Miami cannibal victim learning to play guitar a year after most of his face was chewed off in horrific attack

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A homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a horrific attack last year in Miami has learned to play guitar as he continues to receive treatment for his injuries. 

As the first anniversary of the attack nears, Ronald Poppo has spoken publicly for the first time. 

In a video released by hospital staff, Mr Poppo thanked all the people to have supported him through his difficult recovery. 

He said: 'I thank the outpouring of people in the community and I will always be grateful for that.' 

Mr Poppo spent almost a month in hospital after the attack in May last year. 

Mr Poppo is smiling again one year after a 75 per cent of his face was chewed off by Rudy Eugene

He has been left blind but his doctors say he has been working with an occupational therapist to learn how to take care of himself. 

He has been living in a long-term care facility since the gruesome attack. 

Mr Poppo has been learning to play guitar and practices the instrument daily. 

A year after the broad daylight attack, Mr Poppo is smiling again. 

He recently celebrated his 66th birthday with staff at Jackson Memorial Hospital. 

Hospital staff helped Mr Poppo celebrate his 66th birthday and he has put 50lb under their care 

About 75 per cent of Mr Poppo's face was chewed off by Rudy Eugene in the shocking assault. 

Miami police shot and killed Eugene after being called to the scene on the side of a highway. 

Rudy Eugene ate 75% of Mr Popo's face in a frenzied attack on a Miami highway

Surveillance video from a nearby building showed Eugene stripping Poppo and beating him before appearing to hunch over and lie on top of him.

The police officer who shot Eugene to death said he growled at the officer when he told him to stop.

Emergency callers had reported seeing a naked man swinging from a light pole on Miami's MacArthur Causeway a few minutes before the attack.

It was widely speculated that Eugene was on bath salts when he launched the frenzied attack - however toxicology tests found only marijuana in his system.

The case made headlines world wide but Mr Poppo has chosen not to speak publicly until now. 

Hospital staff have revealed Mr Poppo is 'living happily and adjusting to his new life' at the Perdue Medical Center where he has learned to play guitar. 

A graphic picture released at the time showed the extent of Mr Poppo's injuries.

Two-thirds of his face was covered in scabs and his nose was missing. 

His grey beard was trimmed, leaving a moustache over his upper lip.

However, in the latest pictures his wounds have clearly improved. 

The homeless man underwent several surgeries at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Florida before being transferred to a local-term care center.

Mr Poppo, who is originally from New York, had been living on the streets of Florida for the past 30 years, estranged from his family who thought he had committed suicide years before.

Ronald Popo's mug shot a few weeks before the horrible attack which left his face disfigured

He said in the clip released today: 'Thanks for contributing and helping out. People in my predicament need to be helped out and I am sure there are people also that have the same type of predicament.'

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Record-breaking 128lb Python that measures 18ft and 8in long is captured and killed in Florida, United States (VIDEO)

The biggest ever Python snake found in Florida, measuring 18 feet and 8 inches long, has been captured and killed.

The 128lb giant female reptile broke the previous record by over a foot.

The Burmese Python, an invasive species to the Florida Everglades, was found and killed by Jason Leon in a rural area southeast of Miami.

He managed to snare the snake after seeing part of its body sticking out the undergrowth.

With the help of a friend he killed the snake with a knife. According to University of Florida scientists, the snake was not carrying eggs.

Florida Wildlife officials later told him it was the biggest ever recorded in the state. The previous longest was 17ft and seven inches.

Record breaker: Jason Leon holds an 18 foot and 8 inch python he captured and killed in Miami-Dade County, Florida

'We were riding and I saw something poking out on the side of the road. At first I didn't know what it was,' said Veronica Larios, who accompanied Leon to the Everglades.

In a video recorded by another friend Blake Jordan Leon can be seen grabbing the snake by it's neck.

Larios hands Leon a knife and helps him move the snake's body as it tried to coil around her friend.

Leon said: 'For about 10 minutes, he was wrapping around my legs, around my arms. I was switching arms, and finally. We finally pulled him apart, stretched him out, and took a knife and cut his head.'

'I knew that it was a big snake and I've never seen it in the wild. I knew it didn't belong there. I knew they had to be removed so I grabbed it.'

The snake was later given to the University of Florida's Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center for a necropsy. 

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Committee, recently sanctioned a hunt to try and rid the Everglades of the pythons.

Taking measurements: Python being measured in University of Florida Lab after it was captured and killed near Miami

A total of 63 pythons were captured as 1,600 people took part in the month long hunt with the longest 14ft 3in.

The Pythons are killing other small animals in the one million acre Everglades.

They are also thought to be breeding an at alarming rate with the first reptiles released into the Everglades thought to have been pets that outgrew their containers.

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Former Anglican priest bags 10 yrs in jail for sexual abuse of underaged girls

Canon Gordon Rideout

A retired Church of England priest found guilty of a catalogue of historic sex attacks on young children at a Barnardo's home has been jailed for 10 years.

Canon Gordon Rideout, 74, abused more than a dozen girls and boys at the now closed home at Ifield Hall in Crawley, West Sussex, over a four-year period.

The former Anglican clergyman from Polegate, East Sussex, also indecently assaulted two girls at an army site in Middle Wallop, Hampshire, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.

At Lewes Crown Court, Rideout was found guilty of 34 counts of indecent assault and two counts of attempted rape on 16 children between January 1962 and January 1973. He was cleared of one count of indecent assault on a boy at a second Barnardo's home in Essex.

As he was sentenced today, the Bishop of Chichester, Dr Martin Warner, said Rideout had caused ‘immeasurable and destructive suffering’ over a long period of time.

Most of the charges he was convicted of related to his time as an assistant curate at St Mary's Church in Crawley when he would visit a Barnardo's children's home in the county.

Prosecutor Philip Bennetts QC told the jury that Rideout would visit the home and ‘it would appear from the evidence that he would wander the house and indeed the grounds unaccompanied, and he would visit children when they were sick and alone in bed’.

One of his victims recalled Rideout visiting the dormitories at night, put his hands under the covers and ‘fondle around’. 

Mr Bennetts said: ‘It was on a regular basis when he came to stay, maybe once, twice, three times a week sometimes.’

Rideout's victims did not complain at the time for fear of not being believed. Jurors heard how Rideout attempted to rape a girl who attended choir practice.

After one occasion in his flat, Rideout walked the girl back to the children's home and told her: ‘This is going to be our secret.’ 

A month after another rape attempt in a wooded area, the girl believed she was pregnant. When she confided the abuse to a friend who went on to tell a manager at the home, the victim was slapped across her face. At the home, Mr Bennetts said there was a ‘brutal regime where children were taught how to behave by beatings’.

One girl, who was aged around 14 or 15 at the time she was abused, was asked why she had not reported it to the authorities sooner. She told police in interview: ‘I was too scared, too scared.I didn't want to be beaten again, too scared. The beatings were so much worse than what that man was doing. The beatings were terrible, absolutely terrible.’

One boy asked Rideout why he was molesting him. Rideout replied: ‘I've got to do it.’ 

When the boy went on to question him why, Rideout said: ‘I like little boys.’

Another complainant said she told the married couple who ran the home that the priest was abusing them, but they responded by throwing her against a wall, breaking one of her ribs.

Rideout was arrested in March last year and charged five months later following a nine-month inquiry by Sussex Police. He denied all the charges.

Barnardo's director of children's services Sam Monaghan said after the case: ‘We are extremely saddened by this case and our deepest sympathies go out to those who have suffered. It has taken great courage for them to step forward and relive their experiences.

‘We are glad that justice has been served and believe it is critical that abusers are held to account for their crimes, regardless of when they took place. We take all allegations of historical abuse extremely seriously and we will always co-operate fully with the justice system on such matters.’

Rideout is the latest figure from the scandal-hit diocese of Chichester to be convicted of historic sex crimes against children.

Earlier this month a report was published into the operation of child protection policies in the diocese two years after the former archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams ordered a visitation.

 former archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams

 It followed a series of scandals involving clergymen within the diocese which has led to several being arrested, charged and convicted for historical sex crimes against children.

The report's publication prompted a renewed apology from the current Archbishop, Dr Justin Welby, who said the Anglican church can never ignore the ‘hurt and damage’ of victims who should ‘never have been let down’ by people who should have been trusted.

Archbishop, Dr Justin Welby

Investigations into Rideout began after police were handed a confidential report by Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss in May 2011 raising concerns about his conduct in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Another priest referred to in the report, Robert Coles, 71, of Eastbourne, was jailed for eight years in February for sex offences against young boys. His offending was not linked to Rideout.

Following the case, the Bishop of Chichester, Dr Martin Warner, said: ‘Gordon Rideout has been the cause of immeasurable and destructive suffering over a long period of time. He has also betrayed the trust and respect of many who have valued his ministry. Today's verdict will have repercussions in many different ways across Sussex and beyond.

‘We are left with the question of why it has taken so long for these grave accusations to be taken seriously and brought to trial. What lessons do we all have to learn from this terrible catalogue of abuse about the strength and effectiveness of our communication within and between agencies that have responsibility for the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults?

‘In the diocese of Chichester we shall continue to interrogate those procedures and to do our very best to ensure that we deliver the quality and standard that others expect of us.’

Nigel Pilkington, head of the CPS South East Complex Casework Unit, said: ‘As an assistant curate and then chaplain, Gordon Rideout was in a position of trust, which he systemically abused, indecently assaulting the vulnerable youngsters that he met over a number of years.

‘A number of his victims attempted to speak out about what Rideout was doing, but tragically at the time of the offences, a child's word was not believed.

‘Those who were brave enough to say anything were subjected to brutal beatings. Some of his victims told police in interviews that it simply “wasn't worth complaining” because of the punishment they would receive in return.

'They may not have been believed as children, but today they finally have been. I hope that helps to give them closure.

Chief Crown Prosecutor for CPS South East, Roger Coe-Salazar, said: ‘This case is an example of how the CPS successfully prosecutes cases of child sexual abuse and should serve as a warning to those who think they can abuse children with impunity.

‘We are exceptionally mindful of how difficult it can be for victims to step forward and place their trust in the authorities many years later, but I hope this case illustrates the support and understanding they will receive from the prosecutors and the police when they do.’

Police said none of the charges Rideout faced related to claims of recent or current offending and there is no suggestion that any children are currently at risk.

Detective Chief Inspector Jon Gross, of Sussex Police, said: ‘It is difficult to overestimate the significance of this verdict for those who have finally seen justice, many decades after being prey to the sexual abuse perpetrated by Gordon Rideout.

‘His offending over that period has been hugely impactive upon the lives of his victims, from childhood to the present day.

‘It is hoped this case will bring a sense of closure to all of those who provided evidence to the investigation while underlining to the wider community that it is never too late to report serious crimes, however long ago the alleged offending took place.

‘In carrying out this investigation we also received full co-operation from the Diocese of Chichester and Barnardo's Homes.’

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Woman sexually assaulted policeman while offering him and a colleague a 'threesome'

Celina Hodge

A suspected drink driver groped a policeman while offering him and a colleague a threesome as they tried to give her a breath test.

Celina Hodge, 41, groped the officer’s genitals and buttocks after she was allegedly seen drinking vodka behind the wheel of her car.

The two policemen were attempting to give her a breath test when she touched the officer and made a series of suggestive comments, Bristol Magistrates' Court heard.

Hodge, of Hambrook, Bristol entered a guilty plea to one count of sexual assault but denied failing to provide a sample breath test.

May Li, prosecuting, told the court that Hodge was ‘clearly drunk’ so police officers got her out of the car to perform the breath test.

She said: ‘The officers received reports of a female drinking from a bottle of vodka at the wheel.

‘They located the vehicle where Mrs Hodge was sat in the driver's seat, with the engine off but the keys in the ignition, with a male passenger in the back seat.

‘Mrs Hodge told one officer: “You've got a good ass”. She rubbed her hands over the officer's buttocks and she told him she liked him.’

As she was being arrested, Hodge made sexually suggestive comments to the officers, including offers of sex, the court heard.

Ms Li added: ‘She asked the officers: “Can't we go somewhere just the three of us?” 

'She told the Pc he would be a good f*** and repeatedly attempted to rub his groin.’

Later, when officers attempted to get Hodge to give a breath sample at a police station, she began pleasuring herself during the incident on April 25.

Ms Li said: ‘She took hold of the mouthpieces, looked at the CCTV camera, put her leg up on the counter.'

The driver then started to touch herself while blowing into the alcohol tester, she added.

Hodge spoke only to confirm her name and pleas during the ten minute hearing.

She was granted unconditional bail to appear before the same court for the breath test trial on July 11. 

She will be sentenced for the sexual assault at a later date.

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Woman stabs boyfriend with 8-inch knife for farting in his face

Deborah Ann Burns

A Florida woman explained to cops that she stabbed her boyfriend after he purposefully passed gas in her general direction.
Deborah Ann Burns, 37, told police that she was watching TV Tuesday night in the Immokalee home she shares with Willie Butler, her boyfriend of six years. Burns advised that, at one point, “Willie walked by her and farted in her face.”
Burns then “confronted him about the fart and Willie became agitated, telling her to shut up” according to a Collier County Sheriff’s Office report.
During the ensuing confrontation, Burns allegedly grabbed an eight-inch kitchen knife and threw it at the 53-year-old Butler, striking him in the stomach. Butler, who suffered a minor laceration, was treated at the scene by EMS personnel.
Pictured in the above mug shot, Burns was arrested for aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. She was booked into the county jail, where she is being held in lieu of $50,000 bond on the felony count. Burns, a convicted felon, previously spent 21 months in state prison for aggravated assault with a weapon and battery on a law enforcement officer.
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California Doctor reprimanded for advising patient to have oral sex with husband to treat gag reflex

J. Peter Zegarra, a California doctor, has been publicly reprimanded by the state's medical board after he told a patient to practice oral sex on her husband. The patient had expressed concerns her gag reflex would interfere with an upper-gastrointestinal endoscopy, according to CBS affiliate KOVR.

The patient, an unidentified woman, complained that the Sacramento-based colo-rectal surgeon told her to practice oral sex on her husband "twice a week" prior to the procedure as a way of allaying the reflex.

According to CBS Sacramento, Zegarra made the suggestion in front of the woman and her husband "several years ago." The station also noted Zegarra had tried twice to expunge the complaint from the public record. Zegarra's name appears on a summary of administrative actions taken by the California board of medicine in 2007.

CBS Sacramento reports that a spokesperson for the state board of medicine called the doctor's suggestion inappropriate, even if it was meant as a joke.

As a matter of perspective, doctors have been caught doing much worse than dispensing questionable advice.

In September 2012, an Illinois doctor faced federal charges after he allegedly traded prescription drugs for sexual favors from 30 different patients. According to ABC affiliate KCRG, Dr. David Gierlus' sexual encounters with patients ranged from "oral sex, both during medical appointments and outside the office in [his] vehicle, to intercourse in the examination room during medical appointments.”

In April 2012, a British general practitioner went before a medical counsel to face allegations from three female patients, who made separate complaints about his conduct between 2003 and 2005. One patient complained that the family doctor had molested her and had sex with her several times on his surgery table during appointments, claiming that it would "help save her marriage."

Although suspensions are common in cases like these, they aren't always permanent. In August 2012, a Lodi, Calif., doctor had his license reinstated by a judge, despite the doctor's admitting to taking mood-altering inhalants and masturbating in his office. Opponents of the decision called it an example of the California medical board's "lax approach to getting rid of doctors who pose a harm to patients."

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Woman Bit Boyfriend's Penis Over Sex Refusal - Cops

Krystle Harrison

When her amorous advances were repeatedly rejected by her live-in boyfriend, Krystle Harrison allegedly “bit his penis” in retaliation, police allege.

Harrison, 19, and Jeffrey Wilkinson, 24, were in bed late last night in their Bradenton, Florida home when Harrison “wanted to have sex,” according to a Manatee County Sheriff’s 

Office report.

In a bid to entice Wilkinson, Harrison “began to touch him.” But Wilkinson told her “several times that he did not want to partake,” a deputy noted.

19-year-old Krystle Harrison with Jeffrey Wilkinson, the father of her baby boy

Wilkinson told an investigator that after turning away Harrison, she grabbed him and “bit his penis.” He then pushed her away and left the home, which the couple shares with their infant son.

The dispute continued outside the residence, where Harrison allegedly slapped her beau in the face and “then spit in his facial area.” Wilkinson also “received minor scratches to his upper chest” during the tangle with Harrison, whom he has dated for three years.

Harrison, seen above, was arrested for misdemeanor domestic battery and booked early today into the county jail, where bond has not been set.

Wilkinson told a deputy that he did not want to press charges and refused to complete a sworn affidavit about the confrontation. He also declined medical treatment for his bitten penis. (2 pages)

Culled from THE SMOKING GUN

Man arrested for soliciting for prostitute on his wedding day

Meet Mohammed Ahmed.

The 21-year-old was one of scores of men arrested in a prostitution sweep conducted last week by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office in Florida. According to investigators, the alleged john answered an online ad posted by an undercover detective posing as a hooker.

Pictured above, Ahmed was arrested when he arrived for his paid liaison.

Ahmed, an Illinois resident, was in the Sunshine State on his honeymoon when busted for soliciting prostitution and pot possession.

When Ahmed did not return to his bride at the Omni Hotel, she called police to report him missing. The woman was subsequently told by cops that her husband was not MIA, that he had been arrested. For seeking to pay for sex from a hooker while he was celebrating his nuptials.
Culled from THE SMOKING GUN

How retired school principal embalmed 78yr-old mother's dead body and hid it in closet for 10yrs

The village of Ezuru Umuagwu in Ejemekwuru community in Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State, Nigeria was yesterday thrown into uproar and disbelief when the police brought out the embalmed body of 78-year-old Mrs. Lucy Osigwe, assumed to have been missing for the past 10 years from the wardrobe of his son, Dr. Chimezie Osigwe, a retired school principal. Dr. Chimezie, 64, who claimed to be a member of Sat Guru Maharaji religious sect, had hidden the body in a wardrobe in a room used as his shrine, told newsmen after his arrest by the police that the body was the embalmed staff of the General Hospitals in the state, who he also claimed, died afterwards.
Narrating how his mother died, the frail-looking Osigwe said, “that evening, sometime in 2003, I was meditating in my ‘Temple’ when my mother came in to ease herself. Suddenly I heard a big noise.
I went in and found her groaning, I took her to her room and laid her on the bed before she passed on. “But you see she is still here but I can’t tell you why she is here 10 years after because the enemies of Guru Maharaji are all over here I will talk to you people in camera, I have been a devotee of the Maharaji sect in the last 24 years and have also attained high spiritual level. So, I won’t like to speak in the public as doing so will send an erroneous impression of the sect”.
Briefing newsmen at the scene of the crime which was earlier cordoned off by stern-looking policemen, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Muhammad Musa Katsina, said that the bizarre scene was uncovered by the Ambush Squad attached to the command after a tip-off.
He said that the house serves as a meeting point for ritualists who converge there to perpetrate atrocities. “We have information about the large number of devotees that patronize the shrine, which will help us identify those behind the heinous act”, he noted.
Meanwhile, a reliable police source who doesn’t want to be named, narrated how the son of the suspect whose identity is withheld for security reasons, made the startling revelation. According to him, the 22-year old boy who ventured into his father’s secret room in search of his credentials, opened a large wardrobe, which was securely locked and got the shock of his life when he found the mummified body of his grandmother, who they thought had been missing.
But for the heavy presence of the armed policemen, youths of the community would have lynched the suspect over what they described as the heinous crime. Celestine Agwu, a member of the community, told Daily Sun that the people were shocked to their marrow when the policemen brought the body of mother of Osigwe, who had told his kinsmen that the mother had travelled overseas to be with his other children.
He said, if it was not for the presence of the police, youths of the community would have lynched him.
Culled from SUN

Couple who had sex while inside Dubai taxi jailed for 2 months

A British businesswoman and an Irish welder convicted of having drunken sex in the back of a taxi in Dubai have been sentenced to two months in jail after losing an appeal.
Rebecca Blake, 30, from Dorking, Surrey (inset), and Conor McRedmond, 28, from Tullamore, Co. Offaly,pictured above, had spent a year fighting the allegations.
Blake and McRedmond were arrested on May 4 last year after going on a ten-hour drinking binge.
The pair met hours earlier at a brunch, where they admitted getting drunk on free-flowing wine and vodka in an all-inclusive €45-a-head deal.
They carried on drinking at a hotel and got into a taxi together at about 10pm.
Taxi driver Qaiser Khan, 30, claimed within minutes of getting in, Blake had taken her top off and was writhing on top of McRedmond while ‘making the sounds of a woman having sex’.
He pulled over on Sheikh Zayed road and summoned policeman Abdullah Obaid Khamis, who told the court that he found the pair having sex and interrupted them by tapping on the window.
He told prosecutors: ‘They kept having sex for four minutes. The man’s shirt was open, his trousers were down to his knees and the woman was not wearing any underwear.’
The taxi driver alleged Blake offered him ‘a lot of money’ to tell prosecutors they had been kissing rather than having sex, but he refused.
Witnesses said recruitment executive Blake stripped off before straddling McRedmond, who had his jeans pulled down.
The pair denied the accusations and yesterday said they were ‘disappointed’ by the outcome, which will see both deported after serving their sentences.
Blake, who was sacked from her £120,000-a-year post, said: ‘I am devastated by this result and gutted this has been dragging on for a year. I cannot wait to get home and start my life now but I am very scared about going to prison.’
McRedmond has been living in Dubai for four years, said: ‘I am disappointed after coming this far and fighting these allegations for so long. I feel they are making an example of us.’
Blake and McRedmond do not have to go to jail immediately and can decide when to hand themselves in – but if they are arrested in the meantime or get into trouble with the law, they will be taken straight to prison.
They cannot leave the country until they have served their sentence.
The pair said they had been financially crippled by the case after spending more than €50,000 fighting to clear their names.
Blake, who moved to Dubai in September 2011, has not been able to find work since she was sacked and neither of them can leave the country after having their passports confiscated.

Blake and McRedmond, who works as a manager at Kelly Steel engineering firm, said the allegations had been trumped up after they rowed with the taxi driver about taking a longer route home.
The pair were originally convicted in November in the criminal court, where they were both sentenced to three months in jail and given a €630 fine for drinking alcohol – a crime in the Islamic country.
The sentence was challenged in the Court of Appeal in February, which cut the sentence by a month and reduced the fine.
But the Supreme Court – the highest court in the United Arab Emirates – refused to drop the charges altogether, despite medical reports proving the couple did not have sex.
Their lawyer Shaker al Shammary yesterday said the statements of the two witnesses were inconsistent, adding: ‘They threatened to complain about the taxi driver and he beat them to it – yet there is no mention of their dispute in the Supreme Court judgment.
‘The medical records show what the witnesses said was not true but this was not taken into account in the ruling.’
The duo’s only options now are to beg for a royal pardon from Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai, or they can serve their time and challenge the deportation order in the courts.
McRedmond said: ‘We find ourselves in exactly the same position we were in after the original verdict but thousands of pounds poorer.
‘Any court in the world would accept the medical evidence above all else. I love Dubai and wanted to carry on living here but I am left without a choice.’
There were fears their failure to clear their names is part of a crackdown from Dubai authorities on expats flouting their strict rules.
Vince Acors and Michelle Palmer, a British couple caught having sex on a beach, were treated more leniently in 2008 when they were convicted on the same charge of indecency and ordered to serve three months in prison, but received a suspended sentence on appeal.
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31yr-old female teacher raped underaged male student inside Mexico classroom

A married high school science teacher has been accused of raping one of her male students in a classroom.
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Busted: High school science teacher, Jennifer Vigil, 31, was charged with allegedly raping one of her male students

Jennifer Vigil is alleged to have locked the doors and told the teen: 'You're not leaving until I get something from you.'

The student claimed he refused the 31-year-old's sexual advances, but later agreed to let her perform oral sex so he could leave.

The teen said he later had sex with Vigil in the classroom shortly after she had dismissed a class.

Vigil allegedly told police the sex was consensual, but the student is alleged to have said he found the idea of sex with her as 'disgusting.'

The student allegedly took a picture with his cellphone during the oral sex, which took place behind the locked classroom door.

Police in Santa Fe, New Mexico, said even if the sex was consensual it was still illegal as Vigil was in a position of authority.

'In her position of authority it’s prohibited to engage in any type of sex activity with a student regardless of whether it’s consensual or not,' said Sheriff's Major Ken Johnson.

Vigil, whose Facebook page says she was married in July 2009, has taught science at Pojoaque Valley High School in Santa Fe for the last eight years.

According to the criminal complaint, the student who was in her horticulture class said that on March 22 he met with Vigil after school to turn in an assignment.

He said when he entered the classroom, Vigil locked the doors and said, 'You’re not leaving until I get something from you.'

The student said he asked Vigil what she wanted, and said Vigil said she would help him out if he helped her out adding 'So why don’t you just give (it) to me and I’ll leave.'"

The student said he told Vigil, 'No, that’s disgusting. You’re a teacher.'
He told investigators they argued for several minutes until Vigil agreed to let the student leave in exchange for letting her perform a sex act on him.

The student said he thought was the only way to get out of the situation.

The student took a photograph of the sexual encounter on his cellphone, which was identified by the detective as being a picture of Vigil.

During her interview with police, Vigil made it clear the teen had initiated the sex.

She gave different dates for the incident to the teen.

Vigil said on April 2 during a lunch break the student dropped off an assignment.

Vigil claimed the student requested she perform oral sex which led to sexual intercourse.

She said that on April 12, the student again requested to have sex with her and she agreed.

Vigil was charged under a section of state law that makes it illegal for school employees to have sex with students.
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Vigil, left, allegedly told police the teen initiated the sexual encounters between the two of them but he told police he thought having sex with his teacher was 'disgusting'

According to the complaint, Vigil said she was aware that she had authority over the student because she was his teacher.

Pojoaque Valley schools human resources director Angela Lobato said Vigil would be on administrative leave pending the outcome of the sheriff’s investigation.

'We do take these allegations seriously and we follow protocols when dealing with these issues,' Lobato said.

'We are getting back into the business of educating our students and providing high-quality education.'

Vigil faces two counts of criminal sexual penetration of the teen. She is being held on $25,000 bond.

Culled from DAILY MAIL

Female TV reporter sacked for saying ‘sex’ instead of ‘success’ during a presentation

A female Television sports presenter with CSN Chicago was sacked from her job for a minor mistake on air. She had excitedly shouted ‘sex,’ while she meant to say ‘success.’ This was after the Chicago Blackhawks won a thrilling play-off game against Minnesota Wild in the NHL. The victory elicited wild jubilation among fans.

The presenter, Susannah Collins in the heat of the excitement, slipped up over her words, reporting on the “tremendous amount of success” the Blackhawks has enjoyed.

Instead, she said the players had enjoyed a "tremendous amount of sex", but stopped to correct herself immediately.

But the story took a sour turn when Collins was sacked by the network within days of the gaffe. Phil Bedella, vice president of CSN Chicago, said: "Due to circumstances unrelated to her on-air remarks Tuesday night, Susannah Collins and Comcast SportsNet Chicago have parted ways."

The "circumstances unrelated to her on-air remarks" were allegedly a series of videos Collins made called 'Sports Nutz', which you know were extreme because the name ended with a ‘Z’. The videos featured lowbrow comedy and explicit jokes, ranging from "graphic sexual exploits of pro athletes to the dearth of Jewish baseball players," according to the Chicago Tribune.

However, the clips existed before she joined the network in September, and another theory that has emerged is that the owner of the Blackhawks owner Rocky Wirtz

"'In my opinion and those of others, (the videos) are incredibly offensive to a number of audiences, going well beyond professional athletes," Wirtz said. "Had we known of this earlier, we would have raised the issue immediately."

The letter went on to ask CSN to "remove her from our broadcast immediately.'" Most members of the public were not convinced that she was not sacked for the sex slip.
Culled from DAILY TIMES

China boils baby chickens alive as country is engulfed by panic over outbreak of bird flu

Tens of thousands of baby chicks are being boiled alive in China as panic grips the country over the current outbreak of a mysterious new strain of bird flu.
Four more people have died from the new strain, bringing to the total number of deaths from the H7N9 virus to 31, Chinese health officials revealed yesterday.
Meanwhile, the number of infections has risen by two to 129, with health experts saying that the disease is probably being spread by poultry.


Chicken farms facing official demands to dispose of as many birds as possible have now resorted to to killing off newborn chicks by plunging them in boiling water.
These photographs were taken at a poultry farm in Qingyuan city, in Guangdong province, south-east China, where as many as 30,000 new born chicks were dumped into boiling water to be killed every day.
Farm spokesman Fai T'ien said: 'Before this virus outbreak we were hatching around 100,000 chicks a day. We have now cut that down to 50,000 and it is still too many and we are having to kill most of them.
'We are putting a few aside to be vaccinated and sold onto the market but most are having to be killed by boiling them.'
Farmers say that boiling is the easiest and quickest way to kill the chicks but there has been criticism by animal-rights activists who say that has to be a better way to deal with the problem.

The Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO) has said it has no evidence that the new strain of bird flu, which was first detected in patients in China in March, is easily transmissible between humans.
Chinese scientists have confirmed that the H7N9 strain has been transmitted to humans from chickens. But the WHO has said 40 per cent of people infected with H7N9 appear to have had no contact with poultry.

The Chinese government provided only scant details about the latest victims of H7N9.
Two occurred in the eastern province of Jiangsu; one was from eastern Zhejiang; while another was from central Anhui, based on a Reuters analysis of the data provided by Chinese health authorities on Monday.
The head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the current strain of bird flu cannot spark a pandemic in its current form.
He added, however, that there is no guarantee it will not mutate and become more dangerous.

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Rapper Danny Brown received oral sex from female fan while on stage

Rapper Danny Brown has sparked controversy by allegedly allowing a female fan to perform oral sex on him during a recent concert in Minneapolis with fellow rapper Kitty Pryde saying the incident shows a double standard of sexual assault toward males.

The unidentified woman allegedly pulled Brown’s pants down while he was in the middle of a song at the Triple Rock Social Club on April 26.

'I was right behind the girl and saw everything,' a gig-goer reported on Reddit.com, going on to say that 'all night Danny had been going up to the crowd and having random girls touch his [crotch] through his pants. '
'He rapped the entire time during too,' the Reddit contributor added.


Brown joked about the incident in a Twitter exchange with rapper Kendrick Lamar. 'Didn't miss one bar bruh bruh,' he tweeted.
Hitting out: Fellow rapper Kitty Pryde, who is on tour with Brown, spoke out, saying he was effectively sexually assaulted (file photograph)

But Pryde, pictured below, who is on the Old And Reckless tour with Brown, doesn’t think it’s a laughing matter.


Brown, she said in a blog post, was a victim of an 'actual sexual assault' that he certainly did not 'facilitate' and blaming 'someone for their own molestation is a pretty s***** thing to do.'

'It’s obvious that the reason nobody cares is because a girl did it to a boy,' Pryde protested.

'What was Danny supposed to do other than back away, which he did? And if he had figured out a way to gently push the girl off him immediately without looking like he was smacking her in the face, he’s faced with attacks on his masculinity by every douchebro in the building.'

Pryde even referenced literary classic To Kill A Mockingbird, saying she was sure 'this girl will never be brought to justice anywhere … To watch my best friend go through this weird racist/sexist sensationalism is 1% exciting and 99% heartbreaking.'

Brown, 32, is known for his sexualized lyrics in such songs as XXX, which appears to refer to a woman fantasizing about performing oral sex on him.

He has not commented directly on the Minneapolis incident and his Twitter exchange has been deleted from the site.

Culled from DAILY MAIL

16yr-old American student arrested by police for performing an explosive science experiment

Kiera Wilmot, pictured above, was a Bartow High School student. She was arrested at her school last week for allegedly detonating a water bottle filled with an explosive concoction of common household chemicals. According to the Miami New Times, "[A] police report ... indicates Wilmot mixed toilet bowl cleaner and aluminum foil -- a combination that has inspired hundreds of YouTube videos and generally produces a fairly unimpressive explosion."

One teen told Florida-based WTSP News 10 that Wilmot merely wanted to see what would happen when those chemicals mixed.

The experiment reportedly created a small explosion that caused the bottle's top to pop off and produced smoke. Although no one was hurt and no property was damaged, Wilmot was charged with “possession/discharge of a weapon on school property and discharging a destructive device,” according to WTSP. Both charges are felonies.

WTSP also reports that Wilmot has been expelled and will now finish high school in an expulsion program.

According to Miami New Times, Wilmot was known as a good student. She told police that she was conducting a science experiment, though it does not appear to have been an experiment her teachers assigned.

Wilmot’s school principal, Ron Pritchard, defended the student in an interview with local news outlet The Ledger. He noted that Wilmot did not leave the premises after the explosion. "She left it [the bottle] on the ground, and she stayed there," Pritchard said. "We went over to where she was. She saw that we saw her, so she didn't take off."

Wilmot’s school district released the following statement about the incident, according to the Miami New Times:
Culled from HUFF POST

'International Clitoris Awareness Week' takes place May 6-12 (NSFW)

Mention the word "clitoris" and some people get touchy -- and not in a good way.

But that could change quickly because May 6—12 as the first ever "International Clitoris Awareness Week," a seven-day period designed to celebrate the female body part.

The organization behind the week is "Clitoraid," a Las Vegas-based group usually devoted to helping victims of female genital mutilation around the world.

However, Clitoraid spokeswoman Nadine Gary said the message behind "Clitoris Awareness Week" is more whimsical.

"We've noticed that the clitoris has not gotten its spot in the limelight. It makes people feel uncomfortable," she told The Huffington Post. "For this week, we don't want to focus on genital mutilation."

Gary said the clitoris has gotten the shaft since the 19th century when orgasms achieved by touching it were considered "immature" compared to vaginal orgasms.

"The clitoris doesn't have a reproductive function so it can be minimized," she said. "It's up to eight inches long -- same as a penis -- but it's inside."

Gary has experience doing offbeat awareness campaigns like Go Topless Day, which protests laws that prevent a woman from going topless and "Swastika Rehabilitation Day," which was designed to remove the Nazi stigma from the ancient symbol.

"We found that whenever something has an 'awareness day,' it makes it more comfortable to talk about," she said.

Future International Clitoris Awareness Weeks will be held the first full week of May, which just happens to be National Masturbation Month.

Masturbation is something that Gary hopes to touch on during Clitoris Week.

"There is a taboo around sexuality," she said. "We want to point it out and talk about it. Maybe some women will go to masturbation seminars."

To that end, Gary hopes to inspire other women to talk about their sexuality to others, much like actress Rosario Dawson did recently when she admitted in an interview that she calls her vagina "the General."

"We want to prompt women to speak out and celebrate their sexuality," Gary said.

She is hoping to arouse interest in "Clitoris Week" by having fellow Clitoraid members dress in giant vagina costumes and hand out fliers on the Las Vegas Strip.

Meanwhile, LA-based pornographer Mike Kulich is lending a hand to the clitoris cause by filming a DVD featuring various porn actresses engaged in self love tentatively titled "I Love My Clitoris" with all proceeds going to Clitoraid.

Regardless of how the inaugural "Clitoris Week" goes, Gary already is thinking about next year.

"Most American holidays have a drink associated with them," she laughed. "Maybe someone can come up with one."
Culled from HUFF POST

''I stabbed my son. I was sick of him calling me old': Confession of a father to 999 operator minutes after murdering 26-year-old son

A 52-year-old man told a 999 operator that he 'just flipped' and killed his own son because he had had enough of being teased.
Stephen Hall, from Hull, confessed to murdering his son Keith McGlone, 26, to an emergency services operator.
He claims he stabbed his son with a kitchen knife because was fed up with being called an 'old man'.
The details of the 999 call have been released by police.
The call records Hall telling the operator: 'I've just stabbed my son.
'I don't know if he's alive or dead. I stabbed him in the living room and now he's in the bathroom.
'I said summat and he argued with me and then, all of a sudden, I just flipped.
'I was sick of him always picking on me and calling me an old man and everything.'
Hall is due to appear in Hull Crown Court for sentencing today.
He pleaded guilty to murdering his son in their East Yorkshire home by stabbing him twice in the chest and abdomen before calling emergency services.
Father-of-two, Mr McGlone, had recently moved back in with his father.
The court was told that the two had been heard arguing in a pub. Hall is said to have been on anti-depressants for 18 years.

He was seen carrying the knife outside his house by neighbours, on the day of the stabbing.
He told 999 operator Louise Robinson he had put the knife in the sink after the stabbing.

The police operator kept Hall on the phone until officers and paramedics arrived at the home in January 21.
Detective Chief Inspector Alistair McFarlane, senior investigating officer, said: 'This is a tragic event, which has led to the needless death of a young man.
'The family are not only having to cope with the loss of Keith in such violent and unnecessary manner, but also with the fact that it was at the hands of his father.'

Culled from DAILY MAIL

Back from the dead: 62yr-old man whose heart stopped beating narrates his meeting with God and the Angels

A man whose heart stopped beating while he slept has claimed that he witnessed angels and spoke to God before miraculously waking up in hospital and recovering.
Don Houston, 62, pictured above, who has a history of heart trouble, shared his story after recovering from the serious illness just before Christmas last year.
He said that while he was unconscious in an Oklahoma City hospital - with only machines keeping him breathing - he entered a white room before witnessing a parade of angels.
'It was just white,' he told KFOR. 'Everything was so surreal, so peaceful. It was not a dream. It was so real. I mean it was real. Angels were there. God spoke to me.'
An angel showed him two doors and was escorted through the 'door of second chances', he said.
'The angel said, "Don, come with me",' he said. 'We went through the doorway that she said and as soon as we went through that door I started hearing, "Don, Mr. Houston." It was doctors and nurses.'
The vivid experience took place after his wife Rita, pictured blow, awoke in the night by the sounds of his death rattle and found he was not breathing and that his tongue was sticking out, according Paramedics Plus.

'I never suspected I’d go to bed and die but I did,' Mr Houston told KFOR.
Rita frantically called 911 and dispatchers gave her lifesaving CPR instructions over the phone.

Paramedics Frankie Burch and Carey Crump, pictured in the group photo below, rushed to the scene, where they needed to use a defibrillator on three occasions to stabilize Don's heartbeat.


He was rushed to hospital in critical condition and taken to the intensive care unit - but doctors were uncertain if he would regain consciousness.

'A doctor came out and said there is no response,' Rita said. 'I asked the ER doctor if we could go pray for him because I didn't want to hear no more. He said yes we could. We went in and prayed.'
But to everyone's shock, he awoke - with the vivid story describing where he had been.
Mr Houston, a Christian, said that he is now inspired to tell people there is life after death.
'I do know for a fact, there is something out there and you're not alone,' he said.
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Man in police net for calling '911' eighty times, requesting for marijuana, burgers and kool-aid.

Jarvis Sutton, 34, was arrested Sunday for allegedly calling 911 operators in St. Petersburg, Fla., 80 times wanting "Kool-Aid, burgers and marijuana to be delivered to him," the Associated Press reports.

Instead, officers delivered him to the Pinellas County Jail, where he was booked on charges of misusing the 911 system, according to the Tampa Bay Times.

Sutton may have been suffering from the worst case of the munchies ever. Arresting officers noted that he kept chewing on the foam attached to the metal caging in the back of the police cruiser, NBC Miami reports.

Sutton remains in jail on $150 bail. This visit marks his seventh visit to jail in the last two years, according to the Florida Sun-Sentinel.
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Nigerian Pastor arrested with AK 47 riffle as detained suspects confess that he (Pastor) provides them with guns

30-year-old Nigerian Pastor, Mr Solomon Eze,pictured above, who is currently being detained at the dreaded cell of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Ikeja, Lagos over an alleged case of armed robbery and kidnapping is finding it difficult to maintain his innocence.

The Abia State-born suspect, who was arrested with an Ak 47 rifle, told Crime Alert that he is a deliverance minister at The Bride Assembly, a Church located at Ijesha area of Lagos State. He explained further that the rifle found in his possession belongs to a friend he met at Ikire prayer mountain in Osun State.

However, police sources intimated Crime Alert that Eze was arrested during investigations into the gruesome murder of a police corporal, Iweka Ramat, at kirikiri area of Lagos State. Sources said Eze and one of his colleagues were accosted inside a taxi cab by a police patrol team at Berger axis of kirikiri Town in February 2013 and while the police attempted to search them, they bolted out of the cab and the policemen went after them. The police officer, Ramat, who went after Eze was later found dead in an isolated part of the area after a deafening sound of gunfire was heard.

The taxi driver was taken into custody and later transferred to the SARS where he was interrogated. It was gathered at that point that Eze contacted the taxi driver on the phone before he picked them. “We retrieved the phone number from the taxi driver and we contacted the network provider who furnished us with Eze’s home address. On April 4, 2013 the officer in charge of SARS, Sp Abba Kyari led a team of crack operatives to Eze’ s apartment at No.113, Idowu Street, Olodi Apapa, Lagos, around 2 am in the morning where they apprehended him.
He later took the operatives to an apartment in Ikorodu area of the state where they recovered an Ak 47 rifle with number 6090. When we interrogated him further, Eze led us to arrest six other members of his gang identified as Sunday James, 29; Emmanuel Iloakazi, 26; Ikechukwu Okafor aka Osuofia I, 37; Obinna Egbugha, 26; Ikechukwu Chedom, and Christian Ezinkwo aka Alhaji, 3, while two additional AK47 rifles, 11 Ak47 magazines loaded with 30 rounds of live ammunition, were recovered from them,”the source added.


When Crime Alert spoke with Eze who hails from Osisioma village, Abia State, he said the AK 47 rifle belongs to his friend Uchenna. According to him “On October 15, 2012, I met a brother, Uchenna where I used to pray for people – Mountain of Mercy, Ikoyi, Osun State. After three days’ prayer, he started calling me. He asked me where I live and do prayer. I told him that I live in the Leadway Estate, Eruwe.
He later came with one Ogonna on January 2. Ogonna collected my number and left. I did not see him for more than a month until I was about traveling to Anambra for a church programme. I left them in Ikorodu and travelled to Anambra. I was there when my brother, Kingsley called me that the police had arrested him because of me. I was arrested and brought to SARS. Uchenna told me that his brother used to bring cars from abroad and asked me to follow him to bring them. We went and brought a Toyota Camry car. He gave me N30, 000.

“I only prayed for Uchenna before my encounter with them. I am married. My wife sells fruits and she is carrying a seven-month pregnancy. It was James that put me into trouble because I arrested him. I did not participate in four armed robbery and kidnap operations as he is claiming. I don’t even know that I was arrested for belonging to a robbery/kidnapping gang. It is a surprise to me because I have never been involved in this type of case.”

Sunday James who is the second in command to the gang said “ I am from Ebonyi State but I live in Coker, Orile, Lagos. I was introduced to the gang by Victor Emmanuel, who is the leader of the gang.

In January, Emmanuel rented an apartment in Ajah area and in February, we started the business fully. Whenever we kidnap, we take the victim to the apartment. We have kidnapped four people so far.

“The first person we kidnapped paid N1m ransom and my share was N100,000. Emmanuel received N200,000 since he was the leader. The second victim paid N1m and we shared the money in the same manner.” The suspect however added that they later increased their ransoms for subsequent operations. “We later started demanding N2m as ransom.

After our last operation, we bought a jeep for N1.5m and the remaining money was shared equally. I got N70,000 and that was the last time I saw the gang,” he said. The suspect said the gang was much organized as every member had his own role to play.
According to him, a gang member had a duty of feeding and looking after victims while in captivity. He said, “Emmanuel was the one responsible for spotting people that we will kidnap. He was the one who usually contacted the families of victims and he also collected the ransom.“Pastor’s job is to provide the guns that the gang will use. I only follow the gang but I don’t carry guns.”


When asked how the gang usually picked its victims, the suspect said anyone seen in a flashy car was a potential victim. He said, “Emmanuel usually sits on the passenger side and anytime he spots someone in a flashy car, we trail the person and then grab him or her. We then dump the victim’s vehicle somewhere before contacting the family. We have never kidnapped a prominent person.”

The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Umar Manko, told newsmen while parading the suspects that, “ in our efforts to rid the state of kidnapping, we were able to identify two groups of kidnappers, we have been able to uproot one group and we believe that the other group is responsible for the kidnap of the LCDA boss. We also sealed off two of the kidnapper’s dens located at Ikorodu and Ibeju-Lekki and a storey-building belonging to one of the kidnappers located at Ajangbadi area of Lagos.
Culled from VANGUARD