1. The families of US kidnapping victims Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus have asked for privacy from the media after the two women returned home.
Amanda Berry returned to her sister’s home with her 6-year-old daughter and Gina De Jesus returned to her family’s home. Michele Knight is reportedly still in hospital but is “in good condition”.
2. Meanwhile, the women’s alleged captor, 52-year-old Ariel Castro has been charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape. The fourth count of kidnapping relates to Berry’s 6-year-old child. As for Castro’s two brothers, police spokesperson Victor Perez said: “There is no evidence that these two individuals had any involvement.”
5. A boy from a QLD secondary school who reportedly threw a sandwich at the Prime Minister has denied the allegations.
Sixteen-year-old Kyle Thomson was suspended for two weeks after he allegedly threw the Vegemite sandwich at Julia Gillard when the Prime Minister was visiting his school in Logan.
Kyle told Channel 9 it was another student. “I hit the sandwich out of the kid’s hand because he threw it,” Kyle said. “There was another one, so I hit it out of his hand.”
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Just wanted to point out the poor placement of the news stories. The first 2 stories were re the girls who were kidnapped having just been released and then the third story was about national clitoris week. Both stories are valid, I just thought it was insensitive placement.
in 1981 Sheikh Gad Al Haq, of Al-Azhar university, a major authority of Sunni Islam, made a fatwa saying that the circumcision of girls was a religious obligation so it is not surprising that girls in islamic countries are circumcised as it is permissible under Sharia law. However, tragically we have had cases of female circumsion here even thought it is illegal and has, I believe a 7 year jail term. Australian authorities/medical professionals/hospitals need to make it well know that female genital mutilation will not be tolerated here.