You already know about the black sand beach, the kitschy gift shop and the sea turtles safety zone, but do you know about the unsafe zone just beyond the beach? This is the real adventure. So the sand, or beach particulate, is black.
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Robert Black 21 April — 12 January was a Scottish serial killer and paedophile who was convicted of the kidnap , rape , sexual assault and murder of four girls aged between 5 and 11 in a series of killings committed between and in the United Kingdom. Black was convicted of the kidnapping, rape and murder of three girls on 19 May He was also convicted of the kidnapping of a fourth girl, and had earlier been convicted of the kidnapping and sexual assault of a fifth. He was sentenced to life imprisonment , with a recommendation that he serve a minimum of 35 years. Black was further convicted of the sexual assault and murder of nine-year-old Jennifer Cardy in , and at the time of his death was regarded as the prime suspect in the disappearance and murder of year-old Genette Tate. Black may also have been responsible for several other unsolved child murders throughout Britain, Ireland and continental Europe between and The nationwide manhunt for Black was one of the most exhaustive UK murder investigations of the 20th century. He died of a heart attack at HMP Maghaberry in aged Robert Black was born in Grangemouth , Stirlingshire , on 21 April , the illegitimate child of Jessie Hunter Black and an unknown father. His mother originally planned to have him adopted before she emigrated to Australia to escape the stigma of his birth.
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A South Carolina restaurant owner was sentenced to 10 years in prison for enslaving, physically beating and threatening a black employee with intellectual disabilities. Bobby Paul Edwards, who is white, for five years "used violence and other coercive means" to make the victim, John Christopher Smith, work at Edwards' restaurant for more than hours a week without pay, the U. Department of Justice said in a press release.
On December 20, , three black men are attacked by a group of white teenagers yelling racial slurs in Howard Beach, a predominately white, middle-class, Italian-American neighborhood in Queens, New York. Earlier that night, the men were driving from Brooklyn to Queens, when their car broke down near Howard Beach. They walked several miles to a pizza parlor in Howard Beach, where they asked to use a phone to call for assistance.
