TOWN OF BELOIT, Wis. — Federal prosecutors charged a Denver woman on Friday with kidnapping her half-sister’s newborn boy from a Wisconsin home hours after police discovered the infant in a storage crate outside an Iowa gas station, alive and well in single-digit weather.
Thank God.
"Two sisters of an Iowa state representative were found dead of gunshot wounds to the head in the Pittsburgh home they shared, and police are investigating the case as a double homicide. 44-year-old Susan Wolfe was a teacher’s aide at Hillel Academy in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood, and 38-year-old Sarah Wolfe was a psychiatrist for Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic."
Not trying to flip at all; he giveth and.... last the Globe giveth(?).
Kristen Smith faces life in prison if she is convicted of kidnapping Kayden Powell, who is nearly a week old.
The baby was reunited with his parents and was on his way home last evening.
Kayden Powell’s mother discovered him missing early Thursday morning from his bassinet. Police found him tucked in a storage crate outside an Iowa gas station in frigid temperatures more than 24 hours later.
The newborn’s parents reported him missing early Thursday morning from the home in the Town of Beloit in southern Wisconsin where the family was staying. According to an affidavit accompanying the kidnapping charge, Smith is the mother’s half-sister and had come to visit the family in Wisconsin. She left the home early Thursday morning. Several hours later the mother reported the baby missing.
Police arrested Smith at a West Branch, Iowa, gas station on Thursday morning on an outstanding warrant from an unrelated case in Texas. The baby was not in the car, although she had baby clothes, a fake pregnancy belly, and a stroller with her, according to the affidavit. Hundreds of officers in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa, meanwhile, began searching possible stops on her route.
Wow, the legions of law enforcement really sprang into action -- all to take down a lone woman kidnapper.
West Branch Police Chief Mike Horihan was searching the area around a BP gas station off Interstate 80 — about 500 yards from the Kum & Go station where Smith was arrested — when he heard cries that led him to a closed storage crate alongside the building. The baby was inside the crate, swaddled in a blanket and healthy and responsive.
I know he won't remember anything, but the trauma of simulated torture is always good for a kid, right?
West Branch is about 180 miles southwest of the Town of Beloit.
‘‘I had tears in my eyes,’’ BP station manager Jay Patel said, recalling his reaction to the police chief telling him that the infant had been found. ‘‘It’s good news but it’s sad, too.’’
Yeah, At least NO ONE WAS HURT or KILLED!
It was unclear how long the newborn was outside in the cold. The temperature was about minus-10 Thursday night in the town and only in the single digits when the child was found. The infant was taken to a hospital for evaluation, Horihan said.
Well, they said he was doing fine above.
"Father gets 5 years in prison for starving girl" by Todd Richmond | Associated Press, January 30, 2014
MADISON, Wis. — A judge on Wednesday gave a five-year prison sentence to a Wisconsin father convicted of starving his teenage daughter down to 68 pounds.
The case came to light in February 2012 when a passing motorist spotted the girl, who was 15 at the time, wandering the streets barefoot and wearing only her pajamas after she ran away from her family’s Madison home....
The girl told investigators she had spent most of the previous five years confined to the basement of her family’s home and was denied food despite begging to eat. She said her stepmother beat her and her stepbrother repeatedly forced her to perform oral sex on him.
Kind of a 21st-century Cinderella story, right?
Related: Globe Dumps Padilla Down Memory Hole
That's what thirteen years will do to a person.
Kind of a 21st-century Cinderella story, right?
Related: Globe Dumps Padilla Down Memory Hole
That's what thirteen years will do to a person.
During his November trial, the father testified that the girl suffered from severe emotional and behavioral problems.
Is that before or after the torture?
He said she refused to eat and threatened to kill the family in their sleep....
Maybe an exorcism should be performed -- unless it's a hunger strike, and I can certainly see why they would do that.
Is that before or after the torture?
He said she refused to eat and threatened to kill the family in their sleep....
Maybe an exorcism should be performed -- unless it's a hunger strike, and I can certainly see why they would do that.
"Spokesman at the facility said earlier this month that the US military will no longer disclose to the media and public whether prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are on hunger strike, eliminating what had long been an unofficial barometer of conditions at the secretive military outpost. Human rights groups, lawyers and the media had long used the number of hunger strikers as a measure of discontent in the prison. A mass protest over conditions this year peaked in July at 106 prisoners."
I can't imagine who wouldn't be happy in an AmeriKan pri$on, even if they are innocent and there forever.
And when you think about it, the forced feeding itself is torture -- of individuals dedicated to nonviolent, noncooperation through fasting.
In that context, the military mistreatment makes a lot of sense.
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But I digress, making this not quick at all when I have a ball game to play today.
Also see: Sickening Wisconsin Slaying
I always wonder if they are on anything even when it is not mentioned because it is $uch $weet mu$ic in my promotional pre$$:
I can't imagine who wouldn't be happy in an AmeriKan pri$on, even if they are innocent and there forever.
And when you think about it, the forced feeding itself is torture -- of individuals dedicated to nonviolent, noncooperation through fasting.
In that context, the military mistreatment makes a lot of sense.
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But I digress, making this not quick at all when I have a ball game to play today.
Also see: Sickening Wisconsin Slaying
I always wonder if they are on anything even when it is not mentioned because it is $uch $weet mu$ic in my promotional pre$$:
"3 arrested in theft of Stradivarius violin" by Dinesh Ramde | Associated Press, February 06, 2014
MILWAUKEE — Three people have been arrested in connection with last week’s theft of a multimillion dollar Stradivarius violin from the concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
Kent Lovern, a Milwaukee County assistant district attorney, could not reveal any information beyond the arrests....
The violin has not been recovered.
Related: $5m stolen violin recovered intact
The nearly 300-year-old violin, which has been appraised at $5 million, was on loan to Frank Almond.
He had just finished performing Jan. 27 at Wisconsin Lutheran College when a robber attacked him with a stun gun, seized the instrument, and fled to a waiting vehicle. The violin case was found abandoned....
Also see:
Related: Jesus Crist
Time to get out of Wisconsin:
"Driver didn’t see cyclist stuck in windshield" Associated Press, January 22, 2014
MANITOWOC, Wis. — A Wisconsin man who became lodged in the windshield of a car that struck him said he turned to the driver and said, ‘‘Hello, I’m the guy you hit on the bicycle.’’
The driver did not respond, but continued on, running a stop sign and hitting another vehicle before he arrived home, according to the cyclist, Steven Gove. The man finally noticed Gove when he stopped the car outside his home.
Who is the man?
Looks like drugs or drink to me.
Who is the man?
Looks like drugs or drink to me.
‘‘He looked at me and said, ‘Who are you? What are you doing in the car?’ ’’ Gove said.
Gove, whose body had gone most of the way through the windshield, then pulled his knees and feet into the car.
‘‘I righted myself and got out,’’ he said. ‘‘I unlocked the passenger’s side door and started walking down the street.’’
Probably in shock.
Just don't go knocking on any doors.
Police found Gove as he was walking and took him to a hospital. Doctors removed glass from Gove’s eyes and treated him for other cuts.
Probably in shock.
Just don't go knocking on any doors.
Police found Gove as he was walking and took him to a hospital. Doctors removed glass from Gove’s eyes and treated him for other cuts.
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Should have kept peddling.
Globe didn't want you to see that.
Better take a plane instead.
