‘Cabbie had sex with unconscious woman’
April 14, 2008 - 10:15AM
A taxi driver allegedly had sex with an unconscious woman on her lounge after driving her home, Northern Territory police say.
A friend of the victim had arranged for the 19-year-old to leave a bar in Palmerston on Friday night because she was “heavily intoxicated”, police said in a statement.
The friend, who is believed be the woman’s flatmate, gave the 35-year-old driver money and directions, they said.
“An hour later, the friend returned home to find her intoxicated friend asleep in the lounge with the naked male driver having sexual intercourse with her.”.
The friend immediately called police while the man fled the room. He was arrested and charged on Saturday with having sexual intercourse without consent.
The driver was bailed to appear in the Darwin Magistrates Court on May 1.
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Banker accused of sexual harassment
Vanda Carson | April 14, 2008 - 7:00AM
ACCUSATIONS of sexual harassment and bullying have been made against a former senior executive of the Commonwealth Bank by a female colleague who claims he bombarded her with sexual invitations, then isolated her when they were rejected.
Michael Blomfield, who was running local business banking at the time, has been named in a complaint filed with the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission.
The alleged victim of his advances, a marketing and business analyst, Vivienne Dye, claims Mr Blomfield made sexual advances to her from when she began working for him in June 2006.
Ms Dye alleges Mr Blomfield had “rubbed himself” against her several times and had asked her to marry him and “have his babies” if he left his wife.
She also claims Mr Blomfield had earlier told her that there was nothing wrong with workplace romances.
“I’m not the morals police; there’s nothing wrong with two consenting adults around here; David Murray is proof of that,” he is alleged to have said.
Mr Murray, who was a former chief executive of the bank, married his executive assistant.
Ms Dye said she was harassed and discriminated against, and in constant fear of losing her job, until she left the bank last December.
She said Mr Blomfield was regarded as a “rock star” at the bank and considered a future chief executive.
He left the bank on March 7, after his departure was announced in February. At the time the bank said he was leaving to take up a role as the chief executive of a niche wealth management company.
Mr Blomfield said yesterday that there was “nothing untoward” about his departure but would not say what was his new job was.
He refused to comment about the claims against him.
A bank spokesman, Bryan Fitzgerald said the bank “strongly denied the allegations that have been made [by Ms Dye]”.
Before running local business banking, Mr Blomfield was head of the online broker CommSec and introduced margin lending, retail foreign exchange and cash investment products.
Ms Dye said he had a reputation within the bank of “targeting females in the bank and trying to bed them”.
Tuesday April 15, 2008
Girl raped by stepfather
By FARIK ZOLKEPLI
JOHOR BARU: After 11 years of holding on to a terrible secret, a 17-year-old girl gathered the courage to tell her mother that her stepfather had allegedly molested and raped her as a child.
The victim claimed that she was forced to perform oral sex on the 44-year-old suspect when she was about six years old and that she was raped twice five years ago, when she was 12, at their home in Kulai.
The suspect allegedly committed the offences whenever the victim’s mother was not at home.
The revelation came to light when the victim’s mother started divorce proceedings against the suspect due to marital problems.
Kulai OCPD Supt Zulkefly Yahya who confirmed the case said that the victim disclosed to her mother the torture she suffered at the hands of the suspect.
“The victim lodged a police report on Sunday.
“We arrested the suspect on Monday and are exploring all angles in the investigation,” he said, adding that the suspect has since been remanded until April 19.
Supt Zulkefly said the victim has been sent to Sultanah Aminah Hospital for a medical check-up and doctors had discovered many tears in her private parts.
“The suspect, a hardware trader, has no past police records," he said.
Japan’s raunchy fertility festival
April 16 2008
A 300-year-old fertility festival at a Japanese shrine celebrates the coming of spring with raunchy symbols carried through public streets.
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Marilyn Monroe sex tape sold
April 16 2008
The 15-minute black-and-white Marilyn Monroe sex film will be kept from public view.
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Sexy toilets spice up shopping
March 19 2008
Customers at a Portuguese shopping centre are surprised by a sexy welcome in the mall’s toilets.
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Wednesday April 16, 2008
Homosexuals caught in the act in toilets
SOME homosexuals are alleged to be
using public toilets in shopping centres in Kuala Lumpur
to engage in unnatural sexual acts, Harian Metro reported.
The daily quoted a guard at a shopping centre in Bukit Bintang, Mohd Hamdan Zainuddin, 44, as saying that cleaners and payment collectors outside the toilets had discovered the homosexuals’ activities. “Cleaners, who felt that something was amiss when they saw homosexual couples acting suspiciously by staying in the toilets for too long, lodged reports with the security guards,” he said.
He added that the guards would then carry out investigations before warning homosexual couples caught in the act. “We have our own ways to prove the offence besides having several security officers who are experts in handling these sort of cases.” Mohd Hamdan said that normally the homosexuals would be given a verbal warning to not repeat their offence. Their particulars would also be recorded.
The daily also reported that a worker with a transportation company had admitted being caught in the act with another homosexual, who is a bank executive. The duo were caught by security guards at a staircase of a shopping complex in Jalan Pasar.
The 22-year-old suspect from Sungai Jelok, Kajang, said he did not realise his acts were captured on CCTV. He said he started “becoming” a homosexual when he was 15, when he was studying in a residential school in Kajang.
Homosexuals caught in the act in toilets
Poor-selling nude calendar sends mums broke
Daniel Woolls | April 17, 2008 - 6:21AM
MADRID
- Seven middle-aged
Spanish mothers
who posed for a tongue-in-cheek nude calendar - a fundraiser for their children’s tiny, rural school - are now saddled with debt and 5,000 unwanted copies.
One of the photos shows the mothers with Christmas tinsel as their only garb - no private parts on view. Other goofy poses include a shotgun-toting mother wearing only a fox pelt and kneeling on a table, and another shows a woman covering her body with a red umbrella on a picnic table.
A group of British women made more than a million pounds and worldwide headlines when they came up with the idea of a discreet nude calendar for 2000 to raise money for leukemia research. Their story was made into a hit movie, “Calendar Girls.”
In Spain, the photos came out as calendars in November and at first proved to be a big hit. But the plan fizzled.
The women acknowledge being rank amateurs in publishing and advertising, and because of a miscue with a distributor they missed out on the Christmas shopping rush. Now, sales of the $8 calendar have dried up and they owe a printer nearly $16,000.
“The sad part for us is figuring out what to do with them because it is not something you can recycle,” said Rosa Garin, 36, one of the models in Serradilla del Arroyo, a village of 400 people in northern Salamanca province.
The hamlet is a snapshot of rural Spain: quaint but graying, with retirees accounting for 75 per cent of the population. The arrival of a new family with small children is greeted like manna from heaven. Funding for services is scant.
Its primary school has one classroom and one teacher who handles its seven pupils, spanning four grades, and ranging in age from 7 to 11. But it is so cramped, the village matrons came up with the idea of building a recreation centre for their kids.
“Nobody remembers the villages. Everybody comes and says, ‘Wow, this is so pretty, what lovely countryside, you live so well here,’ but then they don’t help you at all. They give you absolutely nothing,” Itziar Zamarreno, a 40-year-old town councilor who posed for the calendar, said in an interview Tuesday.
Among other pictures, she appears as Miss October, covered only with fox fur and holding a borrowed shotgun. This reflects a desire to depict typical scenes in an area where hunting is popular.
“I do not like to hunt. I do not like to kill things. But we had to do something representative,” she said.
The plight of the mothers of Serradilla del Arroyo resurfaced recently because the distributor filed a complaint alleging they were behind on payments and local media picked up the story.
AP
School banned ‘ugly’ girls
April 22, 2008 - 6:08PM
A
Catholic school
principal has defended his students as outstanding, despite revelations an exclusive club to which "
ugly girls need not apply
" is operating on campus.
Year 11 girls from the co-educational St Patrick’s College in the central Queensland city of Mackay are ranked according to looks, weight and their popularity with boys.
Members of the elite club, dubbed “Club 21” or “Big 21”, parade their ranking from one to 21 on their wrists.
The skinnier and prettier the girl, the higher her rank. One respondent to an internet forum on the issue said: “Ugly girls need not apply.”
Another wrote: “They are a group of year 11 girls at St Pats who think they are top but really pathetic sociopathic sluts.” The issue has made headlines in newspapers and on national breakfast television.
St Patrick’s College principal Eamon Hannan today said the school community had been “devastated” by the media coverage and students had been offered counselling.
He said some students had been harassed on their way to school and others were in tears because they “cannot understand why they are on the front page of the paper or on the television news”.
“I want everyone to know that the students of St Patrick’s College are an outstanding group of young women and men and to see them upset and distressed at the public airing of their alleged failings is heartbreaking,” Mr Hannan said.
“We must remember these are teenagers with whom we are dealing and they are very vulnerable.
“Young people have always made mistakes and they learn from those mistakes, but in that learning and maturing most of us have not had to cope with having our alleged teenage indiscretions broadcast to the world.”
Mr Hannan said clubs, “in” groups and “cool” groups had always existed in schools.
“My focus and the focus of our staff and counsellors is on supporting the students as their safety and welfare is our number one concern,” he said.
The school yesterday sent a letter to parents assuring them the college had policies in place to deal with such matters, and that “any inappropriate behaviour” would not be tolerated.
Dr Angela Dwyer, a lecturer in law, crime and sociology at the Queensland University of Technology, said it was common for girls to rank themselves according to some sort of system.
She said the students could be learning the behaviour from magazines which constantly ranked women on their looks and dress.
“In some ways it could be considered a storm in a teacup, but it really depends if they’re using the information to genuinely make peoples’ lives a living hell,” Dr Dwyer said.
However, she said such groups formed by young people were not always a bad thing.
“It could very well in a lot of cases be the only form of support that some young people have,” Dr Dwyer said.
A spokeswoman for
Queensland Education Minister
Rod Welford said the minister would not intervene in the matter.
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Couple ambushed as they slept in car
Steve Butcher | April 23, 2008 - 5:00AM
A magistrate has described as chilling and cowardly an unprovoked attack on a teenage couple from Queensland asleep in their car in Southbank, Melbourne early Monday morning.
The male occupant, 18, was threatened and repeatedly kicked and punched and his girlfriend, 19, feared for her life after they woke to what they thought was a police check during their around-Australia trip.
Melbourne Magistrates Court heard yesterday the couple’s car was destroyed in the attack when one man caved its roof in by jumping up and down and on it.
Senior Constable Brendon de Schwartz said the couple were asleep in a car park when one of four men armed with a crowbar tapped on a window and asked for their licence and registration.
Senior Constable de Schwartz said the man, believing it was police, opened the door and was bashed before the car radio was ripped out and property worth $2000 was stolen.
He said the victims had no money and had lost their home and transport with the loss of their car.