"Officers determined that the house belonged to the man's girlfriend and later learned that the dog, a black Labrador retriever, also belonged to the girlfriend."
The fact that the prefix "ex" wasn't added that sentence dismays and intrigues me.
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (AP) -- For five years, the death of Sandra Baker Joyner after a mini-facelift was attributed to medical error. But last month, investigators proposed a more sinister explanation.
As she lay bandaged in the recovery room, Joyner was poisoned by a nurse anesthetist who believed Joyner had stolen her boyfriend back in high school some 30 years ago, authorities say.
The nurse anesthetist, Sally Jordan Hill, 50, is jailed without bail on first-degree murder charges. On Thursday, prosecutors announced they would not seek the death penalty.
Joyner, 45, had gone to the office of Dr. Peter Tucker in 2001 for a facelift, fat grafts to her lips, and laser therapy on her eyelids and facial scars.
But she went into respiratory arrest in the recovery room and was taken to a hospital, where she died several days later after being taken off life support. An autopsy blamed her death on a lack of oxygen to the brain caused by respiratory arrest.
At a court hearing last month, Chuck Henson, a Charlotte-Mecklenburg detective, said he believes Hill poisoned the patient by injecting her with fentanyl, a powerful painkiller. The detective said he also believes Hill turned off an alarm that could have alerted other nurses to the patient's condition.
Stolen boyfriend?
And he testified that two people -- the plastic surgeon and a technician -- recall hearing Hill say Joyner stole her high school boyfriend. That comment was said to have been made during Joyner's initial visit to Tucker's plastic surgery practice, in 1999.
In court last month, two weeks after Hill's arrest, defense attorney Jean Lawson disputed the allegations.
"There is no evidence that Miss Hill knowingly, deliberately selected this person and killed her. The suggestion that this is the product of a 30-year grudge is outrageous," Lawson said.
Hill and Joyner were students at Olympic High School in Charlotte in the early 1970s. Baker was a member of the Class of '73; Hill graduated a year later.
During a 2003 deposition given to the state medical board, Hill said she knew Joyner in junior high and high school.
"She was one of the judges of my cheerleading experience when I was in the eighth grade," Hill testified. Asked whether they were friends, Hill said no, but "I would see her and her then-boyfriend ... walk around school together because he was in football and she was a cheerleader or letter girl, something like that."
Joyner later married John Joyner; the two separated before her death. Police said John Joyner is not the boyfriend Hill believed was stolen from her.
Board: Hill 'grossly negligent'
The medical board blamed Hill for Joyner's death, calling her "grossly negligent" in administering fentanyl without the plastic surgeon's permission and for taking too long to alert the doctor that Joyner was having problems.
The plastic surgeon took responsibility for the death in a 2003 agreement with the board but kept his license. Hill gave hers up.
Joyner's family filed a malpractice lawsuit against the plastic surgeon and Hill; the case was settled in 2003 on confidential terms.
In his 2003 deposition before the medical board, the plastic surgeon blamed Hill for the patient's death, calling her "a rogue nurse on her own wild mustang, riding through the West, you know, shooting whoever she wants."
Tucker described Hill's behavior on the day of Joyner's surgery as out of character: "She's flipped out. She's going nuts. She snapped."
Tucker said he reported his suspicions to the district attorney's office. It is not clear why it took until this year for Hill to be charged; District Attorney Peter Gilchrist has said only that his office asked the police department's cold case squad to take a look at Joyner's death after receiving new information.
(AP) ST. ALBANS, VT. A high school student found a used needle and syringe by the side of a road and jabbed eight fellow students over two days, police and school officials said.
Jabbed students at Bellows Free Academy were urged to be vaccinated immediately against hepatitis B. The incidents also posed a lower risk of hepatitis C and HIV, but those diseases would not be expected to show in tests for months.
The student who wielded the needle threw it away, officials said. Police have not been able to recover it and don't know whether it was infected, said police officer Frank McCarty.
A 16-year-old student at the public school will be charged with eight counts of assault, police said. The attacks were reported Thursday and Friday, they said.
"He just walked up and stabbed me with a needle and said, 'You now have hepatitis,"' said student Ava Staples. "I'm pretty nervous." She said she planned to get a blood test.
The school will discipline the student, said district Superintendent Marilyn Grunewald.
The president of the National Association of Evangelicals, who has resigned amid allegations that he had sex with a former self-described male prostitute, is now admitting to some indiscretions after initial denials, according to the acting senior pastor of the New Life Church in Colorado.
The Rev. Ted Haggard temporarily stepped down as the senior pastor at a 14,000-member megachurch in Colorado Springs, Colo., and resigned as the president of the 30 million-member National Association of Evangelicals on Thursday after the allegations surfaced.
Time magazine had named him one of the 25 most influential evangelicals, and Haggard has been an outspoken opponent of gay marriage.
Haggard, a married father of five, had denied the allegations in a television interview, but Ross Parsley, the acting senior pastor of the New Life Church in Colorado, said he had admitted to some wrongdoing.
"I just know that there has been some admission of indiscretion, not admission to all of the material that has been discussed, but there is an admission of some guilt," Parsley told KKTV-TV of Colorado Springs.
Parsley did not give further details.
'Strictly Physical' Relationship Alleged
Haggard may not be a household name, but he is a major figure in evangelicalism in the country, with a direct line to the White House.
His prominence is now threatened by a man named Mike Jones, 49, who says he is a former gay prostitute and alleges that Haggard paid him for sex at regular intervals over a three-year period.
"He goes, 'A fantasy of mine is to have an orgy with about six young college guys ranging from 18 to 22 in age,'" Jones told KHOW-AM radio in Colorado.
"I will tell you it was not emotional. ... Just strictly physical," Jones added.
Jones said he only learned of Haggard's true identity four months ago, when he saw him on television.
He said he came forward when he learned Haggard and his church were backing an anti-gay marriage initiative on the ballot Tuesday in Colorado.
"I had to expose the hypocrisy. He is in the position of influence of millions of followers, and he's preaching against gay marriage," Jones said. "But behind everybody's back doing what he's preached against."
Jones also said that Haggard did drugs.
"And he had told me he loved snorting meth before [he] has sex with his wife," Jones said.
Haggard's Alleged Voice Mails
Jones played for ABC News two voice-mail messages he says were left for him by Haggard.
He says Haggard used the pseudonym "Art."
The man on the tape says: "Hi Mike, this is Art. Hey, I was just calling to see if we can get any more. Either a $100 or $200 supply. And I can pick it up really anytime tomorrow, or we can wait until next week sometime. And so, I also wanted to get your address so I can send you some money for inventory. But that's obviously not working, so if you have it go ahead and get what you can. I may buzz up there. I don't know, maybe even later today, but I don't know if your schedule would allow that unless you have some in the house. So, I'll check in with you later today. Thanks bye."
On the other voice mail, the man says:
"Hi Mike, this is Art. Hey, I am here in Denver. Sorry that I missed you. But as I said if you want to go ahead and get the stuff then that would be great. I'll get it sometime next week or the week after or whatever. I will call you though early next week and see what is most convenient to you. Ok, thanks a lot. Bye."
The voice mails played for ABC News did not contain any explicit mention of sex or drugs.
Jones told ABC News that the voice mails reflected Haggard's effort to have Jones buy meth for him.
Jones also told ABC News that he never actually procured drugs for Haggard.
In an interview with NBC affiliate KUSA late Wednesday, Haggard denied ever doing drugs and denied having sex with Jones.
"I have not, I have never had a gay relationship with anybody," Haggard said in the interview.
A day later, though, Haggard resigned as president of the National Association of Evangelicals and voluntarily and temporarily stepped down as head of his own church, saying he wanted to allow for an independent investigation.
"I am voluntarily stepping aside from leadership so that the overseer process can be allowed to proceed with integrity," Haggard said in a written statement. "I hope to be able to discuss this matter in more detail at a later date."
COEUR d'ALENE, Idaho -- Authorities in Idaho said some teenagers out for a Halloween scare got a lot more fright than they bargained for.
According to Kootenai County, Idaho, sheriff's detectives, the group had been at a Halloween party in Coeur d'Alene Friday night when they decided to go "ding dong ditching," which means ringing doorbells and running away. While doing that, they noticed a house under construction. They thought it would be scary inside, so in they went.
When the teens entered the home, they saw what looked like bags hanging from the rafters in the unfinished basement, they shot some BB guns and threw chunks of lumber at it, according to the sheriff's department. One teen told investigators that when his BB hit the object, it sounded like it hit a coat or a pair of pants, according to The Spokesman-Review.
Then they left and came back with a flashlight to discover it was the body of a man hanging from the rafters.
They screamed and went back to the party, the paper reported, but nobody believed them. So they got someone to go back to the house with them. When they arrived the owner, 65-year-old Norman Giddings, met them with a machete and told them to get down on the ground while he summoned authorities. A report said Giddings told the teens "he would bust their heads open."
The paper reported that Giddings told deputies he was at his nearby home when a neighbor called to tell him that there were people inside the home he was having built. He told investigators that he took his daughter, and a machete "for protection" when he went to investigate.
Deputies said it's not likely any charges will be filed. Giddings told the deputies that he didn't want to press charges because the teens "had been through enough."
The chief deputy coroner told the paper that the man had hanged himself not long before the teens entered the home. She also said that there were no injuries to the man's body that would indicate it had been hit by a BB.
Duct tape no substitute for a babysitter, police say
JACKSONVILLE, Florida (AP) -- A woman accused of duct-taping her two children together and leaving them home alone has been charged with child abuse, the sheriff's office said.
Agla Nadia Vincent, 25, was arrested Monday following a seven-month investigation into whether she left her two boys, then aged 2 and 3, taped to each other while she went to work, said Lt. Annie Smith of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.
Vincent was a four-year naval officer at the time and worked at the Jacksonville Naval Air Station. She completed her service and was discharged in August, naval base spokesman Rick Cruz said.
In March, a witness heard the children crying and called the police. When military police arrived, they found the children taped in a bedroom with feces and cereal scattered on play mats on the floor, investigators said.
The children were taken into custody by the Florida Department of Children & Families and Vincent was free pending an investigation.
An officer who arrested Vincent said she denied leaving the children home alone all day.
Vincent was being held Tuesday on a $5,000 bond, the Florida Times-Union reported for Wednesday's editions. It was not clear whether she had an attorney.
TORONTO -- A man who was sexually abusing a young girl in his home was arrested after he transmitted images of the assault via the Internet to an undercover detective, police said Thursday.
The girl, a preschooler, was rescued two hours later in what Toronto police's child exploitation unit said was its first case of observing a live assault.
"My first reaction was that I wanted to reach through the monitor and grab the child," said Detective Paul Krawczyk, the undercover officer who witnessed the alleged assault Sunday.
He alerted police in St. Thomas, a city in southwestern Ontario where police believed the man lived, and they were able to track him down in two hours.
"To see this child and look that child in the eyes and realize that the child was live somewhere, being abused, we had to save the child right then," Krawczyk said at a news conference. "The minute we realized what was happening, we went as fast as we could."
Krawczyk belongs to Toronto's Child Exploitation Section, acclaimed for its work tracking down child pornographers on the Internet. Microsoft Corp. teamed with the detectives last year to launch a software program designed to help police forces around the world hunt down child porn Internet traffickers.
"The message to all pedophiles, and people who want to sexually exploit children on the Internet is that we are on the Internet 24/7, we know where you are and we will find you," Krawczyk said.
Krawczyk, who was posing as an online pedophile, said he established a relationship with the man in an Internet chat room for pedophiles in January.
After the detective gained his trust, the suspect on Sunday sent still images recorded on a Web cam, which were transmitted in "real time" to a private site, which Krawczyk declined to disclose.
"I can't get into exactly what the program is," Krawczyk told The Associated Press. "But you see the images immediately. I was talking with him and, I can't get into the details of what were in the pictures, but I knew that it was happening live."
He said the identity of the 34-year-old man was not being released to protect the girl. He declined to say whether the suspect was related to her.
Krawczyk said the girl was safe with family members and getting medical care.
The man's bail hearing was set for Tuesday and he faces 10 charges of sexual assault and the production, possession and distribution of child pornography.
Krawczyk said that although he had established a relationship with the suspect last January, it was not until Sunday, when he observed the live assault, that police had cause to arrest him. He would not say how he tracked the suspect down to St. Thomas.
The Child Exploitation unit is credited with helping Florida police locate a young girl who had appeared in a series of sexually explicit photographs taken at a Walt Disney World hotel.
Nov. 3, 2006 — An ABC News undercover investigation showed Army recruiters telling students that the war in Iraq was over, in an effort to get them to enlist.
ABC News and New York affiliate WABC equipped students with hidden video cameras before they visited 10 Army recruitment offices in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
"Nobody is going over to Iraq anymore?" one student asks a recruiter.
"No, we're bringing people back," he replies.
"We're not at war. War ended a long time ago," another recruiter says.
Last year, the Army suspended recruiting nationwide to retrain recruiters following hundreds of allegations of improprieties.
One Colorado student taped a recruiting session posing as a drug-addicted dropout.
"You mean I'm not going to get in trouble?" the student asked.
The recruiters told him no, and helped him cheat to sign up.
During the ABC News sessions, some recruiters told our students if they enlisted, there would be little chance they'd to go Iraq.
But Col. Robert Manning, who is in charge of U.S. Army recruiting for the entire Northeast, said that new recruits were likely to go to Iraq.
"I would not disagree with that," Manning said. "We are a nation and Army at war still."
Manning looked at the ABC News video of his recruiters.
"It's hard to believe some of things they are telling prospective applicants," Manning said. "I still believe that this is the exception more than the norm. … I've visited many stations myself, and I know that we have many wonderful Americans serving in uniform as recruiters."
Yet ABC News found one recruiter who even claimed if you didn't like the Army, you could just quit.
"It's called a 'Failure to Adapt' discharge," the recruiter said. "It's an entry-level discharge so it won't affect anything on your record. It'll just be like it never happened."
Manning, however, disagrees with the ease the recruiter describes.
"I would believe it's not as easy as he would lead you to believe it is," he said.
Sue Niederer, whose son, Seth, joined the Army in 2002, said she was all too familiar with recruiters' lies.
"They need to do anything they possibly can to get recruits," Niederer said.
Seth was sent to Iraq and was killed by a roadside bomb.
Niederer said she was not surprised by what ABC News had found. She believes it's still a widespread problem. She said that recruiters told Seth he wouldn't be put into combat.
"Ninety percent [are] going to be putting their lives on the line for our country," she said. "Tell them the truth. That's all. Just tell them the truth."
- "My first reaction was that I wanted to reach through the monitor and grab the child," said Detective Paul Krawczyk, the undercover officer who witnessed the alleged assault Sunday.
That's the first reaction a pedophile would probably have, too. Interesting.
Re: Retards believing stupid shit a recruiter tells them
- Wait, you mean we're in a war right now... thats on the news every single day... but if I join the Army I won't get put into combat? Like, ever? And I can just quit whenever I want, too? And if I do go to Iraq, I'll probably just bang hot girls and play video games all day? Sign me up!
I just love how, by using these (officially unsanctioned) recruiting tactics, we ensure that we will have a significant number of retards out there, doing stupid shit like abusing detainees and taking pictures of the fiasco.
The message to all pedophiles, and people who want to sexually exploit children on the Internet is that we are on the Internet 24/7, we know where you are and we will find you
I love the chief army guy's responses in that enlistment article, especially, "I would believe it's not as easy as he would lead you to believe it is". He sounds completely unsure of the actual answer or, is the most calm and reserved person in the world. The recruiters are flat out lieing to students and he's like, I don't believe I think they're not telling the truth.
What he meant is that they didn't technically lie about that one. You can't just quit on a whim, but there are ways to break free without having to go to jail. Don't ask me for specifics, I only know it's possible from a friend in the military.
Actually it's not that unwise. They're foot soldiers, not tacticians and strategists. Everything they need to known they'd get in training. Considering the enlistment shortage they need everyone they can get.
You really do not need "intelligent" individuals at all. You only need people who have the capacity to be trained. They're not looking to teach people. The less thinking a regular soldier does, the better.
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The fact that the prefix "ex" wasn't added that sentence dismays and intrigues me.
Crazy Nurse Holds Grudge
It wasn't even warm anymore.
Poo is funny until you abuse children with it.
Some people can't just drop a grudge.
you think the kids got a buzz off it?
There are many instances where a diagnosis of "dumbass" would be appropriate, but in this case.... no, he's more insane than retarded.
To break down an opposing party, just question their sexuality!
Talk about an awesome story to tell later on though.
Duct Tape: Important For Today's Mom on-the-go
Almost.
Army Recruiters Accused of Misleading Students to Get Them to Enlist
That's the first reaction a pedophile would probably have, too. Interesting.
Re: Retards believing stupid shit a recruiter tells them
- Wait, you mean we're in a war right now... thats on the news every single day... but if I join the Army I won't get put into combat? Like, ever? And I can just quit whenever I want, too? And if I do go to Iraq, I'll probably just bang hot girls and play video games all day? Sign me up!
I just love how, by using these (officially unsanctioned) recruiting tactics, we ensure that we will have a significant number of retards out there, doing stupid shit like abusing detainees and taking pictures of the fiasco.
-scary!