Ailing Kennedy seeks quicker Senate succession

Sen. Ted Kennedy speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in a file photo. (REUTERS/Jim Young)

Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, terminally ill with brain cancer, has asked state legislative leaders to change the law and let Gov. Deval Patrick appoint a temporary replacement upon his death.

Under current law, the seat would be empty until a special election could be held 145 to 160 days later, but the 77-year-old Democrat senator sent a letter to Patrick, State Senate President Therese Murray and State House Speaker Robert DeLeo asking the governor be allowed to appoint an interim U.S. senator, should one be needed, rather than wait up to five months for a special election.

A spokesman for Kennedy said on Thursday the letter was not related to any deterioration in his health.

Senator Kennedy has been a lifelong supporter of revamping the nation’s healthcare system, but his absence from the debate and public life in recent months has raised speculation that he will not be well enough to cast a vote when the time comes, according to New York Times, Reuters and Boston Globe reports.

Democrats need Massachusetts' two senators to muster 60 votes in the U.S. Senate, which is crucial to blocking any Republican maneuvers to stall the legislation, Reuters pointed out.

Democratic votes will be crucial to passing the healthcare legislation that is the subject of intense Congressional (and national) debate, and if Kennedy were to die before the vote, his seat would likely be vacant as per the current law.

Patrick and legislative leaders have yet to comment on the senator’s request to appoint an interim senator rather than wait for a special election.

“It’s typical of Ted Kennedy to be thinking ahead and about the people of Massachusetts, when the rest of us are thinking about him,” Patrick said in a statement.

In a joint statement, DeLeo and Murray said: "We have great respect for the Senator and what he continues to do for our Commonwealth and our nation. It is our hope that he will continue to be a voice for the people of Massachusetts as long as he is able."

Massachusetts state law allowed the governor to appoint a temporary replacement for a Senate seat until 2004, when Democrat Sen. John Kerry was running for president and the Democratic-controlled Legislature wanted to prevent then-Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, from naming a replacement if Kerry won the presidency, the NYTs reported.

In his letter, Kennedy, who has held his seat for 47 years, wrote that he supported the new law but added, “I also believe it is vital for this Commonwealth to have two voices speaking for the needs of its citizens and two votes in the Senate during the approximately five months between a vacancy and an election.”

Kennedy also asked that Mr. Patrick “obtain, as a condition of appointment of the interim Senator, an explicit personal commitment not to become a candidate in the special election."

Kennedy "wanted to ensure that whomever received that appointment did not have any head start or advantage in the special election," his spokesman said.

Although the letter was delivered Tuesday, it was dated July 9.

Kennedy was diagnosed with a virulent brain tumor in May 2008 and for most of this year has stayed away from Washington and the public eye. He has spent the summer at his home on Cape Cod and occasionally has been spotted sailing with family members, according to news reports.

He did not attend the public funeral last week of his sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, and didn't travel to Washington to accept the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Obama.

Sources: New York Times, Reuters, Boston Globe
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Sick Fuck of the Week

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It's that time of the week again when we roll out the red carpet for the evil and the deranged with the Sick Fuck of the Week award.

Women ruled this week, showing they're as capable as men of committing unspeakable atrocities. We have a baby eater, a baby snatcher and a baby...whatchamacallit...baker? The nominees are:

• The 33-year-old woman from San Antonio, Texas, who chopped and decapitated her 3 1/2-week-old baby with a knife, sword and machete, ripped his face off, ate three of his toes and part of his brain. When police arrived, they found Otty Sanchez on the couch, bleeding from two self-inflicted stab wounds to the torso and throat, and screaming that she killed her baby because the devil told her to do it. Word is she's schizophrenic and was suffering from postpartum depression or psychosis and not taking her meds.
  

• The 35-year-old woman who claimed as hers a baby that was cut out of an 8-month-pregnant woman in Worcester, Mass. So far Julie Corey has been charged with kidnapping, not yet murder, but word is she faked a pregnancy for several months prior to showing up with the baby. Cops found Darlene Haynes, said to be mentally handicapped and the mother of three other children, dead in a closet after neighbors complained of a stench emanating from her apartment.
  

• The 27-year-old woman from Lowell, Mass., who made a habit of locking her 3-year-old son in a sealed attic covered--both the boy and the attic--in urine and feces. After an anonymous call, police officers found him naked in the 100-plus-degree attic, where he had been for at least an hour and where his mother repeatedly kept him. Kristen Paquette's father said it wasn't her fault that the boy is combative and has chronic lung disease and ADHD. The uncle said the attic treatment was "no abuse, no abuse whatsoever" but a way to get control. The woman has three other children from various men.
  

If we were to reward evil, the baby snatcher would come on top. If we were to focus on sickness or twistedness, the psychotic baby eater would win hands down.

Hmm...what to do, what to do? Nah, there's no contest --

Congratulations to sick fuck Otty Sanchez, winner of this week's Sick Fuck of the Week award.

Baby Eater Otty Sanchez from San Antonio, Texas

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Mom keeps boy locked in 100-degree-plus attic

Booking photo of Kristen Paquette (right) released by the Lowell Police Department.

Sick fuck alert.

Police officers found a naked boy, covered in urine and feces, locked in an airless attic where the temperature was over 100 degrees. The boy also had several minor bumps on his forehead.

(Depending on the news source, the boy is either three or five years old.)

Police said the attic was covered in human feces and there were several children's finger markings along the wall, made with excrement, that appeared to have been there for a considerable amount of time, the Boston Globe reported. There was one window in the attic and it was locked with nails to the window sill.

The boy's 27-year-old mother is facing charges, her apartment has been condemned as unsanitary, and her four children have been taken away from her, the Boston Globe reported citing a police statement.

Kristin Paquette pleaded not guilty today in Lowell District Court to charges of assault and battery on a child causing bodily injury and reckless endangerment of a child under 18. She was ordered held on $10,000 cash bail.

"This is certainly sensational, but also a tragic and sad situation. She's a woman who needed help but didn't know how to ask for it,'' said the mother's attorney, Kathleen Moore, who unsuccessfully urged the judge to release Paquette without bail.

Police said that they received an anonymous call at about 2:43 p.m. Thursday alerting them to a young child in the attic of 15 Lenox St. When police asked how long her son had been in the attic, Paquette "replied with a very nonchalant manner and tone, 'maybe an hour or so. I'm not too sure'," according to the police report.

Paquette told police that she had put her son in the attic because she could not control him and he would "interrupt cleaning" when she was trying to clean the apartment, the newspaper reported.

Paquette's 6-year-old son told police that his brother "was bad so Mommy put him upstairs and changed the door handle." The boy said it wasn't the first time his brother had been locked in the attic and that it happened "a lot."

As they walked to the staircase that led to the attic, police officers noticed the hallway was completely filthy and the floor could not be seen because of piles of spoiled food, trash and clothing. Outside the attic was a similarly filthy mattress, surrounded by hundreds of flies, prosecutor Dan Harren said.

The Department of Children and Families took custody of all four of Paquette's children; the other three are 5, 6, and 9, according to the newspaper report.

Blindness, stupidity or malice?

Alfred Paquette, the woman's father, said his daughter "is not an evil person like they tried to make her out to be. She has a child that needs special help.''

Well, tossing him in a sweltering attic, naked and covered with crap is a kind "special" treatment--isn't it? Jeez.

He said his grandson had a chronic lung disease, suffers from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and acts "like a child on steroids.'' He added that his daughter is a single mother, struggling to raise her children alone without any help from their fathers, and has been trying unsuccessfully to get help for the boy.

Tell me, what's up with parents being so fucking deluded about their kids? Does having children disable some sort of internal objectivity mechanism? How can anyone, especially a close relative, see a child being kept under such inhumane conditions and not react to help him? Looks like the granpa is another sick fuck; he probably locked his kids the attic, too.

"It's not all her fault or his, she was just totally overwhelmed,'' he said. "She had a hard time dealing with him because he was very combative."

This woman--evidently an unfit mother--has four kids from different fathers that she can't handle. How is that not her fault? Ever hear of condoms?

Paquette said the boy "comes down late at night and throws food around and he fights with his brothers and he bangs his head against walls. That's probably why he had bumps on his head.''

I would be bumping my head against the wall, too, if I were sauteeing on piss and shit in a stinking hot attic.

He noted that he had been at his daughter's apartment earlier in the day Thursday when he picked up his 9-year-old grandson to take him to a Red Sox game, and that the 3-or-5-year old boy "just came downstairs and he was fine. There was absolutely no problem.''

Right.

Richard Paquette, the woman's uncle, said there was nothing wrong with disciplining out-of-control children. "You've got to try to get some kind of control. There's no abuse, no abuse whatsoever," he said.

Sigh.

It must be news week in Massachusetts: a baby snatcher kills a pregnant woman and cuts out a fetus in Worcester; Sgt. Crowley from the Cambridge Police has beer with President at the White House; dumb Boston cop calls Gates a "banana-eating jungle monkey" but insists he's not a racist, and now this sick fuck in Lowell. Yikes!

Source: The Boston Globe
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Pregnant woman killed, fetus cut from body

(Updated) The baby of a woman who was killed and whose 8-month old fetus was cut out of her body has been found alive in Plymouth, NH, and a woman taken to custody.

Julie Corey, 35, was arrested for kidnapping after friends tipped off police when she showed up with a baby. Her 27-year-old boyfriend, Alex Dion, 27, was arrested with her but later released.

This sick fuck, who took the baby to New Hampshire where she was staying at a homeless shelter, is being held in that state on $2 million bail and is fighting extradition to Massachusetts. No one has yet been charged in Haynes' death.

The arrest took place on July 29, two days after police discovered the body of Darlene Haynes following a complaint from neighbors about a stench coming from her Worcester, Mass., apartment. The 23-year-old woman was found dead in the closet of a bedroom, wrapped in bedding, police said.

An autopsy revealed that a fetus had been removed from Haynes' body and that Haynes probably was killed from a blow to the head. Police believe Haynes was killed July 23.

Massachusetts prosecutors said Corey had told her family and friends that she was pregnant.

Cindy Dion, mother of Alex Dion, said Corey looked like she was expecting when the family threw a baby shower for her in May, but that upon reflection Corey's behavior seemed unusual throughout the supposed pregnancy.

Corey said she was four months' pregnant in April but then said she was eight months' pregnant in May.

Left: Julie Corey, her boyfriend Alex Dion and the baby whom Corey is accused of stealing from the womb of Darlene Haynes. (Boston Herald/Polaris)

Dion said her son was beside himself when he told her that the baby wasn't theirs. "He cried so hard he couldn't catch his breath," she said.

Haynes was a mother to three other children, Jasmine, 5, Lilli, 3 and Christina, 18 months. Christina was being raised by Haynes and ex-boyfriend Roberto Rodriguez, but the family has said that Haynes had a troubled relationship with Rodriguez and had taken out a restraining order against him more than three weeks ago.

It is unclear who will get custody of the little girl. Rodriguez is believed to be the father of the child, and between him and extended family on both sides there are numerous options, according to the report.

Haynes reportedly was mentally disabled and functioned as a 12- or 13-year-old would. Then how the heck was she on her own, caring for three children while getting pregnant with a fourth. WTF?

Sources: ABC News, CNN
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