Suspects Raped 'Defenseless' Disabled Women on Tape

LAPD Hunts For Group Of Men Accused Of Raping Severely Disabled Women...
LOS ANGELES (CBS)  — Sheriff’s investigators are on the hunt for a group of men suspected of sexually assaulting at least 10 severely Disabled women. A computer Hard Drive obtained from an anonymous source contained more than 100 hours of video footage showing at least 10 women being sexually assaulted by at least eight men, said Sgt. Darren Harris of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. It’s not known where and when the attacks took place, but Harris said th...

Los Angeles officials receive 100 hours of video of disabled women being sexually assaulted by men
What is wrong with human beings that makes them capable of such depravity? These filthy raping bastards are so low that I'd want to take a Taser to their "boys." They wouldn't want me on a jury. (CNN): Los Angeles County Sheriff's investigators made a public appeal Thursday in seeking at least four men who were videotaped sexually assaulting at least 10 women who appear to be severely Disabled, including women in a care home. The video came from 11 DVDs that an anonymous tipster dropped off ...

Disabled Women Assault Video: 2 Men Identified In Videos Portraying Abuse Of Handicapped Women
MONTEREY PARK, Calif. — Los Angeles County authorities say they have identified two of the suspects recorded on video sexually assaulting profoundly Disabled women. Sheriff's Sgt. Dan Scott said Friday that Los Angeles police officers recognized the men after detectives went public with artist sketches and photos of four men. The images were gleaned from over 100 hours of video that an unknown individual delivered to sheriff's headquarters in suburban Monterey Park last March. The videos...

2 men identified in LA disabled abuse case
(01-07) 13:06 PST Monterey Park, Calif. (AP) -- Authorities have identified two of the suspects recorded in Sexual Assaults of profoundly Disabled women, officials said Friday. Los Angeles police officers recognized the men after detectives went public with artist sketches and photos of four men on Thursday, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Sgt. Dan Scott said. As many as 10 suspects could have been involved in the assaults. One of the suspects, Bert Hicks, was a worker at a Los Angeles care facil...

Sex assault convict identified as suspect in rapes of disabled women
Investigators have identified two men shown in a video apparently sexually assaulting Disabled women in a care home and other places, Los Angeles Country sheriff's detectives told CNN Friday. One suspect is Bert Hicks, 41, who is now serving a state Prison sentence in Tehachapi, California, for fiduciary Crimes, abuse and Sexual Assault in a residential care facility, sheriff's Detective Ron Anderson said. Hicks allegedly took a Disabled woman to Las Vegas, married her and then brought...

California: Disturbing video shows attacks on disabled victims
© AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes Los Angeles County Sheriff's Special Victims Bureau detective, Ron Anderson speaks during a news conference releasing information on multiple Sexual Assault suspects, Thursday Jan. 6, 2011 in Los Angeles. Detectives seek to identify at least four male suspects involved in the sexual assaults of at least ten severely Disabled women. Los Angeles - Graphic video footage obtained by the sheriff's department shows several men sexually assaulting at least 10 profou...

2 men identified in LA disabled abuse case
MONTEREY PARK, Calif. — Los Angeles County authorities say they have identified two of the suspects recorded on video sexually assaulting profoundly Disabled women. Sheriff’s Sgt. Dan Scott said Friday that Los Angeles police officers recognized the men after detectives went public with artist sketches and photos of four men. The images were gleaned from over 100 hours of video that an unknown individual delivered to sheriff’s headquarters in suburban Monterey Park last March....

Videos show abouse of disabled women
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Investigators in California say they are trying to identify men videotaped sexually abusing Disabled women. Authorities said someone left a package at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's headquarters containing 100 hours of footage of men who appear to be assaulting severely Disabled women, the Los Angeles Times reported. Investigators said the attacks appear to have occurred at residential care centers and said they suspect most of the attackers are employees. Authorit...

Videos show abuse of disabled women
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Investigators in California say they are trying to identify men videotaped sexually abusing Disabled women. Authorities said someone left a package at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's headquarters containing 100 hours of footage of men who appear to be assaulting severely Disabled women, the Los Angeles Times reported. Investigators said the attacks appear to have occurred at residential care centers and they suspect most of the attackers are employees. Authorities T...

Murder trial of Amanda Knox featured in TV movie
The Murder trial of American College Student Amanda Knox is recreated in a television movie that had the actors debating her innocence or guilt. Hayden Panettiere plays Knox and she says it's a riveting story where viewers don't know if Knox committed the Crime or not, and she's not sure anyone will ever know. "Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy" airs Feb. 21 on Lifetime. The movie focuses on the trial of Knox, who was convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering her British roommate in the...

Great Dane helps stop attack on girl
When Agustin Zamora Jr. saw a girl being attacked in the yard next to his Logan Square home, he quickly ran outside to help. But not without first calling for Scooby, his 160-pound giant of a Great Dane, whose size is certain to give pause to the orneriest of criminals. Zamora and Scooby chased the suspect down Whipple Avenue in Logan Square. Joined by two other men, they cornered the man in an alley at George Street. As Scooby growled and barked menacingly, Zamora called police, who arrived to...

Murder trial of Amanda Knox featured in TV movie
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — The Murder trial of American College Student Amanda Knox is recreated in a television movie that had the actors debating her innocence or guilt. Hayden Panettiere plays Knox and she says it’s a riveting story where viewers don’t know if Knox committed the Crime or not, and she’s not sure anyone will ever know. “Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy” airs Feb. 21 on Lifetime. The movie focuses on the trial of Knox, who was convicted of s...

Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Shot
@web_Supergurl Hey, TY for the blogroll add. Consider yourself added to mine. I linked to your Late Night War post; awesome find, Gurl. 7 hours ago « Welcome, Other McCain Readers! Terrible terrible news. At least 12 people were wounded and Giffords was one of them. The shooter is in custody, according a Law Enforcement spokesman. Various conflicting reports are circulating in the local and national media about whether there were fatalities, and the seriousness of Giffords’ cond...

FLASHBACK: Australia's most notorious killer: Katherine Knight's home movies
Old home movies reveal Katherine Knight's family life as a young wife and mother in the Upper Hunter, years before she became one of Australia's most notorious killers. Knight was the first Australian woman sentenced to Life Imprisonment without Parole, for stabbing her partner John Price 37 times with a butcher's knife, skinning him and cooking parts of his flesh in 2000. © Unknown 1BUTCHER: Early footage of Katherine Knight, left and below. Above: the lounge room of the house in which ...

Report: New info in Biggie Smalls slaying
The hip-hop star was gunned down in Los Angeles at age 24 while riding in the passenger seat of a sport utility vehicle after a Music Industry party 13 years ago. Although no one has been convicted in the slaying, police have said in the past they believe he was killed because of rivalry in the rap industry. A law-enforcement source told CNN Friday the unsolved case was "reinvigorated" months ago as a result of new information. The Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles County District Attor...

Australia: Jihadist threats against four Coptic churches in Sydney
One priest told The Weekend Australian that "the nation's Islamic leaders need to speak out against the threats." Indeed. They're really slipping if they haven't even come out yet with the usual sound bytes against "Terrorism" and the assurances that Islam is "peaceful." Perhaps they have by now, or eventually they probably will. And that's about all they'll do, continuing with the pattern of half-measures for public consumption that characterize Muslim groups' responses to Crimes committed i...

Turkish Airlines passengers overcome mentally disabled man threatening to hijack plane
© Associated Press Police detain a Turkish national at Ataturk airport A Turkish Airlines passenger claiming to have a bomb tried to force his way into the cockpit on a flight from Norway to Istanbul, but was subdued by other passengers and the plane landed safely, Turkish media has reported. The man was arrested after Flight 1754 from Oslo landed at Istanbul's Ataturk International Airport at 9.30pm. Police said he did not have any explosives, Anatolia news agency reported. The agency ...

Train spares girl lowered onto tracks in Argentina
Q. My 12-year-old daughter had a bestfriend since first grade. Her mother and I also became close. Over the years I watched this girl behave in spoiled, manipulative and ruthlessly competitive ways. Her mother characterized her as “strong-willed,” and once said proudly that her daughter “makes sure she gets in with whomever she wants.” My daughter just discovered she wasn’t invited to this girl’s birthday party although she was our guest for my daughter’...

Joe Arridy, Disabled Man Executed In 1939, Granted Posthumous Pardon By Colorado Governor
Denver — A mentally Disabled man executed more than 70 years ago has been pardoned in Colorado. Outgoing Gov. Bill Ritter on Friday awarded a posthumous pardon to 23-year-old Joe Arridy, who was executed in 1939 by lethal gas after being convicted of killing a Pueblo girl with a hatchet. Ritter said an overwhelming amount of evidence suggests Arridy didn't commit the crime. He had an I.Q. of 46 – too low to be considered for the death penalty today. Arridy appears to have given a c...

Disabled man executed in 1939 pardoned in Colorado
DENVER—A mentally Disabled man executed more than 70 years ago has been pardoned in Colorado. Outgoing Gov. Bill Ritter on Friday awarded a posthumous pardon to Joe Arridy, who was executed in 1939 by lethal gas after being convicted of killing a Pueblo girl with a hatchet. Later evidence suggested the 23-year-old Arridy didn't commit the crime. The man had an I.Q. of 46 and appears to have given a coerced confession. Arridy was likely not in Pueblo when the 15-year-old girl was killed. ...

Today in Feminist Rape Apologia
Feminist Naomi Wolf has written a piece arguing that the women accusing Julian Assange of Sexual Assault ought to be named. (The headline says they "deserve" to be named, which is certainly an interesting word choice; as a contributor to Comment is Free, however, I know that it was not a choice made by Wolf. I'm extremely curious to know which editor inserted that particular bit of vituperative judgment into the headline.) There is so much wrong with Wolf's piece that I could literally spend th...

WIKILEAKS' Assange signs book deal to tell life story...
Edinburgh-based Canongate Books said it had acquired world rights -- apart from North America where the publisher will be Alfred A. Knopf -- to the Whistleblower's Autobiography. It will be published in Britain in April. Assange, who is on bail in Britain facing Extradition proceedings to Sweden on charges of Sexual Assault, has overseen the release of thousands of US diplomatic cables on the Wikileaks website. The publishers said the 39-year-old Australian would use the book to discuss his phil...

Perrish Cox Sexual Assault Documents Will Remain Sealed
CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — A Colorado judge won't release a court document outlining the Sexual Assault allegations against Denver Broncos cornerback Perrish Cox. Douglas County Judge Susanna Meissner-Cutler said Friday that she couldn't release Cox's arrest affidavit because the investigation was still ongoing. She also said she didn't want to subject the alleged Victim to harassment and wanted to protect Cox's right to a fair trial. The decision came during a hearing for Cox in suburban Denv...

NYC Boy, 13, Fights Off Attempted Sex Assault
Police are seeking the man above in the green jacket and tan pants, a suspect in an attempted Sexual Assault on a teenaged boy in Morningside Heights. NEW YORK (CBS 2) - Police are seeking the public’s help in an attempted Sexual Assault captured on Surveillance video last month in Morningside Heights. A 13-year-old boy walking to school fought off a frightening attack in Manhattan after he was suddenly assaulted by a stranger. The teen is physically fine after managing to get away f...

Besieged Assange hires PR team
Transparency Activist Julian Assange is hiring a Public Relations firm after a series of damaging blows to his image. The Wikileaks founder, who is on bail in the English countryside during his fight to avoid Extradition to Sweden over Sexual Assault allegations, has taken a battering in the media in recent weeks. The web Whistleblower's secret-spilling, including the publishing of tens of thousands of US Embassy cables, have made him a worldwide celebrity but it is the allegations against him t...