Several witnesses reportedly saw Dahmer with Adam on the day he disappeared in 1981.

This is the third time Alcala has been sentenced to death row for killing Robin Samsoe.
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Rodney Alcala, 66

SANTA ANA — Convicted serial killer Rodney Alcala has been sentenced to death for killing a 12-year-old Huntington Beach girl and four Los Angeles County women in the 1970s.

Tuesday’s sentencing marked the third time Rodney Alcala has been sent to death row for killing 12-year-old Robin Samsoe.

His two previous convictions for the killing were overturned on appeal.

Marianne Connelly, the mother of Robin Samsoe read this statement to the court before Alcala’s sentence was announced:

“He is a cold blooded evil mass murdering monster that should have died years ago. Losing my precious Robin was the worst tragedy of my life and knowing the defendant tortured his victims makes it even harder to accept. I’m waiting for the day he dies. I only wish I could be the one to administer the (lethal) injection.”

The death sentence was recommended by the Orange County jury that convicted Alcala.

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Earlier this month, Alcala waived his rights to have a probation report prepared about him and to have a sentencing hearing within 20 days of his conviction.

Alcala, who represented himself during his murder trial, responded to a question about when the sentencing hearing would be held with, “It doesn’t matter to me. Anything past 20 days is fine with me.”

The babies’ bodies washed ashore on a riverbank in eastern China.

BEIJING — The bodies of 21 babies washed ashore on a riverbank in eastern China and two hospital mortuary workers were detained for allegedly dumping them, state media reported Tuesday.

Video footage showed the bodies – at least one of which stuffed in a yellow plastic bag marked “medical waste” – included some infants who appeared several months old. Some wore identification tags with their mothers’ names, birth dates, measurements and weights.

The official Xinhua News Agency said there were also fetuses among the bodies. The number of girls or boys was not reported.

Residents discovered the remains under a bridge in the city of Jining, Shandong province, over the weekend. The tags on the ankles of eight of the babies helped investigators trace them back to Affiliated Hospital of Jining Medical University, Xinhua said.

An official from the hospital confirmed it was involved.

Hospital mortuary workers Zhu Zhenyu and Wang Zhijun were sacked and detained by police, Xinhua reported early Wednesday, citing Jining city government spokesman Gong Zhenhua.

The babies’ families had paid the pair to dispose of the bodies, but instead they dumped them at the Guangfu River, Gong said.

Three other top hospital officials were fired or suspended, Xinhua said.

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Gene Dillard Was Concerned About His 1-year-old Daughter’s Safety – So Be Beat The Living Tar Out Of Her

Bay Minette, Alabama (The Weekly Vice) – Gene Dillard, a 34 -year-old Alabama man, was arrested Thursday after he allegedly beat his 1-year-old daughter because she was playing with an electrical outlet.

According to the Bay Minette Police Department, officers responded to a report of possible abuse where they found the girl with swelling and bruises on her face.

Investigators say the baby’s mother told officers that Dillard beat their daughter after she was caught playing with an electrical outlet in the home.

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Filed under: Beating, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Crime, Imprisonment, Strangulation, Torture

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Back in February, the neighbor of Jerita and Christopher Aaron got a shock when the couple’s 10-year-old daughter knocked on their door barefoot and injured. The little girl was taken to the hospital where multiple injuries were noted, the latest from a television cord beating.

She told the police that her and her 9-year-old brother and a 5-year-old sister were routinely abused – that they all had visited the hospital at one time or another after their mother had beat and choked them. When police interviewed the other two children, the story just kept getting worse. The youngest informed investigators that once her older sister not stop screaming from being beaten, so Jerita Aaron choked her until she stopped moving. “I thought (she) was dead,” she said.

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Filed under: Crime, Strangulation, Suffocation, accident

DAVID CITY, Neb. - When 11-year-old Drew Fiala had not came home, his mother became worried and went out to look for him. Eventually friends and neighbors were also looking for the boy around town but he was nowhere to be seen. He wasn’t found until his mother went up to his room and found him dead with a belt around his neck.

She and the police believe that Drew was experimenting with the Choking Game. You know, the one where people make themselves pass out in a variety of different ways. We used to do this all the time when we were kids because it was fun and really, really stupid. Our method was a bit more complicated than simply choking yourself, but we didn’t end up dead with a belt around our necks. We would take 10 deep breaths and then hold it as a buddy would bear hug you from behind. You’d be out in about 15 -seconds. Again, it was really, really stupid and we really had no idea how dangerous it was. And obviously, neither did Drew.

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Filed under: Crime, Domestic Violence, Murder, Murder-suicide, Shooting, Suicide

Charlotte, NC – Nateesha Chapman, 34, had not been heard from in awhile so her uncle asked police to perform a welfare check. When police arrived at the apartment she shared with her husband and four children, the door was open and 33-year-old Kenneth Chapman could be seen inside. Police asked for him to come out, but Kenneth fired a shot at them before shooting himself to death.

Two young children, a 10-year-old girl and a 2-year-old boy, ran from the apartment physically unharmed. But once inside, police found the dead bodies of 1-year-old Nakyiah Chapman and 13-year-old Na’Jhae Parker in a locked room – the youngest suffocated, the oldest stabbed to death.

Police then began searching for Nateesha and found her inside another nearby apartment the family had been in the process of moving from. Like her youngest daughter, she had been suffocated. Police say all the victims have been dead since around March 14th. But as tragic as all of this is, the real kicker is the fact that the 10-year-old girl lived in the apartment and kept her normal school schedule while her siblings rotted in another room.

Why?

Because she was scared not to and afraid if she she didn’t, Kenneth would kill her little brother.

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Rape case in Bullitt County

UPDATE 11.41PM: POLICE have arrested a Frankston man over claims he is a child sex predator who stalks his victims on the internet.

Raw vision – one of the state’s most vicious murderers is taken back to the scene

John Raymond Zimmerman, 24, faced an out-of-sessions court hearing charged with 42 offences including rape, indecent assault, making threats to kill and stalking.

The charges relate to three victims but police said they needed to speak with a large number of children as part of their inquiry.

Det Sgt Craig Brien said Mr Zimmerman had set up two internet account profiles which he used to send 22,000 messages to 800 contacts.

“A significant number of children need to be spoken to in relation to this matter,” he said.

Mr Zimmerman is accused of befriending the girls in chat rooms, then blackmailing them with compromising pictures of themselves.

The hearing was told Mr Zimmerman threatened to expose them to their parents, friends and teachers if they did not meet him.

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Oklahoma is one of the thirty-five states that use the death penalty. There are various crimes in that state that can carry a punishment of death, but rape of a child is not currently one of them. Lawmakers hope to change that. Last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved a measure that would allow the death penalty for convicted felons who rape a child age six and under.

Yet, just two years ago, in a 5-4 decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty is unconstitutional as a punishment for child rape, and overturned death penalty laws in Louisiana and five other states.

Justice Kennedy, writing for the majority, said there was “a distinction between intentional first-degree murder on the one hand and non-homicide crimes against individual persons,” even such “devastating” crimes as the rape of a child on the other.

Senator Anthony Sykes, the author of the Oklahoma Bill, says there are some key differences between the Oklahoma bill and those struck down by the Supreme Court, which he thinks will get the bill over the constitutionality hurdle. He plans to amend his bill to require a previous conviction for child rape and include the requirement that the rapist have the intent to kill the child.

The death penalty for child rape bill is controversial in Oklahoma so it remains to be seen if will even pass, never mind put to the Supreme Court test.

What do you think?

Should child rapists get the death penalty?

SOURCE:

http://thestir.cafemom.com/in_the_news/100716/child_rapists_should_they_get

Awaits trial in rape case

A former riding instructor authorities say raped a teenager in a horse trailer and posted pictures of her feet online for fellow foot-fetish freaks pleaded guilty yesterday to child pornography charges.

Joseph Silva, 34, of Swansea, who faces 15 to 30 years in federal prison when he’s sentenced June 29 by U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton, is also awaiting trial in New Bedford Superior Court on related state charges of rape of a child with force, posing a child in a sexual act, distribution of nude photos of a child and witness intimidation.

“We’ve been working hand in hand with the federal officials on this matter,” said Gregg Miliote, spokesman for Bristol District Attorney C. Samuel Sutter. “The allegations, both federally and state, are pretty horrendous.”

Silva, a small, trim man in a gray suit and blue shirt, changed his plea in the federal case after a jury had already been empaneled and opening arguments were about to begin.

Silva’s victim in the federal case took lessons at Haskins Farm in Berkeley, where he worked as a trainer. Their relationship started with compliments on her riding and a kiss when she was 14 and escalated to sex in October 2002, while both were attending the New England Horse Show finals in Springfield, according to court records.

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DOUGLASSVILLE — A Douglassville man is headed to trial in Berks County Court on charges he raped a 4-year-old girl and had sexual intercourse with a 6-year-old boy when the children were in the foster care of the man’s relatives.

Philip Bazzley, 21, who also spells his name Phillip Bazzley, of West Welsh Drive, is accused of raping and having involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with the two children, a brother and sister, between October 2001 and June 2003. Bazzley was 14 at the time.

Officials said the incidents recently came to light when the children were adopted by a family in Fayette County.

“Kids don’t tell” about when they’re abused in this manner, said Berks Assistant District Attorney Ellen R. West, who is prosecuting the case. “Everybody thinks kids tell, but half the time, kids don’t tell.”

West said the children in this case were talking with a counselor for a mandated report when the incidents came to light.

She said cases such as this one, where the children are abused after they’re in the foster care system, aren’t common.

“It’s rare,” she said. “It’s usually the kids end up in foster care because of something that was happening. It’s not that they’re in foster care” and then the abuse happens.

According to court papers, Bazzley started having sexual contact with two children, who were in the foster care of his aunt and uncle, when he was 14. Court papers indicate the children would stay in a relative’s home before and after school when Bazzley was present. Most of the alleged assaults took place after school.

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Man faces two counts of child rape

A Manassas man is charged with raping an 8-year-old girl.

Police said the man, who is related to the victim, began raping the child in 2008 when the child was 7 years old.

On Monday, Christian Robert Perez Romero, 22, of Manassas went to a police station to be interviewed and was later charged with two counts of rape, two counts of taking indecent liberties with a child and with forcible sodomy, said Prince William police spokeswoman Erika Hernandez.

Romero is being held without bond and is scheduled to appear in Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court.

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http://www2.insidenova.com/isn/news/local/manassas/article/manassas_man_charged_with_child_rape/54834/

SAN FRANCISCO — An East Bay professor who faces federal child pornography charges and Missouri state charges of raping a 1-year-old girl agreed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco Tuesday to remain in custody for the time being.

Kenneth Kyle, 47, of San Francisco, an assistant professor at California State University, East Bay, is accused in federal court in San Francisco of international transportation of child pornography. Kyle was arrested at San Francisco International Airport on March 15 as he arrived on a flight from Germany.

Federal investigators allege they found at least 529 child pornography photos and 33 videos on a laptop computer he was carrying. Kyle was separately charged on March 24 by prosecutors in St. Louis County, Mo., with rape, sodomy and promoting child pornography of a 13-month-old girl.

The child’s mother, Tessa Vanvlerah, 20, of the city of Ballwin in St. Louis County, is accused of the same three charges as well as of incest. Vanvlerah is in custody in St. Louis County with a $2 million cash bail requirement and is scheduled to have a preliminary hearing May 10, according to court records. Kyle also faces an arrest warrant and $2 million bail requirement in St. Louis County.

At a hearing before U.S. Magistrate Edward Chen in San Francisco today, Kyle waived his right to have a hearing on whether he should remain in federal custody for the time being. Chen scheduled Kyle’s arraignment on the federal charge for April 5. Defense attorney David Bigeleisen said after the hearing that he is “still gathering information” on the federal case and could not comment. He said he had not seen the charges in the Missouri case.

If Kyle is convicted, the pornography transportation charge would carry a minimum sentence of five years in prison and maximum of 20 years.

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PHOENIX — A teenage Liberian refugee charged in the gang-rape of an 8-year-old girl in Phoenix last summer pleaded guilty in the case Tuesday, authorities said.

Maricopa County prosecutors said the 15-year-old boy, who was transferred from adult court to juvenile court last week, pleaded guilty to sexual assault, kidnapping, three counts of sexual conduct with a minor and one count of attempted sexual conduct with a minor. He will remain in detention until an April 27 hearing.

The Associated Press is not naming the teen because of his age. He was 14 at the time of the July assault and had been the only one of four boys charged as an adult. All the children involved are refugees from the war-torn West African nation of Liberia.

Prosecutors said the girl was lured July 16 to an empty storage shed at a west Phoenix apartment complex with the promise of chewing gum. The oldest boy admitted holding the victim down while he and three other boys – ages 9, 10 and 13 – sexually assaulted the girl, according to authorities.

Defense attorneys for the 15-year-old said the boy most likely will be sent to a residential treatment center with 24-hour supervision for a year or more. Prosecutors said he could have faced more than 25 years in prison if convicted as an adult in the case.

Authorities said juveniles are not given fixed prison sentences, and instead are constantly evaluated on whether they should be released, maintained in treatment facilities or sent to a juvenile corrections facility. When they turn 18, they age out of the system and must be released, although the boy still could be forced to register as a sex offender until he turns 25.

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In this photo provided by the Blue Earth County District Court via the Mankato Free Press, Joel Marvin Munt is shown in a booking mug.

ST. PETER, Minn. — A Minnesota man who repeatedly accused his ex-wife of child abuse rammed her car into a tree and shot her to death in front of their three young children before fleeing in a vehicle belonging to good Samaritans who responded to the crash, prosecutors said Tuesday.

A sheriff’s deputy who caught up with Joel Marvin Munt found the children crying inside the stolen SUV and heard one say “Daddy killed Mommy,” according to a criminal complaint charging Munt with second-degree murder in death of his ex-wife, Svetlana Vladimirovna Munt, 32, of Mankato.

Joel Munt, 33, of Burnsville, also was charged with five other felonies related to the crash and vehicle theft. Bail was set at $600,000 during his first court appearance Tuesday.

Public defender Krista Jass told The Associated Press that Munt suffered from “untreated depression” after his 2009 divorce. Jassa said he does not have a criminal record beyond some minor traffic offenses, but declined to comment further, saying she was gathering more information about the weekend incident.

Authorities allege Munt rammed his Chevrolet Suburban SUV into the driver’s side door of his ex-wife’s car Sunday morning — pinning it against a tree at the Rasmussen Woods Nature Area in Mankato — then shot the woman he’d gone to Russia to marry in 1998 after meeting through an online singles agency. A medical examiner determined she was shot seven times.

Prosecutors believe the three children, ages 4, 5, and 7, saw it all.

“I can only assume that they did,” said Assistant Blue Earth County Attorney Patrick McDermott. “They were in the car when she was shot.” They are now in protective custody.

One witness told police that when he went toward the scene, he saw a man outside the car who pointed a large pistol at him and told him to leave. The witness called 911 and saw another SUV drive up. The couple in the second SUV said the man at the crash scene stole their vehicle at gunpoint, but let them unload their three children first, the complaint said.

The sheriff’s deputy pulled over the stolen SUV a short time later. Munt surrendered peacefully, telling a deputy, “Sorry for causing you this trouble,” according to the complaint.

One boy in the vehicle had a bloody face with glass embedded in it — Munt told a witness the child was cut when a car window exploded, according to the complaint. A pistol and an empty magazine where found on the driver’s side floor.

Munt told the officers who arrested him, “If you people had done your job protecting my daughter from her mother, she wouldn’t have to go through this,” the complaint said.

Documents filed in the divorce proceeding show Sventlana Munt was born and raised in Russia. She said she met Joel Munt through a singles agency — the documents do not say when — and they e-mailed back-and-forth with the help of a translator. He visited a few times.

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CENTER — A common-law husband and wife were arrested here Tuesday and charged with one count of felony child abuse each following an investigation begun March 16, by Saguache County Social Services and Saguache County Sheriff’s Office.

Timothy Andy Garcia, 43, and Cheryl Candace Pacheco, 26, were arrested yesterday by Saguache County Undersheriff Dan Warwick and Investigator Mark Werts. Pacheco was arrested at Blue Horizons thrift store in Saguache without incident. Garcia was arrested at the family home, 576 Wills St., Center. According to Werts Garcia attempted to prevent being taken into custody but was arrested after a short struggle. No injuries to the suspect or officers was reported.

Both Garcia and Pacheco were booked into the Saguache County Jail and bail had been set at $20,000 each on the single class four felony they are each charged with.

The victim in the case is the couple’s five-month old son, who, along with four siblings has been removed from the couple’s custody.

On March 9 the child was brought to the Rio Grande County Hospital by his mother who told emergency room staff the child had possibly jammed his finger and had been experiencing a fever for two days. When checked by the ER staff, the child was found to have a temperature of 102.4 degrees, a low oxygen level and a breathing rate of 40. Staff reported the infant was lethargic and did not cry when blood was drawn. The child was admitted to the hospital but began having increased medical problems and was transferred via air ambulance to Children’s Hospital in Aurora, Colo.

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Right now a four year old boy is in intensive care at Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa. He was life-flighted there after receiving third degree burns from his neck down.

His mother, 27-year-old Jessica Parker, and her boyfriend, 25-year-old Cecil Hairrell, were arrested Monday afternoon when they took the boy to be treated for the burns. “Our information says somewhere Saturday evening is when the burns happened and he wasn’t brought to receive medical attention until yesterday evening,” said LeFlore County District Attorney Jeff Smith

The medical staff at Affordable Medical Clinic in Heavener alerted the Heavener Police Department to the boy’s injuries and how long it took for his mother to bring him in. The police arrested Parker and Hairrell at the clinic and took the boy by helicopter to Tulsa. The mother allegedly told police the boy was burned in the bathtub at their home on 3rd Street in Heavener. Neighbors tell 5News Parker had only lived there about two months.

Many children live in this neighborhood and like to play in the streets after school. It’s for this reason residents say they’re glad Parker and Hairrell are in custody.

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CAPE CORAL, Fla. – Cape Coral police have arrested a man on charges of aggravated child abuse. The suspect, identified as 56-year-old Pablo Rico, is accused of using a cigarette to intentionally burn a 5-year-old girl.

The case unfolded on March 23, when the Department of Children and Families contacted the Cape Coral Police Department in reference to a complaint received from the girl’s school.

Police say that suspicions arose after the girl was late to school; she told one of her teachers that she had to keep the top of her dress up to hide the three burn marks on her upper chest.

According to police reports, “the girl told the teacher that Rico had burned her with a cigarette and told her not to tell anyone.”

Investigators learned that Rico was a family friend and the girl spent the weekend at the suspect’s home. When confronted by authorities, the suspect said that the girl had sustained burns as the result of a mishap involving cooking oil.

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COLLIER COUNTY – A five-month-old baby is out of the ICU. The baby was rushed to Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital after deputies say he was abused by his babysitter.

Christina Maulsby noticed her son, Quentin, had a bruise on his forehead while picking him up at his sitter’s house last week. Quentin was vomiting, shaking and going limp. The babysitter, Cherie Landowski said a toy had hit him.

But, detectives say Landowski hit him on the head. Doctors say Quentin suffered swelling and blood in the brain plus two broken ribs.

“Nobody should have to go through what we’ve gone through, watch what we’ve had to watch our son go through,” says Christina Maulsby.

Deputies arrested Landowski for aggravated child abuse. The baby’s father, Grant Maulsby, is distraught that Landowski could have done something like this.

“There’s anger, sadness, confusion,” says Grant Maulsby.

Christina Maulsby says she checked out Landowski before hiring her.

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NORTH NEWTON — More than two months before a 19-month-old boy died with fractures and extensive bruising, the state child welfare agency received a report from a neighbor who heard a man yelling at the boy followed by the child screaming.

The Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services then found no indication that the child had been physically or emotionally harmed, an SRS report says.

SRS did not inform local law enforcement agencies of the report, which is upsetting and frustrating, Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton said Tuesday.

“We would have knocked on the door” of the North Newton duplex long before an emergency crew found the child not breathing Saturday afternoon, Walton said.

“Any report like that we always investigate,” Walton said.

On Tuesday afternoon, Harvey County authorities charged Chad Carr, 26, with two counts of aggravated battery and two counts of child abuse for injuries to the 19-month-old, Walton said.

Carr has been described as the boyfriend of the toddler’s mother.

More charges could be filed, Walton said. Authorities have yet to make a final determination on charges because full autopsy results are not yet available, he said.

Authorities have yet to release the child’s name.

The toddler had older and newer injuries, authorities said. His injuries included a broken left collar bone and broken right lower leg and bruising from “head to toe,” according to authorities.

SRS finding