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Delaware prison officials decided in July to allow condemned murderer Nelson Shelton to have a kidney removed at public expense so he can donate the organ to his mother. The state initially refused to pay but relented when Shelton threatened to appeal his sentence, which would cost the state hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Mollie Brusstar, 48, was convicted in July embezzling the Catholic Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, where she’d been employed in administration. According to the prosecutor, Brusstar put imaginary employees on the rolls and issued their paychecks to her. She and her sister went to Utah and, posing as nuns, used the money to pay for dental work and cosmetic abdomen-reduction surgery. Brusstar’s defense was that a monsignor had approved everything but couldn’t testify, having committed suicide after being accused of molesting a parishioner.
Desmond Morris’s latest documentary, The Human Animal: The Biology of Love, now on TV in England and scheduled to appear on U.S. cable TV in January, includes footage of a human orgasm–from inside the vagina. A tiny camera, similar to those used for exploring the colon, was placed inside Wendy Duffield, 31, and another was strapped to her husband’s penis. The couple reportedly had sex about 60 times to ensure sufficient footage.
In a courtroom in Saint John’s, Newfoundland, in August George Clarke denied that the bruises and cuts on his girlfriend’s body were the result of a domestic assault. He said she got the back bruises one night when he was suicidal–he’d tied a noose ineptly to an overhead pipe and fell on top of her when she tried to stop him. The bruises and cuts on her arm were the consequence of his having to hold her arms tightly during sex because, he said, “Your Honor, I only got a small penis on me.”
