Baby girl found dead in oven had been ‘stabbed and burned’
SHAW, Miss. — Mississippi officials are investigating after a girl was found dead inside a heated oven Monday.
The girl’s grandmother has been taken into custody but not charged, Bolivar County Sheriff Kelvin Williams told local news outlets. He did not identify her, but said she would be facing some type of murder charge.
Police were called Monday night to a home on Martin Luther King Drive in the small city of Shaw, Williams said. There, officers found the body of the 20-month-old girl.
“The official cause (of death) is still under investigation, but authorities have reason to believe that the child was stabbed and burned,” Williams told The Bolivar Commercial. “The child was found inside of the oven in the residence.”
Investigators took the body and evidence from the scene to the Mississippi Crime Lab. A full autopsy is scheduled to determine the cause of death.
Williams said a family member of the girl found her body and called police. He said the girl lived in the home.
Shaw, which is not far from the Arkansas border in northwest Mississippi, is home to about 2,000 people.
Mom accused of using 3-year-old daughter to make child porn
HARRISBURG, Pa. – An Ohio mother accused of sexually abusing her 3-year-old daughter faces multiple felony charges.
Kayla Parker, 26, has been charged with sexual abuse and exploitation of children, endangering the welfare of a child and indecent assault.
Parker, of Dayton, has been extradited to Pennsylvania, where she – along with her ex-boyfriend, David Carbonaro – allegedly made the recordings roughly four years ago, according to a new release from Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro.
“This is an egregious case – a mother who preyed upon and sexually abused her own 3-year-old daughter,” Shapiro said.
Investigators executed a search warrant of Carbonaro’s Upper Darby residence in July and found images and video files showing a 3-year-old girl in various stages of undress – including one file showing a woman’s hand reaching into the child’s underwear, according to the release.
Authorities arrested Carbonaro in July. He has been charged with possession, production and distribution of child pornography.
Investigators say Carbonaro identified Parker, who law enforcement recently arrested in Ohio.
According to the prosecutor’s office, Parker told investigators that, on multiple occasions, she took her daughter’s clothes off and left her in a bedroom alone with Carbonaro, but claimed not to have seen any abuse, according to WJAC. After about a year together, Parker said they separated and she lost all contact with Carbonaro.
“The crimes that this mother is accused of are absolutely appalling, and although she may have believed that she left her alleged crimes behind her when she moved to Ohio, we were pleased to assist Pennsylvania Attorney General Shapiro to find, interview, and arrest the defendant on these allegations,” said Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine. “My office’s Crimes Against Children Unit works every day to keep kids safe and hold predators accountable, and we are happy to have helped Pennsylvania authorities with their investigation.”
Parker’s trial is set for Oct. 26. She is being held on $1 million bail.
Hunter dies of rare disorder after possibly eating squirrel brains
A New York hunter died of a rare brain disorder he may have caught after eating squirrel brains, according to a new report.
The 61-year-old was brought to Rochester Regional Health hospital in 2015 saying he was having trouble thinking clearly, was losing touch with reality and could no longer walk on his own, researchers said in an Oct. 4 report on on the case, according to Live Science.
Based on an MRI, the unnamed man seemed to have a variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, a degenerative and fatal brain disorder that is commonly contracted by eating meat from cattle affected by “mad cow disease,” doctors found.
In this case, eating contaminated cow meat wasn’t the issue — another animal was to blame.
The man’s family said he’d been known to eat squirrel brains — though it’s unclear if he dined on the whole brain or squirrel meat that had come in contact with the contaminated brain.
Dr. Tara Chen came across the unusual case when she was tasked with doing a report on cases of CJD seen at the hospital over the last five years.
The incurable neurological disorder affects about one in a million people each year worldwide, according to the National Institutes of Health. There are about 350 cases in the US per year.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/10/15/hunter-dies-of-rare-disorder-after-possibly-eating-squirrel-brains/
White woman fired after blocking black man from entering his building
A white woman was fired after getting caught on video blocking a black man from entering his own apartment building and then calling the cops on him, according to reports.
D’Arreion Toles returned to his downtown St. Louis, Mo., apartment building Friday night and found Hilary Brooke Mueller standing in the doorway with her dog on a leash. She refused to let him in unless he gave her proof he lived there.
“Please move, ma’am,” Toles, 24, asks in a video of the incident he posted to Facebook.
“I can. Do you live here?” responds Mueller, who became known as “Apartment Patty” as the video went viral. “I’m uncomfortable.”
“You can be uncomfortable, that’s fine,” Toles replies, declining to give his unit number. “That’s at your discretion. You’re uncomfortable because you’re you.”
The footage, which had been viewed over 6 million times as of Monday, shows the woman getting into the elevator with Toles and following him all the way to his apartment door in the Elder Shirt Lofts, asking for his name.
Mueller then called the cops, St. Louis police confirmed to local outlet KSDK.
“To be a black man in America & come home,” Toles captioned the video. “Never really thought this would happen to me, but it did! Then 30 mins later police knock on my door, because she called! I was shocked this is America in 2018!”
By Monday, Mueller’s employer, Tribeca STL, a luxury apartment company, said it decided to fire her after seeing the video.
“The Tribeca-STL family is a minority-owned company that consists of employees and residents from many racial backgrounds. We are proud of this fact and do not and never will stand for racism or racial profiling at our company,” the company said in a statement.
The incident is the latest in a long series of videos posted to social media showing white women — “BBQ Betty,” “Permit Patty,” “Cornerstore Caroline” — calling the cops on black people over seemingly mundane acts.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/10/15/white-woman-fired-after-blocking-black-man-from-entering-his-building/
Man Found Guilty of Killing Teen in Road-Rage Stabbing, Then Filming His Dying Moments in Temecula Walmart Parking Lot
A jury on Monday convicted a Temecula man of fatally stabbing a teen after picking a fight with him last year in a Walmart parking lot, then going on to threaten the victim’s girlfriend and film his dying moments on a cellphone, prosecutors said.
James Beckham Fortney, 41, was found guilty of second-degree murder — with an enhancement of using a knife — and one count of making criminal threats in the Nov. 29, 2017, incident that was allegedly sparked by a road-rage confrontation, the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office said in a news release.
Fortney started the fight outside the superstore’s location on Temecula Parkway that eventually ended in 19-year-old Kevin Rodriguez’s death, officials said.
Rodriguez, a freelance videographer from Murrieta, had headed to Walmart that day to pick things up for his father’s belated birthday dinner, his family told KTLA at the time.
The teen was with his girlfriend of three years and — according to Atticus Rodriguez, the victim’s father — she later told the family Fortney looked as if stalled traffic had been giving him anxiety when he nearly hit Kevin’s car. Kevin became upset, but Fortney even more so, Atticus said.
According to the DA’s office, “Fortney grabbed the much smaller Rodriguez by the throat,” and Rodriguez fought back in self defense.
As the two men paused in the struggle, standing a few feet away each other, Fortney allegedly produced a 6-inch folding knife and lunged at Rodriguez, stabbing him in the chest.
Rodriguez’s girlfriend then rushed toward the attacker, who allegedly told her, “You’re next.”
Kevin’s mother, Traci Rodriguez, told KTLA his girlfriend held him in her arms as he bled profusely.
“He really loved his girlfriend,” she said. “And I’m sorry, I’m really sorry for her to have to go through that — holding him, the way she did. And I’m going to be there for her.”
While other witnesses called 911 and began performing life-saving measures, Fortney took out his cellphone and recorded the victim’s dying moments, according to prosecutors.
The defendant later helped administer aid, officials added.
Rodriguez was taken to a nearby hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.
The teen’s parents said he was a loving son and brother who had a large circle of friends and regularly attended church.
He was also adventurous and enjoyed recording stunts to share on social media. His Instagram account had more than 37,500 followers around the time of his death.
Fortney’s sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 19 at the Southwest Justice Center in Murrieta.
He will face a maximum possible sentence of 16 years and eight months to life in prison, prosecutors said.
22-year-old brat arrested for attacking mom with sausages
This son is the würst!
Police in Florida arrested a hungry 22-year-old jerk who pelted his mom with sausages because she accidentally bumped into him while making his dinner.
Hermes Callijas-Gasperin attacked his mother on October 8 in their Bradenton home, the Smoking Gun reported.
The food fight erupted when Callijas-Gasperin demanded his mom make him dinner, and she said she was busy.
When she did begin to cook his meal — sausages — she accidentally knocked into her son.
The wiener threw the sausages at her, hitting her in the eye, and then put his hands on her neck and pushed her, the report said.
Grilled by Manatee County cops, Callijas-Gasperin claimed he only wanted his mom to apologize. He was arrested and charged with misdemeanor domestic battery.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/10/13/22-year-old-brat-arrested-for-attacking-mom-with-sausages/
Jilted wife reportedly made cheating hubby get her name tattooed over his crotch
The South Carolina woman on trial for allegedly abducting her husband’s lover reportedly forced her spouse to get her own name tattooed above his crotch as payback for cheating.
Testimony in the kidnapping trial against Tammy Moorer revealed Monday that the jilted wife was overheard explaining the bizarre “punishment” to her 38-year-old husband, Sidney Moorer.
Tammy is accused of conspiring to kidnap 20-year-old Heather Elvis, who mysteriously vanished in December 2013 from Myrtle Beach after having a sexual relationship with the defendant’s husband. Nearly five years later, the young hostess hasn’t been found and is presumed dead.
Prosecutors contend Tammy became vindictive after discovering the affair in October 2013 and hearing rumors about the possibility that Elvis was pregnant.
Jacob Melton, who was friends with one of the Moorers’ sons, testified Monday that Sidney got Tammy’s name tattooed on his lower waist when she learned about the extramarital affair.
“If you didn’t have that thing with that girl, this wouldn’t be happening,” Tammy allegedly told her husband, according to Melton’s testimony.
As the trial entered its seventh day Monday, Elvis’ former employer also provided testimony.
Dennis Clark, a former manager at the Tilted Kilt — the bar where Sidney performed maintenance work and met Elvis — said Tammy demanded on the phone that the hostess be fired or her husband wouldn’t continue to do repairs.
Clark claimed the conversation occurred sometime between October and December 2013.
“Tammy barged into the conversation and proceeded to tell me how Heather was causing problems for her family, spreading rumors that she was pregnant by her husband and [said] to fire her,” Clark told the court.
The defense team maintained Monday that the evidence in the trial shows there was an affair but doesn’t indicate that Tammy played any role in Elvis’ disappearance.
Both Tammy and Sidney have been charged in connection to Elvis’ case. The pair initially faced murder and kidnapping allegations in 2014, but two years later the murder charges were dropped.
Sidney was tried last year on the kidnapping charge, but the proceedings ended in a mistrial when the jurors couldn’t come to a unanimous decision. No future date has been set for his retrial.
In 2017, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison for obstruction of justice in the case.
2 men arrested in Nassau County after 8 kids found selling candy in the cold
NASSAU COUNTY, N.Y. — Two men are expected to appear in court Monday after being arrested over the weekend for allegedly dropping eight children off in the cold to sell candy to strangers.
The arrests came after officers said they spotted a 11-year-old girl selling candy and cookies in front of a Starbucks on South Oyster Bay Road Sunday around 5 p.m. Sunday.
The girl was not properly dressed for the cold weather, according to police. Temperatures were in the 40s and 50s.
It is not clear if the men had any relation to the children, or what they intended to use the money raised for.
The child told police two men in a van dropped her off, along with other children, so they could sell candy, police said.
Eight children in all were located in the area, and all believed they were raising money for the New York Youth Club, according to police.
Several of the kids said they were cold and could not get ahold of the men who dropped them off, police said.
Officers said they later located the van, and the two men were arrested.
Kavon Thompson, 19, of Rosedale, faces charges of unlawful possession of marijuana and eight counts of endangering the welfare of a child.
Jamainne Hall, 24, of West Hempstead, also faces eight counts of endangering the welfare of a child.
Both men are expected to be arraigned Monday.
The children were released to their family members after the incident, according to police.
Mother throws 1-year-old to the ground when neighbor won’t give her beer
Burlington, N.C. (WGHP) — A mother threw her 1-year-old child to the ground after her neighbor refused to give her a beer in Burlington, according to police.
Kyesha Sherell Willis, 29, of Burlington, faces charges of assault on a child under the age of 12, simple assault and resist, delay and obstruct.
Officers were called to an apartment complex at 2016 Morningside Drive at about 4:30 p.m. Saturday where police said the suspect went to visit her neighbor.
Willis allegedly demanded that her neighbor give her a beer and when she didn’t get one, she threw her child to the ground, according to police. She then allegedly assaulted the neighbor.
Police said the Alamance County Department of Social Services was contacted and the child was placed in the custody of a grandmother.
The child did not have any type of lasting injuries. Willis was jailed under a secured bond of $5,000.
Judge loses it after NYCHA lawyers shift lead poisoning blame to residents
NYCHA residents should have known that their kids would get lead poisoning in the city’s public housing complexes — just look at how crummy the apartments are, the scandal-scarred agency’s lawyers bizarrely claim in new court documents.
The assertion surfaced in Manhattan federal court Thursday — and made a judge go ballistic.
“Are you really asserting that people who go into NYCHA housing are assuming the risks? Tell me how a lawyer can responsibly assert such a claim,” Judge William Pauley III raged at the agency’s lawyers.
The jurist was reacting to court papers that the New York City Housing Authority filed on Sept. 27 in response to a class-action lawsuit by Sherron Paige and two other moms who say their public housing apartments gave their kids lead poisoning.
The authority claimed in the documents that the dilapidated conditions in NYCHA housing “are of an open, obvious and apparent nature . . . and plaintiffs willingly and voluntarily assumed all such risks.”
NYCHA lawyer Peter Kurshan defended the victim-blaming claim in court, calling the argument an “appropriate” move so early in the case.
Pauley wasn’t having it.
“You know what it is? It’s the kitchen sink. It’s just throwing in the kitchen sink,” he said.
He ordered the lawyers to amend the motion, warning, “Otherwise, I’m going to consider sanctions.”
He gave the lawyers a week to fix it but said it should only take an hour because “all you have to do is hit the delete button.”
NYCHA’s defense comes four months after federal prosecutors accused it in a lawsuit of repeatedly misleading tenants and the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development about the presence of lead and its failure to conduct inspections.
“NYCHA falsely told HUD and the public that NYCHA ‘complies with federal, state and city regulations concerning lead,’ ” prosecutors wrote.
“But during this entire period, NYCHA was substantially out of compliance with important lead-paint regulations.”
Not only did NYCHA officials lie to the public and regulators about compliance with lead regulations, they often failed to even provide residents with required written disclosures about potential lead in apartments, prosecutors allege.
“Although NYCHA developments do make some of the disclosures required by the Lead Disclosure Rule, NYCHA management knows they do not consistently comply fully with the regulation,” prosecutors said.
The federal suit was filed June 11 and settled by the city the same day. As part of the deal, City Hall agreed to potentially spend an additional $2.2 billion over 10 years to fix crumbling public housing developments.
“The judge correctly pointed out our counsel should not have included the ‘boilerplate’ defenses, including assumption risk, and our counsel will be amending our defense,” said authority spokesman Jasmine Blake. “NYCHA has made it clear that, as we move forward with our new leadership, we are committed to meeting all of our obligations in order to better serve residents.”
Additional reporting by Nolan Hicks and Max Jaeger
Photo Credit: Paul Martinka