>Dough
>Does the CIA use human trafficking or child sexual exploitation in anyway as part of any US intelligence operations?
>Medicaid, which is taxpayer funded, will be used to pay for abortion procedures, not simply travel for abortions.
https://nypost.com/2022/08/03/12-year-old-escapes-alabama-home-leads-cops-to-2-bodies/
Kidnapped girl’s escape leads to discovery of two bodies in Alabama
A young girl chewed through restraints to escape a rural Alabama home where investigators later found two decomposing bodies, authorities said.
José Paulino Pascual-Reyes, 37, is facing kidnapping charges and multiple counts of capital murder in connection to the bodies found at the home after a 12-year-old girl was discovered walking along a roadside early Monday in Dadeville.
Tallapoosa County Sheriff Jimmy Abbett told reporters at a press conference that a driver picked up the girl and called 911 — setting off an investigation that led to Pascual-Reyes’ arrest and the gruesome discovery, AL.com reported.
Pascual-Reyes, who remains jailed pending a bond hearing, was arrested in Auburn. The bodies were found in his Dadeville home, not far from where the girl was discovered wandering alone.
The decomposing remains have been sent to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences to be identified, Abbett said, adding it’s unclear how long they had been there.
“It’s a fluid investigation,” the sheriff told reporters. “Things are changing, and I don’t want to jeopardize the identification of our juvenile.”
Court filings obtained by WSFA show the girl had been tied to bedposts for nearly a week. She was assaulted and plied with alcohol, but managed to escape by chewing through her restraints, the documents show.
Authorities did not indicate whether the girl knew Pascual-Reyes, AL.com reported.
“I would say she’s a hero,” Abbett said. “It’s one of those things we won’t get into until later. We gave her medical attention. She is safe now. We want to keep her that way.”
Pascual-Reyes had lived at the home since February, Abbett said. Other people were there when cops arrived, but he did not elaborate, AL.com reported.
“It’s horrendous to have a crime scene of this nature,” the sheriff told reporters Tuesday.
>the girl had been tied to bedposts for nearly a week. She was assaulted and plied with alcohol, but managed to escape by chewing through her restraints
https://www.al.com/news/2022/08/kidnapping-of-12-year-old-girl-leads-alabama-police-to-two-decomposing-bodies.html
A 12-year-old girl walking alone on an Alabama roadway sparked a kidnapping investigation that also led authorities to two decomposing bodies.
The investigation began just before 8:30 a.m. Monday when a passerby spotted the girl walking in the area of 3547 County Road 34 in rural Dadeville, said Tallapoosa County Sheriff Jimmy Abbett.
The motorist picked up the child, and immediately called 911.
Abbett said a team of state, local and federal investigators worked over the next 24 hours to arrest a suspect, identified Tuesday as Jose Paulino Pascual-Reyes.
The 37-year-old man is charged with first-degree kidnapping in connection with the young girl and three counts of capital murder and two counts of abuse of a corpse in connection with the bodies. He was taken into custody in Auburn.
He remains in the Tallapoosa County Jail pending a bond hearing, Abbett said.
Investigators searched Pascual-Reyes’ residence, which was near where the girl was found, and discovered two decomposed bodies.
The remains have been sent to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences for identification.
Abbett said he could not disclose any additional information about the bodies or ongoing investigation.
“It’s a fluid investigation,’’ the sheriff said. “Things are changing, and I don’t want to jeopardize the identification of our juvenile.”
The girl was reportedly bound and drugged at some point during her captivity but managed to escape. Authorities did not say whether the victim knew Pascual-Reyes.
“I would say she’s a hero,’’ Abbett said. “It’s one of those things we won’t get into until later.”
“We gave her medical attention,’’ he said. “She is safe now. We want to keep her that way.”
The sheriff said investigators have worked “tirelessly” over the past 24 hours.
The assisting agencies include the Tallapoosa County District Attorney’s Office, the FBI, the State Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security, the Dadeville Police Department, the Dadeville Fire Department, the Camp Hill Police Department, the Alexander City Police Department, the Emergency Management Agency, the Department of Human Resources and the Child Advocacy Center.
As of Tuesday afternoon, law enforcement officers remained on the scene at Pascual-Reyes’ home, processing it for further evidence.
Tallapoosa County District Attorney Jeremy Duerr said Pascual-Reyes is facing multiple counts of capital murder in connection with the bodies found in his home.
Abbett said it appears Pascual-Reyes had lived at the mobile since February. There were other people at the residence when law enforcement officers arrived, but the sheriff said he could not elaborate.
“It’s horrendous to have a crime scene of this nature,’’ he said.
>dumped the entirety of Alex's text messages for the last 2 years to the prosecution and when informed, didn't take any steps to identify them privileged or protected
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Alabama-man-accused-of-capital-murder-holding-17348654.php
Alabama man accused of capital murder, holding girl captive
A man accused of abducting a 12-year-old who escaped by chewing her way out of restraints after a week in captivity at a rural mobile home was charged with killing a woman and juvenile found dismembered inside the residence, authorities said Wednesday.
Already charged with first-degree kidnapping in connection with the girl's mistreatment, José Paulino Pascual-Reyes also was charged with capital murder and corpse abuse in the deaths of a woman and a boy younger than 14 who were found inside the mobile home in the central Alabama town of Dadeville, according to Tallapoosa County Sheriff Jimmy Abbett and court documents.
The woman, identified as Sandra Vazquez Ceja, was smothered with a pillow and the boy, identified only by initials, was hit and kicked to death, documents showed. Both bodies were cut into small pieces at the joints to hide evidence.
Authorities haven't released information about the surviving girl, a possible motive or whether any of the victims and Pascual-Reyes were related, but Abbett said additional charges were possible.
Ceja, 29, used an address that matched the location of the mobile home when she received traffic tickets for speeding and driving without a license in April, court records showed.
The records don't include the name of a defense attorney who could speak on behalf of Pascual-Reyes, 37, who was being held in the Tallapoosa County Jail following his arrest in Auburn, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) from Dadeville.
Abducted from an undisclosed location around July 24, the girl was restrained to bedposts for about a week so she could be sexually abused, according to a complaint filed in court by authorities. The two people were killed around the time of the alleged abduction, records show.
The girl was kept in a “drugged state” with alcohol and assaulted in the head before chewing her way out of the restraints, the document said.
With her braces damaged from the chewing and marks on her wrists indicating she'd been tied up, the girl was spotted on the road outside the mobile home on Monday morning, authorities said.
A driver picked up the girl and notified authorities, prompting an investigation and search that led to police officers discovering two decomposing bodies inside the mobile home where Pascual-Reyes lived and the girl was believed to be held, Abbett said. Other people lived at the residence, he said, but no one else was there when police arrived.
The girl, who authorities said had not been reported missing, received medical attention and was placed in the custody of child welfare officials, said Abbett, who described her as a hero.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-merrick-b-garland-delivers-remarks-announce-action-protect-reproductive
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Delivers Remarks to Announce Action to Protect Reproductive Rights
Good afternoon.
Today, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against the State of Idaho. The suit seeks to hold invalid the state’s criminal prohibition on providing abortions, as applied to women who are suffering medical emergencies.
Under a federal law known as the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, or EMTALA, every hospital that receives Medicare funds must provide necessary stabilizing treatment to a patient who arrives at an emergency room suffering from a medical condition that could place their life or health in serious jeopardy.
In some circumstances, the medical treatment necessary to stabilize the patient's condition is abortion. This may be the case, for example, when a woman is undergoing a miscarriage that threatens septic infection or hemorrhage, or is suffering from severe preeclampsia.
When a hospital determines that an abortion is the medical treatment necessary to stabilize a patient’s emergency medical condition, it is required by federal law to provide that treatment.
As detailed in our complaint, Idaho’s law would make it a criminal offense for doctors to provide the emergency medical treatment that federal law requires. Although the Idaho law provides an exception to prevent the death of a pregnant woman, it includes no exception for cases in which the abortion is necessary to prevent serious jeopardy to the woman’s health.
Moreover, it would subject doctors to arrest and criminal prosecution, even if they performed an abortion to save a woman’s life, and would then place the burden on the doctors to prove that they are not criminally liable.
The United States therefore seeks a declaratory judgment that Idaho’s law violates the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution and is preempted by federal law, to the extent it is in conflict with EMTALA.
The United States also seeks an injunction prohibiting Idaho from enforcing its law against healthcare providers who provide the emergency treatment required by EMTALA.
In the days since the Dobbs decision, there have been widespread reports of delays and denials of treatment to pregnant women experiencing medical emergencies.
Today, the Justice Department’s message is clear: it does not matter what state a hospital subject to EMTALA operates in. If a patient comes into the emergency room with a medical emergency jeopardizing the patient’s life or health, the hospital must provide the treatment necessary to stabilize that patient. This includes abortion when that is the necessary treatment. Any state law that prevents a hospital from fulfilling its obligations under EMTALA violates federal law.
On the day Roe and Casey were overturned, we promised that the Justice Department would work tirelessly to protect and advance reproductive freedom. That is what we are doing, and that is what we will continue to do.
We will use every tool at our disposal to ensure that pregnant women get the emergency medical treatment to which they are entitled under federal law.
And we will closely scrutinize state abortion laws to ensure that they comply with federal law.
I would now like to welcome Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta, who is the head of our Reproductive Rights Task Force, to the podium to share more details from our complaint.
>look at the number of PPH - over 3000
>Vox Senior Editor Fantasizes About Justice Alito’s Death with ‘Prewritten Obituary’
I wonder why.
>BarackObama is turning 60 tomorrow. For his birthday gift, I'm asking you to chip in $6 or $60 to help us bring the Obama Presidential Center to life in Chicago.