I'll bet that she has some recipes ... Milkman's lungs with Philadelphia Cream Cheese ... Next Door Neighbour in Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup sauce.
Put them all through the wood chipper
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Alberta man sentenced to 40 years in Puerto Rico for production of child porn
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 04:09 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 04:13 PM EDT
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- A Canadian man has been sentenced in Puerto Rico to 40 years in prison for possession and production of child pornography.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says Denis Victor Courchesne of Fort McMurray, Alta., was sentenced Tuesday in the U.S. Caribbean territory.
He was arrested last year at the island's main airport when U.S. customs officers found images of child pornography on his laptop computer and an external hard drive.
The 46-year-old Canadian had just arrived on a flight from Panama.
In an affidavit, U.S. agents alleged Courchesne told them he was sexually attracted to prepubescent girls.
Investigators said he downloaded hundreds of child pornography images as a paid subscriber to an online group and also produced unlawful images with his cellular phone.
Alberta man sentenced to 40 years in Puerto Rico for production of child porn |
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 04:09 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 04:13 PM EDT
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- A Canadian man has been sentenced in Puerto Rico to 40 years in prison for possession and production of child pornography.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says Denis Victor Courchesne of Fort McMurray, Alta., was sentenced Tuesday in the U.S. Caribbean territory.
He was arrested last year at the island's main airport when U.S. customs officers found images of child pornography on his laptop computer and an external hard drive.
The 46-year-old Canadian had just arrived on a flight from Panama.
In an affidavit, U.S. agents alleged Courchesne told them he was sexually attracted to prepubescent girls.
Investigators said he downloaded hundreds of child pornography images as a paid subscriber to an online group and also produced unlawful images with his cellular phone.
Alberta man sentenced to 40 years in Puerto Rico for production of child porn |
Other countries don't f**k around like we do! I've already said it a hundred times, you break other countries laws you deserve what you get. (I'd break it down to 10 years for the crime and 30 for stupidity)
UN peacekeepers accused of 2 deaths, rape of 12-year-old in Central African Republic
Cara Anna, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 12:38 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 12:51 PM EDT
Amnesty International is accusing U.N. peacekeepers of indiscriminately killing a 16-year-old boy and his father and raping a 12-year-old girl in separate incidents in Central African Republic.
A statement Tuesday said the two incidents on Aug. 2 and 3 occurred as the peacekeepers were carrying out an operation in the capital, Bangui.
Amnesty International said a spokesperson for the U.N. peacekeeping mission told the human rights organization that it has opened an internal investigation into the alleged rape and killings. The spokesperson also told the group that the Bangui operation was carried out by police peacekeepers from Rwanda and Cameroon.
U.N. peacekeepers have been in the country since September to try to calm unprecedented, deadly violence between Christians and Muslims.
The girl had been hiding in a bathroom when a man wearing a U.N. peacekeeping helmet and vest "took her outside and raped her behind a truck," the group's statement said.
The next day, after armed clashes with residents had killed a soldier from Cameroon and injured several others, peacekeepers went to the area and "began shooting indiscriminately in the street where the killings had taken place," the statement said.
Amnesty International said resident Balla Hadji, 61, and his son Souleimane Hadji, 16, were shot and killed outside their home.
Spokesmen for the U.N. peacekeeping office were in a meeting about the Amnesty International statement and did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The U.N. has been under international scrutiny over its handling of allegations of child sexual abuse by French soldiers in Central African Republic last year, and an independent panel is now looking into that case.
In addition, U.N. peacekeepers in Central African Republic have been accused in recent months of rape and sexual abuse. In late June, mission head Babacar Gaye in a statement said he was "outraged" by allegations that U.N. peacekeepers had sexually abused street children in Bangui.
And in early June, the peacekeeping mission launched an investigation into an allegation of child sexual abuse received against one of its peacekeepers in the eastern part of the country.
The Amnesty International statement said the group interviewed 15 witnesses immediately after both incidents this month, plus the 12-year-old girl and her family.
"A nurse who examined the girl found medical evidence consistent with sexual assault," the group's statement said.
"An independent civilian investigation must be urgently launched, and those implicated must be suspended immediately and for the duration of the investigation," senior crisis response adviser Joanne Mariner said.
Amnesty International did not immediately respond to a request for more information.
UN peacekeepers accused of 2 deaths, rape of 12-year-old in Central African Repu
Cara Anna, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 12:38 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 12:51 PM EDT
Amnesty International is accusing U.N. peacekeepers of indiscriminately killing a 16-year-old boy and his father and raping a 12-year-old girl in separate incidents in Central African Republic.
A statement Tuesday said the two incidents on Aug. 2 and 3 occurred as the peacekeepers were carrying out an operation in the capital, Bangui.
Amnesty International said a spokesperson for the U.N. peacekeeping mission told the human rights organization that it has opened an internal investigation into the alleged rape and killings. The spokesperson also told the group that the Bangui operation was carried out by police peacekeepers from Rwanda and Cameroon.
U.N. peacekeepers have been in the country since September to try to calm unprecedented, deadly violence between Christians and Muslims.
The girl had been hiding in a bathroom when a man wearing a U.N. peacekeeping helmet and vest "took her outside and raped her behind a truck," the group's statement said.
The next day, after armed clashes with residents had killed a soldier from Cameroon and injured several others, peacekeepers went to the area and "began shooting indiscriminately in the street where the killings had taken place," the statement said.
Amnesty International said resident Balla Hadji, 61, and his son Souleimane Hadji, 16, were shot and killed outside their home.
Spokesmen for the U.N. peacekeeping office were in a meeting about the Amnesty International statement and did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The U.N. has been under international scrutiny over its handling of allegations of child sexual abuse by French soldiers in Central African Republic last year, and an independent panel is now looking into that case.
In addition, U.N. peacekeepers in Central African Republic have been accused in recent months of rape and sexual abuse. In late June, mission head Babacar Gaye in a statement said he was "outraged" by allegations that U.N. peacekeepers had sexually abused street children in Bangui.
And in early June, the peacekeeping mission launched an investigation into an allegation of child sexual abuse received against one of its peacekeepers in the eastern part of the country.
The Amnesty International statement said the group interviewed 15 witnesses immediately after both incidents this month, plus the 12-year-old girl and her family.
"A nurse who examined the girl found medical evidence consistent with sexual assault," the group's statement said.
"An independent civilian investigation must be urgently launched, and those implicated must be suspended immediately and for the duration of the investigation," senior crisis response adviser Joanne Mariner said.
Amnesty International did not immediately respond to a request for more information.
UN peacekeepers accused of 2 deaths, rape of 12-year-old in Central African Repu
Spanish police arrest woman suspected of slitting baby's throat in cemetery
Ciaran Giles, The Associated Press
First posted: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 10:58 AM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 11:16 AM EDT
MADRID -- Police say they have arrested a woman suspected of killing her three-month-old baby by slashing its throat in a cemetery chapel in a small central Spanish town.
A Civil Guard spokesman said the woman, a 37-year-old Spaniard, was arrested early Wednesday in the cemetery of Villa de Don Fadrique, a town of some 4,000 inhabitants located just southeast of Madrid.
The officer said a judge had placed a secrecy order on the investigation and he could not give any further details.
The officer spoke on condition of anonymity in keeping with police regulations.
Spanish police arrest woman suspected of slitting baby's throat in cemetery | Wo
Man accused of killing Houston family says the kids were 'growing up to be monsters'
Judge says he wasn't told by state that kids were in any danger
Juan A. Lozano, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 12:33 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 11:43 PM EDT
HOUSTON -- A judge who dismissed a state effort to keep six children in foster care two years before they were found dead in their Houston home said Wednesday that he was never told the kids were in any "immediate physical danger."
Juvenile Court Judge Glenn Devlin took the unusual step Wednesday of commenting on the 2013 case, issuing a statement defending his decision to return the children their mother, Valerie Jackson, and to David Conley, who now faces capital murder charges for the fatal shootings of the kids, Jackson and her husband.
Child Protective Services filed a lawsuit and removed the children from their home amid allegations of neglect and a history of domestic violence. The agency sought to keep them in foster care. Devlin returned the children home a month later, after Jackson and Conley agreed to counselling, among other things.
Jackson, 40; her husband, Dwayne Jackson; and her children, 13-year-old Nathaniel, 11-year-old Honesty, 10-year-old Dwayne, 9-year-old Caleb, 7-year-old Trinity, and 6-year-old Jonah were killed Saturday. Authorities say Nathaniel was Conley's son from his relationship with Valerie Jackson, while the Jacksons were the parents of the other five children.
Conley, 48, gave jailhouse interviews to several Houston television stations, saying he loved his son, Nathaniel, "to death" but that he and the other children weren't being raised properly and acted unkindly toward others.
"They were growing up to be monsters, they were disrespectful, rude in school," Conley told KPRC-TV, referring to the children. "I'm not saying they're dead because of that. I'm not even saying I killed them. God says in the Bible do not disrespect your mother and father or your days will be short, but I'm not saying that's what happened."
In its 2013 lawsuit, CPS noted Conley's history of domestic violence against Valerie Jackson and stated that the "mother's lack of control and parenting skills places the children in immediate danger."
CPS said the children told authorities they were often left alone. On at least two occasions, then-7-year-old Caleb left the home and wandered around the family's neighbourhood unsupervised.
Court records show that about five months before CPS took custody of the children, Conley was arrested for threatening Jackson with a knife. In 2000, he was arrested for retaliation, accused of putting a knife to Jackson, threatening to kill her, her baby and himself. The lawsuit also listed other cases in Conley's long criminal history, including arrests for aggravated robbery and drug possession. The couple had been together when the lawsuit was filed but had recently ended their relationship before the deadly shooting.
Devlin said Wednesday that he couldn't base removal of the children on the adults' criminal histories and that CPS never stated there was "a current or immediate threat of violence from anyone."
"While the tragic events that occurred some 18 months after the CPS case is horrific, neither CPS nor any attorney or the Court could have prevented it based upon the case presented in court," Devlin said.
Patrick Crimmins, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, which includes CPS, said his agency didn't have any immediate comment on Devlin's statement.
At a 2013 hearing, Devlin noted that he had been told that Valerie Jackson had installed an alarm system so her kids couldn't sneak out and that the parents agreed to counselling and therapy for one of the children. At a March 2014 follow-up hearing, he was told the kids were doing well and that Jackson had completed parenting classes.
Conley is next scheduled to appear in court Sept. 15. His attorney, Joseph Scardino, did not return a phone call seeking comment Wednesday.
Prosecutors haven't decided whether they'll seek the death penalty.
Man accused of killing Houston family says the kids were 'growing up to be monst
Florida couple accused of raising 13-year-old sex slave
Matt Sedensky, Associated Press
First posted: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 03:49 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 03:57 PM EDT
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A Florida couple turned a teen into their sex slave and sealed her off from the outside world for more than five years, police said after arresting the two.
Rob Johnson, 44, and his wife, Marie Johnson, 43, of Port St. Lucie, were arrested Tuesday and charged with felony sexual assault charges.
The Port St. Lucie Police Department said the girl was sent at age 13 to live with the Johnsons after her mother died, and soon after her arrival was told she could only be part of their family by having sex with them. She was told to call Rob "master," investigators said in an arrest affidavit, and Marie Johnson pushed her against a wall and held her by her throat until the girl agreed to the sexual demands.
The girl, who is not identified in police filings, was beaten when she didn't follow the couple's directions or complete her chores, according to police. The girl said the abuse went on repeatedly for more than five years. All the while, Rob Johnson held Sunday school classes for his family at their home, invoking Old Testament Bible passages to justify the actions, the arrest affidavit said.
Police said the girl, now 21, was homeschooled, not allowed to use the phone and forced to rehearse what to say to doctors if she was asked about sexual activity.
The girl eventually was able to leave the home after her grandmother purchased a plane ticket to bring her to Ohio, the police said.
The Johnsons were freed on bail later Tuesday, the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office said, after each posted $60,000 bond. No attorney was listed for them. A call to their home Wednesday went unanswered.
Rob and Marie Johnson. (St. Lucie County Sheriff's Department via AP)
Florida couple accused of raising 13-year-old sex slave | World | News | Toronto
Ciaran Giles, The Associated Press
First posted: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 10:58 AM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 11:16 AM EDT
MADRID -- Police say they have arrested a woman suspected of killing her three-month-old baby by slashing its throat in a cemetery chapel in a small central Spanish town.
A Civil Guard spokesman said the woman, a 37-year-old Spaniard, was arrested early Wednesday in the cemetery of Villa de Don Fadrique, a town of some 4,000 inhabitants located just southeast of Madrid.
The officer said a judge had placed a secrecy order on the investigation and he could not give any further details.
The officer spoke on condition of anonymity in keeping with police regulations.
Spanish police arrest woman suspected of slitting baby's throat in cemetery | Wo
Man accused of killing Houston family says the kids were 'growing up to be monsters'
Judge says he wasn't told by state that kids were in any danger
Juan A. Lozano, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 12:33 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 11:43 PM EDT
HOUSTON -- A judge who dismissed a state effort to keep six children in foster care two years before they were found dead in their Houston home said Wednesday that he was never told the kids were in any "immediate physical danger."
Juvenile Court Judge Glenn Devlin took the unusual step Wednesday of commenting on the 2013 case, issuing a statement defending his decision to return the children their mother, Valerie Jackson, and to David Conley, who now faces capital murder charges for the fatal shootings of the kids, Jackson and her husband.
Child Protective Services filed a lawsuit and removed the children from their home amid allegations of neglect and a history of domestic violence. The agency sought to keep them in foster care. Devlin returned the children home a month later, after Jackson and Conley agreed to counselling, among other things.
Jackson, 40; her husband, Dwayne Jackson; and her children, 13-year-old Nathaniel, 11-year-old Honesty, 10-year-old Dwayne, 9-year-old Caleb, 7-year-old Trinity, and 6-year-old Jonah were killed Saturday. Authorities say Nathaniel was Conley's son from his relationship with Valerie Jackson, while the Jacksons were the parents of the other five children.
Conley, 48, gave jailhouse interviews to several Houston television stations, saying he loved his son, Nathaniel, "to death" but that he and the other children weren't being raised properly and acted unkindly toward others.
"They were growing up to be monsters, they were disrespectful, rude in school," Conley told KPRC-TV, referring to the children. "I'm not saying they're dead because of that. I'm not even saying I killed them. God says in the Bible do not disrespect your mother and father or your days will be short, but I'm not saying that's what happened."
In its 2013 lawsuit, CPS noted Conley's history of domestic violence against Valerie Jackson and stated that the "mother's lack of control and parenting skills places the children in immediate danger."
CPS said the children told authorities they were often left alone. On at least two occasions, then-7-year-old Caleb left the home and wandered around the family's neighbourhood unsupervised.
Court records show that about five months before CPS took custody of the children, Conley was arrested for threatening Jackson with a knife. In 2000, he was arrested for retaliation, accused of putting a knife to Jackson, threatening to kill her, her baby and himself. The lawsuit also listed other cases in Conley's long criminal history, including arrests for aggravated robbery and drug possession. The couple had been together when the lawsuit was filed but had recently ended their relationship before the deadly shooting.
Devlin said Wednesday that he couldn't base removal of the children on the adults' criminal histories and that CPS never stated there was "a current or immediate threat of violence from anyone."
"While the tragic events that occurred some 18 months after the CPS case is horrific, neither CPS nor any attorney or the Court could have prevented it based upon the case presented in court," Devlin said.
Patrick Crimmins, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, which includes CPS, said his agency didn't have any immediate comment on Devlin's statement.
At a 2013 hearing, Devlin noted that he had been told that Valerie Jackson had installed an alarm system so her kids couldn't sneak out and that the parents agreed to counselling and therapy for one of the children. At a March 2014 follow-up hearing, he was told the kids were doing well and that Jackson had completed parenting classes.
Conley is next scheduled to appear in court Sept. 15. His attorney, Joseph Scardino, did not return a phone call seeking comment Wednesday.
Prosecutors haven't decided whether they'll seek the death penalty.
Man accused of killing Houston family says the kids were 'growing up to be monst
Florida couple accused of raising 13-year-old sex slave
Matt Sedensky, Associated Press
First posted: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 03:49 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 03:57 PM EDT
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A Florida couple turned a teen into their sex slave and sealed her off from the outside world for more than five years, police said after arresting the two.
Rob Johnson, 44, and his wife, Marie Johnson, 43, of Port St. Lucie, were arrested Tuesday and charged with felony sexual assault charges.
The Port St. Lucie Police Department said the girl was sent at age 13 to live with the Johnsons after her mother died, and soon after her arrival was told she could only be part of their family by having sex with them. She was told to call Rob "master," investigators said in an arrest affidavit, and Marie Johnson pushed her against a wall and held her by her throat until the girl agreed to the sexual demands.
The girl, who is not identified in police filings, was beaten when she didn't follow the couple's directions or complete her chores, according to police. The girl said the abuse went on repeatedly for more than five years. All the while, Rob Johnson held Sunday school classes for his family at their home, invoking Old Testament Bible passages to justify the actions, the arrest affidavit said.
Police said the girl, now 21, was homeschooled, not allowed to use the phone and forced to rehearse what to say to doctors if she was asked about sexual activity.
The girl eventually was able to leave the home after her grandmother purchased a plane ticket to bring her to Ohio, the police said.
The Johnsons were freed on bail later Tuesday, the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office said, after each posted $60,000 bond. No attorney was listed for them. A call to their home Wednesday went unanswered.
Rob and Marie Johnson. (St. Lucie County Sheriff's Department via AP)
Florida couple accused of raising 13-year-old sex slave | World | News | Toronto
And they'll know we are Christians by our love, by our loveFlorida couple accused of raising 13-year-old sex slave
Matt Sedensky, Associated Press
First posted: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 03:49 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 03:57 PM EDT
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A Florida couple turned a teen into their sex slave and sealed her off from the outside world for more than five years, police said after arresting the two.
Rob Johnson, 44, and his wife, Marie Johnson, 43, of Port St. Lucie, were arrested Tuesday and charged with felony sexual assault charges.
The Port St. Lucie Police Department said the girl was sent at age 13 to live with the Johnsons after her mother died, and soon after her arrival was told she could only be part of their family by having sex with them. She was told to call Rob "master," investigators said in an arrest affidavit, and Marie Johnson pushed her against a wall and held her by her throat until the girl agreed to the sexual demands.
The girl, who is not identified in police filings, was beaten when she didn't follow the couple's directions or complete her chores, according to police. The girl said the abuse went on repeatedly for more than five years. All the while, Rob Johnson held Sunday school classes for his family at their home, invoking Old Testament Bible passages to justify the actions, the arrest affidavit said.
Police said the girl, now 21, was homeschooled, not allowed to use the phone and forced to rehearse what to say to doctors if she was asked about sexual activity.
The girl eventually was able to leave the home after her grandmother purchased a plane ticket to bring her to Ohio, the police said.
The Johnsons were freed on bail later Tuesday, the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office said, after each posted $60,000 bond. No attorney was listed for them. A call to their home Wednesday went unanswered.
Rob and Marie Johnson. (St. Lucie County Sheriff's Department via AP)
Florida couple accused of raising 13-year-old sex slave | World | News | Toronto
Yes they'll know we are Christians by out love
Inquest set for girl who died while in foster parents' care
JEREMY APPEL, Toronto Sun
First posted: Thursday, August 13, 2015 06:46 PM EDT
TORONTO - Toronto’s coroner has set a date for an inquest into the death of Katelynn Sampson — seven years after drug-addicted foster parents murdered the little girl.
Katelynn died Aug. 3, 2008, about three months after she showed up at Parkdale Public School with bruises on her face and at least 70 smaller wounds.
Katelynn’s mother Bernice was a crack addict who gave custody of her daughter to her best friend Donna Irving and her husband Warren Johnson, both fellow addicts.
Both foster parents were sentenced to life in prison in 2012 after pleading guilty to second-degree murder. They’re not eligible for parole until 2027.
Katelynn’s blood was found in every room of their apartment, including a closet.
Katelynn told school officials the bruises and marks on her face were burns from helping her foster parents cook spaghetti. The foster parents said the same thing when the principal called.
But the principal suspected beatings. He informed the Children’s Aid Society, but nothing was done. Katelynn was pulled from school a week and a half later. The tortuous beatings worsened and she died three months later.
An inquest was announced after the trial, but no date was scheduled until Thursday.
The inquest will begin Nov. 9 at the coroner’s office near Keele St. and Wilson Ave. It’s expected to last four weeks, and include 30 witnesses.
Dr. Roger Skinner, supervising coroner for west Toronto, didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Katelynn Sampson
Inquest set for girl who died while in foster parents' care | Toronto & GTA | Ne
Sexual assault accusations following an incident aboard a WestJet flight headed from Calgary to Halifax
By Shawn Logan, Calgary Sun First posted: Thursday, August 13, 2015 12:29 AM EDT | Updated: Thursday, August 13, 2015 01:45 AM EDT
Sexual assault charges are pending against a Nova Scotia man after an alleged in-air incident involving a senior on a WestJet flight between Calgary and Halifax.
RCMP Cpl. Greg Church said police were called to the Halifax Stanfield Airport Tuesday afternoon after the captain of WestJet Flight 226 reported an alleged assault on an B.C. senior woman seated next to the accused.
“The man was arrested on the plane on arrival,” Church said.
Details of the incident aren’t being released, nor is the identity of the accused pending formal charges being sworn.
Church said the victim reported the alleged assault to a flight attendant, the flight crew separated the pair for the duration of the flight.
WestJet spokesman Robert Palmer said there were 132 passengers on board at the time.
The man accused in the assault has been released from police custody on a promise to appear in court.
Sexual assault accusations following an incident aboard a WestJet flight headed
Daycare sex abuser Jeffrey Wills sentenced to 5 years in jail
By Tony Spears, Ottawa Sun First posted: Thursday, August 13, 2015 01:30 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, August 13, 2015 03:53 PM EDT
A father of four who sexually abused two very young girls at his home daycare will serve a five-year prison sentence.
Jeffrey Wills, 41, was taken down to the cellblocks Thursday after a tearful goodbye with family and friends, who have supported him throughout the trial and his subsequent conviction.
Judge Jack Nadelle noted he’s seen people like Wills — a man with no previous criminal record who was “well-liked” and “trusted” by his community — in similar situations.
“It is their good background that allows them to be in positions of trust,” the judge said.
Wills abused two girls, aged three and five, in 2013. He was arrested after the tots told their parents.
The girls’ parents had told Wills’ sentencing hearing that they remain wracked with guilt and that their daughters are still scarred. They moved away from the neighbourhood; the court heard things are — slowly — improving.
“It is the court’s hope that the children and their families continue on their healing path,” Nadelle said.
Doctors did not diagnose Wills as a pedophile and considered him a low risk to reoffend. Nadelle, however, cited case law suggesting Wills’ apparently lack of a sexual disorder makes his moral culpability even higher.
In addition to his prison sentence, Wills got a 15-year ban from attending parks, playgrounds and other places where children might be present.
He’ll also be on the national sex offender registry for 20 years, and Nadelle ordered him to provide a sample of his DNA for the crime bank.
tony.spears@sunmedia.ca
Twitter: @ottawasuntonys
Daycare operator Jeffrey Wills, 41, was convicted of sex charges relating to two girls, aged three and five, who were in his care in 2013. (Facebook)
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Elderly Surrey, B.C., woman sexually assaulted in daytime robbery in her home
THE CANADIAN PRESS First posted: Thursday, August 13, 2015 02:52 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, August 13, 2015 02:55 PM EDT
SURREY, B.C. -- A 70-year-old Surrey, B.C., woman is recovering from a terrifying ordeal in her own home.
RCMP Staff Sgt. Dale Carr says the victim was in her South Surrey home early Wednesday afternoon when a man carrying a weapon burst in, restrained her and demanded cash and other items.
Carr says when the senior could not comply, she was physically and sexually assaulted before the 20- to 30-year-old suspect fled.
The woman was able to free herself and walk to a neighbour's home to call police.
She suffered significant injuries and was treated in hospital but has now been released and Carr is urging area residents to use extreme caution and report anything suspicious while police search for the suspect.
Officers have canvassed the neighbourhood asking for any surveillance video but have made no arrests.
Elderly Surrey, B.C., woman sexually assaulted in daytime robbery in her home |
Texas tortoise theft leads to arrest of suspected sex offender
Jon Herskovitz, REUTERS First posted: Thursday, August 13, 2015 12:16 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, August 13, 2015 12:28 PM EDT
AUSTIN, Texas - Police investigating a Texas man for holding a tortoise for ransom ended up arresting him on a charge of sexually assaulting a child, officials said on Thursday.
When police went to the home of Joseph Urbino, 34, in the search for tortoise, they learned in a background check that he had outstanding warrants in a child sexual assault case and arrested him.
"This is definitely unique," said Investigator Clint Lobpries of the Brazoria County Sheriff's Office. "We got someone off of the street for suspected sexual assault of a child over the theft of a tortoise."
The deputies who arrested Urbino also found the missing African spurred tortoise, Gracie, stuffed into a duffel bag at Urbino's home.
The owner of the 5-year-old tortoise, Stacey Swayze-Krampota, told local broadcaster KPRC the Gracie went missing about three weeks ago when she was moving from her home about 30 miles south of Houston. The African spurred tortoise is a large species of terrestrial tortoise and can grow to about 100 to 200 pounds (45 to 90 kgs).
Swayze-Krampota posted flyers seeking the tortoise's return and received a call from a man saying he would give it back for $1,000.
After being told by neighbors that Urbino had the tortoise, she alerted the Brazoria County Sheriff's Office, which sent deputies to investigate.
"I can't believe that she is home now. I was losing hope," Swayze-Krampota told TV station KPRC.
No details were immediately available on the sexual abuse case. There was no lawyer listed for Urbino on his arrest records and a phone listed in his name has been disconnected.
Texas tortoise theft leads to arrest of suspected sex offender | World | News |
11-year-old gives birth in Paraguay
ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Thursday, August 13, 2015 01:25 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, August 13, 2015 04:17 PM EDT
ASUNCION -- An 11-year-old Paraguayan girl who had been denied an abortion gave birth on Thursday, the culmination of a case that put a spotlight on child rape in the poor South American nation and drew criticism from human rights groups.
Elizabeth Torales, a lawyer for the girl's mother, told The Associated Press that the minor gave birth to a baby girl via cesarean in a Red Cross hospital in Asuncion, Paraguay's capital. Torales said that doctors told her there were no complications and both the mother and baby were resting. She said that her client, the daughter who gave birth and the girl's grandmother had requested custody of the infant.
"The baby doesn't yet have a name," said Torales.
The girl was allegedly raped and impregnated by her stepfather when she was 10. The stepfather has been arrested and is awaiting trial. The girl's mother has been charged with negligence.
The mother requested an abortion for her daughter, but the government refused to allow it, drawing praise from religious groups but criticism from many human rights organizations, including U.N. officials. Paraguay bans abortion except when the mother's life is in danger. At the time, the girl was five months pregnant and local health officials said she appeared to be in fine health.
In a statement Thursday, Amnesty International said the organization was glad the girl had come through the birth, but the fact that "she did not die does not excuse the human rights violations she suffered at the hands of the Paraguayan authorities."
While the case did spark some discussion about abortion in the deeply conservative country, the focus of several protests was on better protecting children from abuse.
About 600 girls 14 or under become pregnant each year in this country of 6.8 million people, according to local health statistics. Many called for stiffer penalties for abusers, and the funding of education programs to help parents and authorities better spot signs of abuse.
Norma Benitez, spokeswoman for the Latin American Women's Commission, said her group would now push the government to provide a safe environment for the girl that includes both her mother and grandmother.
"The Paraguayan state must fulfil its role of protecting children by providing a home and a dignified life" for this family, she said.
11-year-old gives birth in Paraguay | World | News | Toronto Sun
JEREMY APPEL, Toronto Sun
First posted: Thursday, August 13, 2015 06:46 PM EDT
TORONTO - Toronto’s coroner has set a date for an inquest into the death of Katelynn Sampson — seven years after drug-addicted foster parents murdered the little girl.
Katelynn died Aug. 3, 2008, about three months after she showed up at Parkdale Public School with bruises on her face and at least 70 smaller wounds.
Katelynn’s mother Bernice was a crack addict who gave custody of her daughter to her best friend Donna Irving and her husband Warren Johnson, both fellow addicts.
Both foster parents were sentenced to life in prison in 2012 after pleading guilty to second-degree murder. They’re not eligible for parole until 2027.
Katelynn’s blood was found in every room of their apartment, including a closet.
Katelynn told school officials the bruises and marks on her face were burns from helping her foster parents cook spaghetti. The foster parents said the same thing when the principal called.
But the principal suspected beatings. He informed the Children’s Aid Society, but nothing was done. Katelynn was pulled from school a week and a half later. The tortuous beatings worsened and she died three months later.
An inquest was announced after the trial, but no date was scheduled until Thursday.
The inquest will begin Nov. 9 at the coroner’s office near Keele St. and Wilson Ave. It’s expected to last four weeks, and include 30 witnesses.
Dr. Roger Skinner, supervising coroner for west Toronto, didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Katelynn Sampson
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Sexual assault accusations following an incident aboard a WestJet flight headed from Calgary to Halifax
By Shawn Logan, Calgary Sun First posted: Thursday, August 13, 2015 12:29 AM EDT | Updated: Thursday, August 13, 2015 01:45 AM EDT
Sexual assault charges are pending against a Nova Scotia man after an alleged in-air incident involving a senior on a WestJet flight between Calgary and Halifax.
RCMP Cpl. Greg Church said police were called to the Halifax Stanfield Airport Tuesday afternoon after the captain of WestJet Flight 226 reported an alleged assault on an B.C. senior woman seated next to the accused.
“The man was arrested on the plane on arrival,” Church said.
Details of the incident aren’t being released, nor is the identity of the accused pending formal charges being sworn.
Church said the victim reported the alleged assault to a flight attendant, the flight crew separated the pair for the duration of the flight.
WestJet spokesman Robert Palmer said there were 132 passengers on board at the time.
The man accused in the assault has been released from police custody on a promise to appear in court.
Sexual assault accusations following an incident aboard a WestJet flight headed
Daycare sex abuser Jeffrey Wills sentenced to 5 years in jail
By Tony Spears, Ottawa Sun First posted: Thursday, August 13, 2015 01:30 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, August 13, 2015 03:53 PM EDT
A father of four who sexually abused two very young girls at his home daycare will serve a five-year prison sentence.
Jeffrey Wills, 41, was taken down to the cellblocks Thursday after a tearful goodbye with family and friends, who have supported him throughout the trial and his subsequent conviction.
Judge Jack Nadelle noted he’s seen people like Wills — a man with no previous criminal record who was “well-liked” and “trusted” by his community — in similar situations.
“It is their good background that allows them to be in positions of trust,” the judge said.
Wills abused two girls, aged three and five, in 2013. He was arrested after the tots told their parents.
The girls’ parents had told Wills’ sentencing hearing that they remain wracked with guilt and that their daughters are still scarred. They moved away from the neighbourhood; the court heard things are — slowly — improving.
“It is the court’s hope that the children and their families continue on their healing path,” Nadelle said.
Doctors did not diagnose Wills as a pedophile and considered him a low risk to reoffend. Nadelle, however, cited case law suggesting Wills’ apparently lack of a sexual disorder makes his moral culpability even higher.
In addition to his prison sentence, Wills got a 15-year ban from attending parks, playgrounds and other places where children might be present.
He’ll also be on the national sex offender registry for 20 years, and Nadelle ordered him to provide a sample of his DNA for the crime bank.
tony.spears@sunmedia.ca
Twitter: @ottawasuntonys
Daycare operator Jeffrey Wills, 41, was convicted of sex charges relating to two girls, aged three and five, who were in his care in 2013. (Facebook)
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Elderly Surrey, B.C., woman sexually assaulted in daytime robbery in her home
THE CANADIAN PRESS First posted: Thursday, August 13, 2015 02:52 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, August 13, 2015 02:55 PM EDT
SURREY, B.C. -- A 70-year-old Surrey, B.C., woman is recovering from a terrifying ordeal in her own home.
RCMP Staff Sgt. Dale Carr says the victim was in her South Surrey home early Wednesday afternoon when a man carrying a weapon burst in, restrained her and demanded cash and other items.
Carr says when the senior could not comply, she was physically and sexually assaulted before the 20- to 30-year-old suspect fled.
The woman was able to free herself and walk to a neighbour's home to call police.
She suffered significant injuries and was treated in hospital but has now been released and Carr is urging area residents to use extreme caution and report anything suspicious while police search for the suspect.
Officers have canvassed the neighbourhood asking for any surveillance video but have made no arrests.
Elderly Surrey, B.C., woman sexually assaulted in daytime robbery in her home |
Texas tortoise theft leads to arrest of suspected sex offender
Jon Herskovitz, REUTERS First posted: Thursday, August 13, 2015 12:16 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, August 13, 2015 12:28 PM EDT
AUSTIN, Texas - Police investigating a Texas man for holding a tortoise for ransom ended up arresting him on a charge of sexually assaulting a child, officials said on Thursday.
When police went to the home of Joseph Urbino, 34, in the search for tortoise, they learned in a background check that he had outstanding warrants in a child sexual assault case and arrested him.
"This is definitely unique," said Investigator Clint Lobpries of the Brazoria County Sheriff's Office. "We got someone off of the street for suspected sexual assault of a child over the theft of a tortoise."
The deputies who arrested Urbino also found the missing African spurred tortoise, Gracie, stuffed into a duffel bag at Urbino's home.
The owner of the 5-year-old tortoise, Stacey Swayze-Krampota, told local broadcaster KPRC the Gracie went missing about three weeks ago when she was moving from her home about 30 miles south of Houston. The African spurred tortoise is a large species of terrestrial tortoise and can grow to about 100 to 200 pounds (45 to 90 kgs).
Swayze-Krampota posted flyers seeking the tortoise's return and received a call from a man saying he would give it back for $1,000.
After being told by neighbors that Urbino had the tortoise, she alerted the Brazoria County Sheriff's Office, which sent deputies to investigate.
"I can't believe that she is home now. I was losing hope," Swayze-Krampota told TV station KPRC.
No details were immediately available on the sexual abuse case. There was no lawyer listed for Urbino on his arrest records and a phone listed in his name has been disconnected.
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11-year-old gives birth in Paraguay
ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Thursday, August 13, 2015 01:25 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, August 13, 2015 04:17 PM EDT
ASUNCION -- An 11-year-old Paraguayan girl who had been denied an abortion gave birth on Thursday, the culmination of a case that put a spotlight on child rape in the poor South American nation and drew criticism from human rights groups.
Elizabeth Torales, a lawyer for the girl's mother, told The Associated Press that the minor gave birth to a baby girl via cesarean in a Red Cross hospital in Asuncion, Paraguay's capital. Torales said that doctors told her there were no complications and both the mother and baby were resting. She said that her client, the daughter who gave birth and the girl's grandmother had requested custody of the infant.
"The baby doesn't yet have a name," said Torales.
The girl was allegedly raped and impregnated by her stepfather when she was 10. The stepfather has been arrested and is awaiting trial. The girl's mother has been charged with negligence.
The mother requested an abortion for her daughter, but the government refused to allow it, drawing praise from religious groups but criticism from many human rights organizations, including U.N. officials. Paraguay bans abortion except when the mother's life is in danger. At the time, the girl was five months pregnant and local health officials said she appeared to be in fine health.
In a statement Thursday, Amnesty International said the organization was glad the girl had come through the birth, but the fact that "she did not die does not excuse the human rights violations she suffered at the hands of the Paraguayan authorities."
While the case did spark some discussion about abortion in the deeply conservative country, the focus of several protests was on better protecting children from abuse.
About 600 girls 14 or under become pregnant each year in this country of 6.8 million people, according to local health statistics. Many called for stiffer penalties for abusers, and the funding of education programs to help parents and authorities better spot signs of abuse.
Norma Benitez, spokeswoman for the Latin American Women's Commission, said her group would now push the government to provide a safe environment for the girl that includes both her mother and grandmother.
"The Paraguayan state must fulfil its role of protecting children by providing a home and a dignified life" for this family, she said.
11-year-old gives birth in Paraguay | World | News | Toronto Sun
I totally support forcing 11-year-old rape victims to carry their children to term. It's the Christian thing to do.
Ever notice one of the most noticeable traits of a Christian is minding other people's business?
RADCLIFF, Ky. (AP) — As police searched for a man seen driving down a Kentucky highway beating an infant in a car seat, Daniel Cox pulled up to Kimberly Chrystie's home, handed her their 4-month-old son and sped away, police say.
Jayceon Chrystie was black and blue and unresponsive; he had no pulse and his eye was swollen shut.
The baby died two days later, and Cox has been charged with his murder.
Cox, who did not live with his son, had asked the baby's mother, Kimberly Chrystie, if he could take the boy out for a visit Thursday, according to court records. They were gone for two hours.
Just before 7 p.m., a family called 911 to say they saw a man in a gold Mercury Grand Marquis repeatedly hitting a child in a car seat as he drove along a highway in Radcliff, about 45 miles south of Louisville, according to court records.
Dena Stevenson told WLKY-TV that she and her family drove behind the Grand Marquis for miles, and it looked like the man was beating the child in the head and the chest.
Officers began searching for the car.
Fifteen minutes later, Cox arrived at the infant's mother's home. She frantically called police.
"He dropped my child off almost two hours later, beat up all black and blue," she wrote in a request for a protective order she filed against Cox Friday. "I called 911 as soon as I seen my son."
Jayceon was not breathing and had no pulse, court documents show. Police wrote that Jayceon's left eye was swollen shut, his right cheek was swollen and he had "major bruising on his back and buttocks." His injuries were "consistent with a child being assaulted and abused," police wrote in the arrest warrant."
As emergency medics tried to resuscitate the baby, officers tracked Cox to Louisville, said Radcliff Police Capt. Willie Wells. He was arrested on an assault charge.
The baby, taken to a hospital in Louisville, was removed from life support Saturday night. Cox was charged with murder.
Jefferson County Deputy Coroner Robert Fraction told The Associated Press on Sunday that Jayceon died of an "inflicted traumatic injury to the head."
A judge set Cox's bond at $500,000
Mom: Son who died was badly bruised after 2 hours with dad
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS 11)--The search is on for a Lexington woman who is accused of kidnapping a 15-year-old girl in Louisville and taking her to Tennessee for sex trafficking.
Crystal Bradshaw, 41, has been added to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's Top Ten Most Wanted list.
Police say she was paid $700 to kidnap a girl in Louisville and take her to Clarsksville Tennessee to have sex with 65-year-old Ralph Goodwin.
Goodwin allegedly told the teen Bradshaw would kill her if she didn't cooperate.
The girl was reported missing by her mom on Aug. 7 she was found at Goodwin's home Aug. 12.
According to police, the girl was found hungry and dehydrated. She was taken to the police station for questioning then sent to the hospital for a medical exam.
The girl is back with with her parents.
Bradshaw was last seen driving a white 2008 Ford Excursion and it could have temporary Tennessee tags.
Police search for woman accused of kidnapping 15-year-old girl
Jayceon Chrystie was black and blue and unresponsive; he had no pulse and his eye was swollen shut.
The baby died two days later, and Cox has been charged with his murder.
Cox, who did not live with his son, had asked the baby's mother, Kimberly Chrystie, if he could take the boy out for a visit Thursday, according to court records. They were gone for two hours.
Just before 7 p.m., a family called 911 to say they saw a man in a gold Mercury Grand Marquis repeatedly hitting a child in a car seat as he drove along a highway in Radcliff, about 45 miles south of Louisville, according to court records.
Dena Stevenson told WLKY-TV that she and her family drove behind the Grand Marquis for miles, and it looked like the man was beating the child in the head and the chest.
Officers began searching for the car.
Fifteen minutes later, Cox arrived at the infant's mother's home. She frantically called police.
"He dropped my child off almost two hours later, beat up all black and blue," she wrote in a request for a protective order she filed against Cox Friday. "I called 911 as soon as I seen my son."
Jayceon was not breathing and had no pulse, court documents show. Police wrote that Jayceon's left eye was swollen shut, his right cheek was swollen and he had "major bruising on his back and buttocks." His injuries were "consistent with a child being assaulted and abused," police wrote in the arrest warrant."
As emergency medics tried to resuscitate the baby, officers tracked Cox to Louisville, said Radcliff Police Capt. Willie Wells. He was arrested on an assault charge.
The baby, taken to a hospital in Louisville, was removed from life support Saturday night. Cox was charged with murder.
Jefferson County Deputy Coroner Robert Fraction told The Associated Press on Sunday that Jayceon died of an "inflicted traumatic injury to the head."
A judge set Cox's bond at $500,000
Mom: Son who died was badly bruised after 2 hours with dad
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS 11)--The search is on for a Lexington woman who is accused of kidnapping a 15-year-old girl in Louisville and taking her to Tennessee for sex trafficking.
Crystal Bradshaw, 41, has been added to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's Top Ten Most Wanted list.
Police say she was paid $700 to kidnap a girl in Louisville and take her to Clarsksville Tennessee to have sex with 65-year-old Ralph Goodwin.
Goodwin allegedly told the teen Bradshaw would kill her if she didn't cooperate.
The girl was reported missing by her mom on Aug. 7 she was found at Goodwin's home Aug. 12.
According to police, the girl was found hungry and dehydrated. She was taken to the police station for questioning then sent to the hospital for a medical exam.
The girl is back with with her parents.
Bradshaw was last seen driving a white 2008 Ford Excursion and it could have temporary Tennessee tags.
Police search for woman accused of kidnapping 15-year-old girl
Tim Hortons co-founder named in $7.5M sexual molestation lawsuit
By Sam Pazzano, Toronto Sun First posted: Saturday, August 15, 2015 10:00 PM EDT | Updated: Sunday, August 16, 2015 12:02 AM EDT
TORONTO - Ron Joyce, the 84-year-old billionaire co-founder of Tim Hortons, is embroiled in a scandalous civil lawsuit launched by a much younger, occasional lover who alleges he sexually molested her in 2011.
Joyce was 74 when they met in 2005, a fabulously wealthy and influential businessman who built a coffee and doughnut empire after partner and chain namesake Tim Horton died in 1974.
She was a more tender age, 24, an attractive mortgage broker.
The pair began as friends but a relationship developed that Joyce characterized as being based upon “on-call” and “consensual” sex, but that she increasingly became “almost delusional” about it, according to filings by Joyce in the lawsuit.
It wouldn’t end well.
In a $7.5-million civil suit before the courts, the Toronto woman alleges she spent a night in his Burlington home in mid-2011, after agreeing to drive him to the doctor in the morning, but woke to find the naked billionaire in her bed “with his hands down her pyjama bottoms with his fingers inserted into her ******.”
She screamed in protest, according to her court filings.
Joyce admits he tried to rouse her from a deep sleep but vehemently denies any improper conduct.
Joyce further maintains she subsequently tried to expose and blackmail him following the alleged attack if he didn’t help her financially.
“The details of the allegation have been fabricated by her in an attempt to extort money from Ron Joyce,” his statement of defence alleges.
None of the allegations have been proven in court.
Now, shocking new allegations revealed in court documents obtained by the Toronto Sun suggest the alleged victim was paid $330,000 in hush money from another wealthy ex-lover after she threatened to expose their affair.
The startling allegation was revealed in an affidavit by businessman Hunter Milborne filed in the woman’s lawsuit against Joyce.
Milborne is a fantastically rich Toronto real estate tycoon, who’s been called the “Dean of Condos” and is credited with selling $10 billion worth of condominiums.
He alleges in his sworn affidavit — also not yet proven in court — that he had an affair with the woman starting when he was 55 and she was 24 years old.
Milborne’s affidavit was filed in connection with a motion by Joyce for summary judgment in the lawsuit.
According to the affidavit, their affair began shortly after he met the mortgage broker at a real estate event in 2005.
Years later, after the affair ended, the woman demanded $1 million in commissions (he claimed she never earned) or threatened to expose the married father of seven’s affair with her, he alleged in his affidavit.
In May or June 2011, he “reluctantly agreed to pay her $330,000 in exchange for her silence about our affair and nullify any future claims,” stated Milborne in the affidavit.
A year later, according to the affidavit, the woman approached Milborne to pay income taxes on the $330,000 he paid her or else she would publicize their affair.
Milborne says in the affidavit, he flatly refused, saying he paid enough for her silence in their agreement.
Milborne swore the affidavit after he was contacted by Joyce’s high-profile lawyer Chris Kostopoulos and told that the plaintiff had produced documents in the litigation showing she received income for the year 2011 from Milborne’s real estate company.
Milborne says in the affidavit that he had a minority interest in a B.C. development called Revelstoke Mountain Resort and that the woman offered to help him and his partners raise money from lenders in the United States.
That would have scored her a lucrative mortgage broker fee. But instead, she lost out when Milborne’s partners declined her lenders in favour of Canadian lenders.
The woman, now 34, utterly denies the allegations in Milborne’s affidavit.
“The allegations are not true,” she told the Sun. “It’s an inaccurate affidavit and this was written in an attempt to assassinate my character,” the alleged victim said in an interview Friday.
“I’m going to fight for justice and it’s extremely difficult to battle a powerful man like Ron Joyce,” she said. “I want this to go forward so that other victims will come forward and be believed.
“I have evidence to refute and disprove all of the information in the affidavit.”
She said she would provide additional detail and information to refute Milborne’s affidavit next week after consulting with her new legal team.
**********
A civil lawsuit against Tim Hortons co-founder Ron Joyce follows an unrelated but similar lawsuit in February by another Toronto woman, Elizabeth Kelly, against Joyce’s son, Steven.
Kelly, 50, in that $5.7 million lawsuit alleges Steven Joyce assaulted her aboard his father’s mega-yacht in Florida in an October 2014 incident that the younger Joyce maintains was consensual.
Steven Joyce denied any assault against Kelly in the court documents and stated Kelly’s wrist injury was caused accidentally during the trip to Florida aboard his father’s yacht.
None of the allegations in the statement of claim or the statement of defence have been proven in court.
Kelly’s lawsuit alleges she suffered a wrist injury after being knocked off the bed while he pulled her friend into a threesome.
Joyce states in his defence that they had a “vigorous sexual relationship that included a wide variety of consensual sex.”
— Sam Pazzano
Tim Hortons co-founder Ron Joyce (Toronto Sun files)
Hunter Milborne
Tim Hortons co-founder named in $7.5M sexual molestation lawsuit | Toronto & GTA
By Sam Pazzano, Toronto Sun First posted: Saturday, August 15, 2015 10:00 PM EDT | Updated: Sunday, August 16, 2015 12:02 AM EDT
TORONTO - Ron Joyce, the 84-year-old billionaire co-founder of Tim Hortons, is embroiled in a scandalous civil lawsuit launched by a much younger, occasional lover who alleges he sexually molested her in 2011.
Joyce was 74 when they met in 2005, a fabulously wealthy and influential businessman who built a coffee and doughnut empire after partner and chain namesake Tim Horton died in 1974.
She was a more tender age, 24, an attractive mortgage broker.
The pair began as friends but a relationship developed that Joyce characterized as being based upon “on-call” and “consensual” sex, but that she increasingly became “almost delusional” about it, according to filings by Joyce in the lawsuit.
It wouldn’t end well.
In a $7.5-million civil suit before the courts, the Toronto woman alleges she spent a night in his Burlington home in mid-2011, after agreeing to drive him to the doctor in the morning, but woke to find the naked billionaire in her bed “with his hands down her pyjama bottoms with his fingers inserted into her ******.”
She screamed in protest, according to her court filings.
Joyce admits he tried to rouse her from a deep sleep but vehemently denies any improper conduct.
Joyce further maintains she subsequently tried to expose and blackmail him following the alleged attack if he didn’t help her financially.
“The details of the allegation have been fabricated by her in an attempt to extort money from Ron Joyce,” his statement of defence alleges.
None of the allegations have been proven in court.
Now, shocking new allegations revealed in court documents obtained by the Toronto Sun suggest the alleged victim was paid $330,000 in hush money from another wealthy ex-lover after she threatened to expose their affair.
The startling allegation was revealed in an affidavit by businessman Hunter Milborne filed in the woman’s lawsuit against Joyce.
Milborne is a fantastically rich Toronto real estate tycoon, who’s been called the “Dean of Condos” and is credited with selling $10 billion worth of condominiums.
He alleges in his sworn affidavit — also not yet proven in court — that he had an affair with the woman starting when he was 55 and she was 24 years old.
Milborne’s affidavit was filed in connection with a motion by Joyce for summary judgment in the lawsuit.
According to the affidavit, their affair began shortly after he met the mortgage broker at a real estate event in 2005.
Years later, after the affair ended, the woman demanded $1 million in commissions (he claimed she never earned) or threatened to expose the married father of seven’s affair with her, he alleged in his affidavit.
In May or June 2011, he “reluctantly agreed to pay her $330,000 in exchange for her silence about our affair and nullify any future claims,” stated Milborne in the affidavit.
A year later, according to the affidavit, the woman approached Milborne to pay income taxes on the $330,000 he paid her or else she would publicize their affair.
Milborne says in the affidavit, he flatly refused, saying he paid enough for her silence in their agreement.
Milborne swore the affidavit after he was contacted by Joyce’s high-profile lawyer Chris Kostopoulos and told that the plaintiff had produced documents in the litigation showing she received income for the year 2011 from Milborne’s real estate company.
Milborne says in the affidavit that he had a minority interest in a B.C. development called Revelstoke Mountain Resort and that the woman offered to help him and his partners raise money from lenders in the United States.
That would have scored her a lucrative mortgage broker fee. But instead, she lost out when Milborne’s partners declined her lenders in favour of Canadian lenders.
The woman, now 34, utterly denies the allegations in Milborne’s affidavit.
“The allegations are not true,” she told the Sun. “It’s an inaccurate affidavit and this was written in an attempt to assassinate my character,” the alleged victim said in an interview Friday.
“I’m going to fight for justice and it’s extremely difficult to battle a powerful man like Ron Joyce,” she said. “I want this to go forward so that other victims will come forward and be believed.
“I have evidence to refute and disprove all of the information in the affidavit.”
She said she would provide additional detail and information to refute Milborne’s affidavit next week after consulting with her new legal team.
**********
A civil lawsuit against Tim Hortons co-founder Ron Joyce follows an unrelated but similar lawsuit in February by another Toronto woman, Elizabeth Kelly, against Joyce’s son, Steven.
Kelly, 50, in that $5.7 million lawsuit alleges Steven Joyce assaulted her aboard his father’s mega-yacht in Florida in an October 2014 incident that the younger Joyce maintains was consensual.
Steven Joyce denied any assault against Kelly in the court documents and stated Kelly’s wrist injury was caused accidentally during the trip to Florida aboard his father’s yacht.
None of the allegations in the statement of claim or the statement of defence have been proven in court.
Kelly’s lawsuit alleges she suffered a wrist injury after being knocked off the bed while he pulled her friend into a threesome.
Joyce states in his defence that they had a “vigorous sexual relationship that included a wide variety of consensual sex.”
— Sam Pazzano
Tim Hortons co-founder Ron Joyce (Toronto Sun files)
Hunter Milborne
Tim Hortons co-founder named in $7.5M sexual molestation lawsuit | Toronto & GTA
Funeral for 8 family members shot dead in Houston home
Dennis Spellman, REUTERS
First posted: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 08:14 AM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 08:26 AM EDT
HOUSTON - Eight matching white caskets adorned with flowers were lined up on Monday at the funeral service for a family of two parents and six children who were killed more than a week ago.
David Conley, 48, has been charged with capital murder for shooting his former girlfriend Valerie Jackson, her husband Dwayne Jackson and six children, in their Houston-area home. The bodies will be transported for burial in Wisconsin, where Valerie's family lives, church officials said.
Prosecutors said they are likely to seek the death penalty.
Eric Jackson, the brother of Dwayne Jackson, described him as a caring father and a wonderful man.
"This planet could not hold the love he had for his kids," he told reporters prior to the church service attended by about 200 people.
"He was just an all-around good guy. He was a gentle giant," the brother said. "It has impacted our family in a very deep way."
Five of the children were born to Valerie and Dwayne Jackson. The sixth child, 13-year-old Nathaniel, was from Valerie Jackson's previous relationship with Conley, according to court documents.
Prior to the service, a choir sang inspirational Christian songs to many who were wiping away tears.
The service was meant to be upbeat and celebrate the lives of a loving family. After it was over, the caskets were loaded in hearses and escorted by constables on motorcycles.
Boys from the football team of one of the slain children dressed in their football uniforms and helped escort the coffins out of the church.
According to an indictment presented at a Houston court, Conley slipped into the home through a window, tied up the eight people and shot them all in the head.
After a standoff with sheriff's deputies called to the house by a relative of one of the victims concerned about the family's welfare, the suspect fired on officers when they entered the home, it said.
Deputies went to the house four times within a period of nine hours on Aug. 8, the day of the shooting, after receiving numerous calls to check on the family, the Harris County Sheriff's Office said.
In addition to Nathaniel Conley, authorities identified the slain children as Honesty Jackson, 11; Dwayne Jackson, 10; Caleb Jackson, 9; Trinity Jackson, 7; and Jonah Jackson, 6.
A GoFundMe.com page set up for the funeral has raised nearly $30,000 to cover expenses.
A former teammate and an unidentified fellow student help escort the casket of one of the children killed last week when eight family members were fatally shot last week, during funeral services in Houston, Texas, Aug. 17, 2015. REUTERS/Dennis Spellman
Funeral for 8 family members shot dead in Houston home | World | News | Toronto
Nelson Mandela's grandson arrested for allegedly raping a teenager in South Africa
Lynsey Chutel, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 02:49 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 03:16 PM EDT
JOHANNESBURG -- A man identified as one of Nelson Mandela's grandsons has been arrested for allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl, South African police said on Tuesday.
Mbuso Mandela, 24, is in police custody and will appear in a Johannesburg magistrates court on Friday for a bail hearing, said police spokeswoman Brig. Mashadi Selepe. He appeared briefly in court Monday when he was charged with rape.
The rape allegedly took place at a restaurant in Greenside, a Johannesburg suburb, on Aug. 7, Selepe said. The matter was reported to police a week later and Mandela was arrested last Saturday, she said.
Mbuso Mandela is one of late statesman Nelson Mandela's 17 grandchildren. Mandela died in 2013 at the age of 95.
Former South African President Nelson Mandela's grandson Mbuso is seen jogging outside his grandfather's house. (REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko)
Nelson Mandela's grandson arrested for allegedly raping a teenager in South Afri
Dennis Spellman, REUTERS
First posted: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 08:14 AM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 08:26 AM EDT
HOUSTON - Eight matching white caskets adorned with flowers were lined up on Monday at the funeral service for a family of two parents and six children who were killed more than a week ago.
David Conley, 48, has been charged with capital murder for shooting his former girlfriend Valerie Jackson, her husband Dwayne Jackson and six children, in their Houston-area home. The bodies will be transported for burial in Wisconsin, where Valerie's family lives, church officials said.
Prosecutors said they are likely to seek the death penalty.
Eric Jackson, the brother of Dwayne Jackson, described him as a caring father and a wonderful man.
"This planet could not hold the love he had for his kids," he told reporters prior to the church service attended by about 200 people.
"He was just an all-around good guy. He was a gentle giant," the brother said. "It has impacted our family in a very deep way."
Five of the children were born to Valerie and Dwayne Jackson. The sixth child, 13-year-old Nathaniel, was from Valerie Jackson's previous relationship with Conley, according to court documents.
Prior to the service, a choir sang inspirational Christian songs to many who were wiping away tears.
The service was meant to be upbeat and celebrate the lives of a loving family. After it was over, the caskets were loaded in hearses and escorted by constables on motorcycles.
Boys from the football team of one of the slain children dressed in their football uniforms and helped escort the coffins out of the church.
According to an indictment presented at a Houston court, Conley slipped into the home through a window, tied up the eight people and shot them all in the head.
After a standoff with sheriff's deputies called to the house by a relative of one of the victims concerned about the family's welfare, the suspect fired on officers when they entered the home, it said.
Deputies went to the house four times within a period of nine hours on Aug. 8, the day of the shooting, after receiving numerous calls to check on the family, the Harris County Sheriff's Office said.
In addition to Nathaniel Conley, authorities identified the slain children as Honesty Jackson, 11; Dwayne Jackson, 10; Caleb Jackson, 9; Trinity Jackson, 7; and Jonah Jackson, 6.
A GoFundMe.com page set up for the funeral has raised nearly $30,000 to cover expenses.
A former teammate and an unidentified fellow student help escort the casket of one of the children killed last week when eight family members were fatally shot last week, during funeral services in Houston, Texas, Aug. 17, 2015. REUTERS/Dennis Spellman
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Nelson Mandela's grandson arrested for allegedly raping a teenager in South Africa
Lynsey Chutel, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 02:49 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 03:16 PM EDT
JOHANNESBURG -- A man identified as one of Nelson Mandela's grandsons has been arrested for allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl, South African police said on Tuesday.
Mbuso Mandela, 24, is in police custody and will appear in a Johannesburg magistrates court on Friday for a bail hearing, said police spokeswoman Brig. Mashadi Selepe. He appeared briefly in court Monday when he was charged with rape.
The rape allegedly took place at a restaurant in Greenside, a Johannesburg suburb, on Aug. 7, Selepe said. The matter was reported to police a week later and Mandela was arrested last Saturday, she said.
Mbuso Mandela is one of late statesman Nelson Mandela's 17 grandchildren. Mandela died in 2013 at the age of 95.
Former South African President Nelson Mandela's grandson Mbuso is seen jogging outside his grandfather's house. (REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko)
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Video: Man recorded masturbating in Ajax parking lot near children
The video was posted on social media and has been viewed thousands of times. Durham police say an investigation has been launched.
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The video was posted on social media and has been viewed thousands of times. Durham police say an investigation has been launched.
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Senior accused of masturbating in truck near kids
By Terry Davidson, Toronto Sun
First posted: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 07:37 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 08:19 PM EDT
TORONTO - A Whitby senior is accused of masturbating in a pickup truck, which a camera-wielding witness says was 40 feet from a group of kids.
Chris Harrison, 25, says he was walking his pit bull last Friday around 4:30 p.m. near the intersection of Bayly St. and Harwood Ave. S. in Ajax when he looked through the rear window of a parked truck’s cab and saw a figure in the driver’s seat “going up and down.”
Harrison says he then noticed a group of young kids — all wearing orange day camp shirts and eating snacks under the supervision of staff — sitting on a curb nearby.
He said when he approached the truck from behind and saw a ***** reflected in the driver-side mirror, he hoisted his phone and started rolling.
“I have a six-year-old...and when it comes to children, they’re innocent...so I kind of felt offended (by) it,” Harrison said Wednesday.
He alleges the man in the truck offered him “a couple hundred dollars” to delete the video.
“I told him, ‘By tomorrow everyone’s going to see this video,’ and he just drove off quickly...You could see the fear in his eyes. He was spooked — 100%.”
Harrison, who then found himself with a dead phone battery and a busy day ahead taking care of his son, went to police the next day.
He claims he received the runaround at first.
“Basically, they’re like, ‘Well, if we get more complaints or calls we’ll call you back to interview you,” said Harrison, who offered to bring the footage to the station. “They were like, ‘Don’t worry about it, that’s OK, don’t worry about it.’”
Harrison then posted the video on Instagram. The comments poured in, and soon investigators contacted him to talk, he says.
A spokesman for Durham police wasn't immediately available for comment.
Armand Gendreau, 72, surrendered to Durham Regional Police Tuesday and was charged with committing an indecent act. He was released with conditions.
terry.davidson@sunmedia.ca
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By Terry Davidson, Toronto Sun
First posted: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 07:37 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 08:19 PM EDT
TORONTO - A Whitby senior is accused of masturbating in a pickup truck, which a camera-wielding witness says was 40 feet from a group of kids.
Chris Harrison, 25, says he was walking his pit bull last Friday around 4:30 p.m. near the intersection of Bayly St. and Harwood Ave. S. in Ajax when he looked through the rear window of a parked truck’s cab and saw a figure in the driver’s seat “going up and down.”
Harrison says he then noticed a group of young kids — all wearing orange day camp shirts and eating snacks under the supervision of staff — sitting on a curb nearby.
He said when he approached the truck from behind and saw a ***** reflected in the driver-side mirror, he hoisted his phone and started rolling.
“I have a six-year-old...and when it comes to children, they’re innocent...so I kind of felt offended (by) it,” Harrison said Wednesday.
He alleges the man in the truck offered him “a couple hundred dollars” to delete the video.
“I told him, ‘By tomorrow everyone’s going to see this video,’ and he just drove off quickly...You could see the fear in his eyes. He was spooked — 100%.”
Harrison, who then found himself with a dead phone battery and a busy day ahead taking care of his son, went to police the next day.
He claims he received the runaround at first.
“Basically, they’re like, ‘Well, if we get more complaints or calls we’ll call you back to interview you,” said Harrison, who offered to bring the footage to the station. “They were like, ‘Don’t worry about it, that’s OK, don’t worry about it.’”
Harrison then posted the video on Instagram. The comments poured in, and soon investigators contacted him to talk, he says.
A spokesman for Durham police wasn't immediately available for comment.
Armand Gendreau, 72, surrendered to Durham Regional Police Tuesday and was charged with committing an indecent act. He was released with conditions.
terry.davidson@sunmedia.ca
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I usually try to consolidate posts to minimize thread bumping.
Mentally disabled woman sexually assaulted over two months: Cops
By Terry Davidson, Toronto Sun
First posted: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 10:35 AM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 08:21 PM EDT
TORONTO - A Toronto man is accused of luring a mentally disabled 18-year-old woman to an east-end motel where he allegedly sexually assaulted her for two months last spring.
Toronto Police allege the 50-year-old “transient” used social media and another mentally challenged 18-year-old woman to get the victim to leave her home west of the city and live with him at the motel on Kingston Rd. in Scarborough.
The victim, who has the mind of a 12-year-old, stayed with the suspect in the motel room — paid for with his disability cheques — in May and June and was sexually assaulted “numerous times,” police said Wednesday.
Det.-Sgt. Kim Gross said the accused, Patrick Pearsall, was on probation and already known to the sex crimes unit through another investigation.
“It’s believed Mr. Pearsall targets vulnerable girls who are challenged or at risk,” Gross said, adding the woman Pearsall allegedly used to help lure the victim likely won’t be charged because she has “special needs” similar to those of the victim.
Gross said the victim lives on her own, but has a guardian whom police have yet to track down.
“I don’t know what role the guardian plays as yet and we’ve been unable to reach that person.”
Investigators found two other potential victims from the London area, police said.
Pearsall’s Facebook page includes at least one pornographic image and selfie shots of him inside what appears to be a motel room, including one with a woman smiling in the background. Most of his 127 “Friends” are women.
He faces 35 charges, including 17 counts of sexual assault, 17 counts of sexually exploiting someone with a disability, and failure to comply with probation.
terry.davidson@sunmedia.ca
Patrick Pearsall, 50, faces 35 charges in a sexual assault investigation. (Toronto Police Handout)
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Alleged sex attacker faces more charges
By Terry Davidson, Toronto Sun
First posted: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 09:14 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 09:23 PM EDT
TORONTO - A Richmond Hill landscaper already in custody and charged with several sexual assaults is now accused of three springtime attacks on women in Toronto’s High Park.
Mark James Towell, 36, was charged last year following a sex assault in the Finch Ave. W. and Yonge St. area on Oct. 25, 2014, Toronto Police said. He was granted bail.
Towell was then charged for two alleged sexual assaults in June, both in Beltline Trail Park in the Yonge St. and St. Clair Ave. W. area.
Police arrested him later that month and he’s been in custody pending his trial.
But on Monday, police charged him with three sexual assaults in the south end of High Park the evenings of May 3 and 4.
Police say the six victims range in age from 25 to 45.
“The victims would be walking by themselves, in a secluded area, (and) he would either approach them from the front or the rear and attack his victims,” Det. Dan Luff alleged Wednesday.
Mark James Towell, 36, charged with sexual assault.
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Ohio mother confesses to killing three young sons over past year, say police
Reuters
First posted: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 09:56 AM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 10:19 AM EDT
An Ohio woman has confessed to killing her three young sons - two infants and a four-year-old - over the past year, police said on Tuesday.
Brittany Pilkington, of Bellefontaine, about 160 miles (260 km) southwest of Cleveland, was arrested on three counts of murder and was being held at the Logan County jail, police said.
Pilkington, who confessed to killing her boys after questioning, told investigators she had murdered them because their father, Joseph Pilkington, was not paying enough attention to their daughter, the Columbus Dispatch newspaper reported.
Police did not confirm Brittany Pilkington's age but the Dispatch reported she is 23.
Pilkington called 911 early on Tuesday to report that her three-month-old son, Noah, was not breathing, Bellefontaine police said in a news release. The child was unresponsive and sent to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
It was the third time in 13 months they had been sent to the same address under similar circumstances, so authorities "began a tedious investigation into Noah's death," the release said.
Police went to the residence in July 2014 after Joseph Pilkington returned home from work and reported that he had found his three-month-old son, Niall, dead. The cause of death was undetermined due to lack of evidence at the scene, police said.
Their four-year-old son Gavin was then found dead at home in April this year, authorities said. That case is still open.
Police spent Tuesday interviewing Brittany Pilkington, who confessed that she intentionally killed all three of her sons, police said in the news release.
According to the Columbus Dispatch, Pilkington told prosecutors she suffocated her boys with blankets because her husband was paying more attention to them than the couple's three-year-old daughter.
"The tragic deaths of Niall, Gavin and Noah leave a pit in our stomachs today," Bellefontaine Police Chief Brandon Standley said in a statement.
Pilkington would be arraigned in coming days. It was unclear if she would hire a private attorney or be assigned a public defender. The Pilkington residence could not be reached by phone for comment on Tuesday.
A coroner would determine the cause of the children's deaths, police said.
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UN peacekeepers accused of 3 more rapes in Central African Republic
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 02:44 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 08:12 PM EDT
Three young females, including a minor, have accused United Nations peacekeepers of raping them in the Central African Republic, the U.N. announced Wednesday, just a week after the world body's chief removed the head of the peacekeeping mission there over the handling of a series of similar allegations.
The U.N. said the alleged rapes occurred in the city of Bambari, where peacekeepers from the Congo are stationed.
Congo's U.N. ambassador, Ignace Gata Mavita wa Lufuta, told The Associated Press that three members of Congo's military have been accused and that he had just met with U.N. peacekeeping officials about looking into the allegations. He didn't address the allegations but said it's "not normal" that vulnerable people would be victims of those meant to protect them.
A spokeswoman for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Vannina Maestracci, told reporters that families of the three young females made the allegations Aug. 12 and that the alleged rapes occurred in "recent weeks."
A statement from the peacekeeping mission, issued Wednesday, says U.N. headquarters was "immediately informed" of the allegations and that it was collecting "all available evidence."
Congo's troops serve in no other U.N. peacekeeping missions, and its nearly 900 troops were accepted into the mission in Central African Republic at a time when few countries were volunteering people to serve in the chaotic country, which has been ripped by unprecedented violence between Christians and Muslims.
Last August, the New York-based Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict said Congo's troops, which were already in the country as part of an African Union mission, should be excluded from the U.N. mission. The advocacy network pointed out that Congo's armed forces have been noted in Ban's annual report on conflict-related sexual violence. They were included again this year.
Last week, following the removal of the head of the Central African Republic peacekeeping mission, Ban met with the Security Council and the heads of all U.N. peacekeeping missions to discuss new measures to swiftly investigate alleged sexual assaults and hold peacekeepers accountable.
Ban's actions came after Amnesty International accused U.N. peacekeepers in Central African Republic's capital this month of indiscriminately killing a 16-year-old boy and his father and, in a separate incident, of raping a 12-year-old girl.
U.N. peacekeepers earlier had been accused of sexually abusing children in Bangui and in the eastern part of the country.
The peacekeeping mission is also being investigated over how it handled child sexual abuse allegations against French troops last year, in which children as young as 9 said they had traded sex for food.
Maestracci, the U.N. spokeswoman, said that so far, the Central African Republic peacekeeping mission has received 13 allegations of possible sexual abuse and exploitation since U.N. troops began arriving last September.
Under an agreement with the U.N., countries have the sole responsibility to prosecute their troops taking part in peacekeeping missions, but if they take no action to investigate, the U.N. can step in. Even then, the U.N. only has the power to repatriate troops and suspend payments to countries for troops who are accused.
In at least one case of alleged sexual abuse or exploitation by a peacekeeper in Central African Republic, a country repatriated its accused citizen, the U.N. said Wednesday.
http://torontosun.ca/2015/08/19/un-peacekeepers-accused-of-3-more-rapes-in-central-african-republic