Hello, Australia! – Cops say a predator has been victimizing dozens of Australian children for more than a decade – Two American mothers really have lousy parenting skills – Colombia’s top military officials are investigated in the murders of civilians – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:
Authorities charged a 47-year old man from Warwick, QLD in the exploitation and rape of 28 children. The assaults occurred over a period from 2002 through this year. Queensland Police say the man – using aliases such as “Jazz”, “Jazzman”, and “David Bourne” – groomed his victims over social media, arranged to meet with them, and took them to hotel rooms where the crimes occurred. The known alleged victims come from Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, and they believed there could be other victims from as far away as Western Australia.
Just when you think that Islamic State couldn’t be a sorrier mob of scumbags and lowlifes, here comes another tale: A nine-year old girl is pregnant after being gang raped by ten IS scumbags. She’s a member of the Yazidi minority group, which fundamentalist Muslims falsely consider to be devil worshippers. “This girl is so young she could die if she delivers a baby,” said Yousif Daoud, a Canada-based aid worker who has just returned from the region, “Even a caesarian section is dangerous.” But she is in better hands now – the Kurds managed to get her out of the country and fly her to Germany for treatment.
Also, IS released a video showing militants destroying the ancient archeological site at Nimrud. Treasures rating back to the 13th century BCE are now dust.
Turnout at anti-government protests in Brazil over the weekend attracted tens of thousands of people was smaller than in past rallies. Billed as anti-corruption protests, many right-wing demonstrators turned their anger on President Dilma Rousseff, although some groups glommed on to demand looser gun control laws or call for a military coup. So, sanity was left at home. Overall, people are upset over corruption linked to the state-run oil company Petrobras.
When Monday rolls around to Cleveland, Ohio, officials with the metro Zoo plan to seek child endangerment charges against the complete IDIOT who dropped her two-year old toddler in the Cheetah pit. Witnesses say the mother dangled the child over the edge, but the kid slipped and fell three meters, sustained injuries to his legs. “You could just hear the screams and all you could see was the adult that jumped in got the kid,” said witness Michael Lurie, “Then somebody pulled him out.” Luckily, the Cheetahs – which are really, really fast – didn’t bother to get up.
In other Stupid America news, cops arrested a 41-year old woman who abandoned her profoundly disabled 21-year old son in the woods near Philadelphia with a blanket and a bible. The man with cerebral palsy was found a week later, huddled on some leaves near his wheelchair, but amazingly, alive. Mother of the year Nyia Parler was found with her boyfriend in Maryland. She is expected to be charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, reckless endangerment, neglect of a care-dependent person, unlawful restraint, kidnapping, and false imprisonment.
Colombia is investigating 22 military Generals for the murder of civilians whose bodies were then passed off as Marxist FARC Guerillas or other militants in order to falsely boost combat kill rates. Some 800 members of the military have been jailed in the “False Positives” scandal as the case creeps up the ranks of the military. The investigation began in 2008 when men who were recruited from the slums of Bogata with the promise of work were later found murdered in cold blood, their bodies dressed up in rebel uniforms to appear as if they were killed in combat.
The neo-nazi Jobbik party has won its first seat in Hungary’s parliament. World Jewish Congress leader Ronald Lauder was in Hungary for a rally to remember that country’s Holocaust victims, and denounced the openly anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-Roma, anti-Europe Jobbik party. “Today, when the world looks at Hungary, it does not see its great culture. It does not see its beautiful cities. It does not remember its great and glorious past,” said Lauder, “Today, the world sees Hungary and they see Jobbik. They see an extremist party that promotes hate.”
52-year old Alain Robert has still got it. The veteran skyscraper climber scaled Dubai’s 75-storey, 307-meter tall Cayan Tower. Of course, that’s just a snack for Alain, known as the “French Spiderman”. He’s already scaled the Burj Khalifa (828 Meters), Taiwan’s Taipei 101 (508 Meters), Chicago’s Willis Tower (443 Meters), as well as the Sydney Tower and RBS Tower in Australia.