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• Dean Stockwell, ‘Quantum Leap’ Star, Dies at 85

Dean Stockwell, who began his acting career as a child in Hollywood’s golden age and later performed memorably in David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet”; in the comedy “Married to the Mob,” for which he was Oscar nominated; and on TV’s “Quantum Leap,” for which he was Emmy nominated, died Sunday. He was 85.
( Carmel Dagan, Patrick Frater, Variety, US, November 8, 2021 )

• Ohio to Pay $17.5M to Convicted Child Sex Offender After Prison Guards Boasted About Paralyzing Him

Fletcher's legal team cited text messages and Facebook posts sent by one of the guards, Garrett Osbon... "the dude I broke his nose is now paralyzed with a broken neck, and they say his face looks like he had been dropped and dragged through concrete, LMAO" he wrote. "It feels good to know that I played a small part in paralyzing a cho, LMAO."
( TooFab Staff, TooFab, US, November 3, 2021 )

• A gay teen in Scotland was punched and kicked to the ground and subjected to homophobic abuse in what is being treated as a hate crime.

The unnamed 15-year-old was attacked as he was getting off a bus on City Road in St Andrews on 27 October...the attackers reportedly followed the gay teen off the bus and launched into a violent attack while the victim’s back was turned.
(Maggie Baska, Pink News, UK, November 2, 2021 )

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• Halloween special sponsored by Twix has outraged conservatives howling like a banshee

Twix’s sponsorship of a Halloween-themed episode of Hulu’s “Bite Size Halloween” series is spawning outrage online from conservatives who are scared of the spot’s inclusive message. The video has mistakenly been confused as a commercial but is only a short clip from the episode.
(Bil Browning, LGBTQ Nation, US, October 29, 2021)

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Twix - Bite Size Halloween: The New Nanny (2021)

• Sex Offenders: Fear vs. Fact on Halloween

Media fearmongering over “Registered Sex Offenders” in the community has become an annual Halloween tradition in the same way as razor blades and poison in candy.
( Derek W. Logue, The Crime Report, US, October 26, 2021)

• Virgin Islands: $400,000 Award from the U.S. Department of Justice in Support of SORNA

U.S. Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that the Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands has received a $400,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice in support of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.
(US Gov., ACSOL, US, October 25, 2021)

• Three starving children, 7, 10, and 15, are found locked inside Houston apartment next to the decomposing remains of their 9-year-old brother who had been dead for a YEAR

(Teleiophile mother and her boyfriend, found but not arrested, that left:) Three starving children, ages 7, 10, and 15, were found living alone in an apartment in deplorable conditions, along with the decomposing remains of their nine-year-old brother who police say had been dead for a year.
(Andrea Blanco, Daily Mail, US, October 25, 2021)

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Boyfriend, 31, of House of Horrors mother is charged with 'punching and kicking to death' eight-year-old boy whose body was left for a YEAR in squalid apartment with his three starving brothers: She is charged with neglect

A Houston man was arrested on Tuesday along with his girlfriend and charged with murder for allegedly beating the woman's eight-year-old son to death and leaving his corpse to decompose for a year in a home where the boy's three siblings were found starving after being abandoned for months.
(Daily Mail, US, October 27, 2021)

Siblings describe witnessing savage murder of their brother in Houston horror house

Chilling details were revealed in court Wednesday about the savage death of an 8-year-old Houston boy whose remains were found in the family’s apartment with his abandoned siblings.
(Kenneth Garger, NY Post, US, October 28, 2021)