Daily Archives: June 13, 2012

Father Kills Man Trying to Molest His Daughter

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During a social gathering in Texas on Saturday, a four-year-old girl went inside the family’s home while other members of the family stayed inside to tend to the horses, according to The Huffington Post.

The father entered the house and discovered his 47-year-old acquaintance trying to molest his innocent daughter, according to Lavaca County Sheriff, Micah Harmon.

The father reportedly punched the man in the head until he died.

The sheriff’s office will be deferring the case to a grand jury to decide if charges will be brought against the father.

The father was remorseful to the death of the man; he was unaware that the injuries he inflicted would result in death.

The father and daughter were not named to protect the identity of the young girl.

Harmon reported that the little girl is “ok besides the obvious mental trauma.”

The acquaintance was not named pending the announcement of death to his family.

 

Man Sets Ex-Girlfriend on Fire, Caught on Tape

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A 34-year-old woman waited patiently in her Mercedes outside of a 7-11 store shortly after 3 a.m. in South Florida, Monday.

The woman was waiting to meet with her ex and pick up their four-year-old son for whom the two share custody for.

The meet however, went differently than the woman could have ever planned.

Roosevelt Mondesir, 52, arrived at the 7-11 in his white Jaguar without the boy.

Mondesir poured gasoline over the woman’s entire face and body and proceeded to set her on fire.

It is reported that Mondesir chased the woman around the parking lot with a knife before igniting her.

In a graphic surveillance video captured by security cameras at the store, Mondesir is seen chasing the woman and threatening her against the door of the store with the woman screaming “get away from me.”

Only moments later the woman was seen running around the property engulfed in flames.

Once police arrived, officers searched on foot accompanied by dogs and helicopter for several hours before finding Mondesir hiding in the bushes near the 7-11.

Mondesir was charged with attempted first-degree murder and was also being treated for burns at Bethesda Memorial Hospital before being Boynton Beach before being taken to the jail.

The woman, is not yet identified, is expected to survive and is being treated at Delray Medical Center.

The motive behind the attack is not yet known.

 

White Student Returns Scholarship Intended for Black Students

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The student who won the African-American scholarship from the Martin Luther King Senior Citizens Club in Riverside, Calif., returned the $1,000. Warren, a soon to be San Diego State freshman, was white.

Jeffrey Warren, a graduate of Riverside’s King High School, was encouraged by his father to apply to any scholarship he would be eligible for. Since the application instructions didn’t explicitly say non-black applicants couldn’t apply, Warren decided to fill it out.

After the ceremony, the Warren family decided that returning the money was the best choice, even though the group would not have asked for the money back.

Susan Jaggers, a former math teacher of Warren’s, started a campaign to compensate him after news of his decision spread. So far, the teachers of King High School have raised $351.

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Two U.S. Students Survived New Zealand Wilderness

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Two U.S. students survived nine days in the wilderness of New Zealand using a few survival instincts.

Alec Brown and Erica Klintworth, both 21, who were on a foreign study program in New Zealand with University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, met up with the search team Monday, hungry, but safe.

Their friend Katie Jenkins, another student at UW, dropped them off June 1at a national park on South Island so they could hike in and camp for a few days at some hot springs. However, it started raining and snowing, and prevented the couple from crossing a river to return.

They survived by rationing what little food they had, and kept themselves warm by soaking in the hot springs. Jenkins raised the alarm eight days later, when she realized the couple was missing.

 

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