A Toronto man must continue to pay child support despite a DNA test proving he is not the biological father of his ex-wife’s children, a judge ruled.

Pasqualino Cornelio, who believed he fathered the 16-year-old twins after being given “incomplete and misleading information” by his ex-wife, will also not be reimbursed for previous child support payments.

“While the failure of (Anciolina) Cornelio to disclose to her husband the fact that she had an extramarital affair and that the twins might not be his biological children may well have been a moral wrong against Mr. Cornelio, it is a wrong that does not afford him a legal remedy to recover child support he has already paid, and that does not permit him to stop paying child support,”Ontario Superior Court Justice Katherine van Rensburg wrote in her decision.

said during the trial that she did not know the identity of the twins’ father, blaming her lapse in memory on medication she was taking at the time.

Van Rensburg said her judgment was made in the best interests of the children and based on earlier precedent.

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A panda with a record of aggressive behavior attacked a man who jumped into its enclosure at a Beijing zoo to pick up a toy, local media said on Thursday.

The nine-year-old panda, Gugu, bit the man on his legs but was driven away by a zoo worker brandishing a broom, the Beijing Youth Daily said.

The man, who jumped into the enclosure to retrieve a toy dropped by a child, was taken to hospital and given a rabies shot, but his injuries were light, the report said.

This was not the first time Gugu has bitten somebody.

Twice before he has attacked people who climbed in to his cage, one of whom was drunk and the other who was simply curious, the newspaper added

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A man called a late night phone chat line on Sunday, Jan. 4 and was invited to come have sex with two young women at their home. When he showed up, he was beaten, robbed, and threatened with charges of statutory rape by their father.

And it’s probably not the first time this scheme was pulled, said Capt. Kim Frey, Cincinnati police.

James Merida, 40, and his two daughters, Amie Campbell, 28, and Ashley Merida, 20, of 1986 Knob Court, have been arrested on robbery charges.

“I think these people found a new way to victimize others,” Frey said. “They find people who are an easy mark and found a way to intimidate and scare these men into thinking they could be involved with a more serious crime.”

After the victim came to meet the girls at about 10 p.m., Merida rushed into the house by kicking in his own door. He accused the man of fooling around with his daughters. Merida lied by saying the girls were underage, then beat the victim and took more than $200 from him, according to police.

After interviewing neighbors, police feel this is not the first time the trio has done this, although they are not sure how many other victims there are.

It’s the claim that the girls are underage that might stop victims from coming forward, Frey said.

“It’s an embarrassing type of crime,” she said. “The men didn’t think they were going there to have sex with a juvenile … so now the guys are thinking, ‘I’m in trouble.’ Most guys probably took their lumps and went away quietly,” she said.

The victim, a 55-year-old man from Warren County, declined to comment to a reporter.

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A new mother allegedly brought her three-week-old daughter to a bar and, among other things, breast fed the child while drinking alcohol.

According to police, Allanah Earley, 36, of 37 Fowler Ave., Durham, drank to excess at an unnamed bar Friday while she had the baby with her. Police said she then began to wander in the cold with the infant.

Earley eventually made her way to a friend’s house on High Street, police said, where she continued her drunken spree and even began to breast feed the child.

When police interviewed Earley, she was unable to stand upright, her speech was slurred and her eyes were bloodshot, they said.

Earley allegedly admitted to police she brought the infant to the bar and said she had seven drinks.

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A Port St. Lucie man was arrested and charged with neglect of an elderly person after his 90-year-old mother was found emaciated and in urine-soaked clothes, an arrest affidavit released Sunday said.

Robert M. Rozenti, 68, of the 2000 block of Southeast Franciscan Street, was the sole provider for his mother and told police that he was appointed his mother’s power of attorney in 2006, the report said.

Early Saturday, the victim, Anna Chuboff was transported to Columbia Hospital after falling at the residence. Police were called to the hospital after the paramedics found her “unwashed, wearing clothing soaked in urine, severely underweight and emaciated,” the report said.

Police also noted that the shoes the victim had been wearing had not been removed for a long period of time and had “grown into her feet,” the report said. Her toenails had taken the shape of her shoes, police said in the report.

Chuboff told investigators that her son was “abusive to her verbally” but never hit her, the report said. She told police that she had not received medical attention for some time despite being diagnosed with diabetes and high blood pressure, the report states. At the time of questioning, she could not remember if she ate that day. Chuboff told police that she could not remember the last time she bathed and she routinely soils her clothing, the report said.

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Police say an angry 4-year-old Ohio boy grabbed a gun from a closet and shot his baby sitter. Nathan Beavers, 18, was hospitalized Sunday with minor wounds to his arm and side after the shotgun attack. Police say another teen was also injured.

Witnesses told police the child was angry because Beavers accidentally stepped on his foot. Beavers was watching the child at a mobile home in Jackson with several other teenagers and several other children.

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A Polish man got the shock of his life when he visited a brothel and spotted his wife among the establishment’s employees.

Polish tabloid Super Express said the woman had been making some extra money on the side while telling her husband she worked at a store in a nearby town.

“I was dumfounded. I thought I was dreaming,” the husband told the newspaper on Wednesday.

The couple, married for 14 years, are now divorcing, the newspaper reported.

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Ambulance controllers overheard a private conversation between the crew members in which they supposedly made disparaging remarks about the victim’s untidy home, allegedly failed to attempt to resuscitate him, and then apparently decided to claim he was already dead when they arrived.

Barry Baker, 59, dialled 999 from his home in Patcham, near Brighton in the early hours of November 29 and said that he was suffering from severe chest pains.

Controllers sent a paramedic and ambulance technician immediately, and although Mr Baker collapsed while talking on the phone, the line to the control centre was left open as he lay on the floor.

Minutes later the control staff heard the crew enter the house. A police source said: “What they heard after their ambulance crew arrived frankly astonished them.

“Apparently their first reaction was to comment on the untidy and unkempt state of the house. Then they are heard to comment on seeing Mr Baker and allegedly saying that it was not worth bothering to try to carry out resuscitation to try to save him. They then are heard discussing what to tell ambulance control and allegedly decide to say that he was already dead when they arrived.

“Obviously the crew did not realise that the phone was still connected and, of course, the 999 call was all recorded on tape,” said the source.

The unnamed ambulance staff were arrested after the tape was handed to the Sussex Police Major Crime Team.

They have been suspended from duty and a file has been passed to the Crown Prosecution Service to consider prosecuting the pair for wilfully neglecting to perform a duty in public office.

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A messy thief has been arrested after a trail of popcorn led police directly from a crime scene to the suspect’s living room.

Sacramento police say they responded to an alarm at the Food Stop store in Natomas early in the morning on New Year’s day. When officers arrived they found that the business had been broken into and several items taken.

That’s also when they noticed a trail of popcorn. Officers followed the trail of clues to an apartment complex behind the store and to the door of one unit. When officers knocked, they noticed the popcorn kernels continued inside the apartment. Officers found the stolen property inside.

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A South Side man has been charged with drug possession after Chicago Police stopped him for allegedly driving the wrong way down a one-way street.

Samuel Randall, 27, of the 12000 block of South Lafayette Avenue, was charged with possession of cannabis and driving the wrong direction on a one-way street where signs are posted, according to a Chicago Police release.

Officers patrolling the area near Randall’s home allegedly saw him driving his 2004 Pontiac sedan the wrong direction on a one-way street about 3 p.m. When police stopped the car and arrested Randall when officers noticed two clear plastic bags with cannabis in a cup holder, the release said.

The officers then found additional large shopping bags in the front passenger seat. Each bag contained clear plastic bags filled with cannabis, the release said.

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