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| Crime and Punishment, California Style |
| 2008-01-01 |
| VICTORVILLE - A man who escaped prison time for having sex with the corpse of a 4-year-old girl is behind bars after pleading no contest to animal cruelty, a violation of his probation. Donald Luis Cooper, who worked in 2003 for a firm transporting bodies from Victor Valley Community Hospital to the San Bernardino County coroner's office, was arrested after a morgue security camera recorded the sex assault. The Adelanto preschooler had died of the flu. Cooper wasn't charged with necrophilia because it wasn't illegal in California at the time. He pleaded guilty to mutilating grave remains and received a suspended two-year prison sentence and was placed on five years' probation. Earlier this month, sheriff's deputies were called to a feces-stained, urine-soaked Hesperia home where Cooper, 32, lived with three other adults, seven children and 31 animals. "There were animal feces and urine on the floor, in the children's room, the living room. There were feces on the wall," Code Enforcement supervisor Tony Genovesi said. Cooper was arrested and charged with seven counts of willful cruelty to a child with the possibility of injury or death. He pleaded no contest to a single count of animal cruelty and the other charges were dismissed. But the no contest plea violated his probation and the two-year prison sentence was reinstated, Supervising Deputy District Attorney Gary Roth said. Cooper is serving his sentence at the California Institution for Men in Chino. "The guy shouldn't be around children," said Assemblywoman Sharon Runner, who sponsored the legislation in 2004 making necrophilia a felony. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #9 Much obliged -tips hat-. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-01-01 18:19 |
| #8 links for current info on the Cosco Busan spill |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-01-01 18:03 |
| #7 They blamed it on the Coast Gaurd for seeing the ship leave the channel but not notifying it of the danger. The daily conditions almost always involve fog. They were definitely traveling too fast for the prevailing conditions ... if they had anyone topside keeping a visual watch. If they were steering by radar only, the pilons would have been obscured by the bridge. I don't think that pilots are required through that area. Probably just to come pierside. I imagine that the traffic is so heavy that it would not be feasible to require a pilot for all bridge transits, unless the plan was to Shanghai all the homeless in Golden Gate Park and provide them with nautical training. Very few of them would be fluent in Cantonese anyway. I have some experience on large ships but not of that size. I now live in the SF area, but I also have never sailed in the harbor. I would imagine that there are unhelpful currents based on the TV I have watched concerning Alcatraz escape attempts. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2008-01-01 17:57 |
| #6 Good point Frank G. It even makes less sense now. Maybe weather conditions, I don't know - just what my friend said didn't jive and the story disappeared from mainstream real quick like. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-01-01 17:38 |
| #5 swksvolFF: typically a (local) harbor pilot is required to be at the helm during operations in ports like San Diego, San Francisco, etc. It wouldn't have been the Koreans, IIUC |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-01-01 17:35 |
| #4 "The guy shouldn't be around children," said Assemblywoman Sharon Runner ... or animals, corpses, fresh fruit, and people not dressed in suits designed for CBR defense. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2008-01-01 16:57 |
| #3 California law, wow. Probably ring up that tiger victim on tresspassing and aggrevated assault. Off topic, anyone savvy on what really happened with that oil spill in San Fran bay? Local friend says that they were *literally* asleep at the helm which I seriously doubt. I'm no ocean captain but I would imagine there would be some bells and whistles much like an air liner. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-01-01 16:53 |
| #2 Hole, scumbag. Some disassembly required. |
| Posted by: Slease Mussolini7865 2008-01-01 12:52 |
| #1 The guy shouldn't be around, period. |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2008-01-01 11:20 |