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  • Man gets 5 years for stabbing girlfriend 258 times, took selfie with baby shortly after [Netherlands]

    07/31/2025 1:41:24 AM PDT · by grundle · 46 replies
    NL Times ^ | July 30, 2025
    The court in The Hague sentenced 24-year-old Arnold O. to five years in prison and mandatory psychiatric treatment at a tbs facility. The man murdered his 22-year-old girlfriend Jihaneve on July 18 last year by cutting and stabbing her 258 times in her home in Zoetermeer. The couple’s two-week-old baby was also present in the home during the incident. According to the court, the crime “absolutely falls into an exceptional category in terms of violence and brutality.” O. used the victim’s phone to film certain parts of the violence. According to experts, O. was psychotic at the time he killed...
  • Inquiry into doctor's killing of newborn baby 34 years ago

    09/02/2006 1:20:48 PM PDT · by wagglebee · 75 replies · 1,699+ views
    UK Telegraph ^ | 9/2/06 | Nicole Martin
    Police are investigating a hospital doctor who admitted suffocating a severely disabled newborn baby 34 years ago. In a magazine article written in 1988, the unnamed doctor said he placed a pillow over the baby girl until she stopped breathing. The then senior house officer in paediatrics claimed he killed the baby at a north London hospital in the summer of 1972 to spare her parents further suffering. They had been led to believe that their child, who was born without her brain, would be born dead. Writing under the pseudonym of Ivy Walker, he said in New Society magazine...
  • DEAN SAYS SCHAIVO A DEMOCRAT CAUSE

    04/16/2005 8:16:15 AM PDT · by Louis Foxwell · 50 replies · 1,080+ views
    L A TIMES ^ | 5/14/05 | By Michael Finnegan, Times Staff Writer
    Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said Friday that his party would wield the Terri Schiavo case against Republicans in the 2006 and 2008 elections, but for now needed to stay focused battling President Bush on Social Security. "We're going to use Terri Schiavo later on," Dean said of the brain-damaged Floridian who died last month after her feeding tube was removed amid a swarm of political
  • Family Reacts To Pregnant Teen's Murder (Another Baseball Bat Murder)

    01/29/2005 4:06:48 AM PST · by csvset · 4 replies · 346+ views
    WUSA 9 News ^ | 1/28/2005 | Nancy Yamada
    Family Reacts To Pregnant Teen's Murder Written by Nancy Yamada Last Updated: 1/28/2005 11:38:33 PM A pregnant teenager is dead after being beaten with a baseball bat. The suspect in her murder is a man who her family believes was the baby's father. 9 News' Nancy Yamada has more on this horrific crime and the family, devastated by the loss of 17-year old Cheri Washington. Cheri Washington was five months pregnant when she went to a home on the 14000 block of Dixon Street, Thursday morning. Inside, police say she got into an argument with 26-year old Carlos Williams who...