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Psychopath: Man who raped up to 200 Asian children posted how-to manual on pedophilia online, blames actions on "immaturity"

Richard Huckle
© ReutersRichard Huckle
British pedophile Richard Huckle, who is believed to have raped or molested up to 200 young victims in Malaysia and Cambodia, has told a court his prolific child abuse was due to his "immaturity."

Huckle, 30, from Ashford, Kent, has admitted raping and assaulting 23 children aged between six months and 12 years from 2006 to 2014.

National Crime Agency (NCA) investigators fear he may have abused many more children after they discovered more than 200,000 indecent images of minors on his computer and camera.

At court on Friday, Huckle's lawyer asked for leniency and read a statement from the defendant, Sky News reports.

"I am open and eager to rehabilitate from this offending behaviour,"the statement read. "I don't want to become a martyr to sex tourism in Malaysia. This was all my doing as a consequence of my immaturity and I'm truly remorseful."

Comment: The man is a psychopath who listed how to groom and seduce children in order to rape them, then gave himself points for how depraved his actions were towards them. That behavior is not at all about immaturity. It's about a person with a psychopathic mind preying on innocent children who trusted him. He needs to be removed from society and kept locked up.


Whistle

Eric Holder credits Snowden; Obama utilizes 1917 Espionage Act to criminalize whistleblowers

Snowden
© Dagens Nyheter / AFPMr. Snowden, whistleblower, traitor or credit due?
Former US Attorney General Eric Holder gave some credit to Edward Snowden for what he did, but the praise would have been more beneficial while Holder was still in office, says ex-MI5 agent and whistleblower Annie Machon.

Holder praised whistleblower Edward Snowden for starting a debate over global surveillance. Snowden replied by posting a timeline of the seemingly changing reaction of US officials to his actions.

RT: What's your first reaction to the words of the former US Attorney General?

Annie Machon: He [Eric Holder] is giving a tacit acknowledgement to the fact that there should be a public interest defense under law for intelligence whistleblowers coming out and exposing malfeasance and crimes on the part of the spies. And it is a crying shame that after so many whistleblowers have come out over the last two decades, at least in the UK and the US, there is no such public interest defense. I think it is criminal in itself that these people are not protected but they are prosecuted.

RT: Why is he going public with his thoughts on the issue right now?

AM: Holder has retired from pubic office; he's the most senior lawyer in the US. He is now back in private practice. Unfortunately, we see this time and time again when senior spooks, senior lawyers, senior government officials come out after they are retired and say "we could think about this in a different way." It would be lovely to see them doing it when they are actually in office when they have power to actually effect that change. Think about it: in the US they are working under old laws - the 99-year-old Espionage Act of 1917. This has been used more times by the Obama administration than all the other presidents put together since 1917 to go after whistleblowers - not spies, not traitors, it is not espionage. These people are coming forward and saying that there are things that are seriously wrong with our intelligence agency, we need to fix them, they are breaking our constitution and they are abusing human rights all around the planet.

Comment: It is up to the public to support and protect whistleblowers. It won't come from agencies or companies or the legal system.


Wolf

Family of slain Michigan man hope to use parrot as evidence in murder investigation

parrot
© Patrick Olum / Reuters
The parents of a man shot in Michigan last year believe his pet parrot witnessed his murder and, in an extraordinary twist, might be mimicking a heated argument leading up to his death.

The African gray parrot belonged to 46-year-old Martin Duram, who was shot dead at his home near Newcosta Avenue, Ensley, on May 13 last year, reportWZZM13.

Duram's wife also sustained a gunshot wound to the head in the incident but survived. Her husband's death is still being investigated by Michigan State Police, but no-one has yet been charged over what cops are treating as a homicide.

The case is notable for the fact that it took investigators almost an hour to realise that Duram's wife was still alive, reported MLive.

Attention

Powerful gas explosions rip through street in Urk, the Netherlands - Six houses destroyed

gas explosion urk
© ANP
On Friday evening, just after 18.00, a huge gas explosion took place in a new residential area in Urk, the Netherlands. A row of six houses were (partly) destroyed by the explosion and the resulting fire. Two houses collapsed before the fire brigade and ambulance arrived. A second explosion took place shortly after help arrived.

Six people were injured with three taken to hospital and two already released. This morning Mayor Pieter van Maaren told Radio 1-Journaal that it is a miracle nobody died as a result of the explosion. Van Maaren told Dutch broadcaster NOS that the explosion may have been caused by gas accumulation inside the sewer. It is still unclear however what caused it, and he hopes that research into the cause will offer answers soon.

USA

Protecting and serving: Police stand by and watch during Trump rally violence

trump rally violence
© ReutersA Trump supporter collides with another man after leaving the rally in San Jose, California, as ugly scenes erupted in the surrounding area.
America is in a crisis of consciousness — nothing highlights this notion quite like the clashes at political rallies across the country. We've seen Trump supporters attack Bernie supports and Bernie supports attack Trump supporters — all the while both sides are ignoring the giant pink elephant in the room — the police state.

Do people really think things will be different if their candidate gets into office? Failing to realize that both parties are merely two sides to the same coin is sending the country into perpetual decline. Republicans are for big government if with war, and Democrats are for war, if with big government.

Nothing illustrates this notion quite like the Trump rally in San Jose, California this week.

Star of David

Israeli woman who admitted to lying about being raped by Palestinian child avoids charges while child faces prison

israelis palestinians
© AP Photo/ Sebastian Scheiner
The actual rape victim, a young Palestinian under the age of consent, will face prison time for unlawfully entering Israel while the perpetrator walks away free after making false accusations.

On Monday, a mentally-ill Israeli woman admitted to police that her allegation that a Palestinian child raped her while another man filmed the incident in Tel Aviv was a lie.

The woman now says that she was in a consensual relationship with the child, who himself is below the age of consent, and that the story of rape was a fabrication developed by her family in an attempt to put an end to the relationship.

The young man and a second individual, who purportedly filmed the incident, were both charged under Israel's sex-crime ordinance, and for entering Israel unlawfully. Police have requested that a court in Tel Aviv release both individuals and the public defender's office is expected to seek the release of the second suspect, since the absence of a rape precludes his alleged recording of a crime.

Bad Guys

Sick! Young bear found mulitated in California; paws, gallbladder missing

Bear
© CBSLA
Wildlife officials Friday were investigating the mutilation of young bear that was struck by a vehicle in Canyon Country.

Caltrans workers found the bear, believed to have been about two years old and around 150 pounds, on Highway 14 near Sand Canyon Road, according to the state Department of Fish and Wildlife. Its four paws and gallbladder had been removed.

"For somebody else to come over and maim the animal after it's already dead or wounded, that's just night right at all as far as I'm concerned," said Todd Werner of Canyon Country.
Fish and Wildlife spokesman Andrew Hughan told the Los Angeles Times investigators believe the bear was mutilated after it was hit.

"There were no signs of a gunshot, broken legs or hip — this was a crime of opportunity," Hughan was quoted as saying. "We are very confident it was hit by a car. This desecration of the body was done afterward." The department of fish and wildlife says cutting animal parts off road kill is illegal.

Control Panel

18 women allegedly sexually assaulted at German music festival, 3 refugees arrested

German police
© Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters
Eighteen women in Germany have filed complaints to police saying they were sexually assaulted at a musical festival in Darmstadt. Police arrested three refugees from Pakistan at the scene after three of the women immediately reported their attacks.

The sexual assaults are reported to have taken place at the Schlossgrabenfest music festival in the city of Darmstadt, near Frankfurt, on Saturday night. Three of the women immediately alerted police at the festival that they had been assaulted. They said they had been surrounded and then sexually harassed by a group of men who were of South Asian appearance.

"Unfortunately several women were sexually harassed on Saturday, when the dance floor area was completely packed," the police said in a statement, as cited by Die Welt. However, due to the quick intervention by the law enforcement officers, they were able to apprehend three suspects, who are asylum seekers from Pakistan and aged between 28 and 31. Police say that there could be more who took part in the attacks that are still at large.

Since the arrests were made, a further 15 women have come forward since Tuesday, to say they were sexually assaulted at the festival. The women added that the pattern of the attacks was similar, as they were surrounded by a group of men, who proceeded to assault them sexually. The festival in Darmstadt took place over four days and attracted some 400,000 revelers.

These attacks come just over two weeks after two female teenagers, 17- and 18-years-old, were sexually harassed by a group of 10 men during a street festival in Berlin. The men allegedly pressed against the teens and groped them, blocking their attempts to escape.

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Black Magic

Texas woman faces multiple criminal charges for torturing stepsons

Sara Anne Woody
© Burkburnett police departmentSara Anne Woody
A woman has been charged with 27 counts of injuring a child after being accused of punishing her young stepsons by burning their tongues with a charcoal grill lighter and forcing them to lick a dirty toilet seat.

Sara Anne Woody, 24, faces a total of 30 criminal charges, which also include allegations of torturing the minors, aged 7 and 12, by making them drink a concoction that made them vomit, and beating them on the genitals with a belt, according to police.

The woman, who is from the Texas city of Burkburnett, had her bail set to over $3 million by authorities, the Times Record News reported. Burkburnett police had been working on the case since March after one of the children was taken to hospital suffering from a lip injury.
Both boys were then interviewed by a children's advocacy center where the harrowing accounts of abuse were revealed.

Meanwhile, her husband, Jonathan Darrell Woody, was also charged with three counts of child endangerment and an additional charge of tampering with a witness - believed to be one of the victims, who was allegedlyinstructed by the father to give a false account of his injury.

Newspaper

15-year-old girl knifed policewoman 'under orders from ISIS' says German media

Hannover police station
© Axel Schmidt/Reuters
A teenage girl from Germany who stabbed a policewoman in the neck in February in Hannover could have been acting under orders from Islamic State, according to media reports. It also emerged the girl praised the Paris attacks, calling the date "her favorite day."

The 15-year-old girl, Safia S., said she had traveled to Turkey and had been in contact with members of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), Suddeutsche Zeitung newspaper and broadcasters WDR and NDR reported after they were able to access chat logs between the teenager and another Islamist in the central German city of Hanover.

These revelations show that Safia may not only have been inspired by the terrorist group, but had also been under their orders to carry out attacks. The conversations on the chat logs reveal that the 15-year-old was persuaded to return home to Germany from Turkey, following a "change of plans" rather than head towards Syria.

IS members are alleged to have told her that "it would be of great use" and that she could "surprise the unbelievers." Her mother eventually flew to Turkey to pick her up and take her back home.

However, shortly after arriving back in Hanover, she stabbed a policewoman in the throat near the city's main train station with a knife. The woman suffered life-threatening injuries, but eventually made a full recovery after undergoing surgery.

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