Crime

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Sean “Diddy” Combs apologized Sunday for a recently surfaced 2016 video of him brutally beating his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura saying his behavior was “inexcusable.”

For eight years — until the video was released — Combs vehemently denied Ventura’s allegations of abuse.

“It’s so difficult to reflect on the darkest times in your life, but sometimes you got to do that,” Diddy said in a video on Instagram in which he did not name Ventura or refer to her directly. “I was f—ed up. I hit rock bottom — but I make no excuses. My behavior on that video is inexcusable.”

The rapper added: “I take full responsibility for my actions in that video, I’m disgusted.”

“I was disgusted then when I did it and I’m disgusted now. I went and I sought out professional help, started going to therapy and rehab, had to ask god for his mercy and grace,” he said.

Ventura’s lawyer, Meredith Firetog, hit back on Sunday afternoon saying:

“Combs’ most recent statement is more about himself than the many people he has hurt. When Cassie and multiple other women came forward, he denied everything and suggested that his victims were looking for a payday.”

She added: “That he was only compelled to ‘apologize’ once his repeated denials were proven false shows his pathetic desperation, and no one will be swayed by his disingenuous words.”

Hunter Biden’s so-called “sugar brother” Kevin Morris has told associates that he can’t afford to cover the mounting legal bills incurred by the first son, who’s set to face two trials starting next month.

“The reason Kevin got involved financially in the first place was that he could see that no one was going to help Hunter,” a person close to the Hollywood entertainment lawyer told Politico.

“Now, four and a half years later, there’s still no help — and now Kevin is completely tapped out,” the person added. “So just when Hunter is facing two criminal trials starting in a few weeks, he has no resources. It’s pretty dire.”

Morris, who earned a fortune representing the creators of the television series “South Park,” has loaned the president’s 54-year-old son more than $6.5 million since meeting him at a political fundraiser in late 2019.

The 60-year-old lawyer was interviewed by the House Ways and Means, Oversight and Judiciary Committees on Jan. 18 as part of the impeachment inquiry into the president and acknowledged paying “various attorneys” on behalf of Hunter Biden.

Morris, citing attorney-client privileges, refused to tell lawmakers exactly how much he’s spent fronting the first son’s legal fees.

Biden is facing three felony charges in a federal gun case out of Delaware, where he is slated to stand trial on June 3.

The embattled first son also has a June 20 trial date set in California, where he faces nine counts related to tax fraud.

Morris’ financial constraints pose “a huge problem” for Hunter’s defense, the source told Politico, citing concerns about how expert witnesses will be paid.

Activists in Argentina have accused the country’s far-right government of stoking homophobia after an alleged hate crime in which four gay women were set on fire, killing three and seriously injuring the fourth.

A man in his 60s is alleged to have thrown burning rags into the women’s shared bedroom of a boarding house in Buenos Aires early on 6 May.

Neighbors say they were woken by the women’s screams as an inferno ripped through the building. The suspect, Justo Fernando Barrientos, is alleged to have fought with the women in an attempt to stop them escaping the flames, before fleeing to the roof where he attempted suicide, and was later arrested.

Pamela Fabiana Cobas, 52, died almost immediately. Her partner, Mercedes Roxana Figueroa, also 52, suffered burns on more than 90% of her body and died of organ failure two days later. Andrea Amarante, 42, suffered burns on more than 75% of her body and died on 12 May.

The fourth victim, 49-year-old Sofía Castro Riglos, remains in hospital. Thirty occupants were also evacuated, with seven others hospitalized for burns.

The attack has shocked the nation previously known for its progressive LGBTQ+ laws. “They were set on fire for being lesbians,” a member of a neighborhood association told more than 200 protesters on Monday evening.

Demonstrators carrying banners reading “they killed them” have accused Javier Milei’s government of promoting hate speech and fostering a culture of intolerance.

Human rights organizations have also accused prominent politicians of contributing to high levels of violence against LGBTQ+ communities and blame the government for closing safe spaces for queer people.

“The attack is one of the cruelest hate crimes in recent years and takes place in a context in which hate speech is on the rise across the country,” said María Rachid, the head of the institute against discrimination in the ombudsman’s office.

Argentina’s LGBT Federation said that the only spaces for victims of homophobic attacks “are being emptied or eliminated by the current government”.

One of the first decisions of the Milei administration was to close the National Institute Against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism. The self-described libertarian president has also banned the use of gender-inclusive language within the military.

In November 2023, now-foreign minister Diana Mondino compared marriage equality to head lice in a TV interview, saying: “If you prefer not to bathe and be full of lice, it’s your choice … but don’t complain if there is someone who does not like that you have lice.”

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Local media reported witnesses as saying the suspect had regularly insulted the four women and had previously threatened to kill Cobas and Figueroa. He has not yet been charged, and it remains unclear whether prosecutors will include hate crime charges in addition to multiple murder charges.

For two 15-year-old girls in the early 1990s, meeting David Copperfield, the world famous magician, seemed like the thrill of a lifetime.

Carla* says she remembers the way Copperfield gave her his phone number after a 1991 show in Georgia. About two years later in San Francisco, Lily* says, she felt giddy when the master illusionist picked her to join him on stage for a magic trick.

Both girls were in high school at the time and had attended Copperfield’s shows with their parents.

The women, now in their 40s, come from different backgrounds and have never spoken to each other, but they do have one thing in common. They claim the events that followed these encounters changed their lives.

Carla says she feels she was “groomed” by Copperfield for more than two years. She describes how he sent her notes and gifts, including a teddy bear and Valentine’s day balloon when she was 16. A note attached to one – a photo of which was seen by the Guardian – reads: “In 2 years I will be back”.

After Carla turned 18, Copperfield became the first man she had sex with, she says. He was more than twice her age. Copperfield’s lawyers denied he groomed Carla and said they had a “consensual relationship”.

Lily claims Copperfield groped her breasts on stage while performing a trick in front of her father and sister who watched aghast, they have confirmed, from the front row. She says she had nightmares for years about Copperfield using his magic on her.

The two are among 16 women who have alleged sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior by Copperfield, a Guardian US investigation has found.

The allegations span four decades – from the late 1980s to 2014. More than half of these women say they were under the age of 18 at the time of the alleged incidents. Some, like Carla and Lily, say they were 15.

There is no evidence the magician knew Carla and Lily’s exact ages when they say they met him.

Asked about all the claims, lawyers for David Copperfield denied all the allegations of misconduct and inappropriate behavior. Copperfield’s lawyers said he has “never, ever acted inappropriately with anyone, let alone anyone underage”.

Gunmen on Tuesday attacked a prison van at a motorway toll in northern France, killing at least two prison officers and freeing a convict who had been jailed last week.

President Emmanuel Macron vowed that everything would be done to find those behind the attack as hundreds of members of the security forces were deployed for a manhunt to find the attackers and the inmate who were all still at large.

Two prison officers were killed in the attack and two others are receiving urgent medical care, Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said in a statement.

The incident took place late morning at a road toll in Incarville in the Eure region of northern France, a source close to the case added.

One of the suspects in the triple murder of two brothers and their friend while they were in Mexico to surf last month allegedly confessed to the grisly killing, according to court testimony.

Jesús Gerardo Garcia Cota allegedly showed up at his girlfriend Ari Gisel García Cota’s house on April 28 and told her he did something to “three gringos,” the girlfriend testified on Wednesday, according to the BBC.

Asking what he meant, the Garcia Cota told Ari Gisel “I killed them.”

He made the stunning admission on April 28, the day after Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson, 30 and 33, and their American friend Jack Carter Rhoad, 30, were last seen alive in the city of Ensenada in the Mexican state of Baja California where they had met up for a surfing trip.

After the confession, Ari Gisel said her boyfriend brought her out to her car, which he’d outfitted with new tires allegedly pilfered from the victims’ pick-up truck.

The surfers’ bodies were found dumped down a 50-foot well in early May, about a week after they went missing. Each had gunshots to the head and were found alongside a fourth body officials believe had been in the well before they were dumped and was unrelated to their killing.

A white pickup truck similar to the one they’d been driving was also found torched nearby.

In what is being called the biggest sexual assault and rape case in the world, Prajwal Revanna, 33, a member of the Indian parliament from the Hassan constituency in the southern state of Karnataka allegedly recorded himself raping women. Nearly 3,000 such clips have been circulated in Hassan and uploaded online.

Yes, you read that right: 3,000.

The women ranged from his 68-year-old family cook, to political workers, to government officials, and virtually all the women who worked for the extended Gowda clan – a clan headed by the fugitive’s grandfather, former Prime Minister H. D. Deve Gowda, who ran India from June 1996 to April 1997.

Incredibly, Revanna’s father H. D. Revanna has also been arrested on charges of kidnapping a woman and serial sexual assault. The younger Revanna, who some might call ‘a chip off the old block’, fled to Germany using his diplomatic passport (one that is issued to each MP) as soon as the videos were circulated. He was later suspended by his party, the Janata Dal (Secular), over the allegations. Indian officials have requested Interpol’s help to bring him back to stand trial.

The burden of Revanna’s perverted crimes, however, is being borne by his victims – the survivors whose identities have been unmasked because of the viral circulation of the rape videos. In India’s agrarian and patriarchal society, being a rape survivor is a bigger social taboo than being a rapist.

Police are unsympathetic to women who try and report or register a crime; hence, so many rapes are severely unreported even though the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) in 2019 said a rape happens every 16 minutes. Trials are a nightmare, with the survivor subjected to humiliation and grilling. And afterwards, it is difficult for a family to get a survivor married off – an economic imperative in an impoverished milieu. Hence, families try to avoid the “stigma” of rape.

The misplaced sense of honor in patriarchal Indian society burdens the woman’s body as being the repository of the man’s honor. The Hassan victims whose identities have been unmasked have locked their homes and left in a desperate bid to avoid prurient gossip and prying eyes.

I spoke to a senior official of the Karnataka police for this column and he expressed frustration at the lack of cooperation from the victims.

An Indian judge has dismissed a woman’s complaint that her husband committed “unnatural sex,” because under Indian law it’s not illegal for a husband to force his wife to engage in sexual acts.

The ruling, made in the Madhya Pradesh High Court last week, shines a light on a legal loophole in India that doesn’t criminalize marital rape by a husband against his wife, if she’s over age 18.

Campaigners have been trying to change the law for years, but they say they’re up against conservatives who argue that state interference could destroy the tradition of marriage in India.

A challenge to the law has been winding its way through the country’s courtrooms, with the Delhi High Court delivering a split verdict on the issue in 2022, prompting lawyers to file an appeal in the country’s Supreme Court that is still waiting to be heard.

According to the Madhya Pradesh High Court order, the woman told police her husband came to her house in 2019, soon after they were married, and committed “unnatural sex,” under Section 377 of India’s penal code.

The offense includes non-consensual “carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal,” and was historically used to prosecute same sex couples who engaged in consensual sex, before the Supreme Court decriminalized homosexuality in 2018

According to court documents, the woman alleged the act happened “on multiple occasions,” and that her husband had threatened to divorce her if she told anyone about it. She finally came forward after telling her mother, who encouraged her to file a complaint in 2022, the court heard.

The husband challenged his wife’s complaint in court, with his lawyer claiming that any “unnatural sex” between the couple was not criminal as they are married.

Delivering his judgement, Justice Gurpal Singh Ahluwalia pointed to India’s marital rape exemption, which does not make it a crime for a man to force sex on his wife, a relic of British rule more than 70 years after independence.

A recent report on women who contracted HIV after receiving a "vampire facial" has raised questions about the safety of some cosmetic procedures.

At least three women were infected at a spa in New Mexico in 2018, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that said the cases shed light on new ways the infection can spread.

They are believed to be the first-ever HIV transmissions related to a cosmetic procedure documented in the US.

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The term is a colloquial one for platelet-rich plasma - or PRP - facials.

It involves drawing a patient's blood and then separating out platelet-rich plasma from it using a centrifuge. The plasma is then injected back into the face through tiny needle punctures.

The procedure is said to help repair the skin's barrier by stimulating the production of new collagen and elastin, which can reduce the appearance of wrinkles and acne scars.

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A CDC investigation into the spa - which also provided other injection services, including Botox - later revealed that it was unlicensed and that it had "multiple unsafe infection control practices."

This included "unlabelled tubes of blood and medical injectables" that were stored in a kitchen fridge next to food, as well as "unwrapped syringes" scattered in drawers and on counters.

Some of the blood vials also showed signs of being reused, and the CDC had identified at least one client who had tested positive for HIV before visiting the spa.

There is also a YouTube video that has gotten over 7 million views that gives an outline of the case and shows footage of the initial police dispatch, the interrogations of Brianna Williams, and her suicide attempt.

Honestly, I became very convinced that Brianna Williams was just not a normal person in any regard and perhaps suffered cruelty or was born with a severe personality disorder that went undiagnosed. She absolutely is a danger to society and she has to pay for what she did to her daughter... Nonetheless, it's hard to judge someone in such a bizarre mental state the same you would a normal person.

A Korean man has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for killing 76 cats in one of the country's most gruesome cases of animal cruelty in recent years.

The man, who is in his 20s, was convicted of violating Korea’s animal protection law last week, the Changwon District Court in southeastern Korea said Tuesday. The court did not identify the man.

The man went on a cat-killing spree between December 2022 and September 2023 due to a deep hatred of the animal that he began harboring after other cats scratched his car, according to a court verdict seen by the Associated Press.

He had caught stray cats and adopted others from online sites before strangling some to death and killing others with scissors, the court order said. He killed one cat by running it over with a car, the court said.

The court ruled that the prison sentence was unavoidable because he repeatedly committed “indescribably cruel” crimes in a premeditated manner.

It stressed that the sentence still reflected the fact that the man had no criminal records and repented his crimes, adding that the man's unspecified mental health status was found to be a motive for his crimes.

The man appealed the ruling.

We can at least take solace in the fact that he isn't being released:

Even though the New York appeals court overturned Weinstein’s conviction, that does not mean he is getting out of prison.

After Weinstein's sentencing in New York in 2020, he was extradited to California in July 2021 to face sexual assault allegations made by four women in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills between 2004 and 2013.

In December 2022, he was found guilty of rape, forced oral copulation and another sexual misconduct count involving a woman known as Jane Doe 1. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison in February 2023. Weinstein's legal team has vowed to appeal that conviction as well.

Guy is literally an international sex pest:

Weinstein also faces charges in London for two alleged offenses in 1996.

Lisa Florin, clinical biologist with Belgian hospital AZ Sint-Lucas, explained that people with the condition produce the same type of alcohol as the one in alcoholic drinks but that they generally feel less of its effects.

She added that people are not born with ABS but can get it when they already suffer from another intestine-related condition

Ottawa CNN — Six people have been arrested in last year’s multimillion-dollar gold heist at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, police in Canada and the US said Wednesday.

Police have also issued arrest warrants for three others in what they described as an “inside job.” All nine suspects have been charged with over 19 counts.

On April 17, 2023, an air cargo container carrying more than 22 million Canadian dollars’ worth of gold bars and foreign currency was stolen from a secure storage facility using fake paperwork, police say. The gold and currency had just arrived on an Air Canada flight from Zurich, Switzerland.

At least two former Air Canada employees allegedly helped in the audacious theft, police say. One is now in custody and an arrest warrant has been issued for the other.

“They needed people inside Air Canada to facilitate this theft,” Detective Sgt. Mike Mavity of Peel Regional Police said, adding that in his opinion, this was an “inside job.”

“We thank the police for their diligent efforts in investigating this matter. As this is now before the courts, we are limited in our ability to comment further. However, we can confirm, as stated by police, that two of the individuals identified did work for Air Canada in the cargo division at the time of the incident. One left the company prior to the arrests announced today and the second has been suspended,” Peter Fitzpatrick, a spokesperson for Air Canada, said in a statement.

A 12-year-old girl and two 13-year-old girls were charged for an October 2023 attack on 64-year-old Reggie Brown that resulted in his death

Three teenage girls, all under the age of 14, have been charged with murder after being accused of beating a disabled older man to death last autumn.

According to NBC Washington, a 12-year-old girl and two 13-year-old girls were charged in connection with an October 2023 fatal attack on 64-year-old Reggie Brown. The three young girls appeared in court in Washington, D.C., on Friday and Saturday and were charged as juveniles for second-degree murder. All three, through their attorneys, pleaded not guilty.

In a press release by the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, D.C., detectives stated that the crime took place on Tuesday, October 17, 2023. At approximately 12:54 a.m., police officers responded to a call and found the victim “with trauma consistent with an assault.” Brown died at the scene. An autopsy report from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled the cause of death to be blunt force trauma, and it was ruled a homicide.

The Washington Post reported that the attack was caught on mobile phone footage, and the clip was played during last week’s hearing on March 28. It showed a group of five girls running after Brown. Trying to escape, he attempted to climb up a chain fence, but the teenagers pulled him off and stomped his head into the concrete. They then pulled his pants down around his ankles, took off his belt, and then beat him with it.

As he lay on the concrete, surrounded by blood, the girls were laughing, and one of them said, “He’s leaking.”

D.C. homicide detective Harry Singleton testified that Brown was disabled, with mental health issues, and had a metal plate in his head and only two fingers on each hand. Footage from a security camera revealed that an unidentified man was seen leading Brown by his collar and throwing him against a wall, causing him to fall. As Brown got back up, Singleton said that five girls were walking nearby, witnessed the man’s actions, and one of the girls, based on interviews with at least one witness, went up to the younger man and asked him, “Can I fight him?” The man said, “Yes.”

The video is available on Twitter with the actual victim blurred out when the shooting begins.

It's here.

No blood or severe injury apparent but I felt deeply disturbed seeing this. I share it because I cry to heaven for justice.

A man suspected of killing eight people, most of whom were his relatives, in Chicago-area shootings died after turning a gun on himself following a confrontation with federal law enforcement, police say.

Romeo Nance, 23, was found Monday by US Marshals near Natalia, Texas – more than 1,000 miles from where seven victims were found shot to death Sunday in two homes in the south Chicago suburb of Joliet, according to the Joliet Police Department. Authorities believe Nance is also linked to a Sunday shooting in Will County, Illinois, that left a 28-year-old dead, Joliet Police Chief Bill Evans said Monday.

Nance shot himself with a handgun after being confronted by officials, police said.

Investigators have yet to determine Nance’s motive, but Nance was related to “if not all, a vast majority of the people” found dead in the homes, Evans said during a Tuesday news conference.

The victims have not been publicly identified. They range in age from 14 to 47 years old, Evans said.