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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Abusive fiend who beat NYC girlfriend's 10-year-old son to death receives 25-to-life sentence
[NYPOST] A sadistic fiend who bludgeoned his girlfriend's helpless 10-year-old son to death in Harlem could spend his remaining years behind bars.

Ryan Cato, 38, was sentenced Friday to 25 years-to-life for killing Ayden Wolfe — who was subjected to unimaginable abuse while trapped inside his family's apartment during the pandemic's early days.

''Isolated from teachers and other responsible adults because of the pandemic, 10-year-old Ayden Wolfe was enduring horrific violence at the hands of his mother's boyfriend,'' said Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg
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Posted by: Fred || 04/26/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [71 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Why are the NY Taxpayers paying for Room, Board and medical care for next 25+ years for a Murderer?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/26/2025 12:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Make sure he resides in the GenPop Housing Unit at Attica, they have a history of special care-givers there.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/26/2025 16:16 Comments || Top||


Good samaritans stop kidnapping in progress of mother and two small children in Florida
[FoxNews] A mother as well as her two-year-old and six-month-old children were rescued by good samaritans outside the DMV in Jacksonville, Florida on March 12.
Arrested: Yanni Human, 26.
WFLA adds:
A newly released video shows more than a dozen bystanders stepping in to stop a man from driving off with a mother and her two children in Florida.

An arrest affidavit revealed that a man and woman were on their way to a Jacksonville DMV on March 12 when he had struck her in the face while driving. Once at the DMV, the man "became even more frustrated" because they were late to their appointment.
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Posted by: Skidmark || 04/26/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [114 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It being Florida, can I presume they won't be prosecuted?
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 04/26/2025 5:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Looks like a domestic dispute. He wudn't gonna hold nobody for ransom. He's just a 'Florida Man'.
Posted by: Bobby || 04/26/2025 9:31 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Virginia Giuffre, a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse, has died aged 41
[TheGuardian] Giuffre’s family issued a statement confirming she took her own life at her farm in Western Australia, where she had lived for several years

Virginia Giuffre, one of the most prominent victims of the disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein who also alleged she was sexually trafficked to Prince Andrew, has died. She was 41.

Her family on Saturday issued a statement confirming she took her own life at her farm in Western Australia, where she had lived for several years.

“It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia. She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking,” the statement read.

“In the end, the toll of abuse is so heavy that it became unbearable for Virginia to handle its weight.”

Posted by: badanov || 04/26/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [136 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just like Jeffrey did.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 04/26/2025 4:01 Comments || Top||

#2  ...It was clear something was very wrong a few weeks back when she claimed she had 'only days to live' after a fairly minor moving vehicle accident.

I sincerely hope she has found peace. No one should ever have to endure what she did.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 04/26/2025 8:17 Comments || Top||

#3  I am making it publicy known that in no way, shape or form am I sucidal. I have made this known to my therapist and GP- If something happens to me- in the sake of my family do not let this go away and help me to protect them. Too many evil people want to see me quiteted https://t.co/8463mPR6YU

— Virginia Giuffre (@VRSVirginia) December 11, 2019
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/26/2025 12:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Remember the Mossad motto:
"It's never a coincidence."
Posted by: Angulet Glomoper3773 || 04/26/2025 17:56 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
New 4.3 magnitude earthquake hits Istanbul
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] A new earthquake has occurred in Istanbul. This was reported on April 25 on the website of the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC).

New tremors were recorded at around 20:33 Moscow time. It is noted that the magnitude of the earthquake was 4.3, and its source was located at a depth of 7 km.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, on April 23, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 was recorded in Istanbul. It began at about 12:50 Moscow time and lasted 10-15 seconds, followed by aftershocks.

The tremors, felt in several provinces, caused panic in Istanbul. The source was located at a depth of almost 7 km underground. As a result of the powerful tremors, at least 236 people were injured, there were no casualties.

Earlier on April 25, Haluk Eyidogan, a professor of seismology and a member of the Istanbul Municipality Council of Earthquake Scientists, said that a new large-scale earthquake was expected in Istanbul. According to the expert, it could affect the entire Marmara region with a population of more than 25 million people.
Is Mother Nature more dramatic than usual?

Posted by: badanov || 04/26/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [31 views] Top|| File under:


-Land of the Free
Illegal Migrants Cost Texas $121.8 Million in Unpaid Health Care in Just One Month
[Breitbart] Texas taxpayers paid nearly $122 million to provide Healthcare to illegal migrants in November alone, says the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC).

The Texas HSHC is reporting that the costs to the state for health care for illegal migrants has topped $121.8 million in unpaid care in just the month of November alone. And that estimate is probably low.

In its report, the HHSC reported that non-citizens utilized hospitals in the Lone Star State more than 31,000 time during November of last year.

The data was taken from the state’s new reporting requirements mandated by an executive order that went into effect last August.

“The executive order directs Texas hospitals to provide HHSC quarterly reports on patients who are not lawfully present in the U.S.,” the report noted, “including the number of inpatient discharges, emergency department visits, and the cost of care provided to these patients.”

However, the estimate of expenses is probably low because the data is predicated on the number of patients who answer questions about their immigration status on hospital intake forms and some migrants won’t answer the questions.

Still, this is the first report of its kind in Texas and if every month is similar going forward, the yearly total would approach $1.46 billion per year.

The reporting requirements are similar to a law in Florida mandating that hospitals report the number of uninsured migrants they see each month.

One recent report in Florida found that illegal migrants had cost the state $660 million in unpaid medical bills incurred by migrants.

When he signed his executive order last August, Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said, “Texans should NOT have to foot the bill for illegal immigrants healthcare.”

Despite the reporting requirements in both Florida and Texas, no migrant is refused medical services.,
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/26/2025 06:27 || Comments || Link || [31 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants



Judge Strikes Down Illinois Law Requiring Pro-Life Doctors To Promote Abortion
[Federalist] “I didn’t know, I didn’t know," sobbed a mother, crying in anguish as she rocked back and forth, as only one who has carried the burden of regret for 20 years can.

A nurse at a prolife pregnancy center was conducting an ultrasound for that mother’s 18-year-old daughter, who was pregnant. The mother and her pregnant daughter told the nurse that they had already decided on an abortion, but came in for an ultrasound, just to know how far along she was.

Seeing the flickering black-and-white image, the pregnant daughter’s mother broke down. The small figure on the screen was nine weeks old — the same age as the child she had aborted 20 years earlier. Back then, she had believed it was just a clump of tissue. Now, witnessing for the first time what an unborn child at that gestational age looked like, she saw on that ultrasound a baby — her grandchild — and the weight of that realization crashed down on her.

The nurse paused the scan to console the daughter’s mother and tell her about the resources that her center offers for post-abortive parents. "The mother, at the end of that visit, she went up to her daughter and told her that she would help her, that they were going to keep the baby," the nurse, Pasha Bohlen of Pregnancy Aid South Suburbs, testified during trial in Schroeder v. Treto, Jr.

That moment reaffirmed Bohlen’s belief, one that is shared by hundreds of pro-life doctors and pregnancy resource centers across Illinois, that abortion offers no medical benefits — only harm. Yet, for the better part of the last decade, the state of Illinois has battled in court to force pro-life doctors and pregnancy centers, like Bohlen’s, to share so-called "benefits of abortion" with the pregnant mothers in her care.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/26/2025 03:35 || Comments || Link || [45 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

But the Sick Bastards that passed such a law are still there, passing more such crap.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/26/2025 12:08 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
Feral woman's shocking act towards female cop who tried to stop catfight outside California school
Policing in California sounds like a special level of Hell.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Shocking footage captured the moment two coppers fought off several teen girls as they attempted to break up a wild catfight outside a school.

The melee unfolded around 3pm Thursday outside Entrepreneur High School in Highland, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, as a witness filmed the fight escalate to the point where one girl punched and pulled a female officer by the hair.

It reportedly began as officers with the San Bernardino school police attempted to break up a fight in the school parking lot, and the footage begins as several other girls join in the scrum.

As a female officer handcuffed one girl on the ground, a male officer shoved two teens away as he yelled: 'Back up, back up.'

One of the girls then screamed expletives in his face, and struck the officer in retaliation to him pushing her away from the fight.

When the girl then attempted to attack the female officer handcuffing another teen on the ground, the male officer swept her legs and took her to the ground as well to put her under arrest.

At that moment, another girl joined in the chaotic scene as she screamed at the female officer to 'get off of her', and pulled out her phone to film the confrontation.

It appeared the first girl who was arrested had been fighting the second, as when she was picked up in handcuffs she screamed in the other girl's face as she lay on the ground.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/26/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [150 views] Top|| File under:


#2 

Have the East Coast BLM psycho's moved to California?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/26/2025 12:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Check them for rabies... the traditional way, brain dissection...
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/26/2025 12:27 Comments || Top||

#4  To me,the failure to use Taser, spray or nightsticks as the disobedience of lawful orders and assault on an officer reflects the patrol officers unwillingness to go to justified escalation of force. This is reflects an unspoken but increasing police belief of being hung out to dry by their department post-arrests when dealing with perpetrators of color. There is an entire litigation attorney industry specializing in racial defendants arrested by white officers, regardless of actual criminal behavior.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/26/2025 16:29 Comments || Top||


Down Under
Victoria, Australia culls hundreds of koalas after wildfire, activists denounce policy
[Jpost] Up to 750 koalas have been fatally shot by helicopter snipers in the Australian state of Victoria over the past month, Australia's Liberal Party, currently in opposition, announced last week.

"The Allan Labor Government," referring to Labor Party Premier of Victoria Jacinta Allan, "approved the use of helicopter-based snipers to shoot up to 750 koalas in Budj Bim National Park, in what is believed to be the first aerial shooting of koalas in Victoria," the Liberal Party added.

This came as part of a "planned culling following a wildfire there that wiped out about 2,000 hectares of bushland last month," Sky News Australia added.

While Sky News Australia cited environment officials stating that the cull is necessary as many koalas are "already severely injured, dehydrated, or on the brink of starvation," this decision was criticized by some wildlife advocates.

President of the Koala Alliance, Jess Robertson stated "there is no way they can tell if a koala is in poor condition from a helicopter."

A Koala Alliance spokesman added "If koalas were shot out of trees, this means many joeys (baby koalas) would be left to suffer and die. It’s despicable. It’s cruel."

“The use of aerial shooting should be treated as a last resort. This is the first time that koalas have been killed by shooting from a helicopter in Australia. Aerial culling of koalas is an Australian first and sets a nasty ethical precedent,” Friends of the Earth Melbourne stated.

No rescuers have bee allowed inside the national part to help orphaned koala babies because the area was blocked off by fires, the Friends of the Earth Melbourne added.

Koalas are listed as an endangered species in Queensland, New South Wales, and the Australian Capital Territory, but not in Victoria, according to the New York Post.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/26/2025 07:19 || Comments || Link || [51 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If I had a few $,$$$ to waste, I'd pay the Live shipping cost for a mating pair.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/26/2025 12:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Are they all killed with a single shot, or are some only wounded to die a slow painful death from infection and blood loss?

And here we used to be worried about baby ducks and fluffy bunnies!
Posted by: Bobby || 04/26/2025 12:28 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Remains of 5,000-year-old woman from the upper crust of the Caral civilization found in Peru
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The remains of a 5,000-year-old woman from the upper layer of the Caral civilization have been discovered on the coast of Peru. This was reported by the British agency Reuters.

"Archaeologists on the coast of Peru have discovered the 5,000-year-old remains of a woman who may have belonged to the upper echelons of the ancient Caral civilization," the report said.

According to the agency, the city of the same name, located approximately 180 km from the Peruvian capital of Lima, is considered the oldest in South America and was inhabited at the same time as the ancient Egyptian, Chinese and Sumerian civilizations.

Archaeologists told reporters that the body of the woman, who died between the ages of 20 and 35, was found in a robe of blue and brown feathers, believed to belong to Amazonian macaws. The tomb was surrounded by offering baskets, vases, pumpkins and a toucan's beak, the researchers said.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, archaeologists previously discovered a Dene (Athabascan) cache dating back about 1,000 years during summer excavations at the Elmendorf-Richardson military base in Alaska. The Eklutna elders, with whom the researchers consulted, said that there had once been a fishing camp at the site where the cache was found.

In November 2024, in Mexico, scientists from the local National Institute of Anthropology and History discovered an underground portal to the afterlife that was used by ancient Mesoamerican civilizations.

Posted by: badanov || 04/26/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [47 views] Top|| File under:



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