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Police Friday charged a 27-year-old Waialua man with attempted murder for allegedly abusing his 2-month-old daughter, who is in critical condition at Kapiolani Hospital for Women and Children with symptoms of "shaken-baby syndrome." Murder-attempt charge
brought against fatherGordon Aplaca, of 66-950 Alena Loop, is being held in lieu of $100,000 bail.
The child's mother left the infant in Aplaca's care at about 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. At 9:45 a.m., police said, Aplaca notified a relative that the baby was unresponsive.
Another relative went to the house and discovered the right side of the infant's head was swelling and that she was bleeding from the mouth. The relative called for an ambulance.
The girl has a fractured skull, brain hemorrhaging, broken ribs and bruises. The rib injuries are two to three weeks old, police said.
Seven-year-old Jared Nagai ran into the house to tell his grandmother about the toy in the neighbor's driveway. Second illegal snake
captured in WaipioIt wasn't a toy. It was a snake.
"It was all stretched out, and he wanted to pick it up," said Helen Fukuda, Jared's grandmother, who along with her husband captured the 3-foot-long reptile and reported it to the state Department of Agriculture on Thursday.
Officials suspect someone in the area is raising the snakes because another corn snake, of the same color and size as the one caught by the Fukukas at 94-651 Nuao Place in Waipio, was found less than a half-mile away on Waipio Uka Street on May 2.
The department is asking the community to keep a lookout for the creatures.
A Fort Shafter supply sergeant accused of sexually abusing an 18-year-old female private in January has been discharged from the Army. Army discharges sergeant;
sex case droppedHowever, the Army won't say what type of discharge Sgt. Walter Wynn, of headquarters company of the 45th Support Group's 29th Engineer Battalion, received.
He had been charged with sodomy, violations of barracks policy and providing alcohol to a minor.
After an investigation, the Army dropped the alcohol charge and was ready to pursue the charges of sodomy and having sex in the barracks, said Lee Ferguson, 25th Infantry Division spokeswoman, when Wynn requested an administrative discharge.
Ferguson described the sodomy charge as "nonforceable oral sex."
Wynn and four other male soldiers were accused of sexually abusing a female soldier in a Fort Shafter barracks Jan. 20. The female private, who had been in the Army less than six months, was administratively discharged in February and returned to her home in Montana.
The four other soldiers were reduced in rank, were restricted to quarters, lost part of their pay and were given additional duties.
The Army earlier said that all evidence, including a sworn statement by the woman, indicates that no gang-rape occurred in the Fort Shafter barracks incident.
