Shrub Monkey - Cunt of the Day

Metal thieves in the UK are today's Cunts of the Day.

A real heartwarmer today as the Guardian reports that some lowlife scum "have stolen a plaque commemorating two children killed in an IRA bomb attack in Warrington, Cheshire".

There are always cunts about determined to make life worse for everyone else and metal thieves are particularly parasitic. Last December, we learned that cancer operations were "cancelled after copper cabling was stolen from a hospital in the Vale of Glamorgan" and today the bar has been lowered by assholes who, for a few quid, have stolen a small memorial to the lives of two pointlessly murdered little boys. Happy fucking days.

In 2008, police reported that metal theft was the fastest growing crime in the UK, costing industry about £360m a year. Scumbag assholes who steal cables, manholes and statues to melt down for resale are worthy of everyone's vitriol, but the heartless thieving shitbags who stole the plaque in Warrington really are cunts of the highest order.

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The Portsmouth Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust is today's Cunt of the Day.

Today the Guardian reports on an appeals court compensation case in which a woman is claiming compensation from the Portsmouth Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust after allegedly being abused by a nun and a priest in a children's home in the 1970's. Last November, the high court ruled the diocese to be liable for the actions of the nun and the late Father William Baldwin, a ruling paving the way for victims of sex abuse to make claims against the Catholic church.

The trustees, appealing the decision, are denying responsibility for what went on in a home under its management. This is an interesting test case about the responsibility of employers for the actions of their employees. It is also yet another interesting example of the Catholic Church attempting to avoid compensating victims of its child abusing priests.

When it comes to employing child rapists, there can be little doubt the Catholic Church has the world record. The church also has some serious form in covering up for priests who rape children. In this case the trustees said that child abuse is an abhorrence, one which they are apparently unwilling to compensate victims for. Is this one last gasp before the inevitable filing of bankruptcy to avoid paying up? 

Wouldn't it be good if the judge made an exception for instances of child abuse by priests by ruling that religious organizations are wholly responsible for the pedophiles they shelter, and no matter how hard they try to avoid compensating victims, churches that harbor these cunts will always be found liable?

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Ratko Mladic is today’s Cunt of the Day.

At the opening of his genocide trial in The Hague, Mladic has gone the extra mile to prove what a truly despicable cunt he is by behaving, in the words of one person watching, like an animal. Last July, Mladic was mentioned on these pages for being taken out of court for behaving like an asshole.

CNN reports today that “Mladic, showed no remorse…at one point even appearing to threaten victims in the court. The former general drew his hand across his neck as if cutting a throat while staring at victims”. What class. Such respect from someone accused of ethnic cleansing.

You have to ask yourself what we can expect from this 70 year old piece of fucking shit. His actions in court do very little to make anyone think he is anything other than guilty as charged. Now, let’s get this dog and pony show over with and lock this cunt up until he dies.

Sponsored by people who think, whilst on the subject of complete cunts, Charles Taylor warrants a mention today. Having been convicted of war crimes in The Hague last month, Taylor today “accused the prosecution of paying and threatening witnesses in his war crimes trial”. Sounds more like a move from your playbook Taylor, you cunt.

Rebekah Brooks is today's Cunt of the Day.

What a banner news day it is as we learn the UK's CPS is to charge Rebekah Brooks, along with her husband Charlie and four others, with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice over the phone hacking inquiry. They will be up in court next month and many people are hoping that Brooks' deeply satisfying fall from grace will be crowned with some well deserved jail time.

Of great interest is the statement released by Brookes and her husband in which they said: "We deplore this weak and unjust decision". More decent people might show some respect for the fact the CPS sees fit to proceed with charges against them and take an opportunity to weakly protest their innocence, but these incredibly arrogant people apparently know better than those who decide who should be charged with criminal offences. Of course, Brooks and her ilk do not come from a class that expects to be prosecuted for anything they might do and their reaction today perfectly exemplifies the fact that they still believe they are above the law.

Should we forget that police found computers and paperwork that were dumped into a bin near the Brooks' home just as the phone hacking scandal was being blown wide open? Does that not seem like something that warranted further investigation and appropriate action taken?

All of the people involved in the phone hacking scandal are pure fucking scum who defend their actions with the most fatuous wank, but the dreadfully vile harpy Brooks stands head and shoulders above most of them. She is, in the eyes of so many people, a soulless piece of shit. Whether or not she is found guilty, she will still have been dragged through the courts, she will forever stink of corruption and scandal and she will forever be hated by millions of people. 

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Elvis Lee is today's Cunt of the Day.

The week begins with news of Lee being convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend's 5 year old son. Lee, who has 56 previous offences including affray and violence, admitted kicking and biting Tyler Whelan on the day he died, but he denied murder. Tyler's mother, Stephanie Whelan, was convicted of allowing her son's death. Both Lee and Whelan were remanded until they are sentenced.

This kind of story is all too common. A woman gets into an abusive relationship, exposing herself and her offspring to a violent man. In this case, Lee had evidently been beating the shit out of Tyler Whelan for quite some time as the boy had been taken to hospital three times with non-accidental injuries, prompting doctors to call the social services. Any action on their part, however, came too late for Tyler who was dealt blunt force trauma to the head and abdomen on the day he died.

What a reall big man Elvis Lee must be. How incredibly tough he must have been to beat a little boy to death. How tough he really is might well be tested in the years he is going to spend in jail where assholes like Lee are, funnily enough, not looked upon with much respect.

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Rochdale sex offenders are this week's Cunts of the Week..

This week has been thick with criminal scum being brought to justice. One of the most sickening cases has been that of a group of nine men in Rochdale, UK who ran a child exploitation ring which led to them being jailed on charges of rape and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a child. There were as many as 50 victims of the gang.

The men, all Asian immigrants, repeatedly raped girls as young as 13, who they plied with drink and drugs. Due to the fact their victims were white, the case has caused additional controversy as the BNP reared its ugly head, using the case to further its anti-immigrant cause. The situation will not be helped by that fact that yesterday police arrested 9 men in the same area in another grooming case. Asshole BNP leader Nick Griffin should also be mentioned for potentially jeopardizing the trial by Tweeting about the case; one of the men convicted is to appeal his conviction on the basis of Griffin's stupidity.

The police and their slowness to act against Asian sex gangs must also be mentioned as they have been accused of failing to investigate such gangs for fear of appearing to be racist. It is absolutely fucking scandalous that gangs of child rapists have been able to operate unhindered due to political correctness on the part of police and social services. That the police knew what was going on and did not act is unforgivable.

Today we have also learned that Trevor Phillips, the chair of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, has said it was "fatuous" to deny the racial and cultural factors of the case. We, however, are going to stick with the fact that the culprits are, first and foremost, men who have sexually abused vulnerable females. It is for what they have done, not the colour of the skin, that they are despicable cunts. There are men and women of all ethnic groups who commit sex crimes and the police should never hesitate to go after them, no matter who the fuck they are.

Caesar Achellam is today's Cunt of the Day.

Today we have learned the good news that Achellam has been captured by Ugandan soldiers. As a senior commander in the Lord's Resistance Army, Achellam has been a military strategist for a particularly despicable bunch of cunts, many of whom are wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity and war crimes.

The Lord's Resistance Army, you may recall, made news in 2010 when we learned they had hacked or beaten to death 321 Congolese villagers. The Guardian reported: "most of the dead were men who had been tied up and then cut with machetes, or had their skulls crushed with axes or clubs". This is how the Lord's Resistance Army goes about its struggle to install a bible-based theocracy in Uganda.

You may also recall news in 2010 of a Lord's Resistance Army forced recruitment drive to replenish its numbers. Forced recruitment involves abducting men, women and children in huge numbers and forcing them to kill people and/or using them for sex. 54,000 people in Congo fled their homes in order to avoid being captured.

With the ongoing hunt for Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony, spurred on by a recent internet campaign, the world is a little more aware of the Lords' Resistance Army and the terrible things it is responsible for. With the capture of Achellam, we are perhaps moving a little closer to stopping these cunts once and for all.

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Michael Rafferty is today's Cunt of the Day.

You might think that William Balfour, who has been found guilty in the US of murdering three people, would be in line for today's award; you might even think Stephanie Lazarus, a former LA detective who has been jailed for a murder committed 26 years ago, would be in with a shout. However, when you look at what Michael Rafferty has done there is no doubt that this truly evil man is today's Cunt of the Day.

It is back to Canada we go where, in London, Ontario, Rafferty has been found guilty of "first-degree murder, sexual assault causing bodily harm and kidnapping in the death of Victoria (Tori) Stafford". This is a story that gripped Canada from the moment eight year old Tori Stafford disappeared in 2009. 28 year old Rafferty, along with 18 year old Terri-Lynne McClintic were arrested and charged with murder before police even found a body. McClintic led police to Tori's body, pleaded guilty to first degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison.

Rafferty, however, pleaded not guilty. The Globe and Mail in a piece titled "Michael Rafferty’s evil defies explanation" gives us some of the awful details: how Tori was kidnapped, repeatedly raped and beaten to death with a claw hammer, how her skull was cracked and 16 of her ribs were broken from "being stomped on", how, on the day the trial learned about the terrible wounds inflicted on Tori, Rafferty wore a brand new purple shirt - Tori's favorite colour. 

The CBC also informs us that the jury found Rafferty guilty without being told he searched for child pornography on his laptop. The evidence was ruled inadmissible but once the jury was sequestered in a hotel details emerged that Rafferty had used search terms such as "underage rape" and "real underage rape pictures". He had also downloaded a movie about the abduction of an 8 year old girl who is forced into prostitution. There was, apparently, more than enough evidence to find Rafferty guilty anyway.

Then there is Tori Stafford, an innocent little girl whose last few hours on this planet, in the hands of McClintic and Rafferty, are unimaginable, a little girl whose life was brutally taken by two truly evil people, a little girl whose family has finally seen justice as savage cunt Michael Rafferty was sent down.

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Brent Parent is today's Cunt of the Day.

Today we travel to Canada. While in Ontario a jury is deliberating the fate of Michael Rafferty who is accused of the horrifying murder of Tori Stafford, we look to western Canada where Parent was yesterday jailed for five and a half years for killing a young man in a road rage hit and run incident.

Here, taken from The Province, is a summary of the case: in March 2008 Sam Dooley was driving to the airport on a rural road in British Columbia with Stephen Dooley and Silas O'Brien. When Dooley tried to overtake Parent he "deliberately sped up and used his truck to push Dooley’s vehicle to the side as he tried to stay ahead". Dooley went off the road and Parent kept driving. However, Parent turned around and returned to the scene where he "swerved his truck sharply toward the young men" who were standing on the road, killing 21 year old Silas O'Brien. Parent then drove away.

43 year old parent had accumulated 64 driving violations in his time behind the wheel and, in this case, appears to have used his vehicle as a weapon to kill someone. In Canada, the charges of criminal negligence causing death, dangerous driving and leaving the scene of an accident are apparently worth five and a half years in jail and a 12 year driving ban.

This case, apart from being a tragedy in which an aggressive, violent asshole killed an innocent young man, surely indicates a change in the law is required. If a person deliberately uses a motor vehicle to kill someone they should, quite simply, be charged with murder. Parent is an absolute cunt who deserves a much longer sentence and should never be allowed to drive again.

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Alexander Mortimer and Jennifer Mahoney are today's Cunts of the Day.

Today's award is split between two people on two continents, both of them truly despicable human beings.

Firstly, Mortimer who was a nursery worker in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, who has "admitted sexually assaulting two toddlers". He filmed himself abusing his 2 and 3 year old victims and police found 18,000 indecent images of children in his possession. He has been remanded until he is sentenced next month.

Second up is a story from New Jersey where Mahoney has also pleaded guilty to the sexual abuse of a child. In this case Mahoney abused a 5 year old girl she was babysitting, streaming it over the internet. Mahoney accepted a plea in which she agreed that 30 years was an appropriate sentence, as well as paying restitution to her victim.

Mahoney and Mortimer obviously missed the meeting about sexually abusing children being absolutely unacceptable. They might also have missed the meeting about how such people get treated in prison. We should, however, be thankful that these two reprobates will not be free for quite some time.

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