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Two arrested after child reportedly punched in face, left duct-taped to chair overnight
Iredell County, N.C. – Two people have been arrested after a 12-year-old boy was beaten and left duct-taped to a chair overnight, according to the Iredell County Sheriff’s Office.
Officials told WSOC they responded to a report of child abuse at a home in Statesville Wednesday.
The person who reported the alleged abuse had received text messages and images of a boy who was duct-taped to a chair in the home.
Investigators said they determined 71-year-old Frances Kay Campbell Miller held the boy’s hands behind his back while 20-year-old Dustin Webb Miller punched the child in the face. Deputies said the boy had an orbital fracture to his face.
Authorities said Frances Miller then duct-taped the child to a chair and left him there overnight.
Officials said she is the child’s guardian, and Dustin Miller is the boy’s brother.
The Iredell County Department of Social Services was called to the home and took temporary custody of the victim as well as other children living there.
Frances Miller is charged with felony assault inflicting serious bodily injury, two counts of misdemeanor child abuse and misdemeanor false imprisonment.
Dustin Miller is charged with felony assault inflicting serious bodily injury and misdemeanor simple assault.
They were booked into the Iredell County Detention Center and have since bonded out of jail.
Social worker charged with rape after telling victim sexual conduct was necessary for mental health treatment
CLEVELAND, Ohio – A licensed social worker with the Centers for Families and Children has been indicted on felony charges for allegedly sexually assaulting a client and telling her it was necessary for mental health treatment.
Gamalier Felicie, 44, has been charged with rape, sexual battery, attempted rape and attempted sexual battery.
The indictment said that on Jan. 25, 2019, Felicie told the 37-year-old victim “sexual conduct was necessary for mental health treatment purposes.”
According to a statement from facility administrators, Felicie was immediately placed on leave when the allegations surfaced. Administrators reported it to the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services and Cuyahoga County’s Addiction, Mental Health (ADAMHS) Board. The allegations were also reported to Cleveland police and other state officials.
A check of online records showed Felicie had no history of discipline with the Ohio Counselor Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board.
Felicie is free on bond and scheduled to appear in court April 10.
Elizabeth Newman, the President and CEO of Circle Health Services and The Centers for Families and Children, released the following statement:
The safety and well-being of our clients is always our highest priority. These allegations, if true, would be an egregious violation of our policies and standards of professional conduct, and grounds for termination. In order to protect our clients, Mr. Felicie remains on leave and has no interaction with clients, pending the outcome of the legal proceedings.
Former Knicks star Kristaps Porzing is accused of raping woman in Manhattan
NEW YORK — An attorney for Kristaps Porzingis acknowledged Saturday that a woman has accused the NBA star of rape, but says the Dallas Mavericks forward “unequivocally” denies the allegation.
Lawyer Roland Riopelle said the claim against the player was part of an extortion attempt that is being investigated by the FBI.
Citing unidentified law enforcement officials, the New York Post and other news organizations reported earlier that a woman went to police Thursday and said Porzingis raped her in his Manhattan apartment last year while he was playing for the Knicks.
NYPD officials declined to comment.
While playing for the Knicks last year, Porzingis suffered a major knee injury during a game at Madison Square Garden against the Milwaukee Bucks that the Knicks lost. He then went home and invited the woman to his luxury Manhattan apartment where she alleges she was sexually assaulted, the Post said the woman told police.
“We made a formal referral to federal law enforcement on December 20th, 2018, based on the accuser’s extortionate demands,” Riopelle said in a statement.
The attorney says the NBA was also notified.
Porzingis, a 23-year-old native of Latvia, was traded to the Mavericks in January. But he’s not expected to play with the team till next season while he recovers from the injury.
Nipsy Hussle Shot Dead outside his clothing store
LOS ANGELES — The Grammy-nominated rapper Nipsey Hussle was killed in a shooting outside his clothing store in Los Angeles, multiple law enforcement sources said. Two other men were in serious condition, and a suspect remained at large.
No further information was immediately available about the shooting at Marathon Clothing on Slauson Avenue in South Los Angeles. But just a couple of hours before, Hussle, 33, whose real name was Ermias Ashgedom, had tweeted, “Having strong enemies is a blessing.”
A large crowd of people, many of them crying, gathered at the intersection as police and media helicopters whirred overhead.
One of them was Matthew Talley of Denver, the engineer and director known as Megatron.
“It ain’t just Los Angeles. He was an inspiration that was bigger than Los Angeles,” Talley said. “You see all these people out here? …
“He was really cool,” Talley said. “He was a dope individual every time I met him.”
Hussle’s debut studio album, “Victory Lap” was nominated for Best Rap Album at this year’s Grammy Awards.
Hussle had long been associated with the Rollin 60s Neighborhood Crips, one of Los Angeles’ largest street gangs, which he publicly acknowledged in a 2010 interview with Complex magazine.
In more recent years, however, Hussle had developed an interest in technology and community development, and he was part of a team of artists and entrepreneurs who developed Destination Crenshaw, an open-air museum devoted to honoring African-American artistic achievement.
“In our culture, there’s a narrative that says, ‘Follow the athletes, follow the entertainers,'” he told the Los Angeles Times last year. “And that’s cool, but there should be something that says, ‘Follow Elon Musk, follow [Mark] Zuckerberg.’
In an interview last year with Forbes, Hussle said that as a youth, he’d fallen prey to the “ignorance and self-destructiveness in the narrative that was pushed on us through music in our generation.”
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South Carolina College Student Found Dead After Entering Car She Apparently Thought Was an Uber
The University of South Carolina has confirmed the death of a 21-year-old student who was reported missing after friends say she mistakenly entered a car she believed to be an Uber.
The death of senior Samantha Josephson was announced Saturday by the university’s president Harris Pastides in a letter addressed to the “Carolina family.”
“It is with the heaviest of hearts that I write these words this morning. Our prayers are with the family and friends of Samantha Josephson following the devastating news of her death,” Pastides wrote. “Times like these leave me searching for words of wisdom and comfort. However, I take solace that the Carolina Family is here to embrace those who are hurting.”
Josephson’s father Seymour Josephson, of New Jersey, also confirmed her death in an emotional Facebook post.
“It is with tremendous sadness and of a broken heart that I post this!” he wrote alongside a photo of him sitting on a couch with Samantha. “I will miss and love my baby girl for the rest of life. Samantha is no longer with us but she will not be forgotten. It is extremely hard to write this and post it but I love her with all my heart. I could continue to write about her but it kills me. I sit here and cry while looking at the picture and write this.”
“Loved ones have not been able to make contact with her since,” the department wrote on Twitter. “They’re worried about her well-being & safety.”
Investigators said they believed Josephson was seen entering a black Chevy Impala just after 2 a.m.
The Columbia Police Department did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Friend Ashlynn Steele told the university’s student newspaper The Daily Gamecock that Josephson was with friends at the Bird Dog bar, but left the bar alone, and that she got into the Chevy thinking it was her Uber.
The paper reports that the actual Uber she ordered canceled after she did not show at the pick-up point.
Josephson was a political science major from Robbinsville, New Jersey. She planned to go to the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law in Philadelphia upon graduating in May, according to The State.
A GoFundMe page set up to cover Josephson’s funeral costs has so far raised more than $9,000.
In his letter, Pastides urged students to be “active bystanders,” and to travel in groups, stick together, and use the RAVE Guardian safety app, which allows users to set virtual safety timers and discreetly contact authorities.
“It has been a difficult week for our extended Carolina family. The loss of a student is never easy but this has been a particularly painful few days as we have experienced loss on several of our campuses,” he wrote. “As a family, let’s continue to pray for all the families experiencing heartache and grief this week.”
The State reports that a USC student died earlier this week in an apparent suicide.
Americans are having way less sex, survey finds
Americans just aren’t getting any.
Despite the explosion of hook-up apps and dating sites, the number of adult Americans who haven’t had sex in the last year reached an all-time high in 2018, according to a new study by the General Social Survey.
The record lack of action is the climax of a decades-long trend among an aging population and growing numbers of single people, said the group, which is part of the University of Chicago.
Millennials aren’t without blame.
The survey showed that nearly 25 percent of the people who went without sex were 20-something men.
That’s 8 percent more than women of that age.
Those ages 18 to 29 who abstain more than doubled in the last decade, the study said.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/03/30/americans-are-having-way-less-sex-survey-finds/
‘Die you little f—’: Utah woman behind bars after strangling son with disabilities
PLEASANT GROVE, Utah — A Utah woman is behind bars after allegedly strangling her disabled 21-year-old son while screaming she wanted him to die, according to KSTU.
Pleasant Grove Police Department said their agency was responding to a domestic violence call at the Viewpointe Apartment Homes last Saturday, where a mother had thrown a pair of scissors at her 13-year-old son.
Police were told the mother, 42-year-old Gidget Quilter, had allegedly assaulted her adult son, who is mentally and physically disabled, earlier that day.
Six of Quilter’s children, who are between the ages of 2 and 17, witnessed the assault, police said.
“She was making statements to the account of, ‘die you, die,’ while the son’s airway was being cut off,” Captain Britt Smith with the Pleasant Grove Police Department told KSTU.
According to a probable cause statement, the 21-year-old , “had defecated and had thrown feces all over his room.”
“Mom was upset with the mess and had reportedly choked her handicapped son,” Smith said.
Quilter told police her 21-year-old son has Langer-Giedion Syndrome. She explained that the condition is secondary to severe autism and that he is not able to speak, according to the probable cause statement.
Quilter’s 17-year-old daughter told police she had gone into her brother’s room to help clean up the mess. She said when her mother sat on the bed next to where he was kneeling on the floor, he began to scream.
“Her mother then grabbed [her son] by the front of his throat with her right hand and the back of his head with her left hand before she pushed him to the ground and straddled his trunk and arms with her legs,” the daughter told police.
“[Quilter] applied so much pressure to [her son’s] neck that the screaming stopped because she cut his ability to breathe off,” the statement continued.
An officer said he inspected the man’s body and found a red mark on the upper right side of his back. He also found several red marks, one of which was bleeding, on the left side of his body, according to the probable cause statement.
“This individual is not verbal, not in the capacity to defend himself or fight back,” Smith said. “We have an obligation to make sure that they are safe in their environment because they can’t make themselves safe.”
Police said that daughter captured an audio recording – in it, the daughter and a 13-year-old brother can be heard yelling, “Stop, mom, stop!”
Later in the recording you can hear Quilter yell “Die you – die you little f—,” the probable cause statement said.
“She had been confronted with the audio recording during her interview with police on Saturday, she obviously was made aware of where that recording had come from and then tried to get her daughter to change her story,” Smith said.
According to police, the mother was released from jail the following day. The daughter told police her mother asked her to meet at the Hyatt House (where Quilter and her husband checked in after she was released).
According to the probable cause statement, the daughter said: “her mother then told her that if she told the police that her statement and the recording were explained to say that it was a ‘misperception’ that it would help her, that she needed a doctor, not the police or jail.”
Quilter is now being held in jail without bail, facing six misdemeanor charges of domestic violence in the presence of a child, a felony charge for tampering with a witness and a felony charge for aggravated assault committed with force/violence to injure.
Police said the family is no longer at the Viewpointe Apartment Homes. Gidget is still in jail but no longer has a home. Her kids are now in the custody of her husband and her other adult children.
Video shows DoorDash driver sip customer’s milkshake before delivering it
STOCKTON, Calif. (WTVD) — A California family is warning others after they saw something disturbing on their home security camera: a DoorDash driver taking a sip of the milkshake they ordered.
Rajesh Malhotra told KTXL his 14-year-old son ordered a cookies and cream milkshake from Cold Stone, but he wasn’t the only one who got to enjoy it.
“(I thought) ‘Whoa, that’s crazy,” he said. “I mean, how can someone jeopardize the product like that, especially the food?”
The family didn’t learn about the incident until the next day — after Rishab had already finished the frozen treat.
“My dad told me to check out the video from last night, and once I checked it out I brushed five, six times,” Rishab said. “I felt really disgusted.”
The family said the incident has them thinking twice about using the delivery service again.
“We have trust between the company and the drivers,” Rajesh said. “Once that trust is broken, we can’t go back.”
The family claims they have reached out to the company several times. Two weeks after the incident and they still haven’t heard back.
via: https://abc11.com/food/doordash-driver-sips-milkshake-before-delivery/5224274/