Signs of the Times: Woman gets 3 life terms for torturing 7yo granddaughter while clad as witch
Here is the latest madness coming from the modern world
An Oklahoma City woman has been sentenced to three consecutive
life terms behind bars for physically abusing and scaring her
seven-year-old granddaughter while dressed as a witch.
Fifty-one-year-old
Geneva Robinson pleaded guilty to five counts of felony child abuse.
She admitted to scratching the girl’s neck, hitting her hand with a
rolling pin, striking her in the face, and cutting her hair while she
slept, the Oklahoman reports.The girl was kicked, hit, whipped, burned and “repeatedly tortured,” Assistant District Attorney Merydith Easter told the judge. The victim was also told that witches and creatures lived in the attic.
The victim and her three siblings lived with Robinson and her boyfriend, Joshua Granger, 33, after the children’s parents split. The evidence showed that the girl had been tortured between June and September of 2014.
During sentencing, Easter told the judge about the “house of horrors” the victim lived in.
The video that was used in the trial shows blood-chilling moments when Robinson is made up as ‘Nelda’, dressed in black and wearing a mask with her hands painted green.
WARNING: Viewer discretion is advised. You may find the video below disturbing.
Dogs are heard barking wildly, and the children on the sofa are very scared.
Robinson’s boyfriend, who is also in the video, can be heard saying, “Grandma’s sick because of you. You go with the witch.”
The child pleaded with the “witch,” promising to be good to her grandmother.
“I promise, witch. I promise,” the girl said, to which Robinson replied, “You lie, you lie, you lie, little girl.”
The woman was first arrested in September of 2014 after taking her malnourished granddaughter to the hospital.
Prosecutors alleged that the girl had been hung by her arms from the garage ceiling and whipped. They also said she had been forced to sleep outside with the dogs, kept from attending school, and deprived of adequate medical care and nutrition.
“What she [Robinson] did was horrific, and what she did will forever impact this child and her siblings. She deserves the same amount of mercy that she showed this child, and that’s none,” Easter said.
The woman’s defense attorney, Tanya Jones, said Robinson “understands she went too far” and is currently taking medication for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
Robinson’s boyfriend was sentenced to 30 years behind bars on one count of felony child abuse.
Robinson’s boyfriend, who is also in the video, can be heard saying, “Grandma’s sick because of you. You go with the witch.”
The child pleaded with the “witch,” promising to be good to her grandmother.
“I promise, witch. I promise,” the girl said, to which Robinson replied, “You lie, you lie, you lie, little girl.”
The woman was first arrested in September of 2014 after taking her malnourished granddaughter to the hospital.
Prosecutors alleged that the girl had been hung by her arms from the garage ceiling and whipped. They also said she had been forced to sleep outside with the dogs, kept from attending school, and deprived of adequate medical care and nutrition.
“What she [Robinson] did was horrific, and what she did will forever impact this child and her siblings. She deserves the same amount of mercy that she showed this child, and that’s none,” Easter said.
The woman’s defense attorney, Tanya Jones, said Robinson “understands she went too far” and is currently taking medication for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
Robinson’s boyfriend was sentenced to 30 years behind bars on one count of felony child abuse.
82-year-old woman spins hot beats as a club DJ in trendy Tokyo
Japan's first octogenarian DJ can spin a mean beat.
82-year-old Sumiko Iwamuro, who goes by "DJ Sumirock," is a monthly fixture at DecabarZ, a club in the heart of Shinjuku, Tokyo.
Iwamuro, who's spent over 50 years running a gyoza (dumpling) restaurant, only took up the turntables in her 70s, after her husband passed away.
She spent a year doing DJ training in a local music school, The Times reports.
Later, she was introduced to the club scene after meeting a French event producer.
Iwamuro said she fell in love with music because of her father, who was a jazz drummer. During World War II, she would listen to jazz records, muffling the gramophone with a cushion so others didn't know that she was listening to music from enemy Allied cultures.
But she was pulled into helping out at the family's gyoza restaurant since she was 19, and didn't pursue music, according to AFP BB News.
Iwamuro usually opens her set with the theme to popular 1980s Japanese anime series Astro Boy — and her sound is fundamentally techno music with jazz, French chanson and classical music.
Working the turntables is similar to running a gyoza restaurant, she said. "In both, results can be seen immediately. If the customer eats what you have made, it shows on his face if it is delicious; and if a DJ is good, everyone will dance happily."
Despite her age, she's still stealing the hearts of Japan's club-goers.
"She's got this energy that goes beyond age, and that can equal any young person's here," 25-year-old clubber Fuminari Fujii told Reuters.
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