Devin Moore, the 18-year-old who was convicted of killing two police officers and a dispatcher, was sentenced to death.
If you remember, Moore’s attorneys tried blaming his actions on Grand Theft Auto. But the defense attorneys are already looking to appeal on the grounds that the video game “evidence” was excluded, and the fact that the jury was all white while Moore is black. đ
An all-plaid jury would have convicted him. He killed three cops. He deserves to die.
How’s this for timing? McGill University has been named the only Canadian University in Playboy Magazine’s Top 10 Party Schools.
In case you’ve forgotten, McGill University is in the middle of a hazing scandal where a rookie football player has accused veteran players of anally probing him with a broom handle in a ritual known as “Dr. Broom”.
I never knew that sexual sadism was one of Playboy’s requirements for a party school.
Once again I’m late to the party, but hey I run three websites, so sue me.
Anyway, it appears that Esmie Tseng is still updating her LiveJournal through a friend of hers on the outside. Here is a copy of her friends only entry dated 9/2/05…
Hey, Kidsâ Missing you all lots. If you could, Lex, pass this on to the rest of the BVN massesâŚ
How much drama am I missing out on? If at all possible, fill me in a littleâŚ
The basics are here. Food is greatâthe JDC is sure to keep our appetites filled to the top.
A substitute for love? Humans are simple creaturesâŚam I wrong?
Walls are so bare. No color here, and you know I love those colorsâŚ
The staff is pretty cool. Like mommies and daddies. Iâm at a sleep over. I get my own room.
The nice thing is that there is such a variety of people. I can hear and feel the heart and soul, and I just want to grab each one for a typical philosophical discussion.
Court is September 13, 2005. There are so many weird and basic restrictions here. Toilet paper, lights, individual voice are all so oppressedâŚ
I have never been one to complain but itâs almost as though weâre considered less human in the bland walls of the JDC. Humans need to feel to accomplish any of their potential, and if taking that away/limiting that right is called justice, thenâŚ? I donât understand how one can ever assert that what we call punishment is as productive as society has so strongly established.
Do we become better people after a sentence? How many of us truly learn from our mistakes? Can we really justify assigning the same punishment to two different offenders, so easily and obviously different in history, mindset, loves, habits, intelligence, physique, hindsight, reasoning, Etc.?
I just donât understand how society has so easily dumped on its own. All of which are so unique and deserving of any opportunity in such a vast world into such a blue and basic bucket? It seems redemption is an aspect impossible to achieve, no matter which end of the spectrum of extremity that the crime is on. We all have such varying degrees of motive and passion and such, but it just seems that diversity has been ignored.
I hope Iâm blind and only have seen some of this worldâs existence. I hope.
<3 Esmie
This does not sound like someone who either stabbed their mom to death or someone who is incarcerated. Not that I’m a professional or anything, but this seems very sociopathic to me.
The four former players of the Donna High School football team that were indicted for felony sexual assault and indecency with a child appeared before a judge today and were formally arraigned…
Derick Anthony Castillo, 18; Jacob Leal, 17; Manuel Josue Rivera, 19; and Raynardo Jaime Magallanes, 19, appeared separately with their attorneys before 332nd state District Judge Mario Ramirez. All pleaded not guilty to accusations they sexually assaulted five teenage boys under the age of 17 during four separate incidents from Aug. 7, 2004, to Feb. 15, 2005. They were indicted on the charges Sept. 8 and each now faces an Oct. 11 pre-trial hearing date.
The charges stem from a hazing incident where the four are accused of assaulting freshmen ages 14 and 15 by slapping around their genitals and trying to insert their latex-gloved fingers into their asses. I can’t wait to hear the defense.
Members of the McGill University Redmen football team, including indefinitely suspended member James Poston and 20 team veterans, have sent a formal letter of apology to the unnamed victim of the “Dr. Broom” hazing ritual…
“It was never mine or the team’s intention to humiliate or ostracize any member of our team brotherhood,” the letter from Mr. Poston says. “The long-standing ritual is designed to be a team bonding experience which all members of the team underwent, it is not designed to be a hazing ritual driving new team members away.
There’s a long-standing ritual of anally probing someone with a broomstick? How is that designed to be a team bonding experience? I guess along the lines of “We all share this horrible shame and let’s never speak of it again.” kind of bonding experience.
They say it’s not designed to be hazing. Right. And Jack the Ripper’s knife was designed to cut the crust off of bread. The letter continues…
“However, we fully [accept] that the emotional and psychological stress it induces may not be the best way to forge relationships with new team members.”
No real news out of McGill University in Canada. Just that the administration is saying that no further disciplinary action will be taken until their internal investigation is completed. What I found interesting was this quote from team captain Matt Connell…
The captain of the McGill Redmen, quarterback Matt Connell, called the player’s allegation a “complete lie,” although he did say rookies were taken to the squash courts.
Connell told the Montreal Gazette he feels it’s unfair to scapegoat one player.
“(The initiation) was a team event, 98 per cent of the team was there and everyone was partaking. What we’ve been reading in the media has been one-sided, allegations from one individual, guarantee we’ve learned a hard lesson and have paid a big enough price already.”
Connell said the headlines have taken a toll on the team.
“Personally, I’ve been one of the people targeted and I haven’t been able to make one class this week,” he said.
“I’ve been dealing with the press non-stop. It’s been difficult, but at least with football, it’s a few hours to clear our minds.”
Saying that the rookies were taken to the squash court and nothing happened is kind of like Jeffrey Dahmer saying “I lured those men back to my house, but I have no idea how they ended up in my fridge.”
And the allegations may be from one individual, but how many more over the years have been too afraid to come forward. I mean, we’ve already heard previously how the victim was even warned about “Dr. Broom”. And boo freakin’ hoo that you haven’t been able to make it to class. The poor rookie has dropped out of McGill because of what your team allegedly did.
You know, I wonder if Mr. Connell had to endure any probing from Dr. Broom when he was a rookie.
It seems that forced sodomy disguised as boys being boys isn’t limited to American high schools.
Now it seems Canadian Colleges have been doing it for years. It turns out that McGill University in Montreal has a nasty little “tradition” known as “Dr. Broom”.
An 18-year-old player states that he was assaulted by veteran players of the McGill Redmen football team. Rather than give you a breakdown of the situation, I’ll just repost quotes from this article from The Globe and Mail…
On Aug. 27, the last day of training camp, he said all the newcomers were told they had to go to the campus dining hall. Veterans announced they’d be subjected to their âexaminationâ that night.
Toward the end of the meal, he said, one of the veterans entered the room clutching a broom. âThe veterans were shouting âbroom, broom, broom,’â he recalled. Meanwhile, two rookies were singled out to simulate oral sex on one another in their boxer shorts, he said.
After being ordered to take off their shirts, he said, everyone was ordered outside, told to hold hands, and sing as they skipped down to the gym.
âThey [the veterans] were taunting us, saying, âLook at the fairies. Look at the gays,’â the rookie recalled.
He added that all the rookies were ordered toward the campus’s darkened squash courts and told to hold a penny on the wall with their nose.
âThey said, âDrop the penny, and it’s another inch with Dr. Broom,’â the teenager recalled. âThen one by one, they took us out of the room. I was taken out to another room.â
In the second squash court, six football veterans were present while another group was in the stands, pelting him with large exercise balls and jeering. The rookie was told to take off his pants. Three times, he said he refused. Finally, he was threatened.
âOne of them said, âDo it or we’ll do it for you.’ I said âNo, I wasn’t raised that way.’ They said it doesn’t matter.â
The rookie said he relented, dropping his pants but keeping on his boxer shorts. He said he was put on his hands and knees and told to bite down on a dog chew toy made of rope. Then they began counting down as they held a broom handle.
âThey were poking me on either side of my buttocks cheeks,â he said. âThen, they made contact with my rectum with it. They were kind of pushing back and forth and applying pressure.â
He was not penetrated with the broomstick, but it did hurt, he said.
Could that whole ritual be any more homoerotic? Actually, I take that back because these “rituals” are an insult to homosexuals. But seriously, what is with athlete’s obsession to humiliate their younger teammates with these prison rape fantasy rituals?
And of course, the team captain is denying such allegations…
The captain of the McGill Redmen football team has said although rookies were taken to the squash courts, the allegation is a “complete lie.”
“We would never do anything like that, ever — no alcohol, no one was completely naked, no one ever complained until now,” said Matt Connell.
“Anal probing of any sort happened to absolutely nobody,” Connell told CBC Radio in Montreal on Thursday.
And what did the school do?
Redmen coach Chuck McMann suspended five players for one game and one player indefinitely for breaking team rules.
Do schools actually expel anybody anymore?
At the time that the article was printed no charges had been filed yet.
Just some other news about Esmie Tseng. Probably nothing new to those that are closer to the case but new to me…
Investigators said the teenâs 55-year-old mother, Shu Yi Zhang, was fatally stabbed after a lengthy argument between the mother and daughter.
Zhang called her husband after the attack and asked him to come home, but she was dead by the time emergency workers arrived, officials said.
And…
Prosecutors said Tsengâs alleged violent behavior is out of character for her, but classmates said Tseng, a high school junior, had been using drugs and was sent her home early for some strange behavior.
I did know that she was allegedly sent home, but this is the first I’ve heard about any alleged drug use.
I also found another support forum for Esmie Tseng at Kids in Court.
Now, while I’m personally reserving judgment on the situation because not enough information has been released, the people at KIC annoy me to no end because they believe that no minor should be tried as an adult.
I’m sorry, but if you can’t do adult time you shouldn’t do adult crime. 16 years old is old enough to know that killing people is wrong and against the law.
The mother of Jennifer Parks, Laurie Parks, is calling on prosecutors to push for the death penalty in the murder of her daughter…
“I feel if you take a life, you give a life,” she said. She said her grief has been overwhelming some days, for herself and Jennifer’s father, David, and that she hopes to start counseling soon. She hasn’t been ready so far for therapy, she said.
“I’m not doing good right now. It’s very hard,” she said.
Can you blame her? Considering, her daughter was killed and dismembered by Jonathan Zarate.
Prosecutors have not yet stated whether or not they will pursue the death penalty. While New Jersey does have the death penalty, it’s rarely used.
The relatives of Jonathan Zarate are saying they knew that he had problems. As a matter of fact, he was supposed to have been sent to his aunt in California, who is a psychiatrist. He was supposed to go on August 2nd, but he killed Jennifer Parks on July 30th. Still, no motive was given, but the article uses this as a turning point in Zarate’s life…
He changed from a happy youngster to an angry kid during the breakup of his parents, according to his mother, Flora Mari, who spoke through Fusco. The couple split when he was 8 and divorced when he was 11, according to court records.
Even years later, Zarate spoke about the divorce all the time, according to Moises Mari, a stepbrother who lives in Newport News, Va.
So he was down about his parents’ divorce. Boo-freakin’ hoo. I don’t care if his parents beat him with barbed wire, it’s still no excuse to choke, bludgeon, stab, and dismember a 16-year-old girl.
If this is what the defense will be basing their insanity defense on, then they have their work cut out for them. Then again, this is New Jersey. So we’ll just have to wait and see.
According to the article, friends and supporters of Esmie Tseng, the Kansas teen accused of stabbing her mother to death, have set up a website in support of her at Esmie.com. According to the site, their goal is to keep the case in the juvenile courts while prosecutors want to try her as an adult. Or as they put it in their words…
If Esmie is convicted in the juvenile court system she can get the care and help she needs and 7 years from now could move on with a normal life. If her case is moved to the adult system, the likely penalty for this 16-year-old child will be life in prison. Read Esmie’s bio, and what those who know Esmie have to say, and you will understand that sending this kid to jail for life would constitute not one but two terrible tragedies resulting from that August 19th afternoon.
Personally, I think they’re jumping the gun here a little bit.
By their own admission, details about what happened that day are almost nonexistent. Saying that she needs help and care and letting her move on with her life is a bit premature.
If it turns out that this was nothing more than a cold-blooded killing, then she should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
