>Dawn Flood wrote:
>> On 11/4/2024 12:59 PM, Henry Bodkin wrote:
>>> A Conservative Case Against Trump
>>> Oct. 29, 2024
>>> By Bret Stephens
>>> Opinion Columnist
>>> With a week to go before the election, Kamala Harris has yet to come
>>> up with a compelling rationale for her candidacy, other than to accuse
>>> her opponent of being a fascist.
>>
>> Trump is too old to go to prison!  What would such a sentence
>> accomplish??
>>
>> Dawn
>
>The Democrats use lawfare to scare the peons.
>

Millions want Trump to rot in prison.

On 11/5/2024 7:28 AM, Paul R. wrote:
> Millions want Trump to rot in prison.

Euros can fuck off and die.

On April 5, 2022, the Watervliet Police Department responded to the 1600 block of 3rd Avenue for a reported sexual assault. At the conclusion of an extensive investigation, it was determined that a 15-year-old victim was sexually assaulted by Rhannad A. Burch, who was released from state prison on March 31, 2022, after serving two years upon his conviction for Rape in the 3rd Degree. In addition, Watervliet detectives discovered that Burch was in violation of an order of protection regarding a separate victim.

On April 6, 2022, Burch was arrested in Albany, NY after a coordinated effort by the Watervliet Police Department and the New York State Police (NYSP).

Watervliet police detectives charged Burch, a 31-year-old male from Troy, NY (photo attached) with Predatory Sexual Assault (Class A-II Felony), Rape in the 1st Degree (Class B Felony), Criminal Sexual Act in the 1st Degree (Class B felony), Criminal Contempt in the 1st Degree (Class E Felony), Criminal Mischief in the 4th Degree (Class A Misdemeanor) and Endangering the Welfare of a Child (Class A Misdemeanor). Burch was arraigned in Watervliet City Court and remanded to the Albany County Correctional Facility without bail.

“This offender demonstrated a brazenness that is often a routine characteristic of many violent criminals,” said Watervliet Police Chief Joseph Centanni. “This attacker engaged in another violent sexual offense days after being released from prison for a rape conviction. This defies all common sense and logic. We remain committed to working with our law enforcement partners and the community to pursue and remove threatening criminals from our neighborhoods,” concluded Centanni.

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Rhannad A. Burch

https://watervlietpolice.com/convicted-rapist-arrested-again-five-days-after-his-release-from-prison/

Michael Reese, the sex offender suspected of killing a visiting nurse in a Willimantic halfway house last month, grabbed a woman from behind in New Haven 17 years ago, raped her, squeezed her neck until she passed out and stabbed her, according to the warrant for his arrest.

The woman, who police said was looking to get paid to have sex with him, survived, despite having been stabbed in the neck, according to the warrant from his June 8, 2006 arrest. She had “significant damage to her trachea, her jugular vein and carotid artery,” the warrant said.

She couldn’t breathe on her own, and when police first interviewed her in the hospital, she had to communicate by writing and shaking or nodding her head, according to the warrant obtained Wednesday by Hearst Connecticut Media Group.

More recent court documents show that Reese is a suspect in the Oct. 28 death of visiting nurse Joyce Grayson, who was found in the basement of a Willimantic halfway house for sex offenders, a crime the Willimantic police chief called one of the worst he had seen in his career.

Reese was arrested the day of the homicide on misdemeanor charges and the next day on a charge of violation of probation, but has not been arrested in Grayson’s death. Police have released no information about the homicide and have not released Grayson's name. Eastern District detectives with the Connecticut State Police have taken over the investigation.

The sex assault conviction that landed Reese on the Connecticut Sex Offender Registry for life happened in state Superior Court in New Haven on June 18, 2007. He was convicted of first-degree sexual assault and first-degree assault and sentenced to 25 years in prison, suspended after 17 years, followed by 10 years of probation.

According to the warrant, the New Haven assault happened on June 1, 2006 in Fair Haven Union Cemetery. A resident of Bright Street heard glass break in the street and saw a woman who was naked and bleeding standing against a fence inside the cemetery, the warrant said. He also saw a man he described as tall, yet “stocky,” running out of the cemetery toward Grand Avenue.

Police eventually learned that Reese had agreed to pay $30 for sex with the woman and the two walked into the cemetery and stopped in front of a mausoleum, where Reese pulled down his pants, exposing himself, the warrant said. The woman demanded money before having sex, but Reese refused to pay, the warrant said.

The woman turned away from him to get the coat she had hung on the mausoleum door and Reese grabbed her from behind, covering her mouth with his hand and “forcibly lowered her pants,” the warrant stated. She stopped struggling because she was in fear for her life, she told investigators, according to the warrant.

Reese raped her, she told police, and when she went to leave, he grabbed her neck with both hands and put her in a chokehold until she passed out, according to the warrant. The woman wasn’t feeling well at the time of the interview and asked detectives to continue it at a later time, the warrant said.

The woman later told police she recalled that Reese said he worked at Lowe's and lived with his grandmother on Pierpont Street in New Haven, the warrant said. They learned from a loss prevention worker at the store that Reese fit the description, but had not reported to work since May 26, 2006.

When shown a picture of Reese in a photo array, the woman immediately pointed to him as her attacker, the warrant said.

The woman was 5 feet tall and weighed about 95 pounds at the time of the attack, the warrant said. Reese was 6-foot-1 and weighed 345 pounds, court records show.

https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/michael-reese-new-haven-cemetery-rape-18478408.php

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Kenneth Thomas Bowen III, Special Photo

JONESBORO — Here are the 60 charges a Clayton County grand jury returned against accused serial rape suspect Kevin Thomas Bowen III Nov. 13.

The grand jury true bill names nine rape victims and, in eight cases, states the address where the crimes allegedly took place. In addition, Bowen is charged with assaulting a roommate who allegedly was injured during a fight and a child who Bowen allegedly punched.

A Clayton County Police detective testified Bowen’s DNA matched that found on eight of the victims in attacks between 2016 and 2019. A ninth victim from 2015 was later added to the indictment.

It is the editorial policy of the Clayton News not to identify victims of sexual assault.

Counts 1-7, Victim 1, in Clayton County, on or about July 4, 2015: rape, kidnapping, armed robbery-cell phone (firearm), aggravated assault (intent to rape), aggravated assault (intent to commit theft using a firearm), false imprisonment, possession of a firearm during commission of a felony (rape). The indictment notes the state did not link Bowen to Victim 1 “until August 27, 2019.”

Counts 8-15, Victim 2, in Jonesboro, on or about Dec. 13, 2016: rape, burglary, aggravated assault (intent to rape), kidnapping, aggravated sodomy, false imprisonment, aggravated assault (using a knife), armed robbery.

Counts 16-23, Victim 3, in Jonesboro, on or about Dec. 16, 2016: rape, kidnapping, aggravated assault (intent to rape), aggravated assault (using a knife), first-degree burglary, false imprisonment, armed robbery-cash (using a knife), armed robbery (cell phone, using a knife).

Counts 24-27 and 29, Victim 4, in Jonesboro, on or about April 16, 2017: criminal attempt to commit a felony (rape), aggravated assault (intent to rape), false imprisonment, first-degree burglary (intent to commit rape), aggravated assault (using a hammer).

Counts 28, Victim 5, in Jonesboro, on or about April 16, 2017: first-degree cruelty to children (punched the child in the stomach).

Counts 30-35, Victim 6, in Jonesboro, on or about May 6, 2017: rape, first-degree burglary (intent to rape), aggravated sodomy, false imprisonment, aggravated assault (intent to rape), aggravated assault (using a knife).

Counts 36-43, Victim 7, in Riverdale, on or about July 20, 2017: rape, first-degree burglary (intent to rape), terroristic threats (murder), aggravated sodomy, aggravated assault (intent to rape), aggravated assault (using a knife), armed robbery (cellphone, using a knife), armed robbery (keys, using a knife).

Counts 44-48, Victim 8, in Jonesboro, on or about April 11, 2018: rape, first-degree burglary (intent to rape), kidnapping, aggravated sodomy, false imprisonment.

Counts 49-54, Victim 9, in Jonesboro, on or about June 8, 2018: rape, first-degree burglary (intent to rape), false imprisonment, aggravated assault (intent to rape), aggravated assault (strangulation, using hands), kidnapping.

Counts 55-58 and 60, Victim 10, in Jonesboro, on or about July 29, 2019: aggravated sodomy, first-degree burglary (intent to commit aggravated sodomy), false imprisonment, aggravated assault (“serious bodily injury” using hands), aggravated battery (“did maliciously cause bodily harm...by seriously disfiguring said person’s body by fracturing her orbital socket”).

Count 59, Victim 11 (the roommate of Victim 10), in Jonesboro, on or about July 29, 2019: aggravated assault (serious bodily injury, using hands).

Bowen’s next court appearance had not been set as of press time.

https://www.news-daily.com/news/60-count-indictment-against-kenneth-thomas-bowen-iii-accused-in-clayton-county-serial-rape-case/article_8a135960-06e8-11ea-a605-8fdcfe5944dd.html

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Kenneth Thomas Bowen III, Special Photo

JONESBORO — A Clayton County grand jury has indicted Kenneth Thomas Bowen III, the suspected Clayton County serial rapist, on 60 charges.

According to a press release from District Attorney Tasha Mosley, the indictment charges Bowen, 24, of Jonesboro, with:

Counts 1-7, Victim 1, in Clayton County, on or about July 4, 2015: rape, kidnapping, armed robbery-cell phone (firearm), aggravated assault (intent to rape), aggravated assault (intent to commit theft using a firearm), false imprisonment, possession of a firearm during commission of a felony (rape). The indictment notes the state did not link Bowen to Victim 1 “until August 27, 2019.”

Counts 8-15, Victim 2, in Jonesboro, on or about Dec. 13, 2016: rape, burglary, aggravated assault (intent to rape), kidnapping, aggravated sodomy, false imprisonment, aggravated assault (using a knife), armed robbery.

Counts 16-23, Victim 3, in Jonesboro, on or about Dec. 16, 2016: rape, kidnapping, aggravated assault (intent to rape), aggravated assault (using a knife), first-degree burglary, false imprisonment, armed robbery-cash (using a knife), armed robbery (cell phone, using a knife).

Counts 24-27 and 29, Victim 4, in Jonesboro, on or about April 16, 2017: criminal attempt to commit a felony (rape), aggravated assault (intent to rape), false imprisonment, first-degree burglary (intent to commit rape), aggravated assault (using a hammer).

Counts 28, Victim 5, in Jonesboro, on or about April 16, 2017: first-degree cruelty to children (punched the child in the stomach).

Counts 30-35, Victim 6, in Jonesboro, on or about May 6, 2017: rape, first-degree burglary (intent to rape), aggravated sodomy, false imprisonment, aggravated assault (intent to rape), aggravated assault (using a knife).

Counts 36-43, Victim 7, in Riverdale, on or about July 20, 2017: rape, first-degree burglary (intent to rape), terroristic threats (murder), aggravated sodomy, aggravated assault (intent to rape), aggravated assault (using a knife), armed robbery (cellphone, using a knife), armed robbery (keys, using a knife).

Counts 44-48, Victim 8, in Jonesboro, on or about April 11, 2018: rape, first-degree burglary (intent to rape), kidnapping, aggravated sodomy, false imprisonment.

Counts 49-54, Victim 9, in Jonesboro, on or about June 8, 2018: rape, first-degree burglary (intent to rape), false imprisonment, aggravated assault (intent to rape), aggravated assault (strangulation, using hands), kidnapping.

Counts 55-58 and 60, Victim 10, in Jonesboro, on or about July 29, 2019: aggravated sodomy, first-degree burglary (intent to commit aggravated sodomy), false imprisonment, aggravated assault (“serious bodily injury” using hands), aggravated battery (“did maliciously cause bodily harm...by seriously disfiguring said person’s body by fracturing her orbital socket”).

Count 59, Victim 11 (the roommate of Victim 10), in Jonesboro, on or about July 29, 2019: aggravated assault (serious bodily injury, using hands).

https://www.news-daily.com/news/60-count-indictment-against-kenneth-thomas-bowen-iii-accused-in-clayton-county-serial-rape-case/article_8a135960-06e8-11ea-a605-8fdcfe5944dd.html

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Danueal Drayton

A New Haven man is locked up in Los Angeles, charged with killing one woman and raping another, and there are reports that he could be a suspected serial killer.

Police arrested 27-year-old Danueal Drayton after they found him in North Hollywood with a woman who was tied up.

Police say just last week Drayton killed a woman in New York. They say he met both his victims through the dating app Tinder.

“The common denominator in these two cases – one being a murder, one being a rape – is dating websites,” said Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea.

Police think Drayton may have used other dating sites to meet other potential victims.

They say he has a number of prior arrests here in Connecticut.

https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/new-haven/new-haven-man-arrested-for-rape-murder-in-california/

BLOOMFIELD -- FOX61's Chief Investigator Brian Foley spoke to a father who said he fended off an intruder who attacked his daughter.

On Thursday afternoon, the Bloomfield Police Department responded to 20 Mitchell Drive following a reported disturbance.

Police said that Michael Farrigon, 43, attacked his 30-year-old neighbor as she was sitting in a car in her parents’ driveway.

The woman’s father, Maurice Gordon, said while being attacked, his daughter honked her horn and screamed.

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EXCLUSIVE: ‘He wanted to rape her’ – Bloomfield father saves daughter from neighbor
“He opened the door and went from the passenger side and was holding onto her saying that he wanted to rape her,” Gordon said Friday.

His daughter managed to escape and run to the house, but the neighbor followed.

“He came up on the step and said ‘I love your daughter, I want to rape your daughter,’” Gordon recounted. He said the two then started wrestling.

“I called to my wife, I said ‘bring my gun.’”

Gordon, with gun in hand, urged his neighbor to leave.

“I hold the gun in my right [hand] and I said, ‘Mike I don’t want to hurt you please get off my property.’ Even with the gun in my hand I could see that he had no fear.”

“I had no choice than to fire,” Gordon said while pointing to the sky, “because I didn’t want to hurt him, so I fired a shot.”

Gordon said Farrigon walked away but returned so he fired a second shot.

FOX61 has obtained Bloomfield Police Department body camera video showing an officer telling the suspect to get on the ground. Farrigon is heard saying the words “rape” and “woman.”

Several officers are then seen taking subduing Farrigon and taking him into custody.

Michael Farrigon was arrested and charged with Unlawful Restraint, Attempted Sexual Assault, Attempted Home Invasion, and other offenses.

Bloomfield Police detectives “conferred with the CT State’s Attorney Office while at the scene and were advised that criminal charges for the father would not be applicable for firing the weapon in this incident,” according to the department.

https://www.fox61.com/article/news/local/outreach/awareness-months/exclusive-he-wanted-to-rape-her-bloomfield-father-saves-daughter-from-neighbor/520-a58928c7-0ac7-4a64-8ce1-5d5556853c40

A convicted rapist was charged with murder and attempted sexual assault Friday in the killing of a visiting nurse at a Connecticut halfway house for sex offenders in October — a crime that spurred calls for better safety measures for home health care workers.

Authorities added the charges against Michael Reese, 39, as he appeared in state court in Danielson for a related larceny and drug paraphernalia case. Police arrested him on those allegations as he was leaving the Willimantic halfway house on the day when Joyce Grayson was found dead in the basement on Oct. 28. Officers said Reese had some of Grayson's possessions on him.

Grayson, a 63-year-old mother of six and a nurse for 36 years, had gone to the house to administer medication to Reese. Police responded there when someone reported she had missed later appointments.

Reese was charged with murder, felony murder and attempted first-degree sexual assault, according to the court clerk's office. Additional details of the allegations were not immediately available.

Reese's public defender did not immediately return phone and emails messages seeking comment Friday.

New details of the killing emerged Friday with the release of the arrest warrant for Reese. Grayson was strangled and was found naked from the waist down, except for her socks, according to the warrant. She also had blunt-force injuries to her head, torso and extremities, the warrant said, citing an autopsy by the chief medical examiner's office.

Testing also showed that DNA found on Grayson's body was highly likely Reese's DNA, the warrant said.

Grayson's daughter called police to request a well-being check after Grayson missed some appointments after Reese, the warrant said. The daughter said she used a phone location app and it said Grayson was at the address of the halfway house, according to the document.

Police also said the Department of Correction recorded phone calls Reese made while detained on the larceny and drug paraphernalia charges that appear to implicate him in the killing.

“Basically, bro, it was a robbery gone wrong, bro. A robbery gone accident, that's it,” Reese said on one of the calls, according to the warrant.

In another phone conversation, Reese said he had started using drugs again and it led him to do “what happened," the warrant said. He also said that he would take a plea bargain, according to the document.

“I'm going to take the first offer that they give me as long as the charges are right,” he said, according to the warrant. “I don't care, like, I'm, I've already come to terms that this is it for me.”

Grayson was a nurse for the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services for 26 years before serving as a visiting nurse for over a decade, according to her family. She also was a beloved foster parent, taking in nearly three dozen children and being honored with the state’s Foster Parent of the Year award in 2017.

After her death, state and federal lawmakers renewed pushes to prevent violence against health care workers.

Reese, who was on probation after serving more than 14 years in prison for stabbing and sexually assaulting a woman in 2006 in New Haven, was taken into police custody while leaving the halfway house on the day Grayson was killed. He was released from prison in late 2020 and was sent back to detention two times for violating probation, state records show.

Authorities said he had some of Grayson’s belongings, including credit cards, and was charged with violating probation, larceny and using drug paraphernalia.

The warrant said he drove Grayson's car to a bank and a local convenience store and used Grayson's debit card to withdraw more than $400 before returning to the house and getting arrested. Police said surveillance video showed Reese at the bank and store, and his GPS monitoring device for his probation showed him near those locations at the same times.

A judge on Friday set bail at $2 million on the new charges. Reese has been detained on bail since his arrest. He is due back in court on June 7.

https://www.theday.com/state/20240419/a-convicted-rapist-is-charged-with-murder-in-the-killing-of-a-connecticut-visiting-nurse/

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Derek Swift is accused of kidnapping a 15-year-old girl and keeping her locked in a basement for nearly five months while repeatedly drugging and sexually assaulting her.
Cook County Sheriff

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A Chicago man has been charged with kidnapping a 15-year-old girl and keeping her locked in his basement for nearly five months as he repeatedly sexually assaulted her.

Derek Swift, 48, is charged with one count each of aggravated kidnapping, kidnapping, criminal sexual assault, and aggravated criminal sexual abuse.

Cook County prosecutors said the girl was walking home on Dec. 6 when Swift pulled up in a car and offered her a ride, according to court records.

After the victim got in his car, he pressured her into drinking alcohol and taking pills, and she lost consciousness, according to prosecutors.

The victim later woke up naked in a bed in Swift's apartment. Swift kept her locked in the basement, repeatedly raping her through late April, sometimes leaving her alone for two to three days at a time.

At one point while she was locked up, Swift gave her a phone so he could check on her, and threatened to kill her if she contacted anyone. Prosecutors said he also forced her to take pills, and would force them into her mouth when she refused.

Swift kept her in the basement until April 29, when she called police.

At his first court appearance on Thursday, he was ordered held at Cook County Jail as he awaits trial. He is due back in court on May 21.

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/derek-swift-charged-kidnapping-sexual-assault-teen-girl/