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USA Today
By Jeanine Santucci
1/18/25

Florida Children’s Author, Husband Plead Guilty to Abusing and Neglecting Their 3 Kids

A Florida children’s author and her husband pleaded guilty to abusing and neglecting their three children, leaving one girl hospitalized in critical condition with multiple organ failure.

She was 8 years old, according to local news reports. She weighed just 40 pounds, arrest records show. The children were beaten with a device called a “whacker,” locked up, and not allowed to speak to each other.

Jennifer Wolfthal, 45, who wrote a children’s book called “A Real Friend,” and her

News 12 Long Island
By News 12 Staff
1/15/25

Ex-School Janitor Pleads Guilty to Contaminating Food with Bodily Fluids and Child Porn Charges

A former school janitor has pleaded guilty to contaminating cafeteria food with bodily fluids and possessing child porn.

Giovanni Impellizzeri, who worked at the Upper Deerfield School District, filmed himself putting urine, feces, bleach, and his private parts into food and on utensils intended for students.

The incidents occurred in the fall of 2023, while Impellizzeri was employed at the school.

In an unrelated case, he also pleaded guilty to possessing child porn.

Impellizzeri faces

USA Today
By Taijuan Moorman
1/15/25

‘The Sandman’ Writer Neil Gaiman Accused of Sexual Assault by 9 Women: Report

Four new allegations are surfacing among nearly a dozen accusations from women who say award-winning novelist Neil Gaiman sexually assaulted them.
Vulture published a report Monday outlining the new allegations against Gaiman, as well as allegations first revealed last year. Gaiman, 64, is the famed English fantasy writer behind “The Sandman,” “Good Omens,” “American Gods” and “Coraline,” all of which have been turned into film and television adaptations, among others.
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ESPN
By Michael Rothstein
1/15/25

Conor McGregor Accused of Sexual Assault in Lawsuit

A woman who accused Conor McGregor of sexually assaulting her after an NBA Finals game in 2023 has filed a lawsuit against the former UFC star.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday, also alleges the staff and security of the Kaseya Center, the home arena of the Miami Heat, committed gross negligence.

The woman, who is described in the lawsuit as a 49-year-old resident of Miami-Dade County who works as a vice president on Wall Street at a “high profile financial institution,” alleges that McGregor sexually assaulted her

CBS New York  
By Jennifer McLogan
01/14/25

MS-13 Gang Member Pleads Guilty to Killing 7 on Long Island in Separate Attacks

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — MS-13 gang member Jairo Saenz pleaded guilty Tuesday to killing seven people in separate attacks on Long Island.

Prosecutors say Saenz, also known as “Funny,” and his older brother Alexi, also known as “Blasty,” were gang leaders among 13 defendants charged in multiple barbaric MS-13 murders. Saenz will now join his brother in prison.

Nisa Mickens, Kayla Cuevas murdered by MS-13 gang members

Nisa Mickens, age 15, was slaughtered while walking home from her Brentwood school in

Newsday
By John Hildebrand and Jim Baumbach
1/14/25

NYS Board of Regents Reviews Plan to ‘Fast Track’ Teaching-License Suspensions Over Sex Abuse Accusations

Teachers accused of sexually abusing students could face “fast-track” license suspensions under a proposed rules change reviewed Monday by the state’s policymaking Board of Regents.

If approved at the Regents next meeting on May 5 in Albany, the new regulations could provide for speedier, temporary removal of accused teachers from their classrooms until all appeals in their cases are settled, state education officials said. However, those accused would be entitled to summary hearings before temporary license suspensions were imposed.

Decades of Allegations

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