Thursday, 3 October 2013

Sex attacker jailed for life for killing his step-grandmother after watching hardcore pornography

Jack Huxley who murdered his step-grandmother with kitchen knives in a 'sexually motivated' attack
Killer: Jack Huxley, left, pleaded guilty to killing step-grandmother Janis Dundas, 
A depraved killer who sexually assaulted and murdered his step-grandmother after accessing hardcore pornography has been jailed for life.
Jack Huxley, 20, murdered 62-year-old Janis Dundas at her home in Atherton Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, after she had taken him in 'out of the goodness of her heart', Liverpool Crown Court heard.
The pensioner was found by police officers face down in a pool of blood in her bedroom with three knives protruding from her back. She had been mutilated, stabbed and slashed 28 times and had suffered a sexual assault.
The court heard how Huxley accessed pornography showing sex between young men and mature women in the hours before and after the murder.
Sentencing Huxley to life, with a recommendation that he serve at least 21 years and eight months before being considered for parole, the Recorder of Liverpool Judge Clement Goldstone said the killing 'plumbed the depths of depravity and brutality'.
The defendant, who had taken a cocktail of alcohol and drugs at the time of the murder, was sentenced after pleading guilty to murder yesterday.
Huxley, with short cropped brown hair and wearing a white shirt, held his head in his hands throughout the hearing.

Janis Dundas who was murdered by her step-grandson with kitchen knives in a 'sexually motivated'
step-grandmother Janis Dundas

Judge Goldstone said Mrs Dundas offered Huxley lodging after he had been made an 'outcast' by his family due to his reliance on drink and drugs.
'Within less than 24 hours you were to repay that kindness and common decency in a way which was as inhuman as it was gratuitously violent,' Judge Goldstone said.
The judge said that on the night he had been welcomed into the victim’s home the defendant did not go to bed.
'Instead you searched Janis Dundas’s computer for hardcore pornographic websites - not just any hardcore pornographic websites, but those which in some respects were able to satisfy an interest in sexual activity between young men and women of a mature age,' he said.
The court heard that earlier that day, April 4, the defendant carried out the same searches on his own laptop as well as using the victim’s computer to carry out more porn searches of that nature after he had murdered her.

Admission: Huxley initially denied murdering Mrs Dundas, but pleaded guilty to the crime at Liverpool Crown Court, pictured, today
Admission: Huxley initially denied murdering Mrs Dundas, but pleaded guilty to the crime at Liverpool Crown Court, pictured

Judge Goldstone said: 'I am sure that on that night you spent some considerable time on such websites... in order to arouse yourself sexually with a view to having intercourse with her.'
The judge said he was 'in no doubt whatsoever' that Huxley not only planned to have sex with his step- grandmother but that he did have penetrative sex with her that night.
He added: 'I am sure that, in fact, your sexual assault upon her began and continued either whilst she was asleep or not responding.'
He said one of the reasons he carried out the assault was his apparent inability to form a sexual relationship or any meaningful relationship with a girl of his own age.
The court heard that after the sexual assault Huxley armed himself with four kitchen knives and a skewer and went on to murder and mutilate his step-grandmother.
The judge said only Huxley knew why he had murdered Mrs Dundas but he said there could only be two reasons: 'Either you were so frustrated by the unsatisfactory sex that had taken place, or you were so disgusted by what you had done that you decided, there and then, to kill her.'
After the sentencing, Jessica Knight, Mrs Dundas’s daughter, said: 'She was a mummy, a grandmother, sister and daughter, a clever and insightful woman murdered so brutally by a man she had invited into her home.
'Her murder has left a deep and dark hole in our lives. The sentence imposed in some ways reflects the gravity of this crime and gives us some consolation.'
She added: 'Our wonderful life has been shattered and all we can now do is try not to let the incomprehensible actions of one man become our focus.
'Instead, we will try to rejoice in the memories we have of a truly wonderful woman, our beautiful mummy.'

Culled from DAILY MAIL

Wednesday, 2 October 2013

'I'll breastfeed my daughter until she's ten if that what she wants': says 51yr old mother in defence of the right to nurse her five-year-old in public


Maha Al Musa, 51, still breastfeeds her 5-year-old daughter in public, whenever she asks for milk
Maha Al Musa, 51, still breastfeeds her 5-year-old daughter in public, whenever she asks for milk

'Aminah took to breastfeeding easily and the moment I felt that bond, I was instantly hooked,' says mother-of-three Maha Al Musa.
Al Musa, 51, still breastfeeds her daughter in public, whenever she asks for milk.
But it's not seeing an older lady flashing flesh that raises eyebrows, rather the age of her five-year-old.
The Australian belly dancer practices extended breastfeeding, where a mother allows the child to carry on feeding until they say they are ready to stop.
She follows in the footsteps of Jamie Lynne Grumet, the 26-year-old Los Angeles mother who caused shockwaves around the world when she posed on the cover of Time magazine with her four-year-old suckling from her bare breast.
Gurmet said she would not stop breastfeeding her four-year-old until he turned five.
As her daughter celebrates her fifth birthday this month, Al Musa, from New South Wales, spoke to New! magazine about how she couldn't care less what her critics think.

The Australian belly dancer is allowing her third child to carry on breastfeeding until she says she is ready to stop
The Australian belly dancer is allowing her third child to carry on breastfeeding until she says she is ready to stop

Grumet, who was interviewed on the Today show last year after appearing on the cover of Time, also defended her actions, talking of the health and emotional benefits of extended breastfeeding.
She said she thought it was the image itself that people found hard to deal with, rather than the practice of extended breastfeeding.
'This isn't how we breastfeed at home,' she said in regards to the photograph, which captures the child standing on a small chair in order to take hold of her breast in his mouth.

Jamie Lynn Grumet, Time magazine's breastfeeding cover star from May 2012
Jamie Lynn Grumet, Time magazine's breastfeeding cover star from May 2012

'It's more of a cradling, nurturing situation [at home]. I understand what they're [the advocates] saying,' she said.
The mother, who said Aram is in fact 'self-weaning right now', admitted that she 'did understand' that the cover shoot was intended to spark controversy.
'We knew exactly what we were going to get into,' she said. 'I felt like our family was one of the better ones to handle this because of my mom's own personal breastfeeding.'
Ms Grumet was breastfed by her own mother until the age of six.

The mother of two, who also breastfeeds her five-year-old son Samuel, appeared on the Today show last year
The mother of two, who also breastfeeds her five-year-old son Samuel, appeared on the Today show last year


She has said she will allow her daughter to breastfeed until the age of 10, if that's what she wants.
'I believe it helps boost her immune system. To this day, she is very rarely ill and her temperament is calmer and more relaxed than the other children,' she says.
Maha weaned her two previous children, Kailash, 16, and Tariq, 13, off of breast milk when they were two. 

Culled from DAILY MAIL

'Vietnam war': Iconic Images taken by courageous AP war photographers released 50 years after


Women and children crouch in a muddy canal as they take cover from intense Viet Cong fire, January 1, 1966. Paratroopers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade (background) escorted the civilians through a series of firefights during the U.S. assault on a Viet Cong stronghold at Bao Trai, about twenty miles west of Saigon.

Associated Press (AP) have published a new book called Vietnam: The Real War, containing over 300 powerful images to mark the 50th anniversary of the conflict.
Published today, the book contains images of candid moments from the war chosen from over 200,000 AP photos, from front-line combat to Buddhist Monks committing self-immolation in protest.
The images changed public perception of the war. Photos, rather than video footage, were key in conveying to audiences around the world the brutality of the war in Vietnam. Video cameras were being used by journalists in Vietnam but lacked the impact of the small 35-millimetre camera, the tool of choice for photojournalists.

Vietnam: The Real War carries an introduction from Pete Hamill, who reported from Vietnam in 1965: “Across the years of the war in Vietnam, the AP photographers saw more combat than any general.
“This book shows how good they were. As a young reporter, I had learned much from photographers about how to see, not merely look.
"From Vietnam, photographers taught the world how to see the war. Say the word ‘Vietnam’ today to most people of a certain age; the image that rises is usually a photograph.”
The book includes AP journalist Malcolm Browne’s shocking photo of a Buddhist monk taking his own life in petrol-fueled flames on a Saigon street in 1963, protesting the policies of the United States-backed South Vietnamese regime.
When President John F. Kennedy saw the photo of the burning monk, he reportedly remarked, “We’ve got to do something about that regime.”

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In the first of a series of fiery suicides by Buddhist monks, Thich Quang Duc burns himself to death on a Saigon street to protest persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government, June 11, 1963. The photograph aroused worldwide outrage and hastened the end of the Diem government. With the photo on his Oval Office desk, President Kennedy reportedly remarked to his ambassador, “We’re going to have to do something about that regime.”
 
Also included is the traumatic depiction of napalm attacks and the impact that chemical-based weapons had on civilians, including AP’s Nick Ut photo showing a scorched, naked girl fleeing a napalm attack.
The photographer's older brother was reportedly killed on assignment with the AP in the southern Mekong Delta.
Nine years later, President Richard M. Nixon and an aide speculated about whether the “napalm girl” photo was somehow faked
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Bang, followed by soldiers of the South Vietnamese army’s 25th Division, June 8, 1972. A South Vietnamese plane seeking Viet Cong hiding places accidentally dropped its flaming napalm on civilians and government troops instead. Nine-year-old Kim Phuc (center) had ripped off her burning clothes while fleeing. The other children (from left) are her brothers Phan Thanh Tam, who lost an eye, and Phan Thanh Phouc, and her cousins Ho Van Bon and Ho Thi Ting.

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Marines move through a landing zone, December 1969.
 
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Sunlight breaks through dense foliage around the town of Binh Gia as South Vietnamese troops, joined by U.S. advisers, rest after a cold, damp, and tense night of waiting in an ambush position for a Viet Cong attack that did not come, January 1965. One hour later, the troops would move out for another long, hot day hunting the guerrillas in the jungles forty miles southeast of Saigon.

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Medic Thomas Cole of Richmond, Virginia, looks up with his one unbandaged eye as he continues to treat wounded S.Sgt. Harrison Pell of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, during a firefight, January 30, 1966. The men belonged to the 1st Cavalry Division, which was engaged in a battle at An Thi, in the Central Highlands, against combined Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces. This photo appeared on the cover of Life magazine, February 11, 1966, and photographer Henri Huet’s coverage of An Thi received the Robert Capa Gold Medal from the Overseas Press Club.
 
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A woman mourns over the body of her husband after identifying him by his teeth, and covering his head with her conical hat. The man’s body was found with forty-seven others in a mass grave near Hue, April 11, 1969. The victims were believed killed during the insurgent occupation of Hue as part of the Tet Offensive.

AP won six Pulitzer Prizes during its years of Vietnam War coverage, including four Pulitzers for photography. Last year, AP won the Pulitzer for Breaking News Photography for similar scenes of hostilities and casualties of civilians in harm’s way, this time in the Syrian civil war.

Vietnam: The Real War' is published on October 1 by Abrams Books in the U.S. and Canada, and by Abrams & Chronicle Books in the UK. The book's publication will coincide with an exhibition at the Steven Kasher Gallery in Manhattan, which opens October 24 and runs through November 26.

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Vietnam: The Real War is being published on Oct. 1 by Abrams Books in the U.S. and Canada, and by Abrams & Chronicle Books in the UK


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U.S. Marines emerge from their foxholes south of the DMZ after a third night of fighting against North Vietnamese troops, September 1966. The helicopter at left was shot down when it came in to resupply the unit

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Henri Huet, the French war photographer who took this powerful image, died in 1971 when the helicopter he and three other photojournalists were in was shot down. It shows U.S. paratroopers of the 2nd Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade, hold their automatic weapons above water as they cross a river in the rain during a search for Viet Cong positions in the jungle area of Ben Cat, September 25, 1965


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This photograph was taken by German photojournalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Horst Faas. It shows hovering U.S. Army helicopters pour machine-gun fire into the tree line to cover the advance of South Vietnamese ground troops as they attack a Viet Cong camp eighteen miles north of Tay Ninh, near the Cambodian border, March 1965

Weary: Soldiers from South Vietnam sleep on a U.S. Navy troop carrier following a four-day operation against the Viet Cong
Weary: Soldiers from South Vietnam sleep on a U.S. Navy troop carrier following a four-day operation against the Viet Cong


Horror: This iconic image shows police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan about to execute Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem on the street in Saigon
Horror: This iconic image shows police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan about to execute Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem on the street in Saigon

Agony: A wounded paratrooper grimaces in pain as he awaits medical evacuation from base camp in the A Shau Valley
Agony: A wounded paratrooper grimaces in pain as he awaits medical evacuation from base camp in the A Shau Valley


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The body of a U.S. paratrooper killed in action in the jungle near the Cambodian border is lifted up to an evacuation helicopter in War Zone C, May 14, 1966

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Dr. Joseph Wolfe, center, treats a wounded soldier while other physicians attend at Charlie Med, a makeshift underground hospital at the besieged Khe Sanh Marine base, March 1968

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The above picture, by New Zealand journalist Peter Gregg Arnett, shows freshly landed U.S. Marines make their way through the sands of Red Beach at Da Nang, April 10, 1965


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Their home burning in a fire set by South Vietnamese troops, a Vietnamese woman carries a baby and pulls her daughter toward safety near Tay Ninh, about sixty miles northwest of Saigon, July 1963

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French paratroopers descend on the fortified outpost at Dien Bien Phu to provide reinforcements for soldiers trying to hold out against a siege by the Viet Minh, March 16, 1954


Vietnam: The Real War is available to buy from Amazon.
Culled from HUFF POST

Friday, 27 September 2013

The baby girl born with extra HEAD: Surgeons perform life-saving surgery to remove part-formed skull


Asree Gul, two-months-old, was born with an extra head attached to her skull. Doctors in Afghanistan operated to remove the extra head and the baby has now been released from hospital
Asree Gul, two-months-old, was born with an extra head attached to her skull. Doctors in Afghanistan operated to remove the extra head and the baby has now been released from hospital

Surgeons in Afghanistan have carried out a life-saving operation on a baby girl born with an extra head.
Asree Gul, who is one of a pair of twins, was admitted to a hospital in the eastern city of Jalalabad with an extra head attached to her scalp, chief surgeon Ahmad Obaid Mojadidi said.
He said: ‘Her mother gave birth to twins, two girls. 
‘One girl was in good health but the other had an abnormality. She had an extra head attached to her head.’
‘We separated the extra head from her body,’ he said a week after the operation which he described as the most sophisticated ever carried out in the impoverished city.
The two-month-old baby whose parents are farmers was released from hospital yesterday.
Surgeons believe that the extra head was part of a third baby that failed to develop properly in the womb.
 
    They said the surgery was complicated as vital blood vessels in Asree Gul's skull were attached to the extra head.
    Nematullah, Asree Gul’s father, said he had not expected his baby to survive the operation.
    ‘The doctors saved her life. I thank them,’ he said.
    The surgeons carried out the operation free of charge as Asree Gul's parents could not afford it.

    Asree Gul (left) is one of twins and her sister was born healthy. It is thought that her extra head was the result of a third baby who did not develop properly in the womb
    Asree Gul (left) is one of twins and her sister was born healthy. It is thought that her extra head was the result of a third baby who did not develop properly in the womb

    Afghanistan, plagued by more than 30 years of war and still fighting a decade-long Taliban insurgency, lacks modern healthcare.
    However, facilities have improved thanks to the billions of dollars that have been pumped into the country by the international community in the last ten years.
    Last month, surgeons in New Delhi, India, separated one-year-old Nigerian twins who were joined at the hip and had spinal cord fusion.
    Hussaina and Hassana Badarus' surgery took 18 hours and was only the fourth such separation to be carried out in the world.
    The procedure - which cost an estimated £64,000 and was paid for by a Nigerian philanthropist - was so risky that doctors were forced to conduct practice runs on dummies before attempting it for real.

    Culled from DAILY MAIL

    Wednesday, 25 September 2013

    Chinese man has new nose grown on his FOREHEAD to replace the original which was damaged in a car crash


    Xiaolian, 22, had a new nose grown on his forehead after his original one was irreparably damaged in a traffic accident. The new nose was sculpted from cartilage taken from his ribs
    Xiaolian, 22, had a new nose grown on his forehead after his original one was irreparably damaged in a traffic accident. The new nose was sculpted from cartilage taken from his ribs

    A Chinese man has had a new nose grown on his forehead.
    The man, who has only been named as Xiaolian, had the treatment to create a replacement for his original nose which was infected and deformed.
    The procedure was carried out at a hospital in Fuzhou, Fujian province.
    The 22-year-old damaged his nose in a traffic accident in August 2012 but failed to seek treatment.

    As a result, an infection corroded the cartilage leaving the surgeons unable to repair it.
    They were left with no choice but to grow him a new nose and then to transplant it in place of his damaged one.

    Doctors say that they will soon be able to carry out a transplant operation to replace the damaged nose with the newly grown one
    Doctors say that they will soon be able to carry out a transplant operation to replace the damaged nose with the newly grown one

    The nose was created by placing a skin tissue expander onto Xiaolian’s forehead.
    This was cut into the shape of a nose and was supported by cartilage taken from the man’s ribs.
    Surgeons say that the nose has developed well and that the transplant surgery will be carried out soon.

    Culled from DAILY MAIL

    Italian athlete used 'fake penis filled with uncontaminated urine to beat doping test'


    Devis Licciardi
    Devis Licciardi, 27, is said to have used a realistic-looking prosthetic containing uncontaminated urine to give a sample following a 10km road race

    An Italian long distance runner is facing disciplinary proceedings for allegedly using a fake penis to beat a dope test.
    Devis Licciardi, 27, is said to have used a realistic-looking prosthetic containing uncontaminated urine to give a sample following a 10km road race.
    The allegation echoes a farcical scene from the film Withnail and I, where the titular character tries to avoid a drink-driving arrest by passing off a child's urine as his own.

    The Whizzinator: Advertised as a 'discreet synthetic urine device that is safe for all types of fun scenarios', the £87 gadget comes with a heating element and bags of uncontaminated urine to help people beat drugs tests
    The Whizzinator: Advertised as a 'discreet synthetic urine device that is safe for all types of fun scenarios', the £87 gadget comes with a heating element and bags of uncontaminated urine to help people beat drugs tests

    Licciardi, who is an athlete for the Italian Air Force team, was said to have been spotted by marshals at the event using the fake penis.
    Officials at the country's Olympic Committee were immediately informed and he is due to face a disciplinary hearing in Rome tomorrow and faces a potential lengthy ban.
     
      Licciardi is thought to have been using a device called a Whizzinator which is readily available on the internet.
      Advertised as a 'discreet synthetic urine device that is safe for all types of fun scenarios', the £87 gadget comes with a heating element and bags of uncontaminated urine to help people beat drugs tests.
      The ethnically sensitive product comes in a range of products for customers of various races including white, Latino and black.
      The device could have been inspired by a scene in the seminal British tragi-comedy Withnail And I.
      In the film a drunk Withnail, played by Richard E. Grant, tries to fool police who have pulled him over on the motorway by passing urine from a washing-up liquid bottle attached by a tube to his penis.
      'You refuse everything but the urine sample,' he says. 'You undo your valve, give them a dose of unadulterated child’s p***, and they have to give you your keys back.'

      Farcical: The invention is reminiscent of this scene in the tragi-comedy Withnail And I where the titular drunk thespian uses a makeshift device consisting of a washing up bottle the tube to try to avoid a drink-driving charge
      Farcical: The invention is reminiscent of this scene in the Withnail And I where the drunk thespian uses a makeshift device consisting of a washing up bottle and a tube to try to avoid a drink-driving charge

      The investigation into Licciardi was launched at the weekend after he ran in a race at Molfetta near Bari in southern Italy.
      A spokesman at the Italian Olympic Committee said: 'An investigation has been launched and Devis Licciardi wlll appear before a anti doping disciplinary panel on Wednesday.'
      Licciardi himself was unavailable for comment.

      Culled from DAILY MAIL

      Earthquake kills at least 238 and leaves thousands injured and homeless in Pakistan


      Powerful: The quake was felt as far away as New Delhi, the Indian capital, some 1,200 kilometers (about 740 miles) away, but no damage or injuries were immediately reported there
      Powerful: The quake was felt as far away as New Delhi, the Indian capital, some 1,200 kilometers (about 740 miles) away, but no damage or injuries were immediately reported there

      A major earthquake has killed at least 238 people and left thousands more injured and homeless in a remote region of southwestern Pakistan.
      The Pakistani military said it was rushing troops and helicopters to Awaran district in Baluchistan province where the magnitude 7.7 quake struck on Tuesday afternoon.
      The quake was felt as far away as New Delhi, the Indian capital, some 1,200 kilometers (about 740 miles) away, but no damage or injuries were immediately reported there.
      In Pakistani cities such as Karachi along the Arabian Sea and Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, people ran into the streets in fear, praying for their lives when the quake hit.
      Local officials said they were sending doctors, food and 1,000 tents for people who had nowhere to sleep as strong aftershocks continued to shake the region.
       Baluchistan is Pakistan's largest province but also the least populated and most impoverished. Awaran district has about 300,000 residents.
      Many residents are believed to be involved in smuggling fuel from Iran, while others harvest dates.
      The area where the quake struck is at the center of an insurgency that Baluch separatists have been waging against the Pakistani government for years. 
      The separatists regularly attack Pakistani troops and symbols of the state, such as infrastructure projects.
      Baluchistan and neighboring Iran are prone to earthquakes. A magnitude 7.8 quake centered just across the border in Iran killed at least 35 people in Pakistan last April.

      Major: A graphic by the U.S. Geological Society showing the intensity of the magnitude 7.7 earthquake that hit Pakistan's western province of Balochistan
      Major: A graphic by the U.S. Geological Society showing the intensity of the magnitude 7.7 earthquake that hit Pakistan's western province of Balochistan

        Most of the victims were killed when their houses collapsed. Pakistani television showed pictures of the area. 
        Walls of the mud brick houses had collapsed and people were gathered outside because they had no homes to sleep in.

        Culled from DAILY MAIL

        Tuesday, 24 September 2013

        54yr-old man jailed for trying to forcibly exorcise devil out of his 80-yr-old girlfriend

        David Benes

        A 54-year-old Florida man who allegedly sought to perform an exorcism to “get the devil out” of his 80-year-old girlfriend is facing criminal charges for physically restraining his live-in companion against her will, police report.
        According to a complaint affidavit, the victim told Pasco County Sheriff’s Office deputies that David Benes “held her down” late Monday evening in the home they share outside Tampa (the couple has been in a relationship for three years).
        The woman told investigators that Benes was trying to “exorcise her and get the devil out of her” against her will. The affidavit does not describe why Benes believed an exorcism was warranted. The woman called 911 yesterday after Benes allegedly resumed his “exorcising” attempts.
        Officers noted that the octogenarian had bruises and scratches on her arms, injuries that occurred during the confrontation with Benes. The woman also told deputies that Benes had removed batteries from the home's phones so that she could not call police or her daughter. He also allegedly took her car keys and “dismantled” the garage door.
        Benes, who appeared intoxicated, was passed out on a couch when first contacted by deputies. He subsequently stated that he was too drunk to recall what had transpired, though he did claim to have been “beat up” on the back and shoulders by the elderly woman.
        Seen in the above mug shot, Benes was arrested yesterday on several charges, including battery on a person 65 years or older and false imprisonment. He is currently locked up in the county jail.
        Culled from The Smoking Gun

        Friday, 20 September 2013

        45yr-old teacher had sex with two male 16-yr-old pupils in her home during drunken party while her husband was away

        Jennifer Philp-Parsons was jailed for two-and-a-half years after sleeping with two teenage boys
        Jailed: Jennifer Philp-Parsons was jailed for two-and-a-half years after sleeping with two teenage boys

        A 45-year-old music teacher has been jailed for two-and-a-half years after having sex with two teenage pupils in the space of an hour at a house party.
        Jennifer Philp-Parsons, 45, groomed the two 16-year-old boys before inviting them to parties at her house, where she plied them with alcohol and had sex with them.
        Philp-Parsons had sex with one of the boys while her husband Jake was asleep upstairs and slept with both boys within the space of an hour on one occasion.
        However, her husband and their three children today supported Philp-Parsons in court, even writing a letter in support of her which was handed to the judge.
        Branding the former head of music at an east Devon college a 'sordid adulteress', Judge Francis Gilbert QC said: 'The details reveal very serious offences involving you seducing two of the students in your school in your own home for your own sexual gratification.
        'You have left a trail of destruction and significant distress for a number of people.'
        She was jailed for 30 months after admitting three counts of sexual activity with a male aged between 13 and 17 while in a position of trust.
        Exeter Crown Court heard how Philp-Parsons became the pupils' favourite teacher after befriending them during lessons.
        She provided them with a kettle and a toaster, making her classroom into a common room.
        After gaining their trust she started to host house parties, where she would invite pupils and provide alcohol for them to drink.
        The court heard that it was during one of the house parties at her home in Exmouth, Devon, in May that she first slept with a pupil.

          Emily Pitts, prosecuting, told the court that the pair were left alone and had sex adding that the next morning the teacher took the boy and his friends out for breakfast at her expense.
          She also regularly gave one of the victims lifts to and from school.
          Philp-Parsons held another party at her house just weeks later, where, after persuading her first victim and a friend to come, she once again supplied the students with alcohol.

          Hearing: The former head of music at a Devon college was sentenced at Exeter Crown Court, pictured
          Hearing: The former head of music at a Devon college was sentenced at Exeter Crown Court, pictured

          Miss Pitts told the court that following drinking games, the pair had sex again and that the boy was angry afterwards because he had a girlfriend.
          The court heard that less than an hour later, when the victim and a friend left to buy food at around 1am, Philp-Parsons then had sex with a second boy.
          Miss Pitts added: 'He felt pressured because it was her house and he did not want to do it but did not know what else to do.'
          The pair were interrupted when the two boys returned from buying food and asked the victim to come downstairs.

          Inappropriate: Philp-Parsons took one pupil for a meal at McDonald's in Exeter High Street, pictured
          Inappropriate: Philp-Parsons took one pupil for a meal at McDonald's in Exeter High Street, pictured

          Despite Philp-Parsons asking the boy to return upstairs, and even attempting to pull him there, he refused.
          Philp-Parsons initially denied the charges when police arrested her at the school, but during a second interview she confessed.
          The court was told that she refused to recognise the gravity of her situation even after her arrest and continued to text one of her victims.
          She sent a large number of messages to the 16-year-old, one saying: 'Hi darling, I have missed you lots'.
          Another said: 'Please forgive me'.

          'Sordid adulterous': Philp-Parsons also took a boy for food at Costa coffee in Princesshay Square in Exeter, pictured
          'Sordid adulterous': Philp-Parsons also took a boy for food at Costa coffee in Princesshay Square in Exeter, pictured

          Defence lawyer Richard Crabb said: 'Something like this does not happen overnight, on a whim. Not after 18 years of marriage, three children and 10 years as a teacher.
          'She was experiencing difficulties in her marriage, she felt lonely and isolated at home.
          'It is clear now what happened, she began to look for friendship and support from her students which was a foolish and dangerous thing to do.
          'She crossed the line and she acknowledges that now.'
          Philp-Parsons' husband was in court to support his wife alongside their three children - two girls and a boy.
          The court heard that there had been difficulties in the marriage leading up to the events.
          Mr Crabb said: 'The consequences of her actions have had devastating consequences for her and her family.
          'She has lost her job and will never be able to work as a teacher again.
          'Her marriage is also in further difficulties but her husband is standing by her and has written a letter of support for her to this court.'
          They court was also told the family home is now being sold.
          Before sentencing, the judge read statements from both mothers of the victims - only one was in court - and they revealed the distress caused to both families.
          Philp-Parsons was jailed for 30 months, ordered to sign the sexual offenders register indefinitely and given an indefinite sexual offenders prevention order.

          Culled from DAILY MAIL