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  • GoFundMe Campaign Raises Nearly $160,000 for Chicago Torture Victim

    The Chicago torture victim whose abuse was streamed online in a horrific Facebook Live video is receiving an outpouring of support from across the nation, and almost $160,000 has been raised on his behalf in a GoFundMe campaign, the Chicago Tribune reports. “The perpetrators have been apprehended and hopefully swift justice will be served. But…

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  • 4 Sentenced in Kidnapping, Torture of NY College Students 

    On Wednesday, four people were sentenced in the December 2015 abduction and torture of two University of Rochester students, the Washington Post reports. Nicholas Kollias and Ani Okeke Ewo, both 21-year-old students, were lured to a house several miles from campus for what they believed was a party. Ewo and a female acquaintance had been…

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  • 3 Plead Guilty to Kidnapping and Killing Detroit 13-Year-Old Deontae Mitchell

    Three people pleaded guilty Wednesday to kidnapping and killing a 13-year-old Detroit boy who disappeared earlier this year after picking up less than $100 that one of them had dropped outside an east side store, Detroit News reports. The incident, which occurred May 31, started when, according to Deontae Mitchell’s 13-year-old cousin, he and Deontae took up…

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    Breanna Edwards

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