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[Red Baron 0]

I could see them fucking up Canada even worse than Bob Rae fucked up Ontario.

 

People like Bob Rae though.

 

 

I'd love to see Ken Dryden to be the leader of the Liberal Party.

[dubq 0]

Nutcases like Bob Rae.

[Red Baron 0]

Hippies like Bob Rae.

[CanadianChris 0]

Commies like Bob Rae.

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

I'm pretty-well all of the above, and I don't like Bob Rae

[Zorin Industries 0]

Remember when this topic was started? Simpler times!

[Broward83 0]

Didn't know where to put this....

 

Teen girls sold into prostitution

 

05:06 PM CDT on Wednesday, June 13, 2007 From 11 News Staff Reports (KHOU - TV)

 

In Spanish a local woman tearfully said she never imagined what police are alleging happened to her nieces.

 

Investigators say Nelsi Latuda, 35, sold her own daughters, 14 and 16, into prostitution to buy drugs.

There are unconfirmed reports she had business cards.

 

Latuda’s sister says the girls are scared and nervous.

 

The investigation started Saturday with a call to police from the family’s apartment on Antoine.

 

Following a fight with their mother, the teens reportedly dropped a bomb on officers.

 

The girls reportedly said they were with various men at that apartment as well as at another apartment on Tidwell.

 

One neighbor says he knew something suspicious was going on. “And sometimes the daughters would be there talking with the grown guys.”

 

Latuda has been charged with two counts of compelling prostitution.

 

So has her boyfriend 21-year-old Pedro Espinoza Escama.

 

He’s an alleged accomplice who is reportedly an illegal immigrant.

 

The aunt says her nieces are very saddened by all that has happened.

 

They are torn, because in spite of all that’s happened, they don’t want their mom to go to prison.

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Keeping with the hooker theme:

March 10, 2008

Spitzer Is Linked to Prostitution Ring

 

By DANNY HAKIM and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM

ALBANY - Gov. Eliot Spitzer has informed his most senior administration officials that he had been involved in a prostitution ring, an administration official said this morning.

 

Mr. Spitzer, who was huddled with his top aides inside his Fifth Avenue apartment early this afternoon, had hours earlier abruptly canceled his scheduled public events for the day. He scheduled an announcement for 2:15 after inquiries from the Times.

 

Mr. Spitzer, a first-term Democrat who pledged to bring ethics reform and end the often seamy ways of Albany, is married with three children.

 

Just last week, federal prosecutors arrested four people in connection with an expensive prostitution operation. Administration officials would not say that this was the ring with which the governor had become involved.

 

But a person with knowledge of the governor’s role said that the person believes the governor is one of the men identified as clients in court papers.

 

The governor’s travel records show that he was in Washington in mid-February. One of the clients described in court papers arranged to meet with a prostitute who was part of the ring, the Emperors Club VIP on the night of Feb. 13.

 

Mr. Spitzer appeared on a CNBC television show at 7 a.m. the next morning. Later in the morning, he testified before a Congressional committee.

 

An affidavit filed in federal court in Manhattan in connection with that case lists six conversations between the man, identified as Client 9, and a booking agent for the Emperors Club.

 

He had a difficult first year in office, rocked by a mix of scandal and legislative setbacks. In recent weeks, however, Mr. Spitzer seemed to have rebounded, with his Democratic party poised to perhaps gain control of the state Senate for the first time in four decades.

 

Mr. Spitzer gained national attention when he served as attorney general with his relentless pursuit of Wall Street wrongdoing. As attorney general, he also had prosecuted at least two prostitution rings as head of the state’s organized crime task force.

 

In one such case in 2004, Mr. Spitzer spoke with revulsion and anger after announcing the arrest of 16 people for operating a high-end prostitution ring out of Staten Island.

 

“”This was a sophisticated and lucrative operation with a multitiered management structure,” Mr. Spitzer said at the time. ”It was, however, nothing more than a prostitution ring.”

 

Albany for months has been roiled by bitter fighting and accusations of dirty tricks. The Albany County district attorney is set to issue in the coming days the results of his investigation into Mr. Spitzer’s first scandal, his aides’ involvement in an effort to tarnish Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno, the state’s top Republican.

 

[NoCalMike 0]

Man Accused of Forcing Daughter, 7, to Kill Pet Cat

Thursday, March 13, 2008

 

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MUNCIE, Ind. — A man was jailed Thursday on charges he forced his 7-year-old daughter to kill the family cat by holding a knife in her hand and making her stab the pet.

 

Danield J. Collins, 39, told his children during a visit to his home on Sunday that he wanted them to "learn how to kill" and gave his 11-year-old son a knife to do it, according to an affidavit filed in the case.

 

The boy tried to save the cat by hiding it under a sofa bed and putting ketchup on a knife when Collins went to the bathroom. But when the father realized the cat was not dead, he forced his daughter to hold the knife and then held her hand tightly as he drove the knife into the animal, Muncie police Detective Jami Brown said.

 

Police said Collins stabbed and strangled the cat himself, and told his son to throw the dead pet in the trash. Officers retrieved the carcass to be used as evidence.

 

The children told family members on Monday, the day after the alleged killing, according to the affidavit. The children told police their father was drunk when they arrived at his home and that he's a different person when he's drunk, it said. The siblings live with their grandparents.

 

Collins was being held in the Delaware County Jail on $40,000 bond. He's charged with one count each of animal cruelty and battery and two counts of neglect of a dependent. The battery charge alleges the girl was injured because Collins held her hand so hard that her hand ached.

 

The jail had no record of an attorney representing Collins and there were no published phone listings for him in Muncie.

 

Muncie police Detective Jami Brown said the case was particularly troubling because Collins involved his children in killing the cat, an 8-month-old tuxedo type-cat named Boots.

 

"I've been doing investigations for 10 years and this is really bothering me," the detective said.

 

 

[Guest]

I'm going to take this down. We all know the drill by now, I hope.