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JOHOR BARU: A Form Five student who refused to marry a man who befriended her less than a month ago was abducted, tortured and molested by the man. He also made video recordings of her in the nude.
The suspect, in his 20s, hit the girl with a wooden handle of a hammer.
The man threatened to circulate her naked video recordings on the Internet if she escaped from him.
However, the girl mustered up enough courage to escape and sought the assistance of police, who arrested the suspect along with three other men several days ago.
Police also recovered at least two parang, knives and a hammer from the suspects.
Sources said that the two had had a normal relationship but the girl suspected something amiss about the man’s character and decided to end their relationship several days ago.
However, the man took the break-up badly and together with his friends started harassing the girl at her house.
It is learnt that the suspects managed to convince the victim to come out and see him for one last time by threatening to harm her mother.
When the girl came out to see him, he bundled her into a car and took her to his house in Taman Daya before tying her up and torturing her.
Sources said the suspect drugged her before using his mobile phone to take a video of him molesting her in the house toilet.
The suspect then warned the girl that the video would be distributed if she ran away.
The next day, the girl managed to escape and with the help of a taxi driver, lodged a police report.
A police official confirmed the case.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Spurned man vents fury on girlfriend
MACC nabs lecturer who demanded sex and money to pass students
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KUALA LUMPUR: A lecturer at a private international university who allegedly demanded sex and money from his students in return for better grades has been arrested by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).
The man, a foreigner in his 40s who lectures in Cyberjaya, was arrested at about 5pm after a victim lodged a report with the MACC.
It is learnt the woman, 24, sat for a qualifying exam to enable her to continue her Masters’ degree.
After sitting for her papers, she was allegedly approached by her lecturer who told her she did not do well in her exam.
He then allegedly told her that he could help her provided she agreed to give in to his demands.
He was said to have initially asked her for sexual favours but when she refused, he demanded money as well if she wanted to pass the exam.
The lecturer was also said to have uttered words that caused the woman to be fearful.
MACC director of investigations Datuk Mohd Shukri Abdull confirmed the arrest but declined to elaborate.
Meanwhile, in Parliament, in his written reply to a question by N. Gobalakrishnan (PKR — Padang Serai), Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz said the MACC has concluded two investigations into alleged money politics involving Malacca Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam.
Nazri said the investigation papers would be forwarded to the commission’s legal and prosecution department for a decision.
He added that the case involving a branch chief and Umno Rendang divisional delegates in garnering support for Mohd Ali as the Umno vice-president has been closed.
The case was decided as a ‘no further action’ case and closed on May 25.
In Putrajaya, the MACC arrested two men for making false statements over a housing loan application.
The suspects, aged 31 and 38, were said to have used a false architect’s certificate to apply for a home loan of more than RM152,000 from a bank.
They were detained in Kelantan.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Man tells girl off for eating on MRT
This is pure Singaporean Ah Beng. Brainless kid.
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A man tells a girl off for eating on the MRT but was challenged to a fight by the girl's boyfriend. The man's wife then presses the train's emergency button when the quarrel got ugly.
Singapore, June 20, 2009 - This man in black told off a girl who was eating on the train, and got challenged into a fight with the girl's friend instead. STOMPer violettulip witnessed this ugly scene on the train, and says it got so serious that the man's wife pushed the emergency button.
She elaborates:
"I was on the train to work today (Jun 20) around 11.45am.
"Minutes after I boarded the train, I noticed this group of teenagers near the door as they were sitting down on the floor.
"The only girl in the group was munching her sandwich and the guy in white was sitting next to her.
"Suddenly, this man in black confronted the girl, who was not supposed to eat on the train.
"He pointed at the 'no eating' sign while telling them that they should not consume food in the train, they should be aware of the rules.
"This guy in white was provoked and stood up to argue with the man, he was obviously unhappy that the man told them off, and even adopted a 'fighting pose' to challenge the man to fight with him.
"His friend came forward to stop him, but the guy was still arrogantly challenging the man and came out with vulgarities.
"The man's wife did not want the situation to get out of hand, therefore she pressed the emergency button.
"When the train reached Yew Tee station, the group of teenagers and the man with his wife was told to alight the train but they were still arguing away on the platform.
"I am glad that someone like the man spoke up to those who break the rules on public transport!
"I have seen countless eating and drinking cases on the train, from cup noodles to french fries ,bubble tea and even fried carrot cake!
"I think as a commuter ourself, we seriously need to consider other commuters' travelling comfort on the public transport."
'You Light Up My Life' Songwriter Indicted on Rape Charges
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NEW YORK — The Oscar-winning composer and director behind "You Light Up My Life" raped 11 women he lured to his apartment with the promise of a starring role in a movie, prosecutors said at his arraignment Tuesday.
The women read an online ad placed by the director, Joseph Brooks, applied for the audition "and thought this was their chance to become a big star," prosecutor Lisa Friel said.
Instead, once the women were in Brooks' Manhattan apartment, he plied them with wine and forcibly raped them or used threats and coercive behavior to make them have sex with him, prosecutors said.
The scrawny Brooks, 71, denied the accusations. He pleaded not guilty in Manhattan's state Supreme Court, where he was arraigned on a 91-count indictment charging him with rape, criminal sexual act, sexual abuse, assault and other charges. He faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted of first-degree rape.
Justice Charles Solomon set bail at $500,000 bond or $250,000 cash bail and gave Brooks until Thursday to post it. The judge told Brooks not to leave town without letting the court know.
Brooks won the Oscar for Best Original Song for the 1977 ballad "You Light Up My Life." He also wrote and directed the "You Light Up My Life" movie, about a comedian who has a one-night stand with a director.
District Attorney Robert Morgenthau said Brooks used his Hollywood credentials on the Craigslist classified ads Web site to attract the victims, aged 18 to 30. He said Brooks' ad specified attractive young women for a starring role in a movie.
Morgenthau said nine of the 11 women were from the Portland, Oregon, and Seattle areas and the others were from California and Florida. He said Brooks paid to fly 10 of the women, who did not know each other, to New York.
He said Brooks' scheme, which ran from at least 2005 to 2008, was enabled by his personal assistant, Shawni Lucier, who helped pick the victims, interviewed them, arranged their travel and made them feel comfortable.
He said that when the women's mothers called, Lucier, of Federal Way, Washington state, would assure them their daughters were fine. When Brooks was ready to strike, he said, Lucier would leave the apartment "knowing what the end result would be."
Brooks became a suspect after one woman went to a hospital and reported what had happened and another complained to authorities in February and March 2008, prosecutors said.
Assistant District Attorney Maxine Rosenthal, the lead prosecutor, said she found other victims by searching Brooks' and Lucier's computers and cold-calling women whose names she saw.
"We have records from his and his assistant's computers that connect him to these women," she said.
There might be another seven or eight victims, she said.
Brooks' lawyer, Jeff Hoffman, said his client "told me he didn't do any of these things." He said Brooks, who suffered a stroke in 2008, "will have faith in the justice system."
Lucier, 42, was indicted on nine counts of criminal facilitation and is expected to return from Washington state and surrender to authorities in New York City next week, Morgenthau said. She has no attorney in New York and didn't immediately return a telephone message seeking comment Tuesday.
Jobs Has 'Excellent Prognosis' After Transplant
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs has an "excellent prognosis" after receiving a liver transplant at a Tennessee hospital, a doctor confirmed Tuesday.
"He received a liver transplant because he was ... the sickest patient on the waiting list at the time a donor organ became available," said Dr. James D. Eason, chief of transplantation at Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute in Memphis. "Mr. Jobs is now recovering well and has an excellent prognosis."
Eason said in a news release posted on the hospital's Web site that when Jobs received the transplant, he was in end-stage liver disease.
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Eason did not reveal when the operation took place, citing patient privacy. However, The Wall Street Journal reported it was two months ago.
Apple did not confirm the WSJ report, and has said only that Jobs is looking forward to returning to Apple — which he started in 1976 — at the end of June.
Eason said the hospital could not reveal further information on the specifics of the transplant.
"That's all that we are giving out at this time," hospital spokeswoman Ruth Ann Hale told The Associated Press.
Wall Street has grappled with the implications of Jobs' illness since August 2004, when investors learned the CEO had kept a cancer diagnosis secret until after he underwent surgery. The company's past silence on matters of Jobs' health made shareholders jittery when he appeared increasingly, even alarmingly, thin last year.
Investors sent the stock tumbling 5 percent to its lowest point in a year on a rumor last October that Jobs had suffered a heart attack.
Then shares slipped 2 percent in December when Apple said that Jobs would not speak as usual the next month at the annual Macworld conference, then bounced up 4 percent on Jan. 5 when Jobs explained his weight loss as a treatable hormone imbalance. They sank 7 percent a week later after Apple said he would be taking six months off because his medical problems were more complex than he initially thought.
Since then, Wall Street's whiplash has had time to heal, especially because Apple's stock has weathered the recession better than those of most of its competitors.
Cupertino, California-based Apple put Tim Cook, its chief operating officer, at the helm during Jobs' absence.
Steve Jobs recovering after liver transplant
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(CNN) -- Apple CEO Steve Jobs is recovering after undergoing a liver transplant at Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute in Memphis, Tennessee, the institute's program director said Tuesday.
Steve Jobs looks gaunt at an event in October. He began a leave of absence three months later.
"Mr. Jobs is now recovering well and has an excellent prognosis," said Dr. James D. Eason of Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute. He added that Jobs had given his permission for the information to be released. Eason did not say when the operation took place.
The announcement came three days after The Wall Street Journal reported that Jobs underwent the transplant two months ago in Tennessee, though it did not identify the source of its information nor did it identify the hospital.
Before Tuesday's announcement by the hospital, a spokesman for the company would not confirm the newspaper report.
"Steve continues to look forward to returning to Apple at the end of June, and there is nothing further to say," spokesman Steve Dowling said earlier Tuesday in an e-mail to CNN.
Tuesday's announcement came the same day that a story published by The New York Times said the reports of Jobs' transplant "raise many questions -- not just about his prognosis, but also about the system for allocating scarce organs to the many people who need them."
Methodist's Eason did address the implication that the multimillionaire may have gotten special treatment, saying the 54-year-old computer visionary received a transplant because he was "the sickest patient on the waiting list at the time a donor organ became available."
He added the transplant was performed "for an approved indication in accordance with the Transplant Institute policies and United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) policies."
"We respect and protect every patient's private health information and cannot reveal any further information on the specifics of Mr. Jobs' case," Eason added.
It's been almost six months since Jobs, who co-founded Apple and has thrilled the public by launching consumer-tech favorites such as the iPhone and the iPod, announced he was taking a medical leave of absence until the end of June.
Jobs, a pancreatic cancer survivor, said early this year that a hormone imbalance caused the considerable weight loss that had some speculating whether his cancer had returned.
"The remedy for this nutritional problem is relatively simple and straightforward, and I've already begun treatment," Jobs wrote in a letter addressed to the "Apple community" on January 5.
"But, just like I didn't lose this much weight and body mass in a week or a month, my doctors expect it will take me until late this spring to regain it."
Investors have been painfully aware of how any development regarding Jobs' health -- real or rumor -- can affect Apple's stock price. But experts say Apple has been taking steps to ensure that its fortunes are not linked with Jobs taking an active role in the company.
