Daily Rotten Archives February 17, 2005 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Worst Valentine's Day ever Newsday | Submitted by: Uknown "[Jesus Urbina], 29, had invited Aura Diaz, 16, and her mother, Maria Cardona, 43, to his Brentwood apartment so he could give them gifts for the holiday, police said. Indeed, police found gifts at the crime scene and the visit seemed to have begun amicably. But then Urbina picked up Diaz's cell phone, scrolled through phone numbers in it and noticed one he thought belonged to a new lover... Urbina pummeled the Babylon High School student and grabbed a foot-long kitchen knife and began stabbing Diaz in her face and neck as she screamed, all the while pleading with him not to hurt the baby, said Det. Lt. Jack Fitzpatrick." Read article... Dad charged with murdering kids Centre Daily | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A Philadelphia man charged with killing two of his children eight months apart waived a preliminary hearing Wednesday, a prosecutor said. Steven Walczak, 23, of the city's Kensington section, was charged with strangling 4-year-old daughter Rebecca in December. During that investigation, Walczak was charged with the April 14 death of his 9-month-old son, Ryan, whose death had initially been listed as an unexplained infant death. His death is now attributed to asphyxia." Read article... Man allegedly bludgeons girlfriend with claw hammer Minneapolis Star Tribune | Submitted by: Oobatz "Clarence J. Dunn, Sr., 49, called 911 just before 5 a.m. Tuesday and reported that he had killed 42-year-old Cassandra Jane Koochek by hitting her in the head with a hammer, according to a criminal complaint. Police who responded to the woman's apartment in the 500 block of Minnehaha Av. E. found Koochek lying on a bed with a blanket and pillow over her head. A plastic bag also had been placed over her head. Paramedics pronounced her dead. A preliminary examination determined that she had been struck at least five times in the head, and that some of the injuries appeared to match the shape of a hammer." Read article... Cop arrested for alleged rape KSTP-TV 5 Minneapolis | Submitted by: Oobatz "Police arrested a Minneapolis police officer Wednesday in connection with the rape of a woman who was leaving a St. Paul health club in the middle of the day. Officer David Michael Hansen, 28, is in a Ramsey County Jail, accused of kidnapping and criminal sexual conduct... [the assailant allegedly] told the woman that he had a gun and directed her to drive to her St. Paul home, according to St. Paul Police. Once at the woman's home, the man directed her inside where she was raped." Read article... and This article... LAPD rescinds shoot-first-rationalize-later policy CNN | Submitted by: atxrex "Ten days after an officer shot to death a 13-year-old who backed a stolen vehicle into a police car, the city Police Commission on Wednesday approved limits on when officers can shoot at moving vehicles. Under the revised policy, officers cannot fire at a moving vehicle unless someone is threatened with deadly force other than the vehicle. Mayor James Hahn pushed for the change after Devin Brown was shot February 6 following an early morning chase... Officer Steven Garcia, who fired 10 shots at Brown and killed him, will be on desk duty until the investigation concludes. The policy revision had been in the works for about a year, since police shot and killed a man who backed up toward officers during a chase broadcast on live television." Read article... Cop allegedly tasers disabled theme park patron Florida Today | Submitted by: Baron Von BigMeat "A 45-year disabled man is considering possible legal action against Universal Studios Orlando after he was shot to the ground by an off-duty Orlando police officer patrolling the theme park... Christopher Traub and family went to Universal Studio's Halloween Horror Nights as part of a family reunion. Traub, who had both of his ankles crushed in an elevator accident in the '80s, said during his visit to the theme park, he was abused by police and shot with a Taser gun, according to the report... An off-duty Orlando police officer working security at the theme park literally blew Traub off his feet, WKMG Local 6 reported." Read article... Suspended sentences for gangrape Japan Times | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Four expelled Kokushikan University students were handed suspended sentences Wednesday for having group sex with a 16-year-old girl during a seven-hour period last June in which 11 other males participated. The four were among 15 members of the private university's soccer team who were arrested in December in connection with the incident... Satoshi Sasagawa, Hiromi Yamamoto, Akito Taki and Takashi Enomoto, all aged 21, and the 11 other team members had sex with the girl at Sasagawa's home in Machida, western Tokyo. The 15 spent about seven hours taking turns having sex with the girl, who was a high school freshman at the time." Read article... Dog allegedly immolated, causing fatal house fire KNSD-TV 7 San Diego | Submitted by: Baron Von BigMeat "Investigators in Pittsburgh say they have solved a nearly 15-year-old case in which a woman and her friend allegedly set the family dog on fire because the woman's mother wouldn't get rid of it. The dog, in turn, wound up setting the house on fire... The fire, around 2:30 in the morning of July 11, 1990, killed 2-year-old Montelle Thornhill and 3-year-old Charita Thornhill. Montelle was allergic to the dog, but his grandmother - with whom the family lived - refused to get rid of it, police said. [Tequilla Newsome] tried to shoo the dog from the home, but it wouldn't run away, [Cmdr. Maurita Bryant] said. Later, she took the dog to downtown Pittsburgh, but the animal found its way back to the house, several miles away. That's when, Bryant said, Newsome and [Lachan Russell] decided to douse the dog in kerosene and set it afire." Read article... Gene therapy scientist allegedly fucked kids Newsday | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A noted gene therapy scientist, already charged with molesting a girl he instructed in martial arts, was arrested Wednesday on charges he sexually abused a boy in Maryland in the 1980s, authorities said. William French Anderson, 68, was arrested at his home in San Marino, said sheriff's Sgt. Tim Phillips... Often called the 'father of gene therapy,' Anderson has published hundreds of articles in scholarly journals and won numerous awards for his work. He was Time magazine's runner-up for Man of the Year in 1995. In the California case, Anderson last month pleaded not guilty to charges he molested a girl he instructed in martial arts at his California home from 1997 to 2001." Read article... Nuclear plant insists plutonium not missing BBC | Submitted by: Vomit "The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) confirmed 29.6kg of plutonium - enough to make seven nuclear bombs - was 'unaccounted for' in auditing records. Operator, the British Nuclear Group (BNG), said it was a discrepancy between physical and book inventories. UKAEA said there was no reason to think there was any 'real loss' of plutonium... The figures also showed that 16.4kg of naturally-depleted uranium was also unaccounted for... In 2003 BNG revealed 19kg of plutonium was unaccounted for at the plant." Read article... USDA approved 21 tons of illegal beef CNN | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Lax oversight by the U.S. Agriculture Department and confused food safety inspectors were to blame for imports of 42,000 pounds of Canadian beef products in 2004 that violated a U.S. mad cow disease ban... The United States banned all Canadian cattle and beef products after Canada discovered its first native case of mad cow disease in May 2003. In August 2003, the USDA decided to allow shipments of boneless beef from young Canadian cattle, which are thought to carry little risk of the disease. But some U.S. meat inspectors independently began allowing shipments of other Canadian beef products such as cattle tongues, hearts, kidneys and lips." Read article...