On Thursday, the Ecuadorian foreign minister Ricardo Patino announced at a news conference in Quito that Ecuador would be granting Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange, asylum thus shielding him from being extradited from Britain to Sweden where he faces charges of rape and sexual molestation.
Jerry Sandusky did not testify before a court in June, when the former Penn State assistant football coach was convicted on 45 counts of child sex abuse and molestation, but he will be doing in the same lines in a new book he is busy writing as he awaits his sentencing.
On Wednesday, Penn State University announced that it would hosting a conference on child-sex abuse this fall, in an attempt to improve what seems to be irreparable damages caused to the institution's reputation by the former football coach Jerry Sandusky child-molestation case and the consequential cover-up by university officials.
On Tuesday, Betty Smithey walked out of the Arizona State Prison Complex in Perryville, a free woman after serving 49-years in prison for a murder in 1963.Smithey, now 69, was charged and convicted of the murder of 15-month-old, Sandy Gerberick, whom she was baby-sitting. Smithey was 20 at the time. The murder came to be called as The New Year's Day Murder.
