I read this article and was figuring that the parties involved must be illegal aliens. At the conclusion of the article the AP actually acknowledged that indeed all parties involved are illegal immigrants. Kudos to the AP for being honest in their reporting for a change.

This may sound incredible, but this kind of thing happens all the time in Southern California. In fact, it happens so often that it isn’t really even reported as news anymore. JP

BARTOW, Fla. (AP) – Authorities in central Florida have a man in custody they say stabbed a friend to death and then drank his blood.

Mauricio Mendez Lopez is accused of killing Macario Cruz in a house they shared in Bartow.

Police said they believe Lopez stabbed Cruz to death because he was having an affair with his sister-in-law, Mariella Mendez. Lopez is the uncle of Mendez and Cruz’s wife.

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LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) Amy Victoria Beck, a Burbank, Calif. middle school teacher, appeared briefly in court Wednesday before returning to jail, apparently locked up with a guilty conscience. The 33-year-old teacher is charged with five counts of engaging in sex acts with a person under 16, namely one of her former students.

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The well-respected English and social science teacher at one of the L.A. suburb’s public schools walked into police headquarters and confessed to having an affair with a 14-year-old boy. With her attorney by her side, police say, Beck told detectives the relationship with one of her former students began in March 2009 and continued until last December.

She said it left her wracked with guilt.

In his 28 years with the Burbank Police Department, Sgt. Robert Quesada had never heard of anything quite like it.

“Burglars, robbers, criminal suspects, they don’t turn themselves in,” Quesada said. “But when people are overwhelmed with guilt, and they have a conscience, I guess it makes them do what’s right.”

After hearing Beck’s story, detectives tracked down the boy, who is now a 15-year-old high school student. Quesada said he confirmed what she told them.

As she sits in jail, making no effort to post her $175,000 bail, according to her attorney, school officials say they are as stunned by the revelation as police were.

“I think the reason why people are in shock is because she was considered such a good, upstanding teacher,” said Gabe Soumakian, the Burbank Unified School District’s assistant superintendent. “I don’t think anyone has ever had a complaint about her.”

Beck, who Quesada said is married and the mother of three children, had taught school for several years in the Los Angeles suburb. She was teaching at David Starr Jordan Middle School until last week when she abruptly resigned. Soumakian said she told school officials she was moving out of state.

After learning she’d been arrested, officials sent psychologists to the school to counsel students.

Although teacher-student sex scandals make headlines and have been the subject of TV movies, USC sociologist Dorian Traube said evidence suggests they are actually quite rare. Quesada couldn’t immediately recall the last time one occurred in Burbank, a city of 100,000 that borders Los Angeles.

Beck is scheduled to be arraigned March 25 and faces as much as seven years in prison if convicted.

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For the record, there is no such thing as a “sex addiction.” Steve Phillips, like Tiger Woods, had the four ingredients needed to get laid. Money, fame, looks and an expense account. JD

Steve Phillips, the former ESPN baseball analyst and New York Mets general manager, said Monday that he knew he had a sex addiction problem in August — two months before he was fired from his role with the network.

“What I want to do is take ownership,” he said in an interview with Matt Lauer on NBC’s Today Show. “I made some mistakes … I’m fully responsible for what I did.”

Phillips spoke publicly for the first time since he left the Pine Grove Behavioral Health and Addiction Services clinic in Hattiesburg, Miss., the same clinic golfer Tiger Woods reportedly attended.

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Phillips I couldn’t stop myself from doing the things I was doing, even knowing the consequences.

Phillips didn’t talk extensively about his time at Pine Grove, but did say that it is a place for people who are “broken” and “struggling to find answers.”

Phillips said he realized he had a sexual addiction problem in August, while he was having an affair with ESPN production assistant Brooke Hundley. That affair eventually included Hundley contacting Phillips’ wife at their home. It made its way to the New York tabloids, where Phillips was front-page fodder, in October.

“I recognized in August, I needed help,” Phillips said. “I started calling facilities.”

He said he had made the decision on Friday, Oct. 23, 2009, to attend the sexual addiction clinic. He was fired by ESPN two days later. Hundley was also let go by ESPN.

At the time, a representative for Phillips said he was entering a treatment facility “to address his personal issues.”

“I couldn’t stop myself from doing the things I was doing, even knowing the consequences,” Phillips told Lauer on Monday.

A month earlier, Phillips wife, Marni, had filed for divorce. The couple had been married for 19 years. He has four children.

He said he has returned to his home, but doesn’t know if his marriage can be saved. He declined to say if he had anything to tell Hundley.

“All of that is in the past,” he said. “My focus is moving forward, trying to save my family.”

Hundley, in a taped piece that preceded the Phillips interview, said that she was “young” and had made mistakes as well.

Phillips was the general manager of the Mets from 1997-2003. He said during that time, while taking a leave of absence from the team after a sexual harassment allegation, he had counseling locally for sexual issues, but didn’t enter a treatment facility.

He worked at ESPN from 2005 through October.

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