Posted on 04/07/2005 10:49:45 AM PDT by Kitten Festival
On March 18th, a shocking crime took place in Berkeley, California, at a spot famous for sweeping Bay views, distinguished architecture, and the genteel atmosphere that wealthy “progressives” create for themselves. An elderly woman, walking home with her husband from an extension class at the University of California, was grabbed from behind by a young woman who had just walked past her on the sidewalk. In a flash, her throat was slit to the bone.
As she spurted blood, the suspect drove off with her companion, another young woman, in a light blue BMW M3 convertible, a car which carries a suggested retail price of 55 thousand dollars.
Astoundingly, the victim survived the attack, thanks to the many witnesses who called for police and medical assistance, and after six hours in surgery and an extended stay in intensive care, has been released from the hospital. The 75 year old also survived being struck by lightning in her youth.
From the beginning, police and prosecutors were very cagey in revealing information about the case. The victim’s name was not published in the press, for reasons of “security.” The evening of the crime, a suspect was apprehended, a sixteen year old juvenile, whose name was withheld, as is the usual case with juveniles. She was jailed and then ordered to undergo psychological examination. Subsequent press reports indicated that the suspect had a history of both mental illness and violent attacks. She had escaped from a care facility.
But the most curious aspect of the case is the identity, behavior, and subsequent official treatment of the companion. Eleven days after the incident, the press revealed that she was a county mental health worker assigned to Juvenile Hall.
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The Bay Area in general. There are always rotten neighborhoods. The worst parts of Oakland and Richmond are bad, but not on a par with the worst parts of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Detroit, St. Louis, or Los Angeles.
Die old hag die!!!!"
This episode brought to you courtesy of the black robed tyrants in Washington DC
When your time's just not up, it's just not up.
As well as the soon-to-be epicenter of some major Book of Revelation level event. I think I'd feel safer in an Oklahoma trailor park in the middle of tornado season than live in the Bay area. It's beautiful, no doubt about it, but with that much kookiness concentrated in one place, I get superstitious about bad stuff happening.
The last time I was in Berkeley (having attended UCBerkeley earlier), it was such a Mission Field. As in, 'Get the Holy Water.' So many lost souls, such evil. That people think it is normal and safe, perhaps that is where the derangement comes in. uck.
A Decadence phenomenon.
Hey! Black robes! Maybe the goth types are just trying to emulate our esteemed judges.
scary story ping!
Boycott Berkeley
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An Alameda County mental-health worker was arraigned Thursday on a charge of spiriting away a teenage suspect in her car after the youth allegedly slit the throat of a 75-year-old woman near the Berkeley Rose Garden.
Hamaseh Kianfar, 30, of San Rafael, was present during the March 16 attack and drove the 16-year-old girl away in her car without notifying police, authorities said.
Kianfar appeared before Superior Court Judge Winifred Smith in an Oakland courtroom. Kianfar will be back in court May 3 to enter a plea to a felony charge of being an accessory in the attack.
On Thursday, Kianfar was accompanied by her sister Sahar, 28, and their father, Ali Kianfar, 68, who is the co-founder of the International Association of Sufism. Sufism is a mystical or esoteric form of the Muslim faith that seeks a direct experience of God.
Hamaseh Kianfar, who is also active in Sufism, and her attorney, Laurel Headley of Emeryville, declined to comment after the brief hearing. Kianfar surrendered to authorities Wednesday and is free on $15,000 bail.
Kianfar is on paid administrative leave from her part-time job at the guidance center at Juvenile Hall in San Leandro, where she apparently befriended the juvenile suspect.
The 16-year-old suspect is being held at Juvenile Hall on suspicion of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon. The results of a psychological test are to be submitted to a Juvenile Court judge in Oakland on Wednesday.
The slashing victim and other witnesses told police that the attacker and a female companion had been walking on the 1200 block of Euclid Avenue at about 6:30 p.m. when the teenager grabbed the victim around the throat and, without saying a word, cut her neck to the bone with what looked like a kitchen knife.
Kianfar initially told police she had witnessed the knife attack but later gave police a second statement revising that account, prosecutors said.
Witnesses had described the getaway car as a light-blue convertible. Records from the state Department of Motor Vehicles show that Kianfar owns a 2003 Mazda Miata.
Hamaseh and Sahar Kianfar translated and compiled a book titled "Sufi Stories." A posting on Amazon.com says Hamaseh Kianfar has a master's degree in psychology and is a Ph.D. candidate in the same field. Her mother, Nahid Angha, 62, co-founded the Sufi association.
The posting says she has been involved in a variety of community counseling efforts, including the Forgiveness Project at Stanford University; Squires, an inmate-intervention program at San Quentin Prison; guided imagery at Marin General Hospital; suicide prevention at the Human Needs Center; and research on autism at the department of neuroscience with the University of California.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1366214/posts
From March 19th
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