JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Two parents who were charged with child neglect Tuesday have had their children taken away from them.
Jacksonville police called to the 11500 block of Renne Drive on the Northside said they found five children living in a home covered with roaches and mold.
David See III, 36, and Virginia See, 34, were arrested and then released from jail Wednesday when they posted bail.
The Department of Children and Families called police to the home and recommended the children, ages 10, 8, 5, 2 and 10 months, be immediately removed from the poor living conditions, according to a police report.
According to the report, the officer called to the 1,100 square-foot home "could immediately smell a horrible, putrid smell of a combination of dirty laundry, stale food, stale cigarette smoke and mold."
There were roaches and spiders on every table, and there were dirty clothes on the floor, couch and TV, according to the police report.
The carpet was filthy with large stains, loose dirt and small rocks "as if it had not been cleaned in months," the report reads.
In the corner of the living room was a small two-gallon aquarium containing dead fish floating in stagnant water, according to the report.
Uncovered food sat on the kitchen counter that had been there long enough for mold to grow on it, the report says.
"Roaches were in every place I looked," the responding officer wrote. "So many roaches, they were falling from the ceiling onto the floor."
The officer said he saw a molded-over pan in the oven covered in roaches and small bugs. The sink was full of dirty, dried dishes, and the cupboards had no clean plates or cups for the children to eat and drink from, according to the report.
The refrigerator was filthy, containing sour milk with an expiration date of Oct. 12 and food that appeared to have been there so long that it was beginning to mold, according to the report.
No baby formula or food of substance for the children was found, and all the food was so old that it was spoiled, according to the report.
A 5-foot-tall, 10-foot-wide mound of dirty clothes that had not been washed in months was found in the laundry room.
"I could not see a washer and dryer, perhaps because they were covered in soiled clothes," the officer wrote. "I could not find any laundry detergent."
The floor of the back bedroom was covered in dirty laundry and soiled baby diapers, and in the middle of the floor was a small crib with roaches inside it, according to the police report.
The children's bedroom also had piles of dirty clothes all over the floor, and there were two mattresses on the floor with no bed frames and no sheets or blankets, according to the report.
"There were open containers of food on the floor that could have been there for days, if not weeks," the officer wrote in the report. "The room was filthy and smelled of stale urine as if the children had wet their beds over and over again without being cleaned."
According to the police report, some of the children had blisters and chaffed areas from their diapers, and some had not had a bath in days.
The officer wrote of one child: "Her diaper was soiled, and it appeared if she had been wearing it for days."
"It was horrible living conditions for children. This was inhumane," DCF spokesman John Harrell said. "You couldn't imagine the children in this day and age, 2010, would be living in this sort of environment.
"There's a big difference between this and having a house that just happens to be messy with a few things out of place -- big difference," Harrell said. "It's a health risk. It's a sanitary risk for children when you have things like dead fish in an aquarium, clothes that haven't been washed in several months. All sorts of things on the floor. It's incredibly disturbing."
The children's grandmother said in a phone interview Friday that she had to inform DCF about what was going on for the safety of the children.
This family is linked to anther child abuse tragedy. The Sees' nephew Jonathan died in 2006 when his grandmother used a powerful pain killer patch on him. She recently pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
i'm waiting to hear what the hell this was about! 3 little kids!
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A woman and her three young children were found dead at a violent crime scene in a north Florida home on Saturday, and homicide detectives were out looking for whoever might have had a reason to harm them, police said.
Family and neighbors said the woman was a single, stay-at-home mother raising twin 6-year-old girls and a 3-year-old son.
Police spokesman David McCranie wouldn't elaborate on the signs of violence police found at the home, but investigators believe the four were slain by someone else. The case is being investigated as a homicide.
"We are trying to find out if anyone would want to harm the family," he said.
The man who lives two doors down said the neighborhood had burglary problems in recent years, though the crimes had waned with increased police patrols. McCranie said he wasn't aware of a lot of problems in the neighborhood and that police hadn't been called to the one-story home before.
It sits in a subdivision built about five years ago that's surrounded by dense woods a few miles from the campuses of Florida State University and Florida A&M University. McCranie said a lot of families live in the neighborhood.
McCranie wouldn't say how the four died or release their names. Their bodies were found after police received a suspicious call at 10:15 a.m.
Phone numbers listed for the home were not in service. A man who owns the property declined comment.
On Saturday afternoon, a crowd gathered outside the house while crime scene investigators came in and out. Several relatives had come but mostly wouldn't talk to reporters.
Dennis Williams, 35, of Albany, Ga., identified himself as the half-brother of the slain woman, who he said was 28. He said the two weren't close, but he knew the woman's focus was on her children.
11-21-2010 01:20 PM
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condit didn't kill her, but he was a fucking slimeball of the first order. they found his DNA in her panties and all he ever did was deny deny deny.
happily, he's been a loser ever since.
CNN
Updated at 12:41 p.m] A jury on Monday found Ingmar Guandique guilty of murdering Washington intern Chandra Levy.
convicted of first-degree murder, Ingmar Guandique faces a sentence of life without parole. The jury could instead find him guilty of second-degree murder, which could mean 20 years to life.
Earlier, attorneys made their closing arguments in the case against Guandique, who denies he killed Levy, then an intern for the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
"She's been waiting nine years for justice," said prosecutor Amanda Haines, holding up for the jury a poster-sized photograph of the smiling young woman. "It's been nine years, but you need to say the words 'Ingmar Guandique is guilty.'"
Levy's mother was in the spectators' gallery, and at times looked close to tears as prosecutors brought out her daughter's clothing, found at the crime scene in 2002.
Haines told the jury, "You have a roomful of corroboration" for the circumstantial case against Guandique.
That includes the fact Guandique is serving time for two other attacks on women that prosecutors say closely resemble the one that led to Levy's death, she said. Both of those attack victims testified during the trial.
Former Playboy bunny Laurie Bembenek died of liver failure on Saturday. She was 52.
Bembenek's lawyer Mary Woehrer said she died at a hospice care centre in Portland, Oregon.
Bembenek, an ex-cop, was convicted in 1982 of fatally shooting her police detective husband's ex-wife and sentenced to life in prison. She escaped in 1990 and fled to Canada.
Her flight resulted in supporters selling shirts and bumper stickers that read ‘Run Bambi Run’.
She was captured but later released after pleading no contest to second-degree murder.
UK Telegraph
Laurie Bembenek always maintained her innocence and, eight years into her sentence, escaped from prison and fled to Canada.
As a fugitive she became a folk-hero to her supporters, who sold T-shirts and bumper stickers with the slogan: "Run Bambi Run".
Three months later she was recaptured, and in a complex plea bargain prosecutors agreed to release her, taking into account the time she had already served. By pleading "no contest" to a lesser charge of second-degree murder, Laurie Bembenek gave up her right to appeal and was sentenced to 10 years' probation.
The murder victim, Christine Schultz, had been shot dead after being bound and gagged at her home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on May 28 1981. Laurie Bembenek, then married to Elfred "Fred" Schultz, was charged with the murder a few weeks later. She had recently been sacked from the police; her husband, a detective, resigned from the force in December 1981.
At Laurie Bembenek's trial, witnesses said she had talked about having Christine killed because of the crippling alimony payments Fred was forced to make. Hairs from a wig hidden at Laurie Bembenek's block of flats matched hairs found near the victim's body. Evidence suggested that the murder weapon was a service revolver belonging to Fred Schultz.
While the assistant Attorney General, Robert Kraemer, portrayed Laurie Bembenek as a woman addicted to "the fast life", her own attorney, Donald Eisenberg, argued that his client had been framed, and in the course of a four-hour closing argument quoted the Bible and Pope Paul VI. But at the end of her 15-day trial Laurie Bembenek was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Lawrencia Bembenek was born in Milwaukee on August 15 1958, the youngest daughter of a doting middle-class family. After Bay View High School, where she had been an accomplished flautist, she worked as a model, and for three weeks was employed as a waitress at the Playboy Club in the ski resort of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
In 1980 she joined the Milwaukee police force, but was sacked during her probationary period and brought a sexual discrimination complaint against the department. She married Detective Fred Schultz, who had recently divorced his wife Christine, early in 1981.
Laurie Bembenek escaped from prison in 1990 by squeezing through a tiny laundry-room window. She was recaptured at Thunder Bay, Ontario (where she had been working as a waitress in a Greek restaurant under a false name), after being featured on the television show America's Most Wanted.
After her release on probation she was arrested for possession of marijuana, filed for bankruptcy, and admitted to a drink problem. Her case became the subject of a book and a 1993 television miniseries, Woman on Trial: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story, starring Tatum O'Neal in the title role.
In 2002, after completing her parole, Laurie Bembenek sought to clear her name by having evidence from the murder scene subjected to DNA tests. A television show called Dr Phil agreed to conduct the expensive testing, with the results to be revealed on air. According to her lawyer, Laurie Bembenek was sequestered in an apartment in Los Angeles by the programme's producers – apparently to shield her from media reports about her case.
But the confinement reminded her of prison and triggered a panic attack. As she tried to escape from a second-floor window by sliding down a bed sheet, she fell and badly injured her right foot, which later had to be amputated.
She then tried repeatedly to clear her name, and a petition for a full pardon remains before the Wisconsin state governor, Jim Doyle. In a recent television interview, shortly before being treated for the liver failure that killed her, she was asked to rate her life on a scale of one to 10.
"Two," she replied.
"It's been that bad?" asked the reporter.
"Yeah."
Laurie Bembenek is survived by a former husband, Martin Carson. Her family intend to continue seeking a pardon on her behalf.
i am sure this guy picked their house at random, and had no reason to think there could be drugs or money there.
Daily Mail:
A 21-year-old woman shot and killed an armed burglar after he kicked her door down and shot her husband while demanding drugs.
Jamie Franklin, of Knoxville, Tennessee, fatally shot Joshua Dexter Watson, 24, after he and an accomplice charged into her home and demanded drugs and money.
Franklin's husband Jonathan was shot in the struggle before Mrs Franklin shot Watson, with the second robber fleeing on foot.
Knoxville police officers are still pursuing the second man, who is not believed to have been injured.
The dramatic standoff occurred on Monday evening at the Franklins' home on 210 Colonial Drive when Watson and another man knocked and 'then kicked in the door'.
'During the fight, the suspects were demanding at first drugs and then money from the victims,' said Knoxville Police Department spokesman Darrell DeBusk.
Jonathan Franklin was shot in the struggle - officers declined to say where on the body he had been hit - and has since been admitted to the University of Tennessee Medical Center with what police termed non-life-threatening injuries.
After her husband was shot, Jamie Franklin leapt to the defence of her home with the family's .357 caliber revolver and 'fired several rounds, striking one suspect more than once in the upper body'.
Watson was found dead from multiple gunshot wounds at the scene while police have released information about the suspect still at large.
He is described as white, in his early 20s, about 5-foot-8 to 5-foot-10 with a very thin build, black hair and armed with a handgun.
With a second suspect still on the loose, DeBusk declined to state whether the Franklins knew the home invaders or if both of the men were armed when they burst into the property.
Watson had a lengthy criminal record prior to his death, having faced a charge of aggravated robbery in 2004 before he turned 18.
He had later amassed a long rap sheet of charges, including drug possession, theft, evading arrest, reckless driving and violation of probation for the aggravated robbery conviction, according to police records.
The shootings were the sixth incident of gunfire during a home robbery in the last five months in South Knox County.
nice place.
and dead druggie.
and other guy who has been caught.
2 SC women killed on Thanksgiving, found in woods
The Associated Press
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Authorities in Georgia were looking Friday for a man who may know something about the Thanksgiving killing of two young women from South Carolina.
The bodies of Angela Brooks and Nancy Cushman were found by a passer-by around 2:30 a.m. Thursday in a wooded area of Augusta. Authorities in Richmond County, on the state line with South Carolina, say the 19-year-old Brooks was from Warrenville, S.C., and Cushman was 17 or 18 and also from the area.
The women were last seen alive with an unidentified man around 12:30 a.m. Thursday.
Cushman had a 1-year-old daughter and was expected to celebrate Thanksgiving with family, her grandmother told television station WRDW-TV in Augusta.
"She lived way over here (in South Carolina), I couldn't believe or figure out what she was doing way over there," Sarah Cushman said of her granddaughter.
She said she had no idea how this could have happened.
"See if she was one of them raising sand and stirring up trouble, you could expect it, but she didn't," Sarah Cushman said. "She was quiet, nice, sweet little girl."
Authorities want to question 26-year-old Travis Lorenzo Berrian. They say he's not a suspect but they think he might have information about the deaths.
Shawn Johnson, a friend of the two young women, saw them a few hours before they died and couldn't believe they were gone.
"It was really kind of shocking ... at first I didn't believe it," he told Augusta television station WAGT-TV.
Johnson last saw the women in Cushman's car.
"You could see through the front of her Escalade," he said. "You could see the third person in the car. He was sitting behind Nancy. I don't know who it was."
Cushman's 1999 Cadillac Escalade was found about a mile and a half away from where the two were believed to have been shot.
Autopsies were expected to be conducted Friday at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Crime Lab. GBI spokesman John Bankhead said it would be up to local authorities to release the results. The sheriff's office said the women were shot but declined to say where or how many times.
very strange disappearance. she must have become disoriented after the accident. or was she grabbed?
LASALLE COUNTY, Ill. WGN
Authorities in LaSalle County have suspended the search for a woman who vanished after a car crash that killed her husband.
The search may resume at the end of the week if the weather warms and ice melts in the area.
Tanya Shannon, 40, disappeared early Sunday. Police think she walked away from the accident. Her husband, Dale Shannon, 41, was killed when he lost control of the car -- hitting a utility pole.
Investigators say they cannot rule anything out. They have been monitoring the missing woman's cell phone as well as her credit card records to see if there is any sort of unusual activity that could point to foul play.
No new leads have turned up after several days of searching, and rescuers have not been able to find any clues that will lead them to Shannon.
Today rescuers turned their attention to the drainage ditches along the roadways. Special plows cleared away the snow drifts -- sometimes three or even four feet deep -- along these ditches near the accident scene.
Investigators found footprints leading away from the crash.
Tanya Shannon was wearing a bright red dress and a thin fleece hoodie when she staggered off into the brutal cold.
The wind chill has been sub-zero or in the teens the last three days, and the relentless wind has hampered the rescue efforts.
400 people live in the farm community of Ransom -- home to Dale and Tanya Shannon and their four daughters, ages 4 to 15. News of the tragedy has devastated the close-knit community. People have started collecting money, food, toys, and anything they want to share with the grieving family.
i would LOVE to be the arresting officer. it would be terrible if he fell down and hurt himself on his way to jail.
BM...black male in his 40s. still gone with her car a week later.
NEWS4/JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Fern Gorin, 74, was badly beaten by a man who robbed her while she was sitting in her car at an Arby's drive-through, leaving her face and upper body swollen and black and blue.
"He hit me upside the head and said, 'Stay down. Don't make a noise,'" Gorin said. "And I guess I blacked out then because the next thing I know, he was beating me on the head and back and telling me to get out."
A week and a half later, Gorin is still in pain but moving around much better.
She said her attacker made off with about $73.
Her terrifying experience happened on Black Friday. Gorin said she was taking a break from Christmas shopping when she pulled into an Arby's on Beach Boulevard near University Boulevard.
Gorin said she was rolling down her window to make her order when a man popped up and demanded money.
"He put both hands on the door like that and said, 'Get over! Get over quick! Get the F over!' And I was just startled," Gorin said. "I tried to put the car into drive and drive off and leave him, and that's when he got me by the throat here."
Gorin thinks she blacked out because the next thing she knew, she was getting shoved out of her car. It was only a lucky coincidence that the robber and carjacker chose to dump her in the parking lot of her church, which is only a few blocks from her house.
Gorin managed to stumble to a neighbor's home for help.
"Oh yeah, I'm blessed to be alive. Absolutely," she said. "That's why I say I praise the Lord every day that I'm alive and able to talk about it."
Associated Press
authorities arrest Nicholas Brooks in the murder of Sylvie Cachay.
NEW YORK -- The son of an Oscar-winning songwriter was arrested Friday on charges of choking his Peruvian-born girlfriend, a fashion designer found dead and half-clothed in a bathtub overflowing with water in a posh hotel, police said.
Nicholas Brooks, 24, was arrested on charges of attempted murder and strangulation in the death of Sylvie Cachay, who was discovered around 3 a.m. Thursday at the Soho House hotel. He has been at a police precinct more than a day and was cooperating with investigators, who obtained a search warrant to take swabs from under his fingernails.
Police said the death was ruled a homicide, but the medical examiner's office has not determined a cause of death pending toxicology test results after an autopsy was inconclusive. The results could take days.
Brooks, the son of "You Light Up My Life" writer Joseph Brooks, has an attorney, but police didn't know the lawyer's name. His father, who is in unrelated legal trouble, has not commented on the case and doesn't know who is representing his son, according to the elder Brooks' attorney.
The 33-year-old Cachay, wearing a black top and underwear, was found submerged in the oval tub, face up, after hotel staff noticed the ceiling below her room was leaking. She had red marks around her neck and a bite mark on her hand, investigators said.
A bottle of prescription pills was found in the room, but no illegal drugs were found.
Before the body was found, Brooks was seen leaving the hotel, then returning and leaving again. According to police, he told investigators he ran into a friend at the lobby, and the two left to get drinks. He returned around 3:30 a.m. to find police in the room.
Cachay lived in an apartment in Manhattan's West Village and had a membership to the Soho House, an exclusive club frequented by celebrities. That meant she had access to the rooftop pool, where "Sex and the City" episodes were filmed, and could rent one of the 24 guest rooms at a discount. The hotel has hosted stars like Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts.
Earlier in the week, a candle sparked a small bedroom fire at her apartment, and that may have led her to stay at the Soho House, Browne said.
Cachay and Brooks had been dating about six months, and investigators said some of her friends told them he was erratic. The two started dating after Sylvie's poodle was struck by a car and killed, said her mother, Sylvia Cachay of McLean, Virginia, outside Washington.
"He helped her through all this process, and they became boyfriend and girlfriend," she told WTTG-TV, a local Fox affiliate. "Sylvie always had this idea of helping people, and I think this boy needed help in directing his life."
But on a family vacation in Cancun just two weeks ago, Sylvie told her mother the relationship was over.
"She told me, 'Mommy, we are just friends right now. He's trying, but I told him that I don't want to have a serious relationship or consider marriage if he does not change,"' the mother said.
"My heart is just broken," she said.
A phone call to Cachay's family rang unanswered Friday.
Cachay grew up with dual citizenship, splitting her time between Peru and McLean. She graduated from Marymount University with a degree in design. She worked for Victoria's Secret and left in 2006 to start a swimsuit collection, but had been working at fashion houses again after the economy tanked and she lost her backing.
Brooks' Academy Award-winning father is awaiting trial in an unrelated case. The 72-year-old was accused of raping 11 women he lured to his apartment with the promise of a starring role in a movie. He has pleaded not guilty to sexual assault charges and is free on bail.
He won the Oscar for Best Original Song for the 1977 ballad "You Light Up My Life." He also wrote and directed the movie "You Light Up My Life," about a comedian who has a one-night stand with a director.
Jeffrey Hoffman, who represents the elder Brooks, said the father hasn't spoken to his son since Cachay's death.
"I spoke to him within the last few months and I was unaware he had a girlfriend," Hoffman said.
I know that street well, I used to deliver bread there... Bad neighborhood, but then again, all of Jax could be bad. We are a normal big city and have our share of animals that roam the street. It is sad, but thank God she is still alive...
(12-11-2010 02:28 PM)HyenaKiller Wrote: I know that street well, I used to deliver bread there... Bad neighborhood, but then again, all of Jax could be bad. We are a normal big city and have our share of animals that roam the street. It is sad, but thank God she is still alive...
Jax is as bad as Detroit. i read News4Jax every day because i know some cops in the region and follow the cummings case. and every single day it's another thug shooting.
when my son was in college there i was worried sick all the time. so happy he is up here now.
i don't see yet where they have caught the filthy bastard who beat that elderly lady, please let me know if you hear that they get him Hyena~
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