Texas Mother Finds Video of Man Raping 7-Year-Old Daughter in ‘Deleted Photos’ Folder on iPad
A Texas man faces multiple charges after a mother discovered a video appearing to show him sexually assaulting her 7-year-old daughter in the “deleted photos” folder on his iPad, according to San Antonio Express-News.
Jose Trinidad Gonzalez, 35, faces sexual assault and child pornography charges, according to a police arrest report obtained by the paper.
According to the report, the suspect allowed the victim and the victim’s siblings to play games on his iPad.
On Sunday, the mother was using the iPad when she opened the “deleted photos” folder and found a photo of her 7-year-old daughter’s genitals and video of the suspect raping the child, according to the report.
The mother called police and Gonzalez was arrested on Sunday. He is being held in the Bexar County Jail on a $150,000 bond.
Utah Couple Charged With Murder, Child Abuse in Connection With Death of 13-Day-Old Baby
A Utah man has been charged with murder and child abuse in connection with the death of his girlfriend’s 13-day-old boy and the child’s mother also faces charges because she did not do anything to stop the abuse, officials said.
Maria Elena Sullivan, 26, and Dylan James Kitzmiller, 21, were charged with one count of first-degree murder and three counts of child abuse in the death of Sullivan’s infant son, according to court documents filed on Friday, KTLA sister station KSTU reported.
Sullivan was arrested at a Georgia hospital where she was seeking treatment and will face a judge to determine if she will be extradited back to Utah. Kitzmiller was arrested in a West Jordan, Utah, where the couple lived with a relative.
While officials don’t think Sullivan caused any of the abuse directly, she still faces a murder charge because she was aware of the abuse and took no steps to stop it or take the child to safety.
The child was born September 4 with no known health problems, and on September 17 the child was pronounced dead by medical responders.
Prosecutors allege Kitzmiller was abusing the child regularly and that Sullivan knew about the abuse, but did nothing to stop it or to get treatment for the injuries.
On the day of the child’s death, Sullivan told police she was on the phone with a friend and speaking about her desire to “get away from Kitzmiller’s abuse” of her and her son.
As this call was occurring, the baby was in Kitzmiller’s care. When Sullivan went downstairs, she found the baby wearing only a diaper while Kitzmiller moved the boy’s legs “in a rough weird bicycle thing.” Kitzmiller told Sullivan the boy would be fine and to just put him to sleep, she told police.
She picked him up and he seemed calmer, but later that night she heard the boy making noises and gasping for air. She pinched the boy to try to get him to respond and said she heard the baby gasp a few more times before the child stopped breathing.
The couple went upstairs to use a relative’s phone to call 911. First responders performed CPR but life-saving measures were ultimately unsuccessful.
Charging documents say Sullivan told police that Kitzmiller was rough with the baby, but she continued to leave him in his care. She also said she had learned the man was using heroin daily and said he was verbally abusive toward her.
She said Kitzmiller would abuse the boy, including grabbing him by the shoulder and throwing him in the air, swaddling him face down and on one occasion covering the boy’s mouth and nose with his hand as the baby cried. She said he once threw the baby back and forth between his hands and also slapped him in the face and bite his hands.
Charging documents state Sullivan was aware of the injuries but never sought medical care for her son.
Police said Kitzmiller told officers that Sullivan and a relative had yelled at him for being too rough with the baby and that Sullivan did not cause any of the boy’s injuries.
A doctor examined the boy and found he had lost 14 percent of his body mass in weight in the 13 days since his birth, going from 5 pounds 6 ounces to 4 pounds and 8 ounces at death. He had abrasions and bruises on his face and body. The boy also suffered a spinal fracture and a broken rib along with a “massive” amount of swelling in his brain.
via: http://ktla.com/2017/10/23/utah-couple-charged-with-murder-in-death-of-13-day-old-baby/
Black Protester Hugs Nazi Outside Richard Spencer Event, Asks ‘Why Do You Hate Me?’ His response: “I don’t know”
Thousands of demonstrators were in Gainesville, Florida, on Thursday to protest a speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer, but one tried to counteract the hate with a hug.
It happened when a man wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with swastikas was surrounded by screaming protesters.
The man, later identified as Randy Furniss by the Gainesville Sun, was punched by one protester in a photo that has since gone viral.
But Aaron Courtney, a high school football coach in Gainesville, tried a different tactic. He went up to Furniss and tried to engage him in a more loving manner.
A video posted to Twitter by user Politics 4 Dummies shows Courtney hugging Furniss while asking him, “Why don’t you like me, dog?”
The 31-year-old Courtney told the New York Daily News the moment came after four hours of protesting Spencer’s speech.
“I had the opportunity to talk to someone who hates my guts and I wanted to know why. During our conversation, I asked him, ‘Why do you hate me? What is it about me? Is it my skin color? My history? My dreadlocks?’”
Courtney said he almost broke out in tears as Furniss ignored his questions, but decided that maybe “he just needs love. Maybe he never met an African-American like this.”
That’s when Courtney asked Furniss for the hug, which the man gave despite some initial resistance.
“I reached over and the third time, he wrapped his arms around me, and I heard God whisper in my ear, ‘You changed his life,’” Courtney told the Daily News.
Courtney said when he asked Furniss once again, “Why do you hate me?” Furniss finally answered, “I don’t know.”
Courtney took that as a honest response.
“I believe that was his sincere answer. He really doesn’t know,” Courtney said.
Two women accused of trying to rob bank while dressed as nuns
TANNERSVILLE, Pa. — Two women are accused of trying to rob a bank in Pennsylvania while dressed as nuns.
The Associated Press reported that Melisa Aquino Arias, 23, of the Dominican Republic, and Swahilys Pedraza-Rodriguez, 19, of New Haven, Connecticut, face charges in the incident.
The suspects also face charges after being accused of robbing two banks in New Jersey while wearing head scarves.
The crime in Pennsylvania took place at a Citizens Bank in Tannersville on Aug. 28, according to law enforcement officials. The suspects reportedly fled the scene without any money after an alarm was triggered.
The FBI in Philadelphia had posted photos of the suspects dressed as nuns to Twitter. The women were arrested on Sunday.
via: http://myfox8.com/2017/10/19/two-women-accused-of-trying-to-rob-bank-while-dressed-as-nuns/
County employee accused of stealing $1.2 million worth of fajitas over 9 years
A former Texas county employee has been arrested for stealing $1.2 million worth of fajita meat.
Gilberto Escaramilla was fired from his Cameron County Juvenile Justice Department job in August. He was arrested for felony theft after a search warrant turned up packages of county-funded fajitas inside his refrigerator, according to Cameron County District Attorney Luis Saenz.
Escaramilla has acknowledged stealing packages of the food for nine years. An audit of vendor invoices showed Escaramilla intercepted food deliveries being made to the department.
“He would literally, on the day he ordered them, deliver them to customers he already had lined up,” Saenz told The Brownsville Herald. “We’ve been able to uncover two of his purchasers and they are cooperating with the investigation.”
How’d Escaramilla get caught after a nine-year run? He had a medical appointment and missed a day of work in August and a delivery driver called about the 800 pounds of fajitas he needed to deliver.
However, the Juvenile Department doesn’t serve Tex-Mex. A woman told the driver they don’t serve fajitas, but the driver insisted he’d been delivering them there for nine years.
Escaramilla showed up for work the next day, was confronted and admitted what he’d been doing, according to investigators.
“If it wasn’t so serious, you’d think it was a Saturday Night Live skit,” Saenz said. “But this is the real thing.”
College student arrested for putting toilet water in her roommate’s water bottle – victim seriously ill
A Tennessee State University student was arrested for pouring toilet water into her roommate’s water bottle — causing the woman to become ill.
Tierni Williams has been charged with adulteration of food or liquid as well as causing bodily harm.
Her unidentified roommate had diarrhea, lost her appetite and was losing weight on Oct. 5 when she discovered a Snapchat video recorded in their room, an arrest report cited by local media claims. Williams is allegedly filmed taking water out of the toilet bowl with a Styrofoam cup, according to reports.
The student then took the “nasty” water to the roommates section of the dorm, laughing and cursing.
She is heard saying the roommate is “gonna get sick from this,” Fox affiliate WZTV reported.
Williams was arrested Tuesday, and later released on $7,500 bond, local news network Channel 5 reported.
“In general, students who engage in conduct that may violate criminal laws and implicate the University’s Student Conduct Code will be subject to the University’s student disciplinary process, including sanctions ranging from immediate “interim suspension” to expulsion from the University,” Tennessee State University said in a statement to the channel.
‘Mommy, I can’t breathe. This man was trying to kill me!’ School bus driver brawls with boy in video
A Florida bus driver was caught on camera in a physical altercation with a teen that had students begging the man to cut it out.
The video showed students breaking up a scuffle between the driver and an 13-year-old boy last week on an Aventura Waterways Preparatory school bus, according to news station WPLG.
After a shouting match, the student walked away down the aisle. But within moments, the driver was seen grabbing his collar and pressing him up against a window.
The teen’s mom Diana Cowan said that she was shocked to learn the driver physically assaulted her son.
“He said, ‘Mommy, I can’t breathe. This man was trying to kill me,’” Cowan told WPLG.
Cowan said that she’s concerned for her son and the other students.
“The anger that I saw in the video and how he handled my son, I’m very concerned for other kids,” Cowan said. “I’m concerned that this driver could hurt other children, I mean, worse than how he hurt my son.”
The school district said that the bus driver has been reassigned and they’re investigating the incident.
“Miami-Dade County Public Schools is taking this allegation, which first surfaced last week, very seriously,” spokeswoman Daisy Gonzalez-Diego said in a statement to WPLG. “We regard our students’ wellbeing among our top priorities. The employee has been reassigned while we conduct a thorough investigation into this matter.”
via: http://nypost.com/2017/10/18/i-cant-breathe-school-bus-driver-brawls-with-boy-in-video/
St. Louis Gas Station Clerk Allegedly Fatally Shot Customer Over $1 Bag of Candy; Victim Didn’t Steal
A 39-year-old gas station clerk has been charged after he allegedly shot and killed a person he thought had taken a bag of candy from his store in St. Louis.
The shooting occurred Sept. 26 at a gas station in the 2800 block of N. Florissant Avenue, according to court documents obtained by KTLA sister station KTVI in St. Louis.
The victim, Christopher Simmons, was a customer at the gas station when he got into an argument with the store clerk, identified as Taleb Rebhi Ali Jawher.
Jawher accused Simmons of stealing a bag of candy worth approximately $1.10 and pointed a handgun at him, prosecutors say. Simmons then left the store. Jawher followed him outside and allegedly shot Simmons in the back of the head.
Simmons did not steal or leave the store with the candy, police said.
“We’re just trying to find some peace,” Simmons’ mother, Dorothy Simmons, told the St. Louis Post Dispatch. “He was a wonderful young man who was taken from us too soon.”
Jawher has been charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action, according to the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office.
via: http://ktla.com/2017/10/18/clerk-accused-of-shooting-man-to-death-over-1-bag-of-gas-station-candy/
Pastor dug up 5-year-old’s gravestone after payment dispute
A North Carolina couple is experiencing a second heartbreak after their 5-year-old son’s grave marker was repossessed by the manufacturer over payment dispute.
The boy, Jake Leatherman, died nearly a year ago after a battle with leukemia. His funeral became national news when NASCAR racers Joey Logano, Matt DiBenedetto, Ryan Ellis J.J. Yeley and crew members from the teams of Kyle Busch, Aric Almirola, Jimmie Johnson and Dale Earnhardt, Jr. attended.
But when Jake’s mother, Crystal, recently went to visit her sons grave, the stone was gone, she told WBTV on Monday.
“He repossessed it, like it was a car,” she said. The manufacturer of the monument, the Rev. J.C. Shoaf, said the family did pay in full for a stone, but made several changes, which added up to a larger bill. “If you buy something, you’ve got to pay for it. No matter what it is,” Shoaf, who runs Southeastern Monument company, told WBTV.
Southeastern Monument company, told WBTV.
When he was asked why he placed the marker originally without a full payment, Shoaf said he did it out of good will.
“Because they had been through so much emotionally, grieving so hard, I thought we’d just go ahead and do it,” he said.
Crystal Leatherman and her husband, Wayne, told WBTV they didn’t know about the additional costs, but if they did they would have paid.
“If I would have owed him the money I would have paid him,” Crystal Leatherman told WBTV. “This is not something you argue over.”
Shoaf said the dispute about Jake’s gravestone marked the first time in 54 year he’s had this problem — but he also said he feels for the family
“They’ve been through an awful lot, I know that. And right now, they’re thinking emotionally, and having that grave out there unmarked – that’s emotional trauma. I lost a child, I know what that is,” Shoaf said.
The couple is now looking at using another company to help provide a grave marker — and are looking into hiring an attorney.
via: http://nypost.com/2017/10/17/pastor-removes-5-year-olds-gravestone-after-payment-issue/
Hundreds of teens throws out of control party in for-sale home while owners grab dinner – tens of thousands of dollars of damage
A Colorado couple felt “violated” when they found hundreds of teenagers holding an out-of-control party in their home, according to reports.
Homeowner Mike Cox and his wife were out to dinner when they returned to find their home littered with partying youths and police assessing the situation, 7News Denver reported.
“I think we were targeted because our house was for sale on the market, and somebody saw it online and thought it was going to be empty. But it wasn’t,” Cox told 7News Denver. “Just rage. Felt violated. This is our home. It’s not just an empty house that’s for sale. It’s where we live.”
Cox’s description of the rowdy rager sounded like a scene straight out of the notorious beer-drenched party flick “Project X.”
“There were beer cans, liquor bottles, wine bottles, everywhere,” he told CBS Denver.
Windows and tiles were reportedly smashed, and the ceilings were stained with alcohol.
Cox also captured video of the drunken home-invaders standing on furniture while popping bottles of bubbly.
“There’s video of 5, 6 kids on top of this counter top, squirting champagne all over my house,” he said. “My wife was in tears. It was devastating.”
The couple’s dogs are also still traumatized from the ordeal, Cox said.
The home had undergone months of paint jobs and floor repairs in preparation for the sale, but due to the catastrophic damage, Cox said they will have to take it off the market.
“A lot of work we’ve done has been undone,” he told CBS Denver. “It’s tens of thousands of dollars.”
Cox told CBS4 a few of the miscreants have been arrested, and face charges of burglarizing and underage drinking.
“They don’t value anything. They don’t value people’s hard work, their property—any of it,” Cox said.