First the fun:
"Homeless were paid $50 to be beaten for Web videos, suit alleges" April 13, 2011|Associated Press
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A video company paid homeless men $50 to be filmed while scantily clad women punched, kicked, and whipped them, according to a lawsuit filed this month in a Florida court....
And bite me, too?
The lawsuit contends the beatings violate a state hate-crimes law that specifically protects the homeless....
Isn't the act itself enough of a crime?
Whoever heard of a crime of love (not passion, readers, love)?
All crimes are hate crimes!
“What type of society would allow this to happen?’’ said Neil Chonin, the lawyer for the homeless men....
(Blog editor and citizen sheepishly raises hand)
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We've done far worse in far away lands that based on lies.
The fallout:
"Mother kills ‘mouthy’ teens, police say" January 29, 2011|Associated Press
TAMPA — The wife of a military officer shot and killed her son on the way to soccer practice, then drove to their upscale home and shot her daughter in the head while she studied at her computer, police said yesterday.
The woman said she killed the teens for being “mouthy,’’ detectives said.
Julie Powers Schenecker admitted the slayings after officers found her covered in blood on the back porch of her home yesterday morning, police spokeswoman Laura McElroy said. Schenecker’s mother had called police from Texas because she was unable to reach the 50-year-old woman, whom she said was depressed and had been complaining about her children.
Schenecker’s husband, Parker, is an Army colonel stationed at the headquarters of US Central Command in Tampa. CentCom spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Michael Lawhorn called him a career Army intelligence officer.
Police said Parker Schenecker was overseas.
Julie Schenecker left a note detailing her plans to kill her disrespectful children and then herself.
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I sometimes wonder if we had just avoided these wars and occupations how many soldiers would not have committed suicide and how many incidents like this would not have happened -- and how many souls would have been spared in the process.
No escaping violence in AmeriKa:
"One twin dead, another burned in Fla." February 17, 2011|Kelli Kennedy, Associated Press
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A state worker made the alarming discovery: a 10-year-old boy in the front seat of an exterminator’s red pickup alongside a busy interstate, convulsing from seizures, dripping in chemicals so toxic they sickened rescue workers who helped him.
So stop picking on those state workers!
Nearby, the boy’s father lay on the ground, unresponsive and doused in gasoline in what he later told police was an attempt to kill himself.
Why involve the kid?
The most horrifying find would come hours later because the truck was too toxic to search — the deteriorating body of the boy’s twin sister, wrapped in plastic bags and wedged between chemical containers in the enclosed pickup bed.
The boy was in critical condition yesterday, his burns getting worse. Doctors were unsure of what chemical was used. His father, Jorge Barahona, was also in the hospital. He faces aggravated child abuse charges, but more charges were expected.
Meanwhile, an angry judge grilled state child welfare officials over missed opportunities to help the twins, Victor and Nubia, after an anonymous abuse allegation was called into a hotline Feb. 10 — four days before the children were found along Interstate 95 in West Palm Beach.
Related: Fla. agency didn’t report alleged abuse
You see, this is the thing: if the state actually did its job and what it claims this wouldn't happen.
Instead they are too busy handing out tax loot and taking to the floors for stoo-pid s***.
The state officials described a disturbing picture of a Jorge and Carmen Barahona, who adopted the twins, an 11-year-old autistic boy, and a 7-year-old girl from foster care. The couple has been the focus of at least three abuse allegations in recent years, but nothing ever came of them.
Authorities haven’t said how Nubia died or when they think the chemical was put on Victor.
Barahona, 53, told officers he put his dead daughter in the truck and began driving with his son, intending to commit suicide. He was distraught, gave his son a handful of sleeping pills and, with the boy’s head in his lap, poured gasoline on himself.
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Also related: Death penalty sought in killing of Fla. girl, 10
State will give you a hand with that suicide these days.
"2 bodies in canal thought to be siblings" March 04, 2011|Associated Press
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Two children whose bodies were found stuffed into luggage and dumped in a canal were apparently a brother and sister killed in domestic violence, authorities said yesterday....
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And if you are lucky enough to grow up:
"Police say plot to kill Fla. teen followed fight" April 21, 2011|Associated Press
SUMMERFIELD, Fla. — When Seath Tyler Jackson received a text message from a 15-year-old ex-girlfriend saying she wanted to rekindle their romance and that they should meet at a central Florida house, a female friend of Jackson’s sensed something wasn’t right.
The 15-year-old Jackson ignored his friend’s advice and went Sunday to the house in Summerfield. There, authorities said, he was fatally beaten and shot by members of a group of teens and adults. Then Jackson’s body was stuffed into a sleeping bag and burned, and the remains were put in paint buckets and dumped at a remote lime rock pit, authorities allege.
Authorities, as well as family and friends, said Jackson had fought recently with one of the suspects, 18-year-old Michael Bargo, who was dating Jackson’s ex-girlfriend.
Bargo and the girl were among six people, who range in age from 15 to 37, arrested Tuesday night in connection with Jackson’s gruesome death.
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Also see:
Fla. officer slain, third in a month
Teen held without bail in Fla. officer’s death
Murder suspect, officer die in Fla. gun battle
