The suspect in the plot to attack Newington High School in Connecticut was sentenced yesterday. Frank Fechteler was given a sentence of 12 years behind bars that will be suspended after 3 and 5 years probation.
The article goes into detail about how Fechteler and his attorney talk about how it was “the old Frank” that was capable of crimes like this but “the new Frank” is much different. On the stand Fechteler even said he’ll never commit another crime again.
That kind of reminds me about the movie Strangeland when Dee Snider’s character claims that he’s been rehabilitated only to kill again.
New Frank and old Frank are the same Frank in my opinion.
If you’ve been following my sites for some time you may remember a story I posted here about a couple of so-called parents who left their baby in his car seat in his crib for eight days and starved him to death. If I remember correctly the young ‘parents’ were too busy playing video games to feed their own child. After eight days the baby starved to death.
Originally prosecutors stated that they were going to seek the death penalty for 21-year-old Tracy Hermann and 23-year-old James Sargent.
Unfortunately, that has not come to be and more than likely will not happen.
Peoria County State’s Attorney Kevin Lyons said too many pitfalls exist to make the death penalty a realistic option, including Tracy Hermann and James Sargent’s mental health issues and the fact that they are blaming each other for the boy’s death.
‘Instead, I’ll seek to make them live in the general populations of the Stateville, Pontiac and Menard prisons, each day, every day,’ Lyons said.
‘When it is all over, I expect their names and their existence here to be forgotten while they are shuffled off to prison … to remain forgotten, unimportant, and away from the free world that they so (selfishly) took from the baby they decided to make … and then leave to literally cry itself to death.’
That’s my kind of prosecutor.
Sargent is said to be using a mental history defense while Hermann claims ‘she was simply not interested in parenting.’
Maybe they should have thought of that before these to dirtbags decided to do the horizontal hokey pokey. Not only that but there’s this thing called giving a baby up for adoption. Maybe you should have looked into that.
A New York City politician has called on the NYPD to crack down on craigslist’s erotic services section. City Councilman Eric Gioia called a press conference yesterday likening craigslist to the wild west.
What used to happen on seedy street corners and brothels has moved to the Internet,”
Gioia and his staff conducted an investigation of the top 100 listings on the erotic services section for about three weeks and found that 85 percent of the ads seemed to be advertising illicit activities. The councilman said some of the ads used vague wording to offer paid sexual acts, such as “companionship” for “a generous donation.”
“They’re pretty obvious,” Gioia said. “It’s high time that law enforcement in New York take a hard look at what’s happening.”
The NYPD had no response and craigslist had their usual ‘we’re doing everything to help law enforcement except taking the erotic services section down’ excuse…
A Craigslist spokeswoman said the site recently implemented new measures that reduced the number of erotic services ads by 80 percent, and other improvements have eliminated a high percentage of other objectionable content.
“The misuse of Craigslist for illegal purposes is completely unacceptable to us and we are continuously devising new means of detecting and blocking such activity,” spokeswoman Susan MacTavish Best said in an e-mailed statement.
Again, if it was so unacceptable they’d do away with the section.
23-year-old Shaun Patrick Austin of Bath, Pennsylvania was originally arrested last month when police found child porn on his computer.
Now he’s also accused of using MySpace and VampireFreaks to meet girls ages 12-15 and either having sex with them or raping them. To make matters worse Austin is HIV positive. Some of the pictures were even of his victims.
15-year-old Brent Clark was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison with 9 months served for plotting to hold his class at Powell Junior High hostage and holding a girl at knifepoint.
On March 23, 2007, the Powell Junior High School student packed his backpack with a gun, 3 knives, and latex gloves with the apparent intent to hold his classroom hostage and be killed by police, referred to as “suicide by cop.”
Clark was originally charged with terrorism which could have kept him in prison for 40 years. The plea dropped that charge. Clark’s mother feels they were blackmailed into the plea.
“We were being blackmailed,” said Donette Reid, Clark’s mom. “That terrorism charge was blackmail.”
His mom fears that his childhood is gone and his experience in prison will take his adulthood too.
“My heart is broken.” she said through tears. “They just took my heart.”
I think his childhood was gone the moment he held that girl at knifepoint. I’m sure we’ll be hearing from Ms. Reid shortly.
17-year-old Michael McDonough, he of the Fry Cook Plot against Connetquot High School in Long Island, has pleaded guilty to charges of first-degree reckless endangerment and fourth-degree conspiracy.
Under the plea, McDonough avoids jail time but must remain on probation for 5 years. If he violates his probation the judge has threatened to send him to an upstate New York prison, you know, like Attica or Sing Sing.
McDonough apologized in court and prosecutors seem to be happy with his progress since his arrest.
Lori Drew entered a plea of not guilty in federal court in Los Angeles today. As you know she’s been indicted on charges of conspiracy and accessing a protected computer to obtain information which led to the suicide of 13-year-old Megan Meier.
The trial is scheduled to start in L.A. on July 26th and she’s facing 20 years behind bars if convicted.
19-year-old Nicholas Meier of Northglenn, Colorado has been arrested for the rapes of two developmentally challenged women.
Meier allegedly used MySpace and craigslist to meet the two women who have a child’s intellect.
This is almost as bad as child molestation and Meier took action similar to that of a child predator. He reportedly used cell phones and text messaging to groom his victims just like a pedophile would. To make matters worse there may be other victims.
It will be interesting to see how Meier’s defenders spin this one. Were the disabled women asking for it? Did they say they were more intelligent than they really were on MySpace?
There’s a special place in hell for people like this who take advantage of the disadvantaged.
Cara Murphy recently had the charges dropped against her in the videotaped beating of Victoria Lindsay. Now she’s speaking out…
“I guess I’m sorry for all that happened,” Cara Murphy said during a news conference Friday night, apologizing for her involvement in the videotaped beating of a Mulberry cheerleader that incited a media frenzy.
“I’m glad the charges got dropped though.”
I believe the second part but not the first.
Murphy says she never realized that what took place on videotape would turn into a national controversy. After apologizing to the victim, Victoria Lindsay, Murphy admitted she could have done more to stop the beating.
Murphy commented, “During the time I definitely can say I felt scared for her. Once I saw the video, I realized this was a bad thing that happened.”
Yet she didn’t realize it as it was going on? What difference should it being on video make?
I think the only thing she’s really sorry for is that she got caught. she won the lottery by having the charges dropped.
