We live in a sin sick world, here we go again with a real sad set of post. It is what happens when we as a society allow and promote sin to be "normal" and accepted. I'm not saying that society condones these, but rather it is the outcome of allowing it to flourish and prosper. The Bile says Gal 1:4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: The "He" is Jesus Christ, he came to this world to seek and to save that which is lost. This world will only get worse and worse 2Ti 3:13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. The Bible also says about the end times (Christ speaking here)
Luk 17:26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
Luk 17:27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Luk 17:28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
Luk 17:29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Paul is speaking here and in the next set of verses about the end times or the last days.
2Ti 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2Ti 3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
2Ti 3:3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
2Ti 3:4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
2Ti 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
2Ti 3:6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
2Ti 3:7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now tell me with a straight face that is not a great description of the days and time we live in. Now about these verses.
Rom 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
Rom 1:19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
Rom 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Rom 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Rom 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Rom 1:23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Rom 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Rom 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Rom 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Rom 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Rom 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Rom 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Rom 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Rom 1:31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Rom 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. Again the verse above speak to to why God is doing it and again it describes the days in which we are living now.

Starved, disabled girl was failed at every turn August 1, 2008 - 7:35pm
By KATHY MATHESON Associated Press Writer
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - For days before Danieal Kelly died in a fetid, airless room _ made stifling hot by a midsummer heat wave _ the bedridden teenager begged for something to drink until she could muster only one word: water.
Unable to help herself because of her cerebral palsy, she wasted away from malnutrition and maggot-infested bedsores that ate her flesh. She died alone on a putrid mattress in her mother's home, the floor covered in feces. She was 14 but weighed just 42 pounds.
The nightmare of forced starvation and infection that killed Danieal while she was under the protection of the city's human services agency is documented in a 258-page grand jury report released this week that charges nine people _ her parents, four social workers and three family friends _ in her ghastly death.
The report describes a mother, Andrea Kelly, who was embarrassed by her disabled daughter and didn't want to touch her, take her out in public, change her diapers or make sure she had enough fluids. It portrays Daniel Kelly, the father who once had custody of Danieal, as having no interest in raising her.
And it accuses the city Department of Human Services of being "uncaring and incompetent."
"It was this indifference that helped kill Danieal Kelly," an angry District Attorney Lynne Abraham said. "How is it possible for this to have happened?"
The report should "outrage the entire Philadelphia community" and bring about "earth-shattering, cataclysmic changes" at the Department of Human Services, Abraham said.
Andrea Kelly, 39, the only defendant charged with murder, was ordered held Friday without bail. The social workers _ suspected of falsifying home visits and progress reports in the case _ face charges ranging from child endangerment to involuntary manslaughter. The family friends are accused of lying to the grand jury about the girl's condition before her death.
None of the lawyers for any of the defendants had any immediate comment.
Human Services Commissioner Anne Marie Ambrose, in office only a month, said Thursday that she is intent on improving child safety and worker accountability in an agency that has repeatedly been accused of failing to protect children.
Late Friday, the city announced the resignation of Assistant Health Commissioner Carmen Paris. The grand jury had accused Paris of interfering in the investigation of the girl's death while she was acting health commissioner, but found insufficient evidence to charge her with obstruction of justice.
The report on Danieal's death in August 2006 documents a downward spiral from the early years that she spent in Arizona with her father and his girlfriend.
Though Danieal attended special-needs classes only sporadically, a school report described her as an active learner and "one of the sweetest students ever enrolled in this program." But allegations of parental neglect soon surfaced, and following Daniel Kelly's breakup with his girlfriend in 2001, Danieal never again attended school.
Daniel Kelly and his children moved to Philadelphia in 2003. He eventually asked his estranged wife to move in, even though she had several other children and he knew she was incapable of caring for Danieal, authorities say. He then moved out.
"Daniel Kelly was well aware what deserting his daughter meant to her safety and welfare," the grand jury report said. "He just did not care."
The Department of Human Services received at least five reports of Danieal being mistreated between 2003 and 2005. All described a "helpless child sitting unattended, unkempt and unwashed, in a small stroller in her own urine and feces," her screams ignored by her mother, the grand jury report said. The stroller, which served as a wheelchair, apparently never left the house.
Agency employee Dana Poindexter, assigned to investigate, also ignored Danieal, authorities say. Already having been suspended after a 3-week-old baby died on his watch in 2002, Poindexter continued his "slovenly, neglectful and dangerously reckless work habits" after being assigned the Kelly case, the grand jury said. He did not file a single report, authorities said.
The Kellys finally were assigned help from a private agency in 2005. Employee Julius Murray was required to visit the family twice a week, but authorities believe he may have come to the house only once _ to have Andrea Kelly sign predated forms attesting to future visits.
The grand jury report said Laura Sommerer, a city social worker, failed to hold the now-defunct company accountable when, months later, Danieal still was not enrolled in school or receiving medical care.
And after Danieal died, authorities say, company director Mickal Kamuvaka held a "forgery fest" in her office where she had employees "concoct almost a year's worth of false progress reports."
But authorities say Andrea Kelly, whose other children are now in foster care, is primarily responsible for her daughter's death.
The report said she was confronted repeatedly by her own mother, uncle, friends and even two of her sons about Danieal's deteriorating health. She would lie or put them off by saying she would seek help, or banish them from the house, authorities say.
In the meantime, the report said, she entertained friends, attended classes and fed her other children.
"This behavior indicates that Andrea Kelly did not merely allow Danieal to die," the report said. "She may have even wanted her disabled daughter to die."
When an ambulance responded to a 911 call for Danieal on Aug. 4, 2006, the girl had been dead for several hours. Authorities said she was so emaciated she looked like the victim of a concentration camp.
She had been lying on the filthy mattress for so long that her body outline was imprinted on it http://wtop.com/?nid=104&sid=1451644

Mexico arrests mom for allegedly flushing baby August 1, 2008 - 7:42pm
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Police in Mexico have arrested a woman for allegedly flushing her newborn baby down the toilet, killing the boy.
Police say they found the baby's body in a sewage pumping station in the western city of Guadalajara on Tuesday.
Suspicion focused on 27-year-old Rita Maria Pena after local residents reported that her pregnancy had ended, but she appeared not to have the child.
Prosecutors say Pena acknowledged when questioned that she had thrown the baby into a toilet after giving birth.
In a Friday statement, prosecutors quoted Pena as saying she was upset because the pregnancy had ruined her relationship with a new boyfriend.
Pena's 67-year-old mother was arrested on suspicion of helping her daughter to flush the baby.
http://wtop.com/?nid=105&sid=1452368

Jersey mystery: police find remains of five children but may abandon murder inquiry
Friday, 1 August 2008
Police in Jersey admitted for the first time yesterday that they may never be able to bring murder charges in their child abuse investigation, despite finding the remains of at least five children buried in the cellars of a former children's home.
In an attempt to dampen expectations after months of excavations at Haut de la Garenne, Deputy Chief Officer Lenny Harper publicly disclosed for the first time that a murder inquiry was unlikely because the remains cannot be dated precisely.
Speaking yesterday, Mr Harper, who is due to retire next month, admitted: "We were pinning our hopes on the process of carbon dating. The latest information we're getting is that for the period we're looking at, it's not going to be possible to give us an exact time of death. The indications are that if the results come back the same way as they have now it is obvious there won't be a homicide inquiry."
He told the BBC that the results indicated that the remains could have originated from anytime between 1650 and 1950.
Mr Harper said the identified bones came from children aged between four and 11. He added: "We cannot get away from the fact that we have found the remains of at least five children there. But at the end of the day there just might not be the evidence to mount a homicide inquiry in an attempt to bring anybody to justice."
The startling admission will raise questions over how four months of painstaking forensic excavations at the home have unearthed numerous bone fragments and milk teeth from five different children – but not enough evidence to try to secure any murder convictions. One leading British forensic archaeologist, who did not want to be named, said he was baffled that police have been unable to date the bones. "I'm surprised the evidence is apparently so inconclusive," he said. "It seems strange that we have lots of bones but an announcement that there will no longer be a murder investigation."
The authorities on Jersey have been accused of ignoring allegations of child abuse in the past, and the latest move is sure to raise further questions. Stuart Syvret, a former health minister on the island, said he was forced out of his job for blowing the whistle on more-recent child abuse.
Mr Harper, a 56-year-old from the mainland, was brought in three years ago to "clean-up" Jersey's police force. He launched the investigation last November after a number of former residents at the home said they were drugged, raped and abused in punishment rooms beneath the building. In order to not alert any potential suspects who might flee the island, police kept their inquiries secret until February, when they discovered what they thought was the remains of a child's skull buried in concrete under a stairwell at the home.
The suggestion that children's remains had been found prompted hundreds more victims to come forward, saying they had been abused in the cellars between the 1960s and 1986. It also thrust the small Channel Island, which prides itself on being an attractive offshore banking centre, uncomfortably to the top of the international news agenda.
As the island's politicians struggled to deal with the damage wrought to Jersey's reputation, the list of potential perpetrators grew to more than 80 people. Although many of them are now dead, police are concentrating on at least 18 "priority" suspects who are still alive.
The skull itself later turned out to be a fragment of coconut or wood, but subsequent excavations not only revealed the labyrinth of punishment rooms described by victims, they also uncovered a frightening array of children's remains.
At least four punishment rooms were uncovered alongside a concrete bath where victims described being held in cold water for hours before being repeatedly abused. Also found were flecks of blood, a set of shackles and graffiti above the bath which read: "I've been bad for years and years."
Forensic archaeologists have now uncovered more than 100 fragments of bone and 65 milk teeth. Two of the bones have been identified – one from a child's leg, the other coming from a child's inner ear. Police believe the milk teeth, meanwhile, were extracted after death because many still have large parts of the root attached to them.
Some of the bones are also charred, while others show signs of trauma including lacerations. There is also archaeological evidence suggesting that efforts were made to conceal them at some point during the late 1960s and early 1970s. But there was no way of knowing whether children had been killed in the cellar or whether the bones were simply suicides and accidental deaths that had been covered up.
Six people related to the Haut de la Garenne inquiry have been arrested so far. Three have been charged with offences relating to the abuse of children; three others have been released on bail pending further inquiries.
How the investigation unfolded
November 2007
Police begin investigating child abuse claims at Haut de la Garenne, a former children's home.
23 February 2008
Police go public with their investigation after discovering what they believe to be the remains of a child.
25 February
A bricked-up cellar is discovered. Sniffer dogs trained to locate blood point to six "hot spots".
1 March
Police find four cellars, a concrete bath and a set of shackles corroborating victim testimonies.
7 March
Dogs find traces of blood in the bath. Police confirm there are more than 100 victims and 25 suspects.
16 April
Police dig near a dormitory after an ex-resident said staff told him to dig two pits. One is filled with lime.
22 April
First bones and milk teeth found.
9 July
Police search nearby WWII bunkers.
31 July
Police admit murder investigation may have to be abandoned.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/jersey-mystery-police-find-remains-of-five-children-but-may-abandon-murder-inquiry-13926054.html

New Estimates Raise AIDS Infection Rate in U.S.
By David BrownWashington Post Staff Writer Saturday, August 2, 2008; 12:35 PM
New federal estimates of the annual number of new HIV infections in the United States, released today, reveal that while the AIDS epidemic here is worse than previously thought, prevention efforts appear to be having some effect.
Even though the number of Americans living with HIV has risen by more than a quarter million people since 1998 -- thanks largely to life-extending antiretroviral drugs -- the number of new cases each year has declined slightly over that period. That suggests that an infected person's likelihood of transmitting the virus to someone else is substantially lower now than it was a decade ago.
The new -- if indirect -- evidence that prevention programs are paying off was one of the few encouraging findings in an update on the American AIDS epidemic issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the eve of the 17th International AIDS Conference, which opens tomorrow in Mexico City.
"Over 95 percent of people living with HIV are not transmitting to someone else in a given year," said David R. Holtgrave, an expert on AIDS prevention at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. "What that says is the transmission rate has been kept very low by prevention efforts."
Those include targeting public health messages to high-risk groups, promoting widespread AIDS testing, and getting newly diagnosed people into medical care quickly, which in most cases lowers their infectiousness.
The CDC spends about $750 million a year on AIDS prevention. The main new finding of its report is that HIV incidence in 2006 -- the latest year for which data are available -- was 56,300 new cases of infection. That is 40 percent higher than the previous government estimate of was 40,000 new cases a year, but statistical back-calculation suggests that HIV incidence has been unchanged since about 2000.
The more accurate estimate was possible for two reasons. A new testing method lets researchers detect infections less than six months old, more quickly than before. New federal regulations are also pushing states to collect data on new HIV infections and not just new AIDS diagnoses.
By the time AIDS is diagnosed, is infection has heavily damaged a person's immune system, making them vulnerable to unusual infections and cancers. This generally occurs eight to 11 years after a person is infected, assuming no treatment with antiretroviral drugs, which can prolong life for many more years.
In December, The Post reported that CDC was revising HIV incidence upward to between 50,000 and 60,000 cases a year. Today's announcement -- and the publication of a paper in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association -- is the first official acknowledgement of the new, higher estimate.
"These data corroborate what many of us suspected -- that the epidemic is worse than we thought. However, it doesn't seem to be getting worse," said Jennifer Kates, director of HIV policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation in Washington.
CDC's portrait of the American AIDS epidemic today shows that gay and bisexual men -- especially those who are young or black -- and their female partners are at particular risk.
In 2006, 73 percent of new HIV infections were in men, 53 percent were acquired through homosexual intercourse, and 45 percent were in African Americans. The incidence rate -- the number of infections per 100,000 people -- was 7 times higher in blacks and 3 times higher in Hispanics than in whites. It was highest in people in their thirties, although people under age 30 accounted for nearly 34 percent of new infections.
The new study also sketches a 30-year picture of how the epidemic has evolved.
Annual incidence peaked in 1985 at 130,000 infections a year, dipped to 49, 000 in the early 1990s, rose to 58,000 in 1998 and has now stabilized at roughly 56,000 a year.
The number of new of HIV cases acquired through drug injection fell by 80 percent over that period through reduced needle-sharing by drug users and, in some places, clean needle exchange programs. Infections acquired through homosexual sex, which also peaked in the early 1980s, fell to a low in the early 1990s but have risen steadily since then.
The epidemic in the African American community is distinctly different from the national epidemic.
From 2001 to 2005, 38 percent of the new diagnoses in blacks were in women, and 46 percent of new infections overall were from heterosexual contact. Among whites during the same period, 16 percent of new infections were in women, and 16 percent were from heterosexual transmission.
About half of CDC's HIV prevention budget targets the black community, said Kevin A. Fenton, who heads those activities at the agency. He said, however, that the rising HIV incidence in gay men, and in young, black gay men especially, is evidence that prevention campaigns have "not reached all those who need it."
Statistics compiled by the Kaiser Family Foundation show that 4 percent of the $23 billion the U.S. government is spending this year on all HIV/AIDS activities (including research, medical care, and overseas programs), goes for prevention.
According to a paper published last year in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, in inflation-adjusted dollars, the CDC's budget for AIDS prevention in 2006 was only 5 percent higher than in 1990.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/02/AR2008080200568.html?hpid=topnews

Father Of 12-year-old charged in her murder August 2, 2008 - 12:15pm
WASHINGTON -- The father of Marisol Caceres has been charged with her murder according to police.
Forty-five-year-old Felipe Caceres, who turned up at a DC police station last night, was charged for the crime this morning, police spokeswoman Traci Hughes tells WTOP.
Police had been looking for him ever since the body of his daughter was discovered Tuesday inside their Northeast home on Hawaii Avenue. The 12-year-old girl had been strangled.
When Caceres showed up at the police station, he reportedly had cuts and bruises on his body and claimed he had been traveling on foot since earlier in the week. Caceres will be formally arraigned later today.
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1452534

Mother: Father Killed Child Over Video Game
Tyrone Spellman, 25, Faces Murder Charges And Others
UPDATED: 12:52 pm EDT October 17, 2006
PHILADELPHIA -- A 25-year-old North Philadelphia man has been charged with killing his young daughter.
The mother said 17-month-old Alayiah was violently punched by Tyrone Spellman over a video game.
"My baby is gone at the hands of her father," Mia Turman said tearfully. "I have to put her in the ground, I shouldn't have to do this."
As the 21-year-old took a nap inside their row-home on the 1500 block of 29th Street, Turman left Alayiah in the care of Spellman, who also goes by the name Anwar Salahuddin.
Turman said that when she woke, "I asked why my baby not breathing. He says, 'She's breathing.' Her eyes were closed."
Turman phoned police around noon. Medics responded and took Alayiah to Temple University Hospital, where the little girl was pronounced dead at 12:37 p.m.
Police arrested Spellman, who lives on the 1500 block of North 29th Street, over the weekend.
He was charged with murder, endangering the welfare of a child and possessing an instrument of crime.
A medical examiner performed an autopsy on the child.
"His confession was she pulled the cords in the game, the system is -- the box itself -- fell, and he was upset and then responsible for paying for the game, so he hit her in her face twice," Turman said, adding that Spellman also allegedly slung the child over a chair.
Eight-months pregnant with another baby girl, Turman was struggling with how to cope. She said she fell in love with a man who had never been violent before, and she wanted to know what would possess someone to kill a child.
"You can't give me a good enough answer to say why you would kill your baby," Turman said.
The couple's second baby will be born with her dad charged with killing the sister she never met. "I do not understand this. I will never understand this," Turman said.
NBC 10 reporter Deanna Durante said a note on the door of the North Philadelphia row-home Monday night said not to judge Spellman because he would never hurt a child.
http://www.nbc10.com/news/9824251/detail.html

I know the last one is not that recent, but it speaks volumes of this socitey and what is important. What is important to it . Just resently i read that a man in China (you can goggle him), kidnapped himself so he could get a Wii game. If it was not so sad it might be funny.