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Judge: Smart's Alleged Abductor Fakes Mental Illness

Mar 1, 2010 8:13 PM CST

Judge: Smart's Alleged Abductor Fakes Mental Illness

Brian Mitchell ruled competent to stand trial

(Newser) - The man charged in the 2002 kidnap and rape of then-14-year-old Elizabeth Smart has been faking mental illness and is in fact competent to stand trial, a Utah judge ruled today. Nothing “impedes his rational and factual understanding,” Dale Kimball writes of Brian Mitchell, 56. “It is...

Pediatrician Indicted on
471 Counts of Sex Abuse

Feb 23, 2010 6:00 AM CST

Pediatrician Indicted on 471 Counts of Sex Abuse

Videotapes show Earl Bradley abusing 103 victims

(Newser) - Delaware pediatrician Earl Bradley has been indicted on 471 counts of sexual crimes against 103 children. The indictment is based on video and digital evidence showing all of the victims, all but one of whom were girls, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden said. "These were crimes committed against the...

Polanski Wins
Berlin Film Award

Feb 22, 2010 4:19 AM CST

Polanski Wins Berlin Film Award

Gets Best Director nod for Ghost Writer

(Newser) - Roman Polanski may be stuck in a Swiss chalet under house arrest, but his latest film is packing movie houses and just won him a Best Director award at the Berlin International Film Festival. The Ghost Writer, a thriller starring Ian McGregor, is the story of an author who’s...

Jaycee Dugard Diary:
'I Want to Be Free'

PLUS, SHE'S BACK NEAR HORROR SITE

Feb 11, 2010 6:41 PM CST

Jaycee Dugard Diary: 'I Want to Be Free'

In excerpts, she yearned for her own life

(Newser) - California prosecutors today made public excerpts of a journal kept by Jaycee Dugard during her 18 years of captivity. The entries show a yearning for freedom but also demonstrate the amount of control Phillip Garrido wielded over her, reports MSNBC . "How can I ever tell him I want to...

Man Charged With Holding, Raping Teen
for 6 Months

Feb 9, 2010 5:30 AM CST

Man Charged With Holding, Raping Teen for 6 Months

Buffalo suspect blamed son's burn on runaway

(Newser) - A Buffalo man is charged with holding a 13-year-old runaway in his home for six months, and raping her more than 100 times. Michael J. Abdallah, 26, is jailed on charges of second-degree rape, unlawful imprisonment, and custodial interference. The case came to light after police questioned Abdallah about a...

Saudi Preteen Seeks Divorce From 80-Year-old Husband

Feb 9, 2010 4:35 AM CST

Saudi Preteen Seeks Divorce From 80-Year-old Husband

Human Rights Commission backing girl

(Newser) - A 12-year-old Saudi girl is seeking a divorce from her 80-year-old husband with the help of the state-run Human Rights Commission. The preteen was married last year to her elderly cousin against her and her mother's wishes in exchange for a $30,000 dowry. It's the first time the Saudi...

Mackenzie Phillips: Sex With Father Not Consensual

Feb 2, 2010 8:28 PM CST

Mackenzie Phillips: Sex With Father Not Consensual

Talking to incest survivors convinced her it wasn't

(Newser) - Mackenzie Phillips changed her tune today on her sexual encounter with her father at age 19, saying after talking to incest survivors, she’d “like to reframe my word, ‘consensual.’” She wrote in her book that her relationship with musician John Phillips was indeed consensual; Mackenzie,...

Pediatrician Molested
Up to 100 Kids: Cops

Dec 24, 2009 5:05 AM CST

Pediatrician Molested Up to 100 Kids: Cops

Detectives find videos of multiple attacks

(Newser) - The Delaware pediatrician linked to horrific sexual abuse of patients as young as 3 months old assaulted as many as 100 children, investigators believe. Earl Bradley was arrested after a toddler complained to her mom that the doctor had hurt her. Police found videotapes Bradley had filmed of himself assaulting...

Pediatrician
Filmed in
Baby Sex
Attacks: Cops

Dec 23, 2009 2:57 AM CST

Pediatrician Filmed in Baby Sex Attacks: Cops

Detective describes doc's 'look of rage' during assaults

(Newser) - A 225-pound pediatrician videotaped himself sexually assaulting children as young as 3 months old in his examination rooms, according to Delaware court documents. During one brutal assault of a 2-year-old, Dr. Earl Bradley had a "violently enraged expression on his face," an investigator said in a sworn statement....

Polygamist Gets
33 Years
for Girl's
Sex Abuse

Dec 18, 2009 2:06 AM CST

Polygamist Gets 33 Years for Girl's Sex Abuse

Texas sect leader 2nd to be convicted of charges

(Newser) - A leader of a Texas polygamist sect has been sentenced to 33 years in prison for child sex abuse after "marrying" and impregnating a 15-year-old girl. Allan Eugene Keate, 57, is the second man so far convicted of the charges among those who were busted after the headline-grabbing roundup...

Kids Porn Cases
Take Heavy
Toll on Cops

Dec 1, 2009 4:55 AM CST

Kids Porn Cases Take Heavy Toll on Cops

'The screaming is embedded in your brain forever,' says one

(Newser) - "Victims" who don't get much recognition in kiddie porn cases are the investigators who uncover horrors done to children. "The crying, the screaming on the videos are embedded in your brain forever," said one cop who has been investigating child porn for 4 years. "The screams...

Shaniya Raped, Killed on Day of Abduction: Cops

Nov 20, 2009 5:04 PM CST

Shaniya Raped, Killed on Day of Abduction: Cops

NC 5-year-old was asphyxiated, arrest warrant says

(Newser) - A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, according to an arrest warrant released today. Shaniya Davis was sexually assaulted and asphyxiated Nov. 10, the day her mother reported her missing from the trailer park where she was staying, according...

Tape Released
of Mother's
911 Call on
Shaniya

Nov 18, 2009 4:33 AM CST

Tape Released of Mother's 911 Call on Shaniya

Mom says she woke to find little girl gone

(Newser) - Shaniya Davis' apparently emotional mom tells a 911 dispatcher that she awoke to find her daughter missing, just days before the North Carolina kindergartner turned up dead. "I don't know if she walked out or I don't know what's going on, but she's not here," says Antoinette Davis...

Mom Charged
With Sex Slavery
in Girl's Death

Nov 17, 2009 4:47 AM CST

Mom Charged With Sex Slavery in Girl's Death

Shaniya moved in with mother just last month

(Newser) - The mother of a 5-year-old North Carolina girl found dead appeared in court yesterday and was charged with human trafficking and felony abuse. Antoinette Davis, 25, delivered daughter Shaniya to a man "with the intent that she be held in sexual servitude ," according to court documents. Davis was...

Garrido Apologizes,
Says 'Sexual Problem' Cured

JAYCEE DUGARD CASE

Nov 13, 2009 10:30 AM CST

Garrido Apologizes, Says 'Sexual Problem' Cured

Accused kidnapper 'a changed man': lawyer

(Newser) - Phillip Garrido, Jaycee Dugard’s accused kidnapper, says he “would like to apologize to every human being for what has taken place.” In a letter—his third sent to KCRA from prison—Garrido adds that, “through the spirit of Christ,” a “sexual problem believed to...

Mo. Cops Seek Bodies,
Kids' Notes on Abuse

Nov 12, 2009 4:25 AM CST

Mo. Cops Seek Bodies, Kids' Notes on Abuse

Police dig up farm where 5 men charged with child rape

(Newser) - Investigators are digging up property at a Missouri farm where an elderly man and his four sons have been charged in repeated sexual assaults of young relatives, according to officials. Police are searching for bodies, as well as buried glass jars containing handwritten notes by children detailing their abuse up...

5 Missouri Men Busted
on Child Rape Charges

Nov 11, 2009 4:50 AM CST

5 Missouri Men Busted on Child Rape Charges

Accused believed to be father, four sons

(Newser) - Five members of the same family were arrested in connection with sex crimes against children in a raid on a Missouri farm yesterday. The men, aged from 47 to 77, are believed to be a father and his four sons, police say. They face multiple felony charges including forcible sodomy,...

Jaycee Shielded
Kidnapper
From Cops

Nov 5, 2009 5:00 AM CST

Jaycee Shielded Kidnapper From Cops

Stockholm syndrome turned victim into abductor's defender

(Newser) - Kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard lied to a suspicious parole officer in a desperate bid to protect her abductor when she was discovered, according to just-released report of her questioning. Jaycee, kidnapped when she was 11 in her northern California town, called herself Alyssa and presented herself as Phillip Garrido's wife....

Girl Kicked
Attacker,
Triggering
Gang Rape

Nov 2, 2009 3:49 AM CST

Girl Kicked Attacker, Triggering Gang Rape

Attacker 'went off' when teen tried to kick him in testicles

(Newser) - An attacker "went off" on a teen when she resisted sex outside her California high school, according to witnesses, triggering a savage gang rape that left her nearly dead and riveted a shocked America. The girl, described by teachers as a devout Christian too eager to please boys, rebuffed...

Garrido's 1976 Victim Attends Jaycee Hearing

Oct 30, 2009 2:40 PM CDT