Judge attacks forced marriage woman

Judge attacks forced marriage that put disabled woman 'at risk’

A judge has said the forced marriage of a Muslim woman with learning difficulties should be annulled and condemned the “insulated” families who arrange them.

The judge said the woman lived in a “very traditional family” in a “close-knit community” that was not integrated with other Bengalis in the area.

Her parents are very largely insulated from mainstream English society and are mistrustful of non-Bengalis. They do not communicate well in English: her mother understands and speaks almost none. They are devout Muslims.

Old Forge police chief arrested

Old Forge Police Chief Larry Semenza has been charged with aggravated indecent assault, unlawful contact with a minor, indecent assault and related counts.

The police chief is in police custody at the state police barracks this evening, according to county officials. He will be arraigned in front of Magisterial District Judge Laura Turlip later tonight.

The counts all stem from incidents that occurred with an underage girl between November 2004 and March 30, 2007, according to a press release from officials tonight. Chief Semenza also was charged with failing to report child abuse. There were no further details on the charges immediately available.

The borough chief has been on administrative leave and was under investigation, Old Forge Mayor Michele Avvisato said last week, though she would not elaborate on why. Also last week, Old Forge police Capt. Jamie Krenitsky, 34, 19 Casey Ave., Old Forge, and former volunteer borough firefighter Walter Chiavacci, 46, 511 W. Grace St., Old Forge, were each arrested and charged by state police for allegedly sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl in 2005.

On Tuesday, Lackawanna County District Attorney Andy Jarbola said investigators from his office and the state police seized records from the Police Department but declined to elaborate on their relevance.

9/11 defendants ignore judge at Guantanamo hearing

They knelt in prayer, ignored the judge and wouldn't listen to Arabic translations as they confronted nearly 3,000 counts of murder. The self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four co-defendants defiantly disrupted an arraignment that ended late Saturday night in the opening act of the long-stalled effort to prosecute them in a military court.

In this photo of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin and reviewed by the U.S. Department of Defense, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed reads a document during his military hearing at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, Saturday, May 5, 2012. The self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed repeatedly declined to respond to a judge's questions Saturday and his co-defendant Walid bin Attash was briefly restrained at a military hearing as five men charged with the worst terror attack in U.S. history appeared in public for the first time in more than three years.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the admitted architect of the attacks that sent hijacked jetliners into New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the four men accused of aiding the 9/11 conspiracy put off entering pleas until a later date. Another hearing was set for June 12.

It wasn't until more than seven hours into the disrupted and prolonged hearing that prosecutors at the U.S. military base in Cuba even began reading the charges against the men, including 2,976 counts of murder and terrorism that carry the death penalty.

Earlier Saturday, Mohammed cast off his earphones providing Arabic translations of the proceeding and refused to answer Army Col. James Pohl's questions or acknowledge he understood them. All five men refused to participate in the hearing; two passed around a copy of The Economist magazine and leafed through the articles.

Walid bin Attash was confined to a restraint chair when he came into court, released only after he promised to behave.  CONTINUE .. . . .

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