Man arrested for alleged rape of 86-year-old woman in Delhi
An Indian man has been arrested for the alleged rape of an 86-year-old woman after he approached her while she was waiting for the milkman then lured her to an isolated field, according to a senior police official.
The woman was outside her house in a village in the Indian capital Delhi on Monday evening when she was allegedly approached by a 32-year-old man named Sonu, an additional deputy commissioner of Delhi police, R P Meena, said.
“The accused asked her to accompany him on his two-wheeler (vehicle) on the pretext that he had to ask for his money back from someone and that they would be sympathetic if he was accompanied by an old lady,” Meena told CNN Thursday.
Neighbors heard the woman screaming for help and called the police. The accused was caught at the scene and arrested for rape and voluntarily causing hurt, Meena said.
According to Meena, the woman did not know the accused and the police don’t believe that the crime was premeditated. The woman sustained minor injuries during the struggle and has been discharged from the hospital as she is in a stable condition, he added.
Under Indian law, rape carries a possible sentence of life imprisonment. The death sentence is also available for repeat rape offenders, gang rapists, or people convicted of raping a minor.
The case has prompted anger from the Delhi Commission For Women (DCW), a statutory body that investigates safety and security issues relating to women.
On Wednesday, the DCW wrote a letter to the lieutenant governor of Delhi — the constitutional head of the city — appealing to him to fast-track the case and ensure that the accused receives the harshest possible sentence.
The chief of DCW, Swati Maliwal, alleges that the 86-year-old was assaulted and raped multiple times, although police have not confirmed those details.
“The woman’s medical examination report has revealed several injuries and bruises on her body especially on her private parts,” the letter said. “She has bled profusely and is in extreme trauma.”
India has seen several high-profile rape cases in recent years, including the rape and murder of a 23-year-old student on a New Delhi bus in 2012 that made international headlines. Four men were executed earlier this year over her death.
Following that case, campaigners called for tougher laws on sexual assault in the country. Despite reforms — which included fast-track courts to move rape cases through the justice system swiftly — the number of reported rapes has risen since 2012.
Last year, more than 33,000 cases of alleged rape were reported — roughly 91 cases each day, or one rape every 16 minutes, according to India’s National Crime Records Bureau.
Maliwal told CNN Thursday that, after the 2012 gang rape, a law was passed which said that if a police officer for any reason refuses to register a rape complaint, then a complaint can be filed against him, which likely was one of the reasons behind the rise in reported rapes.
However, she believed that the level of brutality in sexual violence crimes had increased in the past few years.
“This is one of the worst crimes I’ve come across in the last five years,” she said, referring to the alleged rape of the 86-year-old.
She said that stronger laws were not enough if they weren’t implemented properly — and noted that she had still received numerous reports of sexual violence from women during the past few months when India has been in lockdown.
“(Sexual violence crimes) are definitely not declining and without the government ensuring timely punishment there is nothing to deter offenders,” Maliwal said.
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Russian man charged with stealing Americans’ identities as part of election interference efforts
CNN) — Federal prosecutors charged a Russian man who allegedly worked as a manager in the Russian government’s US-election interference efforts with conspiracy to steal the identities of Americans to open bank and cryptocurrency accounts.
The charges announced Thursday in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, against Artem Mikhaylovich Lifshits, 27, of St. Petersburg, Russia, were part of the US government’s public response against Russians who the US says are involved in the Russian election interference operation.
The Treasury Department announced sanctions against Lifshits and two others allegedly part of what the US named Project Lakhta, the Russian-based effort to conduct political and electoral influence in the US ahead of the November elections.
The Trump administration said that the so-called Project Lakhta has been working since 2014 to disrupt and sow distrust of the US political system and against candidates for public office. The project concealed its work through groups such as the Internet Research Agency, whose members were charged with crimes by special counsel Robert Mueller. Lifshits allegedly worked as a manager for the Translator Department, which was responsible for much of the Russian project’s ongoing influence operations, according to Justice Department prosecutors.
Lifshits is believed to be in Russia and CNN couldn’t locate him to seek comment.
Prosecutors alleged that Lifshits and others stole the identities of real Americans to open bank and cryptocurrency accounts, which were used to conduct the Russian operation and for his own personal benefit.
The criminal charges don’t include any allegations of Americans knowingly participating in the Russian influence operation, the Justice Department said.
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11-year-old ‘hero’ drives sick grandma to hospital — in a Mercedes-Benz
When his grandmother was struggling to stand, an 11-year-old Indiana grandson got it in gear.
PJ Brewer-Laye, who was driving his go-kart at the time, had been out with Angela Brewer-Laye last week in their Indianapolis neighborhood as she walked nearby. The pair were about a mile and a half from their home when his grandma began to feel ill.
At that moment, PJ was zooming up and down the street past his ailing grandmother.
Feeling dizzy, weak and unable to see clearly, Angela leaned against a road sign. Then her blurry vision began to sharpen.
“I was leaning against the stop sign, and all of a sudden, I look to my right, and I see my car — my Mercedes-Benz coming towards me. Just in an easy, calm manner, it was coming towards me,” the woman told 11Alive.
“I looked in the car. It was him — it was PJ,” Angela recalled.
The boy, who just turned 12 but was 11 at the time of the incident, had quickly noticed the change in his grandma, and didn’t think twice about riding his go-kart home to fetch a more suitable road vehicle.
Angela praised the driving skills of her grandson, who, she explained, has had a lot of practice in his short life.
“This child is only 11 years old and drives like a pro,” she said. “He always rides either his four-wheeler, go-kart or his dirt bike while I’m trying to get a little exercise in.”
It wasn’t PJ’s first time behind the wheel of a full-size automobile, either, as his grandfather, Angela’s husband, often used to ask a young PJ to rearrange their cars in the driveway or yard — under Grandpa’s close watch, of course. PJ’s trip to the hospital last week was his first time on the road in a car.
“He drove me home, and he pulled in the driveway. And when I say he pulled in the driveway so precise, because my driveway is kind of narrow … He didn’t go up the curb, in the grass, nothing. He pulled in the driveway, in the garage, and helped me out the car,” said Angela, adding that he was “calm and collected” at the wheel, even during an emergency.
“He’s an extra special little boy and he doesn’t ask for anything in return,” said Angela.
As to why, of all her cars, PJ chose the Mercedes-Benz, Angela explained it was simply the easiest vehicle for him to reach at the time — though one couldn’t blame the boy hero for being drawn to the top-dollar car.
Said one viewer, who saw 11Alive’s coverage on YouTube, “Pj been wanting to drive that Mercedes for a long time. Such a smart young man.”
Another joked that PJ drove the luxury vehicle “with class.”
via: https://nypost.com/2020/09/04/11-year-old-boy-drives-grandma-to-hospital-in-a-mercedes-benz/
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Girl shares mom’s rum bottle during online show-and-tell
When Illinois second-grader Penny was given an assignment to bring “something that smells good” to her remote-school class, her mind went straight to Mommy’s liquor cabinet.
“It’s moments like these that I wish I didn’t go all ‘balls out’ on having children,” Penny’s mother, Meghan Maza Oeser, wrote in a now-viral Facebook post on Monday. “Here’s Penny … showing her class ‘something that smells good.’ ”
Beneath the text is an image of Penny at her neat learning station, wearing light-pink headphones and happily holding up to her virtual classmates a bottle of Malibu rum nearly the size of her torso. While her class can’t appreciate the alcohol’s coconut scent through the airwaves, they can certainly see that Penny has chosen an object she won’t be legally allowed to drink for years to come.
“#InJesusNameAmen #BlessIt #PleaseTakeThemBackNow #HideYoWife #HideYoKids #HideYoMalibu,” Oeser hashtagged the post, which has racked up more than 93,000 likes in less than a week.
This isn’t the first time Oeser has gone viral. In April, on the first day of e-learning with her six children, she accidentally flashed her daughter’s class — a hilariously common mistake other parents have fallen victim to in the age of online classes.
“I’d go ahead and normally call myself a semi-tech savvy person. Not today. I am no longer savvy. I am now a day drinker. I’m done,” she wrote in her retelling of the event. Oeser was wearing nothing but a towel in her bedroom, having just taken a shower, when one of her kids came in, asking for phone help. “How do I end this?” her daughter whispered, holding up the phone so the screen was facing her mother, unsure how to log out of her Google Hangouts class. That’s when the towel slipped.
“So there I am … heavy towel … that fell around my waist … with my 40 something year old t–ties staring Mrs. Definitelygonnaneedsometherapyafterthis RIGHT in the face!!!” Oeser wrote, concluding the post, “End call.”
via: https://nypost.com/2020/09/04/girl-brings-moms-bottle-of-malibu-to-online-show-and-tell/
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Texas woman loses 70 pounds after ex-boyfriend says she’s ‘too fat’ to date
Miriam Blanco, a 33-year-old mother of four, claims she was dumped by her ex-boyfriend for being “too fat.”
“I had an ex that would always tell me no one wants to end up with someone fat and that I was lucky he was even sticking around. I remember that stuck with me for a long time — sometimes it still gets to me. After he left, I was a depressed single mother of two,” Blanco told the Daily Mail.
“I hated how I looked. I had very low self-esteem. I used to tell my husband if he left me for another woman, I wouldn’t be angry because I knew he could do better than me,” she explained of her poor self-worth, even after she had gotten married to her current husband.
The pharmacy technician, from Houston, Texas, managed to turn her insecurity into motivation to lose weight, dropping from 218 pounds to 150. But it wasn’t only her insecurity that prompted her to make a change.
In 2015, Blanco was in a car accident that left her with severe back pain, and doctors limited her options to surgery or relying on pain medication — neither of which she wanted.
Instead, her husband, a Navy veteran, suggested she try strengthening exercises for her back to alleviate some of the pain.
“At the time my girls were young. My two youngest were about 2 and 4. Relying on pain meds was not an option. My husband always worked out, he always loved working out and knew about eating healthy and bodybuilding.”
As soon as she began working out with her husband, Blanco was hooked. She continued to work out daily and focus on healthy eating. Soon, her weight — and back pain — started to melt away.
Now the healthy mom works out daily, even after working 12-hour shifts, and makes sure she hits her “protein, carbs and fats” each day.
“If it’s something you like, you will try anything to get it, and that’s exactly what I do.”
When she first started on her journey, she admitted, she was intimidated by the gym.
“My husband said everyone is here for the same reason as you are. Everyone wants to be a better version of themselves,” she said, the Daily Mail reported.
She persevered, and now cites “dedication” as the reason for her incredible physique. It’s also the advice she gives to others who want to lose weight.
“There is no magic pill, there’s no magic anything that will make you lose weight. It’s called ‘working out’ for a reason. Hard work and dedication get you to where you want.
“Stop listening to others and get your s— together, and work your a– off … You are doing it for you, not for others.”
Blanco does manage to treat herself, allowing one “sugary snack each evening.”
Now that she’s living a healthier lifestyle, Blanco says, she’s also confident that her own kids are eating healthier too. And outside of her family, her weight loss has also managed to touch other people’s lives.
“I actually get a lot of positive messages from men. They actually tell me that they show their wives my picture to show them, ‘Hey, she can do it, you can too.’ Which I like a lot, because they tell me all the time it’s about time we see a real woman out here, not afraid of showing stretch marks. It’s how a real woman looks. So, it makes me feel good to read their messages.”
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Hurricane Laura unleashes swarms of livestock-killing mosquitoes
Just in case 2020 wasn’t catastrophic enough, livestock — cows, horses and deer — in Louisiana are falling victim to a biblical plague of mosquitoes unleashed by Hurricane Laura.
“They’re vicious little suckers,” veterinarian Craig Fontenot told the AP about the insect scourge, which descended upon the Ville Platte community in a “thick cloud.”
As a result, 300 to 400 cows have perished since Aug. 27, and “there’s a lot on the verge of dying,” the vet told LSU AgCenter. If that wasn’t calamitous enough, several horses have also succumbed to the bugs and a deer farmer lost 30 of his 110 livestock, valued at around $100,000 total.
Fontenot attributed the animals’ deaths to mosquito-induced blood loss and exhaustion caused by constantly moving to avoid the oppressive insect clouds.
“They can’t get enough oxygen,” Fontenot added of their plight, which was reportedly caused by an unprecedented bloodsucker boom. According to LSU AgCenter agents, the mosquitoes invaded the region after being displaced from the salt marshes by Hurricane Laura.
Fortunately, cattle owners have been able to thin their buggy numbers by crop-dusting their pastures with pesticide. Meanwhile, AgCenter extension veterinarian Dr. Christine Navarre said that ranchers can mitigate the mosquito swarms by applying steer-safe insecticides to their livestock.
“Basically, there are many products that can be applied to the animals, either in a spray, spot-on or with back rubs,” she said. “It will depend on what is available locally and what works for the situation.”
Unfortunately, steer-sucking parasites aren’t the only cause for concern in wake of Hurricane Laura. Since making landfall Aug. 27, the storm system caused 27 deaths and power outages affecting up to 300,000 people across Texas and Louisiana.
Meanwhile, Florida beaches have been turned into putrid graveyards of rotting sea creatures washed ashore by the cyclone.
via: https://nypost.com/2020/09/10/hurricane-laura-unleashes-swarms-of-livestock-killing-mosquitoes/
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Woman who acts like a kinky puppy makes $10K a month on OnlyFans
While working as an optician, Jenna Phillips started an account on OnlyFans for extra cash. After 18 months of posting “vanilla content” on the fan-subscription platform, the Austin, Texas, resident realized her longtime fetish for acting like a dog could be much more lucrative.
“I have always acted like a puppy, but not in a sexual way at first. I used to pretend I was a puppy when I was growing up,” Phillips, 21, told the Mirror. “Looking back on it now, it’s kind of always been there. I just didn’t know there was a scene — I just thought it was my personality.”
Phillips said she met two men who opened her eyes to the fact that her fetish was an entire subculture, and she began posting far kinkier videos — to great success. She has since grown a massive online following, gaining over 215,100 TikTok followers since March, and earning enough money via her OnlyFans — $10,000 a month, she told Vice — that she was able to quit working as an optician and dedicate herself to full time puppy play.
“It’s insane,” she told the outlet. “I never thought my weird dog kink would be looked at by a broad audience, or that so many people would like/care about it. It still blows my mind.”
Her TikTok features videos of her eating dog food, making a mess and being ordered outside as punishment, crawling around with a tennis ball in her mouth and performing other dog-like behavior, often while wearing a collar.
“When it comes to pet play, the majority of girls do kittens, foxes or rabbits, and the majority of puppies are men,” she told the Mirror of her niche occupation. “I thought about it for a long time when I first got into pet play. I feel like a dog,” so that’s what she decided to be.
via: https://nypost.com/2020/09/10/woman-makes-10k-a-month-pretending-to-be-a-kinky-puppy-on-onlyfans/
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Police chief stabbed in face with ice pick after answering his door, SC cops say
A South Carolina police chief was stabbed in the face with an ice pick when he answered his door, officials say.
Franco Fuda was in his Charleston-area home — on-duty, putting on equipment and wearing his uniform — when he heard someone knock on Monday, the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office said in an incident report.
That’s when Fuda, chief of the Bonneau Police Department, saw a man in his front yard who had been on a “trespass notice” for his property, the report said.
The man, identified by authorities as Forrest Bowman, allegedly said the police chief was “going to die.”
When Fuda got his phone to call 911, police say, the man hit him. The police chief attempted to arrest Bowman and then saw him holding a “sharp pointy object,” according to authorities.
The incident report says Bowman used an ice pick to stab the police chief in the face. Photos shared with WCSC and WCIV show Fuda with blood under his left eye.
Bowman is accused of running to a home and barricading himself inside. He was later caught and charged with attempted murder, according to the sheriff’s office.
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