Day by Day

A woman who police said assaulted a sex offender with a baseball bat said," I'd do it again if I had to," reported KIRO 7 Eyewitness News.
After learning that her Puyallup neighbor, 24-year-old William Baldwin, was a convicted level 3 sex offender from a flyer she received from the Pierce County Sheriff's Department, Tammy Gibson said, "I lost my mind."

"She grabbed a bat, picked it up and started beating the crap out of me. She started beating me the way a man would with a bat", said Baldwin of the incident. "I've never even seen her before and she just comes over and accuses me of molesting her children and attacks me with a bat."

Gibson said she once told her live-in boyfriend she thought Baldwin was harmless, but said all that changed when she got the flyer that listed Baldwin's conviction on two counts of first-degree child molestation in 1999 as well as other offenses.
"Last year, on the Fourth of July, he was talking to my daughter. I got the flyer in the mail and I snapped. I went nuts," Gibson told McCarty.
The flyer states that Baldwin lured a 5-year-old girl into a doghouse in his backyard and sexually assaulted her. That crime was committed while he was on parole for another sexual assault in which he forced a different 5- year-old girl into a sex act with him.
Baldwin, who is currently in the Pierce County Jail, said he had to be escorted by Pierce County Corrections Officers for protection once the news of his alleged assault and sex offender status was broadcast by KIRO 7.
Gibson was arrested and charged with second-degree assault and felony harassment. She was arraigned Wednesday and pleaded not guilty.
Gibson, meanwhile, is being held on $15,000 bail. Her friends, who view her as a hero, are working to raise $1,500 to post bond.
Way to go, Mom!

The last hours of Nixzmary Brown, who was starved, abused, tortured, and beaten to death at the hands of her parents during her seven years of life, included her stepfather Cesar Rodriguez holding her head under water and beating her, also hitting her head against the bathtub faucet, while she called out for her mother, Nixzaliz Santiago, who never came. Rodriguez and Santiago pleaded not guilty to murder and abuse charges.

More parents driven to the limits by a monster child that wouldn't mind. She would STEAL food! She was always trying to escape. No wonder they had to keep her locked in her room with a little box for a restroom.
When will stressed, over worked, poor parents see some relief from government services for such abusive children?

Can you believe his lawyer actually had the balls to offer this defense????!!!!!
Oh... she also would be mean to her brothers and sisters. That could do it.

Abolish capitol punishment or not?

Recently, the popular social networking Web site MySpace.com created a database as a means to identify and remove registered sex offenders from its online community. Officials with the online site have also agreed to share sex offender data — how many registered sex offenders are using the site and where they live — with attorneys general from eight states, according to The Associated Press.
MySpace general counsel Mike Angus announced that the site has already used the database to remove about 7,000 profiles out of a total of about 180 million, according to the AP.
Federal privacy laws require states to file subpoenas or other legal requests before MySpace can release the information.
Sgt. Mike McGuffey, an investigator at the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office who primarily handles the local sex offender list, is pleased that MySpace has started to share information with law enforcement.
“Predators should have absolutely zero access to places where children congregate, whether that be in public places or on the Internet,” said McGuffey.
McGuffey has been receiving increasingly more reports of incidents that occur online. He admits to using MySpace as “a resource” in solving crimes, although this new resource sometimes complicates the process.
While McGuffey feels the progress being made with MySpace has the potential of making the Web site a slightly safer place for young people to investigate, he points out that technology continues to evolve and predators will invent new ways of targeting the public. Safety against online predators starts in the home, according to the investigator.
“Ultimately, it ought to be up to the parents — it’s their responsibility to take care of their children,” said McGuffey. “Parents should be more involved in their children’s lives than in anything else. They need to set rules and enforce punishment when those rules are broken.”

A South Florida man accused of sexually molesting a 15-year-old girl he met on MySpace was arrested in South Carolina on Wednesday, just one day after local police filed a warrant for his arrest.
Ansen Brown, 32, is in the custody of the Greenville Police Department awaiting extradition. He will be charged with one count of lewd and lascivious molestation, said Sgt. Manny Marino, a spokesman for the Hollywood Police Department.

I wasn't sure what lascivious meant , so I did a Google Image Search. Yep, that's what I thought it meant.
Authorities believe Brown befriended a 15-year-old girl from California on MySpace in January, then paid for her to fly to Florida on April 10.
Brown picked her up at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport that morning, drove her to a Hollywood apartment, then sexually molested her, police said.
The girl is back with her family in California.

"A lot of those sites are like guidebooks on how to find and victimize children," said Sandi Copes, a spokeswoman for the State Attorney General's Office. "Kids post their hopes, their fears and dreams, and these people know how to exploit that."

Brown bills himself as "The World Famous Ansen Brown" on his MySpace page. Besides four samples of his hip-hop songs, the page also includes a written call for anyone interested in being a porn star.

HARRISBURG -- A former Pennsylvania state trooper tipped off pimps who ran a child prostitution ring in exchange for money and sex, federal prosecutors said today in announcing charges against him.
Kevin J. Coleman, 42, of Harrisburg, was accused of interfering with a nationwide investigation into a ring that used women and teenagers as prostitutes. He was accused of disclosing investigative details, wiretaps and police sweeps.
Prosecutors said Mr. Coleman was assigned to anti-prostitution patrols at the Gables Truck Stop near Harrisburg when pimps -- many from Toledo, Ohio -- were operating there.
Mr. Coleman resigned as a state trooper after learning he was under investigation, prosecutors said. It could not immediately be determined if he has a lawyer.
At least nine of the girls were under age 18 when they were forced into working as prostitutes, authorities said, and in one case a 12-year-old girl was forced to engage in prostitution to pay for her grandfather's crack cocaine.