North Andover man gets 6 to 8 years for stabbing teen 13 times Victim saved by heroic bystander
A North Andover man who stabbed a teen 13 times during a fight over a girl has been sent to prison for six to eight years.
Bryan Kangethe, 22, of 31 Lincoln Street, was sentenced Wednesday in Salem, Mass., Superior Court by Judge Timothy Feeley. Kangethe was convicted on July 20 of assault with intent to murder by a jury that deliberated two hours after a two-day trial.
Essex Assistant District Attorney Greg Friedholm proved that on Nov. 17, 2007, Kangethe stabbed John Dorceus 13 times in a brawl after a Saturday night party on Camden Street in North Andover. The fight was sparked, at least in part, by an argument over a girl, prosecutors said.
Dorceus was 17 at the time and living in Methuen. His life may have been saved by a witness who jumped in to help, in Hollywood fashion, as Kangethe was still on the attack.
Scot Foster, of Camden Street, grabbed Kangethe by the wrist and slammed his hand against his own knee to dislodge the knife, a folding model with a 4-inch blade. He then kicked the knife out of reach as his wife called 911.
Dorceus was taken to Lawrence General Hospital and then to Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He has since recovered.
Kangethe was represented by attorneys Jessica Pacheco and Michael Ruane.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
What Love Has To Do With It?
A couple's age, previous relationships and even whether they smoke or not are factors that influence whether their marriage is going to last, according to a study by researchers from the Australian National University.
The study, entitled "What's Love Got to Do With It," tracked nearly 2,500 couples -- married or living together -- from 2001 to 2007 to identify factors associated with those who remained together compared with those who divorced or separated.
It found that a husband who is nine or more years older than his wife is twice as likely to get divorced, as are husbands who get married before they turn 25.
Children also influence the longevity of a marriage or relationship, with one-fifth of couples who have kids before marriage -- either from a previous relationship or in the same relationship -- having separated compared to just nine percent of couples without children born before marriage.
Women who want children much more than their partners are also more likely to get a divorce.
A couple's parents also have a role to play in their own relationship, with the study showing some 16 percent of men and women whose parents ever separated or divorced experienced marital separation themselves compared to 10 percent for those whose parents did not separate.
Also, partners who are on their second or third marriage are 90 percent more likely to separate than spouses who are both in their first marriage.
Not surprisingly, money also plays a role, with up to 16 percent of respondents who indicated they were poor or where the husband -- not the wife -- was unemployed saying they had separated, compared with only nine percent of couples with healthy finances.
And couples where one partner, and not the other, smokes are also more likely to have a relationship that ends in failure.
Factors found to not significantly affect separation risk included the number and age of children born to a married couple, the wife's employment status and the number of years the couple had been employed.
The study was jointly written by Dr Rebecca Kippen and Professor Bruce Chapman from The Australian National University, and Dr Peng Yu from the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs.
The study, entitled "What's Love Got to Do With It," tracked nearly 2,500 couples -- married or living together -- from 2001 to 2007 to identify factors associated with those who remained together compared with those who divorced or separated.
It found that a husband who is nine or more years older than his wife is twice as likely to get divorced, as are husbands who get married before they turn 25.
Children also influence the longevity of a marriage or relationship, with one-fifth of couples who have kids before marriage -- either from a previous relationship or in the same relationship -- having separated compared to just nine percent of couples without children born before marriage.
Women who want children much more than their partners are also more likely to get a divorce.
A couple's parents also have a role to play in their own relationship, with the study showing some 16 percent of men and women whose parents ever separated or divorced experienced marital separation themselves compared to 10 percent for those whose parents did not separate.
Also, partners who are on their second or third marriage are 90 percent more likely to separate than spouses who are both in their first marriage.
Not surprisingly, money also plays a role, with up to 16 percent of respondents who indicated they were poor or where the husband -- not the wife -- was unemployed saying they had separated, compared with only nine percent of couples with healthy finances.
And couples where one partner, and not the other, smokes are also more likely to have a relationship that ends in failure.
Factors found to not significantly affect separation risk included the number and age of children born to a married couple, the wife's employment status and the number of years the couple had been employed.
The study was jointly written by Dr Rebecca Kippen and Professor Bruce Chapman from The Australian National University, and Dr Peng Yu from the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
the road to heaven is not paved in mink, it passes through a somewhat difficult place -- death.
If I were on talking terms with Finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta, here is what I’d say to him: My brother, Africans have a saying that a woman who wants children does not sleep in her clothes. She does not shrink from the hairy animal snoring next to her.
On the contrary, she positively invites its attentions. Even the road to heaven is not paved in mink, it passes through a somewhat difficult place -- death. It’s a politically clever budget that makes everyone happy (with the exception of ministerial mistresses, newspapers, stockbrokers and scrap metal dealers).
It wants to achieve growth, spends a whole load of money but gives tax breaks to nearly every breathing thing. (It goes after the unpopular largesse and waste of government fatcats, particularly their limousines and endless junkets, but in this case, the proof of the pudding is in the eating).
It also gives a friendly nod to majimbo, sending money to the villages where, no doubt, the chief, the headman and the local wise men will be waiting. I remember once visiting Mathira in Nyeri and seeing what the villagers had done with their CDF and coming away thinking: We have cracked it, we have found the elixir of development. Then I visited my own constituency and sobered up.
It’s not a Narc budget (tough, soaked in the disdainful arrogance of accountants with skeletons of Anglo Leasing buried in it); it’s more of an ODM socialistic humbug budget (prices are coming down, nobody pays for anything (not even rent), we are all equal so let’s have a rally in party colours and blame Mt Kenya Mafia for the drought in North Korea).
It’s a fairy tale budget for a fairy tale country; the mission is clear in the dashing hero’s mind – to rescue Cinderella from the clutches of the evil stepmother. But there is no evidence of the balls to put up with the pain of the journey. Lots of gain, zero pain.
Smokers are wheezing in delight, and drunkards are toasting into the wee hours, for this is the first year in recent memory when sinners have not been punished. Even adulterers, fornicators and latter-day Casanovas are winking with glee at all that beauty now that the price of powder will be coming down.
Do I blame Mr Kenyatta for writing a feel-good budget? Alas, not at all. Nigerians have a saying that a man who touches the bottom of a soup plate with a ball of foo foo is no longer searching for soup. I can’t blame Mr Kenyatta for touching the bottom of the soup plate when others like Ms Martha Karua, who are already campaigning, have poured out the soup to better expose the chunks of meat down there.
My concern is whether we still have the capacity to make tough choices, whether we still have the character to invest in pain for the prospect of gain. My own view is pessimistic. We are, as one guy put it, away with the fairies, living in a dream world where values float in the air, often changing shape and meaning, where the truth is false, and lies are true; depending, of course, on your tribe.
Many’s the time I have watched in disbelief as an established thief projects himself as a champion of the masses, a killer with red hands talks eloquently about human rights and an arsonist, with fresh soot in his nostrils, talks about the pain of the so-called IDPs. A civil servant inserts errors in the budget, but rather than having him tried and shot, we accuse his minister of incompetence.
A man recently told me the story of a West African dictator who came to power, lined up the ruling elite on stakes on a beach and shot them. For many years, that country’s capital city had open sewers and no roads, though residents faithfully paid taxes. The dictator looked at the taxes and what it would cost to transform the city and was greatly angered.
Then he summoned the city fathers for a friendly chat during which he said that if, by the end of the year, the city did not have modern infrastructure, he would string them up on stakes and shoot them. The city fathers believed him for, in their vigor to fulfill his wishes, some are said to have sold their own property to raise the money. Today, the city is one of the most orderly and cleanest in Africa.
Since I was a boy, we have been having arguments about reforms, particularly to our imperial presidency. The focus of reforms has been to remove the excess powers of the president and vest them in other institutions. Now what I am hearing is the desire to transfer all of the powers of the president to an unelected prime minister.
The prime minister will apparently be picked by our MPs, about whose corruption a lot has been written in recent times. The worst and most dangerous thing you can do in a Third World country is to make it easy to remove the ruler.
You will say you want to make it easy to kick out the non-performers, the corrupt, the tribalists and so on, but he will be removed for the simple reason that someone else wants the power. The more I think about it, the more I realize how exceptional it was for retired President Moi, a dictator, to hand over power to the opposition in a smooth and peaceful transition.
There is many a democrat who may have serious problems following that example. Everywhere you look, there are reasons to despair, so maybe Mr Kenyatta was right in giving Kenyans a fairy tale budget. As for his fellow politicians, I know they don’t listen. They think they can fool us all the time with their endless tricks.
Me, I think they are setting themselves up for a fairy tale with a most tragic ending. (P.S. A man gave me a book of African proverbs. Put up with them for a month or so, will you?)
Mutuma Mathiu is the managing editor, Daily Nation
On the contrary, she positively invites its attentions. Even the road to heaven is not paved in mink, it passes through a somewhat difficult place -- death. It’s a politically clever budget that makes everyone happy (with the exception of ministerial mistresses, newspapers, stockbrokers and scrap metal dealers).
It wants to achieve growth, spends a whole load of money but gives tax breaks to nearly every breathing thing. (It goes after the unpopular largesse and waste of government fatcats, particularly their limousines and endless junkets, but in this case, the proof of the pudding is in the eating).
It also gives a friendly nod to majimbo, sending money to the villages where, no doubt, the chief, the headman and the local wise men will be waiting. I remember once visiting Mathira in Nyeri and seeing what the villagers had done with their CDF and coming away thinking: We have cracked it, we have found the elixir of development. Then I visited my own constituency and sobered up.
It’s not a Narc budget (tough, soaked in the disdainful arrogance of accountants with skeletons of Anglo Leasing buried in it); it’s more of an ODM socialistic humbug budget (prices are coming down, nobody pays for anything (not even rent), we are all equal so let’s have a rally in party colours and blame Mt Kenya Mafia for the drought in North Korea).
It’s a fairy tale budget for a fairy tale country; the mission is clear in the dashing hero’s mind – to rescue Cinderella from the clutches of the evil stepmother. But there is no evidence of the balls to put up with the pain of the journey. Lots of gain, zero pain.
Smokers are wheezing in delight, and drunkards are toasting into the wee hours, for this is the first year in recent memory when sinners have not been punished. Even adulterers, fornicators and latter-day Casanovas are winking with glee at all that beauty now that the price of powder will be coming down.
Do I blame Mr Kenyatta for writing a feel-good budget? Alas, not at all. Nigerians have a saying that a man who touches the bottom of a soup plate with a ball of foo foo is no longer searching for soup. I can’t blame Mr Kenyatta for touching the bottom of the soup plate when others like Ms Martha Karua, who are already campaigning, have poured out the soup to better expose the chunks of meat down there.
My concern is whether we still have the capacity to make tough choices, whether we still have the character to invest in pain for the prospect of gain. My own view is pessimistic. We are, as one guy put it, away with the fairies, living in a dream world where values float in the air, often changing shape and meaning, where the truth is false, and lies are true; depending, of course, on your tribe.
Many’s the time I have watched in disbelief as an established thief projects himself as a champion of the masses, a killer with red hands talks eloquently about human rights and an arsonist, with fresh soot in his nostrils, talks about the pain of the so-called IDPs. A civil servant inserts errors in the budget, but rather than having him tried and shot, we accuse his minister of incompetence.
A man recently told me the story of a West African dictator who came to power, lined up the ruling elite on stakes on a beach and shot them. For many years, that country’s capital city had open sewers and no roads, though residents faithfully paid taxes. The dictator looked at the taxes and what it would cost to transform the city and was greatly angered.
Then he summoned the city fathers for a friendly chat during which he said that if, by the end of the year, the city did not have modern infrastructure, he would string them up on stakes and shoot them. The city fathers believed him for, in their vigor to fulfill his wishes, some are said to have sold their own property to raise the money. Today, the city is one of the most orderly and cleanest in Africa.
Since I was a boy, we have been having arguments about reforms, particularly to our imperial presidency. The focus of reforms has been to remove the excess powers of the president and vest them in other institutions. Now what I am hearing is the desire to transfer all of the powers of the president to an unelected prime minister.
The prime minister will apparently be picked by our MPs, about whose corruption a lot has been written in recent times. The worst and most dangerous thing you can do in a Third World country is to make it easy to remove the ruler.
You will say you want to make it easy to kick out the non-performers, the corrupt, the tribalists and so on, but he will be removed for the simple reason that someone else wants the power. The more I think about it, the more I realize how exceptional it was for retired President Moi, a dictator, to hand over power to the opposition in a smooth and peaceful transition.
There is many a democrat who may have serious problems following that example. Everywhere you look, there are reasons to despair, so maybe Mr Kenyatta was right in giving Kenyans a fairy tale budget. As for his fellow politicians, I know they don’t listen. They think they can fool us all the time with their endless tricks.
Me, I think they are setting themselves up for a fairy tale with a most tragic ending. (P.S. A man gave me a book of African proverbs. Put up with them for a month or so, will you?)
Mutuma Mathiu is the managing editor, Daily Nation
Thursday, May 14, 2009
I Told You So
One year ago, i predicted that muzungu would and never serve life in prison in Kenya. I also had a count down for his release,using my little knowledge of our Kenyan judicial system. As sad as it seems, his Lord will have to be pardoned after serving three months in prison. You would serve 2 years just for disorderly conduct!. But the bottom line is that he is white as a pig, and his victim is black; period.
I am now on my second face of worrying; do we have a nice jail enough for him? i will not be surprised that the "jail" "sentence" will be served in one of the Kenyan Hotels. I know this hypothesis sounds too far fetched. But we are talking about a country where judges are taking bribes from both the plaintiff and defendants.
I am now on my second face of worrying; do we have a nice jail enough for him? i will not be surprised that the "jail" "sentence" will be served in one of the Kenyan Hotels. I know this hypothesis sounds too far fetched. But we are talking about a country where judges are taking bribes from both the plaintiff and defendants.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Lord, Change the Principles... or Take them
As we all know, our finance minister is not credited with mastery of numbers.Uhuru Kenyatta biography makes me freeze when i imagine that he is in charge of the lives of 30 million Kenyans. No one, i mean no one can really tell you what the red eyed drunkard was doing with his life, until when he surfaced in the public arena nine years ago. We know that his time in US was not all roses in the academic arena. Why would emilio entrust him with the ministry if the crown can't even count backwards 5 to 1.And which constituency is Jimmi Kibaki representing; Kikuyu's?
Until when we will do away with dynasties, our lives will be under Raila untill 2022,Jimmi 2030... do we all get the point here?. I have one prayer, if the lord would not change Kibaki and Raila, at least he should take them. They are making so many lives miserable.
Until when we will do away with dynasties, our lives will be under Raila untill 2022,Jimmi 2030... do we all get the point here?. I have one prayer, if the lord would not change Kibaki and Raila, at least he should take them. They are making so many lives miserable.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Anyone Who thinks Kibaki is not Nuts, Raise Your Hands Up
As i wrote on this blog a few months before, baba jimmi has really lost it.I don't mean in the English literary terms, the man i doubt can spell his name in public. The killings in backyard, the man has never set foot in the area, nor just mention or offer public message to the victims. The work of a leader is not to call people mafi ya kuku and repeating hapa hapa, but to inspire and motivate. I just can't imagine four more years with this crown.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Mzungu Can Not Hang For Murder In Kenya
As i predicted in this blog as early as last year, Mr. Delamere's is not guilty of murder, as the court want you to believe; in effect getting away with two kills in two years and surely getting away with it.
As we all know, hung jury is possible if you can bribe can we say Amos Wako. do you remember that wako traveled all the way to Nakuru to "hear" Delamere's part of the story; what a coincidence.
Until we get rid of mzungu syndrome in kenya, where brainy Africans believe mzungu can not go to jail, we have a lot to learn from neo-colonialism
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
The oil barons in Kenya
Towards the end of 2008, Kenyans were forced to grapple with an unreliable supply of fuel and artificial rise in its pricing.
On more than one occasion, the Managing Director of the National Oil Pipeline Mr George Okungu gave widely televised interviews to reassure Kenyans that there was no fuel shortage or crisis as such in the country. But between December 28 and 29th 2008, most filling stations upcountry had no fuel. Workers returning from holiday, particularly those travelling from Western Kenya back to Nairobi got stranded in Kisumu and other towns.
During the same period, a medium sized oil firm called Triton Limited, which is run by a Kenyan of Asian origin, Mr Yagnesh Devani, and another trader Mr Pankaj Somaia, became legally bankrupt.
Yagnesh Devani and Prankaj Somaia have their roots in Kisumu and it is in Chemelil area within the Nyanza sugar belt, where the first Triton fuel outlets were set up. What was most intriguing is that in-spite of its definite inability to source and service the largest oil order in the country, Triton Ltd, is alleged to have secured a government tender to purchase national oil supplies for a six month quota through the alleged intervention of the Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who is said to have personal and family interests in the oil industry as a major player. Triton Ltd beat all other seasoned firms such as OilLibya (formerly Mobil) and Shell/BP.
Triton had no capacity to deliver such a huge consignment of oil to the nation, and immediately after securing the government tender, they set upon sub-contracting to rivals at a profit without any actual direct importation.
To compound the saga, Afri Global Ltd, a firm belonging to Raila Odinga’s elder brother Dr. Oburu Oginga, who is the Finance Assistant Minister, and which is run by Dr. Oburu’s son - a pint sized fellow called Elijah Abonyo Oburu - was one of the key beneficiaries.
After this scam Elijah Oburu bought a brand new showroom Mercedes Benz limousine valued at Kshs 24 million (US$320,000) which he now drives around Kisumu City.
Another firm, African Oils Ltd, which belongs to the Prime Minister’s son Fidel Castro Odinga also profitted from the scandal.
And not to be out done was the Prime Minister himself with his company Bakri Ltd, operated by one Mr. Mike Njeru who joined the list of compliant firms that allegedly benefited from the tender pool sharing and in turn selling the same to the highest bidder.
Raila Odinga’s younger sister Adhiambo is the managing director of Petro Plus, a firm involved in bulk oil sales in the high seas, thanks to the closeness of the Prime Minister with former Nigerian ruler Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo.
So entrenched is the Odinga family in the oil industry that players advise it is practically impossible to do serious oil business in Kenya without roping in a family member.
It is widely rumoured that Devani heavily funded last year’s 2007 general campaign for ODM team and that those who benefited from Devani were only returning a favor.
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Top govt officials on the spot over maize importation saga (article extracted from the Kenya Times)
Even as the country stands on a brink of starvation more twists are emerging in the maize importation deal that has shifted from an intervention measure to what appears to be a mega scandal.
Prime Minister Raila Odinga is the latest victim of the emerging saga. Legislators accuse the PM of favouring a member of his family in the maize importation process that is becoming more of a financial scandal than crisis solving mechanism.
The latest hint that taxpayers in Kenya are losing billions to corrupt elements in the government was dropped by Justice Minister Martha Karua who blamed some cabinet colleagues for the looming food crisis stopping short of calling it artificial. An estimated Sh2 billion could have already been lost in the corrupt deals involving maize importation.
Though Agriculture minister William Ruto has banned all exports of maize, rogue middlemen are still getting away with it. Once in Southern Sudan, the commodity goes for more than three times the cost compared to Kenya.
While NCPB sells the maize to millers and middlemen at a price of Sh1750 (US$23) per 90 kilogramme bag, the middlemen repackage the commodity and export it to Southern Sudan where it goes for about Sh6000 ($80) for the same quantity.
The situation is compounded by the fact that thousands of maize bags valued at over Sh150 million ($2 million) have been allocated to questionable millers in what is fast developing into a huge scandal in the wake of a seemingly divided government. Middlemen and brokers that the Prime Minister and Agriculture minister William Ruto promised to eliminate in the maize importation deal are reported to be on the loose and more vicious than before.
Monday, March 2, 2009
That's why we love the old White red and Blue
When you look at our country called Kenya, you feel sorry for it's future. We are told that unless we pay the crime boss more than President Obama, he can't do the job. Unless we pay the MP's more than US Senators, they can't perform. They remind us that democracy is not cheap.When judges are court red handed being bribed by the plaintiffs and the defendants, they are promoted. That's why we love our adopted land of the old glory.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
we should send kibaki and Raila for mental check up
There is a famous mental institution in Boston that i do believe we should send kibaki and Raila for mental check up.I may excuse Kibaki mental state from his auto accident;but Raila really needs help. As i write this, these two crowns are calling from tree tops asking for the world to help them with US 150 million dollars or Kenyans would sterve to death.
The same catoons spent 878 million shillings ($12.2 million) on new vehicles - enough to see 25,000 children through eight years of school. As the law courts are clogged with cases as old as 1988, the justice ministry spent 82 million shillings on 13 Mercedes Benz for the High Court judges.
There is a fine line between stupidity and lunacy, and the two men have now clossed it.Not to be outdone, just last week alone, the government spent 700 million to buy Raila an office (which he will only use one office anyhow).But this is the same coalition government we all killed each other for.I hope the image of starving Kenyans may compel or ruling class to contribute to the tax man too.Someone should tell Raila that “The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.”
Saturday, February 7, 2009
What really Happened in Molo Fire
The madness that we have been witnessing in Kenya is just numbing to say the least. We have "leaders" who are very good at screaming change, and all what they are doing is screwing the public. In just two weeks, we have come to learn that Raila needs 700 million office and Kalonzo wa musioka's wife get paid more than US president.
But what can we do? I think we need to look for leaders outside the mantle of parliament, and away from our tribal circles. That will be our salvation grace, otherwise we are this for a long haul.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
3 Kenyans Arrested In Worcester, MA for Rape
Three men allegedly raped a 20-year-old student of the College of the Holy Cross in her Worcester dorm room Saturday morning after an intercollege dance on campus.
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None of the men attend Holy Cross, but they did go to the open dance Friday night at the Hogan Campus Center as guests, said Worcester police Sergeant Kerry F. Hazelhurst.
At least one of the men attends Becker College and may have learned of the dance through a consortium of colleges in Worcester.
The girl, a junior, told police that she met Edward Kingori, a 21-year-old from Worcester, at the dance and that they exchanged phone numbers.
At about 3 a.m. Saturday, Kingori called the girl and she invited him and two friends to her dorm room, she told police. The three men then raped her, the girl told police.
The student called Holy Cross campus police Saturday morning, and Worcester police were notified. Police said they were able to trace the phone number Kingori gave the girl, and she identified him as one of the rapists. He was arrested Wednesday.
Later, police also charged Bizmark Obeng-Mensah, 21, of Worcester, and Alie Samura, 19, of Boston. Samura attends Becker College in Worcester, and Kingori and Obeng-Mensah attended the college at one point. Police believe they may have learned of the campus dance from the intercollege network.
The three men were each charged with three counts of rape. Kingori and Obeng-Mensah were arraigned in Worcester District Court yesterday. Information about their pleas was not available last night.
Samura is expected to be arraigned today.
Holy Cross officials did not return calls for comment last night, but released a statement to media outlets that read: "This particular event at the Hogan Campus Center was open to Holy Cross students, students of the Consortium of Worcester Colleges, and accompanied guests who were signed in. The crime was swiftly investigated by Worcester police together with the College's Department of Public Safety. We are providing the victim with all available support and care, and are actively reviewing this very serious incident."
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None of the men attend Holy Cross, but they did go to the open dance Friday night at the Hogan Campus Center as guests, said Worcester police Sergeant Kerry F. Hazelhurst.
At least one of the men attends Becker College and may have learned of the dance through a consortium of colleges in Worcester.
The girl, a junior, told police that she met Edward Kingori, a 21-year-old from Worcester, at the dance and that they exchanged phone numbers.
At about 3 a.m. Saturday, Kingori called the girl and she invited him and two friends to her dorm room, she told police. The three men then raped her, the girl told police.
The student called Holy Cross campus police Saturday morning, and Worcester police were notified. Police said they were able to trace the phone number Kingori gave the girl, and she identified him as one of the rapists. He was arrested Wednesday.
Later, police also charged Bizmark Obeng-Mensah, 21, of Worcester, and Alie Samura, 19, of Boston. Samura attends Becker College in Worcester, and Kingori and Obeng-Mensah attended the college at one point. Police believe they may have learned of the campus dance from the intercollege network.
The three men were each charged with three counts of rape. Kingori and Obeng-Mensah were arraigned in Worcester District Court yesterday. Information about their pleas was not available last night.
Samura is expected to be arraigned today.
Holy Cross officials did not return calls for comment last night, but released a statement to media outlets that read: "This particular event at the Hogan Campus Center was open to Holy Cross students, students of the Consortium of Worcester Colleges, and accompanied guests who were signed in. The crime was swiftly investigated by Worcester police together with the College's Department of Public Safety. We are providing the victim with all available support and care, and are actively reviewing this very serious incident."
Friday, January 9, 2009
Kenyan Phd Student Arrested for Threats in School
Well people, when you go to Rome, just try and eat and dress with whatever fiber they are on; in short try and learn the rules.
According to Jefferson county, U.S. Marshals arrested a Lamar student on federal charges Thursday. He's accused of threatening his college, all because he's not being allowed to graduate.
U.S. Marshals picked up Daniel Siringi from the Jefferson County jail on a federal warrant. He's charged with sending a threatening email. Lamar police arrested Siringi Wednesday, for making the terrorist threat. It was sent to the president of Beaumont Lamar University. Siringi is a chemical engineering doctoral student there. Police say, he's upset because he was told he would not be able to graduate this weekend. An affidavit states Siringi threatened serious bodily injury to the public at the commencement.
"I was a little bit shocked that a doctorate student would do this. It was kind of alarming because I know some people who are going to be graduating Saturday," said chemical engineering undergraduate student Jeremy Quiros.
Let's hope and assume our brother blood pressure just went beyond boiling point.
According to Jefferson county, U.S. Marshals arrested a Lamar student on federal charges Thursday. He's accused of threatening his college, all because he's not being allowed to graduate.
U.S. Marshals picked up Daniel Siringi from the Jefferson County jail on a federal warrant. He's charged with sending a threatening email. Lamar police arrested Siringi Wednesday, for making the terrorist threat. It was sent to the president of Beaumont Lamar University. Siringi is a chemical engineering doctoral student there. Police say, he's upset because he was told he would not be able to graduate this weekend. An affidavit states Siringi threatened serious bodily injury to the public at the commencement.
"I was a little bit shocked that a doctorate student would do this. It was kind of alarming because I know some people who are going to be graduating Saturday," said chemical engineering undergraduate student Jeremy Quiros.
Let's hope and assume our brother blood pressure just went beyond boiling point.
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