Claim: A notorious pedophile was killed by a mother who blew his head off with a shotgun when he tried to rape her 12-year-old child.
Verdict: REFUTES

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title: Shattered (Casey book)
text: school coach, and Belinda a teacher. They married and had one child, a 3-year-old boy. On January 11, 1999, Belinda, 30 years old and eight months pregnant with their second child, was killed by a single gunshot blast to her head. The weapon, a 12-gauge shotgun, was never found. The case remained long unsolved until the prosecutor determined that Temple, a football coach and teacher, had been an emotionally abusive husband involved in an extra-marital affair and, thus, had a motive for killing Belinda. Temple, represented by defense lawyer Dick DeGuerin, was convicted in November 2007 of murder in the

title: Murugesapillai Koneswary
text: that same day, Mrs. Koneswary, a mother of four, was allegedly raped and killed by the police after carrying her four-year-old daughter away. It is reported that her rapists killed her by exploding a grenade on her abdomen thus destroying the evidence of any rape. According to her neighbours, she had history of problems with the Central Camp police in the Kalmunai district in eastern Sri Lanka. During that time she had been subjected to alleged persistent harassment at the Central camp checkpoint. Two months before she was killed, some police officers had allegedly cut and took away a Margosa

title: Day-care sex-abuse hysteria
text: and terrorized them by forcing them to watch him mutilate birds, a lesson to children who might reveal the abuse. Fuster had been previously convicted for manslaughter and for molesting a 9-year-old child. Testimony from children in the case was elicited by University of Miami child psychologists Laurie and Joseph Braga, who resorted to coercive questioning of the alleged victims when the desired answers were not forthcoming. Fuster's wife recanted her court testimony in an interview with Frontline, saying that she had been kept naked in solitary confinement and subjected to other forms of physical and psychological duress until she

title: Yavuz Yapıcıoğlu
text: father defended himself with a pump-action shotgun. He fled from there to Edremit, where his maternal grandmother lived. Three days later, Yapıcıoğlu killed her by hitting her head with a crystal ashtray, because she had told him something about his mother (her daughter) that he did not like. His mother died of a heart attack two days later, upon learning about this incident. After another arrest, Bakırköy Psychiatric Hospital again found him to have diminished responsibility. He stayed in a mental hospital for treatment lasting about one year. Following his release, he continued with his murders. He killed three people

title: Homicidal sleepwalking
text: using an axe and a hammer on January 11, 2001. Nieto's daughter suffered a jaw fracture but was left alone after feigning death, and his son disarmed him after receiving a cut on the ear. Nieto claimed to have been asleep during the attack and dreaming that he was defending himself against aggressive ostriches. However, his children stated that he had recognized them and had even told his son to not turn on the lights because their mother (gravely injured already) was sleeping. In 2007 Nieto (already under psychiatric treatment) was sentenced to 10 years interment in a psychiatric hospital

title: Todd Kohlhepp
text: her with a .22-caliber revolver, brought her back to his home, tied her up, taped her mouth shut, and raped her. Afterwards, he walked her home and threatened to kill her younger siblings if she told anyone what happened. Kohlhepp was charged with kidnapping, sexual assault, and committing a dangerous crime against children. In 1987, he pled guilty to the kidnapping charge, and the other charges were dropped; he was sentenced to fifteen years in prison, and registered as a sex offender. According to court records, Kohlhepp was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and had an IQ of 118, which

title: Russell Williams (criminal)
text: head while she and her baby were asleep in her house. The first day of trial revealed that Williams also had pedophiliac tendencies, stealing underwear of girls as young as nine years old. He made 82 fetish-related home invasions and attempted break-ins between September 2007 and November 2009. Williams had progressed from break-ins to sexual assaults with no penetration to rape and murder. He had kept detailed track of police reports of the crimes he was committing, logged his crimes, kept photos and videos, and had even left notes and messages for his victims. In a break-in into the bedroom

title: Richard Ramirez
text: by shooting the sleeping man in the head with a .25 caliber handgun, killing him instantly. He then repeatedly raped Somkid Khovananth, beating and sodomizing her. He bound the couple's terrified 8-year-old son before dragging Somkid around the house to reveal the location of any valuable items, which he stole. During his assault he demanded that she "swear to Satan" that she was not hiding any money from him. On August 6, 1985, Ramirez drove to Northridge and broke into the home of Chris and Virginia Peterson. Ramirez crept into the bedroom, startling Virginia, 27, prompting him to shoot her

title: Killing of Ronnie Paris
text: had repeatedly abused the child, slapping him in the back of the head, slamming him into walls, and forcing the child to participate in father-son boxing matches until the boy began to shake, cry, and wet himself. The child's father was charged with murder and aggravated child abuse. His mother was charged with child neglect and failing to get medical attention for her son. In July 2005, Ronnie Paris Sr. went on trial for his son's murder facing a maximum of 15 years for the death. During the trial witnesses testified the boy had been slapped around and thrown into

title: Manuel Octavio Bermúdez
text: as abusive. Bermúdez later had several kids of his own. Bermúdez raped and killed at least 21 children in several towns of Valle del Cauca from 1999 to 2003. He had worked as an ice cream vendor and would lure his victims to corn fields with offers of money for picking corn. Bermúdez would then rape and strangle them to death while sometimes injecting them with a syringe to weary their legs. The mother of 12-year-old Luis Carlos Gálvez reported his disappearance and Bermúdez had been seen with him. He was arrested on July 18, 2003. Investigators inspected a room

title: Familial homicide
text: at significant risk of serious physical harm from members of that household. On Friday, 15 December 2006, Rebecca Lewis was sentenced to six years imprisonment for failing to prevent the murder of her 13-month-old son by her boyfriend in Wales. A number of people were charged with this offence in connection with the discovery of a headless and dismembered body (which later proved to be that of Michael Gilbert ) in the Blue Lagoon, Arlesey, Bedfordshire, an English beauty spot. On 23 April 2010 James Watt, his girlfriend Natasha Oldfield, and his brother's girlfriend Nichola Roberts were convicted of murder

title: Cogne homicide
text: a comforter and gasping in a pool of blood. The victim, a three-year old child, was sleeping in his parents' bed and had not attempted to escape. The woman ran to the window to attract the attention of a neighbor, to whom she shouted, "My baby's head has exploded", then called 118 (the Italian emergency telephone number) requesting assistance because "My child has vomited blood and stopped breathing." Shortly after, neighbor psychiatrist Ada Satragni arrived on the scene. The doctor believed Franzoni that the child's skull would have "exploded", stating that a cerebral aneurysm may actually increase the intracranial pressure,

title: Laurie Dann
text: a .32 Smith & Wesson from the waistband of her shorts and aimed it at several groups of the students. She shot five children, killing eight-year-old Nicholas Corwin and wounding two girls and two boys before fleeing in her car. Dann was prevented from leaving the area by car because the roads were closed for a funeral cortege. She decided to drive her car backwards down the nearby street, but the road dead-ended into a private drive. Abandoning her car, she removed her bloodstained shorts and tied a blue garbage bag around her waist. With her two remaining guns she

title: Laurie Dann
text: Next Dann drove the children back to their home and offered them some arsenic-poisoned milk, but the boys spat it out because it tasted strange to them. Once at their home, she lured them downstairs and used gasoline to set fire to the house, trapping their mother and the two children in the basement (they managed to escape). She drove three and a half blocks to the Hubbard Woods Elementary School with three handguns in her possession. She wandered into a second grade classroom for a short while, then left. Finding a boy in the corridor, Dann pushed him into

title: Murders of Heather Whitbread and Michelle Savage
text: his mother-in-law seven times. He also killed the family dog Zeus. Craig Savage denied the charge of murder, claiming that he had tripped and the gun had gone off accidentally after a struggle with his wife. He claimed that he had planned to kidnap his wife so police would shoot him in front of her. He was found guilty of both murders and sentenced to life with a recommendation that he must must serve at least 38 years. Murders of Heather Whitbread and Michelle Savage Heather Whitbread and Michelle Savage were a mother and daughter who were murdered in St

title: Day-care sex-abuse hysteria
text: well as forcing them to watch animals be tortured and killed. The case also involved accusations that children had been forced to participate in bizarre religious rituals, and been used to make child pornography. The case began with a single accusation, made by the mother - who was later found to be a paranoid schizophrenic - of one of the students, but grew rapidly when investigators informed parents of the accusation and began interviewing other students. The case made headlines nationwide in 1984, and seven teachers were arrested and charged that year. When a new district attorney took over the

title: Child destruction
text: was convicted of manslaughter and attempted child destruction. In South Wales, in February 2012, Carl raped and fatally stabbed 19-year old Nikitta Grender, the fiancée of his cousin, who was due to give birth to her baby daughter two weeks later, at her home in Ringland, Newport. He was convicted of child destruction, and arson for setting her home alight after the killing. The stab wound killed her unborn daughter. Whant was sentenced to imprisonment for life with a minimum term of 35 years. The crown advocate of the Crown Prosecution Service in Wales said, "Child destruction is a very

title: Igor Irtyshov
text: permanently disabled. It is noteworthy that all the attacks were committed in the daytime, approximately between 12 and 18 hours, but the perpetrator managed to escape unnoticed. A month later he raped two more boys, 11 and 12 years old, on the banks of the Neva River. The seventh victim of the pedophile almost became a 15-year-old teenager, whom the criminal attacked in an elevator. However, the boy managed to fight back and escaped. On the same day, Igor, who was angry because of his failure, committed his eight, and final, crime. After brutally raping a 9-year-old boy, he left

title: The Baby-Roast
text: 2-year-old daughter. When police arrived, she confessed that she had put the girl in the oven along with a cat she had recently shot dead, while making sexual advances toward an officer and singing praise to God. According to an affidavit from the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, she seemed unconcerned with her daughter while in hospital and jail, where she was charged with injury to a child with serious bodily injury and tested positive for alcohol, marijuana and methamphetamine. The girl was put in foster care. In the 1979 blaxploitation film "Avenging Disco Godfather", a PCP addict

title: Murder of Laree Slack
text: is not so important as having a "loving family" in preventing violence toward children. Murder of Laree Slack Laree A. Slack (July 4, 1989November 11, 2001) was the victim of child abuse that led to her death. She was whipped with "an inch-thick section of rubberized electrical cable filled with strands of wire" repeatedly and died from internal bleeding several hours later. Her father, Larry Slack Sr., was convicted of first-degree murder in 2006 as a result of the beating. He received a life sentence for the murder and a 30-year sentence for aggravated battery of a child. The mother,