NYPD detective arrested on sexual misconduct charges

New York, May 19 (ANI): An NYPD narcotics detective has been charged with demanding sex from at least two women he had arrested – assaulting one in the stationhouse bathroom.

Detective Oscar Sandino, a 13-year NYPD veteran, was also accused of coercing a third woman to have sex with him in exchange for help with her cousin”s criminal case on May 18.

According to court papers, the alleged attacks date back to 2006 when he was assigned to the Queens North Narcotics Bureau.

Prosecutors said that in August of that year, he had sex with a woman whose cousin he had arrested after falsely telling her he faced a long prison sentence.

In February 2008, while arresting a woman and her boyfriend on drug charges, he allegedly took the woman into a bedroom and forced her to undress.

When he brought the woman to the 110th Precinct for booking, Sandino warned she would lose her children unless she had sex with him.

Sandino allegedly took the woman into the bathroom, ordered her to pull down her pants and molested her.

According to a lawsuit she filed, Sandino said “Wow, you have an earring down there.”

“Now I know I can trust you,” he allegedly told her after the assault.

The victim reported Sandino to the Internal Affairs Bureau and investigators gathered text messages, phone records and taped conversations to corroborate the allegations.

Federal prosecutors Pamela Chen and Licha Nyiendo said the evidence is “substantial and irrefutable”.

“The persistent and repetitive nature of the defendant”s misconduct demonstrates that he is a sexual predator,” the New York Daily News quoted them as saying in court papers.

In a third attack last September, Sandino allegedly took a handcuffed woman who had been arrested for disorderly conduct into a private room at the stationhouse and made her bare her breasts.

If convicted of the federal civil rights violations, Sandino faces up to three years in prison.

“This prosecution affirms our commitment to vigorously protect the constitutional right of individuals to be free from sexual misconduct by officers whose duty it is to uphold the law,” Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch stated.

Sandino, 37, was scheduled to appear before a magistrate in Brooklyn Federal Court on May 18. (ANI)

NSW Police boss involved in breastfeeding ban is a woman

Melbourne, Sep 11 (ANI): The New South Wales Police boss, who forced a breastfeeding mum to work overtime for every minute she spent expressing milk, has been reported to be a woman.

The revelation came as Women’s Minister Verity Firth told all public service agencies to review practices to ensure they were providing support to breastfeeding mums.

The female sergeant told her civilian employee that she was not entitled to paid breaks, and denied her access to a private room, all in violation of an official State Government policy that is ignored throughout almost all of the public service.

However, it is suspected that the woman officer may have been overcompensating to fit into a blokey culture, with experts likening aggressive women in uniform to “religious converts”.

Feminist Eva Cox said the sergeant herself was probably the victim of a male-dominated culture, suggesting that she was trying so hard to fit in that she was tougher on women than her male colleagues.

“The women who get up through the system are the women who are really supportive of the system – they’re like religious converts,” the Daily Telegraph quoted Cox as saying.

“They’re scared to behave in any way soft or feminine and it makes them harder on other women than blokes,” she stated.

However, NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Jenkins said that both genders were always treated equally in the Force.

“Police who rise up through the ranks of the NSW Police Force do so because they are the best people for the job. Gender is irrelevant,” he said.

NSW Police is now developing a new breastfeeding policy, and is taking steps to address the employee’s complaints – including a request that all the overtime she worked be reinstated.

The Public Service Association has lodged an action in the IRC seeking to enforce the Government’s 12-year-old policy supporting new mums. (ANI)

Aussie made to work overtime for every minute spent breastfeeding baby

Melbourne, Sep 10 (ANI): An Aussie woman employed by the New South Wales Police Force has been made to work overtime for every minute she spent expressing breastmilk for her child.

The police intelligence analyst, who can only be identified as Sarah for security reasons, was also banned from using morning and afternoon tea breaks because they were “discretionary”, reports News.com.au.

According to complaint documents obtained by the Daily telegraph, she was even denied the use of accumulated leave, and her requests for hours that suited her childcare needs were rejected.

She was also told to record the time spent expressing milk at work on her timesheet, and was refused a private room and had to feed her child using either an unlockable and “unclean” interview room, where she was continuously interrupted by police officers, or a toilet cubicle.

Eventually she had no choice but to express milk in her car in the carpark, but because of her “great embarrassment” she drove home and fed the baby.

When she returned she was made to work for the time she had been gone.

The Public Service Association claimed yesterday the woman was one of thousands of new mothers in the public service who were being denied proper facilities for breastfeeding in violation of the Government’s own policy.

The Association will launch action in the industrial court today demanding that the Government finally uphold the policy. (ANI)

Madonna dines with Israeli opposition leader

London, September 2 (ANI): Madonna reportedly dined with Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni during her stay in the country.

The Queen of Pop had arrived in the state to perform two concerts in Tel Aviv as part of her ‘Sticky and Sweet’ world tour.

The singer purportedly headed out for a meal with the politician and her husband Naftali Shpitzer, reports the Daily Star.

She was allegedly accompanied by her toyboy lover Jesus Luz when they joined the couple in a private room at a posh restaurant in Tel Aviv.

The foursome were said to have spent more than two hours together before the star and her boyfriend were seen returning to their hotel. (ANI)

The ‘miracle’ boy who died 18 times celebrates his first b’day

Melbourne, Aug 13 (ANI): A Brit baby boy has defied all odds after he died 18 times and lived to celebrate his first birthday.

Baby Warwick had been born with extreme complications, and his parents Leigh Dumighan, 36, and David Newcombe were told that he would have an appalling life ahead of him if he survived.

His parents were also warned that if Warwick pulled through he would still be severely disabled, not be able to see, hear, move around, or even know who they were.

The Coventry couple were forced to make the hardest decision of their lives, choosing to take him out of his incubator, withdraw his treatment and allow him to die with dignity in their arms.

They stayed with him in a private hospital room for eight days, giving him the cuddles they had been unable to and waiting for him to pass away.

But Warwick fought to survive and, despite ceasing to breathe 18 times, he lived to celebrate his first birthday, which his parents thought they would never see.

While little Warwick has been diagnosed with cerebral palsy, he is neither blind, deaf and has escaped other problems predicted for him.

“When we took the decision to let him pass away, it was the hardest thing we have ever had to do,” News.com.au quoted Leigh as saying.

“The prognosis was highly likely that he would be deaf, blind, bedridden and quadriplegic – the quality of life he would have had would have just been unbearable.

“That’s why we decided to take him off treatment, I knew he’d had enough. We wanted to give him all the cuddles and kisses every baby needs and deserves without all the wires and pain.

“The hospital gave us a private room to say goodbye in and told us to get him baptised as quickly as possible.

“He was on a do not resuscitate order but he seemed to start himself back up. Warwick brought himself back to life, they didn’t even expect him to last one night – he had no drugs or treatment, nothing.

“What happened to Warwick is a pure miracle, it’s as simple as that,” she said.

Doctors allowed Leigh and David to take tiny Warwick home to their house in Coventry when he weighed just 1.4kg on September 5.

And three months later he was given the all clear by medics, who said he was not going to die.

“We went to hospital on October 6 and saw a heart specialist and brain specialist,” Leigh, who is now involved with baby charity Bliss, said.

“That’s when we had the amazing news that the heart infection had completely cleared up and that he was going to survive.

“Now when people see him who don’t know he has the palsy they have no idea there is anything wrong with him at all.

“When he gets older I know he will be able to crawl and talk and the fact he is celebrating his birthday is amazing when you think about what has happened to him.

“A year ago we made the right decision – I know that because he survived. He is not meant to be here, but he is and I think it is a miracle.

“I hope his story just gives hope to other mums of premature babies,” she added. (ANI)

Safety a concern as young people take to the road

Hamburg – As young people come of age mobility plays a huge role with the need to express independence by hitting the road with one’s own four wheels. However, these often low budget vehicles have sparked safety concerns.

A recent German study revealed that most young people in the age group 18 to 25 drive small used cars with only a fraction of them fitted with modern safety systems such as the Electronic Stability Programme (ESP) that, according to safety experts, significantly reduces accidents by preventing skids on wet roads and corners.

Road accidents are the most common cause of death among young people in almost all countries in the world. The World Health Organisation’s Youth and Road Safety report shows that not even pandemic diseases such as AIDS match the number of young people killed on the road. It is the major cause of death for young people in the age group 15-19 worldwide.

Only those young people with a job and regular income can afford to finance a more expensive and safer car with most of the others scratching together savings or getting the money from their parents. That means the car not only has to be cheap but also have low running costs.

But cars that are nine years and older are often badly serviced, especially where it matters most, such as on the tyres and brakes. Sometimes a cheap old car has been damaged in an accident with a shoddy repair job causing it to virtually collapse when it is again involved in a collision with fatal consequences for the occupants.

According to leisure expert Horst W Opaschowski, head of the BAT Institute on Future Issues, “young people want their car to be almost a second home” providing all the comfort and facilities that are also available in their private room.

A recent spate of accidents that claimed to lives of several young people on German rural roads revealed that they travelled at least 300 kilometres on a single night of partying. Alcohol was often involved with lack of sleep in addition reducing concentration on long and lonely country roads.

The car is the place where young people often experience their first love or end up in a squabble that ends a relationship. For young people quality, safety and functionality therefore play a bigger role than performance aspects, according to German sales figures.

Only 3.4 per cent of new vehicles registered on German roads for the first nine months last year were owned by people 24 years old and younger with cars such as the VW Golf, the VW Polo, the Opel Corsa and the Ford Fiesta heading the popularity list.

From the year 2011 the European Union has made ESP mandatory for all new cars registered in the EU. According to the Automobile Club Europe (ACE) about 4,000 lives could be saved each year in Europe alone if all cars were fitted with the system.

Meanwhile, however, there is no alternative but to emphasize more road safety training for younger people. Several countries have imposed lower speed limits for younger drivers while others are experimenting with a drivers license on “probation.” However, most road safety experts agree that road safety training programmes should start at a younger age. (dpa)

Here is how Bush spends his retirement in Texas

Dallas (Texas, US), Apr.11 (ANI): Eight years after serving as the 43rd President of the United States, George W Bush loves to lead the simple life in Dallas, Texas.

Bush almost always arrives at his Dallas office by 7:30 a.m., a few minutes before many of his employees. He works on his book with the help of a speechwriter, leaves for a late afternoon bike ride and spends his evenings reading or watching televised golf or baseball.

Neither he nor Laura like to cook, so they have relied on food brought by friends or prepared meals from EatZi’s, a local market.

Their 1.13-acre property — valued at about 2.4 million dollars — is cocooned by 40 acres of private land and a trout-filled lake.

Two oak trees shade the front yard. The Secret Service occupies a house next door. A barrier of orange cones, two police cruisers and four Secret Service agents who scan the perimeter with binoculars restricts entrance into the cul-de-sac. The Bushes plan to install a permanent gate outside the cul-de-sac later this year.

He spends most of his weekends with his wife Lauraat their isolated ranch in Crawford, Texas, where he likes to wake up early, roam the 1,600 acres with a chainsaw and cut new bike trails.

Most of his weekdays are spent 95 miles north, in Preston Hollow, an upper-class section of Dallas where he lived for seven years before becoming governor of Texas in 1995. He has declined to give interviews, except to discuss baseball or his book, and neighbours remain silent so as not to violate his privacy.
About once each week, Bush travels to give a speech or raise money for his 300 million dollar presidential center, but he always moves inside an insulated bubble.

On a trip to Calgary last month, he flew into town on a private jet and ate in a private room at a restaurant with three friends and the Secret Service. Eighty police officers provided extra security.

Bush works with a dozen aides from his administration, socializes with friends he has known for decades and lives in a conservative neighbourhood that voted for him — both times — by a ratio greater than 2 to 1.

He dismisses analysis of his presidency as premature, regrets little and refrains from engaging in the snippety back-and-forth between the Obama administration and Bush loyalists such as Karl Rove and Dick Cheney.

Bush feels content with his presidency, friends said. Now he will try to explain his two terms by writing a book and building a presidential center at Dallas’s Southern Methodist University, so that history will have the means to judge him fairly. (ANI)

Jenson Button’s ‘steamy quickie’ with lover to celebrate Oz Grand Prix win

London, March 30 (ANI): Jenson Button shared steamy minutes with his lingerie model-girlfriend after winning the Australian Grand Prix.

The Brit racer rushed to his private room with lover Jessica Michibata after his Formula One victory in Melbourne.

The 29-year-old appeared 10 minutes later wearing a grin.

“It got a bit steamy in there,” the Sun quoted him as saying.

An insider added: “His eyes were only for Jessica. They held each other and kissed in the team office – it was clear he fancied popping a second cork.

“There’s no bed in his room – but there is a massage table.”

Jenson, who shared the track with fellow Brit Lewis Hamilton, tasted success for the second time after 154 races.
He said: “This is a fairytale – I’m chuffed to bits.” (ANI)

Gyllenhaal faces jury service as part of misdemeanour battery trial

Washington, January 28 (ANI): Hollywood actor Jake Gyllenhaal was reportedly seen checking in at a Los Angeles court as part of the jury selection process on Tuesday, in connection with an upcoming misdemeanour battery trial.

According to TMZ.com, the 28-year-old star went through court questioning in a private room to determine juror suitability.

He will be returning to court on Wednesday to find out whether he has been picked, reports Contactmusic.

Madonna was considered for jury service in the city last year, but was dismissed by the judge during the selection process.

Actors Forest Whitaker and Don Cheadle also managed to escape the civic duty.

However, Steve Carell was elected to serve on a jury during an employment dispute case in January last year. (ANI)

Bodyguard says he saw Hitler first after his suicide

Berlin (Germany), Jan.22 (ANI): A former bodyguard of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler has claimed that he was the first man to see Hitler’s body after the latter committed suicide in a bunker below Berlin.

A doddery old man now whose once ramrod-straight back is stooped and whose hair is a snowy white, 91-year-old Rochus Misch told The Sun that he saw Hitler’s body shortly after the Fuhrer blasted a bullet into his own head.

Born in Opole, Poland, Misch joined a combat division of the fanatical SS elite guard aged 20 in 1937. Wounded during the conquest of Poland in 1939, he was transferred to Hitler’s elite personal bodyguard, the 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler.

“Hitler was my Fuhrer like everyone else’s, and I was in awe of him. I found him correct – charming even.”

As the Third Reich crumbled, Misch says Hitler retreated to a cluster of small rooms 40ft underground in Berlin.

“On April 22, 1945, Hitler said: “The war is lost. No one is obliged to do anything any more”.
Misch says that the following day, shortly after 3 p.m., Hitler left his final followers and entered a private room with Braun. Misch said they waited around 45 minutes “for the shot”.
Alongside other soldiers left in the bunker, he then opened the door.

He says: “I saw Hitler slumped by the table. I did not see any blood on his head. And I saw Eva with her knees drawn up, lying next to him on the sofa.

“Hitler was wrapped in a blanket as I watched. He was then taken outside to be burnt. It was over.”

Misch was captured by the Red Army and sent to Moscow, where he was questioned and tortured. fter eight years in prison camps he returned to Berlin in 1953.
Today, Misch, who was never indicted for war crimes, lives in the same two-storey detached house where he moved with his late wife Gerda in 1942. (ANI)

Bodyguard says he saw Hitler first after his suicide

Berlin (Germany), Jan.22 (ANI): A former bodyguard of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler has claimed that he was the first man to see Hitler’s body after the latter committed suicide in a bunker below Berlin.

A doddery old man now whose once ramrod-straight back is stooped and whose hair is a snowy white, 91-year-old Rochus Misch told The Sun that he saw Hitler’s body shortly after the Fuhrer blasted a bullet into his own head.

Born in Opole, Poland, Misch joined a combat division of the fanatical SS elite guard aged 20 in 1937. Wounded during the conquest of Poland in 1939, he was transferred to Hitler’s elite personal bodyguard, the 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler.

“Hitler was my Fuhrer like everyone else’s, and I was in awe of him. I found him correct – charming even.”

As the Third Reich crumbled, Misch says Hitler retreated to a cluster of small rooms 40ft underground in Berlin.

“On April 22, 1945, Hitler said: “The war is lost. No one is obliged to do anything any more”.
Misch says that the following day, shortly after 3 p.m., Hitler left his final followers and entered a private room with Braun. Misch said they waited around 45 minutes “for the shot”.
Alongside other soldiers left in the bunker, he then opened the door.

He says: “I saw Hitler slumped by the table. I did not see any blood on his head. And I saw Eva with her knees drawn up, lying next to him on the sofa.

“Hitler was wrapped in a blanket as I watched. He was then taken outside to be burnt. It was over.”

Misch was captured by the Red Army and sent to Moscow, where he was questioned and tortured. fter eight years in prison camps he returned to Berlin in 1953.
Today, Misch, who was never indicted for war crimes, lives in the same two-storey detached house where he moved with his late wife Gerda in 1942. (ANI)