Florida man says he had sex with stolen pool toys instead of raping women
A Florida burglary suspect told police that he’s stolen a number of inflatable pool toys so he could have sex with them instead of raping women, a report said.
The suspect, 35-year-old Christopher William Monnin, allegedly broke into a number of homes in the city of Palm Bay in Brevard County that have private pools and stole the inflatables, the Miami Herald reported, citing a police report from the sheriff’s office.
The “defendant stated that he sexually gratifies himself with the pool floats instead of raping women,” an arrest report for Monnin read, according to the Herald.
There have been at least 13 burglaries reported in the area in which inflatable pool toys were stolen, according to the report. Monnin is suspected in all of the thefts, the Herald reported.
Police tracked him down on June 5 and stopped him while he was riding a bike with a garbage bag full of deflated pool toys.
Monnin brought police to a vacant house in Palm Bay where he stores the inflatables. There were about 75 of the toys in the house, according to the report.
His arraignment is set for July 16.
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Woman Allegedly Jumps Off Bridge Into Monongahela River, Leaves Three Children in Vehicle in traffic
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A woman fell or jumped in the Monongahela River from the Homestead Grays Bridge, leaving three children between the ages of 1 and 9 in her SUV.
First responders did not make it to the scene until after the woman jumped or fell.
According to police, the woman stopped her SUV in traffic on the bridge and went to the railing.
Police discovered the three children and they were unharmed.
The children were taken to a local hospital for evaluation and will be turned over to CYF.
River rescue found the woman’s body around 9:15 p.m.and she was declared dead at the time of recovery.
The medical examiner has identified the woman as Stanlee Holbrook, a 26-year-old from McKees Rocks.
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The Sperminator’s 50th baby mama is a homeless 18-year-old from Harlem
The Sperminator strikes again — this time donating his seed to an 18-year-old who lives in an East Harlem shelter. Her daughter, due July 12, will make it number 50 for the serial sperm donor.
Ari Nagel, the 43-year-old CUNY math professor who donates his sperm to women across the globefor free, has racked up serious spawn this past year: 15 babies since last Father’s Day, bringing the grand total to 48. One woman is due to give birth in early July, followed by Kaienja Garrick, who lives in the East River Family Center, a family shelter with a shared bathroom and kitchen.
“I think it’s a nice shelter. It’s probably nicer than my apartment,” Nagel told The Post, adding that he didn’t know how old Garrick was when she reached out to him last August. “I never asked her age — I try to help whoever asks,” he said. “I think Kai is more mature than I was at her age after everything she has been through.”
Garrick has been on her own for about two years after leaving her mother’s Jamaica, Queens, home because “we fought a lot.” Without other family nearby (her father lives in Georgia), Garrick, who is unemployed, entered the shelter system.
Last August, a month after her 18th birthday, she decided to try to get pregnant.
“I knew if I could raise my little sister, I can raise my own baby,” she said of her 7-year-old sibling. “I’ve been taking care of her since she was born.”
Kaienja and her girlfriend of three years, Dee Slobert, ruled out going to a clinic, chalking it up to hassle and expense. (Slobert, 21, lives in a different Manhattan shelter with her mother and brother.)
That’s when Garrick did an online search for “free sperm donation” and found Nagel.
“I didn’t know what a ‘Sperminator’ is,” she said. But after a few Facebook exchanges, Garrick knew he was the one.
“He didn’t ask about anything,” she said. “It’s good not to ask a lot of questions — it’s a woman’s choice.”
They met up in Manhattan Beach last fall, where Nagel donated into a cup on the spot. Two weeks later, Garrick knew she was going to be a mom.
Last month, several members of Nagel’s “mom squad” — women who have given birth thanks to him — showed up at Garrick’s baby shower with diapers, clothes and cash.
“They were great and I’m so grateful,” said Garrick, adding that Nagel, who also attended, brought a Google Home electronic device for reading to the baby.
(Garrick didn’t get to meet all the women, however: She was hours late to the party, as she was getting her hair done, and some of the guests left before she arrived. Nagel cracked to Garrick’s father: “She’s only 18, you have to give her a break.”)
Garrick admitted it’s a bit much to process the multitudes of half-siblings her child will have.
“[Nagel] has so many kids, you don’t know who the siblings could be,” she said.
When her daughter eventually starts dating, she plans to inquire about the person’s family background — to make sure they’re not a relative.
She and Slobert have a name picked out for their daughter: Kaidee, a hybrid of their names.
Garrick hopes to soon score an apartment voucher through her caseworker for her, Kaidee and Slobert, who has plans to finish high school and one day work in engineering. (Slobert is currently unemployed and not enrolled in any school programs.)
Garrick said she will receive her own high school diploma later this month through the Department of Education’s Pathways to Graduation program.
Nagel is confident Garrick will be a good mom. “My 18 was different than hers — people mature at different ages, but better too young than too old,” he said, noting that infertility increases with age.
And Garrick brushes off skeptics, including her own mother, who don’t approve of her having a baby. “It’s not their decision — it’s mine,” she said.
She added that, unlike the five moms who have sued Nagel, Garrick has no plans to ask him for child support.
“I think it’s sad — it’s not like he charges us [for his sperm],” she said. “If it wasn’t for him, I wouldn’t be blessed to have a child. It’s hard to find people like that. Nothing’s free in this world.”
Meanwhile, the Sperminator continues spreading the love. Last week, he made sperm donations in Latvia and Thailand — where, according to Nagel, a 39-year-old Buddhist virgin paid for him to visit.
Taking stock of his offspring, he said: “It would be crazy if I was raising them on my own, but there are over 50 amazing, loving moms that are doing a great job raising the children.
“Although I struggle financially, I feel rich with joy and love and am so blessed to be a part of so many wonderful families.”
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House panel to hold hearing on reparations for slavery next week
(CNN) — A House panel will hold a hearing next week on the topic of reparations for slavery.
The House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties is set to hold a hearing June 19 on legislation that would establish a commission to study the consequences and impacts of slavery and make recommendations for reparations proposals. The hearing is titled “H.R. 40 and the Path to Restorative Justice.”
The bill is sponsored by Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas. The bill would create a commission of 13 members who would compile a report of findings and recommendations on the issue and send it to Congress. Former Democratic Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, who served until 2017, had previously introduced legislation on reparations repeatedly over the span of multiple sessions of Congress.
For decades, reparations for slavery has mostly been an idea debated outside the mainstream of American political thought.
Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates put a spotlight on the subject with a widely-read piece, “The Case for Reparations,” in 2014 in The Atlantic.
“The real issue is whether and how this nation can come to grips with the legacy of slavery that still infects current society,” Jackson Lee said in a statement in January.
“While we have focused on the social effects of slavery and segregation, its continuing economic implications remain largely ignored by mainstream analysis,” Jackson Lee said, adding, “These economic issues are the root cause of many critical issues in the African-American community today, such as education, healthcare and criminal justice policy, including policing practices.”
The issue of reparations has gotten attention in the 2020 Democratic primary with Democratic candidates, including Sens. Cory Booker and Elizabeth Warren as well as former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro, addressing the issue on the campaign trail.
In April, Booker introduced a companion version of the bill in the Senate.
During a CNN town hall in Jackson, Mississippi, in March, Warren argued that because of housing and employment discrimination, “We live in a world where the average white family has $100 (and) the average black family has about $5.”
“So I believe it’s time to start the national full-blown conversation about reparations in this country,” Warren said. “And that means I support the bill in the House to appoint a congressional panel of experts, people that are studying this and talk about different ways we may be able to do it and make a report back to Congress, so that we can as a nation do what’s right and begin to heal.”
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Mom ‘beheaded son, 9, after stabbing him 12 times because he wanted to be a girl’
A mom is accused of beheading her nine-year-old son after stabbing him a dozen times because he told her he wanted to be a girl.
Then she reportedly got her lesbian lover to help her remove all the skin from his face before butchering his body.
The pair were said to have even used a knife to try to gouge out the boy’s eyeballs to prevent possible recognition.
They tried to burn some of him on a barbecue but failed so instead stuffed his remains in a suitcase dumped in a sewer, police said.
Other parts were found in two backpacks at their home in Brazil.
Mum Rosana Cândido, 27, and Kacyla Pessoa, 28, are said to have confessed all to the police in Samambaia, about 20 miles from capital Brasilia.
They face homicide, torture and concealing a corpse charges.
They are also accused of tearing off Cândido’s son Rhuan’s penis a year ago during horrifying home-made surgery.
The two women are said to have told investigators they committed the gruesome crimes because Rhuan “wanted to become a girl.”
He was also apparently the result of a rape.
Cândido reportedly claimed the lad was a “burden” and she “felt hatred and no love” for him.
Rhuan’s dad, who lives in Acre, is said to have told officers that Cândido run away with the boy five years ago when he lost custody.
She then went to live with Pessoa and her daughter, who, now aged nine, has been put into care.
Police chief Guilherme Melo said that the cruelty of the crime had shocked hardened investigators.
“She killed her son, quartered, decapitated, plucked the skin and tried to get rid of the body. It was a very terrible case,” he told O Tempo.
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Family Thought They Took Brother Off Life Support — Only To See Him Walk Through The Door. Wrong man taken off life support in Illinois
CHICAGO Ill. (CNN) – A Chicago man died after wrongfully being taken off life support.
On May 13, a hospital social worker called the sisters of Alfonso Bennett and told them he was in ICU. Once they arrived at the hospital they couldn’t identify him.
“They had him on a ventilator and they had a tube in his mouth.” said sister Rosie Brooks.
Hospital staff told his relatives he had been beaten badly, especially in the face. He was found near 47th and Wabash on April 29.
The man reportedly has a background and is rarely in touch with his four sisters. One sister said a nurse told her police identified him through mugshots and not fingerprints because of budget cuts.
“You don’t identify a person through a mugshot versus fingerprints. Fingerprints carry everything.” said sister Brenda Bennett-Johnson.
The sisters said the man responded to commands by raising his hand, but never opened his eyes.
The sisters signed papers to take him off a ventilator and gave permission for doctors to perform a tracheotomy.
Then he went into hospice.
After making funeral arrangements, the sisters received a call from one of their other sisters.
“‘Brenda! Brenda! It’s Alfonso! It’s Alfonso! It’s Alfonso.’ I said, ‘You’re kidding!’ I almost had a heart attack.” Bennett-Johnson said.
Alphonso Bennett was alive and had walked through the door.
“It’s sad it happened like that. If it was our brother and we had to go through that, that would have been a different thing. But we made all kinds of decisions on someone that wasn’t our family,” Bennett-Johnson said.
The police are now searching for the man’s relatives.
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Man who participated in caging, abusing autistic relative gets 10 years
NEW ORLEANS — A Louisiana man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in the physical and psychological abuse of a young autistic woman who told him in federal court Thursday, “You made my life a living hell.”
Jody Lambert’s sentencing was the latest in court cases involving the woman who was kept in a cage, beaten, shot with a BB gun and forced to eat the cremation ashes of her dead mother before the abuse was discovered. Those cases have been playing out in state court in Tangipahoa Parish, where the abuse occurred, and in federal court in New Orleans.
Lambert tearfully apologized. “There is no excuse for what I did,” he said, his voice breaking often.
“She didn’t deserve that … I just went along with it because it was easier,” he said.
Later, when the judge gave the victim an opportunity to make a statement, she said: “Jody, you made my life a living hell.”
She added, “You should have stopped them. If you had stopped them you wouldn’t be in this predicament.”
Lambert is the son of Raylaine Knope and the stepson of Terry Knope II, both of whom have pleaded guilty in state and federal court and face decades in prison for abusing the victim, who is identified in court documents only by her initials.
He pleaded guilty in October to a federal civil rights charge. His federal sentence is 10 years, with credit for time served since his 2016 arrest on state charges.
In court documents, prosecutors noted he had cooperated in the case and indicated they would accept a “downward departure” in federal sentencing guidelines. Still, in court, prosecutors called for the maximum 10-year sentence, while asking U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier to make sure Lambert receives credit for time served since he was arrested on the state charges. He will serve the remaining seven years in federal prison after being sentenced on similar charges in state court.
Lambert told Barbier he had been raised in a “dysfunctional” home. Barbier agreed and noted what appeared to be sincere remorse.
“However, as you yourself said, it doesn’t in any way excuse what you did,’ said Barbier.
Court documents said Lambert at various times verbally abused the victim, shoved her on the ground once and locked her in the cage where she lived, with a bucket for a toilet, for several months. Lambert also knew of other abuse, including Terry Knope’s shooting of the victim at close range with a BB gun. The documents say the victim and her mother were relatives of Raylaine Knope and that both had lived with the Knopes until the mother’s death in August 2015.
The victim was 22 when her abusers were arrested, court documents said.
Barbier will formally sentence Raylaine and Terry Knope in August. They face 28 years in the federal case and already have been sentenced to 29 and 33 years respectively in the state case, according to the District Attorney’s Office in Tangipahoa Parish.
Among the charges to which Terry Knope II pleaded guilty was a hate crime. Court documents say he shot the victim with a BB gun because of her “actual and perceived disability.” Documents also say he was taking the victim’s regular Social Security disability checks.
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Uncle charged after 5-year-old shoots toddler in the head
GRAY, Ga. — Authorities say a 5-year-old shot a 2-year-old sibling at a Georgia home while playing with a gun and now the children’s uncle has been charged.
News outlets report the children found the gun in the home Wednesday and were playing with it when it discharged. The Jones County Sheriff’s Office says the 2-year-old was shot in the head and is in critical condition.
Authorities charged 18-year-old Darius Johnson with reckless conduct and theft.
Jones County Sheriff’s Captain Jimmy Black says the gun was stolen during a burglary about two weeks ago.
Johnson lived at the same home as the children when the shooting occurred. Sheriff Butch Reece says the gun was left where the children could get it.
It wasn’t immediately known if Johnson has a lawyer who could comment.
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Minnesota boy, 4, takes great-grandfather’s car for joyride for candy
This tot’s joyride was short but sweet.
A 4-year-old Minnesota boy swiped his great-grandpa’s SUV and drove to a store to satisfy his candy craving, according to a report.
Sebastian Swenson grabbed his elderly relative’s keys and drove a mile and a half to a convenience store during morning rush hour Wednesday in Blaine, according to FOX9.
The sweet-toothed tot — who climbed up onto his great-grandpa’s walker to snatch the keys off a wall hook — swerved along the four-lane road at 15 mph until a police officer spotted him, the local station reported. He was pulled over at a nearby gas station.
“He watches everything people do and he’ll repeat it,” his great-grandpa, Roy Becker, told FOX9.
The small-time car crook hit a few mailboxes and a tree along the way — but nobody was injured.
“It could’ve been very serious,” Capt. Mark Boerboom with the Blaine Police Department told the station. “He could’ve hit a car. He wasn’t wearing a seatbelt. We could be talking about a funeral.”
via: https://nypost.com/2019/06/13/minnesota-boy-4-takes-great-grandfathers-car-for-joyride-for-candy/
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9-year-old girl set herself on fire while playing with lighter
A 9-year-old Florida girl accidentally set herself on fire while playing with a lighter and a bottle of rubbing alcohol, authorities said.
The Fort Lauderdale girl had second-degree burns on her arms and legs, and covering roughly 30 percent of her body after flames engulfed her Thursday evening around 7 p.m, Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Stephen Gollan told The Post.
“It’s believed at some point she must’ve ignited the bottle of alcohol, dropping it to the floor, which then caused the flames to come up her lower extremities,” Gollan said Friday.
The girl’s foster mom, who was outside playing with other kids, heard her daughter’s terrified screams and rushed inside, Gollan said.
The girl was rushed to a hospital in Fort Lauderdale before being transferred to a burn center in Miami due to the severity of her injuries. Her condition has since stabilized, Gollan said.
The girl’s mother will not be charged in connection to the incident, which has been ruled accidental.
Gollan, meanwhile, urged parents to keep lighters and all flammable materials away from children, especially during summer months when “kids are out of school and they’re bored.”
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