Older Stepsister Sells 7 Year Old Girl For Sex Party

Police: NJ teen sold stepsister, 7, for party sex

Mar 31 2010

BETH DeFALCO and AARON MORRISON - Associated Press Writers



(AP Photo/Rich Schultz)

Rowan Towers at 620 West State Street, in Trenton, N.J., is shown on Wednesday, March 31, 2010. The building was the site of a party where police say a 15-year-old sold her 7-year-old sister to have sex with as many as seven men and boys. Police say the child later put on her clothes and two strangers walked the crying girl home. She was treated at a hospital. Police say the teenager, who stayed behind, also took money to have sex with others at a party in the Trenton apartment on Sunday. The older girl is charged with aggravated sexual assault, promoting prostitution and other crimes. Her name was not released because of her age.

TRENTON, N.J.— It started with a party invitation to a 15-year-old girl from some men she knew. She took her 7-year-old stepsister to an apartment down the street from their home near the Statehouse, where the girls had been hanging around outside on a Sunday afternoon.

For the younger girl, police say it quickly descended into a horrifying ordeal in which she was gang-raped by as many as seven men as her sister not only watched but got paid by those who did it.

Their parents, none the wiser, thought maybe they had run away.

"We're talking about a kid who told her sister to go into an apartment and let people rape her," said Trenton police Capt. Joseph Juniak. "It's unfathomable."

The teen has been charged with aggravated sexual assault, promoting prostitution and other crimes. Her name was not released because of her age, but the county prosecutor plans to ask the court to try her as an adult. In the meantime, she is being held at the Mercer County Youth Detention Center.

The 7-year-old had wanted to tag along because she was worried about the 15-year-old's safety, Mayor Doug Palmer said.

When the girls didn't return home by 4:30 Sunday afternoon, their parents called police, believing the older one had run away from home and taken her younger sister with her.

In fact, they were down the street inside a 13th-floor apartment at Rowan Towers, a high-rise complex so dangerous that police are hired as security guards at night.

"They keep it clean on the outside, but it's what's on the inside that you have to worry about," said neighbor William Johnson, who says police are coming out of the building all the time.

Inside apartment 13-C, police said, the 7-year-old was soon left alone as her sister headed to a back bedroom to sell sex to several men. When she came out into the living room, she handed her 7-year-old sister money and encouraged her to let the men touch her.

"It went from touching to straight out assault and rape," Juniak said. "They threatened to kill her if she screamed or told anyone."

Afterward, the child put on her clothes and left. Her sister stayed behind with the men.

Two women found the child crying outside the apartment and walked her home, where police were waiting.

The child told them what happened and was treated at a hospital. When police located the 15-year-old later that night, she also told them what happened and was arrested.

Palmer said the crimes are among the worst he's seen in 20 years as mayor.

"It's sickening," he said. "The police are taking this personal. I know there's a place in hell for all the people that participated in this and I'm sure they will get there."

"Personally, as a father with a 7-year-old daughter, I can't imagine the horror," Palmer added.

Lauren Kidd, a spokeswoman for New Jersey's Children and Families department, said state and federal confidentiality laws prohibit the agency from commenting about possible prior involvement with the family. But Juniak indicated the department may have had previous contact with the older girl.

Police are now scouring video surveillance from lobby and elevator cameras to try to identify everyone at the party. They believe there were about a dozen people in the apartment, mostly teenage boys and men who police say likely broke in _ a fairly common occurrence in the crime-plagued neighborhood that sits in the shadow of the Statehouse's golden dome.

Last week, police responded to a home invasion there and a shooting just outside the lobby.

Police Director Irving Bradley Jr. said the building's management company, Interstate Realty Management Co., has been working with police to curb the violence.

"This is incredibly disturbing," said Laura Zaner, a spokeswoman for IRM.

Two private security guards man the lobby doors during the day. At 5 p.m., two police officers take over.

Bradley said the company is installing more cameras and had just hired a third officer to work the night shift to allow two officers to do hourly hallway patrols. He said Sunday may have been the first day they were supposed to have started the patrols.

Chalia Johnkins, who lives around the corner from the Towers, said gatherings of men are commonplace and police should have known something unsavory was happening.

"The police who were supposed to be on patrol should be held responsible," she said. "They could have prevented this. These weren't regular guards. They were police and they still didn't see the baby crying?"

Annette Lartique, the city councilwoman who represents the area where the crime occurred, said the community would expect nothing less than the prosecution of everyone involved to the fullest extent of the law.

"I know we are going to send a message on this one," she said. "Everybody will pay a price _ from the person who opened the door to the person who pushed the elevator button."

Russian Math Genius Nixes One Million Dollar Award

'Nyet' to $1 million? Math genius may reject award

Mar 29 2010

MALCOLM RITTER and IRINA TITOVA - Associated Press Writers

Grigory Perelman


ST. PETERSBURG, Russia— Who doesn't want to be a millionaire? Maybe a 43-year-old unemployed bachelor who lives with his elderly mother in Russia _ and who won $1 million for solving a problem that has stumped mathematicians for a century.

Grigory Perelman can't decide if he wants the money.

"He said he would need to think about it," said James Carlson, who telephoned Perelman with the news he had won the Millennium Prize awarded by the Clay Mathematics Institute of Cambridge, Mass.

Carlson said he wasn't too surprised by the apparent lack of interest from Perelman, a reclusive genius who has a history of refusing big prizes.

In 2006, Perelman made headlines when he stayed away from the ceremony in Madrid where he was supposed to get a Fields Medal, often called the Nobel prize of mathematics. He remained at home in St. Petersburg instead.

As for the new prize, Perelman (PER-il-mahn) told a local television station he hasn't made a decision on whether to accept the money, and that Carlson's institute will be the first to know when he does.

Sergei Rukshin, Perelman's high school math teacher, told The Associated Press on Monday that Perelman is still unsure whether to accept it.

"I know that this time he is seriously thinking about whether he will accept the prize. He still has some time," Rukshin said. The awards ceremony is in June.

Rukshin said Perelman has been without work for four years and has declined all job offers. He previously worked at the Steklov Mathematics Institute.

Perelman was honored for proving the Poincare (pwan-kah-RAY) conjecture, which deals with shapes that exist in four or more dimensions, rather than the familiar three dimensions. The conjecture proposes a test for determining whether a shape in such space, no matter how distorted, is a three-dimensional sphere.

Tamara Yefimova, a deputy director of Perelman's high school who has known the mathematician since he was a student there, said that once he started working on the Poincare conjecture he became totally absorbed in it.

She said Perelman stopped visiting his old school to help students and stopped attending meetings of the city's math society.

"It could have been only him who would solve the Poincare conjecture," Yefimova said.

Indeed, Carlson said, Perelman's solution was "a truly amazing piece of mathematics."

Perelman lives in an aging three-room high-rise apartment with his mother and doesn't like to pick up awards he's won, money or not.

When you are a genius "It's easy to grow up feeling bad about yourself and maybe even feeling like a freak and sort of reacting accordingly," so social skills can suffer, said a California psycologist.

Mathematicians will gather in Paris in June to celebrate Perelman's achievement and put on some kind of ceremony whether he's there or not.

Does Carlson care whether Perelman shows up?

"It would be nice," Carlson said. "But on the other hand, I respect his desire for calm and tranquility."

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Associated Press Science Writer Malcolm Ritter reported from New York.

Dead Opossum Gets Wrong End of Exchange in Mouth-to-Mouth Resuscitation Attempt

Police: Drunk Pa. man tries to revive carcass of very dead opossum

Mar 27 2010 Updated March 30, 9 PM EST

Extremely Dead Opossum - Victim of Road Rage?

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa.— Police say they charged a Pennsylvania man with public drunkenness after he was seen trying to resuscitate a long-dead opossum along a highway. State police Trooper Jamie Levier says several witnesses saw 55-year-old Donald Wolfe, of Brookville, near the animal Thursday along Route 36 in Oliver Township, about 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.

The trooper says one person saw Wolfe kneeling before the animal and gesturing as though he were conducting a seance. He says another saw Wolfe attempting to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

Levier says the animal already had been dead a while. He speculated the opossum might have been killed by the alcohol toxic breath of its would be rescuer. A coroner was not called and no official cause of death was reported, which raised some eyebrows in the Opossum community, concerned about a possible cover-up.

The Associated Press could not locate a home telephone number for Wolfe.

Police later received reports of a gang of opossums, wearing white sheets and hoods, that had been spotted near the drunk man's home, raising fears of vigilante justice.

Celebrating Genitalia in Japan

KOMAKI, Japan — It's springtime in Japan and that means one thing.

Actually, two things. Penis festivals and vagina festivals.

It may sound like a sophomoric gag. But these are folk rites going back at least 1,500 years, into Japan's agricultural past. They're held to ensure a good harvest and promote baby-making.

Maybe they should hold more such festivals. Japan has one of the world's lowest birthrates (1.37 children per woman), which experts blame on stagnant incomes and changing gender relations.

The center-left government that came to power last year hopes to make child-rearing more affordable with a $280 monthly stipend per kid.

Meanwhile, the festivals provide an economic shot in the arm for host cities, a party for foreign tourists and expats, and a chance for locals to let loose, too.

One of the best-known penis festivals is at Komaki City's Tagata shrine, about 45 minutes outside Nagoya, every March 15. In a neighboring village, a vagina festival is held the Sunday before that. This year, that was the 14th — meaning rare, back-to-back genital

worship days.

At the Hime-no-miya grand vagina festival, parents dress up their kids, pray for healthy babies, and celebrate with sake, beer and snacks galore.

In the morning, children carry a small vagina to the Ogata shrine. Later, some 40 grown men strain under the weight of a massive vagina while carrying it to the shrine in the main parade. They're followed by two smaller vagina litters.

At the end of the day pink and white mochi (glutinous rice ball treats) are hurled into the crowd.

The penis festival the following day drew far more foreign and Japanese tourists — some 100,000, according to a festival brochure. Festival foreplay included much posing with wooden and candy penises. The main event is the parading of a two-foot by six-and-a-half foot long phallus carved from Japanese cypress.

Teams of men strain under the weight, stopping to spin the penis around a few times amid yelling, cheering and jostling. The work is so hard that teams rotate during the one-and-a-half hour procession.

This phallus parade is rooted, says the brochure, in "an ancient Japanese belief that for the growth and development of all things, the mother, earth, has to be impregnated by the father, heaven."

"People come here when they want to have a baby," said festival volunteer and Komaki resident Katsuragawa Noboru. "If it works, they have to come back the next year to thank the gods."

It worked for Katsuragawa, twice: He has a son and a daughter now, he said with a laugh.

Lucy Glasspool, who researches gender and pop culture as a visiting scholar in Nagoya, was helping out at the information booth. It was her first penis festival.

"I heard about this a long time ago and I'm not sure I believed it," she said. "But now I'm here and it's everything I thought it would be. I highly recommend the penis-shaped candy."

She gave English-language updates on the penis' progress through a microphone, and passed out detailed information in English on the history and significance of the rite. But most Western tourists seemed happy enough just to drink beer and make endless penis jokes.

Vendors sell penis- and vagina-shaped candies and chocolate-covered bananas, wood penis sculptures and penis earrings, adding to the mirth. Eavesdropping was a riot.

Said one American woman into a cell phone, in a southern twang: "We just found an ashtray that's in the shape of a vagina that you need to buy."

"It's smaller than last year's," one jaded female expat loudly complained, as the phallus approached.

One American woman, reviewing a photo of her friends posing with penis-candy-sucking Japanese, said, "Oh my God. This one is so going on Facebook."

Rape Fantasy Gone Sour

1 trial for 2 men accused of arranging rape online

Mar 25 2010


CASPER, Wyo.— A district judge has ordered two men accused of using Craigslist to arrange the rape of a Wyoming woman to stand trial together.

Jebidiah James Stipe, of Twentynine Palms, Calif., and Ty Oliver McDowell, of Bar Nunn, both have pleaded not guilty to charges.

Prosecutors say Stipe posted an ad on the Internet advertising site Craigslist pretending to be a Casper woman. Prosecutors say Stipe asked for someone to help play out a "rape fantasy."

Prosecutors say McDowell replied to the posting and raped the woman in her home in December.

Stipe and McDowell are scheduled to go on trial May 24.

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Information from: Casper Star-Tribune - Casper, http://www.trib.com

No Place Like Prison Says Ex Con

Former inmate gets 15 years for breaking into jail

Mar 23 2010


(AP Photo/Brevard County Sheriffs Office)

This undated photo provided by the Brevard County Sheriffs Office shows Sylvester Jiles. aka The Perp

VIERA, Fla.— A Florida man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for violating his probation by trying to break into the Brevard County jail.

A judged sentenced 25-year-old Sylvester Jiles of Cocoa on Monday. He was convicted in January of trespassing on jail property and resisting an officer.

Authorities say Jiles tried to climb a 12-foot fence at the Brevard County Detention Center in August. He was caught and hospitalized with severe cuts from the barbed wire. He had been released a week earlier after accepting a plea deal on a manslaughter charge.

Jiles had begged jail officials to take him back into custody, saying he feared retaliation from the victim's family. Jail officials said they couldn't take him in and told him to file a police report.

When Lesbians Attack

Lesbian bride spends wedding night in jail after baring breasts at bouncer and attacking him with stiletto shoe

Daily Mail Reporter
22nd March 2010


A lesbian bride was arrested at her own wedding reception after baring her breasts at a doorman and then hitting him over the head with her red stiletto shoe.

Sharon Hancox, 40, spent her first night of marriage in police cells after the disturbance at the champagne party to celebrate her nuptuals with new wife Nicola Hutin.

Sharon Hancox is shown above standing with new 'wife' Nicola Hutin (left) outside Swansea Magistrates Court. Hancox pleaded guilty to common assault after she attacked the doorman on the couple's wedding night

A court heard Hancox had drunk up to eight pints of lager and quaffed champagne after the civil ceremony.

Then the court heard she had a row with club doorman David Jenkins over allowing a guest into the wedding function.

Prosecutor Julie Sullivan said: 'With that, she then pulled the top of her red dress down exposing her breasts.

Hancox then called the doorman a pervert. Her partner lunged at Mr Jenkins before Hancox, who was holding a two-inch stiletto shoe, followed suit. 'The heel made contact with his forehead and he felt blood running down his face.'

The court heard trouble started after doorman Mr Jenkins was told that Miss Hutin, also 40, was fighting with another woman. Mr Jenkins separated the pair - then decided to ask all the guests to leave the Champers bar in Swansea, South Wales.

But the city's magistrates heard Hancox blame Mr Jenkins for the fight and told him he should not have let the other woman into the private function.

Miss Sullivan said: 'She told police she was ashamed of what she had done and was embarrassed for her actions.'

Doorman Mr Jenkins said he'd had 'previous dealings' with Hancox and she had been ejected from Champers at an earlier time.

Hancox allegedly told him: 'You assaulted me, you pulled my tits out two years ago.'

But Mr Jenkins denied her claims.

Steve Burnell, defending, said Hancox believed she was only trying to protect her partner. He said: 'One of the guests turned up slightly inebriated. They asked that the woman not be allowed in. 'She had already taken her shoes off. It wasn't a deliberate act where she was wearing high heels and then took one of them off.
'She had not fully appreciated that the shoe was in her hand when she swung at him. She's very remorseful.'

Hancox and Miss Hutin tied the knot at the Swansea Register office.
After spending a night in police cells, Hancox was released the next day so the couple could spend their honeymoon in Devon, while Mr Jenkins was taken from the reception to a hospital for treatment to a head injury.

Hancox, of Penlan, Swansea, admitted common assault and was sentenced to a 12-month community order with 60 hours' unpaid work. She was also ordered to pay £100 compensation and £150 costs.

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