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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Ex-Hawaii Family Awarded $2 Million in Infant's Death
A former Honolulu military couple has won a $2 million judgment against the babysitter responsible for their child's death in 2004. The babysitter, Shawna Akin, left 13-month-old Aslyn Ryan unattended in a hot car in February 2004, then lied and concealed facts about the baby's heat stroke when she called emergency medical personnel at Hickam Air Force Base, according to a lawsuit filed by the baby's parents, Timothy and Deona Ryan.

Au pair Tells of Affair With Host Father That Allegedly Prompted Wife's Murder
Verena Dierkes was just two months out of high school when she left Germany to become an au pair in the outwardly idyllic Michigan home of Tara and Stephen Grant. But it wasn't long, according to prosecutors, before she began an affair with Stephen Grant that drove him to brutally murder and then dismember his wife.

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