Daily Rotten Archives February 11, 2005 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Feds ignored 52 al Qaeda warnings in 2001 BBC | Submitted by: Lady Despair "Aviation officials in the US had numerous indications that airlines might be hijacked in the run-up to the 11 September attacks... Of the 105 daily intelligence summaries between 1 April and 10 September 2001, 52 mentioned Bin Laden, al-Qaeda, or both, 'mostly in regard to overseas threats.' The commission report said five security warnings mentioned al-Qaeda's training for hijackings and two reports concerned suicide operations not connected to aviation... The report said there was a 'striking' false sense of security at the FAA. 'Intelligence that indicated a real and growing threat leading up to 11 September did not stimulate significant increases in security procedures,' the report said. It said airline congestion, delays and financial problems in the industry appeared to be more pressing concerns for FAA officials than the possibility of a terrorist attack." Read article... and This article... Monk trainee gets 30 years for murdering nun WKMG-TV 6 Orlando | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "An apprentice Byzantine Catholic monk pleaded guilty Thursday to fatally stabbing and beating a nun in 2001 after prosecutors agreed to a reduced sentence, believing he had been abused by two priests. Mykhaylo Kofel, 22, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and armed burglary and was sentenced to 30 years in prison... Kofel, a Ukrainian, had been training with the Byzantine Monastic Order of the Eastern Orthodox Church when he stabbed Michelle Lewis, a 39-year-old Greek Catholic nun, more than 90 times. Her nude body was found March 25, 2001, in her residence at the Holy Cross Academy... Kofel, who was 18 when the murder occurred, told authorities that two priests at the school, Father Abbott Gregory Wendt and Father Damian Gibault, sexually abused him. Although neither priest has been charged, prosecutor Gail Levine believes Kofel was abused, which led to the plea agreement." Read article... Killer mom agrees to sterilization WXIA-TV 11 Atlanta | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A woman who pleaded guilty to killing her five-week-old daughter must have her tubes tied as part of a plea deal, the Fulton County District Attorney announced Wednesday... [34-year-old Carisa Ashe] will have to serve five years on probation and undergo tubal ligation within 90 days. If she does not have the procedure, the murder charges could be revised, D.A. Paul Howard said. Shaking and blunt-force trauma to the head resulted in Destiny Ashe's injuries, including swelling and hemorrhage of the brain." Read article... and This article... Ted Bundy audiotapes leaked KIRO-TV 7 Seattle | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "The FBI has been using these [Ted Bundy] tapes to train criminal psychologists in Quantico, Virginia since they were recorded in 1989... A few snippets (less than one minute's worth) of these tapes have leaked out over the years. Detectives kept them sealed, saying the details were too disturbing... Bundy claims to have cremated the skulls of several victims in his girlfriend's fireplace. Detective: 'Burned it all up?' Bundy: 'Down to the last ash.'" Read article... Whores drowned in croc-infested waters Melbourne Herald Sun | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Two sex workers bound and thrown off a bridge into a Northern Territory river had no chance of survival, a Darwin court was told today. Teenagers Ben William McLean and Phu Ngoc Trinh are facing a Supreme Court trial charged with the drowning murders of the two women... Rex Wild, QC, told the jury the two men, then aged 18, had consensual sex with the women before driving them to the Adelaide River bridge, about 70km south-east of Darwin. The women were bound with cable ties around their hands and legs, had red rope tied around their throats and were weighed down with a vehicle battery, before being thrown into the river alive, he said." Read article... Son allegedly shoots dad during loud sex KPRC-TV 2 Houston | Submitted by: Niana "A 16-year-old boy was charged with shooting his father in their southwest Harris County home... deputies said the boy apparently witnessed a sexual act between his parents and thought the father was abusing the mother... Investigators said the couple's 11-year-old son woke up to his mother making loud noises. 'During the course of lovemaking, the wife was evidently being somewhat loud - loud enough to where it woke the children up,' Harris County Sheriff's Department Sgt. Mike Smith told Local 2. The boy woke his brother, who then walked into his parent's bedroom and told his father, 43-year-old Jacob Hughes, to leave his mother alone. Officials said that is when the teen shot his father in the arm... officials said there have been previous reports of abuse in the family and that father had been charged and convicted of domestic violence." Read article... Catholic priest pleads guilty to child porn San Diego Union-Tribune | Submitted by: sweet_passion "The former pastor of a Point Loma Roman Catholic church pleaded guilty yesterday to 10 misdemeanor counts of possession of child pornography... [Rev. Gary Holtey, 59] went on leave from St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church and Academy shortly after federal agents and San Diego police raided his parish office May 6... Holtey is one of more than 100 people in San Diego and Imperial counties linked to child-porn sites through credit-card transactions in an international investigation. Agents searched his office and found printouts of child erotica and pornography, gay-porn videos, film negatives of nude males, two computers and WebTV... Holtey told investigators he had looked at child pornography for years on the Internet and directed investigators to material he had collected in a chest of drawers next to his bed, according to court documents." Read article... and This article... Mother allegedly invents baby defenestration story WISN-TV 12 Milwaukee | Submitted by: Viva El Rotten! "Broward County Sheriff Ken Jenne said at a news conference Friday that the woman who claimed to have seen that happen - and who brought the baby to police - made it up. He said she had given birth to the baby herself, but didn't want to keep him. Jenne said the woman had kept her pregnancy a secret from her family and others. He said it turns out to be the case of a 'disturbed woman' who gave birth and didn't want to keep the child - so she made up the story about seeing the baby thrown from a car. The woman is identified as 38-year-old Patricia Pokriots. She hasn't been charged." Read article... Tom Sizemore caught with fake dick, positive for meth Wire Services | Submitted by: Stinkbaby "Actor Tom Sizemore has been jailed for violating his probation by failing a drug test after he was caught trying to use a prosthetic penis to fake the results, a Los Angeles County prosecutor said on Friday. Sizemore, 43, who played a battle-hardened sergeant in the war movie Saving Private Ryan, was placed in custody on Thursday... The actor is required to undergo random drug tests as a condition of probation for his convictions on separate charges of methamphetamine possession and beating his ex-girlfriend, former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss. During Thursday's proceedings, prosecutors told Judge Baretto that Sizemore failed three drug tests in three days, the first after he was caught using a fake penis sewn into his boxer shorts and filled with a clean urine sample kept warm by a heating pack." Read article... Bush ignorant of Rangers steroid abuse Chicago Sun-Times | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "President Bush was not aware of any steroid use by Texas Rangers players while he was a team executive, the White House said Monday. In his upcoming book, Jose Canseco said he introduced Rafael Palmeiro, Ivan Rodriguez and Juan Gonzalez to steroids after being traded to Texas in 1992, the New York Daily News reported. Canseco said Bush, the Rangers' managing partner at the time, must have known about the drugs. White House press secretary Scott McClellan said he spoke to Bush about alleged steroid use. 'If there was, he was not aware of it at the time,' McClellan said." Read article...