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A MARRIED teacher and mother of four is accused of sexually assaulting at least one and up to 10 boys after showing them her stripper pole and sex toys and plying them with drugs.

When she was previously arrested, for sending students inappropriate messages, Brittany Fortinberry from Martinsville, Indiana, reportedly blamed it on her 150-pound weight loss.

The 31-year-old former substitute teacher has been charged with three counts: sexual misconduct with a minor, dissemination of matter harmful to a minor, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

According to court documents obtained by WRTV, she allegedly assaulted at least one school child in August 2024 at Eminence High School but the victim said the true figure could be as many as 10.

The mother of four sons was reported to cops by the grandmother of a 16-year-old boy who claimed that when he was 15, Fortinberry assaulted him.

When the teenager was questioned by investigators, he allegedly told them that up to 10 other students may also be victims.

The child's grandmother told police that Fortinberry had sent him graphic images and messages and plied him with drugs during a trip with the teacher.

Fortinberry allegedly told the boy she would kill herself if he spoke to anyone about the abuse.

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Published on: 18/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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A mother, 37, and her two-year-old daughter have died from injuries sustained in Thursday's car attack in the German city of Munich, police say.

At least 37 people were injured after a car was driven into a crowd of people at a trade union rally.

The driver was a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, police said, identified in local media as Farhad N. He was arrested at the scene and prosecutors say he has admitted to carrying out the attack. He appeared to have a religious motivation, officials said.

The mother and child were among those taken to hospital with serious injuries after the attack.

"Unfortunately, we have to confirm the deaths today of the two-year-old child and her 37-year-old mother," police spokesman Ludwig Waldinger told news agency AFP on Saturday.

The car ramming has brought security issues back into focus the week before federal elections are held in Germany.

A man jailed for raping his wife after she accused him in a dying statement has been freed by a judge, on the grounds husbands in India cannot be prosecuted for marital rape.

The 40 year-old man was convicted of charges of rape, “unnatural” sex, and culpable homicide not amounting to murder for his wife's death, and jailed for 10 years in 2019.

He had been arrested two years earlier after his wife, a minor, made a dying declaration saying that she was forced to have sex with him and suffered injuries as a result. She was admitted to hospital and died the same day, according to the legal media outlet Live Law.

However, the Chhattisgarh High Court has now overturned that conviction citing the country’s laws on forced sexual acts within marriage, and ordered his immediate release from prison.

The single judge bench of justice Narendra Kumar Vyas said that "if the age of wife is not below age of 15 years then any sexual intercourse or sexual act by the husband with his wife cannot be termed as rape under the circumstances, as such absence of consent of wife for unnatural act loses its importance". This appears to be at odds with a landmark Supreme Court ruling in October 2017 that raised the age of marital rape from 15 to 18.

The defence also argued before the high court that there was no legally admissible evidence against the accused and the conviction was based only on the woman's dying declaration.

The counsel further disputed her cause of death, contending that the original trial “overlooked statements from two witnesses who testified the woman had suffered from piles since her first childbirth which caused bleeding and abdominal pain”, the Times of India reported.

A Bronx father of four was gunned down outside his own home early Sunday morning in a deadly dispute over a parking spot — with his girlfriend also “badly beaten” in the melee, police and relatives said.

Trevor Hughes, 49, was shot shortly before 2 a.m. after getting into a heated exchange with 46-year-old ex-con Lavar Davis, whose car was allegedly blocking a driveway where the hard-working dad paid to park next to his Fowler Avenue home.

“It was all over a parking space,” Hughes’ brother told The Post Monday. “He took all the steps that you’re supposed to take when you want a car removed from blocking your driveway. A patrol car came, and all they had to do was ticket the vehicle.

“Ticket the vehicle, get it towed, and that’s it. All he wanted to do was get inside so he could get four hours of sleep Then he had to be up again to DJ for a brunch.”

Prosecutors said Monday that Davis fled the crime scene but cops caught up with him at his girlfriend’s apartment.

“When police officers went to find the defendant there he barricaded himself in the apartment and refused to come out voluntarily, requiring the police to send in the Emergency Services Unit to get him out,” Bronx Assistant District Attorney Lawrence Rozenblum said at Davis’ arraignment.

Migrants deported from the US, and even “dangerous” American citizens convicted of heinous crimes could be headed to a notorious hellhole prison in El Salvador, where inmates live in over-crowded cells and rival gang members fight to the death over food and water.

The Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) has been hailed as the Central American nation’s solution to rampant gang violence, but human rights groups says the 15,000 inmates face inhumane treatment — and up to a third are believed to be innocent.

After a meeting between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele in San Salvador Monday, Rubio announced that the mega prison could begin accepting inmates from the US.

“We can send them and he will put them in his jails,” Rubio said of migrants set to be deported from the US.

He added: “And, he’s also offered to do the same for dangerous criminals currently in custody and serving their sentences in the United States even though they’re US citizens or legal residents.”

The murder of a US Border Patrol agent near the Canadian border appears to be linked to a radical leftist trans militant cult accused of killings across the country.

Around a week before the Jan. 20 attack, federal law enforcement had been surveilling German national Felix “Ophelia” Bauckholt and University of Washington student Teresa “Milo” Consuelo Youngblut.

Staff at a Lyndonville, Vermont motel alerted authorities about seeing the duo with a firearm and black tactical clothing.

When law enforcement visited them, the pair claimed to be looking at property in the area and promptly checked out of the motel on Jan. 14, according to court documents.

Then, on Inauguration Day, Border Patrol agent David Maland stopped their car in Coventry, Vermont.

Youngblut allegedly shot at Maland, who was killed, and border agents returned fire, killing Bauckholt. Youngblut is in custody.

Authorities now say the guns used by Youngblut and Bauckholt are owned by a person of interest in other murders — and connected to a mysterious cult of transgender “geniuses” who follow a trans leader named Jack LaSota, also known by the alias “Ziz.”

Bauckholt was a biological male who identified as trans and used feminine pronouns. He was an award-winning youth math genius from Freiburg, Germany, who later graduated from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.

Around 2021, he was hired as a quantitative trader at Tower Research Capital in New York. It is believed Baukholt was in the US on an H-1B visa. The Department of Justice says he was armed in the car and tried to aim his firearm before being shot dead.

Youngblut, who is accused of firing the surprise shots that killed Air Force veteran Maland, was injured by returning fire.

Youngblut is a biological female who identifies as trans and lists having neo-pronouns as “xe/xem/xyrs” on social media. Youngblut was a University of Washington student studying computer science.

Youngblut graduated from the prestigious and woke north Seattle private institution Lakeside School, where Bill Gates also attended.

Youngblut’s family had reported her missing to Seattle Police in May 2024. Her family said she was in a controlling relationship and cut off contact, according to the police report. Her social media account on BlueSky shows she followed some Antifa-aligned far-left accounts.

In November 2024, Youngblut filed a marriage application with a 22-year-old fellow Lakeside alumnus named Maximilian Bentley Snyder.

Last week, Snyder, an “any pronouns” computer science whiz from a wealthy Seattle family, was arrested in Vallejo, Calif., for the murder of an elderly key witness set to testify in an upcoming attempted murder trial against alleged members of the trans extremist group.

The arrest has revealed previously hidden close associations between Youngblut, Bauckholt and a cult linked now to four killings.

That group, the “Zizians,” are highly-educated trans vegan “rationalists” who hold fringe, esoteric ideological beliefs about transhumanism and animal rights.

Their leader, Jack “Ziz” LaSota, is a biological male who identifies as a woman. He also used the name Andrea Phelps, and is accused of influencing followers to kill. LaSota’s archived prolific blog writings ramble about the use of violence and radical anarchist tactics to achieve various ends.

LaSota has a warrant for an arrest in Delaware County, Pa. after skipping out on court hearings on an open criminal case. His supporters say he died in 2022, but that appears to be based on a fake online obituary to try to escape the law.

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A Jan. 27 motion by federal prosecutors to deny Youngblut bail strongly suggests links with the group.

“Her [Youngblut] associations with other individuals suspected of violent acts also warrants caution,” prosecutor Matthew Lasher wrote in a court filing.

“The individual who purchased the firearms the defendant and Bauckholt possessed on January 20, 2025, is a person of interest in a dual-homicide investigation in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.”

That person of interest is bioinformatics researcher Michelle Jacqueline Zajko, according to the ATF.

Zajko is the trans nonbinary adult child of Rita and Richard Zajko, an elderly couple found killed in mysterious and unsolved circumstances in Delaware County in early 2023. Zajko’s past archived blog posts show close associations with “Ziz.”

According to public records in reporting by Vermont news site vtdigger, Zajko had purchased a plot of land in rural Vermont close to where the deadly shootout occurred. Members of the “Ziz” group are known to live in communes in box trucks.

Zajko has not been charged with any crime.

A dispute over a former Bay-area “Ziz” commune is at the center of the murder case against Snyder, the Seattle man who applied for a marriage license with Youngblut.

In November 2022, 82-year-old Curtis Lind narrowly survived an assassination attempt by three members of the “Ziz” group who were squatting on his property in Solano County, Calif.

They impaled him with a sword and repeatedly stabbed him. Lind shot two of the assailants, killing Amir “Emma” Borhanian. He lost an eye in the attack and spent a month in the hospital.

Two other alleged members of the cult, Suri Dao and Alexander “Somni” Leatham, both transgender, have a trial in April for the attempted murder of Lind, causing the death of their comrade and other felonies. Both of them have tried to escape from custody and face other charges.

An Indiana man who was pardoned by President Trump for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot was shot dead by a deputy during a traffic stop Sunday afternoon, according to authorities.

Matthew Huttle was killed in an altercation with a Jasper County sheriff’s deputy who pulled him over on Indiana State Road 14 near the Pulaski County line and attempted to arrest the 42-year-old, state police said.

“An altercation took place between the suspect and the officer, which resulted in the officer firing his weapon and fatally wounding the suspect,” state police said in a news release.

Huttle allegedly had a gun on him inside the car, according to authorities.

The slain suspect, who was from the city of Hobart, was granted a pardon from the president last week that wiped away a misdemeanor charge tied to his involvement in the Capitol riot.

He was sentenced to six months behind bars in 2023 after he pleaded guilty to entering a restricted building. He was released from jail in July 2024, according to the Washington Post.

He was among around 1,500 January 6 defendants who received clemency from Trump.

In 2021, Huttle traveled with his uncle to attend Trump’s speech to supporters leading up to the chaos at the Capitol, where he was inside the building for 16 minutes and recorded it on video.

His defense attorney at the time said in a court filing he went to the rally because he thought it would be a historic moment and he had nothing better to do after getting out of jail for a driving offense.

A man who had recently brought his family back to Pakistan from the United States on Wednesday confessed to shooting dead his teenage daughter, motivated by his disapproval of her TikTok content, Pakistani police said.

The shooting happened on a street in the southwestern city of Quetta on Tuesday. The suspect, Anwar ul-Haq, initially said that unidentified gunmen shot and killed his American-born, 15-year-old daughter before he confessed to the crime, police official Babar Baloch said.

“Our investigation so far has found that the family had an objection to her dressing, lifestyle, and social gathering,” another police investigator, Zohaib Mohsin, said. “We have her phone. It is locked,” he told Reuters. “We are probing all aspects, including honour killing.”

The family had recently returned to Balochistan province in predominantly Muslim Pakistan, a nation with conservative social norms, having lived in the United States for about 25 years, Baloch said.

The suspect has U.S. citizenship, the officer said. He said Haq had told him his daughter began creating “objectionable” content on the social media platform TikTok when she lived in the United States.

He told police that she continued to share videos on the platform after returning to Pakistan. Baloch said the main suspect’s brother-in-law had also been arrested in connection with the killing.

Police said they had charged Haq with the murder. They did not offer proof of Haq’s U.S. citizenship except for the suspect’s own testimony and declined to say whether the U.S. embassy had been informed of the incident.

The Afghan killer may have had far more victims if it wasn’t for the intervention of two brave individuals, a 41-year-old man, but also one of the daycare workers, who put up a heroic fight to stop the brutal stabbing attack.

The incident, in Bavaria’s Aschaffenburg, involved a 28-year-old Afghan man, with the Main-Echo reporting that he had been watching the group of children in the Schöntal Park for a while, resulting in the daycare workers getting a “bad feeling” and moving the children away.

However, the Afghan man ran after them, and as they tried to leave the park, he caught up with them as the children were being loaded into a car. He sprung on the children, aged between one and three, and began to rapidly stab the children.

That is when a daycare worker, aged 59, attempted to pull the man away from the children, who was described as being in a “bloody frenzy.” Armed with a kitchen knife, he stabbed a 2-year-old boy to death.

The woman suffered a broken arm in the struggle to stop the man. Another passerby, a 41-year-old man, stepped in to save the children, but was stabbed to death. Another girl in the group and a 71-year-old man, who also went to help, suffered serious stab wounds, but are expected to live.

As Remix News reported earlier today, the man should have already been removed from the country due to violent offenses.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Interior Minister Nancy Faeser are once again under fire for a major security failure that has resulted in tragic deaths due to criminal foreigners.

Remix News released a graphic detailing the boilerplate responses Faeser delivers now weeks at a time due to the various attacks seen across the country.

The Dutch Public Prosecution Service (OM) has identified the four suspects in the deadly explosion at Tarwekamp in The Hague last month after a deliberate blast targeting a bridal fashion store caused catastrophic destruction resulting in the death of six people and leaving four others seriously injured.

In a statement on Friday, the OM named Afghan-born 33-year-old Moshtag B. as the main suspect, who is believed to have been aided and abetted by Ilyas (23), Mourad (29), and Adil (33).

De Telegraaf newspaper reported the men as being from Rotterdam, Roosendaal, and Oosterhout. No further details about the identities of the men or their migration background were disclosed.

Reporting restrictions surrounding the suspects were lifted on Friday.

According to the OM, Moshtag B. initiated the attack targeting the bridal fashion store. The suspect allegedly knew the store owner and sought help from his three accomplices. Together, they prepared and executed the arson and explosion on Dec. 7, and the three accomplices were reportedly offered €500 each to torch the premises.

The blast left six people dead, four others seriously injured, and displaced dozens of residents who are still unable to return home and are unlikely to be able to do so for months due to the extensive structural damage inflicted.

The suspects had reportedly planned to carry out the attack earlier, on the night of Dec. 1. However, their plans were thwarted when police stopped their van in a parking lot in Oosterhout at 2:15 a.m. The vehicle’s suspicious behavior prompted officers to conduct a search, during which they found heavy fireworks and jerry cans filled with gasoline.

The men were arrested on suspicion of preparatory acts for arson, and the items, along with their van and phones, were confiscated. The suspects, however, were released after questioning while authorities continued analyzing the evidence that enabled the attack a week later.

A total of 37 criminal complaints have been filed with authorities in relation to the attack, including declarations from residents, relatives, and local business owners who have suffered loss

A man and his son were sentenced to lengthy prison terms on sexual abuse charges after Polaroid photos from the 1980s and ’90s of children being sexually exploited were found in the walls at a home near Sacramento where the two had lived for over 40 years, the Sacramento County District Attorney’s office said on Tuesday.

The father, Theodore Smith, 90, was sentenced last month to 100 years in prison after he pleaded no contest in Sacramento County Superior Court to 11 counts of committing forcible lewd acts on a child and three counts of lewd acts on a child, the district attorney’s office said in its statement. His son, James Smith, 66, pleaded no contest to two counts of committing lewd acts upon a child and was sentenced to 23 years to life in prison.

The authorities were led to the Smiths in 2021, when a new homeowner was renovating an outbuilding on the property where the Smiths had lived in Orangevale, Calif. Polaroid photos and video tapes fell out of the building’s walls during the renovation, the district attorney’s office said. Hundreds of images, taken from 1985 to 1995, showed anonymous children under the age of 14 being sexually abused by adults, according to the authorities.

Law enforcement officers were able to identify the children — now adults — from the photos, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement on Facebook in 2021. Eventually, investigators connected the images to Theodore and James Smith.

The father and son had lived in the Orangevale home for more than four decades but had recently moved to Alto, Texas, a rural area in the eastern part of the state about 55 miles outside Tyler, the sheriff’s office said. Once the Smiths were identified as people of interest, their new home in Alto was searched, the sheriff’s office said. Although the statute of limitations prevented charges from being brought against them for materials before 1988, there was enough from after that year to bring criminal charges. The two were arrested in October 2021, the sheriff’s office said.

“The victims were under 5 years old when the abuse began, and it continued for the majority of their first decade in life,” the district attorney’s office said. “The victims never told anyone about the abuse other than their spouses.” It was not immediately clear how many children were in the images. How the Smiths knew the victims was also not immediately clear.

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — An appeals court in Romania ruled Thursday that the human trafficking case against influencer Andrew Tate, his brother and two Romanian women cannot go to trial because of multiple legal and procedural irregularities on the part of the prosecutors.

The ruling comes two years after Andrew Tate, 38, and his brother Tristian Tate, 36, were arrested, along with the two women. The four are accused of human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women, and Andrew also faces an additional rape charge.

The decision by the Bucharest Court of Appeal is a huge setback for Romania’s anti-organized crime agency, DIICOT, but it does not mean the Tates and the two women walk free — the case has not been closed, and there is also a separate legal case against the brothers in Romania.

A 17-year-old teen was knifed to death during a caught-on-camera clash with an older man outside an East Harlem Korean restaurant, police and witnesses said Saturday.

Victim Carlos Rivas and a 22-year-old friend had just made an order at K-Street Food near the corner of E. 108th St. and Second Ave. at 6:15 p.m. Friday when they came to blows with 62-year-old suspect Saul Sanchez, who was also a customer at the restaurant, cops said.

“It’s a fight for I guess nothing,” said Moon Shin, an employee of K-Street Food. “So sad. They maybe fight outside first. I don’t see.”

Shin, 66, was working the counter when all three men were in the small storefront eatery.

“[The older man] makes an order and pay and [he] walked out, but two young guys [were] pushing everywhere,” she recalled. “Then they [went] outside fighting.”

The horrific stabbing is hauntingly similar to the murder of on-duty postal worker Ray Hodges, who was knifed to death in a Harlem deli a day earlier during an argument over his spot on a sandwich line, cops said.

Harrowing video obtained by the Daily News shows Rivas and his friend wrestling with a man as they scramble out of the Korean restaurant.

Once they hit the sidewalk, the man grabs Rivas by the collar and stabs him in the chest and stomach before both fall to the ground.

“It was straight stabs,” recalled the co-owner of the Your Highness smoke shop next door to the Korean restaurant, who saw the fight on his surveillance camera. “[The man] was holding [Rivas]. He was holding him by his collar.”

(AFP) — French authorities on Sunday held three Algerians suspected of inciting violence in TikTok videos, with at least two of them facing terror-related charges.

The arrests come amid growing political tensions between Paris and its former North African colony.

A video blogger known as “Imad Tintin” was arrested Friday outside Grenoble after publishing a video urging followers to “burn alive, kill and rape on French territory”.

The post was taken down after receiving 800,000 views but hardline right-wing Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau published a video grab on his social media accounts, condemning the publication as “vile”.

A judge on Sunday placed the 31-year-old blogger under judicial supervision, Grenoble prosecutors said.

He was due to appear Monday in a fast-track trial on charges of “direct incitement of an act of terrorism”, the state prosecution service said.

“Imad Tintin” entered France in December 2021 and applied for a residence permit in August 2023 after his marriage to a French woman. But his application was refused and he is also subject to an expulsion order.

– Terror incitement charge –

In a second case, a 25-year-old Algerian identified as Youcef A. but known on social media as Zazou Youssef was remanded in custody Friday in the western city of Brest, prosecutor Camille Miansoni said in a statement.

He will stand trial there on February 24 on a charge of “publicly advocating an act of terrorism” in posts to his hundreds of thousands of TikTok followers, she said.

He faces up to seven years in jail and a 100,000-euro ($103,000) fine if convicted, the statement added.

Zazou Youssef appeared in a video posted on TikTok on December 31, calling for attacks in France and violence in Algeria.

He was living in France on a temporary residency permit.