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A 10-year-old who was raped by her stepfather in Paraguay won’t be allowed to have an abortion. Abortion in Paraguay is illegal, writes the British newspaper The Telegraph.
According to the British newspaper The Guardian, the Catholic country only allows abortion if pregnancy is “life-threatening.”
A British pensioner has been jailed for 10 years after admitting grooming and sexually abusing a girl from St Helens, near Manchester.
Maurice McCulloch, 75, had earlier pleaded guilty to one count of causing or inciting a child under the age of 13 to engage in sexual activity; eight counts of sexual activity with a child; one count of attempting to engage in sexual activity with a child and one count of meeting a child following sexual grooming.
The offenses took place between October 2013 and the end of November 2014.
He was also made to sign the Sex Offenders Register for life and has become subject of a lifetime Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
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Lacey Spears, a Kentucky woman whom authorities say force-fed her 5-year-old son salt through a stomach tube for the attention that a sickly child brought her, has been found guilty of murder in the child’s 2014 death at a hospital in New York state.
A White Plains jury handed down the second-degree murder verdict in 5-year-old Garnett-Paul Spears’ death Monday after three days of deliberations.
Spears will be sentenced in early April, and she can reportedly expect no sympathy from the district attorney.
Spears, 27, had blogged for years about her son’s constant health woes, and prosecutors said she killed the boy because she feared he would start telling people she was the one making him sick.
Video showed Spears twice taking the boy into a hospital bathroom with a connector tube and the boy suffering afterward.
“The motive is bizarre, the notion is scary, but it exists … She apparently craved the attention of her family, her friends, her co-workers and most particularly the medical profession,” Assistant District Attorney Patricia Murphy said in closing arguments Thursday.
Murphy called Spears’ actions “nothing short of torture.”
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A five-year-old boy saved his mother’s life after dialing an ambulance after she collapsed in their home and suffered an epileptic fit.
Hayley Hayward, 25, had no idea she suffered from the condition. She woke up with the emergency services banging on her door and her face covered in blood, according to the U.K. Mirror.
It was later understood that she had fallen face first into her fireplace while watching TV with five-year-old Cameron and daughter Jayda and began having a seizure.
Cameron called an ambulance to his home in Gorton, England, before taking his three-year-old sister to another room so she did not witness the seizure.
Hayley was later diagnosed with epilepsy by doctors at the hospital.
“I woke up with a policeman banging on my door and he said my son had called an ambulance,” said Ms. Hayward.
“I said he wouldn’t have done that and he was looking at me as if he was in trouble – then I noticed my face was covered in blood.
“It’s just me and the kids at home so I’ve spoken to him about what to do in an emergency but I can’t believe how well he’s taken things on board.”
After a delightful ceremony in St. Mary’s Church in the village of West Rainton in County Durham, England, the reception for Amy Dawson and her new husband, her long-term partner and father of her child, Gavin Golightly, in nearby Beamish Hall was full of love and laughter.
Then, at 12:55 a.m. the following morning, the newlyweds decided to retire to bed and Dawson asked Golightly to help take off her wedding dress.
Instead, he attacked her and she thought she was going to die.
“The defendant (Golightly) then tried to undo Ms. Dawson’s dress. She received a crochet (to undo the dress with), but the defendant then refused to undo his new wife’s dress,” prosecutor Sarah Traynor told Peterlee Magistrates Court, the Sunderland Echo reported.
“The defendant then jumped up from his chair, approached Ms. Dawson and pushed her over.
“He then sat on top of her and started punching her with clenched fists. He then got up and left the room. It appears that the defendant then came back to the room.”
Dawson received a cut above her left eye and bruises to her face and chest.
“When I first met Gavin, he was lovely, I couldn’t fault him,” Dawson told the Sunderland Echo. “He was caring and loving, and when we found we were having a baby, we were delighted…I fell pregnant after eight months, but almost straightaway, Gavin became controlling and manipulative. It was like walking on eggshells.
“When he lashed out at me on my wedding night, I thought I was going to die. I was terrified. He looked like he was going to kill me.”
Golightly said his drinks must have been spiked before the assault and he could not remember the incident. However, Golightly, a tattoo artist, pleaded guilty to a single count of assault causing actual bodily harm.
He was given a two-year community order, and a restraining order stopping him from contacting Dawson directly or indirectly was imposed. He was also ordered to pay Dawson compensation.
Dawson, an accounting student, has filed for divorce.
A heavy snowstorm on Saturday is to blame for an Ohio Turnpike crash that killed a Michigan woman and her unborn child.
The Ohio Highway Patrol said Beverly Smith, 32, of Middleville, Mich., and the baby she was carrying died as a result of their injuries. Her husband, Eric Smith, 33, suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries, the patrol said.
Eight vehicles were involved in the crash, which blocked all of the westbound lanes of the turnpike. The crash involved five semi-trailers.
The woman was a passenger in a Ford F-150 that her husband was driving when the crash occurred, the patrol said. They were trapped for a long time in the vehicle, which ended up underneath a trailer. Once they were removed, the Smiths were taken to Firelands Regional Medical Center in Sandusky, Ohio.
Six other people were injured, but they refused to be treated or taken to the hospital, police said.
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The Jeffrey Epstein / Alan Dershowitz / Prince Andrew child sex scandal has for the most part fallen through the cracks of mainstream media’s attention.
Billionaire Epstein previously somehow got off with a “slap on the wrist” for sex trafficking minors and there are accusations of “shady deals” with authorities.
In March 2005, a woman alleged her 14-year-old daughter had been taken to Epstein’s mansion by an older girl and paid money after stripping and massaging Epstein.
Wikipedia:
“Police started an 11-month undercover investigation of Epstein, followed by a search of his home. Subsequently, they alleged that Epstein had paid several escorts to perform sexual acts on him.
“Papers filed in 2006 state Epstein installed concealed cameras in numerous places in his property to record sex between prominent people and underage prostitutes for criminal purposes like blackmail.
“Instead of following police recommendation, the prosecutors considered the evidence weak and presented it to a grand jury, an uncommon procedure in non-capital cases.
“In June 2008, after pleading to a single state charge of soliciting prostitution from girls as young as 14, Epstein began serving an 18-month sentence. He served 13 months, and upon release became a registered sex offender.”
Some think the story has the potential to become the “Bill Cosby scandal on steroids.”
Here, Mike Papantonio and Thom Hartmann discuss it.
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Recently, an Ohio woman said she was forced out of her home and her daughter was abducted, all in a dispute over housing.
A Fairfield Township man is accused of abducting an 11-year-old girl while trying to get the girl and her mother evicted. The man, Joseph Ebbing, said he asked the 11-year-old girl to leave his wife’s rental property because she was trespassing.
Tracy Stewart is the 11-year-old’s mother. Stewart had been living in rental property on Princeton Road that was owned by Joseph Ebbing’s wife.
The Ebbings live next door to the Stewarts.
Stewart’s lease was ending at midnight, Jan. 31, and Stewart said she needed a little more time because of health issues.
Stewart said Ebbing began harassing her leading up to the end of the month and she made several 911 calls.
“He’s threatening that if I don’t get all the way moved out, he’s going to physically come in my house tonight and remove me,” she said in one of the calls she made to 911 on Jan. 31. At 1 a.m. on Feb. 1, Stewart made another call. “He’s coming in my house with a key right now,” Stewart told a dispatcher.
Fairfield Township Police arrested Ebbing and charged him with criminal trespassing. Police said he didn’t go through the proper eviction process.
Officers said Ebbing returned to the house later that day after he was released from jail. Stewart’s 11-year-old daughter was home alone.
Police said Ebbing took the girl’s key, got her out of the house, changed the locks and had his family bring her to his house.
“To do that to her was not okay,” Stewart said.
Ebbing is charged with abduction, burglary and obstructing official business.
“What you did to me was unacceptable and then you crossed the line, you went and took my child. You didn’t just take a piece of furniture or lock the door or change the locks, you violated my daughter and our privacy,” Stewart said.
During Wednesday’s preliminary hearing in a county court, the judge heard from Stewart, her daughter and Ebbing.
The 11-year-old said she was at Ebbing’s home for about 15 minutes. When asked if she was scared, she answered, “Not really. I did want to know where my mom was.”
Ebbing told the judge, “I never forced her. I never threatened her.”
Ebbing stands by what he told WLWT News 5’s Karin Johnson. “She (the mother) came to the house and asked me if I abducted somebody and I said, ‘No,’” Ebbing said.
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There is a new ISIS video that purportedly shows a child executing Russian spies. According to Buzzfeed, the video is from November. The boy, who appears to be about 10, says in Kazakh that his name is Abdallah.
Kazakh officials appeared to confirm that video’s authenticity by first insisting that outlets in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan delete it, then claiming to know the children’s identities. Most of the children traveled to Syria with their families, Kazakh deputy prosecutor Andrei Kravchenko told local media in December, adding that the country’s secret services were working on repatriating them.
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