Subject: Excerpt: Court rewrites the law on gay rights

From: "Maryanne Prather" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:30:41 -0500

CNN and other news organizations did so until the child was found, and De Meo asked media to stop showing the picture.  Investigators said officers went to check on her five to 10 minutes later. Police policy requires that be done every 15 minutes. The Dow Jones industrial average added nearly 192 points to end at an all-time high of 14,087.55 points on Monday amid hopes that banks have put the worst of the recent 'credit crunch' behind them and expectations that the Federal Reserve will continue to cut interest rates. "You're seeing a continuation of the recent momentum," said Chris Johnson, CEO of Johnson Research Group.BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown arrived in Baghdad on Tuesday for meetings with Iraqi government officials, the British Embassy in Baghdad said.    Todd Allen, a Las Vegas resident, told CNN he once lived with the girl from the video and her mother. He said he recognizes his old apartment from scenes in the video. He said he knows the suspect because Allen's mother dated Stiles and the couple spent time together at Allen's apartment. Watch Allen describe Stiles and the girl » "The mother has cooperated with us," De Meo said. "We believe that the mother was not aware of anything that went on with this young girl. It was very sad for her to find this out." 

 "According to investigators, it appeared as though Ms. Gotbaum had possibly tried to manipulate the handcuffs from behind her to the front, got tangled up in the process, and they ended up around her neck area," he said. Betsy Gotbaum called Carol Ann Gotbaum "a wonderful, wonderful person" and a great mother. She said the family was dealing with the situation "the best way we can."  Carol Ann Gotbaum may have accidentally strangled herself while trying to get out of her handcuffs, Phoenix Police Department spokesman Sgt. Andy Hill said Saturday. While handcuffed, the New Yorker became "disruptive" and she was taken to a holding room, where she was left alone, Hill told CNN affiliate KTVK.(CNN)  -- Darren Tuck, the man who gave police a tape depicting the rape of a 3-year-old girl, turned himself in Sunday to Nye County, Nevada, authorities.

 Allen said nobody realized the child had been abused. "She's what you'd expect a little girl in elementary school to be like," he said. "You would never know something like that happened. Ever." Witnesses told police that Gotbaum was "yelling and screaming" and running through the terminal Friday. She was arrested for disorderly conduct. Allen said he never witnessed Stiles physically assault anyone. A spokeswoman for the Maricopa County medical examiner said an autopsy would be conducted Monday morning. Finding Gotbaum "unconscious and not breathing," Hill said, officers performed CPR.  Gotbaum was the mother of three young children and the daughter-in-law of longtime New York City Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum.