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A Colarado mom has admitted to the police that her 13 months old son drowned and died in the bath tub while she was busy playing World Café on Facebook, checking her friend's status updates and sharing videos with her friends, Reuters reported.
Under questioning by police, 34-year-old Shannon Johnson admitted that she placed her 13 months old baby in the bath tub to bathe alone while she went to the living room to play World Café.
According to the affidavit, when Johnson didn't hear any sound from the baby after 10 mins, she went to the bathroom only to find the baby slumped face down in the tub.
When the police reached Johnson's house, they found her Facebook logged in. In her clarification, she told police that she used to leave the baby in the bathtub unattended because he was "independent" and she didn't want him to be a "mama's boy."
Even Johnson's mother said that he had warned her daughter about leaving the baby unattended especially after he had a seizure a month before he died.
Johnson admits that it was "stupid" on her part to leave the baby alone. She faces up to 48 years in prison if convicted.
http://www.newser.com/story/109793/woman-played-facebook-game-as-son-drowned.htmlA Colarado mom has admitted to the police that her 13 months old son drowned and died... more
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A Romanian teacher accused of abusing her own students attacks a police officer. Apparently, she can t take what she dishes out.A Romanian teacher accused of abusing her own students attacks a police officer.... more
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MONTEREY PARK, Calif. — Authorities have identified two of the suspects recorded in sexual assaults of profoundly disabled women, officials said Friday.
Los Angeles police officers recognized the men after detectives went public with artist sketches and photos of four men on Thursday, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Sgt. Dan Scott said. As many as 10 suspects could have been involved in the assaults.
One of the suspects was a worker at a Los Angeles care facility and had already been prosecuted by police for two felony sex counts and two abuse counts. He is currently imprisoned at Tehachapi State Prison and scheduled for release in 2012, Scott said.
The images were gleaned from over 100 hours of video delivered to sheriff's headquarters in suburban Monterey Park last March. It took months for investigators to digitally enhance the grainy footage and produce pictures and artist sketches of four of the suspects.
The videos show the men sexually assaulting physically and mentally disabled women, some of them in diapers.
Full Story: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40968443/40975244MONTEREY PARK, Calif. — Authorities have identified two of the suspects recorded... more
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Graphic video footage obtained by the sheriff's department shows several men sexually assaulting at least 10 profoundly disabled women, some of them in diapers, officials said Thursday.
The assaults came to light when an unknown man dumped a bundle of 11 DVDs at the Los Angeles County sheriff's station in March. Attached to the videos was a note saying he had pulled them from a computer hard drive that another man had asked him to clean.
Some of the assaults were carried out in what appeared to be a residential care facility and one of the suspects seemed himself to be disabled.
Detectives have spent the last several months trying to pull clues from the grainy videos. After the footage was enhanced, they were able to capture the images of four men who carried out assaults, though there could be as many as 10 suspects total.
Full Story: http://www.santamariatimes.com/news/state-and-regional/article_cd6e4e51-ad53-540e-96b5-84356d6888fe.htmlGraphic video footage obtained by the sheriff's department shows several men... more
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I went to the mall to pay my bill today and I was informed that if I paid in cash I would be charged $5.00 for paying in cash. I can't believe government oversight committees are allowing this unethical behavior of AT&T with their clients. Its unfair for a customer to be charge a fee to pay his/her bill with cash.I went to the mall to pay my bill today and I was informed that if I paid in cash I... more
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by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger
A proposed program to cover counseling sessions for seniors on end-of-life care has risen from the ashes of health care reform and found a new life in Medicare regulations, Jason Hancock of the American Independent reports.
In August, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin started a rumor via her Facebook page that the the Obama administration was backing “death panels” that would vote on whether the elderly and infirm had a right to live. In reality, the goal was to have Medicare reimburse doctors for teaching patients how to set up their own advance directives that reflect their wishes on end-of-life care.
Patients can use their advance directives to stipulate their wishes for treatment in the event that they are too sick to make decisions for themselves. They can also use those directives to demand the most aggressive lifesaving interventions.
Waste not, want not
Though end-of-life counseling was ultimately gutted from the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the legislation will eventually ensure health coverage for 32 million more Americans. However, Joanne Kenen in The American Prospect argues it will do comparatively less to curb the high costs of health care. The architects of the ACA had an opportunity to include serious cost-containment measures like a robust public health insurance option to compete with private insurers, but they declined to do so.
Kenen argues that the government should more aggressively target waste within the health care delivery system, especially Medicare and Medicaid. Unchecked and rising health care costs through Medicare and Medicaid are a significantly greater driver of the deficit than Social Security or discretionary spending:
“The waste is enormous,” says Harvard health care economist David Cutler. “You can easily convince yourself that there is 40 to 50 percent to be saved.” Squeezing out every single bit of that inefficient or unnecessary care may not be realistic. But it also isn’t necessary; eliminating even a small fraction of the current waste each year over the next decade would make a huge difference, he added. Health care would finally start acting like “a normal industry.” Productivity would grow, in the one area of the economy where it has not, and with productivity gains, prices could be expected to fall.
The new end-of-life counseling program will help reduce waste in the system, not by pressuring people to forgo treatments they want, but by giving them the tools to refuse treatments they don’t want.
Teen births down, but why?
The teen birth rate has dropped again, according to the latest CDC statistics. Births to women under the age of 20 declined by 6% in 2009 compared to 2008. One hypothesis is that the reduction is an unexpected consequence of the recession, an argument we pointed to in last week’s edition of the Pulse. John Tomasic of the Colorado Independent is skeptical of the recession hypothesis. He writes:
Emily Bridges, director of public information services at Advocates for Youth, agrees with other observers in pointing out that teens aren’t likely to include national economics as a significant factor in pondering whether or not to have unprotected sex. Peer pressure, badly mixed booze, general awkwardness, for example, are much more likely than the jobless recovery to play on the minds of horny high schoolers.
Some states with weak economies actually saw a rise in teen birth rates, Tomasic notes. However, this year’s sharp downturn in teen births parallels a drop in fertility for U.S. women of all ages, which seems best explained by economic uncertainty.
It’s true that prospective teen moms are less likely to have jobs in the first place, and so a bad job market might be less likely to sway their decisions. However, young women who aren’t working are unlikely to have significant resources of their own to draw on, which means that they are heavily dependent upon others for support. If their families and partners are already struggling to make ends meet, then the prospect of another mouth to feed may seem even less appealing than usual.
Abortion is the elephant in the room in this discussion. The CDC numbers only count live births. Logically, fewer live births must be the result of fewer conceptions and/or more terminations. Some skeptics doubt that economic factors have much to do with teens’ decisions about contraception. However, it seems plausible that decisions about abortion would be heavily influenced by the economic health of the whole extended family.
Last year’s decrease was notably sharp, but teen birth rates have been declining steadily for the last 20 years. The Guttmacher Institute, a New York-based non-profit that specializes in research on reproductive choice and health, suggests that successive generations of teens are simply getting savvier about contraception. Births to mothers between the ages of 15 and 17 are down 48% from 1991 levels, and births to mothers ages 18 to 19 are down 30%.
Stupid drug dealer tricks
Martha Rosenberg of AlterNet describes 15 classic dirty tricks deployed by Big Pharma to push drugs. These include phony grassroots patient groups organized by the drug companies to lobby for approval of dubious remedies. Another favorite money-making strategy is to overcharge Medicare and Medicaid. Pharmaceutical companies have paid nearly $15 billion in wrongdoing settlements related to Medicare and Medicaid chicanery over the last five years.
This post features links to the best independent, progressive reporting about health care by members of The Media Consortium. It is free to reprint. Visit the Pulse for a complete list of articles on health care reform, or follow us on Twitter. And for the best progressive reporting on critical economy, environment, health care and immigration issues, check out The Audit, The Mulch, and The Diaspora. This is a project of The Media Consortium, a network of leading independent media outlets.by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger
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http://sexcrimewatch.blogspot.com/2010/12/cases-of-baby-sitters-commoting-sex.html
It's so sad when parents try to think best for their loved children and get a baby sitter watching for the kids while parents for one reason or other have to leave home. And then those baby sitters molest, sexually abuse and in some of the worst cases rape multiple times those kids. Here's some of cases that have been covered in media(s).http://sexcrimewatch.blogspot.com/2010/12/cases-of-baby-sitters-commoting-sex.html... more
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ST. PETERSBURG, Florida — Florida officials filed an obscenity charge Monday against the author of a self-published how-to guide for pedophiles that was yanked from Amazon.com last month after it generated online outrage .
Polk County sheriff's deputies arrested Philip Ray Greaves II hundreds of miles away from Florida at his home in Pueblo, Colorado, and charged him with violating Florida's obscenity law.
Polk Sheriff Grady Judd said his office was able to arrest Greaves on Florida charges because Greaves sold and mailed his book, "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover's Code of Conduct," directly to undercover Polk deputies. Judd says Greaves even signed the book.
"He very proudly sold us his personal copy," Judd told the Associated Press. "I was outraged by the content. It was clearly a manifesto on how to sexually batter children ... You just can't believe how absolutely disgusting it was."ST. PETERSBURG, Florida — Florida officials filed an obscenity charge Monday... more
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“Lookout, Lookout” is the heartwrenching, honest and unabashedly sad music video from the astonishing debut album by Seattle-based singer-songwriter Mike Hadreas (aka Perfume Genius). “Learning” is a devastatingly lovely premiere album, a collection of songs that starkly explores the dark and melancholy world of drugs, depression, suicide and abuse. Hadreas has described the songs as having been written in an attempt to gain some understanding of his own troubled life, and they were originally intended to be heard by only his closest friends.
When close attention is paid, the music here is gut-wrenching, sad and fearlessly honest, while at the same time maintaining a dignified sense of resigned acceptance. Perfume Genius has managed to craft some of the finest heartfelt, new indie-music this side of the millennium, with sounds and plain-spoken lyrics that can tap into your inner emotions. Hadreas’s voice stands out with a soft-spoken tenderness and ethereal quality on the track “Gay Angels”, which switches from piano chords to minimalistic organ drones. “Lookout, Lookout” can push you to the point of possibly offering empathic, compassionate forgiveness to anyone who you feel has done wrong to you over the past few years.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs, as well as two music videos, “Lookout, Lookout” and “Gay Angels.”
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/lookout-lookout-the-heartfelt-sounds-of-forgiveness/“Lookout, Lookout” is the heartwrenching, honest and unabashedly sad music... more
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JERICHO, Ark. (AP) - It was just too much, having to return to court twice on the same day to contest yet another traffic ticket, and Fire Chief Don Payne didn't hesitate to tell the judge what he thought of the police and their speed traps.
The response from cops? They shot him. Right there in court.
Payne ended up in the hospital, but his shooting last week brought to a boil simmering tensions between residents of this tiny former cotton city and their police force. Drivers quickly learn to slow to a crawl along the gravel roads and the two-lane highway that run through Jericho, but they say sometimes that isn't enough to fend off the city ticketing machine.
"You can't even get them to answer a call because normally they're writing tickets," said Thomas Martin, chief investigator for the Crittenden County Sheriff's Office. "They're not providing a service to the citizens."
Now the police chief has disbanded his force "until things calm down," a judge has voided all outstanding police-issued citations and sheriff's deputies are asking where all the money from the tickets went. With 174 residents, the city can keep seven police officers on its rolls but missed payments on police and fire department vehicles and saw its last business close its doors a few weeks ago.
"You can't even buy a loaf of bread, but we've got seven police officers," said former resident Larry Harris, who left town because he said the police harassment became unbearable.
Sheriff's deputies patrolled Jericho until the 1990s, when the city received grant money to start its own police force, Martin said.
Police often camped out in the department's two cruisers along the highway that runs through town, waiting for drivers who failed to slow down when they reached the 45 mph zone ringing Jericho. Residents say the ticketing got out of hand.
"When I first moved out here, they wrote me a ticket for going 58 mph in my driveway," 75-year-old retiree Albert Beebe said.
The frequent ticketing apparently led to the vandalization of the cruisers, and the department took to parking the cars overnight at the sheriff's office eight miles away.
(much more at link)JERICHO, Ark. (AP) - It was just too much, having to return to court twice on the same... more
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An expert in the fight against child sexual abuse is raising the alarm about a technique the TSA is reportedly using to get children to co-operate with airport pat-downs: calling it a "game".
Ken Wooden, founder of Child Lures Prevention, says the TSA's recommendation that children be told the pat-down is a "game" is potentially putting children in danger.
Telling a child that they are engaging in a game is "one of the most common ways" that sexual predators use to convince children to engage in inappropriate contact, Wooden told Raw Story.
Children "don't have the sophistication" to distinguish between a pat-down carried out by an airport security officer and an assault by a sexual predator, he said.
The TSA policy could "desensitize children to inappropriate touch and ultimately make it easier for sexual offenders to prey on our children," Wooden added.An expert in the fight against child sexual abuse is raising the alarm about a... more
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Virginia Ann Homberg, 46-year old woman from Garden City, Michigan, has been sentenced to 10 to 25 years in prison for first-degree criminal sexual conduct and concurrent three to 15 years in prison for third-degree criminal sexual conduct.
Homberg was arrested in March 2010 when she was accused of engaging in sex with a male student and sending him sexually explicit pictures. She faced one count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, two counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct and a charge of distributing sexual explicit materials to a minor. According to Wayne County Prosecutor, Homberg and her victim engaged in sex from December 2007, when the student was 14 years old, through February 2010.Virginia Ann Homberg, 46-year old woman from Garden City, Michigan, has been sentenced... more
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Shawna Owens, 22-year-old woman from Bristo, Connecticut, , has been sentenced to a total of 84 months in prison for sexually abusing a 5-year-old girl.
She also has to register as a sex offender for the rest of her life.
Also a year ago, Owens was convicted in Superior Court in New Britain for abusing girls in Bristol was and sentenced to 54 months of prison and 15 years of probation. Her current sentence in Rockville will run consecutive to the New Britain sentence.Shawna Owens, 22-year-old woman from Bristo, Connecticut, , has been sentenced to a... more
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DEAR VANGUARD JOURNALISTS / PRODUCERS: PLEASE INVESTIGATE THESE CASES -- IT NEEDS TO BE HEARD, IT NEEDS TO BE SHOWN, IT NEEDS TO BE STOPPED.DEAR VANGUARD JOURNALISTS / PRODUCERS: PLEASE INVESTIGATE THESE CASES -- IT NEEDS TO... more
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I don't know why the Huffington post has him as an artist, when he doesn't have a license to tattoo people. The jerk smiled and has admitted to doing it because he was upset at the kid.
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A 25-year-old Australian found himself the victim of the worst kind of prank -- one conducted by a tattoo artist with a particularly raunchy sense of humor.
Despite having requested some fairly harmless ink -- a yin-yang symbol and some dragons -- the man returned home to discover a 16-inch penis and an obscene, albeit misspelled, slogan "implying that he was gay" inscribed on his back, the Ipswich Queensland Times reports.
"When he got home he showed it to the person he lives with and she said: 'I don't think it's the tattoo you were after,'" Queensland detective Paul Malcolm told the Times.
And as if being permanently marked with a giant phallus on his back wasn't enough, the victim was also allegedly punched and thrown out of the studio by the 21-year-old amateur artist after the tattoo was completed, according to the AFP.
Upon discovering the prank, the victim immediately contacted the police. The former friend who allegedly etched the tattoo is due in court Nov. 15, and has been charged with two counts of assault. He potentially faces additional public safety charges as he was not a licensed tattoo artist.
On top of the inevitable ridicule, the victim reportedly faces a bill of between $600 to $2,000 to have the tattoo removed.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/27/australian-artist-charged_n_774608.htmlI don't know why the Huffington post has him as an artist, when he doesn't... more
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Thi Nguyen, 36-year-old woman from Eldersburg, Maryland, has pleaded guilty to engaging in sexual contact with a teenage boy.
From January through July 2009, Nguyen, who lives in the 5900 block of Cecil Way in Eldersburg, had sexual contact with the neighborhood boy at a home in the 1000 block of Stonebrook Road in Eldersburg. the boy told investigators that he and Nguyen had sex 10 to 15 times over several months in the summer of 2009.Thi Nguyen, 36-year-old woman from Eldersburg, Maryland, has pleaded guilty to... more
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Shannon Ellis, 38-year-old woman from Indianapolis, Indiana,has been sentenced to eight years in prison for engaging in sex with a 14-year-old boy.
The sexual relationship between the young boy and the adult woman occurred in 2007 and 2008 and were exposed after Ellis became pregnant. Ellis'husband had been vasectomized and the DNA test confirmed that the boy was the father of the girl born April 2008.
http://femalesexoffenders.com/fso/index.php/the-news/260-shannon-ellisShannon Ellis, 38-year-old woman from Indianapolis, Indiana,has been sentenced to... more
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Is it okay to have multiple marriages? Some of these families have 30 children and Winston Blackmore has 136. The Supreme Court of B.C. will decide whether polygamy is legal or illegal. Columnist Daphne Bramham and editor Fazil Mihlar discuss the issue.
http://www.vancouversun.com/videos/index.html?v=1650678523Is it okay to have multiple marriages? Some of these families have 30 children and... more
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A conversation with Romeo Dallaire
The Honourable Romeo Dallaire speaks to Sun reporter Denise Ryan about his efforts to stop the use of child soldiers.A conversation with Romeo Dallaire
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Beatrice Ingraham, 31-year-old woman from New Baltimore, New York, faces charges of predatory sexual assault against a child, a class A felony, and four counts of first-degree criminal sexual act, a class B felony.
Ingraham allegedly engaged the boy in oral sex on multiple occasions, police said, leading back to 2008.
She was arraigned in Catskill Village Court by Justice Charles Adsit and remanded to the Greene County Jail in lieu of $50,000 cash bail or $100,000 bond.
http://femalesexoffenders.com/fso/index.php/the-news/258-beatrice-ingraham-arrestedBeatrice Ingraham, 31-year-old woman from New Baltimore, New York, faces charges of... more
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