UPDATE ON MISSING MILWAUKEE BOYS, FATHER QUESTIONED

Purvis Parker admits he did some bad things in "a past life" and says he hasn't been the kind of father he wants to be to 11-year-old Purvis Virginia Parker - whom he calls "Little Purvis" and "Junior" - but he said Tuesday from the Milwaukee County Jail that he had absolutely nothing to do with his son's, or Quadrevion Henning's, disappearance. "I've taken two lie detector tests and passed everything," he said in a video interview at the jail. "I love Purvis to the fullest. I can't sleep. I'm throwing up. I'm praying for my son to come home."


Parker, 31, was being held in jail on a probation violation he said resulted from him spending the night at a girlfriend's house. He was arrested March 21, two days after the boys were reported missing. "Everybody is pointing fingers like it's me," he said. "I never did nothing to hurt someone this bad to want to hurt my kids."


Parker has several criminal convictions dating to 1995 and recently served 16 months in prison for selling marijuana and illegally possessing a firearm. He was released five months ago. He said he was never a "big time" drug dealer and that rumors about him owing somebody $75,000 and snitching on somebody were false.


"On the Monday morning I found out he was missing, I filled up my truck and drove around till the tank was empty looking for him," Parker said. "If he does ever come home, I'm going to keep him with me all the time."


Divers waded through the shallow waters of the Milwaukee River and shut down the park acting on information that the boys were familiar with the park. Quadrevion Henning's family sternly disputed that claim. "The boys are not familiar with that park. It's completely too far," said Quentin Henning, Quadrevion's father.


Trevor Henning, Quentin's brother, said Quadrevion never traveled more than two or three blocks from home and was not even allowed to go to the nearby corner of N. 53rd St. and W. Hampton Ave. alone. He didn't use the city buses or even have a bike, Trevor Henning said.


Trevor said Quadrevion had been living with his grandparents, Gary and Betty Henning, since his father was deployed to Iraq with the Army about three years ago. They enrolled him and his 11-year-old cousin, Eric, who also lives with them, in LaBrew Troopers Military University School, 1351 N. 31st St.


"Ever since he was 4 years old, Quadrevion wanted to join the Army like his daddy," Trevor Henning said. When Quadrevion's father returned from Iraq, it was the middle of the school year, and he didn't want to pull his son out of school. Instead, Quentin planned to move back to Milwaukee, where his family has lived in the same house for the last 18 years, Trevor Henning said.

Based on his many family discussions, here's how Trevor Henning said Quadrevion and Purvis spent the day of their disappearance:

Quadrevion and his cousin Eric slept late. They awoke, ate breakfast and did their chores. They took out the trash and the recyclables and put their dirty clothes in the laundry basket. But this Sunday was slightly different. It was warm and sunny, and the boys asked if they could finish their chores later and instead go to the park. Their grandmother agreed.


So Quadrevion, or "Dre" as his family calls him, and Eric helped her load some groceries into the car to deliver to a friend. Then they along with Purvis, who lives around the corner on Stark St., set off for the playground at Hampton Avenue School two blocks away. They played for a while and returned to the Henning home for lunch. After lunch they asked if they could go back to the park. This time Eric decided to stay home because he was tired, he said. It was about 3:30 p.m.


At about 5:30 p.m. Gary Henning, the boys' grandfather, started to wonder why the boys hadn't returned. He headed to Purvis' home and talked to Angela Virginia, Purvis' mother, who was also concerned. They checked around and called friends. No one had seen them. At 7:30 p.m. they called police.

DEATH PENALTY FOR CHILD RAPISTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA? I LIKE IT!

S.C. moves closer to death penalty for child rapists

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) -- The South Carolina Senate on Tuesday endorsed making repeat child rapists eligible for the death penalty, setting aside arguments the move might be unconstitutional. "What we've got to do today is vote our conviction," said Republican Sen. Larry Martin.


Senate Bill 1138 would allow prosecutors to seek the death penalty for sex offenders who are convicted twice of raping a child younger than 11.


South Carolina would join Louisiana as the only states that allow the death penalty for crimes other than murder. Currently in South Carolina, murder is the only crime eligible for the death penalty.


The proposal was approved as part of a larger bill that sets minimum sentences and lifetime electronic monitoring for some sex offenders. The bill requires a third reading before moving to the House.


The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 1977 Georgia case involving an adult victim that sentencing someone to death for rape was unconstitutional. A Louisiana law lets prosecutors seek the death penalty for rapists of children younger than 12, and the Louisiana Supreme Court found it constitutional because the U.S. Supreme Court ruling did not address the rape of a child. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the statute.

LATEST UPDATE ON DUKE GANG RAPE CASE

Students and neighbors outraged by the situation are planning a Take Back the Night march TONIGHT at 7 p.m. starting at the Marketplace on East Campus and continuing to West Campus, with speeches in front of Duke Chapel. Watch Rita Cosby on MSNBC tonight at 9:00 EST for coverage.

How ironic...

This happens to be sexual assault awareness week at Duke.

GANG RAPE AT DUKE UNIVERSITY

I am surprised that the angry residents of Durham, N.C. haven't burned their house down by now. String 'em up and hang 'em, I say. This is a good old fashioned example of how to do it like the whites did to blacks in that part of the country 100 years ago. Happy hunting, I'm all for it...where's the torch? I'll help!

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- Duke University's highly ranked lacrosse team will not play again this season until school administrators learn more about allegations that several team members raped an exotic dancer at an off-campus party, the school said Tuesday.


President Richard Brodhead decided to suspend the team from play "until there is a clearer resolution of the legal situation involving team members," the university said. The case has roiled the campus, raised racial tensions and heightened antagonism between the affluent students at Duke, which costs about $43,000 a year, and the city of Durham, which has a large population of poor people and is about evenly divided between white and black.


A woman told police she and another dancer were hired to perform March 13 at a private party in an off-campus home. The dancer, a student at North Carolina Central University, told police she was pulled into a bathroom, beaten, choked and raped by three men. No one has been charged.


Armed with a judge's order, police took DNA samples with a cheek swab from 46 of the lacrosse team's 47 players last week. The 47th player, the only black member of the team, did not have to provide DNA because the dancer said her attackers were white.


"I needed to have the information about who will be charged," said District Attorney Mike Nifong said. "I feel pretty confident that a rape occurred."


Brodhead said team captains notified Athletic Director Joe Alleva on Tuesday that players wanted to stay off the field until the DNA results came back from a crime lab. In a statement, the captains predicted the DNA testing would clear the players of wrongdoing. Brodhead said it was his decision to expand the suspension. "In this painful period of uncertainty, it is clear to me, as it was to the players, that it would be inappropriate to resume the normal schedule of play," Brodhead said.


Nifong said the team members are standing together and refusing to talk with investigators, and he warned he may bring aiding-and-abetting charges against some of the players.


The alleged victim is black, which has proved a source of tension on campus. "The circumstances of the rape indicated a deep racial motivation for some of the things that were done," Nifong said. "It makes a crime that is by its nature one of the most offensive and invasive even more so."


Angry over the team members' silence and the university's handling of the case, Durham residents have demonstrated on and off campus in the past few days. They rallied outside the house where the alleged attack occurred, and gathered outside of Duke Provost Peter Lange's home, where they banged on pots and pans until he emerged to answer questions.


Lange said Monday that he believes "the students would be well-advised to come forward. They have chosen not to."

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I NEED MY FIX...WANT MY KIDS?

I hope this woman loses her children forever. Someone like this doesn't deserve to be a parent. Being a parent is a PRIVILEGE! If she is a drug addict and can't take care of her three young children then they should have a chance at life with a caring family. People like this woman create the cycle of abuse, violence, etc., for these unfortunate children. Growing up in today's society is hard enough. We don't need parents like this to be responsible for raising well-adjusted and decent citizens.


I am going to get hell for this from the ultra-liberals, but in cases like this, should reproductive rights be taken away?

Indianapolis, IN--A Franklin woman has been arrested in connection with trying to sell her children for drugs. The Franklin Police Department says earlier this week Autum Skiles, 32, was arrested on charges of child neglect and child selling.

Police say she has three children - ages 3, 2 and three months. Police say all three children are addicted to methadone.

Skiles is also addicted to the drug and was being treated at a methadone clinic. Skiles was allegedly trying to sell her baby to a couple from Columbus, Ind., police say. Several family members told police she was going to trade the child in exchange for the couple paying for her methadone. Police say all three children were living in unsanitary conditions. The state has taken custody of the children.

REWARD GROWS TO $23K FOR MISSING MILWAUKEE BOYS

After another day of exhaustive searching in the area where two Milwaukee boys vanished Sunday, authorities have shifted their focus to investigating the flood of tips they've received since the disappearance.


A growing force of volunteers helped police continue to look Thursday, canvassing a one-mile radius around N. 53rd St. and W. Hampton Ave., where Quadrevion Henning, 12, and Purvis Virginia Parker, 11, were last seen.


Divers searched the lagoon in McGovern Park, the FBI's Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Team conducted an aerial search with body heat sensing technology, and bloodhounds from the Bannockburn, Ill., police department and more than 150 volunteers canvassed the densely wooded area of Havenwoods State Forest. They all came up empty-handed. "It's like these boys vanished into thin air," said Milwaukee police spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz, "We have no information, no clue about their whereabouts after 3:30 p.m. Sunday.


We are beyond concerned." Linda Krieg, an FBI supervisor, said authorities have found no evidence the boys had been abducted. She said such a crime would be atypical. "It's very difficult to abduct a child, much less two children together," Krieg said.


The missing boys' families continued to receive an influx of visitors, from strangers dropping off plates of food to stops from Mayor Tom Barrett and Gov. Jim Doyle. The reward for information leading to their whereabouts grew to $23,000. "All the effort that people have put forward, all the visits from strangers and the mayor and governor, that right there is what's keeping our heads up," said Dennis Frazier, Quadrevion's uncle.


More than 200 people showed up at an evening vigil outside Quadrevion's home. Several family members broke down in tears and had to pull away as the crowd joined in song and prayed. Despite another day without any clear leads to the boys' whereabouts, Frazier said the family remains confident of their safe return. "We are always going to be hopeful," Frazier said.

DON'T MESS WITH SOUTH PARK

"South Park" Roasts Chef, Literally

Trey Parker and Matt Stone have buried the hatchet with--sorry, into--Isaac Hayes. On Wednesday's South Park 10th season premiere, Hayes' Chef character was struck by lightning, impaled, shot, mauled by a mountain lion, eaten by a grizzly bear, and, oh, yes, accused of being a child molester.


An estimated 3.5 million people--the most for a season premiere since 2002--were witness to the carnage, the Associated Press reported. The episode was the capper to Hayes' Mar. 13 resignation. South Park chieftains Parker and Stone cranked out the inaptly named "The Return of Chef!" as an answer to the defection.


In an off-screen twist, doubt has been cast as to whether Hayes really meant to depart the animated series. FoxNews.com columnist Roger Friedman reported Monday the 63-year-old "Shaft" soul great suffered a stroke on Jan. 17 and "is in no condition to quit anything." "My sources say that someone quit [the show] for him," Friedman wrote.


Previous reports had Hayes hospitalized Jan. 17 in Memphis for what was said to be exhaustion. The reputed stroke diagnosis was said to be news to Comedy Central. In his headline-making, episode-inspiring statement, Hayes, a Scientologist, said he could no longer support a show that disrespected religion.




The move was widely seen as a response to a Scientology-specific South Park episode that first aired last November. (A rerun of the show, "Trapped in the Closet," was abruptly pulled from Comedy Central's schedule last week. Tom Cruise, a Scientologist, and a "Closet" parody target, denied flexing his superstar muscle to keep the episode off the air.) Thanks to some manipulation of old sound bites ("suck on my chocolate salty balls") and song snippets ("make love..."), Hayes was heard in Wednesday's opener.


But Parker and Stone got in the last words. And for the record, not one of Parker and Stone's words was "Scientology." In the completely made-up story, Chef is brainwashed by an organization of child molesters called the "Super Adventure Club." In order to cure Chef, Kyle, Stan, Cartman and Kenny take their friend to a psychiatrist, a frowned-upon profession among Scientologists.



In the end, Chef dies a million Kenny deaths, only to live on, sort of, as a Darth Vader version of himself. At his funeral, Kyle urges South Park residents to remember Chef as he was, before the brainwashing. If there is to be anger, he says, don't direct it at the beloved cafeteria worker. Rather, says Kyle, "we should be mad at the fruity little club for scrambling his brain."

REWARD $17,000 FOR MISSING MILWAUKEE BOYS

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (AP) -- Police expanded their search for two missing boys to a 100-square-block area and announced a $17,000 reward as they began a fifth day with no substantial leads into the youngsters' disappearance.


"We absolutely don't have any information about where they would be and why they would leave of their own accord," police spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz said at a news conference late Thursday morning. "We just simply don't know where they are."


Purvis Virginia Parker, 11, and his 12-year-old pal Quadrevion Henning aren't the type to have to just wandered away, their families said.


Purvis is a quiet boy who dreams of becoming an artist, and Quadrevion has a stack of honors from his school for good behavior and attendance. "He wouldn't know anywhere to go. He didn't know anyone outside his rim," said Quadrevion's grandfather, Garry Henning. "That door never opened unless I knew where he was going."


Purvis' mother, Angela Virginia, said they she believed they were taken against their will.


The boys were out playing Sunday afternoon when he last saw them. When they didn't return home that evening, their families called police.


Dozens of officers spread out across the northwest Milwaukee neighborhood in an escalating search, knocking on doors and searching vacant buildings, wooded areas and even the sewers and nearby ponds for any sign of the youngsters.


Fliers with the Purvis and Quadrevion's pictures cover windows and cars in the boys' neighborhood, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has posted their photos online.


Schwartz said hundreds of calls had come in to a tip line, but none provided substantial leads.


The reward fund was started Wednesday was $5,000 from a local company, Dawes Rigging and Crane Rental, and grew to $17,000 for information leading to the boys' safe return.


Someone must have seen something, said Latrice Kazee, 33, Purvis' godmother. "They're not talking, and I don't know why 'cause this is no game," she said.

MY TAKE ON DEBRA LAFAVE

Ok, here’s my opinion on the whole Debra LaFave fiasco. First of all, I’d like to mention that bipolar disorder can go undetected for years before something drastic like this happens, at which time the patient is diagnosed by the psychiatrist based on the patient relaying personal accounts of behavior, etc. Diagnosing bipolar is difficult. You don't take a medical exam for the doctor to say, "I'm sorry to tell you that you have bipolar disorder."

It is a fact that in the stages of mania, undesirable sexual tendencies are very common. In DSM-IV-TR it specifically mentions excessive involvement in pleasurable activities that have a high potential for painful consequences (e.g., engaging in unrestrained buying sprees, sexual indiscretions, or foolish business investments).

Of course, they know what they are doing is wrong, but it’s almost like an uncontrollable action that the brain makes for you. It isn’t controllable unless the patient is consistently taking the medicine and for the psychiatrist to prescribe the right medication. It may take several combinations of drugs before the patient begins to feel like a normal human being again.

I think that yes, Debra Lafave should be considered a sex offender and receive her punishment. But I don’t think she’s blaming what she did because she is bipolar. I think her main reason for even broaching the topic is because the disease is most often completely misunderstood and wants to inform the public.

I suggest any of the night cable news channels to invite Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D., who is the the most renowned expert on bipolar disorder (which she herself suffers from) to explain this disorder and why Debra Lafave did some of the things she did.

3 years house detention? Sounds fine, but what about the MALE rapists? It seems that in today’s day and age male rapists aren’t considered as newsworthy as women who have sex with underage boys. Male rapists serve their time and are put back on the street to re offend. True pedophiles cannot be cured. It is a serious disease that the people and legislators and law enforcement need to take seriously and do something about. Pedophiles are not all bipolar. Not all bipolars are pedophiles.

Sure, it’s a double standard. He may be negatively affected by the media, but since he is a minor, his name hasn’t been released. I can understand the boy’s parents being angry. What parent would want their 14 year old son to have sex with a grown married woman? Of course they are going to be mad and upset at this recent ruling.

But trust me mom and dad…your kid isn’t going to suffer. He will probably end up being the most popular guy in school and get high-fives from every boy walking down the hall. Being a ‘stud’ is every average high school boy’s dream. You can’t deny pure LOGIC.

On my final note, I honestly DO NOT think that these incidents of sexual encounters will impact this boy in a negative manner in any way whatsoever. Let’s be honest people…what 14 year old boy full of raging hormones actually achieve the dream of his life…the real “Hot for Teacher” story. LaFave is a very attractive young woman…he will probably think back in 20 years and smile because he GOT her.

MILWAUKEE BOYS MISSING--NOT RUNAWAYS

Milwaukee boys vanish while playing

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (AP) -- Police officers went door to door Tuesday looking for two boys last seen playing outside Sunday, police said. Officers also used dogs and thermo-imaging equipment to look for 12-year-old Quadrevion Henning and 11-year-old Purvis Parker, police spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz said.



The department frequently gets reports of missing children, but they typically have a history of running away and turn up quickly, she said. The two boys do not have a history of running away. Family members held a news conference late Tuesday afternoon, asking that anyone who might be holding the children or with any knowledge of what happened to them to contact authorities.



Among other efforts, police contacted all registered sex offenders in the area and searched their homes, which turned up nothing, Schwartz said.



The boys were last seen playing outside a home around 3:30 p.m. Sunday. One of their grandfathers told them to come inside, but they asked to keep playing, Schwartz said. The grandfather called police at 8:30 p.m. Sunday.

BABY BOOMERS--METH ADDICTS?

Mike Walls never envisioned his golden years as a fight with drug addiction when a friend gave him a plastic bag of crystal-like powder and a promise of youth nearly two decades ago.


A cross-country truck driver, Walls was almost 40 and feeling fatigued when he sniffed methamphetamine from a dusted toothpick at a truck stop, hoping he could drive all night. "It seemed like I didn't want to face the fact that I was getting older," he said.


At 55, with rotten teeth, frayed nerves and high blood pressure — all brought on by meth — Walls has become part of a growing number of baby boomers struggling with addiction to the stimulant and seeking help after living with it through middle age.


The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration found the number of people older than 55 seeking treatment for meth addiction increased from 44 in 1992 to 693 in 2003, the most recent year for which statistics are available. Spokeswoman Leah Young said the number is only a fraction of the total seeking treatment for meth addiction — about 136,000 people in 2003, according to federal estimates. But the spike has left drug counselors already reeling from treating a rush of younger addicts grasping for guidance.


Ronald Hunsicker, president of the Pennsylvania-based National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers, said older meth addicts remain an uncharted group. "Because of the way that we tend to pigeonhole or stereotype older adults, we don't think that they will have access to methamphetamines," he said. "The contrary seems to be true."



The drug can cause rotten teeth, rapid weight loss and hallucinations among users of any age. But the effects of addiction can be worse with age, causing high blood pressure, hypertension and a risk of heart attack.


Prolonged use can lead to kidney disorders, liver or brain damage, depression and malnutrition, said Dr. Barbara Krantz of the Hanley Center, which offers drug treatment in West Palm Beach, Fla. "Chemical dependency is a brain disease. It doesn't matter how old you are," Krantz said. The cost of treating people for meth addiction also can increase with age.


Because of years of addiction — and deep-seated habits — people older than 55 risk being in treatment longer. At the Greene County Rehabilitation Center in Bloomfield, Ind., the first stage of treatment costs $600 a month, which covers room and board. It does not include medical bills. The second phase runs $155 a week.


Recovering addicts leave during the day to work but return each night for counseling. A final phase, designed to ensure recovered addicts remain clean, is free. Gus Mathias, who manages the Greene County center and another in Indiana, has seen meth ravage young addicts. What he has seen among older clients is worse.


"Methamphetamine is hard on young people. You lose a lot of weight. Your teeth fall out. You hallucinate. But when you start to get older, it happens much faster," he said. "I've got any number of people that come in looking tragic." Walls is a perfect example, Mathias said.


After being caught making meth in a field seven months ago, Walls arrived for court-ordered treatment 30 pounds underweight and jittery. He is now in the second phase of his treatment, working at his own auto shop before heading home to the rehabilitation center in Bloomfield. His blood pressure has fallen and his once-sunken cheeks have filled out. He attends regular counseling sessions to learn about the triggers of addiction. He waits, hoping the craving subsides a little more each day.


Younger meth addicts turn to him for help when they arrive, asking how he finally got clean. Walls wishes he could give them answers, but he can't. Not yet. He has much more work to do. "It's kind of hard to answer them," he said, staring at his trembling hands. "But I do sit and talk."

LIVE VIDEO CHILD PORN SHUT DOWN

CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- An Internet chat room that streamed video of live child molestations has been shut down, and 27 people have been charged with online child pornography offenses, federal authorities said Wednesday."We plan to prosecute them and others involved in this vile chat room to the fullest extent of the law," Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said.


"Molestation on demand and an ever-younger and more defenseless group of child victims are two of the most disturbing trends ... investigators see when they infiltrate child pornography rings," Assistant Secretary for ICE Julie Myers said earlier Wednesday. "This case had both."Justice Department and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said all but one of the defendants has been arrested following an undercover sting operation aimed at closing down the Web site known as "Kiddypics & Kiddyvids."Thirteen defendants were charged in the United States, and 14 were charged in other countries.


Gonzales said investigators were particularly disturbed by the live webcasting of the criminal acts. He said seven child victims of molestation -- the youngest of whom was younger than 18 months -- have been identified. Authorities said one suspect, identified as Brian Annoreno, allegedly produced live streaming video of him sexually molesting an infant.


Four defendants are alleged molesters, officials said. Many of the other suspects are charged with possession, distribution or manufacture of child pornography. In the United States, indictments and criminal complaints were unsealed by officials in Illinois, Tennessee, Michigan, Nevada, Florida, New York, Arizona, Hawaii and North Carolina.


Nine defendants face charges in Canada, three in Australia and two in Great Britain. Officials identified three defendants indicted for conspiracy to possess, receive, solicit and distribute child pornography: Annoreno of Bartless, Illinois; Gregory Sweezer of Aurora, Illinois; and Lisa Winebrenner of Osceola, Iowa.


A federal law enforcement official who asked not to be identified said they are at the center of the overall investigation. Four minors under the age of 12 were also shown being molested as video of the crime was being streamed over the Web site.The indictment said the chat room was maintained by a "host" and various "administrators."


A statement issued by the Justice Department before the news conference said the host was identified as Royal Raymond Weller of Clarksville, Tennessee, who was arrested March 6. Among administrators identified in indictments are Jason Wilson of Milton, Florida; Michael Burns of Reno, Nevada; Kenneth Fisher of Charlotte, North Carolina; Marcel Deslauriers of Longueuil, Quebec; and Mill Park of Victoria, Australia.

YESSSSSSSS! LOOOOSER! ROT IN PRISON AND ENJOY AFTERLIFE IN HELL

Your precious Kennedy connections can't help you now Skakel! Rot in hell for what you did to poor innocent Martha Moxley. It took 31 years for JUSTICE to prevail. See? What goes around comes around...EVENTUALLY.

Connecticut's highest court said on Tuesday it had denied a request by Kennedy relative Michael Skakel to reconsider an appeal of his conviction for the 1975 murder of his 15-year-old neighbor Martha Moxley.


Skakel, now 45, was convicted in 2002 of bludgeoning Moxley to death with one of his mother's golf clubs and was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison. In January, Skakel, who was 15 at the time of the murder, lost an appeal of that decision to the Connecticut Supreme Court. Skakel's lawyers filed a motion asking the court to review its decision, but this was denied on March 14 and the ruling was publicly released on Tuesday, a court spokeswoman said.


Skakel's lawyers have argued that the state's five-year statute of limitations had expired when the relative of the Kennedy political family was charged in 2000 with the murder, committed 25 years earlier.



Skakel is a nephew of Sen. Robert Kennedy's widow, Ethel. Robert Kennedy, brother of slain U.S. President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in 1968.


Evidence included testimony by a former classmate who said Skakel had boasted three years after the murder that he would get away with it "because I'm a Kennedy."


Moxley's body was found on the lawn of her parents' home in the affluent town of Greenwich, Connecticut, next door to the Skakel house. She had been bludgeoned with a golf club that matched a set belonging to Skakel's late mother. Skakel still has a petition for a new trial pending in Stamford Superior Court.


The case added to the aura of tragedy haunting America's most celebrated political royalty three decades after the assassinations of its most famous scions, John and Robert. The powerful Kennedy family has faced battles with alcoholism and drug addiction, as well as suicides, courtroom dramas and tragic deaths.

FUGITIVE RAPIST KENNETH HINSON CAUGHT!!!

A convicted rapist charged with abducting two teenage girls and assaulting them in a hidden underground room behind his home was captured Friday less than two miles away, authorities said. Kenneth G. Hinson, 47, fled on foot after the girls escaped and called police. Although he was carrying a handgun, Hinson was arrested without incident after a neighbor spotted him, said Deputy U.S. Marshal Tim Stec.

The two 17-year-old girls were taken from their nearby home late Monday and assaulted in a room under a shed on Hinson's property, police said. The girls were left bound inside the room but managed to wriggle free and walk to safety. Local, state and federal authorities, believing Hinson had not gone far, had been combing the woods near his rural home, about 50 miles northeast of Columbia, since Tuesday.

Hinson was captured after a resident saw him go to a house to get some water late Friday afternoon, said Chief Deputy Tom Gainey of the Darlington County Sheriff's Department.

In 1991, Hinson was convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl. He was released from prison in 2000 after serving nine years of a 20-year sentence, a decision state Attorney General Henry McMaster blasted Friday.

"This man was sentenced to 20 years. Had that 20 years meant 20 years, he'd still be in jail now, and this wouldn't have happened," McMaster told Fox News.

McMaster also chided a judge's decision to not place Hinson in a program for sexually violent predators. Just before Hinson's release, a review committee recommended that he be committed indefinitely to a Department of Mental Health facility for treatment, but Circuit Judge Edward Cottingham rejected the recommendation, saying prosecutors failed to show Hinson would likely offend again.

"I can't control what comes before me as a judge," Cottingham said Friday. "And I deal with what's before me and make a ruling to the best of my judgment." (You, Cottingham can CONTROL who stays in prison and who gets out! That is why they call you a JUDGE!)

"Obviously I regret that these young children were raped by this man," the judge said. (Yeah, obviously...let's see you get raped! I promise you you won't forget it like you forgot about those past victims and this piece of trash pedophile's past. Pedophiles CANNOT be rehabilitated! You are a JUDGE and you don't KNOW THIS?!)

SEBASTIAN OSARIO--SUSPECT?

Update on Case:

NEWARK, N.J., A 19-year-old man who met and befriended a teen girl at a mall before she allegedly sent her mother text messages claiming that she had been abducted and held in a dark basement was charged today with having sexual contact with the 13-year-old.


Sebastian Osario, whose hometown was not immediately clear, was one of three young men questioned this week by Jersey City police investigating the disappearance of the girl. She failed to show up for school on Monday and sent her mother a series of chilling text messages on her cell phone, claiming she was being held and abused by captors.


Osario was referred to the Bergen County Prosecutor's office because of contact he had with the girl in Bergen County, said Sgt. Edgar Martinez, a Jersey City police spokesman. It was not immediately clear whether the alleged sexual contact was consensual.


Under New Jersey state law, a 13-year-old is incapable of granting legal consent to sex. Calls to prosecutors were not immediately returned.

Police Investigate Girl's Credibility

Police said the girl's claims of being abducted are "in doubt," but officials are continuing to probe the case. The girl also claimed she had been raped by two men in New York, an allegation New York City police are investigating. Osario's arrest was not related to the New York allegation, Martinez said.


The girl was questioned briefly by Jersey City detectives on Thursday and returned home from a New York hospital with her parents late in the day.


Jersey City police said the girl met Osario at the Newport Mall about three or four weeks ago. The two became friends and agreed to keep in touch via cell phone text messages, police said. The two met on Monday after she cut school, falsely telling a friend she had a doctor's appointment, police said. The two parted company Monday afternoon and police were trying to account for the girl' whereabouts over the following two days. The girl's cell phone battery died Monday, frustrating attempts to locate her or verify her movements since then.

SERIAL RAPIST OR SERIAL KILLER? OR BOTH?

Cops Go Back to Bouncer's Home


Searching for Evidence in Slaying of St. Guillen

March 10, 2006 — - Police have returned to the home of a bouncer they are calling a "person of interest" in the killing of Imette St. Guillen. They are looking for evidence to link him to the graduate student who was last seen at the bar where he worked before her body was found dumped in a vacant lot.

Police sources told ABC News that investigators were tearing out plumbing in Darryl Littlejohn's home.

The new search of Littlejohn's home came hours after he had told a New York court that he was not guilty of the brutal slaying of St. Guillen or a string of other sex crimes, and that he was eager to stand for a police lineup.The court granted his wish and the burly bouncer appeared in the second of two police lineups to determine whether authorities could link him to a set of 2005 sex attacks in Queens, N.Y.

The victims' inability to pick Littlejohn out of the two six-person lineups dealt a blow to investigators' hypothesis that the 41-year-old bouncer might be responsible for a string of violent sex crimes in the area, as well as the slaying of St. Guillen 12 days ago.

The first Queens victim, a woman who was raped and sodomized, did not identify Littlejohn in a lineup Monday at the 75th Police Precinct. The second victim, who jumped from the rapist's van and escaped before she was assaulted, didn't identify Littlejohn in a Queens lineup on Thursday.

Sole 'Person of Interest'

Littlejohn is the sole "person of interest" in the sexually motivated killing of St. Guillen, a 24-year-old graduate student. The case has become fodder for two weeks of tabloid headlines and talk shows around the nation.




St. Guillen was found in a remote section of Brooklyn, with her body bound and her head wrapped in packing tape. Her body was clean of any apparent forensic evidence. In three other recent rape and sex abuse cases, the victims had been similarly bound, taped and wiped down or showered off after their attacks, police and prosecutors said. At least one victim told authorities she had been abducted in a van similar in appearance to Littlejohn's.

Police requested Littlejohn for the lineup after a woman who had been assaulted in October 2005 picked him from a police photo collection. Though Littlejohn's photo was shown to victims as part of a photo array shortly after at least one of the rapes, no victim picked him out as the attacker at the time, a senior criminal justice official said. On Thursday, a victim again did not identify him. 

During a brief court appearance Thursday, Littlejohn stood with downcast eyes as his court-appointed lawyer, Kevin O'Donnell, said his client was innocent of the killing. Littlejohn wore jeans and a gray sweat shirt before Acting Supreme Court Justice John B. Latella Jr. Littlejohn was bull-rushed into the court, hands cuffed behind his back, his head pressed down with a coat over it.

Roadblocks to Murder Charges Slim circumstantial evidence links him to St. Guillen's death, and detectives have been repeatedly frustrated in their efforts to build a case that will withstand the scrutiny of a prosecutor.

Cell phone records place Littlejohn in the area of the lot where St. Guillen was found around the time a 911 caller reported coming across the young woman's corpse. Witnesses and cell phone records also place Littlejohn, a bouncer at The Falls, a bar in New York's SoHo neighborhood, at the Falls just before St. Guillen left there on the night she was killed. 

However, that evidence alone is insufficient to bring charges against Littlejohn, authorities said. Fibers found at the crime scene matched Littlejohn's carpet, but the carpet is extremely common. St. Guillen's body was remarkably clean of clues.

Further DNA test results on fingernail scrapings may still yield strong evidence. DNA samples from bodily fluids found on the floral bedspread in which St. Guillen's body was wrapped were also inconclusive.

One official said they might further complicate matters, as they may be from a person other than St. Guillen or Littlejohn. So far, Littlejohn's DNA has not been linked to the victim, according to police and the New York City Medical Examiner's office said. 

Senior police officials said they believed it was unlikely that homicide charges would be brought unless more circumstantial or direct evidence was found. 

Before Wednesday, when Littlejohn was brought to the New York City jail on a probation violation, Littlejohn had been held in a Brooklyn police station for two days as a "person of interest" in St. Guillen's slaying. When he declined to cooperate, he was sent to Rikers Island jail, where he languished on a parole violation until today's "order to produce" him for court was served on the corrections department.

An Easy Target? Littlejohn's attorney says his client is an easy target for police in the St. Guillen case because of his criminal record. Littlejohn had been convicted of five different crimes ranging from armed robbery to drug possession, but nothing sexual in nature. "He feels that he's a scapegoat," O'Donnell said. "His picture's been all over the paper. It's been all over the media nationally. He's the easiest target right now."

DON'T BE A VICTIM ON SPRING BREAK!

CHICAGO — Alcohol and sex play a prominent and potentially dangerous role in spring break trips of college co-eds according to an American Medical Association (AMA) poll released today. Eighty-three percent of the respondents agreed spring break trips involve more or heavier drinking than occurs on college campuses and 74 percent said spring break trips result in increased sexual activity.

The poll of college women and graduates, aged 17-35, was funded as part of the AMA's partnership with The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on A Matter of Degree, an initiative to reduce high-risk drinking on college and university campuses.

"Scientific evidence shows women process alcohol differently putting them at greater risks for heart problems, reproductive disorders and liver disease," said J. Edward Hill MD, president of the AMA. "These survey results are extremely disturbing because it brings up an entirely new set of issues including increased risk of sexually transmitted diseases, blackouts and violence."

Key findings of the poll include:

• A majority (74 percent) of respondents said women use drinking as an excuse for outrageous behavior.

• *More than half of women (57 percent) agree being promiscuous is a way to fit in.

• In overwhelming majority (83 percent) of women had friends who drank the majority of the nights while on spring break.

• More than half (59 percent) know friends who were sexually active with more than one partner.

• Nearly three out of five women know friends who had unprotected sex during spring break.

• One in five respondents regretted the sexual activity they engaged in during spring break, and 12 percent felt forced or pressured into sex.

• An overwhelming majority (84 percent) of respondents thought images of college girls partying during spring break may contribute to an increase in females' reckless behavior.*

• An even higher percentage (86 percent) agreed these images may contribute to dangerous behaviors by males toward women.

• Almost all (92 percent) said it was easy to get alcohol while on spring break.

• Two out of five women agreed access to free or cheap alcohol or a drinking age under age 21 were important factors in their decision to go on a spring break trip.

Each year in Cancun, Mexico, a major spring break destination for American college students, the city and hospitals report an increase in deaths, rapes, injuries, assaults and arrests related to drinking. In Daytona, Fla., another popular spring break destination, last year county officials reported twice as many rape cases during the month of spring break.

"Spring break is broken," said Dr. Hill. "What was a traditional time to relax and take a break from college studies has turned into a dangerous binge-fest."

One spring break promoter's Web site for a trip to Cancun says, "your yearly intake of alcoholic consumption could happen in one small week." It then advises college students to tell parents "its an educational trip" and "don't worry about the water because you will be drinking beer."

"Months before spring break, students are bombarded by promotions on campus that are loaded with ads for cheap or free alcohol," said Dr. Hill. "The American Medical Association is encouraged to hear college women and graduates agree something must be done to fix this problem."

A majority (59 percent) of survey respondents support restricting the content of spring break flyers and ads on campus, and 61 percent support prohibiting drinking or alcohol specials as part of any tour package. Approximately 71 percent support increased regulation of the tour agencies, and 81 percent support the idea of requiring colleges to offer alternative spring breaks that do not include alcohol.

"Women are fed up with the marketing tactics and images from the alcohol industry and spring break tour operators," said Dr. Hill. "Public health advocates should also be fed up since aggressive spring break marketing endangers the health and safety of college students."

Alternative spring break trips, that often emphasize community service, have been increasingly successful across the country. The University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa. and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are just a few schools that offer service trips to desirable destinations without alcohol as the focal point.

The AMA said the poll results highlight the need for policy change, including offering alternative spring breaks and restrictions on alcohol advertising on campus. Physicians are encouraged to counsel parents about talking with their children about the health risks of alcohol use and spring break.

MISSING 13-YEAR OLD FOUND

Teen disappeared Monday, text-messaged pleas for help

NEW YORK (CNN) -- A 13-year-old New Jersey girl missing since Monday was found Thursday in New York City, and told police she had been raped.

Text messages had been sent Monday from the girl's phone to her mother's cell phone pleading for help after the girl vanished on her way to school.

The girl was being evaluated "mentally and physically," said Robert Troy, chief of police of the Jersey City Police Department. Missing since Monday, the girl called her parents Thursday at 1 a.m. and told them she didn't know where she was, but thought she was in Manhattan, her father said.

A New York City cab driver then spoke to the parents and took the girl to the hospital, her father said. New York police said the girl told them she had been raped.

Three men, two 19-year-olds and a 20-year-old, were being questioned by Jersey City police. The girl had met the 20-year-old at New Jersey's Newport Mall and arranged to meet with him Monday, Troy said.

The men acknowledged seeing the girl Monday, but said they left her at 2:30 p.m., and don't know what happened to her after that, police said. They reported to the police station voluntarily for questioning, Troy said.

State police, who assisted Jersey City police in culling evidence from the girl's home computer, said "she was visiting a lot of sites she shouldn't have been visiting," Troy added. Asked earlier whether the girl's alleged abduction may have been a hoax, Troy said, "We really can't be conclusive on what our opinion is at this point."

The text messages sent to the girl's mother's phone said: "Mom help, I can only make one text message ... he's gonna take my phone away," one read. Others said, "Help mom, I'm scared and I don't know where I am ... I know I'm in a house ... someone was following me and I just don't remember what happened."

The girl's mother said she received the last text message about 8 p.m. Monday. In it, the girl wrote that she "was being taken to New York," Troy said. Jersey City police said the New York City police will question the girl because she said that two men in New York had assaulted her. She will then be taken to the juvenile division of the Jersey City police for additional questioning, police said.

NEWEST INFO ON THE KILLING RAPIST PIG, DARRYL LITTLEJOHN

NEW YORK — The ex-con bouncer who has emerged as the lead suspect in the sex-assault murder of grad student Imette St. Guillen is now being eyed in a string of rapes in Queens and Long Island, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.


The cops' focus on Darryl Littlejohn in the sex attacks surfaced after one victim watched the past day's TV footage of investigators searching the bouncer's blue minivan parked in his driveway — and phoned police to tell them it appeared to be the vehicle in which she was raped, sources said.


The woman was attacked in Queens late last year, part of an apparent pattern of at least three rapes in which the victims all gave similar descriptions of their attacker. A second rape also occurred in Queens, and the third took place in Nassau County, the sources said. Littlejohn, 41, was moved to Rikers Island yesterday to await a hearing on whether he would be returned to prison for violating his parole on an armed-robbery rap.


As an ex-con, he wasn't supposed to be working security at The Falls bar in SoHo, where he was reported last seen tossing out a drunken St. Guillen early Feb. 25. Her body was found hours later in weeds off the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn. Littlejohn has maintained his innocence in St. Guillen's slaying.


Investigators yesterday continued combing the hardened criminal's Queens home for clues as they try to build a case against him. Their latest haul included bags marked with blaring orange "Biohazard" stickers and stuffed with such items as military green pants, a black wool hat and Timberland boots. They also towed away the minivan in Littlejohn's driveway — a dark-blue Dodge Ram 250.


In addition to that van, probers focused on his Ford Windstar, parked two blocks from the house, which matches a description of a vehicle spotted near where St. Guillen's body was dumped. The van was missing a row of seats, and cops yesterday removed a similar row of seats from Littlejohn's house. While Littlejohn insists he was nowhere near the remote street in East New York where St. Guillen's body was found ("It wasn't me! You are racist!" Yeah, right..pull the race card, you serial rapist!), police say cellphone records put him nearby shortly before her corpse was discovered. Sources say at least one of the calls from his cellphone was made to a girlfriend, who later told cops the conversation was inconsequential.


An apparent ladies' man (see any connections here?), Littlejohn's personal phone book was filled with women's numbers — including ones for "Babymomma 1" and "Babymomma 2," the sources said. (I won't even go there...) But one neighbor said he could be abusive with his women, claiming that he openly hit one girlfriend in front of his home about two months ago. "I saw him slap her. He hit her, and she fell onto the door," said the 28-year-old woman who spoke on condition of anonymity. "He's very intimidating. The way he walks, like it's all about him. (Don'tcha know he's the PIMP?) I didn't like his aura."


The woman said Littlejohn would stroll around in jackets emblazoned with "FBI," "Bounty Hunter" and "U.S. Marshal" over Army fatigue pants and with a pair of handcuffs hanging off his waist. (Typical M.O. for these types of sexual predators) He has told cops that when St. Guillen — a forensic-science graduate student major at John Jay College — was still at the bar one the fateful night, she jokingly told him she was an FBI agent, and he responded that he was a U.S. marshal, law-enforcement sources said.


But other neighbors painted the picture of a guy who struggled for much of his life and had hoped to turn it around. "He used to sell drugs, but he got out of that. He was straightening up his life," Gregory Jones said. "He was never a violent man. He just likes fast money."


Neighbor Jeffrey Katz, 38, called Littlejohn "a quiet guy. "He used to date a girl I know. She said he was always a happy person. He never got angry," Katz said. After Littlejohn's early release from prison on the robbery rap two years ago, Katz said the bouncer told him, "I just want to relax and take care of my kids. I don't want to go back there [to prison] again. "He was trying to get himself together," Katz said. (Sexual predators cannot control their conscience or actions...it's a disease and they can never be cured or rehabilitated. He can say he's getting himself together all he wants...but his disease doesn't escape that.)


Sources say the 5-foot-7, 200-pound bouncer had argued with 25-year-old St. Guillen just before her disappearance. He had been ordered to toss her from the bar by Danny Dorrian, a bartender — and not the co-owner, his brother, Michael J. Dorrian, as reported in yesterday's Post, witnesses told police. Sources say Danny Dorrian told cops he then heard an argument and a muffled scream.


Danny Dorrian did not return a call to his cellphone yesterday. Littlejohn insists he just escorted St. Guillen out and that she walked away alone. The barroom heavy was hauled in for questioning Sunday, but only after Danny Dorrian finally came forward with a full account of what he saw that night.


He spoke to police three times, but it wasn't until the last time that he finally acknowledged he was bartending that night and ordered Littlejohn to remove her from the bar, sources said. When questioned by The Post last week, Danny Dorrian, 33, referred to himself as a "lowly day manager" — and said he wasn't even working the morning St. Guillen disappeared.


Under the law, a person is under no obligation to tell cops what he knows, legal experts said. However, if it can be proven that the person knowingly gave false information to police, it's possible they could face obstruction of justice charges.


Cops are working on a theory that Littlejohn went with St. Guillen and either raped or tried to sexually assault her, then panicked and killed her when she fought back. St. Guillen's strangled body was found bundled in a cheap floral-print blanket, her hands and feet tied with wire and her face wrapped in brown plastic tape. Wire and tape similar to those found on her body have already been recovered from the basement of The Falls, sources said. Cat hairs also were found on the blanket and tape across her mouth - and investigators were checking to see whether they match those from two cats living in the bar's basement.


When St. Guillen's body was recovered, her fingernails were partially torn off, indicating she had put up a fight, cops said. Meanwhile, Littlejohn showed up for work the night after the murder with scratches on his neck, sources said. Police already have his DNA to test against any recovered as evidence. He was required to provide it upon his release on parole in 2004.

They failed to mention how he suffocated her slowly, stabbed her repeatedly, and mutilated her genital area and breasts.