Daily Rotten Archives January 2, 2005 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Pentagon, CIA seek lifetime interrogation for terrorists Wire Services | Submitted by: A. P. Palled "The Pentagon and the CIA have asked the White House to decide on a more permanent approach for those it was unwilling to set free or turn over to U.S. or foreign courts, the Washington Post said... Some detentions could potentially last a lifetime, the newspaper said. Influential senators denounced the idea as probably unconstitutional. 'It's a bad idea. So we ought to get over it and we ought to have a very careful, constitutional look at this,' Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said." Read article... Iraqi election workers threatened with death London Telegraph | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "[Majid Dawood] is among a growing number of election workers who are quitting their posts after threats from insurgents intent on forcing Iraq's January 30 poll into chaos... three days after he quit his job on December 17, any lingering doubts about whether he had made the right choice disappeared when four election workers were dragged from their car and shot dead in broad daylight in Baghdad's Haifa Street district... Iraqi officials admitted that nine election workers had so far been killed, but were unable to say how many had quit their jobs." Read article... Fred Phelps gloats over Swedish tsunami dead Raw Story | Submitted by: A. P. Palled "Westboro Baptist Church leaders known for picketing the funeral of Matthew Shepard, the young college student brutally murdered in Wyoming in 1998, have released the following statement regarding the tsunamis which hit Southeast Asia earlier in the week. The statement, which was posted on their website Wednesday alongside dozens of other archived 'press releases,' thanks God for the tsunami and for the death of any gay Swedish vacationers who perished at the time." [Excerpt: "God is laughing, mocking and taunting Swedes as they mourn & weep over their dead! ... Thank God for his vengeance, and we pray for worse and more of it upon Sweden."] Read article... and This article... Tsunami workers aided by Scientology counselors Brisbane Courier-Mail | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Australian disaster victim identification (DVI) experts are... working with its New Zealand and Dutch counterparts to preserve bodies in the village of Wat Yang Yao, near the popular resort town of Chao Lak. The bodies are being preserved so that they can be identified later. The experts have been joined by volunteer relief workers from the Church of Scientology... 'It's been an incredible relationship,' the leader of the Scientology team, American Patrick Bundock, said... Bundock and his team have provided counselling to relief workers at the scene, as well as to victims of the disaster. 'A lot of the counselling and relief staff are in just as much distress as the victims.'" Read article... Gimp convicted of domestic violence News of the World | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Gemma Johnson revealed how James Edwards invited men to come to their home and film her having lesbian sex with other girls. Whenever the frightened youngster refused to co-operate violent Edwards - 17 years her senior - attacked her, pushing her face into a Hoover bag until she almost suffocated, strangling her and punching and kicking her in the stomach. And when Gemma told him she was leaving him he poured a kettleful of boiling water over her body and face... After she left, vengeful spina bifida sufferer Edwards took an overdose - and then lied to police that Gemma had helped him take the pills. Bristol Crown Court cleared her and found him guilty of grievous bodily harm over the terrifying kettle attack." Read article... Anna Nicole Smith cut out of inheritance BBC | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A court has overturned the decision to award $88m to former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith from the estate of her husband who was 90 when he died. It is the latest twist in a nine-year battle between Smith and the son of the late oil baron J Howard Marshall II... Although she did not appear in his will, Smith claimed he had promised half of his estimated $1.6bn fortune... The latest ruling means she is no longer entitled to any of the money, which has been held in trust during the lengthy legal fight." Read article... Man allegedly commits matricide Daily Southtown | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A 26-year-old Wilmington man was arrested on murder charges Friday after allegedly shooting his mother more than once and killing her, Will County sheriff's police said. Douglas Parini Jr., of 25416 Cottage Lane in unincorporated Wilimington Township, was arrested in Joliet around 4 p.m., an hour after fleeing the house he shared with his parents, Florence and Douglas Parini Sr... Florence Parini, 51, suffered multiple gunshot wounds from a handgun allegedly used by her son, [said sheriff's spokesman Pat Barry]." Read article... Police unable to implicate suspect in phone sex hoax The Joplin Globe | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "[Detective Michael Gayman] says he is fairly certain that David R. Stewart, 38, of Fountain, Fla., is the man who called the Sonic Drive-In at 1030 E. Seventh St. on May 26, posing as a local police officer... The caller managed to convince a 16-year-old female manager to strip-search a 21-year-old male cook in the women's restroom at the Sonic and to perform an oral sex act on the cook under the threat of arrest if she did not cooperate. The caller then persuaded the cook to conduct a strip search of the manager. Stewart was arrested in July on a warrant related to a similar hoax perpetrated on employees of a McDonald's restaurant in Mount Washington, Ky. He is the chief suspect in scores of strip-search scam calls placed to various restaurants nationwide since the mid-1990s." Read article... Porn industry mostly ignoring condoms BBC | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Condoms became an issue in the San Fernando Valley eight months ago when one of the industry's major stars, Darren James, tested positive for HIV. Four women he had worked with were subsequently diagnosed, prompting a scare which brought the entire industry to a standstill for two months... Officials from the Californian Health and Safety at Work division imposed $30,000 fines on the two production companies at the centre of the outbreak. And there was even talk of enshrining condom use in law. Yet for all the brouhaha, it is estimated that fewer than 20% of porn stars currently engage in safe sex." Read article... Vicious poodle stabbed strictly in self-defense WJXT-TV 4 Jacksonville | Submitted by: Oobatz "A 47-year-old man is charged with animal cruelty after police say he stabbed his mother's poodle. Police said Daniel Fox admitted to stabbing the dog, claiming it was in self-defense. Fox told police that the dog tried to attack him, biting at his ankles. Investigators say Fox was wearing long pants and did not have any bite marks or signs of any injury." Read article... Pastor charged with child molestation Lakeland Ledger | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A former Wahneta youth pastor was arrested Monday on charges that he molested a 6-year-old Polk County boy in 1996, and possibly other young boys in Michigan and North Carolina. Robert Enersen, 54, of 1424 E. 13th St., was taken into custody by Douglas police on three charges of lewd assault on a child. According to a Polk County Sheriff's Office report... Enersen also admitted to molesting a 10-year-old boy in North Carolina several times. The reputed abuse took place repeatedly until the boy turned 17. Another boy in Michigan apparently was also victimized by Enersen on several occasions, the report states... Enersen admitted that at least once he pulled the boy out from beneath his bed, after he had hidden there in fear." Read article... Convicted priest allegedly had a record KVBC-TV 3 Las Vegas | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A deposition in a pending civil lawsuit reveals that a former Henderson priest faced allegations of inappropriately touching a young man six years before he was accused of abusing teenage boys at his parish. 53-year-old Mark Roberts denied the accusations of a young homeless man who he took to an apartment to let him shower and wash his clothes in about 1996... In 2002, Roberts was accused of abusing five boys at his Henderson parish. He pleaded guilty in January 2003 to criminal charges of lewdness and child abuse." Read article... Willie Aames retires as Bibleman Toledo Blade | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "The Christian video series began in 1995 with Bibleman portrayed by Willie Aames, the actor best known for his roles in the TV series Charles in Charge and Eight Is Enough. But after 10 years of defeating such villains as The Fibbler, Dr. Fear, the Gossip Queen, and El Furioso by quoting the Word of God, Mr. Aames decided to hang up his mask and cape." Read article...