In 2 Weeks, 3 Teachers Jailed In Student Sex Cases

Stephanie Ragusa

Desperate white female pedophiles gone wild.

TAMPA – Three Tampa Bay area teachers in two weeks have been accused of having sex with students.

Experts on the subject do not think it is an epidemic but say the reporting of such crimes is on the rise.

The arrests of middle school math teacher Stephanie Ragusa and Freedom High School teacher Mary Jo Spack—charged seven days apart with sex-related crimes against minors—have prompted Hillsborough County School District officials to call emergency board meetings and question if stricter hiring practices should be in place.

Mary Jo Spack

A substitute teacher in Pasco County was arrested Monday and charged with unlawful sex with a minor.

Ragusa, 28, who most recently taught at Lutz’s Martinez Middle School, was arrested on March 13. She is facing charges of having sex with a 14-year-old student several times from January to May 2007.

Spack, 45, was arrested Thursday and was accused by police of meeting two Freedom High students, ages 17 and 18, at a liquor store. Spack then took the students to a motel on Fowler Avenue where they drank alcohol together, police said. Other students arrived and heard Spack and the 17-year-old having sex in the shower, an arrest report said.

Lisa Robyn Marinelli

Substitute teacher Lisa Robyn Marinelli, 40, was arrested Monday by Pasco sheriff’s deputies and charged with unlawful sex with a minor. The victim, a 17-year-old boy, told investigators that he had sex with Marinelli 10 times between Jan. 12 and Feb. 27.

Since 2005, at least 10 schoolteachers in Hillsborough and neighboring counties have been arrested on similar charges.

White man microwaves baby daughter, gets only 25 years

Advanced white parenting 101 : abuse your child and pretend to be crazy.

GALVESTON, Texas – A jury on Wednesday sentenced a young father to 25 years in prison for severely burning his infant daughter when he put her in a microwave and turned it on for up to 20 seconds.

Jurors deliberated for 6 1/2 hours over two days before sentencing Joshua Mauldin. They also fined him $10,000.

The jury rejected Mauldin’s claims he was insane when he stuffed his daughter Ana, then 2 months old, in the microwave and convicted him of felony injury to a child.

Prosecutors had asked that Mauldin be sentenced to life in prison. His defense attorney asked for probation so his client could continue receiving psychiatric treatment.

On Tuesday, the jury convicted Mauldin, 20, of felony injury to a child, dismissing his claim he was having a psychotic episode when he put his daughter in a Galveston hotel microwave in May 2007.

Mauldin had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. The conviction came after about four hours of deliberations, which began Monday afternoon.

Life sentence sought
Galveston County prosecutor Xochitl Vandiver asked jurors to give Mauldin a life sentence because Mauldin had given his daughter a life sentence as well — one of physical and emotional scars.

Mauldin at first told police his daughter had been severely sunburned, later changing his story and saying he had accidentally spilled hot water on her while making coffee.

Ana suffered second- and third-degree burns to her left ear, cheek, hand and shoulder and required two skin grafts after being in the microwave. Part of her left ear had to be amputated.

“She will always for the rest of her life be reminded just by looking in a mirror,” Vandiver said.

Prosecutors said Mauldin was angry that he was in a loveless marriage and took it out on his daughter. Just before putting her in the microwave, Mauldin had punched the baby and put her in the hotel-room safe and refrigerator.

They also said Mauldin had a history of violence and of lying about being mentally ill to get out of trouble.

Probation, treatment instead?
But Mauldin’s defense attorney, Sam Cammack III, said Mauldin has been wracked by mental illness since he was 10 years old. Cammack asked jurors to be merciful and give his client probation so he could continue receiving treatment.

Michael Fuller, a psychiatrist who examined Mauldin, earlier testified he could not conclude Mauldin was insane at the time of the crime. However, Fuller on Tuesday said Mauldin was not violent and would benefit from receiving treatment outside of prison.

“Let’s give the kid the rest of his life in prison for hurting his child when we can’t explain what happened? Don’t do that,” Cammack told jurors.

During the trial’s punishment phase, Mauldin’s mother, Joanie, pleaded for mercy.

“There is no way someone in their right mind would do something like that,” Joanie Mauldin told jurors, crying.

Heather Croxton, Ana’s foster mother, testified the little girl’s wounds still need to be cleaned every day, and that she screams during the painful process. The little girl, who lives with Croxton and her family in College Station, has physical therapy five days a week.

Croxton said she hopes to adopt Ana, who turned 1 earlier this month. A trial to terminate the Mauldins’ parental rights is scheduled for April.

 

 

French serial killer trial starts

 Kidnapping, pedophilia, multiple rapes, murder… a true white all-star.

Self-confessed serial killer Michel Fourniret is due to go on trial in France accused of murdering seven young women in France and Belgium. Fourniret, 65, is also charged with several counts of rape.

His wife, Monique Olivier, is separately charged with complicity in murder and kidnapping.

Fourniret, a carpenter dubbed by the media “The Ogre of the Ardennes”, is accused of carrying out the murders between 1987 and 2003.

The charges against Fourniret relate to the murder of six women in France and one in Belgium. They ranged in age between 12 and 22 years.

Confessions

He was arrested in Belgium in 2003 after an attempt to kidnap a 13-year-old girl. Now aged 17, she will be giving evidence at the trial, but out of public view.

Fourniret’s extradition to France followed in early 2006.

The bulk of the prosecution evidence follows Fourniret’s confessions to Belgian investigators in 2004.

Prosecutors say he had moved to Belgium after being convicted of paedophile offences in his native France. But he often crossed back into France to commit offences in his home country, they say.

Fourniret has admitted to eight murders, among them that of 13-year-old Mananya Thumpong, who disappeared in France in 2001. He also led police to the bodies of some of his victims.

Investigators were taken to the remains of one of his alleged victims in 2006 – 17-year-old Isabelle Laville, who was raped and murdered in 1987. Her body was dumped in a well.

The case is expected to last two months

Two bodies were found on a country estate in northern France which he shared with his wife.

It was on his release from prison in the 1980s that Fourniret’s killing spree is alleged to have begun. He had been convicted of voyeurism and assault.

Monique Olivier became his wife after getting to know him while working as a volunteer prison visitor.

According to letters seized by investigators, the two agreed a pact while he was in prison. He undertook to kill her first husband if she helped him to kidnap young girls.

Investigators say the method used by the couple was nearly always the same.

He would spot a potential victim while driving and stop to ask for directions, then persuade the girl to get into his car.

Olivier’s presence in the vehicle was designed to help re-assure the future victim, according to the prosecution.

She was handed over to the French authorities in 2005 and charged after confessing to having lured women to her home between 1992 and 1997.

Olivier is alleged to have done so in the knowledge that her husband would kill them.

Testimony

The cases of two further victims will not feature at this trial and are the subject of a separate legal process.

Earlier this month, Fourniret was charged with the kidnap, rape and murder of British teaching assistant Joanna Parrish, 20, in 1990 while she was working in the French town of Auxerre.

Two bodies were found at a country estate

He was also accused of the kidnap, murder and attempted rape of Marie-Angele Domece, a 19-year-old disabled woman from France.

He denies involvement in either woman’s death.

Fourniret’s trial, in the town of Charleville-Mezieres in the Ardennes region bordering Belgium, is expected to hear testimony from another of his victims.

He served time for assaulting Dahina Le Guennan in the 1980s when she was 19.

“He does not frighten me anymore,” she said in an interview with French TV channel TF1 on Monday. “I want to show him that I have got my life together and that he did not break me.”

She said she hoped the failings of the police and judiciary would be clearly exposed.

Around 30 relatives of those killed will be present at the trial, which is expected to last two months.