Game Over

(hat tip reader K.C)How to be a douchebag dad:

A Philadelphia man who spent long hours each day playing video games was convicted Tuesday of killing his 17-month-old daughter when she pulled down his Xbox console.

Prosecutors believe Tyrone Spellman pummeled Alayiah Turman, cracking her skull several times, while her pregnant mother napped in another room in September 2006.

Jurors rejected arguments that Spellman confessed to protect the mother and convicted him of third-degree murder and child endangerment. He was acquitted of first-degree murder. He could be sentenced to about 23 to 47 years in prison.

Spellman fled the house after the beating, and the mother, Mia Turman, had no reason to go in the bedroom where the baby was found, prosecutors said.

“He (Spellman) spent six to seven hours a day in there playing Xbox,” Assistant District Attorney James Berardinelli said.

Spellman, 27, of Philadelphia, confessed to police the next day, but defense lawyer Bobby Hoof noted that his statement came after 24 hours in custody.

“He’s not happy with the verdict. He does not agree with the verdict, but he respects the jury verdict,” Hoof said of Spellman.

An autopsy showed that Alayiah had suffered a broken arm about two weeks before she died – an injury that city social workers did not see on two visits to the house in late August, when they found the baby well.

The city took custody of the couple’s second daughter, born after Alayiah’s death.

Father of the year material right there…

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Douchebags in Love

(hat tip to reader K.C…) Here’s a new spin on the elusive ”shocker” maneuver that we’ve all (unfortunately) heard about:

A woman died during a night of “bizarre sex” in which her husband used an electrical cord to stimulate her, but ended up giving her a fatal shock, police said.
Kirsten Taylor, 29, was found unconscious Wednesday night at the couple’s Pennsylvania home. She was taken to York Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Toby Taylor first said his wife was shocked by a hair dryer, according to a police affidavit. But when burns were found on her body, Taylor told police that he had clipped an electrical cord to his wife and plugged it into a power strip, which he then turned on and off.

He told authorities the couple had used the technique before.

Taylor, 37, was jailed Thursday in lieu of $100,000 bail on involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment charges. He did not have a lawyer at his arraignment and no lawyer had been entered in his court file as of Friday.

York County Coroner Barry Bloss called it a case of “bizarre sex.”

“I have never seen anything like this,” Bloss said. “Even if you did it before, you have to know you could kill someone.”

The township police chief, David Sterner, said the jolt of electricity is believed to have triggered a heart attack in the woman.

An initial autopsy did not determine the cause of death, Bloss said. A final determination awaits further testing of the electrical equipment and a toxicology test, he said.

At any rate, this article just proves that Darwin probably sucked in bed. It also goes to show you that the frequent use of carnal electricty, even if resulting in a fatality, will only get you an understatement like “bizarre sex.” If you want more than that, you’re gonna have to get yourself a pony.

Source: Fox News – Pennsylvania Man Killed Wife by Shocking Her During Sex

Coach Reproach

(hat tip to reader K.C.) Soccer moms beware, douchebags are everywhere:

LOUISA, Va. (AP) — The head coach of Howard University’s men’s soccer team was arrested after police said he used the Internet to solicit a person he thought was a 13-year-old girl for sexual purposes.

Joseph Okoh, 40, was arrested Friday and charged with one felony count of using a communications system to solicit a person under 15 years old with lascivious intent. He is being held without bond at the Central Virginia Regional Jail in Orange pending a bond hearing Friday.

The Louisa County Sheriff’s Office said Okoh traveled from his home in Arlington for the purpose of engaging in sexual activity with a person he thought was a 13-year-old girl. The person was actually an undercover deputy.

A spokeswoman for Howard said Okoh has been suspended from all university activities and duties pending completion of the investigation.

“Because this is a personnel matter, we are unable to provide any further information at this time,” Jennifer James-Pryor said in a statement. “However, Howard University has zero tolerance for the violation of any University policy and our code of conduct.”

Okoh is in his first season as head men’s soccer coach, according to the university’s Web site.

Source: Comcast.net Sports – Howard University head soccer coach arrested