Alyssa Bustamante will not have a jury trial in a few weeks, like previously scheduled.Tuesday morning Cole County Circuit Judge Patricia Joyce accepted Alyssa Bustamante’s withdrawal of a not guilty plea to 1st degree murder. Bustamante then pleaded guilty to an amended charge of 2nd degree murder and armed criminal action. Judge Joyce scheduled Bustamante’s sentencing for February 6. The sentencing is expected to last two days while attorneys present evidence of what they believe Bustamante’s sentencing should include. There will be additional testimony at the sentencing hearing. Defense attorneys said they will provide psychiatric and mental health background information. Prosecuting Attorney Mark Richardson said he expects to call 6 witnesses at the sentencing hearing.  READ MORE HERE

A Facebook page was created after the two friends heard about a 4-YO girl from Mineola, Long Island, who had lost her hair after treatment for cancer…The page has quickly reached 100,000+ supporters!!

In 2009 D. Kedys, 37, father of 5 year old Deimantele Kedyte, contacted Lithuania authorities to report the sexual assault of his daughter by 3 men: Andrius, ex-Head of the Kaunas branch of Labour Party, Jonas Furmanaviius, judge of Kaunas County Court, and a third blond-haired man Aidas. This case wasn’t being investigated until months later, when D. Kedys went public with his evidence: a video of his daughter explaining her ordeal.

READ MORE HERE (make sure to scroll down “under” posted image to read article in it’s entirety)

UPDATE: Since the release of this footage, Mr. Kedys has been brutally murdered—see article here…Other key suspects & witnesses have also been murdered or have mysteriously disappeared.

View Detailed Footage of Deimantele Kedyte’s reveal of child sexual abuse below or go to (http://vimeo.com/14331400)

(WARNING: Extremely Graphic in Nature)

D. Kedžio dukters pasakojimas from Ekspertai.eu on Vimeo.

Mysterious Illness Hits New York Kids, Covered Up By HIPPA Privacy Rule 2012

Le Roy, N.Y.— Wednesday night, James Dupont attended a meeting at Le Roy Junior-Senior High School hoping to find some answers about what may be wrong with his daughter. Since the first week of December, his 17-year-old daughter suddenly had tics and showed signs of Tourette-like symptoms. But she isn’t the only one. The York State Department of Health says since September, 12 girls suddenly developed tics. Some so bad, they have had to be pulled out of school and tutored from home.  READ MORE HERE

Le Roy Parents Want Answers about Mysterious Illness | WKBW

Update on Tourette-Like Illness in Leroy | wgrz.com

Kathleen Edward, the girl who made news all over the world after she was taunted on Facebook, died late Wednesday night.

After a long battle with Huntington’s disease, Kathleen Edward, the 9-year-old girl who was taunted on Facebook in 2010, died at about 10 p.m. Wednesday night, according to Trenton Mayor Kyle Stack. Kathleen was at her father’s house in Wyandotte when she died. Kathleen was the center of a feud with neighbors,Jennifer and Scott Petkov on Detroit Street, that eventually led to Jennifer Petkov admittingly doctoring photos to depict Edward and her late mother in a skull and cross bones and embraced by the grim reaper. Laura Edward, Kathleen’s mother, died as a result of Huntington’s disease in 2009.  READ MORE HERE

WHITTIER (KTLA) — The principal of a Christian school who was accused of committing lewd acts on a child will not face charges, authorities said, citing a lack of evidence. 47-year-old Daniel Edwin Weston was taken into custody on Tuesday at the Seventh Day Adventist Church School of West Covina, where he works as the principal. Prior to working in West Covina, Weston worked as a principal at Whittier Adventist Elementary School.  READ MORE HERE

HUXLEY, Ia. –A Huxley woman deliberately killed her two newborn girls not long after giving birth last week and left them in the trunk of her vehicle, authorities said today. Jackie Burkle, 22, was arrested Tuesday afternoon and charged with two counts of first-degree murder. If convicted, she will spend the rest of her life in prison. Burkle admitted killing the children, police said in a criminal complaint. Authorities would not say how the babies died.  READ MORE HERE

More information is being released about the Morgan County bus driver accused of sexually molesting a student while on the bus. According to the Sheriff’s Department, the student was the last on the bus. Investigators stated in the probable cause statement that the victim said Tommy J. Estes stopped the bus and laid her down on the seat and kissed her. The victim, who was living with an aunt at the time, told authorities that he used his finger to touch her private area and then licked his finger. She also told investigators that he put his penis in her mouth.  READ MORE HERE

200 Pardoned by Governor Barbour in his Last Days

Mississippi governor Republican Haley Barbour spent his final days in office granting pardons or early release to around 200 people – including more than two dozen convicted killers. The outraged families of the victims have slammed the decision as unfair but Mr Barbour has so far refused to comment. State records released on Tuesday show some of those given pardons or early release were rapists, murderers and child sex offenders.
READ MORE HERE:   http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2085070/Haley-Barbour-pardons-nearly-200-including-rapists-killer-Brett-Favres-brother.html#ixzz1jBoSEir3

HOUSTON, TX — Police have arrested two 10-year-old boys on suspicion of raping another child on a school bus. The boys are charged with aggravated sexual assault on a child which occurred in August. The arrests were only made last week after authorities watched security video taken on board the bus.  READ MORE HERE

National Human Trafficking Awareness Day

Today is national Human Trafficking Awareness Day, the annual calendar date meant to bring attention to the fact that human trafficking remains a serious problem both in the United States and abroad. According to Change.org, “Slavery is more affordable, more widespread and more entrenched in 2011 than it was in ancient Rome or the antebellum South of America. Modern-day slaves, also called human trafficking victims, can be male or female, from any country or representing any ethnicity.” In the United States, human trafficking victims are forced to work in the sex trade, as domestic servants, on farms and in factories.  READ MORE HERE

National Human Trafficking Awareness Day Articles:

http://foreignpolicyblogs.com/2012/01/11/national-global-human-trafficking-awareness-day/

http://global.christianpost.com/news/national-human-trafficking-awareness-day-acknowledged-by-global-efforts-66940/

http://www.notforsalecampaign.org/news/2011/01/11/jan-11-national-human-trafficking-awareness-day/

JESSIE FOSTER: MISSING—HUMAN TRAFFICKING VICTIM

http://www.jessiefoster.ca/