Report details sexual abuse by more than 300 priests in Pennsylvania’s Catholic Church
A new grand jury report says that internal documents from six Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania show that more than 300 “predator priests” have been credibly accused of sexually abusing more than 1,000 child victims.
Molestations and rapes
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ICE agents set ‘trap’ for immigrants seeking legal residency
“…It’s our job to locate and arrest them.”
Two federal immigration agencies worked together in a coordinated effort to set deportation traps for unsuspecting immigrants seeking legal status, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) alleged in a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen this week.
According to the Boston Globe, the two agencies arranged meetings for the undocumented immigrants at government offices, where they were subsequently arrested, and in some cases deported.
According to e-mails obtained by the Globe between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and employees of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), ICE asked government officials to space out the meetings so that the public wouldn’t catch on and draw “negative media interests.”
“As far as scheduling goes, I would prefer not to do them all at one time as it is [not] only a strain on our ability to transport and process several arrests at once, but it also has the potential to be a trigger for negative media interests, as we have seen in the past,” Andrew Graham, an ICE officer, wrote to a USCIS employee in one email from October.
ACLU lawyers described the meetings as “traps.”
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Documents reveal the stunning extent to which the federal government used its own regulations – which were designed to protect the families of noncitizens from unnecessary separation during the legalization process – to target people for detention and deportation. pic.twitter.com/VZYkBB5jtI
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Information uncovered by documents and depositions shows USCIS actively coordinated with ICE to schedule and facilitate arrests at USCIS offices.
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According to the Globe, the e-mails are part of the lawsuit against DHS Secretary Nielsen challenging the Trump administration’s practice of separating married couples as one spouse seeks legal status.
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Beyonce’s Three Kids Joined Her on the Set of Her ‘Vogue’ Shoot and Blue Ivy Took Control!
The magazine released behind-the-scene footage on Tuesday, August 14. In the clip, which is set to Curtis Mayfield’s “The Makings of You,” Beyonce is seen posing for photographer Tyler Mitchell, inspecting Polaroid photos and goofing around during outtakes. But it’s a cartwheeling Blue who steals the show. At the beginning of the video, the little girl takes control of the camera and announces, “I’m gonna zoom in for you guys, OK?” Later, Blue melts hearts when she kisses her baby brother.
The Destiny’s Child alum opened up about her hopes and dreams for her daughters Blue and Rumi. “It’s important to me that they see themselves too — in books, films and on the runways. It’s important to me that they can see themselves as CEOs, as bosses, and that they know they can write the script for their own lives — that they can speak their minds and have no ceiling,” the multi-Grammy winning artist told Vogue. “They don’t have to be a certain type or fit into a specific category. They don’t have to be politically correct as long as they’re authentic, respectful, compassionate, and empathetic.”
Beyoncé will support her daughters choices later in life without judgement: “They can explore any religion, fall in love with any race, and love who they want to love.”
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Bella Thorne Accused of Ripping off Black Owned Makeup Brand
20-year-old ex-Disney star Bella Thorne launched her makeup line on Saturday. The actress already had clothing and other Hot-Topic looking items via her Shopify store Filthy Fangs, but the addition of two eyeshadow palettes is what really has people talking.
As soon as pictures were posted, people on social media quickly began to point out how similar Thorne’s brand new eyeshadow palettes resemble those from an independent, black-owned makeup brand, Juvia’s Place.
Nigeria-born wife and mother of two Chichi Eburu launched the cosmetic company a little over four years ago; Juvia’s Place is known for their highly pigmented eyeshadow palettes and Afrocentric packaging.
You can take a look at the side-by-side of both palettes below to make a decision for yourself.
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So Bella Thorne has a makeup line that looks JUST like Juvia’s place for triple the cost… like straight ripped off. Colors and packaging look… I cannot.
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Animal shelter workers: We were forced to freeze kittens to death
Indiana cops are investigating a disturbing case of animal abuse, in which shelter workers allegedly euthanized kittens by freezing them alive.
Several ex-employees have come forward and claimed to have witnessed the cruel and inhumane procedure being performed at the Spencer County Animal Shelter on at least two different occasions.
One former worker named Bridgett Woodson spoke to local media outlets about the horrific things she saw during her three and a half months working at the shelter. She told reporters that she was asked to participate in the kitty killings twice — with the most recent case coming on July 31.
“The first time I was given an option to either just put it in a bag and put it in the freezer with no sedation, nothing — because I’m not a vet, I don’t have the license to be able to do that,” Woodson explained, speaking to WEHT.
“The second time I was not given the option, and I was just told to go ahead and put it in the freezer,” she said. “I mean, this cat was still up and moving and I had told her, and I still got the same response.”
Woodson reportedly refused “both times” to put the cats in the freezer and eventually took it upon herself to call the vet. She was allegedly ordered to carry out the killings by a Spencer County Animal Control Officer, the Courier & Press reports.
“I had to do something,” Woodson told the newspaper, noting how she quit her job and eventually got cops to investigate.
“I’m super concerned about the animals,” she said. “If this is deemed as acceptable and no one is held accountable, what else will start to slip through the cracks.”
Spencer County Sheriff’s Office Detective Chris King, who is handling the case, told WEHT that a number of witnesses have come forward since Woodson first accused the shelter of animal abuse. They claimed to have seen at least two freezer killings — one of which included the deaths of four kittens at once.
County officials expect the investigation to be taken over by the Indiana State Police due to conflict-of-interest reasons.
The animal control officer allegedly involved in the kitty deaths, identified by WEHT as Christina Payne, refused to answer requests for comment over the weekend. Woodson has been sharing text messages they exchanged about the alleged abuse with local media outlets.
“Hey. I took the cat to the vet and had it put down,” the ex-employee wrote in one text to Payne, according to the Courier.
“You can take the cost out of my pay check if that’s a problem,” she said. “I will not be putting live animals in the freezer if there’s another option available, please don’t ask me to do that again.”
In response, Payne wrote: “That’s fine but so you know, the freezer option is no less humane. It’s fine though Bridge. I’m here for my employees. Always.”
The American Veterinary Medical Association Guidelines for the Euthanasia of Animals considers the “slow chilling or freezing of unanesthetized animals” an unacceptable and inhumane method of euthanasia. It’s unclear when the investigation will be complete, but state police officials told the Courier that they expect to have an update in the coming days.
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Nun busted for smuggling cocaine in high heels
A Missouri nun smuggled 2 pounds of cocaine into Australia using her high heels — but claims she was duped into the act by a man she met online.
Denise Marie Woodrum, 51, was caught arriving into Sydney Airport last August while making her way through customs — when officers discovered the drugs stuffed into the heels of her shoes, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Monday.
But her lawyer, Rebecca Neil, told District Court Judge Penelope Wass last week that the items were meant for a mystery man Woodrum had met online named Hendrik Cornelius.
“She was groomed to provide a financial gain for this person, Hendrik Cornelius, whatever person or persons it was behind this identity,” Neil said, according to the paper.
“She went on this trip thinking she was bringing artifacts for him.”
After a failed marriage and major health problems that led to crippling bills, Woodrum, a sister of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, a religious order based in Kansas, believed she had met someone special online.
“Can you promise you will never leave me?” she had texted him last July. “You are my Only and First True Family!!!”
Despite exchanging hundreds of texts with Cornelius, Woodrum had never met him face to face — and her lawyer claimed she was just a “vulnerable” woman who had been preyed on.
Woodrum pleaded guilty in January to importing a commercial quantity of a border controlled drug — but there are still questions surrounding how much she knew about what she was smuggling.
Wass questioned the claim that Woodrum was duped by an online lover, finding it “inconsistent and unbelievable.”
“I am less than convinced by her explanation,” she said, according to the Herald.
Prosecutor Ben Dunstan urged the judge to find that Woodrum knew she was bringing in cocaine as part of a plot she had full agency in.
Woodrum had flown from Missouri to Texas and then to Trinidad and Tobago on July 18. The next day she traveled to Suriname in South America, and on July 25 she texted someone named “Stacie”: “This whole trip is paid for and will get additional payment for work.”
On July 30 she texted Cornelius, “Riding in his car to get stuff no signature needed,” and on Aug. 2, she texted him a list of expenses for hotels and flights and then departed to Sydney.
When stopped at the airport, Woodrum said she’d come to Sydney to see the Harbour Bridge and the aquarium and that the shoes in her suitcase were a gift for her mom.
After being told the slingbacks tested positive for cocaine, she reportedly replied: “Why, how much did you find?”
She later told investigators she’d been given gifts and clothes in South America to give to people in Sydney. All the while, Cornelius was sending her messages that read: “Are you ok?” “What are you doing honey?” “Shuttle?” “In taxi?”
Woodrum has been in custody since the day she was arrested and will be sentenced next month.
Meanwhile, her dad, who lives in Illinois, said his daughter’s arrest “was a big shock to the whole family.”
“It just came out of the blue,” her father, Tom Rozanski, told the Herald.
Rozanski said his daughter was a former teacher with a master’s degree in marketing who suffered from depression and had undergone a hysterectomy.
“All of a sudden she met someone she talked to,” he told the paper. “She said she was going to be doing some traveling.”
“Life took a turn. She has never done anything like this before, and this experience has been difficult for me to understand. Mostly because none of our family has had anything happen to them that even remotely resembles what Denise has done,” he added.
“I’m just hoping the best for her, that’s all I can tell you.”
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Woman accused of killing boyfriend’s toddler Googled ‘how to do CPR,’
CLAIRTON, Pa. – Police are looking for a 21-year-old woman they believe killed her boyfriend’s toddler daughter, then searched online for a way to revive the child instead of calling 911, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
On Monday, Allegheny County authorities said they are searching for 21-year-old Deasha Ringgold in the April 27 death of 23-month-old Aubree Sherrell.
According to her iPhone’s data, Ringgold used Google to search “how to do cpr on a baby,” “my friend go choked out what to do” and “she’s not breathing what do i do,” according to a criminal complaint obtained by WTAE.
She initially told investigators that she put Aubree down for a nap around 3 p.m. and woke up later to find the child unresponsive with blue lips. Police believe Ringgold’s search history tells a different story.
“The first Google search occurred at 2:57 p.m. and Deasha and (the child’s father) arrived at Jefferson Hospital approximately 4:04 p.m.,” police said in the complaint. The 23-month-old was was rushed to Children’s Hospital of UPMC of Pittsburgh where she was ultimately pronounced dead at 10:27 p.m.
On Friday, an autopsy revealed that Sherrell had been strangled, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports, and authorities classified her death as a homicide.
Ringgold faces charges of homicide and endangering the welfare of a child, according to WPXI.
Police describe Ringgold as 5 feet, 1 inch tall with multiple tattoos. Anyone with information is asked to call the anonymous hotline 1-833-ALL-TIPS.
Quavo beats Drake in a half-court shootout for $10K
It looks like Drake and the Migos have been spending some time on the basketball court while on tour together. Before kicking off their Aubrey and the Three Migos tour in Kansas City this weekend, Drake and Quavo went head to head in a $10,000 half-court shootout on an illustrious neon-lit basketball court.
Quavo emerged victorious over Drizzy and posted the highlight on Instagram; the clip sees the Migos member effortlessly drain a half-court jump shot before erupting in celebration, with Drake following up and just barely missing his mark.
The two camps will reportedly be spending a lot more time on the hardwood while away from the stage. While speaking to Billboard about the run of shows, Quavo shared that an OVO vs Migos basketball tournament is in the works and will be played during down time while on the tour.
“I’m looking forward to this basketball tournament we got going on this whole tour,” Quavo said. “It’s like a playoff game and a trophy made. It’s going to be really intense. Every day we’re going to work out and get to the athletics.”
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Elon Musk Responds to Azealia Banks’ Claims of Ghosting, Tweeting, and LSD: I Don’t Know Her
Azealia Banks, the prodigious MC who remains a Twitter villain even after being banned from the service and an underground rapper even after being dropped from multiple record labels, let loose on Instagram after an allegedly disastrous weekend at Elon Musk’s home to see Grimes, Musk’s girlfriend and a fellow musician.
However, when reached via Twitter direct messages, Musk told Gizmodo that he “has never even met [Banks] or communicated with her in any way.” In other words, he doesn’t know her.
A Tesla spokesperson told our sister site, Jalopnik, that the claims were “complete nonsense,” but Banks is a veteran of long and nonsensical beefs. She’s feuded with everyone from Sarah Palin to Nick Cannon. And, like both Musk’s Space X endeavors, wants her future beefs to be interplanetary.
Like a dystopian epistolary novel about two feuding houses, Banks told her side of the story via a breathtaking and scattered stream of Instastories. There’s a damsel in distress (Banks, left alone in the mansion), enigmatic villains (Grimes and Musk), and heady oppression metaphors (Banks compares the entire ordeal of having her time wasted to white colonization of Africa.)
According to Banks, she spent the past few days at the Musk estate in LA, hoping to finish a song with Grimes for her upcoming sophomore album. The collaboration never came to fruition. Banks alleges Grimes ignored her for days, the first point in a deeply absurd comedy of errors that Banks describes as “a real [life] episode of ‘Get Out.’”
“I waited all weekend while grimes coddled her boyfriend for being too stupid to know not to go on twitter while on acid,” Banks posted. “It was probably some weird threesome sex shit to being with.”
Banks and Grimes, however, have been teasing a collaboration on Twitter for months in advance of Bank’s new album. But rather than cut her losses and simply fly back to New York in silence, Banks went on a separate Insta-rant that began as a delirious critique of colonial wealth and racial privilege, became a vaguely eugenicist denigration of Musk as a caveman, and ended, ultimately, on a few lines that will probably appear on her album in lieu of Grimes. (Gizmodo, it should be noted, could not verify all of these messages were sent by Banks, which were captured by other reporters but have apparently been deleted since.)
“Elon Musk is really part of the problem…when you talk about white male privilege and colonialism,” it begins. “The last time I try working with a white bitch,” it ends.
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Arizona police searching for 19-year-old girl who vanished after leaving work
The roommate of an Arizona teenager missing since early August said she received an out-of-character text message from the teen shortly before she vanished.
Kiera Bregman, 19, disappeared the morning of Aug. 4 after leaving work early.
She was last seen in her Phoenix apartment, where she left both her wallet and identification behind — something her family and friends say is highly unlike her.
Also out of character is the text message roommate Destiny Hall-Chand says she received from Bregman that indicated she was heading out to meet up with a man she’d met days earlier.
“She was saying something that she was going out with some guy that she met at the store a couple days ago, which is something that’s not like her,” Hall-Chand told CBS affiliate KPHO-TV. “I mean, that’s not something that she would do.”
Bregman, originally from San Diego, moved to the Arizona city with her boyfriend in March.
But mom Kiersten Bragg said on “Good Morning America” Monday that since leaving home, her daughter — who she last spoke to via text July 30 — had lost some of her spark.
“(She wasn’t) her normal, happy self,” Bragg said of their last conversation. “Maybe circumstances in her life when she came out here caused her to maybe have some anxiety or stuff about what she was going through…. That’s when she started changing, when she started dating this guy and coming out here, so I do believe that a lot – that has to do with that relationship.”
Bragg, who traveled to Phoenix to help search for her daughter, also noted that she heard it was Bregman’s boyfriend who picked her up from work the day she vanished.
“For her to leave her purse with her wallet and ID there at the apartment, that’s not normal, that’s why I feel like there’s something not right here,” she said.
A GoFundMe account arranged by a cousin has so far raised approximately $9,000 of its $50,000 goal.
Bregman stands at 5’ 3” and weighs 145 lbs.
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