Category: Crime

A Blast From the Past

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“They are teenagers in high school experimenting with their sexuality, all teens do it in one form or another. They are teens, it’s healthy and normal.”
— Kelley Hunt Smith (Kaitlyn Hunt’s mother)

“The state is further in possession of lewd and lascivious videos the defendant sent the child victim. At least one video explicitly depicts the defendant masturbating by rubbing her vagina with her fingers while moaning.”
— Christopher Taylor, Assistant State Attorney

How long has it been since I even thought about Kaitlyn Hunt? You remember her? The teenage Florida lesbian who briefly became a liberal media cause célèbre after she was arrested in 2013 for having sex with a 14-year-old girl? The media bought into a #FreeKate narrative — promoted by Hunt’s parents — that she was a victim of homophobia, but Florida’s age of consent law was very clear and plenty of heterosexuals had been prosecuted for sex with minors. Furthermore, as more facts about the case came to light, it became evident that this allegedly innocent “romance” (as some in the media tried to paint it) was rather sordid, including meeting up for sex in the school restroom. The victim’s parents had tried to get Hunt to leave their daughter alone, but Hunt was obsessed with the girl. The #FreeKate movement, such as it was, relied on misrepresentations of the case made by Kaitlyn Hunt’s father:

In the online petition, which garnered more than 300,00 signatures, Steve Hunt described his daughter’s involvement with the 14-year-old as an innocent “high school romance,” and did not mention an incident in January where the younger girl ran away from home to have sex with his Kaitlyn. The parents of the 14-year-old told a local TV station that they feared their daughter had been abducted, but later learned she had been picked up by Kaitlyn and taken to the Hunt family’s home for a night of sex. The younger girl’s parents said they twice asked Kaitlyn to leave their daughter alone, and only in February reported the case to authorities.
When more facts about the case became public — the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office released the arrest affidavit on May 20 — some of Hunt’s original supporters repudiated the “Free Kate” campaign. On May 23, Joan McCarter of the progressive Daily Kos site said that “the initial dishonesty of Hunt’s parents” made the story “problematic,” and deactivated a Daily Kos petition on Hunt’s behalf.

People who bought into the false narrative failed to understand what was actually at stake in the case, i.e., that Hunt’s supporters were essentially trying to render age-of-consent laws null and void. Ninety-nine times out of 100, cases of statutory rape are settled by a plea bargain, because prosecutors don’t want to go to trial and have to put the victim on the witness stand. Kaitlyn Hunt was offered a plea bargain but rejected it, because her parents didn’t think she should have to plead guilty to a felony. The #FreeKate crusade was an attempt to use political pressure to force prosecutors into dropping the case, which they refused to do.

This 2013 case exasperated me because so many people refused to acknowledge the danger inherent in making Kaitlyn Hunt into a sort of “civil rights” hero — the Rosa Parks of jailbait dildo sex — as if it were some kind of injustice to enforce age-of-consent laws. In the end, the #FreeKate movement collapsed in failure after prosecutors discovered that Hunt had violated her bail terms by surreptitiously communicating with her victim (including sending her masturbation “selfie” videos) and Hunt eventually accepted the plea deal. So the whole obscene carnival of publicity which, as I said at the time, had turned Kaitlyn Hunt into the World’s Most Famous Sex Offender™ was utterly futile.

My habit of working in “file it and forget it” mode — it’s just another story I covered, forgotten as soon as it ended — means that I don’t keep track of what happens to people after they’ve finished their 15 minutes of fame (or infamy, as may be the case). In 2014, Kaitlyn Hunt announced her engagement to an older woman (Latasha Thomas), followed a year later by the birth of a baby son (Kingston) and in 2017, there was an item reporting that she had completed her probation, but since then she’s disappeared. Meanwhile, however . . .

Whatever happened to the victim in that case? Well, a longtime friend of the blog reports that the victim’s mother posted to Facebook bragging about her daughter. After graduating from Cornell University (!!!), she is now district manager for a tech company while working to complete her MBA from Florida International University. “God has His arms around you,” the mother wrote in a birthday greeting to her daughter. “Continue to keep Him first and there’s no limit to what you can accomplish.”

“But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.”
— Genesis 50:20 (KJV)

Never doubt that God answers prayers. Selah.




 

But They Told Me This ‘Elite Pedophile’ Stuff Was a Conspiracy Theory

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Only right-wing extremists believe this could be real:

A veteran CNN producer who worked “shoulder to shoulder” with now disgraced ex-anchor Chris Cuomo has been indicted on charges of luring young girls to his Vermont ski house for “sexual subservience” training.
John Griffin, of Stamford, CT, allegedly used messaging apps to befriend and persuade moms of young girls, telling them “a woman is a woman regardless of her age,” and that he should be the one to “train” their daughters sexually, according to the indictment from the US Attorney of Vermont.
Griffin, 44, allegedly got at least one mom of two daughters to bring the girl to his Ludlow ski getaway, in June 2020.
It was the mom’s responsibility to see that her older daughter, just 13, was “trained properly,” Griffin told her, according to the indictment.
Griffin, a father himself, sent the woman $3,000 for plane tickets so they could fly from Nevada to Boston’s Logan Airport, where he picked them up in his Tesla for the ride to Ludlow, according to court papers.
It was there that “the daughter was directed to engage in, and did engage in, unlawful sexual activity,” authorities alleged.
Griffin attempted to entice two other children over the internet into sexual activity, according to the indictment, which said he favored apps like Kik and Google Hangout for the alleged misdeeds. In April 2020, Griffin allegedly suggested a “virtual training session” over a video chat, that would include him instructing a mother and her 14-year-old daughter to remove their clothing and touch each other.
In June 2020, Griffin told another mom of a 16-year-old girl that she take a “little mother-daughter trip” to Griffin’s Ludlow ski house for sexual training involving the child, according to the indictment.

If convicted, Griffin faces a mandatory 10-year prison sentence — that’s the minimum, and he could be imprisoned for life.

While I don’t think this vindicates QAnon, Griffin was very much “elite,” as he attended the prestigious Hackley School and Princeton University. You got to figure he came from a wealthy family, because how else does he afford a Tesla, a Mercedes and a ski lodge? Difficult to believe he could afford all that on a producer’s salary, but maybe CNN’s just shoveling out crazy amounts of cash despite the fact that their ratings are lower than Spongebob Squarepants. Between this creep and the notorious wanker Jeffrey Toobin, you’ve got to wonder, does CNN ever hire anyone who’s not a pervert? Garbage people working at a garbage network.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!




 

GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! Chicago Jury Convicts Jussie Smollett in Fake ‘Hate Crime’ Hoax

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It was “The Dumbest ‘Hate Crime’ Hoax Ever.” Because no intelligent person ever believed Jussie Smollett’s tale of being assaulted by MAGA-hat-wearing white men — in Chicago, at 2 o’clock in the morning, when the temperature was below freezing — his decision to go to trial meant that he was attempting jury nullification. Fortunately, he has failed:

A jury found disgraced actor and former “Empire” star Jussie Smollett guilty on five of six charges in a case where he is accused of staging an anti-gay, racist attack on himself nearly three years ago and then lied to Chicago police about it.
The verdict came after a roughly one-week trial in which two brothers testified that Smollett recruited them to fake an attack on him near his home in downtown Chicago in January 2019. Smollett repeatedly denied the claims. The brothers said Smollett orchestrated the hoax, telling them to put a noose around his neck and rough him up in view of a surveillance camera, and that he said he wanted video of the hoax made public via social media.
Smollett called the brothers “liars” and said their account was “100% false. He testified over two days about being the victim of what he said was a hate crime, telling the jury ”there was no hoax.”
Abimbola Osundairo, who worked with Smollett on the Chicago set of “Empire,” and his brother, Olabingo Osundairo, also testified that Smollett paid them $3,500 for faking the attack. Smollett said the money was for meal and workout plans that Abimbola Osundairo was providing so the actor could be more toned for upcoming performances.
The Jan. 29 assault was reported to police, prompting a massive investigation that a lead detective said included some two dozen officers and 3,000 staff hours. The investigation — which included video from surveillance cameras, GPS and taxi and rideshare records — led police to the Osundairo brothers, who told detectives Smollett had staged the alleged hate crime.
Smollett’s defense attorneys argued that the brothers attacked the actor — who is gay and Black — because they were homophobic and didn’t like “who he was.” They also alleged the brothers made up the story about the attack being staged to get money from Smollett, and that they told him they wouldn’t testify against him if he paid them each $1 million.
The class 4 felony carries a prison sentence of up to three years, but experts have said Smollett would likely be placed on probation and ordered to perform community service.

We have the receipts of Democrats who promoted this hoax:

Will there be any consequences for Biden, Harris, AOC and the other Democrats who pretended to believe this hoax? Because I don’t believe they ever really did believe it. As I say, every intelligent person recognized this as a hoax from the very moment it was first reported, and I do not think any of these people — not even AOC — is so stupid as to have thought this was really “an attempted modern day lynching.” No, they knew it was a lie, and deliberately amplified it, as a dishonest slander against every Republican (and every white person) in America.

“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.”

Democrats routinely violate the Ninth Commandment.




 

Who Should Kyle Rittenhouse Sue First? Let Me Nominate Colin Kaepernick

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How much money does the failed ex-NFL quarterback have? Kyle Rittenhouse’s lawyers should first (a) research Kaepernick’s net worth, then (b) sue him for that amount, and (c) take all his money.

People are going to have be schooled about libel, and it seems appropriate that Colin Kaepernick should be front of the class.

Although I’m not a lawyer, permit me to explain the “public figure” loophole in U.S. libel law, i.e., the Sullivan precedent. This is important to know — if someone is a “public figure,” a category that includes politicians and pro athletes, you can write damned near anything about them and have little risk of losing a libel suit, because the plaintiff in such a case must prove “actual malice.” People who are ignorant of libel law (a category that apparently includes a lot of blue-check Twitter types like Kaepernick) are prone to think they have license to say anything about anybody. But you can’t lie about an ordinary citizen the way the media lied about Donald Trump, which is why Nicholas Sandmann (a high school kid, not a public figure) ended up winning settlements from the Washington Post and CNN. Anyone who thinks it’s fair game to accuse Kyle Rittenhouse, an innocent teenager who was acquitted at trial, of being a “white supremacist” engaged in “terroristic acts” needs an education, and forcing Colin Kaepernick to defend those libelous claims in court would be a splendid educational opportunity.

Whatever else the flaws of “our current system” may be, it ought to function well enough to bankrupt Colin Kaepernick.

Good luck with that jury in Kenosha, Mr. Kaepernick.




 

Crazy People Are Dangerous: Psycho Torches Fox Christmas Tree in Manhattan

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Happy holidays from New York’s “catch-and-release” courts:

A 49-year-old Brooklyn man has been arrested for allegedly setting a huge Christmas tree outside the FOX News building in midtown Manhattan ablaze early Wednesday, causing a wild scene and endangering passersby, police said.
Craig Tamanaha was taken into custody at the West 48th Street and Sixth Avenue scene just after midnight and charged hours later with a bevy of crimes, including arson, reckless endangerment, criminal mischief and trespassing, the NYPD said.
Police officials said the fire, which was deemed international by fire marshals, caused an estimated $500,000 in property damage in addition to unnecessarily frightening anyone who happened to walk by as the stunning scene developed.
No injuries were reported, but FOX News Media CEO Suzanne Scott blasted the incident as a “malicious arson attack” in a company-wide email sent Wednesday.
It wasn’t immediately clear how the fire was set, though authorities say Tamanaha allegedly had a lighter at the time he was taken into custody. . . .
It’s also not clear why Tamanaha allegedly set the blaze in the first place, but police say the fire didn’t appear to be premeditated or politically motivated. They believe he acted alone.
NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said Wednesday that Tamanaha is known to the department and has a series of low-level out-of-state arrests, possibly from cases stemming out of Texas, and drug-related offenses.
“He was issued earlier this year some appearance tickets and didn’t come back to court, which is something we see all too often,” Shea said. “I think it’s one where he’s working alone. It’s all very fresh. It’s probably a little preliminary to say what the motivation was. Was mental illness a factor? We’re looking at all of that.”

While the suspect has a Brooklyn address, police say he is known to “loiter” in the Manhattan district near Fox HQ:

Crime is soaring all over the city with violent attacks on subways and random assaults in the street happening far more frequently than in the past two years.
Outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio has been largely blamed for the surge in violence, after softening bail reform to let criminals out of jail early then moving homeless people out of shelters and onto the streets or into hotels during the height of the pandemic.
His term ends on December 31.

Worst mayor ever — worse even than David Dinkins. But it’s not as if New Yorkers are innocent victims — this pro-criminal/anti-cop policy is what they voted for when they elected Bill de Blasio. And of course, 78% of Manhattan residents voted for Biden, so that he could wreck America the way Democrats have already wrecked New York. The city is almost entirely populated by malicious, hateful people, because no decent or honest person would live there. New Yorkers certainly deserve whatever evil fate befalls them, and psychos burning down Christmas trees are the least of their problems. After all, we are talking about people so wicked that they have elected and re-elected Sen. Chuck Schumer.




 

Unreasonable Doubt

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Jussie Smollett is a malignant narcissist, but that’s not a crime. However, his defense in Chicago seems to reflect his psychiatric flaws, as he is smearing the men he paid to stage a fake “hate crime” while trying to portray himself as a some of kind heroic civil rights martyr. The trial is a waste of taxpayer resources, because everybody already knows that Smollett is guilty, but he apparently thinks he can exploit a sympathetic jury, get a mistrial, and then claim vindication.

Meanwhile, having hyped the alleged “attack” on Smollett as an authentic crime by right-wingers, the networks are ignoring Jussie’s trial.




 

The Dumbest ‘Hate Crime’ Hoax Ever: Courtroom Sequel for Jussie Smollett

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You’ll recall that front page from February 2019, and the truly shocking thing about this case is that Jussie Smollett would dare go to trial claiming innocence, when his guilt has always been beyond question.

Glenn Reynolds links a story with evidence that, contrary to what Smollett’s defense has claimed, his Nigerian accomplices are not homophobes, but why is that even relevant? They are not on trial, and their motives don’t matter in determining whether Smollett lied to police (spoiler alert: he did). From the moment Smollett’s tale of being assaulted by two MAGA-hat-wearing white men made headlines, every intelligent person knew it was a lie. Two Trump supporters prowling around downtown Chicago at 2:30 a.m. in below-zero weather?

Nope. Never happened. Beyond the range of human possibility.

There were so many things wrong with this story — how many Trump supporters ever heard of this guy? how did they know what hotel he was staying in? — that one wonders how Smollett didn’t see the obvious flaws in his absurd hoax scheme. But he’s a Democrat, and Democrats have been getting away with telling blatant lies for so long that Smollett probably figured, “Why not me?” His story of being attacked by Republican haters “yelling out racial and homophobic slurs” in the wee hours of an arctic-cold Chicago night was only slightly less plausible than the Steele Dossier, and nobody’s gone to prison for that hoax yet.

Probably what Jussie Smollett is counting on is that this Chicago jury will tacitly endorse his bogus “hate crime” by voting to acquit him, because they’re Democrats, and have no regard for truth anyway.

Which is always the way to bet, in Chicago.

Probably the best chance that Smollett could be convicted is if the jury had been watching Dave Chappelle.

 

“Find out where Kanye West was last night.”




 

‘Killadelphia’ D.A. Turned Loose Teen Carjacker Who Murdered Marxist Student

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Latif Williams is only 17 years old, but he already racked up an impressive criminal record before he was arrested this week for murder. And let’s face it — if you’re an ambitious young criminal, there’s no better place to commit crime than “Killadelphia,” which has already eclipsed its all-time record annual murder total this year. Last year, Philadelphia saw an 80% increase in carjackings, and Latif Williams got in on that action this year when he “was arrested on Aug. 14th and charged with eight crimes in connection with an armed carjacking, including aggravated assault, robbery, conspiracy and possession of an unlicensed gun.”

Considering his prior record — Williams was first arrested at age 13 for “robbing a college student on the Temple [University] campus of a cell phone” — you might think this carjacking would have put him behind bars for a long time. Ah, but need I remind you that this is Killadelphia, where Joe Biden got 81% of the vote? The city’s “progressive” District Attorney Larry Krasner has a policy of turning loose criminals, and on Sept. 30, “Judge Martin Coleman granted the D.A.’s motion to withdraw all eight charges against Williams, and he was a free man.”

Didn’t take him long to return to his life of crime:

Williams is accused of fatally shooting 21-year-old Samuel Collington of Prospect Park, Delaware County on Sunday during an apparent robbery near the North Philadelphia campus. . . .
According to police, Collington had just parked his mother’s SUV on Sunday afternoon near the 2200 block of N. Park Avenue after returning from Thanksgiving at his family’s home.
Authorities said while he was unloading his things, a suspected robber snuck up on him and a struggle ensued.
According to police, Collington was shot in the chest and back. He was taken to Temple University Hospital where he died of his injuries. . . .
The 21-year-old was a political science major who was set to graduate from Temple in just weeks.

Here’s a little dash of irony: “Collington . . . was passionate about social justice issues and racial and income equality, friends said. He was the president of the Political Science Society for the last year and an officer of the College Democrats. . . . [I]n the past, he had canvassed for Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.” A friend of Collington’s, Douglas Leake “described his friend . . . as a ‘devout Marxist’ who ‘would not want his death to be used to push any sort of right-wing pro-police agenda such as stop and frisk’:

“We must not let this travesty spawn oppression of any kind,” Leake wrote. “I will never stop defending his legacy of radical justice, peace and equality.”

“Radical justice”? Progressives turn loose the criminals who kill them.

Hard not to view this as a win-win. Way to go, Killadelphia.