My wife watches the today show some mornings. So needless to say I end up watching it too. One morning I came in and saw Matt Lauer put some kind of lip gloss on and kiss a tentative Al Roker in the mouth. "What in the hall have you got me watching?" I asked.
Then I thought about all the questionable things I've recently seen Matt Lauer do. It seems he's always pulling, groping, tugging, patting or otherwise man-handling Al Roker; and Al just smiles like it's all good. The things people do to keep their jobs. One morning, newcomer Willie Geist, who's white, admonished Matt Lauer for slapping him on the ass. I guess some people don't like homosexual harassment on the job.
During the Olympics Matt Lauer and Al Roker took their homosexual horseplay to Russia. I saw Al Roker climb into a bob sled, lay back, while Matt Lauer sat down in front of him, and literally laid his head back in Al Roker's lap. With his head laid firmly on Al Roker's crotch, the two slid down the bobsled course for no apparent reason. They weren't in the Olympics nor were they racing anyone. And oddly enough, they didn't try or duplicate any other Olympic event such as skiing, snowboarding or ice hockey.
In fact, once they reached the bottom, they went back up to do it again. If I had to lay my head on another mans balls just to be in the Olympics that is an event in which I would not compete. It really makes me wonder what Al has to do with Matt Lauer when the camera isn't running. The things people do to keep their jobs.
NORFOLK -- A Norfolk woman has been charged following the death of her 20-month-old step-daughter.
Police charged 24-year-old Emily Defries of Norfolk with second degree murder Monday.
According to police, Defries was babysitting the victim and two other children on May 18. Defries told investigators that she discovered the victim at the bottom of the steps and then called 911 around 5:30 p.m. Medics responded to the incident and transported the victim to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at approximately 6:10 p.m.
Defries told investigators she periodically checked on the victim, who had been sleeping upstairs.
The Medical Examiner’s Office determined the cause of death was homicide by blunt force trauma.
Defries is currently being held without bond at the Norfolk City Jail. She is due in court at 9 a.m. Wednesday.
Parents Watched as their Six Sons Started Raping the Girl at Age 4. Can you imagine what she endured dealing with 6 men in their sexual prime? The parents made the child her boys sex slave so they'd never have to leave home. I don't think it gets more depraved then this.
Six grown brothers and their parents have been arrested in North Carolina and charged with multiple counts of sexually abusing a child over a 10-year period.
The arrests came more than a year after the eldest brother came forward and confessed at the urging of his church elder.
“He sinned seriously. It was an evil that needed to be exposed,” Dan Horn of Hope Baptist Church in Wake Forest, N.C., told the Virginia Pilot.
Eric Jackson, 27, the man who had confessed, and his five brothers — Jon, 25, Matthew, 23, Nathaniel, 21, Benjamin, 19, and Aaron, 18 — were arrested last week after they surrendered to Perquimans County Sheriff's deputies on charges they molested and raped a girl from the time she was 4 until she was about 14, Sheriff Eric Tilley told the newspaper.
The girl is now 16 and living in Colorado Springs.
The multiple charges range from statutory rape to rape and sexual assault.
The men's parents, John Jackson, 65, and Nita Jackson, 54, were charged with felony child abuse for allegedly knowing of the sex crimes and doing nothing about it.
The brothers were home-schooled along with the girl, authorities said. Some of the men appeared to have below-average intelligence levels and one could barely write his name, WVEC-TV reported.
Deputies tried to question the girl and her parents after Eric Jackson confessed to the abuse, but the girl's parents would not allow her to speak to investigators, Perquimans County Sheriff Eric Tilley told the station.They, and most of the Jackson family, moved to Colorado after the investigation became public.
Earlier this year, deputies flew to Colorado and spent eight hours questioning the girl. Indictments were issued in April. The Jacksons surrendered in North Carolina last week rather than face extradition hearings.
After posting $15,000 bonds, the parents returned to Colorado, Tilley said.
The brothers remain in custody at Albermarle District Jail, in lieu of bail up to $150,000 each.
"The only thing that can come out of this — good — is that, you know, this young lady gets some kind of closure, and, hopefully, she's strong enough … to put it behind her and go on with her life," Tilley said, according to the station.
Murderer and 'Alice the Goon' look alike Julie Scheneker
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A military wife whose husband was deployed to the Middle East shot her 13-year-old son twice in the head for talking back, authorities said, then returned home and shot her 16-year-old daughter in the face as she studied. Now she's on trial, and whether she spends life in prison hinges on a key question for jurors: After years of profound mental illness, was she unable to realize what she did was wrong, as her defense attorneys say? Or did she plan the January 2011 killings over at least several days, as prosecutors say, complaining at one point that the three-day wait to buy a gun would "delay the massacre"?
Jury selection began Monday morning in Julie Scheneker's case. She is charged with two counts of first-degree murder. Those on the jury will see many disturbing images and hear hours of troubling evidence. They will see several sides to Schenecker, a former military linguist and wife of a colonel.
They will see an attentive suburban mom, cheering from the sidelines as her kids played soccer. They will also see a woman who bought a gun the weekend before the killings — and who complained in a letter that a three-day waiting period would "delay the massacre." They will see the handcuffed inmate, escorted by officers, who walked rigidly into jail following her arrest, her face contorted and eyes empty.
Schenecker, 53, looks older and vastly different than pictures that emerged of her as a blonde, athletic mom in the years before the crime. She sat in the courtroom Monday, flanked by her public defenders, who plan an insanity defense.
Julie Schenecker looks like a demon has taken over her body.
Her ex-husband, Parker Schenecker, also was in the courtroom. Prosecutors are not seeking the death penalty, but if convicted, Schenecker could face life in prison without the possibility of parole. If Schenecker is found not guilty by reason of insanity, the judge could still order her committed to a mental hospital until it is determined she is no longer a danger to others or herself.
According to Tampa Police, Schenecker shot her 13-year-old son, Beau, twice in the head with a .38-caliber pistol in the family car "for talking back." Officers at the scene found the boy still in the passenger seat, with his seat belt on. The report said Schenecker then shot her 16-year-old daughter, Calyx, in the face as the high school cross-country star studied on her computer at their upscale home.
After Schenecker sent her mother a disturbing email, officers went to the house and found her drenched in blood on her back porch. They then found the teens' bodies, a scene that was so troubling that a stress team was called to counsel them. Julie Schenecker was born in Muscatine, Iowa. There, she was an athlete and that continued in college, where she played volleyball for the University of Northern Iowa.
Julie Schenecker, second from left, is seen in a Tampa, Fla. courtroom for the first day of jury selection.
Schenecker eventually joined the Army, advancing to the rank of sergeant as a Russian linguist. While she was stationed in Munich, Germany, she met and married Parker Schenecker in the late 1980s. She left the service a few years later. Col. Parker Schenecker was a career military officer and the family moved around. At the time of the killings, he was attached to U.S. Central Command in Tampa. He had been deployed to the Middle East a few weeks before the killings happened. He has since divorced his wife and filed a wrongful death lawsuit against her.
In part, prosecutors declined to pursue the death penalty because they think there is enough evidence to prove Schenecker is mentally ill, but not legally insane. Under Florida law, the burden of proof will be on Schenecker's lawyers to prove she is insane. They will have to show that she was so mentally ill that she could not understand that killing her children was wrong.
"They have kind of an uphill climb," said Bob Dekle, a University of Florida law professor and retired prosecutor. It will be especially difficult for Schenecker because she purchased a handgun five days before the shootings, then picked it up after the three-day waiting period and soon used it to kill.
But court documents show that Schenecker has a long history of mental illness. In the early 1990s, she was diagnosed with depression and treated with medication. From 1997 to 2001, she was medicated daily except for when she was pregnant and nursing, records show.
In 2001, she suffered a debilitating bout of depression and was hospitalized for nine months. Documents also show that she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, schizo-affective disorder and severe depression. A few months before the killings, Calyx called the police on her mother, saying she had hit her. Police closed the case as there were no marks on the girl. The family was in counseling about a month before the killings. Dekle points out that "being mentally ill doesn't prove someone is insane," and the two terms are not interchangeable in court.
"Mental illness is a medical concept," he said. "Insanity is a legal concept."
PROVO, Utah (Reuters) - A Utah mother accused of killing six of her newborn infants over a decade and stashing their bodies in a garage was charged on Monday with murder in their deaths.
Megan Huntsman, 39, made a brief court appearance in Provo, Utah, as the first-degree murder charges were revealed by Utah County Attorney Jeff Buhman.
Hunstman could face life in prison if convicted but will not be eligible for the death penalty, prosecutors said. Police have said that Huntsman, who was arrested on April 13, has admitted to strangling or suffocating the six babies just after their births between 1996 and 2006 in a rare case of serial infanticide.
The infants' remains were found wrapped in old towels, shirts and plastic bags and stuffed inside cardboard boxes in the garage of her former home in Pleasant Grove, a suburb just north of Provo. The body of a seventh infant was found disposed of in the same way, but authorities have said they believe that child was stillborn.
Megan Huntsman, accused of killing six of her babies and storing their bodies in her garage.
Police have said Huntsman secretly gave birth to all seven babies without medical assistance at the house after apparently managing to conceal her pregnancies.
Authorities have said she has explained her rationale for the killings to investigators, but they have not publicly revealed the alleged motive.
Buhman told reporters that DNA from the infants' remains was still being analyzed to confirm their parentage, which could take weeks or months. Huntsman has three surviving daughters, ages 14, 18 and 20, and they still live with other relatives at the Pleasant Grove address. At least one of them, the youngest, was born during the period in which the mother is suspected of slaying the babies.
Each count of first-degree murder carries a maximum sentence of five years to life in prison. But Huntsman is not eligible for the death penalty if convicted because the alleged offenses predate changes in the law that would have made them capital crimes, said Jared Perkins, a deputy county attorney.
Huntsman, who remains jailed in lieu of $6 million cash-only bond, was arrested after her estranged husband, Darren West, discovered the remains of one of the infants while cleaning out his garage, leading police to find the six other bodies. The county attorney said neither West nor the three surviving sisters are considered suspects in the case.
LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) — A young mother believed to be suffering from depression admitted to investigators that she stabbed her 7-month-old son to death in a Northern California park, police said Sunday. Ashley Newton, 23, of San Jose was arrested Saturday on suspicion of murder, the East Bay Regional Parks District Police Department said in a statement.
Investigators continue to interview her family and friends in an attempt to make sense of the alleged crime. "This is an extremely shocking case for us," said Chief Timothy Anderson of the park's police department. The motive remains unclear, but Anderson said that Newton had a history of depression and appeared to have self-inflicted knife wounds on her wrist.
Police were called at 10:30 a.m. Saturday on reports of a damaged Honda sedan in the Del Valle Regional Park east of San Francisco. They found the car abandoned with the engine running and an empty child's seat. Officers were about to tow the car two hours later, believing it was involved in a hit-and-run, when Newton walked up to them holding her lifeless baby, Anderson said.
Officers tried to resuscitate the baby, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. Newton was arrested after she made statements implicating herself in the stabbing, Anderson said, adding that investigators found a knife in the area that they believe was used in the alleged crime. The stabbing occurred in a remote part of Camp Arroyo, the site of a popular children's camp inside the 4,400-acre park south of Livermore, a suburb that's about 45 miles east of San Francisco. Newton remains in jail with no possibility of release on bond, police said.
Daytona Beach, Fla.- James Guy Bull, a 61-year-old Florida man, was jailed Tuesday after he allegedly raped his 8-month-old dog in front of two neighbors.
According to Daytona Beach Police, officers were dispatched to a Daytona Beach residence Tuesday after two witnesses reported that their neighbor, James Guy Bull, was raping his dog on the front porch of his residence.
Investigators say officers arrived at the suspect's residence to find the dog bound to his porch with an 8-inch chain. The dog was found to be "clearly emaciated" with "a very swollen vagina" and was provided with no food, water or shade.
Neighbors told officers they were alerted to the abuse after hearing the dog yelping in distress. When Bull realized he was being watched by neighbors, he reportedly "pulled up his pants and put the dog down."
Neighbors reported seeing Bull place his fingers inside the dog's vagina on prior occasions or hearing the dog cry in distress through the walls of his apartment.
The dog was removed from the residence and placed with the Halifax Humane Society for medical treatment
