Daily Rotten Archives February 28, 2005 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 66 on trial for allegedly raping, pimping children Scotsman | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A huge paedophile trial opens in France today in which 66 adults - 27 of them women - will appear before a court in Angers charged with the rape and abuse of 45 children aged between six months and 12 years. At the centre of the scandal are 15 couples accused of prostituting their children in return for cigarettes, a few kilos of potatoes or a couple of days' camping. Some parents allegedly sold their children for modest sums of money which they spent in nightclubs... The victims, whose evidence was filmed and will be presented on giant screens, say they were forced to watch pornographic films and their parents having sex, before being raped." Read article... Babykiller mom on trial ABC TV affiliates | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A mother who repeatedly slammed her 7-month-old daughter's head to the sidewalk, killing her, was haunted by voices and delusions while in the grip of mental illness, her attorney said as the woman's murder trial began Monday. Kirsten Vanderlinde had been hospitalized numerous times over more than a decade as schizophrenia followed her through college, into the working world and motherhood, said attorney John Nuchereno... Vanderlinde, 36, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Melissa Vanderlinde, who died of massive head trauma after being repeatedly swung headfirst to the concrete May 28, 2004. Witnesses described a nightgown-clad Vanderlinde holding her naked daughter by the ankle and chanting 'I want justice' during the attack in front of her home." Read article... Guard recruiter allegedly fondled, raped recruits WANE-TV 15 Fort Wayne | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "An Indiana National Guard recruiter is charged with sexually assaulting at least six young women that he enlisted. 36-year-old Sergeant Eric Vetesy was a recruiter at the armory in Noblesville, an Indianapolis suburb. The Hamilton County prosecutor says Vetesy groped or otherwise sexually assaulted high school-age women before or after he recruited them to join the guard. The grand jury indictment indicates that at least one woman was raped." Read article... Hypnotist admits fucking clients Sky News | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A British hypnotist accused of having sex with several patients and secretly video-taping them has been jailed in the United States. Michael Johnstone, 64, entered a plea deal, admitting reckless endangerment and breach of peace charges... [Johnstone] confessed to having sex with female patients and secretly taping trysts in his offices. The victims, in their 40s and 50s, claimed they were put under a trance before being sexually assaulted." Read article... Judge's husband, mother murdered CNN | Submitted by: optional "A federal judge who was once targeted for death by a white supremacist leader found two people dead inside her Chicago home when she returned Monday evening, police said. U.S. District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow found the bodies about 6 p.m., police spokesman Pat Camden said. Local media reports said the victims were Lefkow's husband, attorney Michael F. Lefkow, and her mother, Donna Humphrey... In April 2004, white supremacist Matthew Hale was found guilty on charges that he tried to arrange Lefkow's murder. The judge, presiding over a trademark infringement suit, had ordered Hale's group to stop using the name World Church of the Creator, which belonged to another religious group with no ties to Hale." Read article... and This article... Wife allegedly confined to bedroom, croaks WBAL-TV 11 Baltimore | Submitted by: lucidity "John Joseph Dougherty, 52, allegedly told police he kept his common-law wife, Mary Elizabeth Kilrain, 46, locked in their bedroom for the past six years. According to charging documents, Kilrain weighed 81 pounds when officers found her... The couple's youngest daughter brought a drink to her mother last Friday, but found Kilrain's body cold, stiff and unresponsive on her bed in a homemade prison surrounded by moldy food and her own excrement." Read article... Private-sector prison sex scandal KCNC-TV 4 Denver | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A sex scandal is unfolding tonight at a Colorado women's prison that has been open less than a year-and-a-half... State corrections officials acknowledge that the private women's prison, Brush Correctional Facility, was 'out of control,' and male guards are now facing criminal charges. The warden stepped down last week... 'It's sexual misconduct at its ugliest,' Department of Corrections spokeswoman Alison Morgan said." Read article... Grammar school janitor admits dealing crack WMAQ-TV 5 Chicago | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "An Evanston elementary school janitor accused of selling crack cocaine on the property of the school where he worked changed his plea to guilty Thursday... [Robert Crayton] was arrested in November while working at Lincoln Elementary School at 2600 Colfax St. where he had been employed as a janitor for several years, according to a criminal complaint. Crayton worked from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. and sold the drugs during the evening hours when he was alone or there were few people on the premises, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Jake Ryan." Read article... Maori healer allegedly fingerbanged client Stuff NZ | Submitted by: optional "A north Waikato mother who claims she was sexually violated with a potato by a Maori healer says she was referred to him by health officials after her son thought he saw ghosts... [Christopher Tuaupiki], 64, denies two counts of indecent assault and five counts of unlawful sexual connection involving the use of potatoes and herbal infusions on two women in 2003 and 2004." Read article... Musician arrested for alleged statutory rapes MTV | Submitted by: ruiner "On February 10, [Static-X guitarist Tripp Eisen], whose real name is Tod Rex Salvador, was arrested on one felony count of crimes against children. Authorities from the Orange County (California) Sheriff's Department found the 39-year-old musician sleeping in a parked car with an underage female with whom he'd just had sexual intercourse, according to Bergen, New Jersey's The Record... On February 24, Eisen was arrested again - on charges of kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault, luring to entice a minor through the Internet and endangering the welfare of a child - on a fugitive warrant by two detectives who had flown in from New Jersey." Read article...