The Dude (11-18-2012)
Bond set for ex-WNBA star Chamique Holdsclaw
A judge in Atlanta on Friday set bond at $100,000 for ex-WNBA star and Olympic gold medalist Chamique Holdsclaw, who was in jail on assault and weapons charges.
She is accused of firing a shot into a car belonging to 29-year-old Jennifer Lacy, who plays for the Tulsa Shock. Police say the 35-year-old Holdsclaw also used a bat to smash the car's windows. Holdsclaw was in custody at the Fulton County Jail.
No one was injured in the assault. Lacy told police that Holdsclaw was an ex-girlfriend and they were Atlanta Dream teammates in 2009. Holdsclaw was ordered to wear a monitoring device and have no contact with Lacy.
She was ordered back to a Fulton County court Nov. 30 to face charges of aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. A message to her attorney was not immediately returned.
http://www.adn.com/2012/11/15/269417...aw-wanted.html
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Memphis Caregiver Charged With Raping Mentally Retarded Man With Mind of 6 Yr Old
Tawana Jones, 35, a former Memphis, TN home caregiver employee has been charged in the rape of a mentally retarded 32 year-old male patient. The mentally challenged man is stated to have the intelligence of a 6 year-old child.
Jones was accused of removing her clothes, getting naked and making her patient perform sex acts. She allegedly sexually abused the victim sometime in early 2011 between January and March. Tawana Jones was arrested on March 18, 2011 for the alleged acts with a bond set at $25,000.
Jones reportedly performed sex acts in the victim’s bedroom and told him not to tell anyone what had happened, but he informed a facility manager.
Tawana Jones was convicted on rape, willful abuse, neglect or exploitation of a vulnerable adult.
Jones faces up to a maximum of 36 years in prison and is expected back in front of the judge on November 30, 2012.
http://wreg.com/2012/11/04/caregiver...-disabled-man/
Women gets 5 years for punching elderly Walmart greeter
The woman who punched a 70-year-old Walmart greeter in the face after she asked to see a receipt for merchandise she was carrying out of the store has been sentenced to five years in prison.
Jacquetta Simmons, 27, was sentenced Wednesday for the attack that knocked Grace Suozzi to the ground, and fracturing the side of the elderly woman's face.
In court Simmons said she was sorry for the incident that injured Grace Suozzi on Christmas Eve in 2011, but the judge and prosecutor Larry Friedman say Simmons hardly seems sorry.
'She absolutely did not accept any responsibility for what she did,' Mr Friedman said.
The sentence stems from an incident in which Ms Suozzi had asked Simmons to show her a receipt for some electronics purchases she had made at the back of the store, a witness told ABC 13, when the young woman attacked.
Ms Simmons responded with a punch to Ms Suozzi's face, knocking her to the ground. Simmons and her male companion then ran out of the store in Batavia, New York after the confrontation but were detained by employees and customers until police arrived, assisted by a large crowd that had surrounded Ms Simmons' car so she couldn't drive away.
The incident was captured on security cameras inside the store, and the video was part of the evidence used to convict Ms Simmons.
In court, Suozzi broke down as she told the court how her life has changed since that attack: 'What she has taken away is irreplaceable, she has taken away my independence...she has taken away my joy and replaced it with trauma." Suozzi says she is bruised, afraid, depressed and cannot leave the house. She relied on that Walmart job to pay her bills and is now struggling.
Suozzi said there were times when she thought she would die following the assault. She says she suffers to this day, both physically and emotionally.
The judge called the assault 'brutal and senseless.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...rs-prison.html
Vallejo teen in adult court for kidnapping, rape charges
The 14-year-old boy charged as an adult in the alleged kidnapping and sexual assault of a 65-year-old woman in Vallejo appeared in court Monday.
Wearing a blue juvenile hall jumpsuit, Kaviar King was ushered into adult court with his hands shackled at his waist. Charged with 10 felony counts, he looked straight ahead as his public defender asked for his arraignment to be postponed a week to allow the defense more time to prepare before possibly entering a plea.
King faces charges including attempted murder, torture, kidnapping, carjacking and a range of sex offenses.
His bail was set at $4.5 million, a figure that reflects six felonies that carry potential life sentences. He is being held at Solano County Juvenile Hall, where he will remain pending the outcome of his case unless he is bailed out.
King was arrested Thursday night for allegedly kidnapping the victim at gunpoint in the parking lot of the Gateway Plaza shopping center in Vallejo. He allegedly forced the victim to drive to a location within several miles where he sexually assaulted her.
Passersby discovered the victim duct taped in a ditch near Hiddenbrooke Parkway and Interstate 80. They called police and gave information that helped investigators develop leads in the case, police said.
King was arrested after returning to the parking lot where the initial abduction took place. Vallejo detectives were there investigating when they spotted King and arrested him, according to police. He was found in possession of the victim's property, a replica handgun and her minivan.
During the abduction, which lasted more than an hour, police said a family member of the victim received a phone call from someone demanding money in exchange for the victim's safe return. The family member reported the ransom demand to police. Police said the ransom was not paid.
Deputy District Attorney Karen Jensen said prosecutors decided to charge King as an adult because of the "serious nature of the crime."
In California, 14 is the minimum age for a minor to be charged as an adult. King turned 14 on Sept. 3, according to information released during Monday's hearing.
http://www.timesheraldonline.com/ci_...ce=most_viewed
Walmart shooting victim testifies, points out attacker
The 19-year-old woman who just cashed her paycheck at a Walmart in Whitehall Township sensed something uncomfortable about the young man outside who asked her for a cigarette.
Barbara Hausknecht told the man she had no cigarette and continued walking away with her friend, she testified in Lehigh County Court Friday. That's when the man demanded her clutch that contained about $500, she said. Hausknecht refused, so the man grabbed her by the arm, pulled out a gun and fired it into her back, narrowly missing her spine, she testified. That man and an accomplice who was waiting nearby got on top of the fallen Hausknecht, ripped the clutch out of her hands and fled, she testified.
While she was down, the young woman continued trying to fight off the men, she said. "He hit me in the mouth with the gun and cracked a few of my teeth," Hausknecht testified.
In court Friday, Hausknecht sobbed as she pointed out Darnell Ray Lewis Jr. as the man who shot her on the afternoon of Oct. 18, 2011, leaving her hospitalized for three weeks with possible permanent internal injuries. The woman who drove Lewis from the scene also testified and also named Lewis as the shooter.
District Judge David M. Howells Jr. ruled enough evidence was presented to send robbery and related charges to Lehigh County Court. Lewis, 20, North Carolina, is also charged with aggravated assault, conspiracy to commit robbery, theft and receiving stolen property.
During the hearing, Howells reprimanded Lewis for glaring at the victim and his court staff. The victim and another witness were allowed to testify from the prosecutor's table instead of the witness stand.
Whitehall police said two others were involved in the armed robbery and shooting: Tymesha L. McKenzie, 20, of Easton, and Ferontay Troutman, 22, of North Carolina. McKenzie, who testified Friday, is free as she awaits trial. Troutman died last year in New Jersey before he could be charged.
Hausknecht testified she had just cashed her $500 paycheck at the Walmart on MacArthur Road around 12:30 p.m. and was planning on using the money to rent an apartment. She was walking with her unidentified friend and pushing a cart containing dog food and presents for her niece when she was approached by two men, she testified.
McKenzie testified she drove to the Walmart with Lewis, Troutman and her 2-year-old son. She said Lewis and Troutman went inside the store to buy some items, but did not come out with anything.
She testified the men came back to her car and Lewis appeared upset and then pulled a revolver out and placed it on his lap. As they were about to drive away, Lewis told McKenzie to stop the car, she testified.
Lewis and Troutman got out of the car and approached a woman and man. She said she saw Lewis talking to the man and woman and then saw the woman fall to the ground. When Lewis and Troutman got back to her car, McKenzie asked Lewis if he shot the woman.
She said Lewis answered, "Yes, because she wouldn't give it up."
McKenzie testified she drove the men away and they split the cash in the wallet.
http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/m...,2374276.story
Day care owner gets 80 years for murdering 4 children
A Texas woman was sentenced to 80 years Tuesday for her felony murder conviction in the death of one of four children killed in a fire at her home day care in Houston.
Jessica Tata, 24, was convicted last week in connection with the death of 16-month-old Elias Castillo. Authorities say Elias was one of seven children whom Tata left unsupervised at her home while she went to a nearby Target store. Prosecutors say she left a pan of oil cooking atop a stovetop burner and that this ignited the February 2011 blaze. Three other children were seriously injured.
Along with the prison sentence, Tata was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine.
She still faces three more counts of felony murder in relation to the other children who died, and three counts of abandoning a child and two counts of reckless injury to a child in relation to three who were hurt.
During the punishment phase of the trial, prosecutors argued Tata was an irresponsible day care owner who left the children she was caring for alone on multiple occasions and who ran an unclean facility. Tata's family and friends told jurors she was a good person who loved kids. They asked the jury for mercy.
Tata's attorneys argued she never intended to hurt the children, who ranged in age from 16 months to 3 years old, and that she tried to save them. But prosecutors did not need to show she intended to harm the children, only that the deaths occurred because she put them in danger by leaving them alone.
Under Texas law, a person can be convicted of felony murder if he or she committed an underlying felony and that action led to the death. Tata fled to Nigeria in the wake of the fire but was captured after about a month, returned to the U.S. in March 2011 and has remained jailed since. She was born in the U.S. but has Nigerian citizenship.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_1...day-care-fire/
'Elmo' puppeteer Kevin Clash resigns as second man files lawsuit over new underage sex allegations Kevin Clash resigned on Tuesday after a second man came forward to say he had sex with the 'Sesame Street' voice actor and puppeteer when he was a teen.
Puppeteer Kevin Clash, the longtime voice of “Elmo,” resigned Tuesday after a $5 million lawsuit labeled him a pedophile who trolled telephone chat rooms in a hunt for underage lovers.
The lawsuit was filed by a second man claiming that he was just a teenager when he had a sexual relationship with the award-winning voice of the beloved kids’ character.
Clash, 52, “was an unmarried adult male living a prominent public life centered around the entertainment of toddlers, while at the same time he was, in secret, preying on teenage boys to satisfy his depraved sexual interests,” the Manhattan lawsuit charged.
Sesame Workshop, which had granted Clash a leave of absence after the first allegation of sex with a minor, issued a statement accepting his resignation after 28 years as Elmo.
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...icle-1.1205034
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- -- Aristotle
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- -- The Buddha
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- -- Aristotle
13-year-old accused of stabbing 2-year-old sister to death
A 13-year-old Georgia girl accused of stabbing the 2-year-old sister that was left in her care.
Tyasia Jackson will be tried as an adult, after her mother came home Monday afternoon to find the girl -- 2-year-old Sasha Lamaya Ray -- stabbed seven times in the chest, WSB-TV reports.
"She died in my arms," Shelton Ray -- Sasha Ray's biological father and Jackson's stepfather -- told the station.
Shelton Ray said he had received a call from Jackson, saying that her sister was missing and that she thought the neighbors might have taken her. Shelton Ray and his wife sped home to try and locate Sasha, and found the bleeding toddler in the backyard. She died before they could get her to a hospital.
Jackson was taken into custody. Shelton Ray told investigators that the teen called him from jail on Monday night and admitted to killing Sasha Ray, Fox 8 reports.
Neighbor Veronica Hillman told CBS Atlantathat prior to the stabbing, she had seen Jackson let a boy into the house. She called the girl's mother, who asked her to make sure the boy left.
Hillman says she entered the home and found the boy hiding in a closet. The boy left with her, and afterwards, Shelton Ray says, Jackson asked three of her siblings to go upstairs and then stabbed Sasha Ray to death.
By the time the toddler was found, Ray says, Jackson had cleaned up the blood and changed her clothes.
When Jackson made her first court appearance on Tuesday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported, family members loudly told her that they loved her.
"She still needs our help," Shelton Ray told CBS Atlanta. "We are her parents."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...n_2170697.html
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