Another Elder Murdered by Own Family

By Teresa Stepzinski Story updated at 12:45 AM on Sunday, May. 31, 2009

Jacksonville,Florida, USA

That their mother killed their 68-year-old father was brutal. But the close-knit brothers - Davis Jr., Scott and Jeff - were then branded "money grubbing" cads by their mother and her lawyers, who sought to justify the slaying of the respected and popular Waycross eye doctor.

"It's been a war zone ... I felt like I've walked around with this stigma," Scott Jacobs, 41, said the day after the verdict. "I haven't had time to grieve."

He and his oldest brother, Davis Jacobs Jr., recounted for jurors numerous incidents of their mother abusing their father, who a psychologist later testified was the battered spouse.

Battered men generally don't report abuse and often don't leave their abuser because they are ashamed, afraid or blame themselves for causing the violence, District Attorney Rick Currie said.

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It all goes back to more of the same, abused elders don't report abuse because of the stigma, and if they did who would believe them, when my mother was abused and we reported, the Monroe County Sheriff that investigated Henry B. Hamilton stated that because there were not any signs of physical abuse that there must not be any.

Elders in the US are being finished off at an alarming rate, as long as the incidents are not reported in the mass media they are seen as isolated incidents which makes for the killing off of individual elders one at a time much easier......

In reality we folks in the USA don't really need many enemies we are doing a pretty good job amongst ourselves of killing and preying on each other for money.....

Elder at the wrong end of a shovel

New York ,USA Wednesday, May 27, 2009 By JOHN ANNESES

A Stanten Island teen charged with beating his dad with shovel .Older man in a coma after altercation triggered by son's all-night antics.

An 18-year-old from Willowbrook, possibly high on a mixture of prescription and illegal drugs, is accused of bashing in his father's head with a shovel because the older man didn't like that he was staying out so late.

James DeLeo, 18, was arrested on charges of attempted murder after police found him outside his Bellhaven Place home at about 8:30 a.m. Sunday, covered in blood.

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Under todays climate the baby boomer generation should steer clear of disciplining their offspring, should a neighboor see you or the child itself call Protective Services you could be in for an extended and protracted investigation , leave that up to proffesionals, avoid disciplining your children it could land you in trouble with the APS at the best and at the worst you could end up in the hospital or worst, dead...

Son arraigned today for murder, elder abuse of 81-year-old father

MURRIETA -CA. USA Valley News

A 46-year-old man is scheduled to be arraigned today on charges of murder and cruelty to a dependent adult for the alleged slaying of his 81-year-old father, who died as a result of what authorities describe as several blows to the head.

Charles Edward Ellsworth died Friday at a Fontana hospital "as a result of being struck several times in the head'' by his son, Michael Thomas Ellsworth, at the victim's residence in rural Homeland on April 15, sheriff's and coroner's investigators said.

Deputies investigated a physical dispute reported about 1:40 a.m. April 15 in the 30700 block of Palmetto Palm Avenue in Homeland, between Hemet and Perris, according to sheriff's Sgt. Dennis Gutierrez.

It was not clear from sheriff's and coroner's accounts whether anyone was arrested or received medical treatment on April 15, Gutierrez said. But last Wednesday, the elder Ellsworth was admitted to a Menifee hospital, and he died at 11:07 a.m. Friday at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Fontana, sheriff's and coroner's officials said.

Michael Ellsworth was arrested at 3:30 p.m. Friday by deputies from the Perris station and was booked on suspicion of murder and cruelty to a dependent adult with great bodily injury.

Man Kills Eight at US Care Home

North Carolina, USA ..BBC News

A gunman has opened fire at a nursing home in the US state of North Carolina, killing six people at the scene, and two others who died later in hospital.

A police officer and the gunmen were among those injured in the incident in the town of Carthage, police said.

Police units at Pinelake Health and Rehab Center, where the gunman opened fire at 1000 local time (1500 GMT).

A 45-year-old man is under arrest, and will be charged with eight murders, a local district attorney said.

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Police Chief Chris McKenzie describes what happened at the nursing home in Carthage

"At this time the suspect, Robert Stewart, is in custody facing these eight counts of murder, felony assault on a law enforcement officer, and other charges are pending at this time," said Maureen Krueger, Moore County district attorney.

The man is not believed to be related to any of the residents at the home.

Seven residents and one nurse were among the fatalities.

The facility, about 60 miles (100 km) south-west of Raleigh, has 90 beds and specialises in caring for people with Alzheimer's disease.

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One Question: Where's the Outcry?

By Suzanne Sege and Robert Mainer

WAYLAND -MASS. USA Mary Lauby, executive director of Jane Doe Inc., recently shocked the members of the Sudbury-Wayland-Lincoln Domestic Violence Roundtable by pointing out that over the past 14 months there have been 64 domestic violence related homicides in Massachusetts.

"If the commonwealth had 64 cases of West Nile Virus over the same length of time, state officials undoubtedly would declare an emergency and mobilize the state’s public health and public safety resources to stop the spread of the disease," Lauby said.

"And in the unlikely event that our officials didn’t recognize their responsibility to protect public health, there would be a deafening chorus of voices demanding action. So, where’s the outcry about the social justice problem called domestic violence that has killed 64 people in our state?"
Jane Doe Inc. is a statewide coalition of agencies that provide services to victims of domestic violence. Thus, Lauby is particularly well-qualified to challenge us with her question:

Where is the outcry?

There will be no outcry, America is losing it's soul we have become a nation of sadistic killers, we separate children from their parents and we separate parents from their children and declare them incompetent for the sake of taking their money. Justice is no more, we warehouse our elders, and turn our backs on the most needy. There is no more right there is no more wrong there is just survival, the survival the fittest

Man Found Guilty of Killing Grandfather Faces up to 40 Years, No Family Inmunity Granted Here

Washington,USA By Keith L. Alexander Washington Post Staff Writer

A Northeast Washington man was found guilty of second-degree murder yesterday for fatally beating his 89-year-old grandfather, who had tried to kick him out of the house they shared.

After four days of deliberation, a Superior Court jury of 10 women and two men found Martin A. Brown, 48, guilty in the 2006 bludgeoning of his grandfather, Howard Brown. Brown faces up to 40 years in prison.
Other family members and neighbors broke into tears after hearing the verdict. "Justice is served. It came from Pop. He laid on that floor so he could get his own justice. That's the kind of man that he was," said Doreatha Bush, Brown's niece, whom he raised from the time she was 6 weeks old.

Elsie Spivey said her neighbor was often afraid of his grandson and would whisper on the telephone when he called her. "This was elderly abuse, and it's going on in the city," she said. "This city focuses on young people being abused. They should also look after the elderly."

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Suspect Arrested for Recent Series of Violent Robberies

By KELLY FITZPATRICK Berkely,California,USA

Jahton Green, a 21-year-old Oakland resident, is believed to be responsible for eight violent attacks on senior citizens over a period of three months, said Berkeley police Sgt. Mary Kusmiss.

Green was charged last week with two counts of second-degree robbery with great bodily injury, grand theft and possession of stolen property.

He is currently being held at Santa Rita County Jail without bail.

The attacks began on November 17, 2007, when Green stole an 82-year-old woman's purse and knocked her to the ground, fracturing her hip.

In the most recent incident, Green brutally beat a 93-year-old Berkeley man, forced himself into the man's condominium and stole his wallet, credit cards and $320 in cash.

"There were serious injuries in all of the cases," Kusmiss said. "The possibility of death was certainly there."

According to Kusmiss, detectives are confident that Green is responsible for all eight attacks, but thus far he has only been charged in connection with four incidents.

In the most serious cases, the victims suffered serious or permanent injury, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

"(The attacks) really do exemplify that elders are particularly vulnerable to this type of crime," she said.

Kusmiss said crime against elders is best prevented when people look out for one another.

Son Takes Dead Aim at 65 Year Old Father Celebrating Birthday Kills Him Instantly

Lewiston,ME, USA Sun Journal.Com By Christopher Williams , January 17, 2008

Poirier climbed into his pickup truck with a .270-caliber Browning rifle and drove to his father's Lewiston home on Grove Street where he was celebrating his 65th birthday with family members, including children and a baby, Marchese said.Scott Poirier parked in front of his sister's house next door and walked around the back of his parents' home.

There, he stood in the rain and pointed the rifle at his father through a glass door, using its hunting scope to take aim. When he squeezed the trigger, the bullet traveled through the French doors. It grazed the elbow and back of his aunt, Pearl Roger, who sat at the dining table, shattered a wine bottle and struck his father in the neck, killing him.

The two sides in the case will disagree on Poirier's state of mind when he pulled the trigger, the attorneys said in opening statements.

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Man uses Stool,Broom,Hammer to Kill Aunt faces Re-Trial

By Ruby Gonzales, Staff Writer Article Launched: 01/11/2008 10:25:39 PM PST

NORWALK - The District Attorney's Office will retry a La Mirada man for allegedly beating to death his 86-year-old great-aunt with a bar stool, bench, broomstick, toilet paper holder and a hammer.

But it has not yet been decided whether prosecutors will file a lesser charge such as second-degree murder or manslaughter against Eric Steve Caballero, 23, according to Sandi Gibbons, spokeswoman for the District Attorney's Office.

Last month, a jury deadlocked 11-1 in favor of acquitting Caballero of the March 4, 2005, first-degree murder of Adelina Garcia. They also acquitted him of robbery and grand theft auto.

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When The State No Longer Protects Its Citizens

This story was reported by Shelley Murphy, Jonathan Saltzman, and Scott Allen of the Globe staff. It was written by Allen and edited for ElderAbuseHelp.Org

GRAHAM, Washington USA. - December 18,2004 .- Ma and Pa's Roundup is the kind of hole in the wall where everyone turns to look at the rare newcomers who venture through its doors, which is exactly what happened the night that Daniel T. Tavares Jr. came striding in.

Tavares had a tattoo of a raging bull on his neck. He announced he had a stash of crystal meth in his pocket. He said he had ties to the Mafia and owned his own tattoo business. And he let it drop that, by the way, he had killed three people back in Boston.

Tavares fugitive from Massachusetts with a history of horrific violence, a man who killed his mother with a carving knife, led police to another woman's corpse in his former backyard, and threatened Mitt Romney and his own father. Hours after leaving the Roundup, Tavares is believed to have killed again. He allegedly killed a couple who lived across the street from his trailer, shooting each one three times in the head.

How did, how a mentally ill, drug-abusing killer was unleashed on a rural community 3,000 miles away, his sentence for killing his mother came to an end last summer, including the hearing July 16 in which Tavares, facing more criminal charges for assaulting prison guards, appeared in Superior Court asking that he be set free until trial.

It took Judge Kathe M. Tuttman less than 10 minutes to waive bail and release Tavares and
prosecutors rejected or ignored serious concerns about the inmate raised by police and prison officials over a 16-year period.Tavares's egregious prison record that included more than 100 serious disciplinary complaints.

Word never reached the people of Graham that a violent fugitive had taken up residence. Brian and Beverly Mauck, who planned to start a family in the house they had purchased in 2006, never mentioned their new neighbor to family members. Beverly's mother said she first heard the name Daniel Tavares when he was arrested in her daughter's murder.

Tavares claimed he was hearing voices when he stabbed her over and over again on the night of July 11, 1991, telling police that he "just started swinging" with a 12-inch knife after an evening of drinking and taking LSD. Police found 14 vials of psychiatric medications on the dresser in Tavares's bedroom.

Tavares's history of mental illness persuaded Walsh, the DA, to accept a guilty plea to manslaughter rather than pursue murder charges, prompting criticism recently from police involved in the investigation.

"To me, it was definitely homicide," said former Somerset police chief James M. Smith. "Certainly, when you stab someone 16 times, there's an intent there."

Walsh said later that he feared Tavares's psychological problems could suggest he did not understand what he was doing on the night of the killing. "We have to prove that he possessed a sound mind. . . . If we can't prove that, he's found not guilty."

In 2000, he contacted police to say that he could tell them where to find the body of 32-year-old Gayle Botelho, who he said had been killed by two acquaintances after "some wild party" in 1988. Investigators unearthed Botelho's skeletal remains in a makeshift grave behind the Fall River house Tavares had lived in at the time of her disappearance. Like Ann Tavares, Botelho had been stabbed to death.

For years, he wrote threatening letters to public officials and family members from his cell, prompting a State Police investigation in 2006. "He threatened to kill me," said the elder Tavares. "He said he'd come down here when he got out and break all my ribs and maim me."

However, Tavares could not be charged with a crime, prosecutors said, because, as an inmate, he had no ability to carry out the threats.

By July 16, the only thing that separated Tavares from freedom was raising the $100,000 bail he faced in the assault charges.His problem would be solved in a brief hearing barely noticed outside of Judge Tuttman's courtroom in Worcester.

Despite the freedom, Tavares's father said, his son was unchanged, calling the elder Tavares in November to blurt "I'm out" and hang up.

That night, the elder Daniel Tavares Sr. slept with his gun.

Sometime in the next few hours, Pierce County prosecutor Gerald T. Costello alleges, Tavares kicked in the front door of the Maucks' home, shot Brian Mauck in the face, then shot him twice more as he lay on the floor. Beverly Mauck tried to run, but she only made it to the front door before she was shot in the head, too. Tavares told police he then placed her body on top of Brian's and covered them with a blanket as a sign of respect.

Troyer said Massachusetts officials have to do better than blaming one another for Tavares. "Everybody needs to take a little bit of responsibility," said Troyer. "If somebody were to say, 'Boy, we could have done a better job,' we'd have a lot more respect."

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When Laws Protect Criminals Innocent People Get Hurt

By LISA DEMER, ZAZ HOLLANDER AND ELIZABETH BLUEMINK Anchorage Daily News Published: December 4, 2007

Suspect 'just wanted to kill a few more people'
Christopher Erin Rogers Jr. says he hacked his father to death with a machete in Palmer, stole his dad's truck, fled to Anchorage and continued a 26-hour crime rampage that left two dead and three others wounded because he was angry with his family, according to charges filed Monday.

Christopher Erin Rogers Jr. -- Erin to his family -- has a lengthy criminal record in Palmer and Anchorage, including attempted arson, driving while intoxicated and domestic violence, according to court documents.

The 28-year-old describes himself as a construction worker.

When the rampage began early Sunday, Rogers was out on bail for a felony drunken driving charge. He was supposed to be under the watch of his father and his father's girlfriend, court-approved custodians who lived outside Palmer on Gunnysack Road.

But in a fit of anger Sunday morning, the younger Rogers attacked his father, Christopher Rogers Sr., and girlfriend, Elann Moren, with a machete, according to Alaska State Troopers. Before the 26 hours of violence ended in Anchorage around 7:30 a.m. Monday, the elder Rogers and an Anchorage graduate student were dead and four more people were injured, including a police officer.

As a young teenager, Rogers twice was in trouble for theft, with cases handled through the juvenile system. He graduated from the Alaska National Guard Youth Corps Challenge Program, which is supposed to help problem kids turn their lives around.

In April 1999, when he was almost 20, he set two fires on the same day in Eagle River, according to a charging document that accused him of arson. He and a friend were walking around bored, he told police.

"He has done a lot to turn his life in another direction," Landers, who since has died, wrote to the judge. But he added: "I do feel that his attitude does need improvement and I do feel that this is due to growing up in a broken family."

That May, Rogers pleaded no contest to attempted arson, and the judge sentenced him to two years' probation. Years later, his conviction was set aside.

But he didn't stay out of trouble. He was convicted of domestic violence assault in 2000 and got five years' probation.

The next year, he accused his mother of threatening him and his girlfriend and sought a restraining order.

He wrote in his petition that his mother subjected him to "emotional and psychological abuse, playing mind games." He said his mother stopped by the KFC in Eagle River where he worked to start arguments about his girlfriend. She called both of them foul names, he claimed. The young couple had a son, and he didn't want his mother to see the boy, his petition said. She needed a "mental health exam," he wrote.

Then in 2004, Rogers was convicted of drunken driving and resisting arrest after a wreck. His blood-alcohol content was .175, double the legal limit for driving, according to court records. He got a few days in jail and three years of probation.

Last year in Palmer, he was convicted of harassment after a woman accused him of beating her in front of her three children. The woman suffered a sprained arm as well as extensive bruises, according to a trooper's affidavit. He got two years' probation.

In July, a trooper investigator discovered Rogers Jr. 200 yards down a trail off Sullivan Road in the Butte, passed out behind the wheel of a 1982 Chevrolet pickup, keys in the ignition, an open vodka bottle nearby and numerous full Jack Daniel's shot bottles in the car. He was arrested for felony drunken driving.

The next month, a Palmer magistrate approved Rogers Sr. and Moren as court-approved custodians for him, according to court documents.

In October, an Anchorage judge issued a warrant for his arrest. City prosecutors wanted him jailed for failing to show up for alcohol abuse treatment in the 2004 drunken driving case.

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Elderly Man Pushed Downstairs.-Abusers Broke His Back and his Bank Accounts

Syracuse (WSYR-TV) - A 45-year-old woman is accused of assaulting an elderly man she befriended, and using his credit cards to make many purchases he never asked for. Police say it’s one of the worse cases of elder abuse they’ve seen in some time.

Michele Thomas of Syracuse has been charged with attempted robbery, grand larceny, and two counts of assault. She was arrested Monday.

Police say the 85-year-old victim had a romantic relationship with Thomas.

He invited her, and her two children, to live with him and take care of him between January and July of this year.

She became his caregiver, allegedly beat him, broke his nose several times, and got access to his bank account by forcibly getting his pin number

In once instance police say the victim said he would not give Thomas his belongings and it’s alleged she beat him.

She also allegedly tore up his phone book with family and personal numbers and installed a caller id, so she could screen out calls from family.

The victim also suffered a broken back, which he claims he got after Thomas pushed him down the stairs.

After the back injury, nurses stared coming in the home and he told them about the abuse.

Police says nurses found family phone numbers and called the victim's son in Georgia, who came up and took him back down south to live with him. He was hospitalized in Georgia.

WWII Veteran Survives D-Day, But Not Elder Abuse

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- A World War II veteran who lived through the D-Day invasion of Normandy was laid to rest on Tuesday, one month after he was allegedly attacked and robbed.

Frank Magana, 83, was an Army medic, described by family as a soft-spoken individual who never raised his voice.

That's why they can't understand why anyone would want to hurt him.
PFC Frank Magana was drafted in January 1943 and saw his first action of WWII on Omaha Beach during the D-Day invasion of Normandy.
Magana was a member of the Army's 1st Infantry, the infamous "Big Red One."

Magana's nephew, Carlos Gonzalez, said he talked with his uncle Frank for years about that day.

His landing craft was hit by machine gun fire as soldiers dove over the side to avoid being shot.

"Uncle Frank started running into the water to help wounded soldiers and he couldn't even swim," said Gonzalez.
"I asked him how many times he went back, and he told me six or seven, until someone grabbed him and pulled him out of the surf."

Magana documented his unit's march across France, Belgium and Germany with numerous photos, until his discharge in November 1945.
He returned home and left medicine behind him.
"What he saw with all the death, destruction and dismemberment would break down even the strongest man," said Gonzalez.

He worked as a TV repairman for more than 30 years, his quiet unassuming nature endearing him to family and friends.
Magana died Halloween morning at the age of 83.

A couple of weeks before his death, Magana was walking along Brundage Lane near his home in central Bakersfield, when family members say he was jumped by one or two men and robbed.

He was taken to Kern Medical Center where Gonzalez said he never fully recovered.

Bakersfield police are investigating the family's claims but say they can't find any evidence yet that would connect any injuries he may have sustained to his death.

Right now, the case is being looked at as possible elder abuse.
Carlos has honored his uncle's service for years as a member of a living history group that does WWII re-enactments.
He plays the part of a medic.

Someone to Watch Over Me!

Ruth Eglash writes in the Jerusalem Post about Care Givers and
Elder Abuse in this feature:Someone to watch over me.

JERUSALEM, Israel , November 5, 2007:With her regular caregiver on vacation, the family of 96-year-old Sara believed that the agency-appointed replacement would have little problem picking up the reins.

However, less than a week after the new caregiver started, Sara's grandson, David, got an urgent call from a neighbor telling him that something was not right at his grandmother's place.

"The neighbor called me at 11 p.m. She said that all the lights were still on in my gran's apartment and that the front door had been left open," begins David, 31, who lives a 20-minute drive from Sara's Bat Yam apartment. "I raced over there and found my gran in a terrible state.

She had been drugged with sleeping pills and was totally incoherent. I tried to help her into bed, but she kept falling over. Her apartment was a filthy mess, with trash and diapers everywhere."

David, whose parents do not live in the country, helped his grandmother back to bed and then waited for the caregiver, a foreign worker from Russia, to return. "I had already decided that I was not going to let this woman into the house again after what she'd done," he recalls. "She came back at 1 a.m., with a strange man and the two started banging on the door and shouting to be let in.

I refused to open the door and then I called the police." While the man ran away, the police eventually allowed the caregiver into the apartment to gather her things before David told her to get out and never come back. "She was either stoned or drunk," he says.

"Either way, she was totally out of it. I still can't believe that someone could have done this to my gran. She is 96 years old and totally helpless." The next day, Sara's family contacted the manpower agency that had provided the replacement caregiver. "They had little sympathy," remembers David. "They just said that they'd never had complaints about the woman before and that they would send us another replacement.

This time, however, my aunt who lives here met with the new woman before letting her start work. We learned our lesson." Sara, thanks to her family and vigilant neighbors, had a lucky escape, but Shoshana Birenbach was not so fortunate. On October 27, the 76-year-old was found strangled in her Holon apartment with her Moldovan caretaker being labeled by police as the prime suspect.

Investigators believed that the caregiver had choked Birenbach to death, set her apartment on fire and then tried either to commit suicide or to flee the arriving emergency squads. WHILE experts working with the elderly note that Birenbach's case was extreme and that Sara's negligent treatment at the hands of a foreign caregiver is not a regular occurrence, they do admit that incidents of abuse against the elderly by their primary caregivers are on the rise.

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Hammer Used To Kill Elderly Man

A judge set bail at $2 million Friday afternoon for the woman accused of using a hammer to kill an elderly Riverbank man.

Kathy Bronzini, 47, pleaded innocent at her arraignment before Stanislaus County Superior Court Judge Richardo Córdova. She remains in jail on charges of murder, elder abuse and violating probation.

Witnesses told Sheriff's Department investigators that Bronzini hit Joe Garcia, 82, several times in the head with a hammer Wednesday. He died 12 hours later of blunt force trauma.

Deputies found Garcia lying in a puddle of blood on his front porch in the 3600 block of Dakota Avenue. He had wounds on his face and head, but was conscious enough to speak to deputies.

Garcia family members waiting to hear Bronzini's plea Friday said Garcia was a giving, strong-minded man who found Bronzini next to a store with a sign that read "Will work for food." He invited her into his home and worked out an agreement in which she could live with him in exchange for cleaning.

Family members felt Bronzini was taking advantage of Garcia, said Monte Garcia, 42, Joe Garcia's nephew.

"Today we found out his accounts were out of money," Garcia said.

Family members said Bronzini would leave Joe Garcia when he refused to pay her, but she always returned. They urged him not to let her back into his house and even called police to ask for help keeping Bronzini away, but nothing worked, Monte Garcia said....

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A Case of Too Many Criminals Walking the Streets

GLASSBORO, N.J., By RICHARD G. JONES Nov. 1 — Donald Farrell did just about everything right. As Mr. Farrell, a 19-year-old Rowan University sophomore, walked to a convenience store the night of Saturday, Oct. 27, he had followed nearly all of the precautions given to the college’s students about staying safe. He was traveling in a group. It was about 9 p.m., so he was not out particularly late. And he moved along busy roads in well-lighted areas.

Somehow, though, those safety measures were not enough. After he and his friends left the store, Mr. Farrell was attacked by a group of men and beaten to death — a crime that the authorities said was a robbery gone awry.

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Abuse An Elder Go To Jail !

By Joel Currier

A St.Charles man is back in jail on suspicion of swinging a cabinet door toward his grandfather.

William C. Shannon, 18, was charged today in St. Charles County Circuit Court with third-degree elder abuse, a misdemeanor.

Police say Shannon attempted to strike his 65-year-old grandfather with a kitchen cabinet door late Monday night at their home in the 3400 block of Wilshire Avenue in St. Charles.

The charge is a violation of Shannon's five-year probation stemming from a guilty plea in September to a felony charge of elder abuse. In March, Shannon struck his grandfather on the arm with a metal pipe because he wouldn't give him money to buy a cell phone.

Shannon's probation was suspended today, and he was being held at the St. Charles County Jail on a $10,000 cash only bail.

Family Dispute Turns Deadly

Queens.- New York By AL BAKER

The gunman who killed a man in front of his estranged wife and their 4-year-old daughter used a crude silencer made of a plastic bleach bottle wrapped in duct tape as he opened fire in a Queens playground, the authorities said yesterday.

The police are investigating whether the three bullets that entered Dr. Malakov’s chest capped vicious divorce and custody disputes between him and his estranged wife, Dr. Mazoltuv Borukhova — legal battles that were acrimonious, accusatory and complicated, even in the often bitter world of New York State matrimonial law.

On Oct. 3, a judge granted Dr. Malakov, an orthodontist, temporary custody of the girl, Michelle. The decision was enacted on Oct. 22, when Dr. Borukhova, a specialist in internal medicine at North Shore University Hospital, turned the girl over, even as she fought the order in the courts.

The shooting occurred when Dr. Malakov arrived in his car at Annadale Playground to drop off Michelle around 11 a.m. He parked and got out of his car as Michelle saw her mother and ran toward her, a law enforcement official said. At that time, a lone gunman approached Dr. Malakov and shot three times.

Family members found fault with Dr. Borukhova’s family, and recounted recent confrontations that they insisted foretold of the tragedy to come. The elder Mr. Malakov said he had a conversation with Dr. Borukhova’s sister in which she blamed his family for the loss of custody, and he said she had vowed revenge.

Mr. Pinkhasov agreed, saying, “The result is the most surprising out of all, but in my experience, it has been the most contentious matter, in terms of a divorce.”

On Oct. 3, Justice Sidney F. Strauss, of State Supreme Court, in Queens, issued an order transferring temporary custody of Michelle to Dr. Malakov. Ms. Fass said she found the decision “highly unusual” because it was done without a hearing. Dr. Borukhova had had de facto custody of Michelle before that decision. Calls to the judge’s chambers yesterday were not returned.

Ms. Fass said the judge stated that he was transferring custody because Dr. Borukhova “was allegedly not cooperating with supervised visitation.” She said that Michelle would cling to Dr. Borukhova, rather than go with her father, and that the mother did not want Michelle physically torn from her.

Mr. Pinkhasov said the judge had reviewed three years’ worth of legal papers and determined that Dr. Borukhova, whatever her reasoning, was not complying with visitation orders.

Ms. Fass denied that charge, but Mr. Pinkhasov said: “She had no right not to comply with the orders of the court. And that is what the judge decided, that it was hurting the child to be with her and not to be with him.”

Ms. Fass went to the Appellate Division to stop the transfer of the child, but was denied on Oct. 18. The transfer was made, without a hearing, four days later, despite Ms. Fass’s last-minute appeal to Justice Strauss for the court to speak with the court-appointed psychologist.

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Freedom Of Speech Under Attack Everywhere

Sunday the 21th October was not only a severe attack on freedom of speech but an attempt to close the mouth forever on an organisation who stands up for freedom, freedom of speech and for democracy. Small details were the reason why it didn’t ended up with murder like in Holland, on one of the brave advocate’s for freedom of expression who dare to stand in the frontline........


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Father Beats Son With a 2x4 Piece of Wood

FAIRFIELD, CT -10-24-2007 - Police have charged a Fairfield, Connecticut man with assault after he allegedly beat his 13-year-old son with a piece of wood.

Fairfield police said David Rodriguez, 41, tied his son to a pole in their basement and beat him with a 2-by-4 Monday night. "This goes far beyond a case of parental discipline," police Captain Gary MacNamara said.The teen was falling behind on his homework, police said.

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