old brother, the sheriff said the boy will not face criminal charges.
"The mistake is with the adult Kathleen Steele," Gualtieri said, "not a 6-year-old boy."
The sheriff said the 6-year-old appeared "very, very bright" for his age, but also troubled. The sheriff said the mother tried to turn the oldest boy into a surrogate father for his siblings.
The sheriff also revealed that the baby died while Steele was being scrutinized by child protection investigators.
The baby was born July 26. An accidental fire forced the family to stay in a Treasure Island hotel on July 29. A fire alarm at the hotel went off in the middle of the night.
Steele told deputies that she put the baby in a car carrier, but she tripped going down the stairs and the baby tumbled out and struck her head — three days after birth.
The baby was taken to Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, where she was diagnosed with minor bleeding in the brain and stayed for two nights. A report was made to the child abuse hotline.
Steele was scheduled to be evaluated by investigators on Aug. 1. But she canceled and rescheduled for this Wednesday — two days after her baby would die.
The sheriff said the Department of Children and Families also investigated the mother for inadequate supervision. They visited her on Aug. 2, the Sheriff's Office said, but found no reason to take action.
DCF could not be reached for comment.
The mother was being held Thursday in the Pinellas County jail in lieu of $100,000 bail.
• • •
Steele's two sons were placed into therapeutic foster care on Monday. The Tampa Bay Times is not naming the boys because of their ages.
The 6-year-old spent Thursday at Lakewood Elementary School where officials said he was not left alone with other children. He was supervised by an officer and staff. The first-grader will not return to the school.
Gualtieri contacted Pinellas school superintendent Mike Grego on Thursday and briefed him about the situation.
"I was in disbelief," Grego said. "So we acted immediately."
Steele works as a broker at Raymond James & Associates, records show. In her 2009 TV appearance, she said she put children on hold while she worked 60-80 hours a week. Then she met her husband in her 40s.
After 12 years of failed attempts at in vitro fertilization, they tried one more time in January 2009. She became pregnant at the age of 55. That's how their 6-year-old son was born.
"I think that Kathleen would try forever, to tell you the truth," the husband told the TV show.
The number of children born to older mothers continues to increase in the United States. From 2011 to 2014, according to the Centers for Disease Control National Vital Statistics Report, the number of babies born to mothers older than 50 increased from 585 to 743. Statistics show a long-term upward trend; in 1997, there were 144 births to this age group.
Despite her age, Gualtieri said that Steele told her doctor that she intended to have more children.
She said she still had frozen sperm left from her late husband.
Sheriff: Mother Arrested after Six Year Old Beats Newborn Sister to Death (Video)
http://wnep.com/2016/08/12/sheriff-mother-arrested-after-6-year-old-beats-newborn-to-death/
Police arrested a 62-year-old Florida woman in the violent death of a newborn girl — allegedly at the hands of the woman’s 6-year-old son.
Kathleen Marie Steele faces charges of aggravated manslaughter in the death of her 13-day-old daughter, also named Kathleen Steele. Steele gave birth to the little girl after being artificially inseminated with preserved sperm from her husband, who died of cancer in 2011.
Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri spoke for more than 30 minutes Thursday, calling the case “one of the worst things” he’d ever seen.
On Monday afternoon, Steele went to get her cracked cellphone fixed and left little Kathleen and her two boys, ages 3 and 6, inside the car — with the windows rolled up and doors locked, Gualteri said. Surveillance video showed Steele didn’t leave the business for more than 30 minutes.
When Kathleen began screaming and crying inside the car, “the 6-year-old removed (her) from the car seat and began flipping her multiple times back and forth, dropping her on the floor, slamming her head against the ceiling, striking her in the face.”
The boy put Kathleen back into the car seat, and when her mother returned to the car, the boy told Steele, “It’s serious,” Gualtieri said. Instead of going to the hospital, however, Steele went to a car rental business to extend the contract for the van she was renting.
Roughly two hours later, after returning to the hotel where the family was staying, Steele called a neighbor who works as a nurse for help, according to the sheriff’s office. At that point, the baby was blue and cold to the touch.
“The skull was cracked in numerous places, described as probably mush … one of the worst things that I’ve ever seen,” Gaultieri said.
Kathleen was rushed to St. Petersburg General Hospital where she was pronounced dead.
The 6-year-old later admitted to pummeling the little girl, according to Gualtieri, but he won’t be charged because of his age. The boy is now in the custody of Florida’s Department of Children and Families.
Gualtieri said Steele was “ill-equipped to have a baby” and said police had been called numerous times by people concerned for her children.
“By numerous witness accounts, Kathleen Steel was an inattentive parent and (the two boys) were largely unsupervised and had very serious behavior injuries.”
Pinellas sheriff: 2-week-old infant beaten to death by 6-year-old brother
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/pinellas-sheriff-to-release-details-about-killing-of-2-week-old-infant/2289143
Kathleen Steele, 62, loaded her three young children into a minivan on Monday afternoon and drove to a cellphone repair shop in St. Petersburg.
When she got there, she rolled up the windows, turned off the engine, locked the doors and left the children: a 6-year-old boy, his 3-year-old brother and their baby sister, born 13 days earlier.
The infant never made it out alive.
The 6-year-old brother brutally tossed and pummeled his baby sister, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said, while the mother left them alone in the minivan for at least 38 minutes.
Kathleen Bridget Steele was pronounced dead Monday evening at St. Petersburg General Hospital. But investigators believe the infant died hours before that, in the minivan.
"It was one of the worst things I've ever seen," Gualtieri said at a news conference on Thursday.
Just before he spoke, the mother was arrested on a charge of aggravated manslaughter of a child. In 2009, Steele and her husband, Philip, appeared in an episode of the reality show I'm Pregnant and 55 Years Old.
"I'm Kathleen, I'm pregnant and I'm 55," she declared at the start of the show.
Her husband died of cancer in 2011 at the age of 66. The sheriff said the two youngest children were born as a result of artificial insemination, using the dead husband's frozen sperm.
Steele was raising the three young children herself. But even before her baby girl died less than two weeks after she was born, the sheriff said, there were already concerns for her kids' wellbeing.
• • •
Deputies said Steele took her newborn to a St. Petersburg pediatrician at 11 a.m. Monday. She said the baby wasn't eating properly. The doctor found nothing medically wrong, and later noted there were no signs of trauma or bruising.
Then the mother drove to the cellphone store and walked in at 1:50 p.m. Left inside the minivan, the sheriff said the 6-year-old later told investigators the baby started fussing, and the boy wanted to calm her down. He lifted the infant out of her car seat and said he tried to mimic how his mother would calm the baby.
But what the boy ended up doing, was repeatedly slamming the baby's head into the minivan's ceiling, dropping her on the floor, flipping the baby over and over and pummeling her, deputies said.
"The baby was beaten and traumatized," Gualtieri said. "There was gross swelling in her face. Her skull was cracked in numerous places.
"It was one of the worst things I've ever seen, especially (for) a 13-day-old. Her face had just been pummeled."
When Steele returned to the minivan, deputies said, the 6-year-old tried to tell her something was wrong with his sister. "It's serious," the boy said.
The mother disregarded him, the sheriff said. She stopped at another business, then drove to their rented home in North Reddington Beach. That's when the mother first noticed the infant's injuries, deputies said.
"I'm telling you this kid's face was a mess," Gualtieri said. "There's no mistaking the condition this baby was in."
But the mother didn't call 911 right away.
"Instead of calling 911, Steele called a neighbor, a nurse," Gualtieri said. "(The nurse) recognized the infant was deceased."
The nurse performed CPR until paramedics arrived. Deputies were called to the home at 356 Bath Club Drive N at about 4:30 p.m. The baby was rushed to the hospital.
Investigators interviewed the mother Monday night. The sheriff said during the first hour, Steele never asked about her baby girl. She seemed "aloof" and said this:
"I guess I have to plan a funeral."
• • •
During the investigation, Gualtieri said the 6-year-old used a doll to demonstrate what he had done to his sister.
He punched the doll, flipped it around and threw it up in the air. He admitted that he slammed the infant to the ground and struck her several times, leaving her beaten and bruised.
"Sometimes people make very big mistakes," the boy told investigators.
The Sheriff's Office said "the infant sustained severe head trauma that included extensive bruising and multiple skull fractures."
While the baby died at the hands of her 6-year-old brother, the sheriff said the boy will not face criminal charges.
"The mistake is with the adult Kathleen Steele," Gualtieri said, "not a 6-year-old boy."
The sheriff said the 6-year-old appeared "very, very bright" for his age, but also troubled. The sheriff said the mother tried to turn the oldest boy into a surrogate father for his siblings.
The sheriff also revealed that the baby died while Steele was being scrutinized by child protection investigators.
The baby was born July 26. An accidental fire forced the family to stay in a Treasure Island hotel on July 29. A fire alarm at the hotel went off in the middle of the night.
Steele told deputies that she put the baby in a car carrier, but she tripped going down the stairs and the baby tumbled out and struck her head — three days after birth.
The baby was taken to Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, where she was diagnosed with minor bleeding in the brain and stayed for two nights. A report was made to the child abuse hotline.
Steele was scheduled to be evaluated by investigators on Aug. 1. But she canceled and rescheduled for this Wednesday — two days after her baby would die.
The sheriff said the Department of Children and Families also investigated the mother for inadequate supervision. They visited her on Aug. 2, the Sheriff's Office said, but found no reason to take action.
DCF could not be reached for comment.
The mother was being held Thursday in the Pinellas County jail in lieu of $100,000 bail.
• • •
Steele's two sons were placed into therapeutic foster care on Monday. The Tampa Bay Times is not naming the boys because of their ages.
The 6-year-old spent Thursday at Lakewood Elementary School where officials said he was not left alone with other children. He was supervised by an officer and staff. The first-grader will not return to the school.
Gualtieri contacted Pinellas school superintendent Mike Grego on Thursday and briefed him about the situation.
"I was in disbelief," Grego said. "So we acted immediately."
Steele works as a broker at Raymond James & Associates, records show. In her 2009 TV appearance, she said she put children on hold while she worked 60-80 hours a week. Then she met her husband in her 40s.
After 12 years of failed attempts at in vitro fertilization, they tried one more time in January 2009. She became pregnant at the age of 55. That's how their 6-year-old son was born.
"I think that Kathleen would try forever, to tell you the truth," the husband told the TV show.
The number of children born to older mothers continues to increase in the United States. From 2011 to 2014, according to the Centers for Disease Control National Vital Statistics Report, the number of babies born to mothers older than 50 increased from 585 to 743. Statistics show a long-term upward trend; in 1997, there were 144 births to this age group.
Despite her age, Gualtieri said that Steele told her doctor that she intended to have more children.
She said she still had frozen sperm left from her late husband.
