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[myreality]

http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/01/justic...html?hpt=hp_t2

(CNN) -- A Chicago-area woman has been charged with killing her 5-year-old son and a 7-year-old girl as she babysat them, allegedly stabbing each dozens of times in a bedroom this week as they pleaded for their lives, authorities say.
Elzbieta Plackowska, 40, of Naperville, Illinois, allegedly told police she instructed her son Justin Plackowska and the girl, Olivia Dworakowski, to kneel and pray before she fatally stabbed them and two dogs at the girl's home on Tuesday evening, Naperville police said.
Plackowska -- charged Thursday with two counts of first-degree murder -- allegedly gave investigators a number of reasons why she killed the children, the most recent of which was that she was upset with her husband and wanted to cause him pain, according to police.
"She began stabbing her son Justin and told him he was going to heaven tonight," DuPage County prosecutor Bob Berlin told reporters Thursday, citing Plackowska's alleged statements to police. "He pleaded for his life and told her to stop, but she continued stabbing him until he was dead."
Plackowska was being held Thursday without opportunity for bail. If convicted, she would face a mandatory sentence of life in prison with no possibility of parole.
CNN's attempts to reach lawyer Mike Mara, a DuPage County public defender representing Plackowska, weren't immediately successful.
Police officers found the children's bodies in Olivia's home Tuesday night after Elzbieta Plackowska, covered in blood, arrived at a nearby friend's house and claimed she had been robbed, police said.
The friend called police. Around the same time, Olivia's mother called police to say she had come home from work and couldn't enter the house because there was a strange lock on the door, and that she couldn't find Plackowska or the children, Berlin said.
Officers forced entry into the home and "walked into a scene of unimaginable horror," finding the bodies on the floor of the master bedroom, Berlin said.
Investigators said Plackowska offered several explanations, including that she believed an intruder killed the children, police said. Later, she told police that the children had evil inside them and she needed to drive the devil out, authorities said.
"She ultimately admitted that she had lied to the police in her earlier statements and stated she was angry with her husband," Berlin said.
Plackowska told investigators that she told the children to get ready for bed, and the kids entered the master bedroom, Berlin said. Plackowska said she then went to the kitchen, took two knives, entered the bedroom and told the children to kneel on the floor and pray, according to Berlin.
She told police she stabbed Justin repeatedly, and then stabbed Olivia because Olivia saw her attacking Justin, according to Berlin. She said Olivia, like Justin, pleaded for her life, Berlin said.
Police said Justin was stabbed about 100 times, and Olivia about 50 times.
"She did not express any remorse," Berlin said.
Naperville Police Chief Bob Marshall told reporters that the "senseless taking of the lives of these two children defies logic, and our community is grieving."
In all my years of law enforcement, this is the most gruesome and horrific crime scene that I have seen," Marshall said at the news conference.
Plackowska told police she was upset with her husband in part because he was gone most days, working as a truck driver, and that she felt he didn't treat her as she deserved.
Plackowska is awaiting a November 21 arraignment.

[Blubbartron]

Jesus christ, 100 times?!

[Guitarman]

Few things make me physically ill. That is one of them.

[myreality]

Jesus christ, 100 times?!

I think her reasoning on why she did it is the most maddening.

[Howie Roary]

how do you effectively punish someone as stupid as that?

[Salodin]

how do you effectively punish someone as stupid as that?

You don't punish them. You just grieve and give the family what little closure they can have...watching her rot in jail.

[Kerberoz]

You don't punish them. You just grieve and give the family what little closure they can have...watching her rot in jail.

Pretty much. You can punish people like that about as well as you can punish a wild animal. You must put it down, but only to prevent it from attacking again. It can't be truly punished because remorse requires a level of sentience that it lacks.

[Tajin]

Not to start an argument or a derail but:
Rot in jail doesn't have the same meaning it used to have, you could argue folks inside have it better than most people outside, food, shelter, and medical attention.

[Lyn]

Wait, she killed two dogs, too? Bitch.

[NotGreyheim]

Jesus Christ, I used to live in Naperville... Not the kind of town you'd expect this kind of psycopathic bullshit from.

[Salodin]

Not to start an argument or a derail but:
Rot in jail doesn't have the same meaning it used to have, you could argue folks inside have it better than most people outside, food, shelter, and medical attention.

You take for granted what it feels like to have no freedom to do the things you want.

[BaneTheBrawler]

Maybe, but I don't think people like that suffer from that feeling. Sure, they get annoyed that they can't just go around doing what they want, but it doesn't bother them on the same level it would a normal person. They're like fish in a pond.. as long as they're the biggest/best/whatever-est fish in the pond, they don't care how big the pond is.

[Silenka]

Few things make me physically ill. That is one of them.

^
I will sleep worse than usual tonight.

[Hatedregret]

100 times to a five year old and 50 times to a seven year old. I have a four year old and an eight year old. I damn near threw up from reading that. A person who does this to their children.... there isn't even a punishment worthy.

Truly, I went and woke up my daughters to hug them. It is terribly sad that someone could do that.

[myreality]

I will keep an eye out and make sure to update on what happens to the women. I feel that there are just some people that need to be put down.

[MaachaQ]

100 times to a five year old and 50 times to a seven year old. I have a four year old and an eight year old. I damn near threw up from reading that. A person who does this to their children.... there isn't even a punishment worthy.

Truly, I went and woke up my daughters to hug them. It is terribly sad that someone could do that.

My kids are 7 and 10, I have nightmares of this kind of thing all the time, so tonight I'm sure they'll be that much more vivid... Maybe I should dose myself with cold medicine so I have a dreamless sleep... >.>

[The Stig]

I think this restaurant would be an awesome place to go to:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20043530

A new restaurant promoting safe sex and condom use has opened in the UK, but many people are still too embarrassed to even buy them - why?

As sex education goes, it's pretty unconventional. Cabbages and Condoms is a Thai restaurant chain that serves food along with contraception. The name says it all.

Condoms are handed out to customers instead of after-dinner mints and each restaurant is covered in them - literally. Lights and walls are adorned with condoms, artworks are even made out of them.

All profits go into sex education and Aids prevention programmes in Thailand. Now it has opened its first branch outside of Thailand, in the Oxfordshire town of Bicester.

Huge article, only pasted the beginning.

[MaachaQ]

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Apple...Mexico_id36199

Apple has lost their legal claim to the iPhone name in Mexico

Posted: 01 Nov 2012, 15:00, by Scott H.

Apple has lost their legal claim to the iPhone name in Mexico
Apple may have solved their trademark problems in China, but it appears they may have a bigger problem on its hands south of the U.S. border, as a court in Mexico City has denied an injunction that would have allowed Apple to continue to sell under the iPhone brand because it violates the trademarks of iFone, a Mexican telecommunications company. The ruling could have a major impact on Apple’s phone sales in Mexico, as well as affecting the marketing and sales plans of several wireless service providers in the country, some of which were gearing up to offer the iPhone 5 to customers this weekend.

It’s not actually clear what Apple was thinking this time around – the iFone trademark was filed in Mexico in 2003, a full four years before Apple filed to trademark the iPhone. Despite the rather obvious priority issue, Apple decided to sue iFone in 2009 in an attempt to invalidate the company’s name for being too similar to the iPhone. The predictable response was a countersuit by iFone, and the court battles have been swinging in iFone’s favor ever since.

The move could prove costly to Apple in more ways than one. In addition to losing the ability to sell devices under the iPhone trademark in Mexico, iFone is also suing for damages for past infringement, asking for a minimum of 40% of all iPhone sales to date in the Mexican market. While those numbers aren’t nearly as large as they are in the U.S., it still would represent a substantial payment. It's not yet clear whether the embargo on using the iPhone name will go into effect before sales of the iPhone 5 start on Friday, or if this will trigger Apple to loosen the purse strings to negotiate a settlement with iFone, but given the circumstances it would seem that Apple has precious little leverage this time around.

Clearly lawsuits can be a double-edged sword.

[Brill Weave]

Every now and then the courts get it right.

[Tajin]

lol, I bet that company is already closed/abou to, beaners gonna get paid!