Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia Sally Quillian Yates announced 17 years in prison and 10 years of supervised release of Marcelo Alejo Desautu for sex trafficking of a child. On Jan 10th 2012 he pleaded guilty to the charge.

Assistant Attorney General Breuer said, “Mr. Desautu gave drugs and alcohol to a 12-year-old girl and then prostituted her to adult men. He will now appropriately, spend the next 17 years of his life paying for his horrific crimes. While no prison sentence can repair the harm caused by such appalling conduct, today’s sentence sends a strong message that we will pursue child sex traffickers to the fullest extent of the law.”

Also U.S. Attorney Yates said, “This defendant earned a substantial sentence in federal prison when he drugged and sexually exploited a 12-year-old girl, forever altering the course of her life. It is unfathomable that there is even a market for the sale of such a young child for sex. This lengthy sentence should deter others who would consider engaging in similar heinous acts.”

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Countless law enforcement agents and researchers have sited “bath salts” as the latest drug for which parents need to watch out for.

While Rudy Eugene, the perpetrator in the Miami face-eating espisode, has not received the toxicology reports, many experts have said that he displayed the “classic” signs of someone who had used the drug. Many have taken off their clothes, become violent with an almost “super human” strength, suffer from hallucinations, delusions or have behaved in an irrational paranoid manner while being high on this powdered substance.

“Bath salts” are technically known as a drug called MDPV (methylenedioxypyrovalerone) mixed with Mephedrone. Users say its effect is much like that of methamphetamine. The substance is smoked, injected or snorted. After getting high, the users body temperature rises. It also raises heart rate and blood pressure. Additional effects of the drug includes hallucinations, agitation and paranoia. The results and cravings for more may last for days due to which there are increasing risks of suicide.

The DEA banned the sale of the chemicals used to make the drug stating that it was an “imminent...

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When Rudy Eugene, 31 also known as the “naked zombie”, was found naked eating the face of another man, Ronald Poppo, a 65 year old homeless man, bath salts was suspected as the drug Eugene was high on before the attack, but was later debunked from toxicology tests. After he refused to stop eating the man’s face, the police fatally shot him. Poppo is in a critical condition till date as the fleshy tissue around his goatee is the only skin left on his face.

There is a rising danger to the well being of our younger generation, our teenagers. It comes in the form of a pounded, crushed substance marketed as “bath salts."
It sounds nontoxic enough, doesn’t it? In spite of everything, who doesn’t want to loosen up in a nice warm bath? The alarming problem is, these bath salts are being taken orally and internally.
On February 1, 2011 a report entitled “DEA Names ‘Bath Salts’ Drug of Concern” on CBSNews.com. However, previously there have been no reports to Poison Control Centers of poisoning by this substance but throughout 2010, there were 236 reports coming from 33 different states.

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Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Charles M. Oberly III of the District of Delaware and Special Agent in Charge Richard A. McFeely of the FBI’s Baltimore Division announced on Friday, March 16, 2012 that a New Castle, Del., man pleaded guilty to one count of transportation of child pornography,

40 year old David Osborn pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard G. Andrews in the District of Delaware.

Osborn was identified by the FBI through reports of child pornography trafficking provided by AOL LLC to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) according to statements made at today’s hearing and documents filed in court. Internet service providers, such as AOL, under federal law, are required to report suspected child pornography being transmitted over their servers to NCMEC, which then directs these “cybertips” to the appropriate law enforcement agency. A particular online username, later linked to Osborn as reported by AOL, had been used to trade images of child pornography with another computer user in South Florida.

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