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A search has been launched for a 50-year-old convicted rapist and suspect in the killings of six people whose bodies were found in and around a house in Cleveland, Ohio, police said Friday.

Roman Polanski has been moved from his Zurich jail for medical treatment, his French lawyer said Saturday. The film director was arrested in September after nearly 32 years in self-imposed exile from the United States following his conviction for having sex with a 13-year-old girl. "All I know is that he has been taken from prison for medical attention. I don't know where he is or when he will be returned to prison," Herve Temime told Reuters. Temime also said he visited the director in jail last week and found him depressed and tired. The move comes in the wake...

I think everyone here is pretty well-versed on this story. I felt she was deserving of her own zero dollar, so here it is: For the whole series of Zero dollar bills, go here: "Flickr Archive of Zero Bills"

Could it be that the conservative culture warriors who portray Hollywood as a cesspool of moral bankruptcy have been right all along? Not really. But in the case of Roman Polanski, the puritan scolds definitely have a point. Even the French government has backed off its defense of the fugitive director.... But some of Hollywood's most prominent luminaries contend that Polanski's crime--which he acknowledged in a guilty plea--really wasn't so awful. Or that maybe it was a big deal at the time, but now we should let bygones be bygones. Or that maybe it's still a big deal, but whatever...

In a handwritten jailhouse letter full of misspellings, accused rapist and kidnapper Phillip Garrido expressed concern for his alleged victim, Jaycee Dugard, saying he believes her "civil rights have been clearly violated." Accused kidnapper and rapist Phillip Garrido wrote in a jailhouse letter that Jaycee Dugard's civil rights have been violated. In it, Garrido wrote that Dugard's "free speach [sic] rights are being violated, also she has been repeatedly denied access to have an attorney present during questioning." Garrido urged Gray to "take this to a privet [sic] attorney who will look this matter over for her best interest."

All one needs to know about the case of Roman Polanski is that Woody Allen is among those who signed the Hollywood petition for releasing Polanski. In 1976, Polanski got a 13-year-old girl drunk, gave her a Quaalude and then raped her. After he pleaded guilty to the crime, Polanksi fled the country. This week, the Obama administration pushed the Swiss government to arrest him in hopes of sending him to the United States to face the music. Of course Allen sees nothing wrong with Polanksi's behavior. Allen's preference for the daughter of his girlfriend - indeed, the step-sister of...

First, there was: "He's a brilliant guy, and he made a little mistake 32 years ago." Next came: "Whatever you think about the so-called crime . . . it is a shocking way to treat such a man." And, then: "I know it wasn't rape-rape. It was something else, but I don't believe it was rape-rape." Roman Polanski's apologists -- as typified by the comments of Swiss filmmaker Otto Weisser, Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, film and TV celebrity Whoopi Goldberg -- don't let basic facts, or even simple decency for that matter, get in the way of their defense of...

Hasn't Roman Polanski suffered enough? Didn't he endure all those cool, gray, rainy Paris winters? Wasn't he forced -- well, not forced, but strongly enticed -- to subsist all those years on overpriced fare served up by haughty waiters in Michelin-starred restaurants? Didn't he survive for decades having his vacation options limited, essentially, to the grim monotony of the South of France? I've got a better question: Shouldn't Polanski and his many apologists give us a break? I'm a huge fan of Polanski's work. "Chinatown" is one of my favorite movies of all time, "Rosemary's Baby" is a masterpiece, and...

World leaders gathering in New York to resolve global problems? Sounds like the UN General Assembly -- well, except when they're all across town with Bill Clinton. The Democratic Party legend basked Tuesday in his unofficial role of world problem solver as he opened the fifth annual session of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), timed to coincide with the huge UN meeting a few blocks away. Swelling, movie-style music accompanied the white-haired Clinton as he took the stage at the Sheraton hotel where he joked of having been afraid, following the 2008 Wall Street meltdown, that "we'd throw a party...

Today, Deputy Judge David Elvin QC, quashed Justice Secretary Jack Straw's decision to continue detaining the prisoner, known only as 'A', in a male prison. He was told that steps were already being put in place to transfer A to a female prison 'as soon as possible'. The move will pave the way for 'A' to have the operation to fully change from a woman to a man. He has to live openly as a woman for two years before having the procedure. A's health authority will have to foot the £8,000 bill for his sex change operation. --- Although...

An Omaha man had less-than-divine designs for the centuries-old Virgin Mary painting he stole from St. Cecilia Cathedral. Aurelio Vallecillo-Sanchez planned to use money from selling the sacred painting to pay for an abortion for the 14-year-old girl he raped, prosecutors say. That wasn't the only detail revealed Friday as Vallecillo-Sanchez, 39, pleaded no contest to sexual assault and theft. Prosecutors say he threatened to kill the girl and her family if she went to police about the sexual assault. Advertising And, prosecutors say, they believe Vallecillo-Sanchez was responsible for the thefts of dozens of pieces of religious artwork from...

HANOVER, Mass. — A Massachusetts prosecutor says a 6-year-old girl was kidnapped by a would-be rapist but managed to escape from his apartment despite being in leg shackles. Plymouth District Attorney Timothy Cruz says the girl was found Saturday afternoon as police searched the apartment complex in Hanover, about 20 miles southeast of Boston, where she and the suspect live. Her mother reported her missing at about 1:30 p.m. Cruz says the girl pointed officers to an apartment where she was taken. They arrested 26-year-old Justin Shine after a struggle.

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....

Every time I read about Daniel Hood, I feel worse for Xavier Ramos. Hood is an offensive lineman from Knoxville (Tenn.) Catholic High who signed a letter of intent earlier this week to play football at Tennessee. He will be on scholarship in the fall. Five years ago, Hood was convicted of kidnapping and aggravated rape. According to court documents published by the Knoxville News-Sentinel, as a 13-year-old Hood helped a 17-year-old boy bind Hood's 14-year-old cousin to a bed with duct tape and then watched as the older boy sexually assaulted her with a household object. -snip- That player...

After doing his time, John Floyd Thomas Jr. held various jobs. He was a social worker during this time and a hospital employee, as well as a personal electronics salesman. During this time, the Westside Rapist was attacking white senior women.

Oakland shooter unable to escape cycle of violence By JULIANA BARBASSA – 2 hours ago OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Lovelle Mixon died at 26, hiding in an apartment, shot by police during a gun fight that left four officers dead and stunned a city already plagued by violence. Court records show a lifetime of wrong turns spent largely behind bars. Family members, angry and upset after their loss, describe Mixon as an deeply frustrated young man who likely snapped under the weight of opportunities missed or denied.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (NBC) -- A man who police say was a Girl Scout troop leader in Faribault faces sex charges for allegedly raping a 15-year-old troop member and taking naked photos of her. Entrusted to lead young members of two Faribault Girl Scout troops, authorities say 38-year-old Michael Borromeo is now accused of raping at least one of those girls. "It's pretty alarming to hear that a person in a position of authority would take advantage of a young child," says Joe Yetzer, an investigator with the Rice County Sheriff's Department. Borromeo is in the Rice County Jail, charged with...

ARLINGTON – Police Detective Tommy Le Noir remembers the alarm that gripped this city in 1996 after two young women were found strangled in the bathtubs of their east Arlington apartment complex. "There was a lot of fear in the community and in the Police Department," Le Noir said. "The fear is that you don't want this to happen again. At that time there was some incredible panic in those apartment complexes. People moved out in masses. It was just an incredible time." Tuesday night, almost 13 years after the crimes, the state plans to execute 35-year-old Dale Devon Scheanette...

SAN DIEGO — A Mexican national with a history of immigration violations and arrests has been taken into custody as a suspect in a series of sexual assaults, authorities said Tuesday. Carlos Ceron Salazar, 30, was booked into jail Monday in San Diego on suspicion of assault with intention to commit rape, mayhem and sexual battery in connection with an attack in December 2006 on a woman jogging at Miramar Lake, San Diego police said. The woman told officers at the time that she was running about 12:30 p.m. when a man grabbed her around the neck and forced her...

An intended rape victim shot and killed her attacker this morning in Cape Girardeau when he broke into her home to rape her a second time, police said. The 57-year-old woman shot Ronnie W. Preyer, 47, a registered sex offender, in the chest with a shotgun when he broke through her locked basement door. The woman told police he was the same man who raped her several days earlier. Officials do not intend to seek charges against her. Ronnie Preyer.

Memories of an alleged kidnapping in 1978 that became universally known as the 'Mormon sex-slave case' were stirred following the appearance of Bernann McKinney on television screens and in newspapers around the world with the five pit bull puppies that were cloned from her much-loved dog Booger's frozen DNA. Reports from Seoul, explaining that Ms McKinney had paid £25,000 for the procedure to create five genetically identical replicas of her pet in the first transaction of its kind led to furious speculation about her true identity. To those who remembered the sex slave scandal, Ms McKinney's face looked familiar. The...

This April 25 will mark the 30th Anniversary of the best-known of the many rapes that Bill Clinton committed. Most Americans are unaware of the fact that Bill Clinton, who served as their president for eight years, is a serial rapist. That is not their fault because the press spiked the story in 1999 when the Juanita Broaddrick story broke. It is just a sad coincidence that April is sexual assault prevention and awareness month. I think it might be a good idea to wear a lavender ribbon pin on this date. People will ask, "What's with the lavender ribbon?"...

The Bill Clinton who met privately with California's superdelegates at last weekend's state convention was a far cry from the congenial former president who afterward publicly urged fellow Democrats to "chill out" over the race between his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Barack Obama. In fact, before his speech Clinton had one of his famous meltdowns Sunday, blasting away at former presidential contender Bill Richardson for having endorsed Obama, the media and the entire nomination process. "It was one of the worst political meetings I have ever attended," one superdelegate said. According to those at the meeting, Clinton - who...

Public's help needed to find missing sex offender William A. Blythe         Story Published: Mar 21, 2008 at 1:38 PM PDT Story Updated: Mar 21, 2008 at 3:00 PM PDT By KOMO Staff   Pierce County sheriff's detectives are seeking the public's help in locating a missing Level 3 sex offender with a history of child rape and molestation. A reward of up to $1,000 is being offered for information leading to the arrest of William A. Blythe, 29, who is considered very dangerous and at serious threat to re-offend. A felony warrant has been issued...

Had an automated telephone call at the office today (yes, I was working) to invite me and all of us, to hear former President Bill Clinton speak at Santa Ana College at the Cook Gynmasium in a rally for his wife. It starts at 8:00 a.m., doors will open at 7:00 a.m. and you can line up two hours earlier. The stadium only holds 1,000 so get there early. Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez is also going to be there, so it's a can't miss opportunity to meet the brilliant Loretta Sanchez and an impeached President, all at the same time. Santa...

Bill Clinton Unloads on Press By Anne E. Kornblut Former president Bill Clinton lashed out in response to criticism on Wednesday from a prominent Democrat in South Carolina, accusing the Obama campaign of running a political smear campaign against him through the media. "You live for this," Clinton snapped at CNN reporter Jessica Yellin when she asked him to comment on statements by Dick Harpootlian, the former South Carolina Democratic party chairman, who said recent distortions by the Clintons are "reprehensible." Harpootlian, who backed the Clintons in the 1990s and now supports Sen. Barack Obama, had compared Clinton's distortions to...

Former President Bill Clinton got positively riled -- as in steely-eyed -- today when pressed by a local TV reporter on the issue of lawsuits filed by Sen. Hillary Clinton's Nevada supporters to challenge the Jan. 19 Democratic "at large'' caucus locations that will serve workers on the Las Vegas strip. Many of those workers are members of the 60,000-strong Culinary Workers Union -- which has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama.

JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 4 -- Within the Zulu culture of Jacob Zuma, the newly elected president of the African National Congress, few moments in a man's life are more celebrated than taking a wife -- even if he already has others. But news of Zuma's plans to marry a longtime girlfriend this weekend -- marking, by most counts, his sixth wedding -- sent waves of unease Friday through this polyglot nation where progressive notions of women's rights clash with deeply held convictions about respecting South Africa's varied cultural traditions. The development appeared particularly awkward for the ANC, which over nearly a...

Mike Huckabee is a very popular guy, but not so much in conservative Republican circles. Most people I speak with who are more than one issue voters, i.e. abortion, see Mike Huckabee as too liberal for their tastes. No, Mike Huckabee is a popular guy in Democratic circles. They want to run against Mike and are both building him up and preparing to take him down. It is best summed up in the words of Ed, from Ed’s Blog on Democrats.org. He writes: I think no matter who the Democrats run, they can beat Huckabee in a general election. It...

Absolutely brutal YouTube video regarding Mike Huckabee's advocating for the release of convicted rapist Wayne DuMond who went on to rape again and murder. Mike DukakabeeNational Review has the full story behind all this.

In 1985, DuMond was convicted of the rape of a 17-year-old girl with a connection to then-Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton: She was the governor's distant cousin and the daughter of a major campaign contributor... When Huckabee became governor in 1996, he expressed doubts about DuMond's guilt and said he was considering commuting his sentence to time served. After the victim and her supporters protested, Huckabee decided against commutation. But in 1997, according to the Kansas City Star, Huckabee wrote a letter to DuMond saying "my desire is that you be released from prison." Less than a year later, DuMond was...

BOSTON -- A Boston attorney once considered by ABC television to star in “The Bachelor” is, according to prosecutors, a serial rapist. Gary Zerola is charged with the rape and attempted rape of two 19-year-old women in 2004 and 2006. He is also facing charges in Florida that he drugged and then raped an 18-year-old college student he met in a Miami Beach club. Prosecutor Suzanne Kontz said in court Monday that Zerola took one victim he’d met at a Boston bar to Neiman Marcus and bought her a $700 dress and $250 shoes. She then alleged that he took...

The Georgia Supreme Court has ordered Genarlow Wilson freed from prison. The court ruled, 4-3, that Wilson's 10 year sentence for having oral sex was cruel and unusual punishment. Latest Details

Rick G over at Lone Star Times provides a relentlessly honest look at the case of rapist/murderer/illegal immigrant Jose Medellin and the Bush Administrations concerns vis a vis the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. I highly recommend reading the whole thing if you want to be fully informed on this increasingly contentious case. At issue is whether or not Medellin - a man undoubtedly guilty of a horrible crime - shold have his case reconsidered because the Texas authorities did not provide access for Medellin to the Mexican consulate prior to his trial and conviction. Texas is holding that since...

No right to a painless death penaltyPosted: October 3, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern When Michael Anthony Taylor kidnapped 15-year-old Ann Harrison while she was waiting for her school bus, then raped and brutally murdered her, he didn't seem to care about the pain and agony she suffered at his hand. But now that Taylor has been convicted and sentenced to capital punishment by lethal injection, he's suddenly concerned with how much pain he might feel at his deserved death. Taylor claims that Missouri's triple-chemical process of lethal injection exposes him to a risk that if he is not sufficiently unconscious...

FORT WORTH -- One had been asleep in her Haltom City home when she was attacked. Her children were in a nearby room. Another woman had been waiting in her car for a friend outside an Arlington apartment complex when she was dragged from her car, forced to a nearby field and raped. The third had just arrived home from work and was unlocking the front door of her Fort Worth apartment when she was hit from behind, shoved inside and raped. Friday morning, the three women came together in a Tarrant County courtroom to address Jose G. Carrillo, the...

The Oakland Police Department has asked the FBI to investigate accusations by City Council President Ignacio De La Fuente that investigators pumped up rape and assault charges against his son to embarrass the council president just as he was gearing up to run for mayor. The FBI has yet to respond to the request and may turn it down. If it does, Oakland officials said they will bring in other outside investigators to review the case."These charges are very serious," Police Chief Wayne Tucker said Tuesday. "We want the facts known."City Attorney John Russo, who was in on the decision...

With his son facing a 14-year prison stretch for multiple sexual assaults, Oakland City Council President Ignacio De La Fuente has gone on the attack against the Police Department - accusing investigators of blowing the case out of proportion because they wanted to destroy his political career as he embarked on a campaign for mayor. De La Fuente, who came in second to Ron Dellums in last year's race, made the accusations in a series of interviews with us and on a Web site that he and his wife have launched - with a telling name, www.delafuenteconspiracy.com. On the Web...

Vigilantes attacked a Beaver County man Tuesday because he allegedly tried to lure two children into his Economy Village home, Ambridge police said. Police who found the bleeding man, Kenneth Newingham, outside his home later charged him with attempted luring. The suspect told police he did not know his attackers and no charges have been filed in connection with the beating. Investigators said Mr. Newingham, 43, had been inviting children to his home since last month. Only once did any of them accept, police said. On Tuesday evening he tried to lure a 10-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl who...

Bridgeport, CT (LifeNews.com) -- The employee of an abortion facility in Connecticut is headed to prison for three years for sexually abusing girls at a modeling agency he owned. Michael Britt, who worked as a janitor at an abortion center, is the subject of another case involving sexual abuse and abortion. Britt was convicted of sexually assaulting three teenagers from Norwalk who went to his modeling agency. During the sentencing hearing, Britt told Superior Court Judge Richard Comerford Jr. he only had "praises and forgiveness" for the young women he abused. Britt tried to get a reduced sentence, according to...

How much did this transformation cost her? Yes, this really is the same person. Spewing Hate on the Internet, Anonymous, With No Accountability Sunday , August 12, 2007 By Susan Estrich Most mornings, my assistant goes through my e-mail before I do, culling out the ones that are simply vicious, vindictive and mean, so I don’t have to see them. Our rule is that threats get reported to the police, while mere ugliness just gets deleted. But once in a while, I get up early or she gets in late, and I make the mistake of clicking on messages I...

Famous "hard case" of pregnant nine year old called into question MANAGUA, August 16, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Known to the world only as "Rosita," a nine year old Nicaraguan child impregnated by a rapist several years ago became the international poster girl for the pro-abortion movement. Since 2003 her "hard case" pregnancy has been used to promote the cause of "theraputic abortion" in Nicaragua and worldwide, inspiring numerous articles, petition drives, and even a documentary featured on the cable TV channel Cinemax. Now, media sources in Nicaragua have uncovered the fact that "Rosita" has a living child (different from the...

Police have charged an Albemarle County man in two attacks that were previously linked by DNA to a serial rapist responsible for seven sexual assaults over the past decade. Authorities said Nathan Antonio Washington, 40, is also a suspect in the five other attacks linked to the investigation, but did not say whether they believe he is the serial rapist.

A would-be rapist broke into a Cedar City home and used a knife to detain a woman for an hour before she was able to call for help. Police say the incident began about 3 a.m. Sunday in Cedar City. An 18-year-old intoxicated man entered a stranger's home with the intent of finding someone with whom to have sex, said Sgt. Jerry Womack. The suspect took a knife from the kitchen and held it to the neck of a 23-year-old woman inside, Womack said. For about the next hour, the woman tried to dissuade the suspect from raping her. She...

MOUNT HOLLY — An illegal Brazilian immigrant living in Delran has been charged in a series of sexual assaults and attacks in Moorestown and Massachusetts, authorities said yesterday. Burlington County Prosecutor Robert D. Bernardi described Mar-celo G. Mota, 28, of Tenby Chase Apartments as a “serial rapist” who committed two sexual assaults and one attempted sexual assault against women in central Massachusetts in 2003 and a sexual assault and an attempted sexual assault against women in the Laurel Creek section of Moores-town in 2005. An assistant prosecutor said during a hearing yesterday that Mota had confessed to the Moores-town attacks....

YOUTUBE SING-ALONG - BILL CLINTON THE SEXUAL PREDATOR Several months ago, I began putting presentations on YouTube, including parody songs. One of them was a Bill Clinton sexual predator song to Billy Joel's YOU'RE ALWAYS A WOMAN TO ME. On several YouTubes, it has shown that different sites have linked or embedded one of my videos. There is one curious one, however, that I don't understand. Obviously, the sexual predator song is not going to be linked on Hillary's government site. Here are the clicks from outside YouTube. Does this simply mean that the song was accessed from a...

Former President May Still Be Ultimate Power Broker (CBS) HARLEM -- At about 12:45 p.m. on Thursday, 13 floors above 125th Street off Fifth in Harlem, the former President of the United States walks into a packed double conference-sized room with not enough room on the riser in the back for all the TV cameras. And only two or three of the cameras are from local news or the usual networks. Many are from business outlets, and half are from international news agencies, particularly outfits that cover Latin America. Because standing there with Mr. Clinton are Frank Giustra, one of...

An elderly Queensland prisoner serving a 12-year sentence for rape and other offences has died of a suspected heart attack, authorities say. The 70-year-old man died at Brisbane's Princess Alexandra Hospital about 2.45pm (AEST) on Friday, a Queensland Corrective Services spokesman said. He said the offender was taken from the Wolston Correctional Centre to the hospital after he began experiencing chest and abdominal pain. The spokesman said the man was jailed for rape and indecent dealing offences. Queensland Corrective Services officers are still trying to notify his next of kin.

By SUSAN SHARP sharp@lafollettepress.com Elk Valley resident Scotty Hatfield isn’t sorry for trying to kill a man. Hatfield’s only regret is he didn’t succeed that December 2005 night when he felt a moral obligation to take the law into his own hands. H atfield recently was tried by a jury of his peers and found guilty of reckless aggravated assault and reckless endangerment. The original indictment charged him with three counts of aggravated assault and one count of felony reckless endangerment. Jurors ultimately chose to convict him on the lesser charges. Scotty Hatfield never denied the charges. Sitting in court...

<p>Continuing a week that has been as close to unforgettable as any in the Lakers' rich history, Kobe Bryant has decided he wants to be traded from the Lakers, said numerous sources close to the nine-time All-Star.</p> <p>Bryant, who turns 29 in August, has four years and $88.6 million left on his contract. Bryant's frustration has continued to boil since the Lakers were eliminated by the Phoenix Suns in five games earlier this month, and Bryant has been increasingly vocal with his displeasure, which started with his acknowledgement to The Times last Saturday, when he said he wanted the team to acquire more pieces around him.</p>