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Man comes to his sister’s aid – kills burglar – his own son

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A Connecticut man responding to his sister’s call for help during an apparent burglary at her home next door, shot and killed a masked intruder who turned out to be his own teenage son…

Tyler Giuliano, 15, was wearing a ski mask and appeared to be armed when he was shot on Thursday by his father, who authorities declined to identify, said Lieutenant J. Paul Vance, a spokesman for the Connecticut State Police.

The father’s sister, who lives next door, was home alone before 1 a.m. when she called him to report someone trying to break into her home. The father went over to investigate and was approached by a masked person dressed entirely in black and holding a shiny object…

“Believing the suspect was armed with a weapon and about to attack him, the (father) discharged his personal handgun at the suspect,” police said.

Giuliano was pronounced dead at the scene.

“(He) was lying on the ground in the driveway with obvious gunshot injuries, holding a weapon,” the statement said.

Vance declined to further describe the weapon.

Phew! You could write fourteen books, movie and TV scripts for this one.

Homeowner cleared after defending himself and his family

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Mr. Cooke – coppers in tidy suits – the late armed invader

A homeowner arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of an intruder at his property has been cleared of any wrongdoing.

Vincent Cooke, 39, was initially arrested by police on suspicion of murder after stabbing one of two men suspected of trying to burgle his home in Manchester. Police said that during the break-in the intruder smashed down his door and threatened him with a knife before Mr Cooke allegedly stabbed the intruder Raymond Jacob, 37, six times. His wife Karen, 34, and 12-year-old son returned home during the incident but escaped unharmed.

He was due to answer bail later this month, but the Crown Prosecution Service has decided has that Mr Cooke acted in reasonable self-defence…

A 33-year-old man is in custody charged with aggravated burglary in connection with the incident and is next due to appear in court in December.

In a statement issued through his lawyers, Mr Cooke said…”I am most relieved that the CPS have decided not to charge me with any offence. It has been a living nightmare for me and I’m still suffering flashbacks of the incident,” he said…”I hope to now be able to get on with my life but will never forget the day that I had to fight for my life.”

Nazir Afzal, chief crown prosecutor for the North West area, said after considering the evidence Mr Cooke should not face charges as he acted “honestly and instinctively” at the time of the attack…

“As crown prosecutors we look at all cases on their merit and according to the evidence in the individual case. I am satisfied that this is a case where a householder, faced with armed intruders in frightening circumstances, acted in reasonable self defence.

“The law is clear that anyone who acts in good faith in using whatever force they honestly feel is necessary to protect themselves, their families or their property will not be prosecuted for such action.”

Ministers are planning to clarify the law on self-defence in England, after a string of cases where homeowners have faced prosecution for defending their property…

Under the current law, home owners who use “reasonable force” – which is no more than is absolutely necessary – to protect themselves against intruders should not be prosecuted.

I wonder sometimes how the bureaucrats of law and jurisprudence put together the silliness they write. Reading the text of this law, how it’s to be put to use by coppers who are on the streets to protect and serve the body politic – it sounds like three law clerks who failed in politics were sitting in their club sipping sherry and contriving a giggle just to drive people mad.

Are you supposed to have a government form available for an intruder to fill out – listing the levels of violence he intends as harm to you, your family and household?

Brits seem to be limited to kitchen cutlery. Sorry, but, I’m glad this is one of the occasions I’d rather face with firearms. I know enough to miss shooting my wife or myself. I damned well won’t miss an intruder.

Now, take my son – please!

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An Italian couple have sought legal help to persuade their 41-year-old son to fly the nest.

The Venetian parents, who have not been named, say their son has a job but refuses to leave home and wants his clothes washed and his meals prepared. They have sought help from lawyers at the consumer association Adico.

Lawyer Andrea Camp said a letter was sent to the son, advising him to leave home in six days or face legal action. If he refuses, lawyers will ask a court in Venice to issue a protection order for the elderly parents against their son.

“We cannot do it any more,” the father was quoted as saying. “My wife is suffering from stress and had to be hospitalised. He [the son] has a good job but still lives at home…

The couple turned to Adico after hearing of a similar case earlier this month in which Adico persuaded a son to leave home. After he left, his parents changed the locks.

Har!

Mom forces boy to wear sign proclaiming him a “THIEF”

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An Australian woman has been accused of child cruelty after she forced her young son to sit in public wearing a sign that read: “Do not trust me. I will steal from you as I am a thief.”

The boy, believed to be aged 10, was forced to wear the sign and a pair of Shrek ears in a busy park in the northern Queensland town of Townsville while his family ate lunch nearby.

The treatment of the child prompted outrage among other families in the park, who accused the woman of publicly humiliating him.

Diane Mayers was so disturbed that she called the child safety hotline. “The boy just kept his head down and was staring at the ground,” she told the Townsville Bulletin. “The parents had gone to all the trouble of printing two copies of the sign – one for the back and one for the front – and laminating them. A lot of work had gone in to it.

“A lot of people walked past and were laughing at him, including boys who would have been his age…”

However, the boy’s mother, who has not been named, has defended her actions, saying they were a last resort intended to shame him into giving up stealing. “We’ve had a process over the last three years of him shoplifting and stealing whatever he can get his hands on,” she said.

“I have taken him to the police station, had the police officers take him around, shown him a paddy wagon [police van], shown him all the cells, shown him the process of being charged.”

Nothing had so far worked, she said..

I don’t know what to say. Not a lot of detail and I wonder if this sort of public embarrassment achieves anything this side of gratification for the parents.

One of my most striking childhood memories is of a poor kid in 2nd grade whose mom was so outraged when she learned the teachers weren’t allowed corporal punishment – she came to school and beat him with a yardstick to show everyone how it should be done.

Sooner after, she took him out of public school and sent him to the nearest Catholic school where he could be “properly” disciplined. I always wondered how he ended up.

Teenager charged with robbing and murdering his father

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After taping his father to a chair, 19-year-old Matthew Nellessen and three accomplices allegedly forced the Arlington Heights man to sign over a $100,000 check from his retirement fund.

When 55-year-old George Nellessen warned his son he would report the theft to police, the younger Nellessen reacted violently — pummeling his helpless father with a baseball bat, then stabbing him in the neck with a steak knife, Cook County prosecutors said Monday…

After the killing, Matthew Nellessen later tried unsuccessfully to cash the check, then made “numerous” bank withdrawals using his father’s debit card, McCarthy said. He ultimately returned to the family’s Arlington Heights home where his father’s lifeless body still sat tied to a chair, authorities said.

George Nellessen’s body wasn’t discovered until two days after his death when a friend came to the house to check on him after co-workers became concerned that he had missed work, prosecutor Maria McCarthy said during the younger Nellessen’s bond hearing.

Judge Kay Hanlon ordered Matthew Nellessen jailed without bond on first-degree murder and armed robbery charges stemming from his father’s killing.

Three other alleged accomplices — all Chicago residents — remained jailed Monday on bonds ranging from $3 million to $1.5 million. Those three men: Marlon Green, 20; Armon Braden, 20; and his younger brother, Azari Braden, 19; also face murder and armed robbery charges in the killing…

The day he was slain, George Nellessen told two co-workers that he planned to kick his son out of the house because he believed the teen was stealing money from him, McCarthy said.

The elder Nellessen, who worked in the tool-and-die industry, told a friend he was afraid of his son.

RTFA for the slimy details. Throw away the key!

Faith-healer parents get probation in son’s death

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Dad and mom

A couple who prayed over their dying son rather than taking him to a doctor were sentenced on Wednesday to 10 years’ probation, and ordered to ensure regular medical care for their seven surviving children.

The couple, Herbert Schaible, 42, and Catherine Schaible, 41, members of the fundamentalist First Century Gospel Church, a congregation in the Juniata section of Philadelphia that teaches faith healing, were convicted in December of involuntary manslaughter after their 2-year-old son died of bacterial pneumonia in 2009.

Judge Carolyn Engel Temin of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas ordered the couple to arrange for their children, ages 1 to 15, to be examined by a doctor in the next month, to make follow-up visits, and to immediately follow a doctor’s advice on medical care for the children, said Tasha Jamerson, a spokeswoman for the Philadelphia district attorney’s office.

The Schaibles put their son Kent to bed with what appeared to be a heavy cold, and prayed over him rather than seeking medical help, jurors heard during a three-day trial. He died on Jan. 24, 2009, after a two-week illness.

Yup. All the conflicts are there. It’s difficult on the one hand to wish these deluded people ill after they bear the responsibility for their child’s death. Though, the first question that comes to mind is do they accept that responsibility or simply pass it off as their God’s will?

The father’s statement following the guilty verdict tells me he hasn’t accepted any responsibility at all:

“The legal community is trying to force our church group to put them in the hands of this flawed medical system, when they have chosen to put them in the hands of a perfect God, who does not make mistakes.”

Sentence reduced for Mom who killed brain-damaged son

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Frances Inglis – her son, Tom

A mother who gave her severely disabled son a lethal heroin injection to end his “living hell” lost her appeal against her life sentence for murder today, but has had her sentence reduced to five years.

Frances Inglis, 58, from Dagenham, east London, killed her 22-year-old son Tom in 2008 after he was left in a vegetative state by an accident when he fell out of a moving ambulance.

She was ordered to serve a minimum of nine years in January after being found guilty of murder and attempted murder.

Though she has never denied deliberately giving him a fatal overdose in his hospital bed – and attempting to do the same on an earlier occasion – she was appealing against both her conviction and sentence.

Inglis’s case prompted a public outcry and was widely compared to that of another mother, Kay Gilderdale, who helped her 31-year-old daughter to kill herself. Just a week after Inglis was sent to jail, Gilderdale walked free from court with a 12-month conditional discharge.

Inglis’s husband and two remaining sons backed her after her conviction and were present at the appeal court hearings…

Inglis was horrified to learn that the only legal way to let him die was to apply to the high court for an order to withhold food and nutrition, which would result in a “slow and painful death”.

Many aspects of this case were tough to decide. Though I’m an advocate of dignity with death, assisted suicide, it’s almost beyond comprehension reflecting upon the hell of a mother deciding to kill her child. Even to save him from paid and suffering.

She’s already in prison for the rest of her life. The state should have taken that into account.

Three-year-old boy found abandoned in car for a day

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Authorities say a 3-year-old boy who was lost by his drunk father and found strapped into his car seat about 25 hours later in Pasadena has been placed in protective custody.

Dylan Kurihara was found late Sunday night in a parking structure in the area of Madison Avenue and Green Street, just blocks away from where he was lost, according to the Pasadena Police Department.

Rowdy Metzger, a Pasadena resident, saw and recognized the boy inside his father’s missing silver 2001 Lexus four-door sedan and called authorities…”I tapped on the window, it woke him up. The door was open. I opened it. He got a little scared. I called out his name. I told him it was going to be okay,” Metzger told KTLA.

“I kept giving a thumb’s up signal because I didn’t know if he would understand me, if he was in shock or whatever. I called 911. I just kept talking to him until the police came,” he added.

The boy was a little dehydrated and covered in urine, but otherwise in good condition.

He was taken to Huntington Memorial Hospital for evaluation and was later placed into protective custody, police said…

Police were made aware of the missing child when his mother woke up at 8:00 a.m. Sunday, discovered him missing and called police.

Joe Kurihara was being held on $10,000 bail on suspicion of felony child endangerment.

Drunk and stupid. Not necessarily in that order.

He was arrested for drunkenness before the discovery of his son – and he didn’t remember that his son had been with him.

Teen shot by police after mother is stabbed — by someone else!

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A Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer shot the 15-year-old son of a woman who had been stabbed in northern Charlotte by another man.

Police admit the teen was “in no way associated” with the assault on his mother.

The 15-year-old was in stable condition at Carolinas Medical Center early Sunday. His mother was also being treated at the hospital for the stab wounds, which aren’t life-threatening…

Bruce Jenkins, 39, was arrested a few blocks away from the stabbing scene on Brandie Glen Drive near Sunset Road and charged with assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the stabbing…

In a statement, police said “It appears that the son was on scene very upset.”

The department said it is investigating the teen’s actions and how those actions were perceived by the officers at the time of the shooting.

Late Saturday, people who identified themselves as family members of the victims were at the scene, visibly angry…

Well, that seems like a reasonable response to the senseless shooting of the child of the victim the coppers were called to help in the first place. Seems to me.

Woman busted for faking son’s cancer

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A Warren [Michigan] woman accused of telling her 12-year-old son he had cancer and holding fundraisers to bilk people was formally arraigned in 39th District Court.

Carol Lynn Schnuphase, 47, is charged with second-degree child abuse and two counts of taking money under false pretenses. The child abuse charge carries a penalty of four years in prison and the false pretense charges are five-year felonies…

“She shaved her son’s head and eyebrows every other week,” said Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith. “She crushed tablets and put them in his applesauce to make him appear lethargic and as if he was going through chemotherapy.

“We’ve never seen anything like it.”

Smith said Schuphrase, who is unemployed, used money from the fund-raisers to pay bills and everyday expenses. When authorities removed her son from her home this summer, she told people that he died and that she needed money for his funeral, Smith said…

Local churches held fundraisers for the boy, officials said. One event, held at St. Thomas Church in Eastpointe, raised more than $7,000. Schnuphase allegedly accepted the donations as a check in her name.

Every day, some scumball figures out how to make crime just a little sleazier.