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03-10-05  Alexander: Parents throw Suite 16 bash: Source: Girl in Milton Academy romp joins in booze-fueled hotel teen orgy By Jennifer Rosinski
Wednesday, March 2, 2005

Two weeks after five Milton Academy hockey players allegedly had oral sex with a 15-year-old girl, some of the same teens went to a birthday party in a Boston hotel room reserved by a parent where they engaged in drinking and sex acts, a source said. ``A Milton Academy student was having a party that coincided with her 16th birthday in a suite of rooms,'' said the source, who knows a half-dozen Milton Academy students who were at the bash. ``It was a free for all . . . Kids were in various stages of undress.'' The source said the boys were greeted at the door by two topless girls, including the 15-year-old involved in the earlier oral sex allegation, and joined 15 to 22 teens in the Copley Square hotel room. Milton Academy placed that 15-year-old, a sophomore, on leave and expelled the five male students in February after an investigation uncovered the girl engaged in oral sex with the boys in a locker room Jan. 24. Two days before the locker room episode, that 15-year-old girl performed the same sex acts on three hockey players and a 15-year-old student in a dorm while a senior stood watch, school officials and sources said. The 15-year-old boy was placed on leave while the senior was suspended for a week, school spokeswoman Cathleen Everett said. The Herald does not name victims of possible sexual assault without their consent. A Marriott employee confirmed the birthday girl's mother reserved two rooms at the Courtyard by Marriott for a party on Saturday Feb. 12. A hotel manager said security did not report any abnormal activity during their regular checks of the building. Over the course of the hour and a half the teens were at the party, they saw the 15-year-old girl engage in oral sex with a boy, witnessed other guests engage in sex acts and watched still others drink beer and other alcoholic drinks, the source said. The teens told the source they ran into the birthday girl's parents in the hallway when they left around midnight. But the birthday girl's father last night said he was unaware of any sexual activity at the sleepover he and his wife monitored from the room next door. ``They had some uninvited guests arrive and those uninvited guests were asked to leave,'' he said. ``There was some evidence of drinking going on, but unless these kids are way beyond normal there was no sexual activity that I know of.'' Everett said the party has no link to the alleged sex acts that occurred on school grounds. ``This is unrelated to the (earlier) incident,'' said Everett, who would not say if the school was investigating.


http://news.bostonherald.com/localR...


03-10-05  Alexander: Local teacher had affair with student and his father

http://www.dumbassdaily.com/

Published Saturday, March 5, 2005 1:00 am by By Sean Salai

Boca Raton resident Carol Flannigan, a music teacher at a Boynton Beach public school, not only slept with an 11-year-old former student, but also had a sexual relationship with the boy’s father at the same time, according to a deposition filed this week in Palm Beach County Circuit Court.

The boy’s father says in the deposition that he had the same sort of sexual relationship with Flannigan, 50, that former President Bill Clinton had with Monica Lewinsky. But the document refers only to oral sex and points out a red dress that may or may not contain a DNA sample.

The father said he met Flannigan for the trysts at his home, the movies and once on a college campus. “I wouldn’t call it romantic,” he says in the deposition that makes reference to occasional meetings for sex.

Flannigan, a music teacher in Rolling Green Elementary in Boynton Beach, is awaiting trial on one count of capital sex assault on a child under 12 and one count of lewd or lascivious assault stemming from her alleged relationship with the man’s son. The first count carries a mandatory life sentence.

Mike Edmondson, spokesman for the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office, said Friday he “could not and would not” confirm whether the father would be charged with any crimes based on the deposition.

“Because this case is going to trial, ethical rules prevent us from commenting at this time” Edmondson said.

Flannigan’s attorneys, Kenneth Ronan and Charlotte Danciu, questioned the boy’s father in the deposition. Ronan, contacted Friday for comment, said, “This is just the tip of the iceberg.”

The deposition contains a variety of other sexually explicit details of the man’s previously undisclosed relationship with Flannigan, including a love letter he wrote to her. “I can’t wait to have you in my arm[s] and to make love to you,” said the father of three in the letter. “I know I can make you feel good all over. I hope we can meet this Saturday.”

In his deposition, the boy’s father also admits to serving a month in jail in 1992 for selling heroin, to keeping unsecured pornographic movies in his home and to accepting at least $800 in checks from Flannigan during the love tryst.

He says in the document that he knew only that Flannigan was dating at least two other men, one of whom she told him about at that time.

Consistent with previous news reports, the father says in his deposition that he believed Flannigan started having sex with his son during sleepovers at their Boca Raton home in 2002.

Flannigan’s husband, Doug DePue, upset at the frequent sleepovers, sent the boy two e-mails that ended the sleepovers in late 2002.

Last summer, DePue settled a civil lawsuit with the boy’s family for $1.5 million. He divorced Flannigan in February 2003.

The boy’s father says DePue was often in the same room when Flannigan and the boy had sex, and says in the deposition that his son told him DePue knew what they were doing on at least one occasion.

He also says Florida’s Department of Children and Families (DCF) and the Boca Raton Police Department questioned his son in late 2002 after DePue told a marriage counselor that Flannigan had “feelings” from kissing a 12-year old boy.

But that investigation was reportedly dropped after the boy told police he had merely “tap kissed” Flannigan and did not feel wrong about it. “I wouldn’t call it a lie,” the father says in the deposition. “He probably just didn’t feel comfortable telling the truth.”

Police first picked up on Flannigan’s behavior on Jan. 7, 2004 after the boy’s concerned mother found a sexually explicit text message on his cell phone. Police arrested her just 24 hours after reviewing a tapped phone call Flannigan made to the boy, allegedly offering him $1,000 to continue lying about their activities.

One day later, though, Flannigan posted a $30,000 bond and returned to her Boca Raton residence under house arrest.

Flannigan, who, according to police, gave the boy gifts and took him on a trip to Orlando, allegedly began seducing him in 2001 when he was 11 and had just finished elementary school.

None of the incidents took place on school property, police said. The family of the boy claims the sex took place in parks, hotels and wooded areas.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Friday that Flannigan, the mother of one teenage son, is again in custody this week. She was arrested Feb. 25 for violating her house arrest (her ankle bracelet reportedly went off while she was driving to avoid heavy traffic) and is being held without bail.

Lawyers for both sides are due again in court on March 16, when Judge Lucy Chernow Brown will hear a motion by the defense for witness depositions.

Both Flannigan and the boy’s family will appear in court on May 16, when Chernow will set the trial date. The teacher’s trial is likely to begin within two weeks of that hearing, according to the State Attorney’s Office.

Flannigan is expected to plead not guilty.

School officials said she has been on paid leave from the Palm Beach County School District since the criminal investigation started.

Sean Salai can be reached at ssalai@bocanews.com or 561-893-6427.

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03-10-05  Glutt: ****A GIRL of seven starved to death by her parents ate her own hair in a bid to stay alive.**** VIC, you completely right in suggesting to execute such parents... I really wonder why European Union and other sissies want to support lives of such cowards with our tax money? I would love to see such cowards being shot like mad dogs. even mad dogs are probably more worthwhile than those bustards. :((( NB: this story frightens me, it is simply unbelievable such humans can live and enjoy their lives… and number of such miserable useless human trash is increasing from year to year…

03-09-05  Alexander: gesehen !!!!!!!!

super.....


03-09-05  Alexander: <<<dene Kanake middhalde :~)) >>>

heute in Essen wieder einem von der Bande gekündigt ;-)))))


03-09-05  spaldo: mache in mvd jetzt das licht aus. - <p.s. ist der geheimbuendler ein netter kerl oder ja? > ausdruecklich ja.

03-09-05  wally: <Alexander: ja, Richtung Rep Cz ?? wieso dann 250km NordÖstl FFM ??> nu bin ich a bissel schwach in de gehografieh, ne? gugge emol in dei poscht enei.

03-09-05  wally: <nowwhodathunkit....> nor en ashkenazi frankfurter Bubb kann mit dene Kanake middhalde :~))

03-09-05  Alexander: ja, Richtung Rep Cz ??

wieso dann 250km NordÖstl FFM ??


03-09-05  wally: <wasn mit dem anderen Projekt ??> konzentriere mich nur auf eine sache. habe ich dir die infos nicht geschickt <alex>?

03-09-05  Alexander: Ozzy, tripletrue !!

nowwhodathunkit....


03-09-05  ozymiani: <Alexander: People of Arab descent living in the United States tend to be better educated and wealthier than other Americans>

or, more exactly

<people of arab descent living in the United States tend to be WAY better educated and more wealthy than Arabs living anywhere else, especially in the Arab countries>.

they also <tend> to make money instead of salughtering teenagers in disco-bombings

this is some <indictment> of the USA! It takes away the best people from Arab countries, and makes them nerdy technogeeks, arrogant surgeons and cosmopolitan money-makers! Eeeeechhh!!!


03-09-05  Alexander: <<< fahre dann 250km nach ost-nord-ost >>>

wasn mit dem anderen Projekt ??

aber Nordhessen, Süd NRW is besser


03-09-05  Alexander: <<<People of Arab descent living in the United States tend to be better educated and wealthier than other Americans >>>

na bitte....


03-09-05  Patient-Trader: Steady Drop in Black Army Recruits

Since fiscal 2000, when African Americans made up 23.5 percent of Army recruits, their numbers have fallen steadily to less than 14 percent in this fiscal year, officials said. A similar trend has reduced the number of female Army recruits, who have dropped from 22 percent in 2000 to about 17 percent of this year's new soldiers.

Military scholars said the decline was not all that surprising, in part because African Americans' propensity to join the military has been dropping over the past decade. That had led some experts to predict that the percentage of black recruits would edge ever closer to their representation in the overall population -- 12.3 percent in the 2000 census. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...


03-09-05  wally: <spaldo: wo wirst du ankern <wally>, beim She-bonker? - beim "geheimbuendler" hast du dich gruendlich verguckt> bin nur einen tag im raum FRA und fahre dann 250km nach ost-nord-ost wegen eines (igittigitt) immobilien-deals. dann bruder besuchen, wochenende rhein-main (holiday inn naehe c-banker) und dann zurueck zu die asiaten.

p.s. ist der geheimbuendler ein netter kerl oder ja?


03-09-05  Patient-Trader: WASHINGTON - People of Arab descent living in the United States tend to be better educated and wealthier than other Americans, the Census Bureau (news - web sites) says.

There are about 1.2 million U.S. residents whose ancestry is solely or partly Arab, less than a half-percent of all Americans. The details in Tuesday's report covered the 850,000 people who identified themselves in the 2000 census as having only Arab ancestries.

Arabs are nearly twice as likely as the typical U.S. resident to possess a college degree — 41 percent to 24 percent. Better education typically translates into higher income, and that was highlighted in the report: The median income for an Arab family was $52,300, about $2,300 more than the median income for all U.S. families.

The proportion of U.S. Arabs working in management jobs was higher than the U.S. average, 42 percent to 34 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...


03-08-05  Alexander: another unloved Auto supplier

03-08-05  latino2: Who knows why the Schefenacker bond is going down.

03-08-05  Alexander: Hauptsach de Nekrophilo is weg, die aale perverse Drekksauu

03-08-05  spaldo: wo wirst du ankern <wally>, beim She-bonker? - beim "geheimbuendler" hast du dich gruendlich verguckt.

03-08-05  Alexander: 21-Jähriger nach 50 Gläsern Tequlia gestorben 08. Mär 09:26

Herzversagen und massive Alkoholvergiftung - so lautete das ärztliche Urteil nach dem Tod eines jungen Mannes, der etliche Gläser des hochprozentigen Getränks in sich hineingeschüttet hatte.

In der Dominikanischen Republik hat ein 21-Jähriger über 50 Schnapsgläser Tequila getrunken und ist wenig später daran gestorben. Der junge Mann hatte sich in einem Club in Santo Domingo an einem Wetttrinken beteiligt. Er wollte vom Disco-Betreiber ausgelobte 250 Euro gewinnen.

Als Todesursache gaben die Ärzte Herzversagen und massive Alkoholvergiftung an.

Drei weitere Teilnehmer des Wetttrinkens mussten ebenfalls in kritischem Zustand ins Krankenhaus eingeliefert werden. (nz)


03-08-05  Alexander: http://www.cunda.de/stores/detail.p...

03-07-05  wally: <spaldo: <wally>, mit leo allein in fiji> beste gruesse von mir an den alten 'geheimbuendler'! haette nie gedacht dass der sich mal offenbart. fliege uebrigens naechste woche (allerdings nur fuer ein paar tage) nach Deutschland und muss noch ein paar winterklamotten kaufen. brrrrr.....

03-07-05  wally: <Reveille: Darf man hier auch posten, wenn man kein Hessisch kann?> es ist auch bajuwarisch, schwaebisch und saechsisch erlaubt. in extremen notfaellen darfst du auch urdu benutzen.

03-07-05  Alexander: ei freilisch derf mer des!

03-07-05  Reveille: Darf man hier auch posten, wenn man kein Hessich kann?

03-07-05  Alexander: <<<vergangenheit als ueber die gegenwart >>>

wenn wir alle dann zusammen im Altenheim sitzen, ist die Vergangenheit die Zukunft


03-07-05  spaldo: <wally>, mit leo allein in fiji. heute abend werden wir an dich denken, bei gutem beef & cabernet. das dumme ist, dass wir mehr ueber die vergangenheit als ueber die gegenwart zu berichten haben.

03-06-05  Alexander: <honinind> marries a <mummy>

I wonder how the kids look like ?


03-06-05  wally: <a <<<hominid>>> that lived in the wooded grasslands of the Horn of Africa> there is one who claims he works in London but lives in Italy.

03-06-05  victorn: ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - A team of U.S. and Ethiopian scientists has discovered the fossilized remains of what they believe is humankind's first walking ancestor, a hominid that lived in the wooded grasslands of the Horn of Africa nearly 4 million years ago.

The bones were discovered in February at a new site called Mille, in the northeastern Afar region of Ethiopia, said Bruce Latimer, director of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in Ohio. They are estimated to be 3.8-4 million years old.


03-06-05  Alexander: Independent Home | News | Sport | Comment | Education | Motoring | Money | Jobs | Travel | Enjoyment

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Kremlin acts to stem tide of porn, beer and thong ads By Andrew Osborn in Moscow
06 March 2005

Moscow's increasingly conservative city fathers have had enough - of sex, bare flesh and profanity. Fourteen years after the Soviet Union collapsed along with its stuffy moral precepts, Russian politicians have decided that the country's fabled liberality has gone too far.

Across the country calls for a renaissance of Soviet-style puritanism and a return to moral order are being voiced with increasing frequency.

Moscow's deputies believe the remedy lies in a law that would ban advertisements featuring "swear words, genitals and filthy gestures and poses". Once a drab, neon-free, asexual zone, Moscow itself has metamorphosed into a city where anything goes. Sex is shoved in your face: billboards featuring soft lesbian scenes stare down on dusty Communist-era statues, adverts for female thongs leave almost nothing to the imagination and sexual double entendres are used to sell anything from cars to phones.

Deprived of commercialism for years, Russia embraced the old adage that "sex sells" with gusto. To add insult to moral injury, strip clubs/brothels line many of the city's main avenues, hardcore pornography DVDs are on sale at most of the city's metro stations and sex shops sit cheek by jowl with schools. Young people who have only vague memories of Soviet-style morality, where sex was rarely referred to in public, don't bat an eyelid. But older Russians find it distasteful and are deciding that democracy and capitalism do not have to go hand in hand with in-your-face sex.

After one Muscovite complained that she had caught her five-year-old grandson watching a porn video he had bought from a sex shop near his school, a law drafted by Moscow deputy Ludmila Stebenkova will ban sex shops from residential areas, markets, airports, railway stations and from within 500m of cemeteries, schools, theatres and hospitals.

The battle for the purity of people's souls is also being waged on TV. Nationally, lawmakers are trying to ban the broadcast of images of an extreme sexual nature between seven in the morning and 10 at night. Depictions of rape or acts of a violent sexual nature would be outlawed outside the watershed.

For the authorities, efforts to promote clean living and high moral standards often go hand in hand with patriotism. A new "military-patriotic" channel called Zvezda aired in Moscow for the first time recently with the backing of the Defence Ministry. The Russian Orthodox Church is also doing its bit. It is in the process of setting up a nationwide channel to promote "Christian morality" and oppose "the cult of consumption and pleasure".

Church leaders say TV ads should not promote sex, alcohol or cigarettes. The government has fallen into line. Beer ads have been banned from radio and TV during the watershed, drinking is to be prohibited in a welter of public places and children under the age of 18 have finally been banned from buying beer, traditionally considered a soft drink in Russia.

Underlying the church's moral fervour is a deeper concern, which the government shares. Because of the media "sowing the seeds of licentiousness, selfishness, the cult of comfort and freedom from morality," says Patriarch Alexei II, "an increasing number of married couples do not have children at all."

Indeed the Kremlin is said to be worried that people are becoming too fond of the single, commitment-free, promiscuous lifestyle at the expense of Russia's birth rate. The current average birth rate is 1.25 children per woman. A rate of 2.13 needs to be attained if existing population levels are to be maintained - something that is regarded as vital for Russian national security. Also in Europe
Kremlin acts to stem tide of porn, beer and thong ads Rome Stories: Cash, scams and favours to secure a home in Rome Britain and EU move to outlaw Hizbollah Amsterdam falls out of love with coffee shops as liberal stance on drugs begins to crumble Murdered banker was 'wearing a latex suit'

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