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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Four New Jersey men arrested for sexually assaulting 14-year-old runaway


[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] On Tuesday, four New Jersey men were arrested and charged in connection to the sexual assault of a 14-year-old Bayonne, New Jersey girl.
"Hey, man, she tol' us she was 15"
The four men came into contact with the girl after she bravely ran away from her home earlier this month, according to the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office.

Arrested were Nasire Williams, 26, Elijah Sparkman, 21, Deveon Palms, 19, and Xavier Feliciano, 23. They were individually arrested between September 7 and September 17.

All four were charged with second-degree Sexual Assault, and Endangering the Welfare of a Child.

Williams also received the additional charge of Criminal Sexual Contact.

Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez "credited the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit and the Jersey City Police Department for the investigation and arrest."

Posted by: Fred || 09/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hookers, guys, if you can't get a date. Hookers.

Kids, now. Kids ge everybody's attention, as you have and will discover.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 09/23/2021 0:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Get ready for the Afghan child rapists. Coming to your neighborhood soon -- 100,000 of em across Amerikay
Posted by: Ethelred the Swank6539 || 09/23/2021 1:28 Comments || Top||


#4  Four horses, four ropes, four times.
Posted by: Croque Fliting8030 || 09/23/2021 8:00 Comments || Top||

#5 

Looking at the photos of the suspects. The only reasons from what I have heard regarding not getting laid for dinner and a dance today are:

* Damn ugly,
* BO and/or their breath stinks to Hell and Back,
* They are socially retarded,
* not properly gifted in the right dept.

Either way the 4 need to be locked up.

BTW: Did the NJ State Social Workers look into WHY the 14 year run away? Was something similar happening at home or what to cause their runaway?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/23/2021 8:04 Comments || Top||

#6  Bring back public hangings. Bring back burning alive if necessary.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/23/2021 8:06 Comments || Top||

#7  Exile works
Posted by: Ethelred the Swank6539 || 09/23/2021 8:36 Comments || Top||

#8  prepare to be culturally enriched
Posted by: Retard Strength || 09/23/2021 8:39 Comments || Top||

#9  * They are socially retarded,

Probability that their sperm donor stayed with the family and set an positive role model example to them has young boys? Probability they were socialized by their peer group? See - Lord of the Flies
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/23/2021 9:10 Comments || Top||

#10  ship 'em back to the Congo.
Posted by: 746 || 09/23/2021 11:20 Comments || Top||

#11  #1 - St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas used similar reasoning so long ago to oppose making prostitution illegal. One of the bits of history modern history and religion teachers never talk about.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 09/23/2021 19:45 Comments || Top||


Florida high school football coach accused of raping goddaughter
[NYPOST] A Florida high school assistant football coach has been accused of raping his teen goddaughter, police said.

Dominic Johnson, 36, who works at Miami Carol City Senior High School, was arrested Monday at the building on a charge of sexual battery of a minor by an adult, the Miami Herald reported.

Johnson — an 11-year Miami-Dade County Schools veteran who is also a security monitor at the high school — "denied the allegations.
No, no! Certainly not!
of raping his 16-year-old goddaughter at his North Miami-Dade home on Sunday after he was taken into custody, an arrest report shows.

The girl told cops Johnson raped her in a bathroom in his home, the report states.

"If I had the choice, I would have never spoke to him in the first place," the 16-year-old girl told WSVN. "He ruined me, he gained my trust and he broke it."

The teen and her family went straight to police after the alleged attack, WSVN reported.

"He forced himself onto me, he didn’t let me out of the bathroom," she recalled. "He raped me."

The teen’s mother said Johnson was once considered to be a member of their family.

"You were supposed to be her protector," she told WSVN. "You failed us, you failed the community, coach."
Posted by: Fred || 09/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Connecticut man allegedly broke in, tried to take over family's home
[NYPOST] A Connecticut man broke into a family’s home and tried to take over the residence as his own, state police said.Benjamin Dahm, 31, was arrested inside a second-floor bathroom in the family’s Meetinghouse Lane home in Old Lyme late Monday after a 16-year-old boy arrived at his house and spotted an unfamiliar car with no license plates parked in the garage, state police records cited by the Hartford Courant show.

The teen noticed his front door was locked and then saw a man he didn’t know inside his house wearing shorts without a shirt, apparently making himself at home.

The man whom state police later identified as Dahm then saw the teen and opened a window to warn him, according to an incident report.

"This isn’t your house anymore," Dahm told the teen before slamming the window shut, the 16-year-old told state police.

A landscaper arrived to do scheduled work on the property just after the bizarre encounter and called cops. The shocked 16-year-old, meanwhile, called his mother to explain what was going on, state police said.

Troopers arrived at the home and tried to get Dahm’s attention, but had trouble doing so because he was blaring loud music inside. He eventually made eye contact with a trooper, but he refused to leave the home, records show.

At one point, Dahm downplayed the situation, saying he had every right to be there, state police said.

"I live here with my girlfriend, there shouldn’t be any problems, she will be home shortly," Dahm told the officers who were holding him at gunpoint, an incident report shows.

But Dahm was some 20 miles away from his apartment in Gales Ferry, the Courant reported.

State troopers and a K-9 ultimately got into the home via a basement storm hatch and ordered Dahm to get out, but he again ignored those commands. Cops later found him hiding in an upstairs bathroom and took him into custody without incident, according to the report.

No visible damage was left behind in the family’s home and no property or items were stolen, state police said. The vehicle he drove to the home, identified by WTIC as a Jeep Cherokee, was also towed from the residence, the Courant reported.

Dahm, who was expected to appear in court Tuesday, was taken into custody on $50,000 bond. He was charged with third-degree burglary, second-degree criminal trespass, disorderly conduct and interfering with an officer, court records cited by the Courant show.

Dahm was still incarcerated
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
early Wednesday, Department of Corrections records show. It’s unclear if he’s hired an attorney who could speak on his behalf.

Dahm has another six active criminal and motor vehicle cases pending in Connecticut courts from April through July, according to the newspaper, including charges of disorderly conduct and violating conditions of his release, court records show.
Judge: "Mr. Dahm, you've had a busy summer"
Dahm: "I'm being oppressed, man"



Posted by: Fred || 09/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Millenial
Posted by: 746 || 09/23/2021 9:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Surprised that the 'Community Advocates' aren't blowing up a storm that the Eviction Moratorium should be applicable to Mr. Dahm's living conditions.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/23/2021 10:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Lucky he pulled this off in Connecticut. In some states the homeowner would be eligible for a free kill.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/23/2021 10:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Oh he doesn’t look black in the photo, but he talks like an indigenous moor…
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/23/2021 11:16 Comments || Top||

#5  $50,000 Bond and $60,000 in towing/storage charges
Posted by: Frank G || 09/23/2021 11:43 Comments || Top||


Moment gunman opens fire on group in broad daylight drive-by shooting that killed man, 26, and wounded five in Philadelphia
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  For those that haven't seen a drive-by.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/22/2021 17:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Sarge always said 'never bunch up'. It appears the Karens are out to enforce 'safe distancing'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/23/2021 10:22 Comments || Top||

#3  I notice that they were quick to point out that the gunman used a 'semiautomatic handgun'.

A revolver, by definition, is 'semi-automatic'. Not too many handguns are single-shot, unless you're counting the 'Shutter Gun with round of bullet' from some uppsala somewhere.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/23/2021 13:05 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Abdelkader Bensalah, who served briefly as interim president in 2019, has died
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Men charged with hate crime for attacking Jewish diners in Los Angeles
[NYPOST] Two Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, men were charged with a hate crime for attacking two Jewish diners outside a Los Angeles sushi restaurant, prosecutors said.Xavier Pabon, 30, and Samer Jayylusi, 36, were charged Tuesday in the May 18 attack outside Sushi Fumi in the city’s Beverly Grove section, where they were part of a pro-Paleostinian group, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.

"The defendants are accused of approaching two men outside of a restaurant and attacking them because of their religion," prosecutors said in a statement.

Pabon, of Banning, and Jayylusi, of Anaheim, were charged with two felony counts of assault by means of force likely to cause great bodily injury, as well as a hate crime allegation.

"A hate crime is a crime against all of us," District Attorney George Gascón said. "My office is committed to doing all we can to make Los Angeles County a place where our diversity is embraced and protected."

Video from outside the restaurant provided anonymously to the Los Angeles Times showed several cars passing by while people waved Paleostinian flags amid ongoing festivities between Israel and Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, Death Eaters in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip.
Posted by: Fred || 09/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Xavier Pabon, 30, and Samer Jayylusi, 36
Obviously frat boy Trump followers.
Posted by: ruprecht || 09/23/2021 11:36 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Spain Drone footage shows lava engulfing a swimming pool and homes on the island of LaPalma
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I don't think my homeowner's covers lava damage.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/23/2021 2:41 Comments || Top||

#2  That's gonna play hell with the pool pump bearing.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/23/2021 9:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Now that's what I call a pool heater!
Posted by: Warthog || 09/23/2021 10:06 Comments || Top||

#4  Instant hot tub!
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 09/23/2021 12:40 Comments || Top||

#5  The real issue with LaPalma is not the volcano - bad as it is. The danger is a massive landslide on the southeast end that would spawn a massive tsunami that would eventually reach our Atlantic coast.
Posted by: Warthog || 09/23/2021 13:24 Comments || Top||

#6  Not just LaPalma. Go on Google Earth or even Google Maps satellite view and look at the flanks around various volcanic islands. A lot of them show very large pieces of debris around them. This debris came from flank collapses of these islands. Oahu at one time was much larger until the north side of the island suffered such a collapse. One chunk of debris was that to be a seamount until surveyed and it was actually found to be actual debris. The two single largest natural disasters that could befall the United States outside of an asteroid impact are Yellowstone and a major flank collapse of the island of Hawaii. Of course Yellowstone or Hawaii would effect far more nations than the US
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 09/23/2021 14:42 Comments || Top||

#7  The danger is a massive landslide on the southeast end that would spawn a massive tsunami that would eventually reach our Atlantic coast.

That's a problem?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/23/2021 15:14 Comments || Top||


70% of Vaccinated Prisoners Caught COVID in an Outbreak
[Epoch Times] More than two-thirds of fully vaccinated prisoners contracted COVID-19 during an outbreak inside a Texas prison, the CDC said in a study. The vaccine, the CDC said, protected the prisoners against severe COVID-19 symptoms.

The agency said that 129 out of 185 fully vaccinated prisoners caught the virus, according to data compiled by the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the CDC in the agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published Tuesday. Separately, of 42 unvaccinated prisoners, 93 percent caught the virus during the outbreak in the undisclosed prison.
This anecdote suggests the vaccine may save your life, but will not stop the virus.
The CDC data showed that seven unvaccinated and 21 fully vaccinated prisoners had previously contacted a documented case of COVID-19.
They got it again? A non-trivial percentage - 12.3% of 227 inmates. So much for acquired immunity!
Some studies have shown that individuals who previously contracted the CCP virus develop long-lasting and robust protection against the Delta variant.

Based on the new data, the CDC said that vaccinating most of the U.S. population should remain a priority.
Unexpectedly.
Posted by: Bobby || 09/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Those vaccines are kicking serious ass!
Posted by: Raj || 09/23/2021 0:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Mark my words, the legal return of actual snake oil is coming, and it's all due to covidian asininity.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/23/2021 7:14 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Tennessee coaches were told not to lead students in prayer so students led it themselves
Posted by: badanov || 09/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Cookeville Tennessee is where I went to school. I'm not surprised by this at all. And in the Student Union they still play Christmas music after Thanksgiving break.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 09/23/2021 1:18 Comments || Top||

#2  This is what America looks like.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/23/2021 1:36 Comments || Top||

#3  How do we shuck of the other, false America of the BLoM and Woke and DNC/Antifa types?
Posted by: Ethelred the Swank6539 || 09/23/2021 1:39 Comments || Top||

#4  ...after coaches were told they can't lead students in prayer

I'd like to know by whom the coaches were told this, then shitcan the whole bunch.
Posted by: Raj || 09/23/2021 2:20 Comments || Top||

#5  "I've been told to tell you what not to do. By logical extension, then, I can't tell you what to do either..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/23/2021 9:35 Comments || Top||

#6  #3: it is to the point where secession by conservative states looks attractive. A new constitution keeping the good parts of the current one but making abortion after heartbeat a criminal offense, can you say murder? and outlawing hyphenated-americans.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 09/23/2021 10:26 Comments || Top||

#7  I'm sure it comes down to some woke ass school board Raj.
Posted by: Chris || 09/23/2021 12:15 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
UNISA Language Policy Huge Victory for Afrikaans and Language Rights
[AfriForum] The ruling handed down by the Constitutional Court today in favour of AfriForum in the case for the retention of Afrikaans as a primary language of instruction at the University of South Africa (Unisa), is hailed by AfriForum as a huge victory for Afrikaans, Afrikaans-speaking students and language rights in South Africa in general.

The case was heard by this court on 20 May 2021 and judgment was reserved. This followed after the Supreme Court of Appeal had ruled in favour of AfriForum on this issue with its judgment in 2020 that Unisa’s language policy had not been adopted "in a constitutionally compliant manner".

The Constitutional Court upheld the Supreme Court of Appeal’s finding that Unisa’s current language policy, which provides only for English as the primary medium of instruction, is unconstitutional, but allowed more time for the implementation of the ruling. The full ruling is not yet available, but AfriForum has the greatest appreciation for the Constitutional Court’s position on students’ right to mother language education.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nigeria's male and female languages
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/23/2021 15:04 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Top US military general holds talks with Russian counterpart
[Aljazeera] The top United States military leader, Joint Chiefs Chair General Mark Milley, met with his Russian counterpart, Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov, in Helsinki on Wednesday.

The meeting of the two military leaders comes after the chaotic US military withdrawal from Afghanistan unleashed a new humanitarian crisis in Central Asia and as Washington seeks to coordinate with neighbouring powers on countering armed groups.

"It was a productive meeting. When military leaders of great powers communicate, the world is a safer place," Milley told The Associated Press.

Both sides agreed not to disclose details of the meeting, as has been the practice in previous meetings and calls, the AP reported. But the US basing issue around Afghanistan was a key topic for Milley with NATO counterparts in Greece over the weekend.

Russia and the US have been engaged in a dialogue on strategic stability following the Geneva summit meeting between US President Joe Biden and Russia President Vladimir Putin in June. But the rapid US and NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan and the sudden rise of the Taliban government in Kabul have raised new security concerns.

Gerasimov and Milley, meeting at a residence near Helsinki, discussed issues of mutual interest including risk mitigation in military activities, according to a report by RIA Novosti, a Russian news service.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/23/2021 00:20 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Gerasimov and Milley, meeting at a residence near Helsinki, discussed issues of mutual interest including risk mitigation in military activities

Translation: We want same advance notification of attack deal you gave the Chinese.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/23/2021 0:29 Comments || Top||

#2  ...and they'll get it.
Posted by: Raj || 09/23/2021 2:17 Comments || Top||

#3  I hope someone recorder that meet.
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/23/2021 11:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Was Vindman invited? Or was this more of an HR annual performance review for Milley from his boss.
Posted by: Airandee || 09/23/2021 12:32 Comments || Top||

#5  Milley needs to be sanctioned.
Posted by: Tyranysaurus Jones4656 || 09/23/2021 14:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Nicht schiessen! Befehl ist befehl!
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 09/23/2021 15:00 Comments || Top||


Former Ukrainian Interior Ministry official to face trial over Maidan killings
By Halya Coynash

[KHPG] Yury Spasskykh, a former Interior Ministry official, has been remanded in custody in Ukraine and is facing trial on charges linked with the killing of Maidan protesters in the morning of 18 February 2014. Spasskykh is, in fact, charged over a number of Maidan crimes and fled the country in the Spring of 2014, only to end up imprisoned in Russia on bizarre charges.

During the Euromaidan protests in 2013-2014, Spasskykh was the deputy head of a section dealing with mass events within the Kyiv Police Department on Public Security. He appears to have first been arrested in 2018 after returning to Ukraine, but was only remanded in custody, by the Pechersky District Court in Kyiv on 20 September after he went into hiding earlier in the month. He was earlier informed of charges over the violent dispersal (or attempted dispersal) of protesters during the night from 10-11 December 2013, and over the dispersing of protesters on 18 February 2014, the first of the two bloodiest days of Maidan, when peaceful protesters were gunned down.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: badanov || 09/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Shots were fired at a car carrying Ukraine president’s top aid, wounding the driver
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yesterday's report was that the weapon used in the attack was a submachine gun firing 7.62mm slugs. Another, subsequent report said that the weapon used was an AK-47, going by the spent weapons cartridges.

The cartridges were not armory issued, but were commercially produced ammunition in Hungary.

The trail would suggest this was an organized crime attempted hit.
Posted by: badanov || 09/23/2021 9:10 Comments || Top||

#2  My first thought was: What are the Ukrainians doing in Chicago?

Interesting speculation in #1, badanov. "Nothing political, it's just business."
Posted by: SteveS || 09/23/2021 12:16 Comments || Top||

#3  the weapon used was an AK-47

So that's why the driver, not Aid, was hit?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/23/2021 15:05 Comments || Top||


Down Under
Australian police fire rubber bullets to clear demonstration at Melbourne's war memorial as third day of rallies by anti-vaxxers turns violent
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Should try that in Del Rio.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/22/2021 17:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Next election should be interesting unless the Aussies also use Dominion machines.
Posted by: Spereng Crins7805 || 09/23/2021 3:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Do I detect another 'Defund the Police' movement.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/23/2021 10:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Don't see many soi boys.
Posted by: bman || 09/23/2021 11:44 Comments || Top||

#5  Prejudiced headline. "Antivaxxer", no, anti MANDATE, antiLOCKDOWN, anti-AUTHORITARIANS
Posted by: Chealing Chomotle4158 || 09/23/2021 13:14 Comments || Top||

#6  It's DM. They spent 2 months trying to re-define a Karen from shrieking bully into anyone who doesn't wear a mask all the time.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/23/2021 14:24 Comments || Top||


Europe
Donors have contributed over $985 million to the rebuilding of NotreDame cathedral in Paris
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Any minarets planned
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 09/23/2021 12:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Its the French, so for God's sake, rebuild it like it was, not some hideous attempt at modernity, please!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/23/2021 12:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Minarets will come after the conquest. See St Sophia's in Constantinople.
Posted by: Chealing Chomotle4158 || 09/23/2021 13:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Last I heard people calling for a 'Reimagining' were roundly thumped silent, and the techniques for repair were to be as authentic as possible, down to selecting and harvesting the timber.

I don't think it will be the same, but if so, awfully close. There will be techniques nobody remembers, changes for the sake of safety, and maybe some material substitutions such as with lead. Off the cuff, I don't think the structure requires the weight of the roof for long term stability.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/23/2021 13:13 Comments || Top||

#5  Authentic? I'll not state the obvious hunchback joke....
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/23/2021 18:02 Comments || Top||



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  Seven Pakistani soldiers, five militants killed in gun battle in South Waziristan
Wed 2021-09-15
  US says nearly 500 Afghan citizens evacuated from Uzbekistan
Tue 2021-09-14
  Taliban seize $6 million and golden bricks from Amrullah Saleh’s residence
Mon 2021-09-13
  Zawahiri, believed dead, appears in video on 9/11 anniversary.
Bin Laden, known dead, doesn't.
Sun 2021-09-12
  National Resistance Front of Panjshir province have retaken three areas of the province from the Taliban
Sat 2021-09-11
  Dozens of Afghan evacuees flagged by DHS as potential security threats
Fri 2021-09-10
  Taliban agreed to allow 200 foreigners to leave Afghanistan
Thu 2021-09-09
  Resistance leaders Massoud, Saleh still in Afghanistan's Panjshir, setting up parallel govt


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