MUSIC VIDEO from the WWW Department of True Names

Today's music video is inspired by news from Texas. Seems that the Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct has suspended, without pay, County Court-at-law No. 13 Judge Rosie Speedlin Gonzalez, a week after she was arrested on charges of official oppression and unlawful restraint of a San Antonio defense attorney. 

The suspension order, issued yesterday, will remain in effect until the judge's criminal cases are dismissed, she [Ed., please check pronouns] is acquitted, or another order is issued by the commission.

The charges stem from an incident a year ago in which she had San Antonio defence attorney Elizabeth Russell handcuffed in court after a disagreement. The indictment alleges that Judge Speedlin Gonzalez "did then and there intentionally or knowingly restrain Elizabeth Russell, the Complainant, by restricting the Complainant's movements without her consent, so as to interfere substantially with her liberty." 

She was indicted last Thursday by a grand jury on both charges and was booked at the Bexar County jail before being released on bond. In a statement to the San Antonio Express-News, Herroner/Hizzoner [Ed.???] said she was innocent of all charges. "I will follow all protocols and directives while the matter is pending and we, my lawyer and I, plan to zealously appeal. We are confident I will be absolved of all allegations."

Here's the inevitable video, then, by Pat Boone. Whatever happened to him?

At least she washed her hands before going back to work

Interesting story from KENS-TV, the CBS affiliate in ole San Antone. 

  

San Antonio police recently arrested a 30-year-old school lunch worker for literally having a "closeted sexual affair" with a senior at East Central High School, where she had worked as a "nutritional assistant" (read: "lunchlady") for 11 years..

Jenna Michelle Woodworth was booked last week on a charge of "having an improper relationship between an educator and a student", a second-degree felony. The cops allege that Ms Woodworth had sexual intercourse multiple times with the student in a closet in the school cafeteria's kitchen. 

School staff found a photo of the teen in the lunchlady's work locker when they cleaned it out after she was fired shortly after her arrest. Both Woodworth and the student were interviewed by police and admitted to the inappropriate relationship, which the cops say was ongoing right up until they got involved.

During an interview, the victim stated that on earlier last week Ms Woodworth picked him up in the stadium parking lot in a district vehicle and drove him to the Learning Academy Campus. According to the student's affidavit, Ms Woodworth walked him through a back door of the cafeteria kitchen, and when she was done with her morning duties, "they went to a closet in the kitchen and had sexual intercourse." 

The student told officers the same interaction happened the following day. The affidavit noted that after the sexual interlude Woodworth would wash her hands and return to her cafeteria duties.

Walt is waiting to see if Ms Woodworth raises the Costanza defence: "Was that wrong? If anybody had told me that this is frowned on..."

"Muslim-American" teen burned with hot oil for dishonouring family

This is Maarib Al-Hishmawi, a 16-year-old "Muslim-American" girl who ran away from her San Antonio TX home at the end of January, because she refused to take part in a marriage arranged for her by her parents.

And these are her "Muslim-American" parents, Abdulah Fahmi Al-Hishmawi, 34, and Hamdiyah Saha Al-Hishmawi, 33.

Ma and Pa Al-Hishmawi were arrested last Friday on charges of "coninuous family violence", including physically and mentally abusing their daughter. Among other things, they allegedly threw hot cooking oil on her. Why? Because by refusing the marriage, she dishonoured the family. After all, they gave the putative groom's family their word!

Bexar County police say that in 2017, the couple told their daughter that a man in another city had offered them $20,000 for her hand in marriage, which she was to accept. When Maarib refused, police said, her parents beat her with broomsticks, choked her, and poured hot cooking oil on her. Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar told the meeja on Friday, "The only way that this young lady could bring an end to this abuse was to verbally agree to become a party to this marriage."

Instead, the girl went missing on January 30th, after leaving her high school campus. The FBI launched an investigation and found her in mid-March, though they have not disclosed where she was located. She and her five siblings have all been placed with Child Protective Services. No information has been made available as to the family's immigration status or what will happen to the parents if they are convicted of this "crime of honour".