`A man let his four-year-old child steer his car at up to 150 kph before ploughing into a group of teenagers, killing six of them, a court has been told.
Thomas Graham Towle, 35, also stank of alcohol in the hours after the crash and had been cheating in his methadone program in the days before, prosecutor Jeremy Rapke QC told Mildura Magistrates’ Court. [..]
He is facing 17 charges including six of culpable driving causing death, over the alleged hit-and-run on February 18 in Cardross, near Mildura.’
`A woman used her 4-week-old baby as a weapon in a domestic dispute, swinging the infant through the air and striking her boyfriend with the child, authorities said.
The boy was in serious but stable condition Monday at Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh, police said. [..]
The infant, whose name was not released, suffered a fractured skull and some bleeding in the brain, authorities said. His head hit Graham’s boyfriend, the baby’s father, police Lt. Dan Spizarny said.’
`When Bobby Akien forced himself on women, he made his victims clear him in writing afterward, police say.
But his legal strategy backfired. Authorities say it helped him get caught. [..]
Police say he sneaked into her bedroom early Saturday morning and forced her to have sex while he concealed his identity. Later, detectives say, he ordered the girl to write a letter saying she had sex consensually on that day.
Then he left with the letter and her house key.’
`A middle school employee on Tuesday pleaded guilty to charges that he used a stun gun on a student.
Shaun Ellis, 25, faces probation to six months in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree assault, prosecutor Kerri Lombardi said.
Ellis, who worked in an after-school program at Horace Mann Middle School, called a boy out class Jan. 11 and took him to the school’s empty auditorium.
The boy said Ellis told him he was in trouble for tripping a girl the night before at an after-school basketball game, shocked him three times and punched him in the stomach, Lombardi said.
The boy described the shocks as “like 1,000 bee stings,” she said.’
`A pervert who built a ‘super computer’ to store one of Britain’s biggest child porn collections featuring children as young as three being raped by adults, has been jailed for 15 months. [..]
The gay ex-sailor was eventually caught after Italian police, investigating a child porn website, passed his name to British officials.
It took them so long to categorise Ford’s “enormous” archive they had no choice but to call a halt after working non-stop for six weeks.
London’s Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court heard that even then they had only managed to examine just over a third of the material.’
`Seven network personality Naomi Robson and a television crew have been stopped by Indonesian authorities after attempting to enter the troubled province of Papua on tourist visas, Indonesian authorities have confirmed.
The Today Tonight current affairs show host and her four-member crew were questioned on arrival at Jayapura airport in Papua this morning after a tip-off from anonymous sources, Indonesian foreign affairs department spokesman Desra Percaya said.
The five are now expected to be deported and possibly fined and blacklisted from ever entering Indonesia, Mr Percaya said.’
`An 18-year-old has pleaded guilty to animal cruelty for a videotaped incident in which he and two friends lit a turtle on fire and danced around it.
Joel Charles Ross of Hawley admitted they set the large snapping turtle on fire. He said they did it not once, but twice, and dressed up differently because they wanted to make their video “more funny and exciting.”’
`Israel said today it regretted the deaths of four UN military observers in southern Lebanon and would investigate the air strike that killed them.
“Israel sincerely regrets the tragic death of the U.N. personnel in south Lebanon,” Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said.
“We do not target UN personnel and, since the beginning of this conflict, we have made a consistent effort to ensure the safety of all members of (the UN peacekeeping force). This tragic event will be thoroughly investigated,” Mr Regev said.’
`Hollywood party girl Paris Hilton was happy to play charity queen while the cameras were rolling.
But two years after a well-publicised visit to Gold Coast charity Paradise Kids, the millionaire heiress has broken a promise she made to help seriously ill children.
Hilton pledged to organise a star-studded benefit concert in Los Angeles to raise much-needed funds for the charity. [..]
“I’ll get a few friends together. I know the Backstreet Boys will help out for sure and I talked to Blu Cantrell last night,” Hilton claimed at the time. Missy Elliott was another big-name act mentioned.
“I definitely want to do this,” Hilton told gathered media. “My grandmother died of cancer and I almost lost my cousin to leukemia. It’s just something very important to me. [..]
To date, no benefit concert has taken place and efforts by Paradise Kids to contact Hilton have been unsuccessful.’
`The BBC has uncovered new video evidence that US forces may have been responsible for the deliberate killing of 11 innocent Iraqi civilians. [..]
According to the Americans, the building collapsed under heavy fire killing four people – a suspect, two women and a child.
But a report filed by Iraqi police accused US troops of rounding up and deliberately shooting 11 people in the house, including five children and four women, before blowing up the building.’
`Two grandparents in Lake County, Fla., were arrested for allegedly offering a hit man $100 to kill their three grandchildren, daughter-in-law and the family’s pet dog, according to Local 6 News. [..]
“According to an arrest affidavit, Versie Jackson made contact with the undercover agent while her husband stayed in the car because he was reportedly too afraid the meet the person who would kill his grandchildren and daughter-in-law,” Local 6 reporter Louis Bolden said. [..]
After an investigation, authorities said the couple’s son, Jason Jackson, 31, concocted the alleged murder-for-hire plan from jail and asked his parents to seal the deal, Bolden said.’
`McKenzie police have charged two Carroll County parents with raping their child.
Jonathan Wayne Goodrum, 19, and Kristina Louise Sawyer, 18, are charged with raping their 1-day-old girl before she was taken home from McKenzie Regional Hospital about six weeks ago, said McKenzie Police Lt. Tim Nanney.
While both parents have been charged, Sawyer’s bond was reduced because police still are investigating what role, if any, she played in the possible rape of her child, Nanney said. She was charged because “I could not exclude her from being part of it, so I had to charge her also,” he said. “I could not exclude her at the time from being a participant of it.” ‘
`An HIV-positive man who admitted having sex with his 8-year-old stepdaughter over a two-month period was sentenced in a San Mateo County courtroom today to 16 years in prison.
Frederick Torralva, 53, pleaded no contest today to one count of engaging in three or more acts of substantial sexual conduct with a child under the age of 14, the San Mateo County district attorney’s office reported.
He also pleaded no contest to the special allegation that he had knowledge that he was HIV-positive at the time of the crimes against his wife’s child, according to the district attorney’s office.’
Cunt.
‘A man who neighbors say was devoted to his meticulously kept lawn is charged with murder in the shooting of a 15-year-old boy who apparently walked across his yard.
Charles Martin, 66, of Union Township, near this city about 20 miles east of Cincinnati, shot next-door neighbor Larry Mugrage in the chest with a shotgun around 3:30 p.m. Sunday, police said. The youth was pronounced dead at a hospital. [..]
Martin called 911 on Sunday, saying in a calm voice: “I just killed a kid.”
He also tells the dispatcher: “It’s been going on for five years … I’ve been harassed by him and his parents for five years. Today just blew it up.”‘
Update: now with 911 call audio and video.
(1.5meg Flash video)
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`The Archdiocese of Dublin says 102 of its priests are suspected of having abused more than 350 children since 1940, in a shocking new report by the Catholic Church in Ireland.
The revelation comes a week before the Irish government launches a massive inquiry into abuse in the Church and the role government agencies played. It’s expected to last more than a year.’
`Michael Jackson has been ordered to shut down his Neverland Valley Ranch by California authorities who have fined the pop star ,000 (,700) for failing to pay his employees or maintain proper insurance. [..]
Fryer said local animal welfare officials had been asked to care for the inhabitants of Neverland’s zoo.
He said that Jackson could reopen the ranch if he obtains workers compensation insurance but may face legal action by the state if he fails to pay the back wages.’
‘A US soldier who raped a Nigerian woman in Italy has been given a lighter sentence because the court deemed his tour of duty in Iraq made him less sensitive to the suffering of others.
According to an Italian court document, James Michael Brown, a 27-year-old paratrooper from Oregon stationed in northern Italy, was sentenced to five years and eight months for rape in February 2004.
Brown beat and handcuffed the woman, a Nigerian resident in the town of Vicenza. He raped her vaginally and anally and left her to wander the streets naked in search of help.’
`Jermaine Jackson feared his kid brother Michael might be guilty of child molestation, but backed him at trial because he thought the pop star would commit suicide in prison, according to a bombshell book proposal obtained by the Daily News.
In a tell-all outline shopped to publishers just weeks after Michael’s arrest in November 2003, Jermaine described the Pop King as a sometimes out-of-control drug and booze abuser with a calculating mean streak and “a thing for young children.”‘
`Cyber sadists have figured out a way to profit from cruelty to small creatures, and animal rights activists say it’s high time China enacts tough laws to stamp out such abuse.
Several Websites have cropped up recently offering videos and still photos of dogs, cats, rabbits and toads being stomped to death by a sexy woman wearing stockings and high heels.
These images are usually linked with more typical sadomasochistic fare consisting of a female in stiletto heels tramping on the chest of a man. [..]
Animal “snuff” videos were posted on these sites for sale at 15 yuan (US$1.87) each. There were bulletin boards for fetish fans, who could even join a group called the International Crushing Association.’
with video stills that aren’t likely to be safe for work.
`Former British glam rocker Gary Glitter was jailed for three years for sex offences against two underaged girls by a Vietnamese court today.
The disgraced 1970s pop star stood accused of molesting two local girls aged 11 and 12 last year at his rented seaside bungalow in the southern resort town of Vung Tau, a crime that carries a maximum penalty of seven years in prison.’
`A Battle Creek man is in the Calhoun County jail accused of trying to solicit sex from a minor that turned out to be an undercover police officer.
The Emmett Township Department of Public Safety says they caught 32-year-old Brian Woodman in an Internet sting. He’s accused of chatting with a girl he thought was 14-years-old and then arranging to meet her for sex.
When Woodman arrived for that meeting, he found out that he had been chatting with an undercover police officer.
Woodman was arraigned today on eight felony counts.’
`A man who raped his unconscious teenage stepdaughter as she lay dying from a head injury has been jailed for nine years at the High Court in Glasgow.
Sentencing Judge Lord Philip told George McKee, 50, he had committed an “appalling crime” which filled members of the public with “horror”.
McKee admitted raping Kerry Muchan, 14, in her Paisley home on 23 July, 2005 while she was unconscious.
Kerry died soon after the rape from a head injury caused by a fall.’
`Paris Hilton was reportedly hit by four flour bombs after her catwalk appearance at London Fashion Week last night.
Animal rights campaigners were targeting designer Julian Macdonald, who uses fur, as he and the hotel heiress made their way to the after-show party at Cuckoo Club in Mayfair.
The protestors were from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).’
`Queensland Premier Peter Beattie has become the second state leader in as many days to be caught up in a swearing gaffe.
Mr Beattie was unaware cameras were rolling when he swore while talking about his deputy Anna Bligh with other premiers at Friday’s Council of Australian Governments meeting in Canberra.
Television cameras recorded Mr Beattie telling his NSW counterpart Morris Iemma: “She’s deputy premier and treasurer and every other piece of shit I don’t want.”
The comments followed Mr Iemma’s own slip-up during the same conversation, when he described Sydney’s new Cross City Tunnel chief executive as a “fuckwit”.’
`The monthlong search for a Washington state woman accused of systematically abusing her teenage foster child — including blinding the girl in one eye with a syringe — finally ended Saturday with her arrest at an apartment in northwest Harris County.
Police in Federal Way, Wash., said the level of abuse Chornice Kabbelliyaa inflicted in the past several years on the girl, 14, could only be described as “horrific.”
“She used several methods of punishment,” Federal Way police spokeswoman Stacy Flores said. “She would drop 10 pound dumbbells on her feet (and) burn her hands on top of the stove.” [..]
Investigators said Kabbelliyaa once jammed an insulin needle into the teenager’s eye after she forgot to pack some items when the family was moving to the city near Tacoma.’
‘Following Numa Numa and Star Wars Kid’s footsteps, Britney Spears’ personal douche assistant, Kevin Federline, has became the latest webtard with a video featuring him jamming with “Popozao”.
Federline claims that “popozao” is a “Brazilian ass shaker” in the video.
However in Mandarin Chinese, “po po” means “old lady” or “mother-in-law”, and “zao” means “in a mess”.’
Videos of the “webtard” as well as some funny remixes.
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‘Airhead Paris Hilton has revealed she did not know London was in the United Kingdom.
The daft blonde blurted out the admission in a statement for a £5.7million US libel case.
Her catalogue of dumb answers in the witness box gave a fascinating insight into the tiny mind of the hotel heiress, who stands to inherit £30million.
Paris revealed she can’t name some of her friends, and thinks everyone in Europe speaks French.’
`Britney spears reportedly went speeding after her husband Kevin Federline after he stole their son Sean Preston to have his ears pierced.
Pop tart Britters was horrified at the thought of their four month old baby having his ears pierced.
Kevin, who has pierced ears thought it would look cool, but Britney thought earrings would make Sean look like a girl!
She allegedly dispatched bodyguards to stop her husband reaching the beauty parlour where he plans to pierce his baby.’
`Shock and disbelief in Brownsville where a man is behind bars accused of videotaping himself having sex with a child and an animal. [..]
Police say his girlfriend was looking for a video tape taken at Christmas when she found a tape that showed De Leon forcing a nine-year-old girl to perform oral sex. Police say De Leon recorded the sex act.
To add to the shock of the tape, police say De Leon also video taped himself exposing himself and having sexual contact with a dog.’
`US Marshals in Roanoke are calling them armed and extremely dangerous. A manhunt is underway for a man suspected of 104 counts of child rape. They’re also looking for his girlfriend on two counts of child endangerment. [..]
Marshals believe they could be traveling in a red Dodge pickup with a “Get-R-Done” bug shield and a sticker on the rear glass that reads “100 percent Cowboy.”‘
