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'American Idol' alum Antonella Barba pleads guilty, faces 10 years to life https://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/world/american-idol-alum-antonella-barba-pleads-guilty-faces-10-years-to-life/ar-AAF8aT7?ocid=ientp_edu NORFOLK, Virginia – Antonella Barba, formerly of "American Idol" and "Fear Factor" fame, likely will spend at least a decade behind bars after pleading guilty to possession of at least 400 grams of fentanyl with intent to distribute in federal court in Virginia on Tuesday. The guilty plea carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison, according to a plea agreement filed in federal court. She could face a possible life sentence and up to $10 million in fines, as well as asset forfeiture, according to the agreement. The 32-year-old singer, who grew up on the Jersey Shore, was first arrested on Duke Street in Norfolk in October 2018. She originally was charged with selling or intending to sell 100 grams or more of heroin, according to Virginia court records. She denied the initial charges. Those state charges were later supplanted by federal charges of possession with intent and conspiracy, according to court records. According to a statement of facts filed in connection with the plea agreement, investigators had been tracking Justin Michael "Cali" Isaac of California, believing he "was a source for kilogram quantities of cocaine and heroin." On Oct. 11, 2018, they determined he was heading to a "stash" apartment in Norfolk from Washington, D.C., but then listened in on a phone call in which Isaac said he was sending a woman to deliver drugs, according to the statement. Investigators staking out the apartment found Barba there in a car, a shoebox of fentanyl on the floor, according to the statement. Isaac and several other defendants also were named in the same federal indictment as Barba. Barba was one of the top 16 contestants on the singing competition's sixth season in 2007before she was eliminated. She also appeared on "Fear Factor" in 2012. Barba had been confined to a family home in Point Pleasant under court order. It was unclear if she remains there or had been taken into custody following her plea. Barba's attorney, James Broccoletti, declined to comment. pls help to delete this post, dont knwo why double posting, thanks Mod

A 38-year-old man yesterday pleaded guilty to raping and sodomising his half-sister with the help of his wife. The former car grooming coordinator at a petrol kiosk also pleaded guilty to one count of possession of obscene films. The accused, who has been charged with four counts of rape and six of sexual assault, assaulted his half-sister over two days between March 12 and 14 in 2010. The victim, a 21-year-old factory worker, shares the same mother with the accused and is mildly mentally retarded. She was sent to the accused's home, after her other half-brother and his wife, with whom she was living, were upset she wanted to quit her job as a counter staff. At about midnight, the accused told the girl he wanted "to punish her" and wanted her to "feel pain". He told her to remove her clothes, proceeded to remove his and told her to turn around. He then instructed his wife to hold on to the girl's legs and raped her. Throughout the night, the girl pleaded with the accused not to hurt her. He ignored her and at one point hit her head with an ashtray. The victim was unable to run away from the accused's flat the next day as she was watched over by his wife while the accused went to work. When he returned, the accused told his wife to put on a pornographic movie and called for the girl to sit beside him. He then had sexual intercourse with his wife, forcing the victim to "watch and learn from them". Later in the night, he sodomised her. She was subsequently conveyed to the KK Women's and Children's Hospital and a genital examination revealed a ripped vulva and swollen anus. The case has been adjourned for mitigation next Monday. The maximum penalty for rape is 20 years' jail and 24 strokes of the cane while the possession of obscene films incurs a fine of S$1,000 for each film, not exceeding S$40,000 or up to 12 months imprisonment or both. http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC12...ing-half-sister

why nowadays so many strange cases involving teachers? are they a deprived lot?? http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews...713-359025.html The former teacher who was charged in Feb with theft and trespass for installing pinhole cameras in the female toilets of the school he was teaching at pled guilty this morning, saying that he wasn't in the right state of mind when he committed the deed, reported local Chinese dailies. Bertrand Ngien Wen-Tseah, 37, was faced with eight charges, including trespassing a female toilet, destroying evidence and outrage of modesty when was a science teacher at Yuhua Secondary School. According to the Chinese dailies, he had installed three pinhole cameras in one of the school's girls' toilet on the fourth level around 7am on Feb 15. Shin Min Daily News reported that at least three girls were secretly filmed. A student discovered a camera in the toilet and alerted a staff member, who later found two more similar devices in other cubicles in the same toilet, reported The New Paper. The staff member placed the cameras in the staffroom and left the room. Around 1pm on the same day, Ngien entered the staffroom and saw the cameras on the school's operations manager's table. He knew that his deeds have been discovered and decided to destroy the evidence. An hour later, when the office was empty, he removed the three micro SD memory cards. When the school discovered the memory cards were missing, footage from the closed-circuit television camera installed in the staffroom was checked and Ngien was seen removing the memory cards. He was called back to the school on that afternoon, and on the way there, he threw away memory cards into a storm drain. He confessed to the principal, who told Ngien to return home, saying he was going to report the matter to the police, according to Lianhe Wanbao. When he reached home, Ngien threw away the laptop which he had viewed the recordings on. The $443 laptop had been issued by the Ministry of Education and Ngien has since refunded the cost. Ngien pleaded through his lawyer that his wife had suffered from mental illnesses which resulted in him developing depression. He claimed to have sought psychiatric help in 2009, and is current seeking treatment with the Institute of Mental Health. He said he was remorseful for committing the offence. He added that being fired by the Ministry of Education was his greatest punishment and pleaded for a lighter sentence. The case will adjourn in court on July 25 for sentencing

From ST Forum: http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/...ory_763717.html Primary 1 registration 'By allowing parents who live farther away to volunteer, schools lower the chances of those who live nearer.' MS CECILIA TEO: 'I signed up as a parent volunteer at a popular school in my area to increase the chances of my first child's enrolment in Primary 1. I did so although we live less than 2km from the school. But I was told that children of parent volunteers are not guaranteed a place and that balloting is required. I know it is not possible to abolish the parent volunteer system because schools need volunteers. But at least restrict it to families living nearby. By allowing parents who live farther away to volunteer, schools lower the chances of those who live nearer. I hope the Ministry of Education will review the arrangement. There are many parents like me who want to enrol their children in schools nearby, because of the convenience rather than because the schools are top schools or popular choices.' [/color]

Feb 14, 2011 Army captain pleads guilty to being a loanshark runner By Khushwant Singh A CAPTAIN with the Singapore Armed Forces, who moonlighted as a runner for an illegal moneylender, was caught by a debtor whose house he vandalised last October. Kheng Kok Keong, 34, pleaded guilty in a district court on Monday to four charges of harassment. Seventeen other charges will be taken into consideration by the judge when passing sentence on Thursday. A district court heard that from June last year, he had scribbled 'O$P$' - shorthand for 'Owe money, pay money' - on walls, splashed paint on flats or used super glue to seal up keyholes to prevent the occupants from unlocking doors or gates, 21 times. Investigations revealed that Kheng had an outstanding loan with an illegal moneylender known only as Ah Seng, and agreed to harass other debtors in return of $2,000 to be deducted from his debt every month. His lawyer G. Dinagaran said that his client had racked up losses after visiting the Resorts World casino and was forced to borrow from a loanshark. It was the incessant harassment by Ah Seng's runners that forced Kheng to agree to be a runner too, the lawyer explained. Kheng, who was last serving as a logistics officer and drawing a monthly salary of $5,000, will also lose his career of 14 years with this conviction, Mr Dinagaran added. How can 1 be forced to borrow fm loan sharks? Kuku lawyer, like that oso dare to plead wif judge. Runners are paid $2k per month. Not bad leh, just to scribble some words and do painting.

SINGAPORE : A teenager has pleaded guilty to three counts of molest - with one of the victims being an 11-year-old girl. Eighteen-year-old Muhammad Sadiq Syed Kadir entered a lift with her at Block 45, Chai Chee Street at 5.40pm on January 27 last year. Shortly after the doors closed, he grabbed hold of her t-shirt and pushed her backwards, causing her to fall to the floor. Muhammad Sadiq then pulled down the girl's shorts and molested her. He stopped touching her by the time the doors opened. However, the girl managed to tell a man who was standing outside the lift about her ordeal. The man threw a punch at Muhammad Sadiq and a scuffle soon broke out between the two. The teenager broke his nose in the fight and the man brought him to a Singapore Civil Defence Force fire post located at the void deck of the block of flats. Muhammad Sadiq was taken to a hospital and the police arrived not long afterwards to interview the girl. The court also heard that he had molested a 19-year-old girl in a lift at Block 19 Chai Chee Road at around 11.45pm on 16 August 2008. Deputy Public Prosecutor Sanjiv Vaswani told District Judge Soh Tze Bian that Muhammad Sadiq had also molested a 17-year-old girl at around 3pm on August 28 last year. She was sitting in an SBS bus service 7, which was going towards Bedok Interchange, when Muhammad Sadiq sat down behind her. He then pretended to fall asleep and used his fingers to touch her left breast. The girl reported the matter to the bus captain who detained Muhammad Sadiq at the control station of Bedok Interchange. The judge has called for a probation as well as a Reformative Training Centre report. Muhammad Sadiq will appear again in court on July 21. Those convicted of molesting children below the age of 14 could be jailed between three and ten years, and caned. - CNA/al Muhammad Sadiq sure kena canned jialat jialat Cant believe it man.. if the girls were your daughter, how would u have reacted?

SINGAPORE - A 22-year-old National Serviceman pleaded guilty in a district court yesterday to pushing and using vulgarities on a senior tester at a driving centre. Eric Lim Guo Yong had gone to the Singapore Safety Driving Centre in Ang Mo Kio Street 62 on Nov 4 last year to take the basic theory test. But when he failed to produce his identity card or passport, senior tester Abdul Wahid Shariff stopped him. Lim had lost his military identity card and turned up with a temporary one. Unhappy, Lim raised his voice and demanded to take the test. When Mr Abdul Wahid, 57, asked him to leave the room, Lim hurled vulgarities at him and shoved him three times - an act captured by closed- circuit cameras. Lim only left the premises when the tester's colleagues came to help. For threatening, abusing or insulting a public servant, Lim can be jailed for up to a year or fined $5,000. For using criminal force on another person, he can be jailed up to three months and fined $1,500. The case will be mentioned again on March 5. Shaffiq Alkathib source http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC10...-driving-tester

Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/sin...1031099/1/.html Girl's death: Mother pleads guilty By Leong Wee Keat , TODAY | Posted: 16 January 2010 0638 hrs SINGAPORE - The woman who killed her 14-year-old daughter last year gave a glimpse of her mental state in the High Court on Friday. When asked to enter a plea after the charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder was read to her, Goh Hai Eng said: "I do not know." After clarifying with her lawyer, Goh, 52, replied: "I've nothing to say." A further round of clarification took place before the bespectacled woman replied with a guilty plea. Goh had stabbed Eunice Chew Li Xin to death on March 19 last year in their one-room Woodlands flat. Goh was depressed over her second divorce and the sale of her matrimonial flat just before the incident, the High Court heard. Goh, who is also a grandmother, constantly worried about money and told her family she would kill Eunice and later commit suicide. "The accused even asked the deceased how she would like to die," said Deputy Public Prosecutor Crystal Ong. A day before the incident, Goh - who was treated for bipolar disorder at the Institute of Mental Health in 1999 - refused to go for a medical appointment at IMH with her eldest daughter. Later that evening, Goh called her elder sister to tell her she "was not in a good mood". If she were to die, Goh added, her elder sister could take a television rack from her flat. Several hours later, at about 2am on March 19, Goh began thinking about killing herself and taking Eunice with her. "She did not want the deceased to live without her as she thought that no one would take care of her," said DPP Ong. Goh then took a fruit knife and stabbed Eunice once in her chest while she was sleeping. Eunice woke up immediately and Goh hugged her. The mother then pulled the knife out of the girl's chest and threw it away. Eunice cried loudly but Goh walked away. When she heard Eunice take her last breath, she stood up and touched the deceased's face. Realising that Eunice was dead, a terrified Goh called her eldest daughter and her elder sister, and told them she had killed Eunice. The police were then alerted, but Eunice was pronounced dead at 3.06am. According to a psychiatric report prepared by Dr Gwee Kok Peng, Goh was suffering from a severe depressive episode of a bipolar disorder since 1999, but had stopped her medication since October 2008. At the time of the offence, Goh was of sound mind, but the mental illness did significantly impair her judgment, opined Dr Gwee. High Court Judge Kan Ting Chiu directed the prosecution to obtain a further report from Dr Gwee on his findings of diminished responsibility. Also, Justice Kan wanted to know Dr Gwee's assessment on Goh's recovery if she had taken regular and sustained medication. No date has been set for the next hearing. Goh, who is now in remand, faces a maximum of life imprisonment for her crime. - TODAY