Category Archives: Crimes
83-Year-Old Male Prostitute Arrested
Im lost for words, yet i have some unanswered questions over this news item I came across.
Detectives in Centerville, Iowa, began the investigation into the activities of 83 year old pensioner Ben Clifford Dawson following a complaint the received from a woman who was in debt to him.
According to police they received a complaint about his unusual repayment scheme and launched the investigation. During the investigations into Dawson’s enterprises a female victim alleged that the octogenarian had offered to perform sex acts in lieu of payment for a loan.
Dawson faces two charges of aggravated misdemeanor charges, one of prostitution and one of intent to commit sexual abuse. He was released from the Appanoose County Jail after he posted a bail bond of $2,000.
Asylum seekers boat sinks.
In a previous blog Titled Gillard Government continues to pursue Migration Act changes I said the following when talking about the immigration bill for asylum seekers
This whole mess is not just a policy it’s about people. People that are looking for our help and are willing to risk their lives to get it. There has to be a better way. If we process them closer to where they come from stands to reason they would go there instead of coming here. We could then process them there. I think over all lives may be saved. As these people are coming through people smugglers there is no record of how many leave and how many arrive but my thoughts are a lot just don’t get here.
Well the latest tragedy of this is a boat of asylum seekers sinking off the coast off the west coast of Java early yesterday. Federal Government ministers have confirmed this morning that at least six people – including one child – are dead, while 20 are missing.
A local police chief said.
“They were leaving from Cilacap and their ship sank around the island of Nusakambangan. They left Cilacap at 2am (local time) and about 3am their ship leaked. At 5am, their ship already sank and was found by local fishermen,”
So where does the blame for this tragedy lie? The Gillard Government and the Federal Opposition have been accused of having blood on their hands, but Mr Bowen and Home Affairs Minister Brendan O’Connor lay the blame for the deaths squarely at the feet of the people smugglers. Now while the government and the opposition are being careful not to blame each other it has to be said that if they reached an agreement instead of being bloody-minded and opportunistic, this may not have happened.
Home Affairs Minister Brendan O’Connor
This is not a day for argument, Today it’s about firstly determining the facts and the circumstances around this vessel.
Well I would have thought the circumstances were clear. 70 Iranian asylum seekers sold everything they had to come to Australia for a better life. The Iranians paid $US7000 and flew straight to Jakarta after bribing immigration officers at the airport $US500 for a visa.
Now it seems Some had knowledge about the asylum seeker debate in Australia and decided to come after the Malaysia refugee swap deal was scuttled. Well Mr O’Connor said,
“This is a tragedy, something that the government foretold. We said that if we don’t put in place the most effective deterrent we would see an incline in the incidence of irregular maritime arrivals and we will most likely an incline in maritime fatalities,”
So far its all becoming reality and not just words. Mr O’Connor also said that all the advice given to the government was that the best solution was the agreement struck between Australia and Malaysia.
Kamran, a student from the Kurram Valley on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan, said another boat taking asylum seekers from Malaysia to Batam, off Sumatra Island, had sunk less than two weeks ago. Kamran paid $US5500 to get to Australia via Malaysia. If this is the case then the Malaysian deal would have worked, they could have been processed in Malaysia as proposed by the governments original bill. the bill that Tony Abbott was dead against. At least last night the government and the opposition finally managed to find some common ground by supporting a bill clarifying that it is still an offence for people smugglers to facilitate the arrival of asylum seekers in Australia, even if those people are legitimate refugees. However the greens did not support it.
Its time for the fighting to stop and time to put in place a policy where these people are processed offshore deterring them from the perilous boat journey and putting the people smugglers out of business, or at the very least save some lives. With the onshore processing more will come, more boats will sink on the journey and more lives will be lost. This needs to be addressed now. Australian authorities intercepted another boatload of asylum seekers north of Christmas Island yesterday so there is an increase of boats coming. Tony Abbott needs to put on his big boy pants and work this out with Julia Gillard now before more lives are lost.
CHINA; 2 year old in hit and run.Ignored and left for dead + Poll
On October 13th, closed circuit cameras caught a van running over a two-year-old girl on a narrow Foshan street. The driver takes off, which would be outrage enough. But perhaps even worse than the original sin, the same cameras caught more than a dozen people over the next few minutes passing by without so much as a pause, unconcerned for the fate of the downed toddler.
More than a dozen people over the next seven minutes walk or drive past the girl on bicycles and she is run over by a second truck, state media reported on Monday. A woman then pulls the girl to the side of the street before her mother, a migrant worker in the city, rushes into the frame.
The girl, now hospitalized, is in a coma, China’s Xinhua news agency reported, citing doctors. The country’s official English-language newspaper China Daily, said the girl had been declared “brain dead” and that she could die at any time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwhVUL-H46M
UPDATE: Bali, 14 year old on drug charges.
An Indonesian prosecutor says The Australian teenager accused of buying marijuana in Bali will be transferred to Kerobokan jail for processing.Prosecutors had said they would not object to the boy, from Morisset Park north of Newcastle, being released into his parents’ care until his case goes to court.They now say he will be taken to the same prison as Schapelle Corby and the Bali Nine before lawyers can appeal to have him temporarily released as a minor.
The head of Indonesia’s Child Protection Commission says the Australian teenager should be kept in Indonesia for rehabilitation.Dr Asrorum Niam says a judge can order the 14-year-old into a drug rehabilitation program, instead of prison, but he says the teenager should be treated in Indonesia, not Australia. He says Indonesian officials need to monitor the treatment and would not know if the boy was complying with the court’s decision if he was allowed to return to Australia.
The head of Bali’s drug squad, Superintendent Mulyadi, says the boy is in good health.He confirmed the 14-year-old will be moved to another location once prosecutors receive the summary of evidence against him.
“We are waiting for the request and then we will find a suitable custody for the minor,He’s still here for a while for sure until the P21 process is complete,”
He said referring to the summary of evidence documents which police are in the process of compiling.It could still be weeks before the summary of evidence is presented to prosecutors, but the lawyer for the boy has previously said that he is hopeful it will be presented by the end of the week.
Police have completed their investigation but cannot present their evidence until they receive a crucial report from welfare officers from the Indonesian corrections department who interviewed the boy last Friday.
Under article 128 of Indonesian narcotics laws, those caught with a small amount of the drug are able to be released if they are defined as a frequent user.The boy would still face court, but his parents would have to ensure he completed his rehabilitation. If they fail to report regularly, they could be jailed instead for up to six months. But the case to have the boy released for rehabilitation instead of being sent to jail still needs to be proven in court.
Video http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-17/boy-set-for-notorious-bali-jail/3575754
Austin Powers actor sentenced to life for torture
Joseph Hyungmin Son an actor best known for his role in the hit 1997 film Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery was today sentenced to life in prison on charges for the 1990 gang rape and torture of a woman.
Son was found guilty on 25th of August of felony torture, a crime which carries a maximum penalty of life without parole. Son had been charged with numerous sex crimes originally but due to the statute of limitations on these crimes, prosecutors instead pursued charges of torture.
Son 40 was also know as Joe Son in mixed martial arts, played Doctor Evil’s henchman Random Task in the Austin Powers movie.
Prosecutors said just after midnight on the 24th December, 1990, in Huntington Beach, California a woman walking her dog was approached by and an accomplice.
They asked the woman for directions and then abducted her They then sexually assaulted and threatened to kill her, as she pleaded for her life they counted out bullets . The woman was eventually released by the pair, she was naked, with her pants tied around her eyes.
While the physical evidence was gathered for the case from the sexual assault, the case went cold.
17 years later Son was arrested on charges of vandalism and required to give a DNA sample. It was then when his DNA was linked to the crime.
The unidentified victim, told the judge: “My emotional scars are intense. My 20s were stripped from my life as I relearned how to walk, see, hear and cope with the outside world again.”
Son’s accomplice pleaded guilty to kidnapping, rape and other charges and was sentenced to more 17 years in prison.
Read more about Austin Powers actor gets life for torture at the Los Angeles Times.
Spot of fun with a Dash of Serious 