"British Fritzl" sentenced to 14 years for rape of daughters

By Auslan Cramb, Scottish Correspondent Last Updated: 6:34PM GMT 20 Jan 2009

The 72-year-old abused three daughters between 1976 and 1993 and began raping his eldest child when she was 12.

Now 42, she had a baby girl by her father when she was 17 and gave birth to a son six years later. She said yesterday that she hoped he would die in jail. He also raped a younger daughter from the age of eight and continued to abuse her until she was 16.

He was convicted last month of repeatedly raping two daughters and using lewd and libidinous behaviour towards a third.

His eldest daughter, who now lives in Aberdeenshire, went to the police after telling her teenage son the truth about his father during an argument. She said she had been too afraid to speak out beforehand because her father had threatened to shoot her. He raped her once every week or two.

Outside the High Court in Kilmarnock on Tuesday she said she was delighted with the sentence.
She added: "He has ruined my life and that of so many others and I will never be able to forgive him. It is one less paedophile on the streets and one more step on getting my life back together."
She thanked the jury and the judge for the conviction and the sentence.

The woman added: "I am disappointed he did not show any regret or remorse for his actions and did not acknowledge what he has done to me and my family. I hope he rots in jail."

Lady Clark of Calton told the elderly paedophile, who cannot be named in order to protect his victims, that he was guilty of "terrible" offences and criticised his reluctance to admit the impact he had on his daughters' lives.

She said: "You have been found guilty of very serious criminal charges against your daughters. The charges are terrible in their terms.

"You were in a position of trust and your daughters have suffered terribly over the years."
She sentenced him to 14 years in prison on each of the four rape charges and one year in custody for a charge of lewd and libidinous behaviour. The offences took place in Dundee and Fife.

His eldest daughter said he raped her for the first time when her mother was taken to hospital.
She said the attack happened in the early hours of the morning, and was repeated later that morning after her siblings had gone to school.

She added: "Two months later he took me shooting. He had a shotgun and he put me on to the ground and he told me that if I told my mum he would shoot me and say it was an accident."
She assumed until the recent court case, when DNA tests were carried out, that the father of her daughter was her boyfriend at the time. But the tests confirmed that her father was also the father of her first child.

When she gave birth to a son at 23 she knew that it was her father's child because she was not in a relationship.

She told BBC Scotland: "He said to me that if I let anybody know, my daughter would be taken from me, my son would be taken from me as well. "Also my brother and my sisters would be taken from the family because they would go to jail and the family would be broken up and I would get the blame of breaking up a family."

She added that her mother "should have come and spoken to us when he was found guilty.
"I was hoping for her to come over and say to me and my sisters 'I am so sorry this has happened' and maybe just have put an arm around us and given us a cuddle, but no.
"She never did that. She was just interested in him. She stands by him to this day."

She went to the police for the first time two years ago.

71 year old Yonkers man pleads guilty to stabbing wife 30 times

Yonkers man, 71, pleads guilty to murder for stabbing, bludgeoning wife, 46

By Rebecca Baker The Journal News • November 12, 2008

WHITE PLAINS - A 71-year-old Yonkers man pleaded guilty this morning to murdering his wife, who was stabbed 30 times and bludgeoned with a mallet. In exchange for a prison term of 15 years to life, Mario Girau admitted to killing Maria Montalvo-Girau inside their Tuckahoe Road home last year.

He will be sentenced Jan. 16 for second-degree murder, a felony that carries a maximum sentence of 25 years to life. His son from a previous marriage, Mario Jr., spoke to his father in a courthouse holding cell moments before the elder Girau took the plea deal in Westchester County Court.

At his arraignment in January, Assistant District Attorney Lana Hochheiser had said Girau "brutally and horrifically" stabbed his 46-year-old wife in the chest, back and abdomen a total of 30 times, and beat her head with a mallet.

The victim's then 6-year-old son, Nathaniel, was home during the killing and saw his mother's bloody body on the floor. Hochheiser was going to put the boy on the stand, but the guilty plea will spare him from testifying.

The boy, now 7, is living with Girau's daughter in Westchester County, defense lawyer David Rich said.

Girau had told police he didn't remember if he killed his wife, but said he did remember arguing with her about how much time she spent on the computer the night before she was killed.
Montalvo-Girau was a mother of four children and a nurse who had worked with the blind.
Girau, a retired merchant seaman, has 11 children.

Probation officer charged with sexual battery by an authority figure for groping DUI offender

77 year old William Baker, a Maury County, TN probation officer, is in jail charged with groping one of his clients twice during a routine visit.

As a probation officer, Baker handled misdemeanor cases for years. About two weeks ago, Maury County Sheriff's detectives received a complaint from a woman who claimed her probation officer groped her during a meeting.

The woman said that she was at Baker’s mercy because because “he holds our fate in his hands. Basically we're probationaries and all he could do with a phone call is can mess up our entire life."
In an exclusive interview with NewsChannel 5, she said Baker abused his power to sexually assault her. She said he touched her in the upper torso area.

During the interview she started to cry. She said her experience also made her mad, mad enough to go to the sheriff's office. Detectives said she bravely agreed to go back to Baker with a hidden camera. This meant facing more of the alleged abuse.

"He did the exact same thing he had done the Monday before," she said. "I wasn't going to let this guy continue doing this to me. I'm sorry.

The woman agreed to wear a wire and meet with Baker again, when she was allegedly groped a second time – this time, on tape. After a grand jury review, Maury County prosecutors indicted Baker on a sexual assault and a sexual battery by an authority figure charge.

Baker said that he did not touch the woman intentionally. "I gave her a cup and my hand was up and when I turned around she was right there. My hand fell on her and that's it," he said.

Baker said the complaint is a misunderstanding. "No, I have been there for all these years, and I haven't done it," he said.

When asked if he thought the complainant was lying, he said, ‘No, I tried to help her, to keep her from losing her job and going to jail."

Baker was booked into the Maury County jail on a $20,000 bond. He will answer to the charges against him on Thursday.

Maury County investigators believe there are more victims out there, and want any potential victims to call the Maury County Sheriff’s Office. The victim believes that the call for additional victims is necessary.

"He touches women inappropriately and I am not the only one. Surely to goodness, there will be others that come forward."

72 year old suburban Toronto doctor sentenced to 7 years for "manslaughter"

Peter Edwards STAFF REPORTER, The Toronto Star

An elderly Thornhill gynecologist was sentenced to seven years in prison today for fatally injecting his wife with painkillers.

Ibi Roncaioli was found dead in the family’s Thornhilll mansion on July 20, 2003. An autopsy found she died from a fatal cocktail of drugs, including painkillers and alcohol. As she delivered Joseph Roncaioli’s sentence in Superior Court in Newmarket this morning, Madam Justice Jane Ferguson said: "He was in a position of trust and authority to the deceased."

Roncaioli’s sister began to cry when she heard the verdict against her 72-year-old brother, who was found guilty of manslaughter on Feb. 16. On the other side of the courtroom, family members of Ibi Roncaioli showed no emotion.

The judge said Roncaioli’s crime "more resembles a murder than an accidental killing."
The defense has said it plans to appeal the conviction.

The judge said the doctor deserved a lengthy sentence, even though he had no previous criminal record and an exemplary work history. The judge noted that the doctor took home the painkillers from his office to treat his wife. The doctor earlier testified that his wife had been suffering from unexplained weight loss and a decline in energy. The doctor said she was afraid of physicians, which led him to treat her in the family home.

“It was intentional, not spontaneous,” the judge ruled. “…In my view, a substantial penitentiary sentence is necessary.”

Defense lawyer J. David Hobson had argued for the court to spare the doctor any prison time and to give him a suspended or conditional sentence.

Assistant Crown attorney Martin Dionne said Roncaioli should be sentenced to a term of between 10 and 12 years, and argued that he breached his trust with his wife Ibi when he injected her with painkillers.

The verdict follows an often emotional trial in which the defense portrayed Ibi Rincaioli as the author of her own sad ending, through a secretive and hard-living life. Hobson repeatedly noted during the trial that Ibi Rincaioli pushed her household near bankruptcy, despite her husband’s high income and her lottery winnings of $5 million in 1991.

In passing her sentence, the judge noted the doctor will need continued psychiatric and medical care for a series of health problems, which include a past diagnosis for Hodgkins disease and a major depression disorder. Court heard that he attempted to kill himself in January 2005.
“Dr. Roncaioli is considered to be stable but fragile,” the judge said.