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The London Daily Telegraph reported last month that Idi Amin, the former dictator of Uganda who reportedly ordered some 100,000 murders and occasionally cannibalized his enemies, is said to be encouraging his 48 children around the world to restore the family home in the village of Aura as a monument. (Amin was deposed in 1979 and is not expected to return from exile in Saudi Arabia.)…And a few weeks earlier, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that the 62 children of the late Jean-Bedel Bokassa, whose rule of the Central African Empire was similarly characterized by murder and cannibalism, have asked the government for permission to turn their former family home into a tourist attraction.
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Jeffrey Jacobitti, 49, was arrested by police in Keansburg, New Jersey, in July after driving up to two women and a 12-year-old girl and allegedly waggling his tongue at them. The deputy police chief said that in his opinion the gesture conveyed a threat: “[The waggling] crossed the line, especially with the juvenile.”
Police in Casselberry, Florida, arrested a 29-year-old woman in August and charged her with having locked her two children, ages 8 and 12, inside her 12-by-20-foot storage locker while she worked; the locker had no plumbing or ventilation, and the temperature inside was more than 100 degrees….And less than three weeks later a 30-year-old woman in Stuart, Florida, was arrested for the same offense, though she had locked her children up so she could buy liquor and go bowling.
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