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Son Accused of Killing, Burning Mother Before Hanging Her Upside Down in Closet
By Snejana Farberov For Dailymail.com
Published: 09:48 EST, 8 February 2019 | Updated: 16:26 EST, 8 February 2019

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A Brooklyn man was arraigned this morning on a murder charge after police performing a welfare check discovered the decomposed body of his mother, who had been stabbed to death and set on fire.
NYPD officers were summoned by the victim’s colleagues to her apartment in the 1100 block of Park Place in the Crown Heights neighborhood just before 3pm on Wednesday, after the woman failed to show up for work that morning.
The woman's son, 32-year-old Jason Reeves, met the officers at the door of the unit.
When asked about his mother's whereabouts, Reeves reportedly replied that she 'went out,' reported NBC New York.
But police smelled a foul odor coming from inside the unit and executed a search, which led them to Reeves' 67-year-old mother inside a bedroom closet. The woman was dead from multiple stab wounds to the chest and face.
Her partially clothed body had been torched and then left to rot, according to police. It is believed the woman had been dead for several days.
Reeves was then arrested on a charge of second-degree murder.
He was arraigned on Friday morning in Kings County Supreme Court on counts of murder and concealment of a human corpse.   
The victim's neighbors told News 12 Brooklyn that her son was emotionally disturbed and struggling with drug addiction.
One of the neighbors told the station that the 67-year-old woman once said, 'My son is going to kill me.'
The victim has not been named as of Friday morning, but she was said to have worked at the nearby Middle School 394. 

Man charged with firing on school bus, wounding driver
JEFF BAENEN
Associated Press•February 7, 2019

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors say a 31-year-old security guard fired five shots into the windshield of a school bus that had scraped his car on a snowy highway near downtown Minneapolis, wounding the driver but not striking a child who was on board.
Kenneth Lilly, of St. Paul, was charged Thursday with attempted second-degree murder and second-degree assault. He's due in court Friday and remains in the Hennepin County Jail.
According to the criminal complaint, the bus was trying to merge Tuesday afternoon when it apparently scraped Lilly's sedan. The bus driver said he was unaware the vehicles had touched, but there was paint from the bus on the car. Lilly stopped his car and tried to get on the bus but the driver refused, telling him there was a child on board.
Lilly, who was wearing his security guard uniform, pulled a handgun from his holster and fired at the bus windshield, wounding the driver's left arm and grazing his head. Police said the wounds weren't life-threatening and that his passenger, an elementary school student, was in the rear of the small bus and wasn't hurt.
"The actions of Mr. Lilly were outrageous and it was sheer luck that neither the bus driver nor the little girl were killed," Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said in a news release.
He said police are still investigating the shooting, "and if we can add aggravating circumstances for a longer sentence, should we prove him guilty, we will do so."
According to prosecutors, Lilly called 911 after firing the shots and was arrested at the scene. He told officers that he shot at the bus driver because he had feared for his safety, but the complaint says video footage shows he had retreated to a safe spot before walking back in front of the bus to start shooting.
The complaint does not elaborate as to why Lilly might have feared for his safety. Court records don't list an attorney for him.

Special education teacher gets life sentence for incest, sexual abuse of minors

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Posted 8:12 pm, February 13, 2019, by Tribune Media Wire

SACRAMENTO – A 50-year-old California man was sentenced to life in prison after he sexually abused at least four of his own daughters, a son and two young women outside of his family.

Rodney Flucas
Rodney Flucas, of Stockton, was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for transporting minors with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity. Additionally, he faces 10 years in prison for transporting an adult daughter across state lines with the intent to engage in incest and another 20 years for attempted witness tampering.
DNA testing revealed the 50-year-old had fathered at least 37 children by numerous women, including three children from his daughters.
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Flucas used three different states as bases of operation for his extensive abuse.
"The defendant’s conduct is an affront to the most fundamental values of our society and family structures," said U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott. "He repeatedly preyed upon his own children, taking advantage of their innocence and the trust they had in him. The defendant has demonstrated that he will never stop preying upon vulnerable victims, and today’s sentence will help to ensure that he does not repeat these crimes in the future."
Court documents reveal Flucas kept things hidden by abusing his victims behind locked doors and during the middle of the night when everyone else was asleep. His constant family mantra was, "What happens in the family, stays in the family."
His victims revealed Flucas had hoped to move them to places like New Jersey, Rhode Island and Switzerland, where he thought incest would be legal.
In February 2017, Flucas' teenage daughter intentionally drove into a lamppost. Later, at a local hospital, she told investigators what Flucas had done to her.

Parents arrested after young children found locked in dog cage, living in squalor

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MORGAN WINSOR,Good Morning America
A mother and father were arrested in north Texas on Tuesday after four young children were found living in squalor in a barn without food or water, authorities said. Deputies from the Wise County Sheriff's Office were dispatched to a rural property near Newark, Texas, after receiving a domestic disturbance call on Tuesday morning around 7:20 a.m. local time. The deputies met with two adults on the premises, Andrew Fabila and Paige Harkings, both 24, and noticed "numerous lacerations" on Fabila's face, according to a press release from the sheriff's office.
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While talking with the two adults, deputies heard children inside the barn house. They went inside to find a 5-year-old, a 4-year-old, a 3-year-old and a 1-year-old. The two youngest children were mostly unclothed and lying on a blanket in the barn, while the two eldest were locked inside a dog kennel, according to the sheriff's office.
The responding deputies described the children as malnourished and covered in feces, Chief Deputy Craig Johnson told ABC News.
There was food in the barn, but it was locked away and inaccessible to the children. Deputies gave food and water to the children, who were examined on scene by medics and then transported to Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth for further examination, according to the sheriff's office.
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Harkings, who is the biological mother of all four children, was arrested on four counts of child endangerment and one count of aggravated assault. Fabila, who is the biological father of only one of the children, was taken to Wise Regional Health System in Decatur where he was treated and released, then subsequently booked into the Wise County Jail on four counts of child endangerment, according to the sheriff's office.
The mother and father were arraigned in court Wednesday. A judge set Fabila's bond at $60,000 and Harkings' bond at $75,000, according to the sheriff's office.