Monday, September 30, 2013

6.66 the number of the bleat: Polish exorcists warn against price of goats' cheese

Appearing in a catalogue promoting a "French Week" at the Lidl supermarket chain, and without a decimal point, the price, for the exorcists, bore too great a similarity to 666, the number of the beast recorded in the Bible. The fact that it adorned a cheese with an image of a goat on it exacerbated their fears as goats also with come with their own satanic symbolism. "I can clearly see the sign of Satan and the horns," said exorcist Elzbieta Gas. "It is significant because there are people out there who can feel evil energy, and this is for them. "In the world there is a struggle between the forces of light and darkness, and here you can see that evil prevailed," she added.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/10344484/6.66-the-number-of-the-bleat-Polish-exorcists-warn-against-price-of-goats-cheese.html

Man 'injected son, 4, with heroin on the day his divorce was finalized in attempt to kill him with overdose'

A Washington man injected his 4-year-old son with heroin on the day his divorce from his wife was finalized, in an attempt to kill the boy with an overdose, police have revealed. Eric Emil Lehtinen, 37, is accused of repeatedly jabbing in young son with needles and injecting him with heroin and a cocktail of other drugs, among them ketamine, morphine and codeine. He then injected himself with high doses of drugs, as well. When the boy's mother when to Lehtinen's Redmond, Washington, home to pick her son up, she found both Lehtinen and the child unconscious.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2438353/Dad-injected-son-4-heroin-day-divorce-finalized.html

Twice as many children are accidentally shot dead than records show, according to a study

Nearly twice as many children are accidentally shot dead in America than official records show, a study shows, strengthening the case for gun safe storage laws in the US. More than half of the 259 accidental firearms deaths of children aged under 15 in the US were not reported in figures used by lobbyists in government to protect their gun rights.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2438538/Twice-children-accidentally-shot-dead-records-according-study.html

Family hit by double tragedy in less than a week as father, 56, succumbs to cancer days after son, 24, dies of a heart attack

A family has been left devastated after a father and son both battling terminal illnesses died within days of each other. Sam Claridge, 24, had a serious lung condition but died from a sudden heart attack at his mother's house. Just six days later his heartbroken father Martin Claridge, 54, passed away after losing a long battle with cancer.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2438570/Family-hit-double-tragedy-week-father-56-succumbs-cancer-days-son-24-dies-heart-attack.html

Man dies just 28 hours after being infected by 'flesh-eating' bacteria contracted while he was wading in a river

A man has died after he contracted a ‘flesh-eating’ bacterial infection from seawater. Henry Konietzky, 59, died after he was exposed to the deadly bacteria while wading in the Halifax River in Florida. Just this year nine deaths in the Volusia and Flager counties have been linked to the Vibrio vulnificus bacteria which normally lives in warm seawater. Mr Konietzky died just 28 hours after he was infected while setting crab traps on Saturday, knee-deep in seawater.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2438639/Vibrio-vulnificus-Man-dies-infected-seawater.html

Daughter kills mother and brother before being shot dead by her own father as family feud 'over inheritance' ends with four dead

A long-running feud in a Pennsylvania family ended in violence after a woman and her husband broke into her parents' home and killed her mother and brother - before the two were shot dead by the woman's own father, police have revealed today. The horrific violence Friday night that left four dead and only one survivor in the house in rural Ashville, Pennsylvania, may have been sparked over lingering resentment over inheritance, a family member revealed exclusively to MailOnline. Josephine Ruckinger 'hated' her family and plotted with her husband Jeffrey Ruckinger to murder all of them in their house on Friday night.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2437159/Pennsylvania-home-invasion-Family-feud-inheritance-ends-4-dead.html

Woman is killed and man loses both legs after they are hit by a train as they have sex on the tracks

A thrill-seeking Ukrainian couple have met a tragic end after they stopped on their way home to have sex on train tracks and were hit by a train. The '30-something' woman was killed by the train in the city of Zaporozhye on Saturday morning. Her 41-year-old male companion lost both legs, but survived to tell the tale.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2438491/Woman-killed-man-loses-legs-hit-train-stop-sex-tracks.html

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Dozens of students shot dead in their beds as Islamist militants storm through college dorms in northern Nigeria

Gunmen killed at least 40 people today in an attack on a college in northeast Nigeria, witnesses say, in a region where Islamist militants have targeted schools and universities. Islamist sect Boko Haram has intensified attacks on civilian targets in recent weeks in reaction to a military offensive against its insurgency. Boko Haram and spin-off Islamist groups like the al Qaeda-linked Ansaru have become the biggest security threat to the nation which is also Africa's second largest economy and top oil exporter.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2437415/Dozens-students-shot-dead-beds-Islamist-militants-storm-college-dorms-northern-Nigeria.html

Car bomb kills 33 in northwest Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A car bomb exploded on a crowded street in northwestern Pakistan Sunday, killing 33 people in the third blast to hit the troubled city of Peshawar in a week, officials said. The latest explosion appeared to have been a bomb planted in a parked car and detonated by remote control, said police officer Zahid Khan. It went off in a crowded market that is the city's oldest bazaar near a mosque and a police station, officials said. The blast damaged the mosque and nearby shops and caused many vehicles to go up in flames, said police officer Nawaz Khan. At least 33 people died in the blast, said Jamil Shah, spokesman for Lady Reading Hospital, while more than 70 were wounded.

http://news.yahoo.com/car-bomb-kills-33-northwest-pakistan-075329516.html

Nigerian Islamists kill 27 in northeast attacks: official

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunmen from Islamist group Boko Haram killed 27 villagers in two attacks in Nigeria's restive northeast this week, a government official said, as violence continued to flare in the face of an army crackdown on the militants. Boko Haram wants to create an Islamic state in northern Nigeria and has become the biggest security threat in Africa's second largest economy and top oil exporter.

http://news.yahoo.com/nigerian-islamists-kill-27-northeast-attacks-official-200804396.html

Woman stabbed to death on West Side

A woman is in custody for allegedly stabbing another woman to death during a domestic dispute in the Austin neighborhood early Friday. Shounya Burnett, 45, was arguing with another woman about 12:55 a.m. in a first-floor apartment in the 1100 block of North Mayfield Avenue when she was stabbed in the neck and chin with a knife, police and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office said. Burnett, of the 4500 block of West Grenshaw Street, was dead at the scene, the medical examiner’s office said.

http://homicides.suntimes.com/2013/09/27/woman-stabbed-to-death-on-west-side/

Pastor shot dead mid-sermon after 'gunman walked up to him and fired twice at close range before calmly leaving the church and handing himself in to police'

A Louisiana pastor was fatally shot as he preached to a crowd of more than 60 during a revival service. Pastor Ronald J. Harris Sr. was preaching at about 8:20 pm on Friday at Tabernacle of Praise Worship Center when he was shot twice by a lone gunman. The man went into the church while Harris was preaching and 'walked up to him and shot him at close range,' Myers said. The suspect shot him again when Harris fell to the floor. The pastor was pronounced dead at the scene. Sixty-five people were inside at the time, including the victim's wife, said Chief Deputy Stitch Guillory The gunman left the church, but Myers said Karey called the sheriff's office and surrendered.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2437156/Pastor-shot-dead-mid-sermon-gunman-walked-fired-twice-close-range-calmly-leaving-church-handing-police.html

FIVE young friends killed in horrific late-night car crash which left them all trapped in the fiery wreckage apart from one sole female survivor who pulled herself out

Five young friends were killed early Saturday morning after their car careened off a road in Burbank, California and burst into flames with the passengers trapped and injured inside. Those killed were last night identified by tributes at the scene and online. They were named - but not officially confirmed - as Sameer Nevarez, Sugey Cuevas, Stephen Stoll, Malak Hariri and Sebastian Forero, they were all 22 or younger. The car's sole survivor was said to be Savannah Underwood, 18, who was found by police about 50 yards away from the charred Nissan sedan when they arrived shortly after 4 a.m.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2437097/Five-young-adults-tragically-killed-accident-traps-inside-car-engulfed-flames.html

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Don’t do drugs and ‘I am with God': the last words of vicious Texas killer Arturo Diaz

When you think about it, these fucking bastards are getting a pretty cozy deal: an injection after which you fall asleep and just go... So much for justice when his victim was stabbed relentlessly and tied up for a measely 50 bucks. I also bet he didn't give his victim a last meal, which he himself probably did get. And those last words.... always with that fucking god character. The last words his victim spoke was a blood gurgeling incoherent plea for his life (let's put that on tape so you can listen to that before you die fucking asshole). I still think that this pampering these killers get before death is hypocritical toward the victim's family.

He stabbed his victim 94 times, tied him up with shoelaces, then robbed him of $50.

Just before a lethal injection was pumped into his veins, killer Arturo Diaz warned youngsters to stay away from drugs and told his family "I am with God." The 37-year-old murderer was executed Thursday in Huntsville, Texas, after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his last-ditch appeal to block his punishment. It was the 13th execution of 2013 in Texas, which leads the country in executions. His death was witnessed by his mother and grandmother, as well as relatives of Michael Nichols, whom Diaz murdered in 1999. On his death gurney, Diaz said he hoped his death "serves as an example for some youngsters ... Think about it before you do drugs." He also addressed Forrest Nichols, Michael's father, and said: "I hope this can bring some relief for you and your family." Earlier, he had smiled and blown a kiss to relatives, saying in Spanish "I am with God." After several deep breaths, Diaz started snoring and was dead in less than a minute.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/god-don-drugs-arturo-diaz-execution-article-1.1470017

Man arrested for brutally killing teenage girl and dumping her body at a construction site

Miami-Dade Police believe they have their man, the one who violently killed an 18-year-old girl and coldly dumped her lifeless body in an empty lot. Fernando Granados, 20, of Homestead FL., confessed Thursday to the killing of Tiffany Cabreja. Mr Granados reportedly told investigators another man helped him kill the girl, he has yet to be apprehended. Mr Granados was snagged by police after he confessed to a relative he killed the girl.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2436112/Man-arrested-killing-teenage-girl-dumping-body-construction-site.html

Man found GUILTY of shooting dead pregnant girlfriend execution-style because 'he didn't want another child to support'

-Oklahoma jury recommended maximum sentence of life in prison for Christopher Simpson, 27

-Simpson found guilty of killing his girlfriend, 20-year-old Ka'loni Flynn, and causing death of their unborn 12-week-old baby

-He was behind child support for his 7-year-old daughter from another woman and didn't want to have second child

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2436491/Kaloni-Flynn-case-Man-GUILTY-shooting-dead-pregnant-girlfriend-execution-style-didnt-want-child-support.html

Body hanging from Honduras bridge means Mexican cartels moving

TEGUCIGALPA - A dead man was found hanging from a bridge in downtown Tegucigalpa on Friday, the first time a corpse has been displayed in the Honduran capital in a style redolent of Mexican drug cartels, police said. Honduras had the highest murder rate in the world last year, and the impoverished Central American country has become a major staging post for Mexican cartels moving drugs northward. The man's tattooed, half-naked and handcuffed body was slung off the bridge with a rope around his neck, police said. Another tattooed corpse was left hanging in San Pedro Sula, the country's most violent city, last month.

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/09/27/body-hanging-from-honduras-bridge-means-mexican-cartels-moving

Friday, September 27, 2013

Muslim subjected his wife to a year of 'hell' and terrorised her into wearing a veil after she said she wanted to go to college

A devout Muslim who subjected his battered wife to a year of ‘hell’ after he terrorised her into wearing a veil has been jailed but may go free - in just eight weeks. Jubel Miah, 21, had ordered his terrified spouse to wear a full niqab after she said she was going to college to study. Initially he called her a ‘slag and b****’ for wanting to better her education, then sneered: ‘You are a married woman. You don’t do this.’ The unnamed wife only agreed to wear the full face veil, with just eye holes after thinking he would stop him making her life a misery. But instead Miah began beating her - initially because she was not smiling during Eid celebrations with family.

During a catalogue of violent and controlling behaviour, Miah from Burnley, Lancashire, ripped her tongue, kicked and punched her, inflicted black eyes on her and battered her confidence. He also tracked her movements using his mobile phone, tried to stop her going to college, accused her of cheating and falsely claiming there were ‘spies’ in their loft. When the victim became pregnant she was found to have injuries to her body and eye when she went to hospital for a 16-week check-up. And when she later went through a traumatic birth delivering a premature baby, Miah was so enraged that a male doctor was treating his wife afterwards, a female medic had to be brought.

He was also very irate and threatening to people trying to help the family. The wife finally escaped from his clutches after he subjected her to a sustained attack in which he stabbed her with scissors and hit her with a dumbell. Details of her ordeal emerged at Burnley magistrates court as Miah was locked away for 16 weeks after admitting common assault by beating. He was also given an indefinite restraining order to keep him away from the victim. The sentence means Miah could be free in just two months for good behaviour. The maximum sentence he could have faced was six months.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2434803/Muslim-Jubel-Miah-terrorised-wife-wearing-veil-said-wanted-to-college.html

Skateboarder killed as he tries to hitch ride on side of truck in Queens

A teenage skateboarder was killed Thursday as he tried to hitch a ride on the side of a truck in Queens, officials said. Alexander Ciszewski, 18, was hanging onto the side of a 2005 box truck as it rolled along 47th Ave. near 32nd Place in Sunnyside at noon when he fell under the rear wheels, police sources said. Ciszewski, who lived just a few blocks away, was rushed to Elmhurst Hospital, but doctors were unable to save him. The truck kept going, officials said. The driver remained at large Thursday, but police sources said it’s possible that he didn’t know he hit anyone.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/skateboarder-killed-hitch-ride-side-truck-article-1.1469286

Building collapses in India, leaving 3 dead and 16 injured

A five-story residential building collapsed in southeastern Mumbai, sending rescuers scrambling to rescue approximately 80-90 people who are believed to be trapped.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/building-collapses-india-article-1.1469163

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Sicko sexually abused 2-year-old girl in Riverside Park

A sicko sexually assaulted a 2-year-old girl in Riverside Park, police said Wednesday. Jason Carroll, 30, was arrested for the disgusting attack Tuesday evening, police said. A Good Samaritan in the upper West Side park became aware of the abuse and alerted a Parks Department employee, who then called the cops, police said. The toddler was treated at an area hospital. Investigators were searching a stroller — located near the men’s bathroom across from W. 75th St. — for evidence early Wednesday. Police said Carroll, who had no prior arrests, knows the toddler’s mother. Carroll was charged with sex abuse, criminal sex act and child endangerment.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/man-sexually-abused-toddler-uws-park-article-1.1467097

Pakistan earthquake death toll hits 348, with 552 injured

QUETTA, Pakistan — A Pakistani government spokesman says that the death toll from the country’s horrific earthquake has risen to 348. The spokesman for the Baluchistan provincial government, Jan Mohammad Bulaidi, said Thursday that another 552 people have been injured.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/pakistan-earthquake-death-toll-hits-348-552-injured-article-1.1467975

Woman Convinces Husband to Shoot Neighbor Who ‘Telepathically Raped’ Her

A Utah woman admitted in court that she encouraged her husband to shoot a neighbor she claimed had raped her “telepathically.” Meloney Selleneit, 55, agreed to a reduced charge of guilty, but mentally ill, to criminal solicitation and unlawful weapons possession, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. The charges stem from a shooting in 2011 in which Selleneit’s husband, Michael, shot and wounded their neighbor Tony Pierce. The Salt Lake Tribune reported that after the alleged shooting, Michael Selleneit said he acted in self-defense because Pierce had been telepathically raping his wife for years and using cocaine to control her mind. Michael Selleneit was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the shooting. His wife is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 31. Both are being held at a state hospital, until they are found competent to serve their prison sentences, authorities said.

http://ktla.com/2013/09/25/woman-convinces-husband-to-shoot-neighbor-who-telepathically-raped-her/#axzz2g0ozqrd4

Family killed by a crisp packet: Father and two young children choked to death after bag got stuck in chimney and sent deadly fumes into their lounge

A family was killed when a crisp packet blocked a chimney and deadly fumes filled their lounge, an inquest has heard. Trevor Wallwork, 50, and his children Kimberley, 12, and Harry, nine, were watching TV when an empty crisp packet was thrown on to the coal fire. It rose up ‘like a hot air balloon’ and then blocked the chimney, which prevented fumes from the coal fire from escaping. Lethal gases seeped back into the living room and the family was slowly overcome by carbon monoxide as they watched television.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2431573/County-Sligo-family-killed-crisp-packet-Trevor-Wallwork-children-choked-death-bag-got-stuck-chimney.html

Nymphomaniac 'killed her two newborn babies so she could go to German swingers club'

A German nymphomaniac who allegedly killed her two newborns so she could go to a swinger club for more sex has been arrested after the corpses of her babies were found by her father. Steffie Koppers, 24, bragged repeatedly about her visits to the sex club Kali on her Facebook page. In one, she wrote: 'I'm in the swingerclub Kali. We are three nice ladies but we want men and there are none here!' Another reads: 'It seems it's bad when a solo woman goes to a swinger club to get gratification from more than one man.' Police believe Koppers, who worked for a local tourism authority, became pregnant with the babies she killed through her sex encounters at the club in Kamp Lintfort.

One of the deaths occurred in November last year. She lived on a remote farm with her father at Weeze near Duesseldorf. On Tuesday this week, when she was at work, her father Heinz made the terrible discovery of the baby corpses in the home they shared. One was reduced to a skeleton, the other wrapped in a sheet. He telephoned the police who arrested his daughter at her place of work. Murder commission head Gerd Hoppmann said: 'She admitted what happened but not comprehensibly able to tell us exactly why.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2433062/Nymphomaniac-killed-newborn-babies-German-swingers-club.html

Boy, 15, whose family contemplated moving to escape years of cyberbullying kills himself

A 15-year-old boy who committed suicide after he was targeted by bullies, was set to leave town with his parents in a bid to escape his tormentors. Todd Loik took his own life after enduring a constant stream of abuse from other kids both at his school and online, his heartbroken mom Kim Loik, said. She told how her son had become a victim of cruel taunts ever since they moved to North Battleford in Saskatchewan, Canada five years ago.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2433073/Todd-Loik-suicide-Saskatchewan-teen-family-contemplated-moving-escape-years-cyberbullying-kills-himself.html

Teen who 'stabbed mother and brother to death with butcher's knife then went on run' is found at food court on Las Vegas strip

A Las Vegas-area teenager who had been sought in the U.S. and along the Mexican border following the butcher knife slayings of his mother and younger brother was arrested Wednesday while he sat alone in a food court on the Las Vegas Strip. An unidentified tipster who recognized Adrian Navarro-Canales from media reports told Henderson police the 16-year-old was at the food court at the Showcase mall, police spokesman Keith Paul said. Navarro-Canales offered no resistance when police approached him at about 10:30 a.m. 'He was sitting at a table,' Paul said. 'The two detectives walked up to him and took him into custody.' Navarro-Canales was booked into juvenile detention at the Clark County Detention Center in downtown Las Vegas to await an initial court appearance.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2433173/Adrian-Navarro-Canales-16-stabbed-mother-brother-dead-food-court-Las-Vegas-strip.html

Student hit by train after homeless man pushed her on the tracks because 'she refused to give him money'

A student has been left with horrific injuries after she was pushed in front of a train by a homeless man on Wednesday morning. The 21-year-old was allegedly shoved on the tracks at White Plains station in New York after she refused to give money to a 39-year-old who lives in a shelter. Shocked commuters described seeing her mangled legs on the tracks, and some followed the man and held him until police arrived.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2432931/Student-hit-train-homeless-man-pushed-tracks-refused-money.html

Drug-users eaten alive by flesh-eating illness caused by homemade heroin substitute that has arrived on American shores in Arizona

The first cases of a terrifying new drug called 'Krokodil' that eats flesh from the inside out, is flammable and leaves addicts with reptilian-like skin have been reported this week in Arizona - and the state fears the beginning of an epidemic. Popular in Russia, Krokodil is homemade, is three-times cheaper than heroin and created by mixing codeine with gasoline or oil, filtering it and then injecting the rancid concoction into the users body. Banner's Poison Control Center most likely encountered the drug when two addicts arrived in emergency rooms with their flesh hanging off their body, exposing bone or with skin resembling that of a crocodile, hence its name.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2432802/Drug-users-eaten-alive-flesh-eating-illness-caused-homemade-heroin-substitute-Krokodil.html

Teenage paedophile almost killed 10-month-old baby boy by abusing him with cutlery

A teenage paedophile almost killed a 10-month-old baby boy by abusing him with cutlery. The infant had to undergo emergency surgery and was close to death after the abuse by Paul Ward. The 19-year-old, from Leeds, was jailed for 14 years after being convicted of three counts of assault by penetration of a child under 13 and one charge of wounding with intent at Leeds Crown Court. Judge Neil Clarke told Ward it was 'perhaps the most unpleasant' case of abuse he had come across.

The court was told that the child suffered a ruptured bowel in the incident on January 26. He was left bleeding heavily and fitting. The baby had to be revived twice in hospital and now has a colostomy bag. Judge Clarke told Ward: 'On two occasions [the baby] nearly passed away. 'Doctors said the injuries to his bowel were acutely painful. 'It would have been obvious to you that he would have been in distress and severe pain and yet you continued to do it. 'You did that not just intending serious harm, but with a sexual motive. This is perhaps the most unpleasant abuse of a baby that I have ever come across.' Ward denied three charges of assault but was convicted by a jury. He was sentenced to 14 years on September 19 and will initially be sent to a young offenders' institution. The judge also ordered an eight year extension to his licence on release.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2432957/Teenage-paedophile-killed-10-month-old-baby-boy-abusing-cutlery.html

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Keith Hunter Jesperson

Keith Hunter Jesperson (born April 6, 1955) is a Canadian serial killer known as the "Happy Face Killer" for the smiley face he drew on his many letters to the media and prosecutors, who embarked on a murderous spree in the United States during the early 1990s. He had a violent and troubled childhood under a domineering, alcoholic father. Treated like an outcast by his own family and teased by other children for his large size at a young age, Jesperson was a lonely child who showed a propensity for torturing and killing animals. Despite consistently getting into trouble in his youth, including twice attempting to kill children who had crossed him, Jesperson graduated from high school, secured a job as a truck driver, got married, and had three children. In 1990, after 15 years of marriage, Jesperson was divorced and saw his dream to become a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman dashed following an injury. It was that year, after returning to truck driving, that Jesperson began to kill.

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Poachers kill at least 81 elephants by poisoning Zimbabwe water hole in Hwange National Park

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwean authorities say at least 81 elephants have been killed for their ivory tusks by poachers using cyanide poison in water holes in a vast western national park. Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi, in Harare Tuesday after touring Hwange National Park, said more elephant carcasses were discovered after a first count of more than 40 earlier in the month.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/poachers-kill-81-elephants-poisoning-zimbabwe-water-hole-hwange-national-park-article-1.1466898

Texas mother responsible for killing three young sons and her husband in what authorities are calling a murder-suicide

The Navarro County Sheriff's Department said in a statement that 33-year-old Guadalupe Ronquillo-Ovalle gunned down her husband Israel Alvarez and their three sons — ages 4, 8, and 10 — before she turned the gun on herself.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/mother-gunned-husband-sons-texas-authorities-article-1.1466168

Strangled by a security guard, British teacher aged 26 who went to Cuba because of its low crime rate

Lara Jones had read that Cuba was a haven for female travellers, with the lowest crime rate in the Western hemisphere. So she headed to Havana alone, having picked out a hostel owned by the government with round-the-clock security. But despite doing everything to ensure her safety, the 26-year-old teacher was strangled and smothered to death in an apparently motiveless killing after a security guard crept into her bedroom. The unnamed guard was arrested ten days later, and appeared before the secretive Cuban courts. He admitted murder, and was jailed for 22 years. He gave no explanation for the killing and police remain baffled, having found no signs of sexual assault and nothing taken from Miss Jones’s room.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2430354/Lara-Jones-Preston-teacher-26-strangled-smothered-Santa-Clara-Hostel-security-guard-Cuba.html

Pictured hours before he died, the father of the bride who collapsed from massive heart attack during speech at his daughter's wedding

A newly-married bride saw her father die of a heart attack as he stood up to make his wedding speech - just hours after he walked her down the aisle. Alan Bates, 65, had spent the day with family and friends celebrating the marriage of his daughter Charlotte and husband Steve Galbraith, and rose to address guests at Craiglands Hotel in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, when he collapsed. Charlotte Galbraith, 36, was ushered from the room as friends who included an off-duty firefighter and an NHS worker fought to save her father's life until ambulances arrived.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2431590/Father-bride-died-heart-attack-speech-daughters-wedding-reception.html

Chinese convict who killed two-year-old girl by throwing her to the floor in row over parking space is sentenced to death

A Chinese ex-convict was today sentenced to death for killing a toddler by hurling her to the ground during an argument about a parking space. Han Lei, 39, had confronted the two-year-old child's mother in a car park in Beijing on July 23, claiming that her shopping trolley was in his way. During the altercation, he beat the woman to the ground, snatched the child from her buggy and raised her above his head before throwing her on the floor.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2431729/Chinese-convict-killed-year-old-girl-throwing-floor-row-parking-space-sentenced-death.html

Mother 'beat man to death with a baseball bat after her four-year-old daughter said he abused her'

A 30-year-old woman has been arrested after she confessed to police she beat a homeless man to death with a baseball bat. Forsythia Owen claimed she attacked Denzle Rainey in an alleyway where he had been sleeping rough because he allegedly molested her four-year-old daughter. As she was interviewed by police Owens, of Englewood, Colorado, allegedly swung her arms repeatedly as she demonstrated how she delivered the fatal blows. Mr Rainey was found in the alley with serious injuries. He had a cracked skull, broken ribs and vital organs had been damaged. A post-mortem examination showed his broken ribs had cut into his liver, Fox 13 reported. The 42-year-old had been living rough while he tried to patch up his relationship with his wife and children. Owens, who was arrested on Monday, is being held in Arapahoe County Detention Center and is facing first-degree murder charges, according to 9 News. She allegedly said to officers that the unnamed child told her Mr Rainey had sexually abused her. Police are investigating Owen's claims that he molested her daughter.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2431540/Forsythia-Owen-tells-police-beat-homeless-man-dead-baseball-bat-molested-daughter.html

Toddler is mauled to death by as many as five pit bulls while in the care of his grandmother and uncle

A toddler was mauled to death by at least five pit bull mix dogs in California on Monday while he was in the care of his uncle and grandmother, authorities say. Two-year-old Samuel Eli Zamudio was found severely injured with bite wounds in the backyard of his uncle's home in Colton, California around 5:30 p.m. Relatives said they heard no cries or screams from the baby, whom they suspect had entered the backyard through a window of the home. 'We found him outside,' Erica Vega, 23, told the San Bernardino Sun. 'He was dead, he was naked, he was dirty and his neck and face was bitten.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2431171/Toddler-Samuel-Eli-Zamudio-mauled-death-pit-bulls.html

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Gunned down side by side: Tragedy of architect who cradled heavily pregnant Harvard girlfriend in his arms as they lay dying after being shot during Kenyan mall massacremassacre

In two weeks they were due to experience the joy of becoming parents for the first time. But instead they died arm in arm in a pool of blood – gunned down by Islamist extremists as they went out for lunch in a Kenyan shopping centre. In photographs too graphic to print, Briton Ross Langdon cradles sweetheart Elif Yavuz, one hand draped protectively over her pregnant stomach. The burger and chips they had just bought are scattered across the floor.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2429864/Ross-Langdon-Architect-heavily-pregnant-partner-shot-dead-Kenyan-mall-massacre.html

'At least 30 killed' in Pakistan earthquake

The province in southwest Pakistan is the country's largest but also the least populated. The death toll ranged from two to at least 30 in early reports. Abdul Wadoos, deputy speaker of the Baluchistan assembly, claimed 30 people died and at least 30 per cent of houses in the Awaran district were destroyed. The magnitude 7.7 quake hit in the southern part of Baluchistan province, said Pakistan's chief meteorologist, Mohammed Riaz. The US Geological Survey in Golden, Colo. reported the quake as magnitude 7.8.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/10331013/At-least-30-killed-in-Pakistan-earthquake.html

Kidnapped teen Hannah Anderson’s mom was bound, gagged, beaten: autopsy

The mother of a kidnapped California teen suffered a brutal death — bludgeoned, bound with a plastic zip tie and gagged with duct tape. Christina Anderson was probably already dead when the killer slashed her throat, according to the newly released autopsy report. The San Diego Sheriff’s Office says James Lee DiMaggio killed Anderson and her 8-year-old son Ethan on Aug. 3 before he kidnapped 16-year-old Hannah Anderson and fled east. Their bodies were discovered inside the former family friend’s burning house and garage in Boulevard, Calif.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/kidnapped-teen-mom-bound-gagged-beaten-autopsy-article-1.1465670

One in thirty deaths in Holland are from euthanasia with most choosing to end their lives due to cancer

The number of Dutch people choosing to end their lives through euthanasia has risen 13 per cent in a single year, making it the cause of almost one in 30 deaths in the country. The commission that vets cases of euthanasia in the Netherlands recorded 4,188 cases last year, or approximately 3 per cent of all deaths - a record, and up from 1,923 in 2006. Most of those who choose to end their lives through euthanasia are patients suffering from cancer, the commission said in its annual report published today.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2430479/One-thirty-deaths-Holland-euthanasia-choosing-end-lives-cancer.html

Girl, 7, crushed to death in 'freak accident' at car hopping competition

A seven-year-old girl was tragically killed in a ‘freak accident’ at a car hopping competition on Sunday night at the warehouse about 14 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles. Mia Chapman was attending the event in Santa Fe Springs, California, along with her father, Jay, and an estimated 200 other people. Police haven’t confirmed that exact circumstances leading to Mia’s death, but according to eyewitnesses the event a car was exiting the warehouse when it lost control.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2430572/Mia-Chapman-7-crushed-death-freak-accident-California-car-hopping-competition.html

Monday, September 23, 2013

Four Killed in Lancaster Multi-Vehicle Crash

Four people were killed in a traffic collision in Lancaster Saturday night, according to CHP officers. The crash happened near the intersection of 10th Street East and Avenue G. A black Honda carrying a driver and four passengers collided with a pickup truck. The crash sent both vehicles into a ditch, according to witnesses. Three of the victims were traveling in the Honda; the fourth was in the pickup truck.

http://ktla.com/2013/09/21/four-killed-in-lancaster-mulit-vehicle-crash/#axzz2fj6Bacx5

Five members of the same family including three young children found dead in their home

Five members of the same family, including three young children, have been found dead inside their home in Texas. The bodies of two adults and three youngsters were discovered at the house in the small town of Rice, Navarro County, which is 44 miles south of Dallas. According to the Navarro County Sheriff's department, all of the children found were under the age of 12. Police were alerted to the grim discovery after they received a call from a man at 7pm on Sunday, who claimed that five members of his family were dead inside their home.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2429788/Five-members-family-including-young-children-dead-home.html

Two suicide bombers attack Pakistan church killing 85 people in deadliest-ever attack on country's Christians

Two suicide bombers detonated their explosives outside a historic church in Pakistan today killing 85 people in the deadliest-ever attack on the country's Christian minority. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the bombing in the city of Peshawar, saying it would continue to target non-Muslims until the US stopped drone attacks in the country's remote tribal region. The latest drone strike came on Sunday when missiles hit a pair of compounds in the North Waziristan tribal area, killing six suspected militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2429074/Pakistan-church-blast-2-suicide-bombers-kill-85-attack-countrys-Christians.html

Toddler mauled to death after getting in the middle of fight between three pit bulls

A toddler in Arizona was killed yesterday after getting in the middle of a fight between three pit bulls. Two-year-old Daniel was staying with a babysitter in Gilbert for the weekend with his siblings when the fight broke out around 11am . The 28-year-old babysitter attempted to pull her dogs off of the boy, and was injured herself.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2429909/Toddler-mauled-death-getting-middle-fight-pit-bulls.html

Mother and daughter found strangled to death inside burned out car

A mother and daughter have been found dead in a burned out car abandoned at the roadside. Police confirmed that the two women had been strangled before the fire was started in Illinois over the weekend. Officers from Cook County County Sheriff's office responded to reports of a vehicle on fire at an intersection in the affluent area of Palos Park at 11.45pm on Saturday.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2429823/Chicago-Mother-daughter-strangled-death-inside-burned-car.html

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Man has his penis amputated after deliberately overdosing on Viagra to impress his girlfriend

A man from southern Colombia had to have his penis amputated after he allegedly overdosed on Viagra to impress his girlfriend. The 66-year-old man from Gigante, Colombia, whose name has not been released, told a local newspaper that he intentionally overdosed on the erectile dysfunction medicine. He then is said to have suffered an erection for several days before being forced to seek medical advice. According to news website Colombia Reports, the penis-enhancing drug caused the man, who is said to be a farmer and a former politician, to develop signs of gangrene.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2429046/Man-penis-amputated-deliberately-overdosing-Viagra-impress-girlfriend.html

Two dead after car plows into group of bicyclists during annual New Hampshire ride

Officials said the crash happened on a bridge in Hampton just after the start of the 40th annual Granite State Wheelmen Tri-State Seacoast Centuryride. It wasn't immediately clear what caused the crash, or if the driver would be charged.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/dead-car-plows-group-bicyclists-annual-new-hampshire-ride-article-1.1463400

Fight on Facebook turns deadly

A 30-year-old woman gunned down her rival at a West Side gas station last month after the pair got into a fight on Facebook, Cook County prosecutors said Thursday. Khalila Southall, who fled to Rochester, Minn., following the Aug. 26 shooting, allegedly admitted to Chicago Police that she and Lakeisha Tate had a previous argument on the social media site and “did not like each other.”

http://www.suntimes.com/news/crime/22667724-418/fight-on-facebook-turns-deadly-prosecutors.html

2 men killed, 9 people injured in gun violence

Two men were killed and nine people were injured in citywide gun violence Thursday evening and early Friday, police said.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/crime/22676621-418/2-men-killed-9-people-injured-in-gun-violence.html

Saturday, September 21, 2013

‘All Muslims leave… we only want to kill non-Muslims’: Witness reveals how gunmen who massacred at least 22 in Kenyan shopping mall targeted non-Islamics

At least 22 people are reported to be dead and 50 injured as a gun fight continues between police and armed men at a shopping centre in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. One witness claimed gunmen told Muslims to stand up and leave and that only non-Muslims would be targeted. Security guards were seen wheeling out bloodstained bodies in shopping trolleys from upmarket mall in the Westlands district of the city, witnesses said, after the attack that broke out at midday today. Locals and tourists who had come out shopping on the sunny Saturday morning ran screaming from the building and cars were left abandoned as attackers threw grenades and fired AK47s.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2427892/Nairobi-mall-Gunmen-massacred-22-Kenyan-shopping-centre-targeted-non-Islamics.html

4 sisters kill themselves over dowry

MULTAN: Four sisters killed themselves after a row with their father who could not afford dowries for them to get married, officials said on Friday. The women threw themselves into a canal after arguing with their father in Mailsi, a town in the rural southern part of Punjab. A fifth sister was pulled alive from the water. “A poor farmer, Bashir Ahmed Rajput, could not marry his five daughters because he had no money to offer dowry,” Malik Daud Hasnain, a senior police official told AFP. “After an argument on the issue on Thursday, his daughters became desperate and jumped together into a water canal.” The women were aged 45, 43, 38, 35 and 31. “We have rescued the youngest sister Fatima and also discovered dead bodies of two others. The search for the remaining bodies is on,” Hasnain said. Dowry for weddings is a serious issue for poor families in the subcontinent and many women are unable to marry because their relatives cannot afford the gifts and money demanded by grooms’ families. In Pakistan, the usual age for a woman to get married is between 18 and 28 and anyone older faces difficulties finding a match.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2013%5C09%5C21%5Cstory_21-9-2013_pg7_16

100 killed by landslides in Mexico

The death toll stood at 101, with 68 people missing following a massive mudslide that swallowed half of the village of La Pintada, in Guerrero state, according to Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, the interior minister.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/mexico/10324873/100-killed-by-landslides-in-Mexico.html

Husband, 86, killed wife for putting ketchup cap on too tightly

Prosecutors say Lawrence Loeffler shot his 83-year-old wife because he was angry at his family for several reasons, including his wife's habit of putting the ketchup lid on too tight. His lawyers have said he suffers delusions.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/wife-slain-putting-ketchup-lid-tightly-prosecutor-article-1.1462450

Siberian tiger kills zookeeper in Germany as group of patrons watch in horror

A German zookeeper was killed by a Siberian tiger as horrified patrons watched from outside the enclosure, officials said. The 56-year-old worker, identified only as Martin H., was attacked by the 10-year-old tiger, Rasputin, during a public feeding of the big cats in the Allwetterzoo Muenster on Thursday, officials said. The blood spilled after the worker may have improperly latched a lock while moving Rasputin with at least one other tiger to another enclosure, officials said. A group of people had gathered to watch the caged animals eat when the tiger jumped the keeper from behind and killed him with “a targeted neck bite,” said a fire department spokesman, Dieter Knaack, according to United Press International.


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/siberian-tiger-kills-zookeeper-german-zoo-group-patrons-watch-horror-article-1.1462470

Bible-thumping W. Va. child molester says ‘prancing’ 7-year-old tempted him: 'All have ... come short of the glory of God'

A former West Virginia church custodian said he molested a 7-year-old relative because she tempted him "by prancing around in short shorts." “God-fearing” Charles Brainard Hogan, 58, also confessed to assaulting the little girl after not having sex with his wife for three years. The gray-haired creep was sentenced Wednesday to 15 to 35 years. He tried to wriggle out of the lengthy term with a rambling, Scripture-quoting speech. "Romans 3:23 says, 'for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God,’" he told the court. "So nobody in this court can say they haven't committed any kind of sin, because if they do they are a liar," he added.

But he was cut off by Kanawha County Circuit Judge Paul Zakaib, who informed the Baptist pastor's son that he would also have to register as a sex offender for life. Assistant prosecutor Erica Lord dubbed the bespectacled pedophile a "monster." "He took a child's innocence away. Do you think any amount of therapy she is going through will ever erase what he did to her?" she asked. "He wants to come in here and give us a theology lesson. He comes in here and says, 'Poor me,'" she added.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/religious-w-va-child-molester-prancing-victim-tempted-article-1.1462353

Chinese student sentenced to life for killing 9-year-old

TAIYUAN - A high school student in north China's Shanxi province was sentenced to life in prison for killing a 9-year-old girl, the Intermediate People's Court in the city of Xinzhou said on Saturday. The trial was not open to the public as the defendant is a juvenile and thus protected by privacy shield. According to a court statement, the defendant, surnamed Lyu, kidnapped the victim in December 2012, molesting and beating her to death. The defendant turned himself in to Xinzhou police 10 days later. The court said the crimes committed were so hideous that no mitigation was offered.

http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2013-09/21/content_16982619.htm

Friday, September 20, 2013

Man cuts off his testicles with scissors before bursting into a church just half an hour before couple were due to get married

A man cut off his own testicles and stormed into a church shortly before a couple were due to be married. Reverend Bob Wallace and a florist were making preparations for the wedding ceremony at Hutton All Saints Church in Essex when the man burst in around 12.25pm. They realised the man had injured his genitals and managed to stop wedding guests from entering the church while they waited for police to arrive on September 14.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2426477/Man-cuts-testicles-bursting-church-just-half-hour-couple-married.html

Daughters find Brooklyn mom shot dead after suspect dad sent them for takeout

Two Brooklyn girls — given $8 by their mom’s former boyfriend to get food at a nearby chicken joint — returned to find their mother dead in a pool of blood, police sources said. The two daughters, 5 and 15, left their Brownsville apartment around 8:45 p.m. Wednesday and headed to Crown Fried Chicken around the corner, police sources said. When the girls got back 15 minutes later, they found a scene of unspeakable horror. Their mother, Sellis Gonzales, 46, was lying motionless on the floor. She was shot six times — three bullets to the head and three to the midsection, police sources said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/girls-find-brooklyn-mom-shot-dead-suspect-dad-missing-article-1.1462058

Teens stab one’s mom with sword in plot to murder her, eat her liver

Two teen boys were arrested after allegedly attacking one of their mothers with a sword and talking about eating her liver, police said. Deputies found the bloodied woman sprawled out across her bed beside two knives and a sword with a bent handle early Tuesday, reported The Columbian. The unidentified woman was hospitalized and is in stable condition. There was no sign of forced entry in her Spokane, Wash., home, so the deputies’ attention turned to those with access to it, her 13-year-old son and his 14-year-old friend, according to Washington-based newspaper. It appears that the suspects fled in the Dodge Durango SUV belonging to the other boy's father, police said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/teens-stab-mom-sword-plot-murder-eat-liver-cops-article-1.1461471

Pastor who sexually abused more than 20 women told them the sex acts were necessary as part of a ‘healing hands’ treatment

A California associate pastor has been accused of sexually assaulting several of his parishioners with his ‘healing hands.’ Juan Jorge Castro, 53, of Norwalk, CA., was arrested last Friday for the alleged assault of at least four parishioners, but is suspected of violating upwards of 20. The allegations include repeated abuse of the victims and accusations he used their undocumented immigration status against them. Mr Castro has been formally charged for assaulting only four women, as the other 16 have refused to discuss the crimes with investigators.

The alleged pervert is said by investigators to have told women who came to him for counseling that the sex acts were part of the faith-healing process,’ a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson told local media. ‘He claimed to have healing hands and utilized that process to eventually sexually assault them,’ the spokesperson told the Los Angeles Times.

‘[Mr Castro] would perform certain acts with them in the name of God,’ a spokesperson told KCAL Aged 18 to 39, Mr Castro’s victims were all undocumented immigrants, which the accused man used to blackmail them into silence. ‘He did this by invoking fear by threatening to tell the victims if they reported him he would have the victims deported,’ a sheriff’s office spokesperson told KNX.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2426371/Pastor-sexually-abused-20-women-told-sex-acts-necessary-healing-hands-treatment.html

13 people, including 3-year-old boy, shot at South Side park

Thirteen people, including a 3-year-old boy who suffered a gunshot wound to the head, were shot at a Chicago park in the Back of the Yards neighborhood Thursday night, authorities said.

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The attack took place about 10:15 p.m. and fire officials called an Emergency Medical Services Plan II, sending at least 10 ambulances to the scene. Chicago police were making no information about what happened public, except to say that the shooting appeared to be gang-related. The shootings took place on a basketball court on the 51st Street side of Cornell Square Park near Wood Street.

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The victims' ages, sexes and injuries were, according to Police News Affairs Officer Ron Gaines: 

The 3-year-old boy, shot in the ear, in critical condition at Mount Sinai;
A 17-year-old girl, shot in the foot, condition stabilized at Holy Cross Hospital;
A 15-year-old boy shot in the arm, stabilized at Holy Cross;
A man, 27, shot in the leg and wrist, serious condition at Mount Sinai;
A man, 24, shot twice in the stomach, serious condition at Mount Sinia;
A man, 21, shot in the leg, serious condition at Mount Sinai;
A man, 41, shot in the buttocks, serious condition at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital;
A woman, 33, shot in the shoulder, condition stabilized at Northwestern Memorial Hospital;
A man, 31, shot in the buttocks, condition stabilized at Northwestern;
A woman, 23, shot in the foot, condition stabilized at St. Anthony Hospital;
A man, 37, shot in the leg, in good condition at Stroger;
A man, 25, shot in the knee, in good condition at Northwestern;
And a man, 33, who drove himself to Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park with a gunshot wound to the leg and who was treated and released.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-multiple-people-including-3yearold-shot-in-south-side-attack-20130919,0,352520.story

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Suspected gunman kills innocent driver in horrific crash during high-speed chase in South Florida

A high-speed chase in South Florida between police and a gunman suspected of shooting two women on Wednesday ended in a horrific highway crash that killed an innocent driver. Broward County authorities said the gunman was discovered dead at the crash site on U.S. 27 after an hour-long standoff with dozens of deputies and SWAT teams, the Miami Herald reported. Gunshots were heard inside the suspect's badly damaged Mercedes SUV shortly after the crash and early reports said he shot himself. The suspect was not identified. The innocent driver, who was hit by the fleeing gunman, was also pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said. Her name was not released.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/suspected-gunman-innocent-driver-killed-high-speed-chase-video-article-1.1459921

Austrian poacher’s passion for hunting turned to murder when confronted by cops

GROSSPRIEL, Austria -- In Austria, hunting game such as deer and wild boar is a hallowed way of life, one that follows age-old codes of honor and requires a license bestowed only after passing rigorous exams. In that exalted world, Alois Huber was a brazen outlaw even before he went on a murderous rampage that left four people dead. Not only did he poach game illegally in the middle of the night, he violated one of hunting's most sacred rules: Kill for meat, not just the trophy of the wild animal's head. Huber shot countless deer in the forests outside Vienna, sawed off their antlered heads to mount at home - and left their decapitated bodies to rot in the underbrush.



http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/austrian-poacher-passion-hunting-turned-murder-confronted-cops-article-1.1460858

Woman found dead in apartment after daughter jumps to death

YOKOHAMA — A 71-year-old woman was found dead in her Yokohama apartment about an hour after one of her daughters jumped to her death from the roof of a nearby building on Wednesday morning. According to police, the body of Motoko Sugase was found by her oldest daughter in the livingroom at her apartment in Konan Ward at around 12:10 a.m. TBS quoted police as saying that she had been strangled to death. About one hour earlier, the victim’s second oldest daughter, 45, who lived with her mother, apparently jumped to her death from the rooftop of a nearby condominium, police said.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/woman-found-dead-in-apartment-after-daughter-jumps-to-death

Five-month-old baby boy dies after horrific accident on conveyor belt at Spanish airport

A five-month-old baby boy died on Wednesday night after a horrific accident on a baggage collection conveyor belt at a Spanish airport. The boy's family had just touched down at the Alicante-Elche Airport for their holidays in nearby Denia on Spain's Costa Blanca when tragedy struck. Police sources say that the boy's mother placed him on the special baggage belt - which is reserved for the collection of larger suitcases, pushchairs and musical instruments.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2425260/Five-month-old-baby-dies-horrific-accident-conveyor-belt-Spanish-airport.html

Florida man, 54, arrested for trying to perform drunken, violent two day exorcism on helpless 80-year-old girlfriend

A Florida man has been arrested for imprisoning and trying to perform an exorcism on his elderly girlfriend. David Edward Benes, 54, is accused of imprisoning his 80-year-old girlfriend in their Holiday, FL., home Sept 16 and 17 while trying to perform a drunken, violent two day exorcism on her, according to a police report. This is not the first time he's run afoul of the law for drinking and violence. The couple has lived together for three years, the report said. A history of violence: David Edward Benes appears to have been in court multiple times on battery and alcohol-related charges

Police arrived at the house of horrors Sept 17 to find the battered elderly woman’s arms covered in bruises and scratches, said the report. Mr Benes was ‘too intoxicated to talk,’ the arresting officer wrote in the arrest report. The allegedly possessed woman told police she and Mr Benes were involved in a physical altercation the previous evening that ended when her bombed boyfriend physically restrained her because he was trying to ‘exorcise her and get the devil out of her’ against her will.’ The helpless woman was then told by Mr Benes she was not allowed to leave the house, took her car keys, dismantled the garage door opener and even took the batteries out of all the phones to prevent her from calling for help. The victim then awoke in the morning to Mr Benes again ‘exorcising’ her,’ she told cops.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2424917/Florida-man-David-Edward-Benes-54-arrested-exorcism-80-year-old-girlfriend.html

Mother who 'starved her son, 4, to death' and kept his mummified corpse in her bedroom for TWO YEARS claimed child benefit while he was dead

A mother starved her son to death and then lived with his mummified corpse for almost two years, a court has heard. Amanda Hutton, 43, kept the tiny corpse of four-year-old Hamzah Khan in a cot in her bedroom after he died of malnutrition. His growth had been so stunted that he was still wearing a baby-gro meant for an infant six to nine months old when he was found. Bradford Crown Court heard his mother went on with her life while his body decomposed. Within hours of Hamzah’s death, she ordered a pizza – and continued to claim child benefit in his name. Hutton is on trial accused of his manslaughter by gross negligence on two grounds – failing to feed her son adequately and failing to seek medical help for him when it was needed. She denies the charge.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2424335/Amanda-Hutton-starved-son-death-claimed-child-benefit-dead.html

Indian woman, 20, tortured and lynched by her family and her boyfriend beheaded in horrific honour killing

A young Indian woman was beaten to death by members of her own family and her boyfriend beheaded in an horrific honour killing after they were lured back to their village thinking were going to be allowed to marry. Nidhi Barak, 20, a fine arts student, and Dharmender Barak, 23, who was studying at technical college, were killed last night as locals in Gharnavati village in the Indian state of Haryana watched on. The pair had eloped to nearby Delhi on Tuesday because their families did not approve of their relationship.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2425056/Indian-woman-20-tortured-lynched-family-boyfriend-beheaded-horrific-honour-killing.html

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Canada passenger train collides with bus in capital, five dead

OTTAWA (Reuters) - A passenger train collided with a double-decker city bus on the outskirts of Ottawa and derailed on Wednesday, killing at least five people, an emergency official said. The front of the red double-decker bus was sheared off and the engine of the VIA Rail train had derailed, but the train cars remained upright with little noticeable damage.

http://news.yahoo.com/canada-train-bus-collide-ottawa-several-killed-reports-133320416.html

Woman arrested for strangling 3-year-old daughter to death in Saitama

SAITAMA — Police have arrested a woman in Saitama Prefecture on suspicion of murdering her 3-year-old daughter. According to police, 34-year-old Niina Narita was arrested for the murder of her youngest daughter, Uta, at her home in Tokorozawa on Tuesday afternoon. TBS reported that Narita, who lived with her ​​husband and two daughters, contacted emergency services to report that she had strangled her daughter to death. Paramedics took Uta to a nearby hospital where she was confirmed dead. Police say Narita was home alone with Uta at the time of the incident. Narita has confessed to the murder, but gave no motive, TBS quoted police as saying.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/woman-arrested-for-strangling-3-year-old-daughter-to-death-in-saitama

Boyfriend distraught over breakup shoots honors student, 19, and kills her new love before turning the gun on himself

A 21-year-old man critically wounded his college honors student ex-girlfriend and killed her new boyfriend, then turned a gun on himself in a murder-suicide that has shocked the small-town campus of Salisbury University in Maryland. Police say Ryan Shallue became increasingly disturbed after his high school girlfriend Kristen Loetz, 19, dumped him four months ago. She had just started her sophomore year of college. Shallue began stalking her and bought a gun two weeks ago. On Wednesday night, he showed up at Loetz's off-campus house, where she discovered her with 20-year-old Charles 'CJ' Abbott. When Shallue began fighting with Loetz, Abbott tried to intervene, police said.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2411932/Kristen-Loetz-Murder-suicide-ex-boyfriend-leaves-Salisbury-University-student-wounded-2-dead.html

Child grooming suspect is found hanged after being 'outed' online by vigilante paedophile hunters

An engineer hanged himself days after a controversial group of ‘paedophile hunters’ accused him of grooming a child over the internet. Gary Cleary was arrested by police after being confronted in public by the vigilante group called Letzgo Hunting whose members lure suspected sex offenders into meetings by posing as young girls online. The 29-year-old, who lived with his girlfriend, was released on bail while officers looked into the allegation, but was found dead in the garage at his home four days later. A coroner last week recorded a verdict of suicide.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2423612/Child-grooming-suspect-Gary-Cleary-hanged-outed-vigilante-paedophile-hunters.html

Teenage girl accused of stabbing her best friend to death because she didn’t like her any more denies the charge in court

A West Virginia teen accused of stabbing her best friend to death has pleaded not guilty to first degree murder in court. Seventeen-year-old Shelia Eddy also denied conspiracy and kidnapping charges when she appeared in Monongalia County court on Tuesday. Prosecutors say Eddy plotted the murder with Rachel Shoaf, then the two girl lured Skylar Neese out of her house in 2012 and stabbed her to death. The body was stashed under some branches in the woods across the Pennsylvania border. A potential motive has yet to be revealed.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2423972/Sheila-Eddy-pleads-guilty-killing-best-friend-Skylar-Neese-didnt-like-more.html

Three HUNDRED more men killed themselves in Britain in 2009 as financial crisis triggered spike in suicide rates around the world, new figures reveal

The number of British men committing suicide increased by 300 in 2009 with experts blaming the financial crisis and heavy job losses for the rise. A new study has found that there were around 5,000 extra suicides across Europe and North America the year following the 2008 banking crash. Researchers from universities in Oxford, Bristol and Hong Kong are linking the spike to around 34 million job losses worldwide and stress triggered by repossessions and bankruptcy.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2424285/UK-suicide-rate-rose-300-extra-men-killed-financial-crisis.html

Disturbing rise in killings with a blade

TORONTO - There have been 13 deaths involving a knife so far in deadly 2013. Toronto Police say a dozen of this year’s 42 homicides are confirmed stabbings.

The victims are:

Omarie Brooks, 22
Bridget Takyi, 27
Michael Cocomello-Mandino, 20
Natasha Perez, 28
Dylan Palumbo, 28
Alan Clements, 58
Rebecca Ransome, 27
Tatiana Khalilova, 49
Svetlana Babaega, 76
Victor Zybin, 76
Anthony Koko Chang, 62
Dominic Parker, 45 .

Rest in peace.

In the 13th case, no murder charge has been laid. Investigators have not decided if the victim was stabbed to death.

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/09/18/disturbing-rise-in-killings-with-a-blade

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

55-year-old poacher in Austria kills 2 police officers, emergency rescue driver in stand-off with cops

VIENNA — A man killed two police officers and the driver of an emergency rescue vehicle Tuesday before barricading himself inside a farm building in a lower Austrian town, the dpa news agency said, citing an unidentified police spokesman. Interior Minister spokesman Karl-Heinz Grundboeck said a third police officer was apparently being held by the shooter.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/55-year-old-poacher-austria-kills-cops-barricades-farmhouse-report-article-1.1458235

Three-year-old killed when mother's boyfriend 'pretended' to shoot him with his gun... after forgetting he had loaded it

A three-year-old was killed after his mother's boyfriend shot him apparently during a game that went badly wrong. Zachariah Grisham, of Michigan City, Indiana, is being held on preliminary charges of reckless homicide and neglect of a dependant after blasting Lance Wilson in the head. Police said Grisham, the live-in boyfriend of Lance's mother, was at home playing a shooting game with the youngster when he reached for his pistol. Grisham, who appeared in court to face charges yesterday, has said he didn't realise the weapon was loaded.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2423391/Three-year-old-killed-mothers-boyfriend-pretended-shoot-gun--forgetting-loaded-it.html

Soldier and his wife, 23, 'had sex with their dogs and posted homemade bestiality porn films online'

A Fort Bragg soldier and his young wife have been charged with making pornographic videos with dogs and then posting them online. Ruben and Amber Fox, both 23 years old, were arrested Monday in Raeford, a town just south of the sprawling U.S. Army base in North Carolina. The Foxes are charged with multiple counts of crimes against nature involving bestiality, disseminating obscene materials and conspiracy. Mrs Fox also is charged with soliciting a crime against nature.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2423715/Soldier-wife-23-sex-dogs-posted-bestiality-porn-films-online.html

Three people killed after car ploughs into hairdresser's shop

Two men and a woman have died after a car ploughed into a hairdresser's shop late last night. People living close to the accident in Bradford, West Yorkshire, tried to help the trio who were in the black Mitsubishi Evo; but all three died at the scene. West Yorkshire Police said the collision happened on Thornton Road as the car was travelling towards the city.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2423771/Three-people-killed-car-ploughs-hairdressers-shop.html

'Health and safety executive knocked girl, 16, off her moped and drove away leaving her to be killed by minibus'

A health and safety expert knocked a teenage girl off her moped before speeding off, leaving her in the road to be run over and killed by an oncoming minibus, a court heard today. Jade Clark's scooter was 'swallowed up and fragmented into hundreds of pieces' by Brian Hampton's Volvo 4X4 after he ploughed into the back of it. The executive swerved around the 16-year-old after she was flung into a Hampshire dual carriageway, before she was then hit by a Volkswagen minibus whose driver had no time to react. Hampton, 58, is an engineer who works to check the safety of signals on Britain's railways.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2423506/Health-safety-executive-knocked-girl-16-moped-drove-away-leaving-killed-minibus.html

Washington Navy Yard killer was a paranoid insomniac who 'heard voices in his head': Gunman begged to be treated for possible schizophrenia but Navy didn't take away his security clearance

Washington Naval Yard gunman Aaron Alexis suffered a host of serious mental illnesses prior to his shooting rampage on Monday that claimed the lives of 12 people U.S. law enforcement officials revealed today. Gunman: Accprding to NBC Washington, this man Aaron Alexis, 34, from Fort Worth, Texas is the Navy Yard shooter Alexis, 34, sought treatment at the Veterans Administration for paranoia, insomnia and possible schizophrenia in August - but despite his psychiatric problems the Navy had not declared him mentally unfit which would have rescinded his security clearance and impacted his ability to purchase firearms.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2423409/Washington-Navy-Yard-killer-paranoid-insomniac-heard-voices-head-Gunman-begged-treated-possible-schizophrenia-Navy-didnt-away-security-clearance.html

Monday, September 16, 2013

Woman stabbed to death in Kyoto Pref park

KYOTO — Police in Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, said Monday that a woman was stabbed to death in a public park. According to police, the woman, who has been named as 32-year-old Eiko Yamada, was captured by a CCTV camera leaving the Oiwake optician where she worked at around 7:30 p.m on Saturday. TBS reported that the same evening, she was found shortly before 9 p.m. nearby in a public park, bleeding from stab wounds to her neck. Investigators say the murder weapon has not yet been found and that an autopsy has revealed Yamada died of hypovolemic shock.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/woman-stabbed-to-death-in-kyoto-pref-park

16 dead in SW China road accident

CHENGDU - Sixteen people, including 11 students, have been confirmed dead in a Sunday road accident in Southwest China's Sichuan province, local authorities said. The accident occurred at 2 pm in Zhenwu Village in Quxian County, Dazhou City, when a passenger bus collided with a heavy-duty truck loaded with sand and cobblestones. The bus plunged into a three-meter-deep riverbed, the Dazhou emergency response office said in a statement. The bus with 24 people aboard, including 12 students, was then buried by sand and cobblestones from the overturned truck.

http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2013-09/16/content_16971357.htm

Man, 35, killed and his doctor friend injured after their car mysteriously blew up at Florida vacation home

A car explosion in Florida has killed one southern Illinois man and injured another. The tragic incident, which killed 35-year-old Michael Todd Brower of Benton, happened around 7pm Saturday night at a vacation home on 704 Harbor Lane in Destin. The explosion sent debris flying across the street causing damage to a home and a boat parked nearby, according to Northwest Florida Daily News.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2421674/Man-35-killed-car-explosion-vacation-home-Florida.html

College professor, 46, is brutally stabbed to death by a stranger while trying to protect his girlfriend from being attacked

A college professor has died after he stepped in to save his girlfriend from a random attacker and was stabbed multiple times in the neck. Police said the couple were walking home after watching a Seattle Sounders soccer match when they were attacked for no apparent reason. Troy Wolff, 46, and his girlfriend, Kristen Ito, 30, were confronted by a man who pulled out a small knife and began stabbing Miss Ito repeatedly in the torso on Friday night.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2421256/Seattle-college-professor-Troy-Wolff-brutally-stabbed-death-stranger-trying-protect-girlfriend.html

'We cannot turn a blind eye to such gruesome crimes': Indian rape gang are sentenced to DEATH after murder that shocked nation and exposed rampant abuse

Four men were yesterday sentenced to death by hanging for the gang rape and murder of a student on a Delhi bus. An Indian court ruled the men should go to the gallows for the attack which left the 23-year-old woman with such severe internal injuries she died two weeks later. The judge said the ultimate punishment was needed as a ‘strong deterrent’ after a case that ‘shocked the conscience’ of a nation.

(...)

But legal experts warned it could be years before the four men exhaust the appeal process and are hanged. Some even doubt whether the men will ever be executed, as the vast majority of death penalties are commuted to life in prison. India’s Supreme Court has ruled the death penalty should be used only in ‘the rarest of rare cases’.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2419828/Delhi-gang-rape-4-men-sentenced-DEATH-hanging-gang-rape-murder-woman.html

24 dead as Tropical Storm Manuel and Hurricane Ingrid batter Mexico from east and west

Tropical Storm Manuel has swept onto Mexico's Pacific coast while Hurricane Ingrid swirls offshore on the other side of the country, and heavy rains and landslides caused at least 24 deaths and led authorities to evacuate thousands. Stormy conditions led some communities in affected states to cancel Independence Day celebrations planned for Sunday and Monday. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Manuel began to weaken as soon as it made landfall near the port of Manzanillo on Sunday afternoon, but remains a threat to produce flash floods and mudslides. It is predicted to dissipate by Monday.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2421691/24-dead-Tropical-Storm-Manuel-Hurricane-Ingrid-batter-Mexico-east-west.html

Murder probe launched after schoolboy, 16, is stabbed to death while getting off bus during rush hour

A 16-year-old boy was today stabbed to death as he got off a bus during this morning’s rush hour. A murder hunt is underway after the teenager was found by police officers collapsed in the street in the Moseley area of Birmingham, shortly after he got off the Number 2 bus at 8.30am. West Midlands Police admitted this afternoon that the motive for the attack was still unclear, although initial enquiries suggest a dispute between two teenagers rather than a random attack.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2421983/Birmingham-schoolboy-16-stabbed-death-getting-bus-rush-hour.html

At least ten shot at Washington Navy Yard by gunman armed with AR15 rifle - and he's still on the loose

Police have reported that three gunmen, including one wearing camouflage, have shot dead four people - including two police officers - and injured another eight this morning at the Washington Naval Yard. Police have said that at least one of the gunmen, who are said to be armed with AR-15 rifles, has been taken 'down', however it is not clear if he has been arrested or shot. Two gunmen remain at large and police have said that one of the shooters has been pinned down between the third and fourth floors in a room on the grounds of the naval yard, although this has not been confirmed. One of the gunmen is not accounted for and hundreds of police, SWAT and FBI rapid response units have descended on the nation's capital to deal with the situation. In addition the spokesman added that all of the people wounded are in critical condition and have been rushed to nearby hospitals.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2421980/At-shot-Washington-Navy-Yard-gunman-armed-AR15-rifle--hes-loose.html

Man and five children die in Ohio trailer fire

A fire that engulfed a trailer killed five children and a man on Sunday morning in Tiffin, Ohio, police said. Firefighters and police tried to control the fire and pulled out the man and children, who were declared dead at a hospital, the police in Tiffin, said in a statement. Tiffin is located about 90 miles (145 km) west of Cleveland. The Blade, a newspaper in nearby Toledo, identified the man as Timothy Fresch, 25, and said the youngest victim was his infant son. The other four children, who were between the ages of 3 and 6, were the daughters of Fresch’s girlfriend, who was at work at the time of the fire, the newspaper reported.

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/09/16/man-and-five-children-die-in-ohio-trailer-fire

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Beheaded in front of children, Assad's thugs are dragged to their doom and butchered like animals in some of the most brutal scenes to emerge from Syria's civil war

The sword rests briefly on his neck as a blindfolded man kneels under a clear blue sky. Moments later, the executioner raises his right arm, slashes downwards and the prisoner is dead. The whole barbaric episode is watched by a crowd of jeering men, many of them armed. And sitting on a low wall only a few feet from where the wretched captive died so violently is a line of young boys. They were still there as the dead man’s head was dumped on his body. Another child, even younger, was led by the hand past the corpse.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2420263/Syrian-civil-war-rebels-behead-Assads-thugs-children-really-sides.html

Man shoots dead estranged wife outside high school then kills himself during dramatic standoff with police as family members look on

An estranged husband fatally shot his wife in the back parking lot of a Texas school, then returned home to kill himself. Gregory Robinson, 54, attacked Valerie Robinson, 46, outside Tompkins High School in Katy, at 6.11 am on Friday morning. The couple had three children and number of grandchildren Mr Robinson then drove away in a truck before barricading himself in his Brookshire house, leading to a tense standoff with authorities. The couple's son, Gregory Robinson Jr, and other family members looked on from the street. Officers stormed the house just after 10.30 am and found Mr Robinson dead inside.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2420318/Katy-Texas-man-shoots-dead-estranged-wife-outside-high-school-kills-himself.html

British holiday rep, 37, describes horror of Caribbean jail dubbed the Devil's Hotel after she was accused of murdering her husband

A mother-of-two who is accused of murdering her husband has said she would rather die than face serving 30 years in a Dominican prison if she is convicted. Nicola Reyes, 37, has described the horrific condition in which she has been kept for 14 months, allegedly without charge. Even her own lawyer in the Caribbean fears she will be convicted, and her parents Micheal and Jeanette Clements claim the British Embassy and Foreign Office have failed to provide assistance. They have now started a petition asking for Prime Minister David Cameron to intervene.

Speaking to the Sunday Mirror, Nicola, a former holiday rep from Cardiff said: 'If I am convicted - and I truly think I will be - I will get 30 years. I will kill myself. I have worked out a way to do it.' In one incident inside the prison dubbed Devil's Hotel she says she listened as guards beat a man to death in the cell next to hers, then watched in horror as they dragged his body out and left it in full view of the other inmates until morning. She said: 'I saw other male prisoners chained up so high by their hands they were forced to stand on tip-toe. 'Guards would beat them with sticks until the sticks broke.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2421009/Nicola-Reyes-mother-tells-horror-inside-Devils-Hotel-prison-police-claim-murdered-husband.html

Georgia girl, 8, may have committed suicide

Authorities said they believe an 8-year-old girl discovered hanging Friday could have committed suicide. The child’s father found her hanging in a closet of their house in Henry County, Ga., around 8 p.m., Locust Grove Police Department Chief Jesse Patton told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He called 911 right away, police said, but the little girl was pronounced dead upon arrival at Henry County Hospital. An autopsy will be performed on Monday, Patton said, but foul play is not suspected. No arrests have been made. “The parents are distraught and we are giving them time to grieve, but we are continuing with an investigation,” he said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/girl-8-committed-suicide-cops-article-1.1456146

Las Vegas woman accused of killing male roommate with single shot through bedroom door, using his car to flee

Heated words turned deadly in Las Vegas on Thursday after a woman allegedly pulled a shotgun on her male roommate. Mary Pitrello, 26, is facing first-degree murder charges after shooting her roommate through his bedroom door and trying to use his car to getaway, police said. The fight started out with a verbal argument at about 9:30 p.m. in the pair’s Clark County apartment . The man retreated to his room and started talking on his boyfriend on the phone, the Las Vegas Sun reports. In the meantime, Pitrello walked into her bedroom and emerged with a shotgun. She fired through her roommate’s closed door and the shot hit the man in the head. He died on the spot, according to reports.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/las-vegas-woman-kills-male-roommate-single-shot-bedroom-door-article-1.1456175

5 killed, 2 injured in Anhui road accident

SHEXIAN, Anhui - Five people were killed and another two injured in a road accident on Sunday morning in East China's Anhui province, local police said.

http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2013-09/15/content_16970633.htm

Man found dead in Humboldt Park was beaten, strangled

An unidentified man found unresponsive in Humboldt Park on Thursday morning was choked and beaten, and his death has been ruled a homicide.

http://homicides.suntimes.com/2013/09/13/man-found-in-humboldt-park-was-beaten-strangled/

Two children found dead in California hotel room after cops were called to failed suicide attempt when a woman tried to kill herself in a car accident

The deaths of two children who were found lifeless in a California hotel room are being treated as homicides. Santa Ana, CA., police were called around 8:30 Saturday morning after two children were discovered dead in a hotel room, Corporal Anthony Bertagna told MailOnline. A related suicide attempt also took place Saturday morning one town over in Costa Mesa. The cause of death for both individuals is not yet known, but they are being treated as homicides, Mr Bertagna added.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2420784/Two-children-dead-California-hotel-room-failed-suicide-attempt.html

Suicide bomber kills 21 at funeral in northern Iraq

MOSUL, IRAQ - A suicide bomber killed at least 21 people at the funeral of a member of Iraq's Shabak minority in the northern province of Nineveh on Saturday, security and medical sources said. It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack, but Sunni Islamist militants have in the past targeted Shabaks, who are predominantly Shi'ite, warning them to leave the area.

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/09/14/suicide-bomber-kills-21-at-funeral-in-northern-iraq

Saturday, September 14, 2013

Rapist accompanied only by a female therapist during ‘reintegration to society’ session is on the run... now her body is discovered in Swiss woodlands

A man-hunt is underway in Switzerland after the body of a Swiss therapist was found dead in the woods in Switzerland just hours after she had escorted a convict on a reintegration to society session. Adeline Morel, a 34-year-old mother and therapist, went missing with Fabrice Anthamatten, 39, yesterday. Her body was hidden in a bag in the woods in Versoix near the Swiss city. Anthamatten had been charged with rapes going back more than 10 years. French-born Anthamatten was serving out his sentence at Geneva’s Champ-Dollon prison - he was convicted in both France and Switzerland on rape charges dating back as far as 2001. Back then he was given a five-year sentence for rape and in 2003 he was given another 15 years. The pair failed to show up for an equestrian therapy session scheduled for yesterday morning.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2420266/Rapist-accompanied-female-therapist-reintegration-society-session-run--body-discovered-Swiss-woodlands.html

Ohio mom faked son's terminal cancer to bilk cash and gifts

An Ohio mom faked her young son having terminal brain cancer to bilk cash and gifts from friends, family and good Samaritans, police said. Emily Creno-King, 31, allegedly shaved 4-year-old JJ's head to make people — and himself — think he was about to die from the "incurable" disease. She forced him to wear a surgical mask and set up Facebook groups to ask kind-hearted strangers to chip in for his treatment, it's claimed. The scam was even allegedly kept secret from her estranged husband — JJ's father John — who's since said he gave medicine to his healthy child when he visited on weekends.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/mom-faked-boy-cancer-bilk-cash-cops-article-1.1454856

Five-year-old girl brutally raped in Pakistan

Pakistani police say a five-year-old girl is in a critical condition after being kidnapped and brutally raped in the eastern city of Lahore. The girl was found outside a hospital on Friday evening, Lahore police chief Chaudhry Shafiq said, a day after she went missing from a low-income neighbourhood in the city. "We suspect that unknown men kidnapped the girl and after raping her, threw her outside the hospital," Mr Shafiq said. CCTV footage showed a security guard from Lahore's Sir Ganga Ram hospital carrying the victim into the building on his shoulder after he found her lying on the road in a critical condition, Mr Shafiq added. Doctors said the child was raped several times, and after receiving emergency care was transferred to the intensive care unit of nearby Services hospital. Pakistan's Supreme Court has summoned top police officials for an update on their investigation into the crime.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-14/five-year-old-girl-brutally-raped-in-pakistan/4958002

'I watched them burn in the middle of the night': Mother's agony as her daughter, 17, and granddaughter, 2, die in fiery crash

A 17-year-old high school student and her young daughter have been killed in a fiery crash as the victim's own mother watched in horror from another car on a busy Georgia highway. Gabriella Faiz and her 2-year-old daughter, Jada, were pronounced dead Thursday night after their stalled Honda was struck on Interstate 285 at Georgia 400 ramp in Sandy Springs by two different vehicles. Faiz's mother, Al-Quiyamah Faiz, was driving in another car behind her daughter, who had just picked up the Honda from a mechanic earlier that evening.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2420573/I-watched-burn-middle-night-Mothers-agony-daughter-17-granddaughter-2-die-fiery-crash.html

Friday, September 13, 2013

The horrifying moment a family's pet Siberian husky is killed by a 10ft PYTHON which slithered into their yard

A once-powerful Siberian husky breathes its last breaths as it lies helplessly in the death grip of a 38-pound python after the serpent slithered into a Florida family's backyard and coiled around its neck. Duke's owners called emergency services just after 10pm when they saw the 10-foot African rock python coiled around their 60-pound pet's neck on August 30. But within five minutes, he was dead.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2417574/PYTHON-killed-pet-Siberian-husky-family-reportedly-related-accused-murderer-Jose-R-Rojas.html

Priest gets 50 years for taking sexually explicit photos of young girls in his parish after church cover-up

What an ignorant cunt, what a fucking ultimate asshole, he should be brutalised to fullest extent of the baton!

A Roman Catholic priest who took sexually explicit photos of five young girls in his parish - including a two-year-old - has been sentenced to 50 years behind bars. Reverend Shawn Ratigan, 47, pleaded guilty to five counts of producing or attempting to produce child porn last year after church officials sent police flash drive from his laptop containing hundreds of images of children, most of them clothed, focusing on their crotch areas in 2011. He also molested three of the girls as he photographed them, including the buttocks of a two-year-old and the labia and buttocks of a five and nine-year-old. While the victims' families welcomed U.S. District Judge Gary Fenner's decision, the Kansas-area priest was adamant he only deserved a 15 year sentence.
'I know God has forgiven me and my soul is in good shape. I can live at my cousin's house in Nebraska forever out in the middle of nowhere if that's what it takes,' he said. 'I hope that you won’t sentence me to a life of hell on earth. 'Prison is hell, and I know I deserve 15 years. But 50 years? Come on, I don’t think so.' 
There is no parole in the federal prison system, meaning Ratigan will be 97 when his sentence is over. 'Your conduct shows, Mr. Ratigan, that you are a chronic sexual abuser,' Fenner said before imposing the sentence, according to kctv5.com. 'You violated the trust of individuals to an extent that is devastating.' Ratigan’s sensational case led to multiple civil lawsuits against the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph and criminal charges against its leader, Bishop Robert W. Finn.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2419973/Priest-Shawn-Ratigan-gets-50-years-taking-sexually-explicit-photos-young-girls.html