BRIEFLY.Man gets 48 years for raping girl, 13 A Van Nuys man who raped a 13-year-old girl on her way to school was sentenced Wednesday to 48 years in prison. Ulrich Gibson Mejia, 34, had pleaded no contest Oct. 13 to a half-dozen forcible sexual assault counts, including rape. The victim was walking to Robert Fulton Middle School Fulton Middle School is a school in Fountain Valley, California, in the US, serving grades 6-8. The principal is Chris Christensen, and the assistant is Chris Mullen. in Van Nuys when she was forced into a van on Oct. 16, 2003. The girl was driven to another location and raped. She later managed to jump out of the van and flee when the vehicle was stopped at an intersection. ``This has just torn her life apart,'' Deputy District Attorney Ann Marie Wise said of the victim. The girl told Mejia during the Van Nuys Superior Court hearing that she wanted him to know how he had changed her life. - City News Service Two child welfare agencies child welfare agency Child psychiatry An administrative organization providing protection to children, and supportive services to children and their families merging A Sylmar child welfare agency founded in 1919 as the Kiddie kid·die or kid·dy n. pl. kid·dies Slang A small child. kiddie Noun Informal a child Koop orphanage announced Wednesday it is merging with a Pasadena agency to form Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County's largest children's mental health and welfare agency. The Pasadena-based The Sycamores and the Sylmar-based Hathaway Children & Family Services reached an agreement that will become effective Nov. 1 and operate under the name Hathaway-Sycamores Child and Family Services Child and family services are nonprofit organizations designed to better the well being of individuals who come from unfortunate situations, environmental or biological. . Headquartered in Pasadena, Hathaway-Sycamores' combined resources will be able to annually serve nearly 10,000 children and families throughout the county. - Daily News Photos of foster kids to be shown A photo exhibit of Los Angeles County foster children who need adoptive parents adoptive parents Social medicine Persons who lawfully adopt children, who are generally married couples but may be single persons, including homosexuals; most APs are married will go on display at shopping malls around the county after Nov. 5. Dozens of area photographers, including actor Henry Winkler Henry Franklin Winkler (b. October 30, 1945) is a Golden Globe Award-winning American actor, director, producer and author. He is perhaps most famous for his role as Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli on the popular sitcom Happy Days (1974–1984). , have volunteered their time to photograph 25 of 600 foster youths who are waiting to be adopted. Most are children who are older, in sibling groups and have special needs. For more information on adopting a foster child, call 888-811-1121. - Daily News D.A. program is top award winner The Los Angeles County Quality and Productivity Commission on Wednesday named the district attorney's juvenile offender program JOIN as the top award winner among 77 programs in the 19th annual awards program. The Juvenile Offender Intervention Network provides intervention for children ages 10 to 17 who are first-time offenders who commit serious nonviolent offenses. ``When I was first elected D.A., I determined this to be the most effective crime prevention program being undertaken in the D.A.'s Office, but it was being used on a very limited basis,'' District Attorney Steve Cooley Stephen Lawrence ("Steve") Cooley (born May 1, 1947 in Los Angeles, California) is a veteran prosecutor who was elected as Los Angeles County's 36th District Attorney on November 7, 2000. He was sworn in for his second term on December 6, 2004. said. The program has also saved taxpayers millions of dollars. Each successful JOIN case saves the justice system more than $7,000 by avoiding trial costs for the courts, including police, probation, defense and prosecution work. - Daily News Man is sentenced in 'lawyer' case A Glendale man who pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of practicing law without a license and three felony counts of grand theft by false pretenses False representations of material past or present facts, known by the wrongdoer to be false, and made with the intent to defraud a victim into passing title in property to the wrongdoer. was sentenced to three years probation. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael S. Luros also ordered Irwin Trester, 62, to pay $9,000 restitution, perform 100 hours of community service and not to practice law in California or represent himself as an attorney, said Deputy District Attorney Elizabeth Munisoglu. Trester, who is licensed to practice in Kansas, took the California Bar exam twice in 1968 and twice in 1969, failing the exam all four times, according to the prosecutor. Despite failing to get licensed as a California attorney, he set up his own law practice in Los Angeles, advertised in the Yellow Pages and had a Web site that promoted ``legal services legal services n. the work performed by a lawyer for a client. ,'' Munisoglu said earlier. Trester reportedly had represented a number of businesses, including the Hollywood Wax Museum The Hollywood Wax Museum is located in the heart of the tourist district of Hollywood, California, USA, at 6767 Hollywood Blvd. The museum, the brainchild of entrepreneur Spoony Singh, was opened in 1965,[1] and the Best Western Executive Inn, along with Service Employees International Union Local 99. - City News Service |
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