Daily Rotten Archives February 1, 2005 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Man killed mom accidentally, in self-defense Sacramento Bee | Submitted by: jcool_83 "A young man charged with murdering his mother and cutting up her body said Monday that he killed her after she came at him with a knife during an argument in their Riverside County apartment. Jason Victor Bautista, testifying in his own defense, said the killing was 'accidental self-defense.' ... Bautista and brother Matthew Montejo, 17, were charged with murder and conspiracy. The teenager allegedly helped his brother dispose of the body. Bautista allegedly told police he got the idea to decapitate the woman to prevent identification from an episode of the mafia-themed television show The Sopranos." Read article... CIA reportedly withholding Nazi documents New York Times | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "The CIA is refusing to provide hundreds of thousands of pages of documents sought by a government working group under a 1998 law that requires full disclosure of classified records related to Nazi war criminals... some made public last year showed a closer relationship between the U.S. government and Nazi war criminals than had previously been understood, including the CIA's recruitment of war criminal suspects or Nazi collaborators... At the request of Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, the Senate Judiciary Committee plans to hold a public hearing on the matter in February and plans to call CIA officials and members of the working group as witnesses." Read article... Cops charged in underage sex crime KXAS-TV 5 Dallas | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Two Denton County police officers were arrested Thursday on charges of indecency with a child. According to investigators, Darrell Wayne Wright had a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old. They said Wright had intercourse and oral sex with the minor female and that [Dennis Alatzas] not only knew about it, but also let the acts take place inside his home." Read article... Teacher admits jailbait troika nineMSN | Submitted by: Lord_Knob "A Melbourne high school teacher who engaged in threesomes with a pair of teenage students filmed himself performing sex acts with the girls, a court was told. Peter Donald Carne, 45, of Hennessey Way, Dandenong, pleaded guilty to 10 charges including committing an indecent act with a 16-year-old, three counts of sexual penetration with a 16-year-old, three counts of sexual penetration with a child under 16 years... Carne filmed their encounters on webcam and on one occasion transmitted it to another person, the court was told... The other girl did the same after Carne started talking about wanting to drug his girlfriend's 16-year-old daughter so he could have sex with her, the court was told." Read article... Retrial scheduled in Haidl case Wire Services | Submitted by: Ozzwepay "The highly anticipated retrial of three teens accused of gang-raping a 16-year-old girl at a Newport Beach, Calif., party is set to begin almost seven months after the first trial ended with a deadlocked jury... On July 5, 2002, 17-year-olds Gregory Haidl, Kyle Nachreiner and Keith Spann videotaped the girl, referred in court only as 'Jane Doe,' while they shoved a pool stick, Snapple bottle, and a lit cigarette into her genitals as they laughed and danced around her... [District Attorney Chuck Middleton] said the defense twisted the alleged victim's words in the first trial by claiming she was an 'aspiring porn star.'" Read article... Man bites off brother's finger Wire Services | Submitted by: Oobatz "Jose Juarez, 45, got into a fight with his younger brother, Roy Juarez. Witnesses said Jose Juarez insulted his brother's daughter, and the fight began. At some point, Jose allegedly bit off a third of his brother's middle finger on his right hand. According to the complaint, police said Jose appeared to be quite drunk. Jose Juarez on Sunday night acknowledged that he bit his brother and that alcohol was a factor. 'Yeah, I'm not proud to say I did, but it happened so quick,' he told KMSP-TV of the Twin Cities. 'We were both kind of intoxicated. I didn't sit there chewing or gnawing or anything like this.' Roy Juarez was taken to Rice Memorial Hospital where doctors reattached the piece of finger." Read article... Action figure threatened with decapitation CNN | Submitted by: BurningBush "A photograph posted on an Islamist Web site appears to be that of an action figure and not a U.S. soldier being held hostage. Liam Cusack, the marketing coordinator for Dragon Models USA, said the figure pictured on the Web site is believed to be 'Special Ops Cody,' a military action figure the company manufactured in late 2003... On the Islamist Web site, a group calling itself the Al Mujahedeen Brigade, posted a photograph of a man it claimed was a captured U.S. soldier named John Adam, and it threatened to behead him if Iraqi prisoners are not released by U.S. forces. Staff Sgt. Nick Minecci of the U.S. military's press office in Baghdad told The Associated Press that 'no units have reported anyone missing.' The photograph showed the figure against a black flag with white lettering reading, 'God is great, there is no god but Allah.' A U.S. military assault rifle was pointed at its head. It appears that 'rifle' was part of the plastic weaponry that came with the action figure." Read article... State supreme court justice allegedly DWI WEWS-TV 5 Cleveland | Submitted by: nutsy "A state Supreme Court justice was pulled over and charged with driving under the influence after several motorists called to report an erratic driver on an interstate. 'A strong odor of alcohol was detected' on Justice Alice Robie Resnick, and police believe alcohol was the reason for the erratic driving... She failed field sobriety tests and refused to take a blood-alcohol content test, [Lt. Rick Zwayer] said... Resnick's driver's license was suspended for a year for refusing the breath test, although a judge can revise the suspension to a shorter period or up to three years." Read article... Crappy hospitals star in documentary London Observer | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A Channel 4 Dispatches programme, to be screened tomorrow night, shows nurses neglecting elderly patients left in their own urine and faeces while hospital staff ignore measures designed to counter the spread of superbugs... Dispatches sent two trained nurses equipped with hidden cameras into the Royal United Hospital, Bath, and Ealing Hospital in London... In one scene, a porter wheels a patient through a hospital. But the nurses have forgotten to tell the porter his patient is infected with the potentially deadly superbug MRSA and their failure has helped spread the disease." Read article... Good samaritans busted for pot possession KMGH-TV 7 Denver | Submitted by: Kaiser Wilhelm "The trio was driving on U.S. Highway 36 from Estes Park, Colo., on the evening of Jan. 26, when they spotted an injured animal in the middle of the road near Pinewood Springs. 'It looked up as if to say, "Help me,"' Jason Lee Laird told the Boulder Daily Camera. The three men decided to rescue the animal so that it wouldn't be hit by another car, and take it to a 24-hour veterinary clinic in Longmont... One of the men sat in the back seat and stroked the animal to reassure it as they drove toward Longmont. They stopped in the next town, ironically called Lyons, and flagged down a Boulder County sheriff's deputy... The deputy told the men that he smelled marijuana in the Jeep... Laird, 21, and Zachariah Deming, 19, were ticketed for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. The injured mountain lion, which wildlife officers guessed was four or five months old, had to be euthanized." [PETA and NORML ought to split the fine.] Read article... Fecal mishap closes interstate highway WPLG-TV 10 Fort Lauderdale | Submitted by: Kaiser Wilhelm "U.S. 1 was shut down all day Tuesday following a violent crash between a tanker carrying 6,000 gallons of human waste and a car on the 18-mile stretch leading into the Florida Keys. The tanker and car hit head-on, sending both vehicles into the shallow water along the road at mile marker 113... The tanker driver was taken to the hospital by an ambulance. He later returned to the scene, dressed in a hospital gown and puffing on a cigarette, to answer investigators' questions." Read article... Anti-tax nutball convicted of tax evasion Sacramento Bee | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A nationally known tax protester who believed income taxes are illegal was found guilty Friday of multiple counts of filing false tax returns and failing to withhold taxes from employees after representing himself at trial in federal court. Walter A. 'Al' Thompson, whose anti-tax philosophies landed him a spot on 60 Minutes II and in numerous stories in the New York Times, faces up to 63 years in prison and $3.25 million in fines... 'Thompson said that he felt that the income tax system was illegal and that they didn't have to pay taxes,' court documents say, adding that new employees at the company were not even allowed to fill out W-4 income reporting forms." Read article...