Convicted Sex Offender Granted Custody of Four Children

For some time, politicians have been avoiding the topic of how far they will go in handing the children over to the father. The situation here speaks for itself. Whilst the article does not draw attention to previous cases like this, it is not uncommon for courts to allow convicted sex offenders unsupervised contact with children. For as long as the courts, family reporters and children's lawyers rely upon the junk science of Parental Alienation Syndrome(also referred to as "Parent Alienation"), cases like these will continue to rupture the lives of children.

Pedophile granted child custody

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DAVID NANKERVIS

June 13, 2009 11:30pm

A FAMILY Court judge has granted custody of four children to their father - a convicted pedophile and rapist.

The mother of the four youngsters, all aged under 15, requested custody at a recent Family Court hearing in Adelaide.

The unsuccessful application was made not long after the children's father was found guilty in the Adelaide District Court of multiple sex offences against a minor.

A transcript of the Family Court hearing shows the presiding judge was aware of the father's convictions and that he was on bail awaiting sentencing.

Further details, including the names of the family, cannot be legally reported. The mother and her current husband also both have criminal records.

However, child support groups have condemned the idea that a convicted pedophile could be granted custody of any child.

Victim Support Service SA said the community would be "alarmed" at a situation where a pedophile was allowed to care for children.

"Our organisation would be worried too about that, and we would want to know about the reasoning and rationale behind such a decision and what steps are in place to protect any child in such circumstances," the service's chief executive Michael Dawson said.

"I would think it is inappropriate for someone with a previous history - through conviction of crimes against children - to be provided with the opportunity to supervise children.

"From my personal experience, I've never heard of any such case before."

The Australian Childhood Foundation also expressed serious concern about the risks pedophiles pose to children, particularly in an unsupervised environment.

"Convicted pedophiles can't work as a teacher, be a foster carer or footy coach, because society recognises that past behaviour is the best indicator of future risk," foundation chief executive Joe Tucci said.

"So as a matter of principal, children shouldn't be in unsupervised contact or custody of an adult with convictions for sexual assault against children."

Mr Tucci said courts should err on the side of caution and treat convictions of sexual assault against children as a "red light" when deciding what is in a child's best interest.

A spokeswoman for the Family Court said judges could only award custody of a child to those parties who applied for it.

"If a judge has concerns about a child's welfare, they cannot make an order that a child be put in the care of the state," the spokeswoman said.

"A judge can ask but not compel a state welfare department to intervene if they believe a child is at risk of abuse or neglect."

The Department of Families and Communities said the Family Court may advise it of any "child protection concerns (the court has) about a child".

"Families SA assesses the notification like any other and takes action if necessary," a department spokesman said.

"Also, the Family Court may make a formal request that the Department of Families and Communities become a party to a case.

"If DFC accepts the request and becomes a party, it then makes representations to the court about what is in the best interests of the child or children."

Exploiting Mothers and Children: Baby Factories

Remember the Family Court baby Factories ?  Well here is what they are doing to mothers and children in india:

Single men buying children for £15,000 at 'baby factory' 

Robert Mendick
08.06.09

A surrogacy clinic in India is advertising babies for sale to single men in Britain.

Newborns can be bought for as little as £15,000 at the private clinic in Mumbai. More than 10 single men have purchased babies from the Rotunda Clinic.

No checks on their background are made, including whether they have convictions or have been vetted by social workers.

One London couple who had a child thanks to the clinic have been approached by single men hoping to do the same.

Bobby Bains, who runs a website explaining how to obtain a surrogate baby in India, said one in six inquiries he gets comes from single men or gay couples.

"I make the introductions," said Mr Bains, from Ilford. "I don't like it myself but I still put them in touch with India. There's no stopping it. The Pandora's Box is open and there is no going back. This is the future."

Mr Bains, 45, and his wife Nikki, 44, paid the Rotunda Clinic tens of thousands of pound over several years in a desperate attempt to have a baby.

Finally last July, a surrogate mother, implanted with a donated egg fertilised by Mr Bains' sperm, gave birth to their daughter Daisy.

Rotunda's website advertises its surrogacy service with the pledge of a birth certificate issued in the name of the "intended parents" and the baby handed over immediately after the birth.

Its website states: "Rotunda offers gestational surrogacy in India to people of all nationalities.

All couples including lesbian and gay couples and even single men and single women can avail this facility to fulfil their dream of enjoying parenthood."

Dr Gautam Allahbadia, who runs the clinic, told the Standard he thought anyone who wanted a baby should be entitled to have one - despite growing concern that a near-absence of regulations has allowed the surrogacy industry there to boom unchecked.

He said: "I believe that every human being has to be treated equal and all have the same right to procreate.

"If you are within the ambit of your country's laws and believe strongly in your own principles, one should not bother about critics. Some human beings come into this world only to criticise."

Mr Allahbadia said "more than 10" single men had used the surrogacy service, compared to 50 Western couples - "some of them British" - who went through his clinic last year.

But the promise of surrogate babies to single men has alarmed campaigners and politicians in Britain.

Ann Widdecombe, the Tory MP and a long-time critic of surrogacy, said: "It is appalling to treat children as if they were goods. Children are a blessing, not designer goods. They deserve a start in life with mum and dad."

Norman Wells, of the pressure group Family and Youth Concern, said: "Nature itself tells us that children were intended to have both a father and a mother, and neither is an optional extra.

"We are embarking on a dangerous social experiment that runs contrary to common sense if we deliberately set out to bring a child into the world without the presence and involvement of both a father and mother who are committed for life to each other.

"If we are really committed to giving children the best possible start in life, the last thing we should be doing is to tamper with the natural order."

A leading obstetrician at a Mumbai hospital told the Standard last month that she delivered on average one baby to a British couple every 48 hours.

Dr Anita Soni said: "For these surrogate mothers the money is life-changing. There is absolutely no exploitation. It is really big money. It is a jackpot."

15,000 Children Forced Contact with violent dads

Calls for overhaul of family law system 

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Laurie Nowell

June 07, 2009 12:00am

CHILD welfare campaigners have called for an overhaul of the family law system, citing statistics they claim show courts have forced children to spend time with abusive or violent parents.

Campaigner Barbara Biggs says an analysis of the latest Family Court statistics shows courts are forcing children to spend time with parents they fear.

A recent speech by the Family Court's Chief Justice, Diana Bryant, appears to confirm this. But the Family Court has rejected the analysis.

The court says each case is determined on its merits and much of the contact between parents and children under the court's orders is supervised.

The court data shows children in at least 267 separated families in 2007-8 were forced to spend time with parents who the court deemed abusive or violent.

Of fathers before the court, a third were awarded less than 30 per cent custody and in 29 per cent of those cases it was because of abuse or family violence.

Of the cases in which women were awarded less than 30 per cent custody, abuse or family violence was the reason in 16 per cent of cases.

Ms Biggs claims up to 15,000 children might have had forced contact with violent parents over the past five years.

In a public lecture at the Queensland University of Technology in April, Chief Justice Bryant said: "In a third of litigated cases, the Family Court ordered that children spend 30 per cent or less time with their father.

"Abuse and/or family violence was the major reason why this order was made. In 9 per cent of litigated cases, the Family Court ordered that children spend 30 per cent or less time with their mother, the major reason being the presence of health issues."

A spokesman for the Family Court said: "Each case is judged on its merits and statistics tend to make it look as though they are all the same. You need to see the individual orders to properly understand the situation and before you can draw conclusions."

Australia's Family Court Money Trail

If you have ever accessed the court as a survivor of violence or a protective parent, you'll know what I mean when I say that they lick their lips at the sight of money.  Getting the child to the abuser is like hitting the jackpot as they know this will lock in the family courts financial future.  Lets face it, dead beat dads are bad for them as they know that they will give up when they have had their rampage against the ex.  Protective parents will keep litigating until they have lost everything.

An urban legend is spreading through Australia about the Federal Magistrates court having wild parties, snorting cocaine amongst other cocktails of indulgence to eliminate the pain of compassion and humanity at is worst.   It is called the "Debauchery house" and as the legend goes,   a lawyer who saw what they were doing and wrote about it in a book.  Just before he published it, he was called in for a meeting with a warning that he would be disbarred if he were to proceed and even when he altered it to fiction he was .  It might explain the recent reports of judges not even bothering to read the evidence, presenting disheveled in attire and requesting its litigants to "speak in simple terms'.  If this "urban legend" is true, we ask you to come forth.  We want names, we want any footage that you have acquired and any other evidence you have.  It is about time a change of culture occurred in the court, whether or not this urban legend is true.  We have a way of releasing this information without being affected by Australian Law and its treaties.  

It is about time victims of violence and child abuse receive true justice.  its about time that the lies and propaganda that surrounds a deep lack of transparency is exposed.  True justice has no place for those who seek to be, "above the law".  So lets begin with the information that has already been revealed.  There is a 5 million dollar black hole in the Federal Magistrates budget.  $60,000 of that was spent on fine bone china.  According tot he australian , the 5 million dollar black hole was associated with 16 magistrates.

The minimum fees that are charged between the two courts appear significantly different by a couple of hundred dollars.  At the Family Court, it is $1905 which includes initial application, final order application and two hearings.  This does not include the costs to file affidavits and other forms not mentioned in the fees and charges section.  In the Federal Magistrates court it costs $1367 for the same set of fees.  An average lawyer will cost you $3000 per hearing plus expenses for the time spent advising you and preparing the forms.  In February 2009, submissions for the access to justice inquiry was closed and leading up to that date, there were mainly internal submissions  or input from liaising organizations.  Just before the deadline closed, Child concern Australia and a few other organizations supporting women  and children submitted their concerns on the access to justice and thoughts about the proposed changes. Prior to this, media releases were on plans to axe the Family Court and divert its traffic to the Federal Magistrates.  This would have been a negative outcome for children and women affected by family violence.  The reason why the federal magistrates are so cheap is that they are for short court cases where everything is rushed through and family violence is ignored as a result of its processes.  Its actually a batterers paradise , where there is no time for him to be investigated, no time to delve into the history and an enormous pressure place upon the mother to give in to what may come of it including her or her children's life. Just rush through, threaten severe consequences if she does not obey her ex husband and "cha ching" get as much money out of it as possible.  At the very beginning, they pretend that they are going to look into family violence, but really its about gathering as much information from you so that you will become silent.  Snatching evidence must be part of the training as the reports of this is widespread.  They don't tell you this to begin with as it will ruin the "surprise" and most importantly those initial filing costs.  You must file relatively early for a final order, so this is also part of it.  Getting as many people through the doors is how the money reaches maximum income.  The very reason why the SPCA is supporting the Federal Magistrates Court is that it will reduce the visibility of victims and support the notion of false allegations which is a common reference to "unsubstantiated".  With haste and a drive to put as many couples in and out of this court system as quickly as possible, victims are invisible and their perpetrators have less time to keep the "charm" going without being found out.  With this system it is virtually impossible to substantiate allegations.  Once the final orders are rushed through to the end, a litigant cannot apply for three years.  

Stay tuned for more on Australia's Family Court Money Trail

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Meet Bob: Your average FR Joe

 Bob Allen is a typical Fathers Rights Member that argues against everything that is female claiming it to be from feminist origin.  In reality, feminist have little to do with divorce and more to do with women in the workforce and leadership.  This is because most feminists are not mothers and do not have children.  Occasionally the issue comes up, but that is because it is a women's rights issue, but not as prevalent as the stoning of women and girls.  The reactions of some of the women involved are rightful and natural.  It would be bizarre if there were not outrage at some of these practices.  Whilst we endeavor to pursue some sort of logic as to why these men are angry, there has been no justifiable reasoning that would give cause to such rage.  

   "The ages old common marriage age is about 16 for females and 26 or later for men....Recent feminist fiction about "same age" is nonsense that hurts young women and furthers the feminist goal of destroying" Yahoo Answers 

Bob is also racist:

 

"I get tired of the racist crap. Black people have always been at the center of slavery management. For several hundred years, black slave raiders preyed on European villages. An estimated 1,000,000 white Europeans were captured and sold into slavery in black Africa. When white Europe eventually became powerful enough to fend off the African slavers, the African slave traders competed to sell slaves to European buyers. In the US before the Civil War, there were an estimated 10,000 black slave OWNERS. 

Pretending that slavery was ever about "black people slaves" is racist hate, and that's all that it is. Being female is not an excuse for racist anti-white hate." bobx23456 

Bob believes in killing estranged wives:

"Dead wives don't get custody. The Bible and other major religions teach that wives who practice adultary and other similar sins should be stoned to deah or put to death. Feminism has turned over the age old truths of life and made honorable husbands into villains, when it is the evil abusive adulterous wife who is the villain. She should be put to death. Men who take strong manly action, like OJ Simpson, should be our heros. Adulterous Nicole Simpson does not have custody."  Glenn Sacks 

Bob is against step fathers:

"There are no "father figures." There are only fathers. The rest are just mother's latest fuck."

Bob Believes in violence against women:

"Non violence never works with these evil misandrist hate mongers....Don't just fall down and let them destroy you.  Be a MAN and go down
 fighting for your rights and for the rights of MEN!" A Kids Right 

Of course, FR leaders can always wriggle out with disassociation and claim that all of the "Bobs" are a minority, apart from the same ideals dressed up to appear less vulgar.  What they cannot deny is the fact that this type of hate is all to common and the ideals that FRs represent that attract these kinds of men.  Leaders of these groups know all too well that if they were to clean up their networks of abusive men, there would be no one left to support them.  So the saga continues where such things are either swept under the carpet whilst more strategies are developed to conceal these attitudes from public view.  It would be easy to count for one bad apple, but two, three one hundred or more?  To consider that such attitudes would go unnoticed, is to assume that the majority lack intelligence and morale.

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I was taken away from my mom by the courts over 2 years ago.  My dad is abusive.  My mom has done nothing wrong.  She just wanted to get my sister and my self away from harm.  My dad and my lawyer, dave shulman who has been complained about in many cases for being unethical and only wanting money, twisted my mom's desperation in to parental alienation.  I know telling you this will not help me get back with my mom, and home, because i have given up on all easy solutions, but i do need to get my fealings out.  Please be nice to me, i am going through alot, and i will try to protect my mom's, sister's, brother's, and my own idenity as much as i can.  Please do not ask my personal questions, i am under 18 and will not do anything that could harm my love ones.  Thank you so much for your time.

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Long Term Harm: Breaking The Maternal Bond

Some research suggests that the breaking of the maternal bond leads to schizophrenia, drug dependancy and learning difficulties.  Many articles on the subject of the maternal bond in nearly all cases demonstrated the adverse outcomes of the broken bond.  It is comparable to the interference with mother earth, the consumption of her resources and breaking the bond with the potential for future life.  In other words, it is messing with the natural world as we know it and the future lives of others.  When I refer to the linkage between the destruction of nature and the destruction of human nature, I do not shy away from the instigator of it all: Patriarchy.  

Men have historically, but not naturally been in charge and whilst the same speak intended to liberate the women has been used to shy us all away from the fact that it was men who did this.  In pursuit of greed and power, our earth as we know it is crumbling beneath our feet.  Once abundant water, air and land resources are now becoming a scarce resource.  Patriarchy is now scrambling for the only control left: Children.  The purpose of course is to indoctrinate patriarchy, a great white lie into our children in hope that they do not open their eyes to learn the truth of the evils that have been done here on a massive scale.    If patriarchy succeeds in confiscating the next generation, all is lost for life as we know it.  We are going to have a generation of disturbed young people in the midst of a crisis.  The breaking of the maternal bond is the last evil perpetrated against nature and one that must be stopped as the intention behind this is certainly not love.  The intention is purely selfish.

ARTICLES

Of human bonding: newborns prefer their mothers' voices 

AJ DeCasper and WP Fifer

By sucking on a nonnutritive nipple in different ways, a newborn human could produce either its mother's voice or the voice of another female. Infants learned how to produce the mother's voice and produced it more often than the other voice. The neonate's preference for the maternal voice suggests that the period shortly after birth may be important for initiating infant bonding to the mother.

Early maternal deprivation reduces prepulse inhibition and impairs spatial learning ability in adulthood: No further effect of post-pubertal chronic corticosterone treatment 

Belinda Garner^a, b, Stephen J. Wood^b, Christos Pantelis^b and Maarten van den Buuse^a, , 

^aBehavioural Neuroscience Laboratory, Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria, Parkville, Australia

^bMelbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Sunshine Hospital & The National Neuroscience Facility, Melbourne, Australia

Received 18 August 2006;  

 revised 11 October 2006;  

accepted 13 October 2006.  

 Available online 9 November 2006. 

Abstract

Prolonged maternal deprivation leads to long-term alterations in hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis activity, disturbances of auditory information processing and neurochemical changes in the adult brain, some of which are similar to that observed in schizophrenia. Here we report the adult behavioural effects of maternal deprivation (12 h on postnatal days 9 and 11) in Wistar rats on paradigms of auditory information processing (prepulse inhibition), sensitivity to dopamimetics (amphetamine-induced hyper-locomotion) and cognition (T-maze delayed alternation and Morris water-maze). In addition, we examined the long-lasting effect of chronic 21-day corticosterone treatment during the post-pubertal period (i.e., postnatal days 56–76) on each of these behavioural paradigms in maternally deprived and control rats. Behavioural testing commenced 2 weeks after the termination of corticosterone treatment. Maternal deprivation led to a significant reduction in PPI and impaired spatial learning ability in adulthood, but did not affect the behavioural response to amphetamine. Post-pubertal chronic corticosterone treatment did not have any major long-lasting effects on any of the behavioural measures in either maternally deprived or control rats. Our findings further support maternal deprivation as an animal model of specific aspects of schizophrenia.

Keywords: Schizophrenia; Animal model; Maternal deprivation; Corticosterone; Amphetamine; Prepulse inhibition; T-maze delayed alternation; Morris water-maze

Maternal Deprivation Increases Vulnerability to Morphine Dependence and Disturbs the Enkephalinergic System in Adulthood 

Vincent Vazquez,¹ Jacqueline Penit-Soria,² Claudette Durand,² Marie Jo Besson,² Bruno Giros,¹ and Valérie Daugé¹

¹Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, U513, Laboratoire de Neurobiologie et Psychiatrie, Université Paris XII, Faculté de Médecine, 94010 Créteil, France, and ²Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7624, Laboratoire de Neurochimie Anatomie Institut des Neurosciences, Université ParisVI, 75005 Paris, France

Maternal deprivation can trigger long-lasting molecular and cellular modifications in brain functions and might facilitate the appearance of pathogenic behaviors. This study focuses on the vulnerability to develop morphine dependence in adult rats that were separated from their mother and littermates for 3 h per day for 14 d after birth and examines the adaptive changes in the enkephalinergic pathways. Place-preference conditioning was observed with 2 mg/kg morphine in deprived rats, whereas 5 mg/kg morphine was necessary to induce conditioning in nondeprived animals. A prolonged morphine conditioning was shown in deprived rats. A strong increase in oral morphine self-administration behavior and preference was observed in deprived rats. Only a very slight increase in preference for sucrose solution, a more ethological reinforcer known to interact with the opioid system, was shown in deprived rats. These results indicate that this postnatal environment change leads to a hypersensitivity to the reinforcing properties of morphine and to the development of morphine dependence. A significant decrease in preproenkephalin mRNA expression was observed in the nucleus accumbens and the caudate-putamen nucleus of deprived rats. The basal extracellular levels of the Met-enkephalin-like immunoreactivity in the nucleus accumbens were significantly lower in deprived rats when compared with nondeprived animals, whereas no change in µ-opioid receptor binding occurred. These results strongly support that maternal deprivation leads to a basal hypoactivity of the enkephalinergic system and hypersensitivity to morphine effects.

Together, our results suggest that maternal deprivation in pups likely represents a risk factor for morphine dependence in adult rats.

Key words: maternal deprivation; oral morphine and sucrose self-administration; place-preference paradigm;preproenkephalin mRNA; extracellular Met-enkephalin; µ-opioid receptors

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Received Nov 24, 2004; revised March 9, 2005; accepted March 15, 2005.

Evolutionary neuropathology and Down syndrome: An analysis of the etiological and phenotypical characteristics of Down syndrome suggests that it may represent an adaptive response to severe maternal deprivation 

This paper will suggest that the Down syndrome phenotype would have been well suited, physiologically, for a deprived environment and that it may represent a predictive, adaptive response to severe maternal deprivation. A trisomy of the 21st chromosome, prior to, or at conception is responsible for Down syndrome and is known to increase in incidence with advanced maternal age. One out of 11 mothers over the age of 50 conceives a Down syndrome baby, compared to one in one thousand at age 30. This article emphasizes that an older mother is more likely to die before she is able to provide the parental investment necessary to produce an ecologically self-sufficient offspring. Prolonged maternal investment is known to be essential for hunter-gatherers to master the skill intensive food procurement techniques that they will need in order to become independent of their mothers. Because Down syndrome individuals are much more likely to be born to older mothers, they must have been routinely deprived of maternal investment in the human environment of evolutionary adaptedness. This consistent paring of maternal deprivation to trisomy 21 conceptions, over time, may have caused natural selection to favor genes responsible for the energy conserving traits seen in modern day Down syndrome. These traits include muscle hypotonia, decreased cerebral metabolism, decreased hippocampal volume, a strong propensity for obesity and growth hormone and thyroid hormone paucity. Such a "thrifty phenotype" may have allowed Down syndrome individuals to become independent of their mothers at a far earlier age and allowed them to forgo the skill intensive ecological niche that non-trisomic humans are phenotypically suited for in order to take up a less cognitively and physically rigorous one.

Mens Rights: At What Cost?

Father arrested in death of 3-week-old baby 

Story Updated: May 29, 2009 at 9:54 AM PDT

By KOMO Staff

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GIG HARBOR, Wash. - A 37-year-old father has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of his 3-week-old baby daughter.

The man, identified as Bonifacio Velasco Velarde, was booked into Pierce County Jail late Wednesday and pleaded not guilty at a court hearing Thursday afternoon.

Court records say the baby girl, Ava Velarde, was brought to Mary Bridge Children's Hospital on May 18 with critical injuries that later were determined not to be accidental. The little girl died three days later without ever regaining consciousness. Read More 

Friends: Boulder family long terrorized by father's temper 

In hindsight, some regret never intervening in the affairs of three found dead Tuesday

By John Aguilar (Contact), Vanessa Miller (Contact)
Thursday, May 28, 2009

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Elizabeth Schwarzenbach-DiLeo poses at left, along with her husband Philip Frank DiLeo, right, and their son, Philip Christopher, in this photo provided by family friend Linda Levin, center, who holds her daughter Ivy.

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Philip Frank DiLeo holds his son, Philip Christopher, in this undated photo provided by family friend Linda Levin.

BOULDER, Colo. — Philip F. DiLeo's wife and son were victims of his violent temper long before he fatally shot them and himself Monday, friends of the Boulder family said Thursday.

Philip Christopher DiLeo, 23, was a normal, sweet and bright teen who loved basketball and inspired his friends to do better in school, said Forest Summers, of Longmont, who was one of Christopher DiLeo's best friends when they both attended Boulder High seven years ago. DiLeo's biggest struggles in life, Summers said, were his parents' constant fighting, their overbearing drive to control his life and his father's violent temper.

"I witnessed his dad freaking out almost every other time we were there," Summers said. "His mom and dad would be screaming, and you would hear yelling in the house."

Summers said he eventually began telling his friend that something was wrong with his parents.

"At one point, one of our friend's mom offered to take in Chris and let him live at her house for a while," he said.

But a friend of Christopher DiLeo's mother, Elizabeth Schwarzenbach-DiLeo, 63, said she too lived in fear of her husband — who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and went on and off his medications. In 2005, according to Boulder police, Schwarzenbach-DiLeo went to police to check into the legality of buying a gun, telling an officer her husband had threatened her.

Despite his marital strife, DiLeo — a former firefighter and Boulder police officer — continued living at his family's 2403 Bluff St. home, where police found the three bodies Tuesday.

Police suspect Philip F. DiLeo, 61, fatally shot his wife Monday in the home's kitchen, where a .22-caliber semi-automatic handgun was found. Then he killed his son and himself upstairs, where investigators found a .357 Magnum revolver.

Summers, Christopher DiLeo's high-school friend, said he's seen the father brandish a gun before. In high school, Summers said, he and a friend were trying to get Christopher's attention late one night by throwing a tennis ball at his window, which infuriated DiLeo.

"His dad came out with a gun and pointed it at us and started screaming at us," Summers said.

Although the teens and their parents, who knew the family had troubles, said they never expected a fatal explosion, Summers said some people regret never intervening.

"I was talking to my friend's mom, and the first thing she said was, 'I never thought anything like this would happen, but we should have reported the parents a long time ago,'" Summers said. "It was against our better judgment not to. But we had no idea this would happen."

'Out of his mind'

Summers said he and his friends "all loved" Christopher DiLeo, and wanted to protect him when it became clear he was living in a turbulent environment.

"We came to his house to pick him up one time and there was a loud crash," Summers said. "I asked what happened, and he said his dad just smashed a computer with a baseball bat just because he was angry."

Another time, Philip F. DiLeo got mad at his son's friends for borrowing $20 from Christopher, Summers said. Because they couldn't pay it back that day, Summers said, DiLeo took some things from the teen's car. Read More 

Kinderhook deaths were murder-suicide, authorities say

KINDERHOOK – The deaths of a husband and wife at a home on Rabbit Lane in Kinderhook were the result of a murder-suicide, Columbia County Sheriff David Harrison, Jr. said Thursday. The bodies of Timothy Conway, 58, and his wife, Sarah Witham-Conway, 50, were both found in the home. Autopsies determined the two had died from blasts from a 12 gauge shotgun. Harrison said Conway shot his wife in the early morning hours on Wednesday; then turned the gun on himself in their bedroom. Both died instantly.  The gun was recovered at the scene.  Read More  Police looking for gun used in shooting   Santa Fe Police are still looking for the gun used to kill Sarah Marie Lovato, her unborn baby and her father, Benny Ray Lovato last weekend.  Marino Lebya Jr., the baby's biological father, is charged with the murders.  Capt. Gary Johnson said Thursday that detectives have found ammunition consistent with the 9mm type used in the shootings while searching Lebya's home and vehicle. They've also found a can of pepper spray like the one found in the Lovato apartment after the shootings, Johnson said.  Read More

Man, 25, accused in sexual assault of female child, 8 

Jen Cullen The Republican Eagle
Published Thursday, May 28, 2009

A Zumbrota man is accused of sexually assaulting his daughter's 8-year-old friend during a sleepover.

Jacob Myran, 25, has been charged with first- and second-degree criminal sexual conduct in connection with the alleged April incident.

The victim told relatives and investigators she was sleeping in a bunk bed at her friend's house in Zumbrota when Myran - who appeared drunk - crawled into the top bunk and allegedly assaulted her while another girl slept in the bed below, according to a criminal complaint filed last week in Goodhue County court.  Read More 

Cops: Husband assaulted wife, maybe beat kids 

Published: Friday, May 29, 2009

By SULAIMAN ABDUR-RAHMAN
Staff writer

TRENTON — Cops arrested an alleged wife-beating father who's being investigated for possible child abuse on his 12-year-old son and 16-year-old daughter, police said yesterday.

Hugo Raldo, 39, of Trenton, was charged with criminal attempt sexual assault and simple assault on allegations he beat his 37-year-old wife and tried to force her to have sex with him, police said.

The alleged abuse on the wife occurred on the 400 block of Whittaker Avenue between November and December 2008, police said. The alleged victim is a Guatemalan and didn't report the alleged abuse because she thought the U.S. law didn't apply to her, cops said.  Read More 

Final Moments Of Meriden Murder-Suicide On Audio Recording 

Courant Staff Report

May 29, 2009

MERIDEN — - The final moments of Wednesday's murder-suicide here were captured in an audio recording of a 911 call made by James Canty, who is heard sobbing uncontrollably and apologizing.

Canty, 37, and Michelle Barrows, 32, were found dead in the lower level of their Spice Hill Drive home moments after the phone call. Police released a recording of the call Thursday.

Both Canty and Barrows died of gunshot wounds to the head, and the medical examiner's office ruled Barrows' death a homicide.

"I'm sorry. Please come to my house," Canty said through high-pitched sobs. The dispatcher taking the call asked him to calm down. Canty continued sobbing and apologized again.  Read More 

Shootings may be a murder-suicide 

MAY 29, 2009

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Authorities are investigating the shooting deaths of an East Orange woman and her ex-boyfriend as a possible murder-suicide.

East Orange police responding to a report of shots fired shortly before 7 a.m. Thursday found 29-year-old Marcel Grant shot to death near her car.

Shortly afterward, police and detectives from the Essex County Prosecutor's Office found the victim's ex-boyfriend dead in his apartment in Irvington.  Read more 

Apparent murder-suicide in Texarkana 

A pregnant woman and her boyfriend were found shot to death today in what Texarkana, Texas, police said appears to be a murder-suicide.

The bodies man were found when one of them didn't report for work this morning and a co-worker went to check.

Police would not say who they believe was the shooter until they receive autopsy results.  Read More 

Man pleads not guilty to murder charges from 1986 disappearances 

By GLENN E. RICE

The Kansas City Star

Ronald D. Wrisinger, accused of killing his wife and daughter almost 23 years ago, pleaded not guilty today in Ray County Circuit Court to two counts of first-degree murder.

Wrisinger, 67, was arrested Wednesday at his home in Marble Falls, Ark., after being indicted in the deaths of Sherry K. Wrisinger, 40, and Johnna D. Wrisinger, 16.

He waived his right to an extradition hearing in Arkansas and returned to Richmond this morning to face the criminal charges.

Wrisinger is being held on $500,000 bond. He is scheduled to appear in court on June 3.

According to the indictment, Wrisinger after deliberation caused the deaths of his wife and youngest daughter. The means of the slayings are unknown, according the charging document.

Sherry and Johnna Wrisinger were last seen about midnight June 6, 1986. Sherry Wrisinger had just played cards with a group of women. Johnna Wrisinger was dropped off at home after a date in time to meet her curfew.  Read More 

Man, 82, charged with strangling girlfriend 

By PATRICIO G. BALONA 
Staff writer

An 82-year-old Deltona man, upset about how his girlfriend loaded the dishwasher, beat and strangled her unconscious, sheriff deputies said.

Strauch

Joseph Frank Strauch was arrested and charged with battery by strangulation and a judge ordered Strauch not to have contact with his live-in girlfriend, Lillian Keller, 74, court documents show.

Keller called 9-1-1 at 12:56 p.m. Wednesday, reporting she had been beaten up and was bleeding, according to a Volusia County sheriff's report. She was taken to Florida Hospital Fish Memorial in Orange City with cuts and bruises, and redness around the neck, sheriff investigators said.

According to a sheriff's charging affidavit, Keller told deputies that Strauch got angry about her arrangement of the dirty dishes in the washer, so he choked her with his hands until she lost consciousness.

Strauch was being held Thursday at the Volusia County Branch Jail on $5,000 bail.

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East Alton man pleads guilty to killing 2-year-old son for spitting out food 

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EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. -- A man who killed his 2-year-old son for spitting out food has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in exchange for a maximum 50-year prison term.

The defendant who entered the plea Thursday, 24-year-old Johnny A. Garcia of East Alton, had been held without bond at the Madison County Jail since Jan. 4, 2008.  Read More