Kentucky Man Cracked 8-Year-Old’s Head with shovel, Raped Her
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Police say a Kentucky man ruled mentally incompetent in a sexual assault has now raped and robbed an 8-year-old girl whose skull he fractured with a shovel.
News outlets report 29-year-old Cane L. Madden was arrested Saturday on charges of first-degree rape, assault and robbery. A judge declined a request to dismiss the charges Monday and entered a not guilty plea for him.
A Louisville police arrest citation says officers responded Friday to a report of a girl beaten and robbed of her iPad, finding her with a fractured skull and injuries indicating sexual assault.
It says Madden was seen nearby and questioned, telling detectives “intimate details” of the assault.
Madden was ruled mentally incompetent in February by a judge who dismissed charges the man sexually assaulted a woman and bit off part of her face in 2017.
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Michigan police officer placed on leave following KKK paraphernalia discovered at his home
(CNN) — A Michigan police officer has been placed on administrative leave after potential home buyers said they discovered Confederate flags and Ku Klux Klan paraphernalia while touring his home.
Robert and Reyna Mathis were with their real estate agent on Wednesday when they went to see the five-bedroom house that belongs to Muskegon Officer Charles Anderson. Upon entrance to the home, the couple saw the flags on the walls, in the dining room and in the garage.
But what the Mathises discovered in one of the bedrooms was even more shocking, they said.
“There’s a plaque on the wall. So, I walk over to the wall and I read the plaque and it said ‘KKK application.’ So, I was like, ‘I’m done,'” Robert Mathis told CNN affiliate WOOD.
The couple alerted their agent and ended the walk-through after seeing the application, which was in a wooden frame and did not appear to be filled out. Robert Mathis then took to Facebookto detail the experience he had with his wife.
“I feel sick to my stomach knowing that I walk to the home of one of the most racist people in Muskegon hiding behind his uniform and possibly harassing people of color and different nationalities,” wrote Mathis on Facebook.
Anderson wasn’t home when CNN reached out and his wife, Racheal, refused to comment, saying it was because the situation is currently under investigation. City officials on Thursday confirmed the investigation.
Racheal Anderson was asked by WOOD whether her husband was a member of the KKK.
“No, he’s not, no, no,” she said, chuckling. She added: “He can’t say anything right now, I wish we could because it would probably set a lot of things straight.”
CNN was unable to reach the Mathises on Friday.
Following an outpouring of support on Mr. Mathis’ post, the city of Muskegon responded with a Facebook post reassuring residents that “The officer was immediately placed on administrative leave, pending a thorough investigation.”
“The issue was only brought to our attention yesterday morning,” City Manager Frank Peterson told CNN. “Unfortunately, we have limited information at this time, so will be avoiding further comments until our investigation is complete.”
The Muskegon Police Officer’s Labor Council told CNN that the group does not comment on ongoing investigations as per their policy.
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Man gets 6 months behind bars for urinating on drunk friend, leaving him to die
An upstate man who urinated on his intoxicated friend — and then left him to die on his grandmother’s front lawn — was sentenced to six months behind bars, according to a new report.
Samuel Heroux, 22, of Cohoes, copped a plea deal with the local district attorney’s office in connection with the 2017 death of 19-year-old Liam McGlinchey — and will serve his sentence in the Saratoga County Jail, the Albany Times-Union reported.
Before handing down his sentence Thursday, Saratoga County Court Judge James Murphy III slammed Heroux for selfishly leaving McGlinchey to die.
“Dumping Liam and urinating on him and filming the urination, seeing foam from dying Liam’s mouth — instead of doing something, you leave,” Murphy told Heroux in court. “A 911 call, a knock on the door, a drop at the hospital, a call for help would have saved his life.”
“The failure to act and care about anyone but yourself, the apathy and disregard for another person’s life is your pattern of behavior,” the judge added.
Heroux’s co-defendant, Isaiah DePiazza, 19, who initially agreed to cooperate with prosecutors, has already been sentenced to one to three years in state prison, according to the report.
Heroux allegedly captured the lewd act on video after he and DePiazza allegedly left McGlinchey on his 91-year-old grandmother’s Clifton Park lawn as their boozy night came to a close.
Both men previously pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide, according to the report.
DePiazza initially was expected to be sentenced to probation, but Murphy sentenced him to prison after determining that he violated the terms of his pretrial release agreement, the paper reported.
The charge carries a maximum sentence of four years in state prison, but Heroux will spend his six-month sentence in the local jail, followed by five years of supervision after his release, according to the report.
Before the judge issued his sentence, the court viewed a recorded message by Charlotte McGlinchey, Liam’s sister, who slammed Heroux for his “vile, despicable, thoughtless and heartless actions.”
She said the incident sent shock waves through her family because Heroux and DePiazza dumped her brother “as if he were garbage.”
“I lost my brother and best friend,” Charlotte said in the video. “Every time you inhale, I hope you feel the breaths Liam struggled to take.”
McGlinchey had a blood alcohol content of 0.40 percent, which medical experts say could be high enough to cause death, the paper reported. He was barely able to walk and kept falling when his friends left him on the lawn.
He was born in New York City but spent some time in Ireland, according to the report.
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When her son died of burns after a bath, police say she took a Lyft and dumped his body in a dumpster
BALTIMORE, Md. — A Baltimore mother and her partner have been charged in connection with the death of a missing 4-year-old boy, whose body was found in a dumpster.
Alicia Lawson, 25, reported her son, Malachi, missing to Baltimore police August 1st. She said Malachi disappeared from the front doorstep of her northwest Baltimore home after she stepped inside momentarily, according to a statement of probable cause.
The report sparked a frantic search by local and federal authorities.
Two days later, police said, she confessed that her son wasn’t missing – he was dead. Lawson gave police the location of the boy’s remains. Police recovered Malachi’s body in a trash bag in the dumpster, court papers said. The boy died after the couple decided not to seek medical treatment, court papers said.
Lawson and her partner, Shatika Lawson were taken into custody Saturday. They have been charged with several offenses, including involuntary manslaughter, assault, first-degree child abuse resulting in the death of a child younger than 13 years old, neglect of a minor and giving false statements.
The state Office of the Public Defender, which is representing Alicia Lawson, declined to comment. It was not immediately clear if Shatika Lawson had an attorney.
They didn’t call for help
The women told police they were bathing Malachi on July 23rd after he soiled himself, court documents said. Shatika Lawson told police she put the boy in the tub. The two then turned to wash his clothes in the sink, court papers said.
They said when they turned back around to the child, he had suffered serious burns on his lower body, from his waist to his feet, according to court papers.
But neither of them wanted to seek medical help and instead opted to treat his wounds on their own, the probable cause statement said.
They were both afraid “the child would be taken from them, that they would get in trouble for what had happened to the child” and because of their “past history with child protective services,” the document said.
The mother took son’s body to a dumpster
Alicia Lawson said she woke up and found Malachi “laying in his bed in a puddle of wetness,” August 1st, according to court documents. Lawson told police she believed he was dead.
She called a Lyft, wrapped the boy in a blanket and dropped off his body after placing him in a black trash bag, court documents said.
FBI agents obtained information from her cell phone that showed she searched for trash collection sites two days earlier, the court documents said.
An officer who attended the autopsy said he saw severe burns on the child’s lower body, injuries consistent with pictures Alicia Lawson took July 23rd.
Investigators also tested the water from the bath at the home and said “at no time did the water temperature ever exceed ‘lukewarm,’” according to court documents.
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Armed Man Who Caused Panic in Missouri Walmart Wanted to Test If Store Honored 2nd Amendment
A man accused of walking into a Walmart in Missouri equipped with body armor, a handgun and a rifle less than a week after a gunman killed 22 people in a Texas Walmart said it was a “social experiment” and not intended to cause panic, police say.
“I wanted to know if that Walmart honored the Second Amendment,” Dmitriy Andreychenko told investigators, according to a probable cause statement filed by Springfield police.
Andreychenko, 20, was arrested Thursday after panic ensued when he walked into the store that afternoon with his rifle slung across his chest, pushing a shopping cart and recording himself with a cell phone, police say.
Patrons fled the store, police were called, and an off-duty firefighter detained Andreychenko until officers arrived to take him into custody, police said.
He told investigators he intended to buy grocery bags, and didn’t intend for any negative reaction, police said. And he claimed the recording was in case anyone stopped him and asked him to leave, police said.
His wife and sister told him beforehand that the idea was not smart, especially considering the recent shootings in El Paso and Dayton, according to the document.
He told his sister it was “a social experiment on how his Second Amendment right would be respected in a public area,” police said, citing an interview with the sister.
The rifle he carried had a loaded magazine, but a round was not chambered; and the handgun was loaded with a round in the chamber, the probable cause document said.
‘He’s lucky to be alive’
He faces a charge of making a terrorist threat in the second degree, the police department said on Twitter. CNN was unable to determine whether he was represented by an attorney.
The consequences he faces are not a reflection of how Missouri — an open carry state — respects the Second Amendment, prosecuting attorney Dan Patterson said in a statement.
“Missouri protects the right to open carry a firearm, but that right does not allow an individual to act in a reckless and criminal manner, endangering other citizens,” Patterson said. “As Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously explained, ‘The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man … falsely shouting fire in a theater, causing a panic.’”
Police Lt. Mike Lucas said he did indeed cause a panic.
“His intent was not to cause peace or comfort to anybody that was in the business,” Lucas said. “In fact, he’s lucky to be alive still, to be honest.”
No shots fired
Andreychenko entered the Walmart Neighborhood Market on Thursday afternoon, Lucas said.
When he did, the store’s manager pulled the fire alarm to initiate patrons’ escape, according to CNN affiliate KYTV.
No shots were fired, and no one was injured, police said.
Lucas said the recent spate of mass shootings in public places may have placed customers on heightened alert, leading them to call police to report an active shooter.
“All we know is the fact that he walked in here heavily armed with body armor on, in military fatigues and caused a great amount of panic inside the store. So, he certainly had the capability [and] the potential to harm people,” Lucas said.
“And then obviously what’s happened in Texas and Dayton and all that kind of stuff in the last seven days — that’s on everybody’s mind.”
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Hemet Man Gets 230 Years in Prison for Repeated Rapes of Girlfriend’s Daughter Who Gave Birth at 13
A Hemet man was sentenced Friday to 230 years to life in prison for years of sex abuse and rape against the underage daughter of his girlfriend, resulting in the victim giving birth to his child at 13, officials said.
Deon Austin Welch, 30, was convicted in June of 15 counts of child rape for the abuse that began when the girl was 11, according to Riverside County court documents.
It was an aggravated case in which the girl’s mother and county social workers failed to protect her, the documents show.
The victim became pregnant in early 2016 and delivered a child with DNA matching the defendant’s that November. But prosecutors say she told her mother’s coworker Welch had been coming into her bed and touching her sexually years before, in March 2014.
At that point, the case was referred to county’s Department of Public Social Services, and Hemet police began investigating.
That June, the victim told investigators Welch raped her multiple times in their apartment. But her mother insisted on being present for the ensuing forensic medical exam and made it difficult for staff to establish facts in the case, resulting in the test being marked inconclusive, according to a trial brief.
Weeks later, the mother had a restraining order against Welch dismissed, lying that he was living in Mexico and couldn’t return. The defendant returned to the apartment a short time later, and the rapes continued, officials said.
Prosecutors say the victim told a social worker that Welch had returned to the home in October 2014, but neither social worker nor mother did anything about it.
“The only option left for the victim was to learn to accept the situation and survive,” the trial brief states. “There was no way out, and no place left to run.”
The social worker allegedly continued regular contact with the victim through 2016 — including after she became pregnant.
Police were called about the case again in September 2016, when the girl’s mother took her to the Hemet Valley Medical Hospital and inquired about getting an abortion.
When officers interviewed the girl again, she told them she’d been raped at least 90 times.
Welch was arrested months later, on March 17, 2017.
In an initial post-arrest interview, he at first denied any inappropriate sexual contact with the victim. He later claimed he woke up at 2 a.m. after passing out on the couch and that she got on top of him, but he wasn’t sure if they had sex, court documents show.
In a subsequent interview, Welch allegedly admitted to having sex with her multiple times but said he was “kind of blackmailed into it.” He stated that the victim had threatened him by saying, “If you don’t do this, I’m going to tell my mom,” according to the brief.
Welch showed no emotion as the judge announced his life sentence Friday, the Desert Sun reported.
In February 2018, the victim’s mother was charged with three felonies: child endangerment, perjury and being an accessory to repeated child molestation. She was sentenced to formal probation and a one-year jail term with a five year, eight months suspended sentence.
Last August, the girl was awarded $10 million in a settlement with DPSS after suing the agency for alleged violation of the state’s Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act and breach of duties.
The case is one of several that drew ire against DPSS for its failure to report and investigate child abuse claims, resulting in the agency’s director, Susan von Zabern, leaving her post in September 2018.
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Girls throw a chair, bricks, rocks at bus in the Bronx after being told to get off
CLAREMONT VILLAGE, the Bronx — Two girls who allegedly vandalized an MTA bus after being kicked off in the Bronx are being sought, police said Friday.
The two unidentified girls were involved in a dispute with other passengers while riding the BX11 MTA bus around 6:15 p.m. on June 25 near College Avenue and East 170th Street when the bus driver intervened and asked all parties involved to exit the bus, according to police.
After exiting the bus, the girls can be seen in surveillance footage throwing rocks, bricks and even a chair at the windows of the bus causing a side window to break along with other unspecified damages.
The girls in question fled toward Grand Concourse along with several other individuals, according to authorities.
The girls are described as being in their late teens.
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Mom sues for excessive force, says police shot her 12-year-old son in bed with his hands up
(WLS/CNN/Meredith) — An Illinois mother is suing for excessive force, accusing police officers of shooting her unarmed 12-year-old son in May.
In new lawsuits against two cities and four officers, she says her son was in his bed, with his hands up, during a raid targeting her boyfriend.
The boy’s mother, Crystal Worship, says the child was sitting on the bed with his hands up in the air when the officer shot him in the leg.
She could hear her son, Amir, screaming for help.
According to the lawsuit, officers from both the Country Club Hills and Village of Richton Park police kicked open the doors to the house.
The officers dressed in full swat gear then threw flash grenades into the house.
The target of the raid was Worship’s boyfriend, who was wanted on drug charges.
But after he was arrested, the family says a Richton Park police officer pulled out a gun and pointed it at Amir.
The gun was not on safety and fired.
“The house was secure already. I don’t understand why his gun was off safety,” Worship said.
The family’s lawyer Al Hofeld, Jr. saod there is “still no possible professional reason or excuse for what this officer did to Amir Worship.”
Amir was rushed to surgery.
His mom says she was not allowed to go with him to the hospital.
The child now disabled and scarred from the raid gone terribly wrong.
“According to doctors, he will never be able to play sports again,” Hofeld said.
Local media reached out to the police departments but did not receive a response.
Illinois state police has opened an investigation.
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Modesto ‘Straight Pride’ Leader Calls His Organization a ‘Totally Peaceful, Racist Group’
When Don Grundmann took the podium to boos and jeers at a Modesto City Council meeting Wednesday, he appeared angry that some people had called his efforts to organize a “straight pride” event in the California city racist.
He singled out Councilmember Kristi Ah You, accusing her of “pulling the race card” and allegedly inflaming tensions by “attacking us as racists.”
Then he appeared to make a slip of the tongue.
“We haven’t done anything,” he said. “We’re a totally peaceful, racist group.”
The crowd erupted in laughter.
As Grundmann tried to regain control of the room, he said his group was “here to defend all races” and claimed that Planned Parenthood was the “greatest mass murderer of blacks in this nation’s history.”
Shortly after, he was told his time was up and the crowd booed as he left the podium.
Grundmann, who previously ran two failed campaigns for the US Senate, leads a group called the National Straight Pride Coalition. It claims on its website that heterosexuality, the nuclear family and Western civilization, among other institutions, are under attack.
The group is planning a “straight pride” parade in a local park on August 24.
Modesto is home to about 214,000 people, according to the latest Census.
Over more than four hours, almost 30 constituents spoke against the event. A handful spoke in favor of it, citing free speech.
Matthew Mason, a Modesto native and Turlock resident, called event organizers “white supremacists.”
“I’m here to condemn the straight pride event and to unequivocally state that this white supremacist rhetoric is not speech that deserves protection,” Mason said at the meeting. “Whenever this rhetoric is given a platform, violence always follows.”
CNN has attempted to reach Grundmann but was unable to leave a message because his voice mailbox was full. He has not responded to an email request for comment.
Marjorie Sturdy, vice president of the Modesto Progressive Democrats, also voiced her opposition at the meeting.
“You’ve never heard of anybody losing a job because they’re straight or white,” she told CNN. “You’ve never heard of anybody not being able to obtain a job because they’re straight. The entitlement of being straight and white shouldn’t be celebrated. You get to celebrate that every day of your life.”
Sturdy said that the Modesto Progressive Democrats are teaming up with local community groups to organize an event on the same day as the “straight pride” parade. She said it will include music, speeches and prayer.
“It’ll be a colorful, fun, celebration of life,” Sturdy said.
The ‘straight pride’ event needs city approval
The City of Modesto said it hopes to decide on the “straight pride” application Friday.
Thomas Reeves, spokesman for the City Manager, told CNN that officials are evaluating the risk to the city, residents and participants.
He added that the city’s final determination would not be an indication of where it stood on the issue.
“Whatever decision is made on the permit is no way is a reflection of the city’s perspective, opinion or views on the issue,” Reeves said.
In late June, a “straight pride parade” planned in Boston on August 31 became one step closer to reality after city officials approved the organizers’ public event application.
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Jeffrey Epstein dead in apparent suicide
Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein died overnight in an apparent suicide, law enforcement sources told the Post Saturday.
A gurney carrying a man who looked like Epstein was wheeled out of the Manhattan Correctional Center around 7:30 a.m. and headed to New York Downtown Hospital. A call for a reported cardiac arrest came in at 6:38 a.m., Fire Department sources said.
Two weeks ago, Epstein, 66, was placed on suicide watch after he was found nearly unconscious in his cell with injuries to his neck.
The multimillionaire financier was being held without bail pending trial on child sex-trafficking charges.
Epstein was busted July 6 over the alleged sexual abuse of dozens of young girls in his Upper East Side townhouse and his waterfront mansion in Palm, Beach, Florida, between 2002 and 2005. He pleaded not guilty and faced up to 45 years in prison.
Thousands of documents unsealed Friday in connection with a defamation case against the perv’s alleged recruiter revealed dozens of high-profile names that a self-identified victim, Virginia Giuffre, said she was forced to perform sex acts with, from former Maine Sen. George Mitchell and ex-New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, money manager Glenn Dubin and MIT professor Marvin Minksy.
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