Daily Rotten Archives February 25, 2004 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Woman immolated during healing ritual ABC TV affiliates | Submitted by: Chupacabra "A woman was found dead tonight in a Bronx apartment badly burned, and police believe it was the tragic result of a religious ritual turned deadly... A freak accident on North Street by Grand Avenue has claimed one woman's life, and left another hospitalized. Police believe they were engaged in a ritual, the apartment was lit with candles... According to police the resident of apartment 2C, a 62-year-old woman, was performing a sort of cleansing ritual on a 41-year-old woman, dousing her with special water which is also flammable. They were in the bathroom, candles were lit, and in a flash the younger woman who was unclothed caught on fire. Officials say she ran into the kitchen, collapsed, and died." Read article... People upset over cult KPHO-TV 5 Phoenix | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "It's called Christian Fellowship Ministries and it goes by many names in the valley - including 'The Door,' 'Victory Chapel,' and 'The Potter's House.' Wayman Mitchell founded the church in Prescott, Arizona more than 30 years ago. It's branched out to about 1,000 parishes in nearly 100 countries... Families have accused the church of brainwashing for as long as it's been around... A 5-year-old girl spoke out about the pressure. She came home after visitation with her father and said a pastor dressed as the devil and made her put her hands in a bucket of blood with a heart inside." Read article... Raelians won't stop spouting preposterous bullshit Korea Times | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Clonaid, a U.S.-based company that claims to have produced the first human clone, said on Tuesday it used a South Korean laboratory to create its first human clone embryo... An investigation into Clonaid's activities in South Korea was opened in 2002 upon the request of the Health-Welfare Ministry, but it ended in October of last year with no concrete results due to lacking evidence. But the company did not disclose any other information, such as the Korean laboratory's location or to which country the cloned embryo was taken... Starting with 'Eve' in 2001, Clonaid has declared it has produced six human clones, a claim which left many scientists unconvinced due to the lack of scientific proof. Rael, founder of Clonaid, as well as the Raelian Movement, a religious group that believes aliens started the human race through cloning, attempted to visit the country in August of last year. But, he was turned away at the airport after authorities enforced an entry ban on the leader, fearing he would promote human cloning activities during his stay." Read article... Amnesty International disinvited from Al Qaeda trials Guardian | Submitted by: optional "Amnesty International and two other leading human rights organisations are protesting to the Pentagon about its decision not to let them attend the planned trials of al-Qaida suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba... Journalists and the International Committee of the Red Cross will be able to attend." Read article... FBI carts away entire data center Carrier Hotels | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "CIT Hosting, also known as FooNet, markets itself as 'the leader in the IRC and DDoS protection business for the last 5 years.' The company posted a web page informing customers that its data center was shut down, and instructing customers to contact the FBI if they needed access to their files. 'The FBI executed a search warrant issued by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio regarding the IRC network that we host,' the company said in its statement... CIT said the FBI was 'investigating whether someone hosted on our network hacked and attacked someone else.' 'After several hours of attempting to track down, inspect and audit the terabytes of data that we host, the FBI determined that it was more efficient (from their point of view) to remove all of our servers and transport them to the FBI local laboratories for inspection,' the statement continued. 'The FBI has assured us that as soon as the data has been safely copied and inspected, the equipment will be promptly returned. Unfortunately, the FBI has not been able to tell us when they will be completed with their inspection.'" Read article... Parole officer arrested for kidfucking KOIN-TV 6 Portland | Submitted by: Reid Fleming An Oregon probation officer is accused of sexual abuse and sodomy against a teenage boy under his supervision. A two-year investigation led to the arrest of 48-year-old Michael Lee Boyles. According to court papers, Boyles abused the victim over four years and offered him $1,500 to lie to police. But the teen refused, saying the abuse by a man that he once trusted had to stop. "He basically used his job to manipulate people," said the victim, who is now 20 years old. "It makes you hurt, I guess," Lt. Dale Rutledge of the Oregon State Police said. "You don't like someone within your ranks, part of the criminal justice system, to be involved in those things." Boyles could also face child pornography charges because police allegedly found hundreds of images at his southeast Portland home. OSP detectives believe that there may be more victims. "He just never needs to work around children again. That's my job -- I'm just trying to make sure children out there stay safe," the victim told KOIN 6 News. Read article... Accused shit-eating pimp has scented genitalia newtimesbpb.com | Submitted by: Duke Dubuque "Ginger claims she met with [Arthur Vanmoor] at a Day's Inn near the office. 'He answered his door in this ratty green Speedo-type underwear,' Ginger recalls. 'And he's so matter of fact! He didn't make me comfortable at all. After I showed up, he just looked me over and basically said, "OK, suck my dick."' ... She pauses a moment before softly recollecting this odd tidbit: 'Although his genitalia always smelled like gingerbread, which I never understood.' ... a 30-year-old escort named Berta Brock testified that Vanmoor's sexual proclivities included some unusual behavior - in particular, the practice of coprophagy. Questioned after her arrest, Brock told police during her testimony that 'Vanmoor paid her $600 for some of her feces. She supplied him with the feces, and he ate it in front of her.'" Read article... Man fucks daughter of mailorder bride Philadelphia Inquirer | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "After his mail-order bride arrived from the Ukraine with her 3-year-old daughter, Norman H. McDonald started making disturbing home movies. This morning, the 50-year-old West Goshen Township resident pleaded guilty to having sex with his stepdaughter multiple times - encounters that he videotaped... police found more than 10,000 images of child pornography in McDonald's computer and hundreds of video clips that depicted him having sex with his stepdaughter." Read article... Mel Gibson movie inflames Colorado antisemitism Denver Post | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "It's been two decades since white supremacists murdered a Jewish talk-show host in his Denver driveway; a quarter-century since the Klan marched on an Orthodox synagogue here. Nonetheless, the Ash Wednesday release of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ makes some in the area's Jewish community wary. Those fears were heightened Wednesday when the Lovingway United Pentacostal Church posted a billboard along South Colorado Boulevard proclaiming, 'Jews killed the Lord Jesus ... Settled.' ... Colorado has an uneasy past with racism and anti-Semitism, beginning with the Ku Klux Klan's dominance of state politics in the 1920s, and punctuated by the KKK march in the late 1970s and Berg's 1984 assassination." Read article... Greenspan recommends squeezing social security New York Times | Submitted by: A. P. Palled "Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, stepping into the politically charged debate over Social Security, said Wednesday the country can't afford the retirement benefits promised to baby boomers and urged Congress to trim them. He said that unless Congress acts, soaring budget deficits from out-of-control entitlement programs could lead to a 'very debilitating' rise in interest rates in coming years. Democratic presidential candidates denounced his proposals, and President Bush and other Republicans sought to distance themselves from the Republican Greenspan. The central bank chairman also repeated his view that Bush's tax cuts should be made permanent to bolster economic growth." [Want to bet Al ran neglected to run this little proposal past Karl Rove beforehand?] Read article... Man's diaper clogged with poo New York Times | Submitted by: Brooklyn Reporter "A Paterson man faces child endangerment charges after allegedly showing up at a Roman Catholic school clad in a diaper and pink stretch pants... [William Rhode III, 53] is scheduled to undergo a psychiatric evaluation on March 12. Police said he showed up at Holy Spirit School at dismissal on Feb. 13 seeking a job application. When his request was denied, he defecated in the diaper and fled on foot, police said." Read article... Gay karate teacher perhaps not gay Philadelphia Inquirer | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Karate instructor Gary Lee Glazer, acquitted of molesting two female students after it was revealed at trial that he's gay, apparently isn't, Montgomery County prosecutors say. They charged him yesterday with conspiring to commit perjury... Testimony about Glazer being gay helped him win an acquittal on charges of aggravated indecent assault and indecent assault involving two juvenile students, Castor said. After Glazer's acquittal, detectives began to investigate Keller's testimony that Glazer was homosexual. An affidavit of probable cause contained statements from five women who say they have had sexual relations with Glazer or have been on the receiving end of his sexual advances... One woman, identified in the affidavit as 'M.C.' in court papers, told police that in the fall of 2002, Glazer bound her with neckties and engaged in 'mutual oral sex and intercourse.' ... Two girls, now 16 and 18, testified at trial that Glazer kissed, hugged and touched them in unwanted sexual ways at the karate school." Read article... Freshman US Senators fantastic stock investors New York Times | Submitted by: A. P. Palled "US senators' personal stock portfolios outperformed the market by an average of 12% a year in the five years to 1998, according to a new study. 'The results clearly support the notion that members of the Senate trade with a substantial informational advantage over ordinary investors,' says the author of the report, Professor Alan Ziobrowski of the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. He admits to being 'very surprised' by his findings, which were based on 6,000 financial disclosure filings and are due to be published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis... First-time Senators did especially well, with their stocks outperforming by 20 per cent a year on average - a result that very few professional fund managers would be able to achieve." [They should start a mutual fund and let us all cash in.] Read article...