The school I work at had some similar MySpace issues recently, though it seemed like their biggest concern was that the kids were lying on the submission form (it asks for your birthday to make sure you're 13 or older). We've now got it and other similar sites blocked on our firewall.
I don't understand why the people who simply viewed the Myspace site were suspended as well. I don't think it's reasonable to expect them to report something like that to the school's admin.
Penguins are awsome!
Stealing prosthetic legs takes about as big of an asshole as you can find.
A man who raped his three-year-old daughter and offered pictures on the internet received the longest prison sentence ever handed down in Hamilton County Thursday.
Paul Kraft got five life sentences and a 171 year sentence.
It took Hamilton County Judge Charles Kubicki more than ten minutes to read out the multiple sentences and their justifications in court.
Back in January, Judge Kubicki found Paul Kraft guilty of five counts of raping his own daughter and 12 counts of offering to put movies of the rapes out on the internet.
After labeling Paul Kraft a sexual predator the judge allowed Kraft to speak.
Kraft called the trial unfair and said he was convicted without real physical evidence against him.
"I maintain my innocence. I also will keep fighting through the appeals process. I want everyone to know that although I was found guilty of the rape charges, I am innocent," Kraft told Judge Kubicki in court.
Assistant Prosecutor Mark Piepmeier hit back hard in his final statement, making it clear how he felt about the sentence Kraft should get for having repeatedly raped his daughter in their Winneste Road apartment over a period of ten months.
"For someone to rape their three year old daughter and to broadcast it live on the internet, I don't think you can characterize him as anything but a sexual freak," said Piepmeier in court.
"I would ask the court to give him enough time that he will leave prison in a pine box, which means he'll be dead," Piepmeier added.
With Kraft standing in front of him, the judge took Kraft to task for how he was responding to the very serious charges.
"At the outset, I noted you showed absolutely no remorse whatsoever for your crimes. Contrary to your statement to the court and pre-sentence investigation, you make yourself out to be the victim," Judge Kubicki said
That and mistreatment of kids of any kind. Remember, criminals have families, too. Killing FelonX's wife is bad. Raping her and killing their kids is really, really bad.
Edit: OMG I just read the damn article. Must. repress. homicidal. urges. I really, really hope his fellow inmates find out about what he did. I really do.
That's what I get for not reading far enough back in a thread before replying.
I...I have a hard time wanting anyone dead, even a fuck like this.
"But Professor, what if it were your dearest family members he violated!"
I cannot say how I would feel if that should happen to me, but I hope that my convictions that wrongs won't right wrongs, not matter how satisfying any sort of vengance or retribution would be.
And I say this for myself. I don't assume to speak for everyone, or dictate how everyone should feel.
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) - It seemed like a good idea, but all robbing a beauty school got Jared Gipson was the beating of a lifetime and 25 years in prison.
When he tried to hold up Blalock's Beauty College last June, the would-be victims attacked Gipson, pummeling him with curling irons, hair dryers, a table leg and their own fists. He had to be taken to the hospital and had 21 cuts stitched up.
But the same women who beat him later pleaded for mercy for Gipson, saying the more than 200 years he could have faced as a habitual offender was too much. Prosecutors agreed to drop that distinction, which reduced his maximum sentence to 104 years.
"They feel they inflicted some measure of justice themselves," prosecutor Brady O'Callahan said.
Gipson, 25, received a 25-year sentence for armed robbery Friday. Caddo District Judge Scott Crichton said it was a more lenient sentence than he would have imposed had the victims themselves not asked him to go easy.
Gipson said a friend told him the women at Blalock's would easy prey for a robbery.
"That was obviously some really, really bad advice," Crichton told him.
25-104 years, actually. Presumably he'll be up for parole after 25. And the original maximum sentence was over 200 years on account of him being a repeat offender. In California, we have "three strikes" laws with similar consequences, though I don't think it maxes out beyond the lifespan of a human.
DODGE CITY, Kansas (CNN) -- This past Saturday morning I found myself in a five-car caravan cutting across the Kansas plains with about 30 religious protesters. In the back of a truck, there were signs that read "Thank God for IED's" and "Thank God for Dead Soldiers."
I was with the Phelps family. They've launched a disturbing campaign to tarnish the funerals of fallen soldiers.
This is a painful drama playing out at dozens of military funerals across the country. The group is led by Fred Phelps.
He and his family have picketed and heckled military families at more than 100 funerals since June. They say the soldiers are fighting for an army that represents a country that accepts homosexuality.
I have spent a great deal of time in the last few weeks tracking the movements of Fred Phelps and his family. Saturday, I followed him and his family from their home in Topeka, Kansas, to a funeral in Dodge City, Kansas.
Fred Phelps is the pastor of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka. The congregation is made up mostly of his family. Phelps has 13 children, 54 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren.
He describes himself as an "old-time" gospel preacher who says, "You can't preach the Bible without preaching the hatred of God."
Phelps and his family have made a name for themselves by showing up at high-profile events preaching their hate-filled brand of Christianity. They blame homosexuals for the destruction of America.
This past weekend's target was Army Sgt. Jessie Davila.
Davila was killed February 20 in Iraq by a suicide bomber. He served as a Marine after graduating from high school. He returned to civilian life, and had a daughter. But he was always a soldier at heart, so two years ago he joined the Army National Guard and was three months into an Iraqi deployment when he was killed.
This is also very much a story about another phenomenon the Phelps protest has created. That's the birth of a group called the "Patriot Guard Riders." They're a volunteer group that came together after hearing that so many military families were being blindsided by the protesters.
More than 400 motorcycles thundered toward this showdown in Dodge City this weekend to make sure Sgt. Jessie Davila's funeral was not overshadowed by the Phelps protest. They converged from small towns all over southwest Kansas to support Sgt. Davila's family. One group leader says, "I knew we would have a crowd, but I didn't know it would be this big."
The procession of rolling thunder escorted Davila's family from memorial services to the grave site on a quiet hill.
In the end, Sgt. Davila's family says they were only able to hear a little bit of the Phelps protest. Davila's mother, Linda Claus, says she's grateful for the Patriot Guard Riders. But she also wants other military families to be aware that this could happen to them.
"When people begin to know what they're (Fred Phelps' family) really doing -- killing the American Dream -- they won't be around very long, because nobody's going to let them. They'll drown them out. They'll be gone," Claus said.
Since CNN started airing reports on these funeral confrontations a few weeks ago, the Patriot Guard Riders say its membership has almost tripled. And more than a dozen states are now considering legislation that would restrict protesting at funerals.
The Phelps family vows to continue these protests. They might be outnumbered, but the way the Patriot Guard Riders see it, it only takes one of them to dishonor the memory of a fallen soldier.
Police have arrested the pastor of a defunct church in Ponchatoula, Louisiana, his wife and six former congregants in a sexual abuse case involving as many as 24 children, authorities said.
Authorities said they have interviewed five possible victims in the case. Victims may range in age from toddlers to teens, authorities said.
CNN does not identify children involved in sex abuse cases and has chosen not to identify adult defendants because they may share family names with the alleged victims.
Investigators believe the abuse took place between 1999 and 2002 and involved a "select few" congregants of the now-defunct Hosanna Church, Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's spokeswoman Laura Covington said.
On Saturday, law enforcement authorities issued an arrest warrant for a ninth person in the case, said sheriff's deputies in Tangipahoa Parish, where the church was located.
The church's former pastor told deputies Tuesday in nearby Livingston Parish -- where the pastor lives -- that adults were sexually abusing children, parish sheriff's Detective Stan Carpenter said.
The former pastor told deputies he had been having sex with children for many years and "also educated the children as to how to perform sexual acts with each other and with animals," Carpenter said.
Carpenter said the pastor unwittingly implicated himself while talking to investigators. He was arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated rape of a child under age 13 and one count of crimes against humanity for alleged sexual acts involving animals, the detective said.
Among those the pastor allegedly implicated were his 45-year-old wife -- also charged with aggravated rape of a juvenile under age 13, Carpenter said.
Law enforcement authorities conducting the investigation include sheriff's deputies from Tangipahoa Parish, Livingston Parish, officers of the Ponchatoula Police Department and the FBI.
On Friday, a police search of two homes resulted in confiscation of three vehicles, computers and other items that authorities said may be connected to the case. The FBI took custody of the vehicles. Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel Edwards said some of the crimes are believed to have been committed in the vehicles.
All but one of the defendants in the case are jailed without bond. They are charged with aggravated rape of a child under 13 -- a charge which, if convicted, can carry a death sentence in Louisiana, authorities said.
Also in police custody -- in addition to the pastor and his wife -- are a sheriff's deputy and a woman who tipped off investigators by telephoning them from Ohio, authorities said.
About six weeks before the pastor spoke with Livingston Parish sheriff's deputies, a former church member phoned the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff and tipped off deputies, sheriff's spokesperson Covington said. The 36-year-old woman was taken into custody in Ohio on a Louisiana warrant charging her with aggravated rape of a child under age 13, Covington said.
Don't underestimate yourself, Waffles. I'm sure, if you try, you could at least take down a neighborhood or two all by yourslef. Unless you have that crappy heart ring. Then you're just screwed in any situation.
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Penguins are awsome!
Stealing prosthetic legs takes about as big of an asshole as you can find.
Lucky us.
Edit: OMG I just read the damn article. Must. repress. homicidal. urges. I really, really hope his fellow inmates find out about what he did. I really do.
That's what I get for not reading far enough back in a thread before replying.
"But Professor, what if it were your dearest family members he violated!"
I cannot say how I would feel if that should happen to me, but I hope that my convictions that wrongs won't right wrongs, not matter how satisfying any sort of vengance or retribution would be.
And I say this for myself. I don't assume to speak for everyone, or dictate how everyone should feel.
Sandwiches for everyone!
Also:
Robber beaten by beauty students sentenced
For armed robbery? Where he got the shit kicked out of him?
I realise he didn't get that, but how can you even be eligible for that much without killing people?
Also, I'm all for the "Return of the Son of the Somewht Amusing News Thread Returns" idea.
But feel free to make it anyway.
Only it wasn't so daily.
You can learn more about the Phelps family at http://www.godhatesfags.com.
Sadly, this is the dark side of Freedom of Speech.
Moving on, keeping with our religious "flavah":
Louisiana pastor arrested and charged with child rape
I'm just not that powerful.
WHAMO!