Indian father of 5 girls cuts open pregnant wife’s belly to see
if she is having a son
20 Sep, 2020
Police in India have revealed details of a horrifying case in which a father of five daughters allegedly slashed open his pregnant wife’s abdomen because he wanted to find out if she was going to have a son.
The appalling incident took place in the village of Nekpur in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. The deranged father allegedly slit open his 35-year-old wife’s belly with a sharp-edged weapon, leaving her with serious injuries.
The woman, who was more than six months pregnant, was rushed to hospital by distraught family members, who said that the man committed the atrocious act because he wanted to know if the baby was male or female.
The father was subsequently arrested by the police and an investigation into his motives has been launched. The woman remains in hospital in the aftermath of the horrifying attack and the condition of the baby was not known at the time of writing.
What madness is this?
Nekpur, Uttar Pradesh
B.C. man facing new charges over revenge website targeting ex-wife
Patrick Fox defied order to end online harassment: 'I will never take down the website'
Eric Rankin · CBC News
A British Columbia man convicted of running a revenge website targeting his ex-wife has been arrested again — charged with continuing to defy court demands that he pull down the offensive site.
Patrick Henry Fox, 46, faces two new counts of breach of probation for operating the website contrary to orders from the B.C. Supreme Court and B.C. Provincial Court.
The site falsely accuses his former spouse, Desiree Capuano, of being a white supremacist, a drug addict and a child abuser, and calls her a "horrible, lying, sociopathic monster."
It also contains intimate photos.
The new charges come less than a month after Fox finished serving time for defying a previous B.C. Supreme Court order to remove the site.
On Aug. 19, a Provincial Court judge in Vancouver set the terms of his release and probation — again demanding the website come down within 48 hours of his exit from jail.
That same day, a defiant new post appeared on Fox's site. "I told the judge 'that's just not going to happen,'" the entry states.
In this screen grab from the internet, Patrick Fox vows
he will never remove his revenge website. (CBC)
The post, entitled "Dear David Eby," taunts the judicial system and dares B.C.'s attorney general to rearrest him. "They can lock me up for te [sic] rest of my life, but I will never take down the website," the post continues.
Fox was arrested in Vancouver on Thursday. Authorities have been unable to remove the revenge website because it's operated through a server in a foreign country.
Rearrest 'a godsend': Capuano
Capuano, who lives in Arizona, said in an interview with CBC News she's "very grateful" the Canadian judicial system has taken the case so seriously.
"I am very relieved that he's back in custody. And honestly, the buffer that the legal system in Vancouver has given me has just been a godsend," an emotional Capuano said. "It's very difficult when he is out of jail, because I know that he is waiting and looking for anything that he can use to hurt me. And it's a very scary situation."
Capuano's Vancouver lawyer said Fox's quick rearrest should serve as a wake-up call to others thinking of posting revenge sites.
"This has been a precedent-setting case from the beginning. It demonstrates that the criminal justice system is taking internet harassment seriously," David Georgetti said. "These most recent charges serve as a stark warning to online harassers that their conduct can attract ... serious criminal sanctions."
Maximum penalty sought
Special prosecutor Chris Johnson said the Crown will be seeking the maximum penalty of two years in prison for Fox's alleged breach of probation.
He praised Vancouver police for making a quick arrest. "Vancouver police did a great job in investigating an unrepentant Patrick Fox for repeatedly operating a website which damns and attempts to humiliate his former spouse," Johnson told CBC News.
Johnson said he'll be asking the courts to keep Fox behind bars pending trial.
Fox, who in the past has acted as his own lawyer, wasn't available for comment.
Capuano, who married Fox in 2000 in Nevada, says it's a 'very scary situation just not knowing' what her ex-husband will do next. After the marriage failed and a bitter custody battle ensued, Capuano reported Fox to a tipline for living illegally in the U.S., and he was deported to Canada.
History of harassment
Fox and Capuano married in Nevada in 2000 and lived together in Arizona. They had a son, but the marriage failed within a year and a bitter custody battle ensued.
Capuano reported Fox to a U.S. tipline for living illegally in the United States, and he was deported to Canada.
By April 2014, the revenge website appeared online.
In November 2017, Fox was convicted of criminally harassing Capuano in what was found to be an attempt to ruin her life and force her to commit suicide.
"Don't think for one second that anything will ever be more important to me than destroying you," he wrote in an email presented as evidence at his trial.
In addition to criminal harassment, Fox was also found guilty of shipping several guns inside a computer to the U.S.
Fox was sentenced to almost four years in prison, minus time served awaiting trial. He was released in December 2018.
His probation condition required him to take down the site, but it remained up. In March 2019, Fox was charged with breaching his probation and taken into custody.
Last month, 17 months later, Fox was sentenced to an additional six months for that breach, reduced to just one day due to time already served behind bars.
Like the B.C. Supreme Court, the Provincial Court ordered that the site be pulled down. Again, it stayed up. Despite the new charges against Fox, the website remains online.
In his last post taunting the authorities, he foretold his own future. "By the time you read this I will probably be back in custody, but in case you haven't figured it out, I just don't give a f---."
Fox is scheduled to make his first court appearance on these latest breach of probation charges on Sept. 24. In the meantime, Capuano said she's doing her best to get on with her life.
"I will take any amount of time that I get to live a normal life. And when he gets out again, I will hold my breath and wait for the next thing that he does, because that is my life and that is what I do."
Since he added to the website after getting out, he should be eligible for resentencing for the revenge site, not just breach of probation. He should also be examined for his psychological condition. He appears to be quite unwell. Some might even call it demonic.
Tour guide gang-raped by five men and a woman
at five-star hotel in India
Claudia Aoraha, The Sun
A TOUR guide was gang-raped by five men and a WOMAN at a five-star hotel in India, according to police reports.
The rape survivor named six people who attacked her in the hotel near India Gate in Delhi on Friday.
Rape and sexual violence has been rife in India in recent yearsCredit: AFP or licensors
A man from the Sheikh Sarai area of Delhi has been arrested in connection with the brutal attack.
Police said the tour guide made a distressed call the day after the incident, which happened in a five-star central Delhi hotel room.
Deputy Commissioner of Police, New Delhi, Eish Singhal told NDTV: "On the victim's complaint, a case was registered against 6 accused persons including one woman.
"The victim was lured to the hotel room on the pretext of providing a loan at subsidized rates by the accused persons. The victim worked as a tourist guide-cum-ticket booking agent and she was in dire need of money.
"The room was booked under the name of two business persons."
Police are further investigating the other people accused.
Earlier this month, a teenage girl claimed she was raped by an ambulance driver as she was taken to hospital for coronavirus treatment in India. The 29-year-old is said to have launched the sex attack on the 19-year-old as she was driven to a treatment centre.
And in August, another horrific sex attack was reported after a teenager was raped and murdered before her "mutilated" body was found dumped in a sugarcane field. The 13-year-old girl's father claims her tongue had been cut and her eyes gouged out - although police have disputed this, according to reports.
The alleged incident took place in Pakaria village close to the Nepal border in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri district.
Nearly 34,000 rapes are reported in India each year despite the introduction of tougher laws in recent years.
And, almost certainly, many times that number were not reported.
Rape and sexual violence has been under the spotlight in India since the 2012 gang rape and murder of a young woman in the capital Delhi, which prompted thousands demanding stricter laws.
Prison sentences for rapists were doubled to 20 years as well as criminalising voyeurism, stalking and trafficking of women.
Indian MPs also voted to lower the age at which a person can be tried as an adult for heinous crimes to 16 from 18.
Lowering the age is good, unfortunately, a little late. The worst perpetrator in the 2012 Delhi bus gang-rape and murder was under 18 and is a free man today. The following clip from "India's Daughter", is brief but describes what the teen did to the girl.
Caution: if you listen to it, it will haunt you for the rest of your life.
Raising penalties might keep rapists off the street for a while longer, and that's a good thing, but will not change the rape culture, nor raise the value of girls and women in society. It has to start with the vigorous prosecution of those who abort or murder new-born girls.
I have called Pakistan the worst country in the world to be a child, but, really, it's a toss-up between Pakistan and India.
Paedophile teacher who sexually abused students avoids Tasmanian jail
because he's too fat
Peter John O'Neill, 61, is morbidly obese and uses a wheelchair, needs a full-time carer and is so unfit he has been unable to leave his house to get to his court hearing
By Lorraine King
Peter John O'Neill is too fat for jail (Image: Facebook) Apparently the photo is dated
A paedophile teacher who sexually abused six children will avoid jail because he is too fat to be locked up.
Morbidly obese Peter John O'Neill, from Canberra, Australia, uses a wheelchair, needs a full-time carer and has been deemed unable to travel by the court.
The 61-year-old pleaded guilty to six counts of indecent assault and one count of penetrative sexual abuse of a young person relating to incidents in the 1980s, and is due to be sentenced on August 25.
However Chief Justice Alan Blow said in a previous hearing he could only give the sexual predator, who worked at a Dominic College in Tasmania, a suspended jail sentence, The Mercury reports.
He added there was no point in placing O'Neill under home detention because he cannot leave his address due to his size and it would cost up to $40,000 (£22,000) to transport him somewhere else.
Dominic College in Tasmania
Furious former students of O'Neill have expressed their anger in a Facebook group called Old Dominic Scholars. One man said: "I couldn’t care less how sick this filth is — his final days should be in jail."
"Nothing will give back what he took, but he must pay in some way," another ex-pupil commented.
Defence barrister Greg Barns SC told a previous court hearing that a medical charter aircraft to transport O'Neill would cost between $25,000 to $40,000.
The court also heard O'Neill cannot serve time interstate for Tasmanian crimes, he has no money to pay a fine and due to his poor health he is unavailable to do community service.
Rachel Grguervic, who left Dominic College in the 1980s, said: "If he doesn’t go to jail and just dies quietly, he doesn’t deserve that. I don’t get why these b******s get bloody protected all the time."
Ms Grguervic previously told The Mercury O’Neill was also a physical and emotional abuser in addition to being a paedophile.
She said: "I was told that I was fat and dumb, that I’d never amount to anything, no-one would ever love me. If you weren’t concentrating he would hit your fingers with a ruler."
Pakistan: Couple allegedly forced to commit adultery on motorway, video posted online
A case has been registered against the three suspects involved in the M3 highway incident
Falah Gulzar, Social Media Reporter
Police have arrested a suspect who along with his two accomplices allegedly forced a couple to commit adultery on a motorway in Pakistan, filmed them and uploaded the video on social media.
A case filed by constable Mohammad Khalid stated that Allah Dutta and Meraj Bibi, both residents of the Faisalabad District in the province of Punjab, were sitting and having a conversation at the M3 motorway gate when suddenly three unidentified men came and asked Dutta and Bibi to commit adultery, according to local media reports.
When the couple resisted, the suspects started physically torturing them and reportedly forced them to commit the act.
Meanwhile, the suspects named Babar, Ehsan and another unidentified person filmed the couple and uploaded it online. Police claimed that suspect Babar has been arrested and raids are being conducted to arrest the two others. A case has been registered against the three suspects.
A police official told local media that one of the suspects, Babar, said that the couple was already committing “immoral acts”, hence, he, along with his accomplices, forced them to commit adultery in front of them.
Ehsan shot the video and later it went viral on social media.
Reportedly, a police officer said it seemed that the suspects wanted to get money from the couple by blackmailing them. However, after the couple did not give them any money, they posted the clip on social media.
Furthermore, police told local media that a police constable had been made a complainant in the case because often in such cases the suspects force the victims to reconcile with them without any repercussions.
Expat Sri Lankan driver abuses toddler in Dubai
Ali Al Shouk, Senior Reporter, Gulf News
Dubai Courts
Dubai: A Dubai driver is on trial for sexually abusing a three-year-old boy when no one else was around.
The child’s mother told Dubai Public Prosecution that the 57-year-old defendant from Sri Lanka is the husband of her maid, and was driving her son and other children to the nursery.
In July this year, she was told by other mothers about the defendant abusing the children and touching their bodies inappropriately. “The boy’s mother reported the incident to the police station. She was angry and almost crying. She kept talking with her son about the defendant to know what happened. She was shocked when her son recounted innocently what the accused had done to him on the couch in the living room,” an officer said, according to official records. According to prosecution, the boy told her mother that he hates the house, the couch and the defendant.
Criminal record
The defendant had a criminal record in sexual abuse cases, with a similar case registered against him in February. Records did not disclose further details about the cases.
The defendant has been charged with sexually abusing the toddler. A verdict is expected by the Dubai Court of First Instance on September 30 while the defendant will remain under police custody.
'Good Girls Sleep Early': Former Indian Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju faces social media ire for sexist comments
Hashtag #MarkandeyKatju was seen trending on Twitter, with women calling him "creepy".
Evangeline Elsa, Social Media Editor, Gulf News
Twitter users in India are calling out an erstwhile Indian Supreme Court judge, Markandey Katju, for a sexist comment on Facebook, where he apparently said: "...good girls go to bed early".
Today, hashtag #MarkandeyKatju was seen trending on Twitter, after a screenshot of his conversation with a Facebook user named Kathryne Doley went viral on the micro-blogging site.
After Doley had commented on one of his posts, a conversation followed between the two. During the course of the public exchange Katju asked Doley: “Not sleepy?”, and then followed it up with the comment: “I thought good girls go to bed early”.
Women on Twitter started sharing the screenshots, while calling out the jurist. Tweep @ayerushii posted: "Can we stop laughing on his predatory [expletive]? And call him out? Hold him accountable?"
Using sarcasm to hit back, tweep @143snehasree posted: "Thanks for this definition of 'good girls'. Would be very helpful if you would publish a book on 'how to be a good girl', your honor."
Responding to the backlash, Katju took to Facebook to respond. He wrote: "There is a big hue and cry over a comment I made that ‘good girls go to bed early‘. But, what wrong did I say? It seems nowadays people make a fuss over everything."
Apparently, this is not the first time that Katju is being called out for sexist and misogynist remarks. People also shared other instances of when Katju was "creepy" to women on social media.
According to Indian news media reports, in 2015, comparing two female ministers, Katju had said that only beautiful women should be elected as politicians so as to get "momentary happiness looking at her face in the media."
After he received flak for the comment, he went on to defend the remark.
In a 2015 entry on his blog, Katju wrote: "What is wrong with some of you people? Can't an old man like me admire a beautiful woman? By admiring a beautiful flower I am not plucking it, and by admiring a beautiful garden from a distance I am not tresspassing onto it. Similarly, if I admire a beautiful woman I am not misbehaving with her, or taking liberties with her."
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