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Mongols and Hells Angels Invade Hiptown
Echo Park and Los Feliz see influx of violent, clashing criminal biker groups
A A A Comments (59) By Howie Stier Thursday, Jan 6 2011

The soft-spoken guitarist recalls hearing, " 'All you motherfuckers are going to die'" and "then I just saw muzzle flashes."
Part Time Punks producer Michael Stock at the Echo
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Part Time Punks producer Michael Stock at the Echo
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Reaching for his coffee as a tremble in his hand attenuates up his tattoo-sleeved forearm, the musician says of his tremor, "It's nothing — a family thing."

But it may have something to do with getting rained on by a barrage of bullets fired at close range on a busy commercial stretch of Echo Park. Today, the guitarist offers insight into two criminal biker groups that are clashing in Los Angeles, leading one biker to act out a violent video game–style fantasy that targeted innocent clubgoers.

As the Echo's weekly Part Time Punks show let out in the early morning of June 21, witnesses say, a black-clad, automatic weapon–wielding gunman lumbered into the middle of Sunset Boulevard and calmly fired round after round into the exiting crowd on the sidewalk before fleeing on his motorcycle.

There are Los Angeles neighborhoods where, when someone flashes a firearm, the fight-or-flight instinct kicks in. Not here, on Sunset north of Echo Park Lake, among record shops and ironic storefronts such as Dave Eggers' Time Travel Mart. The shooter actually announced his intent to kill, yet the crowd stood passively as if watching a performance-art piece.

"It seemed so cheesy, I thought it was a joke," says the guitarist, 30, whom we'll call Brad; he's a witness in the gunman's trial and fears for his life. "When he started shooting, I just stood there staring at him. I couldn't believe anyone would fire a gun into a crowd of nerdy indie-rock kids.

"After four shots, that changed," Brad says. "He shifted his fire toward [the Echo's] doorway, and I finally ducked." And saved his own ass.

The bullets, which bit chunks of concrete off the Echo's crudely candy-colored façade, all hit high. Amazingly — Die Hard 2 ridiculously — Brad, though struck in the head, suffered only a grazed temple, with another bullet leaving a burn across his wrist.

Two other clubgoers weren't so lucky. A drummer caught a round in his arm, which shattered the bone, and now, months later, his music career is probably over. Another guitarist languished for months in the hospital following complications from a bullet tearing through his torso.

Amy Lee, vocalist for the Meek, had just collected her band's pay when she stepped out of the Echo and saw the shooter. "I froze," Lee recalls. "It didn't register. This guy in a big jacket, screaming like a bear — I didn't think it was real."

Luckily someone knocked Lee to the ground, and a girl dragged her inside, out of harm's way.

Los Angeles Police Department detectives were initially baffled. The Echo isn't a hub of criminal activity, and Part Time Punks is just that. This is where the bloodless and the twee, guys who can't bench-press their shirts, chicks in leopard-print dresses, have no natural predators.

At the time, an LAPD supervisor at Rampart Division could only comment, "This is kind of weird."

But the LAPD quickly established that among fans of the dark, psychedelic music churned out by garage rockers the Warlocks and the Meek are members of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. "We're going over the security tape and see there's a 'full-patch' Hells Angel in the club," says Officer Jose Mireles, of Rampart Division, meaning a full-fledged member, "and he's the victim" of the attempted hit.

A blood feud between the Mongol Nation Motorcycle Club and the Hells Angels has not abated since "Operation Black Rain" in 2008, in which 1,000 local cops, feds and deputized Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms agents arrested 60 members of the Mongol MC in five states.

Less than a month after the Echo shooting, LAPD's Mireles, along with other Rampart cops, arrested Jose Luis Sanchez, 25, a Mongol "prospect," in his Hollenbeck area home, for the crime.

"This is an ongoing battle for territory," Mireles says, "and it's all about the California bottom rocker" — the word California written in Gothic lettering on both the Mongols' and the Hells Angels' jacket patches, which are considered a gang's colors. The patch, Mireles says, is a message to others: "I sell my drugs here, and you're not allowed to."

Police say that shortly before the Echo Park shooting spree, Sanchez, who now faces several counts of attempted murder, assault and weapons charges, somehow was alerted to the presence of a Hells Angels member at the Echo. As if inspired by video game Assassin's Creed — where cred is built by attracting the most witnesses to a killing — Sanchez allegedly engaged his target, the Hells Angel, in front of dozens of witnesses, while being taped by video surveillance cameras.

"I felt terrible, after I invited people to the show and something this tragic happened," says Lee, vocalist for the Meek. "Afterwards, we didn't book a show, we didn't know why this happened. Only now do I feel normal again."

Police won't identify the victims, because Sanchez's trial is ongoing, with another court appearance set for Jan. 18. "Mongols have a reputation for intimidating witnesses," Mireles tells L.A. Weekly.
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Cops: Tattoo artist charged with sex assault

BY KIM JANSSEN Staff reporter Jan 9, 2011 05:22PM

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A tattoo artist raped his girlfriend using tattoo tools above a near West Side tattoo parlor, authorities allege.

Jef Whitehead, 42, allegedly choked and beat his 26-year-old girlfriend unconscious by banging her head against a wall above Taylor Street Tattoo and Piercing, 1150 W. Taylor, in the early hours of Saturday morning.

He also attacked her with a pair of scissors, it's alleged.

When she regained consciousness she discovered she had been sexually assaulted with the tattoo tools, Assistant Cook County State's Attorney Tom McGuire said.

Whitehead then allegedly knocked her out again, McGuire said. When the victim woke up she was in the street outside the parlor, he added.

A heavily-bearded and tattooed Whitehead was dressed all in black as he appeared before Judge Israel Desierto Sunday morning.

Wearing a hooded sweater with the words "stop the madness" printed on it, he was ordered held on bail of $350,000.

Whitehead is from California but he and his girlfriend had recently arrived in Chicago and were considering making it their permanent home, McGuire said.

Contributing: Rosemary Sobol

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ConcreteMascara

Fuck I guess Leviathan/LoC really is over with. At least until the prison come-back album!

But this cracked me up from the article before, "I couldn't believe anyone would fire a gun into a crowd of nerdy indie-rock kids."

I can't believe it hasn't happened sooner...
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GEWALTMONOPOL

I count to 1 allege, 1 alleged and 2 allegedly in that text. Give me hard evidence and I'll believe it, I'll reserve judgement till then.
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Child sex trafficking in UK on the rise with even younger victims targeted

White, black and Asian children at risk with abusers using mobiles and web to groom victims, say Barnardo's


    * Alexandra Topping
    * The Guardian, Monday 17 January 2011
    * Article history

Child abuse victim Tim, a victim of abuse who was 14 when he was groomed by one man. Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian

The trafficking of British children around UK cities for sexual exploitation is on the increase with some as young as 10 being groomed by predatory abusers, a report reveals today.

The average age of victims of such abuse has fallen from 15 to about 13 in five years, according to the report by Barnardo's, the UK's biggest children's charity.

But victims continue to be missed as telltale signs are overlooked "from the frontline of children's services to the corridors of Whitehall," said Anne Marie Carrie, the charity's new chief executive.

"Wherever we have looked for exploitation, we have found it. But the real tragedy is we believe this is just the tip of the iceberg," she said.

Calling for a minister to be put in charge of the government's response, she said: "Without a minister with overall responsibility the government response is likely to remain inadequate."

The main findings from the report, called Puppet on a String, include:

• Trafficking becoming more common and sexual exploitation more organised.

• Grooming methods becoming more sophisticated as abusers use a range of technology – mobile phones, including texts and picture messages, Bluetooth technology, and the internet – to control and abuse children.

The charity dealt with 1,098 children who had been groomed for sex last year, a 4% increase on the previous year.

A recent focus on the ethnicity of abusers risks putting more children in danger, said Carrie. "I am not going to say that ethnicity is not an issue in some geographical areas, it clearly is. But to think of it as the only determining factor is misleading and dangerous."

The issue has come under the spotlight after cases in Derby, where ringleaders of a gang of Asian men were jailed for grooming girls as young as 12 for sex, and in Rochdale, where nine mainly Asian men were arrested on Tuesday last week on suspicion of grooming a group of white teenage girls.

Carrie warned of the risk of the issue becoming dangerously simplified after comments from the former home secretary Jack Straw, who said some Pakistani men saw white girls as "easy meat".

The charity dealt with white, black and Asian victims, she said – whose voices were being lost. "Profiling and stereotyping is dangerous – we are scared that victims will say: 'I don't fit into that pattern, so I'm not being abused'."

The report identifies many different patterns of abuse, ranging from inappropriate relationships to organised networks of child trafficking.

Of Barnardo's 22 specialist services surveyed for the report, 21 had seen evidence of the trafficking of children through organised networks for sex, often with multiple men.

Among the cases highlighted is Emma, who met her first "boyfriend" when she was 14. In his 30s, he bought her presents, said he loved her, then forced her to have sex with his friends. She was shipped around the country and raped by countless men. "I got taken to flats, I don't know where they were and men would be brought to me. I was never given any names, and I don't remember their faces," she said.

The "inappropriate relationship" usually involved an older abuser with control over a child. Such cases included Sophie, who was 13 when she met her "gorgeous" 18-year-old boyfriend at a cousin's 21st birthday party. After initially treating her well, he isolated her from her family and became violent. When police rescued her, they told her the man was 34, with a criminal record for child abuse. "I said they were lying. I thought I was in love, I thought it was normal," she said.

The "boyfriend" model, sees girls groomed, often by a younger man, who passes her on to older men. In one case an Asian teenager from the north-west described being dragged out of a car by her hair by her "boyfriend", who took her to a hotel room "to have his friends over and do what they wanted to me".

Boys are also vulnerable: a 14-year-old, Tim, was groomed by one man then expected to have sex with many more. "After a while there would be three or four guys all at once. It was horrible and very scary," he said.

Abusers are increasingly using the internet and mobile phone technology to control victims. Teens are being coerced into sending, or posing for, sexually explicit photos which are then used to blackmail and control them, said Carrie. "The abuser then sells the images, and threatens to send the pictures to the girl's parents or school if she does not do x, y and z."

Often abusers target the most vulnerable: children in care, foster homes or from chaotic backgrounds. But children of all backgrounds are at risk, said Carrie.

Penny Nicholls, director of children and young people at The Children's Society, said the Barnardo's findings echoed their experiences. "We join Barnardo's in calling on the government to take urgent action, ensuring a minister has special responsibility for overseeing a countrywide response to combat sexual exploitation."

A Department for Education spokeswoman said: "This is a complex problem and we are determined to tackle it effectively by working collaboratively right across government and with national and local agencies."
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More proof of how brimful of love the world is:

Second disabled woman is identified in abuse video
January 14, 2011 |  6:36 pm
Authorities said they have located a second victim shown on a gruesome video showing disabled women being sexually abused by men.

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department officials said Friday that they served search warrants at three residences as part of the ongoing investigation.

Ernie Lloyd, 37, of Los Angeles was arrested Saturday after he turned himself in to Los Angeles police in Hollywood in connection with the assault of an unidentified 25-year-old woman shown in the video.

The video, given to sheriff's deputies by an anonymous source, shows men having sex with women, many of whom appear to be disabled, with some in wheelchairs and wearing diapers.

But prosecutors said the tapes alone are not sufficient evidence, telling Sheriff's Department detectives that they need to provide more facts about the women's medical histories, level of disabilities and other information.

"In order to effect a filing, we would either have to prove that the victim did not consent to the sexual acts or she was unable to consent to the sexual acts," the district attorney's office wrote in a memo. "There is insufficient evidence to prove either of these theories beyond a reasonable doubt."

The Sheriff's Department did not directly comment on the district attorney's decision. But in a statement issued after prosecutors had turned back the case, sheriff's officials said they had gathered large amounts of evidence, including an intensive interview with an alleged victim, who told them she was sexually assaulted at a residential care facility in Los Angeles.

The department said the woman specifically named Lloyd and a second suspect, Bert Hicks, as being among those who assaulted her, according to the statement. Hicks is serving a state prison sentence.

-- Andrew Blankstein



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Mark Kennedy case: News of sexual liaisons may result in civil actions

Lawyers say there may be grounds for common law actions for negligence after news of undercover policeman's relationships

    * guardian.co.uk, Thursday 13 January 2011 20.36 GMT
    * Article history

Mark Kennedy News of Mark Kennedy's sexual relationships has fuelled speculation ahout civil lawsuits.

News of undercover policeman Mark Kennedy's sexual relationships with environmental activists has fuelled speculation about the possibility of civil lawsuits, as experts say there may be legal grounds for action.

The Guardian revealed on Monday that Kennedy had infiltrated environmental protest groups over seven years before quitting the police in March last year.

The six protesters – whose trial for conspiring to shut down Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station collapsed earlier this week – and several women who had sexual relationships with Kennedy while they believed him to be a fellow activist are expected to consider bringing civil claims against the police for the way the operation was conducted.

There are also question marks over previous cases that may have involved undercover intelligence gathered by Kennedy. If lawyers could show that he acted as an agent provocateur that could provide grounds for appeal.

Although there are few published rules on the conduct of undercover police operations, lawyers say there may be grounds for common law actions for negligence or misfeasance in public office.

If the protesters or the women could show that the police owed them a duty of care, there is a possibility for a claim of negligence. "If it can be shown that the police have a responsibility, then there could be grounds for a case," said Stephen Cragg, barrister at Doughty Street chambers. "There are just no guidelines on this kind of situation. It is very difficult to establish a duty of care, but if he was sleeping with these women in order to gain information from them, then there may be a strong case."

He said that any case would be likely to be settled by police, to prevent the courts setting precedents for future claimants.

"It could well be that if a claim was brought, the police might not want to risk a judgment saying that such a duty was established," said Cragg.

Women who had intimate relationships with Kennedy would have to show that they suffered damage, such as a recognised psychiatric condition, as a result of discovering his identity was false.

But the possibility of claims under the Human Rights Act, which guarantees respect for private life at the hands of public authorities, would circumvent the need for specific loss or damage as a result of the relationship with Kennedy.

Home Office guidance on the activities of covert human intelligence sources, which includes the police, recognises the likelihood that human rights issues could arise when relationships are formed between undercover officers and the public.

"Article 8 [of the European Convention on Human Rights] includes the right to establish and develop relationships," the guidance says. "Accordingly, any manipulation of a relationship by a public authority (eg one party having a covert purpose on behalf of a public authority) is likely to engage Article 8, regardless of whether or not the public authority intends to acquire private information."

"It is therefore strongly recommended that a public authority consider an authorisation whenever the use or conduct of a CHIS [Covert Human Intelligence Source] is likely to engage an individual's rights under Article 8, whether this is through obtaining information, particularly private information, or simply through the covert manipulation of a relationship."

But as senior figures including the former Director of Public Prosecutions Lord Macdonald questioned whether a seven-year undercover operation could ever be properly authorised, a violation of the right to privacy seemed increasingly likely.

A separate issue is whether previous convictions of environmental protestors are safe. Mark Kennedy's involvement as agent provocateur in actions might provide grounds for appeal, but during a trial it is difficult for the defence to have access to such information unless it is formally disclosed by the proscecution. Defence lawyers have long complained that the odds are stacked against them because the other side can decide what information they reveal. Since 1996, the law has made prosecutors and police responsible for informing the defence about evidence which may be relevant to their case. But lawyers say the system frequently fails to ensure fair trials.

"There is a feeling at the defence bar that disclosure does not always work very well," said Paul Mendelle QC, a criminal defence barrister at 25 Bedford Row. "The prosecution are meant to look at the unused material and objectively decide whether it supports the defence case or undermines the prosecution, but with the best will in the world, it's very difficult to do that as a prosecutor or police officer."


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biker debauchery
http://bikers.viviti.com/entries/general/hells-angel-associate-now-aged-43-was-sentenced-to-14-yearsimprisonment

Hells Angel associate, now aged 43, was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment in 2001 for the sickening attack a year earlier plus representative charges for violating a 13-year-old boy in a similar manner in 1991.
Under legislation at the time of his sentencing, the heavily tattooed sex offender must be released after two-thirds of his sentence ? meaning he is to be freed by January 5, 2010 at the latest. But the Department of Corrections has taken the rare step of applying for an order under Section 107 of the Parole Act 2002, to keep him in jail. The section can only be enforced if the Parole Board has sufficient evidence an offender is likely to commit a "specific" offence between release and the end of their sentence.

A hearing will take place later this week ? two months since the Parole Board imposed eight conditions relating to his release. They included he undertake, and complete, a raft of counselling programmes and treatment. Campbell was also banned from making contact with his victims, having contact with anyone aged 16 years or younger unless with approved supervision and possessing or consuming alcohol. During his 2001 trial in the Auckland High Court, Campbell was described by Detective Sergeant Adam Lough, officer in charge of the case, as a "calculating, manipulative sexual deviant who preys on teenage boys from single-parent families". In 2000, Campbell held the 14-year-old boy captive in a wardrobe and performed a series of indecencies on him after telling him he had nominated him for the Hells Angels, and that the boy would have to disappear for several months in a bid to secure his gang patch. The boy was then plied with booze, before Campbell initially made him perform oral sex on him and then sodomised him. The abuse continued when he pierced the boy's scrotum, inserting two rings. A day later Campbell forced his victim to strip naked, and tattooed him with a brickwork design from his groin to his buttocks using a home-made tattoo gun. The boy was then restrained in the wardrobe of Campbell's house in the North Shore suburb of Beach Haven, using shackles and chains. He was repeatedly beaten, had hot wax poured over his body and was again sodomised. The next day he was tied to a bed with chains, rolled onto his stomach, and branded on his lower back, causing second-degree burns. The boy escaped after being able to phone his family when Campbell left the house. Campbell was also found guilty of sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy over a two-and-a-half month period in 1991. Shortly after he abused his first victim, Campbell moved to Australia and went on a fire-lighting spree which included the destruction of the central business centre of Beaudesert, west of the Gold Coast. In 1996 he was sentenced to nine years' jail for arson.

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the killing fart

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3360100/Mans-fart-fury-led-to-killing.html

By STAFF REPORTER

Published: 19 Jan 2011
A PARTYGOER has been charged with knifing his friend to death and stabbing two others after being teased about his FARTS.

Marc Higgins told cops he was furious about being mocked and wanted to teach his friends a lesson, according to court documents.

The 21-year-old is said to have rowed with reveller Stacy Buccheri during the party, who then ribbed him about his flatulence.

Buccheri slapped Higgins who then smashed a beer bottle and stormed out of the apartment in Bristol, Connecticut, US, witnesses claimed.

He allegedly returned 45 minutes later armed with three knives and began stabbing people indiscriminately on a porch.

Higgins was said to have been "very drunk" as he reportedly stabbed 21-year-old Matthew Walton to death.

He is also accused of knifing Sandra Ranger, 18, David Klett, 19, and Tyler Basso, 18.

Higgins told investigators he didn't target his victims — 'they just happened to be the first people he came across'.

He has been remanded in custody on $2million bail.

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Activists plan Scotland Yard blockade to expose spies who used sexual tactics

Women aim to identify undercover police who infiltrated environment groups and had sexual relations with protesters

    *
    * James Meikle
    * guardian.co.uk, Monday 24 January 2011 06.01 GMT
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Metropolitan Poloce Commissioner Ian Blair resigns Activists are expected at Scotland Yard in London today to protest over surveillance methods on women and what they call 'state-endorsed sexual manipulation'. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

Women activists are to blockade Scotland Yard today, intending to demand to know the identity of any undercover police who have infiltrated their organisations.

As evidence continued to emerge of police officers having had sexual relations with people they were monitoring, the women said they wanted to know if they had been "abused" by police.

Though senior police insisted that sleeping with activists during such operations was banned, a former agent claimed such "promiscuity" routinely had the blessing of commanders.

The activists' concerns follow the revelation that the undercover PC Mark Kennedy had sexual relationships with several women during the seven years he spent infiltrating environmental activists' groups. Last week the Guardian identified more officers who had sex with the protesters they were sent to spy on. One officer, Jim Boyling, married an activist and had two children with her.

Rebecca Quinn, an environmental activist from Oxford, said: "This is about people from different groups and networks who share concerns about this type of policing and how it affects women. We are still at the stage where we are trying to piece together the extent to which these operations have reached.

"There may be dozens of other women who might be affected by this, who have [unknowingly] had relationships with other undercover officers. It is unacceptable. A picture is starting to emerge of state-endorsed sexual manipulation."

The issue is expected to be raised by MPs tomorrow, when the acting Metropolitan police commissioner, Tim Godwin, appears before the Commons home affairs select committee
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Teenagers suffer the kicks of abusive relationships


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Teenagers are suffering abuse and humiliation by their partners, but we should be concerned that it's just shrugged off as normal, writes Lizz Pearson (theguardian.co.uk)


Girls are suffering violence and online humiliation by their teenage boyfriends. Photograph: Julia Honess/Tender

What qualities do teenage boys look for in a girlfriend? It was the question put to a group of boys by a youth project worker in a London secondary school. The list they gave her wasn't exactly cerebral, so she was encouraged when one boy piped up "fairness". She asked him to explain. "You know," he said. "She's like fair if she spends five minutes giving me head, then my friend head, and like ... we all get the same time."

This was the beginning of my research for the BBC Radio 4 documentary Teenage Kicks, and although the story was unpleasant, I wasn't surprised. The brief for my programme was to look at abuse in teenage relationships. I knew it happened, there had been research. Violence in teenage partner relationships had been the subject of a landmark NSPCC report, with girls describing being pushed, hit or slapped by boyfriends, controlled through constant texting and online messaging, or forced into sex. So I knew I would hear stories of harassment and abuse. What I wasn't prepared for was the seeming ambivalence that young people had to the violence around them.

I talked to teenagers in groups, individually, in pairs. Elly (not her real name) was 17. Her ex had turned up at her house, and "back-handed" her in front of his laughing mates. Just to show off. A group of 15- and 16-year-old schoolgirls told me they'd seen a peer hit in the face by a boy, right outside their school. He'd asked her out, and she'd said no. Bam. The girls' schoolmates gathered round, gossiping. "She broke her nail, he pulled her hair, she looks a wreck." Only a teacher had tried to help.

Then there was abuse online. I'd never heard the word "sket" - teen slang for a slut - before I met these teenagers. Or of online "sket-sites" – pages created on Facebook where a girl's sexual deeds are posted, and boys invited to add their comments. Sometimes a boy makes the site, sometimes another (perhaps jealous) girl. The idea is to humiliate. And it works. Intimate pictures, intimate details of a teenager's life, posted for all to see, the girl labelled a "sket" or "ho" – I found this deeply upsetting. Weren't they shocked too? They shrugged. It's normal. And I heard that response again and again. Wrong, yes, but normal too. It was said of boys who take photos of girls during sex, of teens learning "sex moves" from porn, of the young man who shares his "girlfriend" with his mates, so they're not "left out" – something adults might call gang rape. Wrong, but normal.

There are various theories about why this is happening and some are in the programme. TV, magazines, our whole culture invites us to prize our sexuality, and judge ourselves and others accordingly. Whether it's front page pictures of a celeb's wobbly bits, or articles that tell us we must "have it all" - big boobs, great boyfriend, toned, waxed, perfect bod. To me this had always been the outside pressure, the stuff I could ignore. Talking to these teens, I realised there's a very good chance that these "outside" values are becoming their norm. I found that far more shocking than any of their stories of violence or abuse.

• Lizz Pearson is the producer of Teenage Kicks, which is broadcast on Radio 4 today at 11a
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Can't seem to find a thread with true crime books, so I'll post it here. Found this in an english shop in Berlin, has some interesting cases, from a prosecutors pov. 


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is she somehow related to the "other" Vachss?
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