Toddler Dies in Brutal Accident

Johnson City, Tennessee—Johnson City Police have not filed charges against a mother who accidentally killed her baby son.

Police officials said Maria Vargas was attempting to deliver lunch to her husband at work when her mini-van ran out of gas in the Timbers North Apartment Complex on Timberlake Road.

Local police said the mother put the car into neutral to move it out of a parking spot. “Our investigation is showing the vehicle was never started but it was placed into neutral,” said Sergeant Scotty Carrier, of the Johnson City Police Department Traffic Unit.

Shelly Davis, a resident in the apartment complex, was sitting outside when the tragedy unfolded. “Next thing you know, the van started rolling. She had her foot dragging trying to stop it, but she put it into park and she went over a bump and the next thing you know it was the baby,” she said. The toddler, Steven Vargas, was pronounced dead upon arrival at the hospital.

Sergeant Carrier said it’s not common for children to get run over by automobiles, “This is the first time I’ve seen anything involving a small toddler who has been backed over. This should be a reminder to all drivers how dangerous a car can be.”

Even though the mother drove a 1998 model, there are technological innovations, available for purchase, to make older vehicles safer. For larger automobiles a wireless back-up camera system can be purchased. The camera, which is attached to the rear license plate, offers a 110 degree view of behind the car. The camera only costs between $50 and $100—a small price to pay to save your child’s life.

21 Years for 83 Murders?

Andres Behring Breivik, the Norwegian man accused of launching dual terror attacks in Oslo and at a nearby youth summer camp–which left at least 76 people (mostly teenagers) dead–has admitted responsibility for plotting and carrying out his vicious attacks.

Police and the Norwegian government have labeled the attacks as acts of terrorism, which according to the nation’s law, is only punishable by up to 21 years in prison. The benevolence of Norwegian law has recently come under fire as result of the country’s juridical limits in regards to punishing such vile acts. Norway does not practice the death penalty nor do they institute consecutive sentences.

Breivik, through his malicious and ungodly acts, hoped to trigger a nationalist revolution in Norway; however, his double act of mass murder and mayhem can only stir, in regards to punishment, a dignified defiance from his nation’s government.

If convicted on all charges of terrorism, Brevik faces 21 years in prison. Although Brevik has told the authorities that he does not expect to be released, 21 years is the stiffest sentence a Norwegian judge can hand down. That being said, a special sentence can be administered to add an extra 9 years to Brevik’s sentence—the additional years are permitted if the individual is deemed as a “threat to society.”

Monday’s court proceedings were delayed as protestors attempted to block police from bringing Brevik from his cell to the courthouse. Brevik admits responsibility for his heinous murders but refuses to acknowledge the illegality of his actions—he claims the bombing in downtown Oslo and shooting over 80 teenagers and camp participants were “necessary.”

U.S. Soldier or Domestic Terrorist?

Killeen, Texas—An Army soldier– equipped with bomb-making materials–near Fort Hood, Texas, was arrested Wednesday for his expected role in hatching a “domestic terror plot” aimed at military personnel.

Naser Jason Abdo, aged 21, was arrested earlier this week after materials, which authorities claim were meant for “bomb-making purposes”, were uncovered in his hotel room in Killeen—a small community located outside of Abdo’s base.

Dennis Baldwin of the Killeen Police Department, said Abdo was being held at the city jail pending a series of federal charges. In addition to these terrorist charges, Abdo maintains a separate charge for possession of child pornography.

Abdo, a private first class who officials approved as a conscientious objector to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, had been classified as AWOL –the soldier had been absent without leave from Fort Campbell, Kentucky since July 4th.

Officials claim that Abdo, who is a native of the Dallas area, has no personal connection to Kileen or Fort Hood.

While detained, Abdo told police about his intent to massacre military personnel. Without elaborating, Baldwin told the media, “I can tell you that he’s a very dangerous man and he is where he needs to be.”

FBI Special Agents said there was nothing to indicate Abdo’s positioning within a terrorist cell or organization; it is assumed the former soldier was acting alone.

Abdo was caught in large part to Greg Ebert—an employee at the Guns Galore gun shop in Killeen—who suspected Abdo of inflicting carnage after the soldier purchased six, one-pound canisters of smokeless powder, one magazine for a semi-automatic pistol and three boxes of shotgun shells.

Dying to Party

Earlier this week, Tyler Hadley, aged 17, committed one of the more bizarre and brutal crimes of this year. At approximately 1:30 p.m. on Saturday July, 17th Hadley sent a group invite on Facebook, notifying his friends of his party later that evening. Somewhere between that time and 8 p.m. Hadley decided to ensure the removal of all impediments, particularly his parents.

Overcome by drugs and a blind rage, Hadley murdered his parents, Blake and Mary Jo Hadley, with a framing hammer. Tyler, a High School dropout, repeatedly beat his parents in the head and torso with the blunt object.

Following the slaying of his parents, Tyler Hadley dragged the bodies into the home’s master bedroom where he attempted to cover-up his act by throwing towels and books on his parent’s corpses.

After the heinous act, Tyler Hadley hosted a party—in his dead parent’s house–of 40 to 60 people. During the party, Hadley admitted to a friend—while under the influence of ecstasy—that he had killed his parents and would show the bodies when the party dissipated.

Local police were notified of a noise complaint at roughly 1:30 AM on Sunday morning. By this time, the majority of the party had broken up but rumors began to swirl regarding Tyler’s horrific act.

A few hours after the initial check-up, local police stopped by the Hadley residence to perform a welfare check. When questioned about the rumors, Tyler told the officers that his parents were out of town. Doubting Tyler’s jittery response, the officers proceeded to perform a check of the home where they found the bodies of Blake and Mary-Jo in the bedroom—the bloodied hammer was lying next to them.

Police are unsure as to Tyler’s motive, but the young man is being tried as an adult (1st degree murder charges) for the savage and heinous killings.

Recent Immigration Law Changes

In America’s continuing moral, legal and sociopolitical
dilemma over the issue of immigration law and criminal
immigration law. Illegal immigrants may be guilty of violating
immigration law but not deportationborder security

Still, the practical applications of the pursuit of
violators of criminal immigration law must be considered when putting a plan
into action. Supposed aggressive tendencies of prosecuting Homeland Security
agents and the sympathies of Mexican, Latin and Hispanic voters were all likely
influences on immigration law changes which went into effect last year that
affected ICE operation. These immigration law changes affected the Memorandums
of Agreement as they relate to the Immigration and Naturalization Act.
Concerning tangible changes to the practices of border agents and local law
enforcement as they enforce criminal immigration law, the Obama
administration’s immigration law changes required the prosecution of criminal
immigrants under due process of law, limited actions of deportation to major
offenders of criminal law and shone a spotlight on local police organizations.

These immigration law changes are subject to polarizing
debate that all too often neatly correlates with an individual’s overall
political outlook. The 2009 revisions to the Memorandums of Agreement that
impact the way criminal immigration law is enforced may have been an attempt at
bringing border patrols closer to the middle of the spectrum. Yet opponents of
Obama and this new policy would probably insist that these immigration law
changes are too liberal. By catching and releasing criminal aliens who have
violated the law, some civil liberties may be preserved, but there is a risk
that re-releases may endanger the safety and lives of legal citizens.

Wasted and Angry: State Senator Goes on Rampage

On Monday evening, Ohio State Senator Kris Jordan (R-Powell), had a little too much to drink.

After a long day at the office, the freshman Senator, who represents five counties in Ohio, got liquored up and took out his frustrations on his loving wife, Melissa.

It was approximately eleven o’clock on July 11th when Melissa Jordan dialed 911 to report an act of domestic violence. When Mrs. Jordan got in touch with the dispatcher, the line mysteriously got disconnected.

When the emergency official called back a shaken Melissa Jordan told the 911 operator: “Just please, get somebody here…My husband, please. This is the first time I’ve called 911, but he’s done this a lot. I can’t put up with him anymore. He’s had some drinks; he was pushing me around, throwing stuff. And because I called you, he wants—he says it’s over.”

Throughout the course of the 11-minute call from Mrs. Jordan, the victimized woman fluctuated between filing a report on her belligerent husband to imploring the operator to disregard her requests for police intervention. This vacillation is a telling sign of battered wives syndrome.

The call, which started out as relatively generic in regards to domestic abuse cases, became exceedingly violent when she mentioned her husband’s violent threats. “He’s got a gun; he took it out of his pocket and laid it down in the other room. He’s really mad.”

After the 911 operator calmed Mrs. Jordan, Delaware County police arrived at the Jordan’s household. Although the 911 call was alarming, neither spouse showed signs of physical abuse. That being said, deputies stated the episode deserved, at the least, a disorderly conduct, if not a domestic violence, filing.

Melissa Jordan, whether out of fear or in hopes of maintaining her husband’s political success, chose not to file domestic charges Kris Jordan—a veteran Republican politician who had worked as a state representative and county commissioner.

Ex-Soldiers Sentenced to 6,000 Years

Guatemala City—A Guatemalan court, on Tuesday, convicted and sentenced four ex-soldiers to more than 6,000 years (each) in prison for their role in a massacre of 250 people during the nation’s civil war.

The trial is regarded as groundbreaking; not only as a result of the length of punishment, but because it was one of Guatemala’s first against the dictatorship-era’s military regime. Guatemala’s state-run news agency, AGN, described the judgment as an “historic sentence.”

“The sentence we heard today is only the beginning,” said Aura Farfan, director of the Association for Relatives of the Detained-Disappeared.

The four men who stood trial—Reyes Guali, Danie Mendez, Manuel Sun and Carlos Carias, pleaded not guilty for their charges of crimes against humanity. “I have said several times that I am innocent, there is no solid proof,” Carias reiterated to various news outlets before the conviction.

Although adamant regarding their innocence, the four ex-soldiers were convicted for their role in 201 of the 250 killings that occurred during the 1982 massacre at the village of Dos Erres. The United Nations, the general enforcer of human rights, documented a total of 669 massacres in Guatemala, during the country’s 36-year civil war, which ended in 1996.

During the trial, 23 witnesses testified, including former soldiers. Survivors eerily depicted what they witnessed during the savage events. Villagers rehashed about the slayings of their families at the hands of the brutal army. But some justice was restored, when family members of victims bellowed as Judge Patricia Bustamante read the ex-solder’s fate.

Support

Many people support the
idea of premarital cohabitation. In fact, some sociologists and psychologists
see premarital cohabitation as a healthy alternative to marriagecohabitation contractprenuptial agreementsdivorce. In fact cohabitation contracts are generally
easy to enforce and do not take as much time or money as divorces. In fact, men
are generally more adversely affected financially by divorce than are women.
Many couples see premarital cohabitation, or cohabitation in the absence of
marriage, as a safe and happy alternative to marriage. In fact, many couples
view marriage and divorce as unequal contracts. While women are expected to
take care of more household duties during the marriage, men are expected to
support them in the event of a divorce. In essence, cohabitation agreements can
protect both partners from an unequal distribution of property and assets in
the event of a separation. Also, separation is made much less complicated in
for cohabiting couples than in a divorce because the agreement answers any
questions of ownership.

Cohabitation contracts are a beneficial agreement between partners that chose
to simply live together in the absence of marriage or prior to the marriage. In
addition to protection for property and assets, cohabitation contracts can also
ensure inheritance rights if one partner passes away. For any couple that
chooses to live together in the absence of marriage, cohabitation agreements
can offer protection during the relationship or if the couple separates due to
death or a decision to live separate lives.

The Pilot who laughs at Death

Harbor Beach, Michigan—Boaters from Grosse Pointe Farms are still flabbergasted they spotted –and eventually rescued–a missing New York Pilot in Lake Huron early Wednesday morning.

Pilot Michael Trapp is currently in stable condition after being rescued from the lake—the pilot was stranded in frigid waters for an incredible 16 hours after his plane crashed.

“He was quiet and very shaky because he was so cold,” said Gary Veenstra—a passenger on the boat that rescued Trapp and took the pilot to the nearby Marina at Harbor Beach. Veenstra went on to say that the 42-year-old pilot, although shaken and cold, was alert and optimistic despite his horrific night and battle to stay alive. “He even cracked some jokes after we pulled him into the boat,” said Veenstra.

Trapp was flying in a 1966 Cessna 150; the tiny passenger plane was travelling from Gouverneur, New York to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin when fuel problems at 3,000 feet sent the plane into a tailspin.

Trapp was in contact with the Lansing Flight Service between 6 and 7 p.m. on Tuesday night. Shortly after Trapp declared an emergency, the plane crashed 17 miles east of Harbor Beach.

Miraculously, by treading water and swimming nearly 15 miles, Trapp maintained a stable body temperature, which allowed the pilot to stay conscious for the 16-hour wait between his crash and 10:23 A.M. Wednesday morning–the time he was spotted floating in the water.

Woman Chops-Off Husband’s Penis

Los Angeles, California—A Southern California woman, accused of chopping off her husband’ penis, is scheduled to be arraigned today, July 22nd. For her disgusting act, Catherine Kieu Becker, aged 48, is being charged with aggravated mayhem and torture in an Orange County court.

Baker, who goes by the alias Que Anh Tran, is also facing special allegations (known as sentencing enhancements) for causing great bodily injury and personal use of a deadly weapon—Tran used a knife to cut her husband’s genital organ off.

If convicted on all counts, Baker will face a maximum sentence of life, without the possibility of parole. A native of Garden Grove, California, Baker is currently being held without bond, said a spokesman for the Orange County District Attorney’s office.

Becker and her husband were in the middle of a divorce when, on the night of July 11th, the couple argued about friends staying at their Garden Grove residence.

After eating dinner on the night of the 11th, Becker’s husband went to bed at approximately 9 p.m. Becker allegedly tied her husband’s limbs to the four corners of their bed with nylon rope. As he woke, she pulled down his pants and severed his penis with a kitchen knife. Becker then took the penis to the kitchen where she threw it into the garbage disposal to mutilate the organ.

Currently police are investigating whether Becker had put poison in her 60-year-old husband’s dinner to make him drowsy. Becker, who claimed the act was justified, has not shown remorse for her vicious assault.

The husband, who underwent emergency surgery at UC Irvine Medical Center, is listed in stable condition.

This case has been widely compared to the 1993 attack against John Baobbit by former wife Lorena, who cut off his penis with a carving knife while he slept.

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