9 Year Old Girl Accidentally Kills Gun Instructor With Uzi (RAW FOOTAGE)

Charles Vacca, 39, of Lake Havasu City, died Monday shortly after being airlifted to University Medical Center in Las Vegas, Mohave County sheriff's officials said Tuesday.
Vacca was standing next to the girl at the Last Stop outdoor shooting range in White Hills when she pulled the trigger and the recoil sent the gun over her head, investigators said.
Video released Tuesday by sheriff's officials shows the 9-year-old, wearing a gray T-shirt and pink shorts with her hair pulled back in a long braid, holding the firearm in both hands. Vacca, standing to her left, tells her to turn her left leg forward.
"All right, go ahead and give me one shot," he tells the girl, whose back is to the camera during the entire 27-second video. He then cheers when she fires one round at the target.
"All right full auto," Vacca says. The video, which does not show the actual incident, ends with a series of shots being heard.
Authorities said the girl was at the shooting range with her parents. Her name was not released.
A woman who answered the phone at the shooting range said it had no comment. She did not provide her name.
It is not known if the range had an age limit on shooting or if the girl was going through a safety class.
Ronald Scott, a Phoenix-based firearms safety expert, said most shooting ranges have an age limit and strict safety rules when teaching children to shoot. He said instructors usually have their hands on guns when children are firing high-powered weapons.
"You can't give a 9-year-old an Uzi and expect her to control it," Scott said

Road Rage Acquitted In Killing of Driver

David Barajas cried after the verdict was read and he hugged his wife, Cindy, who was also crying. He could have been sentenced to up to life in prison, if he had been convicted.
Prosecutors alleged that Barajas killed 20-year-old Jose Banda in a fit of rage after Banda plowed into Barajas and his sons while they were pushing a truck on a road near their home because it had run out of gas. Twelve-year-old David Jr. and 11-year-old Caleb were killed.
Defense attorney Sam Cammack said Barajas didn't kill Banda and that he was only focused on saving his sons. The gun used to kill Banda wasn't found and there was little physical evidence tying Barajas to the killing.
A visibly relieved Barajas told reporters following the verdict that he hopes to move forward with his life and find closure.
"This was a loss for everybody. Not only did I lose my two sons, they lost a son, too," said Barajas, referring to the Banda family.
Brazoria County District Attorney Jeri Yenne told reporters that she had no regrets for bringing the case to trial.
"We believe that Mr. Barajas committed this crime," she said.

Authorities said that after the crash, Barajas, 32, went to his home about 100 yards from the crash site, got a gun and returned to shoot Banda.
Legal experts said prosecutors would likely have to overcome jury sympathy for Barajas, who had the support of many residents of Alvin, which is about 30 miles southeast of Houston. Further complicating their case was that there were no witnesses who identified Barajas as the shooter and gunshot residue tests done on Barajas came back negative.
Investigators testified that a bullet fragment found in Banda's car could have come from a .357-caliber gun, and that ammunition for such a gun was found in Barajas' home, along with a holster. Cammack said his client never owned a gun and that tests showed the bullet fragment also could have come from another weapon.
A forensic scientist testified that blood found on the driver's side door and driver's arm rest of Banda's car was consistent with that of Barajas.
The defense called only three witnesses to testify during the trial, which began last week.
But prosecution witnesses told jurors during questioning by Cammack that more gunfire had taken place well after Banda was shot — pointing to the possibility that the actual shooter was still at large — and that a search of Barajas' home failed to find any evidence that directly or indirectly linked him to the crime scene.
Cammack also suggested that Banda could have been shot by his own cousin or half-brother, who told investigators that they witnessed the crash but fled the scene. Both testified that they did not shoot Banda.
Cammack also used 911 calls to create a timeline that suggested Barajas would not have had enough time to shoot Banda.

Dirt Bucket Challenge Video

The war in Gaza has sparked several new takes on the Ice Bucket Challenge with Palestinians dumping buckets of rubble over their heads.

Doctor Uses "SeXXX Therapy"

A Pennsylvania psychologist was arrested on charges of sexual assault for treating patients with a special brand of "touching therapy" he practiced, the state attorney general said on Wednesday.
Dr. Richard Lenhart, 53, of State College, Pennsylvania, sexually assaulted two female patients at his private practice under the guise of treatment and then billed insurers as if he had provided legitimate services, prosecutors said.
"The charges state Lenhart prescribed 'touching therapy' for the women, which included touching and holding the patients. The therapy allegedly included stroking, sexual contact and rubbing of genitals," according to a news release from state Attorney General Kathleen Kane.
From 2008 to 2011, Lenhart submitted nearly 700 insurance claims seeking a total of more than $71,500 in reimbursement, falsely indicating he was rendering proper treatment, the attorney general’s office said.
Lenhart is charged with involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, aggravated indecent assault, sexual assault and criminal use of a communication facility.
He is also charged with three counts of indecent assault and two counts of both insurance fraud and theft by deception.

The Husband Who Vanished For 15 Years

 For 15 years, Anne McDonnell lived in limbo—not knowing whether her Jim was dead or alive. Then one afternoon the doorbell rang.

The Mc­Donnells lived in a small brick house in Larch­mont, a suburb of New York City. Jim was foreman of mail carriers at the post office where he had worked for 25 years. A gentle, soft­-spoken man, he had a wave­ of­ the ­hand acquaintance with hundreds of peo­ple in town. Married in 1960, he and Anne were childless.
During February and March 1971, when he was 50, Jim McDonnell suffered a curious series of accidents. None was critical in it­self, but the combination appeared to trigger a strange result.
Carrying out the garbage one evening, he slipped on ice­-coated steps, bruised his back and struck his head. A few days later, driving to work, he had a fit of sneezing, lost control of the car, hit a telephone pole and banged his forehead against the windshield. The following day a dizzy spell at work sent him tumbling down a flight of steps, and again he banged his head. Ten days later he again lost control of his car and hit a pole. Found unconscious, he was hospitalized for three days with a cerebral concussion.
On March 29, 1971, Jim borrowed a friend’s station wagon and drove to Kennedy Airport to pick up Anne’s brother and family. Then he took them to Anne’s sister’s house. When he returned the borrowed car at 10 p.m., he was unaware that the leather folder containing his identification had slipped out of his pocket onto the floor of the station wagon. Jim declined the offer of a ride home: “I have a terrible headache and the walk will help clear my head.” Ordinarily the walk would have taken about 15 minutes.
At 11:15 p.m. Anne called the owner of the station wagon; he had no idea why Jim had not yet reached home. It was unlike Jim not to telephone if he was delayed. At 2 a.m., Anne called the police and reported her husband missing.
After 24 hours, the police sent out an all­-points bulletin and began writing some 50 letters to Jim’s friends and relatives. They fol­lowed through on every anonymous tip and even checked unidentified bodies in New York morgues.
Detective George Mulcahy was assigned to head the investigation. He knew Jim was a man of probity and openness—the two attended the same church—and Mulcahy was sure the disappearance had nothing to do with wrong­doing by Jim McDonnell. Investigation confirmed that McDonnell’s per­sonal and professional records were impeccable, and turned up no tendencies toward self­ destruction or any evidence that he had been a victim of an accident or attack.
For Mulcahy, the only explana­tion was amnesia.
The phenomenon of amnesia is clouded in mystery. Why it occurs in some patients and not in oth­ers is open to medical speculation. What is known is that loss of mem­ory can be caused by stroke, Alz­heimer’s disease, alcoholism, severe psychological trauma—or by blows to the head. Any individual whose brain has suffered such inju­ries can simply wander aimlessly away from the place where he lives, with all knowledge of his past blacked out.
“For weeks,” Anne’s sister re­calls, “Anne walked the house wringing her hands and praying. She agreed that Jim could be a victim of amnesia—and she wor­ried about his health. Anne was sustained by her deep trust in God. She felt that one day he would provide an answer.”
Anne remained alone in the house, waiting. At night, watching television, she would stare at the over­stuffed hassock where Jim had dozed off evenings. She often dreamed he had come home, only to wake up and find he wasn’t there.
Soon after Jim’s disappearance Anne realized she had to earn a living. She took babysitting jobs, was a supermarket checker and worked in a hospital cafeteria. In 1977 she took her current job as a nursing attendant.
Anne fell into the habit of work­ing at the hospital on holidays be­cause it was easier if she kept busy. I’ve got to go on, live as best I can, she told herself. Through it all, she had faith that Jim would return. She kept his clothes in the closet covered to protect them from dust. His razor and can of shaving cream remained in the bathroom cabinet.
During his walk home, Jim had indeed blacked out, losing all abili­ty to remember who he was and where he lived. What happened then is unclear. He may have taken the train to Grand Central Termi­nal, then another train or a bus south. The next thing he knew, he was in downtown Philadelphia, a city he had never visited before.
Seeing signs advertising the serv­ices of a James Peters, a real­ estate broker, Jim adopted James Peters as his own name. It never occurred to him to seek assistance at a police station or hospital. He had no past; his only reality was the present.
James Peters got a Social Securi­ty card, which could be obtained at that time without showing a birth certificate, and took a job in the luncheonette of a health club. He next worked at a cancer ­research institute, cleaning out animal cages. He also got a night­shift job at the P&P luncheonette, where he became well­ known for his omelets, as well as his courtesy and good humor. After a year he felt he was estab­lished at P&P and quit his job at the cancer institute.
Jim made new friends, joined an American Legion post and the Knights of Columbus, and became an active member of the St. Hugh Roman Catholic Church.
He never talked about his past, and his friends didn’t pry. One once said to him, “From your accent, you must be from New York.”
Jim replied, “I guess so.”
To Cheryle Sloan, a waitress at P&P, Jim was special: “He loved kids. At Christmastime, he played Santa Claus at orphanages. He grew a big white beard to make his appearance more authentic. Of course we wondered about his past. My mother decided that he had to be an ex-priest or an ex-­criminal.”
Bernadine Golashovsky recalls: “Soon after Jim started at P&P, I took a job there as a waitress. My father had died and Jim apparently had no family, so we adopted each other. He became my father figure, and we—my husband, Pete, our four children and I—were his fam­ily. The children loved him.”
About a month before Christmas 1985, Bernadine noticed that Jim had grown unusually quiet and subdued. Something seemed to be turning in his mind.
On Thanksgiving Day, Jim visit­ed the family and sat watching television with Pete. A scene ap­peared in which a mail carrier was making deliveries on a miserably rainy day. Pete said, “Boy, that’s one job I wouldn’t want.”
Jim frowned and said, “I think I used to be a postman.”
“Really? Where?”
“I don’t know,” Jim answered.
“New York?”
“I’m not sure. But I think I remember my parents a little.”
Jim spent ev­ery major holiday with Bernadine and Pete. On Christmas Eve he always arrived late because the Golashovskys were his last stop on his rounds of wish­ing friends a hap­py holiday. On this Christmas Eve he never ar­rived. Bernadine and Pete stayed up all night waiting for him.
On December 22, Jim had fall­en and banged his head. The next day at work he seemed distracted, and late that afternoon he had fallen again, striking his head. On De­cember 24, he awoke feeling confused, yet elated. After almost 15 years, he knew who he was! He was James A. McDonnell, Jr., of Larchmont, New York. His wife’s name was Anne. Then, suddenly, he was scared: Is Anne alive? Has she remarried? If not, how will she greet me?
Anne had just returned home from Christmas Mass, where she lit candles and prayed for Jim. A light snow was falling, and she was in a hurry to leave for Christmas dinner at her sister’s before the roads grew slick.
Then the doorbell rang, Oh, my she thought, this is not a good time for a visitor.
Anne opened the door—and peered at a man with a full white beard. Immedi­ately she recog­nized Jim. She couldn’t speak.
To Jim, Anne looked a little older, but pretti­er too. His heart overflowed.
“Hello, Anne,” he said.
“Jim,” she gasped. “Is it true?” Her breathing came in bursts, as if she had been running. “Oh, I’m glad you’re home. Come in, come in.” They barely touched hands. They were too stunned to fall into each other’s arms. The embraces and the tears would come later.
Anne led Jim to his favorite seat, the over­stuffed hassock. They be­gan to talk, trying to fill in the gaps in time. Finally, Jim’s eyes grew heavy. Exhausted and happy, he dozed off.
After 15 years, Jim McDonnell was home at last.

On the day after Christmas, Jim reported his return to the police. That evening the Golashovskys received a phone call from a New York Daily News reporter who told them Jim was fine. Bernadine phoned Jim’s friends with the good news.
A week after his return Jim had a complete physical, including a CAT scan of his brain. The conclusion: he was in normal health, Jim and Anne have had no prob­lems resuming their lives as a married couple. “Each day we are together,” Jim says, “makes the time we were apart seem shorter.”

Craigslist killer murder scene left police & staff sick

The crime scenes in the case of the latest Craigslist-related killer, Brady Oestrike — who’s linked to the gruesome deaths of a pregnant 18-year-old, her unborn child, and her 25-year-old boyfriend, who was beheaded — have shaken the Wyoming, Mich. law enforcement agency handling the case to its’ very core.
“I’m sure there are moments and pictures that our staff will never forget,” Police Capt. Kim Koster told MLive.com of the July 18 scene, after finding the lifeless body of expectant teen mother Brooke Slocum — fatally strangled — in Oestrike’s car trunk. The deathly discovery came a day after police found the headless remains of Slocum’s boyfriend, Charles Oppenneer, in a nearby Gezon Park.

In response to possible trauma suffered by officers and investigators, a critical incident team — usually reserved for the deaths of kids, or horrifically graphic auto accidents — has been formed in connection with the case, with authorities encouraged to open up about their feelings.
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Officials suspect Oppenneer died of head trauma, but can’t confirm it without the head, which still has yet to be recovered, even following an exhaustive search of Oestrike’s home.
Police Chief James Carmody said Oestrike’s house made for an absolutely “hellish environment.” (A Michigan State Police Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force has been assigned to review the computers and hard drives retrieved among the 400 items pulled from there.)
Koster said that the department’s focus, moving forward “is to make sure that we don’t have any additional victims.”
As we previously reported, Oestrike, 31, came in contact with the couple in a planned sex-for-money meeting, police said. When authorities drew in on the suspected triple-murderer after a high-speed chase, Oestrike fatally shot himself. The late presumed murderer’s ex-girlfriend (who is alive and unharmed) filed two domestic assault complaints against him in both May and June.
Oestrike’s Facebook page remains up, and remains a hotbed of angry comments and debates among posters.

Man set on fire while sleeping is in hot water charged with molestation

Vincent Phillips, 52, was still hospitalized with severe burns to the face and chest following the July 17 attack.
Phillips' wife, Tatanysha Hedman, 40, told police she doused him with gasoline as he slept and then set him on fire because he had been abusing her 7-year-old daughter, his stepdaughter, authorities said.

Renton Police​ Booking photo of Tatanysha Hedman.

Detectives investigating the incident last week recommended charges of child molestation to the King County prosecutor's office, said Renton police spokeswoman Terry Vickers.
Prosecutors said the case was being reviewed.
After the fire attack, Phillips got in his car and drove to a convenience store, yelling "I'm on fire," KOMO-TV news reported.
Hedman was charged with assault and arson.

Mailman Is A Hero

A mailman in South Carolina is being credited with delivering when it counted the most.

Chris Brown was working his route, when a frantic woman came running out of her house, pleading for help.

That woman was Stephanie Cooper. Her 11-month-old son, Eli, had swallowed a piece of plastic and was choking.

She tried everything to dislodge it, but it wouldn't come loose. Brown answered her calls for help.

"The mailman didn't even say a word," Cooper said. "He just grabbed my son and did the Heimlich on him and out it came."

"The baby started crying," Brown explained, "So I said, 'he's okay, mom. He's okay. He's crying. He's okay.'"

Cooper had nothing but praise for the mailman, calling him "an amazing man."

Brown, however, played down his heroics. He said, "I really don't feel that way because to me, I would have done it for anyone, or I hope someone would have done it for my children."

He says this was the first time in his 24 years with the U.S. Post Office that anything like this has happened.

Cooper is thankful that Brown learned the Heimlich maneuver during emergency training given by the post office.

Mother of 2 killed by cheap phone charger

A mother of two has died in Australia thanks to a $4.95 phone charger. Authorities say Sheryl Anne Aldeguer, 28, was talking on the phone, plugged into a cheap charger that failed to meet Australian safety rules, when she was electrocuted with 240 volts and died instantly. The Filipino national was found dead in her apartment a day later in April, wearing headphones, with burns on her ears and chest. Her family had not yet joined her in Australia. "The voltage seems to travel up through the faulty charger into her phone," a rep for the Department of Fair Trading in New South Wales tells the Sydney Morning Herald, noting Aldeguer's earphones were attached to a laptop, which was plugged in to the same power outlet on the wall. The Daily Mail adds Aldeguer was talking to a friend at the time, and the cord's lousy shielding caused the voltage to pass into her body, then complete the circuit by traveling through her headphones into her laptop and back into the wall outlet. Police are now warning consumers about the dangers of knock-off USB-style chargers, calling Aldeguer's death a "wake-up call," RT reports. Meanwhile, Fair Trading officers raided the mobile accessory outlet that sold Aldeguer the charger last week. "All the products have been removed. We went out there as soon as possible when we were notified," the rep said; the commissioner notes that many items seized were not compliant with Australian safety standards. The owners of the outlet could face fines up to $875,000, plus a two-year custodial sentence, he adds.

Mother charged with 1990 coldcase murder of her own son

Michelle Lodzinski, 47, was held without bail by a Florida judge after a brief court appearance Thursday. She was arrested Wednesday in Jensen Beach.
It wasn't known whether she would agree to return to New Jersey, where a judge set her bail at $2 million. She appeared on camera from jail wearing an orange jumpsuit and did not yet have an attorney.
Lodzinski told authorities her son had disappeared at a carnival in Sayreville, New Jersey, in May 1991. Investigators at the time said her story changed as police questioned her. The boy's skeletal remains were found in April 1992 in a marshy area in nearby Edison.
Alan Rockoff, the Middlesex County prosecutor when Timothy disappeared, said prosecutors didn't have enough evidence to charge her previously.
"We didn't have sufficient evidence at the time to pull the trigger," said Rockoff, 81. "There was no direct smoking gun here. ... Hopefully now, there's a possibility of closure. Justice works slowly, but works surely."
A man who identified himself as Lodzinski's father said Thursday that the family believes she is innocent.
"We went through the same thing 20 years ago," Edward Lodzinski said at his home in Port St. Lucie. "As far as I'm concerned, she's innocent."
Lodzinski lives with two sons, ages 12 and 16, Port St. Lucie police spokesman Master Sgt. Frank Sabol said.
Dave Hisey, who identified himself as her brother-in-law, told The Stuart News newspaper that the two boys are devastated.
"Michelle's a normal woman," Hisey said. "She's a hard-working single mother trying to take care of two boys."
Middlesex County prosecutor Andrew Carey said in a statement that the case was presented to the grand jury after a "routine, cold case review of the evidence and facts surrounding the disappearance and murder" of Timothy.
The one-page indictment unsealed Thursday doesn't mention the cause of death or specify what evidence led authorities to charge Lodzinski. The grand jury said she "did purposely or knowingly kill" Timothy or did "purposely or knowingly inflict serious bodily injury" resulting in his death.
Lodzinski went into seclusion when the remains of her son were discovered, and neighbors said at the time that she didn't appear distraught.
"It's the way she reacted. That's why people say she had something to do with it. You should show some emotion — crying, showing something," Penny Rivers, who lived a block from Lodzinski, told The Associated Press in 1992. "But all the times I saw her on television she didn't."
After the discovery, Lodzinski said she couldn't make people believe her.
"What can I say to people? I don't know anymore," Lodzinski said at the time. "How am I supposed to act normally? I don't think anyone after losing a child should have to go outside and explain to the public how they feel."
Lodzinski ran into other legal troubles after her son's death.
She surfaced in Michigan in January 1994 and said two men claiming to be FBI agents had abducted her at gunpoint outside her apartment building, forced her into a black SUV and drove her to Detroit, where they let her out.
She pleaded guilty in 1995 to making false statements to the FBI and fraudulently using the agency's seal. She was sentenced to probation.
In 1997, Lodzinski was charged with stealing a computer from her former employer. She pleaded guilty to a theft charge and was pregnant in 1998 when a federal judge sentenced her to house arrest after she admitted she committed a crime while on probation.
Edward Szkodny, who retired in 2010 as chief of the Sayreville Police Department, said the unsolved killing became extremely frustrating as time went on.
"It was satisfying an arrest was made," said Szkodny, 69. "Hopefully, justice will be served."

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Man Has Beef With Cops

Police have a beef with a man they say stole meat worth $2,700 from three Safeway stores in Portland, Oregon.
Police say 53-year-old Barry T. Sanders was caught on video hiding meat in a shopping cart at least 13 times in July and August, then leaving the grocery stores without paying.
KOIN reports (http://bit.ly/1vhdtBU) Sanders was arraigned Tuesday on theft charges in Multnomah County Circuit Court. He didn't enter a plea and will be assigned a lawyer on Wednesday.

Man awakes to bloody stranger on his couch

A Massachusetts man who fell asleep in a chair in his living room over the weekend got quite the surprise when he woke up — a bloody stranger asleep on the couch.
The Marlborough homeowner got his wife, children and father-in law out of the home at about 4:30 a.m. Saturday and called police.
The MetroWest Daily News reports that responding officers arrested 30-year-old Timothy Francis Benway and charged him with entering a building at night, putting a person in fear, and vandalism.
Police say Benway's injuries were consistent with a "highly intoxicated" person walking through a wooded area and falling down.
Bail was set at $500 at Benway's arraignment Monday. He told police he had no idea how he got injured or how he ended up in the home.

Texting while driving gets teen sent to prison

A Massachusetts teenager was sentenced this week to two years in prison and loss of his license for 15 years after being convicted of motor vehicle homicide. Aaron Deveau, 18, is the first driver in the state to face such charges. On February 20, 2011, Deveau was driving and his vehicle swerved across the center line, crashing head on into Daniel Bowley's truck, causing life-ending injuries.

Bowley, a 55-year-old father of three, sustained massive head trauma from the accident and spent 18 days in a Boston hospital before passing away. Deveau pleaded not guilty to texting while driving, and claimed in his testimony that he was distracted by the amount of homework he had and had sent his last text message in the parking lot of the grocery store where he worked. He said he had left the phone on the passenger's seat the whole time, but phone records showed that Devea sent a text message at 2:34 p.m. and received a response at 2:35 p.m.—the time of the crash.

Texting while driving is a crime in 38 states, but the illegality doesn't seem to deter many people, as watching rush-hour traffic can seem like watching bumper cars as people drift in and out of lane lines.

District Court Judge Stephen Abany said that the maximum sentence for motor vehicle homicide was doled out to send a message of deterrence to the state's drivers.
Deterrence "really seems to come to play in this case. People really want to be safe on the highways," he said. People need to "keep their eyes on the road."
David Teater, senior director of the transportation initiative at the National Safety Council, agreed with the ruling.
"People can violate these laws and there really isn't much of a deterrence without examples like this. Clearly, being distracted is an extremely deadly thing that's going on in this country and people need to understand they just can't do it," Teater said.
Texting while driving is a crime in 38 states, but the illegality doesn't seem to deter many people, as watching rush-hour traffic can seem like watching bumper cars as people drift in and out of lane lines.
"This is a threat that did not exist just a few years ago, and we've never had to understand how being connected to a mobile world was dangerous," Teater said. "Unfortunately, now the way we're beginning to understand the danger of it is by people getting hurt and dying. And that needs to change."

Couple accused of forcing 5 year old child to live in filthy closet wearing a diaper

 

 A Harris County couple faces serious charges after deputies say they forced their child to live in extreme filth. Bradley and Tammi Bleimeyer were in court Monday on charges of endangering a child.
Deputy constables were originally called to the couple's home in the 21500 block of Castlemont on March 27 about a disturbance, in which two males had reportedly been involved in a physical altercation.
The victim's 16-year-old step brother alerted deputies to the alleged abuse. He said the boy was forced to wear a diaper and live in a closet under the stairs with no food. But deputies say that victim had allegedly been removed from the home by his stepmother, identified as Tammi Bleimeyer, 33, before authorities showed up.
Deputies say they tried to find the child, but that Tammi and the boy's father, Bradley Bleimeyer, 24, were being uncooperative.

The next day, authorities used cell phone records to find the child, who they believed was in imminent danger. They tracked Tammi Bleimeyer's cell phone to a motel in Humble, where they found the child. He was in the motel with Tammi Bleimeyer, they say and that they noticed Bradley Bleimeyer leaving that motel earlier in the day.
Deputies say they noticed the boy had bumps, bruises, and was severely underweight. They say because of his appearance, they called emergency personnel and the child was transported to an Humble hospital and then later to Texas Children's Hospital.
"He's in severe state of malnutrition and even introducing food to him has to be done really slowly," CPS Spokeswoman Estella Olguin said.
Clayton Ticer, a friend of the victim's 16-year-old brother, told us it wasn't the first time.
"They would take him for a driver or whatever while the cops and CPS were there so they couldn't see him or talk to him," he said.
Ticer says his friend would often seek refuge at his house away from his stepfather.
"They've always gotten in fist fights and arguments, and it's always been pretty bad between them two," he said.
Both Bradley Bleimeyer and Tammi Bleimeyer were arrested at the motel. Authorities say Tammi, who has six children, is pregnant with her seventh child.

Selfie, missing hair and his big ass nose identify suspect in murder

Newton police arrested 34-year-old Sharman Odom and charged him with murder in the death of 31-year-old Maggie Daniels, Police Chief Donald Brown said.
Daniels' body was found June 28 in her Newton apartment. Brown said investigators think Daniels fought back when Odom attacked her in her unlocked apartment a day earlier, resulting in the lost clump of hair and a scratch on his nose and below his eye that officers found Friday in pictures on his smartphone taken the day police think Daniels was killed.
The police chief didn't give a motive for the killing, but said tests to see if Daniels was sexually assaulted are still pending.
Although Odom and Daniels lived in the same apartment complex, Brown said investigators have no evidence so far showing they knew each other.
Odom appeared in court Monday, but said little. Odom's lawyer said he is confused and scared.
Television footage from outside the courtroom showed a woman identified as Odom's mother trying to knock the microphone out of one reporter's hands and shove a camera into another person's face.
Brown said Odom first became a suspect when he was one of 150 people they initially interviewed after Daniels was killed. An investigator noted the clump of missing hair, linking it to evidence at the scene that Daniels had fought her attacker. On Friday, police got a search warrant for Odom's apartment and searched his iPhone, finding the selfies. He was arrested the next day.
Daniels was teacher of the year in 2011 in the Newton-Conover City Schools.
She was hired as a high school English teacher by the school district in 2006 and became a guidance counselor last year after completing her master's degree.
"The impact of Maggie's murder will be felt for some time because of her relationship with her students and co-workers at Discovery High," Brown said.

Man claims he killed demons but actually killed 2 young girls and later his fiancee

Kevin Sweat, 28, entered guilty pleas to three counts of first-degree murder in Okfuskee County District Court. Prosecutors dropped plans to seek the death penalty after Sweat agreed to waive his right to a jury trial. A bench trial was scheduled to begin on Monday.
The girls — 11-year-old Skyla Whitaker and 13-year-old Taylor Paschal-Placker — were fatally shot as they walked down a road near Weleetka in rural eastern Oklahoma. But the case quickly went cold after their bullet-riddled bodies were found not far from where Taylor lived with her grandfather.
Sweat was not suspected in their deaths until police questioned him in the 2011 slaying of his fiancee, 23-year-old Ashley Taylor. Prosecutors said Sweat told an investigator during a videotaped interview that he shot the two girls because he thought they were "monsters" coming at him.
Sweat was barely audible during Thursday's hearing as he responded to questions from the judge, who read a statement he signed acknowledging that the statements he made during the taped interview were accurate.
"We're finally going to get this off of our shoulders," said Ashley Taylor's mother, Faye Taylor. Her father, Michael Taylor, added that the acknowledgement of guilt was "a big part of the healing process."
"It's a big relief knowing this is happening. You doubt it's ever going to happen," he said.
Peter Placker, the grandfather of Taylor Paschal-Placker, said he "finally knows for sure" that Sweat was responsible for the deaths. But he noted: "It's not over until he's sentenced."
A sentencing hearing has not been set, but Sweat faces life without prison either with or without parole.
Sweat's attorneys had argued that Sweat was not mentally competent when he waived his Miranda rights before participating in the videotaped interview. But a judge agreed this year to allow prosecutors to use the video as evidence. The video had been played at previous hearings.
In the video, Sweat first tells Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation agent Kurt Titsworth he had nothing to do with the girls' deaths, saying "there would be no point to shooting kids."
But Sweat eventually said he shot what he said were "the demons" who approached him along a rural road where the girls' bullet-riddled bodies were found.
"I see demons, vampires ... monsters, demons, whatever. I do have some problems," Sweat said. "I was scared. ... They were still coming at me, so I shot them."
Taylor, his fianceé, went missing in July 2011 after telling her parents she was eloping with Sweat. Investigators have said that Sweat claimed he and Taylor argued and she got out of the care after the pair left Okmulgee to be married.
An investigator's report from 2011 said Sweat admitted cutting Taylor's throat and that police had found human remains in an ash pile on Sweat's father's property, along with prescription eyeglasses "consistent" with a pair belonging to Taylor.
The cases were ultimately connected after officers investigating her death found shell casings on Sweat's father's property that had markings that matched those found at the scene of the girls' 2008 slayings.

Mother arrested as suspect in daughters death

Jessica Smith, 40, faces charges of aggravated murder and attempted aggravated murder, Clatsop County District Attorney Josh Marquis said.
He said at a late-night news conference that she was being held at an Astoria jail and would appear for her arraignment, which would likely occur Monday afternoon.
Cannon Beach Police Chief Jason Schermerhorn said the suspect was taken into custody Sunday after a multiple agency search.
She was found about 15 miles east of Cannon Beach off a logging road, The Oregonian reported. Police said a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter spotted her vehicle there.
Authorities had said earlier in the day that the mother of the toddler and a teen girl found seriously injured in a resort room was wanted on suspicion of murder.
The paper reported that Schermerhorn said the cause of death of the 2-year-old remains unknown after an autopsy. But it determined her death was a homicide.
Authorities had been looking for Smith of Goldendale, Washington, since a housekeeper discovered the toddler and her 13-year-old sister Friday morning at the resort. Previously, officials wanted to ensure Smith's welfare.
The teen had severe cut wounds, but authorities said she is expected to make a full recovery.
Smith and her children checked into the resort Wednesday, and there was no sign of forced entry, the chief said. The children's father has cooperated with investigators and has been ruled out as a suspect, Schermerhorn has said. Multiple media reports citing court records say the couple had recently separated.
The public was asked to watch for a 2007 gold Chevrolet Suburban with the Washington license plate APX 3141, which Smith was believed to be driving.
More than a dozen people from around Cannon Beach gathered Saturday evening for a candlelight vigil for the 2-year-old girl. One of the women who helped organize the vigil said they wanted to support the teen who survived as well as the community.

Young boy tortured made to eat animal feces and eventually dies from abuse

New court records published on Monday detail the graphic grand jury testimony about the gruesome death and abuse of an 8-year-old Los Angeles boy at the hands of his parents.
Prosecutors told the jury that 30-year-old Pearl Fernandez and 34-year-old Isauro Aguirre abused “every inch” of their 8-year-old son, Gabriel Fernandez, before ultimately beating him to death in May of last year.
Prosecutors said that “for eight straight months, Gabriel was abused, beaten, and tortured more severely than many prisoners of war.”
Prosecutors say the boy even wrote his own suicide note because he no longer wanted to endure the beatings.
Along with the sickening treatment of the boy, the case also highlights yet another in a long line of failures on the part of child services. Two social workers and two supervisors have been fired since Gabriel’s death after failing to act on repeated warning signs.
Last May, Fernandez called 911 after Gabriel stopped breathing. She told police that her son fell and hit his head on the dresser.
Gabriel was found to have a cracked skull and three broken ribs. X-rays showed that the boy had BB pellets lodged in his lungs and groin.
The boys two siblings gave statements, saying Gabriel was forced to eat cat feces and rotten food and was never allowed to use the bathroom. He was beaten with a belt buckle, hangers, and wooden clubs. At one point, Fernandez hit the boy so hard with the belt buckle she knocked out multiple teeth.
Despite concern from teachers at the school and multiple investigations by social workers, the child was never removed from the home.
Every incident report shows that social workers concluded there was no abuse.
Gabriel’s siblings said the final beating came on May 22 when Fernandez got upset that he didn’t clean up after himself.
She and Aguirre reportedly took him to a bedroom and beat him.
The Los Angeles coroner James Kemp Ribe told the grand jury that he has “never seen this many skin injuries on a child.”

PSA - Your phone may be tracking your every move via GOOGLE

 
Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps.
Want to see what kind of data it has on you? Check out Google’s own location history map, which lets you see the path you’ve traced for any given day that your smartphone has been running Google Maps.
This location history page has actually been available for several years, since Google first rolled it out as part of Latitude, its now-defunct location-sharing app. Cnet noticed it in December, 2013, TechCrunch picked it up a few days later, and now Junkee.com noticed it last week.

We’re highlighting it again because it’s trivially easy to turn off Google Maps location-tracking, if you want to.
In fact, I checked the location history page this morning and had difficulty finding any location data at all, because I’ve had location tracking turned off for months, with a few exceptions.
To turn off location tracking, just follow these easy steps.

How to delete your location history

View your location history using Google’s web page.
Set a time period to view — up to 30 days at a time.
Select the period you want to delete.
Click the “Delete history from this time period” link on the left side of this page.
If you have multiple Google accounts, check the history for each one.

To turn off location tracking in Android

Go to the Settings app.
Scroll down and tap on the Location section.
Tap Google Location Reporting.
Switch Location History to “off.”
Note: For greater privacy, you can also turn off Location Reporting, but this will keep apps like Google Maps from working properly.

How to turn off location tracking in iOS

Open the Settings app.
Scroll down to Privacy, and select Location Services.
Disable all Location Services by setting the top slider to “off” — or scroll down to disable specific apps one by one, such as Google Maps.
Take the steps above, and your location history will look something like mine does, below.
For more details, check out this LifeHacker article:
PSA: Your phone logs everywhere you go. Here’s how to turn it off.

Demented couple kidnap and sexually assault Amish sisters 7 & 12 years old

The couple were arrested and arraigned Friday on charges of kidnapping with the intent to physically or sexually abuse the 7-year-old and 12-year-old sisters.
St. Lawrence County District Attorney Mary Rain said Saturday that the girls were sexually abused, and the county sheriff said Stephen Howells Jr. and Nicole Vaisey may have planned to abduct other children.
"We felt that there was the definite potential that there was going to be other victims," St. Lawrence County Sheriff Kevin Wells said.
Howells, 39, and Vaisey, 25, are being held without bail and have a preliminary court appearance scheduled Thursday.
The sheriff said the Hermon couple "were targeting opportunities" and did not necessarily grab the girls because they were Amish.
"There was a lot of thought process that went into this," Wells said. "They were looking for opportunities to victimize."
The sisters were abducted Wednesday from a farm stand in front of the family's home in Oswegatchie, near the Canadian border. They were set free by their captors about 24 hours later and turned up safe at the door of a house 15 miles from where they were taken.
Vaisey's lawyer, Bradford Riendeau told The New York Times that Howells had abused Vaisey and treated her submissively. He said she made a "voluntary statement" to investigators after her arrest and was obtaining an order of protection against him.
"She appears to have been the slave and he was the master," Riendeau told the newspaper.
There was no answer Saturday at the St. Lawrence County Conflict Defender's Office, which is representing Howells.
Wells said the girls were able to provide details to investigators about their time in captivity.
The Associated Press generally does not identify people who may be victims of sexual abuse.
The kidnappings touched off a massive search in the family's remote farming community. Searchers scoured the community of about 4,000 people, but were hampered by a lack of photos of the girls.
The Amish typically avoid modern technology, and the family had to work with an artist who spoke their language, a German dialect known as Pennsylvania Dutch, to produce a sketch of the older girl.