Daily Rotten Archives February 12, 2005 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Man allegedly plotting mass suicide Wire Services | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A man used an Internet chat room to try to set up a mass suicide on Valentine's Day involving more than two dozen women across the United States and Canada, authorities said. Gerald Krein, 26, was arrested Wednesday at his mother's mobile home in Klamath Falls... Detectives learned of the plan from a woman in Canada who said she saw the message in a Yahoo chat room that had the words 'Suicide Ideology' in the title. The woman, who was not identified by authorities, told detectives she was going to take part in the suicide but had second thoughts when another chat room participant said she would do it and talked about killing her two children before taking her own life, said Klamath County Sheriff Tim Evinger." Read article... Gitmo interrogators reportedly relied on sex humiliation San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Female interrogators repeatedly used sexually suggestive tactics to try to humiliate and pry information from devout Muslim men held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to a military investigation not yet public and newly declassified accounts from detainees... The women rubbed their bodies against the men, wore skimpy clothes in front of them, made sexually explicit remarks and touched them provocatively, at least eight detainees said in documents or through their attorneys... the new allegations and the findings of the Pentagon investigation indicate that sexually oriented tactics might have been part of the fabric of Guantanamo interrogations, especially in 2003. The inquiry uncovered numerous instances in which female interrogators, using dye, pretended to spread menstrual blood on Muslim men, the official said." [Lynndie is sounding more believable every day.] Read article... CIA subcontractor claims US can't touch him WRAL-TV 5 Raleigh | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A former Special Forces soldier accused of beating an Afghan detainee who later died says federal courts don't have jurisdiction in his case since he was working outside of the United States. Lawyers for David Passaro contend that provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act that stretched authority to prosecute cases shouldn't apply any places where special operations forces and CIA paramilitary operatives work... Passaro was charged in June with four counts of assault, accused of beating Abdul Wali with his hands, feet and a flashlight as he tried to get information about planned rocket attacks on U.S. forces. Wali died in his cell in June 2003." Read article... Corey Feldman squeals on Jackson WTEV-TV 47 Jacksonville | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Michael Jackson has been dealt another blow as he fights off child molestation charges - former pal Corey Feldman claims the pop star showed him nude pictures when he was a teen. The former child star, who was a longtime supporter of the Bad singer, tells British journalist Martin Bashir in a 20/20 interview airing Friday night, that Jackson showed him the inappropriate images when he was a young teenager... Bashir asks, 'Were you ever shown any images that were inappropriate?' Feldman responds, 'If you consider it inappropriate for a man to look at a book of naked pictures with a child that's 13 or 14 years old, then your answer would be yes.' But Lost Boys star Feldman stops short of accusing Jackson of molesting him, saying, 'He never harmed me. And he never harmed any children in front of me.'" Read article... Principal admits teen sexchat WJAR-TV 10 Providence | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A former assistant principal at Bishop Hendricken High School in Warwick pleaded no contest on Thursday to one count of indecently soliciting a child... [Timothy Sheldon] was arrested Dec. 17 following a police probe into an explicit discussion Sheldon allegedly had in an online chat room with someone he believed to be a 14-year-old boy... Sheldon was suspended from his job at the Catholic school after police began investigating the online conversation." Read article... Admitted kidfucking priest dies Minneapolis Star Tribune | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Former priest James Porter, whose widespread molestation of dozens of children from Massachusetts to Minnesota and beyond foreshadowed the clergy sex abuse scandal that swept the Roman Catholic Church, died Friday... Porter's case was the first high-profile one involving allegations that a priest had molested children in his parish - and that the church had simply moved him from parish to parish to try to avoid scandal. Porter pleaded guilty in 1993 to molesting 28 children." Read article... Priests defrocked for allegedly fucking kids CBS News | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Four priests accused of sexually abusing children have been defrocked by the Vatican, the Boston Archdiocese said... Robert D. Fay, Kelvin Iguabita, Bernard Lane and Robert Ward, are 'no longer in the clerical state,' meaning they can no longer function as priests and will no longer receive any financial support from the Boston Archdiocese, the archdiocese announced Friday. Iguabita was convicted in June 2003 of raping a 15-year-old girl while he was assigned to a church in Haverhill in 2000. He was sentenced to 12 to 14 years in prison. Lane was accused by at least 17 men of abusing them as children. Some of the alleged abuse took place at the Alpha Omega House for troubled youth in Littleton, a facility he founded and directed in the 1970s... The four men can no longer perform any priestly duties, with the exception of offering absolution to the dying." Read article... Man murdered, impaled asswise on hockey stick Nunatsiaq News | Submitted by: Newborn Baby Kitten "Three young Kuujjuaq men were charged last week with first-degree murder, following the discovery of the body of Claude Bourget on Feb. 2 at his residence, house 711 in Kuujjuaq. Hugues Beaulieu, a spokesperson with the Surêté du Québec in Rouyn-Noranda, said Bourget, 50, died from injuries received during a beating. Sources in Kuujjuaq say Bourget was tortured, died an agonizing death, and that a hockey stick was thrust up through his rectum." Read article... Another nominee for Mom of the Year WXIA-TV 11 Atlanta | Submitted by: Pvt. Gripweed "A Smyrna mother has been charged with abusing her two young children... The two children – ages 11 and 14 - told Smyrna police their mother, identified as 48-year-old Beverly Fisher, was drunk and being abusive. They later told authorities their mother was constantly intoxicated, smoked marijuana in their presence, and made one of the boys roll the marijuana cigarettes for her because her fingernails were apparently too long, according to Smyrna Police Lt. Keith Zgonc. The children also said the mother was physically abusive toward them and alleged that she threw a knife at one and threw a beer can at the other." Read article... Man reportedly contracts instant AIDS CNN | Submitted by: Paucey "Health officials in New York City are alarmed after a man infected with a highly drug-resistant strain of HIV progressed to full-blown AIDS within months of diagnosis. That raises the possibility that a hard-to-treat variant of the virus could be spreading among gay and bisexual men who use the drug methamphetamine... Dr. Jay Dobkin ... 'In this patient's case, onset of AIDS appears to have occurred within two to three months, and at most 20 months, after HIV infection,' the health department's statement said." Read article... London mayor reportedly major asshole Guardian | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Ken Livingstone has been criticised for comparing a Jewish newspaper reporter to a 'concentration camp guard' and branding his paper 'a load of scumbags and reactionary bigots'. The mayor of London made the remarks during a phone conversation with Oliver Finegold, of the London Evening Standard, on Tuesday night after a party marking 20 years since Chris Smith became the first MP to come out as gay. He told Mr Finegold to 'work for a paper that doesn't have a record of supporting fascism' - a reference to the Standard's sister paper, the Daily Mail, which flirted with fascism in the 1930s. He added that Mr Finegold was 'just like a concentration camp guard' after being told that he was Jewish. When Mr Finegold introduced himself as a Standard journalist, Mr Livingstone said: 'How awful for you. Have you thought of having treatment?' Mr Livingstone repeated his question and then asked: 'What did you do? Were you a German war criminal?' Mr Finegold told the mayor that he was Jewish and found the remark offensive." Read article... Scientists pressured for Bush-friendly reports San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Scientists in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service say they've been forced to alter or withhold findings that would have led to greater protections for endangered species, according to a survey released Wednesday by two environmental groups... 44% of the scientists who responded to the survey said they have been asked by their superiors to avoid making findings that would require greater protection of endangered species. One in five agency scientists reported being directed to alter or withhold technical information from scientific documents. And more than half of the respondents - 56% - said agency officials have reversed or withdrawn scientific conclusions under pressure from industry groups... Nearly 30% of the Fish and Wildlife Service scientists queried responded to the survey - a high rate, especially since several regional offices had urged employees not to reply. An official in the Great Lakes regional office asked the staff, in a memo, not to fill out the survey 'in the office or from home.'" Read article... Secret Service agent allegedly assaults cop Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A Secret Service agent cursed and 'drove' his shoulder into a borough police officer's chest after the officer took the agent's son into custody for underage drinking, police said... [According to arrest reports] Fernandes asked [Agent William Slavoski] to leave the building, but the agent refused, and began saying he is a federal agent. Fernandes repeatedly asked Slavoski to leave and the agent continued to make comments to Fernandes and urged the officer to arrest and hit him. Slavoski, at one point, told Fernandes he would be at the station waiting for Fernandes when he got off duty. That's when Slavoski 'drove his shoulder' into Fernandes' chest." Read article...