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Confronting bodycam video has been released showing a US police officer giving life-saving CPR to a toddler who had stopped breathing.

The footage shows Los Angeles police officer Nick Ferara running in to help the unresponsive toddler at a police station.

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He pats the seizing child on the back as the one-year-old's father splashes him with cold water.

Ferara then performed CPR on the boy.

"Nothing in my mind said the baby was going to die so that kept me motivated but it was the scariest thing in my life by far," Ferara told NBC Los Angeles.

"Within moments the baby started breathing again."

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The toddler is now doing well and is expected to make a full recovery.

"I'm so happy for the family," Ferara said.

"I was glad I was there to help you."

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A nurse who assessed Aishwarya Aswath on the night of her death at a Perth hospital felt she couldn't say no to being redirected to other urgent duties.

A junior nurse who failed to realise Aishwarya Aswath was dying of sepsis was repeatedly called away from monitoring the Perth hospital's waiting room.

Tahnee Vining on Friday gave emotional evidence to an inquest into Aishwarya's death, conceding she should have considered whether the seven-year-old had sepsis given she had symptoms consistent with the condition.

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Aishwarya had been experiencing vomiting and diarrhoea for about 36 hours when brought to Perth Children's Hospital at 5.30pm on Easter Saturday last year.

She was left waiting for more than 90 minutes, despite her parents pleading with staff to escalate her care.

Vining told the inquest she had observed Aishwarya to be pale and grunting in pain when she assessed her around 6pm as the designated waiting room nurse.

She recorded Aishwarya as having an elevated heart rate and breathing rate, cold hands and a temperature of 38.8C, above the threshold for considering sepsis protocols.

Vining said she hadn't been aware of that threshold because the chart it was listed on was new.

She believed Aishwarya was suffering from gastro which could be treated with fluids and ibuprofen, a plan she did not document but relayed verbally to another nurse.

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Immediately after the assessment, Vining was called to help with blood collection for a patient going into surgery.

She was then summoned to help the resuscitation team which further delayed her return.

When she finally wrote up Aishwarya's notes almost an hour later, Vining recorded parental concern as "zero", believing the family had been reassured by the assessment.

Aishwarya, who was by then described as floppy and barely able to lift her head, was moved into a resuscitation area just after 7pm.

She went into cardiac arrest and was pronounced dead two hours later, having succumbed to an infection related to group A streptococcus.

Vining told the inquest she had at least 20 waiting room patients under her care and her workload had compromised her ability to deliver the highest standard of care.

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She was also a designated runner for the resuscitation team, had to attend to patients in treatment pods for medication checks and was overseeing a student nurse.

"I think if I had have been present in the waiting room after my assessment … I would have been able to recognise her deterioration and recognise the severity of her illness," she said.

Vining, who at the time had just over a year's emergency department experience, said she had felt unable to push back against the demands.

"As a junior nurse when I first started, I wouldn't say no to anything," she said.

"I felt there was a lot of pressure to just do as much as you can and keep going and going."

Vining, who later assisted the resuscitation team in their attempts to save Aishwarya, was in tears as she described the "traumatic" experience and expressed condolences to the girl's family.

"The fact of the matter was we were short-staffed," she said.

"There was no one to escalate to, no senior staff and I did the best I could with what I had."

The inquest continues.

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A teenage boy sentenced for raping a fellow high school pupil at a house party in the Blue Mountains has been bailed, pending appeal.

The boy was handed a two-month minimum term on Thursday after being found guilty in May of attacking the girl over a two-hour period on a mattress in the house's living room.

Both offender and victim cannot be identified for legal reasons.

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Following the bail decision, the victim's father criticised the minimum term and called for the suppression on the boy's identity to be lifted.

"Two months in jail equals one month for each hour that he raped and choked our daughter," the father told AAP on Friday.

"When you look at the damage he did to our daughter, the sentence is blatantly too short. The justice system is not treating rapists in the tough way the public wants them to.

"Given his total lack of contrition … our family want the justice system to publicly name him. The public have a right to know his name."

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The boy was charged in 2021, tried this year and found guilty of six counts of sexual assault and one count of intentional choking. He was acquitted of other charges.

The magistrate on Thursday said the most serious sexual assaults, involving penile penetration, must result in youth detention.

While he'd shown no contrition, she deemed his rehabilitation prospects as "strong" based on character references and his family and social ties.

His full term runs nine months, with a one-year probation period for some sexual assaults and the choking offences also hanging over his head.

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The court was told the girl didn't like the boy but was heavily affected by alcohol when she agreed to some consensual activity and then pushed him away.

She has described the boy as a "monster" who'd left her "ashamed and irreversibly damaged" and struggling with nightmares, psychological issues and low self-esteem.

"He violated me and he took away my virginity," she said through her lawyer Michael Bradley on Thursday.

"He took away my confidence, my mental health and the healthy life I led before the attack."

The boy's appeal will be heard at a later date.

Kirby's Dream Buffet is not a Fall Guys clone.

If anything it's more of a mash-up of Mario Kart and Mario Party. 

Players select a custom Kirby then roll through a series of four games with the goal of collecting – and keeping – all of the strawberries they can and be crowned the fattest. 

There are two "races", a mini game, then a final "battle royale" to end each set; a label usually referring to massive, 100-player games that Nintendo has liberally applied to a fracas of four. 

50 strawberries awaits the Kirby who finishes a race first but winning won't count for much if you can't defend your stash in the mini games. 

Often I'd enter the final quarter with a commanding lead only to have victory snatched at the last second by a more daring and skillful Kirby with a knack for knocking opponents off the stage (not unlike the AFL's mighty Collingwood Magpies).

Frustrating as that can be online it's fodder for laughs with three-friends on a couch.

The courses you race aren't smooth and rolling in a straight line is a challenge in itself. 

Walls block your progress at points – and must be destroyed to proceed – making sure leading players don't get too far ahead, allowing smart players to take longer, branching paths to nab rewards along the way. 

Those include eight food themed power-ups to attack others, dodge attacks, teleport dash and more. 

It's intentionally chaotic and hard to keep track of in the final battle royale. 

Regardless of where you finish, you'll earn points that level up your rank. 

Higher ranks unlock more tracks to race and mini-games to battle through, as well as cosmetic items you can use to colour and dress your Kirby.  

Part of me wishes everything was available from the get-go but – with the exception of the final battle royales – I never felt like I was replaying stages too frequently. 

There are six race courses and six mini-games available the moment you boot up the game, but just four final battle royales. 

There are eight of each in total meaning half of the final battle scenarios are locked.

For a $22.50 downloadable game (in Australia at least), Kirby's Dream Buffet is fun for what it is. 

There isn't a huge amount of depth to it, but what's there oozes cuteness from every corner of the screen. 

Everything you see and touch – including enemies – is made out of food; a theme that works just like it did in Super Mario Odyssey.   

I'm ashamed to admit how driven I am to unlock every hat for my fire-red Kirby to wear.  

Kirby's Dream Buffet won't win game of the year and without a transparent ranking system or the ability to sabotage your competitors which made Fall Guys famous, you might not play it for more than a weekend. 

But like all great Nintendo multiplayer games, I'll happily have it sit on my Switch knowing that years from now I'll have family over and it will be as fun to play together then as it is today. 

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