ArticlesCategory :: Criminal LawBy Las Vegas Review Journal 8/30/2010 "...The gunman who killed five people and wounded a sixth in a Lake Havasu City shooting spree before committing suicide was facing criminal prosecution for theft and legal action from his estranged girlfriend who was seeking financial support and custody of their two children. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.lvrj.com/news/police-seek-motive-in-arizona-mass-shooting-101846083.html?ref=083 By app.com 8/29/2010 "...Early on the morning of Aug. 16, Moore — driving his mother's car — dropped his 20-month-old daughter off at his ex-wife's home on Lockwood Place in Ocean Township. He was never seen alive again, authorities said. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.app.com/article/20100829/NEWS05/8290370/Manchester-man-who-was-murdered-ex-wife-at-odds-over-child-rearing
By St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Missouri 9/2/2010 "...Leonard Wilson, 36, admitted that he sold the boxes to others knowing that the pills would be used to manufacture methamphetamine and that he used the money to pay child support and other expenses. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/article_321ebbb4-b6a2-11df-871e-00127992bc8b.html By Edge Boston 8/23/2010 "...A Brockton woman walked into that city's police station on Aug. 9 and allegedly confessed to killing her exgirlfriend's Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor because the woman allegedly had come between the couple. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc3=&id=109418#discussion By Hattiesburg American 8/21/2010 "...All wanted to be better fathers and do what they could to keep their children from following in their footsteps. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/article/20100821/NEWS01/8200357 By Washington Times 8/19/2010 "They were unlikely dance partners in an unlikely dance hall: a 29-year-old murderer and a 10-year-old boy doing an impromptu tango as Luther Vandross' "Dance With My Father" sounded from a boom box in a prison gym." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/19/kids-head-to-prison-camp-to-visit-dads/ By Laurel Leader Call - Missouri 8/19/2010 "All wanted to be better fathers and do what they could to keep their children from following in their footsteps. “I have a 12-year-old son,” said John P. McCullum, 31, of Laurel. “When I see him, I see a carbon copy of myself." Read the entire article: http://leadercall.com/local/x107497509/Inmates-learn-to-become-better-fathers By The Australian National Affairs 8/18/2010 "...The proportion of boys in special classes rises as diagnosis of their condition becomes more subjective, with boys accounting for 85 per cent of students in special schools with behavioural and emotional disorders. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/special-schools-a-fast-track-to-prison/story-fn59niix-1225906552218 By KTLA.com 8/17/2010 "Authorities in South Carolina say a 29-year-old mother has confessed to suffocating her two young boys, strapping them into her car and driving the vehicle into a river." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-children-submerged-car,0,6629887.story By KTLA.com 8/16/2010 "The common-law wife of renowned French chef Jean Francois Poinard admits she killed him and stuffed his body in the freezer. She is now under investigation for manslaughter." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-missing-chef-freezer,0,7101247.story By KTLA.com 7/15/2010 "A 65-year-old woman is charged with six felony counts including DUI after she allegedly hit her fiance, twice with her car." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-fiance-dui,0,4768073.story By Fox59 8/12/2010 "A Jeffersonville woman is accused of fatally poisoning her estranged husband with morphine and muscle relaxants in order to collect a $100,000 life insurance policy." Watch video: http://www.fox59.com/news/wxin-woman-poisons-husband-081110,0,3706887.story By USA Today 7/18/2010 "... The job cuts, prison officials say, mean a dramatic reduction in job training for inmates preparing for release, lost wages for prisoners to pay down child support and other court-ordered fines, and more tension in already overcrowded institutions. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2010-07-19-1Ainmatelayoffs19_ST_N.htm By Chicago Sun Times 8/12/2010 "What warrants a guy jumping from a third-story window? Fire? Terrorist attack? For a North Side man Tuesday, it was to avoid going to jail for allegedly not paying child support." Read the entire article: http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/2591286,CST-NWS-jump12.article By World Magazine 8/11/2010 "Fatherlessness affects all of us and is the root of all kinds of evil and brokenness. It is been well documented that 60 percent of rapists, 72 percent of adolescent murderers, and 70 percent of long-term prison inmates are men who grew up in homes without dads. " Read the entire article: http://online.worldmag.com/2010/08/11/the-priority-of-fatherlessness/ By Kake.com 8/8/2010 "A Wichita woman asks police to arrest her after a domestic violence call to a residence." Read the entire article: http://www.kake.com/news/headlines/100224199.html?ref=199 By ABC Online 7/30/2010 "A Darwin woman has been jailed for claiming more than $50,000 in child support for five children removed from her care by the government." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/07/30/2969016.htm By Porterville Recorder - California 7/22/2010 "Rosana Burdusco is being held on suspicion of forgery and burglary, after deputies were contacted by a confidential woman who reported that someone had stolen her child support check, and then cashed it." Read the entire article: http://www.recorderonline.com/news/support-45989-check-suspected.html By Wayne Parker, About.com Guide "...According to a Javelin Strategy & Research report, in 2007 an estimated 1.117 million families had their children’s personal information exposed in a data breach of one kind or another. ..." Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/od/childprotection/a/childidtheft.htm?nl=1 By Men Media 7/30/2010 "...Police sources said she attacked him with the knife after he accused her of having a lesbian affair. Samantha fled but her sister Toni refused to call an ambulance for an hour even though Mr Darvill lay dying on the floor of her home Blackley home where she had been holding a party. ..." Read the entire article: http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/crime/s/1312697_victims_family_furious_at_joke_justice_for_killer_sisters By Medline Plus 7/29/2010 "..."Even if you trust all your neighbors and all the teens are 'A' students, it is best to assume that groups of teens just hanging out can lead to problems, including violence," co-author Christopher Browning, an associate professor of sociology at Ohio State University, said in a school news release. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_101629.html By Yahoo News 7/30/2010 "A mother whose three children were found starving after being shut away in a hotel bathroom for as long as nine months was sentenced to life in prison Friday after changing her plea to guilty in the middle of her trial." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100730/ap_on_re_us/us_starved_children
By KTLA.com 7/29/2010 "A French woman who admitted suffocating eight of her newborns and concealing their corpses in the garden and garage of her home has been charged with manslaughter, a prosecutor said Thursday." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-france-dead-newborns,0,7980797.story By San Antonio Express - Texas 7/27/2010 "Thirteen people from San Antonio, almost half of them former employees of a company that processes child-support payments for Texas and 15 other states, have been charged with diverting thousands of dollars of those payments to themselves." Read the entire article: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/feds_making_child_support_fraud_arrests_99256384.html By Geelong Advertiser 7/27/2010 "..."Your laws and penalties don't apply to me. I'm not accepting them, I'm sorry, I must go, thank you," Eilish De Avalon said, driving off with the officer's arm caught in her driver's side door. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2010/07/27/195111_news.html By CNN.com 7/28/2010 "A teenage girl "averted a tragedy" by calling 911 from inside a wildly weaving car to report her mother, who ended up being charged with drunken driving, New York State Police said." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/07/28/new.york.teen.911.mom/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn By France 24 7/29/2010 "A 47-year-old woman was placed under official investigation for the suspected killing of eight new-born babies and concealing them in a village in northern France, a judicial source said on Thursday." Read the entire article: http://www.france24.com/en/20100728-police-arrest-couple-after-8-dead-babies-found-house-france-justice By Daily Mail – United Kingdom 7/19/2010 "...Ms Beverley had updated her Facebook status the previous evening to read: 'Now who's laughing? You have got done big time by the CS (sic) so now leave us alone for good. Your son hates you and so do I.'..." By Times Union 7/17/2010 "With cheers, tears and applause from family and friends who packed a Rensselaer County courtroom Friday, first-degree murder charges were dropped against Bryan Berry and Terrence Battiste, accused of killing a Troy couple in 2002." By The Marshall Democrat-News - Missouri 7/9/2010 "A criminal summons has been issued for a Marshall woman for failing to pay child support. Billie J. Weathers, 39, is charged with two counts of nonsupport, a class D felony." Read the entire article: http://www.marshallnews.com/story/1648459.html By Charleston Gazette – West Virginia 7/10/2010 "...Still, it's a demographic fact that multitudes of U.S. kids -- a relentlessly growing number -- are being raised in one-parent homes. "Millions of children have little or no contact with their fathers," Cathy Young of Reason magazine wrote. Further, it's a sad fact that such children are more at risk of flunking school, turning delinquent, using dope, being jobless, and winding up jailed or pregnant. ..." Read the entire article: http://wvgazette.com/Opinion/201007090642 By FoxNews.com 7/12/2010 "A Detroit-area woman who pleaded guilty to having sex with the biological son she gave up for adoption and later tracked down on the Internet has been sentenced nine years to 30 years in prison." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/12/mich-women-sentenced-woman-gets-years-sex-son-gave-adoption/ By Rentry Benefiting Families – Louisiana "Being a parent is never easy and being an incarcerated parent poses unique problems ..." Read the statistics: http://www.rbf.la/programs-fatherhoodinitiative.html By WHNT - Alabama 7/14/2010 "The Lawrence County Sheriff's Department arrested Amanda Hazen on two counts of forgery after discovering in an investigation that she allegedly forged two signatures on court documents regarding a paternity test results." Read the entire article: http://www.whnt.com/news/whnt-moulton-paternity-fraud,0,2196303.story By The Washington Post 7/2/2010 "The ex-girlfriend of a D.C. Superior Court magistrate judge was sentenced Thursday to more than five years in prison for stalking the judge and breaking into her Northwest Washington home." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/01/AR2010070106377.html By The Associated Press 7/6/2010 "...Worthy has a new idea she hopes will fix the problem: Jail parents for up to three days for repeatedly missing scheduled parent-teacher conferences. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i0rq9mGi5LSJUk6Y1iX4chnj_WmgD9GPFHIG5
By MLive.com 6/25/2010 "An 86-year-old Oceana County woman was arraigned Friday for domestic violence and ordered to stay away from her 92-year-old husband, whom she is accused of assaulting." Read the entire article: http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2010/06/oceana_county_woman_86_charged.html By Plain Dealer (blog) - Ohio 6/27/2010 "...Child support is the modern, moral equivalent of debtors' prisons, which were outlawed in the 19th century. Nonpayment of child support constitutes a felony. Falling behind in payments due to a job loss results in fines, jail time and a felony conviction -- which makes it all the more difficult to find work. It is just a downward spiral. ..." Read the entire article: http://blog.cleveland.com/letters/2010/06/deadbeat_dads_dads_oppressed_b.html By KTLA.com 6/28/2010 "...Stephanie Ragusa plead guilty to repeated sexual encounters with a 14-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-math-teacher-sex,0,7670220.story By KTLA.com 6/24/2010 "...Police say Foster's elaborate hoax ended violently Wednesday when she stabbed a couple at their home as their month-old baby slept in the living room. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-couple-stabbed-over-baby,0,4131493.story By National Post - Canada 6/21/2010 "...Instead, he’s a man hopelessly ensnared in a crushing bureaucratic machine: He’s in jail because he couldn’t pay child support, but he couldn’t pay child support because he was unemployed … and he was unemployed because the court took his driver’s license for failure to pay child support … after he went bankrupt paying his court costs. ..." Read the entire article: http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/06/21/matt-gurney-man-jailed-by-courts-after-courts-bankrupt-him/ By KTLA.com 6/21/2010 "A 44-year old woman has been arraigned in the murder of an aspiring fashion model and actress whose body was found inside her Santa Monica apartment more than two years ago." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-aspiring-model-murdered,0,7499161.story By KTLA.com 6/19/2010 "Newly released grand jury transcripts show Melissa Huckaby drugged 8-year old Sandra Cantu and sexually assaulted her with a rolling pin before strangling her with an alcohol soaked noose." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-huckaby-documents,0,6910341.story By New York Post 6/19/2010 "A woman who wrote President Barack Obama, asking for help resolving her husband’s immigration problem got a response she didn’t expect: Federal agents turned up at her New York City home and took her husband to jail." Read the entire article: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/nyc_woman_request_to_obama_leads_KR6DGawVZPZf8GO0ArOlPI By Barbara Kay -- National Post 6/14/2010 "...The husband isn’t too thrilled about this, and presses for changes to the divorce laws. As a result, tomorrow the state legislative committee will hear arguments for a change to the no-fault divorce laws that will close this little loophole, stating that folks who try to murder their partners won’t be eligible for financial rewards in divorce proceedings. ..." By Baltimore Sun - Maryland 6/16/2010 "...I am sharing this painful, personal story so that middle-class Americans might better understand why so many poor, young, African-American men drop out of high school, father children out of wedlock and then wind up in prison. The answer: Many of them were reared, like my first son, by a single mother on public assistance and missed the essential, nurturing presence of a full-time father. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-black-fathers-20100616,0,5283163.story By Fox News 6/16/2010 "...These horrifying scenes were all in a video shown yesterday to the Queens jury that will decide the fate of a woman who allegedly set her ex-boy friend on fire in a jealous rage and then accidentally torched herself. ..." Read the article and watch the video: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/16/shocking-video-shown-trial-ny-woman-allegedly-set-ex-boyfriend-jealous-rage/ By KTLA.com 6/16/2010 "22-year old woman has been arrested on suspicion of drowning her 2-year-old son in a bathtub at their Riverside County home." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-norco-toddler-drowns,0,5388150.story By People.com 6/16/2010 "University professor Amy Bishop – charged after allegedly opening fire on six of her colleagues and killing three, last February – is facing new charges that she also shot and killed her brother 24 years ago." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20394571,00.html By Chicago Sun-Times - Illinois 6/14/2010 "Illinois is attempting to force a Frankfort man to pay child support for a son who allegedly was kidnapped by his mother 10 years ago and taken to Poland." Read the entire article: http://www.suntimes.com/news/24-7/2390340,CST-NWS-gerardo14.article By People.com 6/14/2010 "...Sandra's stunned family had waited more than a year to hear why the 29-year-old mom murdered her daughter’s playmate and dumped her body in an irrigation pond. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20393886,00.html By KTLA.com 6/9/2010 "A woman who was busted having sex at a New York park knew she was in hot water but the last thing on her mind was getting hit with adultery charges." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/wpix-woman-charged-with-adultery-after-park-sex,0,261408.story By KTLA.com 6/14/2010 "...Pomroy's wife collected about $70,000 from their estate after she was released from prison in 2004. She pleaded guilty to soliciting others to murder her husband in early 2003, according to San Bernardino County prosecutors. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-deadly-divorce-law,0,4806254.story By Law.com 6/8/2010 "...Supreme Court Justice Robert A. Ross in Nassau County ruled that the mother, Lauren R., willfully violated a court order by deliberately alienating the elementary school-age children from her ex-husband, Ted R. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202461189158&rss=newswire By Hands Net 5/27/2010 "...This research brief describes characteristics of the men and their reentry experiences including program participation, housing, family relationships, substance use, employment, reoffending, and reincarceration. ..." Read the entire article: http://webclipper.handsnet.org/2010/05/life-after-pris.php By Delaware News 6/2/2010 "...The flip side is children who live without biological fathers or father figures are at least two to three times more likely to be poor; use drugs; experience educational, health, emotional; and behavioral problems; be victims of child abuse; engage in greater and earlier sexual activity; and engage in criminal behavior. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.snponline.com/articles/2010/06/02/multiple_papers/opinion/columnists/allgravesc_20100524_0251pm_3.txt By KTLA.com 6/4/2010 "A 27-year-old Riverside County mother has been convicted of murder for beating her 21-month-old son to death." "...Prosecutors argued Cedillo did not like her son because the toddler favored his father. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-indio-mom-convicted,0,4125652.story By KTLA.com 5/31/2010 "A woman who lied about being pregnant and was desperate for a baby has been arrested for stabbing another woman and attempting to steal her week-old daughter, police say." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-attempt-murder-baby,0,2328591.story By Big Government.com "On April 27, 2010, I got a job with the United States Census Bureau in New Jersey. With a hidden camera, I caught four Census supervisors encouraging enumerators to falsify information on their time sheets." Read the entire article: http://biggovernment.com/jokeefe/2010/06/01/undercover-census-fraud-investigation-new-jersey/ By People.com 6/1/2010 "Charlie Sheen will plead guilty to a misdemeanor offense and get 30 days jail time, says a source close to the negotiations in the star's ongoing domestic violence case." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20390144,00.html By MyFoxDC 5/13/2010 "A fourteen-year-old autistic boy is facing terrorist charges after a sketch he made in school." Read the entire article: http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/autistic-boy-charged-with-making-terrorist-threats-over-stick-figure-sketch-051310 By Shreveport Times - Louisiana 5/21/2010 "A Shreveport woman faces charges for filing a false tax return in her ex-husband’s name and collecting the funds in child support back pay." Read the entire article: http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20100521/NEWS03/100521014/-No-heading- By Houston Chronicle - Texas 5/25/2010 "...Jonas, 48, blames his incarceration on a vindictive spouse who wants to hold him to support and medical payments of $11,000 to $18,000 a month despite a decline in his income. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7022077.html By FoxNews.com 5/22/2010 "A Nevada woman is accused of stealing a bottle of wine from a store while she was topless and intoxicated." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/22/nevada-woman-accused-stealing-bottle-wine-store-topless-intoxicated/ By Roanoke Times – Virginia 5/22/2010 "As a divorce mediator and teen advocate, I know and work with many kids who have had minor stumbles. I have seen the paths their lives have taken after those mistakes. Whether they head in a positive direction after their errors depends largely, if not exclusively, on the quality of their rehabilitation." Read the entire article: http://www.roanoke.com/editorials/commentary/wb/247718 By KTLA.com 5/20/2010 "A Victorville mother is under arrest, accused of starving her five year old son to death. The boy suffered from cerebral palsy." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-mother-starves-boy,0,4451030.story By KTLA.com 5/20/2010 "...Prosecutors say Kainat Syeda, 23, of Buena Park stole the cash when she worked in the police department's front lobby traffic windw from January 2006 and April 2009. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-anaheim-cadet,0,5602841.story By KTLA.com 5/18/2010 "A Missouri mom will spend the next 58 years in jail after pleading guilty to videotaping her 16-year-old daughter having sex with the mom's 35-year-old boyfriend." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-mom-tapes-teen-sex,0,7240268.story By USA Today 5/19/2010 "...On a swath of federal land in suburban Maryland, the District of Columbia has transformed its juvenile lockup. What was once a filthy prison for boys is now a new, campus-like setting where the city's worst young offenders work their way through a heavily structured program of individualized education, group therapy, behavior modification and unusual programs ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-05-18-offenders_N.htm?csp=34news&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+usatoday-NewsTopStories+%28News+-+Top+Stories%29&POE=click-refer By Medline Plus 5/13/2010 " A 16-state survey found that suicide was the leading cause of violent death in 2007, followed by homicides, according to a new U.S. report." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_98754.html By KTLA.com 5/18/2010 "South Gate High School was locked down for about an hour Tuesday morning after a 15-year-old student was shot on campus, police said." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-south-gate-school-shooting,0,7625708.story By KTLA.com 5/16/2010 "A Los Angeles man who was wrongly convicted and sentenced to life in prison for a 1994 murder and attempted robbery in South Los Angeles is a free man today." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-wrongly-convicted,0,1246663.story By Ifeminist.com 5/16/2010 "Let's say your son turns 18. He gets a job at the local carnival, running the ride where the kids lie face down and spin around till they shriek with delight (or puke). Before each ride he has to buckle the kids in so they don't fly out. But then -- tragedy strikes." Read the entire article: http://www.ifeminists.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.735 By MSNBC 5/18/2010 "The U.S. Department of Education found that Virginia Tech broke federal campus security laws by waiting too long to notify students during the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history, a report released Tuesday said." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37217425/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/ By Yahoo News 5/14/2010 "An unhappy mother hurled her toddler daughter into the chilly Hudson River and then jumped in herself in an apparent murder-suicide attempt intended to spite her husband, prosecutors said Friday." Read the entire article: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100514/world/us_river_rescue By Japan Today 5/12/2010 "...My son insisted he was the victim of an unprovoked attack, but the police interrogated him as a suspected ‘chikan’ (groper). ..." Read the entire article: http://japantoday.com/category/features/view/mother-of-falsely-accused-groper-who-killed-himself-wants-justice By MyFox Washington DC 5/12/2010 "Frederick County Virginia Police have arrested a woman they say robbed a bank and tried to use the money to make her boyfriend’s child support payment." Read the entire article: http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/virginia/woman-robs-bank-to-pay-boyfriends-child-support-051210 By Glenn Sacks, MA for Fathers and Families -- GlennSacks.com blog 4/26/2010 "...Fathers & Families' legislative representative Michael Robinson has been working with the staffers of various state senators to get the bill amended to include custodial fathers as well as custodial mothers. ..." Read the entire article: http://glennsacks.com/blog/?p=4762 By CBS 3 - Pennsylvania 5/11/2010 "A southwestern Pennsylvania woman denies any plot to hire a hit man to kill her ex-boyfriend so she could take custody of their child." Read the entire article: http://cbs3.com/wireapnewspa/Southwestern.Pa.woman.2.1686847.html By FoxNews.com 5/10/2010 "A California Sunday school teacher accused of kidnapping, raping and killing an 8-year-old playmate of her daughter, then stuffing the body in a suitcase, pleaded guilty Monday to murder." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/10/teacher-pleads-guilty-murdering-california-girl/ By KTLA.com 5/10/2010 " A Fresno woman accused of repeatedly stabbing her 3-year-old son and throwing him down a flight of cement stairs has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder charges." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-fresno-toddler-stabbed,0,7411737.story By USA Today 5/7/2010 "...Roland Warren, president of the non-profit National Fatherhood Initiative, calls absent dads the nation's biggest social crisis. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2010-05-06-wesmoore06_CV_N.htm By Pittsburgh Tribune-Review 5/7/2010 "A Greensburg woman, who allegedly tried to hire a hit man to kill her ex-boyfriend so she could obtain full custody of their son, needed to wait to make the deal until she received a child support payment from the victim." Read the entire article: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/breaking/s_679889.html By Radley Balko -- Reason.com from May 2010 Issue "Freddie Peacock of Rochester, New York, was convicted of rape in 1976. This year he became the 250th person to be exonerated by DNA testing since the technique was first used in 1989." Read the entire article: http://reason.com/archives/2010/04/29/how-many-more-are-innocent By KTLA.com 4/26/2010 "The grandmother of a 6-year-old boy whose body was found near a North Texas lake last week has been arrested on a murder charge." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-wiley-angel,0,3516068.story By Palm Beach Post - Florida 4/26/2010 "...Cheryl Arthur, 39, is being held without bail on a murder charge in the death of her daughter Makeda, whose lifeless body she brought into a fire station Saturday, authorities said. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/crime/police-hollywood-mom-charged-with-killing-3-year-625416.html By WLNS - Michigan 4/22/2010 "...Don Bentley: "'Cause I haven't been working. That's how I got back on my child support. Not many jobs out there."..." Read the entire article: http://www.wlns.com/Global/story.asp?S=12359566 By The Economist 4/8/2010 "...Removing so many men from the marriage market has profound consequences. As incarceration rates exploded between 1970 and 2007, the proportion of US-born black women aged 30-44 who were married plunged from 62% to 33%. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.economist.com/world/united-states/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15867956 By Daily Breeze 4/19/2010 "A Los Angeles woman has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder for allegedly driving onto a Hawthorne sidewalk and hitting another woman, police said Monday." Read the entire article: http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_14916165?source=rss_viewed
By KTLA.com 4/15/2010 "...Investigators say Nancy Jacinto admitted to dozing off after leaving the toddler in a bathtub with his 2 year old brother. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/local/ktla-toddler-drowning,0,334775.story By YahooNews 4/18/2010 "...A Houston man was awarded $5 million last year after spending 17 years in prison on rape charges overturned because of a discredited criminal lab. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100418/ap_on_re_us/us_drug_lab_probe The Sun News 4/9/2010 "A Cheraw woman was arrested after her boyfriend told police she bit him during an argument about moving to Myrtle Beach, according to a police report." By KTLA.com 4/14/2010 "...."The nude photographs were being sent by the victims voluntarily to their friends," according to Arden Wiltshire, spokeswoman for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-yucaipa-sexting,0,314120.story By CNN.com 4/12/2010 "...Former middle school math teacher Stephanie Ragusa was teary-eyed Monday as she pleaded guilty to having sex with two underage students. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/04/12/florida.teacher.student.sex/index.html By KTLA.com 4/9/2010 "Police arrested the 20-year-old mother of a newborn baby boy who was beaten and drowned in a toilet." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-newborn-murder,0,7539140.story By Denver Post 4/7/2010 "The City Council fired longtime Municipal Judge James Kimmel on Tuesday night after he issued an arrest warrant for a teenager who had an overdue $30 DVD from a local library." Read the entire article: http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14834546 By KTLA.com 4/9/2010 "A 91-year-old man whose relatives allegedly tried to smuggle his corpse onto a plane died of natural causes up to 12 hours before they were supposed to depart, according to British police." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-corpse-on-plane,0,2953892.story By Bangor Daily News 4/1/2010 "A dispute over a dog Tuesday night led to the arrest of a Northport woman on charges of domestic violence terrorizing and violation of a protection order." Read the entire article: http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/140196.html By MSNBC.com 4/7/2010 "The mother of a 16-year-old boy said she shut him out of his Facebook account after reading he had driven home at 95 mph one night because he was mad at a girl. His response: a harassment complaint at the local courthouse." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36216614/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/from/ET By FoxNews.com 4/8/2010 "Las Vegas police say a 36-year-old woman faces felony neglect charges after her 3-year-old daughter and 1-year-old granddaughter fell from a third-floor balcony to the ground below." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/04/08/kids-fall-vegas-balcony-woman-arrested/ By KTLA.com 4/1/2010 "...They say at first she told a couple of stories that did not add up before admitting she was the one who abused the little girl. "She actually got mad at the kid because the kid wouldn't stay in bed," Enid Police Sgt. Dustin Albright said. "She was following the kid back through the kitchen and pushed her with both hands and caused her to fall face-first into the kitchen tile."..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-teen-beats-baby,0,542831.story By The Local 3/10/2010 "A young Swedish woman who falsely accused her father of rape will now face charges of her own." Read the entire article: http://www.thelocal.se/25654/20100321/ By South Bend Tribune.com - Indiana 3/27/2010 "...According to court records, Chambers told police he was behind in his child support from being unemployed before being hired as the store manager in 2007. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.southbendtribune.com/article/20100327/News01/100329501/-1/XML By NWF Daily News 3/28/2010 "A father tried to give his 11-year-old daughter a time-out, but she ended up getting charged with a misdemeanor." Read the entire article: http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/old-27377-arrested-throwing.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter By KTLA.com 3/31/2010 "...Attorney Anne Bremner says, ""Police officers expect to deal with danger on the job, but they should not fear this kind of exposure to communicable diseases when they simply try to order a hamburger" states Bremner. "This is particularly important for police officers, who have few food choices when working late night or early morning shifts. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.q13fox.com/news/kcpq-033010-deputysspitburger,0,6766441.story By KTLA.com 3/25/2010 "Police in Michigan say a 45-year-old woman with a cocaine habit allowed a 67-year-old man to have sex with her 10-year old granddaughter in exchange for the drug." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-cocaine-girl,0,377264.story By Chicago Sun Times 3/24/2010 "...Agim Demiri of Naperville was in court for a child support case when he got upset and threw a raw egg at the presiding judge, according to a release from the DuPage County Sheriff's office. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.suntimes.com/news/24-7/2121033,egg-hearing-judge-child-support-032410.article By KTLA.com 3/18/2010 "A day care owner under investigation in the death of a 2-year-old girl who authorities say was struck with a hammer was reportedly the subject of five child abuse complaints." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-foster-child-hammer-death,0,942095.story By FoxNews.com 3/18/2010 "The Pennsylvania woman who called herself "JihadJane" in alleged efforts to help Islamic terrorists reportedly has confessed to the FBI about her involvement in a plot to kill a Swedish artist who had offended Muslims." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/03/18/report-jihad-jane-confesses-fbi/ By CBS5 -- Healdsburg 3/12/2009 "... The woman claiming to be a victim of domestic violence was identified as 20-year-old Patricia Manning. Read the entire article: http://cbs5.com/crime/healdsburg.car.sale.2.1557010.html By KTLA.com 3/16/2010 "A suburban school bus driver is accused of driving dozens of students home from school with a high blood alcohol level." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-bus-driver-dui,0,3756387.story By FoxNews.com 3/15/2010 "A court convicted the governing party's youth leader of hate speech Monday after he said the woman who once accused South Africa's president of rape had had a "nice time" because she stayed the night and asked for taxi money." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,589271,00.html By E-Online 3/15/2010 "The Two and a Half Men star has entered three whole pleas—all of them not guilty." By CNN.com 3/15/2010 "A 12-year-old could be tried on charges of murdering his father's pregnant fiancee." Watch the video: http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/crime/2010/03/15/carroll.juvenile.murder.charge.cnn By CNN.com 3/12/2010 "Police say a mom of four tried to arrange for the murder of her husband of 21 years." Watch the video: http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/crime/2010/03/15/carroll.juvenile.murder.charge.cnn By FoxNews.com 3/13/2010 "Last Easter, Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, a 31-year-old mom with a $30,000-a-year job as a medical assistant, announced to her family that she had converted to Islam. A few months later, she began posting to Facebook forums whose headings included "STOP caLLing MUSLIMS TERRORISTS!"..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,589147,00.html By MetroWest Daily News – Massachusetts 3/10/2010 "A Framingham man told police Tuesday he bought cigarettes with a stolen credit card number so he could sell them and give the money to his baby's mother." Read the entire article: http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/x497924584/Framingham-man-charged-with-using-stolen-credit-card-number-for-child-support By WYFF Greenville – South Carolina 3/9/2010 "Greenville sheriff’s deputies are looking for a woman who they say forged child support checks and taking other checks that she wrote to herself." Read the entire article: http://www.wyff4.com/news/22785847/detail.html By TampaBayOnline 3/10/2010 "...A 14-year-old Tampa girl has gone well beyond that, missing 85 of 113 school days this year, and about 850 since kindergarten. Because of it, her mother, Charlotte Fair, 45, was put behind bars without bail more than a week ago. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/after-daughter-misses-half-the-school-year-lonely-mom-jailed-in-tampa/1078330 By Los Angeles Times 3/10/2010 "The American woman, 46, faces terrorism charges. An old boyfriend 'can't believe it,' and a former acquaintance calls the suspect naive." Read the entire article: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-jihad-jane11-2010mar11,0,3972459.story By True Crime Report – New York 3/8/2010 "Describing the divorce of Peter and Susan Williams as "bitter" would be an understatement. For the past year, they've been fighting over custody of their four children -- ages 11 to 19 -- as well as the assets of his lucrative fence company..." Read the entire article: http://www.truecrimereport.com/2010/03/susan_williams_wealthy_long_is.php By FoxNews.com 3/9/2010 "A teacher trying to park her SUV Tuesday backed through a large window and into a classroom at the suburban Detroit school where she taught, slighting injuring several preschool students, authorities said." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,588571,00.html?test=latestnews By KTLA.com 3/9/2010 " Burbank Unified School District teacher turned herself in Monday to face allegations she had sex with one of her students." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-burbank-teacher-sex,0,2936792.story By Gothamist – New York "A Long Island woman lost her $500 down payment, after learning that the hitman she’d hired to kill her husband was actually an undercover cop." Read the entire article: http://gothamist.com/2010/03/06/li_mom_hired_bargain_bin_hit_man_to.php By FoxNews.com 3/8/2010 "A Kentucky woman was charged with assault after she allegedly squirted breast milk into the face of a deputy, sparking online debate Sunday in the local media." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,588369,00.html?test=latestnews By Boston Herald 2/24/2010 "The hunt for a woman sought in Thursday’s kidnapping of 1-year-old Jaylin Boudria from a Swansea gas station has ended peacefully with her arrest at a domestic violence shelter in Pennsylvania." Read the entire article: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20100224swansea_kidnap_suspect_nabbed_in_pennsylvania/srvc=home&position=also By New York Times 3/4/2010 "In the rush to save money in grim budgetary times, states nationwide have trimmed their prison populations by expanding parole programs and early releases." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/05/us/05parole.html?partner=rss&emc=rss By KTLA.com 3/4/2010 "A former Redondo Union High School student has been arrested on suspicion of dumping the body of a newborn girl in a trash can." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-redondo-infant-trash,0,5982544.story By John Stossel -- Fox Business 3/2/2010 "Kayvan Setareh must be a terrible man; he was tossed into a Los Angeles jail last week. Held on $1 million bail. Did Setareh kill or kidnap someone? No. He put up a large movie ad on his building without a permit." By WLNS - Michigan 2/2/2010 "Jackson County judges say they've found a way to get people who own child support to pay up. Since it started two years ago, they say their "pay or stay program" has been successful. If people don't pay up, they'll stay put in jail for the weekend." Read the entire article: http://www.wlns.com/Global/story.asp?S=12046436 By Times Online – United Kingdom 2/23/2010 "...In this room the prisoners get a precious opportunity to play with their children, read them books and have family photographs taken, which are then displayed in their cells. “It gives them something to focus on,” O’Connor says, “something to aim towards.”..." Read the entire article: http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article7036657.ece By People.com 2/26/2010 "...In regard to the brother's shooting, Keating said at a Thursday press conference that serious mistakes were likely made in the initial investigation of Seth Bishop's death, and that witnesses gave conflicting stories describing the crime scene – making the DA wonder if perhaps the tragedy in Alabama could have been avoided has a more thorough probe occurred in 1986." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20347289,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+people%2Fheadlines+%28PEOPLE.com%3A+Top+Headlines%29 By Katie Weiss -- Crikey 2/26/2010 "When it comes to violence against women, “Australia Says No”. But what happens when women are the ones committing these crimes against other women?" Read the entire article: http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/26/violence-against-women-we-say-no-except-from-another-woman/ By Huffington Post 2/23/2010 "A woman who fabricated a gang rape accusation was sentenced Tuesday to up to three years behind bars herself, saying she was riven with remorse for sending an innocent man to prison." Read the entire article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/24/biurny-peguero-fake-rape_n_473890.html By Muncie Star Press - Indiana 1/23/2010 "...Delaware County police arrested Mansfield's daughter, Amy Jo Barker, 41, at his Briar Road home Friday evening on a four-year-old civil warrant. The warrant was issued after Barker failed to appear for a court date concerning unpaid child support she owes to her ex-husband, Clifford McKee. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20100223/BUSTED/2230316 By ntNews 2/24/2010 (Warning -- Disturbing Video) "...It is alleged that the footage from the Palmerston bus exchange shows a woman throwing her 10-month-old baby on the ground after her partner left on a bus without her. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2010/02/24/126761_ntnews.html Read the entire article: By FoxNews.com 2/25/2010 "A personal assistant has been convicted of second-degree murder in the slaying of her punk-rock manager boss in New York City." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,587283,00.html By FoxNews.com 2/19/2010 "The woman already facing charges related to the death of a Florida Lottery winner was charged Friday with first-degree murder." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,587001,00.html By Indianapolis Star - Indiana 2/10/2010 "Marion County prosecutors have filed forgery charges against a former state worker in connection with stolen child-support refunds." Read the entire article: http://www.indystar.com/article/20100210/NEWS02/2100375/Forgery-charges-filed-against-ex-state-worker By ABC News -- 2/19/2010 "Two teenagers have been involved in a knife fight at a Brisbane high school, just days after a 12-year-old boy was killed by a fellow student." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/18/2824102.htm By ABC News -- Australia 2/18/2010 "...The woman - who cannot be named - admitted to gassing her eight-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter at her Sandstone Point home in 2002. She claimed a defence of diminished responsibility due to an unsound mind. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/19/2825333.htm By IndyStar.com 2/19/2010 "A female Pike High School assistant teacher was being held Thursday, accused of engaging in sex acts with a 17-year-old male student." Read the entire article: http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201002190305/NEWS02/2190349 By FoxNews.com 2/18/2010 "North Carolina police responding to a domestic violence call have arrested the woman who falsely accused three Duke University lacrosse players of rape. WRAL-TV reported 33-year-old Crystal Gale Mangum was arrested late Wednesday on charges she assaulted her boyfriend." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,586554,00.html By Rome News Tribune - Georgia 2/16/2010 "The opening of a new facility gives Floyd County courts a renewed ability to fairly but firmly deal with low-level offenders." Read the entire article: http://romenews-tribune.com/view/full_story/6348555/article-Work-release-center-for-low-level-offenders-dedicated?instance=news_page_secondary_local By Billings Gazette - Montana 2/14/2010 "...Of that total, nearly $1 million was paid to Alternatives Inc. for room and board, $136,000 went to restitution for crimes, almost $600,000 was paid in income taxes, $154,000 was used to pay medical expenses and $80,000 was paid out in child support. Offenders also save as much as they can to prepare for their release. ..." Read the entire article: http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/article_4af673ae-190c-11df-8521-001cc4c03286.html By Utica Observer Dispatch – New York 2/15/2010 "Facing the loss of his law license, local attorney Leon Koziol on Monday compared his failure to pay child support for the last two years to the acts of civil disobedience carried out by Rosa Parks and other civil rights leaders in American history." Read the entire article: http://www.uticaod.com/news/x626058306/Koziol-responds-to-law-license-suspension By Yahoo News 2/17/2010 "..."We could tell something was off, that she was not like other teachers," said nursing student Caitlin Phillips, who was among those who complained to administrators at least three times a year ago that the biology professor was unsettling and ineffective in the classroom. Some students also signed a petition against Bishop. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100217/ap_on_re_us/us_ala_university_shooting By ABC Sports 2/16/2010 "...He was questioned by police last month and released without charge. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/16/2821321.htm By KTLA.com 2/11/2010 "British police say they've charged a 33-year-old woman with stabbing a man through the eye with her stiletto heel." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-stiletto-stabbing,0,4790193.story By KTLA.com 2/12/2010 "...A fortune-teller and her daughter were brutally murdered by a client because a love spell didn't work, a prosecutor told jurors Thursday. Tanya Nelson, is accused of stabbing Ha "Jade" Smith and her 23-year-old daughter, Anita Vo.. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-fortune-teller-murder,0,2124028.story By Examiner.com -- Ohio 2/12/2010 "...To make matters even worse, police say that Avila-Villa committed the murder so that authorities would not discover that the father of the child is a 14-year old teennager. Avila-Villa feared that paternity would be discovered because she applied for welfare. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-30844-Cincinnati-Crime-Examiner~y2010m2d12-Woman-heads-to-court-charged-with-murdering-her-baby By USA Today 2/12/2010 "...Three others were wounded in the incident Friday — a rare instance of a woman being accused in a mass shooting. Amy Bishop, 42, a Harvard-educated neurobiologist who became an assistant professor at the school in 2003, has been charged with capital murder. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-02-12-alabama-university-shooting_N.htm?csp=34&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+usatoday-NewsTopStories+%28News+-+Top+Stories%29&POE=click-refer By Indianapolis Star - Indianapolis 2/10/2010 "Marion County prosecutors have filed forgery charges against a former state worker in connection with stolen child-support refunds." Read the entire article: http://www.indystar.com/article/20100210/NEWS02/2100375/Forgery-charges-filed-against-ex-state-worker By WEEI SportsRadio 1/14/2010 "Gerald "Tooky" Amirault joins Dennis and Callahan to tell his amazing story" Listen to the interview: http://audio.weei.com/m/28348841/gerald-amirault.htm By FoxNews.com 2/3/2010 "A woman who tied up a cheating lover and glued his penis to his stomach said Tuesday that she didn't mean to hurt him and only overreacted because he was trying to contact her 12-year-old daughter." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584646,00.html By FoxNews.com 2/3/2010 " A 22-year-old woman stabbed her two young sons to death, then calmly held her wrists out to police officers who arrived at her home and said "I killed my babies," authorities said." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584677,00.html By USA Today 2/3/2010 "...Thirty-seven-year-old Dorice "DeeDee" Moore appeared for the first time in Hillsborough County court Wednesday on charges connecting her with the death of Abraham Shakespeare. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-02-03-lotto-winner-death_N.htm?csp=34&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+usatoday-NewsTopStories+%28News+-+Top+Stories%29&POE=click-refer By USA TODAY 1/28/2010 "A letter carrier who has worked in this town for the past nine years has been charged with stealing cash, gift cards, debit and credit cards from the very mail she was paid to deliver, authorities said Wednesday." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-01-28-mail-carrier-theft_N.htm?csp=34&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+usatoday-NewsTopStories+%28News+-+Top+Stories%29&POE=click-refer By Atlanta Journal Constitution 1/27/2010 "...National statistics show that fewer than 41 percent of black males graduate from high school, and fewer than 4 percent attend college. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ajc.com/opinion/jobless-black-men-are-285227.html By Mail Online 12/5/2009 "A wife who cried rape because she felt guilty about cheating on her husband in their home was spared jail yesterday." By Fox News.com 1/13/2010 "A 13-year-old arrested after a South Florida boy was doused with an accelerant and burned won't face criminal charges." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582935,00.html By Quad City Times -- Iowa 1/7/2010 "Concerned that Iowa laws could bring overly harsh penalties for teenagers who send explicit electronic images, commonly called “sexting,” the Iowa Attorney General’s office will ask lawmakers to give prosecutors another option." Read the entire article: http://www.qctimes.com/news/local/53e20d44-fbf6-11de-9716-001cc4c002e0.html By Cape May County Herald – New Jersey 12/23/2009 "To The Editor: This is concerning the "child support sweep" story in the Herald. I know the Herald only prints the information given them, but sometimes there are some circumstances that should be looked into before someone’s name is printed that could be potentially harmful to their reputation." Read the entire article: http://www.capemaycountyherald.com/article/57668-arrest+result+clerical+error By The Star-Ledger - NJ.com – New Jersey 1/3/2010 "...As we confront the state budget crisis, we must fix a system otherwise doomed to spiral out of control, with taxpayers spending billions to fund the cycle of re-arrest and re-imprisonment. ..." Read the entire article: http://blog.nj.com/njv_guest_blog/2010/01/lets_break_the_cycle_of_re-arr.html By KTLA.com 1/6/2010 "Police in Kansas City, Mo., are looking for a woman who went on a rampage at a McDonald's because she didn't like her hamburger." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-hamburger-rampage,0,3235693.story By The Northwest Florida Daily News - Florida 1/1/2010 "...During his interview, Schumacher confirmed he sold the marijuana to pay his child support. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/walton-24186-home-beach.html By MailOnline 1/6/2010 "Married couples in France could end up with criminal records for insulting each other during arguments. Under a new law, France is to become the first country in the world to ban ' psychological violence' within marriage." By Muncie Star Press - Indiana 1/5/2010 "...Ross allegedly jabbed her boyfriend in the eye after an argument started when the results of a home paternity test showed her newborn son was not his. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20100105/BUSTED/100105036/1002/NEWS01 By The Sydney Morning Herald 12/11/2009 "A man behind bars for nearly four years for a gang rape that did not happen has been cleared after his accuser admitted she lied to make her friends feel sorry for her." Read the entire article: http://www.smh.com.au/world/gang-rape-victim-lied-to-get-pity-20091211-knkd.html By Englewood Herald – Colorado 12/22/2009 "...Village Police have charged a Monticello woman with damaging a 2004 BMW 754i with a hammer and dresser drawer in a dispute with a man over child support. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.catskillsnews.com/News/2009/December09/22/York_arr-22Dec09.html By E-Online 12/15/2009 "...I know that if she is given notice she will destroy all of my belongings, she will rage against me and hit me, she will use my instrument in the apartment as a weapon against me as she has demonstrated her will and capability in the past."..." Read the entire article: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b158137_very_brady_death_threat.html?utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories By The Washington Post 12/8/2009 "For nearly five days, police said, Veronica D. Deramous kept the pregnant woman, bound with duct tape, inside her Suitland apartment, giving her food and drink to keep her alive. Deramous wanted the woman's unborn baby girl, police said, and was willing to get it by any means." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/07/AR2009120703630.html By Coshocton Tribune - Ohio 12/10/2009 "Coshocton County Job and Family Services released a notice that the Office of Child Support recently was made aware of phishing text messages that have been sent to some e-Quick Pay debit card holders." Read the entire article: http://www.coshoctontribune.com/article/20091210/NEWS01/912100315 By Cambridge News UK "A brutal mother who subjected six of her own children to an horrific campaign of abuse has today been jailed for six years." Read the entire article: http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/cn_news_home/displayarticle.asp?id=469681 The Christian Post 12/7/2009 "A county judge exonerated gospel music star BeBe Winans from the accusation of domestic abuse Friday, dismissing all charges with prejudice." Read the entire article: http://www.christianpost.com/article/20091207/bebe-winans-cleared-of-assault-charges/ By Cambridge News "A SCHOOLGIRL who accused six teens of gang rape after a school prom has been arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice." Read the entire article: http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/cn_news_home/displayarticle.asp?id=453428
NYC Children Arrested for Allegedly Bringing Box Cutter, Knife to SchoolWednesday, 02 December 2009
By Fox News 11/27/2009 " Two 3rd grade boys and a 5th grader have been arrested on charges they brought a box cutter and a knife to a Bronx school." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,577031,00.html By Washington Post 11/18/2009 "...But he maintained his innocence, denouncing the criminal justice system he said he defended while in the Army. "Perhaps God's purpose for my death is to demonstrate just how fractured our judicial system has become," Elliott said. "In this great country, we should not arrest and convict innocent people of any crime, let alone capital murder, nor should we kill innocent people as the Commonwealth of Virginia has done today."..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/17/AR2009111702515.html By FoxNews.com 11/19/2009 "Blessed with a Friday off school, 15-year-old Alyssa Bustamante dug two holes in the ground to be used as a grave, authorities said. For the next week, she attended classes, all the while plotting the right time for a murder, they said." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575590,00.html By DailyMail - UK 11/13/2009 "A woman who made eight separate false claims of rape or sexual assault has been spared jail. Gemma Gregory, 28, accused seven different men over a six-year period. Former boyfriends were subjected to police questioning and DNA testing to clear their names." Read the entire article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-493352/Woman-falsely-cried-rape-EIGHT-times-spared-jail.html By Politics Daily 11/13/2009 "Two viral videos of girl-on-girl and woman-on-woman violence grabbed the world by the throat this week and raised the question: Are American females becoming more violent?" Read the entire article: http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/11/13/are-women-becoming-more-violent/
By Des Moines Register 11/15/2009 "Greg Geist of Carroll says the Iowa Department of Human Services wrongly placed him on the state's child abuse registry. And an administrative law judge with the Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals agrees. In a ruling this summer, the judge reversed and "found to be incorrect" a social worker's finding that Geist sexually abused a 15-year-old boy." Read the entire article: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20091115/OPINION03/911150317/1110/A-year-shattered-by-sex-abuse-allegations By FoxNews 11/16/2009 "...Shaniya's father, Bradley Lockhart, said he raised his daughter for several years but last month decided to let her stay with her mother. He had pleaded for her safe return. ...Davis struggled financially over the years, but she recently obtained a job and her own place, so Lockhart said he decided to give her a chance to raise their daughter. "I should've never let her go over there," he said Saturday night. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575304,00.html By SeattlePi 11/11/2009 "Police here have arrested a woman for allegedly raping her daughter's 14-year-old boyfriend." Read the entire article: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/412104_bellevue11.html By The News Star 11/9/2009 "...The victim told police his wife accused him of cheating on her and hit him in the face during an argument, the arrest affidavit said. Police said the victim had a three inch cut on his face. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20091109/UPDATES01/91109036 By Middletown Journal - Ohio 11/10/2009 "A dad who has refused to pay child support will spend the next five Father’s Days in jail." Read the entire article: http://www.middletownjournal.com/news/crime/dad-sentenced-to-spend-fathers-days-in-jail-for-not-paying-support-393288.html By Fox4kc.com - Missouri 11/6/2009 "...With no money, doing odd jobs, and a sobriety issue, Gainey fell behind in his child support, and wound up facing criminal charges. Despite that, prosecutors deemed him a good candidate for a diversion program that could give Gainey a fresh start and keep him out of prison: fathering court. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.fox4kc.com/news/wdaf-story-daddy-do-over-110609,0,5997057.story By Lufkin Daily News - Texas 11/8/2009 "Dear Jeff: My son has been divorced for three years now and has three children in his custody. The mother is supposed to pay child support but has been in hiding all this time." Read the entire article: http://www.lufkindailynews.com/hp/content/business/stories/2009/11/08/ask_the_lawyer.html By The Star-Ledger - NJ.com – New Jersey 11/8/2009 "By early morning yesterday, it was clear the four-day "Fugitive Safe Surrender" in Newark was on track to be one of the biggest in the country." Read the entire article: http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-15/1257642908201950.xml&coll=1 By Hilton Head Island Packet – South Carolina 11/7/2009 "Separate accusations against former Beaufort County Clerk of Court Elizabeth Smith and a former Union County Clerk of Court for misuing state child support funds haven't shaken the state's confidence in its 46 clerks of court." Read the entire article: http://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/story/1027330.html By FoxNews 11/9/2009 "State Police investigators said in a written report that a woman who killed seven people plus herself in a crash on the Taconic State Parkway was a regular marijuana user. The report says Diane Schuler's husband told police his wife "smoked marijuana once in a while to relieve the stress of work and the kids."..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,572912,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r3:c0.138009:b28755309:z10 By YahooNews 11/5/2009 "...Authorities said the baby's mother, Chrystina Lynn Mercer, gave the infant to baby sitter Susan Elizabeth Baker early Saturday, then reported her missing about 10 hours later. About 100 law enforcement agents and others spent days scouring around the baby's home in a remote, makeshift community of dirt roads, tin-roof shacks and old mobile homes. Searchers also dug through trash cans and bins. All along, the baby was under the bed. ...Officials do not believe Shannon's father, who is Baker's stepbrother, was involved in the disappearance. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091105/ap_on_re_us/us_missing_florida_baby
By Tampa Bay Online 11/4/2009 "...The deputy is 64; the inmate 40 years his junior. Deputy Kenneth Moon had another disadvantage: He was the sole deputy in a jail pod that houses 62 inmates. The only nearby people who could help him were there because they have been charged with attempted murder, home invasion, drug dealing. ..." Read the entire article: http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/nov/04/inmates-credited-rescuing-hillsborough-deputy-duri/ And yet they did. By CNN Justice 11/4/2009 "An Iowa jury found Thursday that a mother with a history of depression knew right from wrong when she slashed her sons' throats, killing one and leaving the other permanently scarred." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/05/iowa.michelle.kehoe.verdict/index.html?eref=rss_crime By Examiner.com - USA 11/4/2009 "...Since being laid off, Dave had sent out hundreds of resumes and not one single interview. It wasn't Dave’s fault yet the child support bureau suspended his license and he was being hauled into court. Dave was now a criminal and said he would start robbing people to avoid going to jail. After that the child support bureaucracy started taking child support from Dave’s unemployment and he and his family lost their home. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-16500-Lake-County-Independent-Examiner~y2009m11d4-Economic-crisis-turning-dads-into-criminals By My Eyewitness News Memphis - Tennessee 11/3/2009 "A private child support agency that collects money from Memphis parents has landed itself in Federal Court. Child Support Services of Atlanta was sued by the U.S. Postal Service. The USPS says the company is using the mail in a scheme to illegally collect money." Read the entire article: http://www.myeyewitnessnews.com/news/local/story/Child-Support-Company-Sued-By-U-S-Postal-Service/559MR0E_Bk60gathWF6RnA.cspx By KTLA.com 10/28/2009 "A Florida man accused of killing his son-in-law in New Jersey is arguing that he was unable to commit the crime because he was too fat." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-fat-defense,0,7794284.story By KTLA.com 10/30/2009 "A nude woman was spotted repeatedly slamming her baby boy's head into the sidewalk, police said." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-baby-bashed,0,6680156.story By KTLA.com 11/2/2009 "The teenagers accused of surrounding Michael Brewer and setting him on fire will have to be released from custody after Nov. 12 unless prosecutors charge them as adults, officials said today." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-boy-burned,0,2928498.story By David Lazenby News Editor -- Daily Mountain Eagle 10/23/2009 "If there is one thing I believe in wholeheartedly it’s the ideal that “All men are created equal” — or at least should be treated as such in principal." Read the entire article: http://www.mountaineagle.com/index.cfm?event=news.view&id=800FA7ED-19B9-E2F5-468814295A1C3538 By CNN.com 10/29/2009 "Distraught residents searched for days for Olten without luck, when the Cole County Sheriff's Department received a tip that led them to the alleged killer. It didn't lead them to a stranger, a child predator or a convicted sex offender -- avenues police had originally considered because of Olten's age. Instead, it led them to a 15-year-old girl who, according to Peggy Florence, a family spokeswoman, had played with Olten." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/29/missouri.olten.murder/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn By Alan Bock Sr. editorial writer -- The Orange County Register 10/23/2009 "...Then people offering services described what's available. The county has a child-support office that can help parolees get child-support payments adjusted or devise a realistic payment schedule, and can help them get drivers' licenses or a state ID card. Santa Ana College has a free program to get a GED." Read the entire article: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/prison-parolees-parole-2621461-many-most
By Tyler Morning Telegraph - Texas 10/24/2009 "A Smith County Probation Department employee pocketed thousands of dollars from Spanish-speaking men who depended on her to process their child support payments. Glenda Everett-Olvera instead stole their money and the mothers and children who needed the child support were left to do without, an assistant district attorney said." Read the entire article: http://www.tylerpaper.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091024/NEWS08/910240336 By The Associated Press - USA 10/23/2009 "The doctor being investigated in Michael Jackson's death told a court he can't afford to pay $13,000 in child support and other debts because he was forced to close his medical practice after physical threats against him and his staff, according to court documents obtained Friday." Read the entire article: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gvcLH28ub3AyGjplQ256FNiOT6CQD9BGVERG0 By York Daily Record - Pennsylvania 10/27/2009 "Just after 1 p.m., a former boyfriend was visiting the mother of his child at an apartment in the first block of West Broad Street when an argument took place over child support concerning their 9-month-old daughter, according to York Area Regional Police Sgt. Rod Varner. During the argument, the girlfriend got a large kitchen knife and cut her ex-boyfriend in the arm and abdomen, he said. He was taken to York Hospital by ambulance, he said." Read the entire article: http://ydr.inyork.com/ci_13644287 By Emanuella Grinberg -- CNN.com 10/29/2009 "A mother's plot to blame a stranger for killing her sons went awry when one of the boys survived and told police how Michelle Kehoe cut his throat, then moved on to his younger brother, an Iowa prosecutor said Thursday." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/29/iowa.michelle.kehoe.trial/index.html By USA Today 10/25/2009 "Juvenile authorities said Saturday that a 15-year-old has been charged with first-degree murder for the death of a 9-year-old central Missouri girl found in the woods two days after she went missing." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-10-24-Missouri_N.htm?csp=34 By KTLA News 10/26/2009 "A wrong-way driver who may have been drunk smashed into a pickup truck on the 91 Freeway, killing two women and seriously injuring two children and herself." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-wrong-way-fatal,0,5570744.story By Dugald McConnell -- CNN 10/21/2009 "A 22-year-old woman whose claims that she was abused in a trailer in rural West Virginia in 2007 helped send six people to prison now says she made up the story, her lawyer said Wednesday. "She is recanting her entire story," attorney Byron Potts told reporters in Columbus, Ohio, about his client, Megan Williams, who moved there after the incident. "She says it did not happen. She fabricated it."..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/21/assault.recanted/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
By The Sun -- UK 10/19/2009 "Zach Cameron, 15 - a twice-weekly bible student - lobbed the tiny pot of sauce at a girl diner for making "nasty" comments when he took the daughter of his pastor for a burger. His 14-year-old "victim" complained to cops that it got in her hair - and days later Zach was summoned to a police station where he was also fingerprinted." Read the entire article: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2688100/Cops-DNA-boy-for-throwing-tiny-ketchup-pot-at-McDonalds.html#ixzz0Ud3F9EJX By Crosscut -- Seattle 10/19/2009 "...Didn’t matter. The prosecutor (who was about 14) demanded that the judge impose a two-year no-contact order, based on the police report — which included at least half a dozen weird, factual errors, including that the altercation started because J “refused to kiss [me]” and that we were recent transplants from the East Coast. ..." Read the entire article: http://crosscut.com/blog/crosscut/19135/# By KTLA.com 10/9/2009 "A central California mother accused of abandoning three of her newborns and leaving one to die in the back of a pickup could face more than 22 years in prison after being convicted of second-degree murder and child abuse charges." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-abandoned-babies,0,1963986.story By KTLA.com 10/12/2009 " An 11-year-old girl has died after the car she was riding in overturned, and the driver has been charged with driving while intoxicated and vehicular manslaughter." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-dui-mom,0,7485962.story By Bill Mears -- CNN Supreme Court Producer "The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from a female death row inmate who said fetal alcohol syndrome should have been considered by the state court that reviewed her sentence." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/05/scotus.female.death.row/index.html?eref=rss_crime By FoxNews.com 10/7/2009 "The FBI investigated whether Anna Nicole Smith plotted to kill her tycoon husband's son as they battled for his father's fortune, but the former Playboy Playmate who died in 2007 was never prosecuted, newly released files show." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,561541,00.html By FoxNews 10/6/2009 "By the third day of negotiating with his son’s kidnappers, Rasul Amoore had sold his car, withdrawn his bank savings and borrowed money from his siblings and friends to raise funds for the 6-year-old’s release." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,561443,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r1:c0.121263:b28158896:z10 By San Jose Mercury News - California 10/5/2009 "A second mistrial was declared Monday in the case of a former airline baggage handler accused of murdering his 4-year-old daughter by throwing her off a cliff into the Pacific Ocean. ...Prosecutors said Brown killed his daughter because he didn't want to pay about $1,000 in monthly child support. Harris argued the girl slipped and fell 120 feet from Inspiration Point into the Pacific Ocean. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_13492197?nclick_check=1# By Wavy.com 9/30/2009 "WAVY.com's investigation into a local contractor revealed a criminal history of bounced checks and bad business dealings. Now our ongoing investigation of Dan Robinson and RIDG Inc. revealed allegations of unpaid child support from one employee's paycheck, and that father says if he doesn't come up with money soon, he has to go to jail." Read the entire article: http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/local_news/local_wavy_virginiabeach_RIDG_Inc_child_support_accusations_20090930 By The News-Press, Ft. Myers Florida 10/2/2009 "A Lee County courts program is violating the civil rights of people ordered to pay child support, sometimes resulting in their wrongful arrest, an attorney claims in a petition filed with a state appellate court." Read the entire article: http://www.news-press.com/article/20091002/SS08/91001080/1075 By YahooNews 10/4/2009 "A week ago, Maria Gurrolla was celebrating the birth of her fourth child. A blue yard sign announced: "IT'S A BOY!" She visited a local welfare office that helps low-income mothers. Then her 4-day-old son was abducted by an attacker who posed as an immigration worker, then stabbed her." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091004/ap_on_re_us/us_tenn_newborn_snatched By CNN.com 10/4/2009 "The funeral of a Chicago teenager whose beating death was caught on video was attended Saturday by scores of family members, officials and community leaders, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/03/illinois.teen.beating.funeral/index.html?iref=mpstoryview By FoxNews.com 10/3/2009 "Authorities say a South Florida woman got behind the wheel of her minivan and passed out drunk, leaving her two young children to wander nearly two miles away from their home barefoot." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,559640,00.html By FoxNews 10/3/2009 "Authorities say a mother and her adult son were arrested for allegedly hauling $1 million in cocaine after Arkansas State Police pulled over their pickup for weaving on Interstate 40." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,559582,00.html By FoxNews.com 10/2/2009 "A man facing a life sentence for having a quarter-sized gang sign tattooed on his 7-year-old son's hip let out a long sigh Friday when a judge said the act was not aggravated mayhem, a charge normally reserved for crippling attacks." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,559241,00.html By FoxNews 9/30/2009 "Kevin Jennings was teaching high school in 1988 when a gay student confessed an involvement with an older man. Rather than reporting it, he told the boy, "I hope you knew to use a condom."..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/30/obamas-safe-schools-czar-admits-bad-handling-teen-sex-case/?test=latestnews By USA Today 10/1/2009 "A mother of two is under arrest for allegedly running a pot shop from her house. Officers serving a search warrant at the home of 23-year-old Gina Marie Mule Tuesday say they found a 32-bags of marijuana concealed in a baby's crib at the home." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-pot-mother,0,4103569.story By CNN.com 9/30/2009 "The case of a Tennessee man jailed in Japan for trying to snatch back his children from his estranged wife is not as clear-cut as it's been made out to be, authorities here said Wednesday." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/30/japan.savoie.children/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn By YahooNews 9/20/2009 "John Travolta testified Wednesday that a Bahamas paramedic threatened to sell stories to the news media suggesting the movie star was at fault in the death of his 16-year-old son." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090930/ap_on_en_mo/cb_bahamas_travolta_s_son By Redding.com 9/28/2009 "...First 5 - relatively flush in a year of budget cuts thanks to a guaranteed stream of cigarette taxes - will pay the salary of a county probation officer who will specifically focus on young fathers. Those 18- to 25-year-old men in turn will be sent, as a term of their probation, to parenting classes that will teach them how to do better by their children. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.redding.com/news/2009/sep/28/first-5-county-join-forces-for-fatherhood/ By Yahoo News 9/29/2009 "A fourth teenager is due in court after being charged in the fatal beating of a 16-year-old Chicago honors student, who's described by family as a "great kid" who loved school." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090929/ap_on_re_us/us_chicago_beating_death By CNN.com 9/25/2009 "Criminal charges will not be filed against the 18-year-old college freshman who falsely accused five men of raping her in a dormitory bathroom at Hofstra University, an official said Friday." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/25/new.york.falsely.accused/index.html?eref=rss_crime By WHYN 9/24/2009 "...The former "One Day at a Time" star, who has battled drug addiction for years, wrote in her new memoir, "High on Arrival," that she and her father, the late Mamas and the Papas musician John Phillips, had sex on many occasions from the time she was 19 to 29. ...However, the actress's step-mother, Michelle Phillips, told The Hollywood Reporter she doesn't believe the allegations. "She told me, then she called me back and said, 'You know I'm joking,'" Michelle said. "I said it wasn't funny. Mackenzie said, 'I guess we have different senses of humor.'"Michelle also criticized Winfrey for inviting Mackenzie on her show to discuss her book. I think it's unconscionable that Oprah would let her do her show. I have every reason to believe it's untrue. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.whyn.com/script/headline_newsmanager_alt.php?id=781599&feed_id=44
By John Bear -- Valencia County News Bulletin - New Mexico 9/19/2009 "A Bosque Farms Police Officer has been arrested on a warrant for past-due child support, making him the second officer from the department arrested in as many weeks." Read the entire article: http://www.news-bulletin.com/nb/index.php/news/607-BF-officer-surrenders-in-child-support-case.html By Atlanta Journal Constitution - Georgia 9/19/2009 "One man was killed and another critically injured Friday following a shooting in Haralson County on Friday, about an hour west of Atlanta. The incident apparently began when a woman and her husband stopped by the Buchanan home of her ex-husband to pick up a child support payment, said Deputy Jim Beck." Read the entire article: http://www.ajc.com/news/one-killed-one-critical-141797.html By FoxNews.com 9/21/2009 "Jury selection has begun in the trial of two people accused of trying to extort $25 million from John Travolta following his son's death in the Bahamas." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,553181,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a4:g4:r3:c0.000000:b0:z5 By CNN.com 9/16/2009 "Charges have been dropped against four men accused of raping an 18-year-old student at Hofstra University after the woman recanted her allegations, prosecutors said." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/16/hofstra.rape/index.html?iref=werecommend By CNN.com 9/17/2009 "Two Florida school administrators were due to appear in federal court Thursday to face contempt charges for saying a prayer at a school luncheon." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/17/florida.school.prayer/index.html By Los Angeles Times - California 9/15/2009 "A prosecutor in the second trial of Cameron John Brown says he threw the 4-year-old off a Palos Verdes Peninsula cliff in 2000. His attorney says he loved her and that she slipped and fell." Read the entire article: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-brown16-2009sep16,0,4746093.story By Glenn Sacks, MA for Fathers & Families --- MensNewsDaily.com 9/14/2009 "Private child support collection companies are one of the more noxious plagues afflicting divorced parents. In 2008, Fathers & Families led a successful campaign against FOX, which planned to air Bad Dads, a show which would glorifies the role of private child support collectors. Fox dropped the show in the wake of our protests, which made 300 newspapers." Read the entire article: http://mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks/2009/09/14/private-child-support-collection-firm-accused-of-scamming-innocent-fathers/ By Oneonta Daily Star – New York 9/15/2009 "A former Delaware County Social Services worker was sent to jail Monday to start a three-month sentence for stealing more than $53,000 from a fund containing child-support payments." Read the entire article: http://www.thedailystar.com/local/local_story_258072714.html By Courthouse News Service - Georgia 9/9/2009 "Child Support Services of Atlanta used the U.S. mail to wantonly mislead parents into believing it is a state agency and persuade them to send it child support payments, which its owner Stuart Clay Cole stole for himself, the Post Office claims. The federal complaint claims Cole's company has offices in Georgia and 12 other states, and used threats and intimidation to get money from noncustodial parents." Read the entire article: http://www.courthousenews.com/2009/09/09/Post_Office_Accuses_Georgia_Firm_Of_Interstate_Child_Support_Scam.htm By San Jose Mercury News 9/8/2009 "An Orange County father has been convicted of murdering his 4-year-old son by drowning him in a bathtub. The Superior Court panel returned its decision Tuesday and will consider on Wednesday whether Gideon Omondi was insane at the time of the 2006 killing. His defense attorney says Omondi was distraught about a custody fight and didn't know what he did was wrong." Read the entire article: http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_13294753 By Hilton Head Island Packet – South Carolina 9/5/2009 "...Several sources, including clerks in other counties, said the kind of money that was transferred is intended to help clerks' offices handle child support cases and should not be used for other purposes. A state official said his office discouraged Elizabeth Smith more than a year ago from diverting the child support money to the Drug Court when she called to ask whether it would be appropriate. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/story/957322.html By Associated Press - 9/3/2009 "...Earlier this year, Vermont enacted a new law that allows minors charged with a first offense of "sexting" to be declared delinquent in juvenile court and sent to a diversion program, not prosecuted as adults or put on the state's sex offender registry. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i15vJ_HAfwyMn5DFOLAgAIjckuIQD9AG4BVO0
By USA Today 9/4/2009 "...Reeves said the family intends to get emotional help for the girl, who was tackled and disarmed by 18-year-old classmate Kaleb Eulls. But he said the girl does not belong in jail. "She doesn't need to be in jail for the rest of her life," he said. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-09-04-yazoo-mississippi_N.htm?csp=34&POE=click-refer By Yahoo News 9/4/2009 "...He and other exonerees in Texas, which leads the nation in freeing the wrongly convicted, soon will become instant millionaires under a new state law that took effect this week. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090904/ap_on_re_us/us_exoneree_millionaires By FoxNews.com 8/28/2009 "A grand jury has indicted a Phoenix woman accused of stabbing a disabled man 50 times before dismembering and burning his body." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,544144,00.html By The Sun 8/18/2009 "...The schoolgirl stunned cops by owning up to a serial killing spree that started when she was a 15-year-old. She told detectives she wanted to confess before she turned 18 and could be tried as an adult. The girl - too young even to be named - said she began targeting men in her home city of Sao Paulo, Brazil "for money, revenge and to bring justice". ..." Read the entire article: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2592734/Girl-aged-17-knifes-30-men-to-death.html
By FoxNews.com 8/31/2009 " A 10-year-old New Mexico boy is facing a murder charge in the shooting death of his father." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,544445,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r3:c0.284663:b27433750:z0 By Kentucky.com 8/26/2009 "Officials in western Kentucky have seized settlement money won by jail inmates to pay child support payments." Read the entire article: http://www.kentucky.com/471/story/909394.html By FoxNews.com 8/25/2009 "A teen armed with a sword and chainsaw who had several pipe bombs strapped to his body was arrested Monday after two explosions rocked Hillsdale High School in San Mateo, Calif., KTVU reported." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,542481,00.html By Josie Hinton -- Ham and High "...Some of Britain's leading children's authors have said they will boycott schools from the start of the new school term because of a policy requiring them to undergo criminal background checks to prove they aren't sex offenders. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/content/camden/hamhigh/news/story.aspx?brand=NorthLondon24&category=Newshamhigh&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newshamhigh&itemid=WeED20%20Aug%202009%2010%3A17%3A41%3A413 " By Evan Buxbaum - CNN 8/25/2009 "A new federal report says employees at four New York state juvenile residential centers have been responsible for abuse resulting in concussions, broken bones and even one death." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/25/new.york.youth.center.abuse/index.html?eref=time_health By KTLA News 8/18/2009 "A Houston-area mother convicted of mutilating her infant by cutting off his genitals two years ago was sentenced Monday to 99 years in prison. But minutes after the jury's sentence was read, Katherine Nadal, 28, yelled out that she did not hurt her son, prompting the boy's father to storm out of the courtroom." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/houston-mom-mutilates-son,0,881132.story By KTLA News 8/18/2009 "Authorities have apprehended the person suspected of setting fire to a wedding tent and killing 43 people. Local newspapers reported the groom's ex-wife was the arsonist." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-wedding-tent,0,6729684.story By KTLA News 8/17/2009 "A 25-year-old woman on probation in Los Angeles for a similar crime laced her breast milk with morphine and fed it to her 2-month-old daughter in an effort to attract the attention of the child's father, authorities say." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-poison-breastmilk,0,3226535.story By World Net Daily 8/24/2009 "In this day and age of neurobiology (understanding of brain chemistry and neuro-anatomy), it is shocking to have an organization such as the Heritage Foundation release a report called "Adult Time for Adult Crimes – Life Without Parole for Juvenile Killers and Violent Teens." It is not "compassionate conservatism;" it shows a lack of knowledge in regard to basic brain development." Read the entire article: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=107735
By Elkhart Truth - Indiana 8/23/2009 "...The former Marine, police officer and attorney -- the man who was trained to uphold and defend the law -- robbed the first of 38 banks. DESPERATE He was desperate to pay child support, he said. He wasn't going to be late. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.etruth.com/Know/News/Story.aspx?ID=491264
By CNN.com 8/20/2009 "For 20 years Steven Barnes has relived one day over and over in his mind; the scenes sometimes unfold like a filmy, disjointed dream, and sometimes with a stark and painful furor. It was the day he was arrested, at age 23, for a crime he did not commit." Read the entire article: http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/08/20/man-convicted-of-rape-murder-based-on-junk-science/ By Jeff Newman and Carol Harvat -- So Md News - Maryland 8/19/2009 "..."Friday is child-support day. It's an awful coincidence," Evans said, adding that it was unknown whether the caller had a scheduled court date. "It seems like there's a pattern here."..." Read the entire article: http://www.somdnews.com/stories/08192009/rectop143913_32193.shtml By CNN.com 8/19/2009 "Arrests for women driving under the influence jumped by nearly 30 percent during the decade ending in 2007, according to a study released Wednesday by the U.S. Transportation Department." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/19/women.drunken.driving/index.html By Fox News 8/19/2009 "Scientists in Israel say it's easy to "engineer a crime scene" with fabricated DNA evidence, throwing in doubt the strength of the prime standard in criminal cases that has been used to secure thousands of convictions." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,540641,00.html By FoxNews 8/19/2009 "The mother of an 8-year-old boy found dead in an Idaho canal and her live-in boyfriend have been indicted on first-degree murder charges by an Ada County grand jury." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,540443,00.html By Darah Hansen and Rebecca TeBrake -- Vancouver Sun 8/19/2009 "Until this week, Kimberly Ruth Noyes had a reputation among those who lived near her Grand Forks home as a good neighbour." Read the entire article: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Neighbour+arrested+connection+autistic+death+Grand+Forks/1901707/story.html By ABC News 8/16/2009 "It's been more than four months since Michael McCarty has seen his 8-year-old son, Liam. Today the young boy sits in an Italian orphanage, the product of an international custody dispute gone terribly wrong." Read the entire article: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/story?id=8339008&page=1 By FoxNews.com 8/18/2009 "A juvenile court judge ruled Tuesday that a 10-year-old boy charged in the alleged gang-rape of an 8-year-old Liberian girl be released from juvenile detention and placed in a therapeutic foster-care home." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,540403,00.html By MSNBC.com 8/18/2009 "A Los Angeles woman who decapitated her 4-year-old with a kitchen knife showed signs of mental illness nine months before the attack, yet Los Angeles County child welfare officials decided she wasn't a serious threat to the boy." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32463347/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/ By Tampa Tribune - Florida 8/12/2009 "...Jessica Horrigan is a fugitive for failing to make child support payments. Her grandmother told a reporter she'll try to track her down and make it right. ..." Read the entire article: http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/aug/12/121628/60-moms-listed-pasco-sheriffs-new-deadbeats-site/news-breaking/ By Yahoo News 8/12/2009 "Drowsy spectators in one suburban Chicago courtroom might want to stifle their yawns from now on. Clifton Williams, 33, of Richton Park, is facing six months in jail for making what court documents call a yawn-like sound in Will County Judge Daniel Rozak's court last month." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_odd_jailed_for_yawning By Click Orlando 8/10/2009 " A 60-year-old man was found guilty on Tuesday of groping a woman while she was in costume as Minnie Mouse at Walt Disney World." Read the entire article: http://www.clickorlando.com/news/20352110/detail.html By FoxNews 8/7/2009 "A 14-year-old girl driving a car packed with children crashed into a tree, killing one child, and police said Friday the girl's mother was in the passenger seat at the time." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,538040,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a4:g4:r2:c0.000000:b0:z5 By The Local 8/7/2009 "A 32-year-old woman has been found guilty of the rape of another woman by the Gothenburg District Court." Read the entire article: http://www.thelocal.se/21172/20090807/ By Herald Times 8/10/2009 "A 30-year-old Bradenton woman has been arrested on charges of sexual battery for using sex toys on children she was supervising, including one child who is two years old." Read the entire article: http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20090810/BREAKING/908109975/0/SPORTS By Yahoo News 8/7/2009 "It seemed too horrendous even to imagine. But the case of the mother who caused a deadly wrong-way crash while drunk and stoned is part of a disturbing trend: Women in the U.S. are drinking more, and drunken-driving arrests among women are rising rapidly while falling among men." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090807/ap_on_re_us/us_wrong_way_crash_women_drinkers By FoxNews.com 8/4/2009 "A Long Island mother was very drunk, with an extra-large bottle of vodka in her car, and was smoking marijuana before she caused a wrong-way crash on a New York highway that killed her, her young daughter and six others, police said Tuesday. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,536941,00.html?mrp By FoxNews.com 8/4/2009 "...The boy reportedly disappeared July 24 after leaving his mother's apartment in Boise, where he was visiting. His father, Charles Manwill, lives in New Plymouth and has had custody since 2008. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,536900,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r3:c0.231355:b26952756:z0 By FoxNews.com 8/4/2009 "A special education teacher saw signs that something was wrong with her 10-year-old student. ..." "..."I was concerned, but I didn't have the proof," Lori Nohner-Johnson, a special education teacher in the Hinckley-Finlayson Elementary School who taught Lakesha for three years, said Tuesday. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,536960,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r1:c0.315866:b26949366:z0 By CNN.com 8/5/2009 "Jim Nicholson could've just handed over the cash. Instead, he gave the would-be robber a run for his money -- and paid for it. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/05/bank.teller.stops.robber/index.html By The News Tribune -- Tacoma WA - 7/24/2009 "Jennifer Rice, the former Tacoma teacher convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 10-year-old student, was sentenced to a minimum of 25 years in prison Friday." Read the entire article: http://blogs.thenewstribune.com/crime/2009/07/24/tacoma_teacher_convicted_in_sex_crime_ca By The News Tribune 8/4/2009 "New Hampshire and a Massachusetts Eagle Scout who needed to be rescued from Mount Washington are negotiating the size of his fine, which the state initially set at $25,000. Scott Mason, of Halifax, Mass., spent three nights alone on the Northeast's highest mountain after spraining his ankle and veering off marked trails." Read the entire article: http://www.thenewstribune.com/tacoma/24hour/nation/story/833357.html Read the entire article: http://www.thenewstribune.com/tacoma/24hour/nation/story/833357.html
By ABC News 8/3/2009 "A southern Tasmanian woman has been remanded in custody after being charged with the murder of a four-year-old boy." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/03/2644889.htm By This is Sommerset - 7/21/2009 "A father's hopes for justice and compensation after he was falsely accused of rape could be shattered by yet another court battle. Clive Bishop was on the brink of making legal history earlier this year when he managed to win the right to compensation for the trauma he suffered when a drunken woman made up an allegation of rape against him." Read the entire article: http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/somersetnews/Compensation-rape-slur-cast-doubt/article-1182397-detail/article.html By Ashley Fielding -- Gamesville Times 7/31/2009 "Two recent cases involving teacher-student relationships have spurred a state legislator to clear up any question about such romantic trysts in Georgia. State Rep. Doug Collins, a Gainesville Republican, said sex between students and teachers should never happen, no matter a student’s age or if the sex is consensual. He is writing a bill to make sexual contact between teachers and students illegal in all cases." Read the entire article: http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/article/21787/ By Ellen Gabler of the Journal Sentinel 7/31/2009 "An employer who has refused to repay child support payments that he deducted from employees' checks was arrested Wednesday afternoon while working as an armed security guard." Read the entire article: http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/pi/52029457.html By Steve Lombari -- InjuryBoard.com - Iowa 7/27/2009 "It should be called the Hatley Amendment, in honor of Frank Hatley, a 50-year-old man who’s been in jail since June 2008 for not paying child support even though two separate DNA tests in the last nine years prove he’s not the father. ..." Read the entire article: http://desmoines.injuryboard.com/miscellaneous/states-will-should-begin-jailing-mothers-who-wrongfully-identify-men-in-paternity-actions.aspx?googleid=267326 By YahooNews.com 7/29/2009 "Otty Sanchez, a schizophrenic with a history of hospitalizations, refused to take medication for her postpartum depression, her son's father said. She'd been going to regular counseling and had been briefly hospitalized since the boy was born. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_baby_decapitated By FoxNews.com 7/27/2009 "A father who had no interest in his 4-year-old daughter did the unimaginable — hurling her off a 120-foot cliff to avoid paying child support, a prosecutor said Monday during the man's murder retrial." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,534978,00.html?test=latestnews By Dana Rosenblatt - CNN.com 7/27/2009 "...All of these young artists -- members of a program called No More Victims -- have at least one parent who has served time in prison. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/07/27/bia.children.of.inmates/index.html By MSNBC.com 7/27/2009 "A woman charged with murdering her 3 1/2-week-old son used a knife and two swords to dismember the child and ate parts of his body, including his brain, before stabbing herself in the torso and slicing her own throat, police said Monday. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32171926/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/ By CNN.com 7/23/2009 "..."I believe that Sgt. [James] Crowley acted in a way that is consistent with his training at the department, and consistent with national standards of law enforcement protocol," Commissioner Robert Haas said, referring to the officer who made the July 16 arrest at the professor's home. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/23/officer.gates.arrest/index.html?iref=mpstoryview By New Zealand Herald 7/23/3009 "A tearful 12-year-old girl's interview about a sexual assault arranged by her father for $40 was all lies to get him in trouble, she told a court today." Read the entire article: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10586025 By ScienceDaily.com 7/17/2009 "Impulsive boys with inadequate supervision, poor families and deviant friends are more likely to commit criminal acts that land them in juvenile court, according to a new study published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090716113301.htm By Kansas City Star - Missouri 7/20/2009 "A new Missouri law decriminalizes nonpayment of child support for parents, assuming they don't have a serious criminal history. Instead of going to jail, the "deadbeats" will be enrolled into a program similar to drug court, the Post Dispatch reports. They'll get vocational help and, if necessary, substance-abuse counseling." Read the entire article: http://blogs.kansascity.com/crime_scene/2009/07/new-mo-law-eases-the-burden-on-deadbeat-dads-and-moms.html By Phyllis Schafly -- Townhall.com 7/21/2009 "...Did you know that debtor's prisons (putting men in prison because they can't pay a debt) were abolished in the United States before we abolished slavery, but that they exist today to punish men who are too poor to pay what is falsely called "child support"?..." Read the entire article: http://townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2009/07/21/family_court_injustices_to_men By YahooNews.com 7/10/2009 "A Pennsylvania attorney who was released from prison Friday after serving the longest imprisonment on a civil contempt charge in U.S. history said judges have too much discretion in cases like his." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090710/ap_on_re_us/us_jailhouse_millionaire By Seattlepi.com 7/11/2009 " Former Vancouver police officer Clyde Ray Spencer spent nearly 20 years in prison after he was convicted of sexually molesting his son and daughter. Now, the children say it never happened." Read the entire article: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa_recanting_abuse.html By Tom Proebsting -- Huntington News 7/14/2009 "...Second, a growing segment of the prison population is there because of their failure to pay child support payments. Lump these offenders with those who steal and you have another significant group of inmates, the majority of which are there for non-violent crimes. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.huntingtonnews.net/columns/090714-proebsting-columnsprisonreform.html By Dave Alsup -- CNN 7/20/2009 "It takes seven minutes to execute a death row inmate, according to the state of Texas. At that rate, Mike Graczyk has spent about 40 hours of his life watching men -- and a few women -- die." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/20/texas.execution.witness/index.html?iref=werecommend By FoxNews.com 7/4/2009 "Cynthia Mary Roberson is an unemployed mother who police say led her 12- and 14-year-old sons and their friends to commit at least 20 armed robberies and assaults, including the beating of a teenage boy who had nothing more than an orange lollipop. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,530057,00.html By Fox News.com 7/2/2009 "A convicted child molester with a knack for eluding authorities was sentenced to 155 years for sexually abusing two boys, including a prepubescent youngster whom he was living with in the U.S. Virgin Islands, officials said Thursday." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529895,00.html By Bob White -- News Enterprise - Elizabethtown, Kentucky "...First indicted on the Class D felony in 1993 in Hardin Circuit Court, Thompson was later convicted. After failing to catch up on the large arrearage, a probated prison sentence for Thompson was set for revocation. ... Read the entire article: http://www.thenewsenterprise.com/cgi-bin/c2.cgi?053+article+News.Local+20090703154141053053003 By Lovisa Stannow -- Washington Times 7/8/2009 "The effort to end rape in U.S. prisons and jails has emerged as an unlikely unifier of civil society in recent years. Human rights organizations, faith-based groups, lawmakers from the left and the right, and -- increasingly -- prison officials have made a commitment to addressing sexual abuse in detention." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/08/responsible-for-those-in-custody/ By FoxNews.com 7/9/2009 "An Idaho woman face charges that she had sex with a 14-year-old boy that she was hired to watch in August 2007. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,530882,00.html?mrp By The Independent (UK) 6/29/2009 "Parents could be fined or sent to prison if their children misbehave, under powers to be awarded to schools. They form part of a government White Paper on education to be published by the Schools Secretary, Ed Balls, tomorrow." Read the entire article: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/parents-of-unruly-children-to-be-fined-1722942.html
By Kim Zetter -- Wired 6/25/2009 "....Oei, an assistant principal at Freedom High School in South Riding, Virginia, was charged last year over a photo he obtained in the course of investigating a sexting issue at his school. In March 2008, Oei’s principal tasked him with investigating rumors that some students at the school were exchanging sexually explicit photos of a teenage girl. When confronted by Oei, a male student admitted he had one photo. After the principal instructed him to retain a copy of the photo for the investigation, Oei had the student e-mail the image to his cell phone, as well as transfer it to Oei’s desktop computer. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/06/sexting By FoxNews.com 6/2/2009 "A woman in Texas has been accused of repeatedly smearing human waste on her 3-year-old daughter's intravenous feeding line, potentially causing life-threatening infections. Emily Beth McDonald, 23, of Austin, was charged with felony injury to a child. She faces up to life in prison if convicted." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525042,00.html?mrp= By ScienceDaily 6/19/2009 "The physical and mental health needs of juvenile offenders should be treated as a priority if offenders held in detention have any real hope of rehabilitation, according to new research from the University of Adelaide, Australia." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090619112333.htm By YahooNews.com 6/23/2009 "New measures aimed at reducing prison rapes are in the works — and states that fail to take steps to protect their inmates could see their federal money cut. The new standards were proposed Tuesday by the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission, a bipartisan panel that spent five years studying the issue. It's estimated that about 60,000 inmates are sexually abused each year." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090623/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_prison_rape By USA Today 6/24/2009 "Ed Thomas, one of the best-known high school football coaches in Iowa and the NFL's 2005 high school coach of the year, was fatally shot Wednesday by a former high school football player, authorities said." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-06-24-school-shooting-iowa_N.htm?csp=34&POE=click-refer By YahooNews.com 6/19/2009 "After five decades of silence about what happened to his toddler son, farmer Jerry Damman was hopeful that a Michigan man's incredible claim to be the boy was true. But DNA results released Thursday disproved the possibility, closing a bizarre chapter in a long-cold case of the New York toddler who disappeared on Halloween in 1955. The tests showed John Barnes did not have the same mother as a sibling who was in a stroller at the time of the kidnapping. That meant there was no way he could possibly be the kidnapped child. Hundreds of miles north, the family members who raised Barnes in Michigan angrily rejected the suggestion he wasn't theirs. They said they'd even be willing to submit to tests to disprove his hunch that he wasn't their flesh and bone. "He pretty much lost two families today," said Cheryl Barnes, a sister who grew up with the man in northwest Michigan. "We knew that was going to be the outcome. ... My dad feels the same way. Neither of us had a doubt. My dad knows who his son is. I'm angry at my brother for putting everyone through this, turning everybody's lives upside down."..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090619/ap_on_re_us/us50_years_missing By Gene Deason -- Brownwood Bulletin 6/21/2009 "Being a good father can be difficult, even under the best circumstances. Imagine what it’s like for a father serving a sentence in a correctional facility like Brownwood’s T.R. Havins Unit. Thanks to the National Fatherhood Initiative’s “Inside Out Dad,” some fathers are learning practical and innovative ways to help overcome the physical and psychological challenges that incarcerated fathers face ��“ inside. Read the entire article: http://www.brownwoodbulletin.com/articles/2009/06/21/news/doc4a3dfea36fca0785772318.txt By Yahoo News 6/17/2009 "A central Ohio teenager accused of putting a noose around a Hispanic boy's neck and dragging him in a parking lot has been sentenced to 10 days in jail. The 18-year-old was sentenced Wednesday in juvenile court in Mount Vernon, a city of 15,000 residents an hour's drive northeast of Columbus. He dropped his original plea of not guilty and pleaded no contest to ethnic intimidation. A charge of aggravated menacing was dropped. Seventeen-year-old Robert Cantu says in May 2008 he was dragged from a sidewalk to a parking lot with the noose wrapped around his neck by a group of teenagers shouting racuak slurs. He says the teens threatened to hang him before a bystander intervened." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090618/ap_on_re_us/us_parking_lot_noose_attack By Joshua Rhett Miller -- Fox News 6/15/2009 "A mother of four young children in Maine was charged Monday with gross sexual assault after British investigators more than 3,000 miles away used the Internet to allegedly catch her in the act of Webcasting a sexual assault of her young child. Julie M. Carr, 30, of Mars Hill, Maine, was arrested at about 11 p.m. Friday. Her four children — believed to range from 18 months to 5 years old — were taken into protective custody. The Child Exploitation Investigation Team of England's West Midlands Police said their unit received information late Thursday that a local man was using the Internet to show inappropriate material of children. An unidentified 18-year-old man was later arrested in Walsall, England." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,526462,00.html By YahooNews 6/18/2009 "The Supreme Court said Thursday that convicts have no constitutional right to test DNA evidence in hopes of proving their innocence long after they were found guilty of a crime. The decision may have limited impact because the federal government and 47 states already have laws that allow convicts some access to genetic evidence. Testing so far has led to the exoneration of 240 people who had been found guilty of murder, rape and other violent crimes, according to the Innocence Project. The court ruled 5-4, with its conservative justices in the majority, against an Alaska man who was convicted in a brutal attack on a prostitute 16 years ago. William Osborne won a federal appeals court ruling granting him access to a blue condom that was used during the attack. Osborne argued that testing its contents would firmly establish his innocence or guilt. In parole proceedings, however, Osborne has admitted his guilt in a separate bid for release from prison. The high court reversed the ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. States already are dealing with the challenges and opportunities presented by advances in genetic testing, Chief Justice John Roberts said in his majority opinion." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090618/ap_on_go_su_co/us_supreme_court_dna_testing By Orlando News.com 6/12/2009 "He was 19 and she was 14 when they first had sex. The teenage lovers now have been married for nearly 10 years, but as a result of that youthful indiscretion Virgil Frank McCranie is listed as a sex offender on a state Web site. That's because he was an adult and she was still a minor. She reported the crime only after finding out he was having relations with another -- adult -- woman. McCranie, 34, told Gov. Charlie Crist and the Florida Cabinet, sitting Thursday as the Florida Board of Executive Clemency, that being on the sex offender list has caused him to lose at least 17 jobs in the last several years and that his four children, ages 7 to 14, have shared his stigma. McCranie, who now has a retail sales job in Panama City Beach, asked for a pardon to lift the cloud over his life caused what's known as a "Romeo and Juliet" case." Read the entire article: http://www.clickorlando.com/news/19733565/detail.html By CNN.com 6/16/2009 "The man with the white hair and Southern twang seemed the consummate gentleman. Handsomely attired in a dark jacket and open-collared burgundy shirt, Troy Tidwell came to answer questions in a civil lawsuit that portrays him as a monster. Across the table sat one of his accusers, Bryant Middleton. He had finally come face to face with the man who he says has haunted his dreams for the past 50 years. He claims Tidwell beat him mercilessly with a leather strap when he was 14, when Tidwell was an administrator at a Florida reform school." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/16/florida.boys.school.lawsuit/index.html?eref=rss_crime By YahooNews 6/16/2009 "More than 50 years ago, a mother left her stroller outside a Long Island bakery and returned minutes later to find her 2-year-son had vanished. Police and residents searched ditches and homes for the blond toddler. Investigators chased down leads around the country. But the sensational case soon went cold. No one knew what happened to little Stephen Damman. Now a Michigan man has come forward to say he is the boy, and federal officials are awaiting DNA test results to determine if he's right. The revelation stunned Long Island residents old enough to remember the futile search, and it renewed hope among Damman's relatives, including Stephen's 78-year-old father. "Just like a death gives you closure, you know sometimes, it will give you closure to know what happened,".." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090616/ap_on_re_us/us50_years_missing By WNDU16- Indiana 6/15/2009 "Roughly 5,000 people are supposed to pay child support in Cass County, and roughly 1,900 are behind on those payments. But the worst offenders will soon face criminal charges. Cass County prosecutor Victor Fitz flagged 18 people; together, they are behind in roughly $500,000 in payments, Fitz said. "These are people that aren't trying," Fitz said. "These are people that are playing cat and mouse with the system. It's more important for them to take care of their own selfish needs than to do their darndest to take care of their kids," he said. One of the people who isn't getting the child support he's supposed to is 38-year-old Todd Allen. "Any little bit would help," said Allen, who works nights at a foundry to support his two kids from a previous marriage. He now lives with his new wife; together, they raise 5 children. "There's weeks where it will be extremely tight and we live paycheck to paycheck," said Allen. His wife, one of the 18 people the prosecutor's office sent a letter to, lives out of state. The letter states she could face up to 4 years in prison. "Once that felony warrant is issued, if you're convicted, then every time you make out a job application and you get to that little 'have you ever been convicted of a felony?' box, you gotta check yes," said Ron Cruzan, a warrant officer with Cass County. Felony charges will be initiated Tuesday." Read the entire article: http://www.wndu.com/home/headlines/48108012.html By Michael H. Venish -- The Real Truth - Ohio 6/5/2009 "Being a father is one of the most rewarding and exciting responsibilities a man could experience. Despite society’s reluctance to admit it, fathers undergird everything that is a family. Yet the very foundation of the family is under tremendous stress and trauma. In the last 45 years, the United States has become a world leader in fatherless families, followed by Britain and other nations. Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote in his report to the Lyndon B. Johnson presidential administration, “From the wild Irish slums of the 19th century Eastern seaboard, to the riot-torn suburbs of Los Angeles, there is one unmistakable lesson in American history: a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future…that community asks for and gets chaos, crime, violence, unrest, disorder.”.." Read the entire article: http://www.realtruth.org/articles/090605-004-family.html By FoxNews.com 6/10/2009 "Attorneys and advocates are questioning why an 18-year-old East Texan with profound mental disabilities was sentenced to 100 years in prison in a child sex abuse case. They say the case of Aaron Hart was mishandled from start to finish and raises questions over how to deal with the mentally disabled when they encounter the criminal justice system. After a neighbor found Hart fondling her 6-year-old stepson in September, the East Texas teenager pleaded guilty to five counts, The Dallas Morning News reported Wednesday. Hart has an IQ of 47 and was diagnosed as mentally disabled as a child. He never learned to read or write and speaks unsteadily. Despite being a target of bullies, he was courteous, well-behaved and earned money by doing chores for neighbors, supporters said. His parents say he'd never acted out sexually. "He couldn't understand the seriousness of what he did," said his father, Robert Hart. "I never dreamed they would think about sending him to prison. When they said 100 years — it was terror, pure terror, to me."..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525751,00.html?mrp By Linda Deutsch -- YahooNews.com 6/9/2009 "The parents of a woman slain 23 years ago are demanding to know why it took so long for Los Angeles police to focus on one of their own as a suspect, despite several angry confrontations between their daughter and the accused veteran investigator. Detective Stephanie Lazarus, 49, is accused of killing Sherri Rasmussen, her ex-boyfriend's wife, in 1986, when Lazarus had been on the police force for two years. But when Rasmussen's father told authorities after the slaying to look into her husband's former girlfriend in the LAPD, their lawyer says he was told he was "watching too much TV."..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090609/ap_on_re_us/us_detective_killing By Jackie Damico CNN 6/5/2009 "Former teacher Charlene Schmitz is behind bars in a federal detention center in Tallahassee, Florida, serving 10 years for using texts and instant messages to seduce a 14-year-old student. Read the entire article: http://vzw.cnn.mlogic.mobi/cnn/ne/crime/detail/316766/1 By ScienceDaily.com 6/8/2009 "Boys who carry a particular variation of the gene Monoamine oxidase A (MAOA), sometimes called the "warrior gene," are more likely not only to join gangs but also to be among the most violent members and to use weapons, according to a new study from The Florida State University that is the first to confirm an MAOA link specifically to gangs and guns." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090605123237.htm By Janet DiGiacomo - CNN - 6/7/2009 "A 28-year-old Oregon woman has been charged with murder after the body of a new mother was found in the crawl space of her home. Rescue crews first went to Korena Roberts' home in Washington County on Friday in response to a call of a newborn in distress. They found Roberts' boyfriend unsuccessfully trying to revive the baby using first-aid techniques. Roberts told deputies the baby was hers, the county sheriff's office said. Medics noticed a lot of blood at the home, and sent Roberts and the baby to a hospital. "Doctors at the hospital were not able to revive the baby," said Sgt. David Thompson of the Washington County Sheriff's Office in a news release. "They also discovered that Ms. Roberts had not delivered a child at anytime in the recent past."Deputies returned to the home, where they found the body of 21-year-old Heather Snively in the crawl space under the kitchen, Thompson said. Authorities learned Snively had been pregnant at the time she was attacked, and they determined she was the mother of the infant." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/07/oregon.pregnancy.murder/index.html?eref=rss_crime
By CNN.com 6/8/2009 "A woman whose body was found in the crawl space of an Oregon home -- the mother of a newborn who also died -- died from "homicidal violence," the state's deputy medical examiner said Monday. An autopsy showed causes of 21-year-old Heather Snively's death included blunt-force trauma and "sharp-force injuries," Dr. Christopher Young said. Sharp-force injuries mean cut or stab wounds. Young said additional information will not be released until test results are received. Korena Roberts, 28, is charged with murder in Snively's death. She was scheduled to appear in court Monday afternoon." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/08/oregon.pregnancy.murder/index.html?eref=rss_crime By Glenda Anderson -- The Press Democrat 6/9/2009 "A Lake County teen was sentenced Monday to seven years in prison for stabbing to death a former friend last year at a Clearlake school bus stop. Gabrielle Varney, 19, remained calm as the family of classmate Heather Valdez unleashed their anger during her sentencing before Lake County Superior Court Judge Arthur Mann. “If it was up to me, you would die in the gas chamber,” said Valdez’s aunt, Tammy Davis. She called Varney a “cold-blooded killer” and “pond scum.” Varney pleaded guilty in April to voluntary manslaughter and using a knife to kill Valdez. The plea carried a maximum 12-year sentence. Mann selected a shorter sentence, saying the stabbing did not appear to be premeditated. He noted that Varney did not have a prior criminal record and she immediately confessed." Read the entire article: http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20090609/ARTICLES/906089913/0/NEWS By Michael Luke -- WWLTV.com 6/7/2009 "A 17-year-old man was booked by Jefferson Parish deputies in the murder and rape of an eight-month-old infant, JP Sheriff’s spokesman Col. John Fortunato said in a statement. ....After an autopsy on the child, the Coroner’s Office classified the infant’s death as a homicide, following evidence that the child had fractures consistent from a beating, Fortunato said. A 17-year-old man, Arnold Ross, Terrytown, who claimed to be the boyfriend of Lonzo’s 34-year-old mother, told detectives that the infant fell down the stairs, Fortunato said. ...“He later admitted that the child began crying when he was babysitting him, and because of the crying he repeatedly beat the child,” said Sgt. Larry Dyess, a spokesman for the Sheriff’s Office. “As he was beating the child, the child defecated on himself and he stated that he stuck his finger in the child’s rectum in an attempt to clean the child.”..." Read the entire article: http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stories/wwl060609mlrape.5629f688.html?ocp=2# By FoxNews.com 5/29/2009 "A Pennsylvania mother found at Walt Disney World after claiming she and her 9-year-old daughter were abducted by two men and stuffed into a car trunk waived her right to extradition Friday and will now head home to face charges. ...The ruse began to unravel shortly after Sweeten phoned 911 on Tuesday afternoon and told them she and her 9-year-old daughter had been carjacked and stuffed in the trunk of a dark Cadillac in Upper Southampton Township. The call touched off a frantic search for the pair that ended 30 hours later when police handcuffed Sweeten as she and the child returned to their hotel at the amusement park Wednesday night. ....Police say she drained several bank accounts and took a co-worker's driver's license before boarding a flight to Orlando. Sweeten has been charged with filing a false report and identity theft. The missing girl, Julia Rakoczy, was reunited with her father at an Orlando police station on Thursday afternoon, authorities said. She flew back to Philadelphia with her father, and police escorted them off the plane." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,522817,00.html By MyFoxFilly.com " A man described by Philadelphia police as a "person of interest" in the rape of an 11-year-old girl is in custody after being beaten by an angry mob. Authorities said 26-year-old Jose Carrasquillo, of Philadelphia, was grabbed by neighborhood residents Tuesday afternoon, beaten and held down until police arrived and arrested him. It happened around 3:30 p.m. at Front Street and Clearfield Street in the city's Kensington neighborhood. The residents recognized Carrasquillo from a photo distributed by police. "We were all standing on the corner and we saw him coming down the street. We knew who he was," said Hyking Brisbon, who was among the crowd. "We grabbed him and started roughing him up and held him down and the cops came...I have a daughter and I wouldn't want that to be my child."..." Read the entire article: http://www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/news/Student_Rape_06_02_09
By FoxNews.com 6/4/2009 "A mob of furious neighbors of an 11-year-old girl raped on her way to school in Philadelphia won't be charged for beating a man wanted for questioning in the case. Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said Thursday that no charges will be filed against the group of about a dozen residents of the city's West Kensington section who attacked 26-year-old Jose Carrasquillo. Ramsey added that he doesn't condone violence. The crowd pummeled Carrasquillo for several minutes on Tuesday with wooden sticks, their hands and their feet before police arrived to take him into custody. The attack was videotaped." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525088,00.htmlBy MSNBC.com 6/2/2009 "A 51-year-old woman used guilt about her family's difficult finances to get her young sons and their friends to help her pay bills by committing at least 20 armed robberies in the Phoenix area, authorities said. Cynthia Roberson, her two sons, ages 12 and 14, and five others face charges of armed robbery and aggravated assault, investigators said Monday. "All of us should be disgusted by this," Phoenix police Sgt. Phil Roberts said. "This is absolutely not how to raise your children."..." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31057070/ By Mike Allen -- Roanoke Times - Virginia 6/2/2009 "Almost two years after Jason Lamond Faulkner shot his pregnant ex-girlfriend in an altercation, the 24-year-old's capital murder case still had not gone to trial. New evidence hampered the prosecution's case, as a previously uncooperative witness came forward to testify that Tasha LaShay Nowlin was carrying a knife when she confronted Faulkner and started to punch him the night of June 9, 2007. Yet Nowlin was pregnant when Faulkner fatally shot her, and the defense faced the prospect of prosecutors showing the jury photographs of Nowlin's deceased unborn baby. The two sides reached a compromise that played out in court Monday afternoon. Martinsville Commonwealth's Attorney Joan Ziglar reduced the murder charge from capital to second-degree, and Faulkner pleaded guilty to that charge, as well as to shooting from an occupied vehicle, discharging a firearm in city limits, use of a firearm in a felony and possession of a firearm as a convicted felon. The two sides made no agreement as to what Faulkner's sentence will be. At his July 17 sentencing, he faces a mandatory minimum of five years and a maximum possible punishment of 63 years." Read the entire article: http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/206895 By Robin McKie - Guardian.co.uk – United Kingdom 5/24/2009 "...Twenty-five years ago the idea that scientists would one day be able to pinpoint an individual from the tiniest trace of their sweat or blood would have seemed laughable. Today we take it for granted. Along with the CCTV camera and the tapping of emails and phone calls, the DNA fingerprint has become part of a civic apparatus that can follow the movements of individuals with unprecedented accuracy. Thanks to the research by Jeffreys, thousands of dangerous criminals have been caught and imprisoned and thousands of individuals unfairly denied UK citizenship have been allowed to settle in this country. At the same time, millions of individuals have had their profiles stored in databases in Britain, a serious threat to civil liberties according to some organisations and individuals, a point that is - partially - accepted by Jeffreys himself. More than any other modern scientific discovery, DNA fingerprinting raises crucial issues about balancing the use of technology to help society against an individual's right to privacy. Such concerns were far from the mind of Alec Jeffreys, then a 34-year-old Leicester University genetics researcher, in the summer of 1984. At the time he was seeking ways to trace genes through family lineages and had hit on a fragment of DNA that was repeated on different chromosomes in the cells of men and women." Read the entire article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/may/24/dna-fingerprinting-alec-jeffreys By CNN.com 5/22/2009 "Melissa Huckaby, the former Sunday school teacher accused of kidnapping, raping and killing 8-year-old Sandra Cantu, will face additional charges that she tried to poison two people, including another 7-year-old girl. A revised complaint against Huckaby, 28, of Tracy, California, was made public just hours before she was due back in court on Friday. The new charges caused another delay in the murder case, CNN afiliate KRON reported. The complaint charged that Huckaby "did willfully and unlawfully mingle a harmful substance with food or drink" with the intent to harm the child, identified only as "Jane M. Doe." Another alleged poisoning victim was identified as Daniel Plowman, but no age or other information was immediately provided." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/22/california.slain.girl/index.html?eref=rss_crime By CBC News 5/15/2009 "A veteran Edmonton taxi driver is speaking publicly about a civil lawsuit he filed last year against four young women who falsely accused him of sexual assault after travelling in his car three years ago. "I just want to give those girls [a] lesson," Soner Yasa told CBC News. "We're so vulnerable as a cab driver." The lawsuit, filed by Yasa in Edmonton's Court of Queen's Bench in April 2008, seeks nearly $250,000 in damages to cover emotional and mental distress. His allegations have not been proven in court. One of the four young women filed a statement of defence last month in which she admits to getting into Yasa's taxi but denies the rest of his allegations." Read the entire article: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2009/05/15/edmonton-cab-driver-lawsuit.html By Bay News 9 5/17/2009 "A Bradenton Tae Kwon Do instructor was recently accused of being a sex offender, and now he is trying to set the record straight. Thomas Carpenter said someone sent an anonymous email to several businesses in the plaza where he works as a martial arts instructor, warning them that he was a sexual offender. The only problem? Carpenter is not a sex offender. The database lists another man with the same name living in the same area as a sex offender. The writer had the wrong man. "We're both white men and have loss of hair, but beyond that there's no similarities," he said. Carpenter said he felt like his reputation took a big hit from the email. He said he hasn't lost any business yet, but he worries that it may influence potential customers to find someone else." Read the entire article: http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2009/5/17/473813.html By Ben Schmitt -- Free Press • 5/12/2009 "If you’re a deadbeat dad who agrees to start making child support payments to stay out of jail, you’ve got to meet one more requirement in Judge Wade McCree’s Detroit courtroom: Watch the Maury Povich show. McCree, a criminal judge in Wayne County Circuit Court, has begun sentencing dads to watch the show as part of their probation. The judge, who will appear on the show Thursday, said he got the idea after watching a few episodes. One day in February he shouted to a man with five kids from five mothers: “What the hell do you think this is, the Maury Povich show?” “Everyone fell out laughing, but it really wasn’t funny,” the judge said today. A videographer was in the courtroom for a local TV show and asked permission to send the clip to Povich’s show, McCree said. Soon, Maury had a crew filming in McCree’s courtroom and they invited him in for a show taping last month. “Some of these men in my court watch the show and see how ridiculous some of the deadbeats look, and then they realize it’s them,” McCree said. Povich’s shows often focus on paternity issues, DNA testing and child support." Read the entire article: http://www.freep.com/article/20090512/NEWS02/90512063/1038/ENT03/Behind+in+child+support?+%E2%80%98Maury++may+be+in+your+future By KKTV 11 News - Colorado Springs 5/13/2009 "28-year-old Shenequa Brown appeared in court Wednesday, to be advised of the charges she is facing. She's facing charges of identity theft and criminal impersonation among other charges. Brown was at one point employed with Policy Studies Inc. or PSI. The company contracted with El Paso County to provide the office staffing for El Paso County Child Support Enforcement. She was fired from that position. PSI has released as statement about the allegations against Brown saying: "We are disturbed to learn of the former employee’s arrest. Our primary concern is to support the investigators in determining if this former employee somehow inappropriately used information or money from the program we operate – and if so, to notify any individuals whose information may have been compromised and replace any missing payments."..." Read the entire article: http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/44953977.html By Bill Mears -- CNN.com 5/12/2009 "A former death row inmate in Tennessee has been cleared of murder, three years after the Supreme Court raised repeated questions about his conviction. State prosecutors on Tuesday asked a judge to drop all charges against Paul House, who was convicted of murder and sentenced to die in 1986. Special Judge Jon Blackwood accepted the request. House had been scheduled to be retried next month for the 1985 murder of Carolyn Muncey. He had been on death row for 22 years but was released on bail last year. He has multiple sclerosis and must use a wheelchair. The high court ruled in June 2006 that House was entitled to a new hearing. "Although the issue is closed, we conclude that this is the rare case where -- had the jury heard all the conflicting testimony -- it is more likely than not that no reasonable juror viewing the record as a whole would lack reasonable doubt," wrote Justice Anthony Kennedy for the 5-3 majority." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/12/death.row.exoneration/index.html?eref=rss_crime By KDKA - Pennsylvania 5/11/2009 "The trial began for a Butler County man accused of killing a 14-month-old child. Jarred Knight, 25, is charged with the first degree murder of Tyler Davis. If convicted, Knight could face the death penalty. Read the entire article: http://kdka.com/local/Jarred.Knight.trial.2.1006574.html
BY NADEGE CHARLES -- MiamiHerald.com - Florida 5/8/2009 "When asked, Willie Broadnex, 14, said he did not know what it meant to be a man. He laughed nervously, shrugging his shoulders. Standing next to him, his grandmother,Rosa White, who has raised Willie since he was a little, sighed and said this was precisely the reason she dragged him out of bed on a Saturday morning in April to hear Circuit Judge Peter Adrien speak. ''He doesn't understand the value of an education; he's failing four classes,'' she said. White's grandson was one of more than 40 boys and a few girls who attended the forum organized by Becoming a Man Project, an organization that mentors young men in Miami's inner cities on what it takes to become a man. BAM hosted its second forum April 25 at the Joseph Caleb Center. The program, which launched in March, is the brainchild of Adrien, who said he was inspired when he noticed that a majority of the defendants who came before him in criminal court were young black men without high school diplomas." Read the entire article: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/north-central/story/1037993.html By Tabby Phillips 7 Online.com - New York 5/9/2009 "Some people just don't get it. Last February we told you the story of a deadbeat employer, who has been garnishing money from one of his employee's paychecks. But instead of sending it off to pay for the man's child support, he has been keeping it for himself. But this time the boss was brought to family court. But before he saw the magistrate he had to answer to 7 On Your Side's Tappy Phillips. Read the entire article: http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/7_on_your_side&id=6803832 By E. Steven Berkimer and Pierce Harlan -- Opinion,The Daily Cardinal - 4/30/2009 "April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Unfortunately, much of the “awareness” raised about a crime that victimizes all too many women is unnecessarily politicized and factually incorrect. For reasons that have nothing to do with aiding rape victims and everything to do with advancing a larger political agenda, too many of the persons who dominate the public discourse about sexual assault feel it is necessary to insist that false rape claims are a myth. We write for one of the few websites in America devoted exclusively to giving voice to the persons wrongly accused of sexual assault, The False Rape Society. False rape claims are America’s taboo epidemic, and we chronicle news of false rape claims on a daily basis. We receive heart-wrenching emails, especially from mothers of young men who have been falsely accused. One young man recently told us our website stopped him from committing suicide. That is an awful burden to put on one little website, but these people have nowhere else to turn. But our efforts aren’t universally applauded, as you can imagine. Our site is often dismissed by some feminists as unnecessary, to put it charitably, because, we are told, women don’t lie about rape." Read the entire article: http://www.dailycardinal.com/article/23007 By Newsday.com New York 5/5/2009 "Upstate New York prosecutors say a former county child support investigator stole more than $50,000 from a fund containing court-ordered child support payments. Authorities are charging 50-year-old Karen Faulkner of Trout Creek with second-degree grand larceny, which is punishable by up to 15 years in state prison. She's also charged with 57 felony counts of falsifying business records." Read the entire article: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--stolenchildsuppor0505may05,0,281925.story
By Donna St. George -- Washington Post 5/7/2009 "In Fairfax County, a teenage boy sent out a text message asking girls to send photos of their breasts. Word got out at his high school, police said, and when authorities tracked the teen down, they discovered a cache of naked images on his phone. Thus began another investigation into "sexting" -- sending sexually explicit photos by cellphone -- and another deliberation about when adolescent impulsiveness and indiscretion become a serious criminal act. Some of the photos could qualify as child pornography, a felony in Virginia, police said. "He thought it was a mischievous, fun game, without realizing he was asking these girls to commit a crime and he was committing a crime," said Sgt. Bill Fulton of the Fairfax Police Department." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/06/AR2009050604088.html?referrer=emailarticle By Robert Barnes -- Washington Post 5/5/2009 "The Supreme Court announced yesterday that it will decide whether a 13-year-old convicted of rape must spend the rest of his life in prison, a new front in the court's examination of whether sentences suitable for adults may be applied to teenagers. The justices took two cases from Florida, one involving the 13-year-old and another involving a 17-year-old convicted in a home invasion, to decide whether the penalty of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole violates the Constitution's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishments. ...The most dramatic of the sentencing cases involves Joe Sullivan, now 33, who was convicted of rape two decades ago after a burglary at the home of a 72-year-old woman in Pensacola, Fla. The woman did not see Sullivan but identified his voice, and he was implicated by other, older boys who were part of the burglary." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/04/AR2009050403607.html?referrer=emailarticle By WorldNetDaily.com 5/4/2009 "A 16-year-old homeschooled boy from North Carolina was taken away from his home in handcuffs two months ago and has been held by the FBI in Indiana ever since, a victim, his mother claims, of the Patriot Act spun out of control. According to Annette Lundeby of Oxford, N.C., armed FBI agents and local police stormed her home around 10 p.m. on March 5, looking for her son, Ashton. The officers presented a federal search warrant and seized the tenth-grader's computer, cell phone and bank statements. Ashton was then taken to a juvenile facility in South Bend, Ind., charged with making a bomb threat in Indiana from his home computer. His mother, however, told Raleigh's WRAL-TV that she argued with the authorities, claiming someone must have hacked into her son's IP address and used it to make crank calls. The agents' search, she claims, also failed to uncover any trace of bomb-making materials." Read the entire article: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=97099
By CNN.com 4/28/2009 "An elderly grandfather was greeted with hugs and kisses from his family in Washington state after returning home from months of what he called false imprisonment in a Mexican prison. Ed Chrisman's wheelchair was pushed toward his cheering family members Monday at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport for the highly anticipated reunion, CNN television affiliate KOMO reported. The 88-year-old's ordeal began in January, when he went to Mexico with grandson Gary Chrisman Jr. for inexpensive dental work, family members said. The pair ran into trouble in Algodones, Mexico. At a convenience store, the younger Chrisman went inside to buy soft drinks while his grandfather waited in the car. The younger Chrisman had been photographing the area and approached a woman in the store about snapping shots of her daughters. He offered them $25; they agreed, and he took a few pictures of the teenagers' faces. At that point, the Chrisman family says, the mother demanded more money from Gary Chrisman, he refused, and she called authorities, alleging that he had tried taking pornographic pictures of her daughters. Both men were arrested, but the police report does not say why the elder Chrisman was arrested." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/28/washington.grandfather.freed/index.html?iref=werecommend By Justin Anderson-Kanawha Bureau -- West Virginia Record – West Virginia 4/30/2009 "A couple says the state and federal government is continuing to take child support payments from them even after the female half of the couple regained custody of her child. Christian and Angela Lindroth filed a lawsuit April 15 in Kanawha Circuit Court against the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, Tamicka Tolliver, a DHHR employee, Policy Studies, a company contracted to collect child support for the state, and Debbie McMillan, a woman who had temporary custody of Angela's daughter. Read the entire article: http://www.wvrecord.com/news/218745-couple-says-state-woman-illegally-took-child-support
By Bianca Prieto | Orlando Sentinel Staff Writer 4/25/2009 "Delores Laster wrapped a towel around the .22-caliber revolver, pulled the trigger and put a bullet into the back of her cheating husband's head 21 years ago. Then, unable to lift his 215-pound body by herself, she recruited her 10- and 11-year-old children to help carry Clarence Laster from their bedroom to the garage. Those are among the accusations made public Friday in 900 pages of evidence from the State Attorney's Office case against the Orange County schoolteacher, details that portray a family with a slew of secrets. Recent interviews by detectives with the couple's children, now adults, revealed information that helped Orange County homicide detective Cpl. Duwana Pelton close the cold-case murder last month. Laster, 61, was indicted on a first-degree-murder charge last month in the March 1988 killing. Pelton, a seasoned homicide investigator, was shocked to learn from the children that Delores Laster included them in a cover-up of the killing. ....Earlier this month a judge released Laster from jail without paying bail. She must wear a GPS monitor and stay away from her two older children, both of whom testified before a grand jury about their mother, according to police. She remains out of jail." Read the entire article: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-asecfla.rop.a_f042509apr25,0,7374669.story By CNN.com 4/24/2009 "An adoptive mother has been charged with murdering her 9-year-old quadriplegic daughter, prosecutors in Michigan said Friday. Lorrie Thomas was charged with second-degree murder and child abuse in the death of Shylea Myza Thomas, said John Potbury, an assistant prosecutor with the Genesee County Prosecutor's Office in Flint, Michigan. Thomas is also charged with tampering with evidence. Thomas, who is the girl's biological aunt, made no immediate public statement. Police found the girl's body this week, stuffed inside a garbage bag in a public storage facility in Vienna Township, near Flint, said Genesee County prosecutor David Leyton." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/24/michigan.child.dead/index.html?eref=rss_crime By People.com 4/27/2009 "The case of accused Craigslist Killer Philip Markoff has taken a decidedly new turn with the admission of a male Boston corporate professional who told NBC News that, based on his own experience, Markoff used Craigslist to seek out men as well as women for sexual activites. "I posted an ad on Craigslist under 'male for t,' which stands for 'males for transsexuals,' " said the man, who requested his name not be revealed, for fear of jeopardizing his job. "That's where he found me.".." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20274975,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines By CNN.com 4/24/2009 "An Alabama man who went on a shooting rampage in March, killing 10 people and himself, left a note saying he put his mother "out of her misery" and that "some of the people who made us suffer will pay," according to newly released police records. "Moma was very sick. Had lung cancer, I think," stated the letter police say was written by Michael McLendon. "She wanted to die with her dogs and she did. I shot her while she was asleep. She never knew what hit her. Nor did the dogs. I'm sorry! But Moma had suffered enough. And so have I."..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/23/alabama.shooting.reports/index.html?iref=mpstoryview By CNN.com 4/23/2009 "No one will face criminal charges in the case of a 93-year-old Michigan man who froze to death this year after his utility company limited heat to his home for failing to pay his bills. It's a horrible tragedy, what happened here," Bay County Prosecutor Kurt Asbury said. "It's obvious no one person can be criminally charged." Asbury issued his summary of the case Thursday after a three-month investigation into Marvin Schur's death at his Bay City, Michigan, home. The prosecutor acknowledged one could reasonably argue that many people were at fault, but he said he lacked evidence to prove gross, criminal negligence including an intent to cause harm." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/23/michigan.frozen.man/index.html?eref=rss_crime By Fox News.com 4/21/2009 "An eastern Idaho judge who lost patience with the disruptive behavior of a defendant ordered court officials to tape the man's mouth shut with duct tape during a court hearing. The unusual move was ordered by 6th District Judge Peter D. McDermott during a probation violation hearing for Nicklas Frasure, 23. Frasure was convicted of felony theft in 2008, but the judge retained jurisdiction for sentencing depending on Frasure's response to treatment. In October, Frasure was released from a state mental hospital in Blackfoot. He is accused of violating his probation by not taking prescribed medication. During the hearing, witnesses told the judge that Frasure's behavior had been strange and erratic since his release from the state hospital. They also said he has not been taking his medication and has been consuming alcohol, factors also contributing to mood and emotional swings. Probation officer Julie Guiberson testified that Frasure is a threat to himself and others." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517382,00.html
By E-Online 4/22/2009 "As the father of a Slumdog Millionaire star can no doubt attest, the journey from rags to riches has nothing on the journey from guilty to innocent. The slum-dwelling father of 9-year-old child actor Rubina Ali has been cleared by Indian officials of allegations he tried to broker the sale of his famous daughter in exchange for roughly $300,000." Read the entire article: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b120052_slumdog_dad_cleared_in_kid-selling_case.html
By USA Today 4/20/2009 "It began as horseplay, with two teenage stepbrothers chasing each other with blow guns and darts. But it soon escalated when one of the boys grabbed a knife. The older teen, Michael Barton, 17, was dead by the time he reached the hospital, stabbed twice.The younger boy, Quantel Lotts, 14, would eventually become one of Missouri's youngest lifers. Lotts was sentenced in Missouri's St. Francois County Circuit Court in 2002 to life in prison without parole for first-degree murder in his stepbrother's stabbing death. It made no difference that at the time of the deadly scuffle, Lotts was barely old enough to watch PG-13 movie and too young to drive, vote or buy beer." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/08/teens.life.sentence/index.html?eref=rss_crime
By CNN.com 4/8/2009 "When Vanessa Hudgens' naked photos hit the Internet, the "High School Musical" star quickly apologized. But sending nude or seminude pictures, a phenomenon known as sexting, is a fast-growing trend among teens. The National Campaign to Prevent Teen & Unplanned Pregnancy, a private nonprofit group whose mission is to protect children, and CosmoGirl.com, surveyed nearly 1,300 teens about sex and technology. The result: 1 in 5 teens say they've sexted even though the majority know it could be a crime. Phillip Alpert found out the hard way." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/07/sexting.busts/index.html?eref=rss_crime
By Gidget Fuentes - Marine Times 4/20/2009 "A decade ago, while serving as a military police officer at Camp Pendleton, Calif., Foster told his company commander that he would refuse nonjudicial punishment over allegations made by his estranged wife accusing him of raping her in 1995 and assaulting her from 1994 to 1998. Her rape claim surfaced amid a bitter divorce and custody fight over their two young sons. Foster, now 35, figured he’d be acquitted at court-martial, where he was charged with rape, aggravated assault and making threats. What Foster didn’t know was that about 90 percent of all general courts-martial end in convictions, either from the jury or through plea agreements, according to annual reports from the Navy’s Judge Advocate General. He also didn’t count on a shoddy defense and prosecution, which convinced a jury to sentence him to 17 years in prison, bust him to private and cap it all with a dishonorable discharge. Read the entire article: http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2009/04/marine_foster_042009w/ By CBS News 4/13/2009 "As CBS News correspondent John Blackstone reports, Sandra's home remains a magnet for those trying to come to terms with her brutal murder. "It's just um something that's hit very hard," said neighbor Anna Carreiro. "And she (looking at little girl) has a lot of questions of why someone would do that." While parts of the investigation have been public, like the search of a local church, police are releasing few details. "I think it's scary that this person is still out there and that's what I told my daughters on the way to school the next day," said Tracy, Calif. resident Monica Kahoonei. ....What people in Tracy want most now is to find her killer. "I just wish they caught him," said Gabriela Stone. "I wish they could get him. Whoever did it, they got to get him."..." Read the entire article: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/10/earlyshow/main4933677.shtml By CBS News 4/13/2009 "The woman suspected of killing an 8-year-old girl found stuffed into a suitcase is being held in an observation cell where jail staff monitor her mental health, officials said. Meanwhile, the families of the suspect and the slain girl attended Easter services Sunday at separate churches, struggling to cope." Read the entire article: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/13/national/main4938848.shtml?source=RSSattr=HOME_4938848 By Editorial -- New York Times 4-5-2009 "Here is a tale that sounds like it comes right from the pages of “Little Dorrit,” Charles Dickens’s scathing indictment of Victorian England’s debtors’ prisons. Unfortunately, it is happening in 21st-century America. Edwina Nowlin, a poor Michigan resident, was ordered to reimburse a juvenile detention center $104 a month for holding her 16-year-old son. When she explained to the court that she could not afford to pay, Ms. Nowlin was sent to prison. The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, which helped get her out last week after she spent 28 days behind bars, says it is seeing more people being sent to jail because they cannot make various court-ordered payments. That is both barbaric and unconstitutional." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/opinion/06mon4.html?_r=2&th&emc=th By FoxNews.com 4/9/2009 "A Samoan woman who secretly gave birth on an international flight and then dumped the baby in an on-flight toilet has been convicted of child abandonment. Karolaine Maika, a 29-year-old fruit picker, had the child in the bathroom without anyone realizing. It happened on a Pacific Blue flight from her home country to New Zealand'scapital, Auckland, in March. Cleaners found the baby girl alive after the flight landed. Maika pleaded guilty to a child abandonment charge in Manukau District Court after police withdrew a charge of assaulting the baby. They said they accepted the child's injuries were caused during the birth. Judge Heather Simpson decided not to jail Maika but ordered her to be deported to Samoa. Her lawyer, Elaine Ward, said her client had not told anyone about her pregnancy because it was considered shameful in Samoansociety to be an unwed mother." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,513696,00.html By Maria Giordano • THE TENNESSEAN • 4/9/2009 "A former child support services employee is accused of selling personal information, including Social Security and bank account numbers, of more than a thousand people to an undercover agent. Steven K. Gilmore, 28, of Nashville was indicted Wednesday on six counts of identity theft, two counts of aggravated identity theft and two counts of access device fraud. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nashville says Gilmore trafficked the sensitive information in three separate transactions that were recorded by law enforcement officials. Gilmore worked for Colorado-based Policy Studies Inc., a private company that contracts with the Tennessee Department of Human Services to provide child support services for Davidson County. Assigned to help with child support collections, Gilmore had access to databases filled with personal identification information." Read the entire article: http://www.tennessean.com/article/20090409/NEWS03/90409113/1017 By Baltimore Sun - United States 4/10/2009 "A 44-year-old Finksburg man pleaded guilty Thursday to felony theft after stealing child-support checks in Baltimore County for about seven years, according to the Maryland attorney general's office. Keith Hibbs was sentenced to 10 years in prison by Circuit Court Judge Robert Cahill and ordered to pay more than $49,000 in restitution. Prosecutors said Hibbs worked as a specialist with the Baltimore County Child Support Enforcement Administration. From October 1998 to February 2005, Hibbs used department computers to change the names on 112 child-support checks so that the money would be made payable to his wife, according to the plea. Hibbs then signed his wife's name and deposited the checks in his account, prosecutors said." Read the entire article: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.briefs104apr10,0,4435761.story By Great Dad - California "A community program that serves Anderson County in South Carolina has received a $25,000 grant from a national fatherhood organization in an effort to create more initiatives that teach fathers to be more engaged in the lives of their children. The grant comes from the National Fatherhood Initiative and will go towards the Fresh Start Community Development Corp to improve the home life and potentially reduce crime in the local area. According to Fresh Start, 93 percent of young criminal offenders in Anderson County did not have a father at home, the Independent Mail reports. It's the group's thinking that having a strong family could one day reduce the number of young adults embracing a life of crime." Read the entire article: http://www.greatdad.com/tertiary/27/3651/south-carolina-program-encourages-fathers-to-use-parenting-skills.html By MSNBC.com 4/3/2009 "James Hines was a giant — a 6-foot-7, 300-pound preacher and funk musician so big that after he died in 2004, a macabre rumor began circulating in this small town that the undertaker had to cut off his legs to fit him in the coffin. This week, after years of whispers, Hines' body was exhumed, and the gruesome story appeared to be all too true. ....Ann Hines said that she and her family went to the funeral home after her husband's death to make the final arrangements, and she picked out a standard-size casket. At the funeral, only the top half of the lid was open, showing Hines from the chest up, she said. She said nobody ever suggested a bigger box." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30033801/#storyContinued By CBCNews.ca 3/31/2009 "The council had been asked by former Ontario attorney general Michael Bryant to review the conduct of Justice Paul Cosgrove after he was accused of inappropriate behaviour during a 1999 murder trial. The trial had stemmed from the 1995 killing of a man from eastern Ontario. Julia Elliott was accused of killing and dismembering Lawrence Foster and then dumping his body into the Rideau River near Kemptville, Ont. Following an investigation into the judge's conduct, it was alleged that during the trial Cosgrove had inappropriately aligned himself with defence lawyers and had allowed witnesses to be verbally abused. Cosgrove stayed the charges against Elliott, but his ruling was overturned by the Ontario Court of Appeal in 2003. In a retrial, Elliott pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of manslaughter." Read the entire article: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2009/03/31/ot-090331-judicialcouncil.html By Chicago Tribune.com 3/30/2009 "A 15-year-old boy was arrested after a device made of drain cleaner exploded in an Arizona school yard Monday, injuring him and eight other students. ...She said investigators were not able to determine a motive after interviewing the boy. The boy appeared to know the device would explode but did not understand the injuries it would cause, she added. The boy was taken to a juvenile detention center and faces eight felony aggravated assault counts and other charges." Read the entire article: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-schoolyard-explosion,0,764012.story By Dale Eisman -- The Virginian-Pilot -- 3/26/2009 "Alarmed by prisons that are clogged with mentally ill people, drug users and other non-violent offenders while well-armed gangs and drug lords often go unpunished, Virginia Sen. Jim Webb will launch a wide-ranging and politically risky campaign today to overhaul the nation's criminal justice system. With nearly 2.4 million Americans now behind bars, Webb said, "our incarceration rate has exploded.... But at the same time we aren't really solving the problems." Read the entire article: http://hamptonroads.com/2009/03/webb-takes-next-challenge-nations-prison-system By IAN URBINA -- New York Times --3/27/2009 "Things were different in the Luzerne County juvenile courtroom, and everyone knew it. Proceedings on average took less than two minutes. Detention center workers were told in advance how many juveniles to expect at the end of each day — even before hearings to determine their innocence or guilt. Lawyers told families not to bother hiring them. They would not be allowed to speak anyway."....In what authorities are calling the biggest legal scandal in state history, the two judges pleaded guilty to tax evasion and wire fraud in a scheme that involved sending thousands of juveniles to two private detention centers in exchange for $2.6 million in kickbacks. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/us/28judges.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all By Orlando Sentinel 3/25/2009 "Children no longer would be arrested for such minor violations of zero tolerance polices as bringing plastic butter knives to school, drawing pictures of guns or throwing an eraser under measures moving through the Florida Legislature.The Senate Criminal Justice Committee on Wednesday approved a bill that would prohibit calling police for a nonviolent misdemeanor. A similar bill later cleared the House Pre-kindergarten Policy Committee. Sen. Stephen Wise, R-Jacksonville, said his bill (SB 1540) would save money and prevent children from having criminal records by requiring that schools handle such disciplinary matters administratively." Read the entire article: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/sfl-bn0325-ease-zero-tolerance,0,4653370.story By Law.com 3/26/2009 "In one of the first civil rights suits to focus on the growing practice of "sexting," lawyers for the ACLU of Pennsylvania will be asking a federal judge Thursday to protect three teenage girls from the threat of criminal charges for using their cell phones to take and send semi-nude photographs of themselves. The suit accuses Wyoming County District Attorney George Skumanick Jr. of violating the three girls' First Amendment rights and seeks a court declaration that the photos "are not child pornography or any other crime." "Kids should be taught that sharing digitized images of themselves in embarrassing or compromised positions can have bad consequences, but prosecutors should not be using heavy artillery like child-pornography charges to teach them that lesson," said Witold Walczak, the legal director of the ACLU of Pennsylvania. "These are just kids being irresponsible and careless; they are not criminals." Read the entire article: http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202429399530&rss=newswire By McClatchy 3/22/2009 "Drug possession, domestic violence, repeatedly driving drunk, assault with a deadly weapon — any one of these charges or convictions could lead child protective services workers to remove children from a home or force a parent into counseling. But all of those crimes and many others appear in the backgrounds of employees of Sacramento County's Child Protective Services, a Bee investigation has found." Read the entire article: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/200/story/64560.html By WTSP 3/22/2009 "Sharpes, Florida -- In the past five years, officials have investigated at least 12 allegations of sex or improper relationships between male inmates and female officers or staff members at the Brevard Correctional Institution, according to state records. Eight officers and one counselor resigned or were fired in those incidents. Five cases were proven to have involved sexual relationships." Read the entire article: http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=102736&catid=8 By Sheila McLaughlin and Jennifer Baker • Cincinnati Enquirer 3/20/2009 "A 23-year-old College Corner woman now faces a misdemeanor charge after police said she concocted a story about being kidnapped and raped earlier this week. Jacqulyn Harrison could spend up to six months in jail if she is convicted on a charge of making a false alarm." Read the entire article: http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090320/NEWS01/303190024/1055/NEWS By Jennifer Baker•Cincinnati.com 3/19/2009 "A 13-year-old boy was arrested on a felony charge after school officials found a sexually explicit image of an 8th-grade girl engaged in sexual activity on his cell phone, Middletown police said. The boy was charged Monday with juvenile delinquency by way of pandering obscenity involving a minor, a second-degree felony. ...The boy shared the image with others by showing it to them on the phone, the report states. It does not appear he sent it to others via text message on his phone, also known as “sexting,” police said." Read the entire article: http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20090319/NEWS0107/303190036 By KATHY THOMPSON --Zanesville TimesRecorder.com 3/13/2009 "Local law enforcement deals with sex offenders almost daily, but in the past couple of months, Zanesville police have dealt with one of the youngest cases officers can remember - an 11-year-old girl charged with three counts of rape. Detective Randy Ritchason said the girl had some type of sexual contact with three other children - two boys and a girl -all under the age of 10. She was charged in Muskingum County Juvenile Court. "I believe it's the youngest perpetrator we've had," Ritchason said. "We've had young teens before, but she is about the youngest I've ever dealt with."" Read the entire article: http://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/article/20090313/NEWS01/903130301 By Associated Press --FoxNews.com 3/14/2009 "A Louisiana woman has been found guilty of killing her baby by putting him into a clothes dryer and turning the machine on. A jury convicted Lakeisha Adams of second-degree murder Saturday for the death of her 3-month-old son, Jailand in December 2005. The local coroner's office said the child suffered blunt force trauma to his head as well as second and third degree burns on half of his body. The mother, who also had a 1-year-old child, was 18 at the time. Police in the town of Bogalusa said Adams admitted putting the infant in the dryer and turning it on, but did not explain why." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509257,00.html
By Associated Press -- FoxNews.com 3/14/2009 "A 23-year-old inmate beaten to death at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary had been put in a cell with convicted killer he had testified against. Prison spokesman Jerry Massie says Paul Duran Jr. fought with one cellmate and then was put in a cell with Jessie James Dalton. Duran was found beaten to death about 15 minutes later. Massie says the two were not supposed to be put in the same cell and prison officials are trying to determine how it happened." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509231,00.html By ANGELA K. BROWN, Associated Press --Yahoo News -- 3/16/2009 "For months, perhaps longer, the Montague County Jail was "Animal House" meets Mayberry. Inside the small brick building across from the courthouse, inmates had the run of the place, having sex with their jailer girlfriends, bringing in recliners, taking drugs and chatting on cell phones supplied by friends or guards, according to authorities. They also disabled some of the surveillance cameras and made weapons out of nails. ....There were whispers in the past year about an affair between a female jailer and male inmate, but folks dismissed the rumors as small-town gossip. It was not until late last month, when a Texas grand jury returned a 106-count indictment against the former sheriff and 16 others, that the inmates-gone-wild scandal broke wide open. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090316/ap_on_re_us/animal_house_jail By Associated Press - Yahoo News -- 3/13/2009 "Police said a woman has been arrested for allegedly slipping some tranquilizers into her boss's coffee because she felt "he needed to chill out." Police said the 24-year-old woman admitted to detectives that she slipped the drugs into veteranarian John Duckett's drink. Officers said Duckett knew something was wrong shortly after drinking some of the coffee Tuesday morning." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090314/ap_on_fe_st/odd_tranquilized_coffee;_ylt=AoFF77EbMl9QKYJMzNxU_iftiBIF By Bianca Prieto | Orlando Sentinel 3/8/2009 "20% of teens have sent nude photos of themselves via cell phone or posted the images on a Web site. After his former girlfriend taunted him, Phillip Alpert remembered the nude photos she e-mailed to him while they were dating. He took revenge with an electronic blast — e-mailing the photos of the 16-year-old girl to more than 70 people, including her parents, grandparents and teachers. Three days later, Alpert, then 18, was charged with transmitting child pornography. Today Alpert is serving five years of probation for the crime, and he is registered as a sex offender — a label he must carry at least until he is 43." Read the entire article: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/sfl-sexting-030809,0,2258064.story?track=rss
By USA Today 3/4/2009 "LONDON (AP) — A London jury has convicted a man of murdering teenage actor Rob Knox, who had a small role in a soon-to-be released Harry Potter movie. Karl Bishop, who was found guilty Wednesday, could face life in prison when sentenced for the stabbing death of 18-year-old Knox. ...Prosecutors say Bishop killed Knox outside a bar in east London in May after Knox stepped in to protect his brother, who had been threatened by the 22-year-old." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2009-03-04-harry-potter-murder-conviction_N.htm?POE=click-refer By CNN.com Atlanta, Georgia 3/5/2009 "Authorities arrested two high school students in suburban Atlanta on Thursday after they were warned that one of the students planned to "do harm" at the school with a weapon, police said. ...Police arrested Forrest Busby, 17, at Woodstock High School and found a revolver he is said to have brought to school and hid in the bathroom ceiling, authorities said." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/05/georgia.school.gun.plot/index.html?eref=rss_topstories By Jennifer Sullivan Seattle Times staff reporter 2/25/2009 "A University of Washington study has found disparities in race and gender in the penalties doled out by the state's criminal courts. ...The report indicates: Men are given higher court fees and fines than women. ...Beckett believes the study, which also includes interviews with defense attorneys, county clerk staff and convicted criminals, may finally show state and local officials the evidence they need to support a systematic overhaul." Read the entire article: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008782782_courtstudy25m.html?syndication=rss
By J. David Goodman -- New York Times 2/22/9 "Two days after a 9 year old Arizona boy pleaded guilty the 2008 murder of his father and another man, police in Pennsylvania charged 11-year-old Jordon Brown yesterday in the shooting death of his father’s girlfriend. The woman, identified as 26-year-old Kenzie Marie Houk, was eight months pregnant." Read the entire article: http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/fifth-grader-is-charged-with-killing-fathers-fiancee/?scp=3&sq=boys&st=cse By Jared Strong -- DesMoinesRegister.com "A 22-year-old Des Moines woman told police that she crashed her truck head-on into a van driven by the father of her child because there was another woman in the van with him, according to a police report. “I knew he was with another woman!” Maria Alonso repeatedly told police after the crash at about 1:30 a.m. today. ....Police said that Alonso was pushing and striking Melo Santiago after the crash. ...Alonso was charged with domestic assault with a dangerous weapon, an aggravated misdemeanor punishable by up to two years in prison." By Yahoo News "On CSI, forensic science nearly always leads to a closed case. Reality is far different. And the system needs vast change, a new report claims. ...With the exception of nuclear DNA analysis, says the report from the National Research Council, "no forensic method has been rigorously shown able to consistently, and with a high degree of certainty, demonstrate a connection between evidence and a specific individual or source."That means fingerprinting techniques and lie detection methods, among others, can lead to convictions of innocent people and, of course, fail to help convict bad guys." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090218/sc_livescience/forensicsciencesystemneedsoverhaul View All Articles | Discussion  RSS Feed
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