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Would-be judge in hot water for suggesting rape victims enjoy it

Jethro Mullen
CNN
Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:51 UTC
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If you're running for office, it's best not to make incendiary comments about rape. That appears to be as much the case in Indonesia as it is in the United States.

Daming Sanusi, a candidate for the Indonesian Supreme Court, has fueled outrage in the predominantly Muslim country by suggesting that rape victims enjoy being violated.

He made the comments Monday in front of a parliamentary commission hearing to determine if he was a fit for the top court, according to the official Indonesian news agency Antara.

In response to a question about whether the death penalty should be applied in rape cases, Daming reportedly said, "Consideration needs to be taken thoroughly for the imposition of death penalty for a rapist because in a rape case both the rapist and the victim enjoy it. "News of his comments quickly spread on social media, prompting anger, disgust and calls for Daming's candidature for the Supreme Court to be shot down.
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London helicopter crash: Two die in Vauxhall crane accident

Nick Schifrin
ABC News
Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:48 UTC
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A commercial helicopter crashed and fell on a busy street in central London during the morning rush hour, killing two people, injuring nine and creating scenes of fear and panic that eyewitnesses compared to a bomb explosion.

The helicopter clipped a crane attached to one of the tallest residential towers being built in London and then spun out of control, slamming into Wandsworth Road and setting cars and neighboring buildings on fire, according to spokesmen for police and fire brigades. Parts of the crane rained onto the road, with some pieces hitting the back of cars whose drivers ran for cover.

The helicopter crashed just south of the River Thames near the Underground and mainline train station at Vauxhall, and near the British spy agency MI6.

The helicopter's pilot was killed, and an additional person was killed by the crash, police said. Firefighters rescued one person from a burning car. One person remains in critical condition, five were hospitalized and four people were released after emergency officials treated them at the scene, according to police. Officials have ruled out terrorism.

"I thought it was a bomb," eyewitness Andrew Beadle told the BBC. "I literally looked up as I heard this massive noise and saw the helicopter blades go down."
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Customs agents raid wrong house in Oklahoma

Evan Anderson
newson6.com
Sat, 12 Jan 2013 07:56 UTC
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It was 5:30 a.m. Tuesday when Carlos Estrada says he got a knock at his door by a team of ICE agents that he and his family will never forget.
Moore family is still shaken after ICE agents raided the wrong house.
According to the family, it's a case of mistaken identity, and now they want to make sure it doesn't happen again.

"I don't feel too good," said Carlos Estrada Barrintos. "I don't sleep too good, I wake up like at 5:30 in the morning, you know because it's still in my mind."

It was 5:30 a.m. Tuesday when Carlos Estrada says he got a knock at his door by a team of ICE agents that he and his family will never forget.

"I don't want it to happen with anybody else," said Estrada.

He says his wife, 15-year-old daughter, and 18-year-old son were aggressively handcuffed and sat on the floor of their living room.
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Kentucky police: Two dead in shooting at Hazard Community & Technical College


wkyt.com
Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:16 UTC
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Two people have been killed in a shooting at Hazard Community & Technical College.

A third person was critically injured and has been transported to Hazard ARH.
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Attempted suicide of raped Moroccan highlights plight of victims


Raw Story
Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:00 UTC
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A young Moroccan house maid, whose dramatic suicide attempt has revived concerns about violence towards women and child workers in Morocco, said on Tuesday that her family rejected her after she was raped.

The 19-year-old women, who leapt from the fourth floor of an apartment building in Casablanca where she worked, had been employed as a domestic worker since the age of 14, said Omar Kindi, president of the NGO Insaf.

She was saved by a young man, who caught her as she fell and was killed in doing so, with the incident filmed by a neighbour and posted on the Internet.

"In 2010, she was raped in Marrakesh, prompting a dramatic change in her already sad life," said Kindi, who visited her in hospital and whose NGO supports women and children in distress.
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After 19 years behind bars, man sues Chicago police for framing him


RT.com
Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:57 UTC
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Police officers, Chicago, US
After nearly two decades of imprisonment for a murder he didn't commit, a Chicago man says he was framed by a group of policemen who bribed court witnesses to go along with their story and has filed a lawsuit against the perpetrators.

Rodell Sanders, 49, has spent years trying to convince the court of his innocence and was exonerate after 19 years imprisonment. The former prisoner is now taking the Chicago Heights Police Department and several of its officers to court for his wrongful conviction and the bribery that landed him in jail.

Sanders was arrested and charged for a 1993 murder in which a group of men robbed and fatally shot one of two people who they found sleeping in a car.

He was accused of being part of the group, even though he always claimed to have been "nowhere nearby", and was instead playing cards at his friend's apartment.

"There was no physical evidence linking Sanders to the crime. Rather, the only purported evidence against Mr. Sanders were two purchased and patently false witness identifications," states the complaint. "These wrongful misidentifications were procured through manipulation and bribes by members of the City of Chicago Heights's infamously corrupt police department."
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Oxford gang drugged young girls and sold them as prostitutes, court told

Alexandra Topping
Guardian
Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:53 UTC
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The accused men at the Old Bailey – from left: Kamar Jamil, Akthtar Dogar, Anjum Dogar, Assad Hussain, Mohammed Karrar, Bassam Karrar, Mohammed Hussain, Zeeshan Ahmed and Bilal Ahmed.
Old Bailey hears nine men, facing 51 counts including rape and trafficking, imprisoned girls as young as 11 and subjected them to depravity and extreme sexual violence.

Vulnerable girls as young as 11 were groomed, subjected to acts of "extreme depravity" and trafficked around the UK for sex by a gang of men based in Oxford, a court has heard .

Over a period of eight years the nine men made the girls' lives a "living hell", subjecting them to extreme physical and sexual violence, selling some victims for prostitution in Oxford and trafficking others around the country, an Old Bailey jury was told.

It took more than half an hour to read out the 51 counts against the men, who sat impassively in the dock, accused of crimes including rape, forcing a child into prostitution and trafficking.

The jury of seven men and five women heard that from 2004 to early 2012 six complainants were plied with drugs and drink, and raped, sometimes by several men and sometimes "for days on end".

The men targeted children in care or from chaotic backgrounds, the jury heard. Once groomed, the girls could then be used to recruit other children into the sex ring. Some of the girls, ranging in age from 11 to 15, were groomed to be child prostitutes, for which some men in the gang received payments.
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Accused New York subway pusher Naeem Davis describes scene on track


Guardian
Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:47 UTC
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Naeem Davis, right, told police Ki-Suck Han (face blocked) was the instigator of the fight at the 49th Street station near Times Square.
Davis pleads not guilty as NYPD release documents in which he says victim struggled to get back on platform as train neared.

A homeless suspect charged with killing a stranger by pushing him into the path of a New York City subway train told investigators his victim "rolled like a bowling ball" after he landed on the tracks, according to court papers.

In written and videotaped statements, Naeem Davis admitted watching as Ki-Suck Han tried in vain to climb off the tracks before the train hit him, the document prepared by prosecutors says.

Davis, a 30-year-old who told investigators who came to the United States from Sierra Leone, described Han as a drunken instigator of the deadly altercation on a subway platform near Times Square. But he also wrote that he was to blame and "shouldn't have let this happen", the document says.

The papers were made public on Tuesday as Davis pleaded not guilty to murder and manslaughter charges at a Manhattan courthouse. He's been held without bail since his arrest last month.
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Another school shooting: Student shoots faculty member, then himself in downtown St. Louis school


kmov.com
Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:19 UTC
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Police say a student in his mid-30s walked into a downtown St. Louis business school and shot an administrator before turning the gun on himself on Tuesday.

The shooting happened at the Stevens Institute of Business and Arts in the 1500 block of Washington near 15th St. around 2 p.m.

According to police, the student entered a fourth-floor office in the school and shot a financial aid member in the chest. He then shot himself.

Police arrived within a minute of the call about the shooting. Students were huddled under desks and in closets. The administrator had made it to an elevator; the gunman was found injured in a stairwell between the third and fourth floor.
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High school principal suspended for playing 'The Terminator' in video

Arturo Garcia
Raw Story
Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:53 UTC
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A Massachusetts high school principal has been suspended after portraying himself as the movie character "The Terminator" in a video for students.

According to ABC News, Erik Naumann was suspended for two days for the video, which used scenes from the movie Terminator 2: Judgement Day showing empty classrooms and playgrounds burning after an explosion, as well as footage depicting Naumann, as the titular robot stalking Linda Hamilton's character, Sarah Connor.

"The messages that are in that video are kind of disturbing," Everett Public Schools Superintendent Frederick Foresteire told WCVB-TV on Monday. "A woman terrorized in the hallway. They show four empty classrooms. Where have the students gone?"
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