Teen raped girl as pals banged door asking for a ‘turn’
A South Carolina teen is accused of raping a 16-year-old girl at his home while his friends banged on the door to ask for a “turn,” according to authorities.
Joshua Allen Hughes, 17, was charged with criminal sexual conduct and pointing and presenting a firearm in connection to the June 6 incident at a Myrtle Beach residence, news station WPDE reported.
The girl told police that she talked to Hughes on Snapchat before he picked her up with two other boys in his car.
When they arrived at the home, she reportedly went upstairs with Hughes, who began kissing her. The teen girl claimed she told him that she didn’t want to have sex but he proceeded to anyway, according to police.
From outside the room, several other boys allegedly “began to bang and yell… telling [Hughes] to let them in so they could have a turn,” the police report stated.
The teen girl said that when she tried to escape, the other guests “pointed firearms at her and began to taunt her about the incident,” according to officials.
Hughes was arrested and booked Tuesday at J. Reuben Long Detention Center. He was released to home detention on $15,615 bond, according to court records.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/06/18/teen-raped-girl-as-pals-banged-door-asking-for-a-turn-cops/
Rapper XXXTentacion shot and killed in Florida
MIAMI – Rapper XXXTentacion was shot and killed in Florida on Monday, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office said
TMZ first reported that the 20-year-old was leaving a motorcycle dealership when shots were fired at his vehicle.
Witnesses said on Twitter that the rapper appeared to be “lifeless,” according to TMZ.
He was rushed to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, sheriff’s officials said.
A spokesperson for the Broward County Sheriff’s Office said dispatch received a call shortly before 4 p.m. about a shooting at 3671 N. Dixie Highway in Deerfield Beach, where RIVA Motorsports is located, about 43 miles outside of Miami.
The sheriff’s office later confirmed that the man who was taken to the hospital had been pronounced dead and identified him as Jahseh Onfroy, XXXTentacion’s birth name,
The rapper topped the Billboard 200 album chart in March with the release of “?”.
Earlier in the afternoon Monday, he posted a message to his Instagram Story that read, “planning a charity event for this weekend Florida!”
Texas Woman Says ‘Swimming While Black’ Led to Racist Harassment of Her 5-Year-Old Daughter at Pasadena Hotel Pool
An African-American woman says she and her daughter were exposed to “blatant racism” when a man asked them if they had taken a shower before going swimming at a Pasadena hotel pool.
The incident occurred Monday, when the woman was with her 5-year-old daughter and other relatives at The Westin, a 350-room, AAA-rated three-diamond hotel on Los Robles Avenue. The family was visiting Pasadena from Texas.
The woman, who only wanted to be identified by her last name, Wheeler, alleges that a man claiming to be with the “health department” asked her if she and her daughter had showered before entering the pool.
He said he did not want to have to shut the pool down.
A spokeswoman for the Pasadena Health Department said the man in the video is unknown to city health officials, and she said there weren’t any health inspectors at The Westin on Monday or in recent days. Further, inspectors would only contact the business operator, not pool patrons, if there were any sanitation issues, the spokeswoman said.
Health inspectors do not make contact with swimmers to ask whether they’ve showered, Pasadena Health Department spokeswoman Adrienne Kim said.
According to Wheeler, the man continued explaining to her that people often carry diseases into the water. Family members took the girl away from the scene as the altercation continued, Wheeler said.
“I let him know that being black is not a disease and showering would not wash the BLACK off our skin,” Wheeler said in an email to KTLA.
She described the incident as “deep-rooted,” citing the history of racial segregation at public swimming pools in the U.S. dating back to the Jim Crow era.
Wheeler’s relative recorded part of the altercation on cellphone video, which shows the man wearing a stripe polo shirt and track pants – not any kind of uniform.
“I am not trash, and I am not dirty,” Wheeler told KTLA in a phone interview. “I have to teach my daughter that no matter how educated we are and how successful we are in life, there are people who will treat us like this just because the color of our skin.”
The video was posted on Facebook Wednesday night, and has been viewed more than 340,000 times by Thursday afternoon.
A hotel employee tried to intervene by telling the man that his question was “inappropriate,” the video shows. Then the manager arrives and asks the man to walk away, telling Wheeler and her relatives, who remain concerned, to enjoy the pool.
“I don’t want to call the police. And if I do, it’s going to be a big headache for everybody,” the manager says in the video.
The manager promises to go talk to the man, whom he describes as a guest at the hotel.
The Westin comped Wheeler for one night of her stay, she said. Representatives from the hotel released a statement saying they had no comment but are “investigating everything.”
Actress Rose McGowan Indicted on Felony Cocaine Possession Charge in Virginia
A grand jury indicted actress and activist Rose McGowan Monday on one felony count of cocaine possession, according to Loudoun County, Virginia court documents.
McGowan voluntarily surrendered to authorities in Virginia in November in response to an arrest warrant. She later pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority obtained the warrant in February last year after authorities allegedly found traces of narcotics in her personal belongings that were left behind on a United flight in January to Washington, D.C.
McGowan tweeted about incident, asking, “Are they trying to silence me?”
“There is a warrant out for my arrest in Virginia,” she wrote. “What a load of HORSES**T.
McGowan is one of the more than 80 women who have accused former producer Harvey Weinstein of acts of sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape.
Through a spokesperson, Weinstein has consistently denied any allegations of “non-consensual sex.”
According to a report published by The New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow in November, police said a worker cleaning the plane found McGowan’s wallet, and in it were two small bags of powder that later tested positive as cocaine.
McGowan told Farrow that she was afraid when an airport police detective called her to retrieve her wallet, as she was unsure whether he was actually a detective.
McGowan’s spokesperson confirmed to CNN the accuracy of her published quotes at the time.
McGowan, who was traveling to Washington for the Women’s March when the incident occurred, said the next day she received an Instagram message from a user she did not know that read, “You left your wallet on your Saturday flight with your 2 bags of coke.”
The “Charmed” star and her attorney assert that she left her bag containing her wallet on the plane unattended. McGowan said she filed a lost luggage claim and tweeted United Airlines for help when she realized her wallet was missing, according to The New Yorker’s report.
On October 30, McGowan first publicly responded to the existence of the warrant on Twitter.
McGowan told Farrow she has used drugs in the past, but said marijuana was her “jam.”
“Imagining I’m going into sisterly solidarity, I can think of nothing more opposed to that, energetically, that I would want in my body at that moment,” she said referring to the cocaine.
A May cover story with The Hollywood Reporter included comment from McGowan about the fact she faced a maximum of 10 years in prison if convicted, while Weinstein remained free.
“I’m the only one who’s had handcuffs on me so far in this situation,” she told the publication. “That’s not right.”
Weinstein has since been arrested on charges of rape, committing a criminal sex act, sexual abuse and sexual misconduct in New York for which has pled not guilty. The charges are unrelated to McGowan’s allegations against him.
CNN has reached out to McGowan’s representatives for comment.
via: http://ktla.com/2018/06/12/actress-rose-mcgowan-indicted-on-felony-drug-charge/
Video shows mom smashing school bus window with hammer as students scream
GLENDALE, Wis. – Prosecutors say a Wisconsin parent was caught on camera taking a hammer to a school bus as the students inside screamed in terror.
Surveillance cameras from inside a Nicolet High School bus in Glendale captured the wild scene, which took place in April after a woman learned that her daughter had just been in a fight with another girl, according to WITI.
The video shows a girl in an olive shirt walk up to another girl in pink and throw a punch. The girl in the pink hits back and the two continue to exchange blows for more than a minute.
Both girls then called their mothers to tell them what happened, according to WITI. That’s when things took a shocking turn.
While still on the route near Mill Road and Willow Glen Court in Glendale, video shows a car swerve in front of the bus. Police would later identify the woman behind the wheel as the mother of one of the girls, 33-year-old Magan Gumbus.
Gumbus allegedly walked up to the bus with a hammer and started banging on the door.
The bus driver called into dispatch as she continued driving.
Bus driver to dispatch: “This parent has got a hammer at my door. This lady crazy.”
Gumbus cut off the bus again — and banged the hammer a second time, causing the glass to break.
Bus driver to dispatch: “I cannot let nobody off this bus. I cannot let nobody off this bus.”
Gumbus’ daughter began screaming to let her off the bus — and even used a broom to try to bust out the window, according to WITI. The bus driver finally obliged.
In an interview with police, Gumbus said she had a “meltdown” when the bus driver wouldn’t let her daughter off the bus — adding that “her goal was not to attack or beat up any kids.”
WITI received a statement from Nicolet School District and Riteway Transportation Company:
“The Nicolet School District and GO Riteway have a shared commitment to ensure student safety. Immediately following the incident on April 25 the District talked to the families of every student on the bus to ensure they had been dropped off at home safely.
The bus driver responded according to GO Riteway’s established safety protocols. Not knowing the intent of the individual pursuing the bus, the driver followed instructions from the GO Riteway Road Safety Supervisor to continue driving in order to protect the wellbeing of the students on the bus.”
Gumbus has been charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct. The teens were both issued disorderly conduct citations.
Babysitter left child in 120-degree van for two hours to run errands, police say
ALHAMBRA, Calif. – Police rescued a distressed 6-year-old from a locked van inside which the temperature had climbed well above 100 degrees in Alhambra, California on Tuesday, officials said.
Authorities found the young boy crying and sweating profusely after being tipped off to his presence just before 2:20 p.m. by a concerned passerby, the Alhambra Police Department said in a news release.
The van’s doors were locked and the windows rolled up as it sat parked in the 700 block of East Valley Boulevard while the child’s babysitter ran errands and ate at a restaurant, police said.
Officers were able to pull the boy from the vehicle, which authorities said had an interior temperature of 120 degrees at the time. He had allegedly been in the car for two hours.
Paramedics responded and transported the child to a nearby hospital for treatment and evaluation, police said.
An Alhambra resident named Helen Law, 60, identified herself as the boy’s babysitter as officers were searching for his parents. She was subsequently arrested on suspicion of felony child endangerment, officials said.
She was being held on $100,000 bail at the Alhambra jail and scheduled to appear in court on Thursday, June 14, inmate records show.
Police are continuing to investigate the incident.
Man arrested after allegedly beating girlfriend with hammer, setting her on fire at UWS home
UPPER WEST SIDE, Manhattan — A man who allegedly beat his girlfriend with a hammer and then set her on fire, leaving her for dead inside an Upper West Side apartment Tuesday has been arrested, police say.
Larry McGloster, 26, of Columbus Avenue, is charged with attempted murder, assault, arson and criminal possession of a weapon.
Officers responded just after 11:45 a.m. to the report of arson at an apartment building located at 825 Columbus Ave., police said.
When they arrived, officers found a 32-year-old woman with injuries consistent with being burned, police said. She was taken to a hospital in critical condition.
Police sources said the victim was attacked with a hammer before she was set ablaze.
Resident Bonnie Chapman told PIX11 News that the victim, while on fire, knocked on several apartment doors on the eighth floor of the building looking for help.
“She just kept saying, ‘Help, please, somebody help me, help me,'” Chapman said. “That’s all she kept saying.”
Chapman’s was the only door to open.
“I had to look out of my door and then I see her on fire,” she said. “I mean, she was on fire.”
The victim fell to the ground as the flames intensified.
“She was in a fetal position,” Chapman said.
Chapman said she then grabbed a sheet and extinguished the fire then called 911.
The victim was rushed to the hospital in critical condition.
Man pleads guilty to beating girlfriend to pulp over Snapchat
A Texas man pleaded guilty to beating his teenage girlfriend to a pulp for downloading the Snapchat app, according to reports.
Dameon Marmolejo, 21, appeared in Lubbock County court Monday morning on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in connection to the grisly attack, EverythingLubbock reported.
Prosecutors said Marmolejo attacked 18-year-old Solidad Torres at her home in June 2017 after realizing she had a Snapchat message on her phone.
The girlfriend told police they had met through Snapchat, but she deleted the app when he accused her of cheating.
Torres said he became angry when the message flashed on her phone screen and slapped her across the face for re-downloading the app.
Marmolejo then allegedly threw her to the ground and began to pummel her until she flipped over to protect her head and face. The boyfriend, however, began stomping on her back and head, according to authorities.
She was able to briefly escape to the bathroom, but he forced his way inside and continued to assault her, police said.
He then allegedly slammed her head against the bathtub, leaving her unconscious in a pool of blood, according to news station KCBD.
Following the grisly incident, Torres was hospitalized and required 15 staples on her forehead.
The boyfriend was arrested after authorities matched his sneakers to the bruising pattern on the young woman’s body.
Man sentenced for kidnapping model, trying to sell her online
MILAN — An Italian court on Friday convicted a Polish man of kidnapping a 20-year-old British model for ransom in a case that raised the specter of young women being auctioned off online on encrypted websites.
The verdict slammed the door on the defendant’s claims that the victim was in on the scheme with him. Lukasz Herba, the 30-year-old defendant, got a 16-year, nine-month sentence that exceeded the prosecutor’s request.
The lawyer for British model Chloe Ayling, Francesco Pesce, called it “quite an important verdict.” He said he would seek half a million euros ($590,000) in compensation in separate proceedings, while conceding it was unlikely that Herba would be able to pay.
In his closing arguments, prosecutor Paolo Storari had demanded 16 years and eight months in prison for Herba, citing the possibility that Ayling could have died during the July 11-17, 2017 kidnapping. He said the model was drugged with ketamine, which knocked her out, then put inside a canvas bag and transported to a farmhouse, where she was handcuffed to the furniture for at least the first night.
Herba denied guilt throughout the trial, and claimed that Ayling agreed to the scheme to boost her career.
In a declaration that defendants are allowed to have in an Italian court, Herba said he had been in love with Ayling, and they had concocted the kidnap plot to help her overcome financial difficulties after the birth of her son.
“I never hurt the girl. I was not violent with her,” Herba said. “If she felt forced verbally in any way, I am very sorry. But it certainly was not as Chloe has described.”
“I was in love and I was hoping that once her fame took off that she would repay me with feelings and we would share the money,” he said.
Previous testimony showed that the two had met on Facebook and had met at least once in person before her pregnancy.
According to prosecutors, Ayling was lured to Milan with the promise of a modeling gig and then drugged when she showed up at a mocked-up photographic studio. She was zipped inside a canvas pack and transported to a secluded farmhouse in neighboring Piedmont. There she was held for six days before Herba released her at the British consulate in Milan. In his initial statement to police, he said he did so out of sympathy for the fact she was a mother.
Ayling told investigators that she never tried to escape, even when she accompanied Herba into a store to buy shoes, because she was terrified, believing his threats that he was part of a bigger criminal gang that had eyes on her constantly.
She said she had been told that she would be auctioned off online since she was not able to come up with 300,000 euros ($355,000) that the criminal “Black Death” group was seeking. She said Herba showed her photos of other girls who were reportedly being sold over the deep web.
But in his shifting story line, Herba also testified previously that he had concocted the alleged criminal group and that his brother was helping him in the scheme agreed to by Ayling.
Italian prosecutors are seeking the brother’s extradition from Britain.
Herba said he didn’t tell police that Ayling was in on the scheme during his initial statements because he believed she would come forward herself and defend him.
During closing arguments, his lawyer, Katia Kolakowska, cited an email she received from a U.S. film producer, who pointed out that Ayling’s story closely matches the plot of a movie titled “By Any Means,” that was released about eight weeks before the 2017 kidnapping.
After the verdict, Kolakowska expressed disappointment that the court did not take into account that Ayling emerged from the ordeal unharmed, which would have limited the sentence to one year to eight years. She said she would appeal.
Storari, in his closing arguments, noted that Herba had invested at least 10,000 euros (nearly $11,800) in the kidnapping, taking into account real estate rentals and travel. He said it was unrealistic that Herba would have done so only to get ransom from a young woman without any means.
The prosecutor also cited Herba’s purchase of two ski masks, which Chloe said she saw kidnappers wearing when she was freed from the canvas bag, and a note to his brother telling him to clean the trunk of the car well to make sure that there were no traces of her hair.
via: http://pix11.com/2018/06/11/man-sentenced-for-kidnapping-model-trying-to-sell-her-online/
I sold my photo to a stock site and now I’m the face of bestiality
Having your picture taken might seem like one of the most innocent things in the world.
But what happens when those pictures end up in places you hadn’t even imagined — such as alongside an article declaring how you’re turned on by orgies with fat, old men or holding a placard saying you’re a sex offender?
Becoming the poster boys and girls for such causes is a far cry from where those posing for inoffensive stock images — used in newspapers, magazines and ads when no suitable pics are available — believe they’ll end up.
This week, a Twitter thread went viral after stock models shared their accounts of the hilarious and surprising campaigns they had been linked to, following @marleybennett joke that he looked like the model on a tobacco warning label.
Here, they share their faces’ bizarre final destinations.
My innocent dog selfie ended up on a bestiality article
First to respond was Yair Kivaiko who was surprised to find his photo on an article about bestiality last year after uploading the image to a stock photo site.
The 36-year-old product manager said: “It was just a photo I’d taken for fun with my parents’ dogs in their backyard about four or five years ago and I decided to sell it via an app online to make some extra cash.
“I was mortified when I saw it on an article about bestiality.
“It took me a really long time to tell my friends and family what had happened. I would never want to be recognized as ‘that guy’ by people that had read the article.”
But despite the questionable associations, Yair doesn’t regret selling the photo.
“I love the picture and enjoy seeing it from time-to-time on other ads,” he says.
“I could have done without the bestiality story, but it was a minor website and luckily the article is no longer available online so there’s no real harm done. I wasn’t sure how to react at first, but today I look at it as a funny turn of events and laugh about it.”
I was the poster boy for a severe penis problem in Venezuela
Niccolò Massariello, a Spanish writer for Vice, revealed how his stock photos ended up on ads for booze, milk, the Catholic Church and even paraphimosis — a horrifying penis condition in which the foreskin gets trapped behind the tip of the penis.
Following a tricky breakup, Massariello embarked on an impulsive photoshoot with a friend to try and take his mind off stuff and signed away his rights to the images without realizing the potential repercussions.
He discovered his images had been sold months later when he saw his face on an article about terrorists on a Catholic website.
“That in itself wasn’t so bad, but it was then that I realized I had no control over what might happen to my face,” he told Vice.
In the following months, Massariello’s face was used to promote anything and everything, from gluten-free drinks and Columbian spirits to articles on vindictive exes and “jerks” at work.
Things then went from bad to worse, with Massariello finding his increasingly popular face on the cover of a book about monsters, an advert for shaving and finally, on a national campaign about a very serious penis problem in Venezuela.
“As I was getting up one morning a friend from Venezuela asked me on WhatApp if I had — or had ever had — paraphimosis, a very serious penis issue,” he explained.
“I told my friend that I might have had some issues down there in the past, but that I don’t remember it being called that.”
Massariello’s friend then informed him that he was “the poster boy for paraphimosis in Venezuela.”
“I know I can’t really complain — I was fully conscious when I had those pictures taken and I actively signed away the rights to my face,” he says.
“Still, that doesn’t mean I don’t rue the day I posed for those pictures. Briefly feeling a little better about myself that day does not compare to the fact I have no idea where my face will show up next.”
I was the women who loved sex with fat, ugly old men
Like many others in her situation, Samantha Ovens’ stock-image modeling shots — which were originally taken for a campaign on cold and flu medication — were used for something she could never have imagined.
Ovens, who is gay, was out with her friends when she was first alerted to the fact that her face had been used on an article, titled: “I fantasize about group sex with old, obese men,” on the Guardian’s anonymous sex column.
The piece, written in first person, explained how the author, a 31-year-old woman, struggled with fantasies about being “passed around” by fat, ugly old men.
“The thing that really turns me on is the idea of having to lift their stomachs and search for their penises, which are always difficult to find and a bit on the soft side,” is just one of the graphic lines in the first paragraph that Samantha’s image was next to.
Luckily, the successful model, who usually specializes in portraying mums on shoot, found the whole thing hilarious.
“I was with my partner’s mum [when I first saw it],” Samantha told the Guardian later. “I screeched with laughter and said: ‘Oh. You have to see this.’
“How can you take it seriously? There are bigger things in this life to get concerned about.”
The family fronting the anti-gay marriage campaign
In a much more serious case, a British family’s image was used on a poster campaign by an Irish group opposing gay marriage ahead of the 2015 referendum — a campaign with which they strongly disagreed.
In an anonymous interview with the BBC, the family said they were given a free photo shoot in exchange for allowing the photographer to sell the images.
“The photo was not stolen from us… we have no claim over (or rights to) the picture and we do not claim otherwise,” the family said.
“We just wanted publicly to say that we disagreed with the ‘No’ campaign and were unhappy about their use of our image, but we acknowledge that they’re allowed to do so.”
Other examples of awkwardly placed stock images include Simon Naylor’s face on an article about Viagra, which was pointed out to him in his local pub.
“Thought nothing of signing over a few headshots for use as stock images, until my local pub landlord spotted me in Take A Break,” he tweeted.
But we don’t think it’s quite as bad as this poor girl’s holiday snap being used as an advert for colonic procedures.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/06/08/i-sold-my-photo-to-a-stock-site-and-now-im-the-face-of-bestiality/