FEASTERVILLE, Pa – 51-year-old Lee Kaplan of Feasterville, Pennsylvania faces charges that include statutory sexual assault, The Associated Press reported. In his home, authorities found several girls, one of whom was allegedly given to him a few years ago.
Kaplan admitted to fathering two children with that teenage girl, whose family gave her to him, a criminal compliant notes. The girl’s father told investigators that his daughter was “gifted” to Kaplan “in thanks for helping his family out of financial ruin,” the documents state.
The complaint says that the girl’s father told investigators he and his wife gave their daughter to Kaplan after researching whether it was legal online, and that the teen first became pregnant at age 14. The girl’s parents were also taken into custody, The Inquirer reported.
United Press International reports that 12 girls were discovered at Kaplan’s Pennsylvania home, including the now 18-year-old and her two daughters. Authorities believe the nine other girls found in the home might be the teen’s sisters, the Inquirer reports.
KABUL, Afghanistan – A suicide bomber killed 14 Nepali and Indian security guards in the Afghan capital on Monday, in one of the deadliest attacks on foreign contractors since the war here began nearly 15 years ago.
The attack occurred as two buses transporting the guards – all assigned to security details at the Canadian Embassy – pulled out of a housing compound in the eastern part of Kabul. A suicide bomber approached on foot and blew himself up next to one of the buses.
The attack also wounded nine people, according to the Afghan Interior Ministry.
In a statement, the Taliban insurgency asserted responsibility for the attack, saying it was aimed at “forces of aggression.” But the Islamic State militant group also issued a statement claiming responsibility, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors militant activity.
An Australian man will be sentenced in July and faces up to three years in prison for threatening to rape feminists online.
Last August, Zach Alchin was scrolling through Facebook when he came across a photo his friend Chris Hall had shared of a woman’s Tinder profile. The profile belonged to Olivia Melville, whose friends found Hall’s screenshot and came to her defense. That’s when Alchin chimed in, leaving 50 more comments on the photo, threatening feminists with rape, and claiming women should “never have been given rights.”
Turns out he was likely breaking a decades-old law banning the use of a “carriage service to menace, harass or cause offense.” And despite initially pleading innocent, his lawyer informed a Sydney court on Monday that Alchin will change his plea to guilty for threatening sexual violence online.
According to court papers, after he was arrested, Alchin told police that he was responding to a “group of feminists that were harassing me and my friends.” He also claimed he was drunk when he made the comments and was not aware he was violating Australian law. Hall is not facing any charges for sharing the photo, but reportedly lost his job for breaching his company’s social media regulations.
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