Bigamist tricks his 14 wives

Indian Engineer Tushar Waghmare has been charged with bigamy after marrying 14 wives in only less than two and a half years.

This case has revealed how desperate middle-class women in India are for a high-status husband.

Most of Waghmare's wives were highly educated, but were so into his professional qualifications that they did not question his marital backgrounds. Marriage is the most important aspect in India's strict hierarchical society.

The 40 yr old is an Air India engineer from Mumbai, and found the women on websites by describing himself as a divorcee looking for a woman with high career.

Three of the women that replied were in fact, ironically engineers or achitects, and they all married him.

The investigators reported that Waghmare has met all their families and impressed them with his $2000 dollars a month that they did not question him why he was only spending three nights a month with his newly wedded wife before saying he had to go and work away from home.

Detectives said that he was discovered when his salary would not cover all his 14 families, and they had to support him instead.

"None of them ever thought of doing a background check as they would be impressed with his job profile," reported a policeman.

However, this isn't the case in the US where a woman forced her husband to stand in public with a sign saying "I cheated. This is my punishment."

Willian Taylor in Virginia was embarrassed on a busy road with the large cardboard sign around his neck after his wife found out on his mobile.

Taylor told the TV: "I got to do what I got to do to make things right. So here I am."

After two hours and many honks from passing vehicles, his wife called him to say that he could come home.

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Kidnapped Girl found after 18 years

A girl that was kidnapped while walking to school has been found alive and well... 18 years later.

Jaycee Lee Dugard (29 yrs) walked into a Carlifornian Police Station this week and told them that she was the kidnapped victim of a 1991 abduction.

Police confirmed that she had two children by her kidnapper, a known sex offender who was arrested with his wife.

Fox News reported that Dugard had been kept as a sex slave, most likely in a shed, and had her first child at the age of only 14.

Phillip and Nancy Garrido had apparently went to the Police with Dugard to ask a question and were arrested when an officer became suspicious.

He checked Garrido (58) and found his conviction of rape and served prison in the 1980s.

Neighbours said that the couple lived with 3 young women who were kept inside the window-barred house.

Dugard was 11 see was seen kidnapped, screaming and kicking into a car.

However, nothing was heard of here until the arrests at the Antioch police station near San Francisco.

"I had personally given up all hope," said her stepfather Carl Probyn.

"I've been through hell," he had said, saying that the police and the extended family thought of him as the possible man being the act.

"I had just hoped for a recovery and to find the people responsible - now I've actually won the lotto."

The girl's mother Terry flied to nothern Carlifornia for an emotional reunion.

The Probyns, while still married, have lived apart since the kidnap.

Garrido was charged with kidnapping, conspiracy, rape and committing sexual acts with a minor. His wife (55) was also charged, with kidnapping and conspiracy.

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Online Social Networks increases Risk of Robbery

Stop blogging and avoid being targeted, says researchers.

A news report from British firm Legal & General has found that people who regularly update their status and profiles on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are at a higher risk of being targeted by robbers than their non-blogging friends.

The Digital Criminal report found that 38% of Facebook and Twitter users had posted updates about their holiday plans and when they will leave their houses, while a third of the bloggers told followers when they planned to be away for the weekend.

Reformed criminal Michael Fraser, who appears on the BBC's Beat the Burglar, helped the insurers develop the report. Fraser said that there was no doubt that criminals were using the internet to target people.

"I call it internet shopping for burglars," he commented.

"It is incredibly easy to use social networking sites to target people and then scope out more information on their actual home using other internet sites like Google Street View, all from the comfort of their sofa.

"It scares me to see how many people are prepared to give away valuable information about themselves, to people they simply don't know well enough - if at all."

It was found that 64% of 16 to 24 yr olds had detailed holiday plans online, and more than 70% of internet users said sites like Facebook were perfect for showing off new purchases for presents.

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