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For prosecutors to charge a precocious, smiling school teacher with two felony counts means this woman is responsible for some truly heinous mistreatment of these two poor cats.  I hope she gets the maximum prison sentence.

Read the entire story at the Florida Sun Sentinel:

Allison Dinsmore was charged with 2 felony counts of animal cruelty. Courtesy of the Florida Sun Sentinel.

Two cats suffered so cruelly before dying, prosecutors say, that they decided to charge a Palm Beach County teacher with two felonies Monday.

Police initially accused Allison Dinsmore, 26, of misdemeanor animal cruelty this month when her two cats’ wasted corpses were found in her Boca Raton apartment.

Investigators said the Congress Middle School teacher’s cats clawed up the apartment in a frantic search for food as they starved for up to a month before they died. The corpses then rotted in the filthy apartment about a month before an apartment manager found them.

Prosecutors upped the charges to two counts of felony cruelty to animals, saying her actions caused “excessive or repeated infliction of unnecessary pain or suffering.” The new charges each carry a maximum penalty of up to five years in prison.

Mike Edmondson, spokesman for the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office, said the agency would not elaborate on why the charges were upgraded.

Efforts to contact Dinsmore on Monday were unsuccessful despite phone calls and messages to the number listed on the crime report. A phone message and an e-mail to her Miami-based attorney, Jordan Lewin, weren’t returned.

Dinsmore told police in February that she had been working long hours at her school and spent a lot of time at her boyfriend’s house. Police said she also went on a family camping trip while the cats starved.

She said she couldn’t remember the last time she had been home, but thought she had left food and water for her cats…

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The FBI has been called in to help with the search.

Read the entire story at Fox News:

The FBI has joined the search for an 8-year-old California girl who hasn’t been seen since Friday night, about 60 miles east of San Francisco, MyFOX LA has reported.

Authorities say FBI agents, Tracy police and officers from about a dozen law enforcement agencies are looking for eight-year-old Sandra Cantu.

Sandra was last seen at 4:00 on March 27, when a surveillance video camera recorded her walking away from her family’s mobile home. Her mother reported her missing at about 8 p.m..

She is Hispanic, 4 feet tall, and weighs 45 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. She was wearing a pink Hello Kitty T-shirt and black leggings.

A $2,000 reward is being offered by the FBI and Tracy Crime Stoppers for information concerning Sandra’s whereabouts…

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I don’t know what the hell is going on in Cincinnati?  I usually scour the newspapers in Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, and New York for the meatiest crime stories, but Cincinnati is a hotbed of social dysfunction.  The latest scum rising to the top of the pond is a mom-in-reverse.  A drug addict who convinced a young girl to run away from home then got her hooked on drugs and turned her into a prostitute all to fuel her own addiction.  Now that’s a real friend: she keeps the money and the runaway gets VD.

Read the entire story at WRAL:

Cumberland County sheriff’s detectives have charged a homeless Fayetteville woman with prostituting a girl to support her drug habit.

Sandra Panecka, 20, coerced the girl, who was 14 at the time, to run away from home in 2007, according to sheriff’s officials.

Panecka then introduced the girl to drugs and encouraged her to prostitute herself so they both could continue to buy cocaine, authorities said.

The victim told authorities that Panecka helped her pick up men and then collected the money the girl earned for sexual favors.

Detectives said the girl also told them she was physically assaulted, exposed to various drugs, sexually assaulted and infected with sexually transmitted diseases.

Authorities charged Panecka with facilitating a minor for prostitution,

Sandra Panecka pimped a runaway for drug money. Courtesy of WRAL.

kidnapping, 10 counts of statutory sex offense, 10 counts of participating in the prostitution of a minor, four counts of taking indecent liberties with a minor, five counts of crimes against nature and one count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor…

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I have to admit that I never heard of the suspect when he was in the NBA.  But I’ve heard of him now.  Waking up with a seven-foot monster in your bedroom is the stuff of nightmares.

Read the entire story at Local 12:

Assault suspect Kirk Snyder. Courtesy of Local 12.

A former NBA basketball player now living in the Tri-State is arrested for a burglary and beating that left a Warren County man hospitalized.

Kirk Snyder is now playing basketball in China, but early Monday morning police say he broke into a townhouse in the Beacon Hill community and beat a resident in his bed.

The Warren County Sheriffs Office responded to the burglary call.

Caller: “Please help us, my neighbor came and broke into my house and attacked my husband. His jaw, I think it’s broken.”
Dispatcher:” And he just ran through the glass?”
Caller: ” He broke right through the glass. He’s like seven feet tall and he beat my husband. Please hurry. My husband’s not in good shape.”

Kirk Snyder lives five doors from the victims. Beacon Hill subdivision is new– and the few people who live here say they rarely saw the former NBA star because he was overseas playing basketball.

But, at a recent party in the clubhouse– neighbors say Snyder dropped by and, the victim got to know him.

Caller: “We just met him the other day and we befriended him.”

Medics rushed the victim to the hospital. Neighbors say in the brief time they knew Snyder– they never thought he could be violent…

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I really can not fathom this.  There is nothing sexual about a six year old.  Period!  This kind of animal can not be rehabilitated.  Let’s hope his punishment involves more than just deportation.

Read the entire story at WRAL:

Child rapist Elio Citala Rodriguez. Courtesy of WRAL.

Cumberland County sheriff’s detectives said they have charged an illegal immigrant from Mexico with sexually inappropriate behavior with a 6-year-old girl.

Elio Citala-Rodriguez, 28, of 100 Leighton Drive in Pink Hill, is a distant relative of the victim, authorities said.

The encounters happened between March 2006 and September 2007 while Rodriguez was living with the victim and her parents in Fayetteville, according to detectives.

Authorities were also investigating reports of inappropriate behavior that happened at a house in Pink Hill. Investigators say the victim in the Pink Hill case was forced to have sexual intercourse and engage in other sexual favors with Rodriguez.

Pink Hill police said they planned to file charges against Rodriguez.

Meanwhile, Cumberland County detectives charged Rodriguez with first-degree statutory rape, first-degree statutory sex offense and taking indecent liberties with a child…

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