The father and stepmother of a Georgia girl have been charged with murder after the girl’s burned corpse was discovered in a trash can.
Eman Moss called police to say that he was suicidal and that his daughter had drank some kind of chemical that killed her.
When police arrived, Eman repeated his story about his daughter drinking a chemical and dying. He then lead them to a park area near the metro Atlanta apartment complex where he lived and showed them the burnt corpse of his daughter in a trash can.
Eman Moss and the girl’s stepmother, Tiffany Moss, are charged with felony murder, cruelty to children in the first degree and concealing a body.
A 14-year-old high school freshman killed his teacher on Tuesday, disposed of the body and then went to see a movie according to police authorities.
Philip Chism of Danvers, Massachusetts is charged with the murder of 24-year-old Danvers High School math teacher Colleen Ritzer. Police have charged him as an adult in the case, however he will be evaluated to determine his mental state.
Police say that Chism admitted following Ritzer into a bathroom at their school, killing her with a box cutter, taking the body into the woods behind the school and then going to see the latest Woody Allen move at a nearby theater.
Authorities released no motive for the murder.
Students say that Chism, who was in Ritzer’s class, was asked by the teacher to see her at the end of the school day Tuesday. Students held a vigil outside the high school on Wednesday night and sold ribbons in her memory with all proceeds going to Ritzer’s family.
Major social media network Facebook is again allowing users to post videos of people being murdered.
Facebook reversed an earlier decision banning posting of videos that showed people being beheaded or killed but now allow the videos with a warning that the video contains graphic content. The initial ban had been made after outcry from worldwide government officials.
The majority of the videos are of the beheadings of members of Mexican drug cartels. The videos usually show the entire murder from start to finish. The site is also allowing the posting of executions taking place in the middle east and Asia along with terrorist killings.
Those taking the social media giant to task say that because the site allows users as young as 13 years old the videos could cause significant mental stress. The critics point out that Facebook has rules prohibiting videos that show a single woman’s exposed breast – thus blocking some videos of mothers breastfeeding their children – but have nothing to stop what are essentially snuff films.
Facebook says they are allowing the videos to be posted so that users can discuss them and share their outrage about the killings. The site says they will remove videos if the people who post it glorify the violence in the videos in any way.
British Prime Minister David Cameron called out Facebook saying their actions were irresponsible and that they “must explain their actions to worried parents.”
Facebook has not commented about the decision to add warnings to the videos.
Masked gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire outside a church in a Cairo suburb on Sunday killing at least three people including an 8 year old child.
The terrorists reportedly shot randomly at the guests exiting the church and did not appear to be attempting to discern between Christians and other wedding guests.
A Coptic priest at the wedding told Reuters that he was inside the church when the gunfire began but rushed outside to find a dead man, a dead woman and many wounded wedding guests laying around the front of the church building.
Coptic Christians make up around ten percent of Egypt’s population and had been living in peace with the majority Muslims in the country for years. However, the Muslim Brotherhood told supporters that the Christians were behind the removal of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi on July 3rd and called for retaliation.
Analysts in the region say the violence against Christians in Egypt since the removal of Morsi and the government disbanding of Muslim Brotherhood protest camps on August 14th is unprecedented.
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