Deaf Father Charged With Killing His Daughter

Deaf father charged with murder in stabbing of 3-year-old daughter.

WINNIPEG -- Frank Nausigimana, 28, allegedly abducted the girl from her mother at knifepoint before the stabbing.

A Winnipeg man has been charged with first-degree murder after allegedly abducting his three-year-old daughter and stabbing her to death Wednesday morning.

Police have charged Frank Nausigimana, 28, with first-degree murder. He is in custody.

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In a news release Thursday, Winnipeg police said it was believed that the estranged father abducted his daughter from her mother at knifepoint in her car in the Robertson neighbourhood before 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.

Soon after, officers received a tip and found the man and a vehicle in the area of Jefferson Avenue and King Edward Street.

Police said they found the girl inside, suffering from stab wounds. She was rushed to hospital in critical condition and pronounced dead.

"I can't imagine the grief and the pain family members are experiencing," Const. Jay Murray said at a Thursday news conference. "It's unbelievably horrific."

Murray said emergency personnel provided first aid and did everything they could, and that staff involved were shaken by the experience.

According to Murray, it was a matter of minutes from the time the initial call came in to when police believe the child was fatally injured.

"All this unfolded in an incredibly tight timeframe," he said, suggesting there was no time to issue an Amber Alert.

The mother and father split up soon after their daughter's birth, Murray said, and there hadn't been contact between them in recent months.

Nausigimana and the girl's mother were formerly longtime friends and each a member of Calvary Temple of the Deaf Followship in Winnipeg -- Read more at Deaf Church Reeling In The Wake of Homicide.

Murray declined to provide details when asked if there was a no-contact order in place against the man.

Asked about the broader context of homicides involving young children in Winnipeg in recent years, Murray said there had been several separate homicides of young children in the last year alone, with the deaths of two three-month-olds and a two and a half year old.

In October 2019, he said a three-year-old was stabbed and died in hospital the following month.

"That's another incident a lot of people are going to draw some comparisons with."

The circumstances of the girl's death will be equally shattering to the city's tight-knit ASL & Deaf community in Winnipeg.

SOURCE - CBC News

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Officer Arrested For Breaking Into Gallaudet

A Prince George's County police officer accused of breaking into an office building at Gallaudet University has been arrested and suspended.

WASHINGTON DC -- An off-duty Prince George’s County, Maryland, police officer has been suspended after his arrest in D.C. on charges of misdemeanor burglary and destruction of property.

Robert Grimes, 28, of Northeast D.C., is a three-year veteran of Prince George's County Police Department.

He was off-duty in the early morning hours of Nov. 24 when Gallaudet University campus police said they found him in a campus building, bloody and shirtless, with injuries to his hands, right shoulder and stomach.

Officers said Grimes was highly intoxicated and told campus police that he did not know what happened or how he got there.

Court charging documents said that Grimes entered the campus building by breaking a first-floor window and police found a bloody shirt in a second-floor bathroom.

Grimes is accused of destroying property including a plastic globe, flags, a door and two windows.

At his Tuesday arraignment at D.C. Superior Court, Grimes entered a not guilty plea and was released from custody.

He is due back in court on Dec. 30.

Prince George’s County police launched an internal affairs investigation of the incident.

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Deaf Man Charged With Molesting 8-Year-Old

Deaf Indiana man has been arrested and charged with child molesting after police say he touched an 8-year-old girl inappropriately.

FRANKLIN, Indiana -- Richard Marion Huffman, 51, 4175 W. County Line Road, Greenwood, Indiana, was arrested and charged on Monday for an incident that occurred sometime between April and June.

If convicted, Huffman faces up to 40 years in prison on the Level 1 Felony, which is the highest level felony someone can be charged with, outside of murder.

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A deputy with the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office responded in September to a home in Greenwood on a child molesting complaint, according to charging documents filed Monday in Johnson County Circuit Court.

The child told police she was lying in bed and Huffman was lying behind her when he touched her inappropriately three times, according to court documents.

The victim also told police the touching only stopped when she pushed his hand away. Huffman later apologized to the girl and told her not to tell anyone that it happened, court documents said.

The child’s mother told police she was talking to her daughter about body safety in September, and the victim told her mother that Huffman had touched her, court documents said.

Police attempted to interview Huffman, but at the time of the initial interview earlier this month, Huffman told police he would not be interviewed without an interpreter, because he is Deaf. There was not an interpreter immediately available, court documents said.

Police later contacted him and said an interpreter would be paid for by the sheriff’s office. His lawyer returned the call and said Huffman would not be interviewed, according to court documents. He was arrested and taken to to the Johnson County jail, where he is held on $40,000 bond.

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Mavrick Fisher's Preliminary Hearing For Murder

Mavrick Fisher's preliminary hearing for murder of Grant Whitaker.

LAKEPORT, California -- A Deaf man charged with killing his partner at a Humboldt County campground and later dumping the body in Lake County has pleaded not guilty to murder and the other charges in the case. Mavrick Fisher's preliminary hearing for murder of Grant David Whitaker.

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Mavrick William Fisher, 21, of Elko, Nevada, appearance in Lake County Superior Court on October 23th, 2019, Wednesday morning for preliminary hearing.

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Deaf Homicide Mavrick Fisher Pleads Not Guilty

Homicide suspect Mavrick William Fisher, 21, not guilty plea entered in killing Grant David Whitaker, 25, of Illinois.

LAKEPORT, California -- The man charged with killing his traveling partner at a Humboldt County campground and later dumping the body in Lake County has pleaded not guilty to murder and the other charges in the case.

Mavrick William Fisher, 21, of Elko, Nevada, entered his not guilty plea during a brief court appearance in Lake County Superior Court on Monday morning.

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Authorities said that Fisher killed Grant David Whitaker, 25, of Mackinaw, Illinois, with a rock during a confrontation at Richardson Grove State Park in Humboldt County on Aug. 20.

Fisher is charged with murder; assault with a deadly weapon and a special allegation of inflicting great bodily injury; willfully and maliciously removing and keeping possession of the 2011 Chevrolet Impala that Whitaker had been driving; and unlawfully taking the car after the murder.

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Fisher and Whitaker, both of them Deaf, had reportedly been traveling west together in a 2011 Chevrolet Impala loaned to Whitaker by his grandmother.

District Attorney Susan Krones told Lake County News in a previous interview that they had visited various locations around California as part of a plan to create a Deaf farming community.

At some point they had a disagreement and Whitaker informed Fisher that he was going to part ways, authorities said.

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After killing Whitaker on the morning of Aug. 20, authorities say Fisher drove Whitaker’s body south in the Chevy Impala to Lake County, where he has acquaintances, disposing of the body at a property in the 7500 block of Scotts Valley Road.

On Aug. 24, Whitaker’s grandmother reported him missing after not hearing from him for several days. The missing person’s report was filed in Tazewell County, Illinois.

On the same day, after receiving information about the Chevy Impala, Lake County Sheriff’s deputies found it at the Clearlake Oaks Dollar General and impounded it.

The sheriff’s office found Whitaker’s body on Aug. 26 at the Scotts Valley Road location during the service of a search warrant.

After the murder, Fisher fled to Mexico. On the day Whitaker’s body was recovered, authorities in Rosarito, Mexico, contacted Fisher, taking him into custody and assisting with returning him to Lake County, where he was booked into the Lake County Jail on Aug. 28.

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Krones plans to keep the case in Lake County, citing the jurisdiction California Penal Code section 790 gives Lake County because Whitaker’s body was found here.

On Aug. 30, Fisher made his first appearance for arraignment in Lake County Superior Court before Judge J. David Markham, who ordered him to return on Monday for the entry of plea and a bail hearing. Read The Full Story.

SOURCE - LakeCoNews

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Deaf Fugitive Homicide Suspect Denied Bail

Mavrick William Fisher, 21, of Elko, Nevada, is charged with the murder of Grant David Whitaker, 25, of Mackinaw, Illinois.

LAKEPORT, California -- A man who authorities said bludgeoned his traveling companion to death at a Humboldt County campground before dumping the body in Lake County has made his first appearance in Lake County Superior Court.

Mavrick William Fisher, 21, who has connections to both Elko, Nevada, and Riverside, was arraigned on Friday afternoon in Judge J. David Markham’s courtroom in Lakeport. Fisher is charged with the murder of 25-year-old Grant David Whitaker, of Mackinaw, Illinois, during an altercation that investigators say occurred in Humboldt County.

The Daily Moth is a radio show, delivers news in video using American Sign Language. The Deaf host, Alex Abenchuchan, covers the story of Mavrick Fisher’s first court appearance in murder case in Lakeport, California.

The two men, both of them Deaf, were reported to be traveling cross country together to California when a disagreement occurred, leading to the fatal confrontation, according to District Attorney Susan Krones.

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Authorities say Fisher later brought the body to Lake County, where it was discovered on Monday near Upper Lake, as Lake County News has reported.

Earlier this week, Fisher was taken into custody by authorities in Rosarito, Mexico, where he fled after Whitaker’s murder. They assisted with getting him back to the United States, and he was booked into the Lake County jail on Wednesday afternoon.

Krones, who appeared in court to handle the case on Friday, has charged Fisher with murder; assault with a deadly weapon, with the weapon in this case being a rock, and a special allegation of inflicting great bodily injury; willfully and maliciously removing and keeping possession of the 2011 Chevrolet Impala that Whitaker had been driving and which was on loan from his grandmother in Illinois; and unlawfully taking the car after the murder.

While the murder is believed to have occurred at Richardson Grove State Park in Humboldt County, Krones told Lake County News that Lake County has jurisdiction over the case because Whitaker’s body was located here.

She cited California Penal Code section 790, which gives jurisdiction for a murder or manslaughter case to “the county where the fatal injury was inflicted or in the county in which the injured party died or in the county in which his body was found.”

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Krones said she has spoken to Humboldt County District Attorney Maggie Fleming, who has asked Krones to handle the case in Lake County. At the same time, both Lake County and Humboldt County investigators are working the case. On Friday, the court assigned Tom Feimer, a defense attorney with the county’s indigent defense contract, to represent Fisher.

Fisher, wearing a jail jumpsuit and sitting in the jury box along with several other individuals awaiting arraignment, also was provided the assistance of an interpreter at Friday’s court appearance.

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Outside the courtroom, two women – one older, one younger with a baby – were waving and gesturing at Fisher and holding up the baby so it could be seen through the courtroom door window. A bailiff who admitted them to the courtroom warned them against trying to communicate with Fisher, a normal admonishment for family members in attendance at court proceedings. Read The Full Story.

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Mavrick Fisher's Mental Disorder To Homicide

The explanation of how and why on Mavrick Fisher and Grant Whitaker 'homicidal violence' incident in California.

The ASL & Deaf community learned after release in the news of a 21-year-old Deaf Nevada man, Maverick William Fisher, had admitted to killing a 25-year-old, Grant David Whitaker of Illinois, the remains found at a Northern California campground last Monday on the 26th of August, 2019.

Lake County deputies told media the nature of the information law enforcement received, noting that the investigation is ongoing only takes a few weeks.

A Deaf vlogger, Ricky Taylor claims, Mavrick William Fisher, who is a person with a mental illness known as the attention seeking behavior and extreme emotionality which behavior to draw attention to himself by the influential Facebook users on social networking sites in Deaf Community that factors leading to homicide.

Openly Gay Ricky Taylor aka Ridor9th, known as one of the most controversial blogger in ASL & Deaf community, share thoughts on the cause and effect that currently devastated the Deaf community in North America with the debris of Mavrick Fisher's murder of Grant Whitaker, who was reported missing in Illinois, after a recent altercation at a campground in California.

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The video shows on Facebook and YouTube of Grant Whitaker and Maverick Fisher appears to be a farm business partner in Nevada last few months ago. What went wrong with the guys that end up at a California campground?

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Grant Whitaker & Mav Fisher. Deaf Counseling Center’s Dr. Candace McCullough and Sharon Duchesneau share some thoughts on the complicated nature of grief after murder and offer support to the community in the form of pro bono counseling sessions to those who may be directly impacted by the situation, yet lack insurance to access counseling: Read The Full Transcript.

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Judge Convicts Deaf Men For Girl's Rape

A Delhi court has convicted two hearing and speech impaired for offences which included committing unnatural sex on a five-year-old girl.

NEW DELHI, India -- Additional Sessions Judge Ashwani Kumar Sarpal held the duo guilty after finding that the duo had conspired with each other in kidnapping the minor for the purpose of illicit sexual intercourse. They also held that the victim was so young that she could not even save herself and resist the attackers.

The incident took place in 2012 when the girl and her family went to her maternal uncle Abdul Gaffar's house during Holi. On March 8, 2012 she went missing while playing outside the house. Following this, when Gaffar started looking for her at 5.45 am on that day, he found his niece with a person who ran away after seeing him.

When asked, the victim confided in her uncle that one of the accused, who was accompanied by another man, forcibly abducted her after closing her mouth. Thereafter she was given bites on her lips, cheeks and chest following which she was raped.

The victim became unconscious on the day of the incident and recorded her statement a day later.

One of the accused was arrested on March 9, 2012 and the 'Pajami' (lower) of the victim was recovered at his instance. Subsequently, the second accused was also apprehended on March 12, 2012.

The accused persons who recorded their statement through sign language stated that they being falsely implicated and were ignorant about the present case.

Appearing for the accused, their counsel contended that no witnesses were joined in the probe. However, the court quashed this argument and stated that non-joining of any public witness itself was not fatal to the prosecution's case because often the general public do not easily agree to join police proceedings for a number of reasons. These include going to police station or court, fear of accused, or to maintain good relations with the accused, and to avoid any confrontation with him.

"Public persons are ready to watch the 'Tamasha' at the spot by standing at some distance but do not become ready to co-operate with the police," the judge said.

The court added that the victim has already suffered lot of trauma and grievous injuries at the hand of the accused persons. Even if the victim had not complained to anyone when she was brought back to her house, it could not be said that she was lying.

"It cannot be expected from a child of five years of age who was subjected to various injuries and sexual assault to stop people on the way and make a complaint to passersby," the judge said in its order.

The court fixed September 12 as the date for arguments on the quantum of sentence.

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UK Man Tried To Rape Deaf-Blind Grandmother

A burglar man, 25, who tried to rape Deaf and Blind 94-year-old grandmother after breaking into her home is caged for 14 years.

GRANTHAM, UK -- The Sun: A burglar who was caught in the act of trying to rape a Deaf-Blind 94-year-old woman has been jailed for 14 years.

Gregory Willis, 25, forced his way into the house where his victim was living out her final months with relatives - who found the sicko kneeling on her bed with no trousers on.

The great-grandmother, who was so frail she was unable to communicate, was naked from the waist down after Willis had pulled down her pyjamas and bedclothes.

She was only spared an even worse ordeal after members of her family discovered the front door open and went to investigate.

They checked on the victim and were horrified to discover Willis on her bed in Grantham, Lincs, last August.

Judge John Pini QC said as he sent dad-of-five Willis to jail: “The circumstances of this case are as deeply shocking, horrifying and appalling as could possibly be imagined.

“The victim is 94 years of age. She had not long before this left a nursing home to be cared for in a safe, loving environment for the remaining time of her life.

“She was registered blind, hard of hearing, had no short term memory, had poor balance and was doubly incontinent. She could not communicate.

“She was as frail and vulnerable as it is possible to be.”

The victim died four months after the break-in but a jury heard her death was not connected to the attempted rape.

Jonathan Straw, prosecuting, said it happened at a get together of relatives including the victim’s granddaughter and great grandchildren.

He said the old lady was asleep in her room while other family members chatted in a back room.

He told Lincoln crown court: “There came a point when they noticed that the front door to the house was open. Immediately they were concerned.

“They went into the living room and there they saw this defendant in the room. His trousers were removed. He had his boxer shorts on and his penis exposed.

“The victim was in bed, The covers had been pulled back and her pyjama bottoms had been pulled off.

“Had he not been disturbed, as mercifully he was, he was going to rape that 94-year-old lady in that bed.”

Willis was ordered out of the house but soon afterwards returned and knocked on the door saying something about visiting his aunt’s home.

The family called police and Willis was detained nearby. He had the key to the family’s car on him.

Willis denied attempted rape but was found guilty by the jury. He had earlier admitted burglary.

He said although he had no memory of what happened he would never have committed such an horrific offence.

Mark Watson, mitigating, said Willis apologised to the victim and her family for what he did.

He said: “He was plainly under the influence of something.

“There is nothing about the offence that he can remember. It may be due to alcohol but it may be that he is unable to bring himself to believe what happened.”

After the case, the victim’s son-in-law said the family now wanted to try to put the “horrific episode” behind them.

He said: “She was a very frail person asleep in bed who had already entered the end of life phase.

“We don’t know how much of what happened registered with her - we deliberately didn’t raise it with her afterwards and we just have to hope she didn’t suffer in any way.”

He added: “I was the only adult male in the house at the time and when I confronted him the adrenaline took over and I didn’t initially appreciate what was happening.

“Thankfully he ran away without becoming violent and it was only later that the gravity of what he was about to do hit me.”

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Irish Deaf Man Stalked & Harassed Doctor's Wife

An Irish Deaf man who exposed himself to woman he stalked allegedly infringes bail after appearing at victim’s kids’ school, court hears.

DUNGLOE, Ireland -- The Irish Sun: A Deaf man who previously admitted standing naked in his front room when the local doctor’s wife passed by infringed his bail conditions, a judge was told today.

Judge Paul Kelly was told John McGrotty, 66, drove his car in front of Eimear McEniff and drove slowly and on another occasion he walked out in front of her car.

Last week he was at the school attended by the McEniff children.

In May, he was told by the court to leave Donegal and live with his sister in Dublin.

Garda Eamonn McGroarty said that Mrs McEniff was very concerned about McGrotty’s behaviour.

Defence solicitor Patsy Gallagher said his understanding since the case was adjourned last October for updated reports was that all matters were going well.

Judge Kelly said at Dungloe District Court: “That’s what I thought. I want to get to the bottom of this.”

He acknowledged much work had been done by agencies, including the Probation service which conducted five three-hour-long sessions with McGrotty of St Peter’s Tce, Chapel Rd, Dungloe.

He said: “Truly enormous work has been done. That is why this is disturbing.”

McGrotty admitted harassing and stalking Dara and Eimear McEniff and their family at Pairc Naomh Anna, Chapel Rd, Dungloe, between July 7, 2014 and December 11, 2014.

He also admitted harassing and stalking Eimear McEniff at St Peter’s Tce, Dungloe, between August 1, 2013, and July 24, 2014.

Earlier hearings in Dungloe and Letterkenny courts heard how Eimear, wife of Dr Dara McEniff, lived an ongoing nightmare in her terror of the stalker.

She said that at one stage she saw him standing naked in his front room as she passed his house going to and from her own.

As he adjourned the case, judge Kelly observed: “What I have just heard is a series of allegations. There may or may not be an innocent explanation. If not that is an entirely different matter.“

SOURCE - The Irish Sun

Deaf Paedophile Sisters Sexually Abused Boy

Deaf British paedophile sisters sexually abused boy over 10 year period from age of six.

WORCESTER, United Kingdom -- Sisters believed to be Britain's first Deaf female paedophiles have been told to expect "very significant sentences" for sexually abusing a six-year-old boy. Sick Julie Fellows, 30, and sister Jennifer, 32, repeatedly molested the youngster over a 14 year period. Worcester Crown Court heard the sisters first started abusing the boy when he was aged six in 2000.

Julie was 14-years-old when she lured the boy into a petrol station toilets where she touched her private parts. On another occasion she performed oral sex on the youngster, the court heard.

Julie was found guilty following a trial of indecently assaulting a boy aged six to nine between October 2000 and April 2004 in Leominster, and sexual activity with a boy aged 14 -16 between October 2008 and October 2010 in Hereford.

Jennifer admitted indecently assaulting a boy aged six to nine between October 2000 and April 2004 in Leominster, and inciting sexual activity with a boy aged 14-16 between October 2008 and October 2010 in Kington.

Prosecutor Simon Phillips said: "The allegations date back many years and the more serious of them when Julie was 14 and the victim was six.

"The behaviour was so frequent it became routine and he thought it was the norm."

"Julie later moved in with her fiancé Adam and the victim was sitting on the sofa with Julie watching TV while Adam was asleep," the prosecutor continued.

"She started a conversation with him about what used to happen and she put his hand down her trousers. "She told him he needed to lose his virginity and said 'Who would you rather lose it to?'.

"She got him to get onto his knees and they had intercourse for a short period of time. She was between 22 and 24 and he was 14... Read The Full Story.

UPDATE:

Deaf Sisters From Kington Who Sexually Abused A Young Boy Escape Jail - Two Deaf sisters from Herefordshire who sexually abused a young boy over a period of 10 years have escaped immediate prison sentences after a judge said their condition would make them “completely isolated” in jail.

Their suspended sentences were given despite a statement to the court from their victim saying the sexual assaults had a “profound effect” on him, leaving him with flashbacks and nightmares... Read The Full Story.

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Deaf Woman Allegedly Raped By Two Irish Men

Profoundly Deaf woman allegedly raped by two men in caravan through a social media site in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

BELFAST -- A profoundly Deaf woman was allegedly raped by two men in a caravan after arranging a meeting over social media, a court heard today.

Police claimed one of the pair had manipulated and coerced her into getting a taxi to the traveller site in west Belfast. The woman has also alleged her drink may have been spiked during the incident on the Glen Road early last Friday.

David Spence, 18, and Francis Gavin, 23, appeared before magistrates in the city accused of carrying out the sex attack. Both men deny charges of rape, insisting all contact with the woman in her thirties was consensual.

Spence, a trainee joiner from Ardcaoin Avenue in the Dunmurry area, was granted bail on conditions that include a ban on accessing computers. But Gavin, of Glen Road Heights in Belfast, remains in custody while checks are carried out on proposed addresses.

A judge was told the woman had been in contact with Spence through a social media site before a meeting was arranged. Describing her as vulnerable, an investigating detective said she made it clear that she was not interested in having sex at the encounter.

The officer claimed Spence had ignored requests to come to her house, instead arranging for a taxi to bring her to the Glen Road traveller encampment. Following the alleged attack he said she left the caravan and walked a quarter of a mile down a lane in the dark before reporting the incident at the first house with lights on.

Defence barrister Tom McCreanor, for Spence, put it to the officer that his client and the woman had "intimate and suggestive" social media exchanges before meeting.

The detective replied: "She does mention she likes sex. However, she is saying that's within a long-term relationship." Photographs were also sent between her and Spence, the court heard. Asked if the woman's vulnerability related to a hearing issue, the officer said: "This lady is profoundly Deaf."

He also claimed: "From the content of text messages there was bit of manipulation or coercion." But Mr McCreanor argued that his client had been in "consensual and encouraged communication" with the woman.

He told the court she willingly got a taxi to the caravan and was never prevented from leaving.

Granting bail for Spence to return to court in four weeks, District Judge Fiona Bagnall ordered him to live with his parents under curfew. He was banned from using mobile phones, computers and accessing social media sites, and must not go near either the alleged victim's home or the traveller site.

Gavin also faces unrelated charges of common assault, criminal damage to a window and possession of a knuckle duster over an incident on January 25.

Defence solicitor Eamon O'Connor stressed his client is not accused of making any of the arrangements to meet the alleged rape victim.

"He was at the site when the alleged injured party arrived," Mr O'Connor said. "He made the case in ten interviews that any contact between himself and this lady was entirely by consent."

During cross-examination the detective confirmed the woman claimed her drink may have been spiked. Forensic tests are still being carried out to establish if there is any substance to her concerns. But with police claiming Gavin has used six addresses in the last five years, his bail application was adjourned for further checks on where he might live if released.

SOURCE - BELFASTLIVE

Maryland Court Reverses Deaf Sex Conviction

WATCH: Deaf News: Court reverses conviction of man accused of sexual abuse at Maryland School for the Deaf.

FREDERICK, MD -- The state's second-highest court reversed the conviction of a Deaf man accused of sexually abusing two girls at the Maryland School for the Deaf because he wasn't able to question the interpreter's translation of his responses during a police interrogation.

The Court of Special Appeals said Clarence Cepheus Taylor III, 40, was denied his constitutional right to confront and cross-examine the interpreter during his trial in Howard County Circuit Court in November 2013, the opinion said. Taylor said an interpreter who translated during his five-hour interrogation with a Howard County police detective had incorrectly interpreted his sign-language statements.

"It becomes kind of a game of telephone. A lot can be lost in those steps," said Taylor's attorney, Brandon Mead. He said Taylor's family has suffered, and his client has maintained his innocence.

Howard County state's attorney's office spokesman T. Wayne Kirwan said the office intends to appeal.

Taylor, who worked as a school aide, was sentenced to seven years in February 2014 after being found guilty of sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl and a 12-year-old girl at the Columbia campus.

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Deaf Arsonist Set Fire To Deaf Family's Home

Deaf News: A drug-fuelled arsonist poured a gallon of petrol on to the house of a Deaf family sleeping inside before setting it on fire.

LONDON, UK -- A drug-fuelled arsonist has been sentenced to jail after he was caught red-handed on camera trying to set the home of a Deaf family on fire while they were sleeping inside.

Michael Douglas was paid £1,600 to target the victims by pouring petrol onto their house and then setting it alight in the early hours of the early morning.

The family's CCTV cameras caught Douglas, who is profoundly Deaf himself, and an unknown accomplice running up to the house in Bradford, West Yorkshire, emptying a gallon of fuel and setting it alight before making their escape.

The shocking moment a drug-fuelled arsonist poured a gallon of petrol on to the house of a Deaf family sleeping inside before setting it on fire.

Bradford Crown Court heard that the arsonist was drunk and high on cocaine and cannabis when he carried out the attack at 5am on May 26.

He has been jailed for five years and three months after pleading guilty to arson being reckless as to whether life was endangered as well as a variety of motoring offences.

Douglas told police he had been paid £1,600 to 'light the house' but had refused to kidnap the mother who lived there because the whole family was Deaf, the Telegraph & Argus reported.

After the 26-year-old father of four and his accomplice fled the scene, a neighbour called 999 and the victims were unharmed, although the ground floor of their house, their garage and the wheelie bins were damaged... Read The Full Story.

Deaf Man Jailed Without Interpreter, Wins Case

Deaf News: Deaf man jailed without sign language translator wins case against District of Columbia jail.

WASHINGTON -- A Deaf man who was jailed for 51 days without a sign language translator - left unable to communicate with prison doctors, his counselor, his teachers and other inmates - has won a discrimination case against the District of Columbia.

William Pierce is profoundly Deaf and communicates with sign language. After he pleaded guilty to a simple assault charge stemming from a domestic dispute, he was sentenced to the D.C. Correctional Treatment Facility, which is operated by Corrections Corporation of America.

The jail assumed that "lip-reading and exchanging written notes would suffice," and did not provide a translator, the court found.

"They figuratively shrugged and effectively sat on their hands," the court's decision read. Pierce felt isolated and confused by what was happening in jail, he said in court filings.

The court found that the District and CCA had violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as well as the 1973 Rehabilitation Act.

“I am very pleased with Judge Jackson’s decision to find that the District of Columbia violated my rights as a Deaf man and a human being,” Pierce said, through an interpreter, in an American Civil Liberties Union press release.

“Video phones and interpreters are critical for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing inmates to have access to the same opportunities as other inmates," Pierce said. "Unfortunately, even with this decision, the denial of service and adequate access continues... Read The Full Story.

Deaf Man is Convicted of Murdering Girlfriend

Deaf Harlem man convicted of fatally stabbing girlfriend 38 times.

NEW YORK CITY -- It took a Manhattan jury less than two hours Friday to convict a Deaf Harlem man of murder for stabbing his Deaf girlfriend 38 times then stuffing her corpse into the bottom of a 55 gallon drum.

After a gruesome month-long trial, jurors deliberated for an hour and half before finding Bismark Lithgow, 26, guilty of killing Francis Pellerano Feb 28 of 2013.

The barrel where the body his girlfriend was found.

Lithgow became increasingly controlling after Pellerano moved into his Harlem apartment he shared with his grandmother, and accused her of cheating, prosecutor Ryan Hayward argued at trial.

As revenge for the perceived betrayal, Lithgow viciously butchered the petite brunette, wrapped her tiny body into a sheet then stuffed it into the bottom of the blue drum.

Pellerano’s corpse festered in his room for two days until his grandmother discovered the drum’s sickening contents.

The defense conceded that Lithgow committed the heinous crime but argued he was in a state of extreme emotional disturbance caused by a frigid mother and brain damage from a childhood illness.

He’s expected to be sentenced April 1st and faces up to life in prison...

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Deaf Teacher Aide Sentenced 10 Years For Sexual Assault

Deaf News: Teaching assistant gets 10 years for sexually assaulting Deaf student in Hawaii.

HONOLULU, Hawaii -- A state judge sentenced former Hawaii School for the Deaf and the Blind teaching assistant Alfie S. Lumabas to 10 years in prison Tuesday for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old student at the school.

State Circuit Judge Rom A. Trader declined the city prosecutor's request to impose restitution to pay for the girl's counseling because that expense is covered by a settlement to a separate federal lawsuit.

Lumabas, 38, agreed to serve a full 10-year prison term when he pleaded guilty in January to two reduced counts of second-degree sexual assault in a deal with the prosecutor. Ten years is the maximum penalty for second-degree sexual assault.

A September 2013 indictment charged him with two counts of first-degree sexual assault, which each carry a mandatory 20-year prison term.

Lumabas is legally Deaf. Through a sign-language interpreter, he declined to make a statement Tuesday before Trader handed down his sentence.

His victim, now 24, and who is also legally Deaf, had plenty to say through her own sign-language interpreter.

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Verdict In Maryland Deaf School Sex Abuse Case

Deaf News: Clarence Taylor III found guilty of sex abuse at Maryland School for the Deaf.

FREDERICK, Maryland -- A Howard County Circuit Court jury in the Maryland School for the Deaf sex abuse case handed down a mixed result Wedneday, finding the defendant guilty of two charges of child sexual abuse, not guilty of one count and declaring a mistrial in the four remaining counts.

Clarence Cepheus Taylor III, 38, was found guilty by the 12-member jury, who began deliberations Friday, of groping two girls while working as an aide at the school from 2008 to 2011.

Taylor, who is Deaf, had his bond revoked by Judge William Tucker and is scheduled to be sentenced on the two guilty verdicts on Jan. 31, 2014, with a retrial on the four non-decision counts scheduled for May 21, 2014.

A split verdict is reached by jurors and a mistrial is declared by the judge for some charges in the Howard County sexual abuse trial of a former aide for the Maryland School for the Deaf. Barry Simms files this report on 11 News at Noon.

Earlier in the trial, three counts of solicitation of child pornography were dropped by the State's Attorney's office after the prosecution could not prove the events happened in Howard County.

Those charges accused Taylor of text messaging three of the students and requesting pictures of their breasts, according to the prosecution.

Taylor faces a maximum of 50 years in prison 25 years for each guilty count. According to prosecutor and Assistant State's Attorney Lisa Broten, the state's recommendations for such convictions usually fall between seven and 13 years per count.

As Taylor was handcuffed after his bond was revoked, his wife, who is on leave from her employment at the school, left the courtroom fighthing tears.

A split verdict was reached in the sexual abuse trial of a former aide for the Maryland School for the Deaf, prompting the Howard County judge to call a mistrial for some charges.

Taylor's defense attorney, Brandon Mead, said he recommended Taylor file an appeal, citing Tucker's jury instructions... Read The Full Story.

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Deaf Sex Predator Jailed For Probation Violation

Released sex predator straight back in jail for breaching his parole after he had posed online as a young woman.

CHRISTCHURCH, NZ -- An online sex predator has lasted just one week after his release from prison before ending up straight back in custody for contacting one of his victims by text message.

Cameron Stuart Hore, 30, was released on bail on October 22 but pleaded guilty to a charge of breaching his parole before Judge Murray Hunt in the Christchurch District Court today.

Judge Hunt remanded him to next Thursday for sentence on the breach charge, but in the meantime the Probation Service would be applying for his recall to prison anyway.

Craig Ruane appeared as defence counsel for today's appearance.

Hore was jailed for four years and one month on July 4, 2012, after being held for a long time in custody on remand on 12 charges which he eventually admitted.

He had posed online as a young woman named Sarah Ruddenklau - including posting a picture of a young woman - to carry out sexual exploitation of his young victims.

He was sentenced in the High Court on two charges of blackmail, two of obtaining credit by deception, and eight of sexual exploitation or attempted sexual exploitation.

Hore is Deaf and a sign language interpreters helped him in court today.

The victims were found after police seized Hore's computer after a complaint and analysed just one month of the the 9306 chat logs accumulated over 15 months from September 2009 to November 2010. Nine of the 14 victims traced from that month were willing to talk to the police.

Crown prosecutor Pip Currie said then it had been premeditated and planned offending using false identities to obtain personal details.

The offending occurred on the Internet, and by text, and there was sexual offending on occasions when face-to-face contact occurred... Read The Full Story.

Courtroom Sign Language Prohibited Raise Concerns

Maryland courtroom sign language restrictions raise concerns, only the official interpreters and trial participants are allowed to use ASL.

FREDERICK, MD -- A judge in the trial of a Deaf man is prohibiting signing among the audience, a move that has raised concerns among some in the Deaf community.

Clarence Taylor III, who is Deaf, is accused of inappropriately touching Maryland School for the Deaf students when he was a student life counselor and dormitory aide at the school's Columbia campus. MSD also has a campus in Frederick.

Judge William Tucker of Howard County Circuit Court prohibited signs and "facial gestures" among spectators at Taylor's trial, according to a report from Capital News Service.

Only the four official courtroom interpreters and trial participants communicating with them will be allowed to sign and gesture in the courtroom.

Some advocates for the Deaf took issue with the way the decision singled out American Sign Language.

Howard A. Rosenblum, CEO of the National Association of the Deaf, said in a statement that the NAD understands the need to preserve order in the courtroom, but any restriction on communication needs to be applied evenly in any language to all spectators.

"The judge's order in this case appears to impose restrictions solely on Deaf and Hard of Hearing spectators and is unacceptable," he said.

David Martin, an assistant professor who manages ASL studies at Frederick Community College, is an MSD alumnus and has been following the trial.

He said that it would be difficult for a Deaf person to avoid making gestures.

“From my perspective, you know, with a Deaf person, It's going to be a challenge for a Deaf person to have no expressions and no signing,” Martin said through an ASL interpreter.

Still, Martin said the judge's decision was fair as long as hearing people were subject to the same restrictions... Read The Full Story.

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