Photos courtesy of Orange County District Attorney's office
Nicole Ethel Miller, 44, must also register as a sex offender for life.
A mother of three who sexually assaulted two teen boys visiting her Irvine home--a 14-year-old friend of her son's and the 16-year-old son of one of her own friends--was sentenced today to three years and four months in state prison.
When a jury in October found McMillen guilty--of four felony counts of lewd acts upon a child and three felony counts of oral copulation of a minor under 16--prosecutors had recommended she go to the big house for seven years.
Orange County Superior Court Judge James Rogan in Fullerton today gave McMillen 296 days of credit for time already served in jail. But she was also ordered her to register as a sex offender for life, according to a statement from the district attorney's office.
McMillen had repeated sexual contact with the 14-year-old boy, who came to her house to play with her son, between Jan. 1-Feb. 28, 2012. She played with the visitor's groin area over his clothing, touched his penis directly and gave him oral during two visits.
The boy told his mom, who told Irvine Police, who launched an investigation that produced a 26-year-old man who, when he was 16, had sex with McMillen for more than a year. She orally copulated her friend's son--who she had known since he was 10--at least once between 2005-06.
During that time, McMillen worked part time with kindergarten-age children at Peter's Canyon Elementary School and also with the Tustin Unified School District as a "behavioral interventionist." No evidence was produced of her having sexual conduct with her students, however.
A federal lawsuit alleges the social media giant fired the masseuse from its New York office after he complained about unwanted advances from an engineer. Plaintiff Elvis Gardin claims the employee masturbated during a massage session.
KRISZTIAN BOCSI/BLOOMBERGGoogle has been sued for sexual harassment by a former company masseuse who says he was fired after complaining about an engineer who pleasured himself during a massage.
A New Jersey man has filed a federal suit in Newark accusing Google of retaliating against him by firing him as the on-site massage therapist after he complained an employee masturbated during a session at the search giant's New York office.
Elvis Gardin was fired in May 2012 after fours year on the job. His suit alleges he was terminated after he complained of sexual harassment and then took a leave to care for his sick mother.
Gardin's suit says he is gay, and therefore a member of a protected class under New York City Human Rights Law and the federal Family and Medical Leave Act, reported the New Jersey Law Journal.
He complained to his bosses that he was subjected to unwanted sexual advances by a male engineer who had once masturbated during a massage session.
"It is our allegation that, if a female employee had made the kind of complaint that he made, it would have been handled differently," said lawyer Andrew Clark, who is representing Gardin.
UPDATE: Judge will allow photos of Maryland teacher getting busy with family dog (and it was a Lab)
The Daily Caller can now update the case of Stephanie Mikles, the Maryland teacher on trial for “unnatural or perverted sexual practice” because she allegedly had “sexual intercourse with a dog.”
The first update is that the canine in question is a Labrador retriever. The second update is the judge in the case denied requests by an attorney representing Mikles to suppress certain evidence and to dismiss the case, reports Bel Air Patch.
There are 12 images in all allegedly depicting multiple instances of Mikles getting busy with the animal. The twisted acts allegedly occurred in August 2008. Assistant state’s attorney Lisa Marts informed the judge that police believe the teacher’s husband snapped the photos.
You’d think that such images would make prosecution a slam-dunk. However, visiting Baltimore County Judge Robert Dugan suggested precisely, exactly the opposite is true.
“Believe me Ms. Marts, this is no slam dunk for the state,” Dugan told the state’s attorney, notes Bel Air Patch.
Nevertheless, on July 10 the judge denied two defense motions to dismiss the case based on constitutional issues. He also denied a motion to suppress the allegedly incriminating photographs as evidence.
Leslie Gladstone, the attorney representing Mikles, argued that no animal was injured during any of the acts that allegedly occurred, that the alleged incidents occurred in a private home and that the bestiality statute at issue is too vague because it fails to define an “unnatural or perverted” sexual act.
In denying the motions to dismiss, Judge Dugan said he agreed with the state’s attorney that the state can protect animals in private homes if it so chooses.
Dugan did agree that the law is vague but said it didn’t matter. “I’m not here to grade the statute,” he said, according to the local news site.
The judge also allowed the photos as evidence because he did not buy Gladstone’s technical argument that the warrant allowing the seizure of the photos required police to review them only in a lab setting, which didn’t happen.
Police found the images because they were investigating other charges against Mikles involving sexual abuse of a minor and child pornography. No photographic evidence of those crimes ever turned up.
On August 7, a jury trial is scheduled in the case.
Sensibly enough, there is no statute of limitations in Maryland for bestiality, a misdemeanor punishable by up to 10 years in prison and fine of $1000.
Since the indictment, the Harford County Schools System has placed Mikles on administrative leave without pay. She has been an employee since 2009.
The dog apparently still lives with the teacher’s family in her home in bucolic Harford County.
Pope Francis announced Monday that he planned to meet with a group of clergy sex abuse victims at the Vatican next month, the first such encounter for a pontiff who has been criticized by sex abuse victims for not expressing solidarity with them as he has for other groups.
Francis also revealed that three bishops are currently under investigation by the Vatican for abuse-related reasons, though it wasn't clear if they were accused of committing abuse itself or of having covered it up.
"There are no privileges," Francis told reporters while returning to Rome from a three-day trip to the Middle East. ""On this issue we must go forward, forward. Zero tolerance."
The meeting with a half-dozen victims will include a Mass celebrated by Francis at the Vatican hotel where he lives. A statement from the office of Cardinal Sean O'Malley, the archbishop of Boston who is organizing the encounter, said the date and details hadn't been finalized but that the meeting was expected to take place "in the coming months."
The executive director of the main U.S. victims' group, Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, dismissed the meeting as "just utterly, utterly meaningless."
"The simple truth is this is another gesture, another public relations coup, another nice bit of symbolism that will leave no child better off and bring no real reform to a continuing, scandal-ridden church hierarchy," SNAP Executive Director David Clohessy told The Associated Press.
Clohessy said the pope has shown himself capable of making real change in other areas such as church governance and finance but hasn't done so in dealing with sex abuse by Catholic clergy.
But a U.S. attorney who represents clergy abuse victims hoped the meeting would be "substantive and meaningful" rather than for cosmetic purposes. attorney Mitchell Garabedian said "meeting directly with victims is the most powerful tool that the pope can use in understanding the ugliness and horror of clergy sexual abuse and why it must be stopped or prevented." He added that there should be more than one such meeting.
Francis spoke to reporters for nearly an hour after his grueling, three-day trip to Jordan, the West Bank and Israel, taking all 11 questions posed and responding with candor and occasional humor.
He said he would travel to Sri Lanka for two days and the Philippines in January 2015. And he suggested that he might follow in emeritus Pope Benedict XVI's footsteps and retire if he no longer had the strength to do the job.
"We need to look at him as an institution: he opened a door, the door of emeritus popes," Francis said. "Only God knows if there will be others, but the door is open."
If and when the time comes, he said, "I will do what the Lord tells me to do, pray and try to find God's will. But I think that Benedict XVI wasn't a unique case."
Francis sought to lower expectations about his planned encounter in the Vatican next month with the Israeli and Palestinian presidents, which he announced during the trip. He stressed that they were coming to pray together, not enter into peace mediation.
"We are coming just to pray, then everyone goes home," he said. "But I think prayer is important, praying together."
He said he had originally hoped to arrange the encounter in Jerusalem itself, but that the idea was scrapped because of the enormous logistical problems that would have been involved. Preparations are already under way, he said, noting that a rabbi and Islamic cleric would join him in leading the prayers.
One of the more poignant moments of Francis' pilgrimage came Monday when he visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem and kissed the hands of survivors in a show of humility and respect. Francis said his gesture came spontaneously.
"The gestures that are the most authentic you don't think about," ahead of time, he said.
Given his respect for Holocaust survivors, Francis was asked what he intended to do about the pending beatification case for Pope Pius XII, the World War II-era pope accused by some Jews of not speaking out enough against the Holocaust. Jewish groups have asked that the case be shelved pending the opening of the archives of his pontificate, or at least until the generation of Holocaust survivors has passed.
Francis has bent the Vatican's saint-making rules for a half-dozen people so far in his pontificate, waiving the usual second miracle requirement for example to canonize Pope John XXIII last month. Francis, however, offered no such wiggle room for Pius.
"There's still no miracle," he said. "If there are no miracles, it can't go forward. It's blocked there."
Santa Barbara killer Elliot Rodger vowed to 'slaughter' women who rejected him Rodger, the son of a Hollywood director, killed six people and injured 13 before apparently shooting himself in the head on Friday. The devastated father of victim Veronika Weiss told the Daily News his daughter would likely not have scored Rodger: 'She was the opposite of what he thought he was shooting. She was the kind who would have reached out to him.'
It may be the most awesome wedding gift of all time ... Ray J is giving Kim Kardashian and KanyeWesta $47K check ... representing 4 months of his 2014 profits from the epic porn tape with Kim.
It's breathtaking on 2 levels -- that Ray J has such humongous cajones, and that the tape is still raking in a fortune after 7 years.
Here's the breakdown of the wedding gift. Mind you, this is just Ray J's cut:
-- January $6,135.60 -- February $20,097.31 -- March $9,674.76 -- April $10,931.52 -- TOTAL: $46,840.13
Now get this ... sources from Vivid Entertainment tell us the tape has grossed $50 MILLION!
Remember, we're told Kim gets AT LEAST as much as Ray J, though we don't know exactly how much.
We've reached out to Kim to see if she'll accept Ray's gift, but so far no word back. We're told ... if she doesn't want it he'll donate the money to her favorite charity.
Ray J -- yes, that's his wallet AND he's happy to see you.
(CNN) -- Actress Pamela Anderson revealed Friday that she suffered sexual abuse throughout her childhood, starting at age 6 when she was molested by a babysitter.
The former "Baywatch" star talked about it in remarks at the launch of her animal rights charity -- The Pamela Anderson Foundation -- at the Cannes Film Festival in France.
Although she had "loving parents" while growing up in British Columbia, Canada, Anderson said she "did not have an easy childhood."
She recounted being molested between the ages of 6 and 10 "by my female babysitter," and then being raped when she was 12 by the 25-year-old brother of a "friend's boyfriend." The man "decided he would teach me backgammon, which led into a back massage, which led into rape," she said.
Coincidentally, the Cannes event at which she revealed the rape was a backgammon tournament.
"Needless to say, I had a hard time trusting humans," Anderson said. "I just wanted off this earth."
Although her parents "tried to keep me safe," the "world was not a safe place," she said. Her mother was busy working two waitressing jobs, she said.
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"My mom was always crying," she said.
She never told her mother about the molestation and rapes because "I couldn't (bear) to give her any more disruptive information," she said. "I couldn't break her heart any more than it was breaking."
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Anderson, now 46, said her love for animals saved her.
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"My loyalty remained with the animal kingdom," she said. "I vowed to protect them and only them. I prayed to the whales with my feet in the ocean. My only real friends, till I had children."
