Swizz Beatz’s son makes runway debut in Paris
Swizz Beatz’s son Nasir “Marcato” Dean made his runway debut in the Louis Vuitton show in Paris on Thursday.
A rep for Swizz told Page Six that the 18-year-old signed an exclusive deal to walk in the show for the fall 2019 menswear collection, designed by LV’s buzzy new menswear artistic director, Vigil Abloh.
It’s Abloh’s second collection for the brand.
The collection was inspired by Michael Jackson.
Dean’s first look was all black with an LV suitcase.
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Day care provider found guilty after infant beaten with ‘extreme violence’
OLATHE, Kan. – An unlicensed home day care owner accused of severely injuring a 4-month-old boy was found guilty in a Kansas courtroom Friday.
Paige Hatfield was found guilty on charges of aggravated battery causing great bodily harm, a felony, and operating an unlicensed daycare, a misdemeanor. Kingston Gilbert had been in Hatfield’s care for just 11 days in 2017 when he was severely beaten, leaving him blind and suffering from brain damage.
On January 31, 2017, Hatfield called 911 because Kingston was throwing up. According to court documents, doctors at Children’s Mercy Hospital said Kingston was “suffering from abusive head trauma,” which is, “only caused by violent non-accidental physical trauma.” They said Kingston’s injuries resulted from, “extreme violence.”
Prosecutors are asking for an enhanced sentence because Hatfield was a child care provider, that’s being debated on Friday night.
Kingston’s mother, Ashleigh Garcia, told WDAF that there are days that are “barely survivable.”
“We spent 18 days in the I.C.U. just praying that he got through,” Garcia said. “We were told by doctors he is never going to be the same boy. I mean, we pretty much had to grieve the loss of out child and accept that the baby that we were bringing home was not the baby that I dropped off at day care that day.”
Sentencing will be determined at a later date.
Delaware police charge 4 youths, ages 12 to 14, in rape of juvenile
Four males aged 12 to 14 were arrested in connection with the rape and kidnapping of a juvenile in December, according to statement from police in New Castle County, Delaware.
Police said the victim was raped December 11 after being forced into a residence by several males.
The suspects — a 12-year-old, two 13-year-olds and a 14-year-old — were arrested Wednesday and were being held Saturday under $65,000 to $104,000 cash bail, police said.
Police said a hearing would be held later to determine whether the suspects should be prosecuted as adults.
CNN does not generally identify minors who are arrested or charged with crimes.
The four are charged with various offenses including felony rape, kidnapping and unlawful sexual contact, police said.
Two of them also were charged with aggravated menacing because they allegedly threatened the victim with a weapon and warned her not to tell anybody what happened, police said.
Police didn’t say what kind of weapon was used or give information about the victim’s condition.
Police said they are worried there may be more victims and ask anybody with information to contact police.
New Castle County is the northernmost county in Delaware. Wilmington is the county seat.
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Man Charged With Murder in Fatal Assault of Girlfriend’s 2-Year-Old Son in Westchester
An Inglewood man accused of killing his girlfriend’s young son two days before his birthday last summer has been charged with murder, prosecutors announced Thursday.
Josafat Bonifacio, 27, also faces a count of assault on a child causing death, according to a news release from the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
The incident took place on July 3 at a home near the 8700 block of Croydon Avenue in Westchester. Bonifacio had been caring for 2-year-old Damien Ventura — his girlfriend’s son — and his 4-year-old daughter when someone called 911 during the evening, officials said.
The little boy was rushed to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Westwood where he died. Damien had suffered from multiple injuries, the release stated.
The Los Angeles Police Department responded to the hospital to investigate the boy’s death.
Damien died two days before his third birthday, according to a GoFundMe page to raise money for his funeral.
Bonifacio was arrested on Tuesday and is being held on $3 million bail, inmate records show.
The defendant faces a maximum sentence of 25 years to life in prison if convicted.
He’s scheduled to be arraigned sometime on Thursday.
The case is being prosecuted by the office’s Family Violence Division, Complex Child Abuse Section.
Man’s attempt to treat back pain with semen injections goes horribly wrong
A nutty Irishman landed in the hospital after he took matters into his own hands to treat his back pain – by injecting himself with his own semen, according to a report.
After injecting himself monthly for a year and a half, the unidentified 33-year-old developed a subcutaneous abscess in his arm, as well as emphysema and edema – excess fluid – under his skin, the Irish Times reported.
The man said he had been injecting his own semen, without medical advice, as an “innovative” method to treat his lower back pain.
He revealed that he injected one monthly “dose” of semen for 18 consecutive months using a hypodermic needle he bought online.
The patient was treated with an intravenous antimicrobial drip, but he decided to discharge himself without allowing doctors to drain the “local collection,” the news outlet reported.
The case was revealed in a report published by the Irish Medical Journal titled, “Semenly Harmless Back Pain: An Unusual Presentation of a Subcutaneous Abscess.”
Dr. Lisa Dunne of Adelaide and Meath Hospital in Tallaght, who authored the case report, found that there were no other reported cases of intravenous semen injection to be found anywhere in medical literature.
Woman poses as non-existent autistic twin sister, tries to sexually assault caregiver
There’s crazy, and then there’s posing as your autistic twin sister who doesn’t exist crazy.
Cops say that’s exactly what Rachel Childs, of Pearland, Texas, did earlier this month in an attempt to sexually assault a private caregiver.
According to local police, the 29-year-old solicited the individual “under the pretense of caring Ms. Childs’ twin sister” who was described as having autism.
The unidentified worker was asked to arrive at the 29-year-old’s home “at a specific time” but told that she — Childs — would not be present.
Cops say the caregiver was given further instructions to “take the autistic twin sister to her home and then return her the next morning.” Childs allegedly claimed she would arrive a short time later.
“During the stay at the caregiver’s home, the ‘sister’ engaged in sexually oriented conduct toward the caregiver who became suspicious as her behavior did not reflect that of someone who was autistic,” said Pearland Police in a statement Thursday. “As a result, the caregiver investigated and determined that Ms. Childs was an only child and contacted the Pearland Police Department.”
Cops launched an investigation and quickly found out that Childs — who isn’t autistic — was trying to pull of an elaborate hoax “for sexual gratification” and was actually the “sister” that the caregiver was hired to take care of. She turned herself in after the Jan. 3 incident, but now cops are worried she may have tricked others.
“The Pearland Police Department believe there might be additional persons whom were similarly deceived by Ms. Childs,” officials said.
Anyone with information has been asked to contact Pearland detectives.
Former Epic Records Intern Says R. Kelly Sexually Abused Her When She Was 16
In the wake of Lifetime’s bombshell R. Kelly documentary, another accuser is speaking out for the first time, claiming he also sexually abused her when she was a teenager. Tracy Sampson tells Dateline that Kelly allegedly abused her beginning in the summer of 1999 when she was 16 and working as an intern at Epic Records. She claims he forcibly kissed her then initiated a sexual relationship with her all while she was underage. Sampson told Dateline that Kelly asked her, “‘Can I kiss you?’ and I was like, ‘No,’” to which he responded, “‘Well, give me a hug.’ And then, like, when I gave him a hug he just started kissing me.” She continued, “I was in love with him. I just didn’t know what to do. Like, I didn’t know if this was normal. I didn’t know if this is how adults acted.”
Sampson says she ended the relationship after she turned 18 and then sued Kelly in 2001 for sexual abuse, including forcing her to receive oral sex from another woman. Kelly denied the allegations but settled with Sampson out of court for $250,000. Kelly has been accused by multiple women of sexual abuse throughout his 25-year career, many of whom told their stories in Surviving R. Kelly,and in 2017 was accused of holding women against their will as part of an alleged “sex cult.” Kelly’s lawyer tells Dateline now that all of Kelly’s accusers are lying, “every one of them.”
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Judge rules against elderly lesbians rejected from retirement home
Bev Nance, 68, and Mary Walsh, 72, were denied an apartment in Missouri’s Friendship Village because their marriage is not “understood in the Bible.”
A federal court on Wednesday ruled against a lesbian couple who brought a lawsuit against a Missouri retirement home that rejected the women’s apartment application because their marriage is not “understood in the Bible.”
Bev Nance, 68, and Mary Walsh, 72, married a decade ago in Massachusetts and have been in a committed relationship for roughly 40 years.
When they applied to move into the Friendship Village senior living facility, they did so “because it is in their community, they have friends there, and it offers services that would allow them to stay together there for the rest of their lives,” said Julie Wilensky, an attorney representing the couple.
But once Friendship Village staff found that Nance and Walsh are married, they told the couple that they were not allowed to move in, because the home did not condone homosexuality. The letter they received said that the only married couples they accepted were those in unions between “one man and one woman.”
The couple sued, alleging “discrimination on the basis of sex,” and their case was finally decided this week by a federal court in Missouri, which found “sexual orientation rather than sex lies at the heart of Plaintiffs’ claims.”
LGBTQ groups decried the outcome, and the couple’s lawyers said “we disagree with the court’s decision, and our clients are considering next steps.”
Michael Adams, CEO of SAGE, which advocates for LGBTQ seniors, said, “This is sex discrimination, and it is against the law.”
“Mary Walsh and Bev Nance were discriminatorily denied admission to the Friendship Village retirement community for one reason only — because they are two women in a committed relationship rather than a woman and a man,” Adams told NBC News.
The couple’s lawyers made that argument in court: that because Walsh and Nance are women who are in a relationship with a woman instead of a man as is traditional, they would not have been prevented from moving in if their sex were male.
Judge Jean C. Hamilton, however, provided a different view of the case’s merits.
“At no time do Plaintiffs assert that had they been men involved in a same-sex relationship or marriage, they would have been admitted as residents in Friendship Village,” Hamilton wrote in the court’s decision. “Under these circumstances, the Court finds the claims boil down to those of discrimination based on sexual orientation rather than sex alone.”
Hamilton then dismissed the women’s claim, noting that the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers Missouri and other Midwestern states, ruled in 1989 that existing federal civil rights law “does not prohibit discrimination against homosexuals.”
The case Hamilton referred to, Williamson v. A.G. Edwards & Sons, is currently being challenged in court by the LGBTQ legal advocacy group Lambda Legal. The group is representing a man whose job offer was rescinded after the company found out he is gay. This case, Horton v. Midwest Geriatric Management, could be decided this year, and if the 1989 precedent is overturned, discrimination against LGBTQ people would become illegal at the federal level in all the states in the 8th Circuit: North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri and Arkansas.
The Supreme Court is also considering whether to take up one or several appeals court cases that address whether “sex” discrimination bans in federal civil rights law include discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. There is currently a patchwork of mismatching laws across the U.S. regarding this issue.
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Morgan Freeman blamed for granddaughter’s death at killer’s sentencing
In an emotional sentencing of the man who killed Morgan Freeman’s granddaughter, the defendant’s family screamed that it was all the famed “Shawshank Redemption” actor’s fault, alleging that he sexually abused the victim when she was younger.
“Morgan Freeman molested her and he caused this. He did this,” Lamar Davenport’s mother yelled to a reporter as she was ushered out of court for shouting to her son when Justice Ellen Biben handed down a 20-year sentence.
“He’s innocent! It was an accident!” she insisted.
The allegations of an affair between Freeman and his step-granddaughter E’Dena Hines were made by the defense during Davenport’s murder trial in Manhattan Supreme Court.Freeman has strongly denied the allegations.
Davenport was convicted of stabbing Hines, who was his girlfriend, more than 25 times Aug. 16, 2015, on West 162nd Street.
He was in the throes of a PCP-induced rage when he slaughtered Hines in full view of neighbors and pedestrians.
In a partial win for the defense, Davenport was found guilty of the lesser included charge of manslaughter. He waived a jury trial, leaving his fate entirely in the hands of Biben.
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New Jersey school bus aide fired for threatening to put 10-year-old boy ‘through the window’
LINDEN, N.J. — Officials have fired a New Jersey school bus aide who was captured on video using profanities and threatening a 10-year-old boy.
District spokesperson Gary Miller says the confrontation happened Monday as the bus was dropping off children from Linden Public School No. 2.
In the video filmed by another student on the bus, the female aide told the boy that she would put his head “through the window.” Police say there was also a brief physical altercation.
Superintendent Danny Robertozzi says the aide was immediately fired.
School officials say the aide was not a district employee but was hired through a bus company that the district contracts.
Police have identified the aide as a 58-year-old from Roselle. An investigation is ongoing.
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