Following Entry Posted 6/03/2012 07:54:00 AM

Florida Sex Offender Gets Prison - Updated

(Okaloosa County, Florida) As a result of failing to register as a sex offender, 32-year-old Michelle Leigh Kemp has been sentenced to five years, four and one-half months in prison.

Michelle L. Kemp was originally sentenced to 2 years of community control followed by three years of probation after she was convicted of lewd and lascivious battery on a child under 16, according to a press release from the State Attorney’s Office.

Kemp was accused of having sex with a 15-year-old in 2009.

Her most recent sentence comes after she was involved in a disturbance at a Destin restaurant and club.

So, Kemp traded house arrest for 5+ years in prison. And she'll still have to register as a sex offender once released from prison.

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Florida Sex Offender Fails to Register - Updated
[Previous 3/13/12 post]
(Okaloosa County, Florida) Sentenced to community control in January 2011, Michelle Kemp has now been arrested in Okaloosa County for failing to register as a sex offender.

Okaloosa County deputies arrested Kemp while responding to a domestic violence call at AJ’s bar in Destin. It was discovered she hadn’t registered as a sexual offender only after she lied to an officer, telling him her name was Mandy Sue Hoover.[…]

Kemp was scheduled to appear in court Wednesday. She told the arresting officer on Friday that she had lied to him about who she was because “she has an upcoming hearing to get off probation,” his report on the incident states.

Bill Bishop, the chief assistant state attorney for Okaloosa County, said Kemp will now face a violation of probation charge.

She was not wearing the monitor she was ordered to wear as part of her community control sentence, Bishop said. Her allegedly not being registered as a sexual offender will also be taken into account, he said.

Jeez, one might think that Kemp was begging for prison time.

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House Arrest for Sex with Boy - Updated
[Previous 11/4/10 post]
(Panama City, Florida) Yesterday, 31-year-old Michelle Kemp pleaded no contest to engaging in sexual behavior with a 15-year-old boy.

Consequently, Kemp was sentenced to house arrest for two years.

Jason Kemp, Michelle Kemp’s ex-husband, called the sentence “completely unbelievable.” Jason Kemp, who now lives in Des Moines, Iowa, with the couple’s children, said his wife’s crimes led to their divorce, and questioned whether there is a double standard for women who commit sex crimes.

“I know if I did what she did I would be in jail right now,” Jason Kemp said. “I think it’s unbelievable. Completely unbelievable.”

Prosecutor Tracy Smith said the genders of the people involved didn’t factor into the plea.

Kemp was also ordered to register as a sex offender and receive mental health treatment.

For what it's worth, I agree with Jason Kemp.

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Florida Woman Accused of Sex with Boy
[Previous 12/7/09 post]
(Panama City, Florida) A 30-year-old Crestview, FL, woman, Michelle Leigh Kemp, has been accused of engaging in sex with a 15-year-old boy and providing him with marijuana and prescription pills.

She has been charged with lewd and lascivious acts on a child and delivery of a controlled substance.

Kemp reportedly picked up the boy and drove him to the Callaway, FL, area and engaged in sex with him in her vehicle.

When the boy returned home, an adult at the house saw the two together and confronted the juvenile. The boy's mother said Kemp previously was invovled (sic) with the boy in Okaloosa County but charges were dropped when she agreed to undergo counseling.

The boy told the adult what happened, and the adult called Springfield police. Sheriff's deputies became involved because the incident allegedly occurred in Callaway.

Kemp surrendered to authorities today.

Labels: Women With Troubles

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       Following Entry Posted 6/02/2012 10:42:00 PM

Proposal: Classify BB Guns as Weapons

(Fall River, Massachusetts)

Despite the protest of a parent group, a School Committee subcommittee will not be making any changes to the district’s policies on student discipline.

The Policy Manual subcommittee met Wednesday night in response to concerns raised by the group Keep Our Kids Safe that the district’s discipline policies were not strong enough.

Concerns were raised after a series of incidents during the course of the school year in which students were found to have brought BB guns to school, including two cases at the Alfred Letourneau Elementary School. Once of the Letourneau situations included the student firing the gun and striking two other students in the hallway.

Group founder Rachel McGarty had sought to increase the minimum suspension from one to five days for students found to be in possession of a weapon. The School Department’s elementary school disciplinary guidelines state that any student found in possession of a weapon is eligible to be suspended from one to nine days or face expulsion. McGarty was also seeking for a policy change that would classify BB guns as weapons.

Subcommittee Chairman Richard Pavao said the reclassification of BB guns was not accepted because state law does not include BB guns as weapons. He said the change to the suspension policy was rejected because the subcommittee felt school principals should have discretion.

OK
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       Following Entry Posted 6/02/2012 05:11:00 AM

Kansas Teacher Michelle Preston Gets Probation - Updated

(Johnson County, Kansas) Yesterday, former Shawnee Mission West teacher and cheerleading coach Michelle Preston was sentenced to three years of probation for engaging in sex with three male students.

The students were 17 or 18 when the sexual encounters took place at Preston’s home in 2010. Although the students were of consensual age in Kansas, Preston was prosecuted under a law governing teachers and their students.

Prosecutors did not oppose probation for Preston primarily because of the victims’ ages, said Assistant District Attorney Keith Henderson.

All three victims agreed with the outcome, he said. Preston was treated the same as if she had been a male teacher having sex with female students, he added.[ed. bold]

As an aside, I don't believe that last statement can be supported. Interested-Participant has been chronicling female sex offenders for over six years and empirical evidence gathered thus far strongly suggests the opposite is true.

Nationwide, female sex offenders are generally treated leniently.

Note that Preston only risks prison if she violates probation. Meanwhile, she will have to register as a sex offender for 25 years.

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Kansas Teacher Guilty in Sex Case - Updated
[Previous 4/7/12 post]
(Olathe, Kansas) This week, former Shawnee Mission West teacher Michelle Preston, 28, pleaded guilty to three counts of unlawful sexual relations with students.

During her court appearance Thursday, a summary of the evidence against Preston was read, offering shocking details of the encounters.

Preston, who taught psychology and world geography at Shawnee Mission West, was placed on administrative leave in March 2011 when claims that she had an inappropriate relationship with a student were reported. The school board voted in May not to renew her contract.

Sentencing is scheduled for June 1.

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Kansas Teacher Faces Sex Charges - Updated
[Previous 9/26/11 post]
Shawnee Mission West High School teacher Michelle Preston has been charged with having sex with three students.

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Kansas Teacher Faces Problems
[Previous 3/12/11 post]
(Overland Park, Kansas) A 27-year-old psychology and geography teacher at Shawnee Mission West High School, Michelle Preston, has been accused of engaging in an inappropriate relationship with a student.

Preston was placed on administrative leave by the school district while the alleged misbehavior is investigated by Overland Park Police and assisted by Lenexa Police.

Meanwhile, it has been reported this week that Preston was involved in an automobile accident.

The Miami County Sheriff's Department confirmed that Preston was in a single car accident around 4 p.m. Monday when her car went off an embankment at 247th Street.

The police report said her car left the cliff ledge and vaulted into the opposite side embankment of the creek.

She was taken to the hospital via helicopter and her condition is unknown.

Preston is reportedly married. She is also the freshman cheerleading coach at Shawnee Mission West.

Tip: Chuck Simmins

Labels: Women With Troubles

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       Following Entry Posted 6/01/2012 11:04:00 PM

Obama Nixes Lech Walesa

The White House appears to have adopted disrespect as a diplomatic tactic.

Lech Walesa was once a trade-union activist. He was often arrested for speaking his mind against Communist oppression behind the Iron Curtain in Poland and for defying the Soviet Union. He was an electrician who, with no higher education, led one of the most profound freedom movements of the 20th century — Solidarity. He became president of Poland and swept in reforms, pushing the Soviet Union out of his homeland and moving the country toward a free-market economy and individual liberty. And

President Obama doesn’t want him to set foot in the White House.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Polish officials requested that Walesa accept the Medal of Freedom on behalf of Jan Karski, a member of the Polish Underground during World War II who was being honored posthumously this week. The request makes sense. Walesa and Karski shared a burning desire to rid Poland of tyrannical subjugation. But

President Obama said no.

Administration officials told the Journal that Walesa is too “political.” A man who was arrested by Soviet officials for dissenting against the government for being “political” is being shunned by the United States of America for the same reason 30 years later.

Okay.
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       Following Entry Posted 6/01/2012 09:58:00 AM

NY Teacher Accused of Affair with Student

(Brooklyn, New York) A 36-year-old English teacher at James Madison High School, Erin Sayar, has been accused of engaging in sex with a 16-year-old male student.

Sayar faces charges of rape, criminal sex act, sexual misconduct and sexual abuse.

A damning report by the special schools investigator describes a passionate affair between the pair.

In Facebook messages, Kevin told the teacher “I love you so much” and “I always loved you, since last year.” Investigators also said the student was able to describe tattoos on intimate parts of the teacher’s body and said he’d had sex with Sayar in her SUV.

The relationship came to an end when the teen’s girlfriend hacked into his Facebook account, found the steamy messages and told school officials.

In legal papers filed Wednesday by Kevin’s parents in Brooklyn Supreme Court, Sayar is also accused of giving her student, now 17, pot that she kept in a school file cabinet.

If convicted, Sayar faces up to four years in prison.

Details on booking are unavailable.

Note that James Madison High School is locally called 'Horndog High' because of a history of naughty teacher incidents.

Labels: Women With Troubles

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       Following Entry Posted 6/01/2012 07:16:00 AM

Blithely Toward Ending the US and Israel

Check out this informative piece from www.carolineglick.com:

Defense Minister Ehud Barak has done it again. Speaking on Wednesday at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, Barak warned that if Israel can't cut a deal with the Palestinians soon, it should consider surrendering Judea and Samaria in exchange for nothing.

Even the diehard leftists in the media had a hard time swallowing his words. After all, when Barak was premier, he oversaw Israel's unilateral surrender of south Lebanon in 2000. Barak promised that by giving Hezbollah south Lebanon, Israel would force the Iranian proxy army to disarm and behave like a Western political party.

Whoopsie.

Then of course, there is the Gaza precedent.

Ignoring the lesson of Lebanon, Barak's successor Ariel Sharon reenacted his unilateral surrender policy in Gaza in 2005. Like Barak, Sharon promised that once Gaza was cleared of all Jewish presence, it would magically transform itself into a Middle Eastern version of Singapore.

Whoopsie.

Both Barak and Sharon promised that their unilateral surrender policies would do more than merely transform Hezbollah and Hamas into liberal democrats. They said that by cutting and running, Israel would earn the love of the international community, and winning the love of the likes of Washington and Brussels, they said, was the most urgent item on Israel's agenda.

Apparently Barak was referring to the same imperative when on Wednesday he said that Israel needs to act fast because, "We are on borrowed time. We will reach a wall, and we'll pay the price."

So yes, Hezbollah has taken over not just south Lebanon, but all of Lebanon. And true, there is no one in the Palestinian Authority today who is willing to accept the continued existence of Israel in any borders. But that just means we need the West to love us even more. And the only way to get the West to love us is by imperiling our very existence by handing our heartland over to people who wish to destroy our country.

Given the high value Barak and his comrades place on winning the love of the West, it is worth considering what motivates the West - or more to the point, the US, which leads the Western world.

Unfortunately, the situation is not pretty. US President Barack Obama's policies are just as irrational as the ones that Barak is urging Israel to implement in order to win Obama's support. And Obama's rationales for adopting these policies are just as divorced from reality as Barak's are.

The place where this irrationality is displayed most prominently today is in Obama's policy regarding Iran. As Michael Singh rightly noted on Wednesday in the New York Daily News, under Obama, US policy towards Iran is based on the view "that at the root of the Iran nuclear crisis is US-Iran conflict, and that the root cause of that conflict is mistrust."

THIS VIEW is pure fantasy. No Iranian leader has ever given the US any reason to believe that this is the case. To the contrary, every Iranian leader since the 1979 Islamic Revolution has made clear that the regime is dedicated to the destruction of the US and Israel.

More at Source.
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       Following Entry Posted 6/01/2012 05:45:00 AM

School Librarian Busted in Sex Sting

(New Rochelle, New York) A 33-year-old librarian at New Rochelle High School, Marisa L. Anton, has been accused of engaging in inappropriate behavior with a 16-year-old male student.

Anton faces a charge of disseminating indecent material to minors in the first degree. From the police report:

On May 27, a sixteen year male student at New Rochelle High School appeared at Police Headquarters and reported that for the past several months Ms. Anton had been sending him e-mails and other computer data communications of explicitly sexual content in an effort to invite him to engage in sexual conduct with her.

Police investigation into the matter confirmed the student's report and Police Detectives apprehended Ms. Anton when she appeared at the student's residence in an apparent attempt to accomplish a sexual encounter.

Details on booking are unavailable.

Labels: Women With Troubles

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       Following Entry Posted 6/01/2012 04:59:00 AM

Five wives vodka banned in Idaho because it is offensive to Mormons... but Polygamy Porter is still allowed

And it's OK in Utah! Another case of people getting "offended" on behalf of someone else

"Five Wives Vodka was named in bad taste and won't be stocked or special ordered at stores operated by the state of Idaho, regulators said.

The middle-shelf vodka is made by Ogden's Own Distillery in Utah, where the Mormon church is based. Its label carries the name and an image of five women, an apparent reference to polygamy, a practice abandoned by the church more than a century ago.

Idaho State Liquor Division administrator Jeff Anderson said the brand is offensive to Mormons who make up over a quarter of Idaho's population.

Ogden's Own Distillery is trying to make the most of the rejection with a media campaign and sale of 'Free the Five Wives' T-shirts.

It says the snub is unfair because a Utah beer named Polygamy Porter is available in Idaho. Anderson said Idaho doesn't decide what beer brands can be sold in grocery and convenience stores.

'We're a little dumbfounded by it all,' said Steve Conlin, a partner and marketing chief for Ogden's Own Distillery.

'The average person can look at our bottle and they don't find it offensive. It's certainly not obscene, which is what it would require for it to be banned.'

Five Wives Vodka has been approved for sale in Utah, a state dominated by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It's also available in Wyoming, another state that regulates liquor sales.

Nobody in Utah is raising a fuss over the brand, said Vickie Ashby, a spokeswoman for the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.

Source

Posted by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.).
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       Following Entry Posted 5/31/2012 11:04:00 PM

Women With Troubles - May 2012

Here is a compilation of women with troubles reported in news stories during May 2012. Each name is linked to an Interested-Participant blog entry displaying details.

For a more comprehensive listing, check the Women With Troubles category link. Links to month-by-month compilations are displayed on the navigation bar at left.

(AL) Rebecca Diane Pounders, 40,
neighbor - Accused of dissemination of child pornography, aiding a person traveling to meet a child for a unlawful sex act and aiding and abetting attempted second-degree rape,

(AZ) Christina Marie Carbone, 23,
teacher - Accused of sex with boy, 16,

(AZ) Gabriela Antoinette Compton, 21,
teacher's aide - Gets probation for sex abuse of two male students, both 14,

(AZ) Melissa Ann Dalton, 33,
teacher - Accused of sexual misconduct with two students,

(CA) Mistie Atkinson, 32,
neighbor - Guilty of incest, oral copulation and sex with her biological son. Sentencing in June,

(CA) Mayra Gonzalez, 32,
neighbor - Accused of engaging in sex with her daughter's 16-year-old boyfriend, resulting in a kid,

(CA) Janel Pearl Ramirez, 31,
teacher - Gets house arrest for sex with student, 16,

(CO) Lauren Redfern, 25,
teacher - Guilty of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Sentencing to be determined,

(FL) Artia Patrice Davis, 30,
teacher's aide - Accused of sex with disabled student, 16,

(FL) Gretchen Gonzalez, 34,
teacher - Accused of being inappropriate with a middle school student,

(FL) Krystal Kamil Hernandez, 19,
neighbor - Accused of transmitting harmful material to a minor, sexual battery and lewd and lascivious exhibition,

(FL) Margaret Ann O'Neill, 26,
neighbor - Gets 25 years prison for molesting girl, 7,

(FL) Chung Ramos, 29,
teacher - Faces possible license suspension for sex with student, 18,

(FL) Kacy Wilson, 28,
teacher - Accused of sex with male student, 16,

(GA) Kathern Laura Green, 36,
teacher - Accused of alcohol and cocaine offenses,

(IA) Heather Adams, 41,
teacher - Accused of sexual exploitation by a school employee,

(IL) Sara Glashagel, 27,
former teacher - Accused of forgery,

(IL) Kathryn Morgan, 49,
neighbor - Accused of hosting underage alcohol party for minors,

(KY) Andrea Conners, 33,
teacher - Indicted for first-degree sex abuse,

(KY) Shannon Hirchert, 42,
teacher - Guilty of sex abuse of minors. Sentencing in June,

(LA) Destinee Elizabeth Chaisson, 20,
neighbor - Accused of molesting girl, 13,

(MA) Lisa Lavoie, 27,
teacher - Gets 18 months prison for violating probation,

(MI) Jessica Goolsby, 29,
neighbor - Accused of stealing $12,500 worth of bras, panties, etc. from Victoria's Secret,

(MN) Jenna Anne Schultz, 26,
student teacher - Accused of sending sexual messages to male student,

(MO) Melissa Eaton, 48,
neighbor - Accused of sex with boy, 13,

(MO) Larissa Hurley, 37,
neighbor - Accused of engaging in sex with boy, 16,

(MO) Tessa Vervlerah (aka Venvierah and Vanvlerah), 22,
neighbor - Gets two life sentences for rape of infant daughter,

(NJ) Jillian Clementi, 28,
teacher - Accused of long-term sex with male student,

(NJ) Kristin K. Leone, 26,
teacher - Accused of sex with student, 16,

(NJ) Jennifer Mahoney, 32,
neighbor - Accused of repeated sex abuse of girl, 5,

(NY) Debra Mercado, 52,
neighbor - Accused of criminal sale of controlled substances,

(OH) Alicia Gaston, 20,
neighbor - Accused of engaging in sex with her boyfriend's seven-year-old son,

(OH) Michelle Kazmierczak, 46,
teacher - Accused of sending naked pics of herself to her daughter's 14-year-old boyfriend,

(OH) Laura Saylor aka Laura Barnhart, 36,
teacher - Gets probation for drug trafficking,

(OH) Mary E. Schnell, 25,
teacher - Gets two years prison for sex with male student, 16,

(OH) Heather Schoell-Schroeder, 45,
teacher - Accused of stealing prom money from students,

(OK) Rhonda Michelle Ford, 29,
teacher - Accused of engaging in sex with a 15-year-old male student,

(OK) Stephanie Notah, 44,
neighbor - Accused of child neglect,

(OR) Heidi Hyre, 51,
library aide - Accused of sending sexually explicit texts to three male students,

(PA) Philicia Barbieri, 26,
teacher - Sentenced to home detention for bank robbery,

(PA) Susan McCauley, 27,
neighbor - Accused of arson,

(PA) Kimberly Lake Smith, 36,
teacher - Accused of sex with two students,

(SC) Sally Elizabeth Neal,
house parent in children's home - Arrested for sexual battery of child, 14,

(TX) Tiffany Michelle Amos, 25,
teacher - Accused of soliciting boy, 16,

(TX) Karen Lee Carstens, 41,
neighbor - Accused of engaging in sex with son of a hospitalized friend,

(TX) Natalie Deshan Johnson, 33,
neighbor - Gets 25 years in prison for sex with boy, 13,

(TX) Dusty Dawn McGrew, 31,
youth services worker - Accused of sex with boy under 17,

(TX) Kimberly O’Briant, 46
teacher - Indicted for improper relations with male student, 15,

(VA) Allison Tuthill Gaul, 37,
teacher - Gets suspended sentence for drug offences,

(WA) Cheri Powers, 44,
teaching assistant - Accused of sex with male student, 16.

Thanks to the tipsters.

Labels: Women With Troubles

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       Following Entry Posted 5/31/2012 10:39:00 PM

Korean Hookers in Japan

As always, an increase in supply tends to depress price level.

According to a survey undertaken by the South Korean Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, a crackdown on prostitution in the Land of the Morning Calm since 2004 sent large numbers of the nation’s ladies of the night fleeing abroad, with the result being an estimated 50,000 of them selling spring in Japan.

The U.S. is currently home to 30,000 Korean hookers, and significant numbers are said to be plying their trade in Australia as well.

The large presence of Korean hookers in Japan, reports Nikkan Gendai (May 30), is having a pronounced effect on the prices charged by various sex services.

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       Following Entry Posted 5/31/2012 07:14:00 PM

Illustrated Baby




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       Following Entry Posted 5/31/2012 04:29:00 AM

Conservative Bloggers Harassed




Tip: Don Laird
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       Following Entry Posted 5/31/2012 02:29:00 AM

Arrested for Blogging in Maryland

We read:

"Yesterday, blogger Aaron Walker, aka “Aaron Worthing,” was arrested for his blogging critical of Brett Kimberlin, a convicted domestic terrorist known as the “Speedway Bomber” who has become a progressive activist.

As detailed by David Hogberg and Patterico and here, Kimberlin was able to convince a technologically illiterate judge that Walker’s blogging was incitement and violated a “peace order” Kimberlin had previously obtained against Walker.

Unless there are additional, as-yet-undisclosed reasons for Walker’s arrest, it was blatantly unconstitutional, as Eugene Volokh explains here.

Walker was released late yesterday afternoon, but an equally unconstitutional order barring him from, among other things, blogging about Kimberlin for the next six months further remains in effect.

Many of those commenting on these events have cast the dispute in ideological terms, as Walker is a conservative blogger and Kimberlin is a progressive activist.

Yet, as Popehat explains, the real issue here is the threat to free speech that Kimberlin’s tactics represent — a threat that should be of concern without regard to the ideological orientation of the participants.

Source

(See the original for links)

Posted by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.).
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       Following Entry Posted 5/30/2012 08:08:00 PM

Teacher Gets Hand Slap for Bank Robbery - Updated

(Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

An Allegheny County judge this morning allowed a former city teacher who robbed a bank to finance her heroin addiction to serve out her jail sentence at home.

Philicia Barbieri, 26, pleaded guilty in December to robbing Fifth Third Bank in East Liberty, stealing 22 computers from the Pittsburgh School of the Creative and Performing Arts and ripping off her neighbor's television and video game console.

Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey A. Manning sentenced Ms. Barbieri to between one year less a day to two years less a day in jail but paroled her immediately.

She will wear an ankle bracelet and be able to leave home only to work, get drug treatment or schooling.

Lenient sentence for bank robbery, eh? Barbieri's accomplice Alvin Carter awaits sentencing.

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Teacher Accused of Laptop Theft and Bank Robbery - Updated
[Previous 4/18/11 post]
(Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Here's another development in the case of science teacher Philicia Barbieri.

Last month, she was accused of stealing more than a dozen laptop computers from the Pittsburgh School for Creative and Performing Arts. Today, Barbieri was arraigned on theft charges.

In a criminal complaint, Pittsburgh police said the young Shadyside woman admits having a drug problem and selling the stolen school laptops to "Jay," who would pay her $150 for each one.

Sometimes she was paid in heroin, and sometimes she got both drugs and money, the complaint said.

Heroin, eh? Makes people do crazy things.

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Babe Teacher Accused in Bank Robbery
[Previous 4/16/11 post]
(Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) A 24-year-old chemistry teacher at the Pittsburgh School for the Creative and Performing Arts, Philicia Barbieri, along with an accomplice, Alvin Carter, 28, have been arrested for the alleged robbery of a Fifth Third Bank yesterday morning.



Alvin Carter
Barbieri and Carter have been charged with robbery and criminal conspiracy. They were booked into custody at the Allegheny County Jail.

Labels: Women With Troubles

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       Following Entry Posted 5/30/2012 05:47:00 PM

Bay State Teacher Jailed for Probation Violation - Updated

(Springfield, Massachusetts) Lisa Lavoie, 27, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for violating the terms of her probation.

Hampden Superior Court Judge Cornelius J. Moriarty sentenced Lavoie because she violated a condition of probation that forbid her to have contact with the now 18-year-old man.

The young man, whose name is not being used here because he is the victim of a sexual crime, gave an impassioned appeal to Moriarty to spare Lavoie jail time.

Assistant District Attorney Patrick S. Sabbs had asked for a three to five year prison sentence.

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Bay State Teacher Violates Probation - Updated
[Previous 3/12/12 post]
(Springfield, Massachusetts) During a routine probation check last Friday, former teacher and convicted rapist Lisa Lavoie was found with her victim hiding in a closet. Lavoie was arrested for violating probation.

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Bay State Teacher Gets Probation for Child Rape - Updated
[Previous 1/26/11 ]
(Springfield, Massachusetts) Although the prosecution had asked for three to five years in prison for teacher Lisa Lavoie, Hampden Superior Court Judge Cornelius Moriarty generously sentenced the convicted child rapist to probation for five years.

Moriarty said he thinks Lavoie's "interest and concern for (the boy's) emotional well-being was what originally began this episode," which he said "was originally well-intended." He said it appears Lavoie's kindness toward the boy was what led to his sexual interest in her.

"There are those who perhaps will say this sentence is too lenient," Moriarty said.

"This too shall pass," he told Lavoie.

According to District Attorney Mark Mastroianni, there exists no obvious reason for such a lenient sentence. Frankly, I'd suggest that Judge Moriarty could not have sentenced his own daughter to a more lenient sentence.

So, schoolteacher Lisa Lavoie runs off with a 15-year-old student, crosses several state lines and, after a nationwide search, is found jumping the boy's bones in a motel in West Virginia. She's convicted of rape and sentenced to go home and behave. Yeah, that's justice.

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Massachusetts Teacher Guilty in Rape Case - Updated
[Previous 12/16/10 post]
(Springfield, Massachusetts) Former teacher at Maurice Donahue Elementary School in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Lisa LaVoie, has pleaded guilty to three counts of statutory rape stemming from a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy.

The District Attorney's office is recommending Lavoie serve three to five years in state prison. The maximum penalty she's facing is three consecutive life sentences.

Sabbs says "This is a crime that will not be taken lightly. The District Attorney's office took this very seriously and we recommended a state prison sentence for what she did and we stand by that at this time."

Lavoie was released on personal recognizance and is not to have any contact the victim or his family.

Sentencing has been scheduled for January 26.

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Massachusetts Teacher and Runaway Student Caught in WV
[Previous 2/24/09 post]
(Morgantown, West Virginia) A 24-year-old teacher at Maurice Donahue Elementary School in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Lisa LaVoie, has been arrested in Morgantown for allegedly running off with a 15-year-old student.

The boy's parents notified authorities on February 13 and, on February 16, a search was launched. West Virginia troopers caught LaVoie and the boy earlier today at a Super 8 Motel.

LaVoie is being held on charges of child endangerment. She was booked into custody at the North Central Regional Jail without bond.

Arrangements are underway to return the boy to Massachusetts.

Labels: Women With Troubles

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       Following Entry Posted 5/30/2012 07:38:00 AM

Oregon Library Aide Accused in Sex Case

(Albany, Oregon) A 51-year-old library aide at South Albany High School, Heidi Hyre, has been accused of sending sexually explicit texts to three male students.

Hyre faces charges of using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct, encouraging child sex abuse, luring a minor, contributing to the sexual delinquency of a minor and third-degree sex abuse.

According to Lt. Brad Liles, detectives interviewed three South Albany students who said they exchanged in sexually explicit text messages with Hyre.

One of the boys also said he had a sexual encounter with Hyre in her car in December 2011. They were parked about two miles from the high school, Liles said.

All three students were 17 when police say the incidents occurred.

Hyre was booked into custody yesterday afternoon.

Labels: Women With Troubles

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       Following Entry Posted 5/30/2012 06:43:00 AM

New Computer Virus Attacks Iran, Middle East

Wall Street Journal:

Thousands of computers in Iran belonging to government agencies and private companies have been infected with a highly sophisticated virus, dubbed Flame, in the latest cyberstrike against the Islamic Republic, said cybersecurity experts and Iran's telecommunications ministry.

The malware was widely detected across the Middle East in Syria, Israel and the Palestinian Authority, as well as in other parts of the world, but Iran has the largest number of infected computers, experts said.

At least three times since 2010, Iran has been targeted with sophisticated computer viruses such as Stuxnet, Duqu and Wiper. These viruses have disabled centrifuges for enriching uranium, stolen data from nuclear facilities and erased computers at the oil ministry.

The aim of Flame, said experts at Kaspersky Lab, a Russian information-technology security firm that reported the virus on Monday, was espionage, not physical damage or system interruption.

Reportedly, Flame carries about 100 times more code than a basic virus.
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       Following Entry Posted 5/30/2012 04:40:00 AM

Britain's National Heallth Service removes 'Dad' from parenting leaflets to avoid upsetting same-sex couples

We read:

"The NHS has removed the term "dad" from its childbirth guide after receiving a complaint that the leaflet was excluding same-sex parents.

The Ready Steady Baby pamphlet, which offers advice on pregnancy and the first year of parenthood, has been given to mums and dads-to-be for the last 14 years.

However, the 220-page guide will no longer refer to fathers after a complaint that claimed it was "not inclusive of people in same-sex relationships".

Instead, the leaflet will use the non-gender specific term "partner" in its latest revision.

Norman Wells, of the Family Education Trust, said the NHS was wrong to change the language in the booklet. He said: "The NHS should not be squandering tax payers' money to advance the cause of a minority interest group.

"No matter how much effort is made to present positive images of families headed by same-sex couples, the fact remains it takes a man and a woman to create a child."

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Posted by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.).
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       Following Entry Posted 5/29/2012 10:27:00 PM

Pak Cleric Issues Death Fatwa for Dancing

(Peshawar, Pakistan)

A local court on Tuesday released a cleric who allegedly issued fatwa for killing four women and two men for “staining the honor” of their families.

He was released after submitting surety bonds of Rs 50,000.

Police had arrested Maulana Azad and his brother Mohammad on Tuesday from Palis village of Peech Bela union council of Kohistan, after he allegedly issued decree of honor killing of four women and two brothers for violating tribal culture by singing and dancing together at a wedding.

The jirga had declared them fornicators after the wedding videotape came to the surface, which showed the six people dancing together.

Dancing equals fornication? Not in my dictionary.
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       Following Entry Posted 5/29/2012 08:51:00 PM

Operation Hot Mic




Tip: Rita and Eugene
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       Following Entry Posted 5/29/2012 05:04:00 PM

Taliban Accused of Poisoning 160 Schoolgirls

(Kabul, Afghanistan)

A hospital in northern Afghanistan admitted 160 schoolgirls Tuesday after they were poisoned, a Takhar province police official said.

Their classrooms might have been sprayed with a toxic material before the girls entered, police spokesman Khalilullah Aseer said. He blamed the Taliban.

The incident, the second in a week's time, was reported at the Aahan Dara Girls School in Taluqan, the provincial capital.

The girls, ages 10 to 20, complained of headaches, dizziness and vomiting before being taken to the hospital, said Hafizullah Safi, director of the provincial health department.

Incidents of attacks on Afghan girls are now commonplace. Sad. And there's no outrage from the feminist community.
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       Following Entry Posted 5/29/2012 08:34:00 AM

Student Teacher Accused of Stalking

(St. Paul, Minnesota) A 26-year-old student teacher, Jenna Anne Schultz, has been accused of sending sexual messages to a 17-year-old male student.

Schultz faces stalking charges.

A Dakota County complaint says the 26-year-old allegedly sent texts and Facebook messages, including a naked photo of herself, to the Simley High School student.

Records say the messages were sent between May 11 and May 14 and the boy reported them to school officials.

The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports the boy stopped all contact a week ago because she was "annoying" him.

A court appearance is scheduled for July 23.

Labels: Women With Troubles

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       Following Entry Posted 5/29/2012 03:42:00 AM

FL judge: Warning others of speed traps is free speech

Another installment of an old controversy. I am a "flasher" (of headlights) myself -- but I don't do it as systematically as this guy did

"A judge in Florida ruled on Tuesday that flashing one's headlights to warn other drivers of speed traps set by police is protected by the First Amendment.

Ryan Kintner of Lake Mary, Fla. was pulled over and cited by a police officer in an unmarked car for doing just that. Kintner was at home when he saw a deputy park along a street and being using his radar gun. He got in his car, drove a little ways away and parked his vehicle so he could flash his lights at oncoming traffic to warn them. ...

Kintner, however, was not going down without a fight. He took his case to court, suing the Seminole County Sheriff's Office, with Attorney J. Marcus Jones arguing that ... 'Flashing your headlights is expressive conduct protected by the First Amendment.'"

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Posted by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.).
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       Following Entry Posted 5/28/2012 03:24:00 AM

More fraud: Sea-level rises are due to global "adjustments"

Frank Lansner’s first graph surprised me. It’s well known and often quoted that sea levels have been rising by 2-3mm a year every year for the last 20 years. But it’s not well known that the original raw satellite data doesn’t show that at all.


Fig 1 The data for recent years has gone through significant changes. In Morner 2004 the raw satellite data for sea level rise was shown with the original slope (the grey line with dots named “Topex/Poseidon as of 2001” above).

What astonished me was the sea levels first recorded by the Topex Poseidon satellite array showed virtually no rise at all from 1993-2001. Surely not, I thought. I asked sea-level expert Nils Axel-Morner, and he confirmed: “Yes, it is as bad as that.“ Now, given that Envisat (the European satellite) showed no rise from 2003-2011 (until it was adjusted) that means we have almost 20 years of raw satellite data showing very little rise.

We thought satellites would finally give us a definitive answer on sea levels. Instead, like the tide gauges, and every other tool available to mankind, apparently satellites systematically underestimate the rising trends. And despite the speed of light being quite quick and all, it can take years for the data to finally arrive. Sometimes 4 or 5 (or 10 years) after the measurement was made scientists “discover” that it was wrong.

Now of course, any one of these adjustments could be for very legitimate reasons and give us results closer to the truth. But the adjustments always bring data closer to the modeled trend. It’s decidedly non-random. Either there is a God who thinks teasing climate scientists is spiffy, or else there is something fishy going on, and some investigative journalists need to ask some investigative questions. Is that sea-level rise due to global warming or is it due to global adjustments?

Much more HERE (See the original for links, graphics etc.)

Posted by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.).
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