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Dad charged after four children left in car (Spartanburg, South Carolina)
Dad is identified as XAVIER WYNN.
http://www.islandpacket.com/2013/03/03/2402091/sc-father-charged-after-4-children.html
SC father charged after 4 children left in car
The Associated Press
Published Monday, March 4, 2013
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Authorities say a South Carolina man is charged with neglect of a child after police officers found four children younger than the age of 6 alone in a car in a parking lot.
The Herald-Journal of Spartanburg reported (http://bit.ly/XPDKoT) that 24-year-old Xavier Wynn of Una is charged in the case. Investigators say someone called police after seeing four children inside a parked SUV.
The children range in age from 6 years old to 14 months old.
A report from the Spartanburg Public Safety Department said the children were crying. Authorities say it was 38 degrees outside Thursday.
One officer waited 40 minutes with the children until another found Wynn, who authorities say is the father of three of the children.
It wasn't clear Sunday if Wynn has an attorney.
http://www.islandpacket.com/2013/03/03/2402091/sc-father-charged-after-4-children.html
SC father charged after 4 children left in car
The Associated Press
Published Monday, March 4, 2013
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Authorities say a South Carolina man is charged with neglect of a child after police officers found four children younger than the age of 6 alone in a car in a parking lot.
The Herald-Journal of Spartanburg reported (http://bit.ly/XPDKoT) that 24-year-old Xavier Wynn of Una is charged in the case. Investigators say someone called police after seeing four children inside a parked SUV.
The children range in age from 6 years old to 14 months old.
A report from the Spartanburg Public Safety Department said the children were crying. Authorities say it was 38 degrees outside Thursday.
One officer waited 40 minutes with the children until another found Wynn, who authorities say is the father of three of the children.
It wasn't clear Sunday if Wynn has an attorney.
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Judge strikes down key part of defense in Whitey Bulger trial
Reputed former mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger did not have the right to commit more murders after striking an immunity deal with the FBI in the 1970s, a federal judge ruled Monday, knocking down a key part of Bulger's defense at his trial.
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Hindenburg Mystery Solved After 76 Years?
A historical mystery that has beguiled scientists for three-quarters of a century has finally been solved, according to a new documentary airing March 7. In...
Meredith Bennett-Smith
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Dad sentenced to up to 15 years for killing infant daughter (Queens, New York)
Dad is identified as HANG BIN LI.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/queens_father_sentenced_shaking_zETmCNtO9og5TwRJr9AkFM
Queens father sentenced to up to 15 years in prison for shaking infant daughter to death
By CHRISTINA CARREGA
Last Updated: 3:05 PM, March 4, 2013 Posted: 3:04 PM, March 4, 2013
An angry judge threw the book at a brutal Queens father today, sentencing him to five to 15 years in jail in the violent shaking death of his infant daughter.
"The blood of Annie is on your hands and the stain will never wash away," said Queens Supreme Court Justice Richard Buchter before he sentenced Hang Bin Li, 28, who was convicted last month of manslaughter and endangering the welfare of a child.
Prosecutors said that in October 2007, Li violently shook his daughter, Annie, and slammed her head against an object, which caused a massive skull fracture. The girl also suffered a catastrophic brain injury and broken legs.
Doctors determined that baby Annie died of injuries relating to Shaken Baby Syndrome.
Li initially told police that he accidentally bumped Annie’s head on a nightstand while holding her and immediately called 911.
But trial testimony revealed that Li waited more than four hours before he called 911 after consulting a friend and his parents in China about the girl’s condition.
When the girl was finally taken to Flushing Hospital, she was admitted without a heartbeat and placed on life support.
She was declared dead four days later.
Li, who did not testify during the four-week trial, tried to give his account of what happened during the sentencing..
“I didn't know how or why this happened,” Li said. “I wrote what my statements were to the police, three times of what happened.”
But the judge wasn’t buying it.
"Mr. Li we will not try the case again,” Buchter said.
“These are the same lies the jury rejected. "These were catastrophic injuries. Your statements didn't fool the doctors. The jury rejected your explanations that it was an accident, and Mr. Li's explanation to the court today doesn't fool the court.”
Buchter described the case as “shocking, sickening and sadistic.”
The girl’s mother also appealed to the judge, to no avail.
"My husband was a very good father judge,” said Li's common law wife, Ying. “Please be lenient in your sentence. I was there that day, I saw everything. He didn't intentionally hurt Annie."
Ying was also originally charged with manslaughter until her case was dismissed a week before the trial began.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/queens_father_sentenced_shaking_zETmCNtO9og5TwRJr9AkFM
Queens father sentenced to up to 15 years in prison for shaking infant daughter to death
By CHRISTINA CARREGA
Last Updated: 3:05 PM, March 4, 2013 Posted: 3:04 PM, March 4, 2013
An angry judge threw the book at a brutal Queens father today, sentencing him to five to 15 years in jail in the violent shaking death of his infant daughter.
"The blood of Annie is on your hands and the stain will never wash away," said Queens Supreme Court Justice Richard Buchter before he sentenced Hang Bin Li, 28, who was convicted last month of manslaughter and endangering the welfare of a child.
Prosecutors said that in October 2007, Li violently shook his daughter, Annie, and slammed her head against an object, which caused a massive skull fracture. The girl also suffered a catastrophic brain injury and broken legs.
Doctors determined that baby Annie died of injuries relating to Shaken Baby Syndrome.
Li initially told police that he accidentally bumped Annie’s head on a nightstand while holding her and immediately called 911.
But trial testimony revealed that Li waited more than four hours before he called 911 after consulting a friend and his parents in China about the girl’s condition.
When the girl was finally taken to Flushing Hospital, she was admitted without a heartbeat and placed on life support.
She was declared dead four days later.
Li, who did not testify during the four-week trial, tried to give his account of what happened during the sentencing..
“I didn't know how or why this happened,” Li said. “I wrote what my statements were to the police, three times of what happened.”
But the judge wasn’t buying it.
"Mr. Li we will not try the case again,” Buchter said.
“These are the same lies the jury rejected. "These were catastrophic injuries. Your statements didn't fool the doctors. The jury rejected your explanations that it was an accident, and Mr. Li's explanation to the court today doesn't fool the court.”
Buchter described the case as “shocking, sickening and sadistic.”
The girl’s mother also appealed to the judge, to no avail.
"My husband was a very good father judge,” said Li's common law wife, Ying. “Please be lenient in your sentence. I was there that day, I saw everything. He didn't intentionally hurt Annie."
Ying was also originally charged with manslaughter until her case was dismissed a week before the trial began.
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Oklahoma Justice Commission Recommends Reforms to Prevent Wrongful Convictions
A new report issued on Friday by the Oklahoma Justice Commission made recommendations to improve the criminal justice system and prevent wrongful convictions.
"It's not an indictment against law enforcement," Oklahoma Police Chief and commission member Bill Citty said at a press conference. "It's just that you always want to try to do things better."
The Oklahoma Innocence Project worked closely with the 33-member Justice Commission on a two-year study of wrongful convictions. According to the Oklahoma Innocence Project, more than a dozen people were exonerated last year in the state for crimes they didn't commit, several after a decade or more of prison time.
The commission's suggestions include allowing post-conviction access to DNA testing. Oklahoma is the only state in the nation without a DNA testing law, but a bill authored by State Rep. Lee Denney (R-Cushing) has already been approved by the House and goes to the Senate to await a committee hearing. Other recommendations include videotaping interrogations, police lineup reform, training for all criminal justice professionals and post-release services for the exonerated.
Drew Edmondson, a former Oklahoma attorney general and the commission's chairman, said that although many of the recommendations could be voluntarily adopted by police departments and courts, the report pushes for legislative reform. Most of all, the report underscored the benefits the recommendations could have for both the public and law enforcement.
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Couple indicted for murder charges - WAVY-TV
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Mayoral Candidate Was Beaten, Burned: Family
The family of Marco McMillian, the Mississippi mayoral candidate found dead last week , has released more details about his gruesome murder. McMillian was beaten, dragged, and then set on fire, the family says in a statement, adding: "We feel this was not a random act of violence based on the...
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Dad on trial for killing 5-week-old daughter (United Kingdom)
Dad is identified as MARK LACKENBY.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2288055/Mark-Lackenby-Gemma-Coates-trial-Five-week-old-girl-Ruby-died-head-injuries-suffered-father-watched-football.html
Five-week old girl 'died from head injuries suffered while her father watched football'
•Mark Lackenby denies murdering newborn baby daughter Ruby
•Mother Gemma Coates denies attempting to pervert the course of justice
•Ruby died in hospital after she collapsed at home the previous day
By Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED: 15:58 EST, 4 March 2013 | UPDATED: 15:58 EST, 4 March 2013
A five-week-old baby girl died from a head injury allegedly caused by her father as he watched football on television, a court heard today.
Mark Lackenby, from, Goldthorpe, Barnsley, has been charged with murdering his daughter, Ruby, after she collapsed at home and died the following day.
Sheffield Crown Court heard tests revealed the baby suffered brain damage and bleeding around the brain. Doctors also discovered she had two broken ribs caused about a week earlier.
Prosecutor Bryan Cox QC told a jury Lackenby, 32, was alone with the child while its mother, his partner Gemma Coates, had a bath upstairs.
'Mr Lackenby was alone with the girl watching football on television,' said Mr Cox. 'The prosecution case is that Mark Lackenby inflicted the injury that caused the sudden collapse that led to Ruby's death.'
Rail worker Lackenby denies murdering Ruby and causing her grievous bodily harm with intent in the week before her death.
Coates, 31, a former nursery worker, also from Goldthorpe, South Yorkshire, denies attempting to pervert the course of justice by giving a false account to medical staff as to how Ruby came about her injuries.
Mr Cox said an ambulance was called to the defendants' home by Coates at 8.37pm on February 16, 2011. She said the baby was not breathing and her boyfriend was performing CPR.
Ruby died 24 hours later at Sheffield Children's Hospital when her life support was removed.
Investigations found Ruby was a perfectly normal baby with no health problems and there was nothing initially to explain her sudden collapse.
But at post mortem a pathologist found bleeding around the surface of her brain and brain damage 'consistent with non-accidental head injury', according to Mr Cox.
There was also evidence of an earlier assault when two broken ribs were found. This was dated by experts to about a week before the fatal incident and the prosecution said it was 'consistent with very forceful gripping.'
Further bleeding around the brain which probably occurred at the time of the rib fractures was also discovered.
'This bleed, together with the rib fractures, indicated an assault about seven days before death and before the assault that caused her death,' said Mr Cox. 'There were two separate independent episodes of violence.'
The prosecution claim Lackenby was responsible for the broken ribs assault as 'it is inconceivable that two different people inflicted serious assault on Ruby within seven days.'
It is alleged that Coates lied to doctors treating her daughter and later to the police. 'She changed her account as time progressed,' said Mr Cox. 'Her motive in not telling the truth was to protect Mark Lackenby.'
Neither midwives, health visitors or the local GP expressed any concerns over Ruby's care before the tragedy and one professional said 'she seemed to be thriving.'
Paramedic Andrew Dunn found Lackenby performing CPR on Ruby with Coates relaying instructions from the emergency operator on the phone. The baby was 'motionless and blue' and her eyes were fixed and she was not breathing.
Coates told him the baby had awoken and stopped breathing five minutes earlier. She said the child had not fallen.
No external bruises were found on the baby at hospital.
The parents told doctors Ruby had taken her feed, slept then awoken crying at 8.30pm. The baby then went floppy in her arms and stopped breathing, according to Coates.
She said there was no cough or fit and the baby's legs started shaking before she began CPR on the infant. But a day later she changed her account telling another doctor the baby awoke 45 minutes earlier.
Scans at the Children's Hospital revealed the bleeding on the brain and damage to the brain itself.
Further tests after death also showed five small bruises to the back of the skull and one bruise on top which were only visible internally.
Pathologists dated the bleeding on the brain to having been caused 24 hours before death.
In summary, the expert evidence, said Mr Cox, showed the broken ribs had been caused by 'squeezing or gripping with very significant force' and were non-accidental.
Examination of the brain revealed extensive recent surface bleeding 'the most likely cause of this was a traumatic head injury,' he said.
The trial continues.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2288055/Mark-Lackenby-Gemma-Coates-trial-Five-week-old-girl-Ruby-died-head-injuries-suffered-father-watched-football.html
Five-week old girl 'died from head injuries suffered while her father watched football'
•Mark Lackenby denies murdering newborn baby daughter Ruby
•Mother Gemma Coates denies attempting to pervert the course of justice
•Ruby died in hospital after she collapsed at home the previous day
By Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED: 15:58 EST, 4 March 2013 | UPDATED: 15:58 EST, 4 March 2013
A five-week-old baby girl died from a head injury allegedly caused by her father as he watched football on television, a court heard today.
Mark Lackenby, from, Goldthorpe, Barnsley, has been charged with murdering his daughter, Ruby, after she collapsed at home and died the following day.
Sheffield Crown Court heard tests revealed the baby suffered brain damage and bleeding around the brain. Doctors also discovered she had two broken ribs caused about a week earlier.
Prosecutor Bryan Cox QC told a jury Lackenby, 32, was alone with the child while its mother, his partner Gemma Coates, had a bath upstairs.
'Mr Lackenby was alone with the girl watching football on television,' said Mr Cox. 'The prosecution case is that Mark Lackenby inflicted the injury that caused the sudden collapse that led to Ruby's death.'
Rail worker Lackenby denies murdering Ruby and causing her grievous bodily harm with intent in the week before her death.
Coates, 31, a former nursery worker, also from Goldthorpe, South Yorkshire, denies attempting to pervert the course of justice by giving a false account to medical staff as to how Ruby came about her injuries.
Mr Cox said an ambulance was called to the defendants' home by Coates at 8.37pm on February 16, 2011. She said the baby was not breathing and her boyfriend was performing CPR.
Ruby died 24 hours later at Sheffield Children's Hospital when her life support was removed.
Investigations found Ruby was a perfectly normal baby with no health problems and there was nothing initially to explain her sudden collapse.
But at post mortem a pathologist found bleeding around the surface of her brain and brain damage 'consistent with non-accidental head injury', according to Mr Cox.
There was also evidence of an earlier assault when two broken ribs were found. This was dated by experts to about a week before the fatal incident and the prosecution said it was 'consistent with very forceful gripping.'
Further bleeding around the brain which probably occurred at the time of the rib fractures was also discovered.
'This bleed, together with the rib fractures, indicated an assault about seven days before death and before the assault that caused her death,' said Mr Cox. 'There were two separate independent episodes of violence.'
The prosecution claim Lackenby was responsible for the broken ribs assault as 'it is inconceivable that two different people inflicted serious assault on Ruby within seven days.'
It is alleged that Coates lied to doctors treating her daughter and later to the police. 'She changed her account as time progressed,' said Mr Cox. 'Her motive in not telling the truth was to protect Mark Lackenby.'
Neither midwives, health visitors or the local GP expressed any concerns over Ruby's care before the tragedy and one professional said 'she seemed to be thriving.'
Paramedic Andrew Dunn found Lackenby performing CPR on Ruby with Coates relaying instructions from the emergency operator on the phone. The baby was 'motionless and blue' and her eyes were fixed and she was not breathing.
Coates told him the baby had awoken and stopped breathing five minutes earlier. She said the child had not fallen.
No external bruises were found on the baby at hospital.
The parents told doctors Ruby had taken her feed, slept then awoken crying at 8.30pm. The baby then went floppy in her arms and stopped breathing, according to Coates.
She said there was no cough or fit and the baby's legs started shaking before she began CPR on the infant. But a day later she changed her account telling another doctor the baby awoke 45 minutes earlier.
Scans at the Children's Hospital revealed the bleeding on the brain and damage to the brain itself.
Further tests after death also showed five small bruises to the back of the skull and one bruise on top which were only visible internally.
Pathologists dated the bleeding on the brain to having been caused 24 hours before death.
In summary, the expert evidence, said Mr Cox, showed the broken ribs had been caused by 'squeezing or gripping with very significant force' and were non-accidental.
Examination of the brain revealed extensive recent surface bleeding 'the most likely cause of this was a traumatic head injury,' he said.
The trial continues.
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Greek ex-Minister Gets Jail Term Over Undisclosed Assets - Wall Street Journal (blog)
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Greek ex-Minister Gets Jail Term Over Undisclosed Assets
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Corruption Currents, The Wall Street Journal's corruption blog, digs into the ever-present and ever-changing world of corporate corruption. It is a source of news, analysis and commentary for those who earn a living by finding corruption or by avoiding it.
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Supt. McCarthy considers expanding 'hot zone' crime-fighting strategy - Chicago Sun-Times
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Supt. McCarthy considers expanding 'hot zone' crime-fighting strategy
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Countering Corruption: 2012 Conference Report from the World Forum on ... - Brookings Institution
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Casey Anthony: 'I'm Living Free Off Kindness Of Others'
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Florida A&M Hazers Charged With Manslaughter
Prosecutors are charging 12 former Florida A&M University band members with manslaughter in the 2011 hazing death of a drum major. Ten of the band members had been charged last May with felony hazing for the death of 26-year-old Robert Champion, but prosecutors said today they are raising the charges...
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PHOTO: Hunt For Suspect In Fatal Hit-And-Run
By Nikhita Venugopal, Trevor Kapp, and Murray Weiss WILLIAMSBURG — The hit-and-run driver wanted for the death of a couple killed in a Williamsburg car...
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Who's Behind The Trafficking Of 3000 Great Apes? Organized Crime, UN Says - International Business Times
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Who's Behind The Trafficking Of 3000 Great Apes? Organized Crime, UN Says
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The Great Apes are disappearing. Stolen from their homes in the forests of Africa and Southeast Asia, every year more than 3,000 chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans fall victim to traffickers and organized crime networks, according to a new ...
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Bill would add gender identity protection to hate crime law - Las Vegas Review - Journal
Bill would add gender identity protection to hate crime law
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Demand for Cyber Security Jobs Is Soaring - Wall Street Journal (blog)
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Domestic Violence Gun Ban Passes State Senate Committee
A bill that would prohibit a person who has been convicted of domestic violence or is the subject of a restraining order from possessing a...
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