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ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Quote: | Chinese toddler dies after parking space row
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-23475587
A Chinese toddler has died in a Beijing hospital after being wounded during a row between her mother and a man over a parking space, state media report.
They say the two-year-old girl suffered critical injuries on Tuesday when the man pulled her out of her pram and threw her to the ground.
He also reportedly beat the mother who had refused to make way for his car, while she was attending her daughter.
The driver was arrested. He could face execution if he is tried for murder.
Police also detained a second man in the case, who was allegedly a passenger in the car and helped beat up the woman.
The toddler died on Thursday night after being kept alive on a respirator, Chinese state media said on Saturday.
The assault happened when a man, identified only by his surname Han, wanted to park his car by a bus stop in Beijing.
But the toddler's mother was standing in the parking spot and refused to move her pram.
The driver got out of his car and hit the woman before removing her daughter from the pram and throwing her forcefully to the ground, an eyewitness is quoted as saying.
"The baby made no noises after being dropped, not even a cry of pain," the Beijing Times quoted him as saying. |
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| Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
Joined: 18 Sep 2001 Total posts: 8820 Location: Not far from Bedford Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 27-07-2013 13:28 Post subject: |
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How awful.
All that over a parking space. |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Total posts: 17657 Location: Dublin Gender: Male |
| Posted: 27-07-2013 23:03 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Teenage kidnapper ‘called the FBI almost daily’ while holding woman as sex slave
http://rt.com/usa/fbi-sex-slave-teenager-687/
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Bizarre details continue to emerge following the escape of a kidnapped woman who was allegedly held as a sex slave by a New York teenager. According to new reports, the woman’s captor made almost daily phone calls to the FBI.
Brandon Todd, 19, was arrested on July 10 and charged with the kidnapping of an unidentified woman. Todd reportedly met the woman on a cross-country bus, as the two traveled from Florida to San Diego.
Once they arrived at their destination, Todd suggested they stay in a hotel together.
Todd made clear his intentions to kidnap the woman, telling her that he was affiliated with a gang and would have her tracked down if she attempted to escape. After several days, Todd forced the woman to travel with him on another bus to Rochester, New York, threatening to kill the victim’s parents if she resisted.
When the pair arrived in Rochester, Todd’s grandfather picked them up and drove them to his home, where the 19-year-old lived.
According to an affidavit, the grandfather "would not talk to [the victim], would not look her in the eye, and did not seem to care that she was there.”
But then, the story takes an even stranger turn – during the woman’s two-week stay in the home, Todd made almost daily calls to federal agents.
Court documents say the teenager began making phone calls to the FBI – the majority of which were received by Agent Barry Crouch. Todd informed the agency that “he was involved in human sex trafficking” and had recently “recruited” a victim.
"Todd stated that the reason he was calling the FBI was that he had recruited a certain woman, started to have personal feelings for her, and decided he did not want her involved with the trafficking," Crouch wrote.
Disturbing details of the woman’s captivity, as explained in the affidavit, include physical abuse and sleep deprivation. Todd allegedly forced his victim into sex several times per day and injured her using a belt and heavy boots.
In the move that eventually saved her, the woman faked an asthma attack so she could be admitted into the hospital. She took that opportunity to call her boyfriend, and the two then escaped to Florida together.
After her escape, Todd contacted federal agents “hoping the FBI would assist him in locating the woman," Crouch wrote.
According to the agent, the woman had heard Todd speaking with Crouch on the phone stating that he was “working with the feds.” The false information made the victim question whether she should file a police report.
The FBI declined to respond to repeated phone calls from ABC News.
The affidavit was filed by Crouch on July 9, and Todd was arrested the following day on charges of kidnapping across state lines – a charge that carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.
Todd appeared in a US District Court in Rochester on July 22, at which point he requested a private attorney. He has not yet entered a plea, and no new court date has been set. |
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| JamesWhitehead Piffle Prospector Joined: 02 Aug 2001 Total posts: 5543 Location: Manchester, UK Gender: Male |
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| OneWingedBird Great Old One Joined: 19 Nov 2012 Total posts: 418 Location: Attice of blinkey lights Age: 44 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 29-07-2013 17:57 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | The report of the murder in January states that a white teenager was thought to be the attacker. Sad |
Was the witness a leftover from Operation Kratos?  |
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| Zilch5 Vogon Poet
Great Old One Joined: 08 Nov 2007 Total posts: 1463 Location: Western Sydney, Australia Gender: Male |
| Posted: 30-07-2013 06:52 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Woman arrested after green paint found on organ at National Cathedral
A wave of vandalism continued to mar some of Washington’s more popular landmarks Monday with at least three more attractions spattered with green paint, and authorities announced the arrest of a woman near one of the incidents at Washington National Cathedral.
The latest crimes occurred three days after the Lincoln Memorial was hit in similar fashion. On Monday, the light-green paint was discovered on an organ in the cathedral’s Bethlehem Chapel, in the cathedral’s Children’s Chapel and on the granite base of a statue next to the Smithsonian Castle on the Mall.
D.C. police said Monday evening that they had charged Jiamei Tian, 58, whom they believe to be homeless, with one count of defacing property.
The mysterious markings on the statue of Abraham Lincoln blemished one of the country’s most visited attractions and an iconic symbol of freedom. In the cathedral, they tarnished what is widely known as the nation’s house of worship — and a building still under repair after an earthquake two years ago caused such severe damage that it closed for three months. |
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/green-paint-found-on-smithsonian-statue-organ-at-national-cathedral/2013/07/29/3d65169a-f884-11e2-b018-5b8251f0c56e_story.html |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Total posts: 17657 Location: Dublin Gender: Male |
| Posted: 31-07-2013 20:23 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Christopher Philips in court over mock golliwog hanging
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-23521026
A man accused of carrying out a mock hanging of a life-sized golliwog doll while wearing a Klu Klux Klan costume has appeared in court.
Christopher Philips, formerly known as Darren Clifft, 23, from Willenhall, was charged with two counts of stirring up racial hatred at a music concert.
Walsall Magistrates' Court heard the incident allegedly happened at an right wing group's event in Wales in March.
Mr Philips did not enter a plea and was bailed to appear on 24 October.
He was arrested in March following an investigation by the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit. |
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| Ronson8 Things can only get better.
Great Old One Joined: 31 Jul 2001 Total posts: 5970 Location: MK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 31-07-2013 22:47 Post subject: |
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| More of a hate crime than a strange crime. |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Total posts: 17657 Location: Dublin Gender: Male |
| Posted: 31-07-2013 22:51 Post subject: |
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| Ronson8 wrote: | | More of a hate crime than a strange crime. |
I guess so but the golliwog is so unusual. |
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| Ronnor Yeti Joined: 23 Oct 2009 Total posts: 68 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 31-07-2013 23:57 Post subject: |
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| Where do you even get a "life-sized golliwog doll" anyway? |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Total posts: 17657 Location: Dublin Gender: Male |
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