Also see: Pervertsville, New England
The soft-selling cover-up continues with the privileged!
"a waste of taxpayer dollars for him to keep receiving a paycheck"
"Marzilli faces two more sex harassment charges" by Milton J. Valencia, Globe Staff | July 2, 2008
State Senator J. James Marzilli Jr. of Arlington was indicted by a grand jury yesterday on charges he sexually harassed and accosted four women in what a prosecutor described as an expletive-laced escapade through downtown Lowell.
The indictment includes new allegations that he harassed two additional women on June 3, the day he was arrested. According to the indictment, he asked one woman whether she had "any undergarments under that?" Later, police said, he groped another woman, before fleeing police and resisting arrest.
Yesterday's indictment drew a quick reaction from the state Republican Party, which called on Senate President Therese Murray to "do the right thing by expelling Senator Marzilli."
Yeah, the Globe isn't mentioning that the guy is a FLAMING LIBERAL, are they?
"It is simply a waste of taxpayer dollars for him to keep receiving a paycheck while not showing up for work," said Republican Party spokesman Barney Keller.
Excuse me? He is STILL RECEIVING a PAYCHECK? Sigh!
Marzilli was eventually arrested, on June 3, after he was accused of groping a woman sitting on a park bench in downtown Lowell. The woman screamed at him and went inside a nearby building. Marzilli would not leave, but when police arrived he fled and gave a false name and address, authorities said.
Yeah, he FLED (but wasn't tasered) and ALLOWED to CREATE a SAFETY RISK on the ROADS before ducking into a garage!!!
And he didn't only give a false name -- this scum bag NAMED a COLLEAGUE, "the name of a state representative from Dorchester."
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And maybe the rest of the country is right.
With several high-profile cases of child abuse seared into public memory, legislators yesterday approved a bill they said will strengthen the state's child welfare system, with stricter standards for how agencies investigate abuse.
Who do you think did that, huh, readers?
Seared them into our memories, I mean!
The measure is intended to prevent the sorts of cases lawmakers said have become all too familiar: instances in which children were killed or harmed after state social workers had contact with families.
The bill "sets up a framework to handle the most troubling and disturbing cases . . . and how we can prevent them from even happening in the first place," House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi said at a press conference. Governor Deval Patrick is expected to sign the legislation.
Under the bill, three unsubstantiated reports of abuse - cases in which a child's injuries were examined and attributed to self-abuse, for example - within a three-month period would trigger an automatic investigation by a Department of Social Services board. Also, if three such reports were spread over a year, a board review would also be triggered.
The changes are intended to function as "another set of eyes looking at the matter," said state Senator Karen Spilka, Democrat of Ashland.
Yup, STATE EYES!!!!
If you only new some of the DSS HORROR STORIES around here, folks!
Sig Heil!!!
Critics have cited potential loopholes in the state's child welfare system following a string of startling abuse cases.
In 2005, 14-year-old Haleigh Poutre lapsed into a coma after she received a near-fatal beating from her adoptive mother, who had previously been monitored by the Department of Social Services. A few months later, 4-year-old Dontel Jeffers, who suffered a black eye, bruises, and a ruptured intestine, died in the care of his foster mother. And in 2006, 4-year-old Rebecca Riley of Hull died after she was given an overdose of psychiatric drugs.
Looks like the STATE isn't doing such a good job, does it?
The abuse happened WHILE IN THEIR SYSTEM -- just like in Texas!!!
But the STATE knows better than you, parents, and it will keep the children safe!
Uh-huh!
Lawmakers at yesterday's press conference pointed to Poutre's case as the impetus for overhauling the system. "Haleigh brought us here today, quite tragically," said House majority leader John Rogers of Norwood.
The bill boosts penalties for professionals who are required to report suspected abuse, such as doctors and teachers, but who fail to carry out that duty. It puts into law an independent Office of the Child Advocate, which Patrick created by executive order."Who would want to be a teacher anymore? Un-fucking-believable!
Why should THEY have to do a JOB that the STATE IS FAILING IN?!?
Are they going to be PAID MORE?
Well, at least they got one who GOT AWAY(?)!!!
So HOW MUCH did THIS DEBACLE COST US?
"Convicted child rapist captured in Caribbean; Bay State man faces extradition" by David Abel, Globe Staff | July 2, 2008
German Reyes disappeared in October 2006, just hours before an Essex jury convicted him of raping his daughter. On Monday, after a two-year international manhunt, federal marshals captured him near a relative's home in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, State Police said yesterday.
Authorities are now trying to extradite the 46-year-old former Lawrence and Methuen man, who was convicted in absentia of raping a child, indecent assault and battery on a person over 14, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, incest, and three counts each of indecent assault and battery on a person 14 or under.
"This criminal may have thought he escaped justice, but he thought wrong," said Colonel Mark F. Delaney, superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police. "This truly was a cooperative effort that spanned not only different agencies, but different countries."
Prosecutors said Reyes assaulted his daughter between 1998 and 1999, while she was 11 and 12 years old and living with Reyes in Lawrence, and between 2003 and 2005, while she was living with him in Methuen.
The State Police Violent Fugitive Apprehension Section began searching for Reyes soon after he fled. Troopers tracked him to New York City, but he boarded a flight to the Dominican Republic before they could arrest him.
Massachusetts authorities contacted the US Department of Justice, which issued a warrant. State Police contacted US deputy marshals assigned to the US embassy in the Dominican Republic and asked US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to look for Reyes.
In January, ICE agents stopped Reyes's girlfriend as she entered the United States. State Police officials declined to release her name or comment on whether she helped them locate him.
On Monday afternoon, the marshals learned that Reyes would be visiting his sister's house in Sector Italia, a Santo Domingo neighborhood. With assistance from the Dominican Dirección Nacional de Control de Drogas, the marshals found Reyes near the house and took him into custody.
David Procopio, a State Police spokesman, declined to say how marshals located Reyes. "As for tactics and techniques we use in tracking fugitives, we do not discuss those in any detail for obvious strategic reasons," Procopio wrote in an e-mail. "All I can say is that our Violent Fugitive Apprehension Section troopers work closely with US marshals to gather information in a variety of ways. It is painstaking work."
Reyes was being held in the Dominican Republic yesterday pending extradition, which could take weeks. He will be sentenced in Lawrence when he returns.
"The arrest of this child rapist came as the result of tenacious investigative work," Essex District Attorney Jonathan W. Blodgett said in a statement.
Lawrence Police Chief John J. Romero said, "Sometimes it takes time, but the important thing is we found him, and he's going to come back and face his crimes."And it doesn't end there, folks.
We have perverts all over the place.
"Vermont arrests 2d man in sex ring case" by Lisa Rathke, Associated Press | July 2, 2008
BETHEL, Vt. - The search for a missing girl in Vermont has taken another dramatic turn, the arrest of a second man in an alleged child sex ring.
Authorities are not saying if there is any connection between the search for 12-year-old Brooke Bennett and the two arrests police made while investigating her disappearance.
The latest arrest, announced yesterday, is that of the girl's stepfather, 40-year-old Ray Gagnon of San Antonio. Vermont State Police charge he sexually assaulted a minor in the Royalton area last summer.
On Sunday, State Police arrested Brooke's uncle - Michael Jacques, 42, of Randolph - and charged him with aggravated sexual assault. Jacques has pleaded not guilty to the charges, which involve a girl other than Bennett.
Court papers indicate that the second girl told police Jacques was to be her trainer in a "program for sex" and that she had met three men affiliated with the program.
Girls in the program were warned that "the first [girl] who does it lives and the second gets her throat cut," according to an affidavit filed Monday in Vermont District Court for Orange County.
Colonel James Baker, head of the State Police, said that authorities were considering all possibilities, including that the sex ring was a ruse Jacques created to intimidate the girl into having sex with him.
State Police say Jacques, a registered sex offender, is also a "person of interest" in Brooke's disappearance. She was last seen a week ago today. Police did not say when or where Gagnon was arrested.
A court appearance for him yesterday on a state charge of aggravated sexual assault was abruptly canceled, and federal prosecutors said he would be arraigned on federal charges today."Yup, but the Supreme Court won't let us execute these sickies!
"Supreme Court used flawed assumption on death penalty case; Justices not told of federal law shift" by Linda Greenhouse, New York Times News Service | July 2, 2008
WASHINGTON - When the Supreme Court ruled last week that the death penalty for raping a child was unconstitutional, the majority noted that a child rapist could face the ultimate penalty in only six states - not in any of the 30 other states that have the death penalty and not under the jurisdiction of the federal government either.
This inventory of jurisdictions was a central part of the court's analysis, the foundation for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's conclusion in his majority opinion that capital punishment for child rape was contrary to the "evolving standards of decency" by which the court judges how the death penalty is applied.
Kennedy's confident assertion about the absence of federal law was wrong.
A military law blog pointed out during the weekend that Congress, in fact, revised the sex crimes section of the Uniform Code of Military Justice in 2006 to add child rape to the military death penalty. The revisions were contained in the National Defense Authorization Act that year. President Bush signed that bill.
Anyone in the federal government - or anywhere else, for that matter - who knew about these developments did not tell the court. Not one of the 10 briefs filed in the case, Kennedy v. Louisiana, mentioned it. The Office of the Solicitor General, which represents the federal government in the Supreme Court, did not even file a brief, evidently having concluded that the federal government had no stake in whether Louisiana's death penalty for child rape was constitutional.
The provision was the subject of a post on the blog run by Dwight Sullivan, a colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve who now works for the Air Force as a civilian defense lawyer handling death penalty appeals.
Sullivan was reading the Supreme Court's decision on a plane and was surprised to see no mention of the military statute. "We're not talking about ancient history," he said in an interview.
Jeffrey L. Fisher, a Stanford Law School professor who successfully represented the defendant in the case, Patrick Kennedy, said that the defense legal team had actually looked into what military law said on the subject. They found an old provision making rape a capital offense but it predated the court's modern death penalty jurisprudence, under which the death penalty for the rape of an adult woman was ruled unconstitutional in 1977.
"We just assumed it was defunct," Fisher said of the military provision. "We figured if somebody in the government thought otherwise, we'd hear about it."
Lawyers in the solicitor general's office had no comment yesterday. Paul D. Clement, solicitor general when the case was argued, has resigned to teach at Georgetown University Law Center.
Any losing party in the Supreme Court can file a petition within 25 days asking the justices to reconsider their decision. Granting such a petition requires a majority vote. R. Ted Cruz, who argued the case in support of Louisiana on behalf of a coalition of 10 states, said the chance that the court would reconsider the decision was "extremely unlikely."--MORE--"
The government sickens me right now, readers.
But they are protecting the children, blah, blah, blah, blah.
I've never believed in the death penalty before, but why don't we just fry these perverts?
