Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Liz Was Right: 'Billies Have No Shame

Police release sketch of suspect who sexually assaulted woman rowing Lake Michigan for charity

Published: Wednesday, July 25, 2012, 10:40 AM Updated: Wednesday, July 25, 2012, 10:42 AM

By Jonathan Oosting | joosting@mlive.com

Michigan State PoliceAnyone who recognizes or may have seen this man is asked to call the MSP toll-free at 1-866-411-0018.

The Michigan State Police today released a sketch of a man suspected of sexually assaulting a woman in the Upper Peninsula who was attempting to row the entire perimeter of Lake Michigan for charity.
Seeking tips in the case, the MSP had a forensic artist sketch the suspect in hopes that the public will be able to identify and locate him.
Anyone with relevant information is asked to call the MSP toll-free at 1-866-411-0018.
Jen Gibbons, a Battle Creek native now living in Chicago, was attacked early Sunday as she rested in her boat near Schoolcraft County.
The 27-year-old chose to publicly identify herself online, partly in an attempt to inspire others facing similar difficulties, and vowed to continue her journey down the Michigan coast on bicycle before returning to the water in Muskegon.
"I still believe that there are more good people in the world than bad," she wrote Tuesday morning in a blog post on Row4ROW.org. "I still believe that life is a gift, even when it's scary and unfair. I still believe that life offers us the privilege, the opportunity, and the responsibility, to give something back, even when people try to take things away from us."
Gibbons, who founded the Recovery on Water charity for breast cancer survivors and is raising money for the cause, began her 1,500-mile trip from Chicago on June 15, rowing 20 to 30 miles a day, eating dehydrated food and sleeping in her boat.
Authorities believe her attacker traveled a significant distance to commit the assault in the Upper Peninsula's Mueller Township. He is described as a white male in his 30s, between 5'8" and 6" tall with a facial stubble but not a beard. He has light eyes, an average athletic build and short hair.
The suspect was last seen wearing a gray/green T-shirt, jean shorts and tennis shoes. A bright yellow Jeep Wrangler with a smiley-face spare tire cover also was seen in the area.

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Monday, July 16, 2012

And His Worst Possible Sentence is 10 Years in Prison!

West Virginia man accused of enslaving wife in chains for 10 years

Police say a West Virginia man kept his badly abused wife in chains.

By Andrew Mach, NBC News

A West Virginia man was arrested Thursday for allegedly making his wife his slave, abusing her and holding her hostage for almost a decade.

Authorities in Jackson County, W.Va., charged Peter Lizon of Leroy, W.Va., with malicious wounding after a woman staying at a domestic-violence shelter filed a criminal complaint, alleging a woman she met was brutally beaten by her husband.
In an interview with investigators, the woman said she met Lizon’s wife, Stephanie, 43, while staying at the Family Crisis Intervention Center in Parkersburg, W.Va., and described her as “gaunt and filthy.”
According to the criminal complaint, Stephanie told the woman that she recently escaped from her husband, who had kept her chained up with metal padlocks for about 10 years, which tore into the skin on her hands and ankles, leaving noticeable scar tissue. Her feet were also “mutilated and swollen” after her husband allegedly smashed her foot with a scoop attachment from a farm tractor.

West Virginia Regional Jail

A West Virginia man, Peter Lizon, was arrested and charged with malicious wounding for allegedly enslaving his wife for 10 years.

“This is a case that is tenfold of what our average domestic is and maybe more than that,” Jackson County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Tony Boggs told NBC affiliate WSAZ. “It comes down to what appears to be slavery and torture.”
Lizon reportedly called his wife his "slave," and whenever he entered the room, he made her kneel down before him.
The woman also alleged that Stephanie said her husband caused her to have a miscarriage after her husband hit her in the stomach. She said she buried the corpse of a fully developed infant on their farm. She also said she gave birth to another baby while bound by chains, but neither she nor her now-one-year-old child had received any medical attention.
During the investigation, police obtained 45 photos of Stephanie from the shelter, showing injuries ranging from severe burns to her breasts and back to broken fingers and bruises all over her body.
“It’s amazing what one human being can do to another,” Boggs said, “and that should not ever happen or be allowed to happen. And hopefully this will stop and curtail that, at least in this instance.”
Lizon’s attorney, Shawn Bayliss, told WSAZ the allegations against Lizon are false, saying the woman who told police everything has a “feeble mind.”
Lizon is being held in the South Central Regional Jail in lieu of $300,000 bail.
Chief Boggs told msnbc.com malicious wounding is likely to net Lizon between two to 10 years in prison.
According to the criminal complaint, Stephanie escaped from Lizon on June 18 while he was returning farm equipment to a rental store in Parkersburg. He left her and their child in the family's vehicle. While Lizon was inside, she walked away, leaving her child in the car, and hid in a Zumba dance facility. People there gave her money for a taxi ride to the shelter where checked in under the name "Serena Sokol." Staff at the shelter later determined her true identity. She was treated for her injuries in an emergency room on June 20.
Chief Boggs told msnbc.com he would not discuss the current whereabouts of Lizon’s one-year-old child, but said child protective services have been made aware of the situation.
A spokesperson for the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Services told msnbc.com that state law forbids child protective services from disclosing the details of specific cases.

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Monday, July 2, 2012

FL Gov Tells Citizens He's Fine With Them Dieing Uninsured

What is it about Southern politicians that lets them crap on their voters and still get re-elected? Gov. Rick Scott of Florida will turn down the opportunity for his citizens to have affordable health care through state-wide insurance exchanges.

According to Fox News:

Florida, the state the led the fight against President Obama's health care law, will not comply with the Supreme Court opinion.

Gov. Rick Scott tells Fox News that he and his Attorney General, Pam Bondi, will work tirelessly to make sure the law is repealed. He feels that can be done by electing officials, like Mitt Romney, who have vowed to fight the law before 2014, when most of its provisions kick in.

If that doesn't happen, Scott insists he still won't "implement these exchanges that will increase the cost of health and make Medicaid worse."

However, statistically (which may be the problem since math and 'billies don't mix), Florida is the third worst state for citizens without health care insurance. Further, according to 24/7Wall St.

Florida
> Excess deaths from a lack of insurance (per 100,000): 12.06
> Pct. of population uninsured: 21.3% (3rd highest)
> Pct. living below the poverty line: 16.5% (16th highest)
> Life expectancy at birth: 79.7 years (12th highest)

The sheer number of excess deaths from a lack of insurance in Florida is staggering: 12,336 from 2005 through 2010. The driving factor for this imposing total is that 21.3% of the population is uninsured — the third-highest rate among all states. Floridians may have difficulty affording health insurance — median income was just $44,400 in 2010. Meanwhile, only 45.7% of residents have employer-based health insurance, while just 15.6% of residents received Medicaid benefits. Both of these rates are among the lowest in the country.

Scott's excuse? Job killing, the Republican excuse for everything. Since Dubya Bush was a Republican, I guess they figure that they're experts on the subject.

Dumb Ass 'Billies