Mom throws gender reveal party for 20-year-old son
When Adrian Brown told his mother that he was transgender and wanted to transition from female to male, Heather Lundberg Green didn’t know how to support her son.
“When he told me he was transitioning, I was determined to support him through his journey, but I had no idea how,” Green, who’s based in Louisville, Kentucky, wrote in a blog for Love What Matters. “I have always had many friends in the LGBTQ community and still I wasn’t sure what steps I should take as his mother, or even what an appropriate response was outside of ‘I still love you.’”
But she had a clever idea: Throw a gender reveal party to celebrate her son’s 20th birthday. Green coordinated an elaborate photo shoot for her son, where she swaddled him with a white blanket inscribed with “It’s a boy!”
She shared the photos on her Facebook page, which quickly became a social media sensation and attracted more than 10,000 likes.
“My kids are used to me coming up with these harebrained schemes all the time,” Green told WAVE. “He was like, ‘You’re crazy, but yes,’ of course, which was a fair reaction.”
Brown first came out to his 17-year-old brother Lucas in September, and his younger sibling was extremely supportive.
“[Brown] asked what he would think if he changed his name to Adrian and Lucas’s response was that he’d have to change his name tag at work,” Green told The Washington Post.
Green’s online community has been equally supportive of Brown’s transition.
“So glad you are you and teaching the world to see you for who you are,” wrote one user.
“I’m so proud and have all the feels, even though I’ve never met Adrian,” wrote another user.
And Brown’s story is even saving lives. Brown told USA Today that Lucas shared with him a heart-wrenching story about one of his classmates.
“He proceeded to tell me that a trans boy at his school had come out to his parents after seeing our post,” Brown said. “He had been considering suicide before coming out to them and because of our message he had the courage to tell them and found out that his parents were going to support them. He would not have had the courage had we not taken these photos.”
via: https://nypost.com/2019/02/08/mom-throws-gender-reveal-party-for-20-year-old-son/
I was sexually harassed by 3 professors who docked my grades
A former psychology student at The College of New Rochelle claims three professors there sexually harassed her, including one who sent her a selfie of his penis, but school officials took no action.
Instead, she got thrown off campus, she alleges.
Yvonne Taylor, 43, filed suit in Brooklyn Supreme Court, saying the three instructors made sexual demands in and outside the classroom, saying her grades suffered when she refused.
Taylor, a divorced mother of three, says the alleged abuse began in the fall of 2016 in professor Bryan Boatswain’s digital literacy course, according to court papers.
In a text message on April 11, 2017, Boatswain allegedly told her: “I’m thinking about you naked,” according to Taylor.
Boatswain denied the allegations.
Another professor, Hassan Shabazz, told Taylor he was attracted to her and that “he wanted to take me on vacation,” Taylor claims.
She got a B+ in his forensic psychology course, and Shabazz told her later that had she allowed him to perform oral sex on her, “I would have gotten an A,” Taylor told The Post.
Shabazz admitted to “flirting” with Taylor but denied the claim that he docked her grade.
The third professor, Jeffrey Davis, once said, “if there weren’t surveillance cameras pointing directly at him he would ‘bend her over’ and ‘take her,’” Taylor’s suit alleges.
He also texted Taylor photos of his penis, she alleges.
Davis could not be reached.
She says she stopped attending Davis’s classes in December and complained to another professor she trusted, Timothy Rodgers.
She says Rodgers agreed to let Taylor finish her courses online, then called security and had her escorted off the campus.
Not being able to attend classes in person hurt her grade point average, and she barely missed graduating with honors, Taylor said.
College spokeswoman Lenore Carpinelli declined to comment.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/02/09/i-was-sexually-harassed-by-3-professors-who-docked-my-grades-suit/
Groom accused of sexually assaulting a minor, starting fights on his wedding night
BUCKS COUNTY, Pa. (WPMT) — Police in Northampton Township, Bucks County have accused the groom at a November 2018 wedding of sexually assaulting a minor who was working as a waitress at the country club where his reception was held, then engaging in a drunken fight with another member of the club’s staff.
Matthew Ronald Aimers, 31, of Willingboro, New Jersey, is charged with false imprisonment of a minor, corruption of minors, two counts of indecent assault, indecent exposure, disorderly conduct, and two counts of harassment for his alleged behavior with the minor, and simple assault, terroristic threats, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, harassment, and public drunkenness for his alleged conduct later in the evening, charging documents say.
According to Northampton Township Police, officers were dispatched to the Northampton Valley Country Club at 8:19 p.m. on Nov. 24, 2018, for the report of a fight. While police were speaking to the club’s manager about the initial report, a second fight broke out at the club’s entrance, according to the criminal complaint.
Police responded to find the groom, later identified as Aimers, pushing and punching people near the entrance. Aimers then left the club entrance and tried to get in a shuttle parked in the parking lot, ignoring police commands to stop and put his hands behind his back, the criminal complaint says. Police followed Aimers onto the shuttle, where he was “verbally confrontational” with an officer and continued to ignore police commands.
Aimers eventually exited the bus and confronted police again, according to the criminal complaint. After a short struggle with police, he was taken into custody.
Police later learned that Aimers had started the fight that prompted the initial police call, according to the criminal complaint. He allegedly got into a fight with a club employee who tried to stop him from taking alcohol outside the reception hall onto country club grounds, police say. During that fight, he allegedly punched the employee before both men fell to the ground.
On Nov. 25, 2018, police say, they learned of an incident involving Aimers and a juvenile employee at the country club the night before.
According to police, the juvenile told an officer that Aimers sexually assaulted her during the wedding reception, while she was working as a server.
The victim said that during the reception, Aimers approached her and asked her to go outside with him to make out, according to the criminal complaint. Aimers allegedly told the girl, “We can do whatever you want.”
The girl said she declined his offer, but was shaken by the encounter.
Later in the event, the victim said, she was told by event staff to check the ladies bathroom to ensure it was well-supplied. When she went in the ladies room, the victim told police, Aimers allegedly followed her inside, grabbed her arm, pulled her into one of the bathroom stalls, and closed the door, the criminal complaint states.
Aimers then allegedly began kissing the girl and rubbing her genitals with his fingers over her pants, the victim told police. Neither of these actions were welcomed by the victim, the girl told police.
When Aimers began attempting to unbutton her pants, the victim said, she grabbed his hands and pushed them away. Aimers then exposed his penis and began rubbing it against the girl’s genitals, she told police. He allegedly tried to get the girl to touch his penis, while asking her to kiss him “like you mean it.”
He also allegedly propositioned the girl with the offer of $100, police say.
The girl eventually managed to push her way out of the bathroom stall and fled from the scene, she told police.
Aimers is free after posting $100,000 bail, according to court documents.
Police respond after bingo game turns into brawl at nursing home between two woman – a 79 year old and the other 86 – over a chair
RIDEAU LAKES, Ontario — A bingo game at a long-term care facility in Canada devolved into a brawl Tuesday afternoon, forcing police to respond, according to CBC News.
The scrum at the senior home started with a disagreement between two woman – a 79 years old and the other 86 – over a chair, according to Leeds County Ontario Provincial Police Const. Sandra Barr.
The two women, residents at an unidentified facility in Rideau Lakes, Ontario, had reportedly claimed the same chair and neither would back down. Rideau Lakes is located roughly 40 miles north of the U.S. border.
The dispute between the women turned physical and soon others joined in, according to CBC News.
No one was badly hurt in the altercation and no arrests were made.
“It was certainly an unusual call for us,” Barr told the station.
Whether or not the residents ever got to play bingo isn’t known.
via: https://pix11.com/2019/02/09/bingo-brawl-at-canadian-nursing-home-prompts-police-response/
Son arrested after mother found stabbed, burned, hanging upside down in closet
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — A man has been arrested after his mother was found to stabbed to death, her body badly burned and hanging upside down in a closet at a home in Crown Heights, sources said Friday.
Police went to the apartment on Park Place between Albany and Troy avenues around 2:55 p.m. Wednesday after co-workers of Paulette Reeves became concerned when she didn’t show up for work, NYPD officials said.
The son of the victim, 32-year-old Jason Reeves, met officers at the door, and initially refused to let officers into the house, sources later said.
When officers entered the home, they found the man’s 67-year-old mother dead inside the closet, hanging upside down with multiple stab wounds to the chest, sources said. Police say her body had been lit on fire.
In a criminal complaint, a neighbor reportedly said they knocked on the apartment door after smelling a bad odor. Reeves told the neighbor his mother was in Florida.
Reeves was taken into custody at the scene and charged with second-degree murder on Friday.
Woman upset over sold out beef patties smashes restaurant windows with baseball bat (Video Here)
MORRISANIA, the Bronx — Police are looking for the woman who smashed a Bronx restaurant’s windows and front door with a bat allegedly over a shortage of beef patties.
On Jan. 15, a woman entered the Back Home Restaurant along Boston Road and East 169th Street in Morrisania and ordered a beef patty, police said.
When the employee informed the woman there were no beef patties in stock, she became upset and left, police said.
The woman returned and began to break the store’s window and glass front door with a baseball bat before fleeing south on Boston Road, police said.
Surveillance video shows the woman smashing the front of the restaurant. A person appears to try to stop her, but eventually backed away when she continued swinging her bat.
General Motors Offers $25K Reward for Info on ‘Whites Only’ Signs and Nooses at Ohio Plant
General Motors is offering a $25,000 reward for information about nooses and “whites-only” signs being hung at its plant in Toledo, Ohio.
Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz said in a letter Wednesday the company is investigating the claims by nine black employees, who filed a lawsuit against Toledo Powertrain, where components are made for various Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac vehicles.
“I believe we have a mutual interest to use this as an opportunity to let your employees, as well as, our residents and visitors, know that we are committed to a diverse, inclusive and welcoming work environment,” the mayor said in his letter to GM.
CNN published a scathing report in January about the culture at the Toledo plant through interviews with two men who worked there, Marcus Boyd and Derrick Brooks.
Boyd said the N-word was a regular part of life at the plant. Brooks said he found a noose hanging in the area where he worked. As the only black employee in that space on his shift, he believed it was meant to intimidate him. In total, five nooses were found and reported to GM, according to the lawsuit.
GM, at the time, rejected that characterization and declined to be interviewed for the initial story. However, after the story gained traction on social media, the company released a statement. Many of the social media comments to the automotive manufacturer said people would never buy a car from the company unless the atmosphere was fixed.
“We’re outraged that anyone would be subjected to racist behavior. We have zero tolerance for discrimination — this is not who we are. We’re working to drive this out of our workplaces,” GM wrote to several people using its main Twitter account.
The company also told Kapszukiewicz the incident in question at the plant is a fireable offense.
In his letter to GM’s vice president of North America Manufacturing and Labor Relations, Kapszukiewicz said he was pleased to know actions were being taken to address the claims. These actions included an investigation into the situation, retraining human resources professionals and employees on appropriate responses to discrimination allegations and a biannual workplace culture survey with a follow up action plan to respond to results.
He also said GM is taking a survey of its workforce to sort of drill down the attitude and feelings of employees to determine if culture can be improved. The company is investing time and resources into improving the culture; and will be using the city’s diversity inclusion director to assist with the survey.
Kapszukiewicz also said this wasn’t the first time racist incidents have been investigated in Toledo. He said the city had a similar incident in one of its city departments last year in which someone wrote hateful graffiti in a log book.
“We were never able to find that person,” Kapszukiewicz said. “As a result of that incident we took a yearlong survey, hiring instructors from University of Toledo, in an attempt to improve our culture. We learned we have a lot of positive things in our work environments, but there were some red flags and discrimination. We’ve begun to implement changes, we’ve reassigned people and parted with people.”
Woman ‘eaten alive’ by pigs after collapsing
A Russian farmer who may have suffered an epileptic seizure and collapsed into her pig pen was eaten by her pigs, according to reports citing Russian media.
The woman, 56, was feeding the animals in a village in the central Russian region of Udmurtia when she fainted and fell into the pig pen, the BBC reported.
She reportedly died of blood loss.
The husband went to bed early the day before her death, because he was not feeling well, but he awoke to find his wife missing, the report said.
He then discovered her body in the pen.
An investigation into the incident has been launched, the UK’s Evening Standard reported.
The couple’s farm is in a village in the Malopurginsky district of Udmurtia, according to the BBC.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/02/08/woman-eaten-alive-by-pigs-after-collapsing/
Lyft driver charged with kidnapping, raping intoxicated female passenger
A Lyft driver in Louisiana kidnapped and raped an intoxicated female passenger at his apartment last month, authorities said.
Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joseph Lopinto said the 43-year-old victim told police in New Orleans that a driver later identified as Yousef Hamed, 30, picked her up after a night of drinking on Jan. 23. A friend of the woman had earlier called for a ride on her behalf because she was “fairly intoxicated,” Lopinto told reporters Thursday.
But instead of taking the woman to her home just several blocks away, Hamed drove her to his apartment in Harvey, where he asked the woman to come inside. She accepted the invitation and Hamed proceeded to remove her clothing inside the residence before raping her vaginally and anally. He then returned to the Bywater section of New Orleans and dropped the woman off, Lopinto said.
At some point during the ride, Hamed disconnected the fare, signaling to the woman’s friend that the trip was over and that she presumably had arrived home safely, according to the sheriff.
“Most people are going to be able to get home [when using ride-hailing apps like Lyft] but it goes to show that we have sick people in this world,” Lopinto told reporters.
The woman reported the alleged rape to New Orleans police the following day, prompting a rape kit to be performed. Due to her state of intoxication, the woman was initially unsure of exactly where the sexual assault occurred, but investigators later determined with the help of Lyft representatives that the rape took place in Jefferson Parish, authorities said.
Hamed, who has no known prior criminal history, remained held on $400,000 bond at the Jefferson Parish Correctional as of Friday, jail records show.
Lopinto also noted that Hamed claimed that he had consensual sex with the woman, claiming that she had acted in a “childish” manner and admitted to him that she was intoxicated. But Lopinto dismissed that claim, saying that an impaired person cannot provide consent to sexual activity.
“I hate to put it this way, but when somebody’s intoxicated to any point, we know in this society that this action is not appropriate, so I could care less about what he says from that standpoint,” Lopinto told reporters. “A Lyft driver should never be picking up a stranger and bringing them back to their apartment under any type of circumstance, so let’s make that very clear.”
Lyft reps, meanwhile, characterized the allegations as “horrific” in a statement to The Post.
“The safety of our community is our top priority, and we have no tolerance for this behavior on our platform,” the statement read. “We have deactivated the driver and reached out to extend our support to the passenger. We have also been in touch with law enforcement, and stand ready to assist with their investigation.”
Two Florida men accused of plotting to groom and rape a 3-year-old girl
VOLUSIA COUNTY, Florida — Two men have been arrested after police discovered a series of text messages in which the two men discussed plans to groom and rape a 3-year-old girl in Florida.
Lafe Best, 37, was arrested Tuesday and is in the Volusia County Branch Jail without bond. He is charged with conspiracy to commit sexual battery on a child. He was arrested in connection to a different case involving his friend and sexual partner, Benjamin Worster, 39, according to a Facebook post from the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office.
Worster was arrested in January on charges of lewd or lascivious molestation, lewd or lascivious conduct and 21 counts of possession of child pornography.
Police began investigating Worster after discovering a series of text messages on Worster’s phone which he had exchanged with Best. The messages detailed their plan to groom and rape a 3-year-old girl.
The messages were first discovered by the girl’s mother, according to police. The 3-year-old and her mother moved into Worster’s apartment in December. Police said on Facebook that soon after, the 3-year-old told her mother Worster had touched her.
On December 17, Worster was taken to the hospital after an apparent overdose, police said. The 3-year-old’s mother found Worster’s phone lying on his bed and discovered the text messages.
Police included a portion of the text messages in their Facebook post to demonstrate “how predators work to groom young children for sexual abuse.”
Detectives executed a search warrant at Best’s residence Tuesday and discovered what appeared to be child pornography on his cell phone, in addition to the graphic texts exchanged with Worster. Police said they expect Best will face additional charges.
Best was living in a home with two people who have a 20-month-old child. Police do not believe the 20-month-old was a victim of any abuse at this time.