He was 18 and she was 14 when he was first charged. It started when she was in first grade (so far, nothing seems to point to her only having been in first grade once), so I guess that would put her at about 5-7 and him around 9-11. That's what seemed creepiest to me, but the fact that it was only with her over the course of 7-9 years. I think both were too young to really know what they were doing, so even though he's older, it still doesn't seem like he took advantage of her. If she's claiming 50-100 sexual encounters (not assaults) then it was consentual. It means that the both of them are toally screwed up. But it also means that he was only screwed up with his sister. You can't be a pedophile if you're also just a kid. After so many years of being in a "relationship" with someone, I doubt the age difference even occurred to them anymore. They both need some major counciling, but I doubt he's a danger to society. I also don't know the details of the case (I'm rather glad for that), so he may be far more dangerous than I think.
Actually, it'd probably make a bad one, due to the fact that it's missing other vital white trash prerequisites. First off, they aren't cheating on thier wife/girlfriend/husband/boyfriend with each other, and they dont live in Arkansas.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Three Mexican fishermen found drifting in the Pacific Ocean could have been lost for almost a year and two others were missing and presumed dead, the manager of a fishing company that rescued them said on Wednesday.
Early reports suggested the fishermen had been lost at sea for about three months and drifted more than 8,000 km (5,000 miles) before they were found by a Taiwanese tuna fishing trawler in waters between the Marshall Islands and Kiribati on August 9.
But Eugene Muller, manager of Koo's Fishing Co. Ltd in the Marshall Islands capital of Majuro, said it now appeared they had been at sea much longer than that in an extraordinary story of maritime survival.
"The first report was three months, but after that we got some more word from the ship that it might have been since last September," Muller told Reuters by telephone from Majuro.
"It's a pretty long way from where they're from. It's more than three months," he said.
The three men -- identified in media reports as Salvador Ordonez Vasques, Jesus Eduardo Vidana Lopez and Lucio Randon Bacerro -- are all from the town of San Blas on Mexico's Pacific coast.
Muller said details of how the men survived remained sketchy because of language difficulties between the Mexican fisherman and the Taiwanese crew of the trawler that rescued them.
He said it appeared the three men had survived on rain water, sea birds and fish they had been able to catch as they drifted in their 25-foot-long (8 meter) fibreglass boat.
"They were very skinny and very hungry," he said.
Muller said there were five men aboard the boat when it set out from San Blas.
"Two of them jumped overboard a few days into their ordeal," he said. No further details were available about the other two men, who were presumed dead, he said.
It appeared their small fishing boat, equipped with two 200 horsepower outboard motors, had suffered engine problems soon after it left San Blas.
"It looks like they had engine problems because their motors had been dismantled and it seemed like they were trying to salvage parts from one to get the other one working," Muller said.
The trawler which rescued the men was not expected to dock in the Marshalls for up to two weeks.
Muller said Marshall Islands government officials had contacted the Mexican Embassy in New Zealand, which handles relations between the Marshalls and Mexico, to arrange for the repatriation of the fishermen.
The Mexican embassy in Wellington said the matter was being handled by the Mexican foreign ministry in Mexico City and gave no further details.
The main reason I like this is this part, "Two of them jumped overboard a few days into their ordeal." Man, I bet those two are feeling pretty silly since they're dead.
Heroin addicts in Dundee are protesting against the loss of their traditional gathering place after the local council turned it into a children’s playground.
For years the patch of barren land behind the vandalised lock-up garages had been home to heroin and crack addicts, prostitutes, pimps and drug pushers. But the site was cleared last year and the council have now opened a colourful children’s playground and one o’clock club.
‘This place used to be really special. I took heroin here as a kid, and my father before me, whoever he was,’ said heroin and crack addict ‘Skez’.
‘Me and the guys used to crap and puke here, we’d pick fights with each other and then forget what we were fighting about. It was littered with used needles, old condoms and cotton swabs but now look at it. Red and yellow slides and swings and climbing frames with safety matting underneath. It breaks my heart to see it like this.’
Some of the addicts attempted to continue shooting up on the site but claim they were made to feel unwelcome by the newcomers. ‘It’s as if the council and everyone are saying ‘we’d rather see children and young mums than drug addicts and prostitutes’ said Skez, adding ‘Can you spare any change?’
A spokesman for the council commented ‘This site was cleared over a year ago, but the drug addicts have only just realised.’
Ah, those silly crackheads, what will they get up to next?
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (AP) -- A 14-year-old boy was arrested after his 3-year-old sister was found passed out drunk from hard liquor at home, police said.
The girl was unconscious when she was taken to a hospital after her sister called police Monday night, police spokesman Lt. Greg Reinhardt said. "The child could have easily died," he said.
She was recovering and had been released to a children's home by Wednesday morning.
The girl's teenage brother was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of child endangerment, Reinhardt said. He said neglect or abuse appeared to have caused the girl's condition, rather than accidental alcohol poisoning.
Police would not release further details on the boy and any court proceedings because he is a juvenile.
The girl's blood alcohol level was 0.12 percent, authorities said. Minnesota state law considers drivers drunk when their blood alcohol level is 0.08 percent.
About one ounce of 40-proof liquor would cause that blood-alcohol level in a 3-year-old child of average weight, about 28 pounds (12.6 kilograms). Kirk Hughes of the Minnesota Poison Control System said one ounce would be about two mouthfuls for such a child.
Reinhardt said police do not know what kind of hard liquor the girl drank.
Reinhardt said the girl's mother was not home at the time.
Thank you, so much for letting the terrorists win. If you weren't aware, this law made it so people are innocent until proven guilty, now we can put anyone in jail, for any, or no reason. Enclosed within is a guide on how to further better your up and coming totaltarianistic system. Including a copy of Mein Kamph with any instance of the word "Jew" replaced by "A-rab"
It's true, those A-rabs don't talk with their hands in their pockets like we superior gentiles.
They present it as only being something to worry about if you're a suspected terrorist. Anyone who is being charged with any other crime is still protected as always. One little problem, all anyone has to do is say you are being accused of terrorism and you need never see the light of day again. You could be guilty of tax evasion, if they want to hold you for more more than 24 hours when they can't normally, just declare terrorism and it's legal. Technically, since they need no formal charges, you don't even need to actually say terrorism first. Anyone could be held for any amoutn of time and don't legally require a reason if they're being held for suspected terrorism, which itself, does not need to be stated. So anyone can be held for any amount of time and none of them need to be charged. This could so easily be abused it's sickening. There was a reason we've always been so careful not to abridge any rights at all. It's the old, "give an inch and they take a mile".
A Caney Creek High School dad is fired up because the Conroe Independent School District uses the book "Fahrenheit 451" as classroom reading material.
Alton Verm, of Conroe, objects to the language and content in the book. His 15-year-old daughter Diana, a CCHS sophomore, came to him Sept. 21 with her reservations about reading the book because of its language.
"The book had a bunch of very bad language in it," Diana Verm said. "It shouldn't be in there because it's offending people. ... If they can't find a book that uses clean words, they shouldn't have a book at all."
Alton Verm filed a "Request for Reconsideration of Instructional Materials" Thursday with the district regarding "Fahrenheit 451," written by Ray Bradbury and published in 1953. He wants the district to remove the book from the curriculum.
"It's just all kinds of filth," said Alton Verm, adding that he had not read "Fahrenheit 451." "The words don't need to be brought out in class. I want to get the book taken out of the class."
He looked through the book and found the following things wrong with the book: discussion of being drunk, smoking cigarettes, violence, "dirty talk," references to the Bible and using God's name in vain. He said the book's material goes against their religions beliefs. The Verms go to Grand Parkway Church in Porter.
"We went them to go after God," said Glen Jalowy Jr., Grand Parkway Church youth minister. "We encourage them that what you put in your mind and heart is what comes out."
Alton Verm said he doesn't understand how the district can punish students for using bad language, yet require them to read a book with bad language as part of a class.
Diana Verm and another classmate decided to read an alternative book. They leave the classroom when the class reads or discusses "Fahrenheit 451," she said. The two students were given "Ella Minnow Pea" by Mark Dunn because it shares common themes with "Fahrenheit 451," said Chris Hines, CISD assistant superintendent for secondary education.
"Fahrenheit 451" is a science fiction piece that poses a warning to society about the preservation and passing on of knowledge as well as asks the question about whether the government should do the thinking for the people, Hines stated in an e-mail to The Courier. Other themes include conformity vs. individuality, freedom of speech and the consequences of losing it, the importance of remembering and understanding history and technology as help to humans and as hindrances to humans, Hines stated in the e-mail.
"They're not reading books just to read them," Hines said in a telephone interview. "They're reading it for a purpose. ... We respect people's rights to express their concerns and we have a policy in place to handle that."
A selection process is used for materials other than textbooks, according to district policy. The materials must meet various standards, be appropriate for the subject, age and social and emotional development of the students and motivate students to examine their own attitudes and behavior, according to district policy.
While the district does not know of any other challenges to "Fahrenheit 451," there may have been students who have decided to read a different book. The district estimates about 1 percent of students request to read a different book than assigned, according to the e-mail. "Fahrenheit 451" has been used in CISD curriculum for at least 19 years and "likely prior to that," Hines said in the e-mail.
The district hasn't received challenges on any other books in the four years he's been with the district, Hines said.
A district student, employee or resident can challenge any educational material in CISD on the basis or appropriateness, according to CISD EFA (local) policy. An informal reconsideration is first attempted. Informal requests are not documented, so Hines said he did not know how many requests were handled informally.
The person can make a formal challenge, which Alton Verm did. A committee will be appointed to review the material, discuss the material and report findings about the request to the principal, parent and superintendent, Hines said. The process takes about two weeks.
The Montgomery, New Caney, Splendora and Willis school districts have similar policies.
NCISD banned "Draw Me a Star" by Eric Carle and "Absolute Power" by David Baldacci, but it has not received a book challenge in three years, Cindee Reynolds, NCISD superintendent/community relations executive assistant, stated in an e-mail to The Courier. Montgomery ISD received one request from a parent to review instructional material, but the district has not banned any books, Babette Eikenberg, Montgomery ISD human resources executive director, stated in an e-mail to The Courier.
Alton Verm's request to ban "Fahrenheit 451" came during the 25th annual Banned Books Week. He and Hines said the request to ban "Fahrenheit 451," a book about book burning, during Banned Books Weeks is a coincidence.
A 15-year-old boy who has been called "the worst serial rapist in the city's history" was sentenced yesterday to 30 to 60 years in prison.
Michael Massey, most recently of the city's Logan section and previously of West Philadelphia, pleaded guilty in April in Common Pleas Court to charges of raping or attempting to rape eight girls and women.
The attacks occurred between July and September 2005.
His victims - all strangers to him - were 16 to 32 years old. At the time, he was 14.
"I just want to say I'm sorry for everything I did," Massey said to Common Pleas Court Judge Pamela Dembe yesterday. "I didn't want to do it. I didn't plan to. It's like something took over my mind."
Massey's parents, Michael Bennett and Dawn Massey, were in court yesterday. They expressed regret and apologized to the victims.
Four of his victims were in court yesterday, and two of them addressed the court.
One girl, who was 16 last September when she was raped by Massey, said: "This has changed my life dramatically... . I forgive him, yes, but I won't forget."
One woman, who was able to fend Massey off after he choked and touched her, said: "Counseling helped me to decide I can use this for other people."
She was 32 when she was attacked in August 2005 in Mount Airy. Crying and turning to look at Massey, she said: "That's my wish for you, Michael. That you can take this problem and see a solution that can help you."
Earlier, doctors and lawyers had painted a picture of a young man who himself was physically and sexually abused and could no longer control himself.
Psychologist Steven Samuel, who has evaluated Massey, compared him to "a container that's broken."
Massey, whose parents divorced when he was young, grew up in West Philadelphia. He moved to Barbados with his mother for about a year shortly after his 10th birthday. While there, an aunt he lived with would choke him as a form of "discipline," said his attorney, Allan Sagot.
After returning to Philadelphia, Massey lived with his mother's family, and later with his father and grandfather in Logan. He was physically abused by various relatives, and one male cousin sexually abused him, Sagot said.
"The one emotional string" that kept him going was a girlfriend, he added. They broke up after she cheated on him shortly before Valentine's Day 2005.
The eight sexual assaults, for which he was charged as an adult on rape, attempted rape, aggravated assault and related offenses, occurred from July 5 to Sept. 28, 2005, in West Philadelphia, Mount Airy, Hunting Park, Logan and Olney.
Prosecutor Leslie Gomez yesterday said Massey would approach the females from behind and "reach around and choke" them. He then dragged the victims, usually to a secluded area, where he assaulted them. Four of his victims were raped.
In the first attack, he threatened to kill a 21-year-old woman with a knife, choked her to the point of unconsciousness, and raped her, Gomez said.
The last assault was on a 17-year-old girl inside Olney High School, which Massey and the victim attended, Gomez said.
The first known attack took place in West Philadelphia on the afternoon of March 7, 2005. Massey shoved his hands into the pants of a 19-year-old woman. He was charged as a juvenile, Gomez said.
But - despite Massey's admission of guilt - Family Court Judge Robert Rebstock refused to find him delinquent, and he was not incarcerated, the District Attorney's Office said.
Earlier this year, Assistant District Attorney Eric Gibson, the prosecutor who argued in Family Court that Massey be tried as an adult, labeled him "the worst serial rapist in the city's history."
Gibson said at the time that if Massey was found guilty, he would be the youngest serial rapist in Philadelphia history.
Gomez asked the judge for a lengthy incarceration and suggested the State Correctional Institution at Pine Grove, Indiana County, a maximum-security facility for young male offenders, which focuses on treatment.
Dembe ordered Massey sent to Pine Grove. In addition to his prison term, she gave him 10 years of probation.
If he were argueing to ban it because of painfully long, drawn out descriptions with way too many similes (of Herman Melvilleic proportions), then I'd agree with him. But this asshole never even read the damn book, which I think makes this article hilariously ironic(?).
In his 17 years on the Cambodian police force, Keo Thea has seen a lot. But nothing quite prepared the deputy chief of Phnom Penh's anti-human trafficking police for the raid on the home of German national Karl Heinz Henning in August.
At Henning's apartment, tucked away in a leafy neighborhood favored by foreign aid workers in the Cambodian capital, Keo Thea sifted through the country's largest ever haul of hardcore child pornography. Amongst the bondage gear, handcuffs, whips and battery-operated sex aids, Keo Thea's unit found soft cuddly children's toys. There was also video and photographic cameras, and 18 videotapes, each one hour long, depicting the S&M-style rape and torture of young local children by the tall, gaunt 61-year-old and another German, Thomas Engelhardt, 42, who was arrested a day later. Eight computer hard-drives were also bagged for the court. (Karl Heinz Henning's lawyer has denied his client's guilt and the Phnom Penh Municipal Court prosecutor said that Engelhardt told the prosecutor that he had probably taken drugs at the time and didn't know what happened.)
"It was very disturbing," Keo Thea recounted on a recent morning at his small unit's headquarters. A father of two, the 35-year-old deputy police chief, who looks older than his years and stockier than most Cambodians, had just returned from Miami, Florida, where he had given evidence in the case of a U.S. national arrested and deported from Cambodia on child abuse charges in 2004.
"I am sending a message to pedophiles to not come here. I promise you, you will be arrested and sent to jail in Cambodia or you will be extradited and jailed in your own country," he said.
Strong words, and he means it. But to fulfil that promise, Keo Thea has his work cut out. Not only are resources tight to fight child trafficking, especially in the rural provinces, but the courts in Cambodia are notoriously corrupt, and whether they actually carry through with prosecutions is entirely another story. Cambodia has been a haven for foreign sexual predators since the U.N. brought peace to the war-ravaged country in 1993, and more recently , since its neighbor Thailand started its own crackdown on child sex abuse over the last couple of years. But the arrest of at least eight alleged foreign pedophiles since the beginning of this year may signal that Phnom Penh is finally getting serious about stopping the sexual abuse of children.
The arrests began in February with U.S. national Michael John Koklich, 49, who was apprehended after plowing his motorcycle into a police barricade — and badly injuring Keo Thea's leg in the process — as he tried to escape arrest. Koklich was charged with having sex with children in a Phnom Penh slum and deported to the U.S. He defended himself to reporters by saying that he only had sex with the children for "a very short period."
Those working to protect children in Cambodia agree that the police force has recently shown a far stronger commitment to targeting pedophiles. But it's not just law and order that is doing the trick. A> new political will to root them out is the result of diplomatic incentives and pressures, both the carrots of international donors and the stick of the U.S. State Department, say child protection workers.
Cambodia's generous donor governments and international organizations have invested a substantial amount of money in anti-trafficking and child protection training for Cambodian officials. But the stick came in 2005 when the U.S. State Department, fed up with the impunity enjoyed by traffickers here, relegated Cambodia to it lowest tier three rating on its global trafficking report. Cambodia was lumped in with Burma, Cuba and North Korea, and Washington threatened sanctions against Phnom Penh for its inability to comply with "minimum standards" to combat human trafficking and convict officials involved.
Chastened by its international dress down, Cambodia's police started to make a number of high-profile arrests, including:
- In April, a German national was charged with sexually abusing young homeless boys in the coastal resort town of Sihanoukville; the man has strongly denied the charges. The same month, a Belgian national, who claims he is innocent, was arrested at his Phnom Penh guesthouse with a 13-year-old boy; according to Cambodian police, he had previously been jailed in Belgium on sex abuse charges.
- U.S. citizen Michael Joseph Pepe, 53, was arrested in June and charged with sexually abusing girls ranging in age from eight to 13 years. Pepe, who has remained silent since his arrest, is still in a Cambodian prison awaiting deportation to the U.S.
- Most recently, US national Terry Darrell Smith, 55, was arrested in Phnom Penh on Sept. 20. He had been charged by Cambodian police with sexually abusing (and filming 10 hours of footage of the abuse) two girls, 13 and 14, at his "Tramp's Palace" bar in Sihanoukville. The girls had been allegedly held as sex slaves for five months by Smith and his 26-year-old Cambodian girlfriend before they were rescued by police, who were tipped-off by the low-key, but highly effective, US-based anti-pedophile organization International Justice Mission. Smith's Cambodian lawyer has denied the charges against his client.
Already by June of this year, Cambodia was elevated slightly on the latest State Department tables to a tier 2 "watch list." Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak said that the government has its sights set even higher. "We don't want to stay on tier 2. We want to go to tier 1," he said. "We have the political will. Cambodia will not be a place for child sex tourists."
When it comes to Cambodia's new hard line, the writing is on the wall — literally. Posters on display at the airport warn foreign visitors that abusing children will be paid for with as many as 20 years in prison. Some posters tout the slogans "Turn a sex tourist into an ex-tourist" and ``Abuse a child in this country, go to jail in yours." Child predator message boards on the Web have also taken note, said the IJM investigator who staked out Smith's bar and spoke on condition that his identity remain a secret due to the nature of his undercover work.
"Two years ago, Cambodia was the number one destination for pedophiles," the investigator said. Now, he added, the Web sites identify the country as a risk. Cambodia is still a destination for child abusers but it has been surpassed in the last two years by even more lawless places such as the Dominican Republic, Bosnia and Guatemala.
"Ten years ago they would come here with impunity to do what they want and leave," the investigator said. "They are still coming to Cambodia but...they've got> to be a little bit smarter."
For Chanthol Oung, executive director of the Cambodian Women's Crisis Center, the recent arrests are a cause for celebration. But, she says, it's far too early to declare a victory against pedophiles.
Rather than cease coming to Cambodia, pedophiles will become smarter and also harder to track, as they branch out of Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville and into the provinces, such as the tourist town of Siem Reap and free-wheeling Koh Kong and Poipet on the Thai border, she warned. The majority of the country's rural areas don't have a specialized anti-trafficking and juvenile protection force like that operated by Keo Thea in the capital.
And though the government may have the political will to combat pedophiles, it will also need to allocate physical and legal resources, Chanthol Oung said. Pedophiles are adapting to the new regime, and are working together in networks for safety and studying the loopholes in Cambodia law that could see them walk free if they are arrested, Chanthol Oung warned. "They are still coming, but they are being smarter," she said. Which means the authorities will have to stay even smarter if they are to have more success rooting out "tourists" who are no longer welcome.
ERIE, Pennsylvania (AP) -- 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 baby boy was in serious but stable condition Monday at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh, police said.
"Never, never, never. I can never remember anything like this," District Attorney Bradley Foulk told the Erie Times-News.
Chytoria Graham, 27, of Erie, was charged with aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and simple assault. She was held Monday in the Erie County Jail in lieu of $75,000 bail.
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.
Authorities removed four other children from Graham's home and placed them with the Erie County Office of Children and Youth, Foulk said.
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This would make a great Jerry Springer Episode!
Hell, that episode would be downright classy.
The main reason I like this is this part, "Two of them jumped overboard a few days into their ordeal." Man, I bet those two are feeling pretty silly since they're dead.
Meh, ya got me there.
OMG maybe there's a connection! :0
Ah, those silly crackheads, what will they get up to next?
So THATS where Takeru's kid ended up!
(sorry-just a little get-back heh heh.)
where the hell are we gonna shoot-up now?
Thank you, so much for letting the terrorists win. If you weren't aware, this law made it so people are innocent until proven guilty, now we can put anyone in jail, for any, or no reason. Enclosed within is a guide on how to further better your up and coming totaltarianistic system. Including a copy of Mein Kamph with any instance of the word "Jew" replaced by "A-rab"
Sincerely,
Tak from teh OB
PS: Seriously, wtf?
They present it as only being something to worry about if you're a suspected terrorist. Anyone who is being charged with any other crime is still protected as always. One little problem, all anyone has to do is say you are being accused of terrorism and you need never see the light of day again. You could be guilty of tax evasion, if they want to hold you for more more than 24 hours when they can't normally, just declare terrorism and it's legal. Technically, since they need no formal charges, you don't even need to actually say terrorism first. Anyone could be held for any amoutn of time and don't legally require a reason if they're being held for suspected terrorism, which itself, does not need to be stated. So anyone can be held for any amount of time and none of them need to be charged. This could so easily be abused it's sickening. There was a reason we've always been so careful not to abridge any rights at all. It's the old, "give an inch and they take a mile".
Philly's rapiest little boy gets 30-60 years
2nd Article: woooah! How the heck did this dumbshit do all this?!