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The Nanny State strikes again! Mom arrested and placed in shackles over son's three school absences

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Mothers with young children who are named Student of the Month and are known for their high grades aren't typically what you think of when you imagine criminals, yet that is what one mother in Georgia currently is because of her son's three unexcused absences.

Julie Scott Giles and her son Sam live in Georgia, where Sam attends public school in Screven County. His school has a policy that allows students to have up to 6 unexcused absences per year, and Sam was reported to have 12 at the time of arrest. However, Julie explained via Facebook that while Sam was 6 absences over the limit, 3 of those ended up being excused because Sam's doctor reissued 3 notes that Sam had never turned in. This means that Julie's arrest was over just 3 unexcused absences.

Giles explained that her son is often sick and that she can't always take him to the doctor's each time to obtain an official note because of the costly fees. Her son reportedly has 4 A's and 4 B's, showing that although he may be absent more than others, he still manages to excel in school. He also was named Student of the Month and his teacher stated that Sam was chosen because of his willingness to help others and participate in their activities, even if it wasn't his first choice.

People

'How to move to Canada' Google searches spike 1,000% after Trump Super Tuesday rout

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Super Tuesday sure was "super" for Donald Trump.

The billionaire - who has gone from "joke" to "frontrunner" in the span of just 9 months - is now the presumed pick for the GOP nomination.

That's rattled the Republican establishment and sent shockwaves through Washington where no one - and we mean no one - can figure out how this happened.

And while citizens clearly believe Trump is preferable to America's entrenched political aristocracy, there are quite a few people who have very real reservations about the prospects of a Trump presidency. As we noted earlier this week, readers will likely disagree with a number of Larry Summers' points, but the bottom line is that some Americans are concerned about the direction the coutnry will take under a Trump presidency.

As The Telegraph notes, searches by Americans for "how can I move to Canada" were up more than 1,000% at their peak after Trump's Super Tuesday victory.

Pistol

LAPD reports deaths of mentally ill and those in police custody surged in 2015

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The number of people shot by the Los Angeles Police Department who were mentally ill nearly tripled in 2015 compared to the year before, according to a new police report. In-custody deaths also tripled.

More than a third of all 38 LAPD shootings that occurred last year - or 14, to be exact - involved an individual with documented signs of mental illness, the report stated. This is up significantly from five in 2014, which actually represented a drop from 10 in 2013.

"We did see a troubling increase with mental illness," said LAPD Capt. Greg McManus during his presentation of the report, according to KPCC. "That's an increase we are looking at."

Comment: Police forces throughout the US now simply react and rarely do they attempt to de-escalate situations. In fact the police are often the first to cause situations to get out of control - it's shoot first and ask questions later. All people are now assumed to be criminals and treated as such. Perhaps the elites are becoming more afraid that the pitchforks are coming soon, and the overt brutality of the police is simply a way to let the populace know who is still in charge.


Cross

Catholic priest filmed snorting coke in his Nazi memorabilia filled house

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Father Crossan pictured in the video clip taken in his parish home last July.
A Catholic priest in Ireland was recently caught on video snorting cocaine during a late night party, which he hosted at a house on church grounds. Father Stephen Crossan reportedly brought several friends back to his home after two whole days of drinking and partying, and then began to use cocaine.

Additionally, Nazi memorabilia could be seen in the background of the shot, and they seemed to be Crossan's personal property.

Crossan told reporters he does not have a drug problem, and that the recorded incident was actually the only time he was done drugs.

"It was just the one night and that was it," he said.

Comment: Well, at least he wasn't caught molesting children.


Take 2

The system is rigged: Voters report "irregularities" in voting booths across the country on Super Tuesday

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Voters in Alabama, Colorado, Georgia and Texas flooded voter hotlines to complain about dysfunctional polling booths and ballots in Republican primaries. Callers to an Austin radio station complained of machines switching their vote for Trump to Rubio.

By lunchtime on Super Tuesday, Election Protection, a nonpartisan coalition of groups that run election-day hotlines, said their hotline has received more than 1,000 calls. The majority of calls came from Alabama, Georgia and Texas.

Election Protection said voters in Georgia reported long lines in Fulton and Gwinnett counties due to poll books malfunctioning. At the Inman Middle School precinct in Fulton County, only one out of three poll books were reported to be working leaving 80 to 100 people waiting in line.

Austin radio station KLBJ received around half a dozen complaints that Texan machines had changed their votes, mostly from Donald Trump to Florida Senator Marco Rubio, according to Raw Story.

Light Sabers

Another stabbing: Illinois cop and his family stab teen in LA area for speaking Arabic

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In the third apparently racially motivated act of violence in the LA area in just a few days, a Muslim teenager was stabbed twice on Sunday for the crime of walking around Huntington Beach with his brother-in-law. Young Karam Jarrah, 17, says he and his brother-in-law, Asem Dghem, were speaking Arabic before he was attacked.

"Was it like a racial issue? Is it because we were speaking Arabic or it can be like just the way we look," wondered Jarrah.

The issue is made more disheartening by the fact that one of the people in the group of attackers was an Illinois police officer, Arthur Roman. He, his brother, Martin Roman, and Martin's wife, Jessica Roman, approached the teens and began verbally accosting them. The officer's brother, Martin, was the one who pulled out a knife shortly after and attacked.

"He was like, 'What's up 'Obamabam?' I don't even know what that means," Jarrah said. "So I said, 'What?' and he said, 'What's up 'Obamabam?' He said it like he was mad."

Jarrah's brother-in-law Asem Dghem said that they tried to be polite to the aggressors. Sadly, this was not the first time the Muslim teenager had been faced with Islamophobia in recent months.

"I came back very, very nicely, because we have faced this type of situation before," Dghem explained.

That's when the two said that Martin stabbed Jarrah twice.

Comment: Stabbings seem to be on the rise recently. Over the weekend violence broke out at a KKK rally in Anaheim, CA where several people were stabbed. In NYC, stabbings on the subway have become part of a disturbing new trend. Is there something in the air, or is the populace of the US starting to lose their grip on their sanity? If Donald Drumpf is any indication, things are likely to get worse before they get better.


Attention

Moscow nanny smiles at court, says Allah ordered her to kill child

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The nanny accused of beheading a four-year-old girl in Moscow and waving her severed head outside a Metro station told journalists before a court hearing that 'Allah ordered' her to murder the child.

Gulchekhra Bobokulova from Uzbekistan appeared in court on Wednesday over the gruesome murder of the girl in her care. She was detained on Monday near Oktyabrskoye Polye Metro station in northwestern Moscow, where she was waving the child's severed head and shouting "Allahu Akbar, I am a terrorist, I am a suicide bomber."

The 'bloody nanny' didn't speak much in court but smiled. She briefly stated that she was born in 1977 and has three children.

Bobokulova will officially be charged on March 4, officials said, and the court ruled she will be preliminarily detained until April 29.


Comment: This is a strange case. First, this article (in Russian) says that investigators are in contact with their colleagues from Uzbekistan in order to find out what happened to the woman there. Apparently the nanny left Russia in the end of December and returned from Uzbekistan a month later. She had worked for the family for years without incident. The article also says that the woman was clearly incoherent afterwards, as if on psychotropic drugs. Inquiring minds want to know who these potential "instigators" are. Shades of the Aurora shooting... Further reading: Mind control victim? Moscow police arrest woman holding a child's severed head and shouting terrorist threats near subway station


Heart - Black

Former drug task force chief charged with multiple sex crimes

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This week, former police officer Ryan Reese was charged with multiple crimes, including rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, sexual assault, indecent assault, and official oppression.

Reese was the chief and supervisor of the town's drug task force, and over the course of his career, he used that position of power to prey on women suspected of drug crimes, and in at least one case, an underage girl.

Pennsylvania State Trooper Stefani Lucas explained that he would tell female suspects that they could be informants to get out of going to jail, but then when they let their guard down he would sexually assault them

Eye 1

Former host of children's TV show indicted on decades old sexual abuse charges

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© U.S. Marshals Service via APIn this Jan. 25 2016, file photo provided by the U.S. Marshals Service shows Frank Szeles after his arrest in Bonita, Calif. Rapides Parish Assistant District Attorney Brian Mosley says 76-year-old Frank John Selas III was indicted Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, on two counts of aggravated rape, three counts of sexual battery and eight counts of indecent behavior with a juvenile.
A former children's television show host who vanished decades ago amid allegations he sexually abused children on a camping trip in Louisiana was indicted Thursday on rape charges.

Rapides Parish Assistant District Attorney Brian Mosley says a grand jury indicted 76-year-old Frank John Selas III on two counts of aggravated rape, three counts of sexual battery and eight counts of indecent behavior with a juvenile. Mosley said the charges relate to one alleged victim, who testified before the central Louisiana grand jury.

Federal agents arrested Selas last month in California. Authorities say he had settled in the San Diego area by 1985 and legally changed his name to Frank Szeles in 1992.

In the late 1970s, Selas hosted the "Mr. Wonder" show on KNOE-TV in northern Louisiana. He allegedly fled to Brazil in 1979 after parents complained to authorities that he abused their children on a camping trip to Kisatchie National Forest in central Louisiana.

Eye 1

Brevard County youth basketball coach faces child molestation charges

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© Brevard County Sheriff's OfficeDavid White, 51, of Malabar was taken into custody in Texas after being taken in on a warrant for an arrest relating to lewd and lascivious molestation.
A Malabar man wanted on lewd and lascivious molestation charges was taken into custody in Texas, according to the Brevard County Sheriff's Office.

David Wayne White, 51, was wanted on an active warrant. He was trying to flee to Mexico to avoid being taken into custody, deputies said.

The sheriff's office's GAMEOVER Task Force had agents assigned to the U.S. Marshal Service who had been tracking White.

The investigation began in February after a juvenile reported the suspect had engaged in activities that were inappropriate when they spent the night at his residence.

White has served as a long-time coach with the Palm Bay Youth Basketball League and deputies said he would frequently host sleepovers for both team members and friends of his children.

The sheriff's office is concerned that there may be other victims that haven't been identified.

"The GameOver Task Force and U.S Marshal Service are incredible resources for Brevard County and through their efforts, the worst of the worst are tracked down and arrested to prevent further victimization of our citizens," said Sheriff Wayne Ivey in a release.

White is currently being held in a Texas jail on $750,000 bond and is awaiting transport back to Brevard.