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MILWAUKEE – The Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office charged a Brookfield man Wednesday with kidnapping and raping a 14 year-old girl.

Sunil K. Singh, 48, faces two counts of second degree sexual assault of a child and one count of child enticement.

According to a criminal complaint, Singh met his alleged victim at a gas station in Menomonee Falls and talked her into getting into his car. Whenever the girl “made mention of possibly leaving the car, [Singh] stated that if she left he was going to kill her.”

Once they reached an apartment complex in Wauwatosa, Singh then allegedly made the girl strip naked and then “threw her on her back on the concrete floor.”

“[She] told him, ‘I don’t want to do this.’ The defendant responded, ‘I don’t care, I just want to do this.’ “

Singh then allegedly got on top of the girl and had sex with her, then forced her to perform oral sex on him twice.

The girl was able to run away and called police from a nearby apartment.

If he is convicted on all three charges against him, Singh faces a maximum sentence of 105 years in prison.

MILWAUKEE – The Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office has charged an Oak Creek man with sexually assaulting a UWM student as well as assaulting one teenaged girl and stalking another.

Joel Lee Hoffman, 31, faces a total of nine felonies, including first and second degree sexual assault, child enticement, armed burglary, and stalking.

According to a criminal complaint, he knocked on a UWM student’s door early Friday morning and she answered, thinking he was her roommate. Hoffman allegedly burst in and assaulted her until he was scared off.

On March 10, 2009, Hoffman allegedly groped a 16 year-old girl as she walked home from school on S. 15th St.

Six months later, on September 18, prosecutors say Hoffman tried to get a 14 year-old into his car after stalking her for several weeks.

If convicted on all nine charges against him, Hoffman faces a maximum sentence of 306 years in prison.  He’s being held in the Milwaukee County Jail on $50,000 cash bail.

MADISON – Kevin Clancy and Maria Miles are among five people charged with felonies connected to the 2008 Presidential elections.

Kevin Clancy, Michael Henderson, Herbert Gunka, Suzanne Gunka and Maria Miles each face felony charges.

Clancy and Miles face a count of falsely procuring voter registration as party to a crime.

Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen said in a statement that they each submitted more than one registration application for the same people.

A criminal complaint says that they also took part in a scheme to have special registration deputies working for the City of Milwaukee register each other to vote more than once to meet ACORN quotas.

Henderson faces a count of voting by a disqualified person and another of providing false information to election officials.

According to his criminal complaint, Henderson was on an active period of probation for felony convictions, but registered to vote and eventually voted in the November 4th, 2008 election.

A person on probation for a felony is not allowed to vote in Wisconsin.

The Gunka’s each face a charge of double voting.

Their complaint claims they voted by absentee ballot for the 2008 election, then voted in person on Election Day at their polling place.

Each individual charge could bring a sentence of three-and-a-half years in prison if convicted.

DELAVAN, Wis. (AP) — All 10 firefighters injured fighting a fire at a popular sports bar in the southern Wisconsin town of Delavan have been released from area hospitals.

Delavan Fire Chief Gerald Edwards tells the Janesville Gazette that several of the injuries were caused when a bucket truck touched a power line.

Edwards says the firefighter in the bucket couldn’t see the line due to the thick black smoke from the Friday afternoon fire at Mulligan’s Sports Bar & Grill.

The firefighters suffered various injuries. At least two were briefly hospitalized. One firefighter suffered serious burns. Edwards says all the firefighters were released by Saturday.

The blaze apparently started as a grease fire in the kitchen. The building was a total loss.

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Information from: The Janesville Gazette, http://www.gazetteextra.com

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NEW BERLIN – Rows of people showed up to support the Thompson family Friday night for the visitation of Rachel Thompson and her two young sons.

And many of them were still coming to terms with the family’s awful reality.

“They didn’t even have time to live their life,” said family friend Wyatt Elder. “It just ain’t right.”

 

Last week, investigators allege Brittney Robertson, along with Desmond Laster and Anthony Barnes, killed 23-year-old Rachel Thompson and her two sons, 4-year-old Torian and 3-year-old Jaden, at their south side home.

 

They say the two men later turned on Robertson, killing her. All of this violence was apparently, in part, for a few hundred dollars.

 

“It’s just an empty feeling,” said Todd Moreno.

 

Moreno, Thompson’s uncle, spoke on the family’s behalf after the visitation.

 

“I’m a man of 43. I’ve never been to a child’s funeral and now I have to go to my great-nephew’s, two of them at one time and my niece. It hurts. I’m broken,” he said.

 

Moreno thanked the community and the Milwaukee Police for their support through this difficult time. It is support they’ll need Saturday as they bury their three loved ones.

 

Moreno describes Rachel as a great mother with a crooked smile that would light up any room.

 

And for those who took that smile away, Moreno wants justice.

 

“It’s sick. What kind of monster murders a 3 and a 4 year old and a handicapped girl? She couldn’t fight back. They’re sick, they’re monsters.”

Funeral services are scheduled for Saturday morning. 

MILWAUKEE - Former Milwaukee County Supervisor Toni Clark was sentenced Friday to six months in jail and three years probation after pleading guilty to a felony charge of filing a false campaign finance report.

She announced her resignation from the Milwaukee County Board earlier Friday.

According to a criminal complaint, Clark falsely reported a loan of $1,000 in 2003 and then neglected to report more than $2,500 in campaign donations after a fundraiser at the Soche Restaurant in 2007.

Her attorney explained that she is receiving treatment for a gambling addiction.

Clark was elected Supervisor of the Second District in a special election in 2003 and then re-elected in 2004 and 2008.  She currently chairs the county’s Economic and Community Development Committee, serves as Vice-Chair of the Transportation, Public Works and Transit Committee, and is a member of the Health and Human Needs Committee. 

Her felony conviction prevents her from ever running for public office again.

MILWAUKEE – Prosecutors have filed murder charges against two men over a quadruple murder on Milwaukee’s South Side last Friday.

Anthony Barnes, 23, and Desmond Laster, 21, are accused of murdering Rachel Thompson and her two children and then setting her house on fire.  The two are then accused of later killing Brittney Robertson, who helped in the first murders.

Brittney Robertson lived with Rachel Thompson and her three children in a duplex at 12th and Walker.

According to the criminal complaint, Laster, Barnes and Robertson wanted to rob Rachel Thompson.  The group initially couldn’t find her money.

At that point Laster punched Thompson, who was sleeping on a couch at the time.  She woke up and he demanded to know where her money was.  Thompson told him where to find it.  They got away with $800 and a handgun.

It appears the case wasn’t all about the money.  Anthony Barnes told prosecutors that at one point it seemed like Robertson had a vendetta against Thompson, saying, “what type of b—- are you to have your baby daddy’s other girl living with you?”

The three brutally murdered Thompson and two of her children and set the apartment on fire.

They went to a motel on the northwest side with a six week old baby, Maurice Visor Jr.  Robertson apparently also had some kind of relationship with Visor’s father, who is in jail.  It appears there’s who she was referring to when she talked about Thompson’s ‘baby daddy.’

Later in the day, Robertson got concerned after seeing her face on TV.  According to the criminal complaint, Laster decided Robertson “had to go.”

The two told Robertson they were going to get some drugs.  They drove her to some townhouses on the northwest side.  As Brittney Robertson was walking in front of them, Anthony Barnes shot her in the back of the head.

Most of the details in the complaint are derived from Anthony Barnes, who spoke to authorities.  It appears that he was not with Robertson and Laster at the time when Maurice Visor Jr. was left at a church in Milwaukee.  It’s not clear how the baby got to the church.

Barnes got involved in the situation on the night of the murders.  He told authorities that he went along with Laster, who had told him that he needed help moving his girlfriend out of her apartment.  Barnes told authorities that he believed Brittney Robertson was Laster’s girlfriend.

MILWAUKEE – It is hard enough for adults to make sense of everything involved in a case like the recent South Side triple murder – where the victims included two toddlers – and a subsequent murder, all that reportedly may have included everything from a love triangle to what the Journal Sentinel says may be a robbery gone wrong.

How do you help young children deal with it?

The K-4 classmates of murder victim Torian Thompson-Carter did it in a special way as they attended a funeral Mass for him at Blessed Sacrament School near the corner of South 41st Street and West Oklahoma Avenues in Milwaukee.

Those students brought letters they wrote to God to the altar about their friend and classmate.

Torian was remembered one of the few in his class who routinely finished everything the lunch lady at Blessed Sacrament put on his lunch tray.

That was one of many stories that friends came home with about the feisty four-year-old.

“Kaylee says that she remembers him running around the hallways in the morning.  You know, being silly,” said Xochitl Medrano, a parent.

Every day, Torian would ride the bus with his mother Rachel Thompson to the south side Catholic school with an intimate enrollment of just 122 students in K-4 through 8th grade.

Other schools were closer to their home, but Rachel told other parents she believed this was best for her son.

“She took the bus every single day, cold, rain, it didn’t matter,’ said Erica Avila, another parent of a Blessed Sacrament student.  “She always made it to school.”

Someone killed Rachel, Torian and his three-year-old brother Jaden in their duplex, then set fire to the home.

“To hurt a child is just unbearable.  We don’t understand,” said Avila.

It’s a tragedy parents struggle to fathom, making it all the more difficult to explain to their children.

“They were all pretty upset,” explained Medrano.  “My daughter hasn’t been able to sleep for the last two nights since she found out about it.”

People at Blessed Sacrament have planned a special collection for March 13th and 14th to help cover funeral expenses for Rachel, Torian and Jaden.

The funeral for Rachel and Jaden is set for Saturday.

MILWAUKEE – Milwaukee Police are investigating a sexual assault where a female UWM student answered her door and the suspect showed a knife and began to assault her.

A warning e-mail sent to UWM students says that the assault happened at about 2:30 a.m. Friday morning in an apartment on Maryland Avenue, a block south of Kenwood Avenue.

According to the warning, the student, who is 21, had gone to her apartment when someone knocked on her door. She thought it was her roommate, so she opened it.

The suspect then displayed his knife and began the assault before a student heard the main door to her apartment open.

The suspect, described as 5′ 9″, in his early 20’s with short black hair and stocky build, then left.

Someone last saw him wearing a plain white t-shirt and blue jeans.

MILWAUKEE – Milwaukee Police have arrested five suspects in the murders of a mother and two of her young sons as well as the shooting death of a “person of interest” in those homicides.

“We’re currently questioning them to determine their level of involvement in each of these incidents,” Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn said Monday.

The bodies of 23-year-old Rachel Thompson, 4-year-old Torian Thompson-Carter and 3-year-old Jaden Thompson-Carter were found early Friday morning as firefighters put out a small blaze at the mother’s south side duplex.

Investigators believe the fire was set to cover up the killings, Police Chief Ed Flynn said at a news conference Sunday.

He was to have more information on the murder case at a press conference on Monday afternoon at 4:00 p.m.

Flynn declined to name any of the five suspects and would not say if the deaths were drug- or gang-related.

Police said Friday that two people were missing from the crime scene at 12th and Walker: Thompson’s 6-week-old son and a 19-year-old woman who also lived at the house.

The infant, Maurice Visor Jr., was found several hours later, abandoned but unharmed in a baby carrier on a sidewalk outside a church eight miles from home.

The teenager, Brittney Robertson, was found Friday evening on the northwest side. She had died from a gunshot wound.

Flynn said police believe Robertson was involved in the death of Thompson and the children, but he declined to elaborate. He said police were investigating Robertson’s death as a homicide.

The homicides involve a small group of people who knew each other, and the public isn’t at risk, Flynn said.

“None of these events were random acts,” he said. “None of these events represent a threat to the larger community.”

He declined to describe how the family was killed, saying releasing that information could jeopardize the investigation.

When asked whether police had identified a motive, Flynn said investigators were focusing their immediate efforts on discovering what happened and who was responsible, and less on why it happened.

The police chief said he had no information to share on why Robertson was living with Thompson.

There are also many other questions unanswered. Perhaps the most important is what the victim’s family desperately wants to know–why would someone do this?

If you have any information about these murders, you’re asked to call Milwaukee Police at 414-935-7360.

(The Associated Press contributed to this story.)