Crazy World: Boy, 10, strangles four-year-old

10-year old boy strangles four-year-old

SWEDEN: Swedish police said on Wednesday they had solved the case of a four-year-old boy's tragic death two months ago: He was strangled by another child.

"A 10-year-old boy has confessed to strangling the four-year-old," police said in a statement, adding the older child had used a skipping-rope.

Police did not reveal any motive for the killing of the young boy, called Texas, who disappeared on October 16 from the courtyard outside the apartment building where he lived, in the southern Swedish village of Ljungby.

According to Swedish news reports, the young victim got into a fight with several other children, who had chased him out of the play area.

His body was found a few hours later in a nearby wooded area.

As many as 40 police officers worked on the case, and about 540 interrogations were held, 65 of them with children between the ages of five and 15, police said.

"The difficulty with this investigation has been that the evidence was found with children, and that was a very difficult situation to handle," Yvonne Rudinsson, who headed the investigation, said in the police statement.

Children under the age of 15 cannot be punished under Swedish law, so the case of the 10-year-old killer will be handled by social services.

 

One in five US women raped in lifetime: study

US: Nearly 20 percent of women in the United States have been raped at least once and one in four has been severely attacked by an intimate partner, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Wednesday.

Almost 80 percent of female victims were first raped before age 25 and more than half were raped by a current or former partner, according to the CDC's analysis of data from the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey of 18,049 men and women in the United States in 2010.

The survey, which the CDC said was the first of its kind, found that one in eight women rape victims said the perpetrator was a family member.
Alaska, Oregon and Nevada had the highest percentage of women who had been raped, the study found.

One in seven men reported having experienced severe physical violence by an intimate partner and one in 71 men said they had been raped at least once.

The report highlights numerous long-term health problems associated with sexual violence, including headaches, chronic pain and difficulty sleeping.

"This landmark report paints a clear picture of the devastating impact these violent acts have on the lives of millions of Americans," U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a statement.

The CDC numbers show rape "is still a crime that impacts almost every family in America," said Scott Berkowitz, president of the nonprofit group Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network.

More victims need to report rape and more rapists need to go to prison, Berkowitz told Reuters.

"The more we can get off the street, the more crime we can prevent," he said.

Aneroxic death: 31-year-old weighed 30kgs

UK: A 31-year-old woman who weighed just 30kgs lost her 16-year old battle with anorexia recently.

The woman's heart had shrunk to half its normal size, the autopsy revealed, said Daily Mail.

According to reports, the woman had become so thin that certain parts of her body such as stomach and bowel had actually been wasted due to lack of blood supply.

The daily reported that Kate Chilver was dangerously underweight for almost two decades.

"I'd known Kate since her referral to our service in 2004. She had onset anorexia from the age of about 12, her first admission just before she was 15," consultant psychologist Dr Frances Connan said.

Doctors told the paper that Chilver had one of 'the worst' cases of anorexia they had ever seen.

Microwave kitten killer gets off lightly
 
BRITAIN: A woman who microwaved a kitten to death in an act of revenge was jailed for 168 days Wednesday.

Gina Robins, 31, put the 10-week-old, black and white pet in the microwave after its owner reported the mother of three's abusive partner to the police.

Robins, from Torquay on the southwest English coast, was found guilty of animal cruelty in a one-day trial last month.

On February 15 last year, she microwaved the kitten while at the home of its owner Sarah Knutton - days after her then-friend had reported an incident to police involving Robins' partner outside the same house.

"We have seen little remorse for the death of the kitten or the trauma caused to your former friend," said chairwoman of the bench Liz Clyne.

"We have taken into account that you have no previous convictions. Nevertheless we are sending you to prison for a total of 168 days.

"You will be disqualified from keeping animals for a period of 10 years."

During the trial, magistrates were told that Knutton heard a noise "like a crisp packet being popped", followed by a loud "screeching".

Knutton found the kitten dead in the microwave and then vomited in the sink.

Robins sent her a text message the following day, ending their friendship and saying: "Remember the saying 'What goes around comes around'? It has started already to bite you.

"The cat? Karma."

Robins claimed the microwave, which starts automatically when the door shuts, was accidentally turned on by another cat.

But magistrates found her evidence "far-fetched" and "inconsistent".

Gauze left in patient’s leg for 10 years

SAUDI ARABIA: Doctors examining a woman suffering from excruciating leg pain were surprised to find a piece of gauze left inside her leg for nearly 10 years.

The woman told doctors in Riyadh that she had undergone a surgery to remove a cyst in her leg at another hospital in the central town of Onaiza 10 years ago.

“She said she came to hospital in Riyadh after she started to feel the pain again…….X-ray images showed doctors in Onaiza had forgotten a piece of gauze inside her leg and doctors in Riyadh had first thought it was another cyst,” the Saudi Arabic language daily Sabq said.

It quoted the woman’s husband as saying health authorities should investigate this serious medical error, which “could have caused cancer to my wife.”

'Visa' temple holds prayer for rupee rise

INDIA: It is almost a custom for those wishing to get a visa to visit or work abroad to visit this temple.

It is not an ordinary temple but a visa temple which is located near the southern Indian city of Hyderabad. The temple even featured in the Wall Street Journal on December 31, 2007.

This temple has recently been in the news as it launched a special prayer to help arrest the fall of the rupee against the US dollar, reports Hindustan Times.
The temple does not accept money from devotees.

Social media led to man's death: judge

AUSTRALIA: In a dreadful incident, a man posted his intentions to commit murder on Facebook and used phone messages to convey the same.

Jack dies 2nite so does ne 1 in Dodd Street that walks outside,'' Samuel Michael Westbrook , 24, posted on his Facebook page just hours before gunning down his uncle Peter Westbrook, reports a news website.

The man has been jailed for 21 years. While sentencing the murderer, the judge warned againts using social media to make threats or bully others online. The judge even said that the social media led to the uncle's death.

Evidence before the court showed Westbrook's lack of remorse after killing his uncle instead of the victim, said the website.

"I shot my uncle with a shotgun and killed him ... my uncle Peter, he was a f... head and I blew him away, it will be on the news I reckon,'' Westbrook texted a cousin a day after committing the  murder.

There was an ongoing dispute between the murderer and his partner's cousin and angry text messages had been doing the rounds since May 2010. However, the murderer killed his uncle as a result of all the taunts and angry messages that were being exchanged.

Amorous Briton floods squatted villa

BRITAIN: A fantasist who sneaked into a French luxury villa to prepare it for a romantic night ended up facing charges after flooding the property, police said Wednesday.

Alexander Thomas, a raffish 31-year-old from Manchester in northwest England, boasts of being a top golfer but lives in his car on the French Riviera, a millionaire's playground of luxury seafront resorts.

On December 8, he climbed into a sumptuous holiday property with wooded terraces overlooking the coast in exclusive Roquebrune-Cap-Martin.

He pulled lawn furniture out of a cabin in the grounds and set up a "love bed" surrounded by rose petals, oranges, lemons and champagne bottles on a deck by an as yet unfilled swimming pool, police said.

Thomas decorated a balustrade with posters of his idols: a young woman, the Manchester United football team and the children's character Winnie-the-Pooh, before raising the black pirate's banner over the scene.

After practising his golf swing on the lawns, he turned on taps and showers to fill the pool and left them running while setting off to meet a woman.

Unfortunately, the lady in question - an American - turned up three hours late for her date, already drunk, and refused to return with Thomas.

When he returned to the villa at 1.00 am he found the son of the owner, an Italian businessman based in Monaco, had returned from a trip to Africa -- and that the pool had overflowed and partially flooded the villa.

In addition to inundating a corridor and stairwell, the flood damaged a water heater and ruined a collection of unique original cinema posters.

On his arrest, Thomas told police: "The Cote d'Azur is so beautiful."

Thomas spent the night in custody and has been ordered to return to face a judge and possible charges next year.

This was not the first time he has been in trouble in the region. In November he spent eight days in jail in the Principality of Monaco, after spending a night in a luxury hotel and skipping without paying.

This may not have been too gruelling an ordeal, however. Monaco's tiny jail clings to the rocky promontory under its royal palace and famous oceanographic museum, with delightful views over the blue waters of the Med. 

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