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Nigerian oil rebels release 19 hostages
LAGOS (AFP) - Militants behind a recent "oil war" in Nigeria's Delta region on Sunday freed 19 local hostages but said they were detaining two Britons and a Ukrainian "for security reasons".
"The Nigerian hostages rescued from pirates by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta have been released in Rivers state," MEND said in an email statement to the media on Sunday.
MEND told AFP that the 19 Nigerians were part of a group of 27 hostages they said were liberated from "pirates" in mid-September and which they have been holding since.
The rebels said that the three foreign nationals still being held were "two Britons and one Ukrainian, officially.
"Due to the location where the expatriates were kept for their safety, they cannot be released at this time because of security concerns," the email added.
MEND has previously identified the group as comprising 22 Nigerians and two South Africans as well as the British and Ukrainian trio. The South African pair were freed on September 18.
The release of the 19 comes a day after a British national kidnapped this month in the southern Nigeria's oil hub of Port Harcourt was freed with no ransom paid.
However, six Filipinos were kidnapped early on Saturday in the Delta region by armed men who attacked their vessel near the key Bonny oil terminal, security sources told AFP.
The most prominent armed group in southern Nigeria, MEND declared a ceasefire on September 21 following a week of attacks on oil industry targets.
MEND has changed the security paradigm in Nigeria since its emergence in early 2006 -- multiplying attacks, kidnappings of foreign oil workers and sabotage at oil installations on land and offshore.
It has caused Nigeria to lose one quarter of its oil production, costing Lagos its place as the biggest crude oil producer in Africa, with Angola recently taking that title.
The group says it is fighting for a larger share of Nigeria's oil revenue to go to local populations. LAGOS (AFP) - Militants behind a recent "oil war" in Nigeria's Delta region on Sunday freed 19 local hostages but said ... more -
Vegas Jury Convicts Simpson
LAS VEGAS, Oct. 3 -- Former football star O.J. Simpson was convicted Friday night, along with a co-defendant, of robbing two sports memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a casino hotel room last year.
The 61-year-old former football star and a golfing buddy, Clarence "C.J." Stewart, were both found guilty on 12 charges, including kidnapping and armed robbery.
Deliberations began 13 years to the day after Simpson was acquitted of killing his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, in Los Angeles. The Clark County jury announced it had reached its verdict shortly before 10 p.m. Friday after hearing 12 days of testimony.
Simpson could face life in prison when he is sentenced. LAS VEGAS, Oct. 3 -- Former football star O.J. Simpson was convicted Friday night, along with a co-defendant, of robbing two sports me... more -
O.J. Simpson Could Spend Life in Prison
Thirteen years to the day after being acquitted of killing his wife and her friend in Los Angeles, O.J. Simpson was found guilty of robbing two sports-memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel room. Thirteen years to the day after being acquitted of killing his wife and her friend in Los Angeles, O.J. Simpson was found guilty of ro... more
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Female teacher gets 6 years in student sex case
elsey Peterson, 26-year-old female teacher from Lexington, Nebraska, plead guilty to federal charges of crossing state lines to engage in sex with a person under and was sentenced to six years in prison.
Peterson was a sixth-grade teacher and coach in small town of Lexington, until Oct. 25 2007, when school officials put Peterson on administrative leave after learning that she might be in a relationship with a 13-year-old student. The school had reason to believe that 25-year-old Kelsey Peterson was having sexual relationship with 13-year-old Fernando Rodriguez.
According to police, correspondence uncovered in an investigation shows the two have had a sexual relationship for some time. Letters allegedly sent by Rodriguez while living at a home for at-risk boys in Alliance refers to teacher Kelsey Peterson as his “Baby Gurl” and says that their relationship is about more than sex. It is also alleged that correspondence written by Peterson and found on school computers supports the allegations against Peterson. ... elsey Peterson, 26-year-old female teacher from Lexington, Nebraska, plead guilty to federal charges of crossing state lines to engage... more -
Sudan desert gunfight kills 6 accused in abduction
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) -- Eight kidnappers of a group of European tourists and their Egyptian guides led soldiers on a high-speed desert chase on Sunday, ending in a firefight that left all but two of the gunmen dead, Sudan's military spokesman said.
The two surviving kidnappers told Sudanese soldiers that the tourists were being held by 35 more gunmen in Chad, said the spokesman, Sawarmy Khaled.
The desert safari tour of 11 Europeans and eight Egyptians was seized by gunmen deep in the southern Egyptian deserts on Sept. 19 and have apparently been shuttled around in the remote region where Sudan, Chad, Egypt and Libya share borders.
Khaled told The Associated Press that Sudanese soldiers were searching the Jebel Oweinat region near the Libyan border when they came upon a white sports utility vehicle carrying eight gunmen. KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) -- Eight kidnappers of a group of European tourists and their Egyptian guides led soldiers on a high-speed desert... more -
Egypt desert tourists freed after three-day ordeal
CAIRO: A group of 19 foreign tourists and Egyptians kidnapped at gunpoint by bandits while on a desert safari in a remote corner of southwestern Egypt have been freed, Egypt's foreign minister said on Monday.
"They have been released, all of them, safe and sound," Ahmed Abul Gheit told reporters in New York.
The captives were released near the Libyan-Sudanese-Egyptian border, he added, three days after masked gunmen attacked their group of four off-road vehicles in one of the most isolated parts of the Sahara desert on Friday.
The tourism ministry of Egypt, which relies heavily on tourism earnings, had stressed that "this is an act of banditry not of terrorism." The Egyptian government had said the group had been taken across the border to Sudan.
Authorities only became aware of the kidnapping when the tour company owner, who was among the missing, used a satellite telephone to call his German wife and tell her of the ransom demand.
The tourism ministry said those snatched included five Germans, five Italians and a Romanian, while MENA said two Egyptian guides, four drivers, a guard and the tour company owner were also abducted.
Tourism Minister Zuhair Garana said that Egypt had not been negotiating with the kidnappers.
German authorities were in touch with them, Garana said, adding that they had asked for a ransom of between eight and 15 million dollars, Egypt's state new agency MENA said.
He said the group was being held in the area of Karkuk Talh, just across the border in Sudan. MENA said they had been on a safari near Gilf el-Kabir, a rugged and largely uninhabited region on the border with Sudan.
Rebels from Sudan's war-torn Darfur region, which lies less than 300 kilometres (190 miles) south of the Egypt-Sudan border, were quick to deny involvement.
"We have nothing to do with any kidnap," said Ahmed Hussein Adam, a London-based spokesman for the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM).
Mahgoub Hussein, a London-based spokesman for a key faction of the Darfur rebel Sudan Liberation Army (SLA), said none of his fighters was involved.
"We are not part of this, because it is a criminal act to target tourists like this," said Hussein, who represents the SLA-Unity faction.
The area of the kidnapping is a desert plateau famous for prehistoric cave paintings, including the "Cave of the Swimmers" featured in the 1996 film "The English Patient."
The Egyptian tour company owner told his wife in the satellite phone call that they had been kidnapped by five masked men speaking English "with an African accent" very close to the Sudan border, MENA reported.
Kidnappings of foreigners are extremely rare in Egypt, although in 2001 an armed Egyptian held four German tourists hostage for three days in Luxor, demanding his estranged wife brings his two sons back from Germany. He freed the hostages unharmed.
Egypt has, however, witnessed a number of deadly attacks against foreigners which have been blamed on Al-Qaeda and other Islamist militants.
The most recent attacks occurred between 2004 and 2006 in popular Red Sea resorts.
In April 2006, 20 people were killed in bomb blasts in Dahab; in July 2005, 70 were killed in Sharm el-Sheikh; and in October 2004, 34 people were killed in Taba.
In November 1997, 62 people -- among them 58 foreign holidaymakers -- were killed in an attack on a popular tourist site in the southern Nile resort of Luxor. The attack was claimed by the Islamist group Jammaa Islamiyya.
More and more foreign visitors are visiting the remote southwest of Egypt near its borders with Sudan and Libya to see the prehistoric rock art preserved for millennia in one of the most isolated reaches of the Sahara. CAIRO: A group of 19 foreign tourists and Egyptians kidnapped at gunpoint by bandits while on a desert safari in a remote corner of so... more -
18 kidnapped from tour group during Egyptian safari
Kidnappers have seized 11 European tourists and eight Egyptians during a Sahara desert safari to Gilf al-Kebir, a plateau famed for its prehistoric cave paintings, Egyptian officials said Monday.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said in New York that the group had been freed unharmed Monday, and a military official confirmed their release. But Egyptian officials in Cairo and New York later said they had not yet been freed and Aboul Gheit's announcement to reporters that they had been let go was based on incorrect information.
The five Germans, five Italians and one Romanian were seized Friday along with their Egyptian guides and drivers while camping near the Sudanese border, Egyptian Tourism Minister Zoheir Garana said before the release was announced. The kidnappers took the captives, including two Italians in their 70s, into Sudan, he said.
Only a few intrepid visitors make the daunting trek of more than a week in 4X4s across the desert to the Gilf al-Kebir, which lies near Egypt's borders with Libya and Sudan beyond a vast plain of dunes known as the Great Sand Sea. It is one of the most arid places on Earth.
The unpopulated region is a crossroads for ethnic African tribesmen — including smugglers — from Libya, Sudan and even Chad, further south. It borders Sudan's Darfur region, where raging conflicts have given rise to armed bandits who have become notorious for robberies and hijackings.
Ismail Khairat, a spokesman for Egypt's U.N. mission, said the tourists have not been released. The information that Aboul Gheit relied on when he announced their release earlier "was based on primary information and it was not correct," Khairat said.
"They are not yet released so far and the government is doing their best to release them," he told The Associated Press.
The kidnapping was only discovered because the Egyptian owner of the tour company, who was on the trip, was able to call his German wife by mobile phone, Garana told state television. The group included eight Egyptians, he said.
The tour owner told his wife that a group of armed men, who appeared "African," drove up to the group while they were setting up their tents, an Egyptian security official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to talk to the media. It was not clear when that phone call took place.
Italy's Foreign Ministry said the owner called his wife in Cairo again on Monday night and told her their captors had taken the group to Sudan.
The kidnapped Italians included three women and two men from the Turin area, Italy's ANSA news agency said. Two of the Italian tourists were in their 70s and one was 68 years old, said Italy's RAI state TV.
A tour guide who operates in the area said colleagues in the Western Desert told him the kidnappers were tribesmen. Mohammed Marzouk said there have been previous robberies in the area, most recently in May, when tribesmen seized two tour company SUVs during a desert trip.
Tourism is Egypt's biggest foreign currency earner. The industry was devastated in the 1990s when Islamic militants waged a campaign of violence, including attacks on tourists. The campaign was suppressed in a fierce crackdown by the government of President Hosni Mubarak and the industry has since been rebuilt.
Tourists are required to get permits from the military to visit the site and must travel in tour groups with at least one security guard. The tour, done in desert 4X4s, can take more than 12 days.
But, as in other places, expanding adventure tourism may be moving closer to zones of instability. Earlier this year, the annual Dakar Rally through the Western Sahara was canceled because of al-Qaida threats of attacks. Kidnappers have seized 11 European tourists and eight Egyptians during a Sahara desert safari to Gilf al-Kebir, a plateau famed for it... more -
Eleven tourists seized in Egypt
Eleven European tourists have been kidnapped along with seven other people while making an off-road tour of southern Egypt.
Five Italians, five Germans and a Romanian were taken along with seven travel guides and drivers. Reports said the abduction, near the Gilf al-Kebir plateau, was carried out by tribesmen or bandits. Egypt's tourism minister said a ransom had been demanded and negotiations were under way. A ministry statement said: "This is an act of banditry not of terrorism." Minister Zoheir Garana told Associated Press news agency that a ransom of up to $6m (£3.24m) had been demanded. Eleven European tourists have been kidnapped along with seven other people while making an off-road tour of southern Egypt. ... more -
Change of plans saved Pakistani leaders from blast
Pakistan's top leaders were to dine at the Marriott hotel that was devastated by a truck bombing over the weekend, but changed the venue at the last minute, a senior government official said Monday...
... The blast in the capital Islamabad killed at least 53 people and underscored the extremist challenge facing nuclear-armed Pakistan. Two intelligence officials said Pakistani troops and tribesmen opened fire on two U.S. helicopters after they crossed from Afghanistan into the northwest tribal region, where Taliban and al-Qaida militants are operating.
In a further sign of the country's deteriorating security situation Monday, gunmen kidnapped Afghanistan's ambassador-designate and killed his driver in the main northwestern city of Peshawar, said a spokesman for the mission in the city...
... "Perhaps the terrorists knew that the Marriott was the venue of the dinner for all the leadership where the president, prime minister, speaker and all entire leadership would be present," he told reporters. "At the eleventh hour, the president and prime minister decided that the venue would be the prime minister's house. It saved the entire leadership..."
(Read Whole Story at Link...) Pakistan's top leaders were to dine at the Marriott hotel that was devastated by a truck bombing over the weekend, but changed th... more -
Millions Seized In International Drug Bust
Police in four nations have held about 200 people over alleged trans-Atlantic drug-trafficking involving a major Mexican drugs cartel.
US and Italian police seized 175, some of them picked up in Italy's Reggio Calabria region, where the N'drangheta mafia run the cocaine trade.
Other suspects were arrested in Mexico and Guatemala.
US Attorney General Michael Mukasey said the arrests came after a 15-month investigation into the Gulf cartel. The cartel is already believed to have links to organised crime in Italy.
It is suspected of importing and distributing tonnes of drugs from Latin America into the US.
The US Drug Enforcement Agency said three alleged cartel leaders had been indicted.
Italian police say the coordinated investigation, Operation Solare, has proved to be one of its biggest operations against the mafia in recent years, and one of their most successful.
The N'drangheta is notoriously secretive and ruthless, characteristics which have protected its drug-trafficking hegemony until now.
The US and Italian charges cover various crimes, including trafficking of cocaine and marijuana, kidnap charges, attempted murder, conspiracy to use a firearm in a violent crime and conspiracy to kill and kidnap in a foreign country.
The suspects detained in the US were arrested in a dozen states, including 43 people picked up in Atlanta, Georgia.
More than 16,000kg (35,000lb) of cocaine, 450kg of methamphetamine, 9kg of heroin, 23,300kg of marijuana, 176 vehicles and 167 weapons have been seized.
Approximately $60.1m (£33m) in US currency was also taken. Police in four nations have held about 200 people over alleged trans-Atlantic drug-trafficking involving a major Mexican drugs cartel.... more -
Iran responds to Israel 'kidnap threat'
Iran has protested to the UN after an Israeli minister suggested his country could kidnap Iran's president over threats he has made against Israel.
Iran's UN ambassador called the remark "outrageous and vicious" and called on the UN Security Council to take action.
Israeli minister Rafi Eitan suggested President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad could be kidnapped and brought to trial.
Mr Eitan, an ex-intelligence chief, was involved in the kidnap of leading Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in 1960.
In an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel, Mr Eitan suggested that such an operation could be staged to bring Mr Ahmadinejad before the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
The Iranian leader has made a number of threats against Israel, repeatedly predicting the state will soon disappear.
Mr Ahmadinejad also drew international rebuke by quoting the view of the late Iranian spiritual leader, Ayatollah Khomenei, that Israel was a tumour that needed to be erased from history.
Continued..... Iran has protested to the UN after an Israeli minister suggested his country could kidnap Iran's president over threats he has ma... more -
Robotic Gorilla does a disappearing act
A display gorilla robots outside the manufacturing plant of gorillarobots.com was stolen this weekend. ElectricPig reports that "The robot’s creator posted a YouTube video begging for the gorilla’s release and offering a $500 reward and received a response from the abductor via YouTube showing the gorilla robot safe." and demanding a million-dollar ransom with a sock puppet.
However, it turns out that the thief has since apologised, saying, “I didn’t know it’d be such a big deal,” and the gorilla has since been found in a field.
See vid for gorilla bot ad - what d'you mean you've never considered owning a robot gorilla? (you can even get them in hot pink)
CORRECTION: Apparently (according to a post below) the gorilla was actually kidnapped from a flea market in Maine, rather than from the factory itself. A display gorilla robots outside the manufacturing plant of gorillarobots.com was stolen this weekend. ElectricPig reports that "... more -
Jury Selection Begins in O.J. Simpson Trial
Nearly a year after O.J. Simpson walked into a casino hotel room intent on reclaiming some sports memorabilia, he and his lawyers walked into a courthouse Monday to pick jurors for his robbery-kidnapping trial. Nearly a year after O.J. Simpson walked into a casino hotel room intent on reclaiming some sports memorabilia, he and his lawyers walk... more
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Masses march against violence in Mexico
Hundreds of thousands of people have marched throughout Mexico to protest against a continuing wave of killings and kidnappings in the country.
The rallies were held in all of Mexico's 32 states, with more than 150,000 people gathering at Zocalo square in the capital, Mexico City. They were mainly dressed in white, and marched in silence, holding candles.
At least 2,700 people have been killed and 300 kidnapped so far this year, mostly in drugs-related violence.
This week, a dozen headless bodies were found in the Yucatan Peninsula, home to Mexico's most popular beach resort, Cancun. Hundreds of thousands of people have marched throughout Mexico to protest against a continuing wave of killings and kidnappings in the... more -
KBR Sued For Forcing Nepalese Workers To Iraq
One of America's biggest military contractors is being sued by a Nepali labourer and the families of a dozen other employees who say they were taken against their will to work in Iraq. All but one of the Nepalese workers were subsequently kidnapped and murdered.
According to the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles, the Nepalese workers were recruited in 2004 in their home country by KBR and its Jordanian contractors, Daoud & Partners, to work as kitchen staff in a luxury hotel in Amman. Once they reached the Jordanian capital, however, their passports were taken from them and they were sent to Iraq. While travelling in an unprotected convoy, the Nepalis were kidnapped and later executed.
"It doesn't appear that any of them knew they were going to Iraq," said Matthew Handley, a lawyer representing the only survivor and the families of those who were killed. "A few were told they were going to work at an American camp... They thought they were going to work in America."
The lawsuit says that, after the 12 men were kidnapped, the sole survivor, Buddi Prasad Gurung, was forced to work for 15 months against his will in a warehouse at the al-Asad air base before his passport was finally returned. The plaintiffs allege the "illicit trafficking scheme - from their recruitment in Nepal to their eventual employment in Iraq - was engineered by KBR and its subcontractor".
The lawsuit was brought under a new human trafficking law that allows foreign citizens to sue the US government, military or corporations over human rights abuses committed in their countries.
Earlier this year, the US Department of Labour ordered Daoud to make a payment of $1m (£500,000) to be split between each spouse and set of parents of the murdered 12 Nepalis. The company has so far failed to comment on the lawsuit.
The 12 Nepalis were seized by a group calling itself the Army of Ansar al-Sunna. The men were taken hostage on 20 August 2004 and shortly afterwards the kidnappers released a video of one being beheaded and the other 11 shot.
KBR, formerly known as Kellogg, Brown and Root and once a subsidiary of Halliburton, the company of which the US vice-president, Dick Cheney, was once the chairman, said: "The safety of our employees remains KBR's top priority. The company in no way condones or tolerates unethical or illegal behaviour." One of America's biggest military contractors is being sued by a Nepali labourer and the families of a dozen other employees who ... more -
L.A. officer shoots man dead in Corona
The man was allegedly trying to snatch the officer's child from his car when the officer opened fire, authorities say.
By Andrew Blankstein, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
6:09 PM PDT, August 25, 2008
An off-duty Los Angeles police officer fatally shot a man who allegedly tried to snatch the officer's 1-year-old child from his vehicle after a traffic accident in Corona late today.
The officer was involved in a minor traffic accident about 4:25 p.m. with an unidentified driver on Temescal Canyon Road in the Dos Lagos area, authorities said. As the two exchanged information, a male passenger in the other vehicle attempted to grab the toddler from the officer's car.
At that point, the officer opened fire, fatally striking the man. who was later pronounced dead, authorities said. The man was allegedly trying to snatch the officer's child from his car when the officer opened fire, authorities say. ... more -
Journalists kidnapped in Somalia
Two international journalists, along with their Somali colleague and a driver, were kidnapped Saturday, a journalists' organization in Somalia said.
Amanda Lindhout, a Canadian journalist, and Nigel Brenan, an Australian photojournalist, had been in the country just three days when militia men snatched them outside the capital city of Mogadishu, the National Union of Somali Journalists said Sunday. Two international journalists, along with their Somali colleague and a driver, were kidnapped Saturday, a journalists' organizati... more -
Mexicans turn to tiny radio implants as kidnaps soar
Rich Mexicans, terrified of soaring kidnapping rates, are having tiny radio transmitters planted under their skin so they can be quickly tracked and rescued.
Hundreds of people, including a growing number of middle-class Mexicans, are buying the tiny chip designed by Xega, a Mexican security firm.
Kidnapping jumped almost 40 per cent between 2004 and 2007 in Mexico, which has surpassed conflict zones like Iraq and Colombia to register the highest kidnapping rates in the world, according to a recent study. Rich Mexicans, terrified of soaring kidnapping rates, are having tiny radio transmitters planted under their skin so they can be quick... more -
Mexico plans to combat kidnappings
Mexican President Felipe Calderon met with the country's 32 governors Thursday to create a plan to combat the nation's staggering rise in crime and kidnappings.
In a heavily guarded meeting at Mexico's National Palace, the leaders devised a plan that detailed 65 specific actions to could be taken in the next several months.
Those actions are aimed at helping families like that of prominent businessman Alejandro Marti. He told the group that the new focus on kidnapping has come too late for his 14-year-old son, Fernando. Fernando was grabbed from a car on a busy street at a fake police checkpoint this year. The next day, his chauffeur and bodyguard were found bound and strangled in the trunk of a car.
Next to their bodies, police found a yellow chrysanthemum, a calling card from a gang that calls itself the Band of Flowers.
Some investigators believed the flower was a coded message to police telling them not to investigate too closely, that the kidnappers were police, also. At least one police officer and one civilian have been taken into custody, accused of involvement in the kidnapping and killing, police and Alejandro Marti said.
According to official figures, there have been 314 kidnapping in Mexico this year. The numbers topped 700 in 2007. Authorities say the real figures may be even greater because victims often don't report crimes to a police force they don't trust. Experts say the rise is also a result of a perception sense that crimes go unpunished.
Non-governmental groups estimate that there have been more than 1,500 killings in Mexico this year linked to organized crime. Mexican President Felipe Calderon met with the country's 32 governors Thursday to create a plan to combat the nation's stagg... more -
Christians programmed my daughter, says Dad
"An 11-year-old girl was "programmed" by her fundamentalist Christian mother to repeatedly run away from her father's Brisbane home, a court has been told.
The child, who cannot be identified, was visiting the home of a family friend on November 18, 2006 with her father - who had sole custody - when she fled.
Crown prosecutors allege 38-year-old Linda Hay aided her escape by picking the girl up in a car at Thornside train station, after receiving instructions from a friend of the girl's mother.
Hay has pleaded not guilty to one count of abducting a child under 16.
In a bizarre day of testimony, Crown prosecutor Dennis Kinsella told a District Court trial in Brisbane Hay had been asked to collect the girl as part of the abduction plot, hatched after the child fled to Manly train station and called the mother's friend.
The girl ran away following an argument with her father's girlfriend, who has a criminal history including prostitution and drug convictions.
The child's father did not see her again until two weeks later when police received an anonymous tip and located the girl, who had allegedly been given a haircut as a disguise.
On the witness stand earlier today, the girl's father said he and his ex-wife had been locked in a lengthy and bitter custody dispute until he was granted sole custody rights two months before his daughter ran away.
He stridently rejected claims by Hay's defence barrister, Frank Martin, that he only sought sole care of his daughter because he disagreed with his estranged wife's fundamentalist Christian beliefs.
The couple divorced in 1997, and the girl had lived with her mother most of her young life.
The man testified that Christmas presents sent to the girl were returned for being "tools of the devil". It was also revealed the girl had not been seen for the past 12 days, after fleeing again.
"My daughter has been kidnapped again...," the man raged from the witness box.
"These people have gotten away with it again."
The man described his family as "dysfunctional" and said most of his six children suffered from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
In another trial twist, Mr Martin warned the 12-member jury not to be alarmed if his client suddenly bolted from the prisoner's dock, because she was pregnant, and "not trying to escape"
The trial before Senior Judge Gilbert Trafford-Walker continues."
That's one f*ed up family. "An 11-year-old girl was "programmed" by her fundamentalist Christian mother to repeatedly run away from her father... more
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