Daily Rotten Archives February 5, 2004 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Priest allegedly coordinates boy's gangrape Orange County Weekly | Submitted by: juanholmes "The Diocese of Orange has sheltered its share of child molesters over the years... But the king of county pedophiles remains Father Eleuterio Ramos. The diocese is still dealing with Ramos’ legacy even though he hasn't served in the county since 1991... [a May 2003 Orange police report] features him admitting to detectives that he repeatedly molested the plaintiff and at least 25 other boys during a decade-long stint in the county. Included in that police report is an incident in which the victim alleges Ramos allowed three men to bind, blindfold and rape the then-14-year-old in a San Diego motel in 1984... when they took the blindfold off, he noticed blood, semen and feces on the sheet." Read article... Johnny Rotten goes crazy, quits reality TV show Guardian | Submitted by: raw "John Lydon will not be allowed to return to I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! after storming off the jungle contest in the middle of the night, throwing the show into a temporary crisis... Lydon, who sparked almost 100 complaints earlier this week after calling the audience 'fucking cunts' for not voting him off, walked out after launching another four-letter rant and starting a fire on the edge of the camp in protest at the lack of food. He told programme-makers he was 'bored' and 'wanted some chocolate.' He is now holed up in a luxury hotel on the Gold Coast and will be barred from returning to the set... Lydon's departure will be a huge blow for the show, which is watched by up to 12 million viewers every night. The former Sex Pistol became an unlikely viewers' favourite and his increasingly eccentric behaviour became the main talking point." Read article... Nazi dog trainer gets 13 months BBC | Submitted by: Lydjia "A man who trained his dog to give a Nazi salute has been handed a suspended sentence for shouting 'Sieg Heil' in public and wearing a Hitler T-shirt. A Berlin court found the 54-year-old German, named only as Ronald T, guilty of displaying Nazi symbols and insulting a policeman last March. The man received a 13-month suspended sentence on Thursday. Nazi symbols and gestures, including words and actions which can be seen to condone Nazism, are illegal in Germany." Read article... Lawsuit filed over Janet's breast Miami Herald | Submitted by: Big Jed "Terri Carlin wants to make Janet Jackson's bare breast into a federal case. Carlin filed a proposed class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court Wednesday against Jackson, singer Justin Timberlake, broadcasters MTV and CBS and their parent company, Viacom. Carlin alleges that she and others who watched the halftime show during Sunday's Super Bowl were injured by the performers' lewd actions when Timberlake ripped off part of Jackson's costume, exposing her breast... 'As a direct and proximate result of the broadcast of the acts, (Carlin) and millions of others saw the acts and were caused to suffer outrage, anger, embarrassment and serious injury,' the lawsuit says." [Fat chance, unless they can produce psychiatry bills.] Read article... Drunks vandalize church, piss on altar Boston Herald | Submitted by: Amos Quito "Two barefoot Stoughton teens drunk on wine swiped from Immaculate Conception Church urinated on the altar and in a vessel of holy water in a vandalism spree that caused about $10,000 in damage, police said... The vandalism at the church left the priest's vestments covered in spray from fire extinguishers and soda was spilled on the floor of another room. Police investigating the incident first suspected the 14-year-old when school officials said he arrived at school drunk after his mother called to report he'd never come home that night." Read article... Baby possibly sacrificed in ritual Guardian | Submitted by: optional "A decapitated baby boy found on a hilltop near Lake Titicaca may have been killed last week in a human sacrifice ritual, police said Wednesday. The remains of the infant, believed to have been 7 months old, were discovered Tuesday in the Yunguyo area near the Bolivian border... Investigators believe the killing may have been a ritualistic sacrifice meant to appease a pre-Columbian earth god, because the body was found on the hilltop surrounded by flowers, liquor bottles and containers of blood." Read article... Nuke-peddling scientist's wrist goes slapless MSNBC | Submitted by: Somebody who still has Kyle's Brendan Wires CD "Just two weeks after condemning possible rogue elements in Pakistan's nuclear program as 'enemies of the state,' a defiant and unapologetic President Gen. Pervez Musharraf forgave Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan after the disgraced scientist took responsibility on national television for leaks that spanned at least a decade starting in the late 1980s. Musharraf's decision to back away from a public trial appeared weak to some international observers suspicious of his and Kahn's contention that the Pakistani government didn't authorize or know about the proliferation... Strongly worded criticism of Khan's pardon came Thursday from former U.S. chief weapons inspector David Kay. 'I can think of no one who deserves less to be pardoned,' Kay said in Washington. He called the disclosures 'a wake-up call' and said Khan was 'running essentially a Sam's Club' of weapons technology." Read article... Man allegedly impregnates 8-year-old Newsday | Submitted by: buck_fabies "A Queens sock vendor pleaded guilty yesterday to molesting and impregnating his girlfriend's 8-year-old daughter and faces 20 years in prison, prosecutors said. Chancellor Drayton, 44, of 4-21 27th Ave. in Astoria, was charged with first-degree rape, police said, after the girl's grandmother found a 'Dear Dad' love letter in which the child wrote that she enjoyed having sex with him and added, 'I want to marry you.' The girl's mother, a Fort Greene resident, contacted police, and tests showed that her daughter was 15 weeks pregnant. At the mother's request, an abortion was performed and police arrested Drayton two weeks later." Read article... Ancient Hawaiian skull offered on eBay Maui News | Submitted by: HawaiianAtheist "An eBay auction of a skull claimed to be from an ancient Hawaiian who was buried at Kaanapali long ago was halted Wednesday after outraged Native Hawaiians contacted legal authorities... An eBay spokesman could not be reached, but Sara Collins, archaeology branch chief of the State Historic Preservation Division, said the company's senior lawyer immediately responded and was cooperative. Because it's against the federal Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) to traffic in such human remains, the matter has been turned over to federal attorneys... The skull apparently was dug up in 1969 on Kaanapali Beach by the seller." Read article... Middle schooler killed by classmate The Ledger | Submitted by: redefinegravity "Michael Hernandez and Jaime Rodrigo Gough were described as friends who competed for better grades and often talked in their middle school's hallways. And that's why investigators and most people who knew them are dumbfounded by charges that Hernandez fatally stabbed Gough in their school's bathroom. Neighbors of the boys and students at Southwood Middle School in the Miami suburb of Palmetto Bay were horrified when police revealed the gruesome details... According to police and medical examiners, Gough was stabbed in the neck multiple times with a knife and bled to death." Read article... Assassins fail to kill meddlesome Iraqi Reuters | Submitted by: SonofDubya "Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, survived an assassination bid on Thursday when gunmen opened fire on his entourage in the sacred streets of Najaf, a security aide said. The assassination attempt comes days before a team of United Nations electoral experts is due to arrive in the country to assess the feasibility of holding early elections along the lines that Sistani has demanded. Sistani, revered by Iraq's Shi'ite community, which makes up about 60 percent of the country's 25 million population, is rarely seen in public... An attempt on the 73-year-old cleric's life is likely to incite fury among Iraq's long-oppressed Shi'ite community as it seeks greater influence in post-Saddam Hussein Iraq." Read article... Police official the most reasonable man in Wales BBC | Submitted by: Hardcastle "North Wales Police Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom says he is prepared to see drugs such as heroin openly on sale because current drug laws are doing 'more harm than good.' ... Brunstrom believes that legalising drugs would wipe out a multi-million pound criminal trade and says he has been amazed to receive 'massive' public support for his views... The chief constable - who has been heavily criticised over his crackdown on speeding motorists - insisted he is not supporting the drug trade - cannabis, he said, was not a safe drug and heroin was 'extremely addictive.' But, he said drugs should be legalised adding that there was nothing wrong with the idea that the government could take over responsibility for their sale. The police chief's unconventional view on drugs emerged in 2001 when he told his police authority that it was the only way to win the war against drugs." [Somebody give that man a cigar.] Read article... Pollution-fighting paint New Scientist | Submitted by: Mike "A paint that soaks up some of the most noxious gases from vehicle exhausts will goes on sale in Europe in March... the substance is designed to reduce levels of the nitrogen oxides, collectively known as the NOx gases, which cause respiratory problems and trigger smog production... The paint's base is polysiloxane, a silicon-based polymer. Embedded in it are spherical nanoparticles of titanium dioxide and calcium carbonate 30 nanometres wide... The polysiloxane base is porous enough to allow NOx to diffuse though it and adhere to the titanium dioxide particles. The particles absorb ultraviolet radiation in sunlight and use this energy to convert NOx to nitric acid. The acid is then either washed away in rain, or neutralised by the alkaline calcium carbonate particles, producing harmless quantities of carbon dioxide, water and calcium nitrate, which will also wash away." Read article... Spyware masquerading as spyware killers Globe and Mail | Submitted by: Lydia "Web surfers battling 'spyware' face a new problem: so-called spyware-killing programs that install the same kind of unwanted advertising software they promise to erase... The boom in spyware, adware and other PC hijackers has led to increasing calls for regulation from lawmakers, including presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., and from public-interest groups. Many software makers have turned to advertising as a way to make money from consumers who are reluctant to purchase programs. The same approach has been taken by some antispyware companies, even though they promise that their products will root out unwanted advertising from others... Like viruses, adware and spyware programs can sneak into a user's computer hard drive with little or no warning and can hide their tracks in ways that make it difficult for even the most sophisticated computer users to find and permanently delete." Read article...