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ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. – A 41-year-old Altamonte Springs man was arrested in October after he pistol-whipped and shot a PlayStation 4 video game console during an argument with his stepson, according to the police department. Police said the stepson told them his stepfather — Byron Haynes — was yelling at his sister, and the boy intervened. The boy said Haynes told him to “shut the [expletive] up and get out of the room,” according to police. The arrest report shows the boy and Haynes began to argue, and the man retrieved a gun from his bedroom. Police said Haynes began...

Jan. 13, 2008, 1:34AM Arlington man accused of sodomizing stepson to avenge daughter's rape Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — An Arlington man faces a charge of aggravated sexual assault after police said he sodomized his 18-year-old stepson to avenge the teenager's alleged rape of the man's 8-year-old daughter. The 32-year-old father turned himself into the Tarrant County Jail on Friday and was released Saturday after posting a $17,500 bond. The stepson was arrested Jan. 2 and charged with suspicion of aggravated sexual assault. Police say the father caught the stepson assaulting his 8-year-old daughter, and a subsequent examination at...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A father sodomized his 18-year-old stepson to avenge the teenager's alleged rape of the man's 8-year-old daughter, police said. The father, 32, turned himself into to authorities on Friday and was released from jail Saturday after posting a $17,500 bond. He faces a charge of aggravated sexual assault. The stepson was arrested Jan. 2 and charged with suspicion of aggravated sexual assault. Police say the father caught him assaulting his daughter, and a subsequent examination at a hospital revealed the girl had been sodomized. Sgt. Cheryl Johnson, supervisor of the Fort Worth sex crimes unit,...

TYLER, Texas - A 39-year-old woman who had sexual relationship with her teenage stepson and later gave birth to their child has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Carla Kay Dinger pleaded guilty to sexual assault of a child before Tuesday's sentencing. She was also ordered to pay a $10,000 fine. She admitted carrying on a sexual relationship for two years with her then-stepson, starting in 1998 when he was 14. It ended when Dinger found out she was pregnant with her stepson's child, prosecutor Jason Parrish said. The stepson told his mother about the relationship in 2001, and...

OTTSVILLE, Pa. -- Teresa Heinz Kerry once hinted at tensions with her first-born son, a 37-year-old blacksmith who seeks an anonymous life with his wife and child in rural Pennsylvania..........Heinz Kerry's eldest son lives with his physician wife, Kristann, on a wooded 163-acre farm near Philadelphia, refusing all inquiries about Kerry's campaign, the Heinz foundation, or his own work and ambitions. He operates a small Buddhist high school for troubled teens nearby, and makes reproduction ironwork in a studio on his secluded property, land he has conserved so it can never be developed. On a much larger scale, his mother...

<p>Mohammad Nour al-Din Saffi is seen during his transfer to Krome Detention Center.</p> <p>MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- The stepson of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in U.S. custody Thursday on a visa violation, will be sent out of the country in the next few days, a source with the Immigration and Naturalization Service said.</p>