Convicted rapist gets joint custody of victim’s child
A convicted sex offender who raped a Michigan woman when she was only 12 years old has now been granted joint custody of his victim’s 8-year-old son, according to a report.
Christopher Mirasolo, 27, was awarded joint legal custody — and shared parenting time — with his now-21-year-old victim after DNA testing established the child’s paternity late last month, the Detroit News reported.
The victim’s attorney, Rebecca Kiessling, is seeking protection for both the woman and her child under the federal Rape Survivor Child Custody Act, she told the outlet.
“This is insane,” Kiessling said. “Nothing has been right about this since it was originally investigated. He was never properly charged and should still be sitting behind bars somewhere, but the system is victimizing my client, who was a child herself when this all happened.”
Kiessling has filed objections with Sanilac County Circuit Judge Gregory S. Ross, who made the order, according to the report.
She claimed Ross had disclosed the victim’s address to Mirasolo and ordered the rapist’s name to be added to the boy’s birth certificate — without the victim’s consent or a hearing, according to the report.
The Detroit News was unable to reach Ross for comment.
Kiessling told the outlet that the victim and her sister slipped out late one night in September 2008 to meet a boy when the boy’s older friend, Mirasolo, asked them if they’d like to go for a ride.
Mirasolo ended up holding them captive for two days in a vacant house before he released the older sister in a park — and allegedly threatened to kill both girls if they ratted him out. He then raped the younger girl, according to the report.
He was arrested a month later when the pre-teen became pregnant. He was sentenced to one year in county jail but only ended up serving six-and-a-half months so he could care for his sick mother, Kiessling said.
“[My client] and her family [were] told first-time sex offenders weren’t sent to prison because people come out worse after they go there,” Kiessling told the Detroit News.
Mirasolo was arrested for a second sex assault on a teenage victim two years later — for which he only served four years in prison, according to the report.
It wasn’t clear how much time Mirasolo would spend with the victim’s son, Barbara Yockey, his attorney, told the Detroit News.
“Chris was notified of the paternity matter and an order of filiation was issued last month by the court saying he had joint legal custody and reasonable visitation privileges,” she said. “He never initiated this. It was something routinely done by the prosecutor’s office when a party makes application for state assistance.”
via: http://nypost.com/2017/10/09/convicted-rapist-gets-joint-custody-of-victims-child/
Denver Man Sentenced to 80 Years for Fatally Shooting Teen Who Allegedly Tried to Steal Marijuana Plant From Backyard
The shooting happened last October, according to KTLA sister station KDVR in Denver.
15-year-old Keylin Mosely was shot dead and his 14-year old friend was paralyzed over what family calls a stupid teenage prank.
“The boys were trying to steal a pot plant from the backyard of an illegal grow,” said Mosley’s cousin, Salina Mosley.
Family members said they forgive the man responsible, even though he’s still claiming to be innocent.
Outside the Denver District Courthouse Wednesday, Salina described her cousin who died nearly one year ago.
“A chocolate prince with a chocolate smile,” she said. “Very quiet, very observed, very fun, loving.”
It was in the early morning hours of Oct. 9 when Mosley and his 14-year-old friend hopped a fence attempting to steal a marijuana plant from the illegal backyard grow, according to Denver police.
“Keylin was not trying to kill, he was not trying to destroy and he was not trying to hurt nobody,” Salina said.
From the home’s second story window, prosecutors say 49-year-old Keith Hammock fired shots, hitting both boys. They say Hammock then came down to the alley to check his aim.
“He did not do CPR on Keylin,” Salina alleged. “He walked in the house and said, ‘They tried to rob me.’”
The family says the 14-year-old was on the phone with 911 when he was shot a second time by Hammock, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down.
Despite Hammock’s conviction, in Wednesday’s sentencing hearing he maintained his innocence, telling the judge he is the true victim and that he was not the one who fired the shots.
“We forgive him because we have to. We forgive him but life goes on, he knows what he did. He knows what happened that night. Keylin is gone,” Salina said, adding, all that matters is that justice has finally been served.
“He has to deal with what he did. When he comes to terms, that’s on him but we are moving on,” she said.
Hammock addressed the court before sentencing and said he suffered from ineffective counsel, a biased judge and a manufactured conviction. He said he will appeal his case.
Principal fired for trying to smuggle heroin into prison
A once-respected Brooklyn principal has lost a bid to keep her job after admitting she tried to smuggle heroin and other drugs into an upstate prison, The Post has learned.
Sadie Silver, a rising star at PS 28 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, was busted in July 2014 — but continued to collect her city salary, which was $138,000 last year, until March this year.
Silver and a boyfriend were arrested on charges of drug possession, bringing contraband into a prison, and endangering the welfare of a child. Silver brought her daughter to Coxsackie Correctional Facility.
She and her boyfriend were caught with bags of heroin and suboxone, authorities said. They allegedly tried to sneak the drugs to Silver’s son, who was doing time on weapons charges.
Two years later, in July 2016, she pleaded guilty to introducing contraband into a prison, a misdemeanor, and was sentenced to three years’ probation.
Defended in a three-day hearing as a “brilliant educator” by the city principals’ union, Silver said she acted because her incarcerated son needed money to pay off a debt.
Silver begged for “a second chance,” but hearing officer Joel Douglas terminated her on Feb. 28.
via: http://nypost.com/2017/10/07/principal-fired-for-trying-to-smuggle-heroin-into-prison/
I Fell in love with Gucci when I bathed him” Keyshia Ka’oir Says
I Fell In Love With Gucci When I Bathed Him” Keyshia Ka’oir Shares Details Of Her Love Story Ahead of Her Marriage To Gucci Mane
Rapper, Gucci Mane, and his fiancé, Keyshia Ka’oir, have always been very candid about their love story. Just a few weeks ago, the blogs were in a tizzy when Gucci Mane revealed that he doesn’t permit Keyshia to perform oral sex on him because he thinks it’s disrespectful. Interesting. Read up on that HERE.
Keyshia, likewise, is raising eyebrows with what she revealed during a recent interview. She told Page 6 that she knew she was in love with Gucci Mane when she gave him a bath.
“I went on tour with Gucci in 2010 — that is when it really started to get serious. I fell in love with Gucci when I bathed him … I put him in a shower and just bathed him. I just did things to him and he looked at me and said, ‘Wow, no one has ever bathed me before.
“I am a traditional Jamaican lady, that is what you do. You take care of your man,”
If there are any Jamaican women reading this, please teach us a thing or two.
The love between Keyshia and Gucci does seem genuine and wholesome. This is evident in this pure moment they had in the bathtub.
But because this seems like such an intimate moment – although a bit strange – they should have reserved the moment for the two of them and the two of them only (because I know y’all have jokes).
Share your thoughts: is this love beyond our comprehension? Or are these two just giving us too much information?
Houston student kicked out of her high school for sitting during Pledge of Allegiance
A 17-year-old Houston student was booted from her high school after refusing to stand for the daily Pledge of Allegiance, a federal lawsuit charges.
India Landry had sat for the Pledge hundreds of times at Windfern High School without incident, she said. However, she was immediately shown the door by school Principal Martha Strother on Monday while in her office after declining to stand for the Pledge.
Administrators at the school had “recently been whipped into a frenzy” by the controversy caused by NFL players kneeling for the national anthem, according to the lawsuit. NFL players had recently taken action to protest some of President Trump’s statements.
The lawsuit also charges that India was told after she was expelled that “if your mom does not get here in five minutes the police are coming.”
“I was actually terrified, I see what’s going on with the country,” India’s mother Kizzy told the Daily News on Saturday. “That scared the hell out of me. I thought let me hurry up and get to my baby before something happens to her.”
India, a senior, was allowed to return to the school on Friday, but feels uncomfortable about what happened. She missed the Pledge on Friday, but said she plans to continue sitting for it next week. The lawsuit against the Cypress Fairbanks ISD school district states that students cannot be forced to stand for the Pledge, and that the school had no right to kick out India.
“Students cannot be instantly expelled except for being a danger,” lawyer Randall Kallinen said. “The only danger appeared to be that her sitting whipped Principal Strother into a political frenzy.”
India tells The News that she started sitting for the pledge in ninth grade. She said that “police brutality” and “Donald Trump being President” motivates her to do it, and she was surprised when she got in trouble for it.
“I said I wouldn’t, and they said you are kicked out of here,” India told the Daily News. “The other woman said this isn’t the NFL, you won’t do this here.”
“I never told her to do this,” her mom said. “I’m proud of her for standing up to what she believes in. She said she hopes it just brings awareness of what is going on.”
Nicole Ray, a spokeswoman for the school district said she was not aware of the lawsuit and noted a “student will not be removed from campus for refusing to stand for the Pledge.
“We will address this situation internally,” said Ray.
HIV-positive hairdresser allegedly cut tips off condoms to infect his Grindr dates
A hairdresser deliberately infected at least four men with HIV after meeting them on gay dating app Grindr — before sending them mocking messages, a court heard.
Daryll Rowe, 26, from Edinburgh, Scotland, is accused of embarking on a “cynical campaign” to infect as many men as he could with the virus.
He texted one of his alleged victims: “Maybe you have the fever cos I came inside you and I have HIV, lol. Whoops!”
The court heard Rowe also called one of his victims and laughed over the phone as he goaded the man about his potential diagnosis.
The victim later tested positive for HIV, with a strain of the virus similar to Rowe’s.
Another man Rowe had sex with said he used a condom, but found it discarded in the sink with the end ripped off.
Caroline Carberry QC, prosecuting, told Lewes Crown Court: “He was extremely concerned and upset about this and repeatedly asked Daryll Rowe whether he was clean, which he said he was. That condom did not split accidentally.”
Another alleged victim discovered he had the virus after feeling “feverish and ill.”
Rowe was diagnosed with HIV in Edinburgh in April 2015.
Later that year, he moved to Brighton.
“With full knowledge, putting others at risk, he embarked on what was a cynical and deliberate campaign to infect other men with the HIV virus.
“Unfortunately for some of the men he met, his campaign was successful.
“He had numerous, casual sexual relationships with men he met via Grindr.
“He deceived each of those men into believing he was HIV-negative.
“He reassured the men he was clean and when they insisted on a condom, he deliberately sabotaged the condom.
“Many of them were sent abusive and mocking messages.”
Carberry told the jury that Rowe met eight men in Sussex and two more in the northeast.
“At least four have contracted the virus, others were lucky not to,” she said.
“In all cases, it was his intention to infect those men with HIV.”
Sussex police arrested Rowe in February 2016 after two men were diagnosed as HIV-positive.
He refused to admit being HIV-positive and denied meting with or having sex with the two men.
Rowe was bailed to an address in Berwick, Northumberland.
He was interviewed again when other alleged victims came forward. After being re-bailed, Rowe went missing and police launched a manhunt to find him.
He was discovered living in Wallsend — some 350 miles north of Sussex — under a fake name.
The case, which is due to last six weeks, continues.
via: http://nypost.com/2017/10/06/hiv-positive-man-allegedly-tampered-with-condoms-to-infect-partners/
School Principal who had sex ‘dungeon’ in school’s office gets prison
A depraved British principal busted for ripping off tens of thousands of dollars from his school kept a secret sex lair inside his office, stocking it with a tawdry array of adult toys and booze, a court heard at his sentencing this week.
James Stewart, the principal and headteacher of Sawtry Village Academy for almost 30 years, was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday after pleading guilty last year to fraud, and misuse of office — for canoodling with his married assistant on campus, drinking during the day, and taking ski breaks and racing trips.
Witnesses at his trial said they would hear suspicious noises emanating from the “dungeon” he crafted in his inner office, including “rhythmic moaning and banging.”
The two were also seen “in a disheveled state with red wine stains around their mouths,” the Cambridge News reported.
Stewart’s office had a series of rooms that were lined with custom-made oak and glass shelving, furniture and doors, which were installed while the school went without inspections for asbestos and other checks.
Behind those doors, police found shelves of booze, a minifridge stocked with wine, adult toys — including a large purple vibrator — along with sex games, watermelon lubricant, condoms, a large packet of penis straws and coasters with scenes from the Karma Sutra on them. There were piles of cushions that might be spread on the floor like a bed. Two more vibrators were found in a desk drawer, officials said.
The principal, now 72, spent some $7,500 on hotel stays in London, during which he bought the adult toys, all paid for on his school credit card. He also racked up bills totaling about $65,000 on food and drink, including alcohol, in restaurants near his home, and ran up $14,000 in charges on electronics, including at least three TVs, DVD players, cameras and laptops, officials said. School funds were also used to pay personal expenses like car insurance and newspaper and magazine subscriptions.
When he was at the school, Stewart was often holed up in his office, and regularly drank heavily during the school day. He also frequently left the school to watch horse racing and to take ski trips, some of which were charged to the school.
Stewart, nabbed in 2014 after whistleblowing staff members reported his seedy conduct to British education authorities, has so far repaid the school about $100,000 of the $162,000 he ripped off.
Ex-vice principal Alan Stevens, 66, also admitted fraud after he was found to have hit the school with bogus expense and credit card claims worth about $600. He was sentenced to 24 weeks in prison, but it was suspended for 12 months.
The school was left in a “dire financial” position by the fraud, and had lost staff and was placed under special supervision by the time Stewart’s exploits were uncovered in 2014.
via: http://nypost.com/2017/10/07/principal-who-had-sex-dungeon-in-office-gets-prison/
Man kept bodies of mom, brother in home for a year. He couldn’t bring himself to bury them, so he kept them in the house.
Robert Kuefler of White Bear Lake, Minn., tried to discourage visitors, according to prosecutors.
It was likely because he kept the decaying bodies of his mother and twin brother inside his house for about a year, they said.
This week Kuefler was charged with interference with a dead body or scene of death because he neglected to tell authorities that his family members died of natural causes, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported.
The Pioneer-Press gave Kuefler’s age as 60, while the Minneapolis Star-Tribune listed it as 59.
Before the bodies were found in September 2016, prosecutors said, Kuefler took several steps to prevent relatives and others from stopping by or making inquiries, the newspaper reported:
- He sent out a Christmas card saying his mother and brother were still alive but were having health problems.
- He wrote that his mother didn’t want people to visit the home.
- He told people that neither his mother nor his brother could hear the phone ring.
Police say Kuefler told them his mother, Evelyn Kuefler, died in August 2015 and his brother, Richard Kuefler, died in July 2015.
But he couldn’t bring himself to bury them, so he kept them in the house.
At one point, he moved his brother’s body into the bathroom because it was “in the way,” the Pioneer-Press reported.
The complaint says his mother’s body was decayed and skeletal and his brother’s body was “mummified.”
Kuefler was previously arrested last year on suspicion of exploitation of a vulnerable adult, but apparently there wasn’t enough evidence to support the charge, the Star-
Tribune reported.
via: http://nypost.com/2017/10/07/man-kept-bodies-of-mom-brother-in-home-for-a-year-prosecutors/
Banana Republic Employee Alleges Store Manager Said Her Hair Was “Too Urban” For Their Store
On Wednesday, Destiny Tompkins shared a social media status, wherein she alleges that her manager at Banana Republic chastised her for wearing her hair in braids.
Her post reads:
So today I went into work at Banana Republic at the Westchester Mall and after the district manager (a white woman) popped in for a visit, I was told to go to the office to speak with my manager, Michael (Mike), who is a white man. I came in and he questioned me about the dress code and immediately, I thought there was something wrong with my outfit but he sat me down and questioned my hair instead. He told me that my braids were not Banana Republic appropriate and that they were too “urban” and “unkempt” for their image. He said that if I didn’t take them out then he couldn’t schedule me for shifts until I did. When I tried to explain to him that it was a protective style for my hair bc it tends to become really brittle in the cold, he recommended that I use shea butter for it instead. I have never been so humiliated and degraded in my life by a white person. In that moment, I felt so uncomfortable and overwhelmed that I didn’t even finish my work shift and ended up leaving. When my friend’s mom called the store to find out my manager’s last name (only been working there a month so idk it), he refused to give it to her. Box braids are not a matter of unprofessionalism, they are protective styles black women have used for their hair and to be discriminated against because of it is truly disgusting and unacceptable. Make this public bc they need to be exposed for their blatant racism and discrimination. There’s no reason why a white person should feel allowed to tell me that I can’t wear my hair the way that I want bc it’s too black for their store image. #boycottbanana Banana Republic
Share your thoughts: do you believe Destiny? Do you think that this hairstyle is appropriate?
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Nelly Arrested On Rape Accusation, Attorney Denies ‘Fabricated Allegation’
Nelly was arrested on Saturday after a woman accused the rapper of raping her in his tour bus in a town near Seattle.
Nelly’s attorney, Scott Rosenblum, firmly denied the “completely fabricated allegation” on Saturday morning.
“Nelly is the victim of a completely fabricated allegation,” Rosenblum said in a statement to Variety. “Our initial investigation clearly establishes this allegation is devoid of credibility and is motivated by greed and vindictiveness. I am confident, once this scurrilous accusation is thoroughly investigated, there will be no charges. Nelly is prepared to address and pursue all legal avenues to redress any damage caused by this clearly false allegation.”
According to the Auburn Police Department, officers arrested the Grammy winner, whose real name is Cornell Iral Haynes Jr., on Saturday at 3:48 a.m. in his tour bus. He was taken into custody and booked less than an hour later.
Nelly had performed at the White River Amphitheater in King County just hours before the incident, which is still being investigated by Auburn Police. The rapper is on tour with Florida Georgia Line and was scheduled to perform on Saturday night in Ridgefield, Wash.
The musician is best known for his hits “Hot in Herre,” ”My Place,” and “Over and Over.”