Stepdad killed 2-year-old who interrupted him watching porn
A vile UK man beat his 2-year-old stepson to death after he interrupted him watching porn — then called his dealer as the toddler lay dying, a UK judge said as he handed him a life sentence.
Keigan O’Brien had already been repeatedly brutalized in his short life, with previous injuries including a broken spine, broken ribs and a broken arm, Sheffield Crown Court heard, according to the Doncaster Free Press.
Stepdad Martin Currie, 36, then killed him in January when he flew into “a fit of temper” after the tot disturbed him as he “lay in bed looking at porn,” Judge Jennifer Eady told his sentencing Wednesday, the paper said.
The youngster died from a brain bleed, possibly from his head being slammed against a hard surface — with blood splatters found on a wall near his highchair, Yorkshire Live reported.
Keigan’s mom, Sarah O’Brien, was dropping off her other kids at school at the time of the attack — but even when she returned home, neither she nor Currie raised the alarm for at least two hours, the reports said.
During that time, the youngster’s heroin-addict stepdad instead searched online gambling sites — and called his drug dealer, according to phone records used in evidence.
Keigan’s death came just four days after his second birthday, prosecutor Jill Brookes told the court.
“He was killed in his own home — the place where he should have been safest from harm,” she told the court. “The desperately sad and shocking outcome of this case is that Keigan’s life ended before it had barely begun.”
Currie was sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of murder, with Eady ordering him to serve a minimum of 22 years, the Free Press said.
O’Brien was cleared of killing her son but sentenced to eight years in prison after being found guilty of child cruelty and causing or allowing the death.
The court heard that she ignored previous beatings, and that she and Currie referred to the tragic youngster as “w—stain” and “s—head” in messages.
Keigan’s extended family previously said they would “miss him every day for the rest of our lives,” YorkshireLive said.
“We will never forget Keigan. Fly high with the angels little man.”
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Nevada Mom Accused of Killing 2 Young Daughters, Telling Their Dad Organs Were Worth a Lot of Money
A Las Vegas woman is accused of two counts of murder after police say she drowned her two young children — and told the father that the babies’ organs would be “worth a lot of money.”
Amanda Sharp-Jefferson was arrested on Friday and charged with two counts of Open Murder. She is being held without bond and will be appointed a public defender. She has not yet entered a plea.
According to an arrest report obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal and Fox 5, the children’s father, Jaykwon Singleton, called 911 on Friday afternoon after discovering the children’s bodies.
Singleton said he arrived home and wanted to check on his children, but Sharp-Jefferson “shushed” him, saying the children were asleep. He told police he eventually checked on the children and realized they were cold and not breathing.
“[Sharp-Jefferson] kept shushing him and at one point, made a statement that their organs were worth a lot of money,” the arrest report alleges.
On the 911 call, a distraught Singleton can be heard asking Sharp-Jefferson, “What did you do?”
After a brief silence, he tells the 911 dispatcher, “she drowned them.”
When officers arrived at the scene, they allegedly found the children stacked on top of each other on a baby swing in the couple’s living room.
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Police also allege that she later claimed she had no children and she lived in the apartment alone. Then her story changed again, and she allegedly said she discovered the dead children in her living room, but took a shower instead of calling 911. “I like showers,” she allegedly said, according to the police report.
Singleton told police he had been in a relationship with Sharp-Jefferson since 2018. He said that the relationship fell apart a few weeks ago, when Sharp-Jefferson accused him of cheating on her “with his spirit wife.” Singleton went to visit his grandmother the night before the children were found dead, but says nothing seemed out of the ordinary.
In an interview with Fox 5, Singleton says Sharp-Jefferson seemed to be losing her grip on reality.
“She was going through a spiritual and soul type of thing,” he told the station, “where she thought she wasn’t in this reality, she was in the spiritual and soul reality.”
Despite it all, Singleton says he forgives her.
“I forgive her,” he told the station. “I love her. If I walk around with hate/anger, I’m not going to be able to get through this situation. I have to act like they’re still here because the only way I can carry on their legacy is to stay positive.”
Sharp-Jefferson is due in court on Thursday afternoon to determine whether she can be released on bond.
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Utah man arrested for excessively speeding said he was his on way to kill former Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill
SALT LAKE CITY, Ut. (KMOV.com) — A Utah man told police he was on his way to kill former Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill after he was arrested for speeding and driving under the influence, the Deseret News reports.
According to the newspaper, 36-year-old George William Stahl, of Cottonwood Heights, Utah, was arrested early Wednesday on suspicion of driving recklessly, making terroristic threats, speeding, failing to stop, DUI, and drug possession.
According to a police affidavit cited by Deseret News, Stahl was caught speeding in the snow at speeds of up to 130 mph on Interstate 80 by a Utah Highway Patrol trooper around 12:45 a.m. Wednesday.
Police spiked Stahl’s vehicle’s tires after he failed to stop and he was arrested.
He told police he was on his way to Missouri to kill former Sen. Claire McCaskill if she wasn’t dead already, the affidavit said.
He made several threats to McCaskill and said he was on his way to kill her several times.
McCaskill is currently working as a political analyst for MSNBC after losing her Senate seat to Josh Hawley in 2019.
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Sex addict dies during orgy after using Viagra, erection cream “Marathon Rub”
A sex addict in Thailand downed a cocktail of drugs, including Viagra, and slathered an erection cream called “Marathon Rub” on his penis before taking part in an orgy — in which he died of a heart attack, according to a report.
Khun Thep, 44, collapsed during the monthly romp with friends in a hotel suite in Samut Prakan province, where police found the erectile dysfunction medication, the cream, booze and some other meds, the Sun reported.
The cab driver had taken a woman to his room, but told his pals an hour later that he was feeling unusually tired. They later found him unresponsive and naked from the waist down, according to the outlet.
“We celebrate like this every month. He came to our suite and just slept on the couch while we partied. We thought he was just tired,” a friend said. “However, after I shook his body, he wasn’t responding.”
In addition to several bottles of whiskey and cans of beer, police found fried chicken and dried shrimp on a nearby table.
Investigators said Thep suffered a heart attack after having “energetic” sex.
“There was nothing suspicious about the death at the hotel,” police spokesman Namasphong Madha said. “However, it is embarrassing for his family as they did not know that he was there.”
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Elementary school in France had to ban late-arriving parents from throwing their kids over its closed gate when dropping them off
Some tardy moms and dads “were literally throwing their children” over the 6-foot fence outside the Trillade school in Avignon, principal Sanaa Meziane told local outlet La Provence.
“It hasn’t happened that many times, but as little as it happened, we preferred to get ahead of it,” Meziane said, adding she believed it was just a matter of time before a child was hurt.
Educators put up posters at the school’s entrance depicting an adult throwing a kid over a fence with the words “Attention Danger.”
“I do not throw my children over the gate!” the notice reads.
The sign also includes instructions to parents who arrive after the 8:30 a.m. bell to come back at 10 a.m. or 3 p.m. when the gates are reopened.
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Man reportedly drowns after overhearing wife flirting with lover on butt-dial call
A UK man with a phobia of water was found dead in a swimming pool after his estranged wife butt-dialed him while flirting with another man, according to a report.
Gareth Rees, 49, was house-sitting for a millionaire pal in August when he got the errant call from Claire Rees as she held a “sexually suggestive” conversation with her new lover, the Sun reported, citing an inquest.
Despite his fear of water and not knowing how to swim, Gareth took a plunge into the pool outside the luxury home, whose owners were vacationing in France, according to the outlet.
When Claire realized that she was sharing her romantic talk with her horrified hubby, she raced to the house in Churt, Surrey, where she found his boozed-up, lifeless body in the water, the paper reported.
During the inquest, she said what Gareth apparently heard “would not have been nice” as she flirted with her new beau, Glen Ryan, on a lunch date at a pub, the Sun reported.
“I feel really bad about it now but my friends and I had joked earlier because Gareth had texted me to say he was going for a dip in the pool,” she told the inquest.
“He cannot swim, he hated water, he had a phobia — we thought he was joking,” she said. “If the pocket dial had anything to do with his death, that is something I have to live with. I have had to make my peace with it.”
Pathologist Dr. Robert Chapman confirmed that Gareth had died from drowning after consuming an over-the-drunk-driving amount of alcohol at the time of his death.
Gareth reportedly suspected that Claire was romantically involved with someone else, leaving him “angry and upset.”
On the morning of his death, he had Googled the name “Glen Ryan” and searched for him on Facebook, according to the report.
Dr. Karen Henderson, the assistant coroner, said she could not be certain that Gareth had intended to drown himself.
“It was clear he was upset that she was moving on, he had overheard remarks about him that were not complimentary and had the realization that his marriage was not going to be recoverable,” she said.
“However, I have no evidence that there was an intention to end his life, he had no known history of mental health problems and no note was left,” Henderson added.
Claire said that “Gareth was a lovely person, he was the best stepfather to my son. We had both drifted and it was my son that said he could not cope with the arguing.
“That was the nail in the coffin,” she added.
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A fifth-grade teacher in Texas is accused of fatally shooting her 17-year-old son while taking him to school
A fifth-grade Montessori teacher in Texas is accused of shooting her 17-year-old son and faces a murder charge, according to local news reports.
The incident happened on Monday morning in Riesel, Texas when 39-year-old Sarah Hunt was driving her son to school, according to Waco Tribune-Harold. After receiving a tip around 8 a.m, police responded to a 911 call regarding Hunt’s unaccompanied Hyundai minivan — which was on a road just outside the city— and discovered her teenage son, Garrett Hunt, in the passenger’s seat with fatal injuries, Waco Tribune-Herald reported.
According to KWTX citing an affidavit, police also discovered a .40 caliber pistol, cartridge cases, and a magazine in and outside of the minivan during their search.
Hunt reportedly deserted her car following the shooting and started to walk to Riesel where authorities arrested her, according to the Waco Tribune-Harold.
“At this point we don’t have a motive, we don’t know what happened, we don’t know what led up to this,” McLennan County Sheriff Parnell told Waco Tribune-Herald on November 9. “It’s a big mystery, and that’s what we’re trying to determine.”
The affidavit viewed by KWTX revealed that following the shooting, Hunt came across two bystanders and said “what have I done,” and told officers during interrogation that she didn’t mean to kill her son, the news station reported.
According to Waco Tribune-Harold’s report citing the affidavit, Hunt’s son had been with his father before she had taken him on his way to his first day at a high school in Riesel.
Hunt is facing a first-degree murder charge and on a $500,000 bond at the Mclennan County jail, the newspaper reported.
The McLennan County Sheriff’s Office did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
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Woman posed as FBI agent to get free food from Chick-fil-A
ROCKMART, Ga. (AP) — Police have jailed a woman in Georgia accused of pretending to be an FBI agent to score a free fast-food meal, saying she allegedly threatened to arrest restaurant workers if they didn’t serve her a complimentary bite.
Kimberly Ragsdale, 47, of Dallas, was charged Thursday with impersonating a public officer following repeated attempts to get free meals at a Chick-fil-A, according to a Rockmart Police arrest report obtained by news outlets.
Employees at the restaurant told investigators that Ragsdale showed up at the location multiple times during the week and posed as a federal agent while driving a white minivan, and also threatened to take employees into custody if they didn’t comply, the police report said.
It added that the woman continued the farce as police arrived to arrest her in the restaurant parking lot Thursday, reportedly claiming to officers that she was an FBI agent and that her credentials were electronic. While being handcuffed, she allegedly began to “talk into her shirt like she was talking into a radio telling someone that we were arresting her and to send someone to Rockmart PD,” officers wrote in the arrest report.
“You will not hear a real officer demand a meal anywhere,” Chief Randy Turner told news outlets. “If it is given, we appreciate it. If it is discounted, we appreciate it. We will not ask for it or make threats and demand it.”
Ragsdale was booked into jail Thursday and released on $3,000 bond by Saturday, online jail records showed.
It was not immediately clear whether the woman had an attorney who could comment for her.
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Teacher, 25, jailed for sex with teen boy student ‘who considered mutilating his genitals to ward off her advances’
Fay Mcrobbie began sexually grooming the boy who would go on to consider genital mutilation when she was a 25-year-old teacher at a school in Berkshire, England.
During the teacher’s sex-abuse trial, the Reading Crown Court learned how Mcrobbie methodically mutilated the boy’s innocence. First she forced him to join her martial arts class, where she kissed him. Next she went all in on his genitals and robbed him of his virginity at the house of a friend.
So distraught and helpless was the boy in the face the teacher’s demands, he went so far as to consider genital mutilation so that he would be less sexually desirable to her.
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CDC suggests Americans have Thanksgiving outside
The Center for Disease Control suggested Americans who are hosting Thanksgiving dinners have their meals outside to help stop the spread of the coronavirus.
The public health agency gave a number of other suggestions about how to celebrate Thanksgiving safely in updated guidance about the holiday.
In addition to an outdoor meal, the CDC said hosts should limit the number of guests they invite, talk to guests before they arrive about how they plan to celebrate and to limit the number of people in food preparation areas.
“If sharing food, have one person serve food and use single-use options, like plastic utensils,” the guidelines state.
The guidance also suggests other typical recommendations to stop the spread of the virus, such as wearing a mask and checking travel restrictions if you plan to travel over the holiday.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, said on MSNBC last week that Americans will need to make a “risk assessment” when celebrating Thanksgiving.
“You really need to make a decision,” Fauci said.
“Do I want to put that person at an increased risk by having people coming in from all parts of the country, usually in a crowded airport, without necessarily knowing if they’re infected, without having time to get tested or time to do quarantine?” he added.
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