Moonhowlings

Former PWC IT chief, Maneesh Gupta,  plead guilty to 49 felony charges related to a bid rigging scheme.  Gupta is the former head of Prince William County’s Office of Information Technology.   According to insidenova.com:

Maneesh Gupta, 47, the former OIT systems division chief, pleaded guilty to charges of public fraud, combination to rig bids, conspiracy to commit forgery, uttering and obtaining money by false pretenses.

The public fraud charge was amended from a charge of racketeering. Prosecutors dropped a charge of money laundering.

Prosecutors offered Gupta a plea agreement, but Prince William Circuit Court Judge Richard B. Potter said he would defer his decision on whether or not to accept it until Gupta’s sentencing hearing on Oct. 6.

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Buried deep within insidenova.com under many other crime stories:

Teen charged with sexually assaulting 7-year-old girl

A 13-year-old Manassas boy has been charged with sexually assaulting a 7-year-old girl on Friday, police said.

The victim told police that the boy assaulted her multiple times — at least once in the 9900 block of King George Drive, in the West Gate of Lomond neighborhood — for about a year, Prince William police spokesman Jonathan Perok said.

The boy was charged with two counts of aggravated sexual battery and two counts of indecent liberties by a child, Perok said.

The boy’s court date and bond information were not immediately available.

Police did not release the identity of either kid due to their age.

Here we go again.  Once more we have children sexually assaulting  younger children and no one knows who the child who assaults even is.  I am having a bad flash back. 

 I remember almost 35 years ago coming home from work to face a tragic story about our little 3-year old neighbor being abducted and taken across the road into what was then Barrett Field.  She was  assaulted.  Was she raped?  No, but only because she was so young and it wasn’t for lack of effort on the part of the 16 year old perp.  

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From insidenova.com:

MANASSAS, Va. –

A Stonewall Jackson High School attendance officer and girls’ basketball coach was charged Tuesday with having sex with a former student, police said.

 The victim told police that she and Nsonji White had performed “sexual acts” when she was a 17-year-old student at the school in 2004 and 2005, Prince William police spokesman Jonathan Perok said.

 Perok said the alleged assaults occurred at different locations within Prince William County – some in the school.

 White, 38, of the 10100 block of Woodbury Drive, in the Bannerwood neighborhood near Manassas, was charged with five counts of crimes against nature and five counts of indecent liberties by a custodian, Perok said.

 White was held without bond

Yesterday the paper reported that an 18 year old student sexually assaulted a 14 year old in the stairwell. 

What is going on?  I know this kind of crap didn’t go on to this degree when I was a kid.  It was a rarity, not an every day occurrence. 

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From insidenova.com:

An 18-year-old Stonewall Jackson High School student was charged Thursday with sexual assault, police said.

A 14-year-old student at the school told police that Phillip Andrew McNuss, 18, a person she knows, sexually assaulted her in a stairwell inside the school, which is located at 8820 Rixlew Lane, more than one time between April 11 and April 15, Prince William police spokesman Jonathan Perok said.

Perok said the victim reported the incidents on Wednesday afternoon to school authorities, who then contacted police.

McNuss, of the 10200 block of Jamaica Lane, in the Townes of Ashleigh neighborhood, was charged with sexual battery, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and carnal knowledge, Perok said.

McNuss was held without bond.  Police did not have his court date immediately available.

We don’t usually cover crime.  However, this story affects many of our readers.  Maybe it’s time for some of the curtains to come down.  A 14 year old is  sexually assaulted, (whatever that means) inside the school in a stairwell during school hours?  Where were others?   Teachers, students and administrators?  Were  both students out of class?  What about security cameras?  Don’t they have those in stairwells?   How does something like this happen?

The alleged attacker lives off of Williamson Blvd.  That is a little too close for comfort.  Additionally, this is certainly not the first time that a student has been viciously attacked at SJHS.   If this kind of illegality is going on at Stonewall then security must be upgraded.  Prince William County citizens don’t send their daughters, sisters, granddaughters, and nieces to school to be sexually assaulted any more than they send their sons, nephews, brothers and grandsons to school to be brutally attacked. 

Hopefully the school will have some explanation of how this was allowed to happen on their watch. 

And if  someone is accused of sexual battery and they go to school with my family members, then I guess they should know I will plaster their  face on my blog: 

Reminder: (mainly for Moon)  Everyone is innocent until convicted by a jury of their peers. 

From Reuters via the Daily Beast cheat sheet:

The Global Commission on Drug Policy has declared the international war on drugs a failure and urges a new approach. The commission said the practice of criminalizing drugs and incarcerating users has had “devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world.” Instead, the panel recommended replacing incarceration of non-violent drug users with health treatment services. It also recommended governments to consider legalizing marijuana and other illicit drugs “to undermine the power of organized crime and safeguard the health and security of their citizens. The panel consisted of former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, businessman Richard Branson, former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, and 16 other members.

So, there you have it.  Should we, as a nation, just give up and legalize some drugs, in particular, cannabis?  How much a year do we spend incarcerating drug users?  How much crime goes on because of turf wars over drugs? 

Should drugs be sold by states and taxes collected?  Would we decriminalize or legalize?  Would more people do drugs because they were legal? 

What direction should the United States take?

Would border issues with Mexico reduce if some of the drugs being smuggled in could be bought here?

The report from the Global Commission on Drug Policy seems to pose more questions than it answers. 

A man has been arrested in Madison, Wisconsin for plotting to kill abortion providers at Planned Parenthood.  According to Little Green Footballs:

 

 

 

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Marshfield man who planned to kill abortion providers in Madison this week was thwarted on the eve of the intended attack when his gun accidentally fired in a motel room, leading to his arrest for reckless endangerment, according to a federal complaint filed Thursday.

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It appears that John Edwards will be indicted per the green light from DOJ.   At issue is his use of campaign money to finance his pay-off to his mistress, Rielle Hunter. According to Huffington Post, much of the pay-off money came from a 99 year old heiress, Bunny Mellon. The Daily Beast reports:

You’d assume Rachel Lowe Lambert Lloyd Mellon—who, just shy of 100 years old, is probably the last surviving member of the old-money aristocracy that once lorded it over America—would be mortified by her involvement in a tabloid-ready sex scandal.

Hardly.

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 Last year Sean Lanigan was accused of molesting one of his students. After 47 minutes of deliberation, a jury of his peers acquitted him. Not guilty. They felt there was no evidence.

His accuser has been using her patrol position to bully other students. Lanigan corrected her and warned her that she could lose her position. That was it. The patrol decided that Lanigan had to pay. And pay he did. The story of the downfall of this Fairfax PE teacher can be found in the Washington Post. Sean Lanegan was set up. There were missteps made by Fairfax County Schools and by the Fairfax County police.

Once acquitted, Sean Lanigan’s life still hasn’t gone back to normal. He has over $100,000 worth of legal fees and he isn’t in his old school. He works 5 days out of 10 but is paid for 10. Fairfax County still appears to want him removed. By all accounts an excellent teacher, this man has been victimized by a vengeful student. It can happen to anyone.

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The dreadful story of the neglected children in Bristow continues.  Interviews with the father of the first set of neglected kids reveal even more information.  Apparently the mother, Christina Dawn Moore, does have visitation with the twins who were found wandering in diapers at a junk yard  when they were toddlers.  Their father is Daniel Tinchard who now has custody of his children.  He reported that he has made several calls regarding abuse and neglect,

According to News and Messenger:

In the past few years, Tincher estimates he made three or four complaints to Social Services – including one alleging physical abuse – regarding his twin boys. The boys live with their father in Bealeton but go to Moore’s house on selected weekends due to a visitation agreement.

A friend of the family has also made numerous complaints. 

The family friend, who attended Brentsville High School with Moore in the early 2000s, said she made close to 10 calls from 2007 to 2010 to the Prince William and Fauquier Social Services departments regarding the situation. She said she heard nothing from anyone other than a brief phone conversation with a social worker.

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As VA Tech continues to heal from the worst massacre in US history, they got dealt another blow, this time by the US Department of Education.  According to the Washington Post:

The federal government said Tuesday that it plans to issue the maximum possible fine against Virginia Tech — $55,000 — for violations of a campus safety law in connection with the 2007 shooting rampage that left more than 30 students and teachers dead.

A federal official wrote in a letter to Virginia Tech President Charles W. Steger that the penalty for failing to provide timely warnings about the threat to the campus on the day of the massacre should be greater.

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Today the News and Messenger reported a very disturbing story.  A Bristow couple had boarded 3 children ages 4 months, 2 and 4 years, up in a room with a sheet of drywall, amongst all sorts of filth.  The oldest of the children escaped and ran to a neighbor’s house for help.  The police were called and the children were placed with social services and the couple was arrested and jailed without bond. 

The story is quite nasty.    Perhaps nastist of all is the fact that Christina Moore has been arrested for criminal child neglect before.  She was arrested in 2005 because her 22 month old twins were wandering around a junk yard in just diapers, while she slept in a camper.  She lost custody of those children.   So it appears that she just had herself some more kids to abuse and neglect. 

At what point do the courts simply get tired of renewable kids and force this woman into either surgical or chemical sterilization?  This is not a victimless crime and these victims are defenseless and unable to fight this monster mom back.  Ordinarily I believe in innocent until proven guilty.  I don’t feel that generous over this situation. 

If it isn’t legal to sterilize habitual child abuse offenders, then it ought to be.  Meanwhile, serious jail time is in order.  Thank goodness the child escaped and ran for help.  That is a pretty self sufficient 4 year old.  I suppose the poor little thing has had to be. 

Suggestion:

The Prince William County Police along with police from other jurisdictions solved the East Coast Rapist case  last week which had been an open case since 1997.  The alleged rapist is originally from Berryville, VA, where his mother still lives.  He raped women in Virginia, Maryland, Connecticut and Rhode Island before being apprehended.  His latest victims were 3 Dale City teens who were walking home after trick or treating over in Dale City in 2009. 

A police effort recently put up a series of roadway graphics along the interstates on the east coast in hopes on finding this criminal.   Thousands of tips came in and one paid off.  Aaron Thomas, 39  was arrested late last week.  PWC police connected the dots that he was probably a truck driver.  They also cashed in on capturing his DNA from a carelessly discarded cigarette while he was appearing in court over something unrelated. 

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Now a rapist even has his own webpage.  East coast police forces have  stepped up the search for the individual known as the east coast rapist:

-866-411-TIPS

A brazen, cold-blooded rapist has terrorized five communities across the East Coast for 14 years. Police need your help to find him.

A neighborhood stalker who won’t stop until he’s caught, this man has violently attacked 17 women in:

• Prince Georges County, Maryland (1997, 1998, 2001)
• Fairfax County, Virginia (1998, 2000, 2001)
• Leesburg, Virginia (2001)
• Cranston, Rhode Island (2006)
• New Haven, Connecticut (2007)
• Prince William County, Virginia (2009)

These attacks have been linked through DNA. Police have looked at and cleared over 700 suspects. Call police if YOU have information; with DNA it’s easy to rule out innocent people. Your tips are vital and may be the information police need.

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Last week, anti-immigration activist Shawna Forde was convicted of murdering nine-year old Brisenia Flores and her father Raul Flores.  On Tuesday she was sentenced to death by an Arizona jury. 

Forde and her accomplices led a group of anti immigrant vigilantes on a raid of the Flores home where they pretended to be immigration agents and barged through the door.   The father was shot and then the child.  The mother faked death and survived. 

According to the Huffington Post:

The case was not designated as a hate crime, despite Forde’s long history with anti-immigrant organizations. She once maintained a Tea Party blog, was a member of Minuteman Civil Defense Corps and has presented herself as a representative of Federation for American Immigration Reform. (All three have since distanced themselves from her.) After being cast out from the Minuteman group due to erratic behavior, she formed her own vigilante group, called Minutemen American Defense, which also patrolled the United States-Mexico border trying to detect illegal immigration.

This is an example of what happens when a person just goes too deep into their ideological.  How sad that hatred can turn anyone into a murderer.  Hopefully, Forde will not become a martyr.   

How do we know when anyone has gone into ideology too deep?  When does interest become cult-like?  What has become of her accomplices? 

From Wikipedia:

The electric chair continued to be solely used until 1994, when legislation was enacted giving inmates the choice of lethal injection or the electric chair, with lethal injection the default method if no choice was made. Six inmates have since opted for the Virginia electric chair; the most recent was Paul Warner Powell March 18, 2010. Former Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has also stated that he opposes the option of the electric chair, but he did not move to drop it as an option while in office.

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