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NJ man accused of raping, beating 5 daughters

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A New Jersey man with apocalyptic visions is accused of years of terrorizing his family, raping his five daughters and impregnating three, beating his children with wooden boards and even moving at one point to avoid child welfare investigators.

The nightmarish picture of a family subjected to more than a decade of threats and violence and largely cut off from the outside world is emerging in a state courthouse where prosecutors are preparing to have the man stand trial five times, one per child victim.

As the first case nears trial, questions have been raised about whether state authorities could have put a stop to the abuse sooner. Some of the crimes are alleged to have occurred while the family was under scrutiny by the state child welfare agency, and after the father had been arrested and pleaded guilty to assault and child endangerment.

At a hearing last week, the 51-year-old man's former wife described in a calm voice her marriage to a man whose visions she said drove him to try to create "pure" family bloodlines by impregnating several of his teenager daughters.

"He said the world was going to end and it was just going to be him and his offspring and that he was chosen," the woman testified.

Arrested in 2006, he stands accused of raping five of his daughters, three of whom are believed to have given birth to a total of six children. He is being held on $1 million bond.

Having been ruled competent to stand trial earlier this year, he faces 27 charges including aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault, lewdness, child endangerment, aggravated criminal sexual contact and criminal sexual contact.

"We plan to proceed with all five trials if necessary," said Lisa Squitieri, the Passaic County prosecutor handling the case.

The Associated Press generally doesn't identify victims of sexual crimes and is not reporting the names of the husband and wife to protect the identities of their children, now all over 18 years of age.
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NYC Police Accused of 'Anal Assault' Over Marijuana Use | | AlterNet

Yesterday in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, Michael Mineo took the stand to describe in detail his harrowing experience on a Brooklyn subway station in 2008: being held down by three New York City police officers and sodomized with a foreign object.

Mr. Mineo’s crime? Smoking marijuana.

The Brooklyn cops chased Mr. Mineo into the station after they spotted him smoking marijuana. Mr. Mineo claims that the cops tackled him and that one of the officers sodomized him with a baton. The cops then gave him a summons, and threatened that they would go to his house and serve him with a felony charge if he went to the hospital for treatment or the police station to report what happened.

Mr. Mineo’s story is corroborated by eyewitnesses—including a transit police officer. The three officers charged in the attack are now on trial in a case that recalls that of Abner Louima, who was brutally sodomized by police in 1997.

The NYPD’s obsession with marijuana possession has led to tens of thousands of New Yorkers a year getting caught up in the criminal justice system. Most spend a few days in jail. Some, like Mr. Mineo, suffer more horrific experiences. While New York has a reputation as a tolerant and open-minded city, Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Gotham makes so many pot busts that the city now has the unfortunate distinction of being the marijuana arrest capital of the world.

According to a report released by the New York Civil Liberties Union in 2008, New York City police have arrested more than 300,000 people for low-level, misdemeanor marijuana possession since 1997. In 2008 alone, the number of arrests for possessing a small amount of marijuana in New York City soared to 40,300 people, most of them teenagers and young adults under 26 years old.

New York City's marijuana arrests also show stark racial disparities. In 2008, 87% of those charged with pot possession were black or Latino. These groups represent only about half of the city's population, and U.S. government surveys consistently find that young whites use marijuana at higher rates than blacks and Latinos. Yet blacks and Latinos are arrested for pot at much higher rates, in part because officers make stop-and-frisk searches disproportionately in black, Latino, and low-income neighborhoods. Mr. Mineo was assaulted in Lefferts Garden, Brooklyn—a predominantly Black and Caribbean neighborhood.

What makes these marijuana arrests all the more troublesome is that New York State decriminalized simple possession of up to 25 grams of marijuana more than 30 years ago in 1977. Smoking in public remains a misdemeanor, but personal possession is not a criminal offense.

While Mayor Bloomberg has admitted to smoking marijuana and even said he enjoyed it, tens of thousands of other New Yorkers are being arrested and jailed in a shameful example of a destructive and ineffective policy.

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