[CBSNEWS] FEASTERVILLE, Pa. -- An eastern Pennsylvania man is facing child sex assault charges after police say they found 12 girls living in his home. He allegedly admitted to fathering the youngest child -- a six-month-old -- and a three-year-old child with the oldest girl, 18.
Police nabbed Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! 51-year-old Lee Kaplan at his home in Feasterville, about 20 miles northeast of Philadelphia, June 16 after receiving a complaint about the health and safety of numerous children in the home. According to a probable cause affidavit filed by the Lower Southampton Township Police Department, a resident at the home told neighbors that no children lived there.
When police responded, they discovered the 12 girls. They allege Kaplan admitted to having sex with the teen when she was 14 and fathering the three-year-old as well as the six-month-old. The 18-year-old also told police that she was the mother of two of the children and said she was not married to Kaplan, according to the affidavit.
CBS Philly reports police believe all of the children are originally from an Amish community in Lancaster County. Police say they are working to find an expert in Amish culture to help them conduct interviews with the children. Police say the 18-year-old was living with Kaplan after some kind of business agreement with the girl's parents.
According to an affidavit, the girl's father told an officer he gave his daughter to Kaplan after he helped the family out of financial ruin. He told police he thought it was legal after he did some research online.
It was unknown if any of the other girls were subject to any abuse, officials say.
Neighbors told CBS Philly that they complained about the home three years ago, after suspicions about things not seeming to be right.
"I really can't believe it, because I really thought it was his own daughter. It looks like his own daughter to me," one neighbor said.
According to people who live nearby, the girls were rarely let outside and didn't go to school.
Kaplan faces a number of charges including statutory sexual assault and aggravated indecent assault. The girl's father is charged with conspiracy of statutory sexual assault and children endangerment. His wife is charged with endangering the welfare of a child.
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I chuckle and shake my head when I read the many reports of '3rd world' behavior and treatment of wives, daughters and mothers when they are treated as less than disposable chattel.
He told police he thought it was legal after he did some research online.
Then I see a story like this and I have to ask myself, "Why are we so worried about the state of the rest of the world when we allow the same ignorance and abuse here?"
As so often happens when I talk to myself, I come away from the conversation chagrined by my inner critic.
[EN.MERCOPRESS] An Argentine former secretary of Public Works with the Cristina Fernandez administration, Jose Lopez, and currently a member of the Mercosur parliament, was arrested on Tuesday in the Buenos Aires province locality of General Rodríguez while he was trying to hide bags full of money and an automatic gun in the garden of a convent.
No Democrat would ever be so obvious, and no Democrat other than Bill Clinton would be caught in a convent...
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Doesn't have a numbered Swiss account - what a caveman?!
[EXPRESS.CO.UK] Frank-Walter Steinmeier claims NATO's ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... Anaconda drills, which he claims are used to counter "Russian aggression", are counterproductive to security within Europe. Betcha he wasn't fond of Pershing missiles back in the day, either.
He claims the "warmongering" could inflame the standoff with Russia and alliance troops hold instead "renew discussions about the benefits of disarmament and arms control for security in Europe." So we know which side he's on.
But Moscow has pointed out it has no plans to reignite a tense standoff with the West in the future.
The Anaconda drills have become NATO's largest exercise in Europe since the Cold War.
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Remind me again, why after the wall came down we are still in Europe providing military welfare?
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Well, Russians are sure that's because you hate them and want them extinct. Of course, Russians have this history where they always invaded from both East & West - sometimes at the same time.
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NATO exercises are "warmongering", but Russian violations of airspace and harassing aircraft and ships is "peaceful outreach".
Check Steinmeier's bank accounts. Make sure he's not living beyond his official means. And if he has a mistress, follow her to find her controlling agent from the Russian embassy.
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grew up in East Germany, mebbe
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Frank-Walter Steinmeier ([ˈfʁaŋkˌvaltɐ ˈʃtaɪ̯nˌmaɪ̯.ɐ]; born 5 January 1956) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who has served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs since 2013. He currently serves as Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) with regard to 2016 German chairmanship of the OSCE. Steinmeier was a close aide of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder
So, a socialist with ties to Schröder, who I'm sure we all remember fondly.
And of course, Schröder is chairman of Nord Stream AG, with connections to Russian oil interests.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reiterated Turkey’s goal of self-sufficiency in defense as he launched a new warship on Saturday, Anadolu reported.
Speaking at the launch of the TCG Burgazada, an indigenously produced corvette, at the Istanbul naval shipyard, Erdogan said Turkey would soon “be in a position to make our own aircraft carriers. Turkey, especially, cannot stall on defense industry and military issues because of our strategic geographical location.”
Sure buddy, go build a Nimitz, or even a Charles de Gaulle...
The president has previously said Turkey’s defense industry will be self-sufficient by 2023, the centenary of the declaration of the republic.
The Burgazada is the third Ada-class corvette produced under the MILGEM project. The first was the Heybeliada, launched in 2008.
The ships, which are named after the Princes’ Islands off Istanbul, are designed for search and rescue, patrol and anti-submarine warfare duties and are armed with a 76 millimeter gun, missiles and torpedoes and carry a Seahawk helicopter. The ships have a displacement of 2,400 tons, a maximum speed of more than 29 knots (33 miles an hour) and a range of 3,500 nautical miles.
So they're better armed, have longer range, and are faster than an LCS. And a lot cheaper, I'll bet. Hmmm....
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has vowed to reconstruct the historic Taksim military barracks in Istanbul's Gezi Park, a project that sparked country-wide protests in 2013.
Delusions of grandeur. He's behaving more and more like Il Duce...
"One of the subjects that we have to be brave is Gezi Park in Taksim. Look, I am saying once again. We will construct that historic building there," Erdoğan said on June 18 speaking at an event in Istanbul.
The president also said the project might include a corner where German, French or the American history would be showcased to tell the world what they had done in the past, referring to the German parliament's recent approval of the 'Armenian genocide' bill.
Erdoğan also said that a huge opera building would be constructed in Atatürk Cultural Center (AKM).
The Gezi Protests started as a sit-in by a small group of environmental advocates to stop bulldozers from razing the park, one of the few green spaces left in Taksim neighborhood, to build a shopping mall. However, it quickly spread across Turkey, as millions of citizens took to the streets in mass demonstrations that shook Turkey throughout the summer of 2013. It later developed into a revolt against what protesters said was the increasing authoritarianism of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).
Eight protesters were killed during the unrest, while a police officer also died after chasing protesters during the uprising.
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I'd like to have some sympathy for the young man, but how stupid and clueless do you have to be to follow an order to shoot a man in the back?
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True morality is based on reciprocity. Muslims do not respect our laws of war, and therefore are not entitled to their protection. IMO, it's the people who been running your military justice systems (or ours) who need to be tried.
[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: At least one person was seriously maimed in crossfire between two groups in a village in Banigala late on Friday evening, police said.
The incident took place over a dispute regarding the parking of a cycle of violence in front of the Farooqia Mosque in Banigala. Asif Khan had gone to the mosque for his Zuhr prayers and parked his cycle of violence in front of the building. Police said volunteers performing security duties prohibited him from doing so.
One of the volunteers, Raja Aqib, the secretary of the mosque committee, was among the people who asked Mr Khan to park elsewhere. Police said Mr Khan began arguing with them.
"Do you know who I am? Do you know who I am?!?"
A scuffle broke out between the two parties, and the situation was defused with the interference of elders. However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... when Mr Khan and his homies 10 other people came to the mosque to perform their Asr prayers, the conflict erupted again.
Once more, elders intervened and informed Mr Khan and his lover companions that parking in and around the place of worship was prohibited during Ramazan, as directed by police and the local administration. Police said the group threatened the elders before leaving.
They said Mr Khan and a dozen others ‐ armed with weapons, iron rods and batons ‐ came to the mosque after iftar and began searching for Raja Aqib. They then went to his house, located near the mosque, and called him outside. Police said the men beat Mr Aqib and destroyed vehicles and homes around the mosque, and began firing indiscriminately.
In retaliation, villagers climbed onto the roofs of their houses and began firing, resulting in a shootout.
Individuals were maimed in the crossfire, including one man from the side of the attackers, police said. They said the attackers then left the area. Banigala police confirmed the incident, and said one of the injured people was shifted to a hospital. No further details were available at the time this report was filed.
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[DAWN] LAYYAH: Two men allegedly threw acid on their brother to dissuade him from pursuing the marriage dissolution case of their sister in a court of Karor Lal Esan.
Muhammad Tariq, a resident of Mauza Murad Ali, was returning home after appearing in the family court for marriage dissolution of his sister Bashiran Mai when his brothers Muhammad Ramzan and Muhammad Sajjad, who were following him on cycle of violence, threw acid on him and sped away.
Tariq suffered burns and was taken to the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital from where he was shifted to the DHQ hospital due to his critical condition. Dr Mehboob Qureshi, the medical superintendent, said Tariq suffered burns on left side of the face, his lower abdomen and legs.
Karor SHO Muhammad Riaz told Dawn that police had started the paperwork but haven't done much else under section 336-B, 7 ATA against Sajjad and Ramzan.
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[DAWN] The dispute over conversion to Islam of a Kalash girl was resolved on Friday when 14-year-old Reena recorded her statement before a judicial magistrate, saying she had converted out of her free will, according to a government official.
On Thursday, the girl’s decision to embrace Islam sparked a clash between the Kalash tribe and members of the Moslem community in Chitral’s Bamburate Valley, forcing police to use teargas to disperse the mobs. The clash erupted after the girl was reported to have gone back on her conversion and the Moslem community accused the Kalash tribe of forcing her to do so.
Deputy Commissioner Osama Waraich visited the valley on Friday and convened a jirga of elders from both sides, according to a dawn.com report.
Mr Waraich told DawnNews that both sides had agreed that the girl’s statement would be treated as final and they would accept her decision. The administration brought the girl to Chitral town from her village on Friday and presented her before a judicial magistrate.
The girl recorded her statement before a magistrate, saying that she had not been forced to convert to Islam, said the deputy commissioner.
He said the girl’s family and the Kalash community had accepted her statement. "It is now up to the girl to decide whether she lives with her Kalash family or the Moslem community."
A villager earlier told Dawn by phone from Chitral that the girl had embraced Islam on Wednesday "under the guidance" of a local Moslem, left her home and decided to stay with the man’s family in the same village.
But Luke Rehmat, a Kalash activist, said the girl, a student of class IX, had a change of heart on Thursday, saying that she had made a mistake in converting to Islam and returned to her home. Following this, he told Dawn, a group of villagers started marching on the Kalash quarter of Bamburate village. They alleged that the girl’s relatives had forcibly taken her away from the Moslem home and compelled her to go back on her conversion.
The activist also claimed that the villagers attacked a Kalash house with stones and sticks.
The Kalash community elders and the girl’s family were of the view that the teenager was lured and forced to change her religion.
About 3,000 Kalash live in Bamburate, Birir and Rambur Valleys -- all in southern Chitral. Their youth have been converting to Islam in large numbers of late, prompting activists to launch a campaign for preserving traditions of the ancient, diminishing tribe.
Eohippus Snore8229 shared this lovely link about the Kalash tribe the other day. Quite a few of the young Kalashes appear to be choosing Islam over their traditional paganism.
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[CreepingSharia] DCA director-general Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said the government took the step to cease Rayani’s operation because "safety and security of the aviation industry is of paramount importance".
Once a jolly pilot camped by the airport bar,
Under the shades of Raybans for free,
And he sang as as he snored and waited for the manifest
"Who'll come a-creeping Sharia with me?
Creeping Sharia, Creeping Sharia!
You best come a loving Sharia like me.
And Ali sat as he sung while waiting for the head to boil,
You best come a loving Sharia like me,
Yes, I know Maurice, it's Sunday, no I will not put back the part of the Jolly Jumbuck, it's a family blog of sorts. I know, I know, and you know the drill, this time counter clockwise.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[CBSNEWS] FEASTERVILLE, Pa. -- An eastern Pennsylvania man is facing child sex assault charges after police say they found 12 girls living in his home. He allegedly admitted to fathering the youngest child -- a six-month-old -- and a three-year-old child with the oldest girl, 18.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has vowed to reconstruct the historic Taksim military barracks in Istanbul's Gezi Park, a project that sparked country-wide protests in 2013.
[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: At least one person was seriously 
[DAWN] LAYYAH: Two men allegedly threw acid on their brother to dissuade him from pursuing the marriage dissolution case of their sister in a court of Karor Lal Esan.
[CreepingSharia] DCA director-general Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said the government took the step to cease Rayani’s operation because "safety and security of the aviation industry is of paramount importance".
