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  • Michael Jacques got away with rape

    Michael Jacques’ Other Victim:

    If you’ve been reading this site for a while you’ll know that one of the stories regularly featured here is the story of Brooke Bennett.

    12-year-old Brooke disappeared and was allegedly raped and killed by her uncle Michael Jacques. Jacques was a sex offender who went through Vermont’s ‘treatment’ for sex offenders and was released early from his sentence.

    Now Channel 3 in Burlington, Vermont have uncovered information that there was a victim of Jacques that he never went to jail for.

    At the time of her rape in 1987, the woman was only 13 years old. Jacques was 20 at the time. According to her, Jacques used to lure girls to his place all the time with booze and drugs.

    However, the records of this mysteriously disappeared and public officials weren’t saying anything about it.

    I highly recommend reading the entire article. It just goes to show how some people are more worried about the feelings of a repeat sex offender than they are the safety of the public at large.

  • Iowa girl dropped off in Nebraska safe haven

    9th Safe Haven Case Reported Tuesday:

    The 17th child was dropped off at a safe haven under Nebraska’s new wide-open safe haven law.

    If you haven’t been following the story Nebraska recently passed a safe haven law that not only allows newborns to be dropped off at a ‘safe haven’ but children up to the age of 17 as well.

    The number of 17 is a little misleading since one man dropped off nine of his kids.

    Of course with the Nebraska safe haven stories I’ve been posting there has to be a twist. This time it’s that the 14-year-old girl isn’t from Nebraska but she’s from Iowa. In Iowa, the safe haven laws only apply to infants up to two weeks old.

    This brings up an interesting dilemma in my mind. Is this a Nebraska safe haven case or an Iowa abandonment case. How do states handle safe haven cases when the child is from another state?

    I guess in other states they wouldn’t be able to tell since the kids being dropped off can’t even talk.

  • Red Lake families settle lawsuit

    Settlement in Red Lake school shooting:

    The families of the victims of the Red Lake shooting have settled their lawsuit with MacNeil Environmental. MacNeil is a security consulting firm that provided Red Lake High with a contingency plan in case of a school shooting. Obviously, it failed.

    The terms of the settlement were not disclosed but both sides are saying that MacNeil admitted no liability. Of course, they wouldn’t. Did anyone expect them to say ‘our bad’?

    Personally, I don’t think you can have a contingency plan for a school shooting because the acts are so random.

  • NC man arrested for sending nude photos

    Man accused of sending obscene photos to underage girl:

    24-year-old Adam Jaron Wilkinson of Shelby, North Carolina has been arrested for sending nude pictures of himself to a 13-year-old Michigan girl. He communicated with the girl through the social site MyYearbook. Which is extra creepy because MyYearbook is geared toward high school-aged users. There’s really no reason a 24-year-old should be on that site.

    The girl’s father found the pictures and he contacted the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children who in turn contacted North Carolina’s SBI.

  • SC man arrested after MySpace hook up

    Man Charged with Misconduct after Myspace Meeting:

    25-year-old Kendrick Smith of Greenwood, South Carolina has been arrested for hooking up with a 13-year-old girl he met on MySpace.

    The girl was reported as a runaway and police found her at a local supermarket. She told police she met Smith over MySpace and that Smith took her to his house. It was there she performed oral sex on him. Being the classy guy that he is he then dropped her off at the supermarket.

    They might start calling him the 24-hour supermarket in prison because he’ll be open all the time.

  • No new trial for cop killer

    US Supreme Court rejects new trial for former Black Panther:

    Yesterday the US Supreme Court refused to hear arguments for a new trial for convicted cop killing scumbag Wesley Cook. Some of you may know him better by his made-up name Mumia Abu Jamal.

    Now if only they’d reinstate his death sentence like the death sentence he gave Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.

    Don’t believe all the crap about Jamal’s trial being racist. If you read what really happened you’ll realize that Jamal made a mockery out of his own trial.

    Ed Asner and Mike Farrell must be crying in their lattes today.

  • We get letters

    I received the following comment from someone calling themselves Kali on my post about the Erotic Services Backlash…

    To the vigilante posse who have taken it upon themselves to dictate how others should live their lives, I wish many curses to rain down upon your home and your loved ones. May you reap the karma that you are sowing a thousand times over, may you get into freak accidents and may you get attacked by swarms of bees, bitten by bown recluses and black widow spiders and may large trees fall upon you crushing you to death and dismemberment

    You deserve everything that the counter posse is doing to you ( glad to hear that they are fucking up Jon’ world, yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay) and much, much more..

    so mote it b e, it is done.

    Kali

    In case you don’t remember Jon had his family threatened and his personal info posted online.

    What’s a matter Kali, was it cutting into your meth money?

    Personally, I don’t see it as a matter of morality. What you’re doing is illegal and people like Jon are doing exactly what craigslist suggests people do and flag the ads for obvious illegal activity. Criminals should never talk about reaping what you sow, especially those in the sex trade. You’re just inviting a nasty STD on you if you don’t have one already.

  • Obvious headline of the day

    Craigslist is hotbed of online prostitution:

    Actually, this is a great article from the Knoxville News Sentinel that looks at craigslist prostitution from the police side and the side of the slimy pimps.

    However, the article mentions one thing that one former reader touched on before, the alleged disclaimers that craigslist pimps and hookers put on their ads.

    Advertisements on Craigslist that feature suggestive language and photographs often also feature a disclaimer. Several on the Knoxville site read:

    “Money exchanged is for my time and companionship services only. Anything else that may or may not occur is a matter of personal choice between two consenting adults of legal age and is not contracted for, nor is it requested to be contracted for any other matter.

    “This is not an offer of prostitution and calling me constitutes acceptance of these terms.”

    Of course, police have the same opinion of them as I do…

    “That’s baloney,” said Greg Norris of the Johnson City department, explaining that if a sex act occurs and money is exchanged, such statements about “matters of personal choice between two consenting adults” don’t hold up in court.

    I hope our friend in the assless chaps is still reading.

  • Zarate asked inmates how to fake insanity

    Inmates: Accused killer asked how to fake insanity:

    According to letters from inmates in the Passaic County Jail accused killer Jonathan Zarate asked them how to fake an insanity plea. These letters were sent to the then Morris County prosecutor in 2007. The letters also said that Zarate bragged about how he was going to beat the murder charge against him by using an insanity defense. One of the inmates he was asking how to be ‘insane’ was a doctor.

    Zarate’s attorney is trying to prevent the inmates from testifying. He’s still trying for the diminished capacity defense even though this happened…

    When questioned, Jonathan Zarate first told police he was dumping garbage in the Passaic River and volunteered to put it back in their Jeep and leave, according to testimony. After admitting Parks’ body was in the trunk, he claimed he “found her like that” when he went outside his home to meet her. When told that explanation was laughable, Zarate confessed, court papers said.

    Again, Zarate and his brother brutally killed Jennifer Parks, dismembered her body, hid it for 24 hours, then tried dumping her body in the Passaic River. Doesn’t sound like diminished capacity to me.

    3+ years and still no trial.

  • E.O. Green shooter pleads not guilty

    Teen Pleads Not Guilty in Murder of Gay Classmate:

    Yesterday 14-year-old Brandon McInerney pleaded not guilty to the shooting death of Lawrence King. As discussed previously King was an openly gay student who was bullied by McInerney and to defend himself King would mockingly flirt with him. McInerney didn’t take kindly to this and shot and killed King in front of a bunch of witnesses at E.O. Green Junior High. Yet he pleads not guilty.

    McInerney has been charged as an adult on first-degree murder charges with a hate crime sentencing enhancement. That means that he’s looking at 51 to life behind bars with no possibility for parole.

    His attorney is calling that a death sentence…

    “This is essentially a death sentence for Brandon McInerney,” said Quest, who is asking that the boy be tried on a lesser charge of manslaughter. “That is the only way Brandon does not die in prison.”

    But it’s ok for Lawrence King to die in school? Manslaughter usually denotes a ‘spur of the moment’ killing if you will. This was no spur of the moment. This was obviously premeditated. If your client didn’t want a ‘death sentence’ he shouldn’t have killed Lawrence King.

    On the other side of the fence, we have a quote from Lawrence King’s father that makes my blood boil…

    King’s parents say they support the adult charge.

    “He went into a classroom in front of other students and shot my son in the back of the head twice,” father Greg King said. “For is age to be taken into consideration – he didn’t take my son’s age into consideration.”

    While I agree with what he’s saying you have to remember that the family kicked Lawrence King out of the house for being gay and are now trying to cash in by suing the school for not preventing the shooting.

    Maybe if you let Lawrence live at home like a family is supposed to none of this would have happened.