Ethan Couch, the drunken driving ‘affluenza’ teen, missing from probation
To the families of his victims, Texas teen Ethan Couch got off easy with 10 years’ probation after killing four people while driving drunk. Now his probation officer can’t find him, Couch’s attorneys said.
“The juvenile probation officer has been unable to make contact with Ethan or his mother with whom he has been residing,” attorneys Scott Brown and William Reagan Wynn said this week.
Part of Couch’s defense two years ago was that he was the product of wealthy, privileged parents who never set limits for the boy. A psychologist said in court that Couch, who was 16 at the time, suffered from “affluenza.”
The term triggered widespread outrage.
Arrest order
Couch’s attorneys argued back then that his parents, because they spoiled him, were partly to blame for the crash on a road in Burleson, south of Fort Worth.
Prosecutors had asked for 20 years behind bars, but in December 2013, a Tarrant County juvenile court judge sentenced Couch to 10 years’ probation. Couch was ordered into long-term mental health treatment away from his parents’ influence.
After his recent disappearance, a court ordered Couch arrested. At the time of his conviction,prosecutors said Couch could face up to 10 years of incarceration if he violated the terms of his probation.
Recently, a video turned up on social media that allegedly showed Couch at a party where alcohol was served, CNN affiliate KTVT reported.
Drunken crash
On the night of June 15, 2013, Couch and some friends stole beer from a Walmart.
And Hollie Boyles, and her daughter, Shelby, left their home to help Breanna Mitchell, whose SUV had broken down by the side of a road. Brian Jennings, a youth pastor, was driving past and also stopped to help.
Couch plowed into them, killing them all. The crash sent two passengers riding in the bed of Couch’s truck airborne, injuring both severely.
The parents of one of the teens, who suffered debilitating brain injuries, sued Couch’s family for $2 million.
Three hours after the crash, tests showed that Couch had a blood alcohol content of 0.24, three times the legal limit. Couch’s vehicle also struck a parked car, which then slid into another vehicle headed in the opposite direction.
Eric Boyles, who lost his wife Hollie and daughter Shelby, felt the judge—with the probation sentence—had doled out no consequences to Couch for his actions.
“The primary message has to absolutely be that money and privilege can’t buy justice in this country,” he said then. He felt Couch’s sentence sent the opposite message.
via: http://www.kmov.com/story/30767247/ethan-couch-the-drunken-driving-affluenza-teen-missing-from-probation
Alyssa Barrett, 18, pleads guilty to murder of mother
I hope to GOD this Girls child doesn’t do the same to her! Wait the child may not get the chance her mother may get 20 to life. I know one thing this child’s story gonna end up on Deadly Woman.
Source: http://abc7chicago.com/news/alyssa-barrett-18-pleads-guilty-to-murder-of-mother/1123619/
An 18-year-old northwestern Indiana woman has pleaded guilty to murder in the slaying of her mother.
Alyssa Barrett entered the plea Tuesday in the slaying of her mother, DeCarol Deloney-Cain of Crown Point. The body of the 54-year-old United Airlines flight attendant was found in July 2014 in the trunk of her car in a wooded area of Gary. Authorities say she died of stab wounds to the chest and head trauma.
Barrett, who was 17 at the time of the slaying, admitted to being present when it occurred and lying to investigators to cover up the crime. Her boyfriend…
Priest Accused Of Embezzling $1 Million Dollars In Gay Sex Exploits
It looks like nutty New York is back in the news but this time it takes place inside the church! Recently a Bronx Priest named Peter Miqueli has been accused of embezzling over $1,000,000 in gay and drug fueled sexcapades.
An investigation is underway by the Archdiocese of New York, after there were allegations of him being involved in S&M with a male escort along with a lawsuit filed by his former parishioners. As of December 12th Miqueli has resigned from the church after the New York Post published pieces of the letter to Cardinal Timothy Dolan, detailing his $1000 sex romps with Keith Crist.
The leter gives some explicit details of Miqueli’s romps with Crist as stated by Crist’s ex-girlfriend Tatyana Gudin. Not only that but earlier last week the Bronx church and Miqueli’s former church St. Francis Xavier Cabrini filed a lawsuit against Miqueli and Dolan, accusing them of siphoning cash collected from the parish thrift shop, which was used to fund to fix the churches pipe organ. They accused Dolan of turning a blind eye to it.
Gudin says Miqueli used the money to participate in sex acts involving a dog collar and a chastity belt at his Harlem apartment and home in New Jersey. His home’s backyard had a hot tub and inside there was a “dungeon,”. “There was equipment at the house — dildos, whips, chains and chaps. Keith used it. The priest also used it,” she told the NY Post.
Neighbors reached by the New York Daily News were said to have seen a steady flow of male visitors coming in and out of the home. It wasn’t just sex that happened at the house either.” They would party. There would be needles and syringes all over the house,” Gudin told the NY Post. Approximately $60,000 of the stolen funds went toward their drugs, illicit and prescription, she claims.
Since then there has been a Facebook page and an online petition to remove Miqueli from the church with 200 signatures signed.
This is sickening and this is also why a lot of people stray away form the church. As a priest he should be living by example but seeing is how he’s been participating in activities such as this and stealing money from it makes the church look just as bad and makes it seem like the entire church covered this mess up. Hopefully they don’t let this man back in that church.
Oklahoma Ex-Cop Daniel Holtzclaw Convicted Of Serial Rape
Looks like JUSTICE prevailed one down and a million and more to go! Should we really get excited ? It should be noted Holtzclaw, 28 IS NOT white he is biracial he is white; Japanese who THOUGHT HIS BADGE and his BUDDIES IN BLUE; THE JUSTICE SYSTEM WOULD LET HIM GO FREE! DROP THE SOAP BITCH!!!
Here are the charges as follows
1. Sexual battery – Guilty – eight years
2. Procuring lewd exhibition – Not guilty
3. Burglary – Not guilty
4. Procuring lewd exhibition – Guilty – five years
5. Procuring lewd exhibition – Guilty – five years
6. Stalking – Not guilty
7. Sexual battery – Not guilty
8. Forcible oral sodomy – Guilty – 20 years
9. First-degree rape – Not guilty
10. Forcible oral sodomy – Guilty – 16 years
11. First-degree rape – Guilty – 30 years
12. Forcible oral sodomy – Not guilty
13. Sexual battery – Guilty – eight years
14. Sexual battery – Guilty – eight years
15. Procuring lewd exhibition – Guilty – five years
16. Forcible oral sodomy – Guilty – 16 years
17. Forcible oral sodomy – Not guilty
18. Procuring lewd exhibition – Not guilty
19. Procuring lewd exhibition – Not guilty
20. First-degree rape – Not guilty
21. Sexual battery – Not guilty
22. Sexual battery – Not guilty
23. Sexual battery – Not guilty
24. Forcible oral sodomy – Not guilty
25. Second-degree rape – Not guilty
26. Indecent exposure – Not guilty
27. Forcible oral sodomy – Guilty – 16 years
28. First-degree rape- Guilty – 30 years
29. First-degree rape – Guilty – 30 years
30. Sexual battery – Guilty – eight years
31. Second-degree rape – Guilty – 12 years
32. First-degree rape – Guilty – 30 years
33. Sexual battery – Guilty – eight years
34. Sexual battery – Guilty – eight years
35. Procuring lewd exhibition – Not guilty
36. Procuring lewd exhibition – Not guilty
Holtzclaw, 28, hung his head and began sobbing and rocking back and forth as the verdicts were read. The jury found him guilty of 18 counts of sexual battery, rape and other offenses.
Daniel Holtzclaw, seen here sobbing a former Oklahoma City police officer who was accused of sexually assaulting 13 black women while on duty, was found guilty of rape and sexual battery on Thursday.
An all-white jury that deliberated for more than 40 hours over four days acquitted Holtzclaw of 18 of the 36 charges he faced involving the assaults. But the charges on which he was convicted, including first-degree rape, carry a possible sentence of life imprisonment. Sentencing was scheduled for next month.
Holtzclaw sobbed loudly as the judge read the verdicts.
During the trial, 13 women testified that Holtzclaw sexually assaulted them while he was on duty. He faced 36 charges, including six first-degree rape counts
MORE http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ex-oklahoma-city-cop-daniel-holtzclaw-found-guilty-rapes-n478151
Christina Milian Defends Her Daughter’s ‘Grown’ Afro-Twist Hairstyle
The only reason Christina Milan did her babies hair like this was for shits n giggles this baby has to be wearing a wig! Naw I’M PLAYIN’ LOOOL But for real why would she want to put so much weight on her babies head the weight could cause headaches in fact when I first say this picture I thought it was photoshopped. This baby looks like a living Doll! Her baby is so cute. Try something simple; cute that this little girl can handle.
Well you know what Black Twitter did! LOL here’s Milian’s excuse:
“For those of you more concerned with Violet’s hair (understandably cause you just don’t know) her hair isn’t in the twists, it’s another method used where they are tied into her corn rows. The hair isn’t heavy,”
Adele Accused of Plagiarizing Turkish Singer for ‘Million Years Ago’
I’m not suprised NO ARTISTS are ARTISTS NO MORE These people just try to husle other peoples gifts! Your GIFTS ARE NOT A HUSLE!
Man Sentenced to 158 Years to Life in Prison for Murdering South L.A. Mother Over $10 Cable Bill
A man who fatally shot a South L.A. mother of two and wounded her boyfriend over a $10 cable bill was sentenced to 158 years to life in state prison, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said Thursday.
A jury convicted 57-year-old Kenneth Theodrick Parks of one count each of first-degree murder and attempted murder on Sept. 10, according to a news release from the DA’s Office.
Parks had rented out rooms to 42-year-old Terri Smith at a South L.A. home. He had an ongoing dispute over an unpaid cable bill with the victim when the shooting occurred, Deputy DA Joshua Ritter said in the release.
On April 14, 2014, Parks fatally shot Smith and injured her boyfriend at the house, according to the release.
The boyfriend was struck twice by the gunfire, but still managed to disarm Parks and hit him with the weapon, Ritter said.
At the time of her death, Smith’s two children were 11 years old and 20 months old, police said.
The Los Angeles Police Department’s South Bureau Homicide Division investigated the case.
Chiraq Movie Review
What can I say about Chiraq? Other than its one of the best movies to come out this year in my opinion. That’s right I said it, I loved Chiraq!
Chiraq is the retelling of a Greek tale of women who withhold sex from their men until they stop going to war or in Chiraq’s case, stop the violence in Chicago. The movie stars Teyonah Parris, Nick Cannon, Angela Basset, Wesley Snipes, Samuel Jackson, John Cusack, Jennifer Hudson and a lot of other wonderful black actors.
To start off with, the movie definitely delivers its message, which is that the violence in Chicago has to stop. In the movie the female lead Lysistrata, convinces the entire woman population of Chicago to refrain from having sex with their men till the violence stops permanently. With that being said, hilarity and drama ensue and it was fun to watch.
That being said I loved 98 percent of the performances in this movie. I say 98% because in scenes where Jennifer Husdon was supposed to cry, I can literally see only one scene where she cries, every other time it’s a dry face. Other than that I had no other issue with the acting what so ever. It knew how to bring forth a serious issue but bring a little bit of light to a dark situation.
As for the critics, to those who are mad at Spike Lee and the actors who took part of it, why? They’re shedding light on a huge issue in your town. Instead of being mad at them you should me mad at the one shooting up your city and killing innocent people who had nothing with who Evers problems. Check them before you check Spike Lee.
All in all I give Chiraq a 9.5 out of 10. If you haven’t see it see it before it leaves theaters!
Creed Movie Review
With 2015 about to wrap up I feel like I’ve seen all of the movies I wanted to see this year. The last one I saw this year was today and it was the movie Creed. All I have to say is I’m glad this was the last movie I wanted to see this year because it definitely delivered.
The story more or less, is kind of I guess you can say an either direct or indirect sequel to the Rocky franchise. However Rocky isn’t the center of attention in this one. Instead it’s Apollo Creed’s illegitimate son Adonis “Donny” Creed. After being taken by Apollo’s wife played by Phylicia Rashad. Donny decided to take up boxing just like his father. However he strives to make his own legacy and not stay in the shadow of his father.
First off I I have to say is Michael B. Jordan killed this role. In all honesty this completely takes away from that horrible Fantastic Four movie he was in earlier this year. Sylvester Stalone was also great. This movie shows that he’s not just some typical action movie star, he can play dramatic roles if he feels like and he proved it.
Phylicia Rashad and Tessa Thompson did a wonderful job as well as Donny’s adopted mom and girlfriend respectively. As someone who’s seen them in different things such as The Cosby Show and Dear White People, it’s nice to see them in great movies like this.
All in all I give Creed a 10 out of 10. If they decide to make this into a franchise I hope they keep the same elements they had in this film. If you haven’t seen this movie you’re missing out on a lot.
NBC The Wiz LIVE! REVIEW
Before I get started with my Review TO ALL THE WHITE FOLKS I KNOW YOU LOVED THIS PLAY BUT PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WHEN HOLLOWEEN COMES IN OCTOBER 2016 DO NOT DRESS UP IN BLACK FACE AS DOROTHY OR ANY OF THE OTHER CHARACTERS FROM THE WIZ REMEMBER BLACK PEOPLE ARE NOT A HOLLOWEEN COSTUME!
The Wiz is the most loved and popular Broadway musical play in the history of Black cinema and SOME white folks are so upset no outraged that we BLACK people would DEARE celebrate our OWN HOW DEARE WE REWRITE AND CHANGE Judy Garland Wizard of Oz I’ll have Ti address this stupidness lol
But anyway my review of this remake as I started watching I was blown away at the colorful costumes, the make up the set, Cirque du Soleil , natural hair; the wigs! I liked it but I wanted the characters to SANG AND REALLY DANCE AND JUMP LIKE IT WAS THEIR LAST DAY ON EARTH! We first see three Men getting ready for a storm that will be coming soon out comes Dorothy Suitcase in hand with her beloved dog Toto but I wanna know where was Toto throughout the rest of the show? All his homies was like….
Shanice Williams (Glee) as Dorothy her performance seem plan with no seasoning no flava her singing didn’t give me chills, I didn’t feel that lump in my throat I didn’t feel the need or the excitement to say YAAAASSS Hallelujah!
As forAuntie Em Stephanie Mills now she sang! What did get me somewhat in awe was the wind; leaves becoming a character all its own the dancers in these beautiful costumes that came alive. Doethy comes to a strange land when we meet The Munchkins’ with all their natural hair wearin’ glory telling her she has killed the wicked witch of the west.
Then we come to Amber Riley who played Addaperle the good witch of the North, who did some SANGIN’ there was some cleaver references to today’s technology as Addaperle pulled out her magical slate an iPad to “magically” guess Dorthys name after giving her a kiss and slippers off Dorothy goes without Toto following the yellow brick road to help her get home .
We come to the scarecrow played by Elijah Kelley now there was SANGIN’ from him. to my Hip Hop heads did you notice the tribute to jean Michel basquiat ? The only thing I was missing was the really good dancing from Elijah I wanted him to jump and fly around the stage while SANGIN with them SANGIN’ CROWS!
As they walk they invite tin man an Loin to come with them to Emerald city to ask The Wiz to help the find what they unknowing have. My favorite character has always been the cowardly Loin David Alan Grier I will have to say my favorite scene was the Lion rounding up the poppie flowers the scene was sex, seductive but still showing Lions courage that he didn’t know he had. Our four friends finely find Emerald city to see the Wiz but before that they must go through the Bouncer played by Common I wish he’d broke out in a rhyme with a little name drpppin’ Dorothy and her friends are let in to Club Emerald city (I call it) they still can’t get into see the Wiz as the lobby is full of dancers tellin’ them they are not allowed entry but all of the sudden they see Dorothy’s shoes and let them all in!Queen Latifah as the wiz did her thang even though she looked like a peppermint candy she told our friends to kill Evillene the wicked witch of the west before she grants their wishes. Mary J. Blige playing Evillene, the Wicked Witch of the West let me tell you her makeup, costume; hair ( her edges was on fleek hunty) was breath taking. Dorothy her friends took out the wicked witch one problem the Wiz is not who he says he is he is actually a she! Telling them all that they had the things they wanted all along okay then we see that the Wiz is ready to leave and take Dorothy with her but Dorothy gets a change of heart and wants to go back to where her home is with Auntie Em However we learn that Glinda played by Uzo Aduba we come to the end where Dorothy sings home Those of us who say it didn’t ya’ll feel cheated? Dorothy baby why ONLY ONE CLICK OF THE HEELS?
Toto going to his Lawyers in the morning saying BITCH BETTER HAVE MY MONEY!
To Learn more about Jean Michel Basquiat here’s a link http://www.theartstory.org/artist-basquiat-jean-michel.htm
History of the stage play the Wiz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wiz