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‘He’s about to take a leave of absence’: NFL coach Meyer in hot water
as clip emerges ‘showing him flirting with college students’
3 Oct, 2021 12:30
Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Urban Meyer may have a little explaining to do after a video clip went viral that appeared to show the former Ohio State icon flirting with a host of college students.
Meyer, who is one of the most successful college coaches in history, has endured a rough start to his NFL career after going winless through his first four games in charge of the Jaguars – equaling the number of losses he suffered during his entire six-year stint at Ohio State.
Last week's loss to the Cincinnati Bengals was a particularly tough one to take after his side surrendered an early advantage to capitulate late on against the Ohio-based team to cap what was a miserable start to the NFL season.
Meyer – known by his nickname 'The Dublin Dad' – has gained a reputation throughout his college career as being a sore loser on the rare occasions when it has happened.
And after the dispiriting loss to the Bengals, reports indicate that the 57-year-old headed to one of the two bars he owns in the state to drown his sorrows – and, as video evidence suggests, get to know the clientele a bit better.
Meyer, who is married, appears to be seen wearing an Ohio State-branded jumper in the video, suggesting that it was recorded on Saturday of last week after Meyer was thought to have attended the Ohio State vs Rutgers game.
It remains to be seen what type of fallout – if any – this will have for Meyer and the Jaguars organization, but judging by the reactions on Twitter, NFL fans are going for the jugular.
"Urban Meyer tomorrow: 'I have decided to step away from the game of football for the next eight months to seek treatment for a addiction to almost having sex,'" read one response to the footage on social media.
"The Dublin Dad has still got it!" said another.
"Urban Meyer is about to take a leave of absence," predicted another.
Meyer will have some time away from the cameras this weekend as his Jaguars team aren't due back on the gridiron until next Sunday's clash with the Tennessee Titans – but one suspects that NFL fans, nor perhaps his family, will let him off without throwing a little heat his way first.
'Pedophile' accused of 45 sex crimes against a boy and two girls is beaten
15 times by 3 inmates in minute-long attack after seeing his trial on news
By ADAM MANNO FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 11:32 EDT, 3 October 2021
Michael George Corey, 36, was assaulted in jail after returning from trial on Wednesday
A Texas man in jail for beating and sexually assaulting three kids was himself assaulted by three fellow inmates fifteen times after they saw his trial on the news.
Michael George Corey, Jr. was attacked on Wednesday, said Wichita County Sheriff David Duke after reviewing video of the incident. The sheriff said it happened shortly after Corey's trial was on the news.
He was being returned to a part of the jail housing suspects accused of the most serious offenses when the attack - which lasted around one minute - happened.
Corey, 36, has been in jail for three-and-a-half years after he was arrested in February 2018 on 45 counts of sex crimes against a boy and two girls, ages 8, 10 and 11.
He's being held on $675,000 bond.
Before that, he was out on 10 years' probation on three counts of injury to a child in 2016. Both cases involve the same children.
Good grief! How can that be allowed to happen?
In the first case, he allegedly forced the kids to bend over and take up to 90 'licks' from a paddle with zip ties tied around it while his foster parents watched, according to Wichita Falls station KFDX. Charges against the foster parents were later dropped.
According to an affidavit for the latest case, he also forced the children to engage in sex acts on each other, and they did everything he told them to because their beatings would be more severe if they didn't, KFDX reports.
Police said they found a laptop that the children said Corey would play pornography on during the abuse. Police also found video, though it's not clear what the video depicts.
Corey's 45 charges include 15 counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child, 12 counts of employing, inducing, or authorizing a child to engage in sexual performance, 10 counts of indecency with a child by sexual contact, five counts of indecency with a child by exposure and three counts of continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14.
The abuse came to light after staff at the eight-year-old's school told police. Police discovered the other children's abuse when they stopped at their mobile home in the 1100 block of Hawthorne.
At the house, police found a wooden paddle with the words 'Act Right' written on it in black lettering, according to USA Today.
The 10-year-old girl told authorities that Corey would have her bend over and touch some bricks outside in the front yard of a residence.
If she moved or fell to the ground, she had until the count of three to get back up or Corey would start over the number of times he was going to hit her.
Sometimes, she said, he didn't give her a chance and would just keep hitting whatever part of her body he could reach while she was on the ground.
Tammy Lynn Vaughn, the foster parent, allegedly sat next to her on the couch to count the number of slaps.
She told police back in 2016 that she didn't have a 'reasonable explanation' for why she didn't report the abuse, according to USA Today.
Court officials saw Corey with a bruise and a black eye the day after he was assaulted on Wednesday.
Sheriff Duke said five jail officers intervened in less than a minute to stop the beating, KFDX reports. The three inmates will face charges.
Corey's trial will resume on Monday.
The headline on this article is bizaar. Beaten 15 times in one minute can only mean that he was punched or kicked 15 times in that one minute. I would call that one beating, and I would be OK if there were 14 more.
Hawaii is forming a task force to study the issue of missing
and murdered Native Hawaiian women and girls
Native Hawaiians are disproportionately represented among the state's
sex trafficking victims
The Associated Press ·
Posted: Oct 07, 2021 3:03 PM ET | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
and so, so, so many of them have told me that when they were being trafficked nationally,' Maha'a said.
(Audrey McAvoy/The Associated Press)
At first, he was just a boyfriend. He gave Ashley Maha'a gifts and attention. But then he gave her drugs and became controlling and abusive. He would punish her for breaking ambiguous, undefined "rules," only to later say he was sorry and shower her with flowers and lavish presents.
After a while, he led the Honolulu high school senior — a 17-year-old minor — into Hawaii's commercial sex trade.
"I shouldn't be here with everything that was going on. I should be dead. And the majority of the people who are in my situation are missing or dead," said Maha'a, who is Native Hawaiian.
Maha'a got out of that world years ago and is now a married mother of four. But it's on her mind as she joins a new task force studying the issue of missing and murdered Native Hawaiian women and girls. She reminds herself of her plight every day so she can fight for others similarly trapped and vulnerable.
Renewed calls
The panel, created by the state House earlier this year, aims to gather data and identify the reasons behind the problem. As of now, few figures exist, but those that do suggest Native Hawaiians are disproportionately represented among the state's sex trafficking victims.
Its work comes amid renewed calls for people to pay more attention to missing and killed Indigenous women and girls and other people of colour after the recent disappearance of Gabby Petito, a white woman, triggered widespread national media coverage and extensive searches by law enforcement. Petito's body was later found in Wyoming.
Several states formed similar panels after a groundbreaking report by the Urban Indian Health Institute found that of more than 5,700 cases of missing and slain Indigenous girls in dozens of U.S. cities in 2016, only 116 were logged in a Justice Department database.
Wyoming's task force determined 710 Indigenous people disappeared there between 2011 and September 2020 and that Indigenous people made up 21 per cent of homicide victims even though they are only three per cent of the population. In Minnesota, a task force led to the creation of a dedicated office to provide ongoing attention and leadership on the issue.
The Urban Indian Health Institute's report didn't include data on Native Hawaiians because the organization is funded by the Indian Health Service, a U.S. agency that serves Native Americans and Alaska Natives but not Native Hawaiians. The Seattle institute didn't have the resources to extend the study to Hawaii, Director Abigail Echo-Hawk said.
It's not the first time Native Hawaiians have been sidelined in the broader national conversation. The federal government's efforts to tackle the problem of missing and murdered Indigenous women often focus on Native Americans and Alaska Natives — in part because it has authority over major crimes on most tribal lands, and Native Hawaiians don't have such lands in the same sense as many other U.S. Indigenous communities. An Interior Department spokesman said it instead works to support and collaborate with state programs in the islands.
Yet Hawaii faces many of the same challenges as other states, including a lack of data on missing and murdered Indigenous women. The precise number of nationwide cases is unknown because many have gone unreported or have not been well-documented or tracked.
Public and private agencies don't always collect statistics on race. And some data groups Native Hawaiians with other Pacific Islanders, making it impossible to identify the degree to which Hawaii's Indigenous people are affected. About 20 per cent of the state's population is Native Hawaiian.
Its task force is being led by representatives from the Hawaii State Commission on the State of Women and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, a semi-autonomous state agency directed by Native Hawaiians. The panel also includes members from state agencies, county police departments and private organizations.
Tourism, military presence fuel sex trafficking
Khara Jabola-Carolus, executive director of the commission and co-chairperson of the task force, suspects its work will show Hawaii's large tourism industry and military presence fuel sex trafficking. Money to be made from these sectors gives people an incentive to take girls and women from their families, she said.
"It's not like someone is kidnapped off the street. It's that person is enticed and convinced to cut off their family if they're a child, or a teenager," Jabola-Carolus said.
Advocates for Native American and Alaska Native women and girls say sex trafficking affects them as well, particularly in areas with high populations of transitory male workers.
Maha'a said the extent of the commercial sex industry in Hawaii also is illustrated by the number of girls and women brought to the islands from other states.
"I've met so many people on the mainland, and so, so, so many of them have told me that when they were being trafficked nationally, they would be flown here for a period of time and work here when things were slow, because the demand is so high," Maha'a said.
Systemic issues
Advocates say a number of systemic issues contribute to the problem. Native Hawaiians have the highest poverty rate — 15.5 per cent — of any of the five largest racial groups in Hawaii, which is also one of country's the most expensive places to rent or own property.
The history of colonization has torn Native Hawaiians from their land, language and culture, similar to Indigenous communities in other states.
Rosemond Pettigrew, board president of Pouhana 'O Na Wahine, a grassroots collective of Native Hawaiian women advocating against domestic and sexual violence, said land is family, and not being connected to it severs Native Hawaiians from their past.
"When you separate yourself from what you know or what you believe, and you're no longer on land, then you're left where you don't know where you come from and who you are, and your identity becomes lost," she said.
State Rep. Stacelynn Eli stands for a portrait in Nanakuli, Hawaii in June. She says she knows of friends and classmates who were trafficked and doesn’t want her nieces to face the same thing because no one knew enough to take action. (Audrey McAvoy/The Associated Press)
Echo-Hawk, of the Urban Indian Health Institute, said Hawaii's task force is "monumental" and necessary to understanding the full scope of the problem.
She suspects some of its biggest obstacles will be in getting cooperation from law enforcement agencies and not having dedicated funding. Lawmakers didn't allocate the panel any money, so its members are relying on existing resources to do their research. The most successful state task forces had funding, Echo-Hawk said.
It will be important for the task force to recognize the problems are rooted in government policies, said Paula Julian, senior policy specialist with the Montana-based National Indigenous Women's Resource Center. The solutions for Native Hawaiians, meanwhile, must come from Native Hawaiians, she said.
Pettigrew said she'd like to see resources put into prevention. For example, Hawaii's public schools could teach students about healthy relationships, starting as early as elementary grades. Lessons could address dating once students get to middle and high schools.
State Rep. Stacelynn Eli, a Native Hawaiian and a Democrat who sponsored the resolution creating the task force, said she has friends and classmates who were trafficked. She doesn't want her nieces to face the same thing because no one knew enough to take action.
"We are surviving, and I would like to see our people get to a point where we are thriving. And I think we won't get to that point until we know for sure that we are protecting our Native women and children and holding those who try to harm them accountable," she said.
The panel is expected to produce reports for the Legislature by the end of 2022 and 2023.
Mark Redwine sentenced to 48 years in prison in 2012 murder of son
A La Plata County judge on Friday sentenced Mark Redwine to 48 years in prison
for the murder and child abuse of his son Dylan in November 2012.
By: Stephanie Butzer
Posted at 4:32 PM, Oct 08, 2021
The Denver Channel
LA PLATA COUNTY, Colo. — Mark Redwine, who was found guilty of murdering his 13-year-old son in 2012, was sentenced to 48 years in prison by a La Plata County judge on Friday morning.
Judge Jeffrey Wilson said Mark Redwine, 59, still took absolutely no responsibility for what he did to his son.
At the sentencing Friday morning, Wilson said he had trouble remembering a convicted criminal defendant that has shown such an utter lack of remorse for his criminal behavior.
"The community needs to be protected from you. You need to be removed from society for a very long period of time," Wilson said. "I’m going to sentence you to 48 years on both counts, with five years of parole, will be served concurrently. You’ll receive 1,540 days of credit for time served."
In July, a La Plata County jury found Redwine guilty of second-degree murder and child abuse resulting in the death of his son, Dylan Redwine, who was reported missing on Nov. 19, 2012 from his father's home near Vallecito Lake outside of Durango. The jury deliberated for about six and a half hours following a four-week trial.
Some of Dylan Redwine’s remains were found about 10 miles from his father’s home in June 2013, according to an indictment, and his skull was found more than two years later in November 2015 about a mile and a half away from the first location.
This photo provided by the La Plata County Sheriff's Office shows Task Force Members at the home of Mark Redwine conducting a search near Durango, Colo., on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. Authorities continue with their search for Dylan Redwine, 13, who has been missing since Thanksgiving. He was visiting his dad for Thanksgiving as part of a court order. He lives with his divorced mother in Colorado Springs.
(AP Photo/La Plata County Sheriff's Office)
Mark Redwine was arrested in 2017.
The trial has been delayed or seen mistrials multiple times in the years since then, but finally began in June 2021.
During the trial and closing arguments, prosecutor District Attorney Michael Dougherty argued Dylan and Mark’s relationship was frayed by the time Dylan flew to Durango to visit his father in 2012, and that Mark killed his son in a fit of rage just hours later during an argument.
Mark Redwine has always denied any involvement in his son's disappearance and death.
Though much of the evidence prosecutors relied on was circumstantial, Dougherty argued at the trial Mark Redwine killed and dismembered his son, scattered his skull and other remains up Middle Mountain Road from his home, and told the jury that evidence showed signs of blunt force and sharp force injuries on Dylan’s remains.
At Mark Redwine's sentencing, Brandon Redwine, Dylan's half-brother, said he wanted to make it clear that Mark Redwine's actions alone led him to that moment. Dylan's older brother, Cory Redwine, said his younger brother is his hero and he prays to him and dreams of him. He said Mark Redwine's "selfish ways" had caught up to him.
Dougherty argued that Mark Redwine became enraged and killed his son after Dylan confronted him about photos allegedly showing Mark eating feces and wearing women's lingerie.
Mark Redwine’s public defender, Justin Bogan, said the evidence was all circumstantial and did not support Mark killing his son. Bogan said the prosecution’s evidence was “so thin” and told jurors that prosecutors were asking them to speculate in finding a verdict.
Ultimately, they found Mark Redwine guilty, almost nine years after his son was reported missing.
Dylan Redwine's mother, Elaine Hall, also spoke during the sentencing. She recalled the heartbreak of the previous nine years, and now the frustration that Mark Redwine showed no remorse for his actions.
"When I think about what happened that night, it breaks my heart to think of Dylan looking up at his dad," she said. "I don't even think it phased you, which is why you need the max sentence."
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