Pennsylvania teacher and mother of three accused of sexting and having sex with student

The relationship allegedly started when a teacher approached her student at the high school prom and asked if he'd like to work out at her gym.

For several months last summer, Erica Ann Ginnetti, 33, sent photos of herself in a thong and had sex with the boy in a parking lot, authorities said, according to several local reports.

She was arraigned Friday on 13 charges including sexual assault of a student, corruption of a minor and disseminating obscene material to a minor, reported WCAU-TV in Philadelphia.Prosecutors allege she sent explicit photos of herself undressing, as a well as videos in which she performed sex acts on herself, the station said. The school is located about 20 miles from downtown Philadelphia.

The Lower Moreland High School instructor and the student admitted their affair when questioned by police last week.

Officers were acting on a tip to the statewide ChildLine sexual abuse hotline. A caller said Ginnetti had sent inappropriate photos to the student, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.

The teacher, who has three children, was released Friday on $50,000 bail and outfitted with a GPS monitoring device, KYW-TV in Philadelphia reported.

Tycoon Ups Dowry For Lesbian Daughter

A Hong Kong property tycoon has doubled the dowry for any man who marries his lesbian daughter. The sum now stands at a cool $120 million.

Cecil Chao Sze-tsung told Malaysian newspaper Nanyang Siang Pau on Monday that he has not finished trying to arrange a straight match for openly gay Gigi Chao, 33. The last time he made the offer of a reward — then a mere $60 million — 20,000 suitors applied.

“I don’t want to interfere with my daughter’s private life,” said Cecil, not too convincingly. “I only hope for her to have a good marriage and children as well as inherit my business.”

News of the offer has left Sean Eav, Gigi Chao’s partner for nine years, “distraught,” reports the the South China Morning Post. Gigi Chao has spoken of the couple’s anguish at her father’s behavior and told the Post that she has repeatedly asked him to stop offering the bounty.

Gigi Chao is a highly respected LGBT activist in Hong Kong and a founding member of the local gay rights group Big Love Alliance.

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Californian girl beaten to death for walking in front of a camera

A 23-year-old student who died after she was brutally beaten outside a club in California may have sparked the savage attack by accidentally photo-bombing a group of people as they were trying to take a picture.

Kim Pham was declared brain dead in the wake of the Saturday morning incident in Santa Ana. On Tuesday, she was taken off life support and pronounced dead at 12.36pm.

A friend of the victim revealed that Pham was outside The Crosby club when she may have accidentally wandered in front of a camera as a group of partygoers posed for a snapshot.

A heated argument followed, which according to police, culminated with two men and three women beating Pham unconscious and leaving her for dead.

One female suspect in her 20s is police custody and has been booked for assault with a deadly weapon causing great bodily injury. Her identity has not been released.

The suspect has not been named, but is described as in her 20s and has been arrested for suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and causing great bodily harm. She was identified thanks to video footage of the attack filmed by a bystander.

In her personal blog, titled: ‘These Are the 7 Biggest Fears That You Need To Avoid Having In Your Twenties’ on the website Elite Daily, Miss Pham calls on people her age to stop being fearful.

On the ‘Fear of Missing Out’, a rationale she said was ‘empty’, she wrote: ‘We all have this guilt that tells us we should be doing one thing when we choose to do another.

‘We may even choose to justify it by announcing it on Facebook or Twitter to receive likes and lighthearted comments that perhaps make us feel more at ease about being “out studying the babes instead of studying for a midterm.” Don’t be a fool. Attend to the things you need to do in order to grow a better you.’

She tells her contemporaries to stop worrying about ‘Not Being Invited to the party’, instead claiming that it is merely the universe’s way of ‘telling you that you’ve got more valuable things to be doing with your time’.

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Besotted victim forgives iPhone thief because she is incredibly good looking

A besotted victim who tracked his phone thief using an app has forgiven her - because she is incredibly good looking.

Matsumoto Hiroki lost his iPhone on holiday in Bangkok. Forced to return to Japan, he invested in a new 5C, and took to iCloud to trace his account.

But what Mr Hiroki found was far from what he expected.

His photostream is now cluttered with selfies of a young, cute Thai girl dating back to December 29, when the phone went missing.

Single Mr Hiroki, sharing the development on Twitter on January 10, wrote: 'Her pictures are really cute, so I’m not sure how to handle this.'

He added: 'She’s so cute, I want to tell her "You can keep the iPhone as long as we can be friends!"'

Followers replied encouraging him to send her a message.

But his suggestion, translated into Thai and sent to her lock screen, was met with a bombardment of photos of another young man.

However, yesterday, after Mr Hiroki finally closed his iPhone account, he tweeted a screenshot of a text from the new owner: 'Nice to meet you!'

The incident is the latest in an increasing number of cases where victims have tracked their muggers using apps.

Find My iPhone and MobileMe, both developed by Apple, have been praised by police officials across the world for solving low-level muggings that consume their time.

In 2011, Liam Aspin, then 31, was electronically tagged after snatching 20-year-old Rio Bridge's phone - only to be traced 45 minutes later.

In 2012, Katy McCaffrey was shocked to find a collection of exotic holiday photos popping up on her laptop taken on her phone which was stolen during a Disney cruise.

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Teen angry that he bougth a XBox photo for $450 on Ebay

A TEENAGER has been left fuming after mistakenly buying a photo of an in-demand computer console online.
Peter Clatworthy thought he had paid £450 for an XBox One console on eBay, but actually received a picture of one in the post.

The 19-year-old student, of Bilborough, had saved up in order to buy a limited edition Day One version of the console as a surprise present for his four-year-old son, McKenzie.

Mr Clatworthy said: "I've had to make a joke out of it because I was that angry. At least we've now got something to laugh about in the years to come.

"I always buy stuff on eBay and this had never happened before."

Mr Clatworthy paid £450 plus £8 packaging.

Despite the listing stating it was a photo of an XBox One Day One edition console, Mr Clatworthy said he'd expected to receive the console as it was listed in the video games and consoles category on eBay.

Since then, there have been reports of people buying empty XBox One packaging via eBay, and paying hundreds of pounds for the privilege.

Source nottinghampost.com