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How TikTok Is Refuting Amber Heard Claims In Johnny Depp Defamation Case How TikTok Is Refuting Amber Heard Claims In Johnny Depp Defamation Case
How TikTok Is Refuting Amber Heard Claims In Johnny Depp Defamation Case Once known as a place to share dancing skills, TikTok is helping to solve national cases and court trials — including actor Johnny Depp's defamation trial against his ex-wife and actress, Amber Heard. Evidence brought forth during last week's trial — taking place in Fairfax County, VA — by Heard’s legal team was debunked on the video-sharing app. Users were among the first to point out that a Milani Cosmetics makeup pallet used as evidence by Heard's legal team was not released until after the alleged abuse against her occurred. Milani later released a statement confirming that. One video…

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by Annie DeVoe
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Feds: NJ Military Vet Charged With Child Porn Trafficking Feds: NJ Military Vet Charged With Child Porn Trafficking
Feds: NJ Military Vet Charged With Child Porn Trafficking A U.S. Army veteran who most recently trained soldiers at New Jersey's McGuire Air Force Base was arrested there by federal agents for trafficking child porn, authorities said. Brian J. Crann, 37, who's been with the military more than a decade, "transmitted a video and two images of child sexual abuse to another individual using an account on an instant messaging mobile application" this past weekend, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger said. Crann "also transmitted a non-pornographic image of himself with a minor who appeared to be the same victim depicted in the images and v…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Death Penalty Will Be Sought For Mom, Partner In Deadly Child Abuse Case: Report Death Penalty Will Be Sought For Mom, Partner In Deadly Child Abuse Case: Report
Death Penalty Will Be Sought For Mom, Partner In Deadly Child Abuse Case: Report Authorities in Pennsylvania will likely be seeking the death penalty for two women accused of intentionally abusing and starving two young girls, whose remains were found in shallow graves last year, PennLive reports. Lycoming County District Attorney Ryan C. Gardner said on Friday that he'll be seeking the extreme punishment for Marie Sue Snyder, 32, and her partner, Echo Lane Butler, 26 -- the latter of whom apparently did the burying -- if they are convicted.  Echo Butler's mom, Michele L. Butler, 49, was arrested on a third-degree murder charge and related offenses, but will b…

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by Cecilia Levine
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PA Sailor Slapped On 9/11 By Cursing Woman In Viral TikTok Video PA Sailor Slapped On 9/11 By Cursing Woman In Viral TikTok Video
PA Sailor Slapped On 9/11 By Cursing Woman In Viral TikTok Video A sailor and fireman was slapped by an angry woman on Sept. 11 who thought he was faking his military status, as seen in a viral TikTok video. Harrisburg native, Sean Nolte Jr., was in his military uniform at Central Pizza in Berlin, Connecticut located at 96 Mill Street when an angry woman started shouting at his that he was disgracing the US military by wearing a fake uniform. Prior to the incident Nolte says he noticed the woman starring at him so when she first approached him, he tried to show her his military id card. “As she leaves, she looks at me and says ‘nice smile’ very sarcas…

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NJ Home Health Aide Accused Of Tying Patient, 71, To Chair Loses Certification NJ Home Health Aide Accused Of Tying Patient, 71, To Chair Loses Certification
NJ Home Health Aide Accused Of Tying Patient, 71, To Chair Loses Certification The certification of a home health aide from Pennsylvania accused of tying a 71-year-old dementia patient to a chair at a South Jersey assisted living facility was permanently revoked, authorities announced. A supervising registered nurse at the Juniper Village/Well Springs Assisted Living Facility in Monroe Township discovered the abused victim during a visit to her apartment at last fall, Acting New Jersey Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck said. The woman – who had round-the-clock health care -- had been “tied to a chair at the waist with a nightgown,” Bruck said. Afua Dankwah, 51, of Mo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Prosecutor: NJ Adult Daycare Center Employees Sentenced For Abusing Disabled Victims Prosecutor: NJ Adult Daycare Center Employees Sentenced For Abusing Disabled Victims
Prosecutor: NJ Adult Daycare Center Employees Sentenced For Abusing Disabled Victims Five workers of a former adult daycare center in Middlesex County have been convicted and sentenced for their involvement in the physical abuse of two patients with severe disabilities, authorities said Friday. New Brunswick resident and former Broadway Respite and Home Care employee Asia Lunn, 24, was convicted of abandonment and neglect of a disabled person on July 23, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone said in a release Friday. Lunn was sentenced to 180 days in county jail, five years probation and a $1,000 fine, Ciccone said. Lunn’s conviction and sentencing follows a nearly t…

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NJ Correctional Employees Indicted In Beating Of Federal Detainee Who Squirted Liquid At Them NJ Correctional Employees Indicted In Beating Of Federal Detainee Who Squirted Liquid At Them
NJ Correctional Employees Indicted In Beating Of Federal Detainee Who Squirted Liquid At Them Four Essex County correctional employees were indicted by a grand jury on civil rights charges in the beating last summer of a federal detainee. The indictment returned in Newark charges Officer Damion James, 41, with assaulting the pretrial detainee at the Essex County Correctional Facility, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said. Sgt. Herman Pride, 51, Sgt. Jennifer Whitley, 38, and Lt. Nicholas Palma, 46, were all charged in the indictment with failing to intervene to stop the Aug. 17, 2020 assault, she said, adding that Whitley also was charged with submitting a false report. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Home Health Aide Caught On Hidden Camera Admits Physically Abusing Clifton Woman, 90 Home Health Aide Caught On Hidden Camera Admits Physically Abusing Clifton Woman, 90
Home Health Aide Caught On Hidden Camera Admits Physically Abusing Clifton Woman, 90 Faced with footage from a hidden camera, a home health aide from North Bergen admitted that she abused a 90-year-old patient in the bedridden woman’s Clifton home, authorities said Tuesday. Emma Llanes, 57, “put a cloth over the patient's face without reason, grabbed [her] by the back of the neck and pushed the patient’s head forward, slapped [her] legs and failed to assist the patient while getting dressed,” a complaint filed by the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs (DCA) says. The footage was captured by a hidden camera that the victim’s family obtained from the DCA’s Safe Care Cam …

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by Jerry DeMarco