A young girl’s decision to give life to her unborn child resulted in her losing her own.
Now a New York man will be going to prison for her killing.
A jury deliberated about an hour before convicting 22-year-old Christian Ferdinand on a second degree murder charge in the death of 14-year-old Shaniesha Forbes. Ferdinand met the girl on Facebook in 2012 and met up with her for sex. She text messaged him a few months later saying she was pregnant with his child and would not abort the baby.
“Are you serious? Kill that [expletive],” Ferdinand texted back to her. He then killed the teen when she met him at his cousin’s house by smothering her with a pillow. He then stuffed the girl’s body into a suitcase, burned it and then threw it into lake.
“He intentionally smothered a 14-year-old girl to death and burned her body to get rid of the evidence,” prosecutor Robert Walsh told jurors on Monday. “He had a problem that needed solving. He didn’t want to pay child support, and Shaniesha got in the way.”
Ferdinand actually told investigators he didn’t think the killing was a big deal. He asked them if they could just give him community service for the murder.
He faces 25 years in prison. Ironically, the medical examiner said it was likely the girl was not pregnant in the first place.
The Taliban attacked a British convoy on Thursday killing five people.
The homicide bomb attack focused on a vehicle from the British embassy and killed two embassy workers, one British and one Afghani.
The attack wounded at least 30 bystanders.
“I am deeply saddened to confirm that a British national civilian security team member and an Afghan national working for the embassy were killed in the incident,” Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said in a statement.
The blast was the first of the day. A second blast a few hours later struck at a compound run by a contractor for the U.S. aid agency in the country. It shook buildings throughout the diplomatic section of Kabul and was the start of an hour long shootout between terrorists and Afghani security forces.
A foreign national and two terrorists died in the second explosion.
There have been five major terrorist attacks by the Taliban this week.
Yazidi refugees are beginning to speak out about the horrific treatment they experienced at the hands of terrorist group ISIS.
“My older brother, my father, my mother, my wife and even my two kids were killed. All I have left of them is just one picture on my mobile phone,” a man identified as Tahysn to the London Daily Mail. He said that his sons were three and four when ISIS slit their throats.
Other refugees described watching other die from thirst and heat as they were trapped on a mountain awaiting help from western military groups.
“When we left Sinjar, the kids suffered a lot… Many men from our village died, many women have been captured. I saw some kids dying because of the heat,” a woman named Rezal said. “[ISIS]… even cut the throats of the babies.”
The refugees said that many of their kidnapped relatives have been trying to starve themselves to death because of the extreme brutality of their captors.
Islamic terrorist group ISIS has beheaded another captive and posted the video on the internet.
Peter Kassig is the third American to be brutally slaughtered by the murderers.
Kassig, 26, had served in the Iraq War and became motivated to make a difference in the lives of the Iraqis after the war ended. He had founded a group called SERA (Special Emergency Response and Assistance) which delivered food and medical supplies to refugee camps near the Syrian and Iraqi border.
Kassig had written to his parents stating he feared being killed.
“I am obviously pretty scared to die but the hardest part is not knowing, wondering, hoping, and wondering if I should even hope at all,” Kassig said. “I am very sad that all this has happened and for what all of you back home are going through. If I do die, I figure that at least you and I can seek refuge and comfort in knowing that I went out as a result of trying to alleviate suffering and helping those in need.”
The Obama administration confirmed that the video was genuine.
The government followed through on their proclamation they would find the people responsible for the mob murder of two Christians on false charges of blasphemy.
However, the local officials tried to deny that Muslims were behind the attack.
“We have arrested 44 people, it was a local issue incited by the mullah of a local mosque,” said Jawad Qamar, a regional police chief from Kot Radha Kishan, Punjab province, according to The Guardian. “No particular sectarian group or religious outfit was behind the attack.”
A Muslim mob attacked Shahzad Masih, 28, and Shama Bibi, 25, because someone found a burned Koran and claimed the Christian couple had burned it in a brick kiln before throwing it away.
The mob then beat the couple and threw them alive into the brick kiln to cremate the bodies.
“The Pakistani state has to act proactively to protect its minorities from violence and injustice,” Pakistan Prime Minster Nawaz Sharif said.
In the latest round of Christian persecution in Pakistan, a Christian couple was falsely accused of desecrating a Koran and then murdered.
The murder took place in Kot Radha Kirshan, a village about 40 miles from the city of Lahore according to the BBC.
The married couple, identified only as Shama and Shehzad, had worked at a brick kiln. A desecrated Koran was found in the area of the kiln earlier in the day and a Muslim mob decided it had to be the Christian couple. So they killed them and stuffed their bodies into the brick kiln.
The chief minister of the region has said he will investigate the killings.
The American Center for Law and Justice, who has been raising the alarm about Asia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death on false accusations of blaspheming Mohammed, is calling for the U.S. to end foreign aid to Pakistan until they take steps to stop the killing of Christians.
A British woman has been revealed to have killed her disabled 12 year old daughter by stopping hydration and nutrition.
Nancy Fitzmaurice died in August after officials at London’s Great Ormand Street Hospital stopped her support. The child suffered from hydrocephalus, meningitis and septicemia at the time of her death.
Her mother had petitioned a judge to allow her to kill her child via a slow death from lack of hydration. The mother, Charlotte Fitzmaurice Wise, said that she felt her daughter had suffered enough.
The death in August was kept secret until the parents came forward to advocate for the parents of other special needs children to be able to kill their children without court approval.
Disability advocates around the world immediately condemned the family for their killing and said that approval of such actions sets a dangerous precedent.
“Euthanasia of people with disabilities is an extremely dangerous and wholly inappropriate solution to inadequate pain management. In cases where painkillers are insufficient, a number of alternatives for pain management exist. A policy of euthanasia targets vulnerable people, particularly when it is applied to children. People with disabilities who experience chronic pain should have same access as others to life-sustaining medical treatment,” the Autism Self Advocacy Network said in a statement.
Mexican authorities have admitted finding a mass grave in their search for 43 students who went missing last month after a clash with police.
Mexico’s attorney general told reporters the grave was discovered after information was obtained from two arrested gang members.
Police in the region had admitted to investigators that they had taken the students and turned them over to local drug gangs so the gangs could “take care of” the students for the police.
The incident has shocked Mexican residents to the point that 56 people have been arrested in the disappearance and local officials have been forced to resign. The governor of the state has also stepped down because of the mass corruption of the police department.
The mayor of Iguala, where the children were taken, is on the run along with his wife and the police chief. The mayor reportedly ordered the students to be intercepted so that his wife would not be interrupted during a speech.
They don’t believe the gunman acted alone.
The parents of New Jersey college student who was gunned down by a man who claims to be a homegrown jihadist spoke out to Fox News about the death of their son and the conditions under which he died.
Alison and Michael Tevlin’s son Brendan was shot eight times while sitting in his Jeep at a red light in West Orange, New Jersey on June 25th. The gunman, Ali Muhammed Brown, causally walked up to the vehicle and just started shooting.
Brown claims that he shot and killed Tevlin because of the U.S. military action in Iraq and Afghanistan. He said that he was a “jihadist” and that has led many to call it a case of domestic terror.
“I don’t think it makes that much of a difference at this time,” Allison Tevlin said on Fox News’ “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren.” “I think he murdered Brendan and he murdered several others and he is an American. He did what he did. And like I said, he didn’t act alone, so I don’t know if I — we have all the information or enough information to make that kind of judgment; it’s not really for us to make that judgment.”
Brown reportedly killed three other men in the Seattle area earlier in the summer before the murder of Tevlin. He’s currently held in the Essex County Jail on $5 million bail. If extradited to Washington
A Muslim man has admitted committing multiple murders in two states because they were revenge against America.
Ali Muhamed Brown told police “My mission is vengeance for the lives, millions of lives [that] are lost every day,” Ali Muhamad Brown stated, according to reports. “Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan—all these places where innocent lives are being taken every single day … All these lives are taken every single day by America, by this government. So a life for a life.”
Brown is jailed in the Essex County Jail in Newark, New Jersey related to the killing of 19-year-old Brendan Tevlin on July 25th. Brown walked up to Tevlin’s car at a stop light, gunned him down in the front seat and then moved the body into the backseat so he could drive the car to an apartment complex and abandon it.
Brown also committed three murders in Washington State before he moved to New Jersey.
Brown said he was doing “my small part” in the war against America by Islamic extremists.
