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Day care worker body-slammed toddler
SMRYNA, Ga. — Police in Georgia say a day care worker has body-slammed a toddler, bloodying the 16-month-old’s lip and shirt.
News outlets report 20-year-old Jonee Nicole Hamilton was arrested Tuesday on charges including child cruelty and aggravated assault. Smryna police says the Oxford Babies worker was upset last week when the child refused to nap and so shoved the toddler’s head into a floor mat.
A police report says Hamilton then picked the child up and slammed them into the mat, busting the child’s lip. Officer Heather Knight says the child was treated at a hospital.
Hamilton passed a background check when she was hired in September. She has since been fired.
Knight says police are reviewing the day care’s surveillance videos.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/12/06/daycare-worker-body-slammed-toddler-police/
Woman clubs boyfriend, sits on his face for refusing oral sex
A “very violent” mohawked Missouri woman clobbered her live-in lover as she demanded he perform oral sex on her, the victim and authorities said.
Amy Nicole Parrino, 43, was busted on charges of domestic assault and sexual abuse for the Sunday night incident that occurred at Parrino and the man’s Boone County home, according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by The Smoking Gun.
During the 9:45 p.m. attack, Parrino allegedly punched the man up to 25 times and struck him with a belt, cellphone and brass plate, according to the court filing.
Then a naked Parrino chased the man around the house as he pleaded for her to “leave him alone.”
But Parrino did not relent, as she “pushed him to the ground and then sat on his face,” the victim told police, according to the affidavit.
The victim told investigators that while Parrino “was sitting on his face she said to him ‘eat my p—-y,’” the court document states.
For a “few seconds” during the encounter, the man said, he could not breathe and that he was “scared to death,” according to the affidavit.
The victim later told police that the whole incident made him “sick” to his stomach and that he did not want to do anything sexual with Parrino.
As a result of the incident, the man suffered an up to 4-inch-long cut on both his right arm and his left arm. He also suffered a cut on the bridge of his nose, which the man told authorities “was from when Parrino sat on his face.”
The man was also left with red marks on his chest where he said he was hit with the belt.
According to the victim, “violence” between him and Parrino “has been getting worse and more frequent,” the document says.
He told police he “don’t know what she’s going to do next” and that he “fears for his safety all the time.”
The man added that Parrino will get “very violent, very quickly.”
Parrino was locked up in lieu of $25,000 cash bail, the outlet said.
Parrino wears a ring in her left nostril and a facial piercing near her eye, as well as a black “Buccaneers” jersey in her mug shot.
She was hit with an additional charge for allegedly smearing fecal matter on the walls of a jail cell and breaking a jailhouse phone, according to the website.
A judge ordered Parrino to have no contact with the victim and she has been barred from the man’s residence, according to the site.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/12/06/woman-clubs-boyfriend-sits-on-his-face-for-refusing-oral-sex/
Disneyland tower likely source of 22 cases of Legionnaires’ disease, official testifies
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A health official testified that a cooling tower that provides mist to make Disneyland visitors comfortable was the likely source for 22 cases in a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak last year near the theme park.
Dr. Matthew Zahn with the Orange County Health Care Agency testified Tuesday before an appeals board judge at the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
The Los Angeles Times reports Zahn said tests around the time of the outbreak showed high levels of Legionella bacteria in two Disneyland cooling towers.
He said contaminated droplets likely spread to people in the park and beyond.
Disneyland is appealing state fines, saying the outbreak’s source was not scientifically determined.
Upon questioning, Zahn said he could not be 100 percent certain that Disneyland was the source without additional testing.
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Viola Davis Proclaims “I Cannot Lead With Bull—” at Hollywood Reporter Women in Entertainment Event
At The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment event on Wednesday, Davis was honored with the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award, given annually to a woman who is a trailblazer and philanthropic leader in her industry.
Viola Davis is speaking her truth, and speaking out about being a black woman in Hollywood.
At The Hollywood Reporter‘s Women in Entertainment event Wednesday, Davis was honored with the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award, given annually to a woman who is a trailblazer and philanthropic leader in her industry. When she took the stage, the star revealed how it can feel for her as a black actress, comparing her feelings to a scene in The Exorcist when a possessed young girl lifts up her nightgown to show “Help me” written on her stomach.
“She’s somewhere in that body but being possessed by these demons, but somewhere she musters up enough courage to say ‘Help me.’ That’s how I feel everyday in this Hollywood community and in my life, in trying to live my authentic life,” Davis told the audience at Los Angeles’ Milk Studios. “The demons aren’t gargoyles, they aren’t men with pointy noses and ears — they’re other people’s desire for your life, people who don’t see you. People who stereotype you. People who take your pathology, your complexity, everything away from you.”
The honoree continued, “How you have to water yourself down in order to meet the standards of the community who are in charge, who is not mine. That’s how it feels. And I’ll tell you the worst demon of all is a lack of purpose because let me tell you something, you do not have to know what is in the hearts of people to be a leader, but, by God, you have to know what is in the heart of the leader. And what is in my heart is I cannot lead with bullshit.”
Davis spoke about bringing change to the industry with her production company JuVee productions, which she runs with husband Julius Tennon, and aiming to tell more diverse, inclusive stories.
“We started it because I got tired of always celebrating movies that didn’t have me in it. I don’t mean me Viola, I mean me as a black woman. I was tired of seeing the expansive imagination of writers when they wrote the mess, the joy, the beauty, the femininity of white characters,” she said. “Maybe an hour into the movie you saw the obligatory black character just kind of walking into the camera, who had a name but didn’t really need to have a name because we know nothing about them.”
The actress called out The Brady Bunch, Gilligan’s Island, Leave It to Beaver and similar shows as being “a lie,” and added, “embrace the truth, that’s my biggest gift.” She also commended Steve McQueen, Barry Jenkins, Ryan Coogler and Greta Gerwig for their wild spirits and for being “people who just dare, who say, ‘You cannot silence me.'”
To wrap up her speech, Davis said, “my big thing with JuVee Productions is there is no limit to how we see narratives for people of color — that there’s only so much that I’m going to kowtow to this business. My gift to anyone is that. Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. … This is my fist pump. This is my drop the mic. This is me.”
The award was presented by Lansing herself, who commended Davis as someone who “empathizes with the underserved and she gives a voice to those who are silenced. Viola has never forgotten where she came from and she pays it forward to make sure others don’t have to suffer like she did.”
Aside from her Oscar-, Emmy- and Tony-winning career, the star is a leader in the fight against child hunger, serving as an ambassador for charitable initiative Hunger Is from 2014 to 2017, which raised more than $20 million to provide meals for children across the U.S. Additionally, Davis has worked to end poverty in her hometown of Central Falls, Rhode Island, and has donated to its public library, her high school alma mater and the charter school Segue Institute for Learning. Through her partnership with the Vaseline Healing Project, Davis returned to Central Falls in 2016 to launch a free health clinic for residents unable to afford health care. The actress has also been outspoken on issues of racism, pay inequality and sexual abuse in Hollywood.
Davis joins past Lansing Award recipients Tina Fey, Barbra Streisand, Shonda Rhimes, Oprah Winfrey, Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Helen Mirren, Halle Berry, Jodie Foster, Glenn Close, Barbara Walters and 2017 honoree Jennifer Lawrence.
The Power 100 Women in Entertainment event presented by Lifetime is sponsored by American Airlines, Cadillac, Fiji Water, eOne, Gersh, Loyola Marymount University and SAG-AFTRA, in partnership with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles and Entertainment Industry Foundation.
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Kim Kardashian Was ‘Hysterically Crying’ After Kanye West Called Slavery a ‘Choice’
In a sneak peek from Sunday’s episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, the reality star discusses her husband’s controversial slavery comments.
“He’s doing good; everyone thinks he’s having a breakdown,” Kardashian says after her friend Jonathan Cheban asks how the rapper is doing just days after the incident.
In May, West made headlines after implying that slavery was a “choice” for African-Americans during an interview on TMZ Live, where he also repeatedly proclaimed his love for polarizing President Donald Trump.
Accompanied by conservative commentator Candace Owens, the outspoken artist sounded off on the centuries African-Americans spent shackled in servitude.
“You hear about slavery for 400 years. For 400 years?! That sounds like a choice,” he said. “You were there for 400 years and it was all of y’all? It’s like we’re meant to be in prison. I like the word ‘prison’ because slavery goes too direct to the idea of blacks…Prison is something that unites us as one race.”
Kardashian admits that she drove home “hysterically crying” to check on West.
“I rushed home, I was hysterically crying,” she recalls. “So I go home…he’s totally fine.”
But Kardashian says she wasn’t surprised to find her husband in a relaxed state amid the scandal.
“When he gets ramped up, he can’t control what he says, he can’t let it go,” she explains. “He loves being ramped up. He’s like ‘I feel powerful when I’m ramped up. I don’t want to be so suppressed. Yeah, I say crazy s— but I’ve always said crazy s—. That’s why I’m Kanye.’”
And no matter what the rapper does or says, Kardashian says she will always have West’s back.
“I always know what Kanye’s intentions are and what he’s trying to say, but I also know that they’re gonna write a headline and people are gonna assume that that’s exactly what you said and what you meant,” she says. “He didn’t say slavery is a choice, he was saying if you’re gonna still be enslaved for another 400 years then that’s some bulls—.”
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Tiffany Haddish And Awkwafina Are Rumored To Be Starring In The Next ’21 Jump Street’ Reboot
Awkwafina had the kind of star-making 2018 that hasn’t been seen since… Tiffany Haddish in 2017. The actress/comedian/rapper starred in Ocean’s 8, Dude, and Crazy Rich Asians and hosted SNL, something that Haddish, whose breakout role in Girls Trip led to critical acclaim and a spot on Time‘s 100 most influential people in the world list, accomplished last year. So, it’s only fitting that they’re both rumored to star in the female-driven 21 Jump Street reboot.
Collider reports that Haddish is being targeted to “play a teacher this time around, possibly posing as the mother of a new student — and fellow undercover cop,” while they’ve heard from “multiple sources” that Awkwafina (real name: Nora Lum) is “at the top of Sony’s list, and for months I’ve heard that executives over there are big fans of the Crazy Rich Asians actress, who has also been considered for a supporting role in Sony’s Jumanji sequel.”
It might be hard to get people excited for more 21 Jump Street — the Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum-starring buddy comedy came out in 2012, while the sequel was released two years later — but casting Haddish and Awkwafina would be a good start. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who directed both films, are expected to return as producers, while Rodney Rothman is writing and directing. “We think that there’s something fun about keeping that irreverent spirit of Jump Street, but maybe having it be told through a female undercover cop point-of-view,” Columbia Pictures president Sanford Panitch said about the script. “We’ve had enough male buddy comedies. The script is really funny and has a freshness to it.” It also means the rumored Jump Street/Men in Black crossover is dead. That’s probably for the best because it led to this:
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Princess Love Puts Ray J on Blast About Their Sex Life: ‘It Doesn’t Even Get Up Anymore’
Princess Love seems like she’s ready for a second child, but only if her husband is ready to bat in the bedroom.
Love and Ray J. Norwood welcomed their adorable baby girl Melody Love in May and the couple said they were open to having another child. During an interview with BET’s “Raq Rants” on Dec 4., Love said she’d love to expand her family, but Norwood’s “third leg: doesn’t seem to be working too well.
“I hope so,” the model said. “But you have to have sex, too. So, it has to go hand-in-hand… We’ve done it like three times.”
Norwood and Love went tit-for-tat over his male parts and its ability to perform. Nevertheless, the “One Wish” singer said he’s more than ready to try for a second child.
“I’m always ready,” he replied. “I’ve never been limp.”
Love sharply hit back, “You’ve been limp, lately. It doesn’t even get up anymore.”
The 34-year-old mother said she’s been basking in motherhood and called it the “best feeling ever.” She couldn’t be more ecstatic than to be a mommy to her beautiful baby girl and recently celebrated baby Mel turning 6-months-old.
Love took to Instagram last week and shared a series of photos with she and her family at an amusement park for Melody’s celebration.
“We took Melody to Universal Studios for her 6-month celebration,” Love wrote. “Can’t wait to create more memories as she gets older and now I have a reason to do all of the fun kid stuff.”
Fans complimented Love and her husband on being such great parents.
“You two make great parents.”
“Awww I love this! Nothing like making memories with the ones you love the most! I’m so happy for you.”
“You and Ray are amazing parents. Melody is so beautiful and you and Ray are a beautiful couple.”
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300-pound PA woman pleads guilty to crushing boyfriend
ERIE, Pa. – A 300-pound woman in Pennsylvania has pleaded guilty to murdering her boyfriend by stabbing him, hitting him in the head with a table leg, and finally crushing the 120-pound man with her own weight.
Windi Thomas, 44, pleaded guilty to third-degree murder in the March 18 death of Keeno Butler in exchange for a recommended sentence of 18 to 36 years in state prison, the Erie Times-News reports.
Police say Thomas admitted crushing Butler after a fight at their Erie residence. She told them she positioned herself so that some of her weight would be on his head.
The death was ruled a homicide “caused by respiratory insufficiency secondary to blunt force trauma to the neck and thoracic compression, exacerbated by blunt force trauma to the head,” court papers state.
Sandra Butler, the victim’s sister, says Thomas should have gotten life. “My mother, she calls for him every night,” she says. Thomas, who had been scheduled to go on trial next week, will be sentenced Dec. 21, the AP reports.
via: https://pix11.com/2018/12/05/300-pound-pennsylvania-woman-pleads-guilty-to-crushing-boyfriend/
Woman arrested after pouring hot grease on victim during argument, police say
CINCINNATI — A woman was arrested after she allegedly poured hot grease on someone during an argument, WXIX reports.
Charlene Thompson, 61, has been charged with felonious assault, Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office records show. She was already wanted on two counts of criminal damaging or endangerment, according to WXIX.
Police said Thompson dumped hot grease on someone during an argument on Sunday in the Mt. Airy neighborhood of Cincinnati.
The victim suffered severe burns to their back and arm, according to WLWT.
Thompson is being held under a $52,000 bond and has court dates scheduled for Dec. 14 and Dec. 18.