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UK: 'The damage done by these (Muslim foreigners) is irrevocable' - Paedo gang's 'threat to cut girl's face off and decapitate baby'
 A SADISTIC paedo ring threatened to cut a girl’s face off and decapitate the baby of one of their young victims, a court heard today. Another victim of the Oxford-based sex ring has considered suicide while others suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, nightmares, panic attacks and flashbacks, the Old Bailey was told. Ahead of the sentencing of the gang – convicted of grooming vulnerable underage girls for sexual exploitation – the court was read harrowing statements from victims' parents. They described how the seven defendants had ruined their daughters' lives. A statement from the mother of one girl said her daughter developed chronic insomnia and even suffered a minor stroke, believed to have been brought on by the stress of her horrific ordeal. Six of the defendants – minus Mohammed Karrar, 38, who is said to have refused to come up from the cells – listened from the dock as the distressing statements were read. He was convicted last month with his brother, Bassam Karrar, 34, and another two brothers, Akhtar Dogar, 32, and Anjum Dogar, 31, of charges including rape, trafficking and organising prostitution. Kamar Jamil, 27, Assad Hussain, 32, and Zeeshan Ahmed, 28, were also found guilty following the five-month trial during which the jury was told the gang sexually exploited girls as young as 11. - (UK) |
Texas marked a solemn moment in criminal justice Wednesday evening, executing its 500th inmate since it resumed carrying out capital punishment in 1982. Kimberly McCarthy, who was put to death for the murder of her 71-year-old neighbor, was also the first woman executed in the U.S. in nearly three years. McCarthy, 52, was executed for the 1997 robbery, beating and fatal stabbing of (White) retired college psychology professor Dorothy Booth. Booth had agreed to give McCarthy a cup of sugar before she was attacked with a butcher knife and candelabra at her home in Lancaster, about 15 miles south of Dallas. Authorities say McCarthy cut off Booth's finger to remove her wedding ring. It was among three slayings linked to McCarthy, a former nursing home therapist who became addicted to crack cocaine. - (Black-on-white)
The New Black Panther Party member who sparked national outrage and a federal investigation in 2008 after he was captured on video brandishing a billy club at a Philadelphia voting poll has been arrested in New York. King Samir Shabazz, a national field marshal for the NBPP who in the past has 
YORKTOWN-- Police made an arrest Monday following a shooting that left one man dead in Yorktown. William E. Burks Jr., 28, has been charged with second degree murder, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and wearing of body armor while committing a crime. According to the York County Sheriff's Office, 24-year-old 
SURFSIDE BEACH, SC - Authorities have arrested three area men accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman in Surfside Beach. The Surfside Beach Police Department charged 30-year-old James Wesley Starks Jr. of North Charleston, 28-year-old Timothy Starks of St. Stephen and 28-year-old Sherwood Edward (Johnson) of Ladson with first-degree criminal sexual conduct, kidnapping and strong armed robbery. On Saturday at 3:38 a.m., officers responded to a convenience store where a female victim said she was assaulted. The woman said she met the three suspects at a club in Myrtle Beach, and asked them for a ride home from the club. The suspects drove the victim against her will to a location within Surfside Beach where the assault and robbery happened. The suspects fled the area and took the victim's purse and personal belongings.
A Racine man will spend less than three years in prison after he was sentenced for raping a woman in the backyard of a home while on her way to donate plasma. Ronald Cephus Jr., 27, was sentenced to three years in prison plus five years on extended supervision for raping the woman on Nov. 27, 2011, in the backyard of a home in Racine. The woman told police that a man — later identified through a DNA match as Cephus — had asked her for the time while she was walking before he offered her $50 for sex and followed her. She refused, but the man pulled her behind a home and pulled her pants down. She continued to tell the man “no” and he sat down on the porch. When he sat down, she bent to pull her pants up and he raped her.
CINCINNATI — A 22-year-old Mansfield native has been charged with raping a
Wendell Baker, 56, of east London, had denied raping 
The last defendant in what has become known as the “Cleveland gang rape” case has taken a plea deal. Carlos Bernard Ligons, 25, pleaded guilty of Indecency With a Child by Exposure. Ligons is among 14 adults and six juveniles accused of sexually assaulting an
An 18-year-old man charged with the Feb. 4 kidnapping, rape and robbery of a woman at gunpoint in the Garden District will be tried separately from two of his teenage co-defendants, an Orleans Parish Criminal District Court judge ruled Wednesday. Judge Franz Zibilich issued the ruling after Christopher Davis (left), through his lawyer, argued that his case should be severed because of a confession to the crime from one of his co-defendants as well as an alleged statement by another that could be used against him. 
PLATTE CITY, Mo. (AP) - A 43-year-old Kansas City man faces up to life in prison after abruptly pleading guilty during his trial for the December 2006 rape of a Platte County woman. Zachary Townsend represented himself in a bench trial that started Monday in Platte County Circuit Court. He was accused of entering the victim's unlocked apartment and repeatedly raping her in her car and her residence. Townsend was identified as the attacker through a cold-case DNA match. Prosecutor Eric Zahnd says the match was 1 in 20 quadrillion. Townsend abruptly told the judge Tuesday he wanted to plead guilty. After being given time to think about his decision, Townsend confirmed that's what he wanted to do.
MARTINEZ -- Richmond High School gang rape trial defendant Marcelles Peter told police that he touched the victim's "private area," but he didn't foresee the girl getting raped and beaten, according to a police interrogation video played to the 20-year-old Pinole man's jury. "I don't think I should be in trouble for this because I didn't know what was going to happen," a 17-year-old Peter told detectives in 2009, a few days after a 16-year-old sophomore was raped and beaten on the school's campus after leaving a homecoming dance. Peter turned himself into police after a warrant was issued for his arrest based on another minor's statement that Peter bragged about touching the girl, whom police found mostly nude 
Meanwhile, the girl he is accused of sodomizing attempted suicide earlier this week and is in a mental health hospital. 
Keith L. Harris Jr., 20, of the 7500 block of Bermuda Court in Normandy, faces felony charges in the rape of a 14-year-old girl in October, Overland police say. He was charged with forcible rape, sexual assault, and first-degree child molestation.
A Chicago Public Schools principal wept and wiped her eyes with a tissue as she testified about allegedly being raped in her home by a CPS teacher while her son slept in his bedroom down the hall. The 42-year-old woman stood a few feet away from Lewis Himes Jr., a friend of 20 years whom she invited over May 28 to watch an NBA game. "He was my best friend," she testified. "We were just going to hang out, watch TV and talk." According to the woman's testimony, Himes appeared to have been drinking before he arrived at her home that night in May. She testified that he then consumed a bottle of wine he brought with him. The woman testified that she let Himes sleep on the floor next to her bed at about midnight but awoke at about 4 a.m. to find him raping her. She told him to stop and tried to escape, saying she thought someone was calling her. "I told him, 'No, we should not be doing this,' and to stop," she said.
AKRON, Ohio - D'Jaun Shabazz Shields, 40 of Akron, pleaded guilty in the middle of his trial for raping two young girls in 2011 and 2012 on Wednesday. Shields was on trial for rape of a child under 13, a first degree felony, and four counts of gross sexual imposition which is a third degree felony, said Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh. At the time of Shields's arrest, he was a teacher's assistant at Hyre Middle School, where he worked with autistic children. Neither victims were students of the school. Visiting Judge Robert Brown immediately sentenced Shields to life in prison and deemed him a Tier III sex offender. 
SANTA CRUZ -- Jury selection began Tuesday in the trial against a Santa Cruz man accused of raping a barista at a harbor coffee shop in 2008.
A woman died Friday morning after police say her boyfriend attacked her in the middle of a southwest Oklahoma City neighborhood. Police say they were called around 8:30 p.m. Thursday to what they described as a "heated disturbance" in the 800 block of S.W. 56th Street. Witnesses say 21-year-old 
A murder suspect is behind bars in Rock Island this weekend. 22-year-old "AJ" Albert Coats, of Davenport, is accused of shooting 25-year-old 
A Tulsa pastor arrested is accused of sexually abusing a teenage girl. Rev. Gregory Hawkins, 54, of Zion Plaza Church in North Tulsa accused of having sex with a 14-year-old girl. Records show she is now age 15 and five months pregnant with his child. It shows they had sex several times at his church, hotel and in his Suburban at a park. Detectives say the alleged victim had text messages from Hawkins, who admits having sex with the girl. Hawkins is being held on $50,000 bond. 
NORFOLK, Va. - Norfolk Police have arrested a city employee on allegations of sexual assault on a juvenile that occurred over the course of five years. Jay Conova Burton, 54, of Norfolk has been charged with forcible sodomy, aggravated sexual battery and taking indecent liberties with a child by person in custodial or supervisory relationship. Burton is accused of assaulting
A 28-year-old man was arrested Monday for attacking two people outside of a library with a machete. According to police, the two individuals were standing outside of Arlington's Central Library on Abram Street just before 2 a.m. They were approached by a man who started arguing with them, then brandished a machete, severely striking each of them multiple times. Neither victim suffered life-threatening injuries, but both were transported to a local hospital with significant injuries. The suspect, identified as 28-year-old Derrick Sutherland, fled the scene but was captured a few hours after the attack.
A Fairfield woman awakens to find a stranger pleasuring himself next to her bed-now police have the man under arrest. Officials say 28 year old Dwan Marcee Banks was arrested on a burglary warrant and a charge of public indecency. Officers say Banks broke into an apartment on Merlin Drive around 4 a.m. on May 10th. He got in through the victim's bedroom window. When she woke up, she found the man masturbating next to her bed. Banks ran when the victim screamed. 
NEW ORLEANS -- Police released a composite sketch of a suspect wanted in connection with the rape of a 
Police responded at 2:47 a.m. to reports of a woman on Purchas Street yelling for help, saying she was going to be shot and had been raped by six men. At the time of Mezan's arrest in December, he was on probation from a conviction for his role in 2010 in threatening two women at gunpoint and with a knife after accusing them of stealing drug money. Mezan pleaded guilty in that case to two felony counts of criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon. He served four months of a four-year sentence before being released on probation. The judge said he was familiar with Mezan's conviction in the 2010 case, and said Mezan was given a favorable sentence because
Thanks to video surveillance obtained through SafeCam, a new online initiative that allows residents and business owners to register their security cameras with the Philadelphia Police Department, police were able to arrest Germantown resident Antuane Brown in connection with the sexual assault of four girls aged 12-17 years old in Germantown. Brown, 22, of the 1100 block of East Price St., was charged with four counts of rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, sexual assault, kidnapping, simple assault, violation of the uniform firearms act, unlawful restraint, false imprisonment, possessing instruments of crime, recklessly endangering another person and unlawful contact with a minor. According to police records, on March 19, a 15-year-old girl was walking near the 6000 block of Wister Street around 10:45 a.m. when an African American male wearing a dark-colored hooded sweatshirt rode past her on a mountain bike. The man got off his bike, pointed a handgun at her, forced her into an alley and sexually assaulted her.
Lynchburg police have arrested a suspect following a reported stranger rape in the city Saturday night. Trevere Lamar Gray has been charged with rape and assault and battery. The incident happened on Park Avenue near Kemper Street Saturday around 9 p.m., Detective Collin Byrne said. The victim was walking alone when she was attacked in a nearby alley, Byrne said.
Drekian Dowdell, 21, and Jywan Marionate Tyrell Moss, 18, grandsons of 
Michael Hagaman was sentenced to 100 years to life in prison this morning. Hagaman admitted to raping the boy with another man, Anthony Merril, in his Queensbury trailer. Prosecutors say he abused the boy over a three-week period last year, shortly after being released from state prison, where he served time for sexually abusing a child.
CHARLOTTE, NC - A Mecklenburg County Commissioner says she doesn't regret saying that the next county manager should be a "non-white male," despite the heat she's now taking from her comments. The suggestion came from the board's vice chair, Kim Ratliff.
SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- A homeless man was arrested for allegedly trying to rape a woman waiting for a bus in Santa Monica.
SALT LAKE CITY — Police are asking for the public's help in locating a man wanted on charges of rape of a child. Chervon Jason Laptiste, 40, was charged with three counts of rape of a child, three counts of sodomy on a child, and three counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, all first-degree felonies. He was also charged with dealing in harmful materials to a minor and witness tampering, both third-degree felonies. The alleged victim told police that from the time she was 12 to 13 years old, Laptiste would make her watch pornographic videos and then "had sex with her in the same manner as the pornographic videos" 
NY - A 46-year-old Brighton man has been arrested on charges of rape and criminal sex act. Gates Police say Mark Stone had sex with a female under the age of 17 in 2008. He was arraigned in Gates Town Court and was remanded to the Monroe County Jail in lieu of $20,000 bail. Stone is due back in court on June 27.
GA - A man is wanted in connection with an armed robbery and rape at America's Best Value Inn in Conyers. Joseph Joyce, 32, was part of a group of men who robbed and raped two women at the motel. On June 19, Conyers police responded to an armed robbery in one of (the) motel rooms. Four men went to the motel to meet two women they met online. The men robbed the women at gunpoint and took their money, cell phones, and car keys. The suspects then raped both women. Joyce allegedly forced one victim into her car and tried to drive away, but she jumped out and ran to the motel's front office to call 911. The other three suspects were arrested shortly after police arrived. 
A University of Washington neurobiology student charged with child rape after being accused of picking up a 12-year-old girl from the Seattle streets and taking her to his apartment has been identified as a volunteer with a leading Islamic activist organization. And he’s blaming the child for the alleged assault. Suspect
The subject of the documentary ‘Capturing the Friedmans’ is in fact a ‘psychopathic deviant’ who molested 17 children in his parents’ Long Island home, a 172-page report finds. He's guilty as sin. He was hit with over 100 counts of sodomy.
Greenville police on Sunday identified a man suspected in Friday's shooting spree as Lakim Anthony Faust, 23, of Greenville.
Based on the information gathered so far, detectives believe Faust went from his apartment at 217 Hartford St. with the intent to inflict mass casualties on innocent people, the police department reported. He is charged with shooting four people, one outside Kellum Law Firm and three in the parking lot of Walmart. Police then shot him.
A Chester man has been sentenced to life in prison in a hit-and-run crash that killed two 15-year-old youths. Maurquis Thompson, 21, was convicted in Delaware County in April of third-degree murder, homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence and other counts. Authorities said he was on probation and driving without a license in December 2011 when he ran a red light in Glenolden and struck 
Oklahoma - Midwest City Police say they still don't know why a man decided to take a toddler hostage at a Walmart Neighborhood Market, and threaten the child's life. Police have identified the suspect as 37-year-old Sammie Lamont Wallace. Wallace grabbed the
S.C. —A Sumter pastor has been charged with sexually assaulting three female members of his church. Police said Friday that 58-year-old Larry Durant had been arrested and charged with two counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor. He also faces four counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct. Police say family members told them Durant coerced the victims into having sex with him starting in 2011. Police say the Word International Ministry pastor told the victims the activity was part of the "healing process" and "private prayer." 
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A grandfather of a former U.S. Naval Academy football player said y that his grandson is one of the 
He's the former Memphis police officer accused of forcing felons to do terrible things. Brandon Berry was just indicted for official misconduct. Investigators say he forced criminals to trade sex for freedom. Berry is in big trouble. A grand jury indicted him for forcing men with outstanding warrants to perform oral sex on him instead of being arrested. Investigators say he often held the men at gunpoint. Berry resigned from MPD last month. 
The owner of a popular west suburban restaurant was killed Thursday while trying to protect his wife from an armed robber. 64-year-old
The tattoo on his face says, “Kill Whitey” in block letters, and cops say the gun he carried was loaded and unlicensed. But that didn’t stop Maruse Heath — head of the Philadelphia chapter of the New Black Panther Party — from claiming that he’s really all about charity and outreach as he was arraigned on a gun-possession charge in Manhattan last night. “It is my understanding that the New Black Panther Party is the functional equivalent of the KKK,” Assistant District Attorney Christopher Ryan countered as Heath, 41, was ordered held in lieu of $75,000 bail for getting busted allegedly with a gun in Harlem Thursday night.
PHOENIX - A 18-year-old woman and a 27-year-old man were arrested after police say they forced a 
DESOTO PARISH, LA - Three adults are behind bars Friday after DeSoto Parish Sheriff's authorities say they did nothing to stop a 16-year-old girl from having sex on two occasions with several male juveniles while in their presence. DeMarcus Hill, 19, was arrested on June 12 and charged then with felony carnal knowledge of a juvenile. Timieka Young, 22, and her brother, Timothy Young, 22, were arrested on June 14 and charged with principle carnal knowledge of a juvenile. It was later revealed that the teenager had spent the night with a 19-year-old man with whom she had sex.
An 18-year-old is accused of breaking into a woman's St. Paul home three times over a two-year period - and allegedly raping her during the last robbery. Curtez Deshawn Graham, 18, of St. Paul, has been charged with eight felonies in Ramsey County District Court, including first-degree criminal sexual conduct, aggravated robbery, kidnapping and burglary, according to a criminal complaint. 
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Police have made an arrest in a rape case at Palmetto Lowcountry Behavioral Health Center after a female patient and her roommate accused a man of entering their room and raping one of the women while she slept. Police have arrested Ricardo Cyril Powell, 27, and charged him with criminal sexual assault in the first degree.
WEST ASHLEY, SC - Investigators are looking for a 22-year-old man wanted for questioning in a shooting that left a teen shot in the head outside the Ashley Oaks Apartments. The Charleston Police Department is looking for Deontre Jerrell Pierce wanted for questioning in the June 14 shooting. 
Three people were arrested in the death of a 30-year-old mother who recently moved to Raleigh and was found covered in blood inside her apartment last week. Ronald Lee Anthony, 23, Travion Devonte Smith, 20, and Sarah Rene Redden, 18, were taken into custody late Tuesday and charged with first-degree murder in the death of 
Nashville - A second suspect has been indicted for their alleged involvement in the fatal shooting of an Antioch man in September 2012. Terrence Clark, 23, is now charged with first-degree murder in the death of 26-year-old 
Two ex-Marines have been sentenced to death after they stormed the home of an Iraq veteran and his wife and shot the newly married couple dead. Sgt. 
The Rowan County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's assistance in locating a man wanted for registered sex offender violations. Phillip Larry Berryman, 48, has an outstanding warrant for Sex Offender Residence Violation, due to the fact that he is living within 1,000 feet of a child care center.
Prosecutors in the case against two Portland men accused of gang raping a woman at gunpoint last summer have been unable to find the woman since she moved out of state and have offered plea agreements to both men. 
A man has been charged with molesting a Chicago Transit Authority bus driver on board a bus. The driver told police a man approached her while she was standing outside at the CTA bus turnaround at Archer and Neva avenues. Gabriel Hayes, 33, allegedly exposed himself to the driver at the turnaround, and made an inappropriate comment. He then boarded her bus, and allegedly exposed himself again, then molested her as she was driving. The driver ordered Hayes to get off the bus, and called police. Hayes has been charged with criminal sexual abuse and aggravated battery of a transit employee.
Two men have been sentenced to a total of 16 years for raping a woman in Eastbourne last year. Police said the men showed no remorse for the nasty assault, which left the victim severely traumatised. The men raped the victim on September 28 2012 during a birthday celebration. "Judge Hayward said there was compelling evidence against both men who showed no remorse for their actions. 
North Charleston police say they arrested a man and woman Wednesday shortly after a man was pistol-whipped while trying to buy a watermelon. Officers responded to an Exxon to find a 57-year-old man bleeding from the right side of his head. The man told police he was trying to buy a watermelon from a vendor when a burgundy vehicle pulled up and a man got out. The victim told police the man, Tyron Washington, walked up to him and said, “Give me something out of your pocket. If you don’t have nothing, you’re going to have a bad day (sic).” The suspect then pulled out a handgun and struck the victim on the side of the head before jumping back into the burgundy car, driven by Tameka Dukes, the victim told police. 