Mom, 3 kids found dead after school asked for welfare check
GRAND FORKS, N.D. — A woman who was found dead with her three children in her North Dakota home appears to have been struggling with financial problems.
Astra Volk and her children, ranging in age from 6 to 14, were found dead Thursday morning after a school asked police for a welfare check on their Grand Forks home. All had gunshot wounds; police say they aren’t looking for any suspects.
Court records in Grand Forks County list three civil judgments against an Astra F. Volk last year for about $3,750.
A woman by the same name set up a GoFundMe account in late April seeking money to help pay off medical bills. The woman said her wages had been garnished.
The fundraising account had been deleted Friday.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/05/04/mom-3-kids-found-dead-after-school-asked-for-welfare-check/
Man accused of hurling microwave at girlfriend tells cops he’s comedian Tracy Morgan
SANDUSKY, Ohio – An Ohio man accused of assaulting his girlfriend tried to convince officers he was comedian Tracy Morgan – and his failed attempt at disguising his identity was captured on police body camera video.
“Who are you,” a Sandusky officer can be heard asking 23-year-old Donald Dudley.
“My name is Tracy Morgan,” Dudley responded. When asked his name a second time, he gave the same answer.
“My name is Tracy Morgan,” Dudley can be heard saying.
The mother of his two children told police he had assaulted her earlier, and that he even threw a microwave at her head. She told officers had to use pepper spray to fight him off.
Officers arrested Dudley Saturday, telling him he still had pepper spray on his face, and that they knew his real name.
The woman had a bruise on her forehead. She also told police Dudley punched her.
Dudley was arrested on several charges, including domestic violence.
He is still in the Erie County Jail and is expected back in court soon.
Three NY prison employees accused of engaging in sexual relationships with inmates
NEW YORK — Two prison guards and a prison cook are all accused of abusing their positions of authority in Westchester County — by allegedly engaging in sexual relationships with inmates.
They were all exposed with the one device you are not supposed to have behind bars — a cell phone.
“I don’t want to get into the exact nature of what was on that cell phone. But suffice to say there was communication back and forth between Officer Colon and the inmate – which led to other investigations. The conduct with trail came with an evaluation of the cell phones,” said Deputy Chief Christian Nunez.
Iran Colon, of Staten Island, a correction officer at the women only Taconic Correctional facility in Bedford Hills is charged with rape and other crimes in a 19-count indictment for allegedly carrying on a months-long relationship with an inmate.
Garth Trail of Yonkers, the former head cook at Taconic, is accused of engaging in a sex act with an inmate in the prison kitchen.
And Melissa Hill, of the Bronx, a former guard at Sing-Sing Correctional facility for men, is accused of carrying on a romantic relationship with an inmate.
“The inmates are potential victims of blackmail, coercion, as well as other illegal activities that can occur outside of the facility,” said Westchester County District Attorney Anthony Scarpino, Jr.
3 young children drink vodka, simulate sex acts and poop outside while left home alone
GASTONIA, N.C. — Police in North Carolina found three children age 7 and younger drinking vodka while their mother was away from the home for at least seven hours, officials said.
Tyeisha Coneisha Streater, 26, is charged with misdemeanor child abuse and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, Gastonia police told news outlets.
According to arrest warrants, officers found all three children outside the Gastonia apartment Monday. The oldest child had defecated outside and simulated a sex act on her brother. Investigators say the 7-year-old also wandered into traffic and tried to stop cars.
Assistant District Attorney Megan Rhoden said the girl had been exhibiting “very erratic behavior,” including trying to get into a laundromat, to break glass to get a fire extinguisher and to eat food off the floor. Rhoden didn’t immediately return a phone call seeking additional comment Tuesday.
Streater told police her children were asleep when she went to a laundromat with her 8-month-old child and that the empty alcohol bottles police found had been filled with water. She admitted leaving her children at home alone was wrong but said she was gone for about 90 minutes, disputing the police report
Streater is jailed on a $25,000 bond despite her request to have it decreased so she could return to work. Online records don’t say if she has an attorney.
The children are now in care of Streater’s grandmother.
Police probe 1-year-old boy’s apparent beating at day care
INDIANAPOLIS — A 1-year-old Indianapolis boy was apparently attacked at a day care center, leaving his lips, eyes and face horribly swollen and sparking a police investigation.
The boy’s mother, Tiffany Griffin, said she was summoned to the day care Monday afternoon a few hours after dropping her two sons off there and was so outraged by her younger son Jesse’s scratched and bloody face that she punched a day care worker.
Griffin told WXIN-TV that her son was hospitalized for his injuries.
Indianapolis police spokesman Officer Aaron Hamer said Tuesday that detectives are investigating, but that no arrest has been made.
The owner of the Kiddiegarden day care, Haben Ghebremichael, told The Associated Press that a 2-year-old girl had attacked Griffin’s son and that girl had blood on her hands afterwards. While it’s not uncommon for that girl to act out, she said Tuesday that, “the extent of the injuries just blows our minds.”
Ghebremichael said a worker at the day care separated the two children during Monday’s attack but the boy had already been injured by that time. She said her business began receiving harassing phone calls following news reports of the boy’s injury and was closed Tuesday. She said she wasn’t sure when it will reopen.
Ghebremichael said in a prepared statement that her business has never faced any allegations of abuse or maltreatment and it is cooperating fully with police, child protective services and state agencies. “This was truly a sad, shocking and unfortunate event,” she said in an emailed statement. “Our hearts go out to Jesse and his family and are praying for his well-being.”
Kiddiegarden is a licensed day care and was last inspected in October 2017, WXIN-TV reported.
Griffin said she doesn’t believe the 2-year-old girl attacked her son, saying that child “was small and she didn’t look like she was the violent type.”
She said that when she showed a photo of her son’s swollen face to the girl’s mother, that woman “started crying and said her baby wouldn’t do anything like that.”
Griffin said she isn’t sure if she can ever leave her children in someone else’s care again.
“I couldn’t protect him and I was trying to do what’s best for my kids like going to the doctor, taking care of my health and going to school,” she said.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/05/01/police-probe-1-year-old-boys-apparent-beating-at-day-care/
Did Mark Ruffalo accidentally spoil the ending to Avengers: Infinity War last year?
Looks like Mark Ruffalo with is fine ass last year 2017 gave major I mean major spoilers For infinity war luckily I didn’t look at much press at the time but yeah he put both Hulks green feet off in his mouth!
Human-sacrifice obsessed teen dressed as clown to stab lover during sex
A teen mom with an obsession for male sacrifice has been jailed for 11 and a half years after she stabbed her lover five times during sex.
Zoe Adams, 19, dressed in clown makeup and put a pillow over Kieran Bewick’s head “to make it kinkier.”
She then told Bewick – who was 17 at the time – “trust me” before stabbing him in the chest, arm and thigh with a ten-inch blade, jurors heard.
Adams admitted to unlawfully and maliciously wounding the now-18-year-old Bewick with an intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
Adams, who was fascinated by serial killers, had asked Kieran if he was prepared to be tied up after smoking cannabis and downing half a bottle of vodka.
Carlisle Crown Court in the UK heard his description of the attack in a police interview shown to jurors – including how Adams had appeared wearing the clown make-up as he lay in bed.
Detective Constable Calvin Greaves said: “Any assault with a knife has the potential for fatal consequences. In this instance, the young victim of this callous and violent attack has been very fortunate to escape with his life.”
“Adams told officers she blacked out and had no memory of the attack. Her 17-year-old victim is not so fortunate. He will have to live with the physical and mental scars of Adams’ actions for the rest of his life.”
“He has shown great courage throughout the investigation, not least in giving detectives a statement regarding the attack whilst only hours into his recovery.”
Bewick told police in the taped interview: “She said ‘does this scare you?’ and I said ‘No, can you go and wash it off?’”
“She was just standing there staring at me and I kept repeating ‘can you go and wash it off.’”
“She had diamond eyes, and a Joker mouth, with red lipstick on the lips, and she had her hands behind her back. She had a weird smirk on her face.”
Bewick continued: “She asked again ‘Can I tie you to the bed?’ I said no, and then she said ‘put the pillow over your face then it is kinkier that way.’”Bewick, who has a fear of clowns, claimed Adams had joked about it being the Kieran Killer before asking him: “What will you let me do to you?”
“So I put the pillow on my head. She had been tracing with her finger on my chest and asked ‘do you really love me?’”
“I said ‘yes’. She said: ‘Do you really want me?’ I said ‘Yes’. She put her hand behind her back, I thought that she had my phone.”
“She said ‘put the pillow back on your face, trust me’. That’s when she stabbed me. I did not feel pain, but I felt the bleeding. I felt my lung pop and squirt blood.”
Bewick fled the house in his boxer shorts following the alleged attack last June with three wounds to his chest, arm and inner thigh.
Bewick ran the length of the street before finding Adams’ aunt, telling her: “Zoe’s stabbed me.”
The court heard how Adams had texted Bewick last June saying her sexual fantasy “was of a male being tied up and used as human sacrifice.”
Detective Constable Calvin Greaves of Cumbria Police told jurors a number of “highly concerning” images had been found on Adams’ phone – including an image showing blood around genitals.
One message read: “His wife cut his dick off and cooked it with noodles.”
Veterinarian accused of smuggling heroin in puppies’ bellies appears in court, to animal rescuers’ disgust
CADMAN PLAZA, Brooklyn — He’s a veterinarian accused of violating, in the worst way, his training to protect animals. Instead, say federal prosecutors and drug enforcement agents, Andres Lopez Elorez, 38, abused his animal medical training by implanting packets of liquid heroin into the abdomens of puppies, in order to illegally transport the drugs into the United States.
The scheme was disrupted back in 2005 by U.S. and Colombian drug agents. While a variety of other people involved in the operation were arrested and convicted, Lopez Elorez fled his native Colombia. He was arrested in late 2015 in Spain, where he fought extradition to the U.S.
That fight ended on Monday, when U.S. Drug Enforcement Agents were able to take him into custody here in New York.
On Tuesday, Lopez Elorez went before a judge here, and pled not guilty to trafficking heroin through means that are considered unorthodox, to say the least.
“It’s just all around bad,” said Phyllis Taiano. She’s the founder of For Paws Sake NYC, an animal rescue organization. Through her efforts, the lives of hundreds of dogs have been saved. That includes Taiano having gotten medical help for many of them. It’s legitimate help, as opposed to the surgeries done on the seven puppies, she pointed out.
“To sedate a puppy twice in one week’s time is a huge risk,” Taiano told PIX11 News. Complications can arise from sedation, and infection is a constant concern, she said.
Worse still, said Taiano regarding the liquid heroin, “if that packet opens” in a puppy’s abdomen, “he’ll die.”
At the hearing on Tuesday, the judge ordered permanent detention for Lopez Elorez pending trial.
Meanwhile, the dog rescuer said she wants the harshest overall punishment if the veterinarian is found guilty. “I can’t say [in public],” Taiano told PIX11 News. “Life?”
Since the puppies were seized in 2005, all have apparently died, but some lived happy and interesting lives. Two became pets, one for the family of a Colombian National Police, or CNP, officer. Another of the dogs ended up being trained as a drug sniffing dog for the CNP.
Lopez Elorez’s next court appearance is in June. He has requested a speedy trial.
NETFLIX 13 REASONS WHY SEASON 2 PREMIERES MAY 18TH
Viewer discretion advised PARENTS BEWARE THIS NETFIX SHOW MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR YOUR VONRABLE PRETEEN OR TEEN WHO HAS SUICIDAL THOUGHTS. Call The national suicide prevention lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 Or TEXT CRISIS TEXT HOTLINE TEXT HOME 741741
Netflix 13 Reasons Why Season 2 releases a PSA Suicide prevention is it good enough?
The first season of Netflix 13 Reasons Why. Promos were/are appealing, unique and intriguing. I’d even say sexy. Netflix 13 Reasons Why tells a story of Hannah Baker who commits suicide but before her tragic end she buys a pack of blank cassette tapes. Records her truth of 13 reasons why to her 13 friends as to her reasons she commits suicide . The dialuge. The music, the graphics. And the images of the old school audio tapes. Draws you in.
Yeah this Netflix series glamorizes suicide. Before It’s release . The excitement around the show. Critic reviews. And the social media commentary. Was very positive. With a few keyboard gangsta trolls. Putting their asshole opinion in the mix. Everyone has one right? There was the forgotten, the very impressionable. Vulnerable suicidal pre teen. That Teen and that young 20 something college kid. We live in a social media FB LIVE Snapchat IG world. Of monkey see monkey do. Before and after the Netflix premier. Suicide prevention experts. Raised concern lead to a suicide-contagion effect and a spate of copycat attempts. Research published at the end of July 2017 argued that those concerns may have been founded. Google queries about suicide rose by almost 20 percent in 19 days after the show came out, representing between 900,000 and 1.5 million more searches than usual regarding the subject. Reading these statistics is just terrifying. Yes there have been some copycat suicides after these vonrable impressionable young viewers watched Netflix 13 Reasons Why. Two Suicides really got me. Was the two californa teens Bella Herndon and Percila Chi who committed suicide just hours of it’s premiere. In their parents grief they want Netflix to stop airing season 1 and cancel plans of season 2.
One of the parents saying that the Netflix show gives a blueprint for suicide. They said that the Netflix show was a blueprint for suicide. But is it really a blueprint for suicide for EVERY CHILD OR ADULT? Or is it for the vonarable suicidal teen?
That vonarable pre teen. That vonrable young adult. Or that vonrable older adult. Who are unable to distinguish right from wrong. We can’t just blame Netflix programming. On a preisting problem. If WE know of a loved one who is suicidal and has suicidal thoughts. We have to be diligent and know who? what? where? Who are their friends and who are their parents and other family members And WHAT they are hearing on the radio and seeing on Television and streaming services Like Netflix.
IF YOU KNOW OF A LOVED ONE, A FRIEND OR EVEN YOURSELF WHO IS THINKING OF SUICIDE CALL THE NATIONAL SUICIDE PREVENTION LIFELINE @ 1-800-273-8255 OR TEXT CRISIS TEXT HOTLINE TEXT HOME 741741
READ MORE HERE——> https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/08/13-reasons-why-demonstrates-cultures-power/535518/