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BREAKING NEWS: State Court Rejects Polanski's Bid To Have Criminal Case Dismissed

Additional charges have been filed against Dr. Earl B. Bradley early this morning, as a result of a preliminary forensic investigation of a computer seized by Troop 4 state police detectives. Doctor Earl B. Bradley is currently charged with, 4 counts of rape (first-degree) with a victim less than 16 years of age, rape (second-degree) with a victim less than 16 years of age, 3 counts of sexual exploitation of a child by photo or film, and endangering the welfare of a child. Bradley turned himself in to Troop 4 Detectives at approximately 8:30 a.m. this morning. Police are withholding...

Much of academia appears to have a disregard of due process and a bias against white males. You might think that a university whose students were victims of the most notorious fraudulent rape claim in recent history, and whose professors -- 88 of them -- signed an ad implicitly presuming guilt, and whose president came close to doing the same would have learned some lessons. The facts are otherwise. They also suggest that Duke University's ugly abuse in 2006 and 2007 of its now-exonerated lacrosse players -- white males accused by a black stripper and hounded by a mob hewing...

A former South Dakota lawmaker convicted of raping his two foster daughters has sent news organizations what he claims is a copyright notice that seeks to prevent the use of his name without his consent. A letter and an accompanying document labeled "Common Law Copyright Notice" said former state Rep. Ted Alvin Klaudt is reserving a common-law copyright of a trade name or trademark for his name. It said no one can use his name without his consent, and anyone who does would owe him $500,000. Klaudt was convicted in 2007 on four counts of second-degree rape for touching his...

PEORIA — The actions of a South Peoria couple within the past year so stumped a federal judge Friday that he could find no reason to cut them a break and sentenced them to maximum 30-year sentences for making sexually explicit videos with an 8-year-old child. U.S. District Judge Joe McDade, as he does with every defendant, tried to get inside the heads of Raymond E. Freeman, 51, and Tammy Watters, 43, to find some reason for a lesser sentence. In this case, he wanted to know why they would not only have sex with the child, who suffers from...

For federal prosecutors, Rhonda Bays' case is particularly appalling. For defense attorney Kyle Fletcher, Bays is a sick woman used by her boyfriend for his own "evil exploits." Bays let her boyfriend molest her 4-year-old relative, videotaped the incident at an Orlando hotel and later offered a 2-year-old for potential abuse. Bays, who once ran for mayor of Umatilla, has pleaded guilty in federal court and faces up to 30 years in prison. Her boyfriend, Tanner Stickney, has a plea deal in place with federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C., that calls for him to serve 15 years in federal prison....

A former Duke University employee and adoptive gay father charged with molesting his five-year-old son--and offering the boy as a sex object to pedophiles online--is expected to make a plea bargain, according to a Dec. 1 article in local newspaper the Durham Herald Sun. Frank Lombard faces charges stemming from alleged instances in which he molested his young adopted son and chatted about the deeds online even as he carried them out. It’s thought that the U.S, Attorney’s Office is positioning the case for a plea arrangement because the Office is set to file an "information," which allows the prosecution...

The media is trying to keep this story in the closet, but it's important not to wink at all the serious problems surrounding President Obama's controversial "safe schools czar," Kevin Jennings. Mr. Jennings is the moral malefactor who gave a speech about how he merely advised a 15-year-old high-school sophomore who was having sex with an older man that, "I hope you knew to use a condom." He knew the boy had met the adult in a bus-station restroom. Mr. Jennings also expressed admiration for Harry Hay, a notorious and extremely prominent supporter of the North American Man Boy Love...

Over the course of the last few weeks, I have received several requests for an update on the Frank Lombard case. Lombard is the (now former) Duke administrator who was accused last summer of attempting to allow, and even arrange for, strangers he met on the internet to rape his adopted child. A few days ago, WRAL, a Raleigh-based news station, released an update on the case. That update is worth re-printing here, along with my commentary, both for what the update says and what it does not say: “A former Duke University employee has agreed to plead guilty to...

In an interview published today, The Atlantic describes Gore Vidal as “a sharp provocateur, as irascible and irreverent as ever.” I’m assuming that’s some kind of internal Atlantic-code for "twisted old has-been degenerate desperate for attention": ATLANTIC: In September, director Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland for leaving the U.S. in 1978 before being sentenced to prison for raping a 13-year-old girl at Jack Nicholson’s house in Hollywood. During the time of the original incident, you were working in the industry, and you and Polanski had a common friend in theater critic and producer Kenneth Tynan. So what’s your take...

I found this list and thought it was something that we could be thankful for, on this day before Thanksgiving. Thankful that there are celebrities who are opposed to Polanski being above the law, and who think that he should be prosecuted.

A Swiss court has accepted film-maker Roman Polanski's plea to be freed on bail from a Swiss jail where he is being held for a US child sex case.

A woman accused of holding down a child while her husband sexually assaulted the girl — an act captured on video — pleaded guilty in a Travis County courtroom Friday and was sentenced to 40 years in prison. Mariana Garcia's punishmentfor two counts of aggravated sexual assault was part of a plea bargain with prosecutors. The charges carry a maximum sentence of life in prison. Charges are pending against Garcia's husband, Adrian Navarro, 30. Garcia, 24, showed little emotion during the proceedings before state District Judge Bob Perkins. At one point, prosecutor Joe Frederick asked her whether Navarro is her...

The 12-year-old boy saw Rebecca O'Malley-Tietz standing in her bathroom with her hand behind her back. According to a criminal complaint filed Thursday, his former teacher's aide asked him if he had told anyone about their sexual relationship. He told her he hadn't. She took a gun from behind her back, put the muzzle under his chin and threatened to hurt him and his family if he did, the complaint states. Pierce County prosecutors charged O'Malley-Tietz, 34, of River Falls, Wis., with first-degree child sexual assault. The boy told investigators they had sexual contact as many as 40 times.

Here are the facts concerning the Roman Polanski case: Polanski gave a Quaalude to a 13 year-old child, instructed her to get into a Jacuzzi naked, refused to take her home when she asked, performed oral sex on her as she asked him to stop, raped her (no, not the “statutory” kind, the “forcible” kind), and sodomized her. In a plea bargain Polanski pled to unlawful sex with a minor. As is common knowledge, Polanski has his defenders because he has made some terrific movies. For example, critic Tom Shales says: “There is, apparently, more to this crime than it...

Once you begin to notice that special set of ethics known as Hollywood exceptionalism, you may find yourself seeing it everywhere. In a recent book titled We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives (and enticingly subtitled A Swingin' Showbiz Saga), late-night music maestro Paul Shaffer feels that he perhaps ought to say something about Phil Spector's conviction for the murder of another human being whose name most people can't remember. So he does say something. "I regret all the tragedy that has surrounded Phil in recent years," is what he chooses to say. Not really even a try,...

While a backlash emerged Tuesday among French politicians of all stripes about whether their government and others should have rushed to embrace the cause of the jailed film director Roman Polanski, his American legal team picked up an influential new member: the lawyer Reid Weingarten, a well-known Washington power player and close friend and associate of Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. For two days, European political leaders and cultural figures from around the globe had offered public support for Mr. Polanski, 76, who was arrested last weekend at Zurich’s airport on a 31-year-old fugitive warrant from the United States...

<p>Paul L. Williams, Ph.D.</p> <p>If you think Muslims and Christians share similar values and that Islam should be welcomed into the United States and Europe, you might want to catch the latest headlines from Yemen.</p> <p>A 12-year-old Yemeni girl, who was forced into marriage by her parents, died during a painful childbirth that also killed her baby, a children's rights group said Monday.</p>

Michigan police say a 35-year-old mother used the Internet to track down the son she gave up for adoption a decade ago, seducing and raping the teenage boy when she found him after an online search.But Sword herself has spoken since she first was arrested, writing on her MySpace page that she was inspired by rapper and former jailbird Lil' Kim because "she rises during the worst of obstacles." "Reminded me of myself," Sword wrote on the Web page, where she uses the name Aimee Pope.

Durham, N.C. — Duke University has fired an employee who faces federal child sex charges. Frank M. Lombard, 42, of 24 Indigo Creek Trail in Durham, was let go from his position as associate director of the Center for Health Policy at Duke, a spokesman said. Duke Vice President for Public Affairs Michael Schoenfeld said Lombard was placed on unpaid leave at the time of his arrest June 24 and was fired Monday. Schoenfeld added that the university was cooperating with the investigation. Lombard faces extradition to Washington, D.C., to face charges that he solicited an adult to have...

Family members have described rape suspect Felix E. Montoya as a short-tempered man prone to violent outbursts, new information that justified increasing his bail to $500,000, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Magisterial District Judge Alyce Farrell granted a request for bail modification for Mr. Montoya, more than doubling the original amount of $200,000, after receiving details about the Taylor man's violent home life, First Assistant District Attorney Gene Talerico said. While Mr. Montoya remains in the Lackawanna County Prison, the public has inundated the district attorney's office with gifts and offers of assistance for the 5-year-old girl he is accused of...

CORSICANA, Texas — The live-in boyfriend of the mother of a 6-year-old found hanged and sexually assaulted has been arrested in connection with the child's death in Texas, KDFW-TV reported Thursday. Kevin Anders was arrested after the lifeless body of Hannah Mack was found hanging in the garage by a rope around the neck.

Story Published: Dec 26, 2007 at 9:31 AM PST YAKIMA -- A Wapato elementary teacher was in court Monday charged with several counts of child rape and child molestation just days after one of his students told police they had been having a sexual relationship for more than a year. Adams Elementary teacher Jesus Barcena could face a maximum of life in prison if found guilty of raping one of his fifth grade students. The student told her mother about the allegations. Barcenas was arrested last week. Police say Barcenas began molesting the girl last fall just a few weeks...

CONNELLSVILLE, Pa. -- Police said a Fayette County man claimed he sexually assaulted a 5-year-old by accident.

Greensburg Man Charged With Raping 5-Month-Old POSTED: 4:01 pm EST March 7, 2008 UPDATED: 5:49 pm EDT March 10, 2008 GREENSBURG, Pa. -- An 18-year-old Greensburg man has been charged with raping a baby who police said was left in his care.Police said Scott Wade Smith raped his girlfriend's 5-month-old girl Friday morning at a home in the 500 block of Highland Avenue, where several people, including the infant's mother, were living.Authorities said the infant suffered severe injuries and was flown to Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, where surgery was performed. Police said the girl was crying so hard she nearly...

CORPUS CHRISTI — A 25-year-old man was sentenced Thursday to 70 years in prison for molesting his former fiancee’s 5-year-old daughter. Charles Cueva was found guilty last week of two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and one count of indecency with a child by sexual contact. The jury on Monday sentenced him to two 70-year sentences and a 15-year sentence along with $30,000 in fines. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos decided the prison terms would run concurrently. Prosecutors had argued for consecutive sentences , which would have meant 155 years in prison. Cueva, whose attorneys filed a...

A 17-year-old Terrytown man was arrested on charges of aggravated rape and first-degree murder of an 8-month-old child Saturday afternoon, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said. Arnold T. Ross, of 136 Friedrichs Road in Terrytown, was booked into the Jefferson Parish Correctional Facility. No bond is available on the first-degree murder charge. Ross was arrested after officers responded to a call of an unresponsive infant at 1656 Gary Court, Apt. B, near Gretna. The infant, Da-Von Lonzo, was taken to Ochsner Westbank where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival, according to a release issued by Col. John Fortunato, a...

West Bank teen arrested in rape and murder of 8-month-old by C.J. Lin, The Times-Picayune Sunday June 07, 2009, 9:50 AM Arnold RossA 17-year-old Terrytown man was arrested on charges of aggravated rape and first-degree murder of an 8-month-old child Saturday afternoon, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said. Arnold T. Ross, of 136 Friedrichs Road in Terrytown, was booked into the Jefferson Parish Correctional Facility. No bond is available on the first-degree murder charge.

A man accused of sexually assaulting his ex-girlfriend’s infant in an unincorporated area near west suburban Montgomery was ordered held on $250,000 bond this week. Joe P. Harvey, Jr., 27, of the 0-100 block of Marnel Road in Montgomery, was charged with one count of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child, one count of aggravated criminal sexual abuse and one count of criminal sexual assault, according to a release from the Kendall County Sheriff’s office. Harvey is accused of sexually assaulting his ex-girlfriend’s baby, whose gender and age was not immediately available, on Thursday in his home, the release...

The Christian mother of a 12-year-old girl in Punjab Province who was kidnapped, coerced into converting to Islam and forcibly married to a 37-year-old Muslim hopes to recover her daughter at a court hearing next week. The reaction of Pakistani law enforcement authorities to Sajida Masih’s complaint so far – ridiculing her and asserting that there is nothing she can do because her daughter is now a Muslim – does not encourage her hopes of recovering her daughter Huma at next Thursday’s (June 11) hearing. Masih said that Muhammad Imran abducted Huma at gunpoint on Feb. 23 from Hanif Kot...

SEATTLE - The odyssey of Mary Kay Letourneau, which began years ago when she was a 34-year-old teacher who raped a sixth-grade student, has now evolved into "Hot for Teacher" night at a Pioneer Square bar. But the bar's owner says the event is all in fun, and he hopes people take it in the right spirit. Letourneau, who eventually served time for raping her former student then later married him after her release from prison, will be hosting the event Saturday at Fuel Sports Eats & Beats on Washington Street. Letourneau's former student, Vili Fualaau, will be there, too....

They are the world’s most elusive hunters. Using their looks, their status, and their personalities, female sex killers can be the most difficult to catch. I have studied serial killers all of my adult life and am the only profiler to interview a large group of female serial killers and create their profiles. I work with police on such cases around the United States, and from first- hand experience, I can attest to the fact that female rape murderers are clever. Though rare, such predators are more common than the general public knows. Why? In most instances, when a female...

The alleged victim in a 1977 sexual assault case against director Roman Polanski has filed court papers seeking dismissal of the charges against him. The woman's declaration seeking dismissal was filed Monday in Los Angeles, California, in connection with Polanski's efforts to have the 31-year-old case dismissed. Polanski, 75, has lived in exile in France since fleeing the United States in 1978 after pleading guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse. Polanski admitted to having sex with a 13-year-old girl, and an arrest warrant against him remains in effect. In her declaration, Samantha Geimer said, "I am no longer a 13-year-old child....

When our rulers on the Supreme Court invalidated the State of Louisiana's death penalty for child rapists — in the case appropriately titled Kennedy v. Louisiana, decided June 25 — Justice Kennedy and the Court's liberal bloc insisted that the Eighth Amendment does not mean what it meant when it was adopted. Rather, the question of what is "cruel and unusual" punishment is answered by "the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society." Such gobbledygook is the mark of Left-liberal hauteur. In an arrested-development society, getting older is not necessarily maturing, and chronological maturation is...

Police believe they have found the remains of Brooke Bennett, 12, of Braintree. Police say the remains were found on property on Crocker Road in Randolph near the home of Michael Jacques. Police found ground there that had been recently disturbed yesterday. Today, a search found the body there. Police say Brooke's body was recovered at 4:45 p.m. An autopsy will be performed in Burlington to confirm it is Brooke and to try to find the cause of death. Police do call the death suspicious. Brooke's family was notified of the discovery. Brooke disappeared a week ago. She was last...

Mark Schwab was executed Tuesday evening by lethal injection at the Florida State Prison. Schwab was convicted of raping and killing 11-year-old Junny Rios Martinez of Brevard County in 1991.Tuesday morning, Schwab visited with his mother and aunt and ate his final meal of fried eggs, bacon, sausage, hash browns, buttered toast and chocolate milk. A representative of the prison said Schwab was polite and followed directions and visited with his religious adviser until 30 minutes before his 6 p.m. execution.The Supreme Court denied Schwab's last appeal early Tuesday evening.This was the first execution since the case of Angel Diaz...

The Supreme Court, in a decision that attempts to honor the sanctity of life and to reserve the death penalty for situations where a murder has occurred, has just given one who rapes a child and the child both a free pass on life. The rapist gets to spend the rest of their life in prison supported by tax payers, escaping the hangman's noose, while the child gets to spend the rest of their life supported by themselves and trying to avoid tying the noose to end their suffering . The Court got it wrong completely for the following reasons...

Rep. Lamar Smith, a San Antonio Republican who represents part of Austin, and three of his GOP colleagues introduced legislation Thursday to change the U.S. Constitution to allow the death penalty for the rape of a child younger than 12.

Here's What Obama Said:Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says he disagrees with a Supreme Court decision striking down the death penalty for child rapists, telling reporters Wednesday that states should be able to execute people for “heinous” crimes. “I think that the rape of small child, 6 or 8 years old, is a heinous crime,” the Illinois senator said. “And if a state makes a decision that under narrow, limited, well-defined circumstances the death penalty is at least potentially applicable, that does not violate our Constitution.” See the video!

A Massachusetts politician and defense attorney has touched off a firestorm with his shocking public vow to torment and "rip apart" child rape victims who take the witness stand if the state legislature passed stiff mandatory sentences for child sex offenders. Rep. James Fagan, a Democrat, made the comments during debate last month on the state House floor. "I'm gonna rip them apart," Fagan said of young victims during his testimony on the bill. "I'm going to make sure that the rest of their life is ruined, that when they’re 8 years old, they throw up; when they’re 12 years...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday the death penalty cannot be imposed for child rape, its first decision in more than 30 years on whether a crime other than murder can be punished by execution.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that executing a Louisiana child rapist would be unconstitutional, concluding capital punishment is reserved for murderers. The ruling was a 5-4 decision.

MONTREAL - A preteen girl was clueless during years of sexual abuse by the leader of a fringe Christian church that he had claimed her as his wife, a Quebec court heard Thursday. "He said that I was his wife," said the woman, who cannot be identified. "At the time it didn't click. It went in one ear and out the other." She later added that she "didn't really understand what (Cormier) meant" when he talked of marriage or engagement. The Crown produced a paper, signed by Cormier's right-hand man at the now-defunct Church of Downtown Montreal, that stated the...

In a stunning turnaround, the cabby hailed as a hero for delivering an "abandoned" baby to a Queens firehouse Thursday was arrested yesterday for making up the heart-wrenching story. In a dramatic jailhouse confession to The Post, livery cabdriver Klever Sailema, 45, said he was only trying to help the infant. -snip Sailema allegedly teamed up with the child's dad, Carlos Rodas, 27, and paternal aunt, Maria Siavichay, to enact a bizarre plot to get rid of the kid, dubbed "Lourdes," but whose real name is Daniella Perez, after the little girl's 14-year-old mother said she could no longer handle...

Related To Story           Video: Teacher Accused Of Sex With Teen   Teacher Accused Of Sex With Teen Man Arrested On 2 Counts Of Sex With Minor   POSTED: 12:27 pm EST January 8, 2008 UPDATED: 5:31 pm EST January 8, 2008  PALM COAST, Fla. -- A Flagler Palm Coast High School teacher was arrested Monday night on suspicion of sexual conduct with a 16-year-old boy.   Antonio Izquierdo, 38, of 40 LaMancha Drive, in Palm Coast, was charged with two counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. Izquierdo teaches math and fashion merchandising...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court said on Friday it would decide whether the death penalty can be imposed for the crime of...

Louisiana Man Is Only Inmate on Death Row for a Nonhomicide Offense: Lawyers for a Louisiana man who received a death sentence for raping a child petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday to have his case heard before the justices. Patrick Kennedy is the only person on death row for a nonhomicide offense. He was accused of raping his 8-year-old stepdaughter in 1998, badly injuring her during the crime. She testified against him five years later at the trial. Kennedy's legal team wants the court to declare Louisiana's law allowing the death penalty for child rape unconstitutional. The petition asks...

Latino Man, 31, Surrenders in N.J. Students' Execution-Style Murders Thursday, August 09, 2007 By Heather Scroope E-MAIL STORY PRINTER FRIENDLY VERSION Aug. 6: Terrance Aeriel was one of three college students killed in an execution-style shooting in Newark, N.J. Aug. 6: Terrance Aeriel was one of three college students killed in an execution-style shooting in Newark, N.J. NEWARK, N.J. — DEVELOPING STORY: A 31-year-old Latino man surrendered in connection with the execution-style killings of three college students in New Jersey, officials said. Jose Carranza, 31, whose fingerprint was lifted from a bottle, turned himself in on Thursday afternoon. Mayor Cory...

DENVER -- Law enforcement agencies say they followed policies and procedures, but an illegal alien, accused of sexually assaulting a nine year-old Denver girl, was still able to post a bond and flee the country.

Daily Mail UK 8th February 2007 As three men are convicted of planning 'another Soham', a blistering attack on the sexualising of the young By BEL MOONEY Object to sexualised images such as the photos of Girls Aloud posing as "sexy schoolgirls" and you'll be derided as a prude. But the truth is they're poisoning our culture ... and turning every child into a potential sexual target. How fitting it was that he made terrifying masks for sick horror movies for a living. His head was full of even sicker horror as he plotted the torture, rape and murder of...