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‘Man killed wife over sex name’

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

A JEALOUS husband strangled his wife after she called out another man’s name while they were having sex, a court has heard.
Colin Scully, 53, denies murdering his wife Tracey despite admitting to police he had strangled the 39-year-old while they had sex on the night of April 11 last year.

He told officers that his wife had called out ‘Paul’ – the name of a man from a scooter club they had known since 2007 – who Tracey had been sending explicit messages to.

A jury at Leeds Crown Court was told that Scully said the mentioning of other men “blew his mind”.

Police were called to their home in Bridlington, East Yorks, on April 12 after Scully called 999.

Prosecutor James Sampson said Scully had strangled his wife before leaving her for the night and going to sleep in their children’s bedroom.

He said: “He knelt on her chest, causing bruising, and pinned her down crucifix style to the bed, where he strangled her using one arm.”

He told the jury Scully only used one hand as his left hand was withered as a result of polio when he was young, while his wife suffered from multiple sclerosis.

Scully told police he remembered pushing his wife down on the bed before walking out and sleeping in the other room.

The court heard the couple had a stormy relationship and Wendy Wild, Tracey’s mother, said Scully would accuse her daughter of having affairs – including one he thought she was having with the man at the scooter club.

Simon Bourne Arton QC, for the defence, said Tracey had behaved in a “flirtatious and outgoing manner” when they visited the scooter club and wore tight and revealing clothes.

The court heard on the morning of April 12, Scully had made the 999 call saying: “I’ve done something to my wife. I don’t know what I’ve done.”

In his interview with police, he said: “I strangled her, didn’t I?”

Mr Sampson said: “He denied meaning to have killed her, but what else could he have meant?”

The trial continues.

Original Story: thesun.co.uk

King of porn, pastor to debate pros, cons of industry at Truman

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

The person whom many call the king of the pornography industry is coming to Kirksville in the spring for a debate at Truman State University.
Ron Jeremy, who was appeared in more than 1,000 adult films in his 40-plus year career, will face off against Rev. Craig Gross, the founder of the largest anti-porn web site titled XXXchurch.com Mar. 27 in Baldwin Auditorium.
The pastor from southern California developed the site after he noticed an increasing amount of people in his congregation struggling with pornography related problems.
The Student Activities Board announced the debate at a press conference Sunday and organizers are eager to see how the community responds to the controversial event.
“People are really excited about (the debate) and they think it’s going to be really interesting,” Organizer Ashley Rhodes said.  “It will be interesting to see once word gets out to the mass publications, but I hear most people are intrigued.”
The board surveyed the campus last spring to see who the student body would like to hear in the 2009 debate, and this topic scored the highest.
At the end of the moderated debate, the audience will have the opportunity to offer their own comments in a question and answer portion of the event.
Due to the possible graphic content of the debate, organizers are hoping the community and students use discretion when deciding whether to attend the event.

Original Story: kirksvilledailyexpress.com

Man busted after public display with blowup sex dolls

Friday, February 6th, 2009

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A 51-year-old man was arrested after he was found making out with blowup sex dolls in a grocery store parking lot.
Families say they witnessed a very private act in a Publix parking lot along Santa Barbara Boulevard.

“It’s just crazy you know and I’m with my daughter and she couldn’t believe what we were seeing,” said witness Arthur Castro.

The blowup dolls (pictured below) had female body parts and witnesses say 51-year-old George Bartusek was touching them very inappropriately.

“As I walk by I saw this guy with two blowup dolls – kissing them and bouncing them and trying to get people’s attention,” said a witness who wanted to remain anonymous.

A customer that saw what was happening inside the car ran inside the store to get a manager while another customer called Cape Coral police.

This wasn’t Bartusek’s first run-in with the law. He spent time in jail for driving under the influence and for assaulting an officer.

But he has never been arrested for anything quite like this.

“I’ve never seen anything like this. You know it happens behind closed doors, obviously. But in a public place, it’s no good,” said witness Phyllis Shepard.

Bartusek was charged with Breach of Peace and taken to the Lee County Jail. The dolls were towed away with the car.

He made his first appearance before a judge Thursday morning on a charge of trespassing and disturbing the peace.

Bartusek is being held on $6,500 bond.

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Original Story: msnbc.msn.com

World’s youngest sex change operation at 16

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

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A teenager who has wanted to be a girl since the age of two has become the youngest person to have a full sex change.
Kim Petras, 16, had the operation in secret after psychologists confirmed she was ‘without doubt, a girl in a boy’s body’.

The aspiring pop singer says she cannot wait for summer to try out a new wardrobe of tight-fitting clothes.

‘I had to wait until my 16th birthday. But once that was past, I was able legally to have the operation,’ the German teenager added.

‘Everything has changed because of this operation. I just can’t wait to put on my favourite bathing suit and go swimming like I’ve never done before.’

Full Story: metro.co.uk

Pair sentenced to prison in sex-for-rent scheme

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

Case involved 12-year-old girl

BINGHAMTON — Dean Sacco will spend the rest of his life in prison.

His co-defendant in a sex-for-rent scheme, Linda O’Connor, will be in her 70s by the time she serves a 30-year sentence handed down Wednesday.

During a four-week trial in May, and again at his sentencing, the 50-year-old Sacco denied ever having sex with a then-12-year-old girl as payment for back rent.

Those denials in federal court fell on deaf ears Wednesday, as U.S. Senior District Court Judge Thomas J. McAvoy sentenced Sacco to life in prison, the maximum possible sentence under federal sentencing guidelines.

“I believe you are a seriously sick predator,” McAvoy told Sacco. “You need to be put where you can’t hurt children again.”

Both Sacco and O’Connor were convicted of child sex trafficking, producing and receiving child pornography and other federal charges. Sacco has denied ever taking a picture of the victim naked, and no photographs or images were ever found.

In a rambling, 15-minute speech prior to sentencing, Sacco said he and his pre-teen victim were like two adolescents, kissing and hugging behind closed doors in his Norwich duplex.

“I felt like a 14-year-old kid again,” Sacco told McAvoy, adding the girl was already a sexually mature woman at the time.

That’s not how the law sees it. The age of consent in federal cases is 18 years. In New York, it’s 17.

Kelly Fis-cher, Sacco’s attorney, said he was concerned for his client’s safety in prison, and McAvoy said he would consider recommending Sacco be segregated from other prisoners. McAvoy also said he would recommend Sacco for treatment for sexual crimes.

Calling prison his home is nothing new for Sacco. He previously served nine years in a New Jersey lockup on a robbery conviction.

Wearing a mask and brandishing a handgun, Sacco hijacked a Brooklyn tour bus on its way to Atlantic City in 1991 and took money from the 44 passengers.

However, the bus driver tackled Sacco, disarmed him and shot him twice with his own handgun along the Garden State Parkway. Sacco leaped over the guide rail, only to fall 20 feet to a busy highway below, breaking his leg.

While in prison, Sacco wrote a book, “American Desperado: An Autobiography of Failure and Dysfunction,” in which he described sneaking into the bedrooms of girls, including his sister, and looking at and touching them when he was a teenager in New Jersey.

Following sentencing Wed-nesday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Miroslav Lovric called Sacco a sexual psychopath and a sexual fiend.

“He will always be a danger to society,” Lovric said.

O’Connor, 47, received 30 years, the minimum sentence McAvoy could have handed down. Lovric had asked for life.

On Wednesday, Sacco claimed O’Connor was unaware of the relationship between him and the victim. However, Lovric maintained O’Connor procured the girl to have sex with Sacco, her landlord, in return for some back-rent payments. Sacco said the victim was lying about O’Connor’s role in the crime and that Lovric was taken in by the girl’s lies.

“You did not serve the community this time, man,” Sacco told Lovric.

Federal Public Defender Lisa Peebles said she would file an appeal for O’Connor, asking that her conviction be set aside.

Right to the end, O’Connor continued to maintain her innocence.

“If I have to go to jail, so be it,” she said. “But I’m innocent of all these charges.”

STORY SOURCE: www.pressconnects.com/

Flying shoe at Pompano Beach strip club spurs lawsuit

Friday, October 17th, 2008

An exotic dancer. A high heel. And now a suit.

A Margate man is suing a Pompano Beach strip club after he says a performer’s shoe flew off during a pole dance, shattering the mirrored ceiling and causing glass, as well as the shoe, to hit him.

The Booby Trap breached “its duty when its employee failed to perform her routine in (a) reasonably safe manner,” according to the Broward Circuit Court suit filed by Charles Privette. He is seeking at least $15,000 in damages.

Privette’s attorney, Omar Demetriou, said his client suffered a small laceration to his eyebrow, headaches and nose bleeds. Said Booby Trap general manager George Gettinger, “A quote from the paramedics was, ‘I can’t believe you even called us for this!’”

STORY SOURCE: www.sunsentinel.com