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Man uses website Mocospace to rape vicitim
People do things every day to protect themselves from potential harm. They lock their doors, their windows, buy guard dogs, leave lights on outside their homes. There are so many ways that people attempt to secure their environments from potential predatory behavior from strangers.
Yet everyday thousands of people will go online from inside their cozy homes and they will unlock a different kind of door for strangers to enter through. There is nothing more harmful than a false sense of security in a situation where being clandestine is commonly expected.
NY- In May of 2010, on a Sunday afternoon, a 24 year old woman from the website Mocospace.com answered an internet post regarding employment. The "ad"/forum post was looking for a secretary who could work Monday through Friday. The job paid $600.00 an hour and a car would be provide.
When she arrived at her destination, a 53 year old man named Richard Bailey greeted her. He asked her to follow him upstairs to the second floor. He told her it led to his "office". The woman followed him and when she got up the stairs she began to feel uneasy. The floor was covered in garbage and didn't look like an "office". It looked like an empty apartment. When she began to feel like something was wrong, it was too late. She told Bailey that she was going to leave, but he wasn't going to allow her to go so easily.
For an unspecified amount of time, the woman was at his mercy. He attacked her and then violated her in terrifying and painful ways. She was vaginally and anally raped. Her assault was brutal and painful to say the least.
However, this wasn't Bailey's first sexual offense. In July 1998, he was charged by authorities in Pennsylvania with charges including indecent assault and corruption of a minor. Bailey was on probation when he met, raped and sodomized the woman he met on mocospace.com
Bailey was a registered level one sex offender, serving a six-year term of probation for a sex offense conviction
He had been charged with first-degree rape and second-degree criminal sex act for the attack. Bailey pleaded guilty, in a plea deal in that case, to a lesser charge of sexual misconduct.
A judge sentenced him to six years of probation and then classified him as just a level one sex offender. Level one offenders are considered the lowest risks to commit another sex crime.
March 3, 2011, Bailey plead guilty to two counts of first-degree sexual abuse. He had originally been charged by a grand jury with first-degree rape and predatory sexual assault.
As part of his plea deal, prosecutors have agreed to recommend that the Judge make his sentences in the two separate cases concurrent. However, prosecutors reserved their right to ask for consecutive sentences on the sex abuse charges which could result in a 14-year prison term for Bailey.
“He understands that he could get up to 14 years if the court gives him the maximum sentence,” defense attorney Christopher Privateer said. “He has agreed to take a plea to the two (sex abuse charges) and take his chance at sentencing.”
As a result of his plea, prosecutors will drop the rape charge and a criminal sex act count.
In December, Bailey was convicted after a trial for violating the terms of his state sex offender registration and has been awaiting sentencing on that conviction.
Bailey’s sex offender violation conviction stemmed from his use of a computer without telling his probation officer.
Ethan Mack sentenced to 25 years
The Waring family no longer has to worry about a second trial for the man accused of murdering their daughter in 2009. 
On April 1, 2011 Ethan Mack plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter. Mack entered a Alford plea. An Alford plea is when a defendant does not admit his guilt but acknowledges a jury would likely find him guilty had his case gone to trial. Mack was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
The prosecution in the case, Ninth Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson said she had mixed feelings about the plea. But agreed to it because of the unreliability of their main witness, Heather Kamp.
Kamp told a jury in October 2010 that she and Mack had murdered Waring. Kamp testified that on June 12, 2009, that she and Mack took Katherine Waring to their home and after tasing her repeatedly hit her in the head with a wine bottle. Kamp said that she and Mack then put Waring in a bathtub filled with water where she drown. Kamp said she and Mack then dumped Waring's body. Kamp led investigator's to the location where Waring's skeletal remains were found in October of 2009. No physical evidence could be linked to the scene where Kamp said the crime had occurred. She told investigators that after the murder, Mack took a nap and she cleaned the bathroom. Waring's body was still inside the home at the time.
Mack's trial ended in a mistrial for murder, but he was found guilty on obstruction of justice and forgery. Heather Kamp plead guilty but mentally ill. Her sentencing is expected later this month. Before leaving the courtroom Mack told the Waring family that he was sorry for the loss of their loved one (Kate Waring) and that she would be missed.
Heather Kamp pleads guilty - Katherine Waring Murder
Heather Angelica Kamp, 31, plead guilty, but mentally ill in the slaying of Katherine Waring. Kamp's attorney, told the judge the plea was appropriate because a forensic psychiatric evaluation found Kamp's borderline personality disorder rendered her incapable of conforming to the law at the time of Waring's killing. The state doesn't necessarily agree with the mental evaluation referenced, but prosecutors saw no need to contest the mentally ill plea. Stating that the potential sentence remains the same under South Carolina law regardless of the distinction.
Dad takes son to work... Good job lil buddy you just told a plane to take off!
Okay, I understand that if you are taking a flight ANYWHERE you may not want a young child to tell your pilot when it's okay to take off. However, I heard the released audio clip of the child. He sounded like he was doing a very good job (in the voice of a very young and adorable child) and he didn't make sounds of "umms" "or Opps". That's always a good thing. So obviously, it was under adult supervision and even as the little boy was calling out the information, you can hear the pilots chuckling and saying, "Good job". So perhaps, it's because it's the FAA! However, kudos to a dad who let his son sit in his seat for a few minutes and call out a few directives.
That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it. Unless a plane had crashed and hundreds of lives had been lost...
I don't see the harm. If the dad was an intoxicated, drug abusing Flight controller who had no sense about North, South, East and West. I'd say the FAA had bigger problems to deal with anyway. I refuse to jump on the bandwagon and judge this dad. I get the distinct feeling people think this is the worst thing they have ever heard.
I'm sorry, but it's not. If the dad worked on a Porn set, I'd have to agree that it was probably not in the best interest of the child to take him to work. However, he'd probably be in less trouble if he had. That's just sad. So to the FAA... stop throwing your employees under the bus for the sake of political and public opinion. It was harmless and people are making more out of it than is necessary.
The article follows and please click on the link to read more.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100303/od_nm/us_newyork_airport_odd
Child's play at air traffic tower sparks inquiry
Source: Reuters
NEW YORK – An investigation is underway into why a young child, apparently under an adult's supervision, was allowed to direct air traffic at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport, U.S. authorities said on Wednesday.
In transmissions broadcast by local media, the young child -- whose age is unknown -- can be heard directing pilots for departure, apparently under the supervision of an adult. The incident reportedly happened two weeks ago.
At one point an adult voice can be heard telling a pilot: "This is what you get guys when the kids are out of school."
The pilots receiving instructions from the child did not appear too concerned with one pilot saying "awesome job."
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said that pending the outcome of its investigation the employees involved in the incident were not controlling air traffic.
"This behavior is not acceptable and does not demonstrate the kind of professionalism expected from all FAA employees," the FAA said in a statement.
"Extra Small" Condoms for 12 year-old boys
WHAT?! I had to read the title a couple of times.... I'm sharing it with you to read. My first thought was... Extra small condoms says WHAT? Yea, that's a Hannah Montana phrase. I wonder why that popped in my head? Oh, I bet it has something to do with the age of the average viewer for Disney's Hannah Montana show. The sad thing that popped in my head was the realization that grown men will be at stores buying these for a make believe "son" because they don't want to admit that the "extra small" fits better than the average. On the other hand, how many 12 year old boys are going to have enough sense to use a condom if the theory of risky behavior is correct??
Click the link below to go directly to Fox news about this article or read it here.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,587980,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a4:g4:r5:c0.000000:b0:z5 A leading condom manufacturer in Switzerland has created extra-small condoms for boys as young as 12 years old, the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph reported. The condom, called the Hotshot, was produced after family planning groups and the Swiss AIDS Federation campaigned to have the condoms made following several studies that showed adolescent boys were not using proper protection when engaging in intercourse. "The result that shocked us concerned young boys who display apparently risky behavior,” Nancy Bodmer, who headed the research, told the newspaper. “They have more of a tendency not to protect themselves. They do not have a very developed sexual knowledge. They do not understand the consequences of what they are doing and leave the young girls to take care of the consequences.” Bodmer said the results of the study suggest that early prevention makes sense. A spokeswoman for the company, Lamprecht AG, said the United Kingdom would be a “top priority” if they expanded abroad, especially since the U.K. has one of the highest rates of teen pregnancy in Europe. A standard condom has a diameter of 2 inches; the Hotshot's is 1.7 inches.
Read more of the original article at the Telegraph.co.uk