Police officer goes to trial on dozens of charges he sexually assaulted women while on duty

OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma City police officer will stand trial on dozens of charges alleging he sexually assaulted 13 women while on duty, the judge's order coming exactly five months after the first complaint was reported to police.
During the two-day preliminary hearing, prosecutors filed an additional four sex assault charges against Daniel Holtzclaw based on testimony, bringing the total number of charges to 36. The charges include six counts of first-degree rape, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison, as well as sexual battery, forcible oral sodomy and indecent exposure.
Holtzclaw, 27, has pleaded not guilty to each count. Oklahoma County Special Judge Fred Doak allowed Holtzclaw, who is on leave, to remain free on $609,000 bail. He is due back in court for a pretrial conference on Jan. 21.
During the hearing, all 13 alleged victims gave graphic testimony about the sex acts they said they did not want to perform but did so because they were frightened.
"It was either that or the county jail," a 38-year-old woman said Tuesday of being forced to perform sex acts. The Associated Press does not identify people who have made allegations of sexual assault.
Another woman testified that Holtzclaw forced her to expose herself and have sex with him in April. "He was an officer. And I was scared. And I knew he could hurt me," she said.
Holtzclaw showed no reaction when the trial was ordered, and said nothing as he left the courtroom. His attorney did not immediately respond to a telephone call seeking comment.
During some of Tuesday's testimony, protesters outside of the courthouse could be heard five stories up, chanting "No Bail" and "Justice."
All of the alleged victims are black; Holtzclaw is listed as Asian or Pacific Islander in court records. It's not clear whether race played a role in the alleged crimes.
"Who am I to a police officer? I didn't know what was going to happen next," a 44-year-old woman who said she was forced to expose herself and perform oral sex said through tears.
Police began investigating Holtzclaw after a woman who testified Monday reported an alleged assault on June 18, and he was arrested in August. None of the other women who have spoken at the hearing reported incidents until detectives contacted them after opening an investigation.
"What am I going to do, call the cops? He was a cop," said a 17-year-old girl who told the courtroom Monday that Holtzclaw raped her on the front porch of her mother's home. Another witness, a 23-year-old woman, said Holtzclaw sexually assaulted her while she was high on drugs and handcuffed to a hospital bed.
"I just gasped," she said, adding that she felt shocked and disgusted by the behavior. The woman denied suggestions by the defense that she could have been hallucinating.
Holtzclaw, who had been with the department for three years, was initially accused of assaulting eight women and more charges were added when other victims came forward.

Female UFC Fighter Has Ear Torn Off During Bout

MEXICO: Jessica Eye and Leslie Smith engaged in a spirited slugfest for the better part of the first round, until a right hand by Eye landed squarely on Smith's left ear in the waning seconds of the round on the preliminary card at UFC 180 Saturday in Mexico City Arena.

It split Smith's ear open, sending blood pouring out and covering the side of her face. In between rounds, doctors took a long time to look at the ear and opted to allow Smith to continue.

But not long after the second began, the fighters clinched and Eye then connected with a couple of short rights from close range that opened it again. After another Eye right, referee Herb Dean called time to have the doctors examine it again when the ear was flapping down.

When it was shown on the gigantic video board in the arena, the crowd let out a loud "Ewww!"

After an examination, Dean stopped it on the advice of the ringside physicians. Smith angrily protested, but Dean had no choice but to stop it at 1:30 of the second, giving Eye the TKO victory in the women's bantamweight bout.

Smith was competitive and landing good shots of her own, but the risk to her health was too great to allow the fight to go forward.

"When I connected and saw her ear blow up, that became my main target," Eye said. "I was going to keep hitting it until they stopped the fight or it fell off. My goal is to be the first girl in the UFC to get a knockout win. I know I’ll do it. Now I’ve climbed another rung on the ladder, and I’ll look around and see what my options are, but 'Im almost to the top."

US "SPY" CRUCIFIED (RAW PHOTO / VIDEO)

Islamic Jihadists crucified a Yemeni man accused of being a US spy outside of the town of al Shahr in Hadhramout province on March 6.

An unidentified man is crucified by Muslim extremists after being accused of spying for the US.

 

 The still unidentified man was shot in the head by an Al Qaeda militant firing squad, he then had his hands tied to a soccer goal post with an Islamic flag tied to one post, in a pose reminiscent of Christ's crucifixion, and displayed for the public, Yemeni authorities said.

 







An unidentified man is crucified by Muslim extremists after being accused of spying for the US.

Fliers distributed throughout the town by the terrorist organization claimed that the man was executed for aiding the US. Specifically, it was claimed that the man was putting microchips into cars and safe houses used by Al Qaeda members in order to help guide US drone missile strikes.

This is not the first time such barbaric acts of crucifixion have taken place in that region of southern Yemen, where government authority is nearly non-existent and Muslim extremist groups have the run of the land.

In February 2012, Saleh Ahmed Saleh Al-Jamely was convicted of similar activities by an Islamic court and then crucified and left for display after two cars were hit by US drone strikes.

On March 2 security officials were ambushed by Islamic gunmen in central Yemen, and a colonel was killed.

That same day armed tribesmen engaged security forces. Three Yemeni soldiers were wounded and two of the tribesmen were killed.

An unidentified man is crucified by Muslim extremists after being accused of spying for the US.

Yemen is the main Al Qaeda base of operations on the Arabian peninsula and site of numerous Islamic terrorist organizations. Ansar al-Shari'a, which is a Yemeni offshoot of Al Qaeda, is also headquartered there.

The CIA labeled Ansar al-Shari'a "the most dangerous node in the global jihad."

 

!!!!WARNING!!!!

  BELOW IS A VIDEO OF A MAN HANGED TO DEATH IN 2012 

FOR "SPYING" FOR THE USA

On August 27, 2012, a member of the leading jihadi forum Shumoukh Al-Islam posted a YouTube link to a video showing a man accused of spying for the U.S. by placing chips to direct drones targeting terrorists being crucified on an electric pylon in Abyan province in south of Yemen. A sign placed above the man's head shows the group's flag and verse 5:33 of the Koran, which reads: "The recompense of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and do mischief in the land is only that they shall be killed or crucified or their hands and their feet be cut off from opposite sides, or be exiled from the land. That is their disgrace in this world, and a great torment is theirs in the Hereafter."

April 2013 she hacked her neighbor to death and then cooked his body

Angela Stoldt allegedly confessed to cops in Florida that in April 2013 she hacked her neighbor to death and then cooked his body. According to cops, Stoldt had been trying to get rid of Jason Sheaffer’s body after she stabbed him in both of his eyes with an ice pick.
The motivation for the murder was, according to cops, that Jason Sheaffer, 36, had been trying to borrow $4,000 from Angela Stoldt’s father. He came to her home on April 3, 2013. While he was there she served him a cocktail which included some of her father’s prescription drugs. The cocktal made Sheaffer drowsy and confused.
While he drank, Soldt told him that her father was considering lending him the money. She then told him that there were going to her dad’s house, instead she drove him to a cemetery. When he asked her what was going on, the paper reports she told him “How does it feel to be lied to?”
Despite his state, he then threatened to kill Stoldt if she didn’t get him the money, the defendant told investigators. She says he attacked her so she stabbed him in the eye with an ice-pick. That didn’t stop him though, so she had to strangle him with a climbing chord. Before he finally died, Stoldt stabbed him again in the other eye, according to cops. She told investigators:

"He starts coming at me and … he didn’t even really hit me, but he scared … me, and I just snapped. He came at me and I stabbed him."

 After he was dead, Stoldt says she stored his body in a kiddie pool in her garage. Using a hacksaw, Stoldt says she hacked his body into small pieces. She then began cooking him, his leg was cooked in the oven and the rest of his body was cooked in pots. Stoldt said “Thursday is when I was cooking him. Friday is when I was dumping him.” When Stoldt’s daughter complained about the smell of burning flesh, the defendant said that a rat was broiling in the oven. Why that didn’t prompt more questions from her daughter is not elaborated on.
Stoldt’s attorney’s attempted to say that she was acting in self-defense, using Florida’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” law. That was rejected by a judge. She will not face the death penalty in the case. When she was first arrested in April 2013, she was charged with “Abuse of a dead human body, tampering with physical evidence and second degree murder.” Those charges have since been upgraded to first degree murder. She is being held without bail at Volusia County Jail. 

"Victim" Jason Sheaffer. pictured

James Sheaffer was a limo driver. He was married with three kids when he was killed. Seems he had financial troubles and it was Stoldt’s job to deal with his Social Security disability check. The newspaper says that detectives aren’t saying why she was in charge of his finances. The paper does report that Sheaffer was accused of withdrawing money for personal use from a joint account used by him and his neighbors.
While she was hiding Sheaffer’s possessions around assorted locations in Deltona, she needed help disposing of the body. She got her son to help, telling him the flesh was from a deer she had killed, to dump the body in the dumpster of a store in New Smyrna Beach, Florida.

Feed The Homeless & GO TO JAIL

A 90-year-old man and two pastors are facing up to 60 days in jail and a $500 fine after being charged by Fort Lauderdale police for feeding homeless on Sunday.
"[This is] The first such cases made by the city after the a new ordinance effectively banning public food sharings took effect Friday," local outlet, WPLG reports.
Arnold Abbott, 90, runs a nonprofit group, Love Thy Neighbor, Inc., and explains to WPLG, "One of the police officers said, 'Drop that plate right now,' as if I were carrying a weapon. It's man's inhumanity to man is all it is."
Along with Abbott, two Christian ministers were cited: Pastor Dwayne Black of The Sanctuary Church in Fort Lauderdale and Pastor Mark Sims of St. Mary Magdalene Episcopal Church in Coral Springs.
Fort Lauderdale attempted to stop Abbott in 1999 from feeding the homeless on Fort Lauderdale Beach, however, Abbott won the lawsuit that he filed against the city.
"I’m going to have to go to court again and sue the city of Fort Lauderdale -- a beautiful city," Abbott shares with WPLG. "These are the poorest of the poor, they have nothing, they don't have a roof over their heads. How do you turn them away?"
Abbott is willing to face additional charges, as he plans to return to the beach on Wednesday night to serve again.

Female Inmate Found Dead After Guard’s Threats

On Sept. 21, 36-year-old Latandra Ellington, who was incarcerated in Florida’s Lowell Correctional Institution, wrote her aunt a letter explaining how she feared for her life after a guard allegedly began threatening her.
“He was gone [sic] beat me to death and mess me like a dog,” she wrote. “He was all in my face Sqt. Q then he grab his radio and said he was gone bust me in my head with it.”
Ten days later she was found dead in her cell. The Miami Herald reports that an autopsy—which was paid for by the family after they hired an attorney to help them find out how the mother of four had died—revealed “blunt-force trauma to her abdomen consistent with being punched and kicked in the stomach.”

Picture of Latandra Ellington.

Florida’s Lowell Correctional Institution 

 

Just prior to her death, Ellington had been moved to confinement for protection. Her family reported the threats and authorities had taken them “seriously.”
Her aunt had called the prison 24 hours before her niece was found dead, giving them a partial name of the sergeant that Ellington had revealed in a second note, and was assured that they’d “look after” her. The next day she got a phone call saying Ellington had died.
The Department of Corrections declined to comment on the case, citing that “this is an ongoing investigation, and any additional details, including reports from the medical examiner, are confidential at this time.” Ellington is one of 200 prison deaths under investigation by Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
“It’s not right that these four children would lose their mom,” said civil rights attorney Daryl Parks. “While the trail is very fresh, we believe a federal investigation is warranted. …She was not sentenced to death, and the Department of Corrections certainly owed her far greater protection.”