Daily Rotten Archives March 5, 2009 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Molester Videotapes Self Raping 2yo Las Vegas Review Journal | Submitted by: rabbarumm "Authorities said Stiles, a former animal trainer for Siegfried & Roy, sexually assaulted a 6-year-old girl in December 2003 while visiting her home. That victim testified that Stiles had groped her and kissed her on the lips. The kiss, she said, made her sick to her stomach... Stiles also was accused of videotaping himself sexually assaulting a 2-year-old girl. Prosecutors played the taped assault for jurors on Friday. Read article... Comments (905) Teacher Eviscerated In Prison Riot BBC | Submitted by: anonymous "A teacher at a Guatemala juvenile prison has been killed and mutilated by rioting inmates, say police... One of the teachers, named as Winter Vidaurre, was killed before police regained control of the prison using tear gas. Mr Gonzalez said the inmates had cut the teacher's heart out." Read article... Comments (242) Grandma-Grandson Murder-Suicide Hampton Roads Pilot | Submitted by: HamptonRoadsRash "Terrell Stepney liked P.E. and jigsaw puzzles. If anything was amiss at home, it didn't show in school... But late last week, according to the police, Terrell Stepney's grandmother killed him. She gave him an overdose of prescription medication. Then she killed herself with the same drugs." Read article... Comments (27) Cricketers Gattled In Lahore CNN | Submitted by: shots "Sri Lanka's cricket team returned home to Colombo early Wednesday, as police in Pakistan searched for at least 12 gunmen believed responsible for the attack that left seven people dead... The brazen daylight attack sent shock waves across the cricket-crazy region and raised fears about the future of world cricket matches in Pakistan, which has been reeling from a string of terrorist attacks." Read article... Comments (25) Divorce Collapses Family Against Mother News Corporation | Submitted by: EmperorHorton "A mother was murdered by her two sons and estranged husband because she was attempting to take millions of dollars from the "family pot"... Heyward was murdered by her three family members and another man for a "sin" of trying to seek financial independence after separating from her husband... Ms Heyward wrote in a separate diary entry: "Do you know what it's like to have your own flesh and blood to tell you that they are going to kill you?" Read article... Comments (32) Hug A Baby, Kiss A Baby Guardian | Submitted by: Lord RedPubes "Colonel Samir Jaja's orders to the assembled soldiers before their dawn attack on the village were absolutely clear: "Don't leave anybody alive. If we leave these people in this place, they will support the rebels against the government. The area must be emptied so the rebels can't find any help and have to leave the country... Rape the women, kill the children. Leave nothing," Jaja said." Read article... Comments (30) Africa's Booming Genital Trade South African Independent | Submitted by: stroomf "Young men are attacked and their genitals cut off while they are still alive; children's throats are slit and their organs removed; and border-crossers are caught with bags containing human heads and sexual organs... These stories and more are contained in a horror report on the trafficking of human body parts in Mozambique and South Africa, which has unveiled a scary reality: body parts are frequently used in traditional medicine and there is a commonly held belief that such medicine is very powerful." Read article... Comments (40) Give Us Our Dead Son's Spunk! National Law Journal | Submitted by: DonkeyHotey "More than a decade after a fatally ill man deposited his sperm at a tissue bank, a New York appeals court has rebuffed the plea of his parents to use the sperm for conception of a grandchild, clearing the way for the destruction of the sample... "Since the purpose of this statute is to protect the surrogate mother, and thereby the general public, from disease, we cannot countenance avoidance of the regulations' dictates, even though we recognize the joy that ignoring the regulations could bring to plaintiffs." Read article... Comments (21) Keep Your Trailer Tidy WJXT-TV 4 Jacksonville | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "Police said the 4-year-old girl they found walking around alone in a St. Augustine Wal-Mart was covered with dirt had magic marker on her hands and face and hair matted to her head. They said it was obvious the child had not been bathed in days... As soon as Devlin opened the door to her mobile home they could smell the odor of garbage and rotting food. One look was enough for investigators to arrest Devlin on the spot and take away the 4-year-old girl." Read article... Comments (32) Beware The Cow That Bites Daily Mail | Submitted by: Mnupes "Tracy Davies sank her teeth in after telling Mark Coghill that she loved him, a jury heard. Mr Coghill, 45, who met Davies through a local newspaper's lonely hearts advert, then watched in horror as she took the severed organ from her mouth and dropped it on the floor, prosecutors said... When police arrived, Davies handed it to officers in a small plastic bag before saying: "We had a domestic and I bit his tongue off, here it is." Read article... Comments (24) McGruff The Crime Dog Assaulted NBC Washington | Submitted by: zwd26 "McGruff, who was actually District officer Tyrone Hardy in costume, was handing out flyers to kids in northwest Washington Saturday when bus driver Shawn Brim, 38, stopped, got out and adjusted his mirrors and then cold-cocked McGruff in the head with a closed fist, according to a police report." Read article... Comments (19) Rolling Out Of Shell Shock Wired | Submitted by: Veggie "Michael Mithoefer, a former emergency room physician turned psychiatrist, is testing the party drug ecstasy as a treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder... "I heard about it and I decided to give it a try... It's an extremely positive thing. I feel so lucky that I got to take part in the project... It's basically like years of therapy in two or three hours. You can’t understand it until you’ve experienced it." Read article... Comments (21) Toilet Restaurant Brings Dining Full Circle Time | Submitted by: ikthool "The boy was looking at the poop-shaped lights and dish covers and the curry on toilet-shaped plates... Every customer sits on a stylish acrylic toilet (lid down) designed with images of roses, seashells or Renaissance paintings. Everyone dines at a glass table with a sink underneath. The servers bring your meal atop a mini toilet bowl (quite convenient, as it brings the food closer to your mouth), you sip drinks from your own plastic urinal (a souvenir), and soft-swirl ice cream arrives for dessert atop a dish shaped like a squat toilet." Read article... Comments (19) Jellyfish Sushi: No Fish By 2050 New Scientist | Submitted by: anonymous "Worm and an international team of ecologists have taken a comprehensive look at the state of the world's fisheries. Their results, published in the journal Science in 2006 (vol 314, p 787), make grim reading. In short, catches of wild fish are plummeting and the researchers predict that without steps to protect biodiversity, all current commercial fish and seafood species will collapse by 2050." Read article... Comments (31) Citibank Briefly A Penny Stock Wire Services | Submitted by: Culone "Shares of Citigroup, once the world's most valuable bank, tumbled below $1 on Thursday, taking its year-to-date drop to 85 percent. Citigroup, a Dow component, fell more than 13 percent to an intraday low of $0.98, hammered by continued fears over the bank's health and ability to avert nationalization... About two years ago, Citi's market value was above $270 billion. Today its market cap is a little over $5.4 billion." Read article... Comments (58)