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Caribbean-based company ICSSI had seen its lucrative contract to X-ray the cargo entering the Dominican Republic languish for years when, in 2011, it began searching for an investor with political pull. Perhaps someone with the right connections would ...
Evidence Could Get US Senator Involved in CorruptionPrensa Latina

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Death recommended for double murder
MiamiHerald.com
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- A jury has recommended that a former MacDill Air Force Base sergeant should be put to death for murdering his former lover and their 15-month-old son. Pinellas County jurors voted 7-5 Friday in favor of the death penalty for ...
Jury recommends death in Wright double-murder caseTampabay.com
Former MacDill sergeant convicted of murder asks to address juryNorthwest News and Tribune

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Dos Palos: Property crime down, but violent crime rises
Merced Sun-Star
But other crimes spiked last year. Aggravated assaults increased to 48 in 2012 from 17 in 2011, according to data from the Dos Palos Police Department. Much of the violent crime can be attributed to gangs, Mann said. Reversing their influence is going ...

Families share grief — but differ on the death penalty
Baltimore Sun
Adding their voices will be the families of murder victims, people who — like Richardson and Spikes — have come to profoundly different conclusions about the wisdom and morality of the state putting killers to death. Wishing 'a vile creature could ...

abc7news.com
Vigil held for murdered teen found in Fairfield park
abc7news.com
Officials identified 32-year-old Anthony Lamar Jones early on as a suspect. Investigators say they had him under round-the-clock surveillance. Police say Jones was booked on murder, kidnapping to commit rape, rape, and lewd or lascivious acts on a child.
Fairfield: Man, 32, facing murder, rape charges in death of teen girlContra Costa Times
Fairfield police make arrest in teen's murder caseKTVU San Francisco
Man Arrested in Teen's Death to be Charged with Murder, RapeKTXL

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Newsday
Corruption scandal new worry for hard-hit Spain
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MADRID - (AP) -- It's not as though Spain doesn't have enough to worry about-- two years of recession, harsh austerity programs, sky-high unemployment and an unstable footing on the world's markets. Now comes a corruption scandal that has shaken the ...
Spain gripped by 'corruption' scandalBBC News
Spanish party treasurer grilled as corruption scandal growsThe Independent
Spain Borrowing Costs Rise Amid Corruption AllegationsBloomberg
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Newsday
Anti-corruption advisers challenge FIFA to change
Newsday
GENEVA - (AP) -- FIFA's anti-corruption advisers urged president Sepp Blatter's executive committee on Friday to "demonstrate leadership" and resist attempts to dilute reforms of soccer's world governing body. The advisory panel published a slate of ...
FIFA Governance Report Welcomes Progress, Says More Reform NeededWall Street Journal (blog)

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Arab Times Kuwait English Daily
Riot police fire water cannon at India rape protest
Arab Times Kuwait English Daily
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India, Feb 8, (AFP): Riot police fired water cannon Friday at hundreds of protestors in the Indian state of Kerala demanding the resignation of a lawmaker over allegations he raped a schoolgirl 17 years ago. P.J. Kurien, 72, the ...

Guest Commentary: Responding to hate crime close to home
Memphis Commercial Appeal
It also raises a number of important questions: What distinguishes a hate crime from other offenses? How should we respond to such a crime? How do our experiences with anti-Semitism, racism and other hatreds shape the way we view a hate crime?

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Hearing set in NAPA driver's murder
Yuma Sun
Another court date has been scheduled for a gang member accused of the 2009 murder of a NAPA Auto Parts delivery driver from San Diego who was making an early morning delivery in Somerton when he was beaten with a baseball bat and stabbed to ...

Mexico City murder ties back to Chicago
Chicago Sun-Times
The murder of Guillermo “Montes” Jiminez-Flores happened thousands of miles away in Mexico City, but prosecutors say it was driven by the much less well understood multi-million dollar racket in fake IDs, right here on Chicago's Southwest side. Even as ...

Honduras' government deploys soldiers to help fight crime in 2 biggest, most ...
Fox News
Lobo says the soldiers will coordinate with police to patrol neighborhoods that are hotspots for crime. He says 800 soldiers have been assigned to Tegucigalpa and 600 to San Pedro Sula. National Police Director Juan Bonilla says this is part of a ...

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Boston Globe
Dorchester man ordered held without bail in death
Boston Globe
A 23-year-old Dorchester man with a lengthy criminal history was charged Friday with first-degree murder in an unusual prosecution that links his alleged firing at several people to the death of a man who fled unscathed but succumbed to an asthma ...
Dorchester man charged with murder for asthma deathBoston Herald

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Jakarta Post
Golkar executive charged with corruption
Jakarta Post
Graft suspect: Riau Governor Rusli Zainal briefs the media after being questioned by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in Jakarta on Friday. (Antara/Wahyu Putro). The country's antigraft commission has named Riau Governor Rusli Zainal, who is ...

Crime Stoppers: Police search for man wanted on aggravated battery charges
Bloomington Pantagraph
BLOOMINGTON — McLean County Crime Stoppers is asking for the public's help in finding a man wanted on aggravated battery charges. Foster L. Shelby, 23, last of the 900 block of North Roosevelt Avenue, Bloomington, is 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighs 180 ...

Newsday
Man charged with wife's murder has long rap sheet
Newsday
On April 17, 2011, Diane Reed's ex-con husband, Leonard, grabbed her by the neck, threw her to the floor, kicked her in the head, and when she tried to stand up, struck her with "a blunt object," according to court records. But, according to a law ...

Jurors in Mueller murder trial to deliberate this weekend
Denver Post
Investigators found Mueller's story allegedly did not fit with forensic evidence and he was charged with her murder early last year. During five weeks of trial testimony, experts in hydrology and human motion testified that Leslie Mueller's injuries ...

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Concerned group revives Savannah's Citizens Crime Commission
Savannah Morning News
The consensus at the end of the two-hour meeting, according to attendees, was to revive the defunct Citizens Crime Commission, itself born out of the frustrations about crime in the 1980s, and hold fellow citizens and officials alike accountable for ...

What kind of UNNAMED DAD rents out his infant son to a pedophile? 

http://www.hawkesbaytoday.co.nz/news/bay-children-abused-in-paedophile-ring/1744791/

Bay children abused in paedophile ring
Corey Charlton 6th Feb 2013 8:39 AM

The manipulations of Aaron John Ellmers were a carefully designed betrayal of trust.

He planned and plotted ways to steal children away from their parents so he could abuse them and then trade images of his crimes around the world.

The most sickening breach of trust was his last, he found a father willing to rent out his 13-month-old son for Ellmer's perverse use for $500. 

As the 40-year-old paedophile jetted into Christchurch to meet the baby's father, police were waiting. At the Hastings District Court yesterday the Hastings man pleaded guilty to dozens of charges associated with abusing four children, aged 13 months to 13 years.

The father, 27, has been arrested. Also facing charges is an Auckland man who received images of abuse from Ellmers.

The specialist police team which first identified Ellmers (Oceanz - Online Child Exploitation Across New Zealand) has passed on 35 separate sets of details to law enforcement agencies around the world, traced through the illicit online traffic of the men facing charges.

Detective Senior Sergeant John Michael said he hoped it would be enough to stop images of the four Kiwi children Ellmers photographed himself abusing from joining the international traffic in child pornography.

 But it could be that the chance to stop the spread of images has gone. "We can identify the first points ... subsequent ones, we won't be able to identify them."

Ellmers was convicted in Australia of raping an 8-year-old boy. Deported in 2008 after 18 months in prison, he later told detectives the prison sex offenders' course gave him new tools which he used to coerce children.

Ellmers wasted no time, according to court documents. In a conversation recorded in a Christchurch motel room in October 2012, as he waited for a baby to abuse, he spoke of a friend's 7-year-old boy to whom he had access since 2008. "He explained that the father trusts him with the boy," the court record said, before detailing awful abuse which had taken place since the boy was 3. 

In the same conversation, Ellmers spoke of a 12-year-old victim, who he had abused for three years. He used alcohol, cannabis and payments of $100 a time as tools to engineer the abuse. Another victim, now 15, had also been the subject of abuse for two years.

It took a long time to get a father's trust, Ellmers was recorded saying, detailing how he lurked on children's online chat groups. He detailed how to manipulate children's trust, how the games of childhood could be perverted for a paedophile.

In the case of the 13-month-old he travelled to Christchurch for, the father was no obstacle but an accused fellow abuser he met online. Court documents show police found Ellmers had collected and traded thousands of images and movies of children being abused.

Mr Michael said images of fresh victims were valuable currency in the international sex trade in children.

"There are images out there and movies out there that have been circulated for a long time. What keeps it going is the demand for new material." He said the case showed the extraordinary steps some would take to secure children for abuse.

"If we look at the warning message to parents, it is 'don't be alarmed by this but be alert for suspicious behaviour'."

He accepted Kiwis might be surprised at the existence of domestic victims, as was he when he set the unit up in 2009.

"Everyone had thought it was an overseas phenomenon. But I guess we're like every other Western country."

Judge Bridget Mackintosh sent Ellmers for sentence in the High Court at Napier in May.

The Crown prosecutor, Steve Manning, said the abuse was at the "highest end of child sexual offending in this country".

Only the High Court can impose a sentence of preventive detention.

That would mean Ellmers would be sentenced to a minimum term, and only be released thereafter if authorities were satisfied he no longer represented a significant risk to the public.

UNNAMED DAD

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/father-held-for-sexual-assault-of-sixyearold-daughter/article4383149.ece

Father held for sexual assault of six-year-old daughter

A 36-year-old man was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting his six-year-old daughter in his home, the Jeevanbimanagar police said.

The mother filed a complaint against her husband, who runs a laundry business, on Monday morning, following which the child was taken to Bowring Hospital. The alleged abuse happened last Tuesday after she went to bed, the mother told the police on Sunday.

The couple, which hails from Ramasamudram in Madanapalle in Andhra Pradesh), has two daughters, aged six and 10. Narrating what happened, the mother said she was awakened by her daughter’s screams that night. The child and the father were sleeping on the floor while she and the older girl were on the cot. The mother said the light was on and she caught her husband in a compromising position. 

Bloodstains

Her worst fears were confirmed when she spotted bloodstains on the sheet. Soon, her daughter complained of pain in her lower abdomen. When she took her child to the gynaecologist in her area, he recommended a private hospital nearby.

The hospital confirmed the sexual assault on Sunday evening and the mother went to the police. Later that night, the father was arrested.

Earlier instances

The official complaint was registered at the J.B Nagar police station on Monday morning. The anguished mother said when she confronted her husband, he denied everything. Since the incident, her daughter apparently reported to her about earlier instances where her father’s actions had made her uncomfortable, and he had told her to keep this from her.

“From what the police have conveyed, he has admitted that he had attempted to sexually abuse her earlier as well,” she told The Hindu.

Worried about future

Sitting shyly on her mother’s lap, her older sister holding her hand for comfort, the victim was listening to her mother narrate the traumatic events of last week. She has not been going to school for the past one week. Her older sister said she keeps getting asked questions about her sister’s absence. “I just tell that them she is not well.”

The mother said she is now more concerned about her daughters’ future. She is trying to secure a job so that she can support them. “I don’t want to go back to our laundry business as people will question me about what happened and why my husband may not be working there,” she said, adding that she wants to move home to another location.

‘Punish him’

“I grew fearful on Saturday night and replaced the cot with a double cot so that both my daughters could sleep with me while my husband slept on the floor.”

Asked why she did not report the incident earlier, she said she was worried about the stigma. However once the doctor confirmed the abuse, she filed the complaint.

“I don’t care if my husband continues to stay in jail. I want him to be punished for this act,” she told The Hindu.