Prosecutors on Monday lay out the verdicts and punishments they want for dozens of men accused of raping Gisèle Pelicot while she was drugged and rendered unconscious by her husband in a mammoth rape trial.After hearings stretching over nearly three months, the trial in the southern city of Avignon is beginning to wrap up, with the prosecutors’ summing up of the verdicts they want for the 51 accused.They started Monday by focusing on Dominique Pelicot, the man that 71-year-old Gisèle Pelicot was married to for nearly 50 years. He has acknowledged that for years, he mixed sedatives into her food and drink, so he...

Scott Farmer, a drunken driver traveling the wrong way on a Wisconsin highway was on Friday sentenced to more than 35 years in prison for a crash that killed four siblings in another vehicle.“It’s incomprehensible to this court to imagine losing four children,” Judge Raymond Huber said.Scott Farmer, 48, of Neenah had pleaded no contest to homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle in the crash last December in Waupaca County.Police said Farmer was driving the wrong way when his truck crashed into an SUV in Weyauwega, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) northwest of Milwaukee.The crash killed Daniel Gonzalez, 25, brother...

Breyten Breytenbach renowned anti-apartheid writer and activist jailed for his beliefs in South Africa in the 1970s, has died aged 85.The family disclosed that Breytenbach passed away in his sleep, with his wife Yolande by his side in Paris.The dissident poet, novelist and painter was “an immense artist, militant against apartheid, he fought for a better world until the end,” a statement from his family read.The activist sharp intellect earned him widespread admiration, prompting the British satirical television puppet show Spitting Image to describe him as “the only nice South African” in a song during apartheid’s darkest days.Born in the...

An Idaho teenager has been arrested in connection with the body of an infant found last month at a hospital in a box meant for people to anonymously give up a newborn, police said Friday.The Blackfoot Police Department said in a social media post that an 18-year-old from Twin Falls, about 130 miles (210 kilometers) southeast of Boise, had been arrested there and booked into the Bingham County Jail.She was arrested on a felony arrest warrant for failing to report a death to law enforcement officials and the coroner, police said.Associated Press reported that the Police in Blackfoot responded to a report...

Dr. Firat Sari, the Turkish doctor at the center of an alleged fraud scheme that led to the deaths of 10 babies told an Istanbul court Saturday that he was a “trusted” physician.Sari is one of 47 people on trial accused of transferring newborn babies to neonatal units of private hospitals, where they were allegedly kept for prolonged and sometimes unnecessary treatments in order to receive social security payments.“Patients were referred to me because people trusted me. We did not accept patients by bribing anyone from 112,” Sari said, referring to Turkey’s emergency medical phone line.The physician said to be the plot’s...

A jury began deliberating Friday on whether a New Hampshire man held down a teenage boy while he was raped at a youth detention center in 1998.Bradley Asbury, now 70, served as a house leader at the Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester. He’s accused of restraining 14-year-old Michael Gilpatrick on a staircase with help from a colleague, while a third staffer raped the teen and a fourth forced him to perform a sex act.It’s the second criminal trial to stem from a broad 2019 investigation into historic abuse at the center. Asbury is among 11 men who worked there or at an associated...