Daily Rotten Archives January 28, 2005 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Dad allegedly stabs daughter, 7, to death Westchester Journal News | Submitted by: Digz "Christopher Rhodes denied killing his daughter [Jerica] and pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder... An employee found the first-grader's small body with multiple stab wounds in a boys' bathroom at Sacred Heart of Jesus School on Thursday morning. Witnesses told investigators that they saw Rhodes walking her into the school at 8:10 a.m. during a gymnasium assembly, Highland Falls Police Chief Peter Miller said. After questioning Rhodes, police obtained a search warrant for his home, where state police found blood and other evidence, police said." Read article... and This article... Man immolated in parking lot The Advertiser (Adelaide) | Submitted by: The Invisible Man In The Sky "Drenched in petrol and set alight, a man ran through a suburban hotel car park early yesterday leaving a trail of fire before a shocked onlooker tried to put out the flames with buckets of water. The man, 51, of Marion, suffered burns to more than 90 per cent of his body in the horrific attack in the Marion Hotel car park at 2am. He died in hospital about three hours later... It is believed the man had an argument with a woman in the hotel car park on the corner of Marion and Quick roads at Mitchell Park. Petrol was poured over him and he was set alight. The man then ran about 30m through shrubs and around trees from one side of the car park to the other. He collapsed in front of the hotel's main entrance, where another man tried to extinguish the flames with buckets of water." Read article... Perv guilty of molesting daughter Orange County Weekly | Submitted by: Lance "According to court testimony, [Lester Allen Yocum] fondled his daughter's vagina, sometimes as she watched television, with her younger brother sitting unaware nearby; shaved her pubic hairs when she was an adolescent; orally copulated the girl when her mother was running errands; told her to massage his buttocks in the shower; and enticed her to masturbate him... 'I remember once I was in the bathroom naked, getting ready for a shower when he came in, and I think he was already erect,' Yocum's daughter testified. 'He pulled down his shorts and rubbed the head of his penis against my vagina. There was wetness coming out. I was really scared, and he sensed it. He said not to worry because he wasn't going to go inside me.'" Read article... Teen allegedly poisons family CNN | Submitted by: Lady Despair "A teenager put mouse poison into his family's food for five weeks before his stepfather discovered the pellets in some coffee grounds, according to a criminal complaint... The boy's mother, stepfather and the couple's 3-year-old daughter had experienced stomach pains, heartburn and vomiting, the complaint said. When interviewed by police at school, the teen said he put poison in juice, milk, spaghetti, coffee and meat, according to the complaint. The boy told investigators that he did not want to kill his family, but wanted to make them sick because he was mad at them." Read article... Fisherman allegedly exhibits poor impulse control St. Cloud Times | Submitted by: Oobatz "Criminal charges could be filed today in an assault that happened after two St. Cloud friends argued about where to ice fish, Stearns County authorities said. Deputies believe Thomas Earl Sigler, 29, hit Michael Louis Olson, 25, with a manually operated ice auger... The two men were trying to decide where to drill holes and begin fishing when they started to argue about which spot was best, [Chief Deputy Bruce Bechtold] said. Authorities believe Olson picked up the bait and started to walk toward the spot he thought was best when Sigler hit him with the auger." Read article... SUV fuckwit ruining it for everybody Sacramento Bee | Submitted by: jcool_83 "A wrong-way driver on State Route 99 near Madera caused a nine-car pileup early Thursday that killed one person and critically injured several others, authorities said. The driver of an SUV was traveling north in the southbound lane, and caused a chain reaction of collisions that tangled up three big rigs, as well as cars, pickup trucks and SUVs, according to California Highway Patrol Officer Scott Jobinger." Read article... Israel urges US airstrikes against Iran Guardian | Submitted by: ioerror "The Israeli defence minister, Shaul Mofaz, warned yesterday that Iran will reach 'the point of no return' within the next 12 months in its covert attempt to secure a nuclear weapons capability... Mofaz said Iran was the main long-term threat to the world and stressed that it will not be permitted to build a nuclear bomb... Dick Cheney said last week that Israel might launch a pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, as it did against Iraq's nuclear reactor at Osirak in 1981... US officials have confirmed privately a report by the US reporter Seymour Hersh, in the New Yorker, that US special forces have already been in Iran scouting out its nuclear facilities." Read article... Substitute teacher accused of substandard brains Chicago Sun-Times | Submitted by: Free Jacko "The Chicago Public Schools are moving to fire a substitute teacher who allegedly taped shut the mouths and eyes of second-graders at a Morgan Park school earlier this week, officials said. The 45-year-old substitute, whose name was not released, was working her first day at Esmond Elementary School, 1865 W. Montvale, on Tuesday when the tape came out, officials said. As many as 10 children and their parents have told school officials that the woman put clear tape across the students' mouths and eyes, schools spokesman Mike Vaughn said... [A second-grader] told an assistant principal the teacher had told her to 'sit your ass down,' officials said." Read article... Italian porn DVD substituted for Doris Day film BBC | Submitted by: Mr Luthore "A devout Baptist couple who bought a Doris Day DVD from a supermarket were shocked to find a sex film instead. Alan and Anne Leigh-Browne, from Wellington, Somerset, had been expecting to enjoy The Pajama Game. Instead they were confronted by Italian sex film - Tettone che Passione, which translates to Breasts, What a Passion... The couple, regular attendees at their local Baptist church, settled down with a cup of tea to watch the 1957 musical which has a U (universal) certificate. 'It was a pretty raunchy, explicit film, it certainly pulled no punches,' Mr Leigh-Browne said. 'My wife and I were very shocked but we watched it until the end because we couldn't believe what we were seeing. The film became progressively more graphic, there was no plot to it, it was just sex.'" [Heavens to Murgatroid! Another decent couple ensnared by pornography.] Read article... Massive shitpile still burning Wire Services | Submitted by: Tim Howard "Urban dwellers who enjoy dining on filet mignon at five-star restaurants would probably just as soon not know about David Dickinson's dilemma... a dung pile measuring 100 feet long, 30 feet high and 50 feet wide that began burning about two months ago and continues to smolder despite Herculean attempts to douse it... Dickinson first tried using heavy equipment to spread out the smoldering pile and extinguish the fire. 'But the problem was, it started in another spot,' he said. 'We've also had the fire department out a couple of times.' And still it burns." Read article...