Man who ran away to Mexico with teen admits sexual assault
A 44-year-old man who flew to Mexico with a 14-year-old family friend pleaded guilty Thursday to sexually assaulting the girl.
Under a plea agreement, Daniel Elliott, of West Deptford, faces a six-year prison term. In the deal, prosecutors agreed to drop charges of endangering the welfare of a child and criminal sexual contact. If he had been convicted on all counts, he could have faced more than 26 years in prison.
The high school freshman’s disappearance on Aug. 28, 2004, sparked an international search that ended Sept. 15 when Elliott was arrested during a dinner with the teen at a restaurant in Progreso, a resort 180 miles west of Cancun on the Gulf of Mexico.
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Man Who Ran To Mexico With L.I. Teen Pleads Guilty To Sex Charges
A convicted sex offender who ran off to Mexico with a 16-year-old Long Island girl has pleaded guilty to third-degree rape and sodomy.
Lester Joy, 25, of Morristown, N.J., said he met the girl on the Internet and went to her house in Hampton Bays on Jan. 31, 2005.
He said he and the girl climbed out of the window and fled to Mexico.
The case was first reported as a missing teenager case, but the girl called home from Mexico two weeks later and said she wanted to come
Rape Victims Denied Legal Abortion
Mexican officials actively prevent rape victims from gaining access to legal and safe abortion, and they fail to punish rape and sexual violence inside and outside the family, said Human Rights Watch in a report released today. The 92-page report, "The Second Assault: Obstructing Access to Legal Abortion after Rape in Mexico," details the disrespect, suspicion and apathy that pregnant rape victims encounter from public prosecutors and health workers. The report also exposes continuing and pervasive impunity for rape and other forms of sexual violence in states throughout Mexico.
"Pregnant rape victims are essentially assaulted twice,"
Arizona Fugitive Detained in Mexico
Mexican authorities have detained and begun deportation proceedings against an Arizona man formerly on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, a U.S. official said Thursday.
Gary Edward Lasher, 28, was arrested Wednesday in the Caribbean resort city Playa del Carmen, said the official, who was not authorized to speak on the record.
Lasher is wanted in Oxnard, Calif., for allegedly beating his mother-in-law unconscious and placing her in his car trunk before she was able to escape. He has been charged with kidnapping, kidnapping for ransom, and false imprisonment with violence in a California state arrest
3 arrested in Mexico rape, killing of teen
Three men have been arrested in the Christmas Eve rape and slaying of a 17-year-old girl in this violent city on Mexico's northern border, authorities said Thursday.
According to statements from two of the suspects, the three men were drinking with Claudia Flores Javier in her home in the early hours of Dec. 24 when one of them proposed having sex with her. She refused before the three raped her, said Claudia Elena Banuelos, spokeswoman for the state Attorney General's Office.
One of the men responded to Flores' resistance by hitting her several times on
Teen sought in fatal shooting may be headed for Mexico
A shooting early Saturday in the Semmes community near Mobile left one man dead and his brother wounded, a sheriff's spokeswoman said.
Abel Perez Jimenez, 23, was killed in the 3:30 a.m. shooting. His brother, Marcario Perez Jimenez, 19, was hospitalized with a gunshot wound.
Mobile County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Christina Bowersox said the shooting resulted from an argument between three men.
Deputies were looking for 18-year-old Luis Manuel Saenz Perez, also known as Augustin Velasquez, for questioning. He is believed to be headed for Mexico with his 14-year-old sister, Bowersox said.
They left
U.S. teen sentenced in Mexico to two years in prison for police officer killings
A judge sentenced a U.S. teenager Wednesday to two years in prison for being an accomplice in the June killings of two traffic officers in this border city.
Bryan Torres, a 17-year-old boy from El Paso, Texas, was found guilty of stealing some of the officers' belongings and of helping his 19-year-old friend Daygoro Rivera move the bodies.
Torres has maintained he was sleeping when the officers were shot.
Rivera confessed to killing the officers because he didn't have money to pay a bribe to the officers so
Tucson teen wanted in murder case arrested in Mexico
A teenager sought in a slaying has been taken into custody by authorities in Mexico and turned over to U.S. officers in Douglas.
Authorities said Robert C. "Manny" Garcia, 16, was booked Friday into the Pima County Jail on a charge of first-degree murder in the May 14 death of 18-year-old Jimmy Lee Rose of Tucson, who was shot numerous times after a fight.
A murder warrant had been issued for Garcia's arrest.
Garcia was ordered held in lieu of $1 million bail on the murder charge and was held without bail on a
Two D.C. Teens Rescued Off Coast of Mexico
Two young men from the District are lucky to be alive after nearly drowning in Mexico on Christmas Day.
Police there say 17-year-old Carolos Rivera and 18-year-old Antonio Rivera were pulled from the water more than 800-feet away from the beach at a Puerto Vallarta resort.
The pair were swept out by a powerful undercurrent.
Both were rescued along with a Mexican teen, and were taken back to shore in a motor boat. None of the three suffered serious injuries.
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Wanted: Mate for lovesick giraffe in Mexico park
Keepers of a small menagerie at a Mexican park are looking for a mate for a lovesick giraffe after the 15-foot-tall beast tried to make love to a tree and a garden shed.
The director of Central Park in Ciudad Juarez, south of the border from El Paso, Texas, said on Friday they have been looking since last month for a mate for the five-year-old giraffe, named Modesto.
"He's driving us crazy," Juan Aragones told Reuters in a telephone interview. "He's mounted a tree, a fence and even a shed."
Aragones said Central Park had
Sex mall highlights changing attitudes in Mexico
In the heart of Mexico City's historic district, a Colonial-style building houses a sexual revolution of sorts.
It's a new mall dedicated to sex and adult entertainment. There are 100 shops in all, specializing in lingerie, alluring scents, erotic jewelry and publications.
"It's very new," said sex mall developer Alberto Kibrit. "We don't have a lot of competition."
Sex is a growth industry in Mexico as more people are open to explore the topic in this predominantly Catholic country.
The mall is brightly painted and well-lit. The developer wanted to create an open atmosphere,
