News of Doom 2.0

I'd like to welcome Morgan Marlowe as the newest member of the CrimeNe.ws family. She will be assisting yours truly on teen related crimes and various other stories as well as posting stories of her own.

Please give her a hearty CrimeNe.ws welcome, and by that I mean be nice.

New York

Gunman Murders Woman, Sexually Assaults Grandchild in 14-Hour Hostage Standoff in Long Island:
Going to play it safe with this one.

Texas

Police: 4 dead in mobile home, hanging infant still alive:

A relative found the bodies of a 23-year-old woman and her four small daughters hanging in a closet in their mobile home Tuesday morning, all of them dead but an 8-month-old, who was taken to a hospital, the sheriff said.

The woman's sister, who also lived in the Oak Hills mobile home park, about 25 miles west of Fort Worth, found the bodies, Parker County Sheriff Larry Fowler said.

He said the dead children were ages 5, 3 and 2.

This story is ongoing.

CrimeNe.ws is looking for a new writer. For a long time I've been wanting to blog about crimes and other shadowy activity as it pertains to hate groups (i.e., KKK). Unfortunately blogging about school shootings and MySpace crimes keeps me incredibly busy. So I'm looking for a writer to help me with that. Preferably I'm looking for someone who is passionate about the subject or at least knowledgeable but I'm willing to take someone under my wing. I'm also looking for someone who has not written for a blog before but may have commented extensively on various crime blogs but established bloggers will also be considered. If you're interested I can guarantee you that you will receive a lot of hate mail and negative comments, possibly even worse than what I receive already. Not only is a pseudonym allowed it's highly encouraged. To make matters worse there will be no money involved just yet, and if there is it will be a very minute amount for now.

If you think you have the stomach for it please feel free to either comment on this thread or contact me at the CrimeNe.ws contact form.

Animal lovers may want to skip this one...

Virginia

Mom accused of prostituting daughter, 10:
Reason to Blow Up the World:...

A 36-year-old Newport News woman remained jailed without bond Wednesday on charges that she prostituted her 10-year-old daughter in exchange for crack cocaine, police said.

At the hotel, Police Cpl. Allison Good said, the woman offered her daughter to Joe Slade, a 57-year-old Hampton man, in exchange for crack cocaine. Later that night, Slade raped and sexually assaulted the girl, police said.

He was arrested late Saturday by Hampton police and booked into the city jail on charges of rape, aggravated sexual battery, forcible sodomy and conspiracy to commit forcible sodomy. Police arrested the girl's mother in Newport News on Monday and booked her into the Hampton jail on charges of rape, aggravated sexual battery, forcible sodomy and conspiracy to commit forcible sodomy. She also was charged with detaining her daughter for prostitution. Additional charges were possible, authorities said.

Nod of Doom to Pat in the Ne.wsRoom.

Virginia

2 ex-Chilhowie officers charged with sex crimes in haunted house:
Reason to Blow Up the World:...

Two former Chilhowie police officers are charged with committing sex crimes against a 17-year-old girl during a Halloween haunted house that raised money for sexual-assault victims, Virginia State Police said Wednesday.

A Smyth County grand jury indicted former Chilhowie police Chief Dwayne Sheffield and former Sgt. Brian Doss on charges including rape, object sexual penetration, felony child endangerment, sexual battery and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

The charges are linked to incidents between Oct. 23 and Nov. 1 at a haunted house the department operated as a fundraiser for a shelter for abuse victims, according to the indictments.

In early May, the Chilhowie Town Council voted 5-0 in a special meeting to terminate Sheffield and Doss. Sheffield resigned the following morning and Doss later was fired.

The haunted house raised more than $2,500 for Family Resource Center, a regional resource for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, and the Cancer Outreach Foundation, Sheffield previously said.

The irony of this is sickening.

Oregon

Online sex predator who posed as dying teen sentenced:
Reason to Blow Up the World:...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A Beaverton man was sentenced Monday to more than 24 years in federal prison after posing online as a teenage boy dying of leukemia to coerce young girls into sending him sexually explicit images.

Joshua Kistler, 31, chatted regularly with at least nine girls across the country who ranged in age from 12 to 14. He used the condition to gain the girls' sympathy, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

He did send them pictures of his stepson, an actual 15-year old, to further his story, authorities said.

Several victims said they loved and trusted Kistler, who asked them to send photos of them nude or perform sexually explicit acts for him in front of Web cams.

The victim whose case led to Kistler's arrest was a Utah girl who started chatting online with him when she was 12.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Kistler told he victim he had cut off contact with another girl because of the victim's jealousy and that the other girl had killed herself. Overcome with guilt, the Utah girl attempted suicide, which drew the involvement of law enforcement.

The girl attempted suicide a second time after the mother tried to stop the relationship.

Kistler also posed as the stepfather of his online character. In one case, a victim and her mother visited the "stepfather" during a family trip, believing the teenage boy was away receiving treatment.

Kistler told agents that he knew what he was doing was wrong and that he'd always "been a collector."

According to court documents, Kistler had computers that contained files of movies of young women, some taken without their knowledge. He also had thousands of images of child pornography.

What 'they' should do: Is there anyway that 'they' could give him leukemia. It would be only fitting.

Nod of Doom to LiLO.

Comments are being shut down while we switch to Wordpress. No knocks against Serendipity but we've just been having too many MYSQL issues lately. CN authors please refrain from posting for now.

Never mind. Carry on.

New Jersey

Man Charged in Death of Girlfriend's Baby

Reason To Blow Up The World...
I would put this one behind the cut if I knew how.

BARNEGAT â?? A 5-month-old girl died Saturday from injuries police say she suffered at the hands of her mother's boyfriend.

The infant, Alivia Foster, was taken Thursday to Ocean Medical Center in Brick by her mother, 22-year-old Shalonda Foster, Ocean County Prosecutor Thomas F. Kelaher said.

After being evaluated, the baby was transported to Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, where she died. Authorities said she suffered numerous broken bones, had bite marks on her body, several deep abrasions on her back and a protruding bruise on her head.

The mother's boyfriend, 24-year-old Shaun Horsey, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child. He was being held on $150,000 bail in the Ocean County Jail.

Kelaher said Horsey is not the baby's biological father but lived with the mother and her child in a room at the Barnegat Motel on South Main Street (Route 9). Details of the beating, including where exactly it happened and the whereabouts of the mother at the time, could not be determined.

I would hope that those charges will be amended to, at the very least, second degree murder. If anyone ever needed killin', it's this piece of garbage.

I will be interested to see how this one plays out, more specifically where the mother was at the time, and why she thought it would be a good idea to leave her child there with "it" (sorry, but "it" doesn't deserve to be referred to as human).

First of all, I need to ask you all to bear with me. This is my first post as a new contributor to News Of Doom, so if it's all boogered up and makes no sense, blame Trench.

Mass.

Hit man with conscience thwarts plan to kill family
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A man tried to hire a hit man to kill his family, including his 7-year-old daughter, even requesting that she be shot in the chest and not the head so there could be an open casket at her funeral, authorities say.

Authorities learned of the plot on Thursday and arrested the man, John Orlowski, on Friday. Orlowski, 49, was scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court Monday on the murder-for-hire charge.

"Thankfully the plot was uncovered by law enforcement, and three innocent victims avoided a horrible tragedy," U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan said.

Orlowski met the man he wanted to kill his wife, daughter and mother-in-law earlier this year while they were both jail inmates, according to court documents.

He approached the man again after they were released, and even gave him a diagram of his wife's house indicating the location of bedrooms "where the targets slept," and a location in the home where he could find a pistol. Orlowski offered him $2,000 to do the job himself or get one or more of his friends to do it, according to court documents.

Lovely. Kill my kid, but don't damage her face? Defective Sperm Donor alert!!!

Luckily, the would-be shooter has some morals...

But the man was troubled by the plot, especially the prospect of killing a child, so he told his mother, and she called the FBI. The man was unidentified in court papers, but the documents referred to him as a "self-professed member of the Crips gang."

Working with the FBI, the man met with Orlowski on Friday and taped a conversation in which Orlowski specified how many bullets he wanted in each victim -- one in the chest for his daughter and two each in the head for his wife and mother-in-law, according to authorities.

This is what really gets me...

In January, Orlowski was arrested at his wife's home and charged with violating the restraining order, domestic assault and battery and unlawful storage of firearms. Police seized 121 guns owned by Orlowski.

121 guns? It's nothing short of a miracle that the family had not already been killed.
One can only hope that the convicts where ever he is jailed right now will take matters into their own hands and save the taxpayers the cost of a trial.

Pennsylvania

Baby Found in Freezer; Pa. Woman Charged:
Reason to Blow Up the World: I think you can see where this one is going.

Since I've combined the sites I'm going back to my "behind the cut" philosophy. You may want to pass this one by.

Florida


Man Sentenced For Impregnating Wife's Sisters:
Reason to Blow Up the World...

A Broward County judge sentenced a man to more than 30 years in prison for impregnating his wife's 11- and 12-year old sisters.

Fernando Hernandez pleaded no contest to six felonies ranging from lewd or lascivious battery upon a child to impregnating a minor.

The judge sentenced Hernandez on Thursday to 32-and-a-half years in prison, followed by 25 years of sexual-offender probation. The 31-year-old man faced a maximum life sentence if convicted at trial.

Makes me wonder how old his wife is.

South Carolina

Man Sentenced For Child-Rape, Filming:
Reason to Blow Up the World...