These People Should be in Cages

[backstagedee]

Certainly am not going to lose sleep over it!

Most of us won't, Wilson. Strange how the good komrade only calls what we are suggesting torture when applied to the U.S. I have yet to hear him complain about that same treatment of criminals in any of his Communist prototype societies. Must be against party protocol.

[st michael jr]

I wouldn't lose any sleep if any of the very bad thugs get locked away and the keys are lost.

[Happy Mom]

Neighbors' fear impedes N.J. child gang-rape case

By AARON MORRISON, Associated Press Writer



The reported gang rape of a 7-year-old girl who police say was offered for sale by her 15-year-old stepsister to a group of men has shocked residents and put them in a quandary. If they identify the men responsible, they risk violent retaliation from the street gangs.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Rowan Tower has a bad reputation. Gangs walk the streets nearby, and police are a constant, and some say ineffective, presence at the 15-story apartment building a stone's throw from the Statehouse's golden dome.

A 13-year-old girl was killed last year in a drive-by shooting a block away, and not a single person stepped forward to help police identify the attackers. This week, though, the mothers, grandmothers and children who live in the tower saw crime there sink to a new depth.

The reported gang rape of a 7-year-old girl who police say was offered for sale by her 15-year-old stepsister to a group of grown men has shocked residents and put them in a quandary. If they identify the men responsible, they risk violent retaliation from the street gangs that stalk the neighborhood.

"We are mothers," said tenant Shawntel Abner. "If we aren't here, there is no one to watch our children. You are asking a lot of us. You are asking us to put our lives on the line."

Police said the rape unfolded this way:

The 15-year-old went to a party Sunday with some young men on the 13th floor of the building; her 7-year-old stepsister tagged along because she worried about the older girl's safety.

The 15-year-old sold sex to men in the room, then took money to let them touch the younger girl. Touching turned to forcible sex as at least seven men raped the 7-year-old. The little girl then put her clothes on and left the apartments. That's when two women found her crying and took her home.

The 15-year-old has been charged with promoting prostitution, aggravated sexual assault and other crimes; police have not released her name.

A 20-year-old man has been charged with having sex with the 15-year-old, but police don't know who might have attacked the 7-year-old. Officials say, though, that someone in Rowan Tower does and are urging, even threatening, neighbors to identify them.

"People absolutely know who these men are," Mayor Doug Palmer told The Associated Press on Friday. "If you were there and didn't participate, you really need to come forward. If you don't come forward, then you are going to be charged like you participated."

Rowan Tower sits on a stretch of West State Street near downtown Trenton and is surrounded by blocks of abandoned, boarded-up homes. It's fronted by a well-manicured lawn and features a colorful playground and a basketball court. An American flag hangs from a pole to the right of the front door.

Tammy Blake lives in apartment 13-F, just down the hall from where the rapes are said to have happened. She said that she didn't hear anything but that loud music and raucous behavior are the standard, not the exception, in the building.

"You get so used to the way things are here," said Blake, 47. "We all care because this is where we live."

But fear, she said, keeps people quiet.

"It's hard for us because there's drugs, crime and gangs," she said. "If we speak out, we never know what's going to happen. There could be someone kicking our door in and putting a gun in our face because they heard or saw that we were talking to someone. People here, they're thinking about their lives. It's not that they're being inconsiderate about the 7-year-old girl."

Neighbor William Johnson said police come and go from the tower all the time.

"I don't see how that can happen," he said of the rape. "Where were the adults at?"

Sixty-year-old Frances Claridy has lived in the building for 19 years and said that there are good neighbors and bad - and that the two groups don't socialize.

"Our apartments are good," Claridy said. "It's just some people in this building are not."

Claridy and several other residents were picked up on warrants for minor infractions Thursday during a police sweep, an effort Palmer says was planned before the report of the March 28 rape. But those caught up in the raid said police clearly had the girl's rape on their minds.

In 2009, the same neighborhood was reeling from drive-by shooting death of 13-year-old Tamrah Leonard during a block party for a City Council candidate less than a block from the tower. Not even cash would drew information out, Palmer said.

"People knew," he said. "They even offered a reward, and no one took it."

The size of Trenton's police force did not budge in 2008, according to data from the attorney general's office, despite an increase in rape and thefts in the city. Law enforcement agencies, however, appeared to be making progress as violent crime overall was slightly down.

The rape case comes as Trenton stands to lose police officers to layoffs if state lawmakers approve a $42.3 million reduction in aid.

Gov. Chris Christie told the AP he was floored by reports of the rape.

"What happened in Trenton with that young girl is deplorable," Christie said Thursday. "For a parent, it's nightmare-inducing."
http://www.katu.com/news/national/89800862.html

[Cull.D.Sack]

A recent photo of Rowan Towers

[Happy Mom]

BEIJING (AP) — A farmer attacked kindergarten students with a hammer, injuring five, before burning himself to death Friday in China's third such assault in as many days and prompting the govern...


BEIJING (AP) — A farmer attacked kindergarten students with a hammer, injuring five, before burning himself to death Friday in China's third such assault in as many days and prompting the government to demand stricter school security nationwide.

Wang Yonglai used a motorcycle to break down the gate of the Shangzhuang Primary School in the eastern city of Weifang and struck a teacher who tried to block him before hitting students with the hammer, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

Wang then grabbed two children before pouring gasoline over his body and setting fire to himself. Teachers were able to pull the children away to safety, but Wang died. None of the five injured students had life-threatening injuries, Xinhua said.

The attack was confirmed by an employee at the Weifang Public Security information office. But the motive for Wang's rampage was unclear. Xinhua described him only as a local farmer.

State media either ignored or played down the attack, perhaps to discourage copycat attacks as some experts have urged or to avoid overshadowing the opening of the World Expo in Shanghai, a pet project of the communist government.

Most of the recent school attacks have been blamed on people with personal grudges or mental illness — seen as a growing problem because of feelings of social injustice and alienation in the fast-changing country.

The government on Friday issued an urgent directive to schools to tighten security nationwide. In the capital, the Beijing Education Commission ordered armed police units to patrol nursery, primary and secondary schools starting Tuesday, the first day back to school after the May Day holiday. The police will be on site when classes begin and end.

The hammer attack follows a rampage Thursday by a 47-year-old unemployed man armed with an eight-inch (20-centimeter) knife at a kindergarten. Some 29 students, aged 4 or 5 years old, were wounded, five of them seriously at the school in Taixing city in neighboring Jiangsu province.

And on Wednesday, a 33-year-old former teacher broke into a primary school in the city of Leizhou in southern Guangdong province and wounded 15 students and a teacher with a knife. The attacker had been on sick leave from another school since 2006 for mental health problems.

In all, there have been five such attacks on schools in just over a month and many more in preceding months and years — although gun crime and other extreme violence in China is comparatively rare. Sociologists suspect the recent school rampages — usually by lone, male attackers — could be copycat actions.

The Education Ministry's directive Friday, posted on its website, called for schools and local education departments to "strengthen the security activities at schools to ensure the safety of students and teachers," particularly at elementary and middle schools.

It urged "concrete actions" including strictly implementing a rule already on the books to register all visitors coming to school campuses and preventing unidentified people from entering.

The order also instructed schools to work closely with police to "implement all kinds of security activities."

Calls for beefing up security at schools are nothing new. They were initially ordered by the central government in 2004 following an attack that year that left nine students dead at a Beijing school. Since 2006, schools have been required to register or inspect all visitors.

According to news reports, the latest attacks have prompted schools in various parts of the country to take action. In a district of southern Nanjing City, guards will be armed from Saturday with police batons and pepper spray. In Beijing's Xicheng district, guards at kindergarten, elementary and middle schools have been given long-handled metal restraint poles with a hook on the end. In eastern Jinan city, police posts are being built on elementary and middle schools' campuses.

In an editorial Friday, the English-language China Daily said that security should be tightened, but stressed the need to prevent attacks in the first place.

"It can be easy to put killers on trial and execute them but it is far more difficult to find out the deep-seated causes behind such horrifying acts. Our efforts should be focused on preventing these from happening," it said. "We should find out what propelled them to such extremes. What problems do they have? Could anyone have helped, especially the authorities?"

Accounts in China's state media have largely glossed over what motivates attackers, but experts say outbursts against the defenseless are frequently due to social pressures. An egalitarian society only a generation ago, China's headlong rush to prosperity has sharpened differences between the rich and poor, while the public health system has atrophied.

China likely has about 173 million adults with mental health disorders, and 158 million of them have never had professional help, according to a mental health survey in four provinces jointly done by Chinese and U.S. doctors that was published in the medical journal The Lancet in June.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/04/30 ... latestnews

[st michael jr]

This guy doesn't deserve a cage, he deserves to die

[Happy Mom]

Briefs
WIRE REPORTS

CRIME & COURTS

125-year term for taped molesting

COVINGTON, Ind. — A western Indiana man convicted of videotaping himself and his girlfriend having sex with children as young as 2 months has been sentenced to 125 years in prison.

The sentence ordered Thursday for 32-year-old Stephen Quick II of Veedersburg is the same given in December to 26-year-old baby sitter Samantha Light. A Fountain County judge found Quick guilty in March on three counts of child molesting, while Light pleaded guilty to child molesting charges. Some of the victims were among those Light baby-sat.

A mother of one of the victims called the couple "the most disgusting pair I could think of."

Quick told the judge that he plans to appeal his convictions and sentence.
http://sbtinfo.com/article/20100514/NEWS01/5140390

[st michael jr]

Hope some of his prison buddies see this video

[Happy Mom]

Niles man indicted for allegedly molesting a disabled girl
Niles, MI
A Niles man has been indicted by a grand jury for allegedly molesting a disabled nine-year-old girl.
Reporter: Elise Yahner
Email Address: elise.yahner@wndu.com


A Niles man has been indicted by a grand jury for allegedly molesting a disabled nine-year-old girl.

47-year-old Mark Baldwin was indicted on Thursday.

On April 28th, a state trooper investigated a complaint that Baldwin had a picture of him with a naked child on his online Yahoo profile.

Baldwin told officials that he was collecting evidence against pedophiles online.

Police searched his computer and found numerous pornographic images, some showing him having intercourse with a nine-year-old girl who suffers from cerebral palsy.

Mark Baldwin and Michelle Baldwin each face sexual exploitation charges.

http://www.wndu.com/localnews/headlines/94635919.html

[Happy Mom]

Newark Man Accused of Raping and Killing 7-Month-Old Girl
Prosecutors: Baby Suffered Multiple Injuries



BY KATHY CARVAJAL

MYFOXNY.COM - Essex County authorities say they've arrested a man wanted for the murder and sexual assault of a 7-month-old girl in Newark.

Oquan Blake (a.k.a. Samaad Blake), 24, is accused of raping his ex-girlfriend's daughter on June 26 at her home.

The Essex County Prosecutor's Office says the baby's 21-year-old mother left in Blake's care.

When the mother returned late Saturday, Rhymer was unresponsive. She took the child to the hospital, where she died two days later.

An autopsy found Rhymer had been raped. She also had a fractured skull, a ruptured spleen, broken ribs, a bruised spine and a lacerated liver.

Blake was arrested at around 10 p.m. on Thursday at his mother's home in Newark, according to the Essex County Prosecutor's Office. Authroties said that he has been arrested numerous times on drug and weapons charges, according an NJ.com report.

http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/local_n ... 0100702-kc