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Wednesday 25 OctOber 2017

Body found is missing Texas toddler; father says she choked

By CLAUDIA LAUER dered off in the middle of said Tuesday that the Dal- opted Sherin from India statement Monday, he said
Associated Press the night when he sent her las County medical exam- in June 2016 with his wife, the girl choked on the milk
DALLAS (AP) — The father outside as punishment for iner’s office used dental re- Sini Mathews, was arrested and that he removed her
of a missing toddler whose not drinking her milk, author- cords to identify the body Monday after he voluntarily body from the home after
body was found in a cul- ities said. Wesley Mathews as that of the child. Police revised his police statement he believed she had died.
vert under a road in subur- reported 3-year-old Sherin said the medical examiner on what happened to the Richardson police spokes-
ban Dallas now says the girl Mathews missing on Oct. has not yet determined a girl. His attorney, Rafael man Sgt. Kevin Perlich said
choked to death on milk in 7 and searchers with ca- cause of death, and an De La Garza, did not im- Tuesday that the investiga-
the family’s garage after daver dogs found her body autopsy hasn’t been re- mediately return a phone tion is continuing, despite
earlier claiming she wan- Sunday. Richardson police leased. Mathews, who ad- call Tuesday. In his revised the revised statement.q

Man who stabbed fellow high school students pleads guilty

By JOE MANDAK al for that reason or to be victims in the high school’s
Associated Press allowed to plead guilty but library last week and the 30
GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A mentally ill to the charges. to 60 year offer remains the
man pleaded guilty Tues- The judge in February re- general consensus.
day to stabbing 20 fellow jected that request after He said the victims will “live
students and a security hearing several days of tes- with that trauma for a long
guard at his suburban Pitts- timony last year. time, perhaps longer than
burgh high school more Had Hribal been allowed to what Mr. Hribal will serve as
three years ago, and likely enter that plea, he would a sentence in prison.”
faces decades in prison have begun a prison term If Hribal received the maxi-
when he returns for sen- in a mental hospital, then mum sentence for each
tencing. would have been trans- count imposed consecu-
Alex Hribal said nothing in ferred to prison if doctors tively, he’d face more
court other than to reply ever deemed him cured. than 800 years in prison —
“guilty” to 21 counts each Thomassey said he will be but Common Pleas Judge
of attempted homicide arguing for as light a sen- Christopher Feliciani is ex-
and aggravated assault, Alex Hribal is lead to a sheriff’s vehicle after pleading guilty tence as he can, based pected to craft a sentence
plus a weapons charge. to stabbing fellow students and a security guard at his on Hribal’s mental health closer to that offered by
Hribal, who turned 20 ear- suburban Pittsburgh high school more three years ago, at the issues. Peck, once a presentence
lier this month, was 16 when Westmoreland County Courthouse on Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017, in “How do you defend this report on Hribal’s back-
he used two eight-inch Greensburg, Pa. (Andrew Rush/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP) case? It’s not a whodunit. ground and other factors is
kitchen knives to stab and It’s a question of what can completed.
slash his way through the Psychiatrists for both the was April 20, 1999 — but we do to help this kid,” he Hribal’s parents, Harold
hallways of Franklin Region- defense and prosecution couldn’t because Franklin said. and Tina Hribal, declined
al High School in Murrysville have testified Hribal pur- Regional wasn’t in session Westmoreland County Dis- to comment as they left
before classes began on posely carried out the at- that day, the doctors testi- trict Attorney John Peck court, his mother clutching
April 9, 2014. tack on the birthday of Col- fied. said he plans to argue for a stuffed monkey that was
Four students were critically umbine High School killer Defense attorney Patrick the same 30 to 60 year sen- her son’s childhood toy.
injured at the school about Eric Harris, whom Hribal Thomassey has always ac- tence that he offered Hrib- Thomassey said he would
15 miles east of Pittsburgh, “worshipped.” knowledged Hribal com- al in a plea deal months be calling several charac-
including one who required Hribal first hoped to com- mitted the stabbings, but ago that was rejected, call- ter witnesses at the sen-
a liver transplant. mit the attacks on the 15th had hoped to have him ing it “an appropriate sen- tencing, which should hap-
All survived and have since anniversary of the Colum- declared legally insane tence.” pen in about 90 days, in-
recovered. bine massacre — which and either acquitted at tri- Peck said he met again with cluding Hribal’s parents.q

Polish band members plead not guilty to raping woman on bus

By NICHOLAS GERANIOS state. Lead singer Rafal Piotrowski er three also entered their The group was arrested in
Associated Press The members of the band and band members Hubert pleas in English, and all Los Angeles in September
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — All Decapitated are jailed on Wiecek, Waclaw Kieltyka four wore yellow jail jump- and sent to Washington
four members of a Polish $100,000 bail each and and Michal Lysejko said suits and handcuffs as they earlier this month to face
heavy metal band plead- have denied the allega- little during the court ap- came and left the court- charges. Spokane County
ed not guilty Tuesday to tions by a woman who pearance, other than to room. Superior Court Judge An-
charges of kidnapping and told police she was invited enter their pleas. A Polish interpreter ex- nette Plese set trial for Dec.
raping a woman on their onto their bus and then at- “I am not guilty,” Lysejko plained the court proceed- 18 but said it’s likely to be
tour bus after a concert tacked in the bathroom by told the judge in heavily ings to them over a speak- pushed back into the new
this summer in Washington all four. accented English. The oth- erphone. year.q