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  • #19 in Nebraska

    19th Child Left Under Safe Haven Law:

    The Breeders are getting in on the rush before the law is changed in January. This time a 17-year-old from in-state was dropped off at an Omaha safe haven.

    As the headline says it brings the total up to 19 kids dropped off at Nebraska safe havens. According to the article, most of them have been over 10.

    I wonder how more kids will be dropped off before the governor declares an emergency legislative session. One more? Two more? Will he hold out until January? If he does how many more kids do you think will be dropped off?

  • Oregon craigslist rapist on trial

    Craigslist ads at center stage in Tigard rape trial:

    The first craigslist rapist I ever posted about on this site was Ronald Marcus Leistiko. He would respond to ads including escort ads and rape the women who came to his house in Tigard, Oregon. One of his victims was a 14-year-old girl.

    His trial for multiple counts of rape among other charges started this week.

    Not surprisingly Leistiko’s slimy lawyer is trying to blame the victims. You know, the ones that were raped.

    “Craigslist has taken the world’s oldest profession into the Internet age,” defense attorney Timothy Bowman told jurors Wednesday in his opening statement. “You will hear some startling evidence about the nature of advertising on Craigslist.”

    Bowman said as many as 2,000 ads a day are posted by women looking for men, just on the Portland section of Craigslist.

    “The competition is fierce and the enticements are alluring,” he said. “And the promises are, well, for full satisfaction and that sort of thing.”

    The defense is that the sex was consensual, in the context of prostitutes being paid for their services.

    While I’m constantly posting some of the exact same things that the slimy lawyer said I would never use them as excuses for rape. I don’t think the prostitutes were paid to be beaten, strangled, and raped.

    Leistiko is nothing but a serial predator who purposely preyed upon these women because I’m sure in his mind he figured no one would care about them or take them seriously. I hope the jury in Oregon proves me wrong.

  • E.O. Green shooter to undergo psych eval

    Brandon McInerney’s Mental Health Questioned:

    I guess the defense for Brandon McInerney will be attempting an insanity defense as they have filed a motion to see if their client is mentally competent to stand trial. Two court-appointed psychologists will evaluate the 14-year-old McInerney.

    As you may remember McInerney stands accused in the shooting death of openly gay E.O. Green Junior High student Lawrence King. McInerney has been charged as an adult.

    Anyway, I think this is the first straw his lawyers are grasping at trying to prove that he was insane at the time of the shooting. Because I’m sure it had nothing to do with the philosophy of hate that he more than likely subscribed to.

  • Some Miss. parents home-schooling kids to avoid vaccinations

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    Debra Barnes has a thriving chiropractic practice in the Jackson metro area, a nice home and family members who love living in the South.

    But she said she would leave Mississippi in a heartbeat if state health officials tried to force her home-schooled children to be immunized.

    Barnes is part of a growing network of parents whose decision to home school their children rests on their belief that mandated vaccinations for public and private school children are a dangerous overreach by state governments.

    While the mainstream scientific community maintains childhood vaccines are safe, Barnes relies on the work of apostate scientists who argue immunizations can bring on autism or weaken the natural immunities of children.

    Barnes leads a group of about 200 parents around the state who have problems with Mississippi’s mandated vaccination schedule.

    Emphasis mine.

    What? You expected a fake doctor to believe real doctors and scientists?

  • Facebook pedophile sentenced

    Fox Lake man gets 35 years for Facebook sex scheme:

    We have another repeat guest today. This time it’s Michael Macalindong. He’s the 25-year-old from outside of Chicago who I dubbed Facebook’s first pedophile.

    Maclindong lured teen boys over Facebook into having sex with him. When they refused he threatened to post videos of them on the internet. He was also found to have a large cache of child porn on his computer. In May he pleaded guilty to the child porn charges.

    Yesterday he was sentenced on the luring charges and received a sentence of 35 years in federal prison.

  • Ex-Fed joins Drew Defense

    Former Justice Dept. Prosecutor Joins Defense in MySpace Suicide Case:

    Former federal prosecutor Orin Kerr has joined the defense team for Lori Drew.

    Like the other tech geeks, he’s afraid that if Drew’s fraud charges aren’t thrown out that it will open up the floodgates for the government to prosecute every little TOS violation.

    For example, I give a fake name and address for just about every service I sign up for. Kerr feels that if Drew is prosecuted that it won’t be long before I’m prosecuted. I disagree. First off, even the government doesn’t have that kind of time and resources to prosecute every little TOS violation. Secondly, all the tech geeks are forgetting one thing, a 12-year-old girl died because of Drew’s sick childish games.

    This isn’t about a power grab by the government, this is about justice for Megan Meier. Besides, don’t all you Net Neutrality geeks want government involvement in the internet anyway?

  • Tips from the tutor scam

    Tutor targeted by scammers after posting ad on Craigslist:

    Just another article about the tutor scam. This time it’s out of St. Peters, Missouri but I wanted to highlight two things mentioned in the article.

    First, let’s hear from a U.S. Postal Inspector…

    “There’s just no legitimate reason why someone should send you a check or money order for more than the amount request,”

    The second one is from the tutor himself…

    “The majority of the contacts I got of Craigslist were similar to this, as opposed to the ones I would call legitimate,”

    Consider both of those things before doing business on craigslist.

  • Jade’s Book Review: Whisper of Fear

    (Guest post by Jade)

    This time it is my great pleasure to review “Whisper of Fear” by Rhonda B. Saunders and Stephen G. Michaud. Penguin Books (who rules, by the way) was kind enough to send me an advanced copy.

    Rhonda Saunders is the prosecutor who wrote the stalking laws in California and has helped other states and countries write their stalking laws. She takes you through her journey of how she became a corporate attorney then ended up as a prosecutor. Her writing style is very reminiscent of John Douglas, the former FBI profiler.

    Ms. Saunders started prosecuting stalkers around 1993. Little did she know that her first stalking case would continue to haunt her until this day. She prosecuted Madonna’s stalker, Robert Hoskins, and in telling the story also shares amusing anecdotes about trying to get the Material Girl to testify in court.

    She also prosecuted Steven Spielberg’s stalker (a nut-job of the highest order) with help from the director himself. Mr. Spielberg was more than accommodating, even to the point of canceling a session with the Los Angeles Orchestra while recording the “Saving Private Ryan” soundtrack. She found Mr. Spielberg to be a friendly, outgoing person whose only concern was for the safety of his family.

    Prosecuting Gwyneth Paltrow’s stalker proved to be a little easier because he was legitimately insane. Not that that made him any less dangerous.

    Most of the cases she writes about are stalkers who obsess on ordinary people like you and me. Her first stalking case was that of an ordinary woman who was being stalked by a former lover. After being arrested, she continued to stalk her victim and Ms. Saunders. To this day, she still receives threatening messages from this stalker.

    She also has a chapter on how to avoid becoming the victim of a stalker, and what to steps to take if you are being stalked.

    I will not spoil the rest of the book for you, because if you are a true crime fan, this is a MUST READ!!!

    It will be in stores on November 4, which will be an excellent way to get the nasty taste of Election Day out of your head.

    Again, thanks to Penguin Books for giving me the chance to review this book in advance.

    I don’t use a rating system, but if I did it would definitely be 5 out of 5!

  • 13 johns busted in FL craigslist sting

    Teacher Among 13 Arrested In Polk Prostitution Sting:

    The Polk County, Florida Sheriff’s Department arrested 13 johns in a craigslist prostitution sting. One of those arrested was a local school teacher. He got singled out in the article because of his job yet they made no mention of the occupations of the other 12 arrested.

    The guys that should go out now and buy lottery tickets because they’re that damn lucky are these two…

    Two men came to the house but changed their minds and left without going inside. They were not arrested, Judd said.

    You don’t get much luckier than that.

  • Nebraska to change safe haven law

    Nebraska Lawmakers Agree on Safe-Haven Age Limit:

    Nebraska is now going to the other side of the spectrum. They’re going to change their safe haven law to limit drop-offs to the age of three days. That’s a big change from up to 17-years-old.

    However, Gov. Dave Heineman said that he’d prefer not to call a special session of the legislation and would rather correct the law in January.

    So the Breeders have a little bit more than two months to drop off their kids in Nebraska.