November 20, 2013, 3:07 am
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Shifra Unger(Scroll down for video) In a very sad incident a young girl was shot and killed by a man she had never met before.
V'ondra Olivaria, 16, of Clayton County, Georgia, invited 17-year-old Brandon Williams into her house.
The teen’s mother was home when her daughter invited the man, who was unknown to her, into her room.
Williams was polite as it was the first time he met the girl and her family.
"He shook my hand and not even five minutes later I heard a gun go off. My baby was gone," the girl’s mother, Yolanda Rincon, said.
Williams admitted that he accidentally shot the 16-year-old in her bedroom just 5 minutes after the two were introduced to each other by a mutual friend.
The teens were playing with the gun when it accidentally went off. The frightened man fled the scene.
It is expected that Williams will be charged with manslaughter, reckless endangerment and possession of a firearm by a person under 18-years-old.
Olivaria’s mother said that she has no idea from where the gun came from.
While the family is grieving, the compassionate mother had it in her heart to feel bad for the suspect.
"I am mad at you, but at the same time, I hurt for you because you are somebody's child," Rincon said.
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November 20, 2013, 3:15 am
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Eva FettHow much Red Bull does a person need?
Police in Florida said that thieves stole $500,000 worth of Red Bull from a warehouse.
Medley Police said that the Red Bull energy drinks were stolen from a warehouse in South Florida.
Authorities said the theft of about 100 pallets of the drink took place between the night of November 9 and the morning of November 11, when the warehouse employees of OHL Inc. found the door open and discovered the theft.
Detectives said that the thieves had a key to the business, and they disconnected the alarm system that is controlled remotely by a security company before swinging into action.
Investigators said once the robbers were inside the warehouse, they used four forklifts to move more than one hundred pallets of Red Bull. They also threw away about twenty pallets that had been damaged during the heist.
Police said the store did not have surveillance cameras.
Anyone with information can call Crime Stoppers at 305 471-6160.
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November 20, 2013, 4:36 am
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Ryan Lee Hall(Scroll down for video) An elderly woman is the latest victim to come forward and filing a complaint about the racist “knockout game,” according to police reports in New York.
Brooklyn Police said that they are searching for group of teenagers, who are behind a series of random attacks on strangers throughout Brooklyn. Police believe that the attacks are part of a disturbing trend circulating online.
It's called the “knockout game,” in which innocent people are randomly sucker punched in the head.
The latest attack victim was an elderly woman in Midwood, and it comes after eight similar attacks against Jews in Crown Heights.
The 78-year-old woman is terrified to leave her house, her daughter, Rita, said.
The incident occurred on Saturday, when the woman walked down the street, but was too afraid to report the attack immediately. State Assemblyman Dov Hikind persuaded her to go to the police after authorities released a shocking video that showed an Orthodox Jewish man, 20, randomly being hit by a group of black teens in Crown Heights last week.
"Who would do that? Who would attack a 78-year-old woman?" Hikind fumed.
The Hate Crimes Task Force is now looking for suspects in an eight similar attacks.
A $1,000 reward is being offered for information leading to any arrests in connection with these incidents.
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November 20, 2013, 4:48 am
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David Ross(Scroll down for video) Police are looking to arrest and charge three people with robbery after they were seen on video robbing a man in the Borough Park area of Brooklyn, New York.
Brooklyn Police also said that the three men are suspected of committing a dozen robberies across Brooklyn, and have released video surveillance of men, who approached a victim, 28, in one of the robberies.
The 11 thefts have happened in the Bensonhurst, Borough Park, Windsor Terrace and Sunset Park neighborhoods, in October and November. The victims were all male, aged between 23 and 57, police said.
The three men approached their victims in the street, threatened and attacked them before fleeing with their personal property.
A surveillance video shows one suspect approaching the victim on the street, and cornering him against a closed shop.
The other two suspects, wearing baseball caps and bandanas over their faces, quickly surround the victim and demand the victim's property. The victim complied, and the thieves fled from the scene.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Crime Stoppers at 800 577-TIPS or visit nypdcrimestoppers.com.
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November 20, 2013, 5:00 am
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Shifra Unger(Scroll down for video) Police are looking to arrest and charge a man with child sexual assault after he allegedly groped a little girl in the Park Slope area of Brooklyn, New York, according to police reports.
Brooklyn Police in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, are searching for the man, who attacked the girl, 11, on Monday afternoon.
The girl was walking on Fourth Street shortly after 4:00 p.m. on Monday, when the man approached her from behind and groped her before fleeing, police said.
The girl was not physically injured. Police said that other girls were also attacked.
Police said that they also are investigating an assault on a police officer in connection with the groping case.
Officers were in the area of Fifth Avenue and 9th Street on Monday, one week after the groping incident when one of the officers stopped to question a man.
The man attacked the officer and fled from the scene. The officer was taken to Methodist Hospital, where she was treated for a dislocated shoulder.
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November 20, 2013, 5:56 am
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Sarah WeissA 14-year-old girl was arrested and charged with attempted murder after hiring two men to kill her father, according to a report by the New York Daily News.
The girl claimed that her father raped her, according to police reports in New York.
Michael Joseph said that his daughter kissed him good night an hour before two men armed with butcher knives attacked him.
His 14-year-old daughter allowed the killers to enter the Flatbush apartment, and gave them kitchen knives in order to stab her father to death in his sleep.
The teen convinced the men that her father raped her, one of the suspects told police.
Joseph, 53, said that he woke up after a knife blade was plunged into his throat.
Joseph somehow survived the attack despite being stabbed him in the face, chest, neck, arms, legs and back.
The daughter and the two men were seen on surveillance video leaving the apartment building together.
Joseph denied the allegations of sexual abuse.
A judge in Brooklyn banned the teenager from having any contact with her father at home, at work, or by phone, text and email.
She was arrested and charged with 34 offenses, including attempted murder.
Ricardo Leveillez, a boyfriend of the teen, was arrested for attempted murder and remains in Rikers Island on $250,000 bail.
The third suspect remains on the run.
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November 20, 2013, 6:05 am
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John RobertsA man is dead after being mowed down in a hit and run incident, according to police reports in New York.
Now, the victim of the incident has been identified.
Brooklyn Police have identified the bicyclist, who was killed in an alleged hit and run early on Monday in Williamsburg, as 32-year-old Christopher Meyer.
As we reported earlier, a man is dead after a hit and run incident in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York, according to police reports.
Brooklyn Police are searching for the car that ran over a pedestrian, who was riding his bicycle, in a fatal hit and run that occurred early on Monday.
Rescue workers were called to Meeker Avenue and Frost Street in Williamsburg around 4:00 a.m., where they found the man lying unconscious on the road with severe injuries, according to the New York Fire Department.
The man, 32, whose name was not released, was taken to Bellevue Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival, police said.
Police confirmed that the car that hit the man fled the scene after the accident.
Police are urging anyone with information about the incident to come forward.
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November 20, 2013, 6:19 am
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Debbie GrossA teen girl is suffering from serious injuries after being hit by a vehicle while she was crossing a street in the Borough Park area of Brooklyn, New York, according to rescue workers.
Brooklyn Police said that a 16-year-old girl is clinging to life after being hit by a vehicle while crossing a street in Brooklyn just before 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday.
Yasmelin Iglesias was in the crosswalk at 48th Street and 6th Avenue when she was struck. She was transported to Lutheran Medical Center with severe head injuries.
Her family said that she will be undergoing a series of surgeries.
"I hope she has the strength to survive these surgeries. She is young, but does not eat that much. She is very thin," her grandmother, Altagracia Lamb, 64, said.
The police said that she was crossing the street with her mother when a white van traveling south on 6th Avenue ran her over.
“You cannot die,” the mother of the teen was heard screaming at the scene.
The 29-year-old, who was driving the van stayed at the scene.
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November 20, 2013, 6:35 am
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Moses Gold(Scroll down for video) The popular Israeli singer, who is accused of having intercourse with little girls, has been identified after a court ordered gag order has expired.
Eyal Golan, a singer and reality show judge, was questioned for the first time on Wednesday morning, by police. He and another singer are accused of participating in sexual encounters with underage girls.
Five detectives also searched the house of the father of one of the singers, and confiscated a computer. Police also detained the father for questioning.
According to investigators, the father of one of the singers and people close to the singers, would search for little girls often during performances, and bring them to rooms rented for the night in order to have sex, and use drugs.
Also arrested were the promoters of Golan.
The four men were interrogated separately at the police headquarters in Tel Aviv.
Golan has denied the allegations saying he did not know that the girls were underage.
The legal age of consent is 16-years-old.
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November 20, 2013, 6:51 am
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Eva FettRabbi Shlomo Helbrans and his Lev Tahor cult followers have fled their homes and are on their way to Iran, after Canadian welfare officials are preparing to take custody of their children, according to a report in the Haredi World.
Long plagued by allegations of child abuse and severe neglect, the 40 families of Lev Tahor fled their homes located in Ste. Agathe-du-Mont, Quebec, on Tuesday, fearing imminent removal of their children by Canadian welfare authorities.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry and police worked through the night on Tuesday, for information about the safety of children.
About 200 people traveling in three buses headed to Ontario, where they rented a small number of hotel rooms. The police in Canada has confirmed that the group is planning to move to Iran.
Lev Tahor is led by charismatic Shlomo Helbrans, a convicted kidnapper. The group, mostly native Israelis and their children born in Canada, lived in the resort town in Quebec.
Only five members have legal status in Canada, and their children do not have passports.
As we reported earlier, the wife of ultra-Orthodox Jewish cult leader Shlomo Helbrans fled after being severely beaten by her husband's followers, Malka Helbrans revealed in an interview.
Shlomo Helbrans is the cult leader of Lev Tahor, a small group of radical ultra-Orthodox Jews in Montreal, Canada. Helbrans was accused of child abuse and kidnapping in Israel and in the United States before fleeing to Canada.
The wife of the cult leader, Malka Helbrans, arrived back in Israel this week after she was beaten to near death by her husband’s followers.
Malka recently told her family members about what had happened to her one Saturday about six months ago. "I heard men violently knocking on the door of the women’s synagogue," she recalled. "I saw eight to ten men with plastic white chairs charge at me and they all started beating me with the chairs. I thought I was dying. I screamed. I did not understand what was happening. I did not understand why. They chased me home. They threw snow at me. The knocked down my door and beat me and beat me, and beat me." Malka said.
"They accused me of closing the door to the women’s section," Malka explained.
The trouble for the rabbi's wife began after she voiced opposition to the rampant child abuse going on in the community. “The main reason for my sufferings is the fact that I dared to voice opposition to the punishments that are being used in the village,” Malka said.
Punishments include beatings of children, forced marriages between members of the community, marriage of minors as young as 14, achieving compliance through pain, denial of food, violent separation between parents and children from the age of six months, complete isolation from family in Israel, and more.
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November 20, 2013, 7:04 am
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Ryan Lee HallTwo Israel Defense Forces soldiers were hospitalized after a bomb explosion, according to rescue workers.
Magen David Adom said that two paratroopers from unit 890 were severely injured on Tuesday, as a result of an accidentally activated explosive device near an army post in Mount Dov.
The two were treated at the scene and were transported by helicopter in stable condition to Rambam Hospital in Haifa.
The Israeli army launched an investigation into the circumstances of the explosion.
The two officers were conscious when they arrived at the hospital.
“The two soldiers suffered from shrapnel wounds and burns on their upper bodies and limbs,” Doctor Shlomi Israel, the emergency room director, said.
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November 20, 2013, 8:28 am
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David RossFour men were arrested and will be charged with arson after they allegedly firebombed a vehicle belonging to the owner of the popular Gutnick wedding hall in Jerusalem, according to police reports in Israel.
The special investigations unit of the Jerusalem Police Department arrested the four Arab residents of East Jerusalem, after they were accused of torching two vehicles and threatened the owner of the Gutnick wedding hall, which is located in the Givat Shaul neighborhood, by phone.
The men attempted to silence their employer, who was supposed to testify in an income tax probe, after the employees were accused of tax evasion.
The four suspects were brought before the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court for a bail hearing where they were remanded into custody.
As we reported earlier, police are investigating violence and death threats against the owner of the popular Gutnick Hall in Jerusalem, Israel, Jerusalem Police said in a statement.
The latest incident occurred on Wednesday night, after the hall owner parked his car on Sorotzkin Street in Jerusalem.
People in the area awoke to the sound of an explosion, and were surprised to see that the car belonging to the hall owner was set on fire.
Firefighters who arrived at the scene found a Ford Mondeo on fire. The vehicle was totally burned and the vehicle parked next to it was slightly damaged.
Fire investigators who collected evidence from the scene determined that it was arson. The owner of the vehicle filed a police complaint, and police said that they are currently looking for suspects.
This was not the first vandalism incident to strike the family. On Monday, the victim’s son-in-law, who lives in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood of Jerusalem, reported that his car was set on fire. Police believe that the two cases are related.
Two months ago, the son-in-law also received a death threat in the mail along with a bullet, according to police.
Police said that it is possible that recently fired employees of the Gutnick hall might be behind the death threats and the vandalism.
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November 20, 2013, 8:46 am
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Shifra Unger(Scroll down for video) An ultra-Orthodox Jewish teen died just a day after giving birth to her first child, according to hospital officials in New York.
The 18-year-old woman was identified as Chaya Faiga Hager, the great-granddaughter of the grand rabbi of Viznitz.
The woman died just a year after getting married. Hager married at age 17, as many ultra-Orthodox Jewish girls.
Hager died a day after giving birth to her first child.
Earlier this week, Hager gave birth to a healthy baby girl.
However, the woman developed an infection, and her condition quickly deteriorated until she died.
Thousands attended her funeral, and she was buried in Monsey, New York.
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November 20, 2013, 9:15 am
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Sarah WeissThe leader of a Bnei Brak synagogue was arrested and charged with child sexual assault after he allegedly sexually assaulted a young boy, according to court proceedings in Israel.
The Tel Aviv District Attorney’s office filed an indictment with the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court against Yitzchak Sapir, 40, of Bnei Brak, after being accused of molesting a 14-year-old boy.
According to the indictment, the man brushed against the boy and kissed him when the two were alone in the synagogue.
The sexual abuse began last year.
The defendant also asked the victim to clean his apartment. After he finished cleaning the apartment, the suspect asked the boy for a hug. When the boy refused, he forcibly hugged the boy and held him against his body for some time.
When the boy broke free, the man grabbed him again and committed indecent acts.
When he was about to leave the apartment, Sapir asked the boy for one last hug and molested the boy again.
The next day, the suspect called the boy to the synagogue to help him clean up. When they were alone, he asked the boy to kiss him on the neck, cheek and mouth. While the boy kissed Sapir, he put his hands on his behind.
The boy told his mother about the abuse, who filed a police complaint.
Sapit denied the allegations against him, but admitted that the boy was in his apartment.
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November 20, 2013, 10:23 am
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Eva FettA woman was angry at a duck because it rejected her so she killed it.
Karie Lindgren, 36, of Tarpon Springs, Florida, was arrested on Saturday, after she killed a duck with her car because the animal rejected her advances.
According to police, Lindgren became angry when she tried to lure the duck to her with a piece of candy, but the duck refused to get close to the woman.
Witnesses said that about 5:40 p.m., Lindgren "stalked the duck" in an attempt to get the duck to like her and to come close to her, but the duck would have no part of it.
She then got into a car, drove across a lawn at a high speed, and struck the animal with her vehicle.
Natalie Paraskevopoulos said she came out of her home to find the dead duck in her driveway. She also found tire tracks on her front yard.
Paraskevopoulos said that the ducks were in the neighborhood since they were ducklings, and people treated them as pets.
"It was just really upsetting to see the duck that way," Paraskevopoulos said.
Officers were called to the scene and found the dead duck laying on the driveway.
After hearing from witnesses, Lindgren was arrested and booked into the Pinellas County Jail. She was charged with animal cruelty.
She was released after posting $5,000 bond.
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November 20, 2013, 10:35 am
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Ryan Lee Hall(Scroll down for video) A man was arrested and a teen is dead after a woman was caught cheating.
The man of Johannesburg, South Africa, was very angry when he caught his wife in bed with another man. A fight broke out between the three.
The incident took place at Claim street near Bruce street in Hillbrow, on Tuesday afternoon.
The woman was cheating with a teen, who was identified as Nyasha Johwa, 16. The teen is a native of Zimbabwe.
Johwa was working in Johannesburg at the time of the incident.
The 16-year-old boy fell to his death from a sixth-floor window.
Now, police are investigating whether Johwa jumped during the fight or if he was pushed from the window of a nine-story building by the angry husband.
“I heard the husband shouting ‘you're cheating on me,’" neighbor Juliet Ndebele said.
The neighbor said that she then heard a loud noise. When she went to the window she saw the teen lying naked on the ground.
After seeing her lover dead on the ground, the distraught woman threatened to jump out of the window as well.
The couple has a 13-year-old son together.
The victim's older brother, John Johwa, 24, came to collect his brother’s belongings, but only found his jeans and sneakers, according to reports.
John Johwa said that his younger brother had stopped going to school last year and was working at a club in Sunninghill.
He also said that he was not sure what his younger brother was doing at that apartment.
Police have arrested the husband. He faces charges of assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
It is also alleged that during the fight he hit his wife.
"We have opened an investigation file. We do not know if it is murder or if the teen jumped," police spokesman Constable Carol Mulamu said.
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November 20, 2013, 10:38 am
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Debbi Gross(Scroll down for video) A man killed his baby after his girlfriend broke up with him, and took out a restraining order against him.
The disgruntled man photographed the moment before he shot his own daughter, and he wrote about it on Facebook.
McKoy Merrick, 22, of Colorado, shot his 19-month-old daughter, Mia McKoy-Phanthavongsa.
He then pointed the gun at himself and attempted to commit suicide in the Westminster area, according to reports.
Just before McKoy shot his daughter in the head he published photos of himself with his daughter on Facebook and wrote: "I told u I cannot live without u lol u thought I was joking, now I and Mia without this b ---- ."
The girl's mother, Kim Phanthavongsa, 21, broke up with McKoy, and the two were in court to sort out custody issues.
Phanthavongsa also had an active protective order against McKoy after a domestic violence incident.
On this day McKoy walked into Phanthavongsa’s apartment, the two got into an argument.
Phanthavongsa managed to run out of the house but left the baby with McKoy.
She frantically called the police to report that McKoy was inside her apartment with a gun.
When police arrived, they heard gunshots, but they were too late to save the baby.
Police tried to enter the apartment where McKoy had barricaded himself.
“Do not judge me, I had no choice," were his shocking last words on Facebook before he turned the gun on himself.
The father was rushed to a hospital alive, but his condition was not released.
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November 20, 2013, 10:40 am
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David Ross(Scroll down for video) A man was finally arrested after he raped a number of children over many years.
The rape suspect has angered people in South Africa, many of whom came out to the court in protest.
In court, the 42-year-old suspect told the judge that he does not want bail.
The man was making his second appearance in the Mamelodi Magistrate’s Court in Tshwane, since he was charged with raping a 5-year-old girl.
Mamelodi East residents were angry and protested after the suspect said he did not want bail. They wanted him freed on bail so they could “teach a lesson.”
They shouted that they would pay his bail if he could not pay it.
The case was adjourned, and the suspect was removed from the court.
Residents had already collected money for his bail so they could get their hands on him.
"He's a coward. He must come out and face us. However, he would rather rot in jail,” neighbor Sango Selby said.
Outside the courthouse, residents protested with banners calling the man a monster and a dog who deserved to die.
Residents were up in arms over a series of rapes, which took place over the past 13 years. The community blames the suspect for all of those rapes.
People in the community said that the suspect got away with crimes for many years because he is from a from well-connected family, and because he has worked as a police informant.
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November 20, 2013, 10:42 am
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Sarah Weiss(Scroll down for video) A doctor is facing a long prison sentence after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting 21 women.
George Doodnaught of Canada, who worked as an anaesthesiologist at the North York General Hospital in Toronto, was found guilty of sexually assaulting the women while they were under anaesthetics.
The victims were aware of what was happening, but were unable to move their limbs, the court heard.
Doctor Doodnaught kissed the patients as they lay on the operating table. He fondled their breasts and made explicit sexual remarks.
In 13 of the cases, he was accused of placing his penis in the mouth or hands of the victim.
Doodnaught’s attorney Brian Greenspan told Ontario Superior Court Judge David McCombs that the height of the operating room table, as well as the presence of various machines and IV lines would have made it difficult if not impossible for Doodnaught to even get close enough to the victims.
Greenspan also said that there are many doctors and nurses going in and out of the operating room. “No one saw or heard anything that would indicate sexual assault,” Greenspan said.
However, it was said that Doodnaught stood near the patient’s head with a sterile sheet over the upper body hiding him from the sight of other staff.
The defense attorney also argued that the victims had vivid sexual dreams caused by sedatives, which is known to play tricks with memory.
Most of the 21 victims took the stand against Doodnaught, and all had similar accounts of being sexually abused while having surgery on the lower part of their bodies.
The Judge said that is not a coincidence that all 21 women reported being sexually abused by the same man.
Judge McCombs noted that the women did not know each other, and all came forward on separate occasions.
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November 20, 2013, 10:32 pm
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Shifra UngerA woman spent her wedding night behind bars after she allegedly bit her husband's face, according to police reports in Washington.
The marriage of the newly married couple got off to a rocky start.
After saying "I do," the bride and her husband returned to their hotel in Kennewick, where they quickly got into an argument, which resulted in the bride biting the groom.
The 31-year-old husband refused to cooperate with the police, and did not allow investigators to photograph his bite wound.
However, police still were able to determine that the bride, 40, was the aggressor.
Deonna Christine Farkas was booked into the Benton County jail after she was arrested and charged with domestic violence.
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