Creepy people: Part IV

This is the second part of a multi-series dealing with people who have so little empathy for their fellow human beings that the only word that best describes them is the word, 'creeps'. These are the kind of people our mothers told us to stay away from. Unfortunately for thousands of people around the world, they didn't listen to their mothers. For others, they didn't get a chance to hear what their mothers were going to tell them. And now, to the creeps.

Martin Green, 39, of Brampton, Ontario was picked up by police on December 29, 2007 on 22 counts of fraud and one count of defrauding the public. The con man was wanted for scamming dozens of people out of tens of thousands of dollars. It is alleged that Green collected the first and last month's rent from more than 30 families looking to move into a home at 10 Crenshaw Court in Brampton. In total, police said that Green, who doesn't even own the home but is a tenant there, pocketed more than $50,000. On Saturday, December 22nd , several of the families converged at the home expecting to move in. What many got instead was a phone call from a man they say was Green telling them they'd been scammed. He told one victim who paid $1,350as a cash deposit on the property that he couldn’t repay her because he spent all the money on drugs. The police further said that he continued to try to collect rent money from unsuspecting would-be tenants even though he knew that a warrant had been issued for his arrest because of the scam. Creeps like that should get a minimum of five years in prison but some soft-headed judge will probably give him a much lesser sentence.

On December 21, 2001 The world’s largest funeral company, Menorah Gardens and Funeral Chapels and its Texas parent company, Service Corporation International was sued in a class action with digging up as many as 700 bodies from graves in Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach and dumping them into Florida’s woods so that they could place new bodies in the same graves the others were removed from.

In 1986, the family of Paul Goddard in southeast France thought there was something wrong when they observed that their loved one who had died days earlier was in a coffin that was only six feet in length. The diseased was six-foot two. They opened the coffin and much to their horror, they discovered that the diseased had no feet—that is attached to him. The undertaker, Jordan’s Funeral Home had cut off his feet and placed his feet at the end of the coffin because they didn’t have a coffin larger than six feet in length. Upon investigation by the police, they learned that this funeral home had been doing this for years. Needless to say, the funeral home was closed and the owner sued for millions.

The day after Randal "Randy" Dooley died, accused killer Marcia Dooley admitted she had forced him to eat his own vomit. Beatrice Dooley, the boy's aunt, testified that she had confronted Marcia in a telephone conversation and asked her why she would do that to her seven-year-old stepson. "She said she “just didn't want the food to go to waste." Randy's injuries included 14 fractured ribs, cracked vertebrae, a lacerated liver and four separate brain injuries. Tony Dooley, 36, and Marcia Dooley, 31, were charged with second-degree murder in Randy's September 25th, 1998 death and convicted by a Toronto, Ontario jury. They were sent to prison in 2002 for a very long time. They would have to be in protective custody during their incarceration since it is unlikely they would survive long in the general population of the prisons they were incarcerated in.

In February 1999, Guo Qiang Liang who left an Asian country to live in Canada and benefit from all that Canada could give him, married a young Asian woman in Canada but he refused to be intimate with her or even live with her. He admitted to her that he only married her so that he could apply for his landed immigration papers with her as his sponsor. She applied to the court for an annulment and her application was granted. That being as it was, her sponsorship was no longer in effect and in Canada, if a sponsorship is revoked, the sponsoree reverts back to his visitor status and that being as it is, the creep, Liang was deported back to where he came from. The irony of this is that had he just been intimate one time with his wife, the marriage would have been consummated and hence, his marriage to his sponsor would not have been annulled and he could have remained in Canada.

A 51-year-old man in Sherbrooke, Quebec was convicted by a jury on January 19th, 2003 of sexually assaulting his daughter, Isabelle over a 17-year period. Renald Côté, of Magog, Que., stood quietly as the verdict was read, which came after seven days of deliberation and a sexually explicit, six-week trial. Côté was accused of incest and sexual assault against Isabelle Côté during her childhood years and even while she was in hospital fighting ovarian cancer. Côté faced 14 charges as a result of the allegations involving Isabelle, and three others stemming from complaints by two other women. He was convicted of 14 of the 17 charges. Côté's sons, Serge, 24, and Donald, 27, were charged separately with sex-related crimes against their sister. Both Côté brothers testified against their father. They said he initiated them into a world of incest against Isabelle when she was 4 years old. They said their father instructed them on how to have sexual intercourse, adding that their father would rape Isabelle before encouraging them to do the same. Serge was sentenced to six years in jail for sexually assaulting his sister. His brother, Donald was sentenced to two years less a day. The judge said she took into consideration that Donald Cote had already spent 29 months behind bars. The judge also took into consideration when sentencing the two young men that that their father had initiated the sons into a world of incest when they were young by threatening them that they would be beaten if they protested. They should have told their mother what was happening to their sister.

On June 19, 2001, a San Jose, California man was convicted yesterday of tossing a little dog to its death on a busy highway in a bout of road rage. A jury took less than an hour to convict Andrew Burnett, 27, of animal cruelty for killing a fluffy white bichon frise. Outraged dog lovers donated $120,000 to find the dog’s killer ---more than the reward in many missing-child cases. Witnesses testified that after a minor traffic accident in February 2000, Burnett yelled at the owner of the dog, then reached through her open car window, grabbed the dog and hurled it into oncoming traffic. The 10-year-old dog was killed by a minivan when it tried to run across the busy street back to its owner. That did not mitigate the fact that Burnett had caused Leo to be placed on a dangerous road in the first place. Burnett was jailed in December for stealing tools from his employer, Pacific Bell, and of lying to get out of a speeding ticket. The jury heard taped telephone conversations Burnett had from jail with his mother and fiancee. In one tape, he and his fiancee discussed selling their story for $250,000 and going on a talk show to have a "dog-kicking contest." This creep got three years in prison.

On June 21, 2001, Waddah Hassan Hamdy, 53, a Toronto, Ontario aid worker admitted he ripped off $300,000 destined for Kosovo refugees from a Geneva-based Roman Catholic humanitarian agency. Police recovered $165,000 of the money, which went back to the people who needed it the most. Hamdy was the director of the Geneva-based International Catholic Migration Commission. The police were tipped off by bank officials when Hamdy tried to deposit $160,000 U.S. in $100 bills. I don’t know what his sentence was but no doubt, he was sent to prison.

On December 18, 2007, a New York jury found a millionaire couple guilty yesterday of enslaving two Indonesian women they brought to their mansion to work as housekeepers. Mahender Murlidhar Sabhnani, 51, and his wife, Varsha Mahender Sabhnani, 45, were each convicted of all charges in a 12-count federal indictment that included forced labour, conspiracy, involuntary servitude and harbouring aliens. Prosecutors said the women were subjected to repeated psychological and physical abuse and forced to work 18 hours or more a day. The Sabhnanis, who have four children and operate a worldwide perfume business out of their Muttontown home on Long Island's Gold Coast, could face up to 40 years in prison, although lawyers predict that the punishment could be considerably less. He is from India, and she is from Indonesia. Both are naturalized U.S. citizens. Through six weeks of testimony, prosecutors called it a case of "modern-day slavery". The poorly educated women worked as housekeepers for $100 or $150 a month – all of which was sent to their relatives back home. Allegations of abuse included beatings with brooms and umbrellas, slashings with knives, being made repeatedly to climb stairs and take freezing cold showers as punishment for misdeeds that included sleeping late or stealing food from trash bins because they were poorly fed. Samirah, the woman who fled the house in May, said she was forced to eat dozens of chili peppers and then to eat her own vomit when she could not digest the peppers. When I learn what their sentence is, I will post it.