Daily Rotten Archives January 1, 2005 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Girl survives tsunami only to be gangraped Wire Services | Submitted by: fredbox "A teenager who escaped death but was left orphaned and homeless by the Asian tsunami met yet one more agony: gang rape, one of several cases of child abuse being investigated in the disaster zone, an official said Saturday. Of all the human tragedies emerging from the worst natural disaster in decades, sexual abuse of vulnerable children in refugee camps must be among the most shocking... [Harendra de Silva, head of the National Child Protection Authority] is investigating several complaints of sexual abuse in centers housing tens of thousands of survivors... De Silva gave few details of the case of the gang-raped 17-year-old girl, which occurred in the area of Galle on the southern coast but not in a refugee center. Hours after being washed ashore and left orphaned and homeless, she was raped by six men, he said." Read article... Hostage taker shot dead inside McDonald's KCTV-TV 5 Kansas City | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A gunman held the mother of his children hostage at a McDonald's restaurant Friday before he was fatally shot by police. The standoff lasted more than four hours, ending when an officer fired once and hit Sam Giangreco, 47... Police said Giangreco, who lived in the Kansas City suburb of Liberty, went to the McDonald's where the woman - who had a protective order against him - works... The woman sent Giangreco away, police said, but he returned early Friday afternoon and sent everyone but her out of the restaurant... [police spokesman Darin Snapp] said the decision to shoot him was made because Giangreco was behaving erratically, threatening the woman and refusing to negotiate." Read article... Daycare worker allegedly rapes baby WBIR-TV 10 Knoxville | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "LaVergne police have charged a day care worker with the rape of a 16 month old girl. Officers arrested 26 year old Amy Sisco of LaVergne, charging her with aggravated child abuse and child rape. Police were alerted on December 22nd. The child's mother picked up the baby at Tots' Learning Center and noticed her diaper was on the wrong way. When she changed the diaper, the mother noticed blood on it and took her baby to a hospital... Police say Sisco confessed and said she had also been a victim of abuse. But Sisco told WTVF TV in Nashville she accidentally injured the girl as she hastily changed the baby's diaper and denied the charges against her." Read article... Hospital nurse allegedly rapes ICU patient WJXT-TV 4 Jacksonville | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Miami police have arrested a Jackson Memorial Hospital nurse after an 18-year-old woman, a patient at the hospital, said he sexually assaulted her while she was sedated... She reported that nurse Jose Alfonso, 45, entered her room throughout the night on Dec. 27, and sexually assaulted her. 'Our victim stated to investigators that he entered her room several times, fondling her breasts and digitally penetrating her - using his hands or fingers on her,' said Detective Joey Giordano... The woman said she was sedated, but that she was also aware of what was going on." Read article... HIV+ man allegedly fucks teens, rapes boy Toledo Blade | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "[Jerry Gonzales], 46, entered into a plea agreement yesterday in Lucas County Common Pleas Court for crimes involving four young men, all of whom were videotaped having sex with the defendant at his Daniels Avenue home. Gonzales, who is HIV positive, pleaded no contest to one count of rape for sexual activity involving an 11-year-old boy, the youngest victim who was sexually assaulted from June through August. Gonzales entered the same plea to one count of felonious assault for sexual activity involving a 17-year-old boy, who was not informed by Gonzales that he was HIV positive. He also pleaded no contest to one count of unlawful sex with a minor and two counts of pandering sexually oriented material involving juveniles for incidents involving two 16-year-old boys." Read article... Mother of the year nominee Huntington News Network | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "With temperatures in the 20s, rain falling and winds blowing, two boys ages two and four wandered naked Wednesday night at the intersection of First Street and Sixth Avenue... [Police] entered a residence at 520 Rear First Street and found a one to two month baby girl in a feces-filled diaper. A woman identified as a grandmother and/or great grandmother could not even provide the children's names. Cabell County EMS transported the three children to Cabell Huntington Hospital where they were treated for lice and severe diaper rash... police charged their mother, Samatha Lester, 21, with three counts of felony child neglect. Described in police reports as a known crack addict and prostitute... she was also infested with lice." Read article... Cops charged with faking arrest reports WTVJ-TV 6 Miami | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Prosecutors say [deputies Christopher Thieman and Christian Zapata] illegally closed cases in order to better their performance records... Thieman and Zapata also allegedly wrote reports saying suspects confessed to crimes that they could not have committed because they were behind bars at the time. For example, BSO records show 24-year-old Jeremy Sangry confessed to 148 burglaries but was charged with only two. 'Half of them were done while he was still in jail up in Pennsylvania before he was even in the state of Florida,' Sangry's uncle, Jeff Miller, said. Sangry said he was propositioned by deputies to admit to the crimes in exchange for immunity." Read article... Cop arrested for alleged DUI WREG-TV 3 Memphis | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Somerville Police arrested Deputy Robert Lampley early Sunday Morning along Highway 64. Police say Lampley ran several cars off the road before he finally pulled over. Police also found Old Charter Whiskey and a fully loaded semi-automatic gun in his car. Lampley has been in trouble with the Sheriff's Department before. Last October he was reprimanded after an altercation at a hotel in Nashville... Lampley faces six charges including DUI and possession of a firearm while intoxicated." Read article... Fireman allegedly sexchats would-be girl, 14 WKRC-TV 12 Cincinnati | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A West Chester firefighter was arrested Thursday afternoon in an Internet sex sting. Tom Stienau, 23, was taken into custody at his home of Grimsby Lane in Hamilton. Investigators also nabbed Stienau's computer hard drive. Officials said Stienau solicited sexual activity numerous times since October, from someone he believed was a 14-year-old girl. The most recent incident was on Christmas day. The 14-year-old turned out to be a Fairborn Ohio Police Detective. 'He had sent numerous photos of himself through the course of these chats,' said Detective Lee Cyr, Fairborn Police. 'Some were decent, others were not, and during the course he sent one of him in his turnout gear.'" Read article... Feds unconcerned with suspected BSE steer Globe and Mail | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Even if the new [BSE] case is confirmed, it's not expected to delay the announced reopening of the U.S. border to Canadian cattle. That reflects a big change in thinking since May 2003 when the discovery of a single case closed the border. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration was given advance warning of the suspected case and proceeded with the reopening announcement anyway... Prime Minister Paul Martin spoke to U.S. President George W. Bush early Friday about the suspected case coming just as the border re-opening was announced." Read article...