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Posted: 10:53 a.m. Friday, Jan. 22, 2010

Teen Videos Women In Bathrooms; Mom Forces Kid To Kill Hamster; 'Help For Haiti' Tonight; 'Jesus Rifles' Under Fire 

By Veronica Waters

A teenager is charged with taping women and girls using the bathroom; a Warm Springs mother is jailed for allegedly punishing her son by making him kill his pet; a star-studded, multi-network Haiti fundraiser is tonight; a company agrees to stop making so-called "Jesus Rifles" for the US military.  Get details on today's KISS News Now!

  • A Dawson County teenager is accused of using his cellphone to record videos of women using bathrooms at his fast food job, his house and his church.  David Gormley, 17, has been charged with four counts of felony eavesdropping and is free on $40,000 dollars bond.  Investigators have found more than a dozen victims, some of whom can't be identified.  Four of them are under 16.

  • Upset over her son's bad report card, a Meriwether County mother allegedly made the 12-year-old kill his pet hamster.  The following day, he told his teacher, who called DFCS.  The 38-year-old Lynn Geter has now been jailed for a week on child cruelty, animal cruelty and battery charges.

  • For the second time in a week, someone asleep in bed has been killed by a stray bullet.  This time it was a squabble on Dalia Avenue in Atlanta; one of nine gunshots went into an apartment and killed a man.  Monday, a 13-year-old Gwinnett County boy died when shots were fired outside his home.

  • With students chanting their support, the lawyer for Lassiter High School counselor Frank Robinson says they'll present their case today in a hearing helping determine whether Robinson should lose his job.  A 17-year-old student accused him of putting his hand in her lap when she went to his office to talk to him about a schedule change.  "He basically just felt me up in his office," she testified.  Robinson maintains his innocence--and so does a Facebook page put up by his supporters.

  • In Haiti, the struggle continues to get food, water and critical supplies to survivors of last week's earthquake. A U.S. charity reports that stick-wielding quake victims have made off with about 50 tons of rice, oil, dried beans and salt.  Haitian officials will try to reduce the threat of disease in the capital by moving hundreds of thousands of people to more adequate temporary shelters outside Port-au-Prince.  The squalid camps up now put people at risk because there's no sanitation.

  • More than 100 stars light up the night tonight for a major earthquake relief fundraiser.  "Help For Haiti Now" is being co-hosted by Haiti native Wyclef Jean and George Clooney.  "We're going to have 18 songs," says Clooney, "and you're going to get to hear Jennifer Hudson sing a song you've never heard her sing before.  John Legend singing 'Motherless Child,' I mean, it's just beautiful."  Other celebrities lending their talents include Denzel Washington, Stevie Wonder, Beyonce and Jay-Z, Rihanna, Justin Timberlake, Madonna, Alicia Keys, Christina Aguilera and Taylor Swift.  The two-hour show will air on several networks.

  • Simon Cowell is planning a charity single to benefit Haiti victims; and 25 years after "We Are The World" became a global hit, Lionel Richie and Quincy Jones are remaking the charity song for Haiti earthquake relief.  They'll do it during Grammys weekend in Los Angeles.

  • Don't forget: starting this Sunday until the Grammys January 31, Target begins giving away free 3D glasses for a special Michael Jackson tribute.  Smokey Robinson, Jennifer Hudson, and Usher will help showcase a 3-D "Earth Song" mini-movie Jackson made for his This Is It concerts.

  • The fired chairman and treasurer of the SCLC have been ordered reinstated by a Fulton County judge--unless and until the SCLC board votes them out according to the group's bylaws.  Raleigh Trammell and Spiver Gordon were removed from their jobs in a conference call last month, over allegations they'd diverted a half-million dollars into bank accounts the two of them controlled.

     
  • A second teen driver has come forward after Wednesday's fatal accident in front of Stone Mountain High School.  DeKalb County Police say this 17-year-old was driving a BMW when the other 17-year-old driver, Shaheed Saunders, tried to pass him and lost control of his Crown Vic.  Saunders' car hit three teens walking on the sidewalk, killing 14-year-old Tanesha Williams. The other students are in stable condition at Grady Hospital, being treated for broken bones. So far, no charges have been filed.

  • Woodstock Police are warning residents not to make it so easy for the crooks.  A trio of theives has been crusing through neighborhoods at night, primarily targeting unlocked cars and making off with electronics, cash, and credit cards.  They tried to buy an XBox with a stolen credit card but it was declined.  Police describe them as two men and a woman in their 20s, driving a white Ford Taurus or Mercury Sable.

  • Homeland Security wonders why these crooks seem so interested in propane tanks: they've used bolt-butters to steal 22 tanks of propane from the Big H Food Mart on Moreland Ave.  The crooks are in a burgundy and black Volkswagen Jetta.  Police are concerned the propane could be used for explosives, or to make meth.

  • A defense contractor in Michigan has agreed to stop putting coded Scriptures on the sights of rifles it makes for the military.  General David Petraeus called the inscriptions "disturbing." The Pentagon got a complaint from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, which said the Taliban could use the sights for propaganda and accuse the US of being Christian crusaders invading Muslim countries.  Here is a photo of one of the scopes on the so-called "Jesus Rifles" with the hidden message.  On this one, the number includes the letters and numbers JN812, referencing the book of John, Chapter 8, verse 12, which reads in part, "When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, 'I am the light of the world.'"  The company Trijicon makes the sights for the Marines and Army, and they're also used on guns used by training Afghan and Iraq soldiers. Other sights have references to the New Testament books of Corinthians, Revelation and Matthew.

  • President Barack Obama travels to a state hit hard by the recession today as he continues this week's focus on the economy.  He'll talk to Ohio workers and business owners about plans to put more people to work.

  • Health care overhaul is on life support in Washington.  Speaker Nancy Pelosi acknowledges she doesn't have the votes to pass the Senate's version of health insurance reform through the House as-is. 

  • State employees in Georgia are looking at another boost in their health insurance premiums next year.  Health commissioner Rhonda Medows told a joint appropriations committee Thursday that Governor Perdue's budget proposal contains another 10 percent premium hike for 2011.

  • Michael Vick takes his road to redemption to TV.  He says his new 10-part show on BET will prove that he's a changed man from the person who bankrolled a dog fighting enterprise called the Bad Newz Kennels.  The show debuts February 2.

  • Services for Teddy Pendergrass are set for this weekend in Philadelphia. Today, there is a public viewing, and the actual funeral is scheduled for Saturday. Among those expected to be on hand to perform are Stevie Wonder, Tyrese, Stephanie Mills and Melba Moore. After the memorial, Pendergrass will be laid to rest near Philly. Pendergrass died last week at age 59. He had colon cancer.

  • A Norcross woman speeds off with her boyfriend on the roof of her car.  22-year-old Lakisha Middleton drove nearly 3 miles down Buford Drive before she finally stopped to let Mark Jordan get in.  They'd been arguing outside Wal-Mart when Middleton took off with their two-year-old; Jordan allegedly jumped on and punched through the windshield.  She's charged with aggravated assault, he with property damage and misdemeanor child cruelty.

  • The KISS 104.1 weather forecast:  morning sprinkles and fog, then a mostly cloudy high of 51. 
 
 
 

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