Entries Tagged as 'court'

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

After 10 years of abusing same child, Utah man finally charged

According to the Salt Lake Tribune, a 36-year-old man was charged yesterday with four counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, two counts of sodomy upon a child, two counts of forcible sodomy and two counts of rape. All are first-degree felonies.
He allegedly began assaulting the girl in 2001, when she was seven, and [...]

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Iowa court judged to be patron of the tarts

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In Iowa, the state lost its appeal regarding whether Clarence Judy, then-owner of Shotgun Geniez, violated the state’s public indecent exposure law.
The Associated Press reports that Judy was charged after a 17-year-old girl stripped on stage in 2007.
The court ruled that while it is still against the law [...]

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Appeals judge: Stripping may be ‘offensive,’ but it’s not ‘depraved’

“Erotic, completely nude dancing is offensive to many people. It is not, however, so ‘base, vile, and depraved’ that it shocks the conscience.”
- Ninth Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt writing on California’s indecent exposure law and whether it punishes conduct that meets the federal standard for moral turpitude.

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

What would Jesus do? Lie

According to the Orlando Sentinel, a judge in Florida angered Christian conservatives by allowing a gay couple to adopt a 1-year-old baby boy.
The kooks at the quasi-official sounding Orlando’s Florida Family Policy Council called the ruling “arrogant judicial activism” and included a photograph of the couple (the ones on the left) in a mailing to its [...]

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Cincy man who slept with the dead gets more jail time

Former Ohio morgue worker Kenneth Douglas, who was already in prison for having sex with a corpse awaiting autopsy, has been sentenced on two more counts of sexually assaulting corpses.
Douglas got sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison. He pleaded guilty in October to two counts of gross abuse of a corpse for violating the bodies of two 1991 female [...]

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

As man he changed sex, as woman she changed tax code

The U.S. Tax Court has ruled in favor of a man who became a woman and wanted to deduct the procedure.
The court said that hormone therapies and sex reassignment surgeries are necessary to treat a disease and are thus medically necessary, thus not cosmetic and therefore okay to count as medical expenses.
Rhiannon O’Donnabhain should be getting a [...]

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Malaysian adultery defense fails – judge wasn’t Borneo yesterday

In Malaysia, after a woman found her husband (in shorts) at the home of another woman (wearing a sarong) she lodged a complaint that they were having an affair.
Their “best friends” defense didn’t hold water with the court.
As is the custom on Penampang on Borneo island, the cheaters were fined and ordered to compensate their [...]

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Cabinet maker guilty of working with large tool

In Australia, 50-year-old Mark Stephen Owen pleaded guilty to 12 counts of performing indecent acts at various Brisbane homes between 1999 and 2008.
The prosecutor told the court that while Owen worked, women patrons said an “extremely large” penis poked  out from the fabric of his very short shorts.

According to the Daily Telegraph, Owen would also masturbate [...]

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

And they thought catching their exec with the hooker was bad. . .

One of the perks of being an executive at FCT Electronics is use of the company condo.
James Crowley, 51, of Torrington, Conn., was suspended from his position and arrested in December for abusing that perk and bringing a prostitute to the condo.
But those pros cost money, you know. Crowley was arrested again last week, for [...]

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

Kiddie porn not sick enough? How about baby porn?

We’re not even through January and we may have to end the voting on Perv of the Year.
Ronald Darling, 45, of Branson, Missouri, pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to producing and distributing child pornography WITH AN INFANT.
The poorly named Darling did his work between 2003 and 2006 and admitted that many of his images included [...]