Tuesday January 04, 2005 We've made it much easier to suggest stories. Join the Rotten Dead Pool. Pick ten people you think won't last the year. New: Daily Rotten mousepads. Please support Daily Rotten by ordering one! Tsunami survivor possibly stolen by sex slavers BBC | Submitted by: Howard Sterns Balls "Swedish police have arrived in Thailand to investigate reports that a 12-year-old survivor of the tsunami has been kidnapped from a hospital. Two officers are helping Kristian Walker's family and Thai police search for him, amid fears he may have been taken by child sex traffickers... The family fears that Kristian may have been taken out of Thailand in the chaos that followed the tsunami, when many Europeans were able to fly out without their passports." Read article... Island tribe fires arrows at relief helicopter BBC | Submitted by: sopwith "An Indian helicopter dropping food and water over the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands has been attacked by tribesmen using bows and arrows. There were fears that the endangered tribal groups had been wiped out when massive waves struck their islands... The Indian coastguard helicopter was flying low over Sentinel Island to drop aid when it came under attack. A senior police officer said the crew were not hurt and the authorities are taking it as a sign that the tribes have not been wiped out by the earthquake and sea surges." Read article... Man allegedly attacks woman, 69 and girl, 11 Quad-Cities Online | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A Davenport teen was in Scott County Jail Monday after allegedly throwing a pot of hot coffee at a 69-year-old woman and punching an 11-year-old girl in the face New Year's Day... [Joshua R. Lacey, 19] was being held in jail on $23,400 bond. Police say a man broke through a back door at a house in the 2100 block of W. Glaspell Street, Davenport, about 2:15 p.m. Saturday, and assaulted the woman and girl, according to the affidavit." Read article... Prolific kidfucker pleads guilty BBC | Submitted by: The Butt Toucher "A paedophile used his two daughters to lure their young friends to his home where they were drugged, assaulted and photographed, a court has heard. Glyn Martin, 53, of Bessingby Gate, Bridlington, East Yorkshire, had more than 6,000 indecent pictures of young girls when police raided his house. On Tuesday, Martin admitted 57 counts of indecent assault, child abduction and indecency with children. Earlier, the court was told that police found on undeveloped rolls of film a further 12,000 indecent images of young girls, involving 1,100 further victims. The girls photographed were between the ages of two and 12 and the pictures were taken between the mid-1980s and 2003." Read article... Home daycare providers charged with child molestation WFSB-TV 3 Hartford | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Police have charged a day-care provider and her son, a registered sex offender, with an incident involving a child under the woman's care. Gwendolyn Riddick Quattlebaum, 59, and Irving Riddick, 42, were arrested Friday after, police say, the son inappropriately touched one of the children who is cared for by her during the week... Quattlebaum told the Republican-American of Waterbury Sunday she cares for eight children under the age of 10 each weekday. Riddick, who cooks for the day-care center, was convicted in 1992 of second-degree sexual assault and is listed on the state's sex offender registry." Read article... Torturer gets 26 years, more charges Warren Tribune Chronicle | Submitted by: Ted Bundy "The same day Ernest Averiett was sentenced to 26 years behind bars for torturing and burning his ex-girlfriend with a clothes iron, he was indicted in connection with two unsolved rapes... the victim described how Averiett tortured her because he thought she was unfaithful. She testified that Averiett pinned her on the bed in her Benton Street S.E. apartment while burning her over 40% of her body. She said he beat her while socks were stuffed in her mouth and then took her to an out-of-town hospital while he made up a story that women in Youngstown jumped her and burned her." Read article... Special ed teacher pleads not guilty to torture WKMG-TV 6 Orlando | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A 48-year-old teacher in Seminole County, Fla., arrested in November after being accused of torturing her autistic students was charged Tuesday with five counts of abusing the children in her class. The accusations against teacher Kathleen Garrett included rubbing a child's face in vomit and slamming another child's head so hard that he lost his front teeth, according to a Local 6 News report. In one instance, Garrett is accused of rubbing her body against a child and saying 'cry for mama.' ... Garrett's classroom assistants said they were too frightened to speak out about the reported abuse and said they were aware of it for years." Read article... Horse transportation deemed lacking St. Louis Today | Submitted by: optional "A horse that was dragged behind a pickup in a St. Louis gas station parking lot Saturday was euthanized Monday morning... Witnesses saw the mare fall out of the back of a horse trailer pulled by a pickup at a gas station at 6020 North Broadway about 9:30 p.m., police said. The driver of the truck told witnesses the horse was having a seizure and had to be separated from about 15 other horses in the overcrowded trailer to prevent injury. Witnesses said the man beat the horse with his fists and yanked on its harness, police said. Later, the man dragged the horse onto a side street with another pickup, telling witnesses he had to get the rest of the horses to Mississippi... The mare had external and internal injuries, including apparent spinal damage from falling and being dragged, police said." Read article... Priest reportedly concedes fucking church ladies WXIX-TV 19 Cincinnati | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A Diocese of Covington priest is stepping down from his job to get professional help for having sex with women... [Father Mark Witte], the now former pastor at St. Timothy's in Union, has admitted to more than one affair with female parishioners... The priest faced allegations of breaking up a family in 2003 before leaving his post at Blessed Sacrament in Ft. Mitchell." Read article... Boyfriend charged in alleged baseball-bat abortion Detroit News | Submitted by: Little Red "Authorities say a roughly 6-month-old male fetus was delivered Oct. 4 after the 16-year-old mother allowed her boyfriend to hit her repeatedly in the abdomen with a baseball bat over the course of two weeks. The buried fetus was discovered in November... Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith said the boy - a 16-year-old from Richmond - was being charged with intentional conduct against a pregnant individual resulting in miscarriage or stillbirth. Under the 1999 Michigan law that made it a crime, only the person acting against the pregnant woman is criminally liable, while the mother is not." [Whoops.] Read article... Partygoer allegedly takes break to murder girl ABC TV affiliates | Submitted by: Deus Ex Machina "There are new details in the murder of a 15-year-old Garner girl... Police say the suspect himself, 19-year-old Kenneth O'Neal, confessed that he killed [Amanda Maynard] and then returned to a party at a house just up the road where he played the piano and told jokes... O'Neal [allegedly] admitted to police that he entered Amanda's house with a knife and walked up the stairs. When Amanda saw him, she started screaming and he ran to her and started stabbing her. According to the report, O'Neal says after the murder, he went back to the location of a party he'd been at earlier in the night, putting the sheath of the knife in a trash can at the house. He told police that he then went to an upstairs bathroom and washed the blood off his hands. He then came downstairs and told a few jokes, even played the piano before going back home." Read article... Ex-fireman admits torching church WATE-TV 6 Knoxville | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Authorities say a former Kingston firefighter awaiting trial on arson charges for an alleged October fire has confessed to setting fire to a church in Roane County. Law officers say he may be linked to other suspicious fires... [Glen Armes] is a former captain for the Kingston Fire Department. In October, he was indicted on three counts of arson and released from his job. He is awaiting trial on charges he burned three abandoned homes in Kingston... Armes is facing various charges, including arson, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana." Read article... Boy may testify against brother in matricide trial Sacramento Bee | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A Riverside teenager charged with his older half brother in The Sopranos-inspired decapitation killing of their mother may testify against the now-22-year-old brother. The headless and handless body of Jane Bautista, 41, was dumped in the Cleveland National Forest two years ago... Matthew B. Montejo, who was a 15-year-old sophomore at Martin Luther King High School when he was arrested in January 2003, could be a key witness in the case against his half brother Jason V. Bautista, a prosecutor said... The brothers allegedly strangled Jane Bautista in their Riverside apartment, then continued their routines for more than a week even though her severed head and hands were stored in a closet in the apartment." Read article... Police kill world's toughest man San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "When officers arrived about 12:30 p.m., the man waved a machete at police and retreated into a bedroom, where he barricaded himself in a closet. In an attempt to get him to drop his weapon, police doused him with pepper spray eight times, hit him with rubber plugs from a weapon known as a sage gun roughly 15 times and shot him in the chest with an electronic stun gun twice, police said. He withstood the pepper spray and sage-gun blasts, [Capt. Scott Warner] said, pulled one stun-gun probe out of his chest with his hands and used the machete to slice the second probe's wires. Police opened fire when the man, still wielding the machete, jumped through a window and charged them, police said." Read article... Defendant too sexy for rape charge ABC TV affiliates | Submitted by: Corehead "In a brash move during his sentencing, an admitted killer and rapist decided to turn and speak to the relatives of his victim in a Philadelphia courtroom. 20-year-old Sean Brown was sentenced Monday to 3 consecutive life prison terms. It was in a house in the Somerdale section of Philadelphia where Brown shot and killed Patricia Henry, raped and murdered her 15-year old daughter Patricia Stallworth, and killed James Cofer in 2003. Brown pleaded guilty to avoid a possible death sentence. Yesterday, he stunned the courtroom when he turned to the victims' relatives and told them he was 'too pretty to have raped anyone.'" Read article... Australian tsunami hero arrested for burglary WBBM-TV 2 Chicago | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Thomas David Connell was handcuffed and arrested by Queensland state police after he stepped off the plane at Brisbane International Airport. Police said they recognized Connell, whom they had been seeking for two years, after he gave a television interview from Thailand that aired in Australia last week. The said he is wanted on assault and burglary charges. The 32-year-old businessman was dubbed by local media as 'the good samaritan of Patong Beach' for his role in allegedly saving as many as 20 people during the Dec. 26 tsunami that smashed over the island resort of Phuket... Connell said he spent most of the day in a holding cell suffering flashbacks of his ordeal, and that police had mistaken him for someone else. 'To be a life saver, saving 20 people, and then come back to my home country and I'm going straight into a bloody jail cell with hoodlums all day,' Connell told Channel 10 television network. 'I'm not a bloody hoodlum.'" Read article... Random fatality during firearm celebration MSNBC | Submitted by: Bung Holio "A teenager was killed during a rural town's New Year's tradition of firing vintage black-powder muskets into the air, but town officials declared Monday that the centuries-old ritual would continue to be celebrated. During the revelry early Saturday, a rifle exploded and pieces of the barrel struck 18-year-old Matthew K. Shook in the side of the head. 'There's no effort in place here to end the practice,' Mayor Bob Austell said in a telephone interview. 'This is something that's been going on in Cherryville for more than 200 years. We have grandsons firing off muskets that once belonged to their grandfathers.'" [Wonder what the NRA thinks about this.] Read article... Man allegedly gets aggro at Burger King Times Herald-Record | Submitted by: Tim Howard "A man angrily berated fast-food employees and nearly hit a worker with his truck when a drive-thru clerk told him the restaurant was out of french fries, police said... Sgt. Rod Fairman said [Gregg Luttman] made an obscene gesture to the drive-thru clerk, then entered the building with another man. Luttman repeatedly cursed at the restaurant staff then walked back to his vehicle; when he noticed restaurant workers taking down his license number, Luttman revved his pickup in reverse, nearly hitting one of the employees, Fairman said. Police stopped the truck a short distance away on Route 255, where Luttman scuffled with police, kicking out the back window of a police cruiser after he was handcuffed, Fairman said." Read article... Goose beats bobcat in animal kingdom kumite WKMG-TV 6 Orlando | Submitted by: Rio "Officials with the California Department of Fish and Game were shocked to see a farmer's surveillance video of a pet goose fighting off a bobcat several times, according to Local 6 News. Fred Painter of Sonora, Calif., said he installed a surveillance camera on his property after nine pet ducks, four chickens, 2 geese and other animals kept disappearing. When Painter looked at the videotape the next morning, he saw his pet goose fending off a bobcat... An hour after the initial attack, the bobcat was seen reappearing in the video and attempting to attack the goose. Again, the goose was able to fend off the attack." Read article... Bulgarian impossibly drunk Canadian Broadcasting | Submitted by: Luke Puke "The 67-year-old man landed in hospital on Dec. 20 after a car knocked him off his feet in the southern Bulgarian city of Plovdiv, police and doctors said Tuesday. A breath test indicated blood-alcohol levels so high that police thought their equipment was broken, because the man remained conscious and talked with them. The head of Plovdiv police, Col. Angel Rangelov, said five separate lab tests taken the same day confirmed the man's blood-alcohol level of 0.914. A blood-alcohol level of 0.55 is considered potentially fatal... The man, who has not been identified, was reported to be in stable condition after being treated for head injuries." Read article... Monday January 03, 2005 US troops outnumbered in Iraq Wire Services | Submitted by: A. P. Palled "'I think the resistance is bigger than the US military in Iraq. I think the resistance is more than 200,000 people,' Iraqi intelligence service director General Mohamed Abdullah Shahwani said in an interview... the number includes at least 40,000 hardcore fighters but rises to more than 200,000 members counting part-time fighters and volunteers who provide rebels everything from intelligence and logistics to shelter. The numbers far exceed any figure presented by the US military in Iraq, which has struggled to get a handle on the size of the resistance since toppling Saddam Hussein's regime in April 2003... Asked if the insurgents were winning, Shahwani answered: 'I would say they aren't losing.'" Read article... German coroners working in Thailand Deutsche Welle | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Since Dec. 29, the German identification commission has been deployed to Thailand where they are working around the clock to determine the identity of drowning victims, many of whom have been mutilated and dismembered by the torrential floods and distorted beyond recognition as their corpses begin to deteriorate in the tropical heat... The most difficult work for the criminologists will be in the tourist resorts of Phuket and Khao Lak, where a Buddhist temple has been converted into a makeshift morgue. More than 300 corpses are stacked in the temple awaiting identification. Some 20% are estimated to be those of foreigners... forensic scientists acknowledged that it would take weeks or even years before all the victims could be identified." Read article... Murder/suicide 50% successful Trinidad Express | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Siridath Narinedath gave his wife and son-in-law an invitation to witness the murder. The 59-year-old father forced his 'adopted' daughter to drink poison and then hanged himself on New Year's Day. The woman, 28-year-old Dianne Stella Seepersad, survived and is now in stable condition at hospital... [she] said Narinedath, who was like a 'father' to her, was depressed over persistent rumours that they were having an affair. Police have unconfirmed reports that Narinedath was also depressed over the news that Seepersad was sharing a close relationship with a male companion... Police found Seepersad lying in the front yard, frothing at the mouth and Narinedath hanging from a rafter in the garage at the back of the house... There were visible blisters on her lips and mouth from the poison." Read article... Suicide victim kills bystander Mainichi Daily News | Submitted by: Demoness "A man has died in bizarre circumstances after a suicidal woman jumped from a 12-story building and landed on top of him, killing them both, police said. Koichi Sato, 54, was walking past the 12-story apartment on the last day of 2004 when the woman jumped... Police said they do not believe the woman deliberately landed on Sato." Read article... Subway tunnel too small for man + train New York Newsday | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Police continued to investigate the gruesome death of a Bronx man who was struck by a train in Manhattan Saturday night, possibly fleeing from two men. The victim, Leonard Hodge, 32, jumped onto the tracks of the No. 1 train at 145th Street and Broadway Saturday in Washington Heights, a little after 4:30 p.m., with two men chasing him, according to an account given to police by witnesses in the station. He sprinted northbound into a southbound tunnel as a train approached the station. Hodge pressed himself against the tunnel wall in an effort to avoid the train, but miscalculated, police said. The train struck and killed him." Read article... Circumcision nurse beaten to death Melbourne Herald Sun | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A group of young South African men taking part in coming of age rituals due to include circumcision turned on their male nurse and killed him, an official said today. Sizwe Kupelo of the Eastern Cape provincial health department said the men aged 18 to 25 beat the man to death with sticks at the site of their initiation ceremonies... 'He was attacked by about 20 initiates who assaulted him, and he later died,' Mr Kupelo said. He said the attack followed complaints by the men that they were not being properly looked after during their initiation ceremonies, but did not elaborate. The nurse had been in charge of caring for the men ahead of their circumcision." Read article... Survival camper drowns, counselor convicted AZ Central | Submitted by: Sgt. York "Charles Long, founder of a summer desert survival camp near Buckeye, was found guilty of reckless manslaughter today in the 2001 death of a 14-year-old camp participant. The jury, which began deliberations on Dec. 14, also convicted him of aggravated assault for threatening another camper with a knife; they were hung on eight counts of child abuse... [Anthony Haynes], who attended the [Buffalo Soldiers Re-Enactors Association] camp, was sitting in a disciplinary line in the July heat when he began acting erratically, eating dirt and possibly hallucinating. A counselor and several youths took him to a hotel and placed him, unconscious, in a shower bath, where he inhaled water. Then rather than call for medical help, they took him back to the camp, where he died." Read article... Juvenile hall inmates allege guard rapes Sacramento Bee | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Four current and former inmates from the Heman G. Stark Youth Correctional Facility claim that a veteran guard pressured them into performing sexual acts, rewarding them with TVs, cell phones and other contraband items... The suit also claims that [James Shelby] arranged for two inmates to receive beatings from other prisoners when they refused his demands. Shelby has denied the allegations in court papers and is currently on paid administrative leave... Last month, a former inmate reported being assaulted in 2003 and 2004 by guards at the Ventura Youth Correctional Facility, which houses girls." Read article... Teen loses leg to flesh-eating bacteria WKMG-TV 6 Orlando | Submitted by: Rio "[Nathan Dooley, 19] recently received a cut on his leg after falling from his dirt bike during a ride at his new home in Oregon. The cut quickly became infected with what is known as flesh-eating bacteria and began to spread... 'This is the worst I have ever seen. I have never seen anyone lose a limb over it - that's how bad this one was,' Oregon Health and Science University's Dr. Yale Popowich said... Dooley did not have medical insurance, according to KOIN-TV. If he had lost both legs instead of one, he would have qualified for coverage under the Oregon Health Plan." [Maybe they should have waited a little longer.] Read article... Thieves steal mind control gadget BBC | Submitted by: Little Red "A medical device which allows a woman to sleep by switching off an implant in her brain has been stolen. Rita Carlisle, 53, from Knaphill, Surrey, suffers from a condition called essential tremor. The stolen remote control gadget sends out pulses to calm the condition and can be switched off so she can rest. Ms Carlisle, who now struggles to sleep, was carrying the device and £600 cash in a handbag which was stolen... Carlisle says she is hopeful, but not certain, that the hospital caring for her - the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in central London - will be able to replace the device." Read article... Sunday January 02, 2005 Pentagon, CIA seek lifetime interrogation for terrorists Wire Services | Submitted by: A. P. Palled "The Pentagon and the CIA have asked the White House to decide on a more permanent approach for those it was unwilling to set free or turn over to U.S. or foreign courts, the Washington Post said... Some detentions could potentially last a lifetime, the newspaper said. Influential senators denounced the idea as probably unconstitutional. 'It's a bad idea. So we ought to get over it and we ought to have a very careful, constitutional look at this,' Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said." Read article... Iraqi election workers threatened with death London Telegraph | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "[Majid Dawood] is among a growing number of election workers who are quitting their posts after threats from insurgents intent on forcing Iraq's January 30 poll into chaos... three days after he quit his job on December 17, any lingering doubts about whether he had made the right choice disappeared when four election workers were dragged from their car and shot dead in broad daylight in Baghdad's Haifa Street district... Iraqi officials admitted that nine election workers had so far been killed, but were unable to say how many had quit their jobs." Read article... Fred Phelps gloats over Swedish tsunami dead Raw Story | Submitted by: A. P. Palled "Westboro Baptist Church leaders known for picketing the funeral of Matthew Shepard, the young college student brutally murdered in Wyoming in 1998, have released the following statement regarding the tsunamis which hit Southeast Asia earlier in the week. The statement, which was posted on their website Wednesday alongside dozens of other archived 'press releases,' thanks God for the tsunami and for the death of any gay Swedish vacationers who perished at the time." [Excerpt: "God is laughing, mocking and taunting Swedes as they mourn & weep over their dead! ... Thank God for his vengeance, and we pray for worse and more of it upon Sweden."] Read article... and This article... Tsunami workers aided by Scientology counselors Brisbane Courier-Mail | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Australian disaster victim identification (DVI) experts are... working with its New Zealand and Dutch counterparts to preserve bodies in the village of Wat Yang Yao, near the popular resort town of Chao Lak. The bodies are being preserved so that they can be identified later. The experts have been joined by volunteer relief workers from the Church of Scientology... 'It's been an incredible relationship,' the leader of the Scientology team, American Patrick Bundock, said... Bundock and his team have provided counselling to relief workers at the scene, as well as to victims of the disaster. 'A lot of the counselling and relief staff are in just as much distress as the victims.'" Read article... Gimp convicted of domestic violence News of the World | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Gemma Johnson revealed how James Edwards invited men to come to their home and film her having lesbian sex with other girls. Whenever the frightened youngster refused to co-operate violent Edwards - 17 years her senior - attacked her, pushing her face into a Hoover bag until she almost suffocated, strangling her and punching and kicking her in the stomach. And when Gemma told him she was leaving him he poured a kettleful of boiling water over her body and face... After she left, vengeful spina bifida sufferer Edwards took an overdose - and then lied to police that Gemma had helped him take the pills. Bristol Crown Court cleared her and found him guilty of grievous bodily harm over the terrifying kettle attack." Read article... Anna Nicole Smith cut out of inheritance BBC | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A court has overturned the decision to award $88m to former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith from the estate of her husband who was 90 when he died. It is the latest twist in a nine-year battle between Smith and the son of the late oil baron J Howard Marshall II... Although she did not appear in his will, Smith claimed he had promised half of his estimated $1.6bn fortune... The latest ruling means she is no longer entitled to any of the money, which has been held in trust during the lengthy legal fight." Read article... Man allegedly commits matricide Daily Southtown | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A 26-year-old Wilmington man was arrested on murder charges Friday after allegedly shooting his mother more than once and killing her, Will County sheriff's police said. Douglas Parini Jr., of 25416 Cottage Lane in unincorporated Wilimington Township, was arrested in Joliet around 4 p.m., an hour after fleeing the house he shared with his parents, Florence and Douglas Parini Sr... Florence Parini, 51, suffered multiple gunshot wounds from a handgun allegedly used by her son, [said sheriff's spokesman Pat Barry]." Read article... Police unable to implicate suspect in phone sex hoax The Joplin Globe | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "[Detective Michael Gayman] says he is fairly certain that David R. Stewart, 38, of Fountain, Fla., is the man who called the Sonic Drive-In at 1030 E. Seventh St. on May 26, posing as a local police officer... The caller managed to convince a 16-year-old female manager to strip-search a 21-year-old male cook in the women's restroom at the Sonic and to perform an oral sex act on the cook under the threat of arrest if she did not cooperate. The caller then persuaded the cook to conduct a strip search of the manager. Stewart was arrested in July on a warrant related to a similar hoax perpetrated on employees of a McDonald's restaurant in Mount Washington, Ky. He is the chief suspect in scores of strip-search scam calls placed to various restaurants nationwide since the mid-1990s." Read article... Porn industry mostly ignoring condoms BBC | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Condoms became an issue in the San Fernando Valley eight months ago when one of the industry's major stars, Darren James, tested positive for HIV. Four women he had worked with were subsequently diagnosed, prompting a scare which brought the entire industry to a standstill for two months... Officials from the Californian Health and Safety at Work division imposed $30,000 fines on the two production companies at the centre of the outbreak. And there was even talk of enshrining condom use in law. Yet for all the brouhaha, it is estimated that fewer than 20% of porn stars currently engage in safe sex." Read article... Vicious poodle stabbed strictly in self-defense WJXT-TV 4 Jacksonville | Submitted by: Oobatz "A 47-year-old man is charged with animal cruelty after police say he stabbed his mother's poodle. Police said Daniel Fox admitted to stabbing the dog, claiming it was in self-defense. Fox told police that the dog tried to attack him, biting at his ankles. Investigators say Fox was wearing long pants and did not have any bite marks or signs of any injury." Read article... Pastor charged with child molestation Lakeland Ledger | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A former Wahneta youth pastor was arrested Monday on charges that he molested a 6-year-old Polk County boy in 1996, and possibly other young boys in Michigan and North Carolina. Robert Enersen, 54, of 1424 E. 13th St., was taken into custody by Douglas police on three charges of lewd assault on a child. According to a Polk County Sheriff's Office report... Enersen also admitted to molesting a 10-year-old boy in North Carolina several times. The reputed abuse took place repeatedly until the boy turned 17. Another boy in Michigan apparently was also victimized by Enersen on several occasions, the report states... Enersen admitted that at least once he pulled the boy out from beneath his bed, after he had hidden there in fear." Read article... Convicted priest allegedly had a record KVBC-TV 3 Las Vegas | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A deposition in a pending civil lawsuit reveals that a former Henderson priest faced allegations of inappropriately touching a young man six years before he was accused of abusing teenage boys at his parish. 53-year-old Mark Roberts denied the accusations of a young homeless man who he took to an apartment to let him shower and wash his clothes in about 1996... In 2002, Roberts was accused of abusing five boys at his Henderson parish. He pleaded guilty in January 2003 to criminal charges of lewdness and child abuse." Read article... Willie Aames retires as Bibleman Toledo Blade | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "The Christian video series began in 1995 with Bibleman portrayed by Willie Aames, the actor best known for his roles in the TV series Charles in Charge and Eight Is Enough. But after 10 years of defeating such villains as The Fibbler, Dr. Fear, the Gossip Queen, and El Furioso by quoting the Word of God, Mr. Aames decided to hang up his mask and cape." Read article... Saturday January 01, 2005 Girl survives tsunami only to be gangraped Wire Services | Submitted by: fredbox "A teenager who escaped death but was left orphaned and homeless by the Asian tsunami met yet one more agony: gang rape, one of several cases of child abuse being investigated in the disaster zone, an official said Saturday. Of all the human tragedies emerging from the worst natural disaster in decades, sexual abuse of vulnerable children in refugee camps must be among the most shocking... [Harendra de Silva, head of the National Child Protection Authority] is investigating several complaints of sexual abuse in centers housing tens of thousands of survivors... De Silva gave few details of the case of the gang-raped 17-year-old girl, which occurred in the area of Galle on the southern coast but not in a refugee center. Hours after being washed ashore and left orphaned and homeless, she was raped by six men, he said." Read article... Hostage taker shot dead inside McDonald's KCTV-TV 5 Kansas City | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A gunman held the mother of his children hostage at a McDonald's restaurant Friday before he was fatally shot by police. The standoff lasted more than four hours, ending when an officer fired once and hit Sam Giangreco, 47... Police said Giangreco, who lived in the Kansas City suburb of Liberty, went to the McDonald's where the woman - who had a protective order against him - works... The woman sent Giangreco away, police said, but he returned early Friday afternoon and sent everyone but her out of the restaurant... [police spokesman Darin Snapp] said the decision to shoot him was made because Giangreco was behaving erratically, threatening the woman and refusing to negotiate." Read article... Daycare worker allegedly rapes baby WBIR-TV 10 Knoxville | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "LaVergne police have charged a day care worker with the rape of a 16 month old girl. Officers arrested 26 year old Amy Sisco of LaVergne, charging her with aggravated child abuse and child rape. Police were alerted on December 22nd. The child's mother picked up the baby at Tots' Learning Center and noticed her diaper was on the wrong way. When she changed the diaper, the mother noticed blood on it and took her baby to a hospital... Police say Sisco confessed and said she had also been a victim of abuse. But Sisco told WTVF TV in Nashville she accidentally injured the girl as she hastily changed the baby's diaper and denied the charges against her." Read article... Hospital nurse allegedly rapes ICU patient WJXT-TV 4 Jacksonville | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Miami police have arrested a Jackson Memorial Hospital nurse after an 18-year-old woman, a patient at the hospital, said he sexually assaulted her while she was sedated... She reported that nurse Jose Alfonso, 45, entered her room throughout the night on Dec. 27, and sexually assaulted her. 'Our victim stated to investigators that he entered her room several times, fondling her breasts and digitally penetrating her - using his hands or fingers on her,' said Detective Joey Giordano... The woman said she was sedated, but that she was also aware of what was going on." Read article... HIV+ man allegedly fucks teens, rapes boy Toledo Blade | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "[Jerry Gonzales], 46, entered into a plea agreement yesterday in Lucas County Common Pleas Court for crimes involving four young men, all of whom were videotaped having sex with the defendant at his Daniels Avenue home. Gonzales, who is HIV positive, pleaded no contest to one count of rape for sexual activity involving an 11-year-old boy, the youngest victim who was sexually assaulted from June through August. Gonzales entered the same plea to one count of felonious assault for sexual activity involving a 17-year-old boy, who was not informed by Gonzales that he was HIV positive. He also pleaded no contest to one count of unlawful sex with a minor and two counts of pandering sexually oriented material involving juveniles for incidents involving two 16-year-old boys." Read article... Mother of the year nominee Huntington News Network | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "With temperatures in the 20s, rain falling and winds blowing, two boys ages two and four wandered naked Wednesday night at the intersection of First Street and Sixth Avenue... [Police] entered a residence at 520 Rear First Street and found a one to two month baby girl in a feces-filled diaper. A woman identified as a grandmother and/or great grandmother could not even provide the children's names. Cabell County EMS transported the three children to Cabell Huntington Hospital where they were treated for lice and severe diaper rash... police charged their mother, Samatha Lester, 21, with three counts of felony child neglect. Described in police reports as a known crack addict and prostitute... she was also infested with lice." Read article... Cops charged with faking arrest reports WTVJ-TV 6 Miami | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Prosecutors say [deputies Christopher Thieman and Christian Zapata] illegally closed cases in order to better their performance records... Thieman and Zapata also allegedly wrote reports saying suspects confessed to crimes that they could not have committed because they were behind bars at the time. For example, BSO records show 24-year-old Jeremy Sangry confessed to 148 burglaries but was charged with only two. 'Half of them were done while he was still in jail up in Pennsylvania before he was even in the state of Florida,' Sangry's uncle, Jeff Miller, said. Sangry said he was propositioned by deputies to admit to the crimes in exchange for immunity." Read article... Cop arrested for alleged DUI WREG-TV 3 Memphis | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Somerville Police arrested Deputy Robert Lampley early Sunday Morning along Highway 64. Police say Lampley ran several cars off the road before he finally pulled over. Police also found Old Charter Whiskey and a fully loaded semi-automatic gun in his car. Lampley has been in trouble with the Sheriff's Department before. Last October he was reprimanded after an altercation at a hotel in Nashville... Lampley faces six charges including DUI and possession of a firearm while intoxicated." Read article... Fireman allegedly sexchats would-be girl, 14 WKRC-TV 12 Cincinnati | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A West Chester firefighter was arrested Thursday afternoon in an Internet sex sting. Tom Stienau, 23, was taken into custody at his home of Grimsby Lane in Hamilton. Investigators also nabbed Stienau's computer hard drive. Officials said Stienau solicited sexual activity numerous times since October, from someone he believed was a 14-year-old girl. The most recent incident was on Christmas day. The 14-year-old turned out to be a Fairborn Ohio Police Detective. 'He had sent numerous photos of himself through the course of these chats,' said Detective Lee Cyr, Fairborn Police. 'Some were decent, others were not, and during the course he sent one of him in his turnout gear.'" Read article... Feds unconcerned with suspected BSE steer Globe and Mail | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Even if the new [BSE] case is confirmed, it's not expected to delay the announced reopening of the U.S. border to Canadian cattle. That reflects a big change in thinking since May 2003 when the discovery of a single case closed the border. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration was given advance warning of the suspected case and proceeded with the reopening announcement anyway... Prime Minister Paul Martin spoke to U.S. President George W. Bush early Friday about the suspected case coming just as the border re-opening was announced." Read article... Daily Rotten Archives..