The criminals.

Every now and again we come across breaches of the law that make our skin crawl. For commercial lawyers, these are the sorts of things that will make you glad you steered clear of the criminal law. Imagine having to defend the likes of these two cretins:

A 39-year-old construction worker, Tatsuya Moriguchi, was arrested for throwing his own faeces at women passers-by from a motorcycle in two separate attacks in western Japan. The man turned himself in after making the second drive-by attack in Settsu, a satellite city near Osaka, and was detained on suspicion of assault, a municipal police spokesman said.

"The suspect has told investigators he did it because he felt frustrated when his work didn’t go well,” the official said. Source

And in Omaha, Nebraska, Vallerillo-Sanchez, 39, pleads “no contest” to the charge that he stole a painting of the Virgin Mary to pay for an abortion. It gets worse, when we learn that Vallerillo-Sanchez stole the Virgin Immaculata painting from the St. Cecilla Cathedral in Omaha to sell fund the abortion for the 14 year old girl he’d raped. The picture, worth around $100,000, was sold for $3,000.

Thankfully, even though he took his victim as far as Mexico, he could not find anyone to perform the abortion. The pregnancy was too advanced so when the baby was born, he tried to give it away instead. It was then that his son called the police. He face up to 70 years in prison for first-degree sexual assault and felony theft. Source

Man arrested for drive-by faeces attack [news.com.au]

Rapist Stole Virgin Mary To Fund Victim’s Abortion [Anorak]