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“I know it wasn’t rape-rape. It was something else but I don’t believe it was rape-rape. He went to jail and and when they let him out he was like ‘You know what, this guy’s going to give me a hundred years in jail I’m not staying,’ so that’s why he left.” (video clip at link)

Lawyer: Polanski to ask for freedom today (USA Today can only be linked to)

In court filings this summer, they said the L.A. County district attorney's office had made no effort to arrest the fugitive filmmaker. Sources say the allegations caught officials' attention.Roman Polanski's attorneys helped provoke his arrest by complaining to an appellate court this summer that Los Angeles County prosecutors had made no real effort to capture the filmmaker in his three decades as a fugitive, two law enforcement sources familiar with the case told The Times. The accusation that the Los Angeles County district attorney's office was not serious about extraditing Polanski to facing sentencing in a child sex case he...

I must be missing something, why is everyone defending "poor Roman Polanski" the guy did not skip town over a traffic violation. In 1977, Roman Polanski, then aged 44, drugged and raped 13-year-old Samantha Gailey (now Samantha Geimer). On March 10, 1977 at the Mulholland area home of actor Jack Nicholson in Los Angeles. "We did photos with me drinking champagne," Geimer says. "Toward the end it got a little scary, and I realized he had other intentions and I knew I was not where I should be. I just didn't quite know how to get myself out of there."...

There's a side of America that scares Frenchmen, French Culture Minister Frédéric Mitterrand was quoted by Time magazine Paris-based writer Bruce Crumley, and it's the side of American determination that doesn't let a 32-year-old rape case die, even if the perpetrator is an elderly survivor of the Holocaust. Seeking to explain the "cultural divide" that's as "wide as the Atlantic" between America and Europe, Crumley noted that Europeans are "shocked and dismayed that an internationally acclaimed artist" such as Roman Polanski "could be jailed for such an old offense." Of course, at no point did Crumley cite any public opinion...

I wrote about perv director Roman Polanski’s pampered fugitive life six years ago here. Justice is finally catching up with the admitted seducer of young girls. He was arrested in Zurich this weekend, much to the “great consternation and shock” of his friends in the artistic community. For a graphic reminder of what Polanski is accused of doing to his 13-year-old alleged victim — and how an L.A. Times sophisticate is pooh-poohing the brutal act — go here. Bring a strong stomach. And expect more crime-coddling apologists to defend Polanski in 3, 2, 1…

Police are looking for a man convicted of an Arlington rape more than 10 years ago in connection with the recent rape an 11-year-old girl in Oklahoma City. Melvin Urbina, 33, was sentenced to two years in prison for the 1998 sexual assault of an Arlington woman. He was deported to Mexico after his release in 2001. He returned to the United States illegally and worked in Oklahoma City. Police want to question Urbina about the July 25 sexual assault of a girl who was trying to find some extra chairs for the guests at her godfather’s wedding anniversary party...

DA: No charges for Hofstra gang-rape accuser September 25, 2009 By ANN GIVENS ann.givens@newsday.com The Hofstra University student who prosecutors say falsely accused five men of tying her up and gang-raping her in a dormitory bathroom will not face criminal charges as long as she admits she lied, gets psychological help and does 250 hours of community service, under an agreement she signed Friday with the Nassau County district attorney's office.

'I Slept With My Own Father,' Reveals Daughter of The Mamas And The Papas Singer John Phillips By Daily Mail Reporter 23rd September 2009 The daughter of The Mamas And The Papas star John Phillips Has Revealed She Had A Long-Term Sexual Relationship With The Musician. [Pic in URL] In an explosive new book, Mackenzie Phillips says she was drugged and raped by her famous father when she was 19 and began a consensual incestuous affair that lasted a decade. Ms Phillips, now 49, reveals their first sexual encounter happened the night before she married Jeff Sessler, a member of...

Prosecutors deciding whether to charge the woman who falsely reported that she was gang-raped in a Hofstra men's room last week will have serious issues to weigh, experts said Monday. On the one hand, they will want to discourage people from lying to law enforcement, and show that there will be consequences for doing so, experts said. On the other, they don't want to discourage legitimate rape victims from coming forward, or discourage people who lied at first from telling the truth later on, experts said. "That's the tension right now in the D.A.'s office," said Jim Cohen, a criminal...

"Every third young Swede has been subjected to repeated harassment, threats or violence over the past year. Six percent of young girls have been raped, a new report from Swedish researchers shows."

The student who alleged she was gang raped by five men inside a Hofstra University dormitory bathroom on Sunday has admitted to making the entire story up, the Nassau County District Attorney's office confirmed on Wednesday night. Charges against the four men arrested have since been dropped. Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice issued the following statement on Wednesday evening: Moments ago my office moved to dismiss all charges against four men accused of committing a sexual assault on the campus of Hofstra University. Late this evening, during the continuation of the Nassau County Police Department's investigation of the allegation, and...

"She was yelling, 'leave me alone, stop, stop, help,' just screaming," Ron Overbey says.Those screams at 2:30 Monday morning may have otherwise gone unnoticed, but Overbey had just chased a man out of his front yard with a baseball bat for harassing a woman walking down the street, so he knew exactly what those shouts meant. "He was trying to rape her, I mean, there was no doubt in my mind," he explains."He was pulling her shirt off he was trying to get anything he could off." Goss said, "I went over the wall and grabbed him; snatched him off...

A Hofstra University student who accused a group of men of gang-raping her inside a campus dorm has recanted her tale, sources said. “She admitted it was consenual and the district attorney is dismissing the charges and releasing the suspects,” a law enforcement source told the Post. The accused men — Rondell Bedward, Jesus Ortiz, Kevin Taveras, Stalin Felipe — are expected to be released from custody as soon as tonight. The 18-year-old woman accused Ortiz of taking her cellphone around 3 a.m. Sunday at a frat party at on-campus club Hofstra USA. She claimed that she followed the man...

A Hofstra University student who accused a group of men of gang-raping her inside a campus dorm has recanted her tale, sources said. “She admitted it was consenual and the district attorney is dismissing the charges and releasing the suspects,” a law enforcement source told the Post. The accused men — Rondell Bedward, Jesus Ortiz, Kevin Taveras, Stalin Felipe — are expected to be released from custody as soon as tonight.

<p>HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP/1010 WINS) -- An 18-year-old Hofstra University student trying to retrieve a stolen cell phone was lured into a dormitory men's room and sexually assaulted by five men, police said Tuesday.</p> <p>Four suspects, including one Hofstra student who worked part-time with campus security, have been arraigned on rape and other charges. A fifth suspect was still at-large Tuesday.</p>

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Four men were arrested and a fifth is being sought in connection with the campus gang rape of an 18-year-old female Hofstra University student. The four suspects — only one of whom is a student at the school — were arrested on Long Island, N.Y., on Monday; a fifth is still at large. ... Police say 19-year-old Jesus Ortiz and 21-year-old Rondell Bedward, both of the Bronx, were arraigned on rape charges Monday. The other two, 19-year-old Stalin Felipe, of the Bronx, and 20-year-old Kevin Taveras, of Brentwood, are to be arraigned Tuesday in Hempstead. Police didn't...

4 Men Arrested In Hofstra Rape Case HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. - Police say an 18-year-old Hofstra University student was gang-raped by five men on campus early Sunday morning. Police have made four arrests and are looking for the fifth suspect. Cops would not say whether the victim knew any of the men beforehand or where on the sprawling Hempstead campus she was attacked. 19-year-old Jesus Ortiz and 21-year-old Rondell Bedward, both of the Bronx were arraigned on rape charges on Monday. Ortiz also face grand larceny charges for allegedly stealing the woman's mobile phone. 19-year-old Stalin Felipe, of the Bronx, and...

An 18-year-old Hofstra University co-ed was gang-raped by five men on campus, cops said last night. The shocking attack took place Sunday at around 3 a.m. Cops would not say whether the victim knew any of the men beforehand or where on the sprawling Hempstead, LI, campus she was assaulted. Rondell Bedward, 21, of The Bronx, is the only suspect who attends the school. Nassau County cops also arrested Jesus Ortiz, 19 and Stalin Felipe, 19, both also from The Bronx, as well as Kevin Taveras, 20, of Brentwood, LI.

NEWPORT NEWS – When police got the call, they dropped everything. Cases went on the back burner; the focus of every available detective shifted to the Windsor Great Park neighborhood where an 18-year-old said someone put something around her throat, pulled her from her car, dragged her into an easement, and tried to rape her. “She was very distraught, and she was very upset, and it helped to add to the credibility of the story that she gave,” Captain Marvin Evans tells 13News. The head of the Newport News Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Bureau says officers would find out that...

Having my rapist's baby is the best thing I ever did: After being date raped, Miriam was horrified to fall pregnant, but her little girl is proof good can come of evil 09th September 2009 The party was a rare night out. Raised in a devout, Christian family in Reading, Berks, I was more used to going to choir practice than clubs with friends. But I had just landed a job with a telemarketing company and, when the new director announced he was taking us all out for a drink, I didn't want to seem unfriendly, so I agreed to...

My life is proof that something good can come from something so terrible. And I don't regret my last minute change of heart one bit.

Today, Deputy Judge David Elvin QC, quashed Justice Secretary Jack Straw's decision to continue detaining the prisoner, known only as 'A', in a male prison. He was told that steps were already being put in place to transfer A to a female prison 'as soon as possible'. The move will pave the way for 'A' to have the operation to fully change from a woman to a man. He has to live openly as a woman for two years before having the procedure. A's health authority will have to foot the £8,000 bill for his sex change operation. --- Although...

Phillip Garrido a "good singer," played bass Phillip Garrido, Jaycee Lee Dugard's alleged kidnapper, is also a musician, a longtime acquaintance says. But nothing about his song stylings will change the disturbing image of the man who is charged with kidnapping the South Lake Tahoe girl 18 years ago, raping her, and fathering two children with her. (Garrido had pled not guilty to 29 felony counts.) Marc Lister, a former glass-shop owner in Concord, Calif., says Garrido gave him two CDs of music filled with disturbing lyrics some years ago, Henry Lee reports in the San Francisco Chronicle. And Garrido's...

Christian Convert, beaten, raped and India Will Deport her to Iran to Face possible Death unless case can be reopened by petition. Exclusive: RightSideNews Interviews Marzieh Hosseinpoor Imagine, if you can, being Iranian, being a young woman, being an educated young woman. Now imagine being that educated young woman, working to complete a higher degree in her education and conducting research in order to do so. Got the picture? Good, now add to that picture, that this woman's area of research is related to something so taboo, considered so unseemly by the Islamic regime, if discovered, as to be an...

Lakshmi('s)...mental age is said to be only around eight. She became pregnant after allegedly being raped in a government-run care home, and the state authorities petitioned the local courts to allow them to carry out an abortion. ... But then came the twist - her lawyers and several disability rights groups appealed to the Supreme Court. It overruled the original judgement - allowing her to have the baby she said she wanted to keep.

A highly influential Shi'a religious leader, with whom Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad regularly consults, apparently told followers last month that coercion by means of rape, torture and drugs is acceptable against all opponents of the Islamic regime. ... Warning: The imam's question-and-answer session, partially reproduced here, contains disturbing descriptions of the sanctioned brutality. According to Iranian pro-democracy sources, the gathered crowd heard from Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi and Ahmadinejad himself regarding the issue... Mesbah-Yazdi is considered Ahmadinejad's personal spiritual guide. ...The ayatollah gave the identical answer when asked about confessions obtained through drugging the prisoner with opiates or addictive substances....

a study conducted by the Violent Crimes Institute reports that between 1999 and 2006, there were nearly 1,000,000 sex crimes committed in the United States by illegal aliens. So why does the crime of child molestation seem to be so prevalent among illegal aliens from Mexico?…The answer may lie within the age-old Mexican culture of "machismo," as well as within the actual laws of that country. The crime of rape or child molestation is incredibly under-reported in Mexico, because there is so much shame placed upon the victim as well as the difficulty in proving the case. The crime of...

hey say she would have done anything he asked her to. Nancy Garrido, the woman some say is the "real monster," faces the same 29 charges and life imprisonment as her husband Phillip Garrido in the 1991 abduction of 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard. Photos: Inside Dugard's Terror Tent Photos: Jaycee Lee Dugard Found Alive Nancy seemed to have been a key player in keeping 11-year-old Jaycee in secret captivity for nearly two decades, standing by as Phillip raped and even fathered the little girl's two girls. Phillip's brother, Ron Garrido, claims Nancy was like "a robot," according to an interview...

Paris Hilton fashion designer faces 50 years in jail for rape of young models he lured to LA By MAIL FOREIGN SERVICE 31st August 2009 A fashion designer who was friends with Paris Hilton is facing more than 50 years in jail today after he was convicted for sexually assaulting young models he lured to Los Angeles. Anand Jon Alexander, 35, is scheduled to be sentenced in Los Angeles Superior Court today before he is sent to New York to face similar charges. Los Angeles prosecutors have asked that he be imprisoned for the maximum possible under the law -...

What shocked you most about Jaycee Lee Dugard's story? Was it the fact that she was abducted in plain sight, waking to a bus stop when she was 11 years old? Or the fact that she was still alive when discovered this past week, 18 years after disappearing? Was it the fact that for most of those 18 years, she was forced to live in a backyard of a couple's home in California, surrounded by fences, tents and sheds? Or the fact that nobody noticed? Was it the fact that she was allegedly raped repeatedly by her abductor, even though...

Police say the defendants lured the woman, then 35, out of her apartment just a few miles from downtown West Palm Beach by claiming her truck had a flat tire. Three masked gunmen then forced her and her son, then 12, back inside. Others soon joined in the attack. Lawson continued testifying Wednesday, describing the chaotic scene inside the woman's home, with attackers coming and going, raping the woman over and over, sodomizing her, beating the boy and forcing the mother to perform oral sex on her son. Police say Lawson and the other defendants were among as many as...

"The jury let us down," said Chris Newsom's mother, Mary. "They've let Channon and Chris down. We were hoping for the death penalty. But we're the ones under the death sentence. We had to look at those pictures. We have to live with this for the rest of our lives.". They saw the photos of their children's bodies, the closeups of the fatal injuries, the bullets pulled from Newsom's body and the trash can where Christian died. "You saw it and I saw it," said Christian's father, Gary. "The jury saw it. They know what he did. He deserves to...

Phoenix police on Friday released an audio recording of a 911 call made in the case of an 8-year-old Liberian girl allegedly raped by four young boys last month. In the five-minute call, the manager of the Phoenix building complex where the girl lived tells the dispatcher that a resident says a teenage boy locked the girl in a vacant apartment and had her screaming. The manager also says the girl came out of the apartment in only her underwear and holding her dress in her hand. The girl has been in state custody since the July 16 incident. The...

The Oslo Police have over the past three years investigated 41 cases of aggravated sexual assault, which resulted in rape. All of them were carried out by non-western immigrants to Norway. The police now urge that more efforts be put into preventive measures among men with immigrant background. The police have investigated all reported cases of aggravated sexual assault over the past three years, and have gained a clear imprssion of the offenders: Most of the rapists have a Kurdish or African background, NRK reports. The cases of aggravated sexual assults all have one thing in common, namely the use...

Christopher Newsom, Jr. and Channon Gail Christian. Raped and killed Those who did it. Diversity is remarkable for its homogeneity. From :Wikipedia: “Christian's parents found her abandoned Toyota 4-Runner two blocks away from the Chipman Street house on Monday, with the help of her mobile phone provider. An envelope recovered from the vehicle yielded fingerprint evidence that led police to Lemaricus Davidson and 2316 Chipman Street. When police went to the address on Tuesday, January 9, they found the home unoccupied and Christian's body in a trash can in the kitchen. Christian was strangled to death.[5] According to the grand...

"Please Pray for Justice for my baby girl and our angel, Channon" http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=10952439561&ref=nf

Torture-slayings trial, Day 9: Victim's families: Jury 'let us down' with Letalvis Cobbins verdict KNOXVILLE - The families of a young Knox County couple tortured and killed in January 2007 tonight sharply criticized a jury's decision to spare defendant Letalvis Cobbins the death penalty. "I think the jury has let us down," said Mary Newsom, mother of murder victim Chris Newsom. "I think they've let Channon and Chris down. We were hoping for the death penalty." After deliberating a little more than two hours, the jury delivered its verdict about 6:50 p.m. in Judge Richard Baumgartner's courtroom. The judge polled...

Jurors in Knoxville, Tenn., have begun hearing arguments in a trial over the grisly deaths of a white couple – allegedly at the hands of a gang of black men and one woman who tried to conceal DNA evidence by dousing one victim with bleach. According to court documents, the two were tied up, blindfolded and taken to one defendant's rental home. Shortly thereafter, Newsom was sexually assaulted, shot in the head, set on fire and his body was left beside railroad tracks. The attackers allegedly took 24 hours to kill Christian, raping her multiple times and spraying bleach in...

The first of four alleged members of a black gang scheduled to be tried for murder for the torture-slayings of a young white couple has been found guilty on multiple counts by jurors in Tennessee. WND reported just days ago when the trial was begun for Letalvis Cobbins on counts of first-degree murder and others for the 2007 deaths of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom. Carjacking victims Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom The brutalized bodies of the victims showed evidence that the attackers had tried to destroy DNA evidence by dousing Christian with bleach and Newsom's body was burned beyond...

She was only 11 when they took her in 1991, a 4-foot, 6-inch fifth-grader walking to school in El Dorado County in a pink windbreaker and pink stretch pants. For 18 years, police say, the convicted rapist and his wife kept Jaycee Lee Dugard hidden in their Antioch backyard, living in a tent or shed away from the legions of law officers searching for her. Over the years, authorities say, her abductor -- 58-year-old Phillip Craig Garrido -- impregnated her twice and she gave birth to two girls, now 15 and 11. This is the horrifying ordeal law enforcement officials...

Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was 11 in 1991 when she was snatched ... ... The case broke after Garrido was spotted Tuesday with two children as he tried to enter the University of California, Berkeley, campus to hand out religious literature. The officers said he was acting suspiciously toward the children. They questioned him and did a background check, determining he was a parolee, and informed his parole officer. Garrido was ordered to appear for a parole meeting and arrived Wednesday with Dugard, his wife and two children. During questioning, corrections officials said he admitted kidnapping Dugard. It was not...

A convicted sex offender and his wife have been arrested in the 1991 kidnapping of an 11-year-old girl — who had been kept as a sex slave and held in the backyard of the couple's Antioch, Calif. home. Jaycee Lee Dugard bore several children for sex offender, Phillip Garrido, 58, officers from the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office said in a news conference Thursday. The unnamed authorities also told the TV station that the victim, Jaycee Lee Dugard, bore several childr

<p>A Nebraska man who stole a painting of the Virgin Mary to finance an abortion for a teen he raped has been convicted of first-degree sexual assault and felony theft.</p>

"OMAHA, Neb. » A Nebraska man who stole a painting of the Virgin Mary to finance an abortion for a teen he raped has been convicted of first-degree sexual assault and felony theft. Aurelio Vallerillo-Sanchez, 39, of Omaha pleaded no contest to the charges Friday and faces up to 70 years in prison when sentenced in October, Douglas County prosecutor Brenda Beadle said Saturday. A call to the county public defender representing Vallerillo-Sanchez wasn't answered Saturday. Beadle said Vallerillo-Sanchez fled to Mexico with the 300-year-old painting worth $100,000 and the pregnant teen in March 2007. "The plan was that when...

William Golding, the author of Lord of the Flies, the allegorical novel about childhood, admitted that he had once tried to rape a girl. He confessed to the incident in an unpublished memoir which he wrote for his wife in an effort to explain how his own “monstrous” character had developed. The attack is among the revelations about the Nobel prize-winning novelist in a new biography. It also turns out that when he was a school-teacher, Golding would pitch the boys in his care against each other in a real-life forerunner of his famous work. John Carey, the literary critic...

We're just learing about the arrest of a 32 year old woman for lew and lascivious battery on a 14 year old boy. Melanie Fonseca met her 14 year-old victim at a camp held the the Boys and Girls Club in Kissimmee where she was an art teacher. But Kissimmee Police say that's not where the abuse took place. They say it was at another location within the city. During the investigation, Fonseca admitted to the alligations, and has been arrested. She's being held at the Osceola County Jail without bond. And police are asking for anyone with information to...

" 14-year-old girl was raped on Wednesday evening by at least two people in a bush by Grönkullagatan in Helsingborg. The girl, who comes from outside of the city, had arranged on the internet to meet a boy. But when she and a 14-year-old friend came to Helsingborg to meet the boy they were instead met by a gang of five men, all around 18-years-old. According to initial reports the 14-year-old was raped by at least two of the men. Her friend witnessed the attack and called the police."

An unknown man has raped two women in Dallas so far this month after he intentionally crashed his vehicle into their cars and they pulled over to exchange information, police said Monday. Police believe the same man attacked women in separate incidents. At that time, a woman told Dallas police that she was driving northbound on Marsh Lane near Forest Lane when her car was hit from behind by a pickup. When she pulled into a parking lot, the man in the truck hit her three to four more times, police said in a news release. The man got out...

Violent turmoil in Kolding courtroom following conviction Thursday evening four Iraqis were expelled for life from Denmark by the Western Appeals Court in Kolding. The men were convicted of raping a 14-year-old Danish girl repeatedly at the Vorbasse Fair, July 2008. The case was an appeal case from February this year, where the four Iraqis in a District Court [first instance — translator] received a suspended verdict. The State Attorney appealed the suspended verdict and demanded unconditional deportation for life and an augmented sentence. After the ruling was handed down things turned into violent turmoil. Penalty The four Iraqis were...