Latin American Herald Tribune: Ex-Teacher Gets 130-Year Sentence in Plea Deal for Child Abuse, Pornography

November 05, 2018

PRN-Latino News Latin American Herald Tribune: Ex-Teacher Gets 130-Year Sentence in Plea Deal for Child Abuse, Pornography Latin American Herald Tribune: Atletico’s Lemar, Savic to Miss Champions League Clash vs. Dortmund, Godin In Latin American Herald Tribune: Hostages Set Free after Being Held in Northern Italy Post Office Latin American Herald Tribune: Wes Anderson Puts His Trademark Quirky Aesthetic on Vienna Art Show Latin American Herald Tribune: Paraguay Analyzes Prisoners’ Living Conditions to Improve Their Lives Latin American Herald Tribune: Ex-Teacher Gets 130-Year Sentence in Plea Deal for Child Abuse, Pornography PRN-Latino News from mikenova (16 sites) Ex-Teacher Gets 130-Year Sentence in Plea Deal for Child Abuse, Pornography MADRID – A former religion teacher at a Catholic school in Madrid agreed in court on Monday to serve a 130-year prison sentence after reaching a plea deal with the prosecutor and declaring himself guilty of child sexual abuse and producing child pornography.The educator – identified as Brother Pedro Antonio R. Read More Latin American Herald Tribune: Atletico’s Lemar, Savic to Miss Champions League Clash vs. Dortmund, Godin In PRN-Latino News from mikenova (16 sites) Atletico’s Lemar, Savic to Miss Champions League Clash vs. Dortmund, Godin In MADRID – Atletico Madrid defender Diego Godin rejoined team training on Monday, but the squad was down two other players due to injury – midfielder Thomas Lemar and defender Stefan Savic – who will miss the second leg of their UEFA Champions League group stage duel with Borussia Dortmund.The club did not specify the estimated recovery time for either player, but confirmed they would definitely be sidelined for Tuesday’s match against Dortmund.“(Lemar) sustained a muscle injury in the right thigh in the match against Leganes, whereas (Savic) in the same game suffered a muscle bruise in the same part of the leg that he damaged last month. Read More Latin American Herald Tribune: Hostages Set Free after Being Held in Northern Italy Post Office PRN-Latino News from mikenova (16 sites) Hostages Set Free after Being Held in Northern Italy Post Office ROME – A man convicted in a trial involving the ‘Ndrangheta, a criminal organization operating in Italy’s south-western region of Calabria, took on Monday several hostages at a post office near the city of Reggio Emilia in northern Italy.Francesco Amato – one of 125 mafiosos convicted last Wednesday in the “Aemilia” maxi-trial over the infiltration of members of the Calabrese mafia in northern regions of Italy – was holed up for most of the day inside a post office in Pieve Modolena, a suburb of Reggio Emilia, with five hostages until the Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie of Italy, were able to liberate the victims.“The situation at the Post office of Pieve Modolena, Reggio Emilia, after lengthy negotiations coordinated by the Carabinieri was resolved with the liberation of the hostages,” Italian state police said in a statement on their Twitter account.Amato was sentenced to 19 years prison, but since the conviction, he disappeared and had been on the run until he burst into the post office at 9 am local time on Monday while armed with a knife and forced everyone to leave the building except five people, including the head of the branch. Read More Latin American Herald Tribune: Wes Anderson Puts His Trademark Quirky Aesthetic on Vienna Art Show PRN-Latino News from mikenova (16 sites) Wes Anderson Puts His Trademark Quirky Aesthetic on Vienna Art Show VIENNA – Quirky American film director Wes Anderson marked his debut as curator of a show for Vienna’s Museum of Fine Arts (KHM) in a private view on Monday.Anderson and his partner, Juman Malouf – a theater and film designer and illustrator – are the latest curators in a series of exhibitions for which the Austrian museum invites creative individuals to present and curate their selection of pieces from the museum’s vast historical art collection, which spans over four million objects.Jasper Sharp, the head of contemporary art at the KHM, said at a press conference that the idea emerged when in 2015 he met Anderson and Malouf at the museum and he realized how familiar they were with the collection, having visited several times over the last decade.The resulting exhibition, “Spitzmaus Mummy in a Coffin and Other Treasures” is a labor of love involving regular visits between 2015-18 and an in-depth analysis of virtually the entire collection.“The gathering and arrangement of these treasures – from the earliest, a necklace of ceramic beads strung together in Ancient Egypt, to the most recent, a wooden monkey carved in Indonesia almost 5,000 years later – suggest the spectacular breadth, depth, history and complexity of the KHM’s collections,” a statement on the KHM website said.The logic behind the exhibition was to choose pieces that could be presented in a different light – in fact, many of the chosen objects have never been exhibited before – and to question what is considered aesthetically pleasing through the selection of decidedly eccentric artworks.Anderson’s aesthetic is apparent throughout the show, from the way in which the artists chose to exhibit the pieces in small display cabinets in a deep red color, to the unconventional choice of odd pieces like the mummified shrew which gave the exhibition its name.“Spitzmaus Mummy in a Coffin and Other Treasures” runs at the KHM museum in Viena from Nov. Read More Latin American Herald Tribune: Paraguay Analyzes Prisoners’ Living Conditions to Improve Their Lives PRN-Latino News from mikenova (16 sites) Paraguay Analyzes Prisoners’ Living Conditions to Improve Their Lives ASUNCION – Making a study of the Paraguayan prison system in order to improve the living conditions of prisoners and make their reinsertion into society more efficient is the purpose of the penitentiary census now being taken by the nation’s judiciary authorities, and which this Monday involved female inmates.Officials of the Justice Ministry and Higher Electoral Tribunal (TSJE) went this Monday to Asuncion’s Good Shepherd Prison for women to continue the census that was begun last week at the Esperanza Industrial Prison for men, and whose main goal is to end overcrowding in Paraguayan prisons.The census is taken with groups of 30 inmates at a time, who are interviewed individually in the prison chapel. Read More

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