BOBBI KRISTINA BROWN'S FIANCÉ UNDER CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION

A possible criminal investigation is underway in the Bobbi Kristina Brown case out of Georgia, this according to sources with CNN and TMZ. Those reports say police are allegedly looking into Nick Gordon, Bobbi Kristina’s boyfriend and step-brother, as it relates to foul play.

Bobbi Kristina, who is the daughter of Bobby Brown and the late superstar Whitney Houston, was hospitalized more than a week ago with serious injuries after she was found unconscious in a bathtub.

CNN says a source with knowledge told them authorities are trying to figure out how she ended up “facedown in a tub of water.” In addition, according to the same report, Bobbi Kristina still has injuries to her body that allegedly “need to be explained.”

Roswell Police told CNN when Bobbi Kristina was found on Jan. 31, she did not have a heartbeat and she was not breathing. Since then, according to multiple reports, the 21-year-old has been placed in a medically induced coma.

There has been conflicting information about the health status of Bobbi Kristina since she’s been hospitalized. All anyone knows for certain at this point is she is in fact in the hospital and she is surrounded by family, who some are reportedly at odds with one another.

Lisa Holland, a police spokesperson, told CNN that Nick Gordon, Bobbi’s reported boyfriend / fiancé, and a friend, found her in the bathtub and not only called 911, but performed CPR. Holland also went on to say police consider this a “medical incident” at this point and nothing suggests she was under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

Whitney Houston died in a Beverly Hills hotel bathroom on Feb. 12, 2011. CNN says the coroner ruled her death as an “accidental drowning,” but cocaine and heart disease were also contributors.

Gordon was like a son to Houston, she reportedly raised him since he was 12-years-old. Gordon and Bobbi Kristina grew up in the same environment as brother and sister.

   

by Michelle Sigona

AMERICAN MOM KILLS HER SON BY THROWING HIM OFF A BRIDGE

A mother has been arrested on murder charges after she allegedly threw her six-year-old autistic son from a bridge.

  

Jillian Meredith McCabe, 34, of Seal Rock, Oregon, was in custody over the aggravated murder and first-degree manslaughter of her son London, NBC reported.

 

Jillian Meredith McCabe, 34, of Seal Rock, Oregon, has been arrested for the murder of her six-year-old son London She allegedly threw the boy from the Yaquina Bay Bridge in Oregon (pictured)

The boy's body was found late on Monday night after a woman earlier reported throwing her son off the Yaquina Bay Bridge in Oregon at 6.30pm, police said on Tuesday.

London McCabe was discovered in freezing waters about a mile from the bridge around four hours after his mother said she had thrown him in from about 100 feet up.

Six-year-old London McCabe, who was diagnosed in 2011 with severe autism, was pictured proudly by his father Matt McCabe who suffers from multiple sclerosis

The six-year-old's cause of death is not yet known. 

According to NBC, Mrs McCabe last year set up an online fundraising appeal to help care for her severely autistic son and husband, Matt, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and having a mass on his brain stem in November 2013.

Detectives were questioning the woman who made the 911 call on Monday evening.

The head of police in the coastal community, Newport's Chief Mark Miranda, was on the scene and said that even if someone survived the fall, the cold water would kill in around 20 minutes.

The Coast Guard and Lincoln County authorities searched for hours after the call came in about 6.25pm on Monday. Officers found a woman at the scene.

The body was found floating near a marina after being spotted by a witness from a restaurant close to the Yaquina Bay Bridge.

Mr McCabe and his son, pictured enjoying a hike in 2012. Police confirmed on Monday that they had found the six-year-old's body and arrested Mr McCabe's wife Jillian

The Coast Guard dispatched two boats and a helicopter to search the water. The county sheriff's marine patrol and county search and rescue teams were also involved.

McCabe is being held on $750,000 bail.

In 2011, Matt McCabe, who works for a marketing firm, posted a message on social media sharing the news that his son was 'severely autistic' but was receiving medication and treatment from therapists.

Coastguard and police teams searched the dark waters after a mother allegedly threw the boy from the Yaquina Bay Bridge in Oregon (pictured) before calling 911
In November 2013, a YouCaring fundraising page called, Help Matt on the long Recovery Road, was set up by Jillian McCabe to help pay for hospital bills and long-term care.

On the page, she wrote: 'My husband went from being able to walk/drive/work/make money/talk/throw our son in the air to being diagnosed with MS, having a mass in the brain stem, he is now walking with a walker, not being able to drive/work/make money, he now slurs his speech...

'Matt went from the sole bread winner and provider to not in a matter of 2 weeks.'

Father and son pictured after Mr McCabe was admitted to hospital last November. Mr McCabe was diagnosed with MS and also began treatment for having a mass in the brain stem

The blog also mentioned a link to another blog, since shut down, called autisticlondon.com.

Mrs. McCabe went on to write that her husband was deeply worried about not having health insurance and medical bills.

She wrote: 'Matt's laying in a hospital bed talking about the email project he was working on, complaining we don't have insurance, we don't have the money for hospital bills, he has a shopping cart website to work on...'

Six-year-old London pictured last year in his father's hospital room as he received treatment after being diagnosed with MS

She closed with the words: 'I NEED YOUR HELP.'

The family raised close to $7,000 of a $50,000 target.

In a blog post earlier this year by Mr McCabe, he wrote that he and his wife were undergoing a trial separation but appeared to have reconciled a few months later.

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

JORDANIAN PILOT BURNED ALIVE BY ISIS

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe condemned the apparent murder of a Jordanian air force pilot by the Islamic State, and reiterated his pledge to continue Japan’s nonmilitary aid to countries contending with the militant group.

The last part of a 22-minute video posted by the jihadis shows a man who is believed to be the 26-year-old captured pilot being burned alive in a metal cage.

“We feel strong indignation as Mr. Mu’ath al-Kaseasbeh was brutally murdered by (the Islamic State group). . . . We feel strong anger over this inhumane, extremely despicable act of terrorism. We resolutely denounce this impermissible outrage,” Abe said in a statement.

“We should never give in to terrorism. Our country, cooperating with the international society, will expand humanitarian assistance and fulfill our responsibility in the international society combating terrorism,” he said.

The video was released while Jordanian King Abdullah II was visiting the United States.

In apparent retaliation, Jordan’s government announced later in the day it had executed two militants on death row.

One of them was Sajida al-Rishawi, whose release the militants had demanded in exchange for Japanese hostage Kenji Goto, a freelance journalist captured by Islamic State last fall. The other was a senior al-Qaida member.

During the course of the negotiations, Amman had asked for proof the pilot was alive.

A government spokesman in Jordan, which is participating in the U.S.-led coalition that has been carrying out airstrikes on areas controlled by the Islamic state, said earlier in the day that Amman would deliver a “strong, earth-shaking and decisive” response, according to Reuters.

“The revenge will be as big as the calamity that has hit Jordan,” army spokesman Col. Mamdouh al Ameri said in a televised statement confirming the death of the pilot, Reuters reported.

Meanwhile, Jordanian state television reported that the brutal killing of the pilot took place on Jan. 3, long before the apparent negotiations started Jan. 24 between Jordan and the Islamic State to free the pilot and Goto in exchange for al-Rishawi, a failed female suicide bomber who attacked an Amman hotel in 2005.

Reports also said that a division may have emerged among the militants that may have nixed any deal.

However, if the allegation by Amman of the pilot’s Jan. 3 death is true, the Islamic State group’s main purpose in the swap negotiations may have ultimately been to shock the world and spread its propaganda, not to free the imprisoned failed bomber as it repeatedly demanded.

Asked about this possibility, a high-ranking Japanese official said that could be the case, suggesting that Japan had unconfirmed information that the pilot had been executed earlier.

“It’s not fully clear yet, but that probably explains a lot” of the extremists’ motivation, the official said.

Goto, a veteran journalist who reported extensively about everyday people suffering in war-torn countries, is believed to have been beheaded by the militant group, as claimed in a video released Sunday.

In a video released Jan. 24, the militants claimed to have killed another Japanese hostage, Haruna Yukawa, a self-styled private military contractor, after Tokyo failed to pay $200 million in ransom.

Experts say the Islamic State group is probably trying to shock the Jordanian public and thereby weaken the country’s military ties with the United States. Many Jordanians reportedly are unhappy with the decision to join the U.S.-led air operations.

Masaki Kunieda, a former Japanese ambassador to Syria and author of a book on the Islamic State, pointed out that some Jordanians have already started criticizing the government for its handling of the hostage crisis.

Islamic State “may be trying to add fuel to that criticism,” Kunieda said in a phone interview with The Japan Times.

It remains to be seen whether the criticism will grow intense enough to pressure the government to withdraw from the coalition. On the contrary, the pilot’s brutal killing could ignite sentiment against Islamic State, Kunieda said.

“Still, you need to keep watching the situation,” he said.

King Abdullah II sought Wednesday to keep Jordanians united by issuing a statement that was carried on national television.

“The brave pilot Mu’ath died in defense of his faith, homeland and nation, and joined other martyrs who fell for the sake of the country, sacrificing their lives for dear Jordan,” the king said, according to the Jordan Times.

“At this difficult time, it is the duty of all citizens to unify their ranks and show the true character of the Jordanian people when they face hardships and plights, which will only strengthen us and reinforce our unity,” he said.

The video of al-Kaseasbeh’s killing immediately drew strong condemnation from world leaders, including U.S. President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

“As we grieve together, we must stand united, respectful of his sacrifice to defeat this scourge,” Obama said in a statement.

“Today, the coalition fights for everyone who has suffered from (the Islamic State group’s) inhumanity,” he said.

Meanwhile, Abe admitted Wednesday that Japanese officials could not determine which group had captured Goto until Jan. 20, when the first video showing the two Japanese hostages alongside a masked man appeared online.

“Disappointingly, we could not determine it was ISIL before Jan. 20,” Abe said during the Lower House Budget Committee hearing.

He was responding to questions from Kiyomi Tsujimoto, a member of the Democratic Party of Japan.

ISIL is short for Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, another name for the militant group.

Even so, the government did make efforts using several routes to gather information about the hostages before the appearance of the first ransom video, Abe said.

“It’s really regrettable that (the crisis) resulted this way,” Abe said, adding that as prime minister he bears all responsibility.

Abe brushed off criticism that his policy to boost “proactive contributions to peace” is raising the risk of Japanese becoming targets of terrorists.

“There is nothing wrong with proactive contributions to peace, and (the claim that this policy) will put Japanese citizens’ lives at risk is completely the opposite of the truth,” he said.

-The Japan Times
BY REIJI YOSHIDA AND MIZUHO AOKI

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‘Marry My Gay Daughter, I’ll Give You $120 Million’

A property tycoon who offered £39million to the man who could persuade his gay daughter to marry him has said he will double the ‘marriage bounty’.

Cecil Chao’s initial offer two years ago reportedly attracted 20,000 suitors, including 1500 via Facebook, hoping to persuade Gigi to end her nine-year civil partnership with Sean Eav.

The wealthy property developer’s offer of HK$500million made global headlines and he is now reportedly considering increasing his offer.

The 77-year-old tycoon ‘hinted this figure could be doubled if someone could capture her heart’, claimed Malaysian publication The Edge.

‘I don’t want to interfere with my daughter’s private life. I only hope for her to have a good marriage and children as well as inherit my business,’ Chao said.

But this fresh attempt at a financial sweetener has left Ms Eav ‘distraught’, the South China Morning Post said.

‘I don’t think my dad’s offering of any amount of money would be able to attract a man I would find attractive,’ said 33-year Gigi.

‘I would be happy to befriend any man willing to donate huge amounts of money to my charity Faith in Love, provided they don’t mind that I already have a wife. Third and lastly, thank you daddy.’

Gigi is reported to have married Ms Eav in a ceremony in France in 2012, though same-sex marriages are not recognised in Hong Kong.

‘I don’t want to interfere with my daughter’s private life. I only hope for her to have a good marriage and children as well as inherit my business,’ Chao said.

But this fresh attempt at a financial sweetener has left Ms Eav ‘distraught’, the South China Morning Post said.

‘I don’t think my dad’s offering of any amount of money would be able to attract a man I would find attractive,’ said 33-year Gigi.

‘I would be happy to befriend any man willing to donate huge amounts of money to my charity Faith in Love, provided they don’t mind that I already have a wife. Third and lastly, thank you daddy.’

Gigi is reported to have married Ms Eav in a ceremony in France in 2012, though same-sex marriages are not recognised in Hong Kong.

She has taken her father’s behaviour in her stride, previously telling a newspaper she believed it was an indication of how much he loved her.

But she has repeatedly asked him to stop mentioning the financial reward to the press.

British movie maker Sacha Baron Cohen is reportedly working on a film based on the story.

Chao is a fixture of Hong Kong high society, regularly appearing at public events with his latest young girlfriend and he reportedly once claimed to have slept with 10,000 women.

Brain-Dead Pregnant Woman's Life Support is Turned Off

Brain-dead pregnant woman's life support is turned off after her husband wins fight against Texas hospital to let his wife and unborn child die

•     A judge ordered life support be turned off for brain-dead patient Marlisa Munoz
•     The Texas hospital she was staying in had kept her body alive because she was carrying a child
•     Before her death, Munoz had made it clear to her husband that she would not want to be kept on life support
•     But the hospital argued that they had to keep her on life support in an attempt to save her unborn child
•     The hospital complied with the judges order and Munoz died sometime after 11:30am

The family of a brain-dead, pregnant Texas woman says she has been removed from life support following a judge's ruling that a Fort Worth hospital was misapplying state law in the case.

Mother: Munoz was already a mother of one. She was a few months pregnant when she suffered a blood clot and went brain dead

A statement sent by lawyers for the husband of Marlisa Munoz on Sunday afternoon says she was disconnected from life support about 11:30am.

It says her body was released to her husband, Erick Munoz, and that the family is now looking to lay her to rest.

A judge had given John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth hospital until 5pm Monday to comply with his ruling to remove Marlisa Munoz from life support, which Erick Munoz says is what his wife would have wanted.

J.R. Labbe, a hospital spokeswoman, issued a statement earlier Sunday saying the hospital would follow the order.

She was 14 weeks pregnant when her husband found her unconscious November 26, possibly due to a blood clot.

Both the hospital and family agreed before Wallace's ruling that Marlise Munoz meets the criteria to be considered brain-dead - which means she is dead both medically and under Texas law - and that her fetus, at about 23 weeks, could not be born alive this early in pregnancy.

Her attorneys revealed last week that the fetus was not developing normally, after being deprived of oxygen.

What she would have wanted: Husband Erik Munoz says his wife wouldn't have wanted to keep living in her condition

'According to the medical records we have been provided, the fetus is distinctly abnormal,' the attorneys said. 'Even at this early stage, the lower extremities are deformed to the extent that the gender cannot be determined.'

The attorneys said the fetus also has fluid building up inside the skull and possibly has a heart problem.

The case has raised questions about end-of-life care and whether a pregnant woman who is considered legally and medically dead should be kept on life support for the sake of a fetus. It also has garnered attention on both sides of the abortion debate, with anti-abortion groups arguing Munoz's fetus deserves a chance to be born.

Erick Munoz and his wife are both paramedics familiar with end-of-life issues and knew they did not want to be kept alive by machines in this type of situation.

Munoz described in a signed affidavit Thursday what it was like to see his wife now: her glassy, 'soulless' eyes; and the smell of her perfume replaced by what he knows to be the smell of death. He said he tried to hold her hand but can't.

'Her limbs have become so stiff and rigid due to her deteriorating condition that now, when I move her hands, her bones crack, and her legs are nothing more than dead weight,' Munoz said.

But the hospital argued it was bound by Texas law that says life-sustaining treatment cannot be withdrawn from a pregnant patient, regardless of her end-of-life wishes.

Legal experts interviewed by The Associated Press have said the hospital was misreading the law and that the law doesn't have an absolute command to keep someone like Munoz on life support.

Larry Thompson, a state's attorney arguing on behalf of the hospital Friday, said the hospital was trying to protect the rights of the fetus as it believed Texas law instructed it to do.

'There is a life involved, and the life is the unborn child,' Thompson said.

But on Sunday, the hospital said it would respect the judge's order and back down.

'The past eight weeks have been difficult for the Munoz family, the caregivers and the entire Tarrant County community, which found itself involved in a sad situation,' the hospital's statement says. 'JPS Health Network has followed what we believed were the demands of a state statute.'

Filing suit: Erick Munoz filed suit against John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas to force the hospital to remove the life support keeping his pregnant brain dead wife alive

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

Kim Jong-Un Orders Execution of Uncle's Kin, Including Children

SEOUL, South Korea – The North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un, has allegedly ordered the execution of direct relatives of his uncle Jang Song-Thaek including small children, according to a South Korean news agency report.

The 67-year old and once-powerful Jang was himself executed upon orders from his nephew last month, after being accused of plotting to overthrow the Kim government, among other crimes against the state.

“Extensive executions have been carried out for relatives of Jang Song-thaek,” one anonymous source reportedly said. “All relatives of Jang have been put to death, including even children.”

Among those executed were direct relatives of Jang including his sister, Jang Kye-sun and her husband who is also an ambassador to Cuba , Jon Yong-jin, Ambassador to Malaysia Jang Yong-chol , a nephew of Jang, and his two sons, according to sources.

Although it was not immediately known when the victims were killed, sources believed it may been carried out right after Jang’s execution last December 12.

Both ambassador and their family were said to be recalled to Pyongyang by the North Korean government, and killed, including grandchildren of the Jang’s two brothers.

“Some relatives were shot to death by pistol in front of other people if they resisted while being dragged out of their apartment homes,” another source recalled.

However, some relatives by marriage were spared from execution, including the Malaysian Ambassador’s wife, who was sent instead to a remote village.

Although this report of the Yonhap News Agency has yet to be corroborated, such incident is not altogether far-fetch in a North Korean culture, where ‘guilt by association’ prevailed for decades.

Relatives of those who were either accused or found guilty of crimes similarly suffered punishment, including death.

The purge of the entire family of Jang is believed to be Kim’s effort to ‘erase’ traces of his uncle’s tyranny.

“The executions of Jang’s relatives mean that no traces of him should be left. The purge of the Jang Song-thaek people is under way on an extensive scale from relatives and low-level officials,” the source continued.

Jang Song-thaek’s execution shocked the world as he was previously regarded as Kim’s political mentor and the second most powerful man in the ultra-reclusive state.

He is the brother-in-law of Kim Jong-Il, the current dictator’s father.

By Ron Estur