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Yahoo
15 hours ago
- Yahoo
Woman sentenced to jail after unrestrained son dies in crash
The Brief The mother of a 4-year-old killed in a crash in May, 2024. has been sentenced. Her son was not restrained in the vehicle, which she was driving knowingly on bad brakes. Shaniqua Baskin, who did not have a valid license, also failed a sobriety test at the scene of the crash. DETROIT (FOX 2) - A 4-year-old boy was killed in a car crash after not being properly restrained and being ejected from the vehicle. His mother, a distraught Shaniqua Baskin, was in a Detroit courtroom on Monday morning to face the judge. "I love my kids to death, I would never have imagined on May 6th, 2024, I would have lost my 4-year-old biological son that I carried and pray for, to be gone so soon," she said. Baskin was sentenced to three years probation with the first six months to be served behind bars at the Wayne County Jail. She pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter. The backstory On May 6th, 2024, her 4-year-old son Ja'quavious was killed in the crash. Investigators say Baskin knowingly drove her car with brakes that weren't working properly when she crossed over the median on I-75 near I-94 in Detroit and hit another car. Her son was ejected, with his body found lying on the highway when Michigan State Police arrived. "To my kids I apologize, I used my whole tax refund to purchase this vehicle," she said. "Now I have lost everything, not just my son. I lost my house, my job. I failed my GED test." At the scene Baskin — who didn't have a driver's license — failed a field sobriety test. But at a vigil for her son just days later, she denied drinking when speaking to FOX 2. "My child on the ground, of course I can't walk a straight line - I barely can breathe," she said at time. "Anybody who knows Shaniqua, they know Shaniqua doesn't drink at all." Results of her blood alcohol tests were never made public — her attorney addressed the judge before sentencing. "She'll survive this because you don't get over it, but you learn to live with it, just like the death of any other family member," her attorney said. "She'll learn to live with it, but she'll never get over it." The Source Information for this story came from Monday's court hearing and previous reports.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Snapchat records lead to child pornography charges in St. Charles County: Police
ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Mo. – A man's Snapchat records led to his arrest and felony charges in connection with a months-long child pornography investigation in St. Charles County. The St. Charles Prosecuting Attorney's Office charged Nico E. Baskin, 22, of St. Charles, with two counts of possession of child pornography. Baskin was formally charged on March 5. He remains jailed on a $200,000 cash-only bond. He'll be arraigned on July 8. According to court documents obtained by FOX 2, a St. Charles County officer was assigned in January 2025 to investigate a Cybertip, originally submitted from groupchat platform Discord to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The tip included eight images classified as child pornography. Missouri Senate approves $100M for St. Louis tornado relief In February 2025, a second Cybertip, believed to be connected to the initial case, was assigned to the St. Charles County Police Department. That tip included 29 images classified as child pornography, all of which were reported as being saved to and uploaded from a user's Snapchat Memories, per court documents. Around that time, officers obtained a search warrant for an iCloud email address believed to be linked to the suspect. While no images or videos were recovered, account information provided the suspect's name, phone numbers, and additional email addresses, along with emails from Discord and Snapchat indicating rule violations and account suspensions, according to court documents. Baskin was identified as a suspect some time later. Investigators found multiple social media accounts under his name, including profile images that matched descriptions of the individual seen in Cybertip photos. Investigators learned Baskin had previously been on the sex offender registry in St. Charles County. Evidence indicated he was living at a hotel with the same address linked to the Spectrum Business IP address in the Cybertips. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now Baskin was then arrested on March 4. Police said Baskin claimed he had no phone number, email address, or social media accounts, but confirmed he had been living in a St. Charles hotel, per court documents. Police later interviewed a family member who said Baskin lived at an extended stay hotel in St. Charles for nearly six years. According to court documents, Baskin also had a prior child sexual exploitation charge in Kansas, and is listed on the registered sex offender registry in both St. Charles and St. Louis counties. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Daily Mirror
29-05-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mirror
Insider says Hamas has plan to release hostages in exchange for key condition
Leading Israeli activist and former negotiator with Hamas says he has just learned the militant group would release all hostages in exchange for an immediate end to the bloody Gaza war An Israeli activist and former hostage negotiator has claimed Hamas will release all of the remaining hostages in exchange for an end to war in Gaza. US-born Gershon Baskin made the announcement as multiple explosions rang out near Palestinians gathering at a controversial Gaza aid distribution centre. But he added that Israel refuses to end the war which killed another 50 Palestinians today as it is determined to wipe out Hamas completely. Over 50 Palestinians died from Israeli airstrikes and gunfire today and Israel announced it will establish another 22 settlements in the West Bank. The settler announcement has infuriated Palestinians who say it was made under the cover of the Gaza war. Baskin, 66, said in a statement: 'Let it be known, one of the mediators told me today that Hamas is willing to free all 58 hostages at one time but demand the end of the war. The mediator told me: 'Israel refuses to accept a permanent ceasefire.' 'I repeat what I have been saying for many months - negotiating any deal with Hamas that leaves hostages behind for any period of time puts them at risk and is a declaration by the government of Israel that they are willing to sacrifice the hostages so that Netanyahu can save his coalition.' Baskin, who helped negotiate the release of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit i n 2011, said that Netanyahu and his government is putting 'their own political interests ahead of those of Israel.' And he added: 'Israel continues to kill innocent people in Gaza. Gaza is totally destroyed - an entire civilization has been decimated by Israel in Gaza. The people of Gaza want Hamas out of their lives and want Israel to end this war. The people of Israel want this war to end and for the hostages to be brought home. 'This war must end now and the only way it will end is when President Trump finally tells Netanyahu to end the war, and to make a deal to bring the hostages home.' And he even declared that Palestinians and their 'Arab neighbours' will make Hamas 'pay for what they have brought to the Palestinian people.' Israel will establish 22 Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, including the legalisation of outposts already built without government authorization, it has announced. Israel captured the West Bank, along with Gaza and east Jerusalem, in the 1967 Mideast war and the Palestinians want all three territories for their future state. Most of the international community views settlements as illegal and an obstacle to resolving the decades-old conflict. In 2005, Israel withdrew its settlements from the Gaza Strip, but leading figures in the current government have called for them to be re-established. War in Gaza began with Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack, in which militants stormed into Israel, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting 251. Hamas still holds 58 hostages, around a third of them alive, after most of the rest were released in ceasefire agreements. Israeli forces have rescued eight and recovered dozens of bodies. Israel's retaliatory offensive has killed over 54,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which does not say how many of the dead were civilians or combatants. Gaza has been blockaded for three months, leading to major alarm over thousands of children facing malnutrition. Some mothers have claimed children have been forced to eat animal feed. And there have been claims Gaza's dogs are feeding off corpses of the dead, adding to the horror of the war.
Sydney Morning Herald
23-05-2025
- Politics
- Sydney Morning Herald
Why two men from opposite sides see Donald Trump as a ‘saviour'
While Trump has so far given Netanyahu carte blanche to resume the war in Gaza, there are growing signs that Trump is becoming impatient with the war. 'The president is frustrated about what is happening in Gaza. He wants the war to end, he wants the hostages to come home, he wants aid to go in, and he wants to start rebuilding Gaza,' a White House official told US website Axios this week. Baskin says: 'I think we can expect, if Trump doesn't get distracted, which is always possible, he will tell Netanyahu in a couple of weeks, 'Finish the war and do a deal'.' Baskin knows this is a striking thing for someone on the political left to believe: 'It's a very bizarre reality where I come to the conclusion that our saviour is Donald Trump.' On the Palestinian side, Sinijlawi loathes Hamas' use of violence to achieve its goals. He is also a passionate internal opponent of Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president who leads Hamas' more moderate political rival, Fatah. Abbas, aged 89, has been in power for 20 years and is widely perceived as ineffectual and corrupt. 'We Palestinians are contributing to the continuation of what's happening because of our internal politics,' Sinijlawi argues. 'The majority of the Palestinian people are fed up with both Abbas and Hamas, they are fed up with the corruption that Abbas has brought upon them in the West Bank, and they are fed up with the destruction that Hamas has brought upon them in Gaza.' He is heartened by the recent protests that have sprung up against Hamas in Gaza, saying they reflect widespread fury at the group among Palestinian civilians. The only solution to the leadership crisis, he says, is for Palestinians to be allowed to vote in elections for the first time since 2006 – even at the risk of Hamas winning significant support. 'The international community needs to understand that elections are a must,' he says. 'They should be done now, even with the current situation in Gaza. People would go from their plastic tents to vote because they are looking for different leadership, they are looking for change.' Both men are urging the Albanese government to be bold and officially recognise Palestinian statehood, a move it toyed with during its first term but ultimately shied away from. Labor's national policy platform calls on the Australian government to 'recognise Palestine as a state' and calls the issue an 'important priority'. Sinijlawi argues: 'Countries who support the two-state solution need to recognise both states. It would be a positive step and help everybody understand that the international community is very much dedicated to the two-state solution.' Baskin says: 'I think it is legitimate to call for all 193 member states of the United Nations to recognise both the State of Israel and the state of Palestine.' Hopes for a two-state solution appear to have reached a nadir following the attacks of October 7 and the war in Gaza. Gallup polling conducted last year found 64 per cent of Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem do not support a two-state solution. The numbers represent a dramatic turnaround from 2012, when the majority of Israelis and Palestinians backed the idea. Nasser Mashni, head of the Australia Palestinian Advocacy Network, said last year that the 'two-state solution is absolutely dead' – in part because of the rapid expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
The Age
23-05-2025
- Politics
- The Age
Why two men from opposite sides see Donald Trump as a ‘saviour'
While Trump has so far given Netanyahu carte blanche to resume the war in Gaza, there are growing signs that Trump is becoming impatient with the war. 'The president is frustrated about what is happening in Gaza. He wants the war to end, he wants the hostages to come home, he wants aid to go in, and he wants to start rebuilding Gaza,' a White House official told US website Axios this week. Baskin says: 'I think we can expect, if Trump doesn't get distracted, which is always possible, he will tell Netanyahu in a couple of weeks, 'Finish the war and do a deal'.' Baskin knows this is a striking thing for someone on the political left to believe: 'It's a very bizarre reality where I come to the conclusion that our saviour is Donald Trump.' On the Palestinian side, Sinijlawi loathes Hamas' use of violence to achieve its goals. He is also a passionate internal opponent of Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president who leads Hamas' more moderate political rival, Fatah. Abbas, aged 89, has been in power for 20 years and is widely perceived as ineffectual and corrupt. 'We Palestinians are contributing to the continuation of what's happening because of our internal politics,' Sinijlawi argues. 'The majority of the Palestinian people are fed up with both Abbas and Hamas, they are fed up with the corruption that Abbas has brought upon them in the West Bank, and they are fed up with the destruction that Hamas has brought upon them in Gaza.' He is heartened by the recent protests that have sprung up against Hamas in Gaza, saying they reflect widespread fury at the group among Palestinian civilians. The only solution to the leadership crisis, he says, is for Palestinians to be allowed to vote in elections for the first time since 2006 – even at the risk of Hamas winning significant support. 'The international community needs to understand that elections are a must,' he says. 'They should be done now, even with the current situation in Gaza. People would go from their plastic tents to vote because they are looking for different leadership, they are looking for change.' Both men are urging the Albanese government to be bold and officially recognise Palestinian statehood, a move it toyed with during its first term but ultimately shied away from. Labor's national policy platform calls on the Australian government to 'recognise Palestine as a state' and calls the issue an 'important priority'. Sinijlawi argues: 'Countries who support the two-state solution need to recognise both states. It would be a positive step and help everybody understand that the international community is very much dedicated to the two-state solution.' Baskin says: 'I think it is legitimate to call for all 193 member states of the United Nations to recognise both the State of Israel and the state of Palestine.' Hopes for a two-state solution appear to have reached a nadir following the attacks of October 7 and the war in Gaza. Gallup polling conducted last year found 64 per cent of Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem do not support a two-state solution. The numbers represent a dramatic turnaround from 2012, when the majority of Israelis and Palestinians backed the idea. Nasser Mashni, head of the Australia Palestinian Advocacy Network, said last year that the 'two-state solution is absolutely dead' – in part because of the rapid expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
